#fruits basket volume 8

[ultimate-chickennougat]

| Your Salaryman Husband | (Vol 5)

Vol 1 Vol 2 Vol 3 Vol 4 (Not Required) Vol 6 Vol 7 Vol 8 Vol 9

Salaryman!Kento x Housewife!Reader

Visiting Nanami at work...

Word Count: 1.5k

CW: SFW, domestic fluff, fem!Reader, slightly slightly suggestive, office things

A/n: The pacing is a bit off in this, I'll do Gojo in the next volume (which will hopefully be better).

Within your last three months of marriage, it had become even more clear to you just how organized your husband Nanami was. 

The talented Jujutsu Sorcerer, and current salaryman, was always on time to wake up, go to work, and come home, never varying more than a couple of minutes. It was easy to plan things that way, knowing exactly when to greet him and have dinner ready. 

He kept to the usual schedule, drinking his morning coffee on the living room table while looking over some documents on his computer. It was a simple part of his routine, and while rather mundane, it somehow produced some much needed peace before heading to work. 

He had gotten used to the banging of pots and pans, and the subtle hums that came out of your mouth as you cooked, having finished making breakfast and packing his lunch box for the day. You carefully balanced his plate and the basket of bread in your arms, safely setting them on the table next to his coffee cup, and made the second trip to grab your own, while he packed up his things. 

Sitting down, you couldn’t help but smile watching Nanami eat the food you made. He had a long day of work to go, various meetings to attend and many papers to read. To give him the gift of a good breakfast every morning was one of the greatest joys you had, knowing that he would need it in the hours to come, along with his lunch of course. 

There wasn’t much left for Nanami to do that morning. His clothes had been picked out by you and placed neatly in a pile, his breakfast was made, also by you, and his briefcase and shoes were set by the door for when he left. Despite your husband’s usual organized manner, he seemed to have forgotten one important thing as he stepped out the door, another boring work day ahead of him. 

You had already moved on to get the morning chores done, scrubbing down the bathroom tiles and sink, and throwing the dirty clothes into the laundry. You watched out the window while wiping the dishes with soapy water, taking a deep sigh of relief knowing you were almost done. The sky was blue and the sun was shining brightly throughout the house, and while the weather was lovely, rain hadn’t fallen on your plants in quite a while. So you took a watering can and went outside, tending to the fruits and vegetables and harvesting the ripe ones. 

Time really does fly when you’re having fun, which you were, seeing the variety of colors fill the basket, a testament of your hard work and care. When you got back into the house, fully prepared to relax on the couch and read, you noticed something peculiar on the kitchen counter.

A lunch box. It was none other than your husband, Kento Nanami’s, lunch box.

The clock read 11:12, meaning less than an hour until his lunch break. Of course this was not a regular occurrence, so the thoughts that went through your head were a bit past rational. “What if he doesn’t have money with him… or doesn’t have time to go to a store?” you mumbled to yourself, pacing around the kitchen. 

There was only one thing to do, in your mind. You could just bring the lunchbox to Nanami, right? So you quickly grabbed a bag and placed the box into it, as well as your wallet, and got out the door. It was about a 20 minute walk to the station at your speed, and a 15 minute ride to get to his building. 

Stepping out of the station, you gazed widely at the imposing building that Nanami worked in. Though you had seen it before, then it wasn’t surrounded by large crowds of people walking around the city.

You dashed inside the building, the lobby filled with salarymen grabbing coffee from the shop on the first floor. To that you had to facepalm, seeing the menu had sandwiches and other savory items. Of course he would have the opportunity to get lunch, all the other workers did it.

Turning back was an option, in your dress and flats you looked quite out of place, but it was 11:55, and Nanami would be on break in 5 minutes. It would be a waste of money to buy a sandwich, when you had an even better lunchbox waiting for him. 

When the clock struck 12:00, you started to find your way throughout the massive building, to the secretary’s desk. Nanami and the rest of his department would be on break, so you could visit him in his office. 

The secretary buzzed you up to his floor, and you wandered around past the mass of people heading to the elevator. Peaking around each doorway you looked for Nanami’s blonde hair and dark gray suit, having not seem him leave. The striking figure of your husband was hard to miss. 

