#literally thought of reigen when i first saw that post

[legovasavouchi]

legally i am required to draw jokes (based on this post, you know the one X)

[wazzuppy-writes]

Making Cookies With Mob and Reigen

Characters: Shigeo Kageyama, Reigen Arataka, Reader

Relationship: Platonic

Type: Headcanons

Warnings: None

A/N: I thought I'd write something simple and cute for my first real post here. Platonic relationships are my absolute favorite thing to write, so I hope you enjoy this as much I did.

Neither Mob or Reigen are good at cooking. Like, at all. Mob can make simple things like rice balls and sandwiches, but he's hopeless when it comes to anything else. Meanwhile Reigen has been eating nothing but microwave dinners for the past twelve years, so any kitchen skills he might've had are gone now.

So when you suggest baking cookies together on their day off, they're incredibly reluctant. It takes a lot of pleading to get them to agree, and even then they still try weaseling their way out. But you're persistent and you have your heart set on spending time with them! They're going to make these cookies whether they want to or not!

Because of their disastrous inexperienced skill level, you have to take the lead while they do their damn best to follow it.

Turns out that they're really bad at following instructions.

"Master, are you sure this is a good idea?"

"Of course it is! Why bake it at 375 degrees for fifteen minutes when we'd save so much more time by baking it at 500 degrees for five minutes? Use your head, Mob."

They were devastated when the cookies came out as charcoal. Well, Reigen was devastated— Mob kinda saw it coming. You're just relieved they didn't burn down the kitchen.

So you guys try again...and again... and again, but nothing comes out right. Eventually you run out of ingredients and have to stop. The boys are really embarrassed and apologetic, but you do your best to reassure them.

"I'm so sorry, Y/n. We let you down... And now you have to go grocery shopping, too..."

"It's no big deal, really! You tried your best and that's what matters. Besides, I'm just happy we all got to spend time together. How about we try again next week?"

"Really? Even after we wrecked your kitchen?"

"Eh. It's cleaner than I thought it would be."

From then on, baking cookies became a weekly ritual for you three. It took a few more tries for them to get it right, but when they did, they were ecstatic. Literally the happiest you'd ever seen them.

Reigen took a dozen pictures of you, him, and Mob posing with the cookies and sent them to all his contacts— like a proud parent. They were cold by the time he was done, but that's okay. He's having fun.

As you ate and celebrated, Mob eagerly talked about all the other recipes he wanted to try. Having something fun to do every week, and with two of his favorite people at that, really meant a lot to him. It made him feel like a normal kid with a normal social life. Reigen tried not to seem as outwardly excited, but it's still clear that he's just as happy.

The three of you continue meeting up every week to bake. You even bring back the leftovers for the others at Spirts and Such! Some of them, like Serizawa and Teru, like to join in on the fun— to varying results— but they're also content to reap the rewards without actually doing any work.

The fridge is constantly filled with leftover sweets and everyone keeps getting cavities, but no one has the heart to say anything. Not when you're having so much fun.

Dividers from here.

GIF from here.

[dullahandyke]

yippee yippee yippee yippee eimear con haul!!!!

Hi. It was my birthday recently and I'm bad to shop for so instead of gifts I got money to spend at Kaizokucon. So here's a haul. Under the cut bcos I couldnt fit it nicely in one picture and I wanna ramble

ok we're gonna take it one picture at a time ^_^ the ID in the alt text explains what everything is if u just wanna see what i got without the rambling sure to come with it. links in rambling r to the artists of the fan stuff where i can find em ^_^ only one of them is a direct link to the product tho bcos some ppls shops r down and some ppl dont have all their stuff online. lemons_arent_green youre a real one

Ok the flat stuff!!! black rock shooter poster bcos i already have a figure but i liek her... badass anime girl ily.... was so so sure i saw a reigen keychain but when i went to go get one there weren't any so i got this sticker sheet instead :3 SPEAKING OF KEYCHAINS!!! yippee yippee kaguya i love you youre my special little tiempsy. yue you are a gay anime boy with a cool design. tomoyo ive always felt a kinship with you and its because im a desperate dyke. monokuma is here ig 🙄 i put him on my carabiner and hes fun to stim with. i am not immune to the sdr2 fanboying. also full disclosure ive not watched naruto (its in the spreadsheet) i just thought funko pop sasuke keychain was really really funny. my son who stares into my soul. comparatively i dont have as much to say on the badges!! luka luka fever for real girlie ily. the bandori ones were blind bags and i got himari on my first try <3<3<3<3<3<3 sorry eve i kind of dont care. 🙁 the dr girlies i kinda picked at random based on who i've been vibing w lately.

THE POKEMON DIORAMA!!!! its soooo cool, staff were setting up the trade hall so i was in there all day friday and this shop was one of the first to set up their stands and i was literally staring at it all day... so fucking awesome. the rings n the necklace r from the same shop look at them... im fucking obsessed w the catgirl necklace. literally look at her. i dont thiiink shes supposed to be a specific character but she might be. oh well. cat girl ily. aaaand the arisa stand is actually a little clip for papers n stuff!! she was also a blind box but specifically for popipa so i was gonna b happy w whoever <3

MIIIIKUUUUUU MY PRINCESS MY EVERYTHING!!!!! she was calling to me she beckoned..... shes actually rlly big irl shes the biggest figure i have, replacing my kokoro one... shes the one where i audibly said 'it was my birthday i can buy things' bcos figures spencey... she wasnt too bad actually i just like bitching. 6 euro axel for scale

BOOKS 💥💥💥 i was reading nana a while back and i dropped it but i gotta pick it up again... rlly pretty and awesome... aaaand the summer hikaru died!!! kay if youre seeing this then know you posting abt it convinced me <3 i originally got it bcos i was on door duty in a quiet area and didnt wanna spend my time draining battery life on my phone but after i bought it i realised that that was literally a terrible idea so <3 we'll get around to them soon

FINALLLYYYYYY TSHIRTS!!! the top yellow one was my staff t-shirt, it has 'staff' on the back i was wearing it all weekend and yippee i love it.... emotional bond.... and if this is a safe space can i just say. if kaito was a woman? would. next up FAYE FUCKIN VALENTINEEEE!!! do u remember that post i made going thru all the sellers that were gonna b at the con that started like 'i hate shounen fans. name a woman'? well this is the seller i was talking about but all was forgiven in the name of FAYE ! GODDAMN ! VALENTINE ! ugh i love you girlie. and the last t-shirt was given out free to staff after the closing ceremony!! it was the tenth anniversary of kaizokucon so we got this awesomes design yay.... wore it to classes today hoping somebody would comment on it and nobody did 😌and in the middle i got CLOW CARRRDS BITCHES!!!!!! i saw them and immediately all thought left my fucking brain. i needed them. so important. the seller also recognised the axel in my fanny pack yippee!!!! a few people recognised him over the weekend actually and i was always like yes!! the him

anyway. yippee! yippee! yippee! yippee! yippee! yippee! yippee! yippee! yippee! con con con con con :)

[shiocreator]

[blasts through the door so that unrealistic 3d blocks aimlessly and slowly float around as dust particles]

If I may-th impead on your domain. I ask-th, if you may, tell me about either most angst ideas you've ever had with OC x canon or the "kicks feet and giggles" sweet type ideas

I saw ur post n Tumblr said nah so I came here.

ANJJKNSKNJS

Ok So....

The Beauty that is scarlette is.

She has so many fucking issues man every SINGLE ship ive put her in has been slowburn strangers friends to lovers in some form cuz i genuinely cant imagine her one day getting randomly into a relationship in like, a blind date way.

SO A LLOTTA THE ANGST CAUSE IS JUST *HER DENIAL* AND AVOIDANCE, i quite frankly LOVE using misunderstandings with her in particular cuz she is so avoidant, she stsrts to avoid her crush and loses friendships that way a lot,

"they'd hate me if they knew i had a crush on them" cuz past trauma of first confession in middle school where everyone already didnt like her and all, and her only friend back then was her "crush", (which might have just been her desperate to cling to the only classmate she thought was a friend) and he just. Slung A lotta insults after she confessed that was the last straw caused her to be how she is

SO EXPLANATIONS OVER HERES THE FUNNY SHIPPING PARTS, read more to spare ppl. Also realizing this isnt just aus but abit vaguely entirely au related in some cases so. Beware

Scarhouse:

Angst; her starting to gain a crush and upon both Madhouse and her pining she realizes this and starts becoming so so *so* avoidant, which makes mike think she hates him now and Robyn has to force them BOTH to confront each other about it in the end (confession time at least happens)

Sweet; i like to think scarlette uses mike as a mattress cuz she can touch ghosts so he CAN hold her, so just cuddling typically on a hot day, wrote a fic n put it on ao3 and i still think its really fun.. touch starved individuals BHFJ

AnxiousGlamour; cant think of angst but the entire dynamic of enemies to friends to lovers with them is so fucking funny to me they yell at each other and insult each other banterly their dynamic before friendship is so funny to me, but lord they genuinely have surprising amount in common, sweet moments wise in my Monsterheart au Scarlette checks on Mettaton cuz ya know. Limbs, and just. They talk. Quiet moment of "you arent so bad afterall." Just quiet moments, Mettaton and her take the boat back to waterfall cuz Scar wanted to say goodbye to Napstablook, before she supposedly died or not. Somber ish moments before she says a "final" goodbye

Now ACTUAL shipping wise? Confession where scarlette is finally okay enough to acknowledge she wasnt get slaughtered or hated by a now at this point good friend just for having a crush, confesses to Mettaton, and "I'll uh, I'm probably gonna be pretty avoidant so i can make the crush go away so im sorry in adva-" "Darling I have been flirting with you for weeks now" "What" hjVKV

MonstrousLiars (okay so NAME CONTEXT. They're both liars. One would think Reigen would be more monstrous cuz ya know. Conman. So figurative 4 him but also hes Really Not. Scarlette is a Literal Monster.): Scarlette nearly dieing to save his and the kids asses which makes her go fully into a kinda adrenalyn fueled shapeshifting moment where she may be a Little drunk off the magic rushing through her veins and afterwards kinda has to be watched over cuz shes not doin great rn,

Scarlette is able to sense curses but not see them (ie she gets very bad vibes gets pale and goes into a minor cold sweat when too close to one, or gets a bubbling sense of dread with skin prickling etc etc, shes essentially absorbing the cursed energy against her will so her body feels BAD) so she just feels really ill and like shes dieing when she DOES get cursed, walks all the way to the office and collapses concerning everyone.

