#naru with yuka

[ukgk]

[mangacapsaicin]

yuka tatami’s picture of tears || 畳ゆかの『泣いたって画になるね』 

[edgeyberzerker]

Sketch dump! The last few pages of my sketch book where I tested out watercolour ground and how it reacts to different watercolours.

I had a lot of fun with these!

[randomlonelymusician]

LGBTQ Anime Tournament

Please look at the brackets to decide who you think your favorite could win against!!! Character not replacing someone will move on in their original bracket posistion.

Characters possibly being replaced:

Yui Yamada from Asagao to Kase-san

Tomoka Kase from Asagao to Kase-san

Yuka Ayukawa from Blue Period

[rarevariant]

[konjaku]

乙女椿[Otometsubaki] Camellia japonica f. otome

The name means the maiden camellia.

扨此首の出所に就て話がある。同じ陵陽の城内に呉某といふ御史が居て、今年十九になる娘がある。評判の美人だ。毎年一月十五日には日本と同じ樣に誰も彼もお閻魔樣の参詣に十王殿に往くので、其娘も遊びがてら参詣したが、不良靑年が一瞥して娘の跡を跟け、夜になつてから邸に忍󠄁び込󠄁み、娘の枕元に立つて「靜かになさい。僕は貴女をラブしてゐる、可いでせう。言通󠄁りになり給へ。聲を立てるとお互の利益になりませんよ」と說敎强盜もどきに、口說立てたが、怖がつてすくんで居る。暴行に及ぼうとすると「アレー誰か來て」と金切り聲を出し、力一ぱい拒んだので、男は無殘にも娘を殺して逃󠄂げた。時ならぬ叫び聲に母親は急いで手燭を持て來て見ると此始末。血潮に染んだ屍體は床に橫はり、一輪の乙女椿のやうに美しい首が落ちて居る。母親は腰を拔して了つた。

[Sate kono kubi no dedokoro ni tsuite hanashi ga aru. Onaji ryōyō no jōnai ni go nanigashi to iu gyoshi ga ite, kotoshi jūku ni naru musume ga aru. Hyōban no bijin da. Maitoshi ichigatsu tooka niwa nippon to onaji yō ni dare mo kare mo oenmasama no sankei ni jūōden ni yuku node, sono musume mo asobi gatera sankei shita ga, furyō seinen ga ichibetsu shite musume no ato wo tsuke, yoru ni natte kara yashiki ni sinobikomi, musume no makuramoto ni tatte, "Shizuka ni nasai. Boku wa anata wo rabu shite iru, ii deshō. Iu toori ni nari tamae. Koe wo tateru to otagai no rieki ni narimasen yo" to sekkyō gōtō modoki ni, kudokitateta ga, kowagatte sukunde iru. Bōkō ni oyobō to suru to "Arē dareka kite" to kanakirigoe wo dashi, chikara ippai kobanda node, otoko wa muzan nimo musume wo koroshite nigeta. Toki naranu sakebigoe ni hahaoya wa isoide teshoku wo motte kite miruto kono shimatsu. Chishio ni sonda shitai wa yuka ni yokotawari, ichirin no otometsubaki no yō ni utsukushii kubi ga ochite iru. Hahaoya wa koshi wo nukashite shimatta.] Now, here is a story about the source of this head. Within the area surrounded by castle walls of Yangling, there is a government spy named a certain Go, and he has a daughter who will turn nineteen this year. She is a renowned beauty. Every year on January 15, just like in Japan, everyone visits the Jūō-den(the hall dedicated to the ten deities) to pay homage to Yama(the king of hell), and when the girl also visits there partly for pleasure, a delinquent young man followed her at first sight, after nightfall, he crept into the house and stood by her bedside, "Be quiet. I love you, all right? Do as I say. It's not good for either of us if you speak up," tried to win her affections as if he were a preaching robber, but she is scared and shrugged. When he tried to assault her, she screamed, "Ah! Someone come!" and refused as best she could, so, cruelly, the man killed the girl and fled. Hearing the unexpected shriek, when she rushed with a portable candlestick, found it just like this. The blood stained corpse lies on the floor, and the beautiful head like a single otometsubaki is falling off. The mother was paralyzed with it. From 神技首のすげ替[Shingi kubi no sugekae](The superhuman skill: the replacement of the heads) by 野口 米次郎[Noguchi Yonejirō](The father of Noguchi Isamu) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yone_Noguchi Source: https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1279712/1/66 (ja)

[caramelmochacrow]

um. *taps mic* hello other yukaeso fans... uhhhh im planning a yukaeso week and i kind of need help with what sounds good and planning things (please help me...)

