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The Akatsuki as Community

I saw a RDC World skit recently that joked about one of anime/manga’s most famous villain groups, the Akatsuki from Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto. The video made light of the group’s demands for every member to go after the Tailed Beasts and commit genocide on their home village even if they don’t necessarily want to. It was really funny to watch and the video made me think of the group’s continued presence in anime and manga culture over in the Western side of the world.

The Akatsuki was a group of rogue ninjas who wanted to make the world a better place via means that are viewed to be criminal. Originally formed by a ninja named Yahiko, the group wanted to find a way to stop countless ninja wars. However, the Akatsuki went through a leadership change due to conflict with a regime that saw them as a threat. The torch would be passed onto Yahiko’s friend, Nagato, after the former died. Nagato decided to turn the Akatsuki into a group of 10 members that would cause mass destruction across the land to the point that the world would be tired of conflict. The Akatsuki that debut in the anime and manga is Nagato’s and the most iconic as their uniforms (black and red clouds on the front) have been sold as cosplay outfits much to the delight of fans all across the world.

The Akatsuki’s enduring popularity through at least a decade made me think about their appeal. Actually, it made me think about the community they have. The Akasuki can be considered to be a gang, but to play devil’s advocate, they’re a somewhat tight community. There are a few things that make this fan-favorite villain group a community.

Membership - only a select few, specifically S-rank ninjas, can join the Akatsuki and the maximum is 10. Each member is also given a unique ring of a certain color to represent their membership. The rings are also worn on specific fingers. They also have a bigger purpose with regards to sealing the Tailed Beasts onto the fingers of a demonic statue container.

Influence - Nagato believes he’s making a difference in the world by telling his members to capture the Tailed Beasts to put the world into a state of perpetual chaos. He also has the Akatsuki act as mercenaries for certain villages to carry out secret missions and assassinations to generate money for the group’s cause. The success of these missions causes Nagato to have a lot of influence in the underworld. Every member that has been a part of Akatsuki has felt like they’re contributing to something bigger for themselves and the group. 

Integration and Fulfillment of Needs - This means the group shares the same values as other members. While every member of Akatsuki has their quirks (a big reason behind their popularity), not everyone gets along. However, they all feel a need to go against the general authority of the ninja world. This is what truly makes the Akatsuki a community despite the many volatile personalities that are a part of them.

Emotional Connection - The Akatsuki usually do missions in pairs. Each pair is somewhat balanced. One example is Nagato and Konan, who were both members of the 1st Akatsuki iteration and personally compliment each other.  Other pairings may have a common interest, but differ in terms of views. A good example is Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki (the very first Akatsuki pairing to debut in all of Naruto), who murdered their own people, but Itachi dislikes unwanted violence. Each member of the pair grows to value their partner to a certain degree as they go on and experience the hardships of missions together.

The Akatsuki had a grand purpose and one that’s worthy of pursuing into reality - to end all war. It’s a powerful ideal. The group dislikes the politics and hypocrisy of the ninja world. Many underserved communities in real life do have the same feelings as the Akatsuki do with how they feel about the government and certain institutions that were designed to help, but failed to do so. And beneath every criminal, there lies a human being who’s experienced a great lack of social/emotional support and community that led them towards a dark road. This was the Akatsuki in a nutshell and it’s easy to relate to them at times.

Yes, they’re “bad,” but I recognize the Akatsuki as a community of merit and a great group to analyze in anime/manga circles for many reasons. The Akatsuki was a mix of complex personalities getting together to try to make sense of the world and form bonds over it. In my opinion, we’re all part of a bigger community that’s doing the same.

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what your choice of akatsuki bf on quizilla says about you

itachi: you were emo and probably also really liked sasuke. def would have owned a full akatsuki cosplay given the chance

kisame: you were freaky and i dig that. u liked mascs and also wanted him to carry you. if u like kisame in 2018 ur into 2 dick theory but 2007 kisame fans were pure

deidara: lesbian

tobi: you’re just here for jokes who cares about the romantic endings you want to read about you and tobi messing with deidara

sasori: dramatic as hell and probably into yaoi. like more into yaoi than everyone else taking this quiz

kakuzu: GOTH BUT IN A FREAKY WAY LIKE UR KIND OF A WEIRDO

hidan: see kakuzu and/or u just think “oh my jashin!” is funny and also u like how much he cusses

pein / “piercings shadow”: you like piercings and also like how scary he is. perhaps wanna homewreck him and blue-flower

konan/ “blue-flower”: also lesbian but more self-aware

zetsu: freak-ass and just here for the jokes combined for the ultimate mess. most endings included u watering him

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Please list your top 5-10 would-bang characters, possibly segmented by gender/sex if it makes sense to, in descending order. I need to know how similar we are. :D

I’m laughing SO HARD because we probably are similar. I mean, @lilly-white​ has such good taste. I will immediately answer this question. 

