#shugo chara kukai

[falynnthecat64]

Kukai Souma episode appearances

1,2,4,5,8,11,12,14,15,17,18,20,22,25,26,29,35,48,50,51,52,53,56,57,61,62,65,75,79,82,91,92,93,102,112,121,127

[mahoutoons]

on the topic of men in magical girl shows being treated worse than women in shonen... mot only is it not true but a lot of men in magical girl shows are actually nuanced, full fledged characters with their own personalities and characters arcs.

mamoru chiba may be the poster boy for the male damsel in distress in magical girl shows but he's actually very helpful to sailor moon, supporting her both emotionally and in fights and doing everything he can to be useful to her. he even had a whole arc in the dream arc about wanting to be more useful to usagi.

syaoran li starts out as a rival to sakura and proves to be quite capable, even collecting a few cards on his own. he slowly becomes friends with her and eventually, her boyfriend. in clear card he's a very loving boyfriend and does everything he can to support sakura and make her happy.

touya kinomoto is sakura's brother who knows about her powers but doesn't tell her. he watches sakura from a distance and protects her in any way he can.

yukito tsukishiro is the alternate form of yue. he only knows about this near the end of the sakura card arc. but even then he's a good character with a full fledged personality. also he and touya are such a good couple.

masaya aoyama puts on a facade of the perfect, popular boy but deep down he's cynical and hates humanity because of what they're doing to the planet. but him meeting ichigo and spending time with her opens his heart. he also takes on the role of blue knight to protect ichigo.

shugo chara has many magical boys. tadase hotori, kukai souma, kairi sanjou, and nagihiko fujisaki are all just as important as the girls and they have their own character arcs. even ikuto is quite a complex character, that is if you take away his whole deal with amu.

princess tutu has just as many main male characters as female characters, probably even more and they're all extremely important to the story. mytho is the prince from the story drosselmeyer wrote who went into the real world after he shattered his heart to seal away the raven. fakir is a descendent of drosselmeyer and starts out mean but eventually grows to care about ahiru and plays a very important role in the finale. drosselmeyer is the driving force behind all the events in the series.

the precure franchise, although it did some of its male characters dirty (*cough pikario and takumi cough*) also has some great male characters.

seiji sagara is megumi's childhood friend who finds out about her being a precure. even though he doesn't have any powers he does his best to support her and her friends.

prince kanata is the catalyst behind haruka becoming a precure and he's a capable fighter who does anything to protect his kingdom and supports the girls whenever he can.

henri wakamiya is the first ever male cure (although he's not on the main team) and gives a wonderful lesson about gender expression.

masato aikasi starts out being very conservative but after his heart is opened by henri, he starts to learn that gender roles are stupid and even stands up for his sister against their grandfather.

and now we have cure wing, who is going to he the first main male cure in the franchise.

even though there are male characters in magical girl shows who are either done dirty or quite useless, a lot of the time the authors actually develop the male characters just as much as the female characters.

and this should be an example because if these shojo magical girl authors can put just as much care into their male characters as their female characters, then what's stopping these male shone authors from doing the same to their female characters? shonen being aimed at boys and the authors not knowing how to write women is not an excuse. if shojo authors just said they don’t know how to write men, they would get laughed at. so why is it seen as an acceptable excuse for male shonen authors.

and even if there is a lack of men in these magical girl shows, so what? men have like 148293 shonen anime with generic male protagonist #738383 who beats up bad guys and gets a love interest whose only purpose is either the damsel in distress or fanservice bait. let us have a genre made for women by women. it won't hurt you.

[phoenixkaptain]

I’m rereading Shugo Chara (it’s been years and the nostalgia I feel is immense) and I’ve got to be honest…

I think Amu and Ikuto is the funniest ship in the whole world.

Like, they just like each other. They like spending time with each other. Amu is genuinely comfortable around him until he starts flirting, then she’s mostly just kind of exasperated. All of Ikuto’s interactions with her are based on cats. He brings her food (human can not hunt for themself) and he lays on her (human is the most comfortable pillow) and he teases her (human must be kept on their toes). Like, he’s just a big ol’ cat and I love it.

