#i love u kai satou

[kaisatouloml]

Hello everynyan and today I will be explaining why I am a firm believer that GASHU ACTUALLY DID LOVE HIS KIDS spoilers ahead ofc :3

Gashu was not able to physically or even say that he had some form of emotional attachment to kai or sei so he used tiramisu as a way to try and show that at the very least their efforts were appreciated and why tiramisu? That was HIS favorite and the only reason why that's important is because he thinks it is the best cake ever. Top tier and he is sharing that with his children so the implications are very important bc he wants them to have that too. Also that's y kai starts going nanners when gashu gives some to sei bc that's literally the only thing he has to assure him he isn't a total fuck up. My next example is when gashu mentions taking a trip as a family that is the only time I see him smile other than when he dies is this idea of being able to spend time with his children as a family. This is my last canonical example the rest will just be me throwing shit out there but when gashu was told that essentially his kids will have to kill each other and up until that point I don't remember gashu ever saying that they were *his* sons, that they were *his* kids, they were just kids. Sei being referred to as the one he took in, but in that one moment he slips up and in panic and anger says that he won't allow asunaro to kill his sons. After sei dies he is seen to be absolutely distraught and disheveled which says all it needs 2 ☹️

I'm not sure how gashu was while Kai was still alive during the main game but I feel like after kai's passing that kinda just did it for him I like to think. I only say this because he was forced to choose between family and the organization and the consequences of not choosing the right answer, once kai is gone I think he didn't have any reason to really do anything else. The reason why he died can easily be seen as him being loyal to the organization but also it's just a release from it I guess if that makes any sense there isnt anything tying him to it. Considering he did keep contact with kai for the years leading up to the death game I assumed he still cared enough to just talk to kai, gashu has always been confident in kai's abilities as seen in his mini episode so if he was confident why email him like he did? Anyways I might be reaching again but SIGHH😞 satou family has ruined me

[dailykeiji]

today's keiji is: YOUR SON LOOKS LIKE A GIRL

[tamariixs]

QUEER/NEURODIVERGENT YTTD HEADCANONS!!!!!!

these are kinda lazy bot GOOOD IM SO FUCKIJNGF TIREDD

[updates-from-nankidai]

[ecargmura]

Blue Lock Episode 31 Review - Sae And The U-20

We’re now at the halfway point for this season as there are 14 episodes! The match with the U-20 continues. They are very formidable adversaries. Their being some of Japan’s top teen soccer stars makes absolute sense when they’re able to put the Blue Lock 11 in a bind. The opponents they’re up against easily deflect whatever attack the strikers have in hand.

Surprisingly enough, Sae works well with the U-20, but still has the lone wolf personality and doesn’t really bond with his teammates. He even rejects them touching him. Meanwhile, Isagi and Rin are actually cooperating and Rin isn’t being all arrogant in this match. There’s a difference between the two brothers shown here and it’s very interesting to see.

Yes, the animation is very distracting, but there were some cool moments. I liked seeing the U-20 members intercepting the Blue Lock 11 and how the BL players overcome the obstacles. It was cool seeing Nagi being pressed by Niou. It was nice seeing Darai and Otoya facing each other. There’s also a battle of speed against Neru and Yukimiya. Heck, even Chigiri gets his fair share of spotlight against Sae.

Though, the highlight was definitely Nagi’s goal. He finally shows the crowd what Blue Lock is about and even gets cheers for his amazing trap lock goal. There’s a reason why Reo could see so much potential in him and why he thrived in Blue Lock until now. He has a talent for the sport. I loved how the crowd were being good sports and cheered for Nagi, even the spectators who were streaming were cheering. I also liked the rather competitive side of Nagi when he decides to tell the crowd his name. He wouldn’t do that normally given how he likes to lay low, but I guess the match has gotten him fired up.

Now that more U-20 members have more screen time, I guess I can talk about their voice actors since the voice acting in this anime is so good. Let’s start with Darai. He’s voiced by Yusuke Shirai, who you might know as Sasaki from Sasaki and Miyano and Io Narumi from Boueibu. I was surprised to see him voice this character because it’s not a character he normally voices. Next is Neru, the Bokuto-lookalike. He’s voiced by Shunichi Toki, who is known for voicing Hokusai from Paradox Live. The difference between his higher pitched voice and his lower one is pretty crazy in terms of range. Last, for now, is Niou, who’s voiced by Takuya Satou. He’s known for voicing Toshiki Kai from Cardfight Vanguard and Alphen from Tales of Arise. Man, the casting choice for the U-20 still amazes me.

