#sasaki and miyano graduation

[ydotome]

Sasaki to Miyano Movie: Sotsugyou-hen - Feb 17, 2023

[jenni41]

Me watching Sasaki to Miyano:

This is the cutest shit I have ever seen. So pure. So wholesome.

Me watching Sasaki and Miyano: Graduation and starting the manga:

The classroom scene has me in its clutches. What did they do in that classroom? How far did they go? Where were the teachers? What do you mean you lied about only kissing him and not caring if you are the semi or the uke, Sasaki? What did you do to Miyano in that classroom? He didn't seem to mind.

Who is the Uke? Will they make this work if neither want to be that. Will Miyano change his mind about being an uke, like he did about being straight? But he states firmly he's not a uke and his hung up about being seen as a/the girl and the manga tries to subvert tropes so. Do they even need to have a role? They can just verse or side and not be either, like I imagine most real life gay couples are. But if Sasaki admits to a preference. Man, I hate Top/Bottom/Semi/Uke discourse. Like hate it. I usually avoid it with a passion. Why am I thinking about this? Why can't I get this out of my head. This isn't wholesome. Sasamiyo, for the most part is so wholesome, though. I need to draw some wholesome Sasamiyo, but I also want to draw them slamming their faces and hands together. Am I a fujoshi now? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I am having a melt down.

[chuua5158]

I’m rewatching Sasaki and Miyano Graduation again and I’ve also read the entire manga but the scene where Miyano is telling his mom about Sasaki for the first time gets me every single time. Like I’m so happy that Harusono chose to make his mom accept him right off the bat and not be homophobic about it. Like Sasaki and Miyano does such a good job of showing how supportive their friends are while also still addressing that not everyone will be cool about it like Sasaki’s older sister’s initial reaction to finding out or Ogasawara’s struggles with BL as a genre. (Fortunately both characters also come around and are very supportive but that just adds to how wholesome and wonderful this story is) Lol the point being that I love this story it makes me so happy to see such a healthy and wholesome BL that is also getting the recognition it deserves.

[jruthphipps]

Sasaki and Miyano: Graduation

I enjoyed the Hirano and Kagiura short at the start; I was eager to see more of them after the titbits we got in the series.

The main Sasaki and Miyano story had very much the same feel as the series, which was wonderfully comforting. Even the hint of drama was quickly and satisfactorily resolved. A lovely continuation of the series for anyone who enjoyed it (and I highly recommend it to romance lovers).

[inahochi]

HIRANO AND KAGIURA ⋆ 平野と鍵浦

SASAKI AND MIYANO: GRADUATION ⋆ 佐々木と宮野 ー卒業編ー (2023)

[mavilez]

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[kayime]

subtlety and nuance 😳

[i-am-grell]

Pick My Next Anime

I'm about half way through season 4 of Haikyuu so I feel good about rolling out the next poll!

If you're new here, I have a lot of anime that I wanna watch. But I'm bad at starting series, finishing series, and making choices, so Tumblr gets to decide for me. (Fin) is stuff I have to finish, (Start) is stuff I wanna start - pretty straightforward.

As always, propaganda* (*my thoughts/feelings/whatever) below the poll. You're welcome to reblog and bully your followers to your cause (@ other peoples' followers, you don't have to know me, like me, or follow me to throw anime at me - frankly, you don't even have to like anime, just pick a button).

Propaganda:

Ace Attorney - I believe I was around the start of season 2 when I left off in Recipe for a Turnabout. Idk last thing I remember was hearing J Michael Tatum's aph France voice in a context outside of Hetalia and taking psychic damage. I'm prepared now. Frankly, I'm impressed I made it through Turnabout Big Top animated.

Tribe Nine - The propaganda here is Corpse Husband. I have nothing further to give you. Anyone who watched this watched it for Corpse Husband.