The ingeneral fact this woman wont let anyone help her with her issues is a great cause of pain for everyone cuz they WANNA help tbh

Sweet moments wise Scarlette at some point finally trusting Reigen enough to just, be a person, joke around abit, get him extra snacks she knows he'll like cuz getting people food is a love language.

Reigen and her having one on one dinners cuz he just wanted to know her better meanwhile shes just. Shes not even here for FREE food shes SHIT at interacting she doesnt even know why shes here but hey. coffee ! ghjFVUHG

Bonus cuz current brainrot is these two. Scarlette learning from Mob and Serizawa how things used to be way emptier and hints at reigen also just kinda, not being as having friends as one would assume he would have,, and Scar being just. Able to see that. Maybe theyre abit more similar than she thought and reachimg out abit.

She's been keeping pretty closed off, so i like to think her noticing Reigen is more similar to her than she would have assumed first, over him noticing it first, seemed fitting here, cuz shes learned bit about him through others, whereas she's been really rather. Not prone to even talking about herself, and the only way they can maybe learn more info bout her is carter or random moments of her hyperfixations pop up somehow

[laithraihan]

I'm the anon who sent you the long message that apparently came off "pompous & infantilizing" and more to your followers.

I find it interesting that that message sparked such a flood of defenders, when I did not send it in bad faith at all. From your answer it seems I'm lacking context so sorry if I took some of your statements the wrong way, but nonetheless I just found the parental love addition strange and reacted to that, that was all there was to it. I clearly stated (three times) I'm not taking any issue with your headcanons.

By saying they are far removed from canon I did not mean to say they are "too unrealistic" or something is wrong with that, I literally said the opposite. I meant just that, that factually, this will not be a common interpretation for someone who is familiar with the source material but not your blog. This is not a statement that I made with any judgemental value and I thought I made that very clear but apparently not.

So I'm sorry for the additional ask.

Have a nice day.

Thank you for the response.

I was fully aware you said there was no issue with what I drew, but the way you wrote everything else sort of negated that statement. At least that's how me and many other people saw it.

If someone finds what I drew strange or confusing then they could always just... block me or ask me about it (and btw I expected people to be confused, otherwise I wouldnt have labeled it "non-coupling" as soon I posted it lol)

Someone did ask me about it, and you seem to have already seen that response, yet you still felt the need to send another message basically implying that an explanation wasn't enough (turns out it actually wasnt enough because people said I was lying and in denial) and that my explanation was weird too? Which is whatever I already ended up clarifying that, English is not my first language and I type things with the help of a translator (I wish people could actually keep this in mind. I only type in English because it'll reach a wider audience and it's the language most of my followers know. Often I have to google words people tell me online, or I ask my friends fluent in English to explain things for me)

You can say "that's not what I intended" but that's how it came across... you wrote a lot of nice words while also saying it was understandable that people were ganging up on me over a drawing, it seemed patronizing.

That's why me and others took offense to it, but I think it's difficult to tell tone through text so I don't want to keep nitpicking this any further. If you say you had no ill intent then I believe you.

The following will just be me adding more context and not necessarily aimed at you: Again I understand the lack of context of my account can make people confused about my art, Ive made that clear many times.

The art I made where I said "if your parents didnt love you then it's obvious" was a direct response to people who were mocking me specifically for tagging the art as "non-coupling" because they didnt believe me. They got the context and decided I was trying to hide a fetish because a kiss on the cheek was "obviously shippy". They proceeded to compare this to drawing NSFW of Mob and Reigen by labelling it "non-ship" as if it was comparable to tucking a child into bed, that's what upset me. I did absolutely nothing to these people, I dont know them, if they said this privately I wouldnt care but it was public, and they also targeted another friend of mine for no reason.

All Im gonna say is that my drawing shouldnt have caused this much controversy in the first place. I labeled it "non-coupling" as soon as I posted it, which should've been enough honestly. It's not like I posted porn or anything like that, I got the idea from something Ive experienced in my family as a teenager and I could easily google stock images of the exact same scenario to use as reference, like I really didnt think it was that bad.

Anyways I think I've explained myself many times already. Im not gonna be hostile and say to people "roh t9awed dont ever send me anything else related to this" but just.. check if Ive already answered your question so that it doesnt end up being repetitive. If you have a question about this that I havent answered yet, then feel free to ask.

[phantomrose96]

oh don’t worry ABoT can definitely be a weekend read, i just read it start to chapter 39 from 2am to now (and still got a solid 8 hours of sleep somehow) ! couldn’t put it down honestly. amazing job at reconceptualizing the characters in this worst case scenario alternate universe in a way that feels believable and not contrived — not pulling any punches (ritsu and teru are … pretty awful, in particular) but not in a sensationalist dead-dove-dont-eat way at all which i really really appreciate. teru and ritsu are awful but ultimately sympathetic because they really do feel like natural extensions of their character arcs had canon played out differently. it would’ve been really easy to take this and make it into either an Everyone Is Evil I Am So Edgy story or a But They All Come Together Through The Power Of Friendship, so thank you for not doing that! while reigen is my favorite, i love ritsu & teru’s relationship — it’s so nuanced but well developed. cant wait to see what happens next!

(ABoT)

Oh you get it

Oh You Get It........

Hahahhahhhhhaaa.............................................

Literally when I saw the first ask before you sent the follow up, my first thought was like "!!!! you get it! gosh I wish that woulda applied to all those people from 2017-2018 who labeled ABoT torture p//or/n" but I wasn't gonna actually bring that up because like even talking about that time always feels like I'm putting myself on the defensive.

But.... god haha yeah..... I didn't write anything for almost 3 years after that. I thought about ABoT every damn day for that almost-3-year hiatus. It was already planned out! It had an ending! It just made me so sad because I believed I couldn't come back to it because I couldn't Do This Again.

It was just... utterly heart-breaking, utterly devastating, downright confusing how this fic which is so focused on the slow and messy and hard work of recovery was being branded "oh it's sadistic twisted fucked-up torture p//or//n of children and the author is a sick fuck".

I know it's dark!! It's dark and no one has to read it and I've tagged it for the things that are dark and I put content warnings in front of every chapter! But it's dark because I care about how much a tiny flicker of light can mean in the darkness.

I... care about media that doesn't just brush traumatic happenings under the rug and go "so that happened, anyway." I care about trauma that isn't ignored. I care about the characters who can't just brush it off - who come out worse because of it - I care about them and what the slow and ugly and sometimes backwards progress of recovery looks like. I care about characters who absolutely Fuck Up and face consequences for it. I care about characters who are messy and need time and cannot be fixed with a single nice word. I care about making the audience care about what the characters have lived through, and how it hurt them. I'm rooting for all the characters in ABoT. They're all trying to find their own flicker of light in the dark. I care so so so so so much about that.

And it absolutely destroyed me to see a whole group of friends in the fandom (who, mind you, were annoyed with ABoT for a while. I saw their posts show up when I searched 'ABoT', and who tried to pin a couple problematic labels on ABoT and couldn't get anything to stick until 'torture p//o//rn") rip apart ABoT's reputation because ALL they needed to say was "ABoT is an au where Mogami kidnaps and tortures Mob for 4 years. It's awful and gross and problematic and don't read it and if you do YOURE problematic."

And I saw it time and time again (again, in the ABoT tags! in MY tag, sometimes.) Someone would make a post like "if you're an ABoT stan don't follow me" and some clueless anon would be like "whats ABoT" and they'd answer the above and that was it. No one wanted to risk getting into "problematic" stuff so people just accepted it. Even more neutral people didn't have the time or reason to investigate that further and just accepted it, assuming whoever was speaking had read it, even if in reality none of them had.

I got death threats. They made hate-blogs of ABoT. They made memes shitting on ABoT. They spammed the ABoT tag and the phantomrose96 tag. They spammed sandflake's tag and drove them away same as me. They raided and spammed the ABoT discord. They made posts celebrating how long it had been since ABoT updated. They made posts trying to accuse me of pe//do//philia (for NO reason. NONE. NO REASON. NO EVIDENCE. It was just an effective word to get people run off the site. and luckily that accusation died because there was literally nothing to base it on.) ALL the while framing what they were doing as totally in the right because they were JUST calling out torturous child-abusing fic.

I really tried. When all this started, I stopped tagging anything ABoT related with m/p/100, so I wouldn't bother people. If I found ABoT art tagged with m/p/100, I'd wait a day to reblog it so it wouldn't accidentally rise high in the tag and bother people. Sometimes I WOULDN'T reblog art because I didn't want the artist to risk getting threatened. I mostly stopped talking about ABoT on tumblr, so I wouldn't bother people.

But it fucking gets to you after a while. I started believing they were right. My mental health was extreme garbage at this time (for reasons unrelated to this all) but that meant I couldn't brush any of it off. ABoT was kinda the one little spark of joy I had at this time and then I just. Didn't anymore. It got taken away.

I would write every sentence through the lens of my worst critic. I tried SO many times to start chapter 25 back in 2018. I could only get a page in at most. (Originally it was going to be the mall movie theater scene that ends up happening in chapter 27) and I'd balk at jokes I was trying to write. There was going to be a joke about the movie being a sort of in-universe Twilight, where the two love interests uncannily resembled Ritsu and Teru. And I froze up because. Was that problematic? If Teru was seeing the movie because Mei wanted to, was that sexist? If Teru himself wanted to see it, was that homophobic? Was the Twilight reference problematic? Was the joke about the love interest resemblance problematic? Would the irreverence of the joke be problematic? Would this be what they get me on? Would this be my undoing? Would this be the final nail in my coffin?

I found these old drafts somewhat recently and they are just. Lifeless. They are so barren of any kind of passion or heart. I re-read it and see just how painful it was to get from one sentence to another. I was burnt out and afraid of every word and those drafts would never ever have worked.

Hell, when I did write chapter 25 for real, in 2020, I gave up entirely on making it the movie scene. Trashed that. Started from scratch. That well was far far too tainted to draw from.

