#give Usami more love pls

[kotelok16]

Somewhere in the first posts with my design of the magical girl Usami, I said that I would be glad to see an anime about her. Well… in a sense, it has happened! I'm still a fan of mowing to the styles of different anime and not only. This is not only fun, but also allows you to try new tricks in drawing! So yes, sometimes I actively trade in this way

I tried to draw Usami in the style of anime Danganronpa, Sailor Moon, studio Ghibli and Madoka Magica. I didn't think much about the composition of the frame, after all, I set the main task to get into the style. I did the rest as I had to, although I tried to convey the anime style through the effects too.

And that’s all for today, my friends! "Miracle Make-up!"

[kuronokiseki]

Best Usagi Moments (imo)

(just how many times i reread the entire series lmao...)

i promised i will do usagi version so here it is! usagi+misaki ver coming next!

misaki ver: https://kuronokiseki.tumblr.com/post/617551810336555008/best-misaki-moments-imo

warning: very long post, lots and lotssss of large images, stupid commentary 

OF COURSE ONE OF THE BEST DECISIONS MADE IS STEALING MISAKI’S FIRST KISS HNGHNGHNGGG GOOD GOOD AND THE SHIP IS SAILEDDD

very hansamu

tbh while doing misaki’s it was full of wholesome scenes but usagi’s? so many eroiii scenes like this haha misaki how could you survive in this scene

HE SADDDD :”( even with the old art this scene is so beautifully drawn. omg, in the future, if nakamura decides to draw his crying face... :”O

when he is imagining himself as a dashing hero to save otome heroine misaki

wellll even if misaki protested he *did* get what he wanted in the end ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) this is just romantica in a nutshell - whenever misaki did something that made usagi happy, POOF his pants went flying off

lord usami is handing homework

i dunno if it’s just me, or in the newer chapters... we dont rly see usagi being uber perverted and teasing misaki to the point of tears? xD he seems to be gentler and more mature now, but maybe it’s bcs of the situation they are currently in? :”( yeah, bcs things are getting more serious...

like this too sob sob i miss their banters so much

you dont even need to tell him that he’s already giving in ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 

STOP BEING SO EROI misaki how could you not die when he does THAT

how to hold a misaki

make sure he is held like this again during your wedding ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 

i want to be tanaka in this scene

KISS THE PAIN AWAYYYY SHOOO >:D

nakamura i want a shower scene again pleaseee

this is one of the moments where i applaud the magnificent writing. nakamura pls take note if you want to write abt second love in the future (whooppss xD)

when your boyfriend is so boring but four ppl fell in love and fight over him at the same time

as funny this scene is, but i have to respect usagi being rich by his talent alone. not bcs he was born from a rich family or marrying someone only for the fortune cough cough ur not-commoner father

so needy for attention

the captain of the misaki protection squad has spoken

another teasing moment that i miss :”(

protect misakiiiiii but seriously usagi dont be an enabler when mizuki flirts with you it’s not cute when you want to see a jealous misaki so you didnt tell him the truth ‘-’;;

if you are unfamiliar with this scene, yes... it’s one of the chapters the anime skipped

digging the tunnel to happiness - of course once he is happy the first thing he wanna do is fuccing misaki

when your rival is congratulating your love all you need to do to one up him is do it like you’re going to marry him on the spot

seriously studio deen y not animate this grand entrace

and then like usual they were banging happily ever after

sure there are issues with him being overly jealous but it doesnt rly hurt misaki that much. not necessarily making him a toxic boyfriend, but rather... a flawed boyfriend (it’s important to know the difference)

poor misaki in this arc tbh, he couldn’t do much when ijuuin is being selfish and not caring abt his feelings at all. thennnn the one who has to save him goes tooooooo -

so funny thinking that misaki is playing the role as princess peach in this arc and here is his knight in shining armor saving him from the villain

kinda unrelated, but while rereading, i did notice how differently misaki reacts when usagi or ijuuin is confessing to him. when usagi does we knew what he would do already, but when it’s ijuuin? he gets visibly uncomfortable. and he runs awaayyyy. already speaks volumes who he truly loves

yea he is cute. kiss him more >:(

bcs he is princess peach :v

perv usagi xD

acting pervy again in the same chapter and i begin to wonder how high this guy’s libido is

