#tashiro gonzaburo

[purplecelestial-buddy]

I should never be allowed to think too hard about the animals Harusono choose to represent each guy.

Having said that, given that, Tashiro is a hedgehog and also a gamer I'm really surprised about the fact that I've never seen fanart or any mediums where he's related to Sonic.

[sunnnfish]

hiii sunny :) snack or sneak?

Hiiiii malt. Since my friends decided to send out bombs tonight. Sneaky tricky treat snack GONZABUROU EXPLOSION (+ a couple other friends)

[ID: 9 drawings of Tashiro Gonzaburou from Sasaki to Miyano in various states of finished and in a wide variety of poses and expressions. Most are smiling and happy, while a few have a more serious expression. The middle image specifically shows Shirahama bleaching Tashiro’s hair, as if Tashiro were taking a selfie in the middle of the process. The rest are non-contextual. /End ID]

Lots of gonzaburous from this past year in my digital sketchbook. Happy Halloween i hope everybody got very scared

[malt-rants-and-stuff]

Having some Tashiro (and prev pres) Thoughts

mostly just re-hashing things my fellow tashiro fans have said but I just felt like making my own post about it. be warned i wrote this while on a 4 hour drive on paper so im not sure how the length translates into a post, this will be a long one haha. also beware of inconsistent caps lock usage.

OBLIGATORY WARNING FOR SASAMIYA FIRST AND SECOND YEAR NOVEL SPOILERS

This whole thing was mainly brought on by two things, one is my non-ssmyverse friend dming me a twt screenshot with the most bland and uninspired description of tashiro's character ive ever read, signaling to me that tumblr has really spoiled me with the good tashiro takes. the other thing was that i got inspired to bring the first and second years novels with me on my previously mentioned long drive, which means that i got the pleasure of rereading both and, most importantly, rereading Tashiro Love & Passion. safe to say i had a lot to think about afterwards.

The whole thing really reminded me of the aspect of tashiro that i've always found interesting: his observant nature. And i dont just mean how he views others, but also how he views himself. How this perspective breaks the most of what we'd expect from a character like him, something Harusono loves to do with their characters.

From the first couple of pages in L&P alone, we get a lot of insight on how tashiro sees himself and how he bases much of that on how others view him.

He mentions a lot of clubs that he was a part of in the past or helped out with, describing his tendency not to stick around one club.

"The all-rounder." A "pinch player" anyone could call on.

I feel like this is an important place to start because just from this we see a bit of how Tashiro breaks from the mold of what an unassuming reader may expect him to be.

In the Sasamiya manga/anime, we dont really have too many chances to really view tashiro for who he is as an individual. with our limited perspective of him, we get to know miyano's friend tashiro, a bright, fun, and earnest character who says whats on his mind and is apparently on the ping pong team with hanzawa which is neat.

and if you werent a bit unhinged like myself and some others, this would be a fair assessment of his character. but ohhh boy once Love & Passion hit the towers there was no turning back.

there have been some posts getting into the themes of this chapter that i feel analyze it better than i ever could, so i wont do that, but i do want to talk about how tashiro's character is portrayed throughout the chapter.

And by far the main part that i want to focus on is how hardworking he is, and his and other's perspectives of him are effected by this.

Because tashiro is someone who wants very very badly to win, as he says numerous times throughout the chapter. Even under the guise of someday getting to quit the ping pong club, he pushes himself to get better; even going as far as practicing against the grannies and grandpas at the bath house that totally didnt adopt him.

For all his complaints, it would be easy to push off his actions as comedic. maybe, and im just making stuff up as i go, saying that he is only behaving as a stereotypical fun-loving slacker would. that his only motive truly is just to leave the club and drift through the rest of his high school days.

But then, that just isnt true is it? what kind of slacker would put so much time and effort into a club that he never even wanted to stick with in the first place?

This my dear friends, is how the Tashiro brainworms Fucking Get You.

Because why indeed, why is tashiro, who drifts through life wondering if he'll ever find his purpose, his Passion if you would, so impressive to the Previous Ping Pong Club President (prev pres) that he finds himself in line for future president?