Nanami sat hunched over in his chair, rummaging through his things in search of something. He was the only one who hadn’t left the room yet, letting out a grunt when his hands came up empty. You silently walked over to him, happy that you were able to find him so quickly. 

“Kento, darling,” you stated meekly, smiling to greet Nanami. He looked over his shoulder in surprise, you had never been to his office before. “Y/n, what are you doing here?”  He inquired, eyeing you. It couldn’t have been easy, figuring out where everything was and making the journey here. 

He smoothed his hand over his neck, leaning to the side. “I appear to have forgotten my lunch, could that be it?” he asked, not waiting for your response. You nodded, reaching into your bag to hand him the box. “Right on time, thank you, my love,” he reciprocated your smile, the shyness knocked off your face. “While you’re always welcome to come visit me, you really don’t have to come all this way for something like this…” he started clearing the papers off his desk. “I didn’t realize you had a cafe downstairs,” you laughed, “and that the streets here are so busy during the day.” 

“Their sandwiches are fine, but I’d still rather have this - it certainly has more nutritional value,” Nanami relaxed, setting his lunchbox on the desk. “I don’t know what slipped my mind, I’m sorry you had to come deliver this, Y/n,” he stood up, adjusting his tie with his hand. 

“I should probably be getting back now, Kento,” you frowned, not having much of any reason to stay. Your own lunch was at home, and the train would only get busier. Nanami gently gripped your shoulder, leading you to sit down in the chair in front of his desk.

“It tends to settle down a little while people are eating, why don’t you stay a bit longer? Only a few minutes - I enjoy your company, afterall,” he smirked as you took in the office around you. “The view is beautiful,” you looked out the window, your hand mindlessly fiddling with your other one as you avoided his gaze, towering over you until he sat down. It was the same sky and weather that was at home, but you were with him, and that made it so much better.  

“Though it makes getting around a bit longer, this office has the best view, and is quite secluded,” he picked up his fork and took a bite of food. “For the many meetings with clients I have, it works out well as a background, and for soundproofing,” you nodded, listening intently. “My other coworkers are on this floor, and the one below it,” he mentioned, eating more. You continued your conversation a short while longer. 

“It’s already 12:20, I’ll let you leave now,” he stared at his watch, slightly annoyed that the second hand kept ticking. You stood up, feeling the lack of weight on your shoulder as your bag was nearly empty. A reminder of your purpose for being in the office in the first place.

“Do other wives visit often?” you asked, curious, as Nanami joined you. “A few, but mostly at the end of the day,” he took your hand, as the two of you walked out into the rest of the floor. “Most of my coworkers are single,” he sighed, as you looked a bit surprised. 

“Maybe I should start forgetting my lunch more often,” Nanami met your flustered gaze, you didn’t want to say goodbye and wait for hours for him to come home. “You could see more of the work we do here,” he smiled, pulling you into a hug, “and all those dull trainees could see what a beautiful wife I have,” you blushed red. 

“Goodbye, Kento, I love you,” you started walking out the building, cheeks flushed and a smile not leaving your face. “Stay safe, Y/n, I love you too,” he replied, watching you leave. “Only a few more hours…” he mumbled in his head, “a few more hours…”

[vixvaporub]

Fruits Basket | Furuba by Natsuki Takaya – Volume 8, Official Art

[festivalofthe12]

No but it really is starting to settle on me just how much MORE popular Yuki/Kakeru is since the new anime came out.

Like: I recently regained access to my old livejournal from the late 00s!!!! And unfortunately I made that after the height of my Fruits Basket phase, but I still did make some mention of Yuki/Kakeru... And, well.

18) A pairing that is woefully unappreciated! YUKI/FRICKINGKAKERU. I swear, there's less than a PAGE of this on fanfic.net. Less than a PAGE. Geez, it's implied SO MUCH in so many scenes, even WITHOUT the whole 'I'll brake up with you' thing. Bloody fandom, don't appreciate good characters and pairings when they see them... (8/3/2008)

And as I implied in an earlier post, while I was trawling through the Ao3 tag (still on-going!!) I decided to give myself a blast from the past and re-read through the Yuki S. and Kakeru M. filter on ff.net, which I remember checking religiously. Today? Three pages.

Ao3 has 10 pages and 200 works!!!