I WILL NEVER LET YOU GO MISAKI

so hawt ahahahaha

YOU TELL HIM

when your lover and your childhood friend whom you slept with before are together and you are jealous even tho they barely know each other

don’t you dare look down on me i will never stop being horn-y for misaki’s a$$ for the rest of my life

D”: how much he cares for misaki... i want to make a sarcastic comment but i cant

when he thought misaki was indirectly asking his parents’ permission to marry him... and he kissed misaki’s hand... it’s his ring finger for crying out loud... lol... sounds familiar... where did i hear of this before...

[goldenkamuyhunting]

Would you write a post analyzing Tsurumi as a villain? His characteristic, his purpose, his force, his effection, etc (many other aspects). If it's already done before, pls tell me. Thank you a lot. I love your articles. Keep up the good works. We'll always support you!

Thank you for loving my articles and supporting me!

Now... a full analysis would take really a lot of time so no, I can’t make it right now, but if it’s okay with you I’d love to talk about him a little.

I’ll warn you, I talk about Tsurumi as a character, not as a ‘villain’.

Why not, since Tsurumi clearly does terrible things?

I don’t really like the term of ‘villain’ as it gives me the impression of someone who does things for the evulz and ‘people’s tears are all the pay he'll ever need’, someone who doesn’t do what he does for a reason but due to one or more abnormal vices (pride, greed, wrath, envy…) so that he’s no more human, he becomes the ‘final monster to defeat’ for the hero because no hero can be a good hero if he doesn’t take down a great villain in a battle of good versus evil.

“Golden Kamuy” is no battle of ‘good versus evil’, just of humans versus humans, and Tsurumi, despite what he does, is more than just the big bad for Sugimoto to defeat.

Tsurumi is a character in his own right, representing a certain type of humanity in the REAL WORLD that did, does and will do terrible things, not an abstract concept like ‘evil’.

Dismissing Tsurumi as another ‘Dark Lord’ not only doesn’t do Tsurumi justice as a character, but stops us from realizing that ‘Tsurumis’ exist even in our world, and we need to make sure we will not follow them or ends up as their prey but also that we won’t create them or become them.

So I honestly doubt Tsurumi exists in the story solely to provide Sugimoto a ‘final boss’ to defeat.

Sure, Tsurumi is everyone’s antagonist and sure, Tsurumi is currently the most powerful one.

Tsurumi however works as a foil to represent many things.

For start how a charismatic leader can collect people’s legitimate discontentment, unite them and push them in the wrong direction. Tsurumi’s underlings were soldiers tossed in the war as cannon fodder, poor people who, when they came back, believed they were unfairly punished by the same government who exploited them.

They don’t follow Tsurumi because ‘they want to do evil’ but because they feel the government of Japan horribly mistreated them so they don’t own it any loyalty, and because they hope in a better life, in being saved by Tsurumi.

Tsurumi promises them justice, presenting himself in a way similar to ‘Code Geass’ Zero, who promised to the Japanese, mistreated and discriminated by Britannia, a better world, only Tsurumi does so in a sadly more realistic way.

He doesn’t promise them an equal world, a world better for everyone, a lovely utopia, but a world in which they will have the money they need, which, in the classist world in which they are, will allow them to be given the right that should be bestowed to any human, as they will be no more disposable cannon fodder but appreciated honor guards. In short a world that will be better FOR THEM.

It’s propaganda of course, and it won’t nowhere near as simple as he paints it to be, but it works, it has always worked and sadly it will always work like a charm.

His men believe they were mistreated, his men believe Tsurumi understands them, loves them and will make things ‘right’ for them.

We see it when Tsurumi talks to the nameless group of men from the 7th but we also see it when Tsurumi talks to the men in private.

