#ocelotrambles

[ocelotlesbian]

i don't think people talk enough about how the first time kou actually exorcised a supernatural was for mitsuba's sake. like come on now

[ocelotlesbian]

technically it's not just nene!! he's portrayed as a dog in a chapter of ashk too when he's begging sakura to help him make friends. so it seems the most "correct" answer is that he's a small dog, but yeah rabbits and cats fit him too!! he's just a cute little critter, simple as that

(also if i can inject my own opinion, he reminds me most of a chihuahua. they have loud and high-pitched yaps which fits with his original jp voice in the anime, chihuahuas are a toy breed which fits with his desire to be cared for, and they're really really tiny which fits with his general inability to keep himself from danger. also i'm just rlly rlly biased towards chihuahuas i fucking love chihuahuas)

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It seems that the fandom has firmly decided that Mitsuba is a pooch.

However. There are a few interesting points to be made about this.

Almost every time Mitsuba is drawn as a dog it is from Nene's perspective

So basically Nene views Mitsuba as a puppy

But more importantly, Mitsuba views himself as a bunny:

"Pyon" is the Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound rabbits make.

Also Mitsuba just loves bunnys

On the complete opposite side; Mitsuba also exhibits cat-like behaviour every now and then

Natsuhiko seems very aware of this

He mimir

Nene views Mitsuba as a dog, Natsuhiko sees him as a cat, Tsukasa probably sees him as a bird of sorts, and Mitsuba himself thinks he's a bunny.

The moral of the story is no Mitsuba fan is "incorrect" for saying he's any animal, because at the end of the day he's just a cute little abomination of dying supernatural parts.

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[ocelotlesbian]

hi guyssss!!! so we all read that new chapter yeah?

fun fact!!! even though kou got exorcised, mitsuba did not!! he's still in the red house somewhere!!! alone!!!! just so you guys know ^_^

[ocelotlesbian]

i think people don't talk NEARLY enough about mitsuba's name. "mitsuba" means three-leaved, like a three-leaved clover. people don't notice three-leaved clovers, they instead look for the more interesting four-leaved clovers. nobody pays attention to any individual three-leaved clover, they end up fading into the background. guys. it symbolizes how he sanded down his personality to be more passive and it caused everyone to forget about him.

and this symbolism can even apply to no.3tsuba if you want it to because he's still friendless with nobody to remember him because he's just a supernatural. either way he's still just in the background with nobody paying attention to or caring about him. like a three-leaved clover. guys. are you listening guys. are you listening

[ocelotlesbian]

traditional art is so annoying like wdym i can't select this and move the position of it???? wtf is wrong with you

[ocelotlesbian]

genuinely so funny to me that even after getting hit with the gender reassignment surgery beam he still had absolutely no clue what was going on. he's just immune to the genderswap episode, he transcends that shit. good for him!!! banger episode

[ocelotlesbian]

hoo boy.

[ocelotlesbian]

MY HOMESTUCK ZINE FROM @hamsterdancen ARRIVED!!!!!!!!

i'm SO happy, everything in there is super cute, i love my little terezi keychain, the stickers are so adorable i honestly don't wanna use them and risk damaging them, I LOVE IT, 100billion/10!!!!!!!

i highly recommend going over to their ko-fi and maybe buying your own super duper cool zine, since there seem to be 3 left!!! YEAHH

[ocelotlesbian]

i made a mitsuba gif... use it for whatever ur heart desires.... 0_0

[ocelotlesbian]

had to unblock you to make this post lol (couldn't tell you why i had you blocked in the first place, but probably for similar reasons to the nonsense in this post.)

as a licensed Woman Lover it is my duty to call it out when female characters get devalued in fandom spaces in favor of male characters, so here we go!!!!

NENE IS THE PROTAGONIST

from wikipedia: "The protagonist is the character whose fate is most closely followed by the reader or audience..." yes i used wikipedia, fuck off LOL.

as we all know, nene is the one who the story follows. we hear *her* thoughts all throughout the manga, with one or two exceptions here or there (like kou in the nightlife arc). she's the one who started the entire plot of the manga by summoning hanako. without her, there would be no manga.

it's true that the title has hanako in it, but being the titular character doesn't necessarily make you the protagonist. we *never* hear hanako's thoughts, we *never* see him outside of the context of nene interacting with him. he would fail as a protagonist in every single way.

let me make an analogy: say you have a series called "the bakery" or whatever. the story is told by a girl who frequents a bakery and focuses on the bakery's development as she keeps visiting. in this story, she would be the protagonist, not the bakery. even though the title and plot focus on the bakery, the story is only propelled forward by the protagonist, the girl, thru her visiting. she is the protagonist.

not to mention, the damn manga itself refers to nene as the heroine!!!

and if you need me to spell it out for you further, heroine is another word for "female protagonist."

so while it may be true that hanako and his brother are the focus for much of the story's plot and mystery, *nene* is the one who propells all this forward and whom the story follows in her quest.

diminishing female characters in favor of your beloved male ones isn't cool. it already happens enough in every other work of fiction, and we don't need it more, *especially* not in a story that follows a frankly amazing female lead. i hope you know that

nene isn't real protagonist

nene isn't protagonist just because she appears all the time. The plot mainly focuses on AMANE and TSUKASA. They are the real protagonists.nene has so much time because she is the narrator of this story. She is the one telling this story so the time is focused on her because we are reading what she is telling us. It is obvious that she does not know what is happening with Amane now, we will only find out when they are in the red house.

in Akatsuki no Yona, Haku who I can easily compare to nene took over the role of the the title character where Yona is the most main character, but for a while he became the most main character to such an extent that the fandom started calling this series "Akatsuki no Hak"

the reader with nene is to slowly discover various secrets and learn about the twins, and she may seem important than twins,but she will never be as important as them. They are the most important here, the main storyline and the most important part and axis always lead to Yugi twins like in the current arc. and that's why she will not be as important as Amane and Tsukasa are.

If AR really wanted her as the main protagonist then this series shouldn't focus on the twins plot wise and should have a different name then.

But Hanako-KUN is in the title and no matter how much time she has Amane and his brother will always be more important than her.

[ocelotlesbian]

kou minamoto from hit manga toilet bound hanako-kun is the kinda guy to consistently fall for "chicken butt" jokes

[ocelotlesbian]

how does someone look at these anf go "ah yeah that's definitely a dude who's attracted to women"

[ocelotlesbian]

me when i'm participating in the lack of animation budget contest but my opponent is season one of tbhk

[ocelotlesbian]

hurricane update: i lived and so did my house!!! which i am in!! right now!!! i'm so glad i didn't lose anything to a hurricane named *milton* of all things that would've been super embarrassing tbh

[ocelotlesbian]

he looks so fucking stupid in this panel

i can't get over it

idiot. dumb bitch

[ocelotlesbian]

i just realized i get to add a new tally to the mitsuba death count. neat!!!