#ayane x pin

[eleni-cherie]

"Why do you like angsty stories so much?"

the ship that shaped my 17-year-old as* back then:

(I'm so happy this finally got animated)

[bluebelledmoon]

this one’s for the kimi ni todoke fans

if you are interested, @ yourself in the notes so i can invite you :)

ALSO reblogs are greatly appreciated :)) !!

[arachnees]

Whoever convinced me that kimi ni todoke is a happy-go-lucky series should have seen my utter despair when I learned that Ayane and Kento break up in the manga.

[cute-girls-from-vns-anime-manga]

新堂彩音 by ねずも

[dekuneho]

husband of the year ☆ ( prohero!katsuki x reader ) — in your defense, who would've thought he would barge in while you're at work? clearly not you.

The TV was broadcasting and heatedly narrating Dynamight's current Villain-of-the-Week takedown when your co-worker, Yaeko whom you remember by her pin-straight waist-length hair and delight in a bunch of hearsay, taps on your shoulder for attention.

"Mm?" you murmur distractedly, incapable of tearing your eyes away from how the camera has easily captured the swift fluttering mid-air, even if just barely. No ordinary person could keep up with the force that is Bakugou Katsuki.

"Ayane-chan clocked out early."

"Did she?"

Yaeko settles on the plastic chair on your right, watching the #1 Pro Hero absolutely pulverize the villain with the most elegance, Bakugou style. She doesn't take it in with the same rapt. Doesn't hold her breath or tighten her grip on her knees, not like you.

"Her husband picked her up. They're having dinner," Yaeko sings, then sighs dreamily. "Oh, if only mine would pick me up with a nice, sleek car."

The villain finally registers he's clearly overestimated his plan for victory and starts begging for mercy. Dynamight appears too distracted to even feel victorious about it.

"That would be nice," you agree, though you're not really sure what she's saying anymore as Dynamight takes the last win. His expression looks off — far away.

'And once again, #1 Pro Hero Dynamight proves why he's at the top, breaking his last three-minute record! Looks like he'll be securing this year's ranking as well.' The reporter gushes like it's some Olympic Sport. Dynamight would grin like a fucking bastard, too, usually, but not today, it seems.

"How come I never see your husband?" Yaeko asks all of a sudden.

"That would be no good," you say, chuckling. "He's busy enough as he is."

Yaeko appraises your assured smile. "Hm. Is that what he says?"

The reporter continues gushing, "And he flees the scene in a signature Dynamight hit-and-run. He might be off to save another city; who knows!"

"That's what everyone says, really," you say cryptically, moments later. You wonder why Dynamight looked so distracted. It wasn't like him.

In the immediate silence that follows, you spare a glance at your co-worker. Yaeko looks thirsty for prying, but as soon as her shoulder comes in contact with yours, she rears back with a gasp.

"You're still sick!" she admonishes, not unlike in the tone a mother hen if they could speak and grip both your shoulders. "I was wondering why you even came today when you were all but dying last night."

You jerk away. "I was just feeling a little feverish. Nothing too bad.”

Yaeko clicks her tongue. The chair slides back as she pushes off to get water from the dispenser near the TV. The reporter drones on about how fortunate they were to witness the Pro Hero in broad daylight, followed by the dispenser's buzz.

"Your husband let you out like that?" she asks.

"He doesn't know," you murmur shamefully.

Yaeko appears unimpressed, holding the cup to your lips. You sigh and move to keep the glass yourself, feeling a little petulant about it.

Commotion begins to pick up in volume from outside, muted by the walls. Yaeko pays no mind to it, but your hair picks up on its ends. When there's a stifled sound of explosion, you understand why. The news moves to a different topic, though it seems that the headlines made its way to you himself.

"Shit. Hide me, Yaeko-san. Please."

Yaeko frowns. "What? Hey, don't move so much."

The door slides open and presents the #1 Hero himself, sweating and seething and still looking like a dream. He has to twist his upper body, the door for ordinarily built men unable to accommodate his solid, beefy arms.

"You," he growls, eyes blazing.

"Noo." You shield your face with the crook of your arm, but there isn't a single wall in the world that Dynamight can't break through.