But also, the manga is fucking hilarious.

When Kukai is graduating and everyone’s saying goodbye and Tadase asks “When I’m in trouble, can I talk to this picture I have of you?” When they’re all talking about what happens around springtime and Ikuto casually says “Being in heat. Because we’re cats.” and Amu’s respons is “Can he say that in this manga?” And Sensei… “Why are you still teaching here?” “I do have credentials.”

Ikuto is the funniest character. He brings cookies because he broke Amu’s tart. He brings ice cream because Utau dropped Kukai’s ice cream (and maybe Amu’s? I’m unclear) ((how did he even know that that happened? Does he have a sixth sense, “Someone just ruined my human’s meal. I have to fix this immediately.”)) He always shows up with a bag of food and just drops it on Amu, then leaves. He came here for one reason and one reason only, and it was to drop off food, bye.

My favourite part of the manga is Nadeshiko/Nagihiko. I love Amu’s comment early on “Nadeshiko changes so fast!” I love Temari, who just repeats “my kimono will get dirty.” And when they’re crawling through the vent or whatever, and Temari is crawling while still covering her face with her sleeve and says “my kimono is getting dirty.” Hilarious. I love Temari so much.

I love that Nadeshiko is Amu’s best friend. They are besties. The extra where Nagihiko breaks out of his house to spend time with Amu? Perfection. Nagihiko holding Amu’s hand, and when she points it out to him, he just goes “Oh yeah. I forgot I’m different today.” I love Nagihiko, he’s the best. The whole explanation is totally wild and honestly baffling, but I love Nagihiko and his weird ass family all the same.

I liked the show a lot as a kid, and I liked the manga even more. I think Amu and Ikuto are adorable. I think it’s funny that the characters don’t act like any elementary school students I’ve ever met (including the ones who were in elementary school with me). I like that Kukai is everyone’s favourite, and he’s just so chipper. I like Tadase’s wish being to conquer the world, and everyone agreeing to help him with it because “It’s fun :)” I especially like that Amu is consistently and constantly judging the capes.

Maybe it’s nostalgia colouring my view. Maybe I’m biased because it made me laugh a couple times. Maybe I just like Ikuto and Amu being comedic foils to each other. Whatever it may be, I really enjoy the manga. Would I recommend it? Yes. Would I recommend it if you’re going to be pissed by the age gap? No.

(“The age gap is so problematic!” But have you considered that they are funny?)

[banannasposts]

Kukai picking up Ikuto at the airport is so funny to me, like based on that little interaction I am 100% sure Ikuto doesn't even know Kukai's name

[selene-moonie]

Kukai Souma was the only viable love interest in Shugo Chara

[silkquake]

happy shugo chara sequel day, have some sketches of my ideal ship dynamics

[xekutozoren]

Kingdom Hearts x Shugo Chara Mash Up!

Following on from the Amuto inspired princess carry Aquaroth pic from a while back, I had this random idea to doodle Aqua and some others basing the poses off Shugo Chara screenshots.

-cough cough, I realised a bit too late the initial Aqua profile drawing wasn't done and just went lazy mode on that one, forgive me-

It's my first time drawing a lot of them so pls be gentle with me. ><"

I decided to just put the gifs alongside still frames bc I can't animate. So, you can just imagine it with me~

This anime was a big part of my childhood and a guilty pleasure of mine, I suppose - it has all the shoujo vibes that I enjoyed as a kid. (and still do now with certain things ( •̀ ω •́ )✧ )

This is not meant to be a KH/FF themed Shugo Chara AU (*￣;(￣ *)

As in, I'm not making an entire universe where the KH/FF characters replace the Shugo Chara ones and they have their own story or something. I just liked the cinematography of the first opening and wanted to do something with it.

