#kakitsubata

[tanuki-kimono]

Soft shine for this romantic obi depicting yatsuhashi (zigzag bridge) and blooming kakitsubata (rabbit ear iris).

Bridge and iris reference a famous poem in the Tales of Ise hinting at longing and melancholic love.

[chaoticreivingu]

Inch resting🤔

[petorahs]

dragon-user siblings

[pnaplss]

The worst

[trustedealcosplayandcostume]

⋆🌿. ⋆Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Drayton Kakitsubata Coat Shirt Cosplay Costume Wig Shoes available at Trustedeal.com

⋆🌿. ⋆Link to costume->https://www.trustedeal.com/Pokemon-Scarlet-and-Violet-Drayton-Kakitsubata-Coat-Shirt-Cosplay-Costume-p4091603.html

[mafuaato]

saw this shirt and thought of him

[skorpulai]

Need some lovin'?

[shockersalvage]

Salvage Showcase - Korisu Kakitsubata

It's the horror season, and what better way to celebrate than by doing a Showcase on the main 'villain' of Danganronpa Kirigiri Volume 3, and Culprit of the Takeda Haunted Mansion Duel Noir: Korisu Kakitsubata!!!

(Korisu is the left silhouette behind Licorne)

Summary

Korisu was a detective registered in the Detective Library under the DSC of 488, specializing in animal welfare. Like all Victims, Korisu has a traumatic past that influenced her to take up the Duel Noir. Eight year prior to the Duel Noir, Korisu was with her family up on a mountain railway. However, a fire broke out and during Korisu's attempt to escape, she got seperated from her family. Her family, unfortunately, ended up being trapped behind closed emergency exit doors - doors that were shut by Suntetsu Shirasu. Shirasu closed the doors to prevent the smoke from killing more people, but as a result, 28 people (including Korisu's family) who were trapped behind the door, died in the blaze. Suntetsu was never identified or arrested for the incident, and Korisu was left traumatized to the point she heard voices of the victims in her head.

Korisu would be confronted by the Victims Catharsis Committee, and would take up their offer of competing in a Duel Noir. In her case, Korisu planned out the Takeda Haunted Mansion murder. The idea behind it was to lure in Shirasu with three other detectives: Sachi Mizuiyama (her scapegoat), Salvador Fukuro Yadorigi and Hajiki Yaki. Under the guise of the deceased Saiun Takeda, she lured them in with various tip-offs of crime at the manor. Once all five met, Korisu would eventually drug Shirasu to enact her scheme. Hoisting him between two armored warriors, she would set up her locked room case to have a bunch of rubber bands use a katana as a makeshift slingshot to kill her Target. The deed was done as Yui and Kyoko had arrived, with them being only moments away from saving Suntetsu before the blade plunged itself into his back.

During this exchange, Korisu tried to pose as just a vapid, party-gal, woman who didn't have a care in the world. Initially, she seen to have gotten away with her murder as Sachi was initially fingered as the culprit. But, to her downfall, this was a trap set up by Kyoko - catching Korisu back at the crime scene with the intent to destroy any remaining evidence of her misdeeds. Despite Korisu's attempts at trying to refute Kyoko's claims, not only did Kyoko figure out how Korisu's trick worked - she even had proof it was only Korisu that could have done it. The main piece being the fact that, during the murder, Korisu had used the armor sandals to walk outside since Salvador was too busy admiring art out in the hallway for her to safely get her stilleto's back. Unfortunately, given the size of the shoes was too big for the boys and too small for someone as short as Sachi, it was only her that could have used them, and when its clear they were used in the crime, Korisu was stuck as the sole candidate.

Korisu gives up, and admits to doing the Duel Noir to put the voices at rest. However, while initially coolheaded at her defeat, she panics once they saw she's in danger of being executed due to inability to pay the VCC back their earnings. Ultimately, she takes Kyoko's advice to go with the cops to be arrested, though the last shot of her from Yui's POV shows her to clearly still be struggling with the 'voices' returning. In the next volume, while she doesn't appear, she is mentioned by Salvador to be safe since Gekka has paid off her debt, but she'll still be tried for her crimes.

While Korisu acts like an airheaded, flashy, yet bubbly party girl - this is merely a facade. In truth, Korisu is pretty intelligent, lucid, and crafty to the point that she needed to be lured into a trap to expose her since her current set-up lacked real hard hitting evidence to expose her without it. Due to her trauma, Korisu hear the voices of those who perished in the fire's blaze, and was desperate enough to appease them by taking up a VCC. While not being a sore loser, she is terrified of being murdered herself and begs for the girls to save her as she realizes she's doomed to be executed.