Sasaki and Miyano: Graduation - Dub it dub it dub it dub it get Kellen Goff in that booth. I have nothing against subs other than I like doing other things while watching shows so I have a dub preference when it's available. I will make an exception for this wonderful romance anime movie. But pls Crunchyroll let them dub it 🙏 I will rewatch it dubbed if I have to watch it subbed first but PLEASE 🙏

Sk8 the Infinity - Sk8 is 0 for 4 in these polls, second place every time. I say this next part unbiased toward the poll results: I literally chose everything in this one to give y'all a fighting chance. However, I can't decide if it's funnier if you keep getting second or if you deserve a win. Either way here: 🥈

Soul Eater Not! - I adore Soul Eater, but I've never watched Soul Eater Not! Do with that what you will.

Mob Psycho 100 - I, like, just learned what this anime is about. That English title is misleading af. Other than the basic premise, the only thing I know about this series is that your sexyman lost so Sans Undertale could kill the Queen. Respect.

[waywardgirl75]

finally watched sasaki to miyano: graduation, and they are just adorable as ever. i love them so much.

and i never thought i needed to see hirano and kagiura interactions...I'm in love...now I'm gonna read hirano to kagiura

[scarareg]

Sasaki to Miyano: Sotsugyou-hen ✩

[wutlaikalikes]

映画 佐々木と宮野ー卒業編ー Sasaki to Miyano Movie: Sotsugyou-hen Sasaki and Miyano: Graduation

[ydotome]

Shuumei + Bandana - Sasaki to Miyano Movie: Sotsugyou-hen - Feb 17, 2023

[squealing-for-harusono-sensei]

Is Sasaki to Miyano BL? (Pt. 1: Genre is COMPLICATED)

I can practically hear some saying "Obviously??" And others yelling "NO IT'S NOT!!!" to that question.

For those of you who don't get why this is even in question, it's because Harusono-sensei doesn't classify Sasaki to Miyano as BL. The first volume cover denies that it's BL and on the site where it's published, it isn't categorized as BL.

Some may argue that it doesn't matter. It's about two boys who end up together, isn't that enough? "Death of the author" and all that.

I studied literature in college. Admittedly, I had a hard time understanding genre–so I had it as one of the main topics of my graduating thesis out of spite. And got the best possible grade. So I think it's safe to assume that I learned and know more about this than the majority of this fandom. And I say, that question? Is VERY complicated to answer.

The thing is, a lot of people think of genre as a binary. Either something is or isn't a part of that genre. In reality, it's closer to a spectrum and there are a lot of grey areas.

Take the arguments I presented for and against Sasaki to Miyano being BL. How much you buy into either of those arguments is largely depended on

1) Who you think has the most authority over what genre a work is. Is it the author or the reader?

2) What makes a BL BL? Is love between two boys really the only factor?

Neither of these have a clear answer. The reason why I was so confused about genre was because the academic world don't agree on what it even is. We all agree that genre is a thing, but we can't define it.

As I see it, genre is a byproduct of the human instinct to see patterns in things. We see a story and go "This is like that other story!" Once we have a large enough amount of stories that resemble each other and we give that group a name, BAM! We have a new genre.

Which is why defining it is so hard. Stories can be similar in a lot of different ways. But stories aren't similar if they only have one commonality. And yet we tend to boil the similarities down to only one aspect.

Take the isekai genre. Stories about going to another world goes WAY back. And yet, it's only within the last decade that we gave them that name. As I see it, it's because earlier they were similar enough to fantasy stories to simply be lumped into that genre. Whether the main character was born into a magical world or came into it later in life didn't change things enough for those stories to be dissimilar. At most it was a sub-genre of fantasy (e.g. portal fantasy). But suddenly we got a lot of stories about being transported into another world that were very similar in a distinct way. The main character was similar. They ended up in similar worlds. They were, for one reason or another, OP in this new world. They had similar tropes, characters, plot progressions. So these stories were given a name–isekai. Meaning different world. And then, because being transported to another world is the most distinct feature, all stories with that premise is categorized as isekai regardless of how well the term actually fits. (Although if it only has the premise as point of similarity, veterans of the genre will typically say that it is only technically isekai, or distinguish it from other isekai in some other way.)

