#also sorry for all the trigun posting but also i’m not sorry

[lesbianpegbar]

sorry i can’t i’m listening to the 1998 trigun ost the first donuts by tsuneo imahori. yeah, yeah it’s gonna be all day. sorry

[venusaria]

Why I so far don’t really feel comfortable talking about it, I’ve been dealing with a personal hiatus for a little over 2 years, which has caused a sharp decrease of me making posts here on this app compared to a few years prior. Great news, is that the stress from the personal problems has greatly decreased! I’m starting to get back more engaged in the fanbases I’m apart of!

I wanna try to get myself active again, and I realized that making ramble posts and edits that I use to do in the past isn’t working, hence why I wanna do imagines! I did some in the past, but not gonna lie I am not even close to being proud of those, but I felt like my writing has improved so I feel confident.

If anyone is a part of the following fanbases that I’m apart of:

🎪 D.Gray-Man 🎪

🔫 Trigun 🔫

🏯 Jujutsu Kaisen 🏯

🌩️ The God Of High School 🌩️

Feel free to submit promps and I’ll write them out! Fee free to submit any kind of prompt ya wanna submit!

Shipping, imagines, spoil me I wanna write

only thing I ask is NOTHING that involves things like ped0ophilia, SA, ya know that kind of stuff.

Promps: OPEN

Also if you have multiple promps, don’t hesitate to send multiple, I wanna get active again!

[runningatypufullspeed]

WAIT FUCK I DIDNT KNOW THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK SUPPORTED AI AND HAD THAT WHOLE NOT SUPPORTING PALESTINE THING GOING ON well okay maybe I suspected the ai part because of the whole glorification of the thunderhead in all his books BUT I DIDNT KNOW ABOUT PALESTINE WHAT THEFUCK HAD I KNOWN. WOULDNT HAVE POSTED THIS EWWWWW EW

Sketch for a school assignment

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

. . . 𝐰𝐞'𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧, 𝐰𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐰𝐞?

[ 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐌𝐄 ] —

ꕤ 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨

hi hi hi!! welcome to my blog!!! <33

my alias is ari (also known as the ceo of mice <3), i’m 20 and currently majoring in literature!! failing at it, but majoring nonetheless!!! i’m a proud villainfucker and vocal lover of men who are Mother…. also knights. always and forever knights . i spam the dash a lot + rant in tags !!! a bunch!!!!!! if i read one of ur fics i will most likely be clogging your notifs so sorry in advance 🙇

my main fandom (and the only one i currently write for) is jjk!! my favs are satoru, suguru, shoko and kenjaku <33 but i also adore nobara & toji... megumi & mai… takaba & uraume.... etcetc <3 i ship anything gay and doomed (alternatively twisted), especially stsg, sukugo and sashisu (+ goken, kenkaba, kenyuki, sugushoko) :3

ꕤ 𝐟𝐚𝐯 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚

jjk has sadly taken over my life, but i have plenty of other anime/manga/games/etc that i’m into!!!! including (but not limited to):

chainsaw man, the fate/ series, milgram, oshi no ko, honkai star rail, trigun stampede, project sekai, blue period, blue lock, genshin, wind breaker, dungeon meshi, how do we relationship?, persona 3, disco elysium, etc!!

… and some of my favs from those works include:

makima, aki, denji, kirei, merlin, saber, ozymandias, robin, kazui, shidou, kotoko, ai, aqua/gorou, sampo, kafka, boothill, sunday, reo, sae, kaeya, diluc, zhongli, hu tao, nai, vash, the tenmas, the shinonomes, togame, laios, saeko, etc!!

in general, i’m a lover of visual novels, otome games, shounen/shoujo manga, and gacha games!! i’d love to chat with any other fans!!!!!! tell me about your favorites <333

and last but not least!!! i adore literature & reading in general….. so here are some of my favorite books and plays :3c

war of the foxes (2015), beartown (2016), eureka street (1996), waiting for godot (1952), galahad: enough of his life to explain his reputation (1926), kafka on the shore (2002), the stranger (1942), a doll’s house (1879), etc!!

ꕤ 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠

i’m a selfshipper!! i’m still new to it and really just having fun, but i do have a (long) list of all my selfships along with some moodboards here for anyone who’s curious :3

my main selfships are with kenjaku, suguru, satoru & makima!! you’re always more than welcome to ask about any of them, or gush about your own 🫂 this is a safe space for any and all selfshippers, especially those of you who selfship with villains/otherwise morally corrupt characters (we are holding hands <3)

+ all my selfship posts are tagged as #selfshippy stuff ✩ !!

ꕤ 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 ᘛ⁐ᕐᐷ💐

with that all being said!! i hope you enjoy your stay on this silly little blog 🥹🥹 i look forward to getting to know you!!!!! remember to eat a meal and drink lots of water, if you haven’t already today!!!!

