#gin no yuusha

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Series: Gin no Yuusha Artist: Watanabe Yoshitomo Publication: LaLa (01/1999) Details: LaLa 1999 Calendar (March) Source: Scanned from my personal collection

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Yuki Yuna is a hero

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Dai Mankai

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Hello Actually I would like to hear your thoughts on Gin Minowa 😊

well alright you did ask :) but beware this is mostly going to be unstructured rambling.

anyway, her death basically caused the taisha to upgrade the hero system, introducing mankai and giving the girls immortality at the cost of their own bodies, thats the main conflict of the first season of yuyuyu. it drove togou into despair because she lost the memory of her friendship with gin and sonoko and will probably lose her new friends again to a fate worse than death that she's willing to end the world just to stop it all. and we all know how that eventually caused the wedding of the shinju and yuna and basically everything else. also, her death spurred the taisha to actively recruit more girls to be grinded into the hero system, so her death is also responsible for karin to join the hero club and the rest of the sentinel squad to be formed.

like, gin minowa's impact is massive. she's genuinely haunting the narrative. my first exposure of the yuyuyu franchise is the anime, and even without knowing her name, or seeing her grave, the traces of her life and death is everywhere. karin is using her terminal!!! sonoko and togou's entire friendship during the second season hinges on their mutual guilt complex over gin's death. hell, togo does not remember gin at all in the first season, but she knows she lost her and thats enough to kickstart togo's murderous rage and despair.

also thematically, she really is the poster girl of a human sacrifice. i've seen a meta post somewhere about how the shinju and the mankai system can be read as an allegory of how women ultimately commit slow suicide from making themselves small and palatable for the male gaze and doing all of the invisible labour for the sake of patriarchy. and the way yuyuyu keeps portraying in universe that being a hero is a way to protect the country, spesifically using a rather political word like the country, not humanity or life itself, it reminds me a lot of how fascist propaganda present itself to women. conform to the gender binary, fulfill your god given role, sacrifice your body and your life for the sake of your society. it seems familiar. the magical girls are chosen yes, but theyre lambs to the slaughter in the service of the shinju and the taisha (patriarchy metaphor)

disclaimer, im not japanese, and i dont know the behind the scenes trivia or the author or even played the yuyuyu games, so i know im working off partial information and im looking at something with a perspective unlike my own, im well aware i could be wrong and the authors' intentions might be different, but that is what i get from the anime. the metaphor did fell apart towards the last few episodes, especially when we consider the taisha was formed because they have to survive against the apocalypse, they might be a corrupt and fucked up organization that grinds children into an eternal suffering machine but they did try their best against an impossible situation, but overall i do feel like the hero system can be read as a metaphor for gender roles in patriarchy.

back to gin minowa, out of the trio, she seems to be written as the most down to earth / relatable of the two. she's smart and clever, but only when its useful to other people, i.e when she's helping and when she's fulfilling her role as a child soldier. and she never ever blames anyone for anything. nobody ever stops to ask if she has better places to go, nobody ever asks if she's tired from all the help and chores she's required of doing, and she never seems to mind. only smiling and blaming herself for being late and forgetting her studies. its only her friends who actually find out whats going on with her and tried to help her. she is the picture perfect idea of a heroine and the taisha and the shinju took advantage of it and it ultimately killed her. she is the number one proof that this is the bitter end of all magical girls if they let themselves follow the orders thats been given to them. god fucking damn it, theyre all heroes, they's the chosen one, but theyre chosen as a hero the way a lamb is chosen and lead to the slaughter. rip gin minowa you will always be famous 😭

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Multiamory March day 24 + 20: Apart + Grief @polyamships

Ahh nah they done broke up the polycule!

My shop!! My Commissions are always open!  Pls don't ignore my DNI! Reblogs are appreciated! Very much so!

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Final List of Submissions

Submissions are closed, and below is the final list. Their names may appear differently from those in the tentative list. They are first listed by their English title, and enclosed in parentheses is their romanized source title as listed on MyAnimeList.

86 (Eighty-Six)

91 Days

A Place Further than the Universe (Sora yori mo Tooi Basho)

ACCA: 13th Territory Inspection Department (ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka)

After the Rain (Koi wa Ameagari no You ni)

Akiba Maid War (Akiba Meido Sensou)

Akudama Drive

Are You Ok (You Yao)

Asobi Asobase - workshop of fun -

Beryl and Sapphire (Xiaolü He Xiaolan)

Birdie Wing: Golf Girls’ Story

BNA: Brand New Animal

Bunny Drop (Usagi Drop)

By the Grace of the Gods (Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko)

Charlotte

Do It Yourself!!