Looping back to BL, if romance between two boys is the only defining factor, we can't call BL a genre...right? Well, yes, but once something is a genre things get even more complicated.

But does it have to be? Couldn't we just solve it by having the author decide the genre?

Sadly, authors are not immune misclassifying their works. Authors are not immune to misunderstanding genres, for one, though I think we can safely rule out any of those reasons in this case. Harusono-sensei clearly knows a lot about BL–a lot of Sasaki to Miyano's humor wouldn't work otherwise. However, that doesn't rule out not being able to see the forest for the trees. Sometimes an author is too close to their work to recognize the genre because they get bogged down in all the details that make their work unique. There is also the possibility of Harusono-sensei just plain lying to us. Because sometimes authors do that.

But why would an author ever want to lie about the genre? Because genre shapes expectations.

This is why the question of what genre a work is even matters. In worst case scenarios, it's like eating something sour when you were expecting something sweet. You probably wouldn't like it, even though you would have liked it if you had known it would be sour. The worst case scenario isn't relevant for this question, but the point is that being told that something is a specific genre is going to affect how you experience the story.

Regardless of whether or not Sasaki to Miyano is or isn't BL, Harusono-sensei did have something in mind when she called it Boys' Life instead of BL. So whenever you recommend it, I think it's worth pointing out that it's a Boys' Life story. Because that's the expectation that Harusono-sensei intended for readers to have.

Does that then exclude Sasaki to Miyano from the BL genre? Not necessarily. Partly because I think that Harusono-sensei is half lying about the "not a BL" thing. More about that in part two, where I explore what I think Harusono-sensei intended with calling Sasaki to Miyano a Boys' Life story, NOT a BL.

But I did mention that the author might not be the most reliable source of what genre the work is. So I probably should try to answer the question instead of just making it more complicated.

If you try to rationally figure out the answer instead of just going by "I know it when I see it," there are a couple of different ways to do it.

One way of thinking about genre is that it's a collection of common traits that might occur in a genre. It might common character types (e.g. badboy uke), common tropes (e.g. kabedon), common plot developments (e.g. misunderstandings), etc. etc. Some are more critical than others. If there is no romance between two boys then it is categorically not BL.

Another is seeing genre as there being an imaginary story that perfectly exemplifies a genre. Whether or not a story is a part of that genre depends on how close it is to that ideal genre story.

These are just some examples, but the problem is that there isn't really a clear cut answer no matter how you try to figure out a genre. A lot is up to personal interpretation. Plus genre keeps changing. Each new story that is widely accepted as a part of that genre broadens what the genre can be.

Plus the simple fact that no one can read every story that may or may not be a part of a specific genre. I tend to avoid dark stories and have gotten less and less tolerant towards non-consent with age. So there are parts of the BL genre that I don't really engage with. Which then affects how I view the genre.

As I see it, the more you read a genre, the better your understanding of it is. And everyone who are avid readers of a genre will have similar but slightly different understandings of the genre.

Trying to figure out what genre Sasaki to Miyano is the rational way is way more work than I am willing to do. And realistically, kinda impossible. So I'll just give my two cents as someone who has read a lot of BL.

Sasaki to Miyano is partly BL. Which probably sounds like a cop-out answer, but I do mean it. While wholesome, it works a lot more on real world logic than BL logic and also focuses on things outside of Sasaki and Miyano's relationship. But the focus on the romantic aspect of Sasaki and Miyano's relationship, dealing with some of the same themes as BL, and the importance of the BL genre on the story can't be ignored either. So I consider it a fusion of BL and slice-of-life.

But if you read a lot of BL and have a different take? Then it's just as valid as mine.

[sunnnfish]

bugs when you lift up a rock

[animeshon-anime-by-blbambeyond]

Sasaki and Miyano: Graduation

[inahochi]

"Mya-chan. You're so cute."

SASAKI TO MIYANO: GRADUATION 「佐々木と宮野 ー卒業編ー」 (2023)