#hotori

[soremachi-love]

"It was April 30th a moment ago, but now it's May 1st. You just witnessed yesterday becoming today."

Do you remember seeing a brand new day for the first time?

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それ町の歩鳥と紺先輩

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warashiyama (read Soremachi)

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A New Friend

It was a cool day in Old Tokyo. Many people retreated from the cold in the local mall. People were everywhere, milling around in the large maze of shops and kiosks. In this mall some clanging could be heard. 

“And that folks, is why you don't get a big mouth when challenging a pro.” A large robot clad in red and brown samurai armor sheaths a large prop Katana. A smirk appears on his face.

“The stupid robot is cheating! My hits weren't registering!” Shouted a very angry and very middle-aged man. 

The samurai places a hand on his hip as he turns his body away from the sore loser of an opponent, turning his head towards the irate man.

“Maybe you have to actually hit me for those hits to count,” 

“OH FUCK OFF YOU STUPID BAG OF BOLTS!” The man, looking like he'd explode at any second, turns around and storms off, shouting profanities as he goes. Hotori turns to the mall employee that runs his arena sitting in a chair.

“I'm so sorry you had to deal with that.” Hotori leans closer to the employee.

“I'm used to it. I'm just surprised at how you always deal with angry people so well,” the employee, swiveling his chair around to face the samurai.

“Well” Hotori's screen eyes flicker slightly as he speaks.

“That's probably because of the fact that if I lash out at a mall patron, then the owners of the mall won’t rent me again.” 

“Fair, it's just that I feel like there have been moments when you wanted to give a rude opponent a piece of your mind,” the employee tilts his head 

“Have you?”

The samurai chuckles as he formulates a response

“When I react calmly to their anger, it makes them more angry. They don't like the fact that I will not stoop to their level and argue with them.” Hotori gives a sly smirk.

“On another note, I've seen you wander off at times, where are you running off to?”

Hotori gives the employee an incredulous look.

“Well, I've been going to the arcade near the food court!” The employee looks puzzled.

“Why?”

“Well, a new arcade game recently released and I've been playing it a lot,” Hotori grins as he says that.

“What game are you talking about?” the employee leans forward in his chair, waiting for an answer.

“Ridge Racer!” Hotori begins to sway back and forwards as he speaks

“The graphics are so good! The feeling of drifting through those long sweeping curves as you blast past your opponents, The sense of speed, AHHHHHH! THE SPEED IS THE BEST PART!” Hotori's words quickly turn into unintelligible gushing over an arcade game.

During Hotori's squealing, the ring of the bell on the sign up kiosk rang out. Hotori immediately stops fangirling about Ridge Racer to see who rang the bell. There stands a young woman in front of the kiosk. She appears to be in her late twenties. Behind her is a little girl. The child was hiding behind her mother as the employee gets up to go help the woman with the sheet.

“My daughter would like to play this game,” the mother continues filling in the sign-up sheet, barely looking at the employee.

“Your kid wants to battle Hotori? The greatest swordsman built?”

“Yes, my daughter would like to battle the robot” Hotori could tell that the mother seems tired.

“For one match that will be two-thousand one hundred-sixty Yen please.” as the woman went to pay, her daughter tugs on her mother's coat to get her attention. The girl looks nervous.

“I don't wanna do this anymore,” the girl points to Hotori. “He looks scary,”

“Seiko. You said that you wanted to play with the robot.”

Seiko looks down at the floor.

“He looked smaller in the poster,”

“Well. Don't you want to be brave and face the scary robot?”

“I…I…I.. don't know,”

Hotori, not liking when parents force their children to do things they don't want to do, cannot restrain himself and he butts into the conversation.

“You know, she doesn't have to fight me if she doesn't want to,” Hotori calmly walks over towards the sign up kiosk. As Hotori walks closer, he’s able to get a better look at Seiko. She seems to be no older than ten by Hotori's estimation. She had long, black hair that was tied up in a ponytail. She was wearing a yellow SweetPea hoodie.

“I.. think I can do this,” Seiko quietly says to her mother. Turning towards Hotori, she tries to put on a brave face, her face looks more goofy than brave. This expression causes a genuine smile to form on Hotori's face, a light chuckle emanating from the robot's speakers. The mother hands over the cash to the employee and finishes the sign-up sheet. Hotori's smile helps put Seiko’s nerves at ease. 

