#aoi akane

[iamhereinthebg]

Will to love

[mari-lair]

Let's talk about Nene and how she find power in other people.

Nene gets overwhelmed easily and is very insecure, not just about her body but about her power, and smarts too.

When she thought Hanako may like her she wasn't sure about her judgement, but when Aoi who never even met hanako said 'oh yeah, he likes you~' she became far more confident.

Aoi must have been her reassurance for most of Nene's school life, so much so that when Aoi tells her "he might confess to you in the confession tree <3" Nene acts like that's the truth and spend the rest of the chapter giggily waiting for it.

She is right that Hanako have a crush on her, but when he start hiding behind excuses, she believes it right away. She never consider that his excuses and his feelings can both be true, she trust what he says more than her own judgement

When she started getting involved with the supernatural she start getting more and more doubts about herself. Her issues growing from the simple 'do they find me cute? can i get a boyfriend?' to questions about what is right and how much power she have.

She have a crisis when she learns Hanako used to be a living student, with a real life, who killed a real person. She become so helpless by this realization that she can't look at him in the eye.

Reality is so overwhelming, that she keep running away from Hanako.

There is no "Hanako is my friend anyways! His life doesn't matter what matter is the now!! Let's gooo!!" self talk in the garden. She want to hide. To give up.

Kou is the one that come to her side and reassure Nene that her feelings are valid, that not knowing what to is alright. That there is nothing wrong with being overwhelmed and doing all you can do, even when 'all you can do' isn't much.

They find strenght in each other.

Throught the entire manga Kou is there to cheer Nene up or to back up her plans. They are in this together.

Break the fake world? Rescue Hanako? Go to the Red House cause a kid is crying?? That's a Nene and Kou plan. That's their team effort. They got each other's back! They can do it!

Even when the idea isn't that good, Kou constantly cheer her, rewarding Nene for trying instead of giving up.

Most of the time Hanako is with Kou cheering her up, albeit not as upfront, being his indirect and 'haha just kidding i would die if i was vulnerable!' self.

Regardless, Nene got support through every step of this new and scary supernatural world!

Or at least... most of the time. Let's go over the instances where times were tough and Nene didn't have Kou and Hanako by her side. The times when she become her most vulnerable and insecure. She ceases to be "Your overwhelming grass type and beloved heroine Yashiro Nene!" and becomes Nene, the insecure high school girl.

When she learned about her death she was lost and confused, she didn't try to imply she could conquer death, she couldn't do anythnig, so she asked for guidance.

When she was given no real answer, just cryptic orders to stay in her caje forever cause hanako will 'solve everything', Nene was even more lost. And she was alone. No one to talk to in her time of need, no one to cheer her up.

We have no panels of her trying to break her window of wiggle between her caje bars because she isn't determined, she was devastated. So she cried and cried and tried to comfort herself

ONLY AFTER who knows how many doodles and time to process her feelings does her hopelessness turn into anger for Hanako and determination to change her situation.

She only fully enter "I will fight this! I can do it!! I won't do what Hanako want!!" mode after Mei visits her with a friendly dispossition and comforts her, giving her sweets to soothe her heart and give her energy.

Nene say her tears are false here, a mere ploy to make Mei lower her guard!! But it is rotted in real sadness.

The fire she gained after doodling her friends in the real world only spread into an inferno of determination when she is told she is deeply loved, that Hanako would sacrifice everything for her sake. That love is why this was made in the first place.

This world want to protect her, not kill her. Her hapiness is cheerished. And she isn't happy. She haven't loss the real world yet, she can still change things.

She was already determined to change things, but she doubles down on it, she gain more confidence and becomes bolder. She will kick and scream and try her best to win! Is amazing. She is sweating but she know what she is doing is right so she will do it!!

Throught the manga, as the time passes she start to stand up for herself more, she tries harder, she takes any opportunity she can to do something and believe in herself. She stop seeking superficial attention to feel worth.

Take her play of Oz for exemple, she want to be dorothy, the big role that is worthy of a beautiful dress and all the spotlight! Despite all her development and traumas she still cares that she was given a unimpressed role, that she 'isn't worthy' of the main role

But instead of being unable to focus on anything else except how bad her role is and how uncute it makes her, as the Nene from the start of the manga would, she get the strenght to move pass it and have fun, keeping her head high because she won't be alone.

Hanako will be there for her.

Hanako is one of her biggest strenghts, and when he is gone she is hit hard.

Her first instinct is to seek someone to talk too.

And when she can't, she falls. There is nothing she can do, her friends are already dead, and just like her own death, she doesn't know how to solve it.

