#naruse and yuki

[n4tsum1-san]

big fan of characters who have a HUGE influence other people's lives and change the people around them irreparably when they leave/die. bonus points if they're the heart of a friend group & the group falls apart after they're gone. double bonus points if they go on to haunt the narrative, like a shadow that never disappears, ripples in a pond that will never quiet...

[rainofzuh]

Lost focus and had a consensual workplace relationship

[adhd-mess]

Yuki innocently joining the basketball club to get closer to her crush:

Naruse:

[deredereyandere]

[alexis-medina]

I’m reading Ch. 27 of Cheeky Brat and Naruse has me fucking geeeking. I mean he just confessed to his team about being in love with Yuki and then she finally confesses but will only date him after she’s gone: 😭🤣💕

[fyourdreamsdreamer]

Second part of my Namaikizakari fanarts🧚🏼 This time I drew one of the manga panels Reference used

[eachpage]

Cheeky Brat = Namaikizakari [Full Manga Review]

Author: Mitsubachi Miyuki Genres: Romance. Shōjo. Life. Sports. Name of the Series: NamaikiZakari. Cheeky Brat. (Japanese: なまいきざかり。, lit. “Full Bloom Cheekiness”) Number of Volumes: 23 Date Published: November 2013 – December 2021 So, not ready to let go! But I finished reading the whole manga. 🥲🥹😍💘 Too many emotions. Hello, dearies! Welcome to this full review of Namaikizakari. It was…

[shoujofml]

venus on insta keeps reposting cheeky brat edits why did i ever talk shit abt it ITS PEAK

[hetalianhistorian]

New Information, Dates, and Names revealed for the newest musical, Hetalia: The Glorious World!

Source link: https://twitter.com/hetamu_official/status/1772896344664891484?s=20

The new musical will be performing at the following cities and dates:

Kyoto on August 9th (Friday) - August 12th (Monday)

Osaka on August 17th (Saturday) - August 19th (Monday)

Tokyo on August 24th (Saturday) - September 8th (Sunday)

Source link: https://twitter.com/hetamu_official/status/1772896990608896277?s=20

The following cast and roles has been revealed as well!

Nagae Ryoki as Italy

Yusuke Ueda as Germany

Isogai Ryuki as America

Daisuke Hirose as England

Juri as France

Yuki Yamoaki as Russia

Takamoto Gaku for Prussia

Yuta Higuchi for Romano

Toru Isono for Holland (Netherlands?), and etc.

The musical will be directed by Kotaro Yoshitani and the screenplay will be written by Yusei Naruse.

It seems that Japan, China and the likes will not be joining for the newest musical! I am unsure as to why.

You can learn more about the newest musical through the Official Musical Hetalia website!

(Edit: It seems that Spain and Austria will not be present as well!)

(Edit 2: Fixed the names for Italy, America, and Prussia. Thank you @hetamyuist!)

[teal-moonlight]

Naruse Shou & Machida Yuki - Namaikizakari

[shipcestuous]

(submission)

The biological brosis thing is a very small thing over the course of a long manga, but I’m submitting it here for that reason even if there’s things that could go on both blogs here. Sorry if that’s not okay?

Anyway: in Namaiki Zakari, the MC Yuki is treated like a big sister by the basketball team she manages (many of them actually call her that). For a while, she treats her LI/future boyfriend Naruse like a pesky little brother, to the point where she even tells the whole club that. He tries to go along with the ruse for a little bit, before he caves and points out he doesn’t see her like an older sister at all. (If you take those chapters in isolation, it feels like a fauxcest story, lol)

but I’m actually here to talk about her family. Yuki makes such a good team “big sis” because she’s an older sister to five(!) siblings. There’s triplet brothers, a year younger than her, and then twin little sisters (maybe another year younger than that). She’s lived her entire life up until the story starts completely ignoring her own needs and feelings, because as the oldest sibling, she’s had to prioritize her younger siblings’ needs all the time. It’s sweet but sad.

You could already make the case that it’s a little suggestive who she ends up with: a boy who’s the same age as her younger brothers, and who she initially viewed as another bratty little brother type of guy. Plus, her LI Naruse also has an older sister of his own, and falls for the ultimate older sister type. It’s quite amusing.