I just. aaa. aaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Sorry for the long post but ahhhhhhh. I gave up my favorite and most meaningful hobby for almost 3 years. This was still happening in 2019 when season 2 aired, when I hadnt been truly active on Tumblr for ages and hadn't touched ABoT in years. JUST so they could be sure to taint the well again and tell any new fandom comers to stay away from ABoT. I had no spoons and no spine for it so I just, let that happen, and unfollowed the ABoT tag. I still haven't seen season 2.

I'm so SO glad I figured out how to come back to it in 2020, and that people have been so supportive, and I mostly try not to talk about this stuff but. it fucks with you. it fucks with you a lot.

I'm just really happy to have been able to come back to it.

[nie7027]

DadReigenweek 6: Tea | Hobbies

Again, sorry for not posting anything yesterday but i had another exam to study for (someone free me from this)

Heres day 6: tea? hobbies? A little bit of both again with Tome this time.

I’ll post tomorrow day 7: free day and if you have followed my stories so far you know it’s Ritsu’s turn (so if someone has any idea what should i write hit me up because i have no idea what to do for it)

I hope you enjoy it and please ignore the fact i know nothing about correctly preparing tea (i literally failed my japanese exams not because i dint understand them but because i had no idea of how tto prepare tead and there was a concerning amount of question related to that)

Tea and Hobbies

“TOME” Reigen shrieked from the kitchenette where he was searching for a  towel to move the keetle to the counter without burning himself

“What?” she replied from her spot n the couch, not taking her eyes off her handheld videogame.

“YOU FORGOT TO TURN THE STOVE OFF AGAIN””

“What??” she said finally standing and poking her head through the doorframe “I did not-uuhh” 

Reigen, after finally finding a towel, was holding an empty keetle. The tea had long evaporated.

“What are we going to serve our clients now?” Reigen lamented pinching the bridge of his nose

“We can make more…” Tome said carefully. she didn’t undertand why Reigen was making such a big deal out of this.

“Tome, this is the fourth time this week” he then pointed to the black stains that were starting to form at the kettles sides “at this rate it’ll become useless and we can’t afford to buy a new one every week. Why did you even use the highest flame?” 

“I didn’t know…” Tome admitted and it was true, actually this was the first time she had to prepare tea “and you said you wanted to preserve the tea hot for any customer that might walk in”

“I said hot, not scalding! and for that you just need to heat it with a small flame” he turned to the stove and showed her how to adjust  the flame until he seemed it appropriately  “Like this”

“And you don’t even have to leave it like that all day!  You could raise the flames a little, leave it there some minutes while I talk with the customers and with that would be enough”

Tome firmly nodded actually payin attention to Reigen’s words “I’ll make sure to do that next time”

“You better do” Reigen grimaced when a dark thought crossed his mind “I just hope the bills don’t come too high this month” 

Tome actually gulped at that “You can take it from my pay…”

Reigen looked away keenly aware of how little he paid her “Yeah...it won’t be enough” he said without thinking.

He wasn’t expecting to see troubled expression on Tome’s face when he turned to face her again “Hey! What’s wrong?”

“I...It’s wasn’t my intention to cause you this much trouble.” she muttered “ You probably would prefer Mob being here, I bet he knows how to make some dumb tea”

Reigen sighed “Mod has done this for years, of course he knows  how to make tea..but that’s the least of the problems. It’s really dangerous to leave the stove on unsupervised, specially with the highest flame and while you are alone. Haven’t your parents told you this?”

Tome  shaked her head and Reigen had to sigh again. Between Teru, Shou, himself and  now Tome he was starting to believe the Kageyamas were the only good parents in this world.

“Well now you know” He grabbed Tome by her shoulder and making sure the keetle had cooled down he handed it to Tome "Now go wash it while i do some actual work here. and make sure you get all the burnt leaves off from it. We don't want to serve that tastes bad to our future clients"

He left Tome to wash her mess in the kitchenette and headed to office main room where he caught sight of Tome’s forgotten videogame.

She probably forgot the tea playing that thing. Reigen couldn't understood how she could get so immersed in that thing.

Actually, he thought grabbing the small device and looking at it, he had never understood what was so entertaining of these things.

Except for his brief involvement while trying to beat that one spirit, he had never played videogames. He was more of a outdoors type of guy. 

While his classmates and everyone got excited talking about ‘The legend of Mario’ and ‘the pokey men’ he...actually now that he thought about it it was probably because he didn’t have friends who invited him over to play…STILL Serizawa semed to like them too and Reigen doubted he had some else to play with.

What was so interesting about these things??

Reigen had no idea and he was about to leave the game when suddenly it slipped of his hands (damn sweaty hands) and in his haste to catch it he accidentally pressed a button.

The game returned to life, its lively sounds and colourful animations contrasting with the horror Reigen felt when he saw the character Tome was playing fall of a platform to his absolute demise and the message “Game Over” appearing on the screen while a sad music played.

Tome was going to kill him

As quickly as he could he selected the “play again” option but everything was wrong. Reigen could swore the landscape where the character appeared didn’t look like the one Tome had been and if he noticed then she absolutely would.

Reigen didn’t have another choice. He would have to play it and return the character to where it had been before Tome finished washing the dishes.

He had beaten that videogame’s spirit. How difficult could it be?

Very apparently. 

Figuring the mechanics of the game and each button’s function hadn’t been difficult, the problem arised when the first enemy showed and in a quick movement killed Reigen’s character, the game over screen appearing again.

Reigen selected the “play again” option played one more time. He died.

By the fifth time he was able to defeat the enemy with the help of some green potion he found but it wan’t enough for the wave of enemy that approached him near the bridge. 

He was starting to get used to “Game over” screen but that wouldn’t do, he was nowhere near the scenery Tome had previously been.

Reigen frowned, if he was going to do this he needed to find more of those useful green potions and once he decided he had enough he marched back to bridge and fough the swarm of enemies, barely surviving.

There was another wave but from the previous victory Reigen had learned a new move and gained some ‘experience points’ which greatly helped him this time.

He kept advancing, crossing towns and climbing mountains, fighting off nastier enemies and talking with the random villagers he found, some of them giving him good tips.

It had been a while since he died but he didn’t notice until he entered a castle that vaguely looked familiar and defeated the monster thus gaining the the holier sword, and enhanced version of the one he had.

Reigen celebrated, pumping a fist on the air but was interrumpting by someone clearing their throat.

“I thought you said you had work to do” a smug Tome said watching him from above her handheld game.

With a whiplash Reigen returned to reality.

Now it was Reigen’s turn to clear his throat  “Of course I am working! THis was just...uhh- err”

Reigen didn’t have to think in what to say because Tome’s eyes fell to the screen and lightened “You won the Holy Sword??” she said pointing at the game “Wow, I am impressed! Have you already rescued your friend?”

“My friend?!”

“Yeah, the one who was kidnapped! “she said excitedly “With that sword you can go to the Dead’s forest now”

“I don’t know where the Dead Forest is”

“Duh, you have to go and ask the old wise man”

“The old wise man?”

“Yeah! You had to have encountered him already? Big beard? Lives at the side of the second town-”

“Oh! the one who sold me 10 potions?”

“10 potions?? No, he sells you-YOU CHOSE THE POTIONS INSTEAD OF THE SHIELD? “ Tome shaked her head and pinched the bridge of her nose “Alright, we can work with that. You at least asked him to teach you how to use a bow”

“Of course I did! Who do you take me for?”

“Good”

Reigen wasn’t expecting to learn more from Tome than she did from him that day. But at least they had something to talk about with Serizawa the next day.

[iamspacedust]

im so tired and my head hurts so much but the only thoughts going through my mind are bnha and mp100 crossovers so here we fucking go

its so easy to mix their worlds? like mob just never pays attention to media and thats literally all you need for this to be kind of feasible 

mob didnt know UA existed for like his whole life

until he accidentally took the entrance exam 

UA: who the fuck is this kid??????

Mob: master i dont think this is where the client told us to meet them

Reigen, watching several super powered children smash robots around them: weird flex but okay

this is based on a post i saw earlier today but reigen is definitely urarakas uncle 

theyre both cheep

they will fight you if you fuck with their friends 

did i mention that they will do anything to spend less money on something

reigen, talking to baby uraraka: say it wait me ochako, tax evasion!

baby uraraka: TAX EVASION! 

reigen, tearing up: shes growing up so fast

mob sees kids doing crazy stuff all the time and he just?? assumes its normal???

like his whole body improvement club is actually kids with strength enhancing quirks trying to train to get into good high schools and he just never catches on

he just thinks theyre strong dudes

mob, seeing musashi carry the entire body improvement club: wow i guess he’s doing intense training today

when mob and teru first meet

teru: you have a powerful quirk too huh?

mob: whats a quirk

teru, quietly: what the fuck.

mob just doesnt pay attention to anything unless its reigen telling how to control his powers or milk.

teru, after their fight talking to tome: how the fuck does he not know? especially when he has a quirk???

tome: i dunno? we just never bring it up. do you wanna help me look for aliens or not?

teru, defeated for the second time that week: sure, ill help. 

tome’s quirk is mental projection, the ability to project thoughts, consciousness, or emotions into reality

tome, scaring the shit out of the club this a accidental projection of aliens from the movie Alien for the 3rd time that month: its not my fault its a good movie!!

[ashssjshaskjsjhs]

Ok so I thought I would eventually just forget but I can't get this out of my head? For some reason even after watching the 7th episode like 3 times the part that always gets me is when reigen goes back to the bar and they shun him. I don't know why it just really hits me in a knowing spot. But see the thing is I for some reason convinced myself that when the bartender told reigen to leave, he called him reigen instead of arataka-chan like he does in the first bar scene? And it wasn't until the second time I watched the ep to make a post about it that I saw it didnt happen? I checked the manga to and it didn't happen there either???

I literally have no idea how I could have gotten something like that through my head. Wild.

[mp100journey]

Season 1: Episode 1-7

I'm new and I haven't talked to anyone about Mob Psycho 100 yet, so hop on and join me in my suffering journey in watching Mob Psycho 100. Here are my genuine reactions throughout the episodes 1-7 of season 1.

