#technically a tanuki from the looks of things but its so cute

[lcpmon]

obsessed with this emote currently

[captain-booty-bae]

A cute HC for Miyusawa: Miyuki becomes a undercover body Model (after being scouted) instantly recognized by the one and only Sawamura during his final year of high school. After Sawamura found out, the team finds out and chaos ensues

Omg this is so cute! So I tried writing it and I forgot that supposedly Miyuki’s already gone pro and Eijun should be on his final year so sadly this turns out differently. 

Annnnd I apologize if this is bad cause I wrote it for like half an hour, and my grammar sucks.

So in this one, Eijun is still a first-year and Miyuki is the captain. AHHHHHHHHH I’ll try rewriting this as pro!miyuki and 3rdyr!Sawamura but I’m still busy with college right now so please bear with this one instead.

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As he stepped inside the cafeteria, he noticed a bunch of his teammates was huddled in some table. He quickly made his way to his pink-haired friend and take a sit oppositely to Furuya who is trying not to fall asleep while eating.

“What’s the commotion, Haruchi?” He asked as he takes a glance across the room.

“They’re looking to some sports magazine, Eijun-kun. And you should get your fair share of food before the others eat everything.” Haruichi replied and smile when he saw his friend scramble to get up and get his lunch to the cafeteria lady while shouting “LEAVE ME SOME PLEASE!!!”

 When Eijun got his portion, he bowed and quickly offer his thanks to the cafeteria lady. He started to make his way back to his friends when he noticed his teammates again who were, haruchi said, looking to some sports magazine. Curiosity got the best of him and he made a beeline to where Kanemaru is hunching down and situate himself across the blond.

 “Hey what’s that?”

Several heads turned when his voice rang out the table. Scratching his head, Kanemaru answered, “We’re looking for a new sports shirt and we heard that this magazine is really popular for sports attire.”

Kuramochi snorts and rolls his eyes, “Well no wonder it’s popular, seriously, it’s like their selling bodies instead of things!!!” His green-haired senpai exclaimed while waving his hand to show his frustration.

Gleaming gold eyes stares back at Kuramochi and he asked, “What do you mean they’re selling bodies?”

Kuramochi sighs I forgot, Sawamura is an idiot. “No no no. I’m not explaining it to you. You’re too stupid to understand it anyway.” Kuramochi snickers as he reached across Sawamura to smack him on the head.

Eijun winced as he strongly disagrees with Kuramochi’s statement, “I AM NOT THAT STUPID!!!!!”

So, you do really admit that you’re somehow stupid. The rest of the Seidou team thought as Kuramochi slaps the table and laughed at the southpaw pitcher.

Eijun huffed as he swiped the magazine away from Kanemaru’s hand that earned him a “HEY” from the blond. He quickly mumbled, “Just let me see.”

His attention then turned to the magazine on his hands who is currently featuring a half-naked male wearing a white baseball tight pants that hugged his form perfectly. He gazed downwards and blushed furiously when he noticed the huge bulge in the model’s crotch area. This is bad. The southpaw pitcher thought as he continued staring at the male model’s body. Can this be considered as cheating? I mean liking somebody else’s body than K-Kazuya. His eyes grew wide, W-wait.  

“Oi Sawamura! You’ve been staring at the model’s body intensely. Don’t tell me that shits turning you on.” A voice pipes up but he ignored it as he continued to study the model’s body.

“Y-you-san?!” Haruichi exclaimed. He didn’t even notice Haruchi and Furuya at his side. He gripped the magazine tightly as he rakes the body on the magazine with his eyes.

This can’t be. The chest, the mole on his collarbone, the abs, the little scar on the left side close to the ribs, the belly button….. this is not right. It looks like—

 “M-MIYUKI KAZUYA!!!!!!!” He now wonders why his eyes didn’t fell out, his eyes couldn’t grow possibly wider than this now.

“Oi oi oi, don’t just casually shout that four-eyes name. Seriously, what’s with you bakamura” Kuramochi scowled at the southpaw pitcher form as he thought of the possibilities as to why Sawamura is acting like that.

“No! no! You don’t understand Kuramochi-senpai!” He shouted frantically, his hands shaking as he slams the magazine back to the table and he looks up, eyes screaming of disbelief as he said, “WHY THE HELL IS MIYUKI KAZUYA ON THIS MAGAZINE?!!!!”

Silence engulfed in the cafeteria, all eyes trained on the First-year southpaw pitcher.

“W-what do you mean, Bakamura?” Kanemaru manages to croak out as he glanced around the table and saw all of the Seidou team had stopped eating.

“THIS!” He points at the model, “WHY THE HELL IS MIYUKI KAZUYA IN HERE?!” Eijun throws his hand in the air, “THAT CHEST, ABS, ALL OF THAT!!!!!—” He stopped and frowned That damn tanuki. Why didn’t he tell me this? his hands formed into a fist as he tries to calm his heart down. No, this can’t do. He grabs the magazine and dashed his way to room 203.

