#donbros spoilers

[lupato]

LOVE WINS

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Donbros vs Zenkai

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the wblue content this week,,

[asphxyia]

he delivers not just packages....he delivers happiness

[stickers-on-a-laptop]

i am really very mad at what we did about jirou but like gotta say making the moon is a liar and the sea and the sky, both part of the gayest convos to ever gay, ACTUAL IMPORTANT PLOT LORE, that was good gold star to inoue

[emotionallychargedtowel]

I keep seeing all these responses to Kijino’s ending in the Donbrothers finale that basically boil down to “Kijino finally learned not to make his entire life about other people and that’s why he got Miho/Natsumi back.” And I just...think that’s the complete opposite of what happened?

Once we found out Miho was Natsumi there’s been this one way to look at Kijino’s story that is right there on the surface, an easy interpretation to make. Kijino’s whole personality was just being a wife guy. Then things started going wrong. He sees Miho with Tsubasa. She disappears. She says she’s not Miho, she’s Natsumi. And on and on until he’s distraught because “Miho doesn’t exist” and he “married a monster.” Both of which are basically true but also really reductive. When Natsumi is freed from the Beastial forest and gets reunited with Tsubasa it’s easy to think that the moral of the story is some kind of tired “nice guys finish last” bullshit. Or I guess I should say “wife guys finish last.” And it’s easy to buy into this because we’ve seen that kind of story over and over again. Wife guys get punished, not rewarded. They’re the butt of the joke. One justification for this is the idea that if we need other people too much, we don’t deserve to have them. Frankly, that’s bullshit. The purpose of close relationships is to be able to rely on other people and have them rely on you. If your marriage is so awesome and you love your wife so much that being a wife guy is the biggest source of joy in your life? That’s not some weird or unhealthy thing. It’s fine. Lots of people don’t have even one thing in their lives that is that wonderful. What’s wrong with making the most of it? We don’t apply the same standard to dudes who center their lives on some other important aspect of life like their job, their calling, or even a hobby. Why is centering your marriage such a problem? The whole thing is just toxic masculinity with a side of individualism. Right up until the last few episodes, it seemed like Donbrothers was going to show the Cool Guy winning out over the Wife Guy, which was hardly unprecedented. But that wasn’t the end and the story kept going. Tsubasa wasn’t entitled to be with Natsumi just because of the things he’d gone through or the fact that he got her out of the Beastial forest. Now that she was free from her imprisonment, she was equally free to end this relationship that wasn’t what she wanted. What she did want instead was to get her wife guy back. Because, shockingly, people like having a partner who adores and supports them and lets them adore and support them back. Miho/Natsumi didn’t return to Kijino because he “finally learned to love himself” or “stopped relying on others too much” or whatever other healthy-sounding way people can find of saying that needing other people is cringe and should be punished. He got her back because he’s a wife guy. Because he is someone who she could have a relationship with that was so special that it was worth making it the centerpiece of their lives.

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FUCK OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFF!

THEYRE WEARING THE RAGS THEY USED TO BANDAGE ONE ANOTHER IN EPISODE 27

F-SLUR

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boy keep your homosexuality under control there!!!!

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I had to make this after ep 48

[ursamajori]

was thinking about donbros finale which led me to also thinking abt the zenkaiger finale and like. i was gonna say. like.

“if you had given me the quickest recap of both of these shows that you could, and then told me one of them ends on a mostly happy ending for everyone with getting the endings they needed except it’s fairly bittersweet bc the leader loses his memories and that one of them ended with the protagonist beating god in rock paper scissors, i would Not believe you once you said which was which”

but then like. i thought on it a bit and no, that absolutely tracks? yes donbros so much wild bullshit was happening and you’d think fighting god with a hand game would fit right in but i think it’s actually really fitting the ending was as neatly wrapped as it was, it was still very chaotic but in a cohesive way imo

and honestly if any character was gonna again beat god in rock paper scissors of COURSE it would be kaito (it’s not totally out of the question for haruka if you see her as the protag but i feel like that would end a lot less fair), that’s just such a Him thing to do

i’m certainly overthinking a lot of this, i just think it’s neat how they ended in…i guess somewhat reflections of the tone the other had, if that makes sense. they’re truly such good shows

[lupato]

wahaha guy compilation

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don't mind me, I just screencapped frame by frame for Sonoi's expression changing as he sees who it is that came to his oden stand

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SONOI….

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the donbrothers dub is outta control

(i could not get this idea out of my head all day after this ep)

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I have come up with 1 petty issue with the donbrothers finale and it’s that I think the final scenes would’ve hit harder if they used the ED like hearing “Donbura Happy End” when Taro shows up would’ve hit like a semi-truck