To be honest, the first time I saw this is on Tumblr and my first reaction to it was "it's a bunch of Saitamas"

jesus don't ask the boy such an existential question that even I didn't know how to answer until just recently 

Dude, he's in middle school. 

Great, you caused him his first existential crisis.

Why do I relate to this on a spiritual level

Reigen: Well, every middle school boy wants to be popular so there's no need to be embarrassed. Even I want to be popular.  Me: Did you just call yourself a middle school boy 

I like both Mob and Reigen’s voices.

Mob: My dad said, "People who've never smoked before are missing out on half their lives." It made me realize that everyone has a different idea of "missing out".  Me: Oh my god, little Mob. I applaud you. 

And I love hi- I mean, that is fucking random.

Is that the same little Mob I've grown to love in merely 2 episodes? 😮

Mob, you can't just suddenly have red eyes when you feel rage. That's not fair.

HONEY NO DON'T THINK THAT THAT'S NOT TRUE

REIGEN YOU BASTARD, thank you for reassuring our little Mob and returning him to normal 💓

Nevermind! :D

I wanna continue watching AAAAAA

Aha, sorry but my dear Mob is the main character. 

Oh my god, I love Mob.

It's gotta suck to have a middle school boy in his pjs say this to you. 

Reigen: *enters the scene* Me: Ah, there's that piece of trash.

I HATE HIM HAHAHAHA

Can I join your religion? I'm looking for the same god.

Nevermind, I found him.

How the fuck is Mob the older brother.

I WOULD BE SO HAPPY FOR HIM IF THIS WASN'T A TRAP

NEVERMIND I'M ALREADY HAPPY FOR HIM IF HE'S HAPPY I'M HAPPY

HE DESERVES THE WORLD AND NOTHING LESS  Although, we all know you're going because you're actually hoping that there IS a girl. 

Hell yeah, little Mob. Show 'em what you've got. 

It feels like I haven't seen Reigen in a while. Come out and do your job as a character, you lazy bum.

There he is, the bastard.

I KNOW RIGHT?! I agree with green Pikachu blob. 

What are you, a not-as-cool Bakugou?

How are you that attached to him already Well, he does in fact have no friends so I guess that isn't as hard to believe. 

Stop trying to hurt my child or I will end you.

jesus christ he's ugly

I love Mob's subtle reaction to everything that's happening HAHAHA

GAAAAAAAAAAAAASP YOU FUCKER YOU MADE HIM SAY OW H O W  D A R E  Y O U 

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is my overprotective mother persona.

KNIVES ARE DANGEROUS 😭💕

pfffffffffftttt I love how I've only posted his ugly faces when he's supposed to be the "pretty" boy.

 Oh my god I'm actually cackling out loud.

"Nice to meet you," he says to the guy who kept attempting to beat him up just now.  Bless this child.    

AHAHAHAHA BURN BABY BURN 🔥

Alright, man. Joke's over. Let him go.

I didn't include the highlight of the episode (other than the highlight on Teru's bald head), but I have the same reaction of what the shit just happened, little Mob. 

THIS IS ME IN THIS EPISODE NOW

IMSOBBINGLSKJASKDJDFKDGN

THIS IS SO CUTE HE LITERALLY DOES NOT SHOW EMOTIONS AND YET HIS BROTHER HIS LITTLE DAMN BROTHER KNOWS HIM SO WELL

I want to hug little Mob T^T

Mob: *sneezes* Narrator: He caught a cold. Me: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! 

I wanted to say that once again, Reigen was useless in this episode but... yeah, he was the one who told Mob not to use his powers against other people. You get an inch of respect from me, Reigen. Congrats.

One last episode before bed.

Whoever directs the voice actors; a fucking terrific job, man.

Reigen being useless as fuck again. 

I applaud you, Reigen. But I don't know if working as a con artist is any better. 

"If it's self-defense, is it okay to shave off someone's hair, rip off their clothes, destroy their pride, make them lose their friends, and destroy the school they go to?" Oh, Mob. ❤️

I'm sorry, lady. As Mob's mother, I do not approve of you.

That's adorable, but why did he easily get startled? I thought he was supposed to be the emotion-suppressing kid.

Bless these good souls for looking after little Mob. 

I didn't actually think the story would be this good.

OH, I know who Reigen reminds me of! Another lazy bum! Sakata Gintoki. 😊

tbh, I don't know if I can call Reigen "lazy". He's a con artist yeah, but he works just about all the time. 

Can you believe that I'm only in the 6th episode? And yet I'm already this invested in the characters.

I just wanna be honest with what I think about Reigen's character... I have this love-hate relationship with him.  But people will see more of the hate side because (honestly there are more reasons to hate him and) every time I admit that I like the guy, such as now, I would feel as if I lost to that fucker.  Somehow I have created this competitive relationship between me and the character. 

I like the opening, it suits the anime.

Mob showing any kind of emotion is the best thing ever.  Except when he's sad. The world might as well drown if he's sad. 

They don't have to show me who's the fucker that's calling Mob at the most inconvenient time.

I will destroy these people scaring little Mob.

Reigen: *does what he does best* Me: Reigen... is so... fucking stupid... goddamnit...

Reigen, Mob said con artists are really terrible people. 🙃

Ritsu, no :(

Ignoring the obvious lack of hair under that bush, his character is actually pretty cute when tamed.

HOHOHOLY SHIT HAHA u ded now, Ritsu dear little bro.

Words cannot explain how happy I am with this encounter. Ritsu, as Mob's little bro, fix yourself before I'd want to burn you alive with that new attitude of yours.

I know he cares a lot about Mob, so I would be very disappointed in him if he laid a finger on him. Not because I'm worried about Mob getting hurt, Ritsu's got a long way to go. I'm just worried about their relationship as brothers.

But I'm proud of the once ugly Teru though haha! Good going, man. 

[uniformbravo]

so this post got me thinking about reigen & his attitude towards mob before and during the separation arc, so i thought i’d just. share my thoughts

(definitely read that post first, this is like partially based on it)

ok disclaimer before i start: im not saying anything im about to say is like. “”The Correct Interpretation”” or whatever, this is just. how i see things. feel free to disagree ok

now can i be real for a sec. like maybe a little Too Real: i really don’t like how the anime handled reigen. u can tell they pushed really hard to make him more likable, like they really really want you to like him so they intentionally framed him in a way that convinces you to admire him; the “conman with a heart of gold” who’s essentially adopted mob and acts as a role model for him, right

and it’s so easy to see him that way if your introductory (or sole) point of reference is the anime (especially with the way they inserted and altered that scene showing how mob & reigen met in ep 11). but in the manga, at least the way i see it, he is just Pure Sleaze through and through, doing anything and everything to keep manipulating mob into staying with him- tells him joining a club to make friends is a waste of time, tries to convince him that no one at school wants to spend time with him anyway, that they all just make fun of him behind his back. he doesn’t respect him, he makes him do things he is very obviously uncomfortable with, he constantly calls him out of the blue expecting him to drop everything (though “it’s not like you had anything going on anyway”) for random jobs despite having been asked several times before not to do that, etc etc

i honestly feel like any time it looks like reigen is being a Good Person and helping mob out it’s at least partially the result of selfish motives; he needs to keep mob happy on the job or else he won’t want to come back anymore (i wonder if that’s part of the reason reigen started taking him out for food). literally the main reason he even shows up for the first claw arc is because mob didn’t show up for work and he needs to drag him back to reprimand him (tho i could see there being an underlying concern for him there as well)*

i mean, just look at their entire situation objectively: a man in his mid-twenties takes advantage of a literal child for his own monetary gain like??? god

anyway the reason i love the separation arc so damn much is because reigen finally fucking realizes what a grade A piece of shit he’s being, and he feels guilty as hell about it and it’s so fucking satisfying like holy shit literally bye reigen

he realizes that mob is worth so much more than the shit he’s been putting him through (what a concept!) and, even further, he realizes that mob is an extremely important (even integral) part of his life and he’s been taking him for granted (an understatement) this entire time. he realizes that he looks up to mob, actually admires him, and that sets everything in perspective for him- the realization that this kid half his age is progressing more than he himself ever has, is a bigger person than he’ll ever be if he continues down the path he’s on now, and that the only thing reigen had ever done for him up until he finally left was hold him back in every way possible

most importantly though, to me at least, is the immediate change he goes through upon having these realizations: he admits that he was wrong and rectifies his last statement to him, publicly, in the hope that it’ll somehow reach mob wherever he is (because he isn’t planning to see or bother him any more in person after this), and he expects nothing in return (kind of amazing for a guy who thus far has done nothing but strive to squeeze every ounce of attention and respect out of every breathing human he comes into contact with)

and when mob shows up at the end, he isn’t received with the gloating “ha, i knew you’d come to your senses eventually” that reigen was very obviously prepared to give before, but instead with a simple, “why did you come?”

because he knows now, he knows he fucked up and that mob has absolutely no reason to forgive him or even speak to him ever again (”i said a terrible thing to him”) ((you said many terrible things to him)), so to see him then and there, after all that, his reaction becomes “what are you doing here, why are you even giving me the time of day, you were right to leave” and that alone already shows so much growth

(and mob, of course, forgives him, because he can see that reigen has learned his fuckin lesson now- honestly in the beginning of the arc reigen was waiting for mob to come to his senses so he could gloat but what really happened was reigen coming to his damn senses and mob going “i knew u had it in you :)” and i think that’s beautiful)

what i love about that analysis / modified translation is that it does a much better job getting across what a condescending piece of shit reigen was being before, and hammers home the weight of what this realization means to him, the full depth of it in context, the subtle nuances, just. everything. it’s so good. it’s so fucking good im #Blessed im living this is such incredibly valuable information @ op thank u???

