#erstin

[milfmorrowind]

TES Summer Fest 2024: August 13th - secret or golden

@tes-summer-fest

this work has also been posted to ao3

The air was bitingly cold, but Erstin felt more at home than she had in a long time. In a way, Bruma had always felt something like home to her. It was not quite the same as Skyrim; the buildings were something of a different style than she was used to, and she had never seen anything like that chapel in Skyrim. But the similarities were there, and just enough to lend the city a sense of familiarity.

Though they’d begun their walk to the chapel before dawn, the citizens of Bruma were already beginning to filter into the streets. They largely ignored Erstin’s party, but every once in a while someone would fix them with a quizzical look before moving on with their business. It was not until the third or fourth such occurrence that Erstin noticed the tension in Martin’s shoulders.

“Are you alright, sire?” she asked. The young emperor cringed at the use of the honorific.

“I am perfectly fine, Erstin. Thank you for your concern,” he replied in a jilted voice. Unconvinced, Erstin glanced around them. Seeing no eyes on her, she stepped forward to his side.

“Are you quite certain?” she said in a low voice. Martin looked her in the eyes, then looked away with a sigh.

“I don’t like them watching me,” he said quietly.

“They are not watching you,” Erstin said. “They are looking at you. There is a difference.”

Martin frowned. “That is not the point. Regardless, I don’t like it. It feels as if they are judging me.”

In that moment, Erstin wanted nothing more than to reach out to him, to take his hand, to hold his face to hers and tell him that all would be well. But they were in public, and Martin was right that they were being watched, so she could do none of that. Instead, she let her hand brush gently against his as she stepped around a loose cobblestone.

“You will have to become used to people looking at you. Once you are crowned, you will be expected to make frequent public appearances. The council will require your presence, as well as your generals, the governors, the Blades…”

The face Martin made in response to the notion being seen becoming his job almost made Erstin laugh aloud. That was good. Martin had every right to be nervous, but Erstin was concerned that his apprehension might show through. They could not afford any appearance of weakness.

“You know, standing next to me is a violation of protocol,” he teased. Erstin rolled her eyes, but before she could respond, they’d reached the chapel.

Captain Burd stood in front of the main entrance to the Chapel of Talos. On his face was a hard expression, and on his back was his claymore, honed to a razor-sharp edge. He straightened when he saw the group approaching, though his expression did not soften.

“Your Highness. Grandmaster.” He met eyes with Erstin and a glimmer of recognition flitted across his face. “Ma’am. The countess is waiting for you inside.” Without another word, he pulled open the door behind him.

“He remembers you,” Martin murmured as they passed through.

“I should hope so,” Erstin said. “I closed a gate for him.”

Countess Carvain stood at the far end of the chapel, in front of the altar. Upon seeing Martin, she dropped into a curtsy. “Ah, there you are. Your Highness, it is a pleasure to finally make your acquaintance. I am Narina Carvain, Countess of Bruma.”

Martin bobbed his head with a pleasant smile. “It is a pleasure to meet you as well, Countess. Thank you for meeting me, and for agreeing to our plan. I know that there is a great deal of risk involved, and that I ask much of you and your people. I sincerely thank you, both for your faith in me and your courtesy. But I have not been crowned yet. Please, call me Martin.”

“Very well… Martin. I trust the plan remains unchanged?”

“It does. We must allow the Great Gate to be opened in order to obtain its sigil stone and recover the Amulet of Kings. The plans we recovered suggest that the gate is to be opened tomorrow. We will have to hold back the onslaught of daedra until we can access the great gate and retrieve the stone. I will lead the charge myself.”

“You?” Countess Carvain said incredulously. “Forgive me, Your High– Martin– but are you sure that is wise?”

Martin straightened. The instant he drew his shoulders back and raised his chin, a change seemed to come over him. No longer was he Brother Martin, Priest of Akatosh; he had become Emperor Martin Septim of Tamriel. It never failed to make Erstin swell with pride. “Perhaps it is not wise. I will be the first to admit that I am not an experienced commander, nor am I an exceptional warrior. Regardless, this plan and all its foolhardiness are mine. If I am to be emperor, I must bear the weight of my own decisions, and the people must see me doing so.”

Countess Carvain sniffed. “A noble sentiment, to be certain. And yet it is not without considerable risk. To put it frankly, Martin, you are the only Septim we have, and if you should fall, all will be lost. Surely, there is someone else capable of leading the attack. Your champion, perhaps?” With that last line, she gestured vaguely in Erstin’s direction.

Martin’s hands tightened around the edges of the altar, then released. Erstin hoped that no one else had noticed. “Erstin is certainly capable, my lady, as you will undoubtedly remember, as it was she who retrieved the Draconian Madstone for you,” he said tightly. “However, she cannot lead the charge because it will be her responsibility to enter the Great Gate and secure the Sigil Stone. She is uniquely suited to the task, as she has closed more Oblivion Gates than any other person– including the one which opened outside Bruma a few months past. Though it may be unwise for me to head up the attack, it would be unwiser still to task Erstin with anything but closing the gate.”

Countess Carvain seemed to actually see Erstin for the first time. “Of course. Her services have been most helpful. Very well then, Martin. Lead your men and mine into battle, though I fear it may be to your doom.” She glanced around the chapel. “Regrettably, it is time for me to return to Castle Bruma. There is still much to be done to ready the city’s defenses. With your leave, of course,” she added quickly at the end.

Martin bowed his head. “Of course, my lady. I will not keep you. Jauffre, Baurus, I will see you back at Cloud Ruler Temple. Erstin, a word.”

The others slowly filtered out of the chapel. When the doors finally shut behind them, Martin slumped against the edge of the altar. The Emperor seemed to flow out of him, and when he looked up, he was just Martin again.

“I’m sorry,” he said unhappily. “I shouldn’t have let her talk to you like that.”

Erstin placed her hand over his. “It’s alright.”

“No, it’s not. You are more than deserving of her respect,” he argued. “You have already done her a great service. If it weren’t for you, Bruma may well have fallen months ago– not to mention that business with the Madstone. And here you are, preparing to stick your neck out for her again, and she hardly acknowledges your presence.”

“If I demanded the proper respect from every person I dealt with, I would get nothing done,” Erstin said gently.

“That is not the point,” Martin said. “If she knew–”

“If she knew, it would only lower her opinion of us both,” Erstin interjected.

“You can’t be certain of that.” Martin took both of her hands in his. “Erstin, you are my wife, my empress. You should be respected by these people, not ignored by them.”

Erstin released his hands and gently put hers on his face. Pulling him close, she kissed him softly on the lips. “A secret wedding does not an empress make,” she whispered. “Martin, we must be practical about this. I am a commoner from a tiny village in Skyrim. You are Uriel Septim’s illegitimate son, and he is not alive to verify your parentage. Until we recover the amulet, we are entirely dependent on the faith of others. The nobles and the council can accept a secret heir in a time of crisis, and they may be able to tolerate a disadvantageous marriage, but I do not think they will suffer both at once. Until you are crowned, I am happy to bear any number of indignities.”

Martin put his arms around her waist. “I wish we didn’t have to keep this a secret.”

Erstin kissed him again. “I know, my love. As do I. But it’s not forever. Before long, you’ll be seated on your throne, and every single person around you will be aware, not just of our marriage, but of your routines, your preferences, your sleeping habits…”

Martin grimaced for the second time that morning, and Erstin had to laugh. Her laughter echoed throughout the chapel and Martin pulled her in for a final, loving kiss. When their lips finally separated she pulled his face close to hers and rested their foreheads together, whispering, “All will be well.”

[raineymazecave]

shout out to Erstin Deez, the closest Star Wars has gotten to literally having a canon Glup Shitto

[rosanna-writer]

Get to know me tag game!

thank you for the tag @foreverinelysian! these games are so fun (also good luck with finals!); starting a new post because the last chain was getting long

three ships: Feysand, Sherlolly, Erstine, my beloveds

first ever ship: The first ship I was like...aware of shipping/fanfiction/fandom arguments over and had opinions about was Artemis Fowl/Minerva Paradizo. My love for Minerva was very much my introduction to defending female characters who get demonized for things the fandom LOVES the men for.

last song: Run Away with Me by Carly Rae Jepsen, I've had the "every! single! minute!/I'll be your hero and WIN IT" bit stuck in my head for ages

last film: The Barbie Movie, had an adorable sibling date with my brother to go see it! We both wore pink shirts and had fun

currently reading: Marry Me by Midnight by Felicia Grossman! It's a swoony gender-flipped Cinderella retelling in 19th century London

currently watching: the only TV I've been watching lately has been Eagles games (GO BIRDS FLY EAGLES FLY)

currently consuming: water because it's winter and my skin is dry

currently craving: P O T A T O E S

Leaving this as an open tag; if you want to jump in, consider yourself tagged!

[anabimelo]

Commission I had the pleasure to make for @kaitodetective1412 thank you so much! <3

[drawingdullahan]

Drew my boi the fashion disaster. I only have a little bit of Elliott content despite how much I love him so that has to change.

[squadron-of-damned]

tolp, do you have any idea for a vampire au for the vk fan family? like I have a mess of an idea but in general the vks have been vampire hunters for a while (maybe around frieda who picks it up from her dad instead of letting the tradition die). it's like random ideas but everyone shunning manfred (dead or alive, frieda is rolling on her grave over this) and the current generation (his kids, maybe miles too?) are trying to hunt him down and kill him because if you make a mistake and do not correct it is a second mistake and von karmas do not make mistakes (thanks for that again granny). the only way to fix their tained/blemished name is by killing him.

Hmmm, let me storm some brains. I’ll throw some ideas, something will stick

Siegfried’s family branch? Werewolves, all of them. The rules say “vampire hunter” not “can’t be another bloodthirsty occult being”.

Franziska fighting tooth and nail to clear her name because everyone assumes she is also a vampire.

Griselda: the grand master of vampire lore and knowledge. She’s read all the books. She’s never actually fought a vampire.

Gundalf is trying to avoid the whole vampire hunting business, but keeps running into vampires and kills them by an accident. Like “gets tangled in a curtain, falls down, takes the drapery with him, vampire is exposed to direct sunlight and dies.