[whatever-you-can-give-me]

Sorry to come to your inbox for this but I feel like you’d understand

As an Asian person living in the West, I’m aware of the different kinds of colorism in different cultures

I’m really tired of seeing people saying canon Wolfwoods are not dark enough for them. Yes there are variations in his coloring but in no iteration they made Wolfwood white (no, not even in BLR)

Not to mention other characters also have variations in their color design. Nightow’s Vash color pages are inconsistent too; sometimes he’s much darker

There’s a lot to unpack here that I don’t feel coherent enough to even begin

thank you for sending this, i really appreciate it. i'm not asian, so it really feels like not my lane to post about, but i notice all the time how reductive the conversation's become, and it really gets under my skin.

wolfwood is a japanese character, or at the very least designed that way. one of the big pieces of Trigun Trivia is that wolfwood was inspired by a japanese musician, tortoise matsumoto.

his skintone is inconsistent even within individual iterations but he's pretty much always drawn with monolid eyes. even in BLR and especially in stampede.

and that's just... not part of the conversation? somehow?

like. yes. colorism. but stampede wolfwood is immediately identifiable as an asian character, he still has a distinct nose bridge, the undertone of his skin is olive/yellow even when he looks pale. he's not white. he's asian.

and then in english-speaking fandom specifically, often explicitly with a dismissive sneer towards wolfwood's stampede design, wolfwood is very racialized in a way that distinctly does not depict him as asian, which i would bet money is because of western stereotypes about asian men. western wolfwoods are usually latino, or just... ambiguously brown.

(and of course there are asian wolfwoods among those, but his monolid eyes tend to be considered less important to preserve than his tits and his nose, along with stuff that was fully invented by fandom, like his body hair, and the exaggeration of his tits and nose, that rosary... weird how that happened.)

and... like.... there's nothing inherently wrong with character redesigns. or focusing on the parts of the character you find attractive when you draw or write them. i know a lot of specifically latino wolfwood came from latino fans. fanon wolfwood is a very handsome man. i see why so many people like him.

but it is. a bit fucking funny to have a whole host of people calling studio orange colorist and racist for wolfwood not being brown enough and then turning around and making wolfwood Fandom Papi Of The Year.

the vitriol towards stampede wolfwood feels just that much more disingenuous when the language is only surface-level about colorism, and the real complaint is that he's not attractive enough as a sex object.

thank you for the message <3 i'm very tired.

[cerealandchoccymilk]

Trigun Bookclub: Trigun Vol.1, Chapter #06

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I’m doing a deep-read of the Japanese original print (reread) and Overhaul 1.0 (first read) side-by-side, and writing down everything I notice from small details, version differences, translation differences, etc.

Here are the non-analysis meow meow panels (only 2 today, sorry 😔)

And the rest is under the cut.

[link for if the images aren’t in horizontal rows]

I really love the "train conductor/bus driver/etc puts themself in danger to protect the passengers" trope- NOOOOOOOOOO COOL CONDUCTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Small correction: These first onomatopoea are actually...flesh sounds...... And I wasn't really thinking about corrections for this one, more just for nuance, but Neon says something like "it's unfortunate, but..." in this line.

A small difference here: in my version it's actually CO2, not oxygen that's being supplied to the Heat Plant. However, considering that O2 is a fuel for combustion and CO2 is a byproduct, it may be an error on Nightow's part.

This is one of the first indications of who Kaito actually is. He knows all of this off the top of his head, which catches the Captain by surprise.

It also provides information about Plants. This could either mean that all Plants require some kind of fuel, or that the Plants can utilize those resources in some other way to help the Sandsteamer.

Get graphited idiot.

We also get to see more of Kaito's attachment to this Sandsteamer.

Here, the original line is more like "Why would Brilliant Dynamites Neon have to listen to you when this treasure—the prey I've been hunting—is right in front of me!?"

This is where I notice that Neon has a sort of obsession with "beauty," not just in the regular sense but also in his own way. He obviously values visuals—his over-the-top fashion and desire to go out with a bang—but to him, it's also a question of dignity. (this will be on the exam yall)

Even the gang member is getting worried about what Neon might do to Kaito... And here's where we find out why Kaito knows so much and wants to protect the Sandsteamer!

Notes on the original phrasing of this line, since I saw a few posts comparing the Dark Horse and Overhaul versions.

The Japanese line is「パッと散りな　小僧」 パッ(pa') is an onomatopoea for "pop," "poof," or a release (e.g. letting go of an object). 散る(chiru, used here in command form) means "scatter," most commonly associated with falling cherry blossom petals. From that, it's also a euphemism for dying. i can go on for another paragraph on the association of cherry blossoms with Japanese views on life/death but you can figure that out. or google it idk

I think this line is another excellent representation of Neon's values on beauty and death.