Regarding the Additional Time, it made me emotional. It’s mainly about Reo trying to practice what to say to Nagi with Chigiri accidentally witnessing it. Chigiri gives solid advice to Reo, telling him to say whatever is on his mind before it’s too late. Reo, remembering how Chigiri was forcefully separated from Kunigami and how Nagi ditched him, decided to take the advice but does it poorly because he’s unsure whether to be happy or upset, showing off a plethora of personalities. Why did this make me emotional? Because of the Kunigiri mention; it’s my favorite ship in this anime and the breakup still hurts, especially knowing Kunigami didn’t make it to the third selection. The vibes Reo and Chigiri’s conversation had felt like two women seeking love advice from each other—please don’t take this as me misgendering them because that’s not my intent.

I wonder what else will happen in this match. I’m super stoked to watch more next week. What are your thoughts on the episode?

[princesseevee06]

hiii again! i accidentally messages u this before but i LOVE LOVE ur au and your art and was wondering whose roles are swapped for this again? i know ryoko=sara and shin=kanna! literally i’ll be following this au it looks SO INTERESTING UGH

hello!! thank you so much for your support for my AU it means a lot to me ;-; jsyk i have made posts on the roleswaps for the main cast, floormasters, and dummies before: all the info and art for my au is under the “your turn ryoko” tag on my blog if you wanna look more into it BUT. for convenience sake i will put all the swaps into one post!!!

basically i format this like “character A > character B” which is to say that character A takes the role of character B, since they’re not all direct swaps with one another, if that makes any sense?

i’ll put them all under the cut just cause there’s a lot of them!

Ryoko Hirose > Sara Chidouin

Sara Chidouin > Joe Tazuna

Kai Satou > Keiji Shinogi

Kugie Kizuchi > Gin Ibushi

Sei Satou > Kai Satou

Kazumi Mishima > Q-taro Burgerberg

Maple > Reko Yabusame

Hinako Mishuku (real) > Alice Yabusame

Nao Egokoro > Kazumi Mishima

Ranmaru Kageyama > Nao Egokoro

Shin Tsukimi > Kanna Kizuchi

Sou Hiyori > Shin Tsukimi

Kanna Kizuchi > Kugie Kizuchi

Naomichi Kurumada > Megumi Sasahara

Anzu Kinashi > Ranmaru Kageyama

Q-taro Burgerberg > Anzu Kinashi

Alice Yabusame > Naomichi Kurumada

Reko Yabusame > Shunsuke Hayasaka

Gin Ibushi > Mai Tsurugi

Keiji Shinogi > Hinako Mishuku

Megumi Sasahara > Sue Miley

Hinako Mishuku (fake) > Rio Ranger

Shunsuke Hayasaka > Tia Safalin

Momdori/Mrs. Hiyori > Sou Hiyori/Midori

Gashu and Meister are still the same

Mai Tsurugi > Maple

Joe Tazuna > Ryoko Hirose

Emiri and Michiru are also in this AU but I don’t really have direct swaps for them

anyways lol i know this is probably a lot but i hope this is helpful!!! and again thank you for supporting ytr :D

[strawberryjamsara]

may we know which interpretation of a character from ur shows u do not agree with and find to be in slightly poor taste u reblogged that post 5 times about 👀

I reblogged that post way more than five times I thought….

And well it applies to a lot of characters… but for what I’m thinking about now it’s the entire cast of yttd

This game is literally about a death cult that’s been training people for a murder game against their knowledge their whole lives. You’d think the fandom would be able to shoulder more moral complexity than 7 year olds.

Qtaro is beloved nowadays for his stellar character arc, but before 3-1b and even now, his tag is uninhabitable. No matter how much he changed from his pretty indefensible actions in the first chapter, even a line in the second chapter main game that was pretty much just turning towards the camera and telling you he had changed, people were VICIOUS at the idea that he could show any moral complexity and growth. People were outraged over a man called Qtaro Burberberg who was a parody of Jojo characters, and making headcanons about him being homophobic (which is a whole other can of worms but I don’t have time for that today)

Then we have the opposite spectrum. Characters who are loved.

Kai Satou, literal ex assassin who drank poison as a child? Apparently he doesn’t know what swears are.

Nao Egokoro, who in one route of the game kills everyone? Like that happens. She kills everyone. Well she’s just a cutesy artist lesbian.