And even then, like, lately I've been going through my old bookmarks (sadly I've only found one Yuki/Kakeru, which I'd already remembered anyway), with a current focus on Zuko/Aang. Well, even just by googling I can immediately summon up whole rec lists of livejournal snippets and fic memes and the like, so I was excited to see what I could dig out for Yukeru, since I certainly remember Fruits Basket having a big presence on that site!

Nothing. Literally, I haven't found anything yet. Save a livejournal comm with exactly three posts, long-dead.

Of course, it makes sense that the new anime brought in new fans: Kakeru famously never showed up in the old anime, so people would only have ever even met him if they read through to, what? Volume 8? Later? of the manga. And I do recall the fandom being far less... Yuki-positive, back then. Yuki/Kyou was a popular ship, of course, and Yuki/Haru was around, but those ships had Kyou and Haru fans behind them; you'd only ship Yukeru if you were really invested in Yuki himself.

But it's still just boggling me. I did find Yuki/Kakeru rec lists, but they're all from the last few years. They alone have as much fanfic as ff.net had of Yukeru total back in 2008, when Kakeru had surely existed for a good half a decade at least, even in English.

Is there something about the current fanfiction landscape that is far more amenable to Yuki/Kakeru? Probably, yeah, I think: it's a pairing very situated for queer coming-of-age found family type stories, which are much more popular now. (Not that they never existed before! But fandom was much less... consciously activist-y. Maybe I'm just betraying my age back then, but it was much more common to ship boys simply because they were ~smexy~ together, as I think I myself cringefully wrote about Yuki/Kyou in my very first livejournal post...)

And it's. Such a strange feeling. I remember when I realised that season 2 of the anime had come out, and on a whim deciding to check the Yuki/Kakeru fanfic tag on ao3. And I thought I found only a small number! And I read one, and went 'oh cool, my old ship has Plural New Works!' and moved on!!! I truly had no IDEA there were so MANY... or that they were so GOOD.

Yuki/Kakeru was one of the first ships I ever wrote. The fic was very long and I'm sure very bad, though unfortunately this is from the period of my writings lost to time, so I'll sadly never be able to check it out for my (current) self. I think it was the first lemon I ever wrote; on a Pirates of the Caribbean fic I exclaimed that this second lemon was much better than my first, and I have a sneaking suspicion Yuki/Kakeru is who my 14-or-so old self had written like that.

I made a friend on ff.net because they were one of the very few Yuki/Kakeru writers. I have a visceral memory of coming upon the 'I'll break up with you' scene while reading the manga at school during lunch, and how I immediately exclaimed it aloud in great excitement, startling a poor teacher who had been talking to one of my friends and no doubt knew me as being very quiet. I'm sure I must have drawn it in all sorts of little doodles; I saved a lot of my old high school arts, so maybe I should try going through those as well?

I don't know. I'm just feeling a great sense of awe, I guess, haha. That ship was *so important to me*, and it was *so hard* to find anyone else who felt as strongly as me! (My friends all liked Fruits Basket with me, of course, but we've always tended to have divergent ship tastes.) And right beneath my nose, it has had a renaissance! It sprouted and bloomed and then went dormant again while I twiddled my thumbs, vaguely promising myself that I'd get back to the new anime at some point or other!

God I just. REALLY wish I'd been paying attention while the anime was airing, hahaha. :') My inner child has been so thoroughly validated by this all, that this ship I cared so much about really IS as great and important and meaningful as I'd always thought it was! But how must it have been to be in the thick of it all, when the ship tags were thriving? When I could've seen the new viewer's reactions to famous scenes? When everyone else was thinking about Yukeru as much as I have been, this last month or so?

But I'm not only unhappy. i can't not be grateful that these people have come and made works which I can still now and enjoy, and that there are still certainly people around to like my silly little Yukeru posts and even maybe make new ones. Things are so much better now than they were back then.