Markov abuses his werewolf heritage to make his blood absolutely rancid. So far no vampire has taken a sip, although he is trying his best to serve as a living bait, but mosquitoes and ticks die at the sight of him.

Helena tried to get out of the vampire hunting business by finding a someone, marrying them and living a calm sedentary life. Four times. Every time her husband (or wife) turned out to be another vampire, and Helena is just very tired of stabbing her spouses in the dead of the night with a stake again and again and again.

Nikolle is a dhampir. When she grows up, she is going to live through some Vampire Hunter D bullshit.

Erstin and subsequently Frieda were just vampire researchers at first. It was Bernard’s amazing idea to start hunting them.

“to know your enemy you have to walk a mile in his shoes” thing explains the entirety of the von Karma aesthetics and a lot of principles.

All three bullets that hit Siegfried were silver, but since they hit him just in the shoulder, they still didn’t kill him.

Siegfried’s investigation vampire hunting partner was actually a vampire and it’s a miracle the two of them didn’t try to kill each other sooner.

manfred still gets birthday postcards from markov, this time as a power move. markov just thinks there are other vampires who are a bigger threat and therefore higher priority. besides, manfred is from herman’s family branch, it should be that branch which sorts this mess out.

everyone actually thinks it should be friedrich and/or griselda who find and kill manfred. friedrich refuses to do anything this dangerous and stupid, griselda doesn’t like the idea of leaving her library.

leonore is practically a witch with her knowledge and skills, but she refuses to admit it or rely on it. she is an active occult denier as her uncle turns into a big wolf in front of her eyes. it must be thursday, she’s never got the hang of thursdays.

gretchen has been kidnapped by several vampires and threatened to be turned. so far nobody expected her pocket garlic powder. or that her “fairy wand” is actually just a very fancy stake.

[cannondisabledcharacters]

In the My-Otome manga, Erstin Ho has androphobia

Series that sexualize minors will not be accepted

[ultraericthered]

Anime Update 60

Dragon Ball - While Tambourine is still on his serial killing spree of martial artists around the world, King Piccolo is turning his attention towards seeking out the Dragon Balls and the Pilaf gang is starting to realize more and more just how out of their depth they really are in serving this guy. The most notable part of the episode is how Piccolo creates his new spawn, Cymbal. I knew how that would look before he did it but it was still disgusting and shudder inducing to watch.

Love, Chunibyo, and Other Delusions - The incident of Yuta saving Rikka from falling off the school rooftop pushed them a little bit closer together and a little bit further in how they process their feelings, with Rikka being the first to confess (I guess Dekomori’s a better help with these things than Sunohara is). But then Toka goes and puts Yuta in a spot where he has to get Rikka to finally face reality and give up on her Chunibyo since Toka’s made plans to go off to Italy and leave Rikka to take care of herself. What ended up frustrating me was that for some reason we weren’t actually shown the immediate aftermath of Yuta asking Rikka to take off her eye patch. It just cuts to the end of the cultural festival where Rikka sings her late father’s favorite song before removing her eye patch to reveal her eye looking normal (after the credits!), though I will say the idea that they had to substitute a Yuta VS Rikka performance with a Nibutani VS Dekomori performance (with very real hitting on Deko’s part) was amusing and felt right. I’m also finding that while I like Yuta as a character, I really don’t care much for his voice acting in the dub. He has this tendency to speak too softly and mutter his lines in serious scenes that just really bugs me and makes him sound way too disconnected from someone who ever had Chunibyo himself. In a mostly solid dub cast, Leraldo Anzaldua is easily the weak link.

My-Otome - We seem to be finally inching away from the “stuff happened” section of the series and getting into the real plot action that the show’s been building towards since the start. Arika and her two gal pals (y’know, her two gal pals who aren’t Nina and Mashiro?) are now actively striving to all become Meister Otomes while Mashiro is finally starting to get shit done from her throne. With Nagi casting aside Azwad and accelerating his work with the Schwartz, a stronger Otome response from Windbloom and Garderobe is required to quell the unrest and warring in Romulus and Remus. I did get a kick out of seeing that after sparks flew between Nao and Shiho earlier on in the show, Shiho has now gotten the last laugh as she’s been granted a crucial diplomatic role while Nao is saddled with a job that she doesn’t like because it messes up all of her life’s plans; sucks to be you, Nao! Arika wants her mystery benefactor (who we all know to be Sergay) to see her when she graduates to a higher Otome level and meet her in person. But evil is rearing it’s ugly head first in the form of Tomoe, who Arika beat in a dance battle at the start and for some reason wants to end all of Arika’s prospects, so she tries to fucking drop a dangerous acidic substance on top of Arika and would’ve succeeded had Erstin not got in the way! What is this psychotic bitch’s deal? And then by the very end, Nagi’s coup is underway!

Assassination Classroom S2 - Watched the two-part “Reaper Time” story arc that takes place some time after Bitch-Sensei’s birthday, which was on October 10. We found out more about Bitch-Sensei here; try as she might, she’s not someone who can totally put aside emotion for the sake of her line of work, whether that be in academics or assassination, which leads to some heartbreak thanks to Karasuma’s emotionally disconnected, strictly professional approach. Wanting to revert back to the heartless spy and assassin she used to be, Bitch-Sensei plays right into the hands of the Reaper, and from there we get to get into some of her backstory, how she lost her family in a war-ravaged nation, lived on her own in poverty, and was offered up to Lovro to train her in being a killer. While she and Karasuma seem both willing to turn on E Class and side with Reaper in the hopes of finally killing Korosensei, neither of them prove willing to let this go on to the point of risking the kids’ lives. Karasuma turns first, but Bitch-Sensei takes a while because Reaper has her convinced that she’s the same as him, even when she very clearly is not. I loved how it’s set up like we’re going to get the cliched “she’s gonna aim her gun at him but won’t be able to go through with it ‘cause she loves him too much” scene only for Reaper to very abruptly push a detonator and bring the place down on Karasuma and Bitch-Sensei before that point is even reached! And while Bitch-Sensei might have seemed a bit too easily forgiven for her betrayal, the kids did make a good point that backstabbing and working around lethal force fired by someone who was a comrade just a while ago is kind of part of an assassin’s life, so they’d be no good at what they’re being taught and trained to be if they couldn’t handle it well. I’m just glad she and Karasuma are back together.

My biggest quibble here, surprisingly, would be the Reaper himself. On one hand he’s a very creepy character, so seemingly ordinary and friendly that he can slip right in and catch his prey unawares, and his methods for trapping and killing were as sadistically slow and methodical as they were effective. He reminds me of Nagito Komaeda in Danganronpa with how, unlike Takaoka, his cheery demeanor and affable personality is legit a product of his insane mind, and Ian Sinclair’s voice acting for him was perfect. But on the other hand, he’s the weakest of the series’ four major antagonists for a number of reasons, a big one being that he just doesn’t live up to his own in-universe hype. He didn’t really kill Lovro (as we’ll find out later), he didn’t get all that close to killing any of the good guys (Itona honestly felt like more of a threat to Korosensei than him), and he ends up going down ridiculously easy in a fight with Karasuma. After losing his false face and revealing his true form to look like freaking Red Skull! It’s easy to loathe him, but the fear of him diminishes and it becomes increasingly difficult to take him seriously. He might improve a bit upon his inevitable return, but right now he’s a major letdown. Then again, he’s really just a copycat of the guy who killed his father and inspired him to kill in the first place, a man of mystery who Korosensei regards as a low-life fool, and for good reason...

Vinland Saga - This episode was more than a bit strange, as I didn’t even know where I stood on what it was doing. For a lot of time the focus is on the family of this girl named Anne and how...Christian they are. And when I say that I mean that they’re written almost like a Ned Flanders-esque parody of Christianity, with lines like “Jesus told us to pray, and Jesus is always right” and fearmongering about how sinners are damned to Hell to the point where poor Anne fears for her own soul due to having stolen a bracelet from the market some time back. But then Askeladd and his merry band of Vikings come along and ransack the snowy village for supplies right at a time where Anne is away, and this is when Askeladd finally crosses the line into straight up unredeemable monster territory. He assures all the frightened villagers, who are pleading for him to leave half the food with them so that they may survive the winter, that he won’t let them suffer from starvation...because he’ll have his men massacre each and every one of them. And that’s exactly what happens! It was a horrifying moment, but possibly even more horrifying is Anne’s response to having witnessed it - she prays to God, showing that she still believes in Him, but expresses her feelings of eustasy over knowing that He can bring such punishment upon the virtuous from men who don’t fear His condemnation, and spare a sinner like her. And then she passes out in the snow. Damn. I guess this marks the start of her path towards a life of sin, vice, villainy and....huh? Wait, she’s not going to factor into any future story? What the Hell!?

Magic Knight Rayearth - Just as the girls were finally reaching the point where they could revive the Rune God, Ascot corners them in person with the biggest, baddest monster he’s summoned yet, which was good ‘cause I was growing weary of waiting for this to occur. While I made fun of Ascot for this before, he really is a great character for playing with the typical high fantasy RPG disposable monsters trope, giving us someone who actually cherishes those creatures as friends and is emotionally devastated when the heroes slay them without a second thought. But of course the flaws in Ascot’s view of friendship are made apparent too as he’s not valued his friends’ lives enough to not send them charging into danger and the monsters don’t respect him as an individual to the point where they’d ever make any sacrifices for him. This is cleverly contrasted with the test that the Rune God gives Umi, and how she chooses to help her friends rather than obey the Rune God’s insistence. Now that Ascot’s retreated and the Rune God, revealed to be a giant robot, has been brought back out into Cephiro, Zagato notes that “they revived one of the Rune Gods.” So wait, there’s more???