I love this page so much!! The flow comes to a complete stop, and the tension that has been building throughout the last few pages is at its peak here. The composition is also excellent. The art is symmetrical, and Neon's giant outfit follows the lines leading from the bottom corners of the page up to Vash's gun, where they intersect right in the middle. I JUST LOVE THESE KINDS OF COMPOSITIONS SO MUCH.....

can't remember why i wrote "sike" there

It took a while to figure out what happened here, but I think Vash either sensed danger or actually dodged a bullet, and chose to jump back out. Love the way he's firmly holding Kaito's overalls while Kaito doesn't understand anything that's going on lol

The silly goofies... theyre screaming crying shitting themselves out there....

It's a bit hard to see, but Kaito is screaming "AAAHHH PULL ME UPPP" in the middle panel.

This exchange after the two get to safety is also so silly... There's a missing "whrrrr drill drill" SFX for Vash's drill hand (?). I saw a photo of the Dark Horse version which was missing it in the same way, with the leftover ン on Vash's cheek.

I forgot to highlight it, but this note pertains to Vash's second speech bubble about death and destruction. The Japanese version of the line is something like "I swear!! I have at least 2 digits' worth of death-gods(死神) or poverty-gods(貧乏神) haunting me!!" Death-gods/shinigami are already well-known in the West so I won't explain that here. The second one, poverty-god/binbōgami, is a similar kind of thing, except it brings poverty to whoever it clings onto (instead of death). Fun fact: Binbōgami are said to like yakimiso (grilled miso paste).

VASH'S SOUPY BRAIN!!! The mystery has been solved!!!

But first, in order... Vash's first line is more like "We can't be worrying about all this right now." It could keep the original phrasing, but the main idea is to change "me" to "us."

The next (most important) line is actually "We gotta save brainpower [for the matter at hand]." The confusion lies in the word 脳みそ, which literally translates to "brain miso," but is actually the word for brain tissue, and thus brainpower. It has nothing to do with miso soup! The origin I wrote in the middle-left of the image is...dubious.... I told my mom about this just now, and she mentioned that it might be called that because みそ(miso) also means the center or key aspect of something. Weblio also says it signifies innards (like from crab or shrimp), similar to what I wrote in the annotation at first. I'll fix it in the document later

Also, I would phrase the last line as "I mean, we're gonna stop this ship, right!?"

Kaito's skills are actually insane. What do you mean you just copied the entire blueprint... Mistranslation: The respect is directed towards his dad, so it should be "You must really look up to your dad."

I didn't know his name was spelled Kaite in this version. My Japanese version copy has that bottom part in a regular speech bubble, and with the font for the boxes. It's most likely just a version-exclusive error. He also says that his dad "found" the ship, but I'm not sure if that's another error or not since this translation makes more sense.

This line is phrased more like "Just for a little bit of cash, I'm now taking advantage of you for a deal with a crook."

I really loved the execution of this scene in the '98 anime. get hammered into the ground boy The final line is from Kaito, not Vash, and should be "...Yeah!!"

And that’s it for Chapter #06! Sorry for the wait, I couldn't work on this as much as I'd liked because of the smoke and rainstorm, combined with weekend responsibilities. Feeling better now though 💪 As always, the Japanese annotations are in the reblogs.

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Bonus: reactions to the soupy-brained Vash post

[rewordthis]

Writing Pattern Tag Game

Rules: List the first line of your last 10 posted fics and see if there’s a pattern.

Tagged by @radiodread : Giiiiirl!!! (๑･̑◡･̑๑) Thank you so m♡ch and so so so sorry it took so long! Checks date… yeah… I’m not going to mention it, it’s too embarrassing. 😅🥲

Okie dokie, so here we go!

‘He said: “Touch me, as if you play the piano...”’ — [★「Duet」☆ | Trigun]

‘It’s all Rin’s fault.’ — [Without saying ‘I love you’ | Free!]

‘On slow days, he doesn’t know what to do with himself.’ — [Worse than admitting defeat | Free!]

‘‘Will everything be alright…’’ — [He & He | Free!]

‘And this was supposed to be just a little gathering among themselves, huh…’ — [Your Mind Bedevilling | Free!]

‘The window above the kitchen sink has been left with no blinds or curtains for far too long, despite the strong sunlight on late mornings that strains his vision when he prepares himself a cup of coffee— and sure, that is the least of his worries in his line of work but he also internally, silently, really likes the warmth on his skin to bother changing things.’ — [for 3sentence fic March challenge | Jujutsu Kaisen]

‘They have just arrived home from their evening missions and all they both crave right now is a hot bath and a light diner before going to sleep.’ — [If Love Unravels… | Jujutsu Kaisen]

‘“You’ve really fallen in fear (love) with me—“ he had told him as he took him away from that battlefield, “I want to taste it…”’ — [His Pride, His Ruin | Togainu no Chi]

‘Bam! A loud thud…’ — [Katharsis | Jujutsu Kaisen]