It's just. Incredible. Why didn't any of this happen back then?! Why did this Understanding take so long to spread and percolate?!? I don't know. But I'm happy. My younger self... is so, so happy. :'DDD

[debbielouocean]

I’ve been on a mission as a librarian (and a nerd) this summer to read a Bunch of manga. Like as much as I can. Here’s what I’ve read so far in the last two weeks:

Assassination classroom (6/10, I like the plot but not the characters, I don’t find the humor very funny 🤷‍♀️) I read the first two volumes

Attack on Titan (7/10, was surprised I liked this one as much as I did, curious about the plot and might continue) I read one volume

Food wars (4/10, I read it but didn’t like the weird sexual food stuff and I didn’t like the characters and I didn’t really care about the plot) I read one volume

Ayashimon (3/10, I don’t care about organized crime and it was kind of hard to follow, the monster lore was hard to understand) I read one volume

Full metal alchemist (6/10, I like how it was set up kinda just like little vignettes, the characters seem fun) I read three volumes

My next life as a villainess (8/10, i like the plot and the characters are fun. Katarina is a very cute character, will be reading more) I read two volumes

The promised neverland (9/10, my favorite one, I like the plot and the characters and the world that’s been created) I’ve read seven volumes

Chainsaw man (8/10, I like denji and the humor is nice and the lore isn’t hard to understand) I’ve read three volumes

Soloist in a cage (3/10, I had high expectations here, the plot seemed interesting but it ended up being a bust)

Komi can’t communicate (4/10, repetitive and I didnt like how Komi was presented) I read one volume

Kaiju no. 8 (6/10, not my cup of tea but I can see why people would like it. Neat 🤷‍♀️) I read one volume

The summer hiraku died (5/10, I didn’t like the accent the author used and the plot was a little slow but it gets points for gay) I read one volume

Witch hat atelier (8/10, very cute, I’ll continue, didn’t expect it to be as heavy as it seems like it’s going to be) I’ve read two volumes

Another (9/10, well paced and engaging, very good ghost murder story) I read all of it

Frienen (7/10, very cute, would continue, I like the characters)

So I’m a spider, so what (7/10, i think it’s interesting but I don’t really care about books about animals and that’s what it is)

Tokyo ghoul (4/10, didn’t like it, the characters were eh and it was a little gory)

Orange (8/10, I’m halfway through the whole thing and can’t wait to finish, it’s very cute)

Fruits basket (2/10, boring and hard to follow, didn’t finish, didn’t like the art style)

Ouran high school host club (3/10, I’ve seen the anime a bunch and knew I didnt care for it so I couldn’t get into this one, I just didn’t like it)

One punch man (2/10, I didn’t like the comedy and I don’t really love fight scenes and that’s most of this)

Anyone got any other Must Reads? I’ve read my hero academia, spy x family, Naruto, and death note. I know what goes on in one piece and am not interested. I’ve got some plans to read demon slayer and some sports manga. I think I’m leaving some stuff out lmao it’s been a crazy two weeks

[carolap53]

God is the God of Success

TGIF Today God Is First Volume 2 by Os Hillman

09/25/2024

If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth (Deut 28:1-2). Our God is a god of success. You are created to be a success. Success is rooted in our relationship with God, not in our abilities. When our abilities are separated from our relationship with God, success is short-lived.

All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God: You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed. You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven. The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you (Deut 28:2-8).

Sometimes God allows you to fail in order for you to succeed. Each of us must first experience our own death and resurrection from our old nature. This is for you to learn Who the source of true success is. You will be amazed how easy success will come when your life is in proper alignment with the purposes of God. Today, reaffirm your commitment to follow His ways in all that you do. This will ensure God’s purposes will be fulfilled in you.

[mawarimichicafe]

mawarimichi cafe masterlist

hi everyone, i'm sou!! you might know me from my main @kimbapisnotsushi where i primarly post about hq!!. there's a whole lot of other series i want to talk about and recommend though, so welcome to the cafe! come on in, have a seat, and i'll be with you shortly :)

below you'll find a masterlist of everything i've read so far! keep in mind that this is constantly in progress and will always be edited and updated. there are plenty of series on here that are stuck on my TBR or are still ongoing, and i'm always doing my best to keep up with them. i have yet to place all the emojis where i want, too, but feel free to send me asks about anything you want to know about any of them!

