#tatsu wothh

[the-malewife-ever]

[luffysfakebeard]

Miku please the idea of roulette is that at least some of them are good 😭😭😭

[amethystsoda]

Happy new WOTHH volume!!!

[todayisafridaynight]

in regards to crowbar bar guy i was thinking he could either be takehito koyasu or kenjiro tsuda (it's hard to tell from just what we got)

i couldnt tell you, we just have to wait for the game to come out and for official credit to be due 😷

[trip-wild-art]

I just think he’s kissable

[pleasewriteusernamehere]

tatsumiku, kubokai and tanaenno all have the same exact dynamic but I can’t quite explain it

[yanderemommabean]

tatsu would make such a good yandere its wonderful

Tatsu killed ten people with his bare hands and acted like that was nothing. Imagine him coming home to you crying or napping on the couch.

He’d lift you up and apologize for being late, asking you to forgive him while he tucks you in, and you have to try and gently (or forcefully) tell him that it’s fine and that he’s worried over nothing.

You haven’t eaten? Sit down! He’s let you down! He has to make up for it! Oh all that energy you used, how could he forget your lunch! He’ll remove his pinky for his mistake! (Which of course you stop. Because Jesus Christ it’s just lunch it’s not a big deal).

Other people....talking to you? Oh you poor sweet thing, how could he let you be around such danger! Let him be your bodyguard! See? People are scared of him already, safe and sound like you should be!

Why are the cops bothering you? Tsk tsk tsk let him explain everything while you’re escorted home. He can handle the pressure. Hand them some coupons while he snags you in his arms and gets you to dinner, which he worked on all day by the way!

Someone flirted with you?

Oh. Now the cute games are over with. Go on and do your shopping lovely, he has someone he needs to teach a lesson. Possibly the last one they’ll ever learn. (Or he’ll scare them so bad they pass out. Happens a lot actually. He wonders why).

NSFW wise I believe he would still be over the top, demanding you drink water after how ever many hours, massaging your muscles, grinning wickedly when you blush at the “gifts” he bought for you two.

If he feels he didn’t make you orgasm enough or that you weren’t satisfied he’ll beg you to punish him. “I can take it! Do it! Teach me a lesson!” But really all you need to do it either 1) tell him you’re satisfied, truly and deeply or 2) take this time to play into some BDSM fantasies to soothe that part of his brain that’s been riddled with horror for the past few decades or so.

Hell maybe Tatsus underling has a thing for you too. Who knows?

-Mommabean

[brightfiressketchbook]

Being a Househusband is Serious Business

[greentrickster]

@buffintruder  #hahaha #op i feel like this crossover is obscure enough that it doesn't get the attention it deserves #but i appreciate it immensely

^///^ Thank-you so much, have some more content!

Masa isn’t just causing problems - he’s actually the one who found Binghe in the first place.

He’d just arrived in this new world and was crying in an alleyway with no cultivation, no newly-awoken demon powers, no money, and no clue where he is. Also, one bleeding chest wound, many tears, a broken heart, and his protagonist halo is turned way down in the Way of the Househusband universe so that he fits the setting better. His eyes aren’t currently red and his features are human, but his demon mark is still fully visible.

Masa is the first one to pass by and hear him crying, looks Binghe over, listens to his story, and comes to the fairly reasonable conclusion that the kid just escaped from the Triads for whatever reason, better take him to Big Bro Tatsu and let him sort things out. And also bandage the kid up, because Bleeding. He’s the one who mentions Binghe’s demon mark being visible, leading to Binghe sprinting to the first reflective surface he can find to examine it because he didn’t know it was there, he’d forgotten about it, yay he still looks like himself, but also noooooo, demon mark, he really is part demon, Shizun will never forgive him, no one will ever love him again, so many tears-!!!!!

(The boy’s a crier and has had A Day, frankly he’s earned some waterworks.)

Due to the fact that his Protagonist Halo is turned way down, however, this isn’t the pretty, aesthetic sobbing of PIDW/SVSSS, this is full-on real-world meltdown, hard to get words out, can barely be understood sobbing. Meaning Masa doesn’t get the full picture, but is also absolutely 100% sure he knows exactly what’s going on.

Masa: (walks up and claps Binghe on the shoulder) Hey kid, don’t worry about it - you’re not the first kid to wake up from a night on the town with an accidental tattoo! At least it looks pretty cool - that ain’t easy with forehead tattoos!

Binghe: (shocked out of his meltdown by this open display of friendliness in the face of him being an Actual, Obvious Demon) You- you don’t think I’m a monster...?

Masa: ...my dude, that thing barely makes you a delinquent, it’s tiny, you could cover it up with a headband.