Behind him, the security guard emerges and looks rightfully guilty. He makes a gesture of 'I tried, sorry. It's up to you now.'

He grips your elbow and pushes it out of view until your face is bare, and you're witness to his very, very angry face. "I told you not to punch in for work."

He did say that. "Uhh…"

"You went all," He pitches his voice somewhere obnoxiously high, "'Don't worry, baby, I won't!' — we lyin' to each other now?"

You did also say that.

"Baby?" Yaeko whispers to herself, stunned.

Dynamight scowls, ripping his glove out to press it on your forehead, his skin ice-cold. You wonder if this is how the villain from earlier felt, though maybe with a little less arousal at the sight of his eyes. "Fuckin' idiot," he mutters under his breath.

"D-Dynamight, sir," Yaeko pipes up, looking shell-shocked, "please unhand my co-worker."

"Ha? You the one who asked this idiot to clock in?"

"No." You shield Yaeko's terrified expression with your hand. "No, she didn't. I did it myself."

"Yeah, 'cause you're a dumbass on your own," he says, and now the familiarity of bickering feels more like your Katsuki in the walls of your home. Your husband, who seriously came all the way here after kicking some ass. Katsuki turns to Yaeko. "Tell your boss we're leaving. Don't call."

And he pulls you up and drags you off. You half-expected him to throw you over his shoulder, but his neck brace might dig into your side painfully, and Katsuki has already considered it despite his boiling anger at your disobedience.

"Katsuki," you whine, heating up at the stonished staring while you're tugged off into the exit. "Did you really fly all the way here just to kidnap me home?

"The hell's with that," he snaps. "I'm clocking out for the day 'cause I'm not stupid like your stupid ass."

"Katsuki!"

"'sides," Katsuki gives you a long look over his shoulder, and oh, is this what he was thinking about the entire time? Your heart does a bit of somersaulting. "Who else is gonna take care of you?"

Yaeko can keep her nice, sleek cars. Nothing beats this.

[egashira]

While I am for hunting down any mangaka that still (or has ever) promoted student x teacher and age gap ships in general I think the Karuho Shiina approach is objectively way funnier.

Basically Karuho had Ayane and Pin be the leftover main characters among the already established 2 couples. While I cannot say she didn't write some jokes into the manga related to the nature of their relationship, it wasn't until the last few arcs that there was any (strictly one sided from the student's side) romance happening.

You'd have to know that at this point people were so invested in them. The biggest KNT fans posting constant updates, translations and paid content were big Ayane x Pin fans. But in general the fandom was so interested in their development and they were satisfied with even with the tiniest of crumbs. Sawako and Shouta had been dating for a year and Chizuru and Ryu had just resolved their issues and gotten together after so long. Ayane had also just broken up with Kento so naturally the next course of action would be finally setting sail to the 'implied from the start' Pin x Ayane ship.

You know the joke that goes 'x has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever'?

Well Karuho Shiina had the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever. And she did exactly that.

After years of build up and theorizing from the fandom the teacher x student ended the way any ship of that nature should end: the older teacher rejected the younger student and made it clear that it's impossible for him to view her as anything other than a student, a kid he essentially spent 3 years watching grow into an adult. No 'if i wasn't your teacher' or 'maybe in the future'. Even before that, 27 year old Pin made it clear that he's strictly dating women his age and even a 20 year old is considered too young for him.

I will say I still have my doubts about whether that was Karuho's plan from the start or if it's a decision she came to as she saw the way the series progressed. But considering her old works mostly condemned or damned age gap relationships, it's not impossible that this was her initial plan when she started the series in 2006 (a stance impossible to find in any other manga at the time) and not some grand revelation that came to her while writing in the 2010s.