A Place Further Than The Universe -  Who knew that becoming eligible for the Antarctic expedition was as simple as getting in the good graces of a high school girl who was already set to be on it? That’s seriously what happens here - Shirase and her friends luck out when a teen celebrity named Yuzuki tries to get Shirase to take her place, and then they end up having to convince Yuzuki to go on the trip with her mother in exchange for being granted permission for themselves as reward. Granted it’s not TOO simple since Yuzuki really wants to stay in her hometown so that she may attend school and make friends, even though her celebrity status has only ever barred her from having a single true friend in her whole life. The part where Kimari, Shirase, and Miyake all show up at Yuzuki’s hotel room door to get her up and go with her to Tokyo, making her feel what it’s like to truly have friends and reduce her to tears, was incredibly moving, as was the “was it just a dream?” moment before where Kimari and co. reached out to her from outside the window. (This anime’s style, characters, group interactions and sentimental heart have been giving me a lot of Love Live! vibes and this was just pure Chika and Riko shit here.) I’m very interested in seeing where this goes now. Like, who was that woman with the picture of Shirase and her mother who showed up after the credits? The plot thickens!

AND

When They Cry: Higurashi - Re-watched the remaining arcs in the first season. To give my brief opinions and assessments on them:

Cotton Drifting arc - While the first arc was a great stage-setter for the rest of the series, this is the arc that really solidified it’s staying power. The horror factor of Oyashiro’s curse and all the going-ons around it is still present but rather than a ghost story, it takes on a more murder mystery approach, and unlike the blurry stream of paranoia that was the previous arc, in this one there turns out to be a true villain behind the events, one of the best in the series. It also gives a lot more depth to Mion, Rena and Rika (with Rena being one hell of a badass competent super sleuth), has Ooishi come off as just a little bit more reliable than he was before, and ends on one Hell of a jump scare. My two issues are that it has two different climaxes that both rely on Keiichi making the absolute dumbest choices that gets him nearly killed by the same person twice and drags the arc out more than it needed to be, and that it’s the only Question Arc that doesn’t stand on it’s own well - once you’ve seen it’s corresponding Answer Arc (Eye Opening), it’s impossible to not think of it when you go back to this one. Like the Sonozaki twins, they’re inseparable. 

Curse Killing arc - This one was and still is my least favorite arc in the series. While I appreciate what it does for Satoko and Keiichi as characters and how well yet subtly it sets up the true mastermind of the curse, the subject matter of child abuse and how fucking terribly that issue is handled in Japan is so uncomfortable, the sheer amount of “adults are awful” instances (Teppei, Dr. Irie, Mrs. Maebara, Takano, and especially Ooishi are just the worst here) gets tiresome, the fallout of killing Teppei that Keiichi finds himself dealing with is screwy and unpleasant even for this series, and I think showing us a little girl’s mangled, disembowled corpse being feasted on by crows was taking just a step too far. It’s not a bad arc, just my least liked.

Time Wasting arc - Another one I’m not super fond of, but it’s only two episodes long and is at least something very different; set years before Keiichi moved to Hinamizawa, starring a new character, showing how things were like when the dam conflict was still looming large and Oyashiro’s Curse wasn’t an annual thing yet, revealing stuff about Rika that changes our perspective of the character, and serving as the main springboard for the entire rest of the series’ plot. The final scene where Akasaka remembers how Rika had predicted the course of the next couple of years’ deaths on Cotton Drifting night, ending with her own death and the quarantine of the entire village, was the one that really made it clear to me how invested I’d become in this story. I needed answers, the answers still yet to come.

Eye Opening arc - Possibly my favorite arc in the series and while not the scariest, it’s absolutely the darkest and most sinister. Shion Sonozaki comes out as a protagonist you never knew you wanted to follow, and as her story goes on we watch the state of her mind and her moral compass deteriorate, her spiral into madness, hateful feelings and vengeful intent warping her into the most diabolical and depraved villain to threaten Hinamizawa. It gives us more insight into Satoshi Houjo than the previous arcs to heavily factor him in as a plot device, raises so many possibilities for what might be the real truth behind the curse via Shion investigating into the matter only to definitively dash them all in the end, presents some of the most iconic, most gruesome, and most uncomfortable moments in the series (Shion getting three fingernails removed, Rika headbutting a knife ‘til she drops dead, Satoko getting crucified and stabbed to death), and it really tests the limits of how much you can stay behind your lead character and root for her in her fight against perceived injustice as her actions and behavior grow less and less excusable. It’s 6 episodes (the longest running arc in the first season) and it’s last episode is still really difficult to get through, it’s so horrific. My one quibble is that the anime really botched the ending. It feels like they ran out of time in the episode to actually properly conclude the arc so they just drop Shion to a super anticlimactic death. WEAK.

Atonement arc - Also possibly my favorite arc in the series! This more than any other chapter is a major turning point in the narrative, as it finally unveils some clear-cut truth about the long-standing mysteries of Hinamizawa (Oyashiro was a human medical healer rather than a wrathful deity, the “demon’s blood” that rises up in people is actually a parasitic virus from the Onigafuji swamp, and there’s some unknown group working within Irie’s clinic that is actually behind the killings and disappearances of the so-called curse during Cotton Drifting and who want the truth to stay covered.) It also tells a great character-driven story with Rena that ends up tying back to the first arc and blowing everyone’s minds when Keiichi actually gains memories of that arc’s events that turns everything we’d seen and thought we knew in it on it’s head. The climax is my favorite climax in the whole series, with Rena going completely batshit and holding her whole school hostage with even a fucking bomb threat, everyone working together to thwart a common threat, and an awesome Keiichi VS Rena clash on the rooftop that ends up bringing the arc to, for the very first time, a good end (and for a series called “When They Cry”, it hadn’t made me cry until the last two episodes, first with Keiichi’s Heel Realization and then with Rena’s.) It feels so much like setting a new standard and a new stage for the following season, making it an ideal first season finale.

[utolag-ertheto]

"És a szívem - ezúttal csak a második kiadás, a fantomszív, amelyet a remény táplált - aznap másodszor hullott le a sziklaszirtről, és tört ezernyi apró szilánkra."

-Kerstin Gier: Zafírkék

[milfmorrowind]

i love you skyrim i love you oblivion i love you morrowind I love you daggerfall i love you arena

[simulacrahelps]

LGBTQIA+ Animated characters Masterlist

In this masterlist you’ll find 822 LGBTQIA+ Animated characters Like or reblog if you thought it was useful 

Lesbian:

Aer(Simoun)

Agent Ohio/”Vera”(Red Vs Blue)

Ai Nanasato(Gokujyo)

Akane Akaza (YuruYuri)

Akane Ryūzōji(Walkure Romance)

Akari Kanzaki(Battle Athletes)

Akechi Mitsuhide (Battle Girls: Time Paradox)

Akemi Seumizome( Konkon)

Akira Hino (Adachi and Shimamura)

Akira Hiragi(Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid)

Akira Okudaira(Sweet Blue Flowers)

Akira Renbokoji(Valvrave the Liberator)

Alielle Relryle(El-Hazard)

Aloe  (High Guardian Spice)

Alphonne(Cute Honey Universe)

Alty(Simoun)

Amity Blight (The Owl House)

Amuria(Simoun)

An Shoj/Tsukasa (.hack//sign)

Anise (High Guardian Spice)

Anna Umenomiya(Gakuen Alice)

Anri Misugi (Sasami: Magical Girls Club)

Anthy Himemiya(Adolescence of Utena)

Asami Hoshino(Myself; Yourself)

Ascoeur(Kiddy Girl-and)

Asuka Utsunomiya(Gokujyo)

Aya Komichi(Kin-iro Mosaic)

Ayano Sugiura (YuruYuri)

B-ko Daitokuji(Project A-ko)

Barnette Orangello(Vandread)

Betty DeVille (Rugrats)

Botan Shinobu(Angel’s Drop)

Caitlyn Kiramman (Arcane)

Charlotte Scharsen(Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid)

Chika Ito(Strawberry Marshmallow)

Chikage Izumi(Aesthetica of a  Rogue Hero)

Chikane Himemiya (Kannazuki no  Miko)

Chinatsu Yoshikawa (YuruYuri)

Chinkyuu Koudai(Ikki Tousen)

Chitose Ikeda (YuruYuri)

Chizuru Honshō(Bleach)

Chizuru Ikeda (YuruYuri)

Chloe Price(Life Is Strange)

Chris(Cross Ange)

Cobalt(Fight! Iczer One)

Cocona (Flip Flappers)

Connie Cunaman (Brickleberry)

Daikyō (Koihime Musō)

Daisy (Or Bisxual) (Magical Girl Friendship Squad: Origins)

Dana Bernstein (Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World)

Deb (Q-Force)

Di-Air(Kiddy Girl-and)

Dominüra(Simoun)

E9(Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid)

EJ Randell(Clarence)

Edie(Doc McStuffins)

Eiko Tokura(Slow Start)

Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen(Strike Witches)

Ekaterina "Katja" Kurae (The Qwaser of Stigmata)

Elina(Queen’s Blade)

Eriko Oniyama(Yurikuma Arashi)

Ermengarde Johannitz (Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry)

Erstin Ho(My-Otome)

Eruna Ichinomiya(Mikagura School Suite)

Fatora Venus(El-Hazard)

Frankie ( Elliott From Earth)

Fumi Manjōme (Sweet Blue Flowers)

Futaba Aasu(Puni Puni Poemy)

Gien Bunchō (Koihime Musō)

Ginko Yurishiro(Yurikuma Arashi)

Giraffe (Give Me Three Tickets)

Giselle(Gate)

Goldie Musou(Gunsmith Cats)

Hagino Senkōji(Blue Drop)

Hana Katsuragi(The Qwaser of Stigmata)

Hanabi Natsuno(Love To Lie Angle)

Hardy(Gate)

Haru Ichinose (Riddle Story Of Devil)

Haruka Nishida(Kanamemo)

Haruka Takayama (Sakura Trick)

Haruka Tenoh aka Sailor Uranus(Sailor Moon)

Hatsumi Azuma(Yami to Bōshi to Hon no Tabibito)

Hazuki Azuma(Yami to Bōshi to Hon no Tabibito)

Hazumu Osaragi(Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl)

Hibiki Kenjo(Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid)

Hii-Chan (Yuri Seijin Naoko-san)

Hijiri Kanata(Girls Bravo)

Hilda(Cross Ange)

Himeko Momokino(Citrus)