That being said, I do see connections with Aqua and Amu; that whole thing of what you're expected to be and who you really want to be. Aqua, of course, always drowning in her own wishes to be "the good, responsible one".

But...yeah! This was fun. >w< Some of my art I'm just like ._. but oh well.

I apologise if it made no sense, hahaha

I'm definitely going to be doing some more Amuto scenes from this anime with Aquaroth in a similar style so if you're keen on that, stay tuned >w>

Anyway, thanks for indulging me as usual. Hope you found this fun/interesting(?) idk ♪(´▽｀)

Credits

Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy belong to Square Enix

Shugo Chara belongs to Peach Pit

MMD backgrounds by Desperative, amiamy111 and redRevolutionnaire

Opening video subs by Formula Subs (I wanted to use a clean version of the SC Opening but couldn't find one, and it doesn't seem it was ever licensed on DVD outside of Japan, unfortunately

[amuletduelist]

Series: Shugo Chara!

Artist: Peach-Pit

Details: Korean 'Character Encyclopedia, Part 2' and notepad. Dimensions: 9cm×9cm (3.5in×3.5in). Cost: ₩1,000 ($0.75, €0.70)

Publisher/Distributor: Dream Plus

Year Published: 2009

Source: Scanned from personal collection

Other notes: What a doozy this is! I bought this as part of a stationery bundle from a Korean seller on eBay years ago, so long ago that I can't find the original listing anymore, so I don't have a lot of information on this. But from using my basic as hell Korean skills and Google translate, this is part 2 of an encyclopedia that was printed in South Korea, including character profiles and a episode guide for the second third of the first season.

I don't know if it's a Google Translate issue, but some characters seem to have different names; Nadeshiko is listed as 'Sia', Ikuto as 'Toma' and Yaya as 'Yui.' I thought SK had done away with giving anime characters Korean dub names by then (see YGO and Digimon for examples) by 2009, but it looks like I stand corrected.

As for the distributor, Dream Plus, I can't find a lot of information about them except that they do/did exist.

I have better, unspliced and additional images on my Google Drive here. You're free to take them for your own use, I simply ask that you don’t repost without crediting me, and please reblog/drop a heart if you do use them ♡

PLEASE DON'T DELETE ABOVE COMMENTARY!

[nekonohimetranslates]

Sanrio X Shugo Chara Collaboration!

[magical-xirl-4]

the amuto kutau brother and sister in laws agenda has begun with scjj

[do-you-ship-it-polls]

Do you ship it?

reason: Listen, the other two romantic options for this girl are “boring blonde boy” and “highschooler pursing an elementary school student” so if amu wants someone older that has a nice AND interesting personality kukai is right there! (Kevin Hart image)

[banannasposts]

Gonna be thinking about this one panel for a week at least

[hellohimawarihana]

Shugo Chara! Character Transformation Outfit Swap by EEO Store.

[rpiconblogxkitten]

Kuukai Souma icons

Below you'll find 100 icons of Kuukai Souma/Kukai Souma from Shugo Chara. No credit is necessary.

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[roobylavender]

new shugo chara manga after THIRTEEN YEARS and if utau and kukai are broken up i'll die. i'll die i'll DIE i spent three years as a middle schooler as a TEN-ELEVEN-TWELVE YEAR OLD delusionally banking on their two (2) interactions in the manga and then peach pit said here you peasant FEAST on your delusions they are in LOVE they like each other sooooo bad and istg if they walk that back in this sequel i don't know what i'll do. my entire conception of romance began with them they are the foundation they are the ROOT if peach pit ruins this for me i will literally never recover all my belief in love will be LOST

[thelovelybitten]

NO BECAUSE WHO THE FUCK WAS GOING TO TELL ME THAT SHUGO CHARA IS COMING BACK THIS SUMMER ?!?!?!?? AND THEY’RE TO BE AGED UP ???? OH MY GOD IM HEAVING AND WHEEZING HELP —

SHUGO CHARA STANS WAKE UP ITS TIME