Flip Flappers

Flowering Heart

From the New World (Shinsekai Yori)

Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet (Suisei no Galgantia)

Gatchaman Crowds

Girls’ Last Tour (Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou)

God Troubles Me (Hanhua Riji)

Gurazeni

Hakumei and Mikochi

Hanasaku Iroha: Blossoms for Tomorrow

Happy Sugar Life

Hinamatsuri

Hitori Bocchi’s ○○ Lifestyle (HitoriBocchi no MaruMaru Seikatsu)

Inuyashiki: Last Hero

Iroduku: The World in Colors

Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka)

Joshiraku

Kageki Shoujo!!

Karneval

Katana Maidens: Toji no Miko

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!)

Kemurikusa

Kiznaiver

Laughing Under the Clouds (Donten ni Warau)

Legend of Luo Xiaohei (series) (Luo Xiaohei Zhan Ji)

Link Click (Shiguang Dailiren)

Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic

Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha ViVid

March Comes in Like a Lion (Sangatsu no Lion)

Mawaru Penguindrum

Megalo Box

Mignon

Moriarty the Patriot (Yuukoku no Moriarty)

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta…)

No Doubt in Us (Liang Bu Yi)

No. 6

Non Non Biyori

Orient

Ping Pong the Animation

Plastic Memories

Please tell me! Galko-chan (Oshiete! Galko-chan)

Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live

Radiant

Requiem of the Rose King (Baraou no Souretsu)

RIN-NE (Kyoukai no Rinne)

Rokuhou-dou Yotsuiro Biyori

Run with the Wind (Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru)

School Babysitters (Gakuen Babysitters)

School-Live! (Gakkougurashi!)

Servamp

Shadows House

Shiki

Silver Spoon (Gin no Saji)

Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle (Maoujou de Oyasumi)

Snow White with the Red Hair (Akagami no Shirayuki-hime)

Sonny Boy

Space Brothers (Uchuu Kyoudai)

Stars Align (Hoshiai no Sora)

Symphogear (Senki Zesshou Symphogear)

Talentless Nana (Munou na Nana)

Tamayura: Hitotose

Terror in Resonance (Zankyou no Terror)

The Executioner and Her Way of Life (Shokei Shoujo no Virgin Road)

The Heike Story (Heike Monogatari)

The Morose Mononokean (Fukigen na Mononokean)

The Royal Tutor (Oushitsu Kyoushi Heine)

There’s a Pit in my Senior Martial Brother’s Brain (Wo Jia Dashixiong Naozi You Keng)

To Your Eternity (Fumetsu No Anata E)

Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time

Trese

Tsuritama

Urusei Yatsura (2022)

Vampire in the Garden

Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song

Wasteful Days of High School Girls (Joshikousei no Mudazukai)

Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun (Marimashita! Iruma-kun)

White Cat Legend 2020 (Dali si Rizhi)

Yurei Deco

Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero (Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru)

Zombieland Saga

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Continuation of this post

Color red has it pretty hard in Mahou Shoujo industry

Kanade and Gin come back in their games tho

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everyone’s favorite fiery gal

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gin minowa if ur out there...

also the... version that i saved before doing shading n shit bc i like it

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Series: Gin no Yuusha Artist: Watanabe Yoshitomo Publication: LaLa (01/2000) Details: LaLa 2000 Calendar (December) Source: Scanned from my personal collection

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Officially the BIGGEST fanart I ever did. I died multiple time while doing it. But I think it was worth it !

It's a fanart of Yuuki Yuuna, it's a really good magical girls anime who deserve to be watched ! ( and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, don't say that Togo Mimori is a clone of Homura Akemi from Puella Magi, your life will be in danger if you do this :'D )

Anyways I hope you like it ! --------------------------------------------------------

I made this drawing with photoshop Togo, Yuuna, Fu, Itsuki, Karin, Gin, Sonoko and the others characters Come From Yuuki Yuuna Wa Yusha De Aru ~ You don't have the right to use this drawing in any ways, thanks

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I don't even watch Yuki Yuuna (at least, not full episodes) but...

This shit's so cute tf-

Gin ;_;

(From the Valentine Event of Yuki Yuuna mobile app I watched on YouTube)

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Gin Minowa (Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru: Washio Sumi no Shou)  » November 10

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I miss her ;-; my baby girl U all don't? ;;

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HERO PUNCH!!!!

-Yuuki Yuuna