Rundown

Being both a Detective and a Victim, Korisu has a few things going for her in regard to the DRK's theme - which I have already pinned as being about Justice & Corruption.

In this case, Korisu is on the side of Corruption, in this case Appeasement of her trauma and another aspect of criticizing the 'greater good' theme in Volume 3 on a whole. On the Greater Good theme first, while like the other Victims, she's motivated by vengeance - it's less hatred based and more so just trying to find some form of peace in her life. As stated before, Korisu had been severely traumatized from her family being roasted to death despite her protests because someone sacrificed them for their perceived 'greater good'. In turn, for the sake of finding closure for the voices, she's willing to not only slay Suntetsu, but also sacrificing someone else's peace for her own safety. In doing so, this puts her about as bad as Suntetsu himself. It also smacks into the Greater Good message that Gekka and Lico usually use to justify their own violent acts, since it shows such a line of thinking is both detrimental towards bystanders and those involved alike, but also winds up leaving new collateral to suffer down a path like Korisu's as well. Ergo sustaining the cycle further.

In terms of the Corruption theme (and her own Drive as a detective), namely Appeasement, Korisu's case is used to show why giving in to vengeance and bloody murder as means of clearing up mental issues, just doesn't work like how Gekka or the VCC think it works. She got her paybck on Suntetsu, yes, but in turn it didn't solve her problem with the voices in her head yelling at her and it certainly wasn't helped by her actual arrest. Even if she won, she was only confused, not satisfied with doing the deed - meaning that in spite of promising relief to the Victims they lure in, at best they only piled on new worries to give them. At worse, if they don't kill them outright, the Victims are left with new trauma and anguish on top of their old wounds. There's is no truly satisfaction to be gained by playing in a Duel Noir and looking for justice. Just tragedy.

In terms of character comparison and contrasts, the immediate one you would think of is Sachi, another Victim and Detective of the 12 Duel Noir Challenge. Both were willing to kill, and even harm innocents, not for their own sakes, but for the sakes of those who, really, couldn't have enjoyed such endeavors or approved of them, even if they really wanted to. Both Korisu's family and Gekka were dead by the time their Duel Noirs started. As such, their actions proved only to harm themselves in the long run with no real benefits. In terms of demeanor, they're kind of the polar opposite of each other in, even if their end goals are roughly the same. Korisu acts immature to hide the fact she's smarter than she appears, while Sachi portrays herself as a composed detective, to hide how much of a zealot she was for Gekka. In terms of scale, Korisu was hard focus on her own personal trauma, whilst Sachi's love for Gekka had her disregard even her own Catharsis for the sake of seeing him thrive in the VCC.

Of course, I'd also be remiss to not add in how much Korisu reflects on Junko Enoshima. Both being fashionista types that people would never suspect of masterminding intricate murders. Although the biggest difference between the two is that Korisu is ultimately doing her misdeeds as a form of closure, while Junko is working towards a goal of constant open despair.

Personal Thoughts

Korisu makes for a fine, 'final boss' of volume 3. Give the chaotic nature of the book in setting up the 12 Duel Noir Challenge, the battle at Meyura Station, Lico, one would think the actual Duel Noir Victim just wouldn't hit as well as Tadashi or Sae, but she's proved me wrong.

She's extremely entertaining play up the bratty fashion dive and love that the antagonist for this time around tried for the Junko Enoshima manner of villainess. It also helps her motivation is extremely compelling and makes her quite sympathetic as to why she'd work with the VCC. This is a high praise, especially when you consider how Vol. 4 and 5 treated the remainder of the Zodiac Victims.

Of course, beyond that, it also makes me sad volume 3 would be her only real appearance, but I was at least glad that she fulfilled her role properly. Beyond that, I loved the Takeda Haunted Mansion she set up and how it filled well with the ideas of her being haunted by her own past, and using it to take vengeance on Suntetsu (even if trying to wrap my head around the murder method was a real killer X_X)

Ultimately, for what it's worth, Korisu was a nice stopping point to end Vol 3 out on (besides Yui visiting Kyoko's home of course) and remains a favored of mine among the DRK cast!

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With this out of the way, up next is DR Togami!! Be a while until then so if you have anyone you'd like to see talked about before it gets posted, feel free to recommend!