Himiko (Shattered Angels)

Himiko(Ikki Tousen)

Hougetsu Shimamura (Adachi and Shimamura)

Ichino Yanigida(Battle Athletes)

Iczer-1(Fight! Iczer One)

Ikuno(Darling in the Franxx)

Ilia Amitola(RWBY)

Inukai Michi (A Centaur's Life)

Iori Takamura (Love To Lie Angle)

Jean(6Teen)

Jenn & Margo(The Goode Family)

Jennifer Sh'reyan (Star Trek: Lower Decks)

Jenny Dolittle (Bodacious SpacePirates)

Jessie Ijesse (Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry)

Julia(Ice)

Julie(Dofus: The Treasures of Kerubim)

Jun Fudo (Devil Lady)

Jun'iku Bunjaku (Koihime Musō)

Jura Basil Elden(Vandread)

Juri Arisugawa(Revolutionary Girl Utena)

Kaede (Manyū Hiken-chō)

Kaede Sakura(Kämpfer)

Kaim(Simoun)

Kakuka Hōkō (Koihime Musō)

Kale Yurishiro(Yurikuma Arashi)

Kanade Sakurai (Candy Boy)

Kanu Uncho(Ikki Tousen)

Kaon (Shattered Angels)

Kaori Izumi(Best Student Council)

Kaorin(Azumanga Daioh)

Kaoru Harishima(Yurikuma Arashi)

Kasumi Shigure (Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid)

Katherine "Kate” Kane(Batman: Bad Blood)

Kayo Maruta(Citrus)

Kazumi Takiura(Devil Lady)

Kei Okano(Yuyushiki)

Kelsey Jannings(BoJack Horseman)

Kendappa-ō(RG Veda)

Kiiko Kawakami (Kuttsukiboshi)

Kinjiro Kitaeda(Air Master)

Kirsten Kellogg (Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World)

Kisa Misaki (Kagihime)

Konomi Fujiwara (Love To Lie Angle)

Konomi Yurikawa(Yurikuma Arashi)

Kotone Noda (Sakura Trick)

Kouya Sakagami(Loveless)

Kouzuki(Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid)

Koyume Koizuka(Comic Girls)

Kris Christopher(Battle Athletes)

Krista Lenz(Attack On Titan)

Kureha Tsubaki(Yurikuma Arashi)

Kurinon(Log Horizon)

Kuro Kagami(Kodomo no Jikan)

Kya(The Legend of Korra)

Kyōko Ikumi(Sweet Blue Flowers)

Kūne (Nyaruko: Crawling with Love)

Lady J(Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid)

Lavinia Reberth (Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry)

Leena(Dirty Pair Flash)

Leviathan (Envy) (Seven Mortal Sins)

Lilith(Yami to Bōshi to Hon no Tabibito)

Linda Memari(American Dad!)

Liones Yelistratova (Hina Logi: From Luck & Logic)

Lulu Yurigasaki(Yurikuma Arashi)

Luna(Godannar)

Lynn Lambretta(Bodacious Space Pirates)

Madoka Kushitori(Chio's School Road)

Madoka Oowada(Gokujyo)

Maggie Sawyer(Superman: The Animated Series)

Mai Sawaguchi(A Kiss for the     Petals: Becoming your Lover)

Makoto Inukai (Tōka Gettan)

Malga Naruze(Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere)

Mamina(Simoun)

Mamori Tokonome (Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid)

Mao Nonosaka(Future Diary)

Mari Wakatake (Blue Drop)

Mariko Misono/Subaru(.hack//sign)

Martha Shobbeypower (Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry)

Matsuri Mizusawa(Citrus)

Maya Ibuki(Fushigi Yûgi)

Miach Mihie(Harmony)

Michiru Kaioh aka Sailor Neptune(Sailor Moon)

Midari Ikishima(Kakegurui Compulsive Gambler)

Midori Tokiwa(Tamako Market)

Miharu Shimizu(Baka and Test)

Mika Ayanokōji (Shattered Angels)

Mika Kujiin(Kanamemo)

Mimi(Mnemosyne)

Mina Hazuki (Darker than Black)

Mina Nakanotani(Air Master)

Mio Kusakai(Keijo)

Mirei Sakaki (Hitohira)

Mirei Shikishima(Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid)

Misty Brown(Gunsmith Cats)

Mitsuki Sonoda(Sakura Trick)

Mitsuko Yurizono(Yurikuma Arashi)

Mitsuyo Akechi (A Centaur's Life)

Miu Matsuoka(Strawberry Marshmallow)

Miyako Taema(Whispered Words)

Miyasato (Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid)

Mo(The Goode Family)

Moe Morita (Samurai Flamenco)

Momoka Sagara(Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid)

Momoko Touyoko(Saki)

Ms. Ellen (South Park)

Ms. Roop (The Ghost and Molly McGee)

Nadeshiko Ohmuro (YuruYuri)

Nagisa Kanou(Fight! Iczer One)

Naia(Strange Frame)

Naito Margot (Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere)

Naoko Sukeban(Cute Honey Universe)

Naoko-san (Yuri Seijin Naoko-san)

Natsuki Kuga (My-HiME)

Natsume (Konohana Kitan)

Nevirill(Simoun)

Nimi Minimi (Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid)

Nina Alexandrovna (Hina Logi: From Luck & Logic)

Nina Einstein(Gode Geass)

Nobara Yukinokōji(Inu x Boku SS)

Noe Ōya(Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid)

Nonoko Ogasawara(Gakuen Alice)

Nothing (My Pride: The Series)

Oiso(Manyū Hiken-chō)

Oshie Nodoguro(Killing Bites)

Otoha Kisaragi (Kannazuki no Miko)

Paifu(The Third)

Pam Roop (The Ghost and Molly McGee)

Papika (Flip Flappers)

Paraietta(Simoun)

Parker(Strange Frame)

Patty Bouvier(The Simpsons)

Paula Sinclair(Red Garden)

Pearl(Steven Universe)

Perrine H. Clostermann(Strike Witches)

Q-feuille(Kiddy Girl-and)

Rain Hasumi (Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid)

Raisa Pöttgen (Strike Witches)

Ran Musen(R-15)

Ren (Konohana Kitan)

Renee Montoya(Batman: Bad Blood)

Reo Kawamura(A Kiss for the Petals: Becoming your Lover)

Rimone(Simoun)

Rin Yatagai (I Don't Like You at All, Big Brother!!)

Rina Sakai(Sakura Trick)

Rio Kitagawa(Doki Doki School Hours)

Rosalie(Cross Ange)

Ruby(Steven Universe)

Ruru(Kiznaiver)

Ruth Cochamer(Family Guy)

Ryomō Shimei (Koihime Musō)

Saki Tabaruzaka(Kamen no Maid Guy)

Sakura Adachi (Adachi and Shimamura)

Sakura Sakurada(Mezzo DSA)

Sakuya Kamiyama(Candy Boy)

Sanae Ebato(Scum’s Wish)

Sanae Nagatsuki(Squid Girl)

Sapphire(Steven Universe)

Sarah(Family Guy)

Scope Panther(Re: Cutie Honey)

Sepia(Fight! Iczer One)

Seryu Ubiquitous(Akame ga Kill!)

Shadow Dunaway(Godannar)

Sherry(Red Vs Blue)

Shinako Sugimoto (Sweet Blue Flowers)

Shino Sasaki (Aria the Scarlet Ammo)

Shiori Tsuzuki(Witchblade)

Shizuku Minami(Sakura Trick)

Shizuru Fujino (My-HiME)

Shuichi Nitori(Wandering Son)

Shōko Rokujō (Tōka Gettan)

Shōkyō (Koihime Musō)

Shūyu Kōkin (Koihime Musō)

Simone (Dofus: The Treasures of Kerubim)

Sister Nana(Magical Girl Raising Project)

Sofia Velmer/Valmet (Jormungand)

Sonoa Mitsui (Love To Lie Angle)

Sonomi Daidouji(Cardcaptor Sakura)

Sonsaku Hakufu (Koihime Musō)

Sorawo Kamikoshi (Otherside Picnic)

Souki (The Goode Family)

Stephanie Putty(Moral Orel)

Sue Randell(Clarence)

Sumika Izumino(Yurikuma Arashi)

Sumika Murasame (Whispered Words)

Suzu Nekoyama(Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san)

Sōsō Mōtoku (Koihime Musō)

Taeko Nagafuji (Adachi and Shimamura)

Tamaki Nekoyama(Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san)

Tamate’s Grandmothers(Slow Start)

Teresa Del Taco(Sausage Party)

Thea(Doc McStuffins)

Toby Raynes(Superman: The Animated Series)

Tohru (Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid)

Tokaku Azuma (Riddle Story Of Devil)

Tomboy(The Awesomes)

Tomo (Fumikiri Jikan)

Tomoe Hachisuka (Whispered Words)

Tomoe Marguerite(My-Otome)

Tomoka Kase(Kase-san and Morning Glories)

Tomoka Kase(Kase-san)

Tomoko Yoshikawa (YuruYuri)

Tomomi Nukui(Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid)

Tomoyo Daidouji(Cardcaptor Sakura)

Toriko Nishina (Otherside Picnic)

Trish(The Goode Family)

Tuan Kirie(Harmony)

Ume Shiraume(Ben-To)

Undyne(Undertale)

Urara Kasugano(Sabagebu!)

Ushio Kazama(Whispered Words)

Utena Tenjou(Adolescence of Utena)

Uzura Kitaurawa(Cyber Team in Akihabara)

Val Small(Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator)

Vi (Arcane)

Vice-Chairman(Kämpfer)

Virginia "Ginnie" Dunne(The Venture Bros.)

Vivenne Ōtori(Ultimate Girls)

Waltrud Krupinski(Strike Witches)

Weiss Winterprison(Magical Girl Raising Project)

Yachiyo Inugami(Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san)

Yamato Nakano(Loveless)

Yashima Sanae(Hanaukyo Maid Team)

Yasuna Kamiizumi (Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl)

Yayoi Isurugi(Sabagebu!)