key 💔- shattered my heart like a brick through a window 🌈- bonus points for being queer 🚩- occasional nsfw scenes of any kind (including sex/nudity, gore, heavy violence, assault, etc) 1️⃣- single-volume work ✅ - completed series/read all of it O_O - "what the fuck. what the fuck was that" 💖 - faves of all time, constantly reread

high school shenanigans (coming-of-age, romance, etc):

ah! itoshi no banchou-sama

ao haru ride (✅)

ao no flag (🌈✅)

boys run the riot (🌈,💖,✅)

fruits basket (✅)

gekkan shoujo nozaki-kun (💖)

given (🌈)

hana ni arashi (🌈)

haru matsu bokura (💖✅)

hibi chouchou (💖✅)

hirano to kagiura (💖, 🌈)

hirunaka no ryuusei (O_O✅)

hiyokoi (✅)

honey lemon soda (✅)

horimiya (✅)

i fell in love after school (✅)

ikoku nikki (💖)

kami-sama kiss (✅)

kieta hatsukoi (🌈💖✅)

kimi ni todoke (✅)

koimonogatari (💖🌈💔)

love so life (✅)

megane tokidoki yankee-kun

monotone blue (🌈✅1️⃣)

omoi, omoware, furi, furare

sasaki to miyano (🌈)

senpai is an otokonoko (🌈💖💔)

soushi souai

the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all! (🌈,💖)

contemporary adult/college romances & shenanigans:

blue sky complex (💖,🌈, 🚩)

dysfunctional family therapy (💖🌈💔)

escape journey (🌈,🚩)

i hear the sunspot (🌈)

koi saku potager (🌈🚩)

my tsun-sweet boyfriend

net generation teacher

our not-so-lonely planet travel guide (💖,🌈)

saenai boku wa kimi no hero (🌈)

still sick (🌈)

tonari no metaller-san

tsuki to suppin

she loves to cook, she loves to eat (🌈) let's eat together, aki & haru (🌈)

historical/fantasy/supernatural/sci-fi/action (w/ occasional romance):

akagami no shirayukihime (💖)

ao no exorcist

bungou stray dogs

gakuen alice

gokurakugai (💖)

golden kamuy (🚩💔💖)

himitsu: the top secret (🚩,🌈,O_O,💖,✅)

go with the cloud, north by northwest (🚩,💖)

jujutsu kaisen

kaiju no. 8 (🚩)

mushishi

natsume yuujinchou (💖)

promised neverland (✅)

sakamoto days (💖💔)

silver diamond (✅)

the night beyond the tricornered window (🚩,💖,🌈💔✅)

witch hat atelier

a beast's love is like the moon (🌈🚩💖)

funny/fluffy/healing slice-of-life:

barakamon

cool doji danshi (💖)

flat (✅)

gakuen babysitters (💖)

handa-kun

hyakunichikan!! (💖✅)

the yakuza's guide to babysitting (💖)

one-point advice yankee

sports:

haikyuu!! (💖💔✅)

honorary manwha and manhua mentions include: park hanhoo's manager, dallae, green apple paradise, salad days

[same-png]

did you ever like fruits basket

i watched the first anime years ago, the 2001 one, and loved it so much! i've never seen the remake, but i'm definitely gonna watch it someday, there's just too many anime on my list hahah. also i own 8 volumes of the manga that i bought like 10 years ago at a convention and never completed the series but i've always wanted to buy the other volumes and read it all from the start. i remember really loving the characters 💗

[13eyond13]

THE MANGA REC LIST

in order of date released (and with the number of volumes listed on Wikipedia in brackets... I will keep this list updated with my progress through the volumes):

1967 Cat-Eyed Boy (3) / [progress: 3/3 read] {★★★½}

1968 Ashita no Joe (20) / [progress: 1/20 read]

1970 Lone Wolf and Cub (45)

1972 The Rose of Versailles (14)

1972 Devilman (5) / [progress: 5/5 read] {★★★½}

1974 The Heart of Thomas (3) / [dnf]

1974 Dear Brother (3) / [dnf]

1976 Glass Mask (49)

1981 Touch (26)

1982 Akira (6)

1982 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (7)

1984 Dragon Ball Z (42)

1985 Banana Fish (19)

1987 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (132) / [dnf]