And to reference my favorite tweet ever @ all age gap mangakas:

[adachikiyoshi]

kimi ni todoke things i want to talk about in excruciating detail someday

- 'reaching you' is not just about sawako and kazehaya it's about every relationship in the manga the whole story is about communication and reaching one another and

- the importance of names

- top 10 gay moments

- kurumi and sawako rivalry having the most satisfying conclusion

- kazehaya setting the blueprint for male leads

- knt's total spin on all kind of tropes (popular x unpopular, childhood friends, teacher x student)

- kazehaya being a male lead that doesn't rely on trauma to be sympathetic and that doesn't steal the spotlight from the protagonist

- ayane's character especially her ending/resolution

- ayane's comphet

- ryu being a great example of how to write an aloof character with trauma while not overly relying on it

- how ayane's crush on pin was handled

- sawako is much deeper than the average anime viewer thinks (yes she is able and does get mad)

- how to blow up people that miss the entire point of the show and just dismiss it as "full of miscommunication" with my mind

- s2 was great + you missed the point +L+fuck you

- it should not be considered a slowburn

- kurumi had the only redemption that matters . like by FAR

- how well written the intimacy between the two couple is

- keeping one of the biggest mysteries (pin's life outside teaching) a mystery was actually pretty cool

- why i think romance writers should start paying taxes to karuho shiina instead of the government

- how hard it is to pick up another heterosexual romance manga again after reading this one

- the accidental gay coding of not one But TWO characters

- kurumi's love for sawako

- its (very few) flaws

- sales

- the movie. like all of it. casting, ost, scenery.

- whether kazehaya or sawako fell first

[sollucets]

10 characters / 10 fandoms as tagged by @troubled-mind

im going to copy kat (haha. get it.) and do something of a Top Blorbos Through The Years exhibition. you can see more of specifically my favorite drama characters in the purple gifs fcfc series (which i will continue someday). i am tagging in @ejunkiet & @pearl-kite (no pressure!)

crona gorgon / soul eater

crona didn’t singlehandedly trans my gender in middle school but they sure participated

nico di angelo / percy jackson

were not all gay kids in the approximate percy jackson age range & physical location destined to be obsessed with nico for the rest of their lives or is this not actually a universal experience

clara oswald / doctor who

ten years ago on this very website was the first time i attempted making gifs and i did it for her. my first published fic on ao3 (also 2013) was about her. i have supported her through every terrible thing moffat did. i love her so much

finn / star wars

the force awakens brainrot back in the day, i do miss you so. it was so much simpler then

laura kinney (x-23) / marvel comics

my darling my beloved my trauma girl. i read through So much marvel i didnt care about just for her

emily kaldwin / dishonored

dishonored 2 brainrot...... all of 2019.... my empress :')

lady maria of the astral clocktower / bloodborne

i know how the secrets beckon so sweetly…

caleb widogast / critical role c2

can’t resist a shitty wizard, apparently

zagreus / hades

and he just! keeps! trying! my baby boy my himbo prince

ayan / the eclipse

[gestures wildly at my pinned] do you think i am in Any Way Kidding. do you think i don’t mean it. i’m contractually incapable of going a day without thinking of him

x

ahh this was Very difficult, yeah. thanks for giving me some food for thought :’) my main qualifier for being a blorbo worthy of this list is ‘i have written fic about them at least once’, and this still disqualifies some real painful exclusions, like may pokemon or maybe eowyn lotr (among the earliest possible blorbo candidates) and solaire dark souls and dorian dragon age. also no redacted characters are on this list bc the real answer wouldve been ivy or maybe jessamine, and i was not including OCs

[lcgtopia]

I hate all men, except Kazuichi Arai.

[optimisticwannab]

I want this, I need this

[claymorecut]

Finished reading the last few chapters of Kimi ni Todoke and PinAya just stabbed me right through my heart!

I mean just look at it!

Flustered Arai-sensei!

Cheering Ayane up!

Waiting for her...

More FLUSTERED PIN! HE WAS WAITING FOR HER! HE WAS WORRIED T_T!!!!

Ayane confessing her love to him. This panel broke my heart.

Yeah Pin, you know you find her attractive and you have something for her...But she's your student...and you cannot cross that line. You don't want to even when you have something for her.

THESE TWO ENDED UP TOGETHER IN THE FUTURE AND YOU CANNOT TELL ME OTHERWISE!