Yayoi Kunizuka (Psycho-Pass)

Ymir(Attack On Titan)

Yoriko Fujiwara (Love To Lie Angle)

Yoshino Takatsuki(Wandering Son)

Yua Nakajima (Hinako Note)

Yui Yamada(Kase-san)

Yukino Sakurai(Candy Boy)

Yume Kitaoka(Kanamemo)

Yumi Kajiki(Saki)

Yurika Hakonaka(Yurikuma Arashi)

Yurika Kochikaze(Akikan!)

Yuuki Minami (Kanamemo)

Yuzu Aihara(Citrus)

Yū Sonoda(Sakura Trick)

Yū Tsukishiro (Love To Lie Angle)

Yū Ōsawa ( Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles)

Zola(Cross Ange)

  Gay:

"Jouji"/Governor-General Izaac Titsingh(Samurai Champloo)

"Papa" Dino Golzine(Banana Fish)

Abu'l Nuquod(Assassin’s Creed)

Adam(Voltron: Legendary Defender)

Aizawa (Sukisho)

Akihiko Usami(Junjou Romantica)

Akira (Togainu no Chi)

Akira Nikaido (Monochrome Factor)

Al-Kaplan "Red Tiger" Balaban (Altair: A Record of Battles)

Albert Dandorojii(Lupin the Third Part V)

Ali Babah(Jibaku-kun)

Alois Trancy(Black Butler)

Anthony "Gay Tony" Prince (Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony)

Anthony(Miami Guns)

Ao (Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East)

Arbitro (Togainu no Chi)

Aru Akise(Future Diary)

Asato Tsuzuki(Descendants of Darkness)

Asaya Hasekura (Hitorijime My Hero)

Barry Leibowitz-Jenkins (The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder)

Benji (Q-Force)

Benson Mekler (Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts)

Beppo (Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo)

Big Gay Al(South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut)

Bowi & Del Rev(Prisoner Zero)

Bradley Biggle (South Park)

Brian Harding(Dream Daddy: A  Dad Dating Simulator)

Bruce(Family Guy)

Bucky Oryx-Antlerson(Zootopia)

Bug Gribble (King of the Hill)

Bulat(Akame ga Kill!)

Caius Lao Bistail (The Titan's Bride)

Carl & Wally (Clone High)

Ched (Centaurworld)

Chiaki Onizuka(Gantz)

Chiaki Yoshino (Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi)

Chozen (Chozen)

Chris (Sukisho)

Chuck Masters (Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World)

Count Saint-Germi(Drifters)

Craig Tucker (South Park)

Crispin Cienfuegos (The Great North)

Daley Wong(Bubblegum Crisis)

Dalton Crespin(Bob’s Burgers)

Damien Bloodmarch(Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator)

Daniel (Chicago Party Aunt)

Dante (My Life is Worth Living)

Daryl(Ai no Kusabi)

Dean Toadblatt(The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy)

Deputy Durland(Gravity Falls)

Dewey Largo(The Simpsons)

Doris(Akazukin Chacha)

Dr. Almonds (Santa Inc.)

Dr. Stylish(Akame ga Kill!)

Duanmi Xi(Spiritpact)

Duo(Legend of DUO)

Eisuke Inukai (Riddle Story Of Devil)

Endō Kazuki(Gakuen Heaven)

Enos Fry(Futurama)

Eugene Horowitz(Hey Arnold)

Evan Martinez (Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World)

Fish Eye(Sailor Moon)

Fred Lou(Outlaw Star)

Fuuta Kitamura (the (Chibis)  (Sukisho)

Gaku Ichikawa (Sukisho)

Gangstalicious(The Boondocks)

Garfiel(Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)

Garterbelt (Panty &Stocking with Garterbelt)

Gary Garoldson (M.O.D.O.K.)

George(Miami Guns)

Germany (Ludwig) (Hetalia: Axis Powers)

Ghost’s dads(Summer Camp Island)

Gisuke Sasaki (Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin)

Gobber the Belch(How To Train Your Dragon 2)

Grady & Julio(The Simpsons)

Greg Corbin (American Dad!)

Gus Duncz (Mission Hill)

Guy(Ai no Kusabi)

Hadji Singh (Jellystone!)

Ham Tobin (The Great North)

Harold McBride(Loud House)

Haruta Kamijou(Haruchika)

Hazuki(Hybrid Child)

Herb Kazzaz(BoJack Horseman)

Herbert(Family Guy)

Hidehiko Otoya(Akikan!)

Hikaru Kusakabe(Doukyuusei)

Hiroki Kamijou (Junjou Romantica)

Hiromu Sakura (Sukisho)

Howard McBride(Loud House)

Hua Cheng (Heaven Official's Blessing)

Hudson & Rocky(Rocky & Hudson)

Hudson (Rocky & Hudson: Os Caubóis Gays)

Hugo Vega(Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator)

Hunter(Chozen)

Hyō(Jibaku-kun)

Iason(Ai no Kusabi)

Ichi Seya(Hybrid Child)

Itward(Fran Bow)

Izumi Amakawa(Kirarin     Revolution)

Izumi Sena(Love Stage!!)

Jacques Janine Costeaul(Fudêncio e Seus Amigos)

Jacques(Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race)

Jakotsu(Inuyasha)

Jann Walker(Valkyria Chronicles)

Jasper(Family Guy)

Jean Baptiste Le Ghei(Superjail!)

Jean(Antique Bakery)

Jeryy (D.Gray-Man)

Jin Matsuoka (Gakuen Heaven)

Jingle Jim (Santa Inc.)

Jirō (Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens)

John(John And Michael)

John(The Simpsons)

Jonny Quest (Jellystone!)

José Martinez (Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens)

Juan Pedro(King of the Hill)

Judas(Saint Beast)

Jun Watarase(Happiness!)

Juzo Sakakura(Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School)

Kagero no Shiva(Saint Beast)

Kai Nanami (Sukisho)

Kaoru Asahina (Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi)

Kaoru Asahina(Junjou Romantica)

Kaoru Hanazono(No-Rin)

Kareem Abdul Lavash(Sausage Party)

Kau (Togainu no Chi)

Kazutaka Muraki (Mirage of Blaze)

Kazutaka Muraki(Descendants of Darkness)

Kei Yūki(Moyashimon: Tales of Agriculture)

Keiichi Sumi(Junjou Romantica)

Keisuke (Togainu no Chi)

Keita Itō (Gakuen Heaven)

Kensuke Ooshiba (Hitorijime My Hero)

Kevin(6Teen)

Kevin(Clarence)

King Gorilla(The Venture Bros.)

Kira(Saint Beast)

Kirie(Ai no Kusabi)

Kotarō Izumi (Hybrid Child)

Kunzite Zoisite (Sailor Moon)

Kuroda(Hybrid Child)

Kyo Ijuuin(Junjou Romantica)

Kōichi Mizuki (The Titan's Bride)

Landlord(OH! Super Milk Chan)

Larry 3000(Time Squad)

Leeron Littner(Gurren Lagann)

Lexington(Gargoyles)

Lieutenant Oscar(Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine)

Luca(Saint Beast)

Luke (Ai no Kusabi)

Manabu Hara(Doukyuusei)

Mao Lu Shen(Zegapain)

Mark "Dion"     Jones(Braceface)

Marvin(Banana Fish)

Masamune Takano (Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi)

Masumi Okuyama(Nodame Cantabile)

Maya(Saint Beast)

Meat Hammer(Brickleberry)

Michael(John And Michael)

Mildew Wolf (Jellystone!)

Misaki Takahashi (Junjou Romantica)

Mitch Downe(ParaNorman)

Moryu Koda(Devillman Crybaby)

Motomi (Togainu no Chi)

Mr Robert Simmons(Hey Arnold)

Mr. Slave (South Park)

Nagase Kai (Sukisho)

Nano (Togainu no Chi)

Nezumi(No 6.)

Norris(Ai no Kusabi)

Nowaki Kusama(Junjou Romantica)

Otohiko (Kamisama Kiss)

Pandora(Saint Beast)

Paul     Guaye(Superjail!)

Paul(The Cleveland Show!)

Policeman Delcídio(Fudêncio e Seus Amigos)

Pronk Oryx-Antlerson(Zootopia)

Puri-Puri-Prisoner(One Punch Man)

RG -01 (Undertale)

RG-02(Undertale)

Rainbow Scout(The Nutshack)

Randall  Leibowitz-Jenkins (The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder)

Ray Gillette(Archer)

Rei Sagara(Love Stage!!)

Ren Kaido(Super Lovers)

Ren Shiina (Sukisho)

Richard De Longpre(Allen Gregory)

Rick Brocka (Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World)

Rihito Saijou(Doukyuusei)

Riki(Ai no Kusabi)

Rin (Togainu no Chi)

Ritsuka Aoyagi(Loveless)

Robbie Larry(Crapston Villas)

Rocky (Rock & Hudson)

Rocky (Rocky & Hudson: Os Caubóis Gays)

Ruka Gojou(Nanbaka)

Ryo Asuka/Satan (Devillman Crybaby)

Ryouya Kozuki (Sukisho)

Ryuichiro Isaka (Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi)

Ryuuichiro Isaka (Junjou Romantica)

Sadam Hussein(South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut)

Sammy Bagel Jr. (Sausage Party)

Satan(South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut)

Scott (Hoops)

Scott (My Life is Worth Living)

Sei (Hashiba) (Sukisho)

Seiji Takamori/Kiyoka (Super  Lovers)

Seishirō     Sakurazuka(X)

Sheriff     Blubs(Gravity Falls)

Sherwin Jonathan(In A  Heartbeat)

Shiki  (Togainu no Chi)

Shin-ichirou (Sukisho)

Shinobu Takatsuki(Junjou Romantica)

Shion(No. 6)

Shirogane(Monochrome Factor)

Shogo Sena(Love Stage!!)

Shore Leave(The Venture Bros.)

Shouta Kisa (Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi)

Shuichi  Shindo(Gravitation)

Sky Pilot(The Venture Bros.)