Usually, if it has silver hair I probably want to bang it. 

Lastly…. Okay, yes, now the list. No actually, I’ll place the list at the top of this answer and then place all the TMI/too-much-information text under a readmore.

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Iason (Ai no Kusabi) King of all Seme characters. Since this list is just about banging characters, I have to put him on top. 

Sephiroth - (FF7) my interpretation of him post-Nibelheim: a sane, arrogant, brilliant god and wreck of a person.

Lotor -  (Voltron Legendary Defender) See how high he is on my list? I have him in my ‘to cosplay’ list with not his name but with the text: “I HAVE SUCH A TYPE”. There is nothing about him that I don’t love.

Orochimaru (Naruto) His voice, his arrogance, the cheekbones, and the things he could do with that long tongue. 

Uchiha Itachi / Sasuke / Madara (Naruto) I’ve been trying to choose between these three for 10 years now) (I like the artwork interpretation of the Japanese fan-artist ‘Lily’ best.) 

^That is my hard-bargained top 5 in that order.  Now comes the rest. I still love them tons and tons, but not as much as the ones up ^there. 

Kisame (Naruto) (japanse voice actor) Terrifying face/reputation/fighting methods since he has no qualms with sawing someone’s legs off. But he would make the perfect father of a child. He is muscled, chatty, caring, thoughtful, loyal, sweet, protective and reliable. If I could bang him, I would not prick but punch holes in the condoms.

Skulduggery Pleasant (books by Derek Landy) ASREON DONT JUDGE ME. He is funny, powerful, reliable, cuttroat and has this dark edge that I really dig. 

Loki (as portrayed by Tom Hiddleston) Anywhere in the timeline after he arrived on Earth. I like him under Thanos control, as I like him as ‘shit annoying little brother’. I like it when he is smug: “It buuurns, doesn’t it?” (Avengers) and when he is indignant: “We are not doing ‘get help’.” (Thor: Ragnarok) yet still plays along in the end. 

Oikawa (Haikyuu) because his killer volleyball serve is too sexy, as are his mood switches and his I’m gonna fuck you up-grin. He get to me every time. (Kageyama is also somewhat a fave.)

Lord Carden - Bloodlines (Character from my needs-a-rewrite novel series, Bloodlines. Yes, I want to bang an OC, but in my defence, Lilly also once mentioned wanting to bang him. My friend Jack did too. He is a mix between Iason and Kisame: cutthroat and sexy but best dad.)

Embarrassing TMI & disclaimers & characters that didn’t make the list, are all under the cut!

Disclaimers:

The order listed below is from top(best)-down(last) and always subject to change depending on my mood and fandoms. 

These are characters I would want to bang - not the ones I would sign up to spend the rest of my life with (in most cases that’d be an awfully short life).

I may change this list if anyone brings in better suggestions. 

I can’t decide whether I want to sleep with these people, or want to be these people (role models).  

TMI 

I’m still in the process of trying to figure myself out. I have lived my life as a loner or as a quiet follower (because speaking up was often discouraged in my social circles). 

BUT

My younger brother recently pointed out to me that in almost every relationship there is a leader (the person who initiates plans and decides what and how) and a follower-guardian (who protects the leader from doing anything stupid, this person says “that’s not a good idea” and when they put their foot down it’s DOWN and the leader can do nothing but respect it.)

My brother told me that I’m a leader type: the person that initiates wild adventures. Not the follower-guardian. So OKAY, I’m a leader who thinks she is a follower? I don’t know if I’m sub or dom. 

There is this quote I’m trying to remember, said by either a gay guy or a powerful motherly woman who helps the girl-protagonist. An american production. Intonation is kind. Couldn’t find it with google. Goes something like this: 

“People won’t know whether they want to hate(/fight?) you, want to fuck (/sleep with) you or if they want to be you~

That’s the quote I want to put in here. 

What I usually fall for in a character:

Most of the characters I want to bang are calm, self-assured, don’t get worried fast, and are good at what they do. They firmly hold to a certain view of life. They can hold their own in a discussion. They are NEVER lazy, they are hardworking. They never have a nihilistic approach to life, they want to gain all they can get. They have an arrogance that tastes like honey to me. That cheeky, taunting, unimpressed, underhanded, self-assured, i-know-I’m-right, tone is a drug to me. Some examples are: - “Are you sure about that?” and - “I wouldn’t do that if I were you” and - “Is that the best you can do, Cloud?” and - “Foolish little brother, you’re not strong enough, ku ku ku…” That degrading tone that puts me on my place and him on a pedestal…! Yes, I find that finger-licking attractive. 