‘Three months. That’s how long it took for Itadori Yuuji’s cosmotheory to turn upside down.’ — [A Day Like Any Other | Jujutsu Kaisen]

More like the first paragraph than line in some cases, but I genuinely don’t think just a line would make sense…? Oh, wait! Maybe that’s a pattern in itself? Σ('◉⌓◉’) And how do you sample a ‘line’, anyway??! Also… vague-ass intros, I guess??? (￣▽￣;) What does that spell about me, I wonder…

Right… so! I tag: @panna-acida & @bananacanwrites! Also! Also!! Every writer follower of mine! You— yes, YOU! 🫵 If you’re seeing this, YOU ARE TAGGED!!! 😈

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Hey Story!! Happy New Year!! Love seeing you on the dash every time! All the thoughts you put into your analysis posts astonish me and always make me think about new and interesting perspectives!

And your art is so cute! Especially their adorable faces! Also I love the way you shade when you do ink pieces! What are your favorite drawings you did this year? Also I would love to hear you share some of your favorite writings or analysis of this year too if you want 🫶

Sina!!! Happy New Year! Sorry it took me a little bit. Thank you so much! I love seeing you on the dash too; your art is gorgeous and I love seeing your thoughts too! You make excellent observations!

Really? My ink shading??? I always think it’s quite sloppy. Ahh thank youuu!

My favourites… well, I have to say I’m happy with my ink drawings from the November challenge I did. I’m honestly just surprised I got them done - I think my favourites from there were the Akutagawa and Ousama ones. There’s also the post-Meursault comic I did close to the beginning of the year… that one is definitely au at this point and you can tell I don’t make comics a lot, but I still think it’s funny. I also finished some oc portraits from TCOL and I like the way they turned out. Again, I’m mostly happy because I got them done.

As for writing and analyses, again, I’m usually happy with things simply when I complete them. My standards are so high lmao. I’m pretty happy with anything I posted under the trigun meta tag, especially my Wolfwood thoughts on his terrible lying and weird split expression, and I did a couple of BSD character analyses that I’m pretty proud of, namely Mushitarou and grief, Dazai and people, Ranpo’s development, and Jouno and the tragedy of his “death”. Also happy with my fics and TCOL… in that I’m happy I wrote anything at all lol. Hope to write more this year :)

What were your favourites from last year? I know I loved the meiji era skk and the fma scene with them (I recall these really vividly!), but I don’t think I could possibly pick a favourite!

[lesbiansanemi]

About

I'm Kaz! I'm a masc nonbinary ace (probably some flavor of aro) lesbian. They/he/she pronouns (in order of preference).

I'm 22. Please only follow if you're 18+. I will block if you are not.

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Primarily a fic writer, but meta and analysis is also common.

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Primary fandoms: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man, Bleach

Secondary fandoms: Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Dungeon Meshi, Trigun, Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece, Mob Psycho 100, Doctor Who

I do not consider myself pro-ship or anti-ship. I think it's a reductive way of interacting with fiction and I will not engage with either side of that particular discourse.

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Most likely, I won't follow back. I almost exclusively follow sapphics and/or ppl who almost exclusively post about the same fandoms as me, and that is unlikely to change.

Ty for reading! Enjoy your scrolling!

[joicecubes]

☁︎ joi, 19, they/she

☁︎ i love changing my pfp/layout sorry if i become unrecognizeable every other week

☁︎ i post almost entirely about gravity falls so don’t let that multifandom label scare you (though i’m into trigun as well!! im a sucker for vashwood)

☁︎ i liberally reblog all of my best friend’s art no matter the fandom so you’ll see that too (go follow @chxrrylungs right now 🫵)

☁︎ stick around if you like the stan twins and being yapped at because thats my bread and butter right now (i cant stop thinking about them i cant stop thinking about them i cant st

☁︎ watch out for spoilers!! tread carefully, i post about whatever like crazy

thanks for stopping by!! migrated from twitter because i’m sick of it (and also because the character limit when posting is my mortal enemy) (can you tell? by the way this post got unnecessarily long? i bet you cant tell)

[gffa]

Hello!! I love all of your Star Wars stuff, literally I’ve been following you for years because of it, but I was wondering if it’d be possible for you to tag all of your DC comics under one universal tag to make it easier to block out? I’m sorry for asking!

Hi! Thank you for the kind words. <3 And everything I've posted has been tagged with either #dc or #batfam so that you can blacklist them for that express purprose, because I know I've been going on about it a lot and I try to always give some kind of consistent blockable tag (same for the Trigun stuff, even stuff that's not actually from the '23 anime, I'll still tag as #trigun stampede so that it's consistent for blacklisting purposes), same as anything I've posted from will have the source comic listed for those curious! (The only reason I don't tag #star wars for example is because I'm a SW blog, you're not here if you're going to blacklist SW. 😂 Anything else should have some kind of consistent tag, though! Though, I've been considering changing that, like maybe it would be useful now a days?) (Also, I go with a shorter tag like #dc because the way tumblr's blacklisting works now is that it will blacklist ONLY what you have specific, so it won't catch anything where that combo is part of a bigger word, as far as I'm aware. If that's not the case, let me know and I can try a different tag, but as far as I'm aware, that should work and I've always tagged with that so it'll catch everything.)