1989 Berserk (42) / [progress: 42/42 read] {★★★★★}

1990 Tokyo Babylon (7)

1990 Slam Dunk (31)

1990 Crows (26)

1991 Sailor Moon (18) / [progress: 1/18 read]

1992 X (18)

1992 Boys Over Flowers (37)

1994 Monster (18) / [progress: 9/18 read]

1994 Neon Genesis Evangelion (14) / [progress: 14/14 read] {★★★★}

1996 Card Captor Sakura (12)

1996 Yu-Gi-Oh! (38) / [dnf]

1996 Inuyasha (56)

1996 Revolutionary Girl Utena (7) / [dnf]

1997 Haru wo Daiteita (14) / [dnf]

1997 Hellsing (8)

1997 One Piece (107)

1997 Trigun (14)

1998 Hunter x Hunter (37) / [progress: 3/37 read]

1998 Fruits Basket (23) / [dnf]

1998 Uzumaki (3)

1998 Forest of Piano (26)

1999 Naruto (72) / [progress: 6/72 read]

1999 20th Century Boys (22)

2000 Dorohedoro (23)

2000 Nana (21) / [progress: 21/21 read] {★★★★½}

2000 Chobits (8) / [progress: 2/8 read]

2001 Worst (33)

2001 Fullmetal Alchemist (27)

2001 Claymore (27)

2002 Skip Beat! (49)

2002 Ouran High School Host Club (18) / [dnf]

2003 Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle (28)

2003 Death Note (12) / [progress: 12/12 read] {★★★★★}

2003 Gintama (77)

2003 xxxHolic (23) / [progress: 1/23 read]

2003 Wolf's Rain (2)

2004 Vampire Knight (19)

2004 Soul Eater (25)

2006 Black Butler (33)

2006 Pandora Hearts (24)

2006 Code Geass (8)

2007 Totally Captivated (6)

2007 The Breaker* (10)

2007 Noblesse* (25)

2007 Goodnight Punpun (13) / [progress: 2/13 read]

2008 Bokura no Kiseki (29)

2009 Attack on Titan (34) / [progress: 4/34 read]

2009 Durarara! (18)

2009 One Punch Man (28) / [progress: 1/28 read]

2010 Cheese in the Trap* (webtoon)

2010 Tower of God* (13)

2011 Puella Magi Madoka Magica (3)

2011 Tiger & Bunny (9)

2011 Orange Marmalade* (webtoon)

2011 Tokyo Ghoul (14) / [dnf]

2011 Girls of the Wild's* (webtoon)

2011 Hero Union BBS (1)

2012 Made in Abyss (12)

2012 Houseki no Kuni (12)

2012 Erased (12)

2012 Mob Psycho 100 (16)

2012 Assassination Classroom (21) / [dnf]

2013 The Gamer* (6)

2013 A Silent Voice (7)

2014 Golden Kamuy (31)

2014 Dungeon Meshi / [progress: 5/12 read]

2015 My Next Life as a Villainess (9)

2016 The Promised Neverland (20)

2016 Demon Slayer (23)

2016 Moriarty the Patriot (19) / [dnf]

2016 Beastars (22) / [progress: 22/22 read] {★★★★}

2017 Blue Period (14) / [progress: 1/14 read]

2017 No Longer Human (3) / [progress: 3/3 read] {★★★½}

2018 Chainsaw Man (15) / [progress: 12/15 read]

2019 Cheating Men Must Die** (18)

2019 Vampeerz (9) / [dnf]

2020 A Stepmother's Marchen* (webtoon)

2020 Death is the Only Ending for the Villainess* (webtoon)

2022 Gokurakugai (2) / [progress: 1/2 read]

2023 The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All (1)

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last updated 2024/Sept/22

So for my book reading goal next year I think I'm going to attempt to read a lot of iconic/classic/influential manga series everybody should know, and I'd love to get your recommendations if you have them! Pls comment them here, even the really obvious ones, chances are I probs have not read it yet

[spice-bun]

Emerald’s screen-shot redraw! I LOVED her this volume <3 

[loveinthebones]

I'm just posting this on it's own because I can't help but laugh.

[vixvaporub]

Fruits Basket | Furuba by Natsuki Takaya – Volume 8, Official Art

[chaos0pikachu]

This is a very genuine question, but what makes shows like 4 Minutes, DFF, Kinnporsche, Triage, and Manner of Death - the latter two aren't BOC productions but I've heard this argument for them as well - "not bl"?