In Conclusion reigen arataka invented character development, the separation arc saved my life, and that analysis made me immortal

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*second disclaimer: when i say reigen only cares about keeping mob to work for him, im just talking about like. his base motivation. if he really was a heartless asshole who didn’t care about mob at all, the events of the separation arc wouldn’t have had any effect on him- he would’ve just gone on being bitter about his most valuable asset ditching him over what he saw as a small argument

i think that initially, back when they first met, reigen was only concerned with the thought of “oh shit i could make a fortune off this kid” (because before he found out about his powers he was annoyed & trying to get rid of him lol) but as time went on he grew a soft spot for him that eventually turned into actually caring about him, but it’s more of a subconscious thing; he doesn’t actually realize how much he cares about mob until he leaves, which is why it hits him so hard when he finally does realize

it’s not a random epiphany, either; it builds over the course of the entire arc, starting when mob stops showing up for work. reigen isn’t prepared to suddenly have that absence in his life, and he’s definitely not ready to confront the possibility (read: fact) that he’s in the wrong. so he pushes all the blame onto mob, convinces himself that he’s just overreacting and that he’ll come crawling back in no time, because mob needs him, he needs him. as far as reigen is convinced, mob doesn’t have anyone else to go to besides him, his sole mentor in life, so in the end it doesn’t even matter if reigen was shitty to him (which, of course, he definitely wasn’t) because mob has no other choice but to return in the end

then of course that all flies out the window when reigen sees mob with his friends in public and it blows his entire goddamn mind and he’s forced to acknowledge the fact that okay, so maybe mob does have friends, and even more, he’s having a good time with them?? he’s not completely floundering without reigen or obsessively thinking about him 24/7 consumed with the question of when things will go back to normal????

and reigen just cannot face that reality, that he’s not the hot shit he thought he was to mob, that his absence has literally zero effect on him, that he’s the only one falling apart over this, so he shoves it all aside and distracts himself with work. throws himself into his work, fuels himself with burning spite and dedicates every waking hour to proving that no, i don’t need him either, if he can get along fine without me then i can do a thousand times better without him holding me back. that’s what he tells himself, and that’s what he believes, but the whole thing is nothing more than one huge distraction, big enough to cover the giant absence suddenly gaping within him like a tarp thrown over so he doesn’t have to look at it, because he doesn’t want to look at it, he wants nothing to do with it

and that works, for a while. he gets wrapped up in success and fame and probably even manages to forget about mob for a little while- until everything comes crashing down and he hits the lowest point in his career, maybe even his life (definitely, from a writing standpoint, his story arc). only then do his thoughts return to mob, and only then does everything hit him in full force. everything he’s been holding back, everything he’s refused to admit, and then some- feelings he never even knew about in the first place but that he realizes were there all along

most importantly, he finally accepts that he was in the wrong and that he has no one to blame for this entire disaster but himself

and that’s where the change begins

(basically, reigen has cared about mob the whole time but he’s a dumbass and didn’t realize it so he just kept treating him the way he always has until mob got himself tf out of there and gave him the biggest wake up call of his life #goodnight arataka)

[courage-a-word-of-justice]

Rokuhoudou 1 - 12 (REWATCH) | Fruits Basket 25 (FINAL) | Demon Slayer 25 - 26 (FINAL) | Mob Psycho 100 II OVA | Cop Craft 11 - 12 (FINAL) | Dr Stone 11 | Ahiru no Sora 1 | Shinchou Yuusha 1

New anime of the season, here we go!

Rokuhoudou 1 (REWATCH)

I’m doing a new project where I rewatch some of my favourites to test their integrity in that regard. Here’s the first show - Rokuhoudou. So what I remember about Rokuhoudou is that it’s very simple – the guys make food and help people, occasionally there’s cats – and that was enough to help me through a mental rough patch I was going through at the original time of airing.

Being sick and watching with a cinnamon roll really brings home the idea of Rokuhoudou as “comfort food for the eyes”…No, it’s not what you think. I’m eating a cinnamon roll.

I always assumed the title was translated to “Four-Coloured Daily Life at Rokuhoudou”, because that would be the best translation if the title was fully in kanji. It’s not though, so the hiragana-rendered parts could mean anything.

Rokuhoudou almost gives you this sensation of being spirited away by good food (and Good Boys).

Sui sometimes reminds me of Kunikida (BSD)…must be the glasses.

Gure’s such a tease, LOL.

Tokitaka’s so refined, yet also has the heart and patience to help old people, plant things and make pottery. I love him~!

“You don’t need to show appreciation with bodily functions!”

I only just noticed it…but Gure has a nice eye colour.

Oh…I just realised this since I now know Tokitaka grows the veg and herbs out back, but Tokitaka must’ve grown them.

Hmm…I was wondering why you’d need a spoon for chazuke, but then I realised it’s because of the soup…D’oh.

I wonder if Tokitaka also made the chopstick holders…

Update: The ikura reminds me of Hinamatsuri…

Rokuhoudou 2 (REWATCH)

(Sorry, I had a note, but I didn’t write it down fast enough so I don’t have any for this ep…)

Rokuhoudou 3 (REWATCH)

Tokitaka has a flower in his hair (during the pottery wheel scene)…cute~!

Rokuhoudou 4 (REWATCH)

“You need to chill out.” – More like “you need to calm down”, amirite??? (LOL)

Look at how badass my bois are!

Now that I’ve been seriously working on my customer service skills, I sort of get the ethic behind the Rokuhoudou workers in general.

Rokuhoudou 5 (REWATCH)

Oyaji ga Susumeru Café Iko! – “The Old Guy Recommends Cafes to Go To!”, literally speaking. However, it’s quite slang and seems to be hinting at the positive connotations of an oyaji (fondness, the sort you’d have for your dad), so I approve of the chosen translation “Daddy-o’s Café Go!”.

Oh yeah…this is the weird delusion from Isago, isn’t it? I still rmembr writing a blog post about it!

Why does Tokitaka look so evil in this one scene (where he’s helping Tsubaki), anyway?

Rokuhoudou 6 (REWATCH)

(no notes, sorry!)

Rokuhoudou 7 (REWATCH)

(no notes, sorry!)

Rokuhoudou 8 (REWATCH)

I love how Gure gets all fired up just to pedal a duck boat.

Is it just me, or does young!Gure look like he was designed by Rihito Takarai (creator of Ten Count)…?

I can’t believe this…my stomach grumbled in the middle of an espresso episode…

“Who else could it be for?” – The dog?...I’m kidding, man…don’t get so angry at me, dog lovers.

I think this might be the 2nd time I thought the kid was called “you” (2nd person pronoun), but his nam is “You” (given name).

Oh! I don’t think I noticed this special ED the first time around.

Update: Gure is a happy drunk, LOL. Also, Gure is half-Italian, with his father being Japanese. (see ep. 1 of original watch-through for corresponding notes)

Rokuhoudou 9 (REWATCH)

Is the land of love France or Italy…?

Shinchosha is real…in fact, they’re the ones who publish Rokuhoudou’s manga!

Oh, seriously, I ship it now! Isago x Hayashi, that is…and Sui x kittens.

Update: Somehow I only just ralised it…but the titular “Mont Blanc Boy” is Tsunozaki, even though technically the only boys we see in this episode are young! Kyousui and Yakyou.

Rokuhoudou 10 (REWATCH)

The Napolitan episode…this is where Astral’s post comes from.

I get the feeling this segment’s title is a shoutout to “You Don’t Know Gunma Yet”, which is in…Kurage Bunch, also by Shinchosha, if I’m remembering correctly.

Gure and Tsubaki are like children sometimes, I swear…

Kuromitsu = brown sugar. (It means “black sweetness”, literally translating and it used to confuse me so much that I want to mention it here.)

VAINO computer, eh?

Tokyo NX, LOL. (Parody of Tokyo MX, which has a lot of anime.)

Short-haired Tokitaka!

I think Koto(ko…?)’s words, in particular, were one of the best monologues in this series when it comes to relaxing by realising I wasn’t alone in my doubts of the world. “Can I make it to my dreams?” I was asking the first time I saw this and even though I haven’t achieved the dreams of past me, I just had to adjust my expectations, make some new dreams and keep on going.

Rokuhoudou 11 (REWATCH)

Good heck, Gendo-I mean, Kyousui. (re: finger tenting)

Also, there is one univeral truth about this show: don’t watch it on an empty stomach…I had to go get some food a few eps. back in this rewatch because my stomach grumbled…

When I thought of “something rich”, I thought of a pudding too. Maybe my memory is better than I thought, huh?

I thought there was something dirty on my screen…turns out it was just Gure’s beauty spot.

Rokuhoudou 12 (FINAL, REWATCH)

“I’ll wake you up, then.”

I learnt this from the manga, but Itou is the old tea vendor.

Gin-chan reminds me of the inventor Logicalist from Hina Logi.

Karamimochi. By the way, from earlier in the ep…ankoro mochi.

Neneko was meant to be into kimonos, wasn’t she…?

Nion (sic) camera, LOL.

Okay, that’s the end of my first rewatch. It’s a keeper!

Fruits Basket 25 (FINAL)

Shihan = shisho = instructor.

Notice the Jizo, protector of children.

“…didn’t have to block…”

LOL, Tohru’s shocked face going from Kyo to Yuki.

Ooh, Makoto Takei and Machi Kuragi…

Isuzu!!!

Okay, that’s the end of that. See you next time!

Demon Slayer 25

So the other butterfly mansion girls (aside from Aoi, Shinobu and Kanao) are called Naho, Kiyo and Sumi, huh?

Tanjiro is seemingly a freakin’ masochist right now to those girls…

Ooh, there’s a butterfly in a chrysalis on the title card!

It seems, based on the kanji for Tsuguko, the word literally means “inheritor”, “successor” or “one who makes [another person’s role flourish by being in it]”…Like a Legacy Character from TV Tropes. Also, “Tsuyuri” literally means “chestnut flowers fall”, if I understand the characters right.

Kanao does the Naruto run. She wants to see them aliens too!

“Putting in effort isn’t my thing.” – Now there’s a sentence after my own heart!

Why does Kanao not talk???

Kanao’s coin says “front” and “back” instad of heads and tails.

Hmm, hmm…very heterosexual reading of Kanao here. It almost makes me lose hope in the “gay Shinobu” department (not that I’m angry about that).

This guy with the hat…I swear he looks like a jellyfish…

Why do all the swordsmiths wear that mask???

There’s one thing I realised this episode…anime humour means I expect exaggerated reactions to a lot of things, such as Inosuke chipping his swords like that.

I remember being a bit annoying about the interchangeability between the translation of honoo as “fire” and “flame” when I was a Boueibu rookie...*sighs happily* good times.