[dontmindme2600]

Do you mind if I ask your top 10 favorite characters (can be male or female) from all of the media that you loved (can be anime/manga, books, movies or tv series)? And why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before.....Thanks...

It’s no problem, I love answering questions like these!!! But also that’s a RRREAALLLYYYY hard question for me bc it changes depending on what I’m currently obsessed with lollll and it’s even harder for me to rank from least favorite to favorite so,,, if you don’t mind I’m just gonna keep it to anime/games and list like off the top of my head in no particular order!! If that’s ok:

-Yusuke from YYH (I’m a sucker for the “punk guy with a heart of gold” trope and also the first episode/chapter where he shows up to his own funeral and gets shocked at how much everyone misses him is like,,, the only anime/manga scene that actually makes me cry lmfao. It added a lot more depth to his character as well and I thought it was cool that Togashi managed all that in literally the first volume)

-Illumi from HxH (his design is iconic and I just think he’s cool. It’s honestly mostly the design… I wanted to only do one character per series for this post but Chrollo and Kite are also up there)

-Jolyne from JJBA (funny, badass and kinda relatable in a way??? Like I’m not very confrontational at all but somehow I just. Get her. I also love the way she speaks lmao)

-Spike from Cowboy Bebop (Looking at my blog theme I bet you could never guess! there’s a lot of reasons I like him but to keep it brief I just think he’s very fun to analyze bc his character is so complex if that makes sense?? Also he’s hot which is a bonus)

-Ginko from Mushi-shi (just seems like a cool dude!! Helpful and knowledgeable)

-Vash from Trigun 1998 (How can you NOT like him,,, I immediately liked him since his intro in episode one lmao. Forever mourning the loss of his accent in the 2023 version)

-N from Pokémon (This one’s the hardest to explain for some reason but tbh I just think that he’s cool! His backstory and mannerisms are really interesting and as a Pokémon fan it’s nice to see when they get really creative with the human characters! Also keeping true to my one character per series rule here but Guzma and Team Skull as a whole are also hilarious and I love them)

-Majima from Yakuza (specifically the version from 0, but I like all of them. He just makes me laugh lmao which is super fun!! But he also shows that he’s actually a very respectable guy on a lot of occasions, which bumped him up for me. Oh also his intro in 0 IS SO GOOD)

-Klavier from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (I’m ngl I just think he’s hot but also he made me laugh a lot… and it was always just generally really fun/interesting whenever you got to talk to him in game)

-Otacon from MGS (Like a lot of other characters on this list it just started with him being really funny. I mean come on you really can’t beat a character introduction where you hype the dude up to be this super serious science hacker guy, and then when you finally meet him he pisses his pants and rants to you about anime… Aside from that his codec calls are really fun, Otasune is a good ship, and his character development as he ages is also interesting)

[eleplay]

Going through the experience of loving the trigun anime as a child but realizing you forgot like 60% of what happens in it. Hornfreaker?!? Is not manga only??? He Was in the anime??? And somehow, I forgot about the saxophone assassin??!?

(But on a different note I’m very interested to see if Vash as the Most Tortured Soul Ever is the same in each adaptation vs the manga? I don’t remember that being the case in the 90’s show but apparently I’ve forgotten everything about the Gun Ho Guns arc. I love comic adaptations! And I’m enjoying your comics posting!)

like most of the gung ho guns he doesn't actually do much, so i could definitely see why you might have forgotten about him. the silly glee i feel whenever i see the word HORNFREAK or drawings of him blasting on his saxophone mid-battle tho... it's unmatched.

yeah i have no idea how the adaptations play it! but i want to acknowledge that i tend to feel indifferent to actively annoyed by shonen anime special boy main characters, so i'm probably being overly aware/critical of whenever other characters look at him and explicitly go "wow... how are you still smiling despite it all. damn... what a guy"

sorry i just think it's so corny when you say it out loud like this. also i really wish in general the girls had more going on for them besides special boy commentary. maybe they come back later and do? fingers crossed?