(Also Kai threatened Nao at knifepoint to attack an innocent person in canon but that never gets unpacked anywhere in the fandom)

Hell the uwufication has gotten so bad that Shin Tsukimi SHIN FUCKING TSUKIMI, the antagonist of the game for a good chunk of the run time is reduced down to being just a little guuuuuuy! Baby booooooy! The fact he spent so long tormenting a literal child is treated as a funny little quirk! And look, I’ll be the first person to advocate for Shin and Sara being a well written relationship and their eventual bond meaning a lot to me, but Shin has gotten so many passes for being a fan favorite and (dare I say it) being a twink.

And like. There’s also the weird limbo with Keiji. Oooooh Keiji. See, you can make a post pointing out Shins mistakes and everyone goes “He’s so funny <3” but if you make a very similar post about Keiji the literal day after those people will say “Ugh, thank you this is why I hate Keiji.”

So look. I love Keiji. I make fanart of Keiji. I obsessively write meta of Keiji. I blorbo tag Keiji. I am like the only person in the world who thinks that with the way Nankidai has written the story, killing off Keiji would be a bad move…

But here’s the thing.

Keiji is a flawed character. Like extremely flawed. He’s meant to be a direct foil to Shin, but rather than antagonizing our main character, he’s sitting in the chair next to her as her main assistant. He cares about her deeply, but in the beginning of the game, his only interest with her is using her as a figurehead for his own survival, and no matter how much he wants to protect her now, that initial approach is not without consequences. He has hurt people, and he uses that fact to hurt people more as his own self inflicted punishment. He has changed and grown over the narrative but he’s not someone you can put in an easy box of good or bad.

So people tend to go to one extreme or the other with him. Either he’s the best dad who does no wrong, or he is the worst character ever and the game would be so much better without him. It really sucks that Keiji and Sara, one of the most complex and interesting relationships in the game, and one that is out front and center so comically often, to the point that 3-1b revolves around it, is ignored to such a degree that the contract, the main point of that scene, the fact you were meant to be put in Sara’s shoes and feel her making that decision was missed by the fandom so they could whine about not getting to make the decision themselves! Reading comprehension zero! Literally where is the meta and fanfic?! Greenblings has tons of it! Do I have to do everything mys-

Also like, there’s also characters explicitly meant to be not sympathetic who do get sympathy. Like, idk how hard Nankidai has to look into the camera and tell you Midori is just like that for you to stop giving him backstories. People probably do that so it’s easier to ship him with Shin tbh. Stop that.

Okay one last thing, and I’ll stop. This fandom is weirdly focused on shipping. Like I love shipping don’t get me wrong, but yttd is like not about shipping. At all. There’s twenty different extremely fucked up and interesting found family dynamics in the game and people are worried about whose Alice gonna take to the jailhouse prom. Okay. Gothi out.

[kirafanxx69420]

im ngl sou doing allat is actually so

like i can respect the grind of wanting to live after being thoroughly beaten down verbally on how badly built you are to participating a death game, being logically explained how you are ZERO POINT ZERO PERCENT SURVIVING THIS

seeing sara having a whole 15% would be soul crushing, and how he meets her and just manages thru it all i would literally cry if i even made it past the 1st trial bc atp id shoot after seeing those numbers

i genuinely cant hate the guy i mean ywah i bully him but actually disliking shin as a character i literally love him to death he is my worlds strongest loser boy

and him pulling that stunt if u choose to get him killed instead of kana............. it was sou having his last chance to act as shin...................

shin and sara wouldve been so nice to each other

also like seeing the difference of sou's way interaction with everyone in ytts is so augh hes so much nicer because the stakes arent that big compared to yttd

i love yttd i love shin i love sou i love kai satou also even if i didnt yap abt him here

me and the relationship of shin tsukimi to 0.0% will haunt me forever thank you nankidai wow thanks i guess

[winwintea]

I’m literally in a chokehold right now LIKE CHITTAPON WHAT THE HELL YOU MEAN BY “it wasn’t an accident anyways let’s go on the double date!” STOP BEING MYSTERIOUS AND SUS JUST SAY THE TRUTH DAMN

poor ten can’t help it… it’s in his nature to be sus, he’s infj ! 💀💀 /hj (i love u infj’s don’t take this seriously…)

TODAY MY FRIEND COMPARED HIM TO KAI SATOU FROM YOUR TURN TO DIE AND I THINK THATS SO ACCURATE 😭😭

literally ten guys ☝️

[aforgottenballad]

I think a relationship between Kai and Mishima would go something like this

It's always nice to see you during group outings, I hope you show up next time

We should have lunch or coffee between just the two of us sometime I would like to get to know you

Let's meet up at museums and art supply stores and antique shops too

Would you like to come over I'll make dinner

We both know living by yourself gets lonely so why don't you stay the night every now and then