Slader(The Seven Deadly Sins)

Sora Hashiba/Yoru (Sukisho)

Soubi Agatsuma(Loveless)

Soushi Asaka (Sukisho)

Spain (Antonio Fernandez/ Hernandez Carriedo)  (Hetalia: Axis Powers)

Splenbib (Centaurworld)

Squidhat(The Grim Adventures of  Billy & Mandy)

Stanley Hopson (Paradise PD)

Steve Ball (Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World)

Steve Maryweather (Q-Force)

Steven(The Awesomes)

Subaru Sumeragi(X)

Sunao Fujimori/Ran (Sukisho)

Suzaku(Inuyasha)

Sweden(Berwald Oxenstierna) (Hetalia: Axis Powers)

Tab Scooter(The Oblongs)

Takashi Shirogane(Voltron: Legendary Defender)

Takaya Ougi(Mirage of Blaze)

Terry Bates(American Dad!)

The Alchemist(The Venture Bros.)

The Booty Warrior(The Boondocks)

The Gay Father(The Awesomes)

Theo(Hamatora: The Animation)

Tom(Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race)

Toshimitsu Kubo (Baka and Test)

Troy Sandoval (Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts)

Tsukishima (Hybrid Child)

Tweek Tweak (South Park)

Twink(Sausage Party)

Viktor Nikiforov (Yuri On Ice)

Wally Langford(Mission Hill)

Waylon Smithers(The Simpsons)

William Francis Clockwell (Invincible)

Wolfram von Bielefeld(Kyo Kara Maoh!)

Woodhouse(Archer)

Xandir P. Wifflebottom(Drawn Together)

Xie Lian (Heaven Official's Blessing)

Yamagi Gilmerton(Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans)

Yoshizumi Hiroya(Gakuen Heaven)

Yuichi Kudo(Doki Doki School Hours)

Yuki Giou (Sakurai) (The Betrayal Knows My Name)

Yukito Tsukishiro(Cardcaptor Sakura)

Yusuke Ono(Antique Bakery)

Yuu Yanase (Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi)

Yuzu (Hybrid Child)

Yūjirō Shiratori(Fudanshi Koko Seikatsu)

Yūri Katsuki(Yuri On Ice)

Yūsuke Nisaka(Love And Lies)

Zeig(Legend of DUO)

Zip Danger / "Frantic"(The Awesomes)

Zulius (Centaurworld)

 Bisexual:

Aaya Saitō (Kuttsukiboshi)

Akio Ohtori (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

Alison(Is It Fall Yet?)

Alma (D.Gray-Man)

Alphys(Undertale)

Andrew LeGustambos(Sit Down, Shut Up)

Anna Kurauchi(He Is My Master)

Anna Suehiro(Wandering Son)

Asami Sato(The Legend Of Korra)

Azusa Hamaoka(Grand Blue)

Beckett Mariner (or pansexual) (Star Trek: Lower Decks)

Chikage Kobayakawa(Antique Bakery)

Chizu Hanashiro (Sweet Blue Flowers)

Chouhi Ekitoku (Ikki Tousen)

Chōryō Bun'en (Koihime Musō)

Clarence (Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online)

Clio Aquanaut(Tactical Roar)

Coach Daniel Stopframe(Moral Orel)

Craig Cahn(Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator)

Crimvael  (Interspecies Reviewers)

Daisy (or lesbian) (Magical Girl Friendship Squad: Origins)

Damian Popodopoulos(Mary And Max)

Dr. Strangelove (Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker)

Eiri Yuki(Gravitation)

Erika Kiriya(Tsuyokiss)

Eva-Q(The Qwaser of Stigmata)

Eva-R(The Qwaser of Stigmata)

Foxxy Love(Drawn Together)

Franz d'Epinay (Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo)

Genpachi Inukai (Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East)

Goldie (Santa Inc.)

Haru Kaido(Super Lovers)

Hatsuharu Sohma(Fruit Basket)

Hidenori Gotō(Samurai Flamenco)

Himeko Kurusugawa (Kannazuki no Miko)

Hisoka Kurosaki(Descendants of  Darkness)

Honoka Maki(Kiznaiver)

Hotaru Mizushina (NTR: Netsuzou Trap)

Italy (Feliciano Vargas) (Hetalia: Axis Powers)

Jack Barbarosa     Bancoran(Patalliro!)

Jeremy De Longpre (Allen     Gregory)

Jimbo Kern (South Park)

Joseph Christiansen(Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator)

Jōji "George"  Koizumi(Paradise Kiss)

Kaikaina "Sister" Grif(Red Vs Blue)

Kanoe(X)

Korra(The Legend Of Korra)

Kousuke Ooshiba (Hitorijime My Hero)

Koyomi/Yomi(Zombie Loan)

Kozue Kaoru(Revolutionary Girl Utena)

Kuroko Shirai(A Certain Magical Index; A Certain Scientific Railgun)

Kururi Orihara(The Qwaser of Stigmata)

Kyoshi(The Legend of Korra)

Kūko(Nyaruko: Crawling with Love)

Lukkage(Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet)

Luna Loud (The Loud House)

Luz Noceda (The Owl House)

Mairu (Durarara!!)

Makoto Mikasa(Fuuka)

Maraich Juschenfe(Patalliro!)

Marceline "Marcy" Abadeer (Adventure Time: Distant Lands)

Marceline the Vampire Queen  (Adventure Time)

Mari Maya (Samurai Flamenco)

Maria Akizuki (From The New World)

Maria Campbell (My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!)

Mary Hunt (My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!)

Masahiro Setagawa (Hitorijime  My Hero)

Masanobu Hojo(Gantz)

Masayoshi Hazama (Samurai Flamenco)

Mat Sella(Dream Daddy: A Dad  Dating Simulator)

Maxine "Max" Caulfield(Life Is Strange)

Meg Griffin(Family Guy)

Mei Aihara(Citrus)

Melissa Tartleton (M.O.D.O.K.)

Mexiah Flan (Doll) (Tenchi  Muyo! War on Geminar)

Mictēcacihuātl (Onyx Equinox)

Miki Miyamae(Maria Holic)

Mitori Shimabara(Tactical Roar)

Mitsuka Yoshimine(DearS)

Moxxie (Helluva Boss)

Mutsumi Sendou(The Qwaser of Stigmata)

Nines(Darling in the Franxx)

Nuriko(Fushigi Yûgi)

Old Man Waterfall(Futurama)

Oscar François de Jarjayes(The Rose of Versailles)

Pam Poovey(Archer)

Pitohui/Elsa Kanzaki (Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online)

Pochi’s Wife(Cute Honey Universe)

Princess Bubblegum(Adventure Time)

Princess Mill Varna(Maze)

Queen Marie Antoninette(The Rose of Versailles)

Rachel Amber(Life Is Strange)

Reiner Braun(Attack On Titan)

Rey(Saint Beast)

Rin Asougi(Mnemosyne)

Robert Small(Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator)

Rosalie Lamorlière(The Rose of Versailles)

Ryofu Housen(Ikki Tousen)

Ryoma Ichijo(Love Stage!!)

Ryōuji "Ranka"  Fujioka(Ouran High School Host Club)

Saki Watanabe (From The New World)

Sara Tachibana(Citrus)

Satoru Asahina (From The New World)

Shima Nishina(Kiss Him; Not Me)

Shin(Saint Beast)

Shion Karanomori (Psycho-Pass)

Shiori Takatsuki(Revolutionary     Girl Utena)

Shun Aonuma (From The New World)

Sleepy Gary(Rick And Morty)

Sonken Bundai (Koihime Musō)

Sophia Ascart (My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!)

South Italy (Lovino Vargas) (Hetalia: Axis Powers)

Stephen Stotch (South Park)

Stewie Griffin(Family Guy)

Sugaru Kanbaru(Monogatari)

Suzuka(Akame ga Kill!)

Terry Kimple(The Cleveland Show!)

Touga Kiryuu(Revolutionary Girl Utena)

Toya Kinomoto(Cardcaptor Sakura)

Tuka Luna Marceau(Gate)

Utena Tenjou(Revolutionary Girl Utena)

Vax'ildan "Vax" Vessar (The Legend of Vox Machina)

Vex'ahlia "Vex" de Rolo (The Legend of Vox Machina)

Voneeta Teets(Good Vibes)

Walter Sweetlove(The Boondocks)

Yagyuu Kyuubei(Gintama)

Yang Jinghua(Spiritpact)

Yaotl (Onyx Equinox)

Yasuko Sugimoto (Sweet Blue Flowers)

Yoh Miyagi(Junjou Romantica)

Yu Kanda (D.Gray-Man)

Yuka Ayukawa (Blue Period)

Yukari Sendou(Rosario + Vampire)

Yuma Okazaki (NTR: Netsuzou Trap)

Yuzu Kichougasaki(Love Tyrant)

Zess (Luka Corosszeira) (The Betrayal Knows My Name)

 Trans Woman:

Alice(Superjail!)

Alluka Zoldyck(Hunter x Hunter)

Angof(RuneScape)

Anita Bidet(The Oblongs)

Aoi Futaba(You’re Under Arrest)

Birdo (Super Mario Bros. 2)

Cagliostro(Symphogear)

Cha-Cha(Bob’s Burgers)

Cherry Pie(The Nutshack)

Crystal Peppers(China, IL)

Erica Anderson(Catherine)

Fish Eye(Sailor Moon)

Glitter(Bob’s Burgers)

Grell Sutcliffe(Black Butler)

Hana(Tokyo Godfathers)

Hazumu Osaragi(Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl)

Herbert Garrison (South Park)

Hibari Ōzora(Stop!! Hibari-kun!)

Hiroyuki Yoshi(Wandering Son)

Honjō Kamitari(Rurouni Kenshin)

Ida Davis(Family Guy)

Isabella Yamamoto(Paradise Kiss)

Jackie(Night in the Woods)

Jean Armstrong(Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations)

Karnatia Anabald (So I'm a Spider, So What?)