Tsurumi’s modus operandi is all the same, he listen to their miseries or find them out, offers them his understanding, appreciation and moral support and then presents himself as their savior. He knows what’s better for them, he will take care of them and they… they follow him.

Even Tsukishima, who knows Tsurumi lies more often than not, believes who’ll follow him will find salvation.

Do they really have a chance to find salvation?

Yes and no.

If a man is left in a situation in which he’s abused, mistreated and finds no one to understand him, to offer him a way out, he, more often than not, can end up in troubles.

Edogai could have become a murderer if he kept acting following the voices in his head. Tsurumi freed him from them so in a way he saved him

So yes, the men of the 7th could have ended up worse than they are. Could. We don’t know.

On the other side, if someone saves you from hell merely to use you… well, for you the detriment you’ll get from this, might be worse than the benefit.

And, in this specific case, for a lot of them will be surely worse.

Many of Tsurumi’s men will die to help him reach his goal. They will be judged rebels by central command who might have them executed once it gets his hands on them.

Following blindly someone is never a good idea but it’s so very human to entrust yourself in the hands of a person who seems to understand and care for you and seems to know better than you…

Tsurumi though, doesn’t represent just this but also the way things worked back then.

Selling weapons and drugs was and sadly still is one of the most common means to get a lot of money and it’s sadly something not just men do but even states. States profited and still profit by war and, for a time, they even profited by selling opium.

Tsurumi doesn’t want to get into the weapon and drug trade ‘because he’s bad’ but because back then it was what the leader of a state could do and it’s important to acknowledge this, so we can fight this. It’s not ‘just Tsurumi’, it’s way too many state-heads, way too many politics.

What Thomas says talking with Tsurumi is sadly true, nothing is more profitable than war.

So, Tsurumi Tokushirō (鶴見 篤四郎) .

Birth (around) 1866 in Shibata in the Niigata prefecture from an once wealthy family, possibly the 4th son (this is speculated due to his name containing the kanji for 4, something that was very common at the time in the 4th son). Student at Takeda’s dojo he attended to the Imperial Japanese Army Academy where he likely graduated as a Second Lieutenant at the age of 21 and then he was deployed for  his mission as a spy in Vladivostok, under the identity of Hasegawa Kōichi’s (長谷川 幸一 ) a man who came in Russia as a teenager following his father who moved there due to work and who inherited a photo studio.

As Hasegawa Kōichi he married a local woman, Fina and had a daughter, Olga.

In 1891, when he was 25, Wilk, Kiroranke and Sofia asked him to teach them Japanese. His cover got eventually burned and in the following firefight between the secret police and Wilk’s group his wife and child died and Wilk’s group left.

In 1893, at 27 he’s back in Japan, belonging to the 2nd division of the Imperial Army as a First lieutenant but spends his time teaching at Takeda dojo.

In 1894 Takagi Tomoharu is killed by Usami in front of him and they blame Tsurumi’s horse for this.

In 1894-95 Tsurumi takes part to the Sino-Japanese war with Tsukishima death and, once back from war he is demoted to a position in Hokkaido in the 7th division because Tomoharu’s father resented him for his child’s death.

In 1896 helps Tsukishima to get out of jail, with him will go to Tsukisappo where the special service agency is located and will head back to Russia as an intelligence officer.

In 1900 he meets Koito Otonoshin in Kagoshima.

In 1902 he stages Koito’s kidnapping and he’s sent by the army to help ‘rescue him’ gaining Koito Heiji’s thankfulness.

In 1904-05 he takes part to the Russo-Japanese war, his platoon being the one that raised the flag atop of 203 hill. During the battle of Mukden a shell blew away a part of his brain.

Once he’s back to Hokkaido he orchestrates the murder of Hanazawa Koujirou and, while Inudo is absent, tries to bring to Abashiri the 24 tattooed convicts, who however manages to escape. He’s been searching for them from then, while at the same time trying to find support to built up an army factory and an opium factory in Hokkaido and blackmailing commander Yodogawa so as to have free reins. Among his more notable actions in this time period there’s the assault to Abashiri prison, with the extermination of all the prisoners and guards.