(put a cut bc im talking a lot and dont want to disturb people)

i originally wanted it to go from when peaky stormy story began (stormy link) and the event went from september 17 to 26. problem is the 17th is in the middle of the week. i could make it start from the 15th to the 21st or the 22nd to the 28th but they only stay in the event's runthrough for only five days.

another thing i could do (similar to naru//mitsu or sayo//tsugu) is use yuka and esora's full names with numeric substitution so i can figure out the first day of the week (here we go--)

9 in japan is sometimes pronounced as 'kyu' so it can make up the 'yu' of yuka. 5 in japan is pronounced as 'go' or 'ka' sometimes as well so yuka's name would be '95' or 'kyu-ka'. for her last name, it would be 335 or 'sa-sa-go'.

the english transliteration of 8 in japanese is 'eito', the closest thing i can get to 'eso'. 6 covers the other part of esora since it can also be read as ra. so her first name would be 86 or 'eito-ra'. (<- im stretching this i think) for her last name it would be 43 or 'shi-mittsu'. (shimizu)

so with all of these facts, the week can start at 9/8 (kyu-eito or yu[ka]eso) or 8/9 (eito-kyu or esoyu[ka]) if you want to go for their first names. for their last names (i think going for this is a bad idea to be honest with you) it would start at '3/4' (sa[sa]-shi), 4/5 (shi-go) or 3/3 (sa[sa]-mittsu).

the only dates that go on sunday is 9/8 and 3/3. if you want to go for monday, it would be 3/4 only. so, to me, it would be best to start at one of the sunday ones.

another fact i'd like to tell is the fact that esora's birthday is 9/9 so one of the prompts could be 'birthday'. (problem tho is that idk what to prompt i would pair it with)

also, speaking of prompts, ive already decided a 2 prompt pairs. (haven't decided what days they'll be or if theyre good)

summer and winter (summer bc of how summer-y these two are and winter bc of christmas being the important day of peaky)

ao to natsu and fuwafuwa time (solo covers about love, the first one being someone deciding to seek out the love they want while the other is them not knowing how to go about getting their love)

im not sure what. uh. stuff to pair up and also what would be good prompts (im not good at that....) so. yeah. that's all ive got.

the last day, i know, is gonna be a free day. so. i p much dont know what to do. im stuck. pls help.

[snowboyclarkov]

Beyblade Burst -> Corpse Party

A random thought, if the Beyblade Burst peeps were in a Corpse Party style situation, who from that series would they most be like. This contains every blader/non-blader I can think of from Burst, and the Corpse Party variant of a couple of my OCs. It is based on MBTI and Enneagram. Each Corpse Party person is the one that each blader is the closest to (or the same typing as) in these aspects. 44-51 is just based on vibes or something. Some of each verse won't be included.

Kristina Kuroda -> Azusa Takai

Rashad Goodman -> Kuon Niwa

Hidetaro Shinoda -> Yui Shishido

Naru Akabane -> Naomi Nakashima

Kana Akabane -> Yoshie Shinozaki

Ken Midori -> Sachiko Shinozaki

Ichika Kindo -> Mayu Suzumoto

Toko Aoi -> Yuki Kanno

Shasa Guten -> Tokiko Tsuji

Valt Aoi -> Sayaka Ooue

Dante Koryu -> Seiko Shinohara

Laban Vanot -> Satsuki Mizuhara

Bashara Suiro -> Souichiro Shimoda

Shu Kurenai -> Naho Saenoki

Gwyn Reynolds -> Clarkov Furutani (Main OC)

