#murai in love

[sunnnfish]

the seratonin brothers. coming to you live from my whiteboard

[eyeslemontea]

my friend made me watch this gag anime with her recently, called Murai in Love/Murai no Koi. and I just want to say that the mc's friend, Kiriyama (more commonly known as Kiri), and Tashiro Gonzaburou from Sasaki to Miyano have got to be cut from the same cloth.

Here he is:

(isn't he beautiful? (*T^T))

they both have long dyed hair that they tie up and they both wear head bands!

of course, they're not the exact same. no two people are the same. but guess what? the mc outright says that Kiri has an "unusual level of insight". (doesn't that sound familiar?? (ФωФ))

also, just like Tashiro, Kiri isn't just this silly guy that we're initially shown. (he's probably the most serious character in the show, honestly (which I suppose isn't too difficult in a show where everything and everyone is unhinged)). like. he gives some great advice in one of the episodes, and in another he's Brutally Honest. he does not sugarcoat a thing. it's so good. he cares about mc so much. such a good friend.

another thing about him is that he's an artist! we don't really see him doing any art (thus far, anyway) but his room is like. full of paintings. this has nothing to do with Tashiro by the way. I just really really like characters who are artists.

if you couldn't tell, Kiri's my favourite character. just like Tashiro.

[ibelongtotheclassics]

Sharing some of my childhood + present anime & studio ghibli OTPs

*uwu* they’re so precious for meee 💖🎬🇯🇵

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Murai no Koi E09

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Murai In Love - ED

[sunnfish]

[ID: a digital illustration of Kiriyama Akifumi from Murai in Love. He's shown from the shoulders up, resting his head on his hand and sticking his tongue out. It's rendered in warm pinks, purples, and oranges, and the artist's signature "sunnfish" is written on his hoodie. /End ID]

figuring out how to draw him..... my best friend kiriyama....

[inbestigator]

 'Murai in Love'

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Murai in Love (2024) S01 E03

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[tetrix-anime]

Murai no Koi (Murai in Love) - New Key Visual and PV. Premiere:

Disney+: 4 September 2024

Regular Broadcast: 6 October 2024

[sunnnfish]

MURAI IN LOVE AUTHORS TWITTER DUMP. EVERYBODY LOOK.

links under the cut teehee

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First Impression: Murai in Love

24-year-old Ayano Tanaka is a very unusual high school teacher with a very unusual student. Known colloquially as the “Iron Mask” by her second-year students, she takes no crap from anyone—17-year-old Murai included. Although he is among the smartest students in the class, Murai is a strange kid who often proclaims his undying and earnest love for Tanaka. However, Tanaka shoots him down repeatedly, saying that there’s no way she could fall for a guy who looks like him, thinking this will finally put the kibosh on his foolishness. So naturally, to impress Tanaka, Murai chops his long dark locks and dyes them blonde, much to the shock of the student body. However, this has an unusual effect on Tanaka. As it turns out, our teacher is a closet otaku who loves otome (maiden) games, and in a further coincidence, Murai now looks like the character she’s crushing on—the warrior Hitotose from the game “Feudal Era Love Scroll.” So now our dear teacher must try to keep her fan girl emotions in check while trying to get it into the lovestruck Murai’s newly blonde head that marriage to her student is NOT in her deck of cards…even if he looks like a pretty boy from her favorite game. Cue the shenanigans!

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[generallemarc]

At least Anime News Network is up front about their blatant idiocy and double standards

This is one of Anime News Network's site-sanctioned(no site lets any paid employee post anything on said site that the owners do not themselves at least tacitly approve of) view of the new series Trillion Game, wherein the reviewer outright states "I hate this anime because I'm one of those idiots who whines about capitalism because I think that word means 'whenever something bad happens and we don't live in an economic utopia' and you're wrong if you think I should judge this anime by any other metric"

This same site had this same reviewer tackling the show Murai In Love, whose premise is "high school boy tries to make his teacher fall in love with him and this is supposed to be funny" and simply say say "it's fiction, so it's ok". So potential statutory rape is fine if it's just cartoons, but suddenly we need to be all up in arms about the animated billionaires living in animated highrises because of all the evil things they must've done to their animated employees to get those animated highrises? Go fuck yourself ANN. If all art is political, then what does it say about your site's culture, and the morality of this person in particular that you think this is an appropriate review of a show about two dudes trying to obtain a literally impossible amount of money for any individual to obtain(richest dudes in the world don't even have a quarter of that amount) but giving a pass to an impossible-to-legally-consent relationship because "it's just fiction"? There's this woman's priorities for you-eat the rich, but let the statutory rape show off the hook because it was funny and cute if you ignore that minor matter of children not having the ability to consent and the power dynamic that would be there even if this high schooler was 18, which he is not.

And just in case you think I'm exaggerating, here's the exact same "all art is political" bint giving mealymouthed justifications for why the show she'd be justifiably denouncing as grooming if the genders were reversed gets a pass on something objectively worse than what she threw her tantrum about in the Trillion Game review.

Underage relationships between high schoolers and teachers are a "cultural issue", but we need to lecture the readers about how all billionaires are inherently evil and that's why this anime is bad. "Fiction is fiction", but this entire review is going to focus on why these fictional rich people are monsters and the show is inherently bad because of it. So who should I listen to? Caitlin Moore, or Caitlin Moore? Or more specifically, should I listen to Caitlin Moore when she's mad about wealth not being depicted in the way her champagne socialism demands it must because "all art is political", or when she's making excuses for the most classic pedophile fantasy of "it's the child who's horny for the adult, they're the one who wants it the most!" because "fiction is fiction"?

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Murai no Koi E06

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Murai In Love - OP