While tashiro never really seems to figure this mystery out himself, we can take a few guesses.

While we will probably never see prev pres' thought process here (unless we get those 10k words of hanzawa lore that he'd probably be a part of) his actions speak for themselves in a way.

Afterall, this is the same president that got him stuck in this club to begin with, the same one who watched him complain, the same one who'd help drag him back whenever he would try to skip.

He's also the same president who watched him keep to their deal instead of just trying to find a way around it and quitting anyways. the same one who played against him at every practice, watching him learn and grow as a player. who saw him work hard, determined to not bring the team down, even if he wasnt as into it as the others. who saw him stick around.

in his perspective, tashiro takes multiple chances to not how he feels different from the people around him, that he has never known their "love" and never felt their "passion".

He finds himself surrounded by the Passion of others each day. His teammates, his friends, his bath house grandparents, just about everyone in the whole world. but what about him?

i mean, its not as if he's not interested in anything, he has things he likes. hobbies he enjoys. he just... never got that burning Passion, that unabashed Love for something like everyone else seems to have.

I think prev pres understood this part of him. that he saw what tashiro, for all his insightfulness, couldnt see for himself.

because for all tashiro believes that he doesnt have Passion, he sure does love to watch others indulge in theirs.

he takes note of what little he can catch while kuresawa and miyano talk BL, just so he can ask questions later. he gets to know the people at the bath house, listening as they talk about their lives and interests. and while he may not be "super into" in the ping pong club in general, he still wants to see his teammates succeed. he may never have stuck with a club for very long, but he still made himself reliable enough that he's seen as someone they can call to step in when needed.

in my mind i think that is what prev pres saw in him, how tashiro's dedication to see the Passions of others flourish assured him that the club would be safe in his hands.

and, while i cant say tashiro's passion is one specific thing right now, i can say that it encompasses every dream he wants to see grow. every love he curiously watches bloom. every ping pong match he fights to win.

[sunnfish]

[ID: A digital illustration of Tashiro Gonzaburou and Shirahama Kyouji from Sasaki to Miyano. They are sat on the floor of Tashiro’s room, next to his bed, holding video game controllers. Tashiro sits cross-legged and is leaned forward with a concentrated look on his face. Shirahama is relaxed in a half-crossed position with one leg up, and he is smiling while talking and looking over at Tashiro. Tashiro’s room is colorful, with many patterns and pillows and posters on the wall. It is rendered in vibrant greens, oranges, and blues, in a rough, painterly style. They are lit from the front, as if from the glow of a TV. The artist’s signature “sunnfish 2024” is written below the bed. /End ID]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TASHIRO MY FAVORITE CHARACTER EVER

[cardcaptorharin]

Hirano to Kagiura

notes: Sasaki to Miyano will be add here. rating/category: reader x. male x male. teen. adults. angst with happy ending. fluffl. enemies to lovers. friends to lovers. strangers to lovers.

[ello0u0]

🎐SSMY 2023 BDAY ILLUSTRATIONS 🎐 wind chimes + summery and fowery outfits + each post captions that mentioned little facts about their names:

Hanzawa: called ma-kun by his family

Ogasawara: sometimes called jiro-chan

Niibashi: only one person outside of his family calls him by his first name

Sasaki: not yet used to being called by his first name 🩵🧡

Tashiro: called Gonzaburo by his grandparents

Hirano: likes his name

Kuresawa: loves Yuki and her name, thinks it really matches her

Kagiura: called a special name 💛💚

Miyano: the nickname given by his lover has become a special one 🧡🩵

[gonzaburrow]

He wasn't thinking when he approached the model, who gathered his things up. "Excuse me, would you mind staying just another 30 minutes?" And then, because he thought incentive would help added, "I'll buy you a drink after. You're a good model." 

Niibashi didn't compliment often, and it felt foreign on his tongue. 