Hanna Suiro -> Shougo Taguchi

Aiger Akabane -> Miku Shirayume

Kyle Hakim -> Kai Shimada

Hoji Konda -> Tohko Kirisaki

Yugo Nansui -> Masato Fukuroi

Lain Valhalla -> Magari Mizuki

Lui Shirosagi -> Nari Amatoya

Boa Alcazaba -> Yoshiki Kishinuma

Taiga Akabane -> Mitsuki Yamamoto

Ange Lopez -> Kensuke Kurosaki

Gabe Brunai -> Nana Ogasawara

Ukyo Ibuki -> Chihaya Yamase

Ben Azuki -> Yoshikazu Yanagihori

Hae-Jin Oh -> Yuka Mochida

Ghasem Madal -> Ryou Yoshizawa

Gumita -> Tsukasa Mikuni

Nika Aoi -> Ran Kobayashi

Akira Yamatoga -> Emi Urabe

Arthur Peregrine -> Misuto Kiriya

Daigo Kurogami -> Ayumi Shinozaki

Phelix Payne -> Hinoe Shinozaki

Naoki Minamo -> Sakutaro Morishige

Phi -> Aiko Niwa

Free de la Hoya -> Kou Kibiki

Delta Zakuro -> Yuuya Kizami

Tango Koryu -> Satoshi Mochida

Quon Limon -> Ryoka Iwami

Fubuki Sumiye -> Mikio Tsubota

Cuza Ackermann -> Tomohiro Ohkawa

Alexander Shakadera -> Yuu Shinohara

Evel Oxford -> Galatea Furutani (Main OC's mum/mentor)

Joshua Burns -> Haruyuki Inumaru

Hyde -> Sachi Shinozaki

Arman Kusaba -> Hajime Yamazaki

Kurt Baratier -> Takamine Yanagihori

Zachary Kaneguro -> Ryosuke Katayama

[everythingsinred]

When I was reading your most recent nm:m essay, I realized that I have the volume containing the chapters discussed (i only have the one book though rip) and I came across the part where Yuka and Shiki meet up(?) with Narumi at what looks like a graveyard or something?? It's in ch 43-44 or so, but anyway Narumi mentioned that Yuka took an alice from him, and I'm just confused by that?

Like, does (or I guess, did) he have two alices? What was the other one? Did Yuka ever give it back? And when the alice or whatever is described in his internal dialogue, it's phrased as like "[his] whole life's worth of love" and stuff which further confuses me because,,, that's not?? how alices work??

Idk Narumi constantly confuses me, so it's not a new thing, but since you have gone through the series with a fine toothed comb, I figure you might know something about it? I wondered if you would bring it up in the essays, but I don't think that whole situation would have to do with Natsume or Mikan (but I could be wrong, I occasionally am).

hi! this got a little long so my answers to your questions are under the cut!!

yeah i don't mention it in my essay so i don't mind discussing it here. in chapter 44, narumi waits at the graveyard where izumi is buried because he knows he'll find yuka there. he then implores her to return the alices she's stolen, from the students and from him.

i understand why it's confusing because yuka steals all of iinchou's alice from him in this arc, but she only stole a little bit of narumi's alice that night when she saw him before running away. he has only one alice, the human pheromone alice, but only a little was stolen. narumi used his alice on yuka two times. the first time he managed it, she was humiliated (and that incident is what spurred izumi to gift her his alice stone, if im not mistaken, so she can be safe from surprise attacks in the future), but for the rest of their school relationship, he doesn't use his alice on her again until she comes to say goodbye.

i can certainly see why this would be confusing, but the stealing alice is a bit complicated, and i still don't understand all the ins and outs of it, where mikan was able to steal luna's alice a couple times without depriving her of her entire power. ultimately it depends on the alice, i think, how much effort it would take to completely take away someone's alice. an alice is a finite thing, which is why people desperately want their stones back after they've been stolen, even a little bit. luna screams at yuka and mikan on separate occasions to return the alice they stole from her because now she has less than she did before, even if she still has some left.

so here, she had taken some of naru's alice, but probably only the amount that he was using on her. he wants it back because that's his alice, and it's pretty well-established in the lore that an alice is a personal and beloved thing (with maybe only natsume and perhaps even yuka feeling differently). i always thought of it like an organ, maybe. you could live with only one kidney, but if someone stole your other kidney, you'd probably want it back anyway. but it's also deeper than that, because naru is a melodramatic guy and he compounds the stealing of his alice with the breaking of his heart.