But alas... That's all just in my mind. The worst part about the ending is that we never get to see these two together again. Or get to know how their relationship progressed or what even happened later. We never got a proper closure and that's what kills me the most. Hell I even wanted to see Ryuu and Chizuru's marriage. I really wanted to see Pin and Ayane together...These two are one of my favorite shoujo couple and UGGGHHHH! I wanted to see more of them! T_T

[mionas-world]

Paring: Ayane x Pin Ranting: M Summary: There he stood, in the middle of the poorly lit hallway of her apartment complex. Trails of melting snow were coming down of his wet auburn hair, making his usual spikes to fall down in his forehead in the way she usted loved it. Her eyes widened in shock. Ayane closed the door with a loud bang. Although 5 years had passed, he hadn’t changed at all. Enjoy! 

[hoodlessmads]

You know, every once in a while I remember that Ayapin exists and still has no closure and may never get it and I just get very sad.

[shroomystar]

Every once in a while I remember/reread kimi ni todoke and remember my love for them;

[lilkikayart]

Ayapin fanart

I really want to draw some Ayane x Pin fanart, could anyone help me by leaving some ideas/ suggestions?????

[respectthepetty]

You have bewitched me

Akk has had a visceral reaction to Ayan's touch. He jerks. He resists. He pushes.

However, most of Ayan's touches are threats in themselves and come when least expected.

You punch me once. I kiss you once.

The only moments Akk has allowed Ayan to touch him for an extended period is when Ayan helps him... with his prefect pin, the symbol of rule and order.

The first time, Ayan attempts to fix the pin because it isn't straight. The second time, Ayan uses his lighter to sanitize the pin; then, he proceeds to remove Akk's splinter.

For the symbol of law to not be straight and needing sanitization is saying something in itself, but then to use it to remove a small nuisance that if left unchecked will burrow deep and fester resulting in catastrophic consquences is symbolic of the help Ayan provides Akk.

Akk's secrets and pain are splinters in his soul that he has tried to bury by following the rules and staying in control, but he doesn't realize that the rules he hides behind are crooked and dirty, and if he continues to use them, instead of helping him, they will lead to his destruction.

When you're exhausted, you're pretty cute.

What are you doing to me?

Unlike every other drama that uses a fake sleep to elicit a confession, when Akk opened his eyes after Ayan's confession, Ayan didn't shy away from what he said. He wasn't ashamed about admitting he finds Akk attractive. He wasn't scared.

He was happy that Akk heard it.

These two have been orbiting around each other in their never-ending cat and mouse game, but here, both are silent, mesmerized, and unmoving observing each other in a moment of truth they aren't afforded in the noise of the school.

Akk isn't scared. He doesn't resist. He doesn't jerk. He doesn't push.

Much like with the prefect pin, Ayan's touch here is to help not to harm. However, Akk now has time to examine the other instances where Ayan has helped him by putting on his seatbelt and leading him to the car when he knew Akk was hesitate. He now has time to see who is in control.

And that DOES scare Akk.

When Akk finally does move, it is swift as if he is trying desperately to keep from falling, jolting himself awake out of the trance he has been in for the past twenty seconds. He even looks around in attempt to center himself.

And the first thing he demands is that Ayan tell him what he is doing to him. Not what he has done to him. Not what he did to him. No. What he is doing to him. Continuously. Persistently. Relentlessly. Because now Akk sees it. He sees that Ayan is changing him, but he doesn't know how he is doing it. He doesn't know when Ayan seeped into his thoughts, but now he realizes that when the world is reduced to just the two of them, he likes it, and with that, he realizes he is no longer in control. So he runs... right to Kan, his plan of escape, who is fighting his own battle of resistance, but he only goes so far because the last scene of the episode is them, together, practicing.

In judo, an ippon is a perfect point and happens when one subdues his opponent on his back for at least twenty seconds. The move has to be controlled and swift, but the hold has to be strong and lingering.

In the past, Akk has attempted this move, but failed in pinning Ayan down for the required amount of time due to him resisting Ayan's touch, a touch that is against the rules and was meant as a threat.

However, in this attempt, the pin, as shown in the episode, lasts twenty seconds.

In executing this winning move, Akk shows control, and unlike his last attempt, Ayan doesn't touch, so Akk doesn't jerk. He doesn't push. He doesn't run.

They observe, unscathed.