Even when she feels better, going out to the arcade instead of being trapped alone in her room, the moment she remembers that she can't talk to her friends, that they are gone, she relapses again, sapped of all of her strenght.

She is 15, she can't handle this.

Her major sorces of comfort is still her close friends, which is normal, but she does gain strenght from other people.

Enters Teru and Akane.

Akane is one of the characters that push her to act when things are at their most hopeless, but unlike Kou and Aoi he isn't her cheerleader, he never coddles her. If she ask for reassurance that she is beautiful, or useful, or doing the right thing, he will either not give her that or straight up say "I dissagree".

Akane is not a source of hope for Nene, his belief in her is not nearly as strong as Kous or Hanako or Aoi's belief in her. Just as Nene's believe in herself isn't very strong in hopeless situations.

He never sugarcoats tragedy, in fact he consistently drag her back to how bleak things are. Ignore the arcade, don't distract yourself: Face reality.

He is open about his misery.

It mostly feel like he is processing his own feelings when he rants to Nene, but the end message is clear "I hate this, i want to try to change it. You want to, don't you?" which is exactly how Nene feels.

They are hopeless but they're not alone in this hopelessness. Despite Nene never working up with Akane during the rescue arc. This served as a reality check, which serves to process her feelings better.

Reality does sucks, there is no clear solution, she is unhappy, she does want to change things, she hates crying and being helpless while her friends are dead/suffering. So she eat a sugary sweet to comfort herself and she chin up.

Akane never says "you can do it, you are stronger than you think!" he sucks at comforting, I love him but oh god he sucks. But the message he gives her is till important "You have to do it." "You have to try anyways or you'll stay helpless."

Teru is the savior, Nene already idolized him from the start, but he is the one that showed them a way to rescue Aoi too. He is amazing. He can do the impossible!

Now let's jump to the new timeline.

Kou, her buddy, her biggest cheerleader, doesn't know her. It hit hards and she was so so happy to have him back!!

But just as quickly as she gets to see her buddy, Kou is gone, this is just a shell trying to lure her to death, the real one is dead at the bottom of a wheel.

She doesn't have the time to process that, because Hanako, her big source of comfort, doesn't exist. Amane, who she had watched be brutally slashed by Teru, have been possessed and wants to kill her and all her friends instead of protecting her.

Teru, this invincible guy (Nene wasn't present when No.6 took Teru down, so for her he is unbeatable) that made saving Aoi possible, is the first one down.

Everyone is doing what they can, so Nene does too, she want to help her friends, she can't let them be in danger! While Aoi takes charge, she doesn't allow herself to be too shocked and focus on destroying the tentacle attacking Akane.

But she is still terrified.

The last thing she want to do is to be alone. But she have too. Once more, Akane doesn't sugarcoat the situation, he says "This reality, it sucks, and if you want to change it, you have to act! Go!"

But this time he is left behind too. Nene is completely and utterly alone.

She has the weight of the world on her shoulders as she run through the city for who knows how long, but she is terrified and she doesn't have Akane to be terrified with her, just the weight of his words and the faint hope that they'll meet her in the big clock to keep her going.

She is doing something so so big, she need to talk to someone first, she need strenght. She need people.

So she seek them. And no one answers.

She crumbles, she becomes small. There is no heroine to be seem, just a teen girl in shambles after losing every. single. person that used to give her strenght.

That's why Tsuchigomori was needed.

Let her cry. Let her process the situation with a comforting sweet to gather the strenght to do what she must.

[axi-x1a]

New Akane coloring 🕰️✨

[courtesanofdeath]

First of the Seven Wonders, the Clock Keeper of the present: Aoi Akane

[hy4c1nthh]

i am a firm believer in "bro" "vibe" "dude" "totally" user akane. do. do you see what im getting at

[bpzau-art]

He's the type of brother who tells their younger siblings they were found in the trash when they were a baby

[shurup-overt]

watched the 2nd ep today and there was one original line that stood out

really, akane, right in front of my salad.

[sashannarcycanon]

Terukane at the end of this episode

He's dead

[keeperofthepresent]

Random thoughts and questions on the recent chapters...

So the recent chapter pretty much implies that the trio are dead. Which makes sense. But then I think of Teru's hand holding his sword and I wonder if he's dead or alive. Which also makes me wonder about whether the other two are dead or alive.

And if Akane and Aoi are dead then that would mean that Teru watched Akane get killed before he took the sword from him. And he watched Aoi die too, either before or after that. He watched their last moments, right after exorcising Kou.