[getosugurusbangs]

Do you mind if I ask your top 10 favorite characters (can be male or female) from all of the media that you loved (can be anime/manga, books, movies or tv series)? And why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before.....Thanks....

thank you for the ask! and no, i haven’t answered this question before, i rarely get asks so it’s never come up lol

a couple disclaimers before actually getting into the list 1. these aren’t in any particular order, more just in the order i thought of the characters. 2. from most of these, there are other characters that i love just as much if not more than the character listed, i just put a certain character on this list for more specific reasons, or because i have a better understanding of them. 3. i tried to refrain from adding too much jjk, but it still happened so… i apologize 😔 i can’t help myself (and also, all characters listed are from anime/manga)

list under the cut!

satoru gojo from jujutsu kaisen. what hasn’t been said about him at this point? he’s a very lovable and endearing character in general (obviously) but one thing that’s very cool to me about him, is that a lot of his character is left up to the viewer’s imagination. he’s definitely a character where you can project a lot, and make really whatever you want of him. it can be a double edged sword sometimes, but i still think it’s something cool about him.

suguru geto from jujutsu kaisen. can’t have gojo on the list without his soulmate. there’s so much to me that’s interesting about him that it’s hard to narrow it down enough for this list. as sad as it is to watch, i do really like his spiral at the end of hidden inventory arc. i think it’s very neat how his mental decline really shows more of the true nature of the jujutsu society they’re part of, and how cruel it is to it’s own people. on a similar note to that, it’s very interesting seeing the way geto truly is (his mentalities, his personality, etc. not his morals) get continuously revealed during his defection and post jujutsu high.

maki zenin and mai zenin from jujutsu kaisen. if i was already putting multiple jjk characters on this list, they had to be here too. i looooove their arc together, and everything they’ve (whether on purpose or not) done to each other. i honestly do just think the concept of two cursed twin girls coming from a horrible, at the top of the food chain clan, and attempting to thrive outside of it despite everything, is super cool. i love them separately as characters, but them together makes me even more deranged…

nicholas d. wolfwood from trigun/trigun maximum. apparently i have a thing for dudes who have big tits, are doomed by the narrative, and are associated with a religion 💀 also whenever i talk about trigun, unless specified otherwise, i’m specifically talking about the manga or og anime, not the reboot. anyways, i really like his development as a person over the course of the series. and how in the end, he ended up adopting more of vash’s ways than he may have anticipated. vash and wolfwood’s relationship, considering who they are as people and what they have going on, is crazy to me ngl

anna/nina liebert from monster. i love naoki urusawa’s portrayal of women, and just people in general in his work, and how realistic it is. if you haven’t read or watched monster, GO DO IT!!! it’s one of the best manga i’ve read so far. i haven’t seen any of his other works yet, but i’ve heard good things. i love how she’s an overall badass, kind and compassionate person, while still working towards her goals and simultaneously working through her trauma. she’s just a very neat character to me!

shinji ikari from neon genesis evangelion. i may sound insane saying this depending on how you feel about him but hear me out 😭 he gets a lot of hate, which i do understand, but i do like him, okay? (i’m not going to acknowledge the end of evangelion movie. i will NOT watch it) i think with him, and other teenage characters going through very traumatic situations like him, people forget that they’re literally children going through that? and treat them like they’re adults going through it when they’re absolutely not, and that really bothers me!! despite how he can come off as pathetic sometimes, i do appreciate the way he’s portrayed. he’s overall a very relatable character, and is (at least to me) pretty endearing at times. i like how in the endings of both the anime and the manga, it’s pretty open-ended for him. most of what i say about his character could be applied to asuka, too.

hitori gotou/bocchi from bocchi the rock. she’s just a teenage girl who loves music and has social anxiety and she’s so real for that!!! it’s been a while since i watched bocchi the rock, and i also just don’t have a lot to say here, i just really like her and the way her social anxiety is portrayed, as someone who goes through it myself.

reki kyan from sk8 the infinity. again, i don’t have a ton to say here honestly. he’s very personally relatable to me, especially in his relationship with langa and such. as a queer person who skateboards, sk8 the infinity is the shit!!

yatora yaguchi from blue period. i love his character development in the beginning of the series, but in general too. i just love how he goes from a (slightly boring) respectable highschooler, on his way to a normal job and life, to then suddenly having a passion for art ignited within him, and changing his entire life’s path. i love how his art’s progression is shown, and various other conversations about art. blue period is one of the reasons i never want to go to art school lol

reigen arataka from mob psycho 100. what can i say, he’s just a goofy con man!! i love the additional comedy he adds to the series, despite his character being a little… sad and pathetic all things considered. he’s a wet cat of a man, but i love him for it, yknow? i also love the voice acting for him in the japanese dub of the show. (sakurai takahiro kinda sucks as a person, but he’s still a talented voice actor) there are also certain things about him that are kinda hilarious ngl..

i hope this is what you were asking for, or at least that you enjoyed this because this took a while to actually write out LMAO

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Can you do Kaneki for 003 :)))

Mhm! That beautiful mess, the culmination of all I despise but the vessel through which we all must perceive this world. I’d like to shake him like a maraca. This one definitely contains… opinions. As usual it's messy and ramble-ish but I enjoyed it.