He then goes on to boast about Tatsu and his much bigger, cooler tattoo, and how he’s gonna take Binghe to him to get him all fixed up. It’s a complete and unexpected acceptance that Binghe wasn’t expecting, and he cannot get Masa to think Binghe’s a bad person no matter what he says. If anything he probably just goes like, “Tch, bet you haven’t even shot at a real person before.”

Binghe: What do you mean ‘shot at’?

Masa: Oh kid.

Side note, yes Masa does call his boss ‘the Immortal Tatsu,’ and yes this does give Binghe entirely the wrong impression.

It also means that, once he meets Tatsu, his first question is to ask if he’s actually a demonic master (because that man’s induce-fear aura is off the charts).

Tatsu: (not realizing that Binghe’s being literal) I use’ta be. These days I’ve left all that behind me, and I’m a simple househusband. (saying all this while cleaning and bandaging Binghe’s chest (he’s ex-yakuza, he knows at least a little first aid)

Then he takes Binghe’s outer robe and shirt, hands him a t-shirt to borrow, and uses the whole situation as a teaching moment for both Binghe and Masa about how to get bloodstains out of nice fabric.

Binghe: (starry-eyed)

And that’s when his System finishes booting up for the first time, announces that he’s completed the secret ‘Third Time’s The Charm!’ quest to find a new instructor, the location and characters are locked, and he may now start work to fulfill the desire that was in his heart as he fell into the Abyss. YAY!

Also, for this AU, I’m gonna say that the desire he felt so strongly that he attracted a System of his own wasn’t specifically to be with Shen Qingqiu, but to be loved and accepted (he just lucked out in that all the Systems Ship It, so he got the ‘Notice Me, Shizun’ quest line package included free of charge for later in his System experience). Now he gets to learn how to be loved and accepted, and it’s gonna be a ride and a half!

(Also, it should be noted, I’m absolutely not saying that Binghe started out unworthy of love and/or acceptance - just that he’s not really capable of believing he has or is worthy of either of those things at the moment. Yeah, he’s going to be learning some healthier social skills, but this AU is also a very thinly disguised excuse to give this kid All The Therapy He Needs. And, you know. Have him hang out with Tatsu, because that man is his life goals.)

“Why is Binghe a slightly-grey lotus in that Way of the Househusband AU of yours, Tatsu talks very yakuza and makes scary faces, but he’s extremely wholesome now?”

Oh it’s 100% not on Tatsu. It’s Masa’s fault. On the grounds that Masa is the one who realized that Binghe knew absolutely nothing about sex and decided to teach him the old-fashioned way: by giving him unrestricted access to the internet.

Side note, fortunately there’s no version of PIDW or SVSSS in the Way of the Househusband world, but by the time Binghe returns to Cang Qiong at age twenty-one, he’s read a lot of xianxia, wuxia, and danmei, and also just… so much p*rn.

So, so much p*rn.

The only thing saving Shen Yuan is that Miku figured out that Binghe had never had The Talk and managed to steer him near some safe sex booklets and websites.

Meaning that this is probably the Binghe who knows his preferences and what he’s doing more than most other Binghes, but he’s probably also probably a good 50% kinkier than most other Binghe’s too due to modern internet exposure.

[the-malewife-ever]

[luffysfakebeard]

Masa: aw man your poor wife

Tatsu: I know I’ll bitch slap him into silence

[schrodingersauthorii]

I have chronic "can I make this a crossover thought exercise" disease, and a Natsume Yuujincho/ Way of the Househusband fic not only CAN be done, but SHOULD be done.

Not by me, though. I know I can't do any of the WotHH character voices right.

But somebody should do a fic in which Tatsu rescues pre-canon Natsume from punks after he is mistaken for a punk (blond/ silver hair) and then teaches him housekeeping. The fic ends in a NatsuYuu canon compliant way with Natsume moving to another family after Tatsu threatens his shitty foster family.

(Foster father is a stereotypical jackass who beats his wife for burning the pot roast. Natsume wants to learn housework to help her, but finds out the hard way that you can't ever actually appease an abuser. Cue long lasting Masculinity Issues (tm)- is housekeeping acceptably manly? Local hyper masculine former gang member says yes, high school boys and salary man say not for you, bean sprout.)

[amethystsoda]

New Way of the House Husband volume means new Tatsu and Miku cuteness!!!

They are made for each other:

We love a woman who can infodump:

*coughs in bisexual* swimsuit appreciation:

Himbo time:

And finally, a man who truly loves his wife and her magical girl anime obsession:

[todayisafridaynight]

Not related to ANYTHING but the Yamaguchi girlies have been talking about this manga and theorizing the yakuza dude was based on Yamaguchi and/or his Nihon Touitsu character (not even unlikely since there's a mangaka who based a character on Motomiya and is now working on the official NHT manga lol)

Conspiracy Theories Aside I saw the cover and was IMMEDIATELY reminded of half the manga you talk about on here so I wanted to show you :)

It's called A Story About an Offline Meet-Up Between an Otaku and a Yakuza and it's only got a fan-translation (one that's REALLY far behind, at that) but it looks cute to me idk... I also like the Aoki-lookin' plushie...

