#kelsey liveblogs oofuri

[daisyachain]

hey um where are you reading oofuri (in english?) 👉👈

Wonderful! A convert! You can read at plusthinkingteam on tumblr dot com! They do scanlations and they run a chat channel for further discussion.

Everyone! Please read Oofuri highly recommended great lowkey realist portrait of suburban life AND an art style that will really have you pushing your own boundaries of taste in appreciating the moppets. 2 seasons of anime cover about uhhhh a third of the series. They are good. I prefer the second season opening. Dub is fine, but it’s only for the first season. Momoe Maria.

[paupersnail]

i started to watch Oofuri with atracaelum and jacobenimble and life has gone downhill and by downhill i mean i am crying and i just want to wrap mihashi in a blanket and give him warm hugs forevER BECAUSE HE DESERVES THEM

[daisyachain]

Clocking into the abeharu factory. The single hanging unshaded bulb flickers, casting shadows on the motheaten concrete walls. The pixiv tag is fine but it’s been a year since the last piece of actual writing was posted

[daisyachain]

The thing is Abe -> tormented by his experience with Haruna, but he imposed the framework of baseball on to their personal relationship so he believes that as long as he’s not actively catching Haruna then there’s nothing to bother about. Views it entirely as a past thing that has stopped and has no active desire for anything except for Haruna’s humiliation subjugation and servitude to his will. Haruna -> blissfully untormented because whatever twinges of conscience may follow Abe’s outburst can have been and will be ascribed to Akimaru instead with Takaya remaining an arm’s-length acquaintance. Akimaru -> didn’t even know Takaya existed until this year.

Mihashi -> tuning-rod who vibrates with awareness of Abe being obsessed with/created by Haruna (being a nice sympathetic little boy) and of Haruna relying on Abe as a human crutch (being a pitcher who can relate to another pitcher). Mihashi is experiencing both sides of this breakup more than either of the actual people involved. I personally would love to believe that he goes through ten agonies before he decides to invite Haruna along to any social events put on with/by the Mihashi-Abe household. And he always invites him. And Abe never even considers the possibility of inviting Haruna. And Haruna always goes along without once thinking that the question of who invited him might be relevant.

[daisyachain]

i think I hauve tennis elbow

[daisyachain]

Abe and Izumi. I am rapidly approaching the Abe and Izumi singularity. What is simmering between them in the last few arcs where they’ve been forced into proximity. And then what is happening with Hanai and Shinooka that they too have become the polestars of the crew. What is it that they think of each other. Hanai certainly thinks of Shinooka, has she noticed and if so in what way?

[daisyachain]

Nickel in the Abe and Haruna jar

[daisyachain]

the single tear…

[daisyachain]

1. The tallest peak in Gunma is Mt. Haruna. Possibly Mihashi is from Gunma -> insurmountable obstacle ?

2. Canonically it was Momoe’s hard work that convinced Abe to go to Nishiura and to give baseball another shot. By Higuchi-sensei’s own admittance, she and Haruna share the same face

[daisyachain]

Tajima and Hanai dynamic hmmm. It works best when Hanai is subconsciously obsessed with Tajima while consciously maintaining an awareness of/handle on his team and his own training. And when Tajima is consciously obsessed with Hanai.

[daisyachain]

I feel like Mrs Abe and Mr Mihashi would be somewhat unsurprised when Mihashi and Abe start dating while Mrs Mihashi and Mr Abe might not notice for several months and would then be shocked.

[daisyachain]

My beloved mother was a little disappointed that the one female character ‘had to…be built like that’ with the assorted boob jokes and I’d like to argue against it except. I already hauve covid

[daisyachain]

Mihashi voice claim VNV Nation????

[daisyachain]

There is a Momoe/Rei fic to be written but I am still turning it over in my mind. What is the dynamic. Why are they there.

[daisyachain]

Vindicated in my Abe-Mihashi-Injury stance. Abe does fret about Mihashi from the start, but he does specifically think of Haruna when recovering as a sort of moment-of-realization as to Why He Was Like That and even, possibly, regret that he didn’t understand at the time. Abe hates Haruna on a personal level and he also thinks that their relationship would’ve been better if he hadn’t been injured (obvious to everyone except Abe)

[daisyachain]

an underrated aspect of the taji-miha dynamic is that tajima is pursuing mihashi to some degree. He’s lived his life as a normal-passing weirdo and there’s something in him that’s intrigued by Mihashi’s pure weirdness that helps his natural tendencies bloom. Unlike Sakaeguchi and Izumi, who are trying to put them out of their misery, Tajima’s forays into Mihashi translation are more about him having fun speaking the Mihashi language