How I feel about this character: Wow you're so interesting I wish I could still care after 320 something chapters. Born to “slay” as the youth say, in all meanings of the word, forced to do math. Sometimes I imagine what sound he would make if smacked against a wall. Constantly, actually. I can effectively emulate it with an almost empty water bottle, a thin piece of fabric, a piece of metal, and a slab of gelatin, but I only have access to two of those and it’s not the ones you think. I cannot stress how much I want post-Haise Kaneki dead for plot reasons, but I do think he’s pretty neat before whatever the result of the Tsukiyama extermination arc is. I do like him, but I try not to ponder him too deeply because if I started getting seriously attached to him as a person, I’d have to be disappointed about his character as well. I’m already not normal about so many of them. So he’s more of a secondhand skrunkle, I watch a decent portion of the rest of the fandom go wild and sit back and tend to my own neglected favorites. Like observing a neighbor’s garden, larger than mine but wilder, containing so many varieties of plants I can no longer distinguish them, and perhaps a bit overgrown. Was he the first piece of Tokyo Ghoul art I ever drew? Yes- well no actually that was probably Nishiki or Shuu but I never posted those because they were just sketches, but he was the first that I posted, and kind of my gateway to deciding to let myself brainrot over TG without shame (mostly). So I owe some amount of gratitude to him. 

But at the same time he fills me with a deep sadness for what might’ve been. Tokyo Ghoul was praised for having some kind of ground-breaking protagonist but he just feels... edgy at the end of it, handed an undeserved win. Sorry.

(So an update from later this very same day, I drew him and now I want to hug him. NO. I MUST PERSEVERE. Alright Kuroneki is kind of cute and his nickname sounds like Kuroneko (As in the trigun cat) and I love Kuroneko.)

Any/all the people I ship romantically with this character: Protagonists are funny things to ship because they can be shipped with almost anyone. Almost the entire main cast? Been there and done that. Every character he’s been friends with? Certainly. Rivals? No rivalry is complete without a little homoeroticism. The villain? Is that even a question. That random character who appeared for half a  chapter? Someone’s probably done it. It’s difficult to pick a favorite but frankly I’m not particularly partial to any of them. Shuuneki is fun but it just feels out of character as soon as it becomes remotely healthy which is what all that pining causes me to intrinsically want which in turn annoys me so… I enjoyed it before I actually learned the story. Now I just can’t fathom truly enjoying a fic about them without leaving frustrated because at any given point, one or the other of them just wouldn’t work. Also I really want Kaneki to die alone. But though I’ll never be extremely passionate about it, I do think that Hidekane is kind of the best one. Like it’s not my ship but from an outsider's perspective I look at it and just go huh. Neat. This one actually seems non-headache inducing. I’m slowly consuming more of it but at the same time Hide deserves much better. I can’t fix you but I can hold your hand as you crumble or something. I will take this time to rant about Tou//ken. God help us all. I will start off with what I like because I am terrified of being burned at the stake by the shippers who actually read through this for some reason. Aesthetically, cool. As individuals, love them. Conceptually, it had great potential. I don’t think it ever could’ve been my otp but I could’ve enjoyed this. Now. DEAR GOD I HONESTLY ADMIRE THOSE WHO SHIP IT FOR EITHER HAVING THE IGNORANCE OR SHEER WILLPOWER TO ENJOY IT DESPITE THAT WRITING. It would be easier to ship two characters who we’ve never seen interact whatsoever (stares at my terrible rarepairs I would know) than to repair this trainwreck, so I suppose that’s a testament to your tenacity or your willingness to ignore the holes. I swear my copy of TG was missing chapters WHERE was their development. They only did things for each other when instructed to or in life or death situations when opposed by a greater threat, only thought fondly of each other when not together, and then got married and kids despite Kaneki being in a mental state nowhere near “intact enough to live a functional existence” must less raise CHILDREN. Like I refuse to believe Kaneki would be a great father. “Something, something breaking the cycle of a loveless life.” Where. Where did he learn to love healthily? Touka? Where? Where is that shown? They interact so briefly in such high-stress scenarios how the HELL am I supposed to know?

 Dear god I knew these two were going to get together. I steeled myself for it. I tried to enjoy it I swear I did but it feels like the marriage arc skipped the love arc and I don’t know how I’m supposed to appreciate the shell of a relationship left behind. But I respect those who manage. Like, if a character (Ayato) can go on a brief trip and come back UNDER A FEW DAYS LATER to find out, with absolutely no warning that his SIBLING is married to a guy now, maybe you’re moving just a little fast! Someone please explain this to me I feel like I'm losing my mind.

The Vegas wedding of Tokyo Ghoul, getting hitched in a cave while a homophobic gay horror creature exterminates 98% of your kind.

Also I find it funny that she managed to date a guy who both looks and acts so much like her dad. Touka you can do so much better you are leagues above this guy.