Yes my friend of course I will shower you in the emotional support and validation and physical affection you were deprived of your entire childhood

We may as well move in together with how often you come over to clean for me or help me with a project or just spend the night for company's sake

Yeah my colleagues have all heard about you they'd love to meet you

Maybe we should get married just for tax and finance benefits and to take care of each other if something bad happens haha

...hold up,

[kaisatouloml]

Gashu rant and also spoilers for yttd and a content warning for weapon mentions just incase

I was rewatching the part where gashu dies in yttd and I noticed a very small change in his sprite that I haven't seen anyone mention before and while normally he keeps his hands folded, like literally every sprite he has they're folded with the exception of when he's freaking out a bit but my point is in sprites where he's holding a gun one hand is gripping his coat.

This one and any other ones where he's holding a gun. And like HES GRIPPING THAT SHIT... While his face is very flat and in his final sprite before he dies he even goes to like literally uncanny valley and tbh I think he was like nervous to die I'm not going to say he was scared or something because he was way too excited to take an opportunity to die the second he had it and I might be thinking too hard but I think he broke a rule on purpose just for the sake of being able to die. He's only holding his jacket while he's holding the gun idk a lot abt gashu tbh and we don't see a lot but I think it might be a thing where he's could be ansty around weapons?? Like I only say that bc of what happened to sei and in the end kai but I also think that bro definitely got brainwashed or something by asunaro to like a crazy extent😭😭 Not to the point of not having any humanity bc like I think once upon a time he would of let the victims have their freedom. I think if nth happened to gashu and he stayed the same up until this point he would of let them have their freedom and if kai was in that group LIKE HEAR ME OUT. gashu in his own way loved his kids AND I WILL PROVE IT. I think a lot of things would of been different had sei not joined their family or died at all. Anyways stay tuned for when I talk about how gashu cared for kai and sei bc he does... Hope u all enjoy my insane satou family ramblings

[maokiri53]

Aus in which Ranger is a human doing human things will always be my favorite, solely because he could interact with the rest of the cast in normal not death game situations.

For example, imagine if this little bastard man got into the same highschool as Sara and Joe. The three of them could very well be powerful friends. Or Sara and him could hate each other's guts and want to murder each other at any given moment.

And don't even get me started on how his relationship with Kai would go. You have the ability to make that part as angsty or as wholesome as you want.

The possibilities are truly endless.

[tamariixs]

WOOOOOOO KAISHIN DODDLES KAISHIN NATION RIISE

oiiiauwhwohspf7yo7yaoykwhsbsjjsnsbssbs

drew kai from memory so idk if his hair is accurate

[heisarahei]

kaisara time! (o゜▽゜)o☆ q(≧▽≦q)

[gingus-doon]

how keiji, mishima, kai, and kanna would react to you giving them a flower (implied spoilers)

i might do the other characters lol idk it depends on how i feel

also pls pls plssss give me hc requests i’ll write basically anything as long as it’s legal 🌼

keiji shinogi

you give him a rose

“.. what’s this for? are you finally confessing your undying love to me?”

no matter what you say, he deflects your answer and chuckles to himself

he ends up drying it and keeping it in his pocketbook

is he too wimpy to actually ask for your intentions? yes. is he genuinely happy that you thought of him, rather it be romantic or platonic? yes

Kazumi Mishima

you give him a common daisy

“thank you! i will make sure to keep it in great condition! i really appreciate you”

he pats your head and smiles

“the flower kind of looks like your hair, professor” you jokingly say. he laughs along with you, taking a friendly jab at the resemblance you have to a flower

later on he makes a painting of the flower. he gives it to you as a thank you gift

Kai Satou

you give him a bundle of bat orchids

you saw him tending to flowers at the community garden, so you decided to buy him a pot of them

you honestly only got him bat orchids because they matched his vibe. any other flower didn’t fit his aesthetic like these flowers did

when you give them to him, he’s almost at a loss of words. how could you predict that he wanted these flowers? why would you go out of your way to buy him something like this?