"For real? Absolutely!" He was all but jumping in place. "I needed an excuse to skip ping pong club, if I'm being honest." He shot a quick text off and turned his attention to Niibashi once more, hand extended. "Tashiro Gonzaburo, by the way." 

 He responded in kind. "Niibashi Juuya." 

While they shook hands, Niibashi took in the differences. His own hand was covered with streaks of chalk, and paint lingered under his fingernails. When they were clean, he prided himself on his well kept hands. Tashiro's were rough, calloused, and the way he gripped Niibashi's hand felt oddly safe, secure. 

[recentanimenews]

Sho Harusono's Boys Love Manga Sasaki and Miyano Gets TV Anime by Studio DEEN in 2022

    A TV anime adaptation of Sho Harusono's boys love manga Sasaki to Miyano / Sasaki and Miyano is confirmed to be in the works by Studio DEEN (Junjo Romantica, Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi - World's Greatest First Love) for a premiere in 2022. The anime's official website also opened to reveal its key visual, main staff, and voice cast members.

  Based on the author's Sasaki to Miyano no Chottoshita Hanashi (Sasaki and Miyano's Little Story) which was originally posted on pixiv, it was retitled Sasaki to Miyano / Sasaki and Miyano and has been serialized on the Gene Pixiv website since 2016.

  The story begins when Yoshikazu Miyano, a fudanshi (a boy who loves the boys love genre) who has a complex about his feminine face, meets a slightly delinquent senior, Shumei Sasaki, on a summer day. For some reason, Miyano is liked by Sasaki, and asked by him to lend his favorite manga. Sasaki, on the other hand, is gradually attracted to Miyano, whose eyes are sparkling as he talks about BL.

  All of the main voice cast of the previously-released drama CDs will reprise their roles in the anime as well. Shinji Ishihira (Log Horizon, FAIRY TAIL) is attached to direct, alongside series composition writer Yoshiko Nakamura (Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle) and character designer Maki Fujii (Bladedance of Elementalers).

      はじまりは、憧れだった。 「だれかを好きになること」を応援してくれる、爽やか青春男子高校生LIFE TVアニメ #佐々木と宮野 2022年放送予定！ ティザービジュアルを公開しました。 ▪︎公式HPhttps://t.co/ICTUSsXy9n ▪︎Instagramhttps://t.co/sEKrFkLUVv ▪︎公式推奨タグ #佐々木と宮野 pic.twitter.com/fcwcKk05A3

— TVアニメ「佐々木と宮野」公式 2022年放送予定！ (@sasamiya_anime) June 15, 2021

    Main voice cast:

  Shumei Sasaki: Yusuke Shirai

Yoshikazu Miyano: Souma Saito

Hirano Taiga: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Jiro Ogasawara: Yuuki Tomoki

Masato Hanzawa: Yuma Uchida

Tasuku Kurezawa: Arai Ryohei

Gonzaburo Tashiro: Mitsuhiro Ichiki

    Preview for the first Drama CD released in June 2019:

    Source: TV anime "Sasaki and Miyano" official website / Twitter

  ©2022 Sho Harusono/KADOKAWA/"Sasaki and Miyano" Production Committee

  By: Mikikazu Komatsu

[sunnfish]

[ID: A digital illustration of Tashiro Gonzaburou from Sasaki to Miyano. He is shown from the knees up, wearing his outfit from his 2024 official birthday art. He’s holding a hand over his head to block the sunlight, and is smiling and looking off to the side. His hair and clothes wave as if blown by wind. The color palette consists of bright blues, oranges, and greens. The artist’s signature “sunnfish 2024” is written on the side. /End ID]

My girlfriend gon-chan

[sunnfish]

[ID: A digital illustration of Tashiro Gonzaburou from Sasaki to Miyano. He’s sitting in a relaxed position with his legs tucked in and leaned over. He’s wearing loose clothes and his hair is let down. “ごんちゃん” (“Gon-Chan”) is written faintly behind him, along with the artist’s signature “sunnfish 2024.” It’s rendered in a loose painterly style and with bright saturated colors. /End ID]