My favorite non-romantic relationship for this character: If Haise is included, Akira and the Quinxes. Family. If Haise is not included, probably… Hinami. 

My unpopular opinion about this character: Oh boy. He doesn’t really listen to anyone, and his cycle of self sacrifice for others because it’s the easiest route out is ANNOYING AS HELL. Points are made about it, but does he ever change? No he just keeps trying to die for “the sake of others” until the very end and keeps escaping the actual consequences, while others who have something to live for ACTUALLY DIE for his stupid martyr complex and I am SICK OF IT. He only fights for those he cares about because he’s afraid of being alone which is a very human desire but we never see him grow in it, he just keeps ignoring whatever he doesn’t want to hear, keeps letting himself almost die but he’s still “virtuous” and not a murderer to the narrative. Because the restaurant ghouls dared to have fun with the terrible cards they were dealt, so they deserved it! Because those humans in the dragon incident didn’t care, so they deserved it! And besides he wasn’t conscious anyways! Because Furuta dared to try to break the system that Kaneki decided wasn’t real, because he wanted to make sure the world never created a child like him again, so he deserved it! I could deal with him if the narrative actually treated him like what he is, “morally grey” is not an excuse to his actions it’s a byproduct, so just saying “it’s alright because he’s morally grey” doesn’t fix any of the issues with his inconsistencies! With his lack of growth beyond just getting worse, and being handed a happy ending anyways! Also why are all of his stans silent as the grave I hear barely a WHISPER out of you creatures yet you appear like phantoms to salivate over him when art is made and to sweep polls. I know perhaps 3 people who both actively post and I know for a fact would declare Kaneki their favorite. Where are the rest of you? WHERE ARE YOU HIDING? But godspeed to you.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: He feels so overwritten at the end, I really wish he either died, or that :re had gone the csm route and had a different protagonist. For our candidates for a new protagonist I would nominate: Hide. An exploration of a character who was born into a world that was hurting him, but chose to love ghouls anyways. Who chose to keep being a good person no matter how hard it was, (WHAT KANEKI DOES, DOES NOT COUNT AS BEING A “GOOD PERSON.”) He’d be a refreshing air of positivity and hope from Kaneki’s internal monologue. It’s so desolate it makes me want to commit amusing vandalism just to remember that bright colors are real and very lovely. I don’t have the energy to write out full explanations for all of them but I’d also nominate any of the Quinx squad members, Juuzou (I just want more Hanbee), Ayato, Amon, or Furuta. Or making Haise a person with a separate body.

Favorite friendship for this character: If Haise counts Juuzou, if not Banjou or Ayato.

My crossover ship: I’m tempted to say knives as a joke because they have the same english voice actor, (Who does a fantastic job as both but MAN his voice goes deep in tristamp.) Anyways Vash I guess. Go be self-sacrificial together you fools. (affectionate connotation for one, indifferent for the other.)

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you mentioned you like trigun and i have a question? i’m not into trigun but i see a lot of fan art shipping vash with wolfwood, but i’ve also heard people call it a proship (which is gross obviously) is it true? i heard something about wolfwood being mentally younger than he is physically but idk since i haven’t read/seen it sorry if this is a stupid ask it has nothing to do with you i just don’t know any trigun fans

hello anon! first off love tht u came to me w this I feel like an official in the fandom now, but I digress.

anyways, here's a quick lesson of wht I kno for u, as well as how the answer varies due to the diff adaptations:

(keep in mind there has never been an official age stated for any of these, u just gotta use clues. also I dont use the term "proship" arnd here, but I get ur overall point)

for trigun max n the '98 anime, n based off of wht ive found/ heard, its gonna be safe to guess he's arnd his early to late twenties here, not rlly a chance of him being a teen at all, so there's a pointless argument right there.

here's where it gets interesting: trigun stampede.

im assuming this is where the most "discourse" comes from (n also where ur question originates from) considering the newest anime takes a huge left turn w his backstory n ovrall character, which is tht wolfwood was taken from the orphanage itself as a kid n experimented on until his physical body shed its "younger skin" so to speak, n was pushed into growing into an adult's instead.

so. yeah. easy to see how his age is the most disputed here. I have sifted thru many diff posts n speculations, n have basically come to this conclusion: no one has any fucking idea. it ranges from "he could still be 12 in an adult's body" to "he could actually be arnd 20 now", but again. p hard to decipher tht when u kinda have to get into the mental vs physical state of him also, bc how exactly do u factor in having ur body forcibly aged up while the rest of ur mind was forced to be "left behind" in a sense? did tht also speed up his mental age due to evrything he had to witness? hm.

so unfortunately my answer isnt gonna be completely satisfying bc truthfully imo, it could go either way. a few posts tht ive seen arnd have stated tht u can simply age him up if its more comfortable like the original series instead of sifting thru the nitty gritty details. u feel me?