“thank you, dear. i will tend to these flowers with much love”

kanna kizuichi

.. well this is awkward

anyways you give her a canna lily

at first she thought that you wanted her to hold it for someone else

but when you insisted that she kept it, tears formed in her eyes

“t-hank you for giving kanna a canna flower.. it looks really pretty...”

her voice was super shaky as she thanked you

your kindness to her exceeded any other, and she couldn’t think of any way to repay you

seeing her happy is all that you need

[princesseevee06]

YTR KAIDORI????? OMG SAY MORE??? (not forcing u im just excited cuz i love kaidori and ytr)

I LOVE KAIDORI TOO!!!! they are the ultimate hurt/comfort pairing to me. and omg you are not forcing me in the least i have so many thoughts about them in this au and it’s always a joy to share <3

my main idea is that they grew up in asunaro together and that because their parents had their own fair share of business meetings, the satous and the hiyoris interacted quite often. kai and sou ended up being an unlikely duo, finding themselves together frequently (or maybe it was just sou going out of his way to bug kai) and for better or for worse they became friends. i imagine them having a chaotic childhood dynamic, with kai being more polite and civil and sou being….well, sou. basically the emotional equivalent of a worried owner having to prevent their puppy from accidentally running into traffic every five seconds.

as they grew up, they only got closer, confiding in each other about nearly everything from the mundane to the gravely important. i feel like they’d very much be able to bond over the burdens placed upon them by the organization, as well as by their mother and father respectively.

and of course things start getting waaay more messy when teenage feelings start getting involved. basically, they both end up developing massive crushes on each other (and while they both think they’re doing a great job of hiding it both of them are miserably failing at hiding it). maybe they ended up dating in their highschool years, i’m still a little hazy on the details for what i’d like to do with them at this point, but tbh my preferred interpretation is actually that it was a very “almost” situation (i.e. they were too scared to act on their feelings and as such nothing really came of it).

what matters the most though is that they care a great deal about each other, and so it hurts them really badly when they eventually grow apart. basically, they both get a lot more involved with their duties in asunaro, kai being tasked to watch over the chidouins and sou being tasked with the recruitment of participants for the death game. they’re also developing a lot more unhealthy behaviors, largely as a result of their parents’ own unhealthy behaviors: kai becomes a lot more closed-off and sou acts more openly cruel and just generally worrying. as such, it’s fairly easy for them to put on the facade of not caring about one another, and whatever interactions do remain between them become terse and formal, until they cease entirely.

…that is, until they meet again in the death game. (what a hell of a way to reunite with your estranged childhood best friend, huh?) at this point, they have much different priorities on their mind (with kai trying to protect sara, and sou trying to protect shin) so the thought of seeing each other again doesn’t even cross their minds until suddenly there they are, with a mountain of unresolved, unwanted emotions between them.

their dynamic would definitely start off tense and shaky, with kai actually being incredibly suspicious of sou because he realizes that sou still has ties to asunaro, and was likely never intended to participate in the game. and yet in that same line of logic, because sou was likely never intended to participate, the fact that he IS participating likely means he went directly against asunaro’s orders. so kai is very very confused as to what sou’s motives are.

sou on the other hand is trying to completely ignore kai’s existence, because he is Not equipped to deal with all the feelings he has been continually pushing down for years on end, so he copes with them the best way he knows how: running away from them.

around when the events of chapter 2 would occur, though, they’re forced to interact a lot more and things start getting a lot more wacky. a lot more tension, a lot more hurt/comfort bonding over “hey, asunaro really screwed us over huh,” a lot more angst and yearning for things to go back to the way they were, a lot more “oh. i’m actually still a little bit in love with him huh.” basically, the answer to the question of “what happens if you put two emotionally repressed men in a room with each other???” i imagine both ryoko and shin can tell there is Something between these two, but whenever they try to ask about it they are just met with dead silence LMAO.

i really just wanted to focus on the aspect of “falling apart to fall back together,” and even though this is a really awful situation for both of them, i think the direness of the situation is what grants them the courage to be more open with each other about how they really feel. it’s an odd dynamic shdjdjskskksc but i adore it

if you’ll allow me to indulge in a bit more cringe…i don’t know if you’re a vocaloid fan, anon, but there are a couple songs where i listen to it and i’m like “THIS IS SO THEM!!!!” so i’ll link them here.

JubyPhonic’s english cover of Reboot by JimmyThumb-P: specifically this cover because I think the translyrics just hit the vibe I’m going for. although i would like to specify just the lyrics and not the video. a girl does get hit by a truck in this video so watch out </3 but uh yeah this song imo very much captures the heartbreak of losing a friend, and yet it also shows that it doesn’t have to be the end and you can reconnect :)

nATALIE by Lemm: this one is sooooo much a kai POV kaidori song. the lyrics very much feel like finding comfort in someone else even throughout the worst situations, and wishing you could just escape with them. it is so. gwah. gah

(god i really hope these links work. lmk if they dont because i have no idea what im doing on this site half the time)

anyways uhh thank you so much for the ask and for letting me rant about the blorbos i love kaidori <3