O MY GOD IVE ACTUALLY READ THIS MANGA HELP it's such a cute manga... funny enough i actually see a lot of people say the main yakuza looks like tatsu from WotHH....

[sleeperswakewriting]

Rivetra mafia AU ??

I hope it’s okay I changed it up a bit! I have a canonverse AU based on the Way of the House Husband where Levi is still an underground criminal and Petra is an MP who finds him and nurses him back to health (like Tatsu and Miku in WoTHH)

Petra was on night duty when she found him. Bloody, battered, and barely alive, he was shirtless and the scars and tattoos that lined his back were just visible in the moonlight. It wasn’t uncommon for folks from the underground to try and venture above, hence why she was on guard duty for the night at the entrance, but it had been relatively quiet until she heard a groan from the area. 

He was short, and his hair was stuck to his forehead as sweat dripped down his face. Shaking, his eyes were closed until she approached him, hand on the hilt of her gun as she stepped closer. 

“Do you have papers to be above ground, sir?” She asked, squinting from the small amount of light that was available to her. The man moved and winced, and she put her gun back as soon as she saw the damage. He looked like he was on death’s door, face pale and his eyes barely had any luster as he coughed up blood. 

“Just wanna....see the stars one last time,” he murmured, slumping over and Petra ran to catch him, grabbing his arm to hoist it around her neck as she supported him. 

Nervously looking around her, Petra glanced back and forth as she decided that she was not going to let this man die tonight. Underground or not, he was in pain, and if no doctor was going to treat him, she would do it herself even though she had limited medical knowledge. 

The man groaned as she did her best to carry him--he was heavy despite his wiry frame, and she could feel his hard muscles as she balanced both his arms across her back. 

As a seasoned MP, she had her own apartment within Sina, small and a one bedroom, but it was private enough as she hurriedly carried him up the stairs, hoping that there wouldn’t be a trail of blood leading to her place. Kicking the door open, Petra hoisted him to the side and did her best to gently put him on her bed, but he groaned as he made contact with the wooden frame. 

“I’m going to clean your wounds and fetch you some medicine,” she ordered, ripping apart some spare clothes to dab his cuts. The man grunted, going delirious again, and Petra filled up her water bucket to wash his gashes. 

She couldn’t help but admire his body now that they were in the low light of her apartment; he was well toned and rows of abdomen lined his stomach. A large back tattoo of a phoenix was blazed between his shoulder blades and she sucked in a breath at the various cuts and scratches.

Feeling satisfied with cleaning his wounds, Petra opened her medicine cabinet and found the small bottle of morphine that was left over from when she was injured a few months ago. She knew she should have given it back, but she wanted to keep it in case of emergencies--which this was, and she held his jaw open and deposited the concoction into his mouth. 

He coughed and groaned, but Petra ran her fingers through his inky stands and soothed him. “Do you have a name?” She asked, pulling the blanket over his back and he rolled onto his side and murmured, “Just Levi,” before drifting off into sleep. 

Petra smiled, hoping that he was feeling better and she moved to gather her spare blankets and pillow from the cabinet, making a small sleeping space on her bedroom floor next to him. Noting the oil lamp, she turned it down and gazed at Levi one last time before she made herself comfortable. 

Petra awoke to Levi moaning, and she immediately got up, moving to check on him. He was covered in a sheen of sweat and as she touched her hand to his forehead, he blinked his eyes flickered open and grabbed her wrist. Bleary eyed, he pulled her down for a kiss and Petra yelped, confused but not unwelcome from the handsome stranger. 

Immediately, he fell back onto the bed, releasing her wrist and Petra giggled. Must be the morphine. 

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[ashbelero]

I should add that this is very similar to one of my favorite ridiculous animes ever, one that’s extremely obscure. It’s called Kachou no Koi.

And if you’ve ever seen it, I know what you’ve done.

This anime came out in 2010 and it was a short OVA. The animation style was basically just like WOTHH, fixed cel panels being moved and only the mouths actually animated.

It lends itself pretty well to comedy, and I’m willing to experience WOTHH in the same way. I really am. I was pissy about it at first, but... I’m just happy it’s here. Tatsu sounds exactly like he should and the voice acting is great.

Apparently the mangaka for The Way of a House Husband wanted it to be animated like That for comedic timing purposes or something. Ig props to the studio for listening to the mangaka's wishes but... kinda wish they didn't tbh :/

Honestly... I got over it. And I really would rather they listen to the artist than do their own thing, so I’m okay with it. It’s not exactly what I wanted, but it’s still fun and the VA work is awesome.