#i soothed my soul by putting on the Japanese language track for a while it's fine it's fine

[sobdasha]

this wasn’t what i sat down to write but

I can explain…see…roomie and I are rewatching the Fruits Basket dub because…nostalgia?? (and partly necessity, because usually I am by choice a picky "manga first sub second and dub only if you force me", especially for Fruits Basket) and well see I know that for Shigure if anything I should probably be hearing Kurama from YYH but honestly all I hear is the same sort of voice I hear from Nathan Fillion (I'm super bad with voices but roomie actually backs me up after I told her to listen for it so it's now like 80% more likely to be a thing), especially Nathan Fillion in the role of:

1) Shigure: [v.o] There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers. I'm the kind that pays better. Who am I? Shigure: "I'm Shigure Souma." Shigure: "Souma." Shigure: "Souma." Shigure: [v.o] Every writer needs inspiration, and I've found mine. Mitsuru: "I'm Detective Mitsuru." Mitsuru: "Mitsuru." Shigure: "Micchan?" Mitsuru: (restraining suspect) "Could you get some backup, please?" Shigure: [v.o] And thanks to my familial ties at the police department, I get to be on her case. Mitsuru: (caught reading Shigure's book in a bathroom stall by Shigure) "Oh!" Shigure: "Do I look like a killer to you?" Mitsuru: "Yes, you kill my patience." Shigure: [v.o] And together we catch killers. Mitsuru: "I hate this case." Shigure: "I know! Isn't it great?"

2) Shigure Souma is a best-selling mystery writer, and Mitsuru is the detective he's basing the lead character of his latest novel on. Mitsuru found this extremely flattering when she was first told. Now, she realizes that hell is other people. Specifically, the other person named Shigure Souma. Featuring Captain manga!Akito Souma as Shigure's very distant cousin and chief of police and actual target of flirting; Akito greatly regrets doing this favor for Shigure. Greatly. Regrets. Also featuring two other distant cousins Ritsu Souma and Kazuma Souma as sidekick detectives. If police uniforms actually came with pencil skirts and heels, which I highly doubt they do, Ritsu would be wearing that. But again, I highly doubt, so Ritsu can dress however Ritsu pleases outside of uniform. Ritsu and Micchan are dating. Akito shouldn't allow it, but Akito has already built this police station on rampant nepotism, what's a little bit of workplace relationships compared to that. Kazuma is a responsible human being who isn't ever the actual cause of hijinks. He brings coffee and common sense. 3) Everyone at the police station jokes that Micchan is actually a closer relative to any given one of them than any of the Soumas actually are to each other, it's just that her parents were weird and chose to take the not-Souma family name. Mitsuru has begged and begged them to stop one of these days someone is going to believe you guyssssss.

4) Since Shigure is a rich best-selling mystery writer bachelor with a swanky and spacious abode, he can afford to have living with him: Yuki Souma, yet another distant cousin, who was in dire need of a new housing situation. Shy and sarcastic and rarely emotes. Also picks fights constantly. A real jerk. Can you just not. Kyou Souma, look the number of people who took this last name on is ridiculous, who is staying with Shigure instead of with his (also only distantly related) foster father Kazuma for Contrived Plot Reasons obviously. He wants to be a cop just like his dad, and he'll be a great one once he gets some chill. Is going to fall in love with: Tohru Honda, 100% not a relative to anyone, who is also benefiting from the rampant Souma nepotism with a janitorial job at the police station, thus enabling her to earn her living. A lot of crazy shenanigans threw her onto Shigure's doorstep, and now she's decided to stay, and also cook and clean and generally keep the bachelors alive and the abode remaining swanky and spacious.

5) Yuki...is actually a serial killer??? No seriously is he actually a serial killer. His lack of emoting disturbingly doesn't always match his face and when he's not delivering his lines in weird soft-spoken deadpan he delivers them like a TV serial killer Tohru please don't go with him to his secret base…!!!!!!! Oh. Oh, thank goodness, it turns out that was just misdirection for the season finale, where Yuki was set up to be suspected as a serial killer! Haha! Turns out he's actually more or less a decent human being, less where Kyou's concerned, and generally a good kid. Phew. Also he enjoys a secret rooftop gardening hobby and a less secret complete inability to personally use his produce in the culinary arts.

+) Together some of these people actually catch murderers probably.

+) Oh and Hatori Souma is the medical examiner. And also a distant cousin to everyone else with the same last name. It's a ridiculously insanely huge family just go with it.