Okayyyyyy…Tanjiro’s gone cuckoo…

Nezuko, Inosuke and Zenitsu, huh? There’s a combo I’ve never seen!

Mob Psycho 100 OVA

Isekai hot springs, LOL.

I think I can see Saitama’s bald head, LOL.

I think there might be CGI on this hot springs establishment…

This is Reigen, king of bulls*%$, everyone!

Nanbanzuke.

“[P]air of plumbers”, eh…?

Ooh, 8-bit graphics! Remember season 2’s early scenes? That 8-bit one was good.

Dude, Reigen…just leave the train already…then you’ll get out.

LOL, “Mobpis”...Mobpis 100, maybe?

Strangely, Teru looks vaguely hot in one frame of one scene where he has his eyes closed.

Why do I get the feeling the capybaras on TV will be relevant later…?

Now, this parallel world brings a new meaning to “Infinity Train”!

Nice callback to the opening words of s1 and 2.

…and randomly, Dimple can be seen in the red waves.

It seems Dimple likes sprouting legs these days.

Cop Craft 11

Tourte’s career…almost sounds like Trump’s…

“No one treats me like an alien.”

Don’t bring a sword to a gun fight, Tilarna…

The name “transitional crises” is perfect for this episode…geesh. Just like episode 1, there’s a cliffhanger.

Dr Stone 11

Notice the focus on E=mc2 when Senku talks about passing on knowledge.

Ahh, science…the cliché says it’s for loners, but truth be told, science works in tag teams just like anything else. (Yes, even IT, if you look at it a certain way – such as how creating your code builds upon the people who built that code and the people who made the programs you code in.

Why do all the villagers have platform shoes anyway???

Demon Slayer 26 (FINAL)

Is that woman (not the Biwa player, the other one)…Muzan?! Update: Yes.

Genya…he got so tall in 2 years(ish)…poor Tanjiro. He’s fated to kill Kibutsuji, but he’s also fated to be short.

Does every girl in this series have to fall in love with Tanjiro?!?! (or be implied to be shippable with him, even Nezuko???) I obviously don’t like that kind of direction, as you can see.

Ah, Kanao speaks…for once.

I guess Nezuko has a really loud heart voice, to contrast Kanao’s tiny heart voice, so to speak.

How does Inosuke eat anything through the boar head if he’s taking it off all the time now to do things with his mouth???

Darn that ninja Giyu, leaving as soon as he feels sentimental. (LOL)

*starts yelling at top of lungs* MU-GEN TRAIN! (roughly to the tune of TM Network’s Love Train, which I heard about a few months before this)

I just realised Tanjiro’s probably never seen a train, considering the only transport he’s ever known is maybe a carriage/cart…or maybe just his legs.

As Zenitsu’s struggling to keep up with the train, I almost expect the Harry Potter theme to play and a flying car to appear in the distance…okay, I’m kidding about the car, but I did wish for a second the Harry Potter song would play. Nur-nurr-nur-nurrrrrr-nur-nurrrrrr-nurr…(or something)

Cop Craft 12 (FINAL)

“…taking the lead in the mayoral lead.” – That sounds redundant.

Hey! It’s that one Demon Slayer joke again! (i.e. Kei used his head.)

Dead Randall: too much for TV.

I still can’t believe they properly managed to incorporate the porn case into the finale…

I watched Hellsing today and all this “Sir Matoba” this and “Sir Matoba” that made me wonder…why is Integra a “Sir” as well…?

Zelada does look like Alucard in some senses…hmm.

I think the large bruise over Kei’s eye disappeared in one of the scenes…Now it’s just under his eye.

Wait, Tilarna has a sibling??? Wuh???

I like how they transitioned into the OP, but man…talk about a fast ending. That’s a Hellsing kinda ending fo’ sure. Oh well, see you next time.

Ahiru no Sora 1

New season, new faces, new series. Let’s get into it.

Man, this sparrow freaks me out…

Lyrics from the outset. This must be something special to warrant such a thing.

I always thought Kuzuryuu (“nine-headed dragon”, literally translating) was a cool surname to have! Or just a place name, in this case.

LOL, his name is Momohara (peach field).

The arcade machine says “fist” in the back.

Uh-oh…nothing ever goes right when a boy tries peeping into the girl’s locker room…

*sigh* The male gaze…geesh.

“What are you doing?!” (Nani yatterun da?!) doesn’t translate to “This isn’t the circus!”.

Oh right…Momo = 100, chi = 1000, haru = spring, aki = autumn.

Hey, Chiaki actually got Sora’s name right for once…

Basically everything I know about basketball is from Kuroko no Basuke, so…uh…Sora’s reminding me of Kuroko right now.

Shinchou Yuusha 1

I just call this “TUEEE” instead…don’t mind me. Obviously, my target here is Ume…y’know that, right?

Most of these gods and goddesses look suckish, but I wouldn’t mind an anime about the one with the long hair and Monkey King headband.

Ristarte’s already a bundle of fun…although her leg jiggling’s a bit annoying…

(mocking) There must be a downside to this, right, Listarte…?

Can we not with boob storage??? I bet no matter how big a woman’s knockers are, you can’t store anything between ‘em in real life! (I think we’d need an anime Mythbusters for something like that…make it happen, someone!)

YesyesyesyesYES! OOH, Ristarte, you sure know how to pick ‘em! The fact he’s over 180 cm in height is…well, it’s bad for trying to kiss him, but otherwise it’s just a cherry on the cake of smokin’ HOT!

“[F]ish story”??? You mean “fishy”, right? (Oh well, seems like synonyms work too…)

I…don’t quite get this song…but I think I saw a hot guy (might’ve been a woman, but I’d like it to be a man since there are already so many women in the OP as is) about halfway through the OP. It’s a real 2 for 1 bargain here, people. Update: Argh…that’s a woman after all…

Argh! *is suddenly sabotaged by one Ariadoa* If you’ve read the Spellbook, you’ll know one of my aliases is “Aria Noyed”. It just happens to be the same as an anime and manga already, but now I have it ruining my fun here too…

LOL, did you hear that “ba-bing!” acquistion sound when Rista produced the money?

To be honest, I think regular Seiya (with the purple-highlighted armour as you see here) looks pretty hot anyway (plus Ume’s voice, which I came for), so I think I have a lock-in for the season right here.

The sakuga in this show is way too good (according to all the cubes of soil I keep seeing)!

This ED is a pretty cool bop, yo.

[stuck-in-jelly]

Im bringing this back because if Mob Psycho 100 does not win at least one god damn award for animation I will go apeshit and that is a promise.

This season blew me away, I didn't think they'd do that I didnt think it was possible. Season 1 was beautiful but looking at it now with the whole Season 2 out, i have to say it was a HUGE improvement. Every episode had my jaw dropping to the floor

Right off the bat episode 1 hits us with this iconic and beautiful scene, the way the camera follows the broken pieces of papers before rotating around Mob, his aura surrounding the papers before rooming in on Emi's face

Episode 2 caught me off guard with its amazing fight scene between Dimple!Shinra and the dragger, the way they both move around each other in the forest and the erratic movement of the dragger

Episode 3 have a great narrative and of tumblr wasn't a bitch about photo limitations I'd show all the impressive shots from the creepers movements to the rotation around the clients room but I love the ghost family scene. We saw a glimpse of a human ghost on the verge of turning into an evil spirit

Episode 4 oh boi the whole Mogami arc is full with some of the best animation of the series by far and this episode got the short end of the stick aND THAT'S SAYING SOMETHING.

Episode 5 I literally can not talk about this episode enough. Everything about the Mogami episode blew me away and the animation didn't disappoint but I won't take up more space so here is a separate post on it

Episode 6 the symbolism and parells in this episode are the main charms to it, again here is a seprate post so there is more room for the rest

Episode 7 "I've known all along. My master is a genuinly good guy" need I say more? The whole animation of this was great and heart breaking I loved the shot from inside the cameras recording Reigen zooming out to his face. But the best shot in my opinion: That transition shot from when Mob was a child looking for comfort in Reigen to Mob returning that same comfort when he is older

Episode 8 I knew what was coming. I read the manga and was waiting for it. Despite that I dropped my phone in horror and covered my mouth. That ending scene. Mob's expression of pure horror and disbelief as he walks through the flames and into his burning home. His reaction to what he thought were his families burning corpses, his bones cracking and eyes flashing as ???% emerged gave it a whole new layer that made ???% seem even more other worldly

Episode 9 there isnt much to say about this episode but there were MANY good shots, mainly with Teruki and his fight with Shimazaki. However their rematch was EVEN BETTER. So I'll hold off on this one

Episode 10- Dimple Mob makes a come back and as usual his shots are same impressive, the wave the frame follows the first and then he dosges last mintue and contuines to do this amazing flips. And then the iconic Musahi protecting Mob and then Dimple! Musashi coming out to battle, a nice fight scene and impressive!! (Though the muscles bothered me to no end)

Episodr 11- This episode oh my gosh, there were too many good scenes to list but Shimazaki vs Everyone has to be one of my favourite fight scenes ever, the way all the characters move they move in the heat of the moment, they were impulsive as they fough for their lives and the animation that carried that sentiment was amazing beyond words (again another seprate post on this) and more than that, Shou vs his father also had some impressive damn shots, when Shou fired the energy he had been storing up for 3 months, the colors and his aura all sparked  

Episode 12 Serizawa's expressions and movements were all amazing, the way he actually holds back, and his aura were all beautifully animated. And Mob's 100% friendship was so soft and pure

Episode 13- Everything about this epsiode oh my gosh, the final battle in the air was spectacular; the way Mob moved, the senery, the color, explosions, etc. The contrast from when Mob experienced 100% estacy and the sky was a dark red with crumbling buildings to when Mob went through 100% sadness, his arms to his chest and said "sorry" before it cuts to the large skyscrapers rush past him agaisnt a lighter sky, that was beautiful. Then Mob’s 100% kindness when he sits down with Touchi and the barrier surrounds them it is a clear white surrounded in a rainbow.