[hatsumishinogu]

Keyaki Shotengai Sakura no Yu Vol.1

[sho-minamimoto]

guys help im in desperate need of an opinion

Iris Sanguinea (left) + Iris Ensata (right) side by side comparisons:

iris cantus for comparison:

extra tidbits of info to consider:

iris sanguinea's japanese name is ayame, which sounds closer to ayano than iris ensata's japanese name (hanashobu)

iris ensata is the symbolic flower of shibuya

both flowers grow near water and prefer damp environments, which fit ayano's rain themeing in her battle

[casketcat-archived]

@promiscxous || starter call !

“… You got a problem or some shit? You never seen a lady on the ground covered in blood before?” Tamami practically hissed, clearly defensive as she covered a newly ripped hole in her shirt. The supposed wound underneath was missing, but it was clear someone had slashed her with something to cause that rip. Once she was sure the wound was no longer there, closed and vanished into her skin, she raised her hands to gently pat her face and check for any other scratches. “Seriously. You just gonna stand there? You look stupid. I ain’t some zoo exhibit. Either help me up or keep fuckin’ walking.”

[tanuki-kimono]

Fantastic openwork embroidery for this summer kimono depicting Hagi (bushclover) and kakitsubata (rabbit ear iris) by a yatsuhashi (zig-zag bridge).

Bridge and iris reference a famous poem in the Tales of Ise hinting at longing and melancholic love.

[chaoticreivingu]

Reminder that Kieran gives us Drayton's phone case

So Kieran has Drayton's phone case with him at all times even though he doesn't even have a phone

As @perelka-l pointed out Drayton's tracksuit coming from Kitakami is actually true, so Drayton and Kieran carry smth that they (maybe) gave to each other 24/7.

Credit to Calem MrNazreenni for the playthrough screencaps.

[tamakunn]

decided to do this. I dont know 100% what a comfort character is so I just drew characters I like (just for the character) Left to Right: Drayton/Kakitsubata(PKMN),Gary/Rotten(Magicians Quest), Arachnus/Tsuchigumo(YKW2) Just recently I got into magicians quest and before I went to play it I looked at all the student lists and Gary stuck out to me the most, hes so me fr and so scrunkly !!

[sephys-wrath]

People can have their theories on whom Amarys and Crispin are related to, but one thing to consider is their names:

Lacey's JP name: Taro

Clay's JP name: Yakon

Both taro and yacón are root vegetables

(Not pictured but Lian/Kikui is named after the Jerusalem artichoke, another root veg)

Drayton's JP name: Kakitsubata

Drayden's JP name: Shaga

Kakitsubata = Japanese iris

Shaga = Fringed iris

(There's also Iris herself who's name refers to irises in general)

A lot of people pointed fingers towards Chili and his brothers as possible relatives for Crispin, but their JP names suggest otherwise:

Chili's JP name: Pod (from pod corn)

Crispin's JP name: Akumatsu (Japanese red pine

The two plants do not have any (major) relation to one another (I guess the pine cones of the Japanese red pine look a bit like pod corn?)

As for Amarys, whom people are thinking is related to Lenora

Amarys's JP name: Nerine

Lenora's JP name: Aloe

Nerine and aloe don't seem to have any major relation to one another either

Now, it's seen in other Pokémon games that relatives of one another don't have to be named after same/similar flora, but since both Lacey and Drayton are, then Crispin and Amarys would have to have a similar floral naming to anyone in Unova too

TLDR: Lacey and Drayton are related to Unova characters with JP names of same/similar flora, while Crispin and Amarys' names have no such connection.

Personally I think Crispin and Amarys are their own seperate characters because of this, but imagination can go far if anyone thinks otherwise or want to have fun headcanons anyway!

[rhythe]

Was reading flower symbolism for the gen 9 characters.

So Drayton is associated with unrequited love.

Kakitsubata means “noble”, “yearning”, and “happiness surely awaits”. The third meaning seems positive until you see the explanation behind it. A bouquet of Kakitsubata flowers is more of a consolation to one waiting on unreturned feelings than a promise of happiness.

“Noble” alludes to his family background. But the other two thirds are about one-sided feelings, as Tales of Ise references.

(I’m not writing a whole literature analysis though, please spare me. Opelucid gym has a zigzag bridge and that’s all I can say.)

I just think Drayton is down pretty bad for a specific someone.

Or maybe it’s a metaphor for his life in general, if you’d rather see it that way.