that night, yuka refused to let naru come with her, which was the ultimate rejection after years of pining for her. he knew she loved izumi instead and was okay with that; he just wanted to be with her, whatever way he could. when she refused, and then stole his alice, it hurt a lot because he felt so insignificant to her. the stolen alice is symbolic of the fact that he feels like he lost his heart that night too, because they happened at the same moment.

so you're very much right that that's not how alices work! he's just being dramatic. in fact he tells yuka to her face at the graveyard, "thanks to you, i'm once again unable to love or be in love," which is ridiculous because that's his responsibility, not hers. hurt by that night, naru has spent the rest of his life (so the past decade or so) pretty cold and apathetic, which is probably why he's such a lackluster teacher when we first meet him. he puts on a front, but he's still callous, just like when he was a kid. he doesn't want to be hurt again like he was by yuka, so he decides not to let anybody into his heart again. that's not really yuka's fault, though, because she only wanted to protect him.

yuka's side of things is that she feels like people get hurt when they're associated with her (she's very like natsume in that way), so she does have the thought of stopping naru's love when she steals his alice. she genuinely doesn't want him to love her anymore because it'll only result in him getting hurt. i guess in that way, they both kind of buy into the metaphor that stolen alice=stolen feelings.

she refuses to return his alice because he will chase her again; and that means less that a returned alice would magically return his heart to him, but more that if she gives it back, it would encourage him to pursue her again. she does leave the other alices behind for the students, but no, to answer your other question, she never does return his alice to him.

naru's reasoning for wanting the stone (and feelings) back is not so he can pursue her again, but so he can completely sever his attachment to her. it's faulty logic, though, because he still has his feelings. he even admits so to himself, because he feels fondness for mikan (and presumably his other students, though it all started with mikan). he had thought he'd shut his heart down for good, but he still feels love anyway. and he still feels it for yuka too: this is all just pretending.

i definitely understand the confusion about this scene!! it's largely out of context. by chapter 44 we still don't know very much about yuka or naru's past, so they're talking about moments we haven't seen and don't fully understand. as we slowly learn more about the stealing alice, it might make a little more sense, but the arc where we get all the background about their past is so dense and full of information that it's very easy to get overwhelmed.

narumi is a very confusing character. his motivations are pretty elusive for most of the manga, and it really doesn't help that he lies to himself so often; it makes it more challenging to pin him down. he IS, for a fact, though, pretty melodramatic, especially when it comes to his feelings for yuka. to him, it's all very intense and heart-wrenching to him, which is why he speaks so dramatically, using grand metaphors and accusing yuka of stealing all his feelings away.

i think it might have been higuchi tachibana's intention to confuse the audience too, by having yuka play along with the metaphor. if we're confused, then we wanna keep reading so that we can eventually find out what they're talking about!! this chapter is designed to be confusing, so it makes even more sense that you might leave it feeling unsure of what just happened.

i hope that cleared things up a little. i find naru to be the most challenging character to analyze in the whole manga. pretty much everyone else i have a good handle on but naru is so weird. i think that's due to 1. his tendency to lie to others and even to himself, 2. his three different personalities (his real self, his cold facade from when he was a kid and now with yuka, and then the flamboyant personality he uses nowadays) 3. the manga's flip-flopping on what exactly his intentions are, and whether or not he's purely motivated by self interest. he's just a really weird guy.

[hikikomoriheadphonegirl]

[uka-archive]

source

[ukgk]

Sore ga Nanika. (2001)

(by かき氷屋なしゆめ本店/Shaved-ice flagship store without dreams)

[mangacapsaicin]

yuka tatami’s picture of tears || 畳ゆかの『泣いたって画になるね』

[myu-photos]

[landofanimes]

Yuka Yamauchi as Naru Osaka

[seramyuconfessions]

I never liked Naru in the anime and wasn't too excited when they announced that Naru and Umino would be part of NogiMyu but in fact I really enjoyed watching them! They were so cute! <3.