Estrogen would fix her

[sunnnfish]

prev prez mention in 2024 how we feeling

ANON. ANONYMOUS. I WAS AT FIRST STUNNED AND BAFFLED BY WHAT YOU MEANT BY THIS. AND THEN I REALIZED TASHIRO BIRTHDAY ART DROPPED TODAY . AND SO I WENT TO LOOK POSTHASTE. AND WAS HIT WITH A NUCLEAR BOMB SO POWERFUL I THINK I TURNED INTO THE JOKER

i genuinely cannot express how much im physically reacting to this. nearly hyperventilating. shaking. crying. sniffling. laughing. yelling. chills. its so dire for me. im dying badly. soooooooo badly. IS HE FUCKING SHIRTLESS IN YHE FIRST PANEL ????? AND SHIRAHAMA IS THERE ? WAKING HIM UP IN THE GODDAMN MORNING ?? <-thoughts of a person who makes things up for fun. still though. anyways biggest fucking win of the century for me and my friends HE STILL HANGS OUT WITH PREV PRES AND HANZAWA. IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2024. THEY REGULARLY GET ICE CREAM AFTER SCHOOL ????? IM GOING TO [remembers killing myself is the myself killer] die from circumstances out of my control. ha ha ha hahhahhhaahhha hahaaaaaaaahhahhahhhhhhhhhhhhh hahah hahh hhhha ahahah ha ha ha ha haaaa . prev pres in fucking 2024 How am i feeling. How Am I Feeling. ? im feeling simultaneously over the moon and six feet under. like my heart has jumped straight out of my chest . prevpreshanzashiro so fucking REAL ? HARUSONO SHOU ? genuinely what yhe actual fuck. harusono shou. im quickly becoming incoherent ive gotta. Go. thank you so dearly for bringing this to my attention dear anon i love you

[sunnnfish]

if you look at the quotes of the tashiro birthday art theres a translation of the convo between the 3 of them and its much more sweeter than the auto translated one! highly recommend seeing it

OH I NEED TO DIE EVEN MORE.

[malt-rants-and-stuff]

TRICK OR TREAT SNACK OR SNEAK ALSO. 🍬🍫🍫🍭🍬🍫🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻

I FELL ASLEEP!!! BUT HAVE A SNEAKY TRICK FOR YOUR TROUBLES >:D

[sunnfish]

[ID: A digital illustration of Tashiro Gonzaburou from Sasaki to Miyano, from the shoulders up. He is smiling and looking at the viewer, flashing a peace sign next to his face. His hair is slightly longer and he has a slight gap tooth. It’s rendered in a loose painterly style, with a color palette of bright, saturated greens, oranges, and blues. Star shapes decorate the canvas. The artist’s signature “sunnfish 2024” is written in the corner. /End ID]

regularly scheduled gon-chan

[sunnnfish]

oh my GOD where do I begin. Uhhhmmm. Okay. So Love & Passion is a chapter is the Sasaki and Miyano: First Years novel. Every chapter in that book is from a different characters perspective, and Love & Passion is from Tashiro’s POV. It is mostly about tashiros first year of high school and his joining of the ping pong club. Here look at the cover illustration

Going under a cut now due to exceeding length.

So like. There’s like. A Lot. Certifiably. Especially if you’re a tashiro enthusiast like me. Phenomenal characterization and narration that is usually very fun and lighthearted and tashiro-esque!

Gonzaburo Tashiro, first-year. At the moment, I’m facing an insurmountable barrier.

^ First lines of the chapter. He’s continuously very silly and like. Dramatic narrator. Yknow.

And such a personality lends itself to awfully poignant lines of crippling sincerity and simplicity that make me bawl my eyes out.

I don’t get it. What happened to the loneliness?

But of course tashiro doesn’t exist in a void to we have our delightful cast of his dear friends and acquaintances! Middle school bestie shirahama, who gets him into This Whole Mess (I’ll get to that later). Dearest Hanzawa Masato, who he makes various umh. Comments about.

“Game, set!” announced the referee, a second-year.

Man, he sounds so cool saying that.