This is his life in short.

Now…

We don’t really know what Tsurumi is aiming at...

...or better we do know he wants to find the gold, use it to buy weapon and built  a weapon factory and a opium factory, take control of Hokkaido as a military dictator and probably stretch his control on Manchuria as well.

What we don’t know is why.

It’s clear Noda doesn’t mean him to act just for the evulz, Tsurumi has a motive, a reason why he wishes so that is based on his experiences in life.

Noda gave us hints but he only scratched at the surface of the problem, so it becomes complicate to correctly understand how badly those happenings affected him and why they pushed to become such a person and therefore to understand him and mind you, understand him doesn’t mean to absolve him, it just mean to realize what moved him to do those acts and see if people in his shoes would have also done the same mistakes, the same horrible things.

This won’t make what Tsurumi does right… just human. Humans can do terrible things and if we want to stop this, we need to understand what went wrong along the way.

We’ve always to remember how important it is to understand why people do what they do but that the reason for doing something is just the reason for doing something, not the magical excuse that makes right do something wrong.

For now we’ll know:

- his family once had wealth but lost it.

This could have been due to the Meiji restoration, therefore creating a possible reason for why Tsurumi is resentful toward the government as it stripped his family of their wealth… which is not as painless as some might think.

- It’s speculated Tsurumi could be the 4th son due to the 4 in his name (which could also be just Noda’s pun for death) but he doesn’t seem to have family members alive, relatives that are in the army and can support him.

Did he lose his family as a consequence of the loss of their wealth? Did they die fighting for or against the restoration? Were they executed?

- Noda raised the possibility Tsurumi’s family was... not the best place in which a child could grow.

Some might have missed it, but he had Ogata said two rather famous sentences and then Tsurumi say similar things. As it’s unlikely Ogata influenced Tsurumi, very likely Ogata learnt them from Tsurumi.

1) The first sentence regards how you’ve to kill your parents to leave the nest.

Ogata: “Killing your parents is... a rite of passage for leaving the nest.” (親殺しってのは... 巣立ちのための通過儀礼だぜ ‘Oyakoroshi tte no wa... sudachi no tame no tsūka gireida ze’) [Chap 59] (said after killing Shinpei’s father when the man was about to kill his son)

Tsurumi: “Now, hold on. You will shoot your mother. You will decide according to your will, Edogai-kun... You have to leave the nest. Because your nest was distorted, you grew up distorted.” (ホラ握りなさい。キミが母君を撃つんだ。決めるんだ江渡買くんの意志で...巣立たなきゃいけない。巣が歪んでいるからキミは歪んで大きくなった ‘Hora nigiri nasai. Kimi ga hahagimi o utsunda. Kimerunda Edogai-kun no ishi de sudatanakya ikenai. Su ga yugande irukara kimi wa yugande ōkiku natta’) [Chap 72] (said while encouraging Edogai to ‘kill’ his mother)

2) The second sentence is “Children can’t chose their parents.” though it’s worth to mention that in Japanese the two sentences are vaguely different but with the same meaning:

Ogata: 子供は親を選べません ‘Kodomo wa oya o erabemasen’ [Chap 103] (said when admitting Hanazawa didn’t love his mother, after Hanazawa commented he had no right to blame him for leaving his mother because the woman was insane and disgusting and Ogata should have felt the same as him)

Tsurumi: 子供は親を選べない  ‘Kodomo wa oya o erabenai’ [Chap 107] (said when discussing how the Lighting bandit and O-gin’s son is the child of two monsters who however were in love)

Where Tsurumi’s parents abusive like Shinpei’s and Edogai’s? Neglectful like Ogata’s? Monsters like Sakamoto’s child’s?

Or it’s actually in the reverse? We shouldn’t look at Tsurumi’s parents but at Tsurumi AS A PARENT and how his job caused the death of his child? But Olga was a tad too young to ‘leave the nest’....

- The whole Vladivostok mess with Wilk and co.