And he can be sitting there and processing the grief of it all, or he can be dead too, who knows. Or maybe Akane is alive when Teru takes the sword, and Aoi is dead.

I can't help but think that Akane of this timeline and Nene of the original timeline are parallels to each other, especially with how they both had injuries on their left leg because of the red house.

And in the original timeline, Kou saves Nene and they get out of the house. What if Teru does the same for Akane? Meanwhile Aoi ends up taken as a sacrifice by the house before they can save her? I can't stop thinking of the implications that human sacrifices with her family are still being made in this timeline and how it can all be relevant to their situation.

Or maybe it's actually Aoi who's alive and Akane is dead. And if Akane is dead then what happens? Why did the clock keepers tell him not to die? Does he get erased from all timelines? Does something worse happen? Why do the clock keepers need the keeper of the present to be a living human anyway? What is going on?

Of course, there's the simple and easy answer that they're all dead and that's that. After all, no one is replying to Nene's messages for some reason. But what if...? WHAT IF?

(One thing for sure, at least one of them is dead haha...)

[sixplusfive]

Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun (2025) | 2.02 studio. Lerche

[kaeyaswifefromsnezhnaya]

How a shadow falls on him here and he looks tired and strict

Bro did not sign up for all this, but now he is a hostage to the duty of mystery and protection of Aoi, and in the end, even this is difficult for him

This extra with tea party kills me, like come to our side, we have cookies, but do you have a psychologist 😭 insurance and preferably a family package? It seems like there were some giggles, but if you think about it, clock keepers didn’t ask his opinion

[miss-sternennacht]

[makshu]

New JSHK art ✨️

[brujc]

Spoilers for S2 ep2 ⌚

Yayyy I finished the episode!

Super happy with how it turned out~

A lot of really well done shots and only a few awkward animation moments and the music and voice acting? Literally perfect.

First of all I gotta point out how I love the intro, with these triangles and different mysteries being introduced! Creates such a vibe!

Also didn't take any screenshots but I think they added some stuff in the op! During the sequence where there's the radio group's silhouettes there were different pictures (or so do I think)

Really like this red screen + icon thingy! I wonder what symbol they'll put during PP Arc

CLOCKKEEPER AKANE IS HERE AND I'M SO. HAPPY. HE ACTUALLY HAS SOOO MUCH GOOD SHOTS I'M CRYING TEARS OF JOY.

And his voice? On point. I love how he constantly switches being the deep serious one and the nerdy one when talking hejdbdkssk

Flashback sequence was really good! The characters looked good as hell (esp. In the third shot just above like omg Moi looked so pretty here)

The clockeepers errand boy lol

May I tell y'all how much I liked how they did Mirai? Like something about the voice and expressions she uses and the way she moved like bouncing and teleporting! Super satisfied

More Mirai shots cuz I loved it so much (and the soulless green eyes? Perfect.). I forgot how much I liked her (and wtf I don't remember Akane roasting tf out of her being so funny??)

I'm so happy they did it justice yayyy

This shot appealed to me for some reason

Older Kou! THE WAY HIS VOICE GOT DEEPER??? AMAZING

THE scene. Super well done again and Kou and Hanako's expression during the following moments were ugh omg

Look at the sadness in his eyes?????

Kou too!! Maybe my memory is just shit but I feel like the anime made me feel the intensity of Kou's emotions better than the manga? Or at least the same (I didn't read this in ages lol). Like his hurt and all were so well portrayed and his voice after learning about Yashiro's lifespan... Ahhhh

Ugh I'm bawling the eyes were so well done during this whole part.

Again, Kou and Akane's friendship hit me much harder. (Also asking Kou for photos of his brother at home? Blud has no shame lol)

Teru! Love his voice and he looks kinda better than what I expected? I'm happy yay eating well with these crumbs

Overall : super happy with how this ep turned out! The end felt a bit rushed/ the pacing was just a tad bit weird starting from Nene's monologue but i'm just nitpicking. Looking forward to the next one!

[hy4c1nthh]

okay. question.

so we know that when yashiro goes back to the old timeline..supposedly everyone who died in this one should be alive? right? yeah.

and. I. it might just be me overthinking but. What abt akane? I mean is it the same situation as the others? Where there was a separate akane in this timeline that then gained the memories of the other? Or since he immediately remember everything from the former timeline would it be more that there is "one" akane, and that if this one dies? then he's just. gone.?

if not then that'd make a pretty sick au imo

[bpzau-art]

New episode of tbhk have some Akane and Mirai !