#smol Guren

[royalmagiciangirl]

Here we have my three robot friends: Chipz, Bitsy and Guren the Mecha Dragon.

I got them for christmas (Chipz and Bitsy) and my birthday (Guren) respectively and spent a lot of time assembling them. I love those three a lot ^v^

I still hope that one day I can make a robot completely from scratch.

[yuu-kun23]

The Spy X Family AU that no one asked for. 

[generalmoony]

Day 4: animals/fem!gureshin

[lostsoulaltair]

Kureto 🥺

Honestly, this panel bothered me so much...the emotions it emits...the feeling of being powerless, the fact that Tenri was just a human with absolute zero morality makes it worse...

Honestly, as a reader, Kureto has gained a soft spot 🥺 I only hope he gets to survive till the end...

[gurenismywaifu]

He's baby

[rosenill]

its been awhile since i made art and this is super rushed uernfhyerf but a little something for my mob boss sakae au <3

based on this vine

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[royalmagiciangirl]

A little one this time. I got him as a gift from my mother, this one is simple and had only 11 parts. It's a tiny vacuum robot you can use to clean up crumbs on the table, sadly he can't vacuum the an entire room much less an apartement but the table will do a-okay.

[distinguished-slacker]

A fanart of smol Guren and young Sakae as requested by dear @thesoundofanicefall. It’s my first time ever drawing males, and I didn’t have much reference material so I hope I got Sakae’s face right (pls tell me I did🥲). Also, iirc you once said that red is your favourite colour so I added an Autumn afternoon landscape🍁. Anyways, thanks for your patience and I hope you like it :3

[weskers-boytoy]

so, you like yoichi?

here's a list of why yoichi saotome, is not your "uwu soft boy".

1.

he literally states that he wants lacus to suffer. no, no- not kill him, make him suffer just like you insufferable bastards calling your uwu baby.

he is short. yes. well done, he is not as "menacing" to the eye like maybe yuu or kimizuki, but i will gladly put money in to say he is more aggressive than both of them. he's mature, collected and has an extreme sense of awareness which i think you guys overlook.

2.

this picture explains itself.

"yoichi protection squad" hello??? he just subdued his own black demon. i don't understand why you all reduce him to this small little naïve child that blindly follows his squad.

he THREATENED guren on several occasions. the lieutenant colonel. he aimed his weapon at a superior, he stands up for what he knows is right. so, i don't think he needs your soft boy edits with fluttery rainbows everywhere.

3.

he wants to protect his friends. he watched his sister get murdered whilst doing nothing, which is why he's overcome with this great sense of strength and mindfulness. yoichi doesn't want to leave his friends like he left tomoe.

4.

these pictures explain themselves.

5.

kimiyoi is *chefs kiss* yes, but don't go and use them as your "uwu feminine boy" and your "òwó tall stronk man" because i will boil your sinuses and force them down your throat.

same goes for all the ships in this series, stop feminising one and emasculating the other. they're their own people and it's like we've not read the same fucking novels.

can i see shinya in heels? absolutely. do i feminise him over that? no. because it's normal for men to wear heels.

and final note. i love trans hc's don't get me wrong. but headcanoning yoichi as trans for being uwu and smol is the most invalidating thing ever. don't do it. from a trans guy. don't.

if you have better reasons for it, or personal self project that's okay, but smol uwu boys are not always trans. that's a harmful stereotype.

so.

that concludes my rant about why you should let yoichi kill lacus slowly and, no need to baby him, he would definitely hate that. since he quite literally expressed that babying hatred that gekkoin used against him. :].

[nayruwu]

man i got so excited when i saw the first few pages😭 (shinya stans stay winning, 1 panel of his corpse (it looks a little weird though))

like maybe we have some good juicy info in there but so far it just looks like another filler chapter... c'mon how many mikayuu flashbacks can there be

(it's always like "omg now they literally HAVE to go on with the plot, no way they can put more filler stuff in this situation" but there is a way. kagami finds a way)

but while using 2 pages for an entirely black picture with only a smol guren on it is kinda mean i do enjoy stuff like that. give me more if you must

[toukatan]

Beni how would you rank every snk OP and ED? 👀 visually and audio

chi mai! i’ve never thought to do this but you really got me sitting through every single opening and ending like you got me out here going back and forth judging songs.

while doing this i came to the conclusion— that i do not listen to the openings outside of episodes enough. don’t @ me please i can explain!

openings — audio

jiyuu no tsubasa

guren no yumiya

red swan

my war

shinzou wo sasageyo

shoukei to shikabane no michi

the rumbling (is this— is this controversial BYE)

openings — visuals

jiyuu no tsubasa (those odm shots just chef kisses for me. the whole op fr)

red swan (smol beans precious)

the rumbling (crispy, we like crispy)

guren no yumiya (nostalgia)

shinzou wo sasageyo

my war

shoukei to shikabane no michi

okay but i respectfully do listen to endings, i’m an ending stan not with just snk but every other series. i’m an ending gal, they always slap!