In that day Tsurumi lost his cover as a spy, his wife and his child.

It’s unclear if he was betrayed by the government as Kiro thought, or if it was a plan to gain Wilk’s and Co trust and, if this was the case, who came up with such plan.

It’s implied though he also holds Wilk as accountable for Fina and Olga’s death

- The wish to be ‘reunited’ to Fina and Olga.

One of Tsurumi’s most famous speech was about having Japanese soldiers’ bones rest in Japanese soil. While it can be just a propaganda speech, it can also be he wishes to conquer Vladivostok to be reunited with Fina and Olga’s bones as he could only carry with himself Fina’s finger (and possibly Olga’s).

We’ll have to wait for more info but surely there’s more to learn from Tsurumi as he’s one of the mysteries that make intriguing this story. We’ll have to wait to discover them or, in the meantime, we can try to have fun guessing. ^_-

Thank you for your ask!

[luukeskywalker]

General and misc for... [mimics spinning a wheel] usami and...tsurumi !!

*cracks knuckles and they burst into light like glowsticks* HELL YEAH

GENERAL:

Rate the Ship -  Awful | Ew | No pics pls | I’m not comfortable | Alright | I like it! | Got Pics? | Let’s do it! | Why is this not getting more attention?! | The OTP to rule all other OTPs

How long will they last? - as long as usami lives, because tsurumi could move on at a moment’s notice. tsurumi is glad to have usami around and would definitely mourn his death, but moreso as a loss of a tool than a lover. 

How quickly did/will they fall in love? - tsurumi isn’t in love with usami, but usami is definitely in love with tsurumi - but they’re both okay with this arrangement! usami is happy to be used as long as he’s useful to tsurumi. it’s not healthy, but hey, have you ever looked at usami and thought he was capable of a sane, happy, healthy relationship?

How was their first kiss? - i’d say it was definitely explosive. usami had been thirsting after tsurumi for a long time, and of course tsurumi knew that - which is why he spent a decent amount of time waiting for the right moment to kiss usami. he’s manipulative like that!

MISC:

Who takes the longer showers/baths? - i’d say usami, just based off of his hot spring behavior.

Who takes the dog out for a walk? - the dog in this case is nikaidou, so usami also takes him out. usually on tsurumi’s orders, no doubt, but it’s still usami doing that hard work. an argument could be made that nikaidou is the one taking usami out on a walk, but ehhh.

How often do they decorate the room/house for the holidays? - i don’t think either of them particularly care about the holidays. probably tsurumi, since usami doesn’t seem to care about much else other than tsurumi.

What are their goals for the relationship? - i don’t think usami has a goal for his relationship with tsurumi. he likes to be used. his goal is to be useful to tsurumi, and when that fails, to be punished by him. tsurumi’s goal, if i had to guess, would be more along the lines of “make sure usami is doing his best work, and if that means fucking him and giving him flowers once in a while, then i’m perfectly fine w that”

Who is most likely to sleep till noon? - probably usami, since despite his desire to be useful to tsurumi, he still kinda sucks at his job.

Who plays the most pranks? - hmm. neither? is that an option? or, i guess tsurumi, since he’ll do shit like draw on usami’s face in the form of a “punishment” - since it wasn’t an actual punishment, it carries a similar vibe as a practical joke.

(if it wasn’t obvious by now... i think tsurumi’s complete and total emotional disregard for his subordinates is... kind of hot)

[flimflamfranky]

some usopp fusions cuz i love my boy:

- a usopp/franky fusion (soppy) would be super smart and super creative and a very much an ‘out of the box thinker’. if you have a problem, he has an invention or twenty to fix it. a textbook eccentric tinkerer, expect all his inventions actually work and work well. and he’s so passionate about his work, too. get him started and he’ll talk your ear off for hours. but he makes it very enjoyable because he’s so personable and good at explaining things.

he’s also a great story teller. he learns towards action adventure stories with lots of world-building - they can get pretty complicated but he’s good at leading people through them and keeping them engage. his stories tend to be fun and fantastic, though sometimes they can get a bit heavy. he also adds his own sound effects and music.