Kenji "Magne" Hikiishi(My Hero Academia)

Makoto Ariga(Wandering Son)

Marbles(Bob’s Burgers)

Marshmallow(Bob’s Burgers)

Max Lao(Technobabylon)

Melody Flores (2064: Read Only Memories)

Miyuki(Yu Yu Hakusho)

Mizhena(Baldur's Gate: Siege of  Dragonspear)

Nina James(2064: Read Only Memories)

Nova (Pokémon X and Y)

Poison (Final Fight and Street Fighter)

Polly Bendleson(Huniepop2)

Prelati(Symphogear)

Ruka Urishibara(Steins; Gate)

Sallie May (Helluva Boss)

Sayo Yasuda(Umineko When They Cry)

Seiko Kotobuki(Lovely Complex)

Serendipity(Dragon Age II)

Shuichi Nitori

Snapdragon (High Guardian Spice)

Stephanie(Sorcerous Stabber Orphen)

Sya(Guild Wars 2)

The Black Swan(To Kill a Black Swan)

Venus(We Know the Devil)

Vivian (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)

 Here are more Trans woman

 Trans Man:

Barney (Dead End: Paranormal Park)

Brunella Pommelhorst(The Simpsons)

Cremisius Aclassi(Dragon Age: Inquisition)

Damien Bloodmarch(Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator)

Gekijirō Taiga(Stop!! Hibari-kun!)

Jun Watarase(Happiness!)

Kaoru Kurita (Wonder Egg Priority)

Professor Caraway (High Guardian Spice)

Raine Whispers(The Owl House)

Ryunosuke Katagiri(Devils’ Line)

Yawara "Tiger" Chatora(My Hero Academia)

 Here are more Trans Man characters

 Agender:

 K1-B0(Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony)

Yivo (Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs)

 Pansexual:

Beckett Mariner (or Bisexual) (Star Trek: Lower Decks)

Blitzo (Helluva Boss)

Captain Hero(Drawn Together)

Iron Bull(Dragon Age: Inquisition)

Isabelle(Animal Crossing: New Leaf)

Margaret "Mae" Borowski(Night in the Woods)

Meifeng Sakura(Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid)

Rick Sanchez(Rick And Morty)

Roderick "Hollywood" Stone(Agents of  Mayhem)

Roger(American Dad!)

Rose Quartz(Steven Universe)

Sakura Kinomoto(Cardcaptor Sakura)

Sakuyo Mikage(Magical Girl One)

Satō’s aunt(Happy Sugar Life)

Seung-Gil Lee(Yuri On Ice)

Teruteru Hanamura (Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School)

Vivi (Final Fantasy IX)

Yivo (Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs)

 Genderqueer:

"Auntie" Momma Tubbs (Kevin Tubbs)(The Cleveland Show)

Akira Hiragi(Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid)

Ali Babah(Jibaku-kun)

BMO(Adventure Time)

Berg Katze(Gatchaman Crowds)

Brother Ken (Bro’Town)

Candy Caramilla(Space Goofs)

D'eon de Beaumont/Lia de Beaumont (Le Chevalier D'Eon)

Eda Clawthorne (The Owl House)

Envy(Fullmetal Alchemist & Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)

Flea(Chrono Trigger)

Guillo(Baten Kaitos Origins)

Haruhi Fujioka(Ouran High School Host Club)

Hitoshi Sugoroku(Nanbaka)

Inugami(Gugure! Kokkuri-san)

Izana Shinatose(Knights of Sidonia)

Jewels (Land of the Lustrous)

Kamanosuke Yuri(Brave 10)

Keiichi Tokiwa(Byron)(Serendipity Next Door)

Keyleth of the Air Ashari (The Legend of Vox Machina)

Kiji Matsuba(Nanbaka)

Kimchi(Chowder)

Koyomi/Yomi(Zombie Loan)

Kuranosuke Koibuchi(Princess Jellyfish)

Kuroumaru Tokisaka (UQ Holder)

Leucos(Glory of Heracles)

Madame Saigou Tokumori(Gintama)

Maraich Juschenfe(Patalliro!)

Mariya Shidō (Maria Holic)

Masaki Akemiya(Whispered Words)

Maze(Maze)

Mikoto Yutaka(Princess Princess)

Morpheus D. Duvall (Resident Evil: Dead Aim)

Nataku(X)

Nathan Seymour / Fire Emblem(Tiger And Bunny)

Natsuru Senō(Kämpfer)

Nines(Darling in the Franxx)

O.D. (Gatchaman Crowds)

Oscar François de Jarjayes(The Rose of Versailles)

Pearl(Steven Universe)

Princess Bonnibel "Bonnie" Bubblegum (Adventure Time: Distant Lands)

Princess Sapphire(Princess Knight)

Ranma Saotome(Ranma ½)

Rex Nebular(Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender)

Rose Quartz(Steven Universe)

Ruby Moon(Cardcaptor Sakura)

Ruby(Steven Universe)

Ruka Gojou(Nanbaka)

Sailor Starlights(Sailor Moon)

Sapphire(Steven Universe)

Scanlan Shorthalt(The Legend of Vox Machina)

Seiji Takamori/Kiyoka(Super Lovers)

Shizu Shidō(Maria Holic)

Souta Kishibe / La Pucelle (Magical Girl Raising Project)

Stevonnie(Steven Universe)

Stolas (Helluva Boss)

Toru Kouno (Princess Princess)

Yagyuu Kyuubei(Gintama)

Yellow Belmont / Yellow Dancer(Genesis Climber MOSPEADA)

Yoshino Takatsuki(Hourou Musuko)

Yuka Ayukawa (Blue Period)

Yuujirou Shihoudani (Princess Princess)

Zezé Maria(Fudêncio e Seus Amigos)

 Non Binary:

Asher Berdacs (Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts)

Chara(Undertale)

Frisk(Undertale)

Hyena (Give Me Three Tickets)

Julian "TOMCAT"Thomas(2064: Read Only Memories)

Katelyn(2064: Read Only Memories)

Monster Kid(Undertale)

Napstablook(Undertale)

Odee Elliott (Madagascar: A Little Wild)

Quina Quen(Final Fantasy IX)

Raine Whispers (The Owl House)

Sal(Sally Face)

Stevonnie(Steven Universe)

Sympathy(2064: Read Only Memories)

Thomas (City Of Ghosts)

 Here are more Non Binary characters

Intersex:

Apos(Mnemosyne)

Ash Landers/Angela Blanc(Black Butler)

Crimvael (Interspecies Reviewers)

Daikyō(Koihime Musō)

Iena Madaraba (Seton Academy: Join the Pack!)

Kainé(Nier)

Princess Mill Varna(Maze)

Ryo Asuka/Satan(Devillman Crybaby)

Sumaru Genie (Persona 2: Innocent Sin)

Yoite(Nabari no Ou)

 Asexual:

Andy Billups (Possibly) (Star Trek: Lower Decks)

Shōko Tanimoto (The Case Files of Jeweler Richard)

Todd Chavez(BoJack Horseman)

Ambiguous

⦁ Y5 (Adventure Time: Distant Lands)

Genderfluid

⦁ Iena Madaraba (Seton Academy: Join the Pack!) ⦁ Mia Abara (Duncanville)

[amimiyama]

Conv erstin. tryn. !!

oh! well, we're always open to conversatin! - jack

[carrieasagiri]

Akira is all of us XD.

[drawingdullahan]

Character Sheet 1

I’ve decided to post character sheets and this is my first one, its for my character Alexander Quinn from the novel that I’m writing. He happens to be my favorite character so far!! I plan to maybe add more as i continue to write for him.

Name: Alexander Quinn

Nickname: Alex

Opinions on Nickname: He chose it himself and prefers the shorter name to his full

Birth Date: September 25

Place of Birth: Valeside

Ethnic Background: Mostly Western European

Religion: Athiest

Residence: He lives with his mother in the suburban town of Valeside

Occupation: Highschool

Sexuality: Asexual Aromantic

Height: 5’6”

Weight: 170~

Body Type: skinny, a little underweight, scrawny

Eye color: heterochromatic eyes, left yellow, right blue

Skin tone: pale

General health: a bit exhausted at times due to being underweight

Attire: any shirt he has laying around, jeans and his hoodie

Hairstyle: Short but thick black hair

Speech Pace: he speaks at an average pace, but tends to rush words whenever his emotions get the best of him

Speech Habits: He rarely curses, but does tend to stumble over words every now and then

Vocabulary: average

Demeanor: nervous and fidgety, sometimes moody, but overall very curious and excitable under the right circumstances

Posture: slumped and defeated

Habitual Gestures: nail biting, hands in pockets, drumming fingers, and bouncing leg

Skills: following directions, listening rather well, remembering minute details, good stamina on his good days

Unskilled at: sports, talking to strangers, getting his point across, voicing his own thoughts, standing up for himself

Hobbies: writing and daydreaming

Childhood: a bit troubled due to his mentally abusive mother

Earliest Memory: reading with his father, his father ignited his love of reading which sparked his interest in fantasy

Saddest Memory: the day his father left, it was without a goodbye or even an acknowledgement

Happiest Memory: helping his father with his novel, his father was writing a fantasy story himself and the manuscript is one of the only belongings he has of his fathers

Mother: Gracie Quinn-Berkely

Mother’s Occupation: secretary

Relationship with Mother: shaky and unhealthy, her stress leads her to lash out at Alex a lot

Father: Thomas Quinn

Father’s Occupation: freelance writer

Relationship with Father: close until he left

Best Friend: Elliott Erstin

Likable Traits: quiet, only inputs when necessary with strangers, will engage in normal conversation with friends, kind and caring as a person, his natural eye and affinity for wonderment

Biggest Flaw: general lack of confidence

Who He Likes Most: Elliott and his father

Who He Dislikes Most: Clockwork, Spade, and Victor

Most Important Person in His Life: father, due to preestablished bond and general connection to Ellevand. He isn’t aware of his father’s involvement in the other realm until later

Whom Does He Admire: Casey, for her courage and willingness to fight for a just cause

Enemy: Clockwork

Someone He Tends to Misjudge: Griffith, Alex sees him as grumpy and pushy, not seeing the actual care that he feels for the rebellion

Person Who Tends to Misjudge Him: Griffith, the older man sees Alex as a liability and a child

Who Does He Rely On For Advice and Emotional Support: Hamill, who acts as the word of reason for many of the characters

Who Does He Support: Elliott Erstin, who in his rushed sense of time needs a minute to slow down and talk with someone willing to listen, like Alex

Psychological Issues: mild depression, anxiety, low self esteem (despite all this he is an optimist)

Most Comfortable When: hanging out with friends or writing alone

Most Uncomfortable When: facing rough challenges publicly, when responsible for others, when put in charge of certain tasks

Prejudices: he grows to hate people from The Other Side due to their affiliation with Clockwork

How Does He React to Change or Conflict: He has a hard time processing at first, but finds it hard to stand against the change if he needs to. He lives in his own world a lot of the time and never really acts on his desires for change.