I've seen this argument a lot recently and I don't understand it at all. BL is both a genre and a marketing term, while love/sex/relationships might not be the most prominent part of the storytelling they are still romances that play a huge part in said story.

We wouldn't say Titanic isn't a romance especially since it's categorized as a romance/action film, and it was marketed as a romance/action film.

MDZS is, I would argue, the most well known BL on the planet, considering The Untamed got somewhere around more than a billion views while airing. The novels have been translated into multiple languages, and all of them were on the New York Times best-sellers list. The story itself is very plot heavy, the romance is extremely slowburn and isn't the "main" plot point of the series. But it's still very much a BL.

Similarly with Heaven's Official Blessing, which is also very plot driven, the romance developing in the background over a long period of time - I think that series is around 8 or 9 volumes. Still marketed and considered a BL series.

I find this argument interesting because I don't see it as much in regards to other similar genres. Like shojo is probably a close comparison.

Shojo could be something more magical realism like Fruits Basket, where romance plays a background role in the story. Or something like Yuu Watase's works: Ceres, Fushigi Yugi, Alice 19th are all fantasy action stories (with romances), but she's also written series like Imadoki, and Absolute Boyfriend which are more grounded school age tales (with romance). All are considered and marketed as "shojo" series though.

Romance plays a huge part in Tsubasa Chronicle by CLAMP, but not considered a shojo series; it's considered and marketed as a shounen series, because it was published in Weekly Shounen Jump.

And then you have shojo series that don't have romance at all: Natsume's Book of Friends and School Babysitters (both published in shojo magazine LaLa), and Little Witch Academia come to mind.

I feel like I have to mention Kaori Yuki's work too because Angel Sanctuary - her most successful work to date - is extremely plot heavy, and the romance is between twins. It's probably a series most people wouldn't considered or think of when mentioning "shojo" because it's violent, it's dark, it has incest, and a complex plot that has little to do with said romance, but it was published in Hana to Yume a shojo magazine and marketed as a shojo series.

So I guess all this to say, why is BL treated differently? What makes shows like 4 Minutes and others "not BL"? What standards are we holding BL too and are those standards fair, especially considering BL is an international import? If 4 Minutes is considered a y-series by it's intended Thai audience, why does western fandom feel differently?

The people on here getting mad about one couple getting too much screen time or another not doing enough in 4Minutes are the same to me as the booktok people who can’t read anything without romance. Sometimes it’s about storytelling that makes you scream into your pillow every week idk what else to fucking tell you

[lonefaith]

Sit tight folks. We’ve still got plenty to cover before the beach arc.

[jasdiscoverstheuniverse]

Fruits Basket Collectors Edition, Vol. 8 is my favorite so far.

I loved it so much 😭

[carolap53]

God is the God of Success

TGIF Today God Is First Volume 2 by Os Hillman

09/25/2023

If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth (Deut 28:1-2). Our God is a god of success. You are created to be a success. Success is rooted in our relationship with God, not in our abilities. When our abilities are separated from our relationship with God, success is short-lived.

All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God: You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed. You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven. The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you (Deut 28:2-8).

Sometimes God allows you to fail in order for you to succeed. Each of us must first experience our own death and resurrection from our old nature. This is for you to learn Who the source of true success is. You will be amazed how easy success will come when your life is in proper alignment with the purposes of God. Today, reaffirm your commitment to follow His ways in all that you do. This will ensure God’s purposes will be fulfilled in you.

[pumpkinsouppe]

I can’t believe I never got a friend to read the manga. I’ve been begging for YEARS 😭 and it’s only 8 volumes long and it’s finished AND it has just one of the most gorgeous art styles I’ve ever seen

Not to mention it’s my all time favorite coming of age queer high school stories. I can’t do stories like heartstopper since I just feel too old and it feels like it wasn’t made for me, but blue flag/ao no flag is a story that I feel I can read at any time. Even parts of the story have related to my real life which I’ve never really seen with other coming out stories. Oughhhhhhhh I love you blue flag, you and fruits basket are the only manga I’ve ever fully collected for a reason

Omg I should reread blue flag, I cant believe it still doesn’t have an anime