I honestly have hundreds of more gifs of stunning shots this season has brought us, there are too many to list. This anime contuines to surprise me again and again, you can see the passion in their work and its beautiful. It'd be a shame to see this masterpiece not get an award

(Re: anime awards post (AcePsychic is my sideblog)) I was completely shocked that MP100 lost to Yuri!! On Ice in best animation category. I mean, I totally get why the popularity of YOI influenced the numbers and allowed it to win, and I did enjoy YOI a lot, but Mob just had so much more. Between the inventive and dynamic shots, using techniques like paint on glass and extremely sketchy lines, and the simple art style being readable and also extremely expressive, MP100 is groundbreaking there.

Okay.

You are so close to making me pull out an entire chart and explain my opinion but yes!

I agree Yuri! On Ice had amazing animation, however I feel their award lies primarily on their choreography

Beautiful of course it’s amazing how they capture of the movements of figure skaters and make it more dynamic. And the OP? Beautiful. I can not and will not argue that YOI didn’t deserve to be an applicant for the award.

Nevertheless, I still believe Mob Psycho 100 should have gotten the award because it brings what other animes do not have and that is PRESENTATION

Mob Psycho’s style is erractic: loud, colorful, bright, and full of weight. Every other shot feels full and rounded despite “sketchy” scenes

While YOI follows a beautiful and calm aesthetic, MP100 just goes with raw emotion in what it feels expressed in an explosion of visuals and colors.

The characters are drawn in a simplistic way yet it blends in beautifully with the incredible details and attention to dynamic shots as you mentioned before.

Overall it is is a beautifully animated show with attention to detail and staging, for that I truly and wholeheartly believe MP100 should have won

[sandflakedraws]

AH!

ALRIGHT ALRIGHT, now that I’ve posted the rest of my draws from this AU, I’m gonna blab about a shitton of things. Strap urself in, ur gettin more than u bargained for.

The linchpin of this au is based on two points:

- Mogami is someone who likes to ‘play with their food’. (read: testing the knife slicing reigen’s fingers in chap 8)

- “It’s easier to possess someone while they’re in shock.”

   This is why Reigen knows about Mob in this AU. Mogami lets Reigen’s consciousness through just enough to show him that he’s being used to keep a kid in the basement. Mogami would show Reigen smth like, having a conversation about Mob’s barrier, using Reigen’s mouth to talk to him through the shut basement door. //Mob himself is completely oblivious to Reigen, only ever sensing Mogami’s aura, and not much else.

   The more emotionally shocked/unstable the host, the easier it is to possess them, and the stronger the hold is. And for Reigen, nothing is worse than knowing that his body has been used to dispose of Tetsuo, and to keep Mob isolated and falsely afraid of himself in this hell house. Plus he’s basically powerless to stop it, only ever fully in control of himself when he’s chained to the bed, Mogami’s corpse only a few feet away.

   Does Mogami need to do this in order to possess Reigen? no. Does he simply entertain himself doing it? motherfucker. Aside from cutting Reigen’s hair and shaving his beard to keep up the barest of appearances for the store clerks, Mogami’s care of Reigen’s body is about the same as his care for Mob’s body.

   Long year for salt man and Mob alike. Reeeeeal long year.

Some other thoughts no one brought up, but I’ve considered it often so here it is anyways:

- How come it takes so long to get through the post if the wood is old?

- Why does Mogami let Reigen saw all the way through it?

   All of the other posts on the bed have notches on them. Mogami would let Reigen get to a certain point in the wood, then move him to a different one. Again, Mogami likes playing with his food. He’s entertained by Reigen’s despair in having to start over, that he may never succeed. 

   Reigen’s on the 4th notch in this comic, which means Mogami can’t rotate them anymore. So Reigen gets through. But-! This is still allowed by Mogami, who still intends to use this to fuck with him. Like “alright let’s watch this play out a bit, then i’ll just swoop in and possess it and attach the chain somewhere else, that’ll really be fun.”

   Here, Reigen literally does not know about the blood activation of his tags. He’s just so desperate to get Mob and Get Out that he writes the tag with the only thing he has immediately available.

   In the latest comic, Reigen’s in bad shape. Like, hovering around death’s door kind of shape (which is why he can see Tetsuo and catch him up on the situation, mind ya). It’s not explicitly shown, but before the placebo effect takes place for Mob, Reigen’s chest gets the shred treatment a la chap 9 spirit tags. Reigen just bears through it because he knows that he has to convince Mob that he’s okay for the barrier to actually do no harm. And he succeeds. The ‘scruffiness’ you’re seeing in his face later is because he’s pushing his body to every limit possible.

   Originally, I was gonna have Reigen reach the station and turn himself in for murder, but sorry salt man I changed my mind. You can’t turn yourself in for murdering Tetsuo if you are Tetsuo, who can competently explain the situation to everyone in the force. Like the only reason the police will be okay in this AU is because they Trust Tetsuo, and because Isa’s a force to be reckoned with (even an emotionally devastated Isa).

The irony about all of this… Mogami killing Tetsuo in such an awful way, torturing Reigen with the knowledge that he’s holding a child hostage, the decision to play mind games with him instead of just chaining him to something he can’t grind through… Is exactly what leads to them all getting free, getting some semblance of closure.

[eyedelater]

post About chapter 97.13

let’s start with translation notes

uhh first of all, i’m only noticing long after the fact (just now) that mrs. kageyama’s “you should eat more than that” line is probably more like “you should at least eat a little something” (followed by “if you want to get better.” that part of the sentence i got right.) like, mob probably isn’t, you know, eating any amount of food as she’s saying that. ahh do i care enough to go back and fix it...? not really...???

the chapter title for all of chapter 97 has been “ekubo wa,” which i had translated as “dimple is.” but now that that sentence is finally being completed, it turns out that the title should have been “dimple was,” as in, the last sentence of the chapter. because although the “wa” particle is the approximate equivalent of “is” in english, it isn’t the part that changes when you change tense-- in this case, what changes is the copula at the end of the sentence. so the “ekuba wa” was translated with the assumption that the sentence would end with the present tense copula “desu” or “da” (well, probably “da”), but it turned out to be the past tense copula “datta.” SO NOW IT’S KIND OF IMPOSSIBLE TO TRANSLATE THE FACT THAT THE “DIMPLE IS” TITLE OF THE CHAPTER IS THE BEGINNING OF THE SENTENCE “DIMPLE WAS A FRIEND.” like, there was no way i or anyone could have predicted that the sentence would be past tense, because you only learn the tense of the verb at the end of the sentence. thanks a lot, SOV word order

mob does not verbatim sniffle or sob in the last panel of the chapter; he’s just crying in a way that, upon direct transliteration, would probably not be clearly interpreted by english language readers as crying. (he’s going “hugu-... u-... uuu~...”). so i wanted to make it clear that he’s crying... so i went with a counterfeit sniffle... feels cheesy, but i hope it got the point across...

reigen’s line in the omake is like, an order of magnitude more complex than i made it, and even now i’m not 100% sure exactly what he was saying, but i got at least the gist of it

the only time i feel compelled to typeset translations of the sound effects is when they’re kind of necessary to understand what’s going on and you can’t guess what they are by context. so i was kind of thinking i should do something about the 4 pages of nothing but sound effects in this chapter. BUT I DIDN’T. because mostly they’re just uninterpretable battle/impact sounds, as you might expect. if you don’t know kana and are up for (what i think would be) kind of a fun puzzle, use a kana chart to figure out what the sound effects in this chapter say. you’ll be like “...doba?” (oh and it looks like all the sfx in this chapter are conveniently katakana :0 usually it’s an unpredictable mix of both)

in this chapter i replaced a couple of ritsu’s utterances of “nii-san” with “you” because he was using it as second-person pronoun to address his brother and the only way to directly translate that would be to have ritsu talking about his brother in the third person right in front of him (”nii-san, look at the news, it’s incredible!! nii-san isn’t doing this, right?!”) and that just doesn’t sound natural in english. but rest assured that ritsu is always saying nii-san nii-san

and now some not-translation notes

we got a callback to ritsu’s tv-watching “that wasn’t my brother” line with this chapter’s frantically relieved “that’s not my brother! definitely not this time, because he’s right here, haha!!” scene. the kageyama brothers have come a long way

mob’s brainwashed goodbye to dimple was truly heart-wrenching, as was the end of the chapter. HOWEVER. i always stick to my policy that “a character isn’t dead until you see their dead-ass dead body in canon.” of course, that doesn’t apply to a ghost, but it’s the principle that counts-- don’t just accept apparent character death at face value. here’s why dimple isn’t necessarily gone forever:

the floating of the broccoli. would a broccoli float itself? i doubt it! plus we saw that avatar of psycho helmet disintegrate. doesn’t it seem like dimple defeated the broccoli’s psyche and is now off to sink the broccoli in the ocean, according to the plan mob told him? even if that Fully exhausts the last of his Divine Power, it’s not the same as exorcism, so he wouldn’t disappear at the end of it. he’d just have to regain enough power to make the trip back to mob.

(if dimple is sinking the broccoli into the ocean, i hope he does it slowly. don’t make a tidal wave, ok?)

if dimple is gone as of now, wouldn’t people have already regained their erased memories...? 

mob asked dimple to wait a week before coming back to his house, and dimple didn’t say no. at least give him a week before you start jumping to conclusions

ritsu brings up an idea re: dimple that i guess i hadn’t quite thought about before: dimple as a source of knowledge. dammit, why hasn’t there been more asking dimple about this and that?! i bet ritsu has asked him about lots of stuff behind the scenes... only mob would be close friends with a literal ghost and never once ask him things like “know any cool ghost secrets?” “how’s that afterlife?” “were you alive once or what?” “what’s the nature of psychic power?” “where’s your ears?” etc. dimple is kind of a chatterbox, he’d totally answer!

when psycho helmet ate dimple and then imploded i was like “so dimple was red and green for the sake of aposematic coloration to signify that he’s distasteful to predators...” but then it’s like wait, a) green isn’t a good color for aposematic coloration because that’s the color of plants, b) even the red on his cheeks is only reminiscent of edible things like fruit since it’s on a background of green, and c) broccoli isn’t a predator

ritsu’s turtleneck

i saw someone on twitter saying “this would be the perfect moment for ritsu to offer up a [if there’s anything bothering you, you can talk to me, nii-san], but he didn’t!” and i sort of almost agree, but i think it’s more like ritsu noticed that he was the one doing all the talking and mob just wanted to sleep, so he retreated.