“Well, right this way kid” the employee stands from his chair to open a small gate that leads into the arena area. As Seiko enters, Hotori takes a knee to appear less intimidating. He then extends his quite large hand to her. 

“I don't bite,” he softly says.

Seiko, with a look of reluctance on her face, places her tiny in comparison hand in Hotori's. Hotori then gently takes her hand and leads her to where the special hit detecting vests are. Hotori grabs a child sized vest and hands it to Seiko.

“I'm guessing this is your size.” The samurai then walks over towards the sword stand ang hands her a Katana that is as tall as her. He then moves into the main arena and stands at the far end. Waiting for Seiko. Hotori watches Seiko slowly walk into the arena, sword in hand.

“You ready?” Hotori gives the still nervous kid a reassuring smile.

“... yeah!” Exclaims Seiko, trying to be brave.

“You can do this little one!” Hotori encourages.

At that moment, Hotori unsheathes his Katana and gets into a classic samurai pose, waiting for Seiko to make her move. Seiko nervously walks over towards Hotori, sword in hand and with all of her might, swings it at Hotori. The seasoned samurai dodges out of the way, retaliating with an unusually slow downward swing of his sword. Seiko brings her sword up just in time to block Hotori's strike. Seiko then counters with a stab at Hotori's armored belly, making a hit. Hotori, being hit, staggers backwards, clutching at his belly. 

“You're pretty good!” is all Hotori could say as he readies himself to lunge at Seiko. Hotori's powerful legs spring him forward as he prepares to deliver the winning blow to his opponent. However, he fails to notice Seiko repositioning herself to his left side. She swings her Katana at Hotori's neck and the hit connects. As Hotori is hit, his screen eyes show X's as the mechanism in his neck makes his head pop off. Hotori's body staggers for a bit before falling backwards. Seiko, with her Katana in hand, raised her hands in celebration.

“I won! I actually won!”

“Yep, and you did so well!” The now headless Hotori responded, a smile on his severed head. Hotori’s body slowly sits up. He extends his hands as if he's waiting for someone to give him something. Seiko, seeing this, walks over to where Hotori’s head landed. Picking it up

“Wow, this is quite heavy!”

 She slowly takes his head to Hotori and places it in his outstretched hands. Taking his head, Hotori turns it around and places it back into his body with a clunk. He blinks a few times, seeing Seiko with a smile on her face, causing his smile to grow bigger as some blush appears on his face. Hotori raises his hand to give her a high five.

“Your sword skills are..” before Hotori could finish his sentence, Seiko runs over and gives him the biggest hug her little arms can give. 

“.... Amazing” stunned, Hotori blinks as he processes that yes… he is being hugged. He slowly returns the hug. The two stay like that for a bit before Hotori breaks the hug so that he can get up. Now standing Hotori leans closer to Seiko.

“So. Your name is Seiko?”

“Yep! Seiko Tamia is my name!” 

“That's a pretty cool name.”

“Uh-huh! You actually seem pretty nice! Wanna be friends?”

The samurai places a hand on his chin. 

“I've.. never been asked this..”

“You don't have to if you don't want to,” Seiko says, remembering earlier when Hotori said that.

“I say sure.. we can be friends!”

Seiko reaches her hand towards Hotori.

“Pinky Promise?”

“Pinky Promise.”

Hotori reaches his hand out and Pinky promises with Seiko to be friends.

Hotori then reaches a hand to take Seiko's hand.

“Your mother must be waiting for you. Let's not keep her waiting. "

And with that, Hotori walks Seiko out of the arena and to her mother. 

"This is goodbye for now” 

“Bye bye!” Seiko then runs off with her mother, Hotori, standing in the now closed entrance gate. As the two walk away, Seiko looks back and waves goodbye to her new friend. Hotori waves back with the biggest smile on his face.

“Hope ya return soon, Seiko” Hotori mutters to himself.

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Hotori (One Piece)  » March 10

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march 10th - hotori

debut chapter: 261

recent chapter: 263

current age: 27

affiliation: god's army

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[saruin]

🖤 they're girlfriends 🖤

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[soremachi-love]

"It's not going to embarrass you for the rest of your life. You should give everything a try!"

Life lesson #510 from the best maid detective, Hotori Arashiyama.