endings — audio

shougeki— (this came #11 on my spotify wrapped as it should! the vocal range my goodness!)

great escape (such a banger. come on now! it’s so underrated. y’all hype up that walnut)

utsukushii zankokuna and akuma no ko (THEY’RE THE TWO PRETTY BEST FRIENDS)

name of love

requiem der morgenröte

yuugure no tori

ending — visuals

akuma no ko (mappa said emotional budget)

utsukushii zankokuna

shougeki (i just think she’s very pretty and symbolic)

great escape (WALNUT SUPREMACY)

requiem der morgenröte (okay but the jump scare specifically)

name of love

yuugure no tori

yep that’s my list! i had pen and paper out, chi mai you don’t understand i was serious about this wjdkjwkahdj

the rankings doesn’t mean i don’t like the track. heck i appreciate every single one of them. the team behind them all are amazing— they’re making history with every single one of them. we’ll listen back on these one day and it’ll hit us with a wave of nostalgia (we gonna be seniors) 🥺😭

OKAY BUT WHAT ABOUT YOU?!

[ask-sd-and-dn]

Chibi Guren :3

[finalsinners]

❛   WHY  DO  YOU  EVEN  BOTHER  wearing  a  school  uniform  ?    ❜   Head  tilted  up  even  more  than  usual  in  order  to  even  maintain  any  sort  of  eye  contact  ,  violet  hues  gleaming  with  insolent  defiance  at  the  scion.  Tch  ,  the  high  and  mighty  bastard  even  had  his  height  going  for  him.   ❛   Don’t  tell  me  you  want  to  fit  in ...   ❜   He  would  have  never  dreamed  of  saying  such  a  thing  if  his  superior  had  taken  after  Tenri.  Then  again,  he  doubted  he  would  have  even  been  TAKEN  UNDER  THE  WINGS  of  the  next  heir  to  the  family  if  Kureto  was  anything  like  that  twisted  husk  of  a  man.  

It  couldn’t  have  been  easy  growing  up  under  the  cold  fist  of  iron  and  blood ...  he  shook  off  such  weak  thoughts  that  creep  into  his  mind  as  hands  found  the  confines  of  his  pant  pockets  out  of  habit.   ❛   So  what  do  you  want  now  ?   ❜

☾・゜ @decernimus

[transsexualhamlet]

me going off about yoichi again

What the fandom sees Yoichi as: basic ass katy perry song from 2014

What Yoichi actually is: Karma by ajr

I mean, I don’t really know how this applies to the fandom now, but it’s definitely anime fans and most yoichi fans. I just, I wanted to watch a yoichi amv because I was working on Yoichi stuff but like. I could not find a SINGLE one that was even voiced by a guy?

Now, in general, that’s not an issue, just because he’s a guy obviously doesn’t mean that he can’t have a girl song because that would be dumb to say so. But that’s just not something I see for anyone else. When I see Mika or Guren or Yu centric amvs and stuff, there’s plenty of edgy boi songs and shit. Sometimes Mika gets sexy bitch songs as a joke, but when they’re actually trying to be about that character, they’re all songs sung by dudes. 

And I mean, I just...

Here.

Yeah so @autpunk-godling​ and I like to complain about kagami I know but right now I’d like to complain about the fandom

I don’t really think it’s any of you on tumblr to be honest but it’s just the shit I’ve seen from a few years ago

Yes we’ve established that Yoichi isn’t a smol baby bean boi so fucking stop, a lot of people just kinda ignore that but even without the manga, even without taking into consideration a single thing he said in chapter 51 onwards, the way that the fandom likes to see him is just... not right.

yeah I’m defending him bc i’m a yoichi kinnie go off ig

Jupiter’s response pretty much sums it up but basically it boils down to

1. fangirls who see yoichi, think “gay”, and think they know his entire character because of a stereotype, honestly this was probably something to do with kagami, I feel like I’ve heard around for a long time Yu was supposed to have a fucking harem like guren and they just basically never developed yoichi beyond ‘clearly is gay for yu as a plot point for like three episodes before forgetting about him after school arc’

2. The fans basically just thinking that he just ✨ tried harder ✨ not to have trauma and now he’s fucking fine, I was glad to see that wasn’t the case but people don’t understand how or why it happened, I’ll gladly explain

3. People forget so easily how terrible he had it. It’s not just “gay boy fucking mans up” it’s “gay boy is consistently told for eight years that he’s completely useless if he can’t kill things and every trait he has is terrible because it’s weak and associated with gayness so he internalizes that to an unhealthy degree”

I mean, I’ll try to explain how I see his character, but yeah.