he’s tall, and tends towards the lankier side. he’s still pretty strong and muscle-y, but in a lean way. he has a tall afro fade cut, that goes from black on the sides to bright blue on the top, with stars and cool stuff shaved into the sides. he also has a long metal nose, which he stores tools in sometimes. fashion-wise, he wears colorful shorts with equally colors suspenders. he tends to forgo shirts, but he will wear an apron when working on inventions.

unfortunately, he’s not a very stable fusion. usopp’s insecurities and franky’s underlying ‘need to be useful’ issues makes him feel like he needs to be constantly inventing to justify being around. if he isn’t constantly working, he gets too stressed and unfuses, and if he works too much, he gets exhausted and unfuses. telling stories and performing is the only way of getting the fusion to relax and stick around. fortunately, luffy and chopper are very good at that - soppy has a huge soft spot for those two. 

- a usopp/zoro fusion (zopp) uses bows and arrows! his bow is pretty big and ornate with fancy carvings along the sides. and his arrows can have all sorts of effects, that range from practical effects to more supernatural: explosions, vine entanglements, shadow powers, etc. The shadow powers give him an unique ability to shoot people’s shadows to hurt them/pin them. also, bows require a lot of strength to draw and shoot significant lengths (and zopp can shoot really far), so he has a lot of upper strength and burly arms. also also, he is absurdly handsome, with a strong nose and chin and beautiful curly earth-green hair. 

he tends to go shirtless, but he wears nice poofy pants, usually with circular patterns. he also tends to wear lots of green, of many varying shades. and he wears those traditional bamboo hats. he likes to cover his eyes and use only his haki to shoot, as a challenge.

he is also one of the more stable fusions. zoro and usopp have a lot of faith in other. i mean, all of the straw hats do, but theirs, in particular, translates well to a fusion. and he’s also stable in personality - zopp is a pretty chill guy. he mediates a lot and likes watching his friend’s shenanigans, even if he doesn’t participate. he will also tell stories, typically long epics, and his voice is so soothing that he tends to lull people to sleep.

he’s very confident in his abilities and skills in his bow, and he likes shows of skills. he’s competitive, but not in an overt or passionate way. he just puts 110% into everything he does, and likes to succeed. but he’s very…steady about, is the best way to describe it.

- a usopp/nami fusion (luffy tried to call them mopp, but nami vetoed that, so they’re called usami instead) would be super smart. not so much book-smart but world-smart. they’re good at reading people, and making connections and coming to conclusions. they’d be a great grifter, and they frequently make use of those skills to get the crew out of a tough spot without resorting to violence (which luffy usually takes offense to, but usami is good at placating him).

that’s not to say they’re not a good fighter! usami has nature powers, combining the weather and plant aspect of nami and usopp’s techniques. they’re very much like a druid (the dnd version). they can control water, plants, weather - they’re insanely powerful.

but fighting isn’t what they enjoy, and they’d prefer to avoid it if they can. usami acts very confident and secure (and that confidence is real, to an extent), but they’re also pretty anxious. there are too many things that can wrong in a fight, and that stresses them out. And too much stress will cause them to unfuse. and for that reason, they also don’t like adventures, or danger, or risks. they’d prefer to stay in and make up their own (and do their nails). they can sometimes be tempted by gold and glory, but it’s difficult. but their cautious nature makes them a good lookout, and they’re okay with staying behind with the ship. usually, if nami and usopp are left on watch together, they’ll fuse, so usami ends up on watch a lot.

usami also loves a good story (like most of usopp’s fusions do), but their more into writing their tales than performing them. and they’re a terrific writer - their stories are well written and really creative. and they do their own illustrations to go with them!

and in terms of appearance, usami looks good and knows it. it’s their appearance, and their people and writing skills, that they’re super confident in. and it shows (it’s probably why they’re so good-looking, because they know they are and they know how to flaunt it). their fashion teeters on the edge of outrageous-ness, but is always trendy and looks great on them.