[fullcaps-ethan]

sorry most of these are in french.... here's my new Shugo Chara stickers !!!!! i'm printing them this week 🥰

[momo-no-tane]

[mahoutoons]

on the topic of men in magical girl shows being treated worse than women in shonen... mot only is it not true but a lot of men in magical girl shows are actually nuanced, full fledged characters with their own personalities and characters arcs.

mamoru chiba may be the poster boy for the male damsel in distress in magical girl shows but he's actually very helpful to sailor moon, supporting her both emotionally and in fights and doing everything he can to be useful to her. he even had a whole arc in the dream arc about wanting to be more useful to usagi.

syaoran li starts out as a rival to sakura and proves to be quite capable, even collecting a few cards on his own. he slowly becomes friends with her and eventually, her boyfriend. in clear card he's a very loving boyfriend and does everything he can to support sakura and make her happy.

touya kinomoto is sakura's brother who knows about her powers but doesn't tell her. he watches sakura from a distance and protects her in any way he can.

yukito tsukishiro is the alternate form of yue. he only knows about this near the end of the sakura card arc. but even then he's a good character with a full fledged personality. also he and touya are such a good couple.

masaya aoyama puts on a facade of the perfect, popular boy but deep down he's cynical and hates humanity because of what they're doing to the planet. but him meeting ichigo and spending time with her opens his heart. he also takes on the role of blue knight to protect ichigo.

shugo chara has many magical boys. tadase hotori, kukai souma, kairi sanjou, and nagihiko fujisaki are all just as important as the girls and they have their own character arcs. even ikuto is quite a complex character, that is if you take away his whole deal with amu.

princess tutu has just as many main male characters as female characters, probably even more and they're all extremely important to the story. mytho is the prince from the story drosselmeyer wrote who went into the real world after he shattered his heart to seal away the raven. fakir is a descendent of drosselmeyer and starts out mean but eventually grows to care about ahiru and plays a very important role in the finale. drosselmeyer is the driving force behind all the events in the series.

the precure franchise, although it did some of its male characters dirty (*cough pikario and takumi cough*) also has some great male characters.

seiji sagara is megumi's childhood friend who finds out about her being a precure. even though he doesn't have any powers he does his best to support her and her friends.

prince kanata is the catalyst behind haruka becoming a precure and he's a capable fighter who does anything to protect his kingdom and supports the girls whenever he can.

henri wakamiya is the first ever male cure (although he's not on the main team) and gives a wonderful lesson about gender expression.

masato aikasi starts out being very conservative but after his heart is opened by henri, he starts to learn that gender roles are stupid and even stands up for his sister against their grandfather.

and now we have cure wing, who is going to he the first main male cure in the franchise.

even though there are male characters in magical girl shows who are either done dirty or quite useless, a lot of the time the authors actually develop the male characters just as much as the female characters.

and this should be an example because if these shojo magical girl authors can put just as much care into their male characters as their female characters, then what's stopping these male shone authors from doing the same to their female characters? shonen being aimed at boys and the authors not knowing how to write women is not an excuse. if shojo authors just said they don’t know how to write men, they would get laughed at. so why is it seen as an acceptable excuse for male shonen authors.

and even if there is a lack of men in these magical girl shows, so what? men have like 148293 shonen anime with generic male protagonist #738383 who beats up bad guys and gets a love interest whose only purpose is either the damsel in distress or fanservice bait. let us have a genre made for women by women. it won't hurt you.

[angy-robo-bot]

Here's another new character for Machine Grid. His name is Hotori and he's a Rhinoceros Beetle! he's an entertainment robot who entertains people by challenging them to a swordfight.

personality wise, during battle he has a very boastful and ruthless personality, often giving no quarter to his opponents. Further examination reveals that Hotori is an absolute dork, often cracking jokes and laughing at any pun he's told. Even during battles, if le notices that his opponent is far less skilled than him or is a child, he'll often go easy on them. When Hotori isn't sword battling he can be seen happily chatting with people about videogames and music. Hotori is also a hugger.

one of Hotori's features is that when battling with him, if you hit him in the neck, a spring loaded mechanism in his neck makes his head come off. rewarding the opponent with a quick victory. Hotori can also be stunned if hit on the top of his head, giving his opponent a chance to land some easy hits. If an opponent begins joking with Hotori, they can make Hotori forfeit the battle due to making him laugh too much with jokes.

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