…

As I stood there, drooping mentally and physically, I was approached by the guy who had refereed our match—the club’s vice president, Hanzawa.

And last but CERTAINLY not least. Dearest dearest previous president of the ping pong club!!!!

There he is. The saulty little binch on the right.

And if you’re wondering why we call him that. Well. He’s never given a name. Ha ha! But he has such a presence. The way he speaks and moves and looks feels so intentionally intense and like. designed. He’s so on purpose. Makes me wonder if we’ll ever get a spinoff of hanzawa masato[GETS SHOT] ha ha sorry who said that. Anyways

Dearest previous president (prev pres for short) and hanzawa torment poor tashiro. Endlessly. From the moment he joined the club—which was kind of an accident (he and shirahama joined just to check it out but eventually wanted to quit, but to quit you had to win a ping pong match. Shirahama won his match against a newbie easy peasy. Tashiro got matched up against the president of the club himself. Obviously couldn’t win and thus forced to join the club permanently)—from the moment he joined the club, prev pres and hanzawa are like. All over him. Obsessed with him. He tries to skip practice but both of them come drag him out of him classroom to come practice.

But despite his desire to not really be there, he takes club so seriously. He’s so sincere about it. He knows everyone else there is really passionate about ping pong so he cant let himself be the odd man out and rain on everyone’s parade. And this paradox—being so avoidant of the club but coming to care about it and bond with other members—really catches the eye of dearest prev pres.

“I thought Tashiro’d be spoiling for a fight, but he isn’t. That’s what makes him a genius worthy of my inner circle. Remember that, Hanzawa, ‘cause when I graduate, you’re gonna be the next club president.”

“Yes, sir.”

“And I think that guy might be a good successor to you!”

Dearest tashiro overhears this and promptly realizes the two freaks he’s met will not let him out of this. Ever. But he tells himself he’ll decline the offer. Surely they’ll find “someone more appropriate. Someone more serious about the club, maybe.”

And this is what like. Gets to the heart of this chapter. Love & Passion. AND REALLY QUICK touching on the fact that all the other chapters are named in ways that refer to specific characters. They’re all in pairs, and the chapter cover art reflects that too. She & Kuresawa. Miyano & Kuresawa. Sasaki & Miyano. Senior & Junior. SO IT MAKES YOU THINK. Who is love and who is passion. Anyways Tashiro meets and knows these various people around him and they’re all so passionate about what they do and what they like. Shirahama ends up joining the basketball club and gets really into it. Miyano and kuresawa are passionate about their books and clubs. Hanzawa and previous president are passionate about ping pong. Tashiro is passionate about… ? he doesn’t really know.

We so rarely know what other people’s passions are.

“Are you into anything, Tashiro?” Ms. Toyoda asked, and I flinched.

“Uh, me? I dunno. I guess I hadn’t really thought about it.” I racked my brain for anything I might be passionate about, but nothing came to mind.”

Later in the chapter he participates in a ping pong tournament and its like. He’s like the rush of it all and cheering for him teammates and stuff but. He doesn’t cry like everyone else when he loses.

Still, when I saw players from other school practically weeping when they lost, I couldn’t help wondering: What made them so different from me? I didn’t have the passion within me to cry when I lost.

Maybe that’s what real passion looks like. What did I have, then?

…

But something held me back, a sense that ‘passion’ was reserved for something you really, truly loved. Something you couldn’t replace, couldn’t even dream of giving up.

Ping-pong isn’t exactly the hill I would die on. But then again…

And he kinda goes through this arc where its like. Im not passionate about this like everyone else. But it has given me a goal to work towards.

And amidst all that We also get into what tashiro gets up to outside of school. Namely, he frequents a bath house where hes become the grandchild of all the old people that also frequent the place. And he also practices ping pong with his new grandpas, because he totally doesnt care about ping pong. He just. Wants to win. So he can beat the president and leave. Yeah thats it.

But he never does get around to beating the president before he has to graduate. Queue the moment that makes me the most insane

“So you’re never coming back, President?” I said.