But then, we see a flashback where one of Yuki’s brothers–Koushiro (who does notedly have a “sister complex”)–did the cute manga trope where, as a little kid, he declared his intention to marry Yuki when they grew up. Of course, he didn’t know what a wedding ring was (he was that small), so he heard “round thing” and brought her a bunch of pill bugs. Which is gross, but still endearing. (He did change his mind about marrying her a short time later, though.)

There’s an arc later in the manga–when Yuki and her boyfriend are already pretty serious–when Koushiro runs away from home over an incredibly dumb fight with one of his triplets and decides to stay with Yuki. He’s annoyed to find out her boyfriend already planned to stay over, and the two don’t get along very well right away. That’s partially because they’re pretty similar! Again, that’s suggestive.

And when Yuki tells her boyfriend the story about the pill bugs, his first question is “did you sleep together?” He clarifies he meant it in the innocent way, and she says it wasn’t weird that they did (in the innocent way) because they were siblings. Then Naruse is like, “I know I always tell you stuff like ‘don’t treat me like I’m a little brother,’ but now I’m jealous.” He wants Yuki to dote on him like she’d dote on her siblings! And she’s like, “Jealous? He’s my brother,” and Naruse points out that, even if that’s the case, Kou has still gotten to see sides of Yuki that Naruse hasn’t, due to them being siblings.

It’s just a really interesting dynamic: the MC dates a guy who’s the same age and a similar personality to her sibling, and that guy both has an older sister himself and also kinda wants to be treated like a romantic version of a younger sibling (whether he usually denies it or not).

And then, immediately after that conversation, Yuki's other two brothers–Shintarou and Kenjirou–come over to the house to find Koushiro, and another brotherly fight breaks out. Yuki apologizes to her boyfriend for all the sudden drama, and he suggests they just used it as an excuse to get some attention from their sister since it’s been a while, now that she’s moved to her own apartment for college.

(A small note, but Kou and Shin were the ones fighting before. Kenjirou just came along to mediate and was really enthusiastic to do it. He’s the most wholesome–read: happy-go-lucky–of the three, and it was really cute. I kinda ship the triplets with each other tbh. And the twin sisters, too.)

Anyway, the brothers ask Yuki if, now that she has a boyfriend, she’s suddenly eager to kick her brothers out. Ostensibly “out of her apartment that they came to without any notice,” but also maybe in a “have we been replaced?” sense. And they tease her for wanting to be alone with her boyfriend. As I mentioned, Yuki used to do everything her family wanted without ever being selfish, so they’re shocked when she basically snaps, “Is it so wrong if I did?” (And then it’s just super awkward, as it would be anytime you suddenly hear about a sibling and their partner Doing Stuff. But it’s very funny.)

The brothers talk about how much their sister has changed the past few years: she’s become more expressive and willing to stand up for what she wants. And they kind of resolve (in their own goofy way) to try and act less like brats. And then they eat dinner with Yuki and Naruse, and they really start buddying up with him. Before they leave, Koushiro even drops the suggestion that he’d be okay with it if Naruse proposed to Yuki one day. Because we need that brotherly permission, obvi.

But anyway, I need to reiterate that–even if Yuki’s boyfriend has had a character arc, grown up a little, and also pushed Yuki to think of her own wants more often–he’s still reminiscent of her little brothers in some ways, and especially with the way he acted early on in the manga. So the situation is still really funny to me.

omg, something just hit me. Yuki’s boyfriend—I referred to him by last name since that’s how he’s called in the manga but his first name is Shou. Which sounds so much like her brother’s nickname of Kou. The parallels are wild and don’t you think that has to be intentional?

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Thanks for sharing with us about this manga! 

Koushiro and Yuki sound very cute, and the canon relationship does sound pretty suggestive of bro/sis vibes.

[engshoujosei]

Cheeky Brat

23 volumes (when complete, 7 volumes in English as of July 18th, 2023.)

Licensed by Yen Press

I, Yuki, became the basketball team manager for one reason—I had a crush on the captain and wanted to be with him, always. But when Kido-senpai suddenly announced he got a girlfriend, where did that leave me? In the clubroom, crying my eyes out…until this cheeky brat of an underclassman showed up. And now that stupid, pretty playboy, Naruse, seems determined to wiggle his way into every corner of my life…

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23 Volumes (Complete)

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[rainofzuh]

Lost focus and had a consensual workplace relationship

[adhd-mess]

Them them them them them them them—

[deredereyandere]

[therealmofamorus]

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