[whentvsfly]

u should answer all 20 of the mob psycho ask meme things jsust DO it u peice of fuck....

Fuck you, I will.

1: What is a scene that really got to you?In the anime, probably either the flashback to when Mob went ???% when he was young (I love the Angst™), or when Mob nearly goes 100% murderous intent and then instead goes like, 1000% gratitude. In the manga, the entirety of the fuckin Mogami arc (the part with the cat like Holy Shit) nearly made me cry, and I barely cry at things anymore. So like. That.

2: Who’s your favorite character out of the cast?I….love so many……..They’re all so good. All the esper kids are Good, Reigen is a good man, the Body Improvement Club members….Tome and Mezato…..fuck, even Dimple. I can’t choose…

3: Who’s your favorite esper kid?Mob, Ritsu, Teru, and Shou are all my sons thank you very much. I can’t decide between them. Mob is a Good Boy™ who needs a fucking break holy shit. Ritsu is a little shitsu but he cares a lot about his bro and I cry and he’s good too. Teru is also a shitty boy and also he wants to do good and I cry for him (I’m his parent now cause idk wtf his actual parents are, ONE plz explain). And Shou is a good but destructive boy who deserves better. 

4: Who’s your favorite ship(s)?I….really like Ritsu and Shou, and was kinda indifferent to anything else, until @pundeserving​ (and fanfics) ((thanks u fuck)) showed me the beauty of Teruki and Mob. Also???? I kinda like Tome and Mezato?????? They could like find aliens and report it to the news and honestly they’d be a power couple.

5: What battle shook you most?Uhm. The one at the end of the World Domination arc. So many emotions…..

6: What friendship do you find the cutest?Literally any with Mob. He’s such a good boy.

7: What’s the most hilarious moment to you?gotTA PUMP SOME IRONsorry duDE TOUGH BREAKwoAH ITS HEAVY okletsgo(pff other than so many lines from the dub, uh, I’m not too sure. Right now I can only think of how funny the whole situation with that Shirt™ in the Divine Tree arc is, and like the school festival in which for like a panel Ritsu is forced to dress like a maid and Shou is there. NO WAIT. I KNOW. Justifiable Self Defense. We’re not too sure it’s justifiable, but he’s yelling it anyways. also: OOHHH. HE FUCKING APPEARED! There’s probably others. I can’t remember them rn. OH well, guess I better reread the manga…..).

8: Favorite and least favorite arc?hmmmmm….The angst pit inside of me wants to say my fave is the Mogami arc, because of how fucking sad it could be (or the way it can spawn fics about it like nobody’s business) but honestly I don’t really have any favorites or least favorites. They all have their pros and their cons, but they’re all really good. 

9: Which antagonist could you never forgive?Mogami. Hands down. 

10: Do you have any OC’s?Nope. But there is an oc I saw once on this hellsite which was a cat named Milk that Mob owns and I fully support that hah.

11: Did you watch the anime or read the manga first?Anime. Subbed. Then went for the manga, then to the dub hah.

12: Would you visit Spirits and Such Consultation Office (if you didn’t know any better)?Hm. I dunno. Probably would be too lazy to seek out help if I thought a spirit would be on me or smth, or haunting a place. Maybe if it was Real Bad.

13: Are there any specific MP 100 artists/writers you admire?Uhm. Idk, I tend to not actually look at who is the OP on an art post or who writes a fic. I’ll edit this if I find out some good ones (there’s one artist I’m thinking of on here and they do real good arts, they do comics based on fics (one was on this court thing where Mob was dead by Teruki’s hand b/c the choking thing, the other was on an au fic where Mob was kidnappeped and Reigen ended up rescuing him and they hadn’t met before that idk I have yet to read it myself) and there’s a fic on ao3 that I am always waiting for the next installment, even if it’s been 20 seconds since I read the last chapter. That story’s linked below, and you can see other authors I’ve linked too).

14: Are there any MP 100 fanfics you HAVE to rec?(this answer is So Long I am So Sorry I just have A Lot Of Love)Ohhhh boy. You’ve done it now. You’ve awakened the Beast™. Fanfics are my forte. I’ve gone through all of them on ao3. Don’t fuckin test me on this.Ok so first off, if you want all the stories I’ve gathered off of ao3 (My picking process: Ignoring all stories with incest or an adult x a kid (or ships I don’t particularly care for), is the fic well written with a good plot? then onto the list it goes. Or if its bad enough to be good. That too.) you can just ask me for the fics and I can either share the googledoc with you or send you the links in another way.Some of my favorites from the list, tho, are as follows (in order of which I read them):Color in a Monochrome Worldby Sifl is a really good introspective series on many different characters, set after the World Domination arc. Sifl also wrote a companion piece, Vertigo.Extracurricular Education is a series by entrenched about Shigeo and his growth as he works for Reigen. It’s real cute, they’re good bros, I love it. A few stories takes place after the Mogami arc and reference it.Turning Slowly by sorrow_key is a fic about how Shigeo knows what unrequited love feels like b/c of Tsubomi, so he can see through Teruki really easily. He feels like a liar pretending to not notice. (eventually becomes TeruMob), My notes say if you’re in the divine tree arc, then you’ll get any references made in the fic. Can’t remember what’s said, but it must reference something in that arc for me to have wrote that.One Step Forward, Two Steps Back by fireflysummers_ao3 is a fic in which Teru feels terrible after the Divine Tree arc (this was made before 97.uh. the chapter that came out this last Thursday, the 5th of Jan, so it may not be as accurate as it could be) and Shigeo just wants to be friends and help him out. After Divine Tree arc.Temporary Accommodations by Originia is an interesting fic where, through shenanigans, Shigeo’s body is kidnapped without his like, spirit thingy in it (using the strategy from the Mogami arc) and Reigen tries to rescue Shigeo (which Dimple is possessing in Mob’s absence). I fucking love Ritsu in this story holy shit.The Adventure of the Red Shoes by dyingplatypus. Ho. Ly. Fuck. If you only read one story, read this one. It’s funny, it’s quirky, it’s in character. It’s solving a paranormal case about haunted shoes, and Reigen being cursed. It feels like it could be an actual happening in the anime or something. Seriously. Read this one. It has a little reference to the World Domination arc cause Serizawa is in there but like. You could proooobably read it without reading the manga.He Just Likes Dogs by reiqenarataka nearly made me fucking cry in a dentists office. It’s about Reigen and dogs, what more could you want?Signed, Sealed, Delivered by entrenchedis a series centered around Teruki and his crush on Shigeo, even as Shigeo crushes on Tsubomi. He would rather never tell Mob and continue being friends, over risking their friendship by confessing.do make tomorrow a sunny day by dyingplatypus is a series based off an au I mention in the next question. The AU is one in which Shigeo is taken by Claw at a young age, and thus works for them currently. Ritsu grew up without a brother, only knowing he had a brother at some point who presumably died. Both Shou and Shigeo are a part of Claw and work for it, and things Shigeo took care of during the normal universe didnt happen. (LOL) is a growing and powerful cult, Teru still wants to fight people. There’s many different perspectives in the series and they all add up to a unique experience (I’m still real fuckin amused by what Teru thinks of Shigeo in the first chapter of his POV fic)tomorrow isn’t always another day by suitablyskippy is another good fic on par with The Adventure of the Red Shoes. It’s also quirky, funny, in character, and shows Shigeo and Reigen solving cases. Of a haunted copy machine. Which Mob is preeeetty sure they solved yesterday. And the day before. And the day before that….Three by Ravenesta is an outsider POV story from a teacher’s perspective, on Shigeo Kageyama and his mysterious third emergency contact, Reigen Arataka. It’s pretty cool, and shows some good shit. Return. Continue. by UncannyCookie. A series. Takes place after Mogami arc, Shigeo isn’t doing too well, hands feeling too itchy and wrong after he was driven to choking someone in that unreal world. It’s bad. He’s fine. Teru tries his best to help. The second story, though, Teru is acting weird and Shigeo wants to help him but he swears he’s fine. (also has some of my fave tags: “Teru is not a natural blond, that’s the real drama here”). This is the fic I find myself waiting for updates with bated breath. It’s so good and interesting. Love that shit.

15: Do you have a favorite AU?I don’t know of too many aus, but most are real good. I like the art I see of the ageswap thing, where Mob is the adult and Reigen is the kid, although I don’t tend to read the fics about it. Idk why. But there are other good aus too, like any where Mob ends up being raised by Reigen. There’s an interesting one on ao3 I saw where Mob was taken by claw at a young age and now kinda like…works for them? Idk. It’s good though. 

16: What would be your first or basic psychic skill (telekinesis, pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, ect)?Honestly telekinesis. I’d fuckin own that shit, being too lazy to get up and grab things myself. I’d probably be like, hah, my pop is on the table literally inches from my hand. If only I could just float it over to myself! And then it does and I’d be like Holy Shit. Also, using telekinesis on yourself (if it’s strong enough) allows you to basically fly? I’d train til it’s that level and then I would be the least athletic person in existence. 

17: Do you like milk?I really like strawberry milk. I only have normal milk if I dip a cookie in it. Sometimes chocolate is ok too. And I only really have whole milk cause it tastes the best.

18: What headcanons do you have for (character)?I mean u didn’t provide a character uhm. There’s so many. Me and @pundeserving​ have been talking and whenever I come up with some headcanon I tell her and she may or may not add it to her headcanon list. Usually she does. It’s very good and if you wanna hear some shit about a certian character feel free to ask abt them specifically.

19: Would you hone your basic psychic skill or try to learn different ones?Both? If possible? I’d like to get my telekineses to a point where I can move myself with little to no effort, but having basic version of other powers would also be nice (like psychokinesis to light a candle or warm up some cold soup or smth)

20: Would you try to use your psychic powers for personal gain or only if you had to?I mean, if it’s (like i mentioned above) heating up soup, that’s kinda personal gain hah no but seriously if it’d unfairly advantage me above other people (in a sport or something) or harm someone else, I wouldn’t do it. I’d use it for little things like retrieving something that’s out of reach or smth, or if worse comes to worse, to protect my friends or family,  if there are no other viable options.