Delusions: When he first arrived in Ellevand he expected it to be a place of magic and wonder where he could finally be away from the problems at home. A place that he could live life as he wanted to without having to work or worry, but he was wrong. Ellevand was having his own crisis, and to everyone’s surprise he was at the center of it. So rather than escaping to a land of fantasy, Alex ends up on the run from leader of the Other Side, Clockwork, who clearly wants him dead.

[suzumiya-chan]

[ultraericthered]

Anime Update 58

Dragon Ball - Very little progress in terms of moving the plot along was made in this episode coming off the end of last one - it was all about establishing our new villain, the Great Demon King Piccolo. Despite the silly instrument-based name, he is already a very, VERY fearsome, intriguing, positively sinister villain. Tien was a great antagonist for filling Tao’s shoes, but Piccolo starts on his way to surpassing Tao with his first appearance alone. The build-up given to him through Roshi’s backstory was great; this evil monster ravaging the world, massacring a bunch of martial artists, and defeating the Master of said martial artists, whose only surviving pupils were teenage Roshi and Shen, really put so much perspective into what shaped them into the people they became, with Shen renouncing his faith in morality and honor, while Roshi sought to follow in old master’s footsteps and even surpass him. That King Piccolo got imprisoned by the evil containment wave inside a rice cooker of all things was classic Toriyama, and if the rice cooker was retrieved from the depths of the sea, of fucking course it had to be Emperor Pilaf who did so. Pilaf, Mai, and Shuu have trapped themselves into answering to a tyrant far more evil and powerful than anything they were prepared to deal with, and that’s sure to make things very fun.

Love, Chunibyo, and Other Delusions - Really not much to say on this episode except that it’s where the delusions of love that the series title refers to finally starts to come into play. Rikka is developing romantic feelings for Yuta, Yuta is denying that Rikka could possibly feel that way about him or that he returns those feelings, and Sunohara is trying to woo Kumin but getting nowhere.

My-Otome - Plans and counterplans are being made as Nagi and John Smith continue to try and harness the power they intend to start a war with, Tomoe is still treating her “friend” abusively and stalking Arika and her friends, Azwad is disgraced and diminished by the Black Valley’s ruler, Mashiro still hasn’t gotten out of her funk, Nina starts spending quality time with Erstin for some reason, and Arika just might be the real Princess Mashiro Woodbloom due to having the heirloom that signifies a royal bloodline (but given that the infant princess in flashbacks clearly has Nina’s hair color, I don’t buy this misdirect for a second.) And those were the good parts of the episode. The not so good parts had to do with Arika struggling with the feelings she’s developed for Sergay, that she is in love with him. Just....WHY? Not only why would they push romantic drama between a young girl and a grown man, but what in-universe reason does Arika possibly have for crushing on a dude who’s only shown her the barest minimum of common decency but has otherwise talked down to her and treated her like shit at every turn? There’s just no sensible explanation, so it’s the part of the story that’s still making me wince any time it comes up. Arika, you can do so much better. And if that wasn’t insulting enough, the episode ends at a point of Arika is in danger of getting gang-raped by some random thugs!

Assassination Classroom S2 - The opening part of this episode was kind of annoying because in it’s focus on Isogai as he’s working his part time job, the internal thoughts of the other E Class students kept repeating “HE’S PRINCE CHARMING!” even though the text on the screen was clearly saying something else. But it didn’t take long for the episode to pick itself up when Gakushu challenged Isogai and his friends to a game of Pole Topping at the school’s sports festival. Much like Shogi in March Comes In Like A Lion, I don’t understand the rules of this game and how it’s played, but the series manages to make me invested in it’s outcome. With Isogai displaying some great leadership skills for his team and playing with Korosensei’s prep teaching in mind, E Class manages to beat Asano with a strategy he’d overlooked, securing another victory for all the school to see. What wasn’t so pleasant to see was Gakuho inviting the American transfers that his son used for his team to try and beat him up, savagely beating them down instead, recalling how he’d learned to weaponize the fear of defeat and humiliation when he beat his old judo master, and using all this as a way to intimidate his son, to instill that same fear into him as consequence for being a loser. God, why is this man so fucking SCARY? He just gets worse every time we see him, really building the tension for when E Class faces his wrath.

Vinland Saga - Not too much of an impression was made by this episode, which stands at the series’ halfway mark, other than Askeladd going to Wales seeking aid in building a strong Viking army of his own for purposes that still aren’t entirely clear. He also seems keen on adopting Prince Canute and molding him in his preferred way since he can tell just from looking at his eyes that he’s presently unfit to be a great king and is merely soft, sheltered political fodder for other great men around him. Canute is honestly kind of adorable in his strange, soft femboy way, even though he’s barely spoken a word at this point. The final scene of the episode promised things are to be kicked into high gear for the second half, with Askeladd’s group, now headed by an old Britannian ex-noble, is ambushed by an attack eerily similar to the one that killed Thors, which clearly gets Thorfinn set out for blood, and we’re shown where every prominent character is at this time, including Uncle Leif, who’s grown older and wearier in his fruitless search for Thorfinn. I am very worried for him now.

Magic Knight Rayearth - I was looking forward to this episode given the title about Beast Summoner Ascot’s trap, but it honestly kind of sucked. The “trap” in question is one I’ve seen used plenty of times before - Ascot summons a beast that can turn into a small, cute, seemingly friendly creature for fooling the Magic Knights but it’s actually a deadly monster. Sailor Moon used this trope in it’s fifth episode! Hikaru’s insistence on calling it “Hikari” and using it like a replacement for her pet back home was also strange. Hikari’s very existence kind of came out of left field back when the girls sought the Escudo beneath the lake, and Hikaru has seemed hung up on him ever since. This idiot plot is predictable and ends in the way you’d figure it would, with Hikaru having to put the savage Hikari down in order to save “my friend, Umi!” This makes the third monster friend that the Magic Knights have taken from Ascot, and the third time we have to watch him cry about it. Look, I like Ascot, and he’s clearly meant to be sympathetic to the audience, but I’m finding myself sympathizing with him a bit TOO much. Seeing this poor lonely kid watch the closest companions he’s ever had die and be left a sobbing wreck over it just isn’t fun to watch when done repeatedly. And Hikaru’s own crying over what she had to do was clearly meant to be where the episode stopped, but instead they added a scene of the girls marking a grave for Hikari and then moving on with “we must save Cephiro!”, ending the episode in a very abrupt way just as icing on the half-baked cake. Clearly not the anime on a better day.

A Place Further Than The Universe - Kimari and Shirase still have time before they can actually embark on their voyage to Antarctica, and in that time Kimari is getting to work on raising some money of her own as she seeks a part time job that will accomplish this. There are some misunderstandings between the girls, some humorous (Shirase proposing a job to Kimari that was actually skeevier than she’d realized) and some more serious (Shirase getting the false impression that Kimari doubts her plans and that her goal can be met), but it all goes well when they meet Hinata Miyake, an upbeat, enthusiastic, somewhat scatterbrained teen prodigy who works at the convenience store and wants in on this trip to Antarctica too. The episode then goes crazy when the three girls go to Kabukichō, Tokyo to try to sneak aboard the exhibition through some cockamamie scheme that predictably does not go right and gets them chased through the streets, which actually gives Kimari a thrilling adrenaline rush. Shirase ends up unable to convince the two older girls from the expedition crew to let them come, and gets demoted from group leadership position by her two friends as result. Ouch. Back to the drawing board, Shirase! At least the ED credits song is still a jam.

AND

When They Cry: Higurashi - Started my rewatch of this horror anime classic with the first four episode arc, the “Spirited Away By The Demon” chapter. I only want to touch upon those episodes right now because they really do set the mood for the whole series and how sublime they are in how they gradually build the mystery, the tension, the suspense, the paranoia, the fear, the sheer horror of what happens in the end...just still holds up really, really well. If the creepy theme song and opening it up with Keichi bludgeoning Mion and Rena to death didn’t give it away, the first episode would honestly be an early instance of Stealth Horror for the audience, as it’s so light-hearted and breezy and juvenile until the dark history behind this village gets brought in pretty much completely out of the blue and from there we get secrets uncovered, conspiracies speculated about, murder and disappearance at the Cotton Drifting Festival, legends of a vengeful deity named Oyashiro and his curse that accompanies this, a dirty cop questioning Keichi and all that’s going on around him, Keichi’s own new friends starting to act strange and like they have something to hide and want to take him off the trail to finding out what, and Keichi’s gradual descent into fearful, paranoid, erratic, ultimately violent madness that takes his two friends’ lives and his own life as well. The aura hanging over this story is one of anxious uncertainty and heart-pounding dread, with you, along with Keichi as the POV character, never being sure who and what to trust or not trust, what’s genuine and what isn’t, who’s keeping deep dark secrets and might have it out for him should he stumble upon truths not meant to be uncovered, and it’s just so fucking great at creating atmosphere and bringing Hinamizawa to unsettling, demonic life. While obviously the series goes on to tell a bigger, grander narrative from here, this arc works the best as a self contained ghost story that services the larger series narrative just as well as the larger series narrative services it - ending on Keichi’s note that states his dying wish for someone to uncover the whole truth about the sinister events going on in Hinamizawa, almost as though it’s a plea to the viewer to keep watching, is a brilliant way to truly officially start us off on our journey through the series, and later developments in the Answer Arc that coincides with this Question Arc turn literally everything about what you saw playing out here on it’s head, particularly changing your view of who the scary, psychotic, murderous monster of the story truly was (spoiler: it’s the protagonist himself!) It’s just ingeniously done all around, and I cannot see the new remake/reboot series coming anywhere close to topping it.