Back to my “I don’t understand how people were suprised when Yoichi admitted he would have killed himself if Yu hadn’t showed up” point... do you remember what he was like back in school arc?

He was not ok. Bro, that guy was so soft and scared. He didn’t want to hurt or offend anyone. He didn’t want to get into any conflict and his first instinct was to submit to abuse or run away. He was desperate for validation and friendship, and he fell for things like bullying easily because he wouldn’t fight back and he wanted someone to like him so bad. He didn’t really want to be in the army, he was glad he got saved even if his sister didn’t make it, he didn’t truly want revenge. Obviously he wasn’t over it, but he didn’t think “boy howdy do I want to kill a vampire”. 

The only reason that he got so stuck on that was because it’s been pounded into his head from moment one. He got called every manner of weak, weakling, wuss, crybaby you can think of by not just shitty high schoolers but by authority figures. They live in a militarized society where your worth is determined by your physical and mental strength, so people with disabilities, mental illnesses, shit like that- they’re not doing so hot. Their way of dealing with Kids Have Trauma is “get over it” or “seek revenge against the vampires who did it”. This is actually a thing Kureto stated very clearly at the beginning of resurrection when he gave his dumbass speech to a bunch of traumatized 11 year olds right after the catastrophe. He’s weaponizing a bunch of kids by putting all these ideas into their head- giving them all fucking hero and martyr complexes because it makes them better soldiers. He tells them that they should want to get revenge and they should be strong and suck it up and use strong emotions against them.

So Yoichi basically grew up conditioned to absolutely fucking hate himself because that’s the ideal. He isn’t like that, and so he sees Yu who is basically the shining example of that kind of thinking, at that point in time. Basically just toxic masculinity central. He’s aggressive and strong, is much quicker to pull a sword on someone than hold out a hand, doesn’t want to make friends, he’s serious and dead set on revenge, he doesn’t cry in front of people and he uses his trauma as a weapon. Yu’s actually a total dick at the beginning of the story, to be honest, and I was surpised to find out the shit he said straight to Yoichi’s face. “give up” “weaklings like you would only get in the way” “nice guys like you shouldn’t be here” “we’re not here to make friends” basically telling him to suck it up or leave, bro, the dude was a fucking jackass to Yoichi, and Yoichi internalizes everything these people say to him, he believes every terrible thing people say.

And Yoichi still completely idolizes him because that’s everything Yoichi isn’t, as this obviously queer coded side character, and everything Yoichi is told he’s supposed to be. *clears throat* toxic masculinity

So in the beginning of the story Yoichi aspires to people like Yu and Kimizuki who are very,,, not open with their emotions. Gee whiz I wonder why he’s keeping up this facade to all his friends instead of trying to sit down and talk about how fucked up he is now. But let’s now talk about how Yoichi got to be the way he is now.

People, again, seem to think that when he got a demon he just decided to stop being traumatized or something, that he just finally got the strength to deal with that and it wasn’t a problem again because he gained confidence. But uh... remember what actually snapped him out of being possessed? You’d immediately go to Yu, but when Yu said all those idealistic things about friendship, Yoichi was still pointing his weapon at Yu. What actually stopped him?

Right after that, it was Guren telling him that becoming a demon was the equivalent to running away and hiding. (which, well, guren, I have a few things to say about that but)

He didn’t stop having those internalized ideals, the things he’d been told over years didn’t just go away or suddenly work at “fixing” him. He was just accused another time of being weak. He didn’t get over or resolve his trauma in any way, he just found a different way to deal with it, with a demon. The reason this actually works for him is that if you’ve literally ever looked closely at the times Yoichi interacts with demon stuff, he’s very innately talented at it, which is odd. He was completely immune to Guren’s test, he came back from being possessed out of sheer force of will, he learned manifestation by himself, he talks to his demon like he’s the one that Gekkouin should be scared of. He finally found something he was good at, that made him strong, and boy, he really clung to that one. He found a way to make himself the ideal they all wanted: in control, powerful, an asset to the team, stuck on revenge and without hesitation to kill- even if it’s not really something he should aspire to be. He just hides the fact that it’s a problem even more because it’s not something he’s supposed to talk about. because. toxic masculinity-

And so if you realize that, it’s not very surprising to see that reveal coming the whole time.

Simply put, if you liked yoichi, y’all should have realized he was never ok. Boy’s got issues. He’s a really complex character that, well, kagami kind of fails to do justice, but the fandom just kind of warps into smol uwu bean boi I could go on but my brain isn’t working so take this

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colouring of the illustration of this month!

its a pity that we couldnt have a new chapter, but we hope that asami sensei gets better soon!

colouring by mod kureto