But I can never figure out if those tones appeal so much to me because they are spoken from a leader perspective as if to discipline a pet, or from a follower/guardian perspective that calmly undermines the leader’s bad idea. (”Sure Mr. King if you want to follow that route… but I’ll stay here and wait until you come back”)

My current running theory is that I’m a leader who thinks she’s a follower? I’ve not levelled up enough in life to decide where I am as a sexual partner as sub or dom or switch. I’ve been a service top/service dom to 2/3rds of my partners and in the 1/3rd of the occasions I did enjoy being sub but maybe that’s because I prioritised myself there. Usually I focus on my partner and aaaah I’m rambling RAMBLE RAMBLE. tl:dr; I need to get laaaid and figure this ouuuut with a person I truuuust.

Characters that didn’t make the list, but which I wish I could include somewhere in a top 30 are these listed below. You can tell by the bolded font which names I took out of my top 10.  

Maleficent (Angelina Jolie)

Cersei (Lena from Game of Thones)

Icy (Winx Club season 1)

Wonder Woman (as portrayed by Gal Gadot) because she’s a perfect. Marvel Studios gave me a female hero and a female superhuman but they did not give me a female superhero. DC did. I’m such a fan of her.

Lestat

Mai Valentine (Yu-Gi-Oh. But that says little,  I’ve had crushes on almost the entire cast. Mainly Seto Kaiba and Yami-Yugi.)

Victor (Yuri-on-Ice) when he wasn’t shown as a person with feelings but still had his idol status.

Riddick - but then again, who wouldn’t do Vin Diesel as Riddick? Especially the second movie.

Aranea (FF15) She was wonderful as a character but I am still salty she was a bit of a disappointment in the narrative, I expected she would be more involved in the narrative of the game.

V (from V for Vendetta the movie) - again the humour, dark past, power, reliability. I fall in love with him every time I watch the film. But I don’t know if I would do him with his mask off? I like the grandiose idea of him.

I’m going to risk burn marks and put Azula (Avatar series) on here.

Tahno (Avatar Korra series)

Suitengu (Speed Grapher) LYRA YOU MUST WATCH THIS. LISTEN TO LILLY. AND TO ME. WATCH IIIIIIT.

Rufus Shinra - (FF7 ACC)The smug remarks, power, face, count me in.

Pitch (Rise of the Guardians)Light (Death Note manga)  

I will always love Riku (Kingdom Hearts) But since he’s so dear to me and part of a franchise for children, I don’t want to think about having sex with him but I totally want to. It’s a grey area. I like him especially when he is lost in darkness and arrogant. But honestly, I really like him in all timelines. I was not ready for KH3′s version. I will always love Riku.

Last notes:

To summarize, I like murder + power + strong worldview + smug undermining comments + smirks.

I think it is curious that I only listed male characters in my top 10. It seems that I am not as bisexual as I thought, or that modern media fails in adequate female gender representation. I could not have been offered enough female characters of the Wonder Woman quality. Now I’ll post this answer before something glitches and I lose all I typed. 

Hope you liked this!

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Cosplay Ideas

I’m keeping these hella low key because I think they’re funny AF and I don’t care what none of ya’ll say

CUP NOODLE COSPLAY. Iconic because of FFXV.

ITACHI + KISAME. Cosplay as Itachi and then haul a fish around as Kisame.

RIP me

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Fotoromanzo Cosplay (Sole Berlandieri Cosplayer e Carlo M. Cosplayer) - Presentazioni (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1314046714-fotoromanzo-cosplay-sole-berlandieri-cosplayer-e?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=ChiccaTiaKiki&wp_originator=HvMGz2%2BI4wncqz9u6m5dPdBOTsiU%2Fxv7SFCQAcA9h2QUA9ZR9RHNknD1DDC70UFb6aqlIFUm28GFqxQCTwJ4OI%2B05FBRIXlOquE4sG%2F%2BetPGJgq1T1hCACxKB%2FTV0WU4 Visto che Wattpad mi impedisce di mettere foto nella bio, smaltiamo la rabbia facendo qualcosa di divertente! Brevi sketch dei nostri personaggi cosplay, io e il mio compagno. Per ora sono presenti solo Itachi e Kisame ma poi arriveranno anche Obito e Itachi ANBU. Sempre in aggiornamento, stay tuned!

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