“I ain’t President anymore.”

“Not the point! I haven’t beat you yet…” I clenched my fists, a yawning, lonely feeling of loss opening within me.

“Ahh. You mean the thing about getting to quit if you win? The next president’ll keep that promise. Dont’ you worry.”

“What?”

I don’t get it. What happened to the loneliness?

The new president—in other words, Hanzawa.

This like. Special relationship hes had with the president. This game of cat and mouse remains unfulfilled. And he feels loss and he feels lonely about it. But at the same time he can renew that relationship with Hanzawa. And it suddenly doesn’t feel so lonely anymore. And its the simplicity and bluntness of this whole exchange is what really sells it—tashiro is not particularly eloquent. He’s brash and blunt but extremely observant. And thats reflected in his chapters. He recognizes the ways other people interact with the world and their expressions and language. And its so like. Factual to him. It is the way it is. And that observancy is applied to himself too. This feels lonely. Oh. This doesn’t feel lonely anymore. But he doesnt necessarily have the self-reflection to understand why he feels certain things. Anyways.

And amidst all THAT theres these few moments where he gets this really weird adjacency to queerness. Like. If i had a nickel for every moment he asked about queer people, id have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but its strange it happened twice.

First one:

Miyano’s hobby was man-on-man romance comics. I sometimes wondered about that (like, even though he’s a guy?),

Second one, where hes relaxing in the bathhouse common area and is listening to the old ladies talk about yuri.

Finally, I asked, “What’s yuri?”

“You don’t know? It’s stories of love between girls!”

“Huh, Haven’t heard of that one before…” I guess Ms. Toyoda and her friends had been into reading that sort of thing many years ago, and now their interest was being rekindled thanks to their grandchildren. “I didn’t realize women liked stories about girl-on-girl love, too…”

And its like. ITS NOT MUCH I KNOW. But it really is so weird it happened twice. Why did author Hachijo Kotoko do this. What does it mean. AND THEN IT ALL COMES BACK TO THE TITLE. Love & Passion.

I may not have that burning love that Miyano or Ms. Toyoda have, I thought.

Like. Specifically calling out the love miyano and Ms. Toyoda have. For queer stories. It sits so strange with me. Oddly meaningful but i dont know what it means.

Anyways. There’s also a really good shirahama and tashiro moment that i could get into but. I wont. Yet.

Anyways again. All that writing and i feel like i haven’t even touched on everything. Did not talk nearly enough about hanzawa’s presence but like. It’s very specific and hard to explain. But i also have an incessant desire to just quote like the entire chapter. So just go try to read it if you can. I unfortunately don’t know of any sources online but who knows. The book also has a second tashiro pov chapter so like. Cannot recommend it enough. I love tashiro gonzaburou so so much. He’s everything to me. Peace and love on planet tashiro.

[sunnfish]

[Image Description: A digital illustration of Tashiro Gonzaburou from Sasaki to Miyano. He is drawn in the outfit from his official 2023 birthday art, consisting of a lightly patterned, black sleeveless hoodie and blue, capri length pants, holding a lime green wind chime that emanates a lime green light. His hair is worn loose and he is barefoot. He is posed sitting with his legs bent towards his chest, his arms outstretched between them, with slight armpit and leg hair visible. He is smiling lightly and looking at the viewer. The color palette consists of lime greens, oranges, reds, and yellows. One version has the text “Tashiro Gonzaburo” “2023 07 08” “Happy Birthday” written across it, while the other is textless. The artist’s username “@sunnfish” is written in the bottom right corner, and the signature “sunnfish 2023” is overlayed under the arm. /End Description]\

HI EVERYBODY despite my busy-ness today i carved time through blood sweat and tears to draw this. Happy birthday king you have every right to look like this

Link to my drawing of his 2022 birthday outfit :)

Also a clean image of the full body under the cut ^_^

[ID: The same as the images above, but showing the full body as opposed to parts of the back and top of the head being slightly cut off. His hoodie slides up a bit to show a bit of his waist. /End ID]