#hashikoba

[peachyuka]

“I want to be broken”

I wish Ranpo Kitan was more popular, it has an amazing story and cool characters!! Kobayashi and Hashiba literally own my heart I love them

(April 2021)

[last-rampo-kitan-blog]

I feel like Ranpo Kitan doesn’t get enough credit for having unambiguously gay male content.

Sure, there’s anime that are specifically yaoi genre, but not a lot of anime that focuses on something else (ie. action, mystery) and still has an unambiguous gay male attraction that isn’t solely played off for laughs.

And even less of those anime aren’t targeted towards women specifically (nothing wrong with that - but the fact that Ranpo Kitan isn’t a shoujo or josei feels like something special to me).

Hashiba is unambiguously attracted to his male best friend Kobayashi (and by the end of the anime it’s implied that Kobayashi has feelings for Hashiba). There’s ample room for interpretation that Akechi and/or Namikoshi hold romantic feeling for each other. TWO gay romances for the price of one anime!

Honestly I’m just absolutely surprised? There seems to be a big problem in the yaoi genre where it in someway glorifies/justifies/excuses some form of rape and yet something more pure like Ranpo Kitan gets brushed over.

Even if you removed all of the shipping aspects from the anime, I would still greatly enjoy it, but it having genuine mlm moments is something important to me.

I’m jealous that I wasn’t aware of this anime when it had actually initially been airing or had just been dubbed, now discussions have really dried up. A resurgence of discussion/fanbase is highly unlikely but damn I’m hoping it’ll happen.

[fililikilili]

I will forever be incredibly happy but also incredibly upset about the fact that it was Kobayashi who reached out to Hashiba first and not the other way around.

[youkaikouun]

Okay but the only disappointment about the last episode of Ranpo Kitan is that my Thursdays will become very boring until the fall anime rolls in. Without my HashiKoba moments my Thursdays will be kinda boring & uninteresting.

[hiyosflxw]

Cutieees 😍😍

[last-rampo-kitan-blog]

Hashiba is the heir to an extremely rich family. He is Kobayashi's best friend forever and really, really appreciates Kobayashi's, uh, personality. Uh, in the way that he thinks that he is cute. Very cute. Can't get his mind off of him.

Justin Briner, voice of Sōji Hashiba from Rampo Kitan, during Episode 6 commentary

[fililikilili]

please imagine

Hashiba staying at Kobayashi's the night after the thing happened and Kobayashi crawls into Hashiba's futon with him and they cuddle and Hashiba holds him extra tight cause he's so glad he survived and Kobayashi just enjoys the warmth which for the first time in his life he really notices and he thinks that he likes it very much. Kobayashi not sleeping much that night cause he's busy watching Hashiba sleep cause he's so relieved he can see him again and he looks at him from up close and the blush creeps back on his cheeks.

[fililikilili]

no homo lvl = over 9000

[fililikilili]

no homo tho

[fililikilili]

NOOOOO I DIDN’T SEE THIS AT FIRST BUT KOBAYASHI IS BLUSHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fililikilili]

Okay but are we not going to talk about these parallels?

[fililikilili]

what the FUCK they seriously no homo’d hashiba???????

i mean

no homo happening here

not at all

where did i even get that idea from?

just guys being dudes

no homo, right?

[fililikilili]

things that are not okay: this fucking scene

[fililikilili]

HASHIBA PLS

[fililikilili]

I AM CRYING RIGHT NOW THIS IS SO NOT OKAY WHY IS THIS ANIME HAPPENING WHY IS IT DOING THIS????