“What just happened?” Maezono said and no one answered him.

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A loud bang resonates in the room, He groggily stands up as he reached for his glasses and half-heartedly answer, “What did I do to have you banging at my door so early in the morning?”

“THE HELL DO YOU MEAN EARLY?! ITS ALREADY 10 IN THE MORNING!” The culprit replied.

He sighs as he made his way to his door with a scowl plastered on his face, he mumbles back, “It’s our day off, of course, it’s still early.” He turned the doorknob and came face to face with a magazine and a shout, “WHAT IS THIS MIYUKI KAZUYA!”

He swatted the magazine away from his face, “You’re too loud.”

“I have every right to be loud right now, Kazuya!” He perks up as he heard his first name uttered by the first-year pitcher, a swell on his chest, he unknowingly rubs his chest with his left hand as he tries to stop himself from smiling fondly at the brunette.

“Okay. Let’s take this inside.” The Catcher steps in the side as Eijun grudgingly made his way inside the room and drop himself to Kazuya’s bed.

“To what do I owe the pleasure to have my favorite first year visit me so early in the morning?” He said cheerfully as he situates himself beside the pitcher. The grimace on Eijun’s face didn’t go unnoticed by him and He snickers as he waits for Eijun’s reply.

The pitcher’s reply isn’t what he expected though, “Kazuya, what’s the meaning of this?” Eijun throws something on his lap and he stiffened when he realizes what the thing is.

“Uhh… That’s a magazine?” He answers back nervously as he glances at his boyfriend’s frame and notices that his knuckles turning white from gripping the bed sheet. “Eijun—” He didn’t manage to finish it when his back hits the bed. Eijun straddled his lap, hair covering his eyes and He jerks back when the pitcher slides his shirt upwards, revealing his chest.

“Oi oi you could have just told me—” He was interrupted again when Eijun slaps his sides and loudly exclaim, “THIS IS MINE!”

His eyes grew wide like saucers as he studies Eijun’s expression. His eyes stray back to the magazine at his side and saw his picture, well his body’s picture, on the magazine that he had a photoshoot last week. He quickly put the pieces together Ah, my Eijun’s getting possessive. He chuckles as he sits up and snakes his hand on Eijun’s back. He smirked when his pitcher shivers from the touch,

“W-what are y-you doing, y-you tanuki bastard?!” The southpaw stutters and circles his arms on the other man’s neck as he steadies himself on his boyfriend’s lap.

He freezes when a hand cradles his face and Kazuya noticed this, he quickly brushed the stray hair on Eijun’s face and he smirked, “Is my Eijun getting possessive over me?”

Eijun flushed but he immediately regained his composure. He scowls back at Kazuya and said, “You’re mine. No one else’s but mine.” His arms tightened on Kazuya’s neck, “I—It angers me, knowing that others can see this—” He slides his hands on the catcher’s chest and Kazuya’s breath hitched and he croaks out a reply “You do know that we have a public bath here so technically, almost all of the Seidou team has seen me naked.”

“But it’s not the same.”

He locked eyes with Eijun,

Copper meets Gold

“Yes, it’s not the same. They can see this, but they can’t touch it.” He captures Eijun’s lips and bites back a moan when his pitcher kissed him back. Eijun pulls away and said—

“I’ll let this slide today bastard.” And dives back for a kiss.

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Back in the cafeteria where all of the Seidou team stared at the door dumbfounded. One question rang up in their head repeatedly,

How the hell did Sawamura recognize it as Miyuki’s body?

 Then they all thought back when Sawamura shouted earlier, “The chest, the abs—”

A dark aura suddenly spread in the cafeteria as a green-haired man mumbles dangerously, “That fucking good-for-nothing captain.”   ��

Then just like a lightning bolt, almost all of the first strings scramble their way out of the cafeteria and dashes to room 203 where a certain tanuki captain resides with one thought ringing through the baseball team members, “MUST AVENGE SAWAMURA’S PURITY.”

Furuya who was left behind at the cafeteria, with a stoic face, lets out a quiet voice, “Miyuki-senpai’s body looks nice in the magazine.”

Disbelief flashed across the remaining team members in the cafeteria as they stare back at the monster-rookie.

———–

Later on, a yelp can be heard throughout the Seidou’s dorms,

“WHAT THE HELL?!”

And no one even bats an eye when they heard,

“LET GO OF SAWAMURA, YOU CORRUPT!”

————-

Surprisingly, Miyuki Kazuya, as an undercover body model, was left forgotten as almost all of the Baseball team are too busy protecting Sawamura’s purity.

[mageinabarrel]

As is our custom around here, it’s time to take a look back at the shows of last season before the new one hits (actually, it’s already here but oh well).

I’ve been watching seasonal anime for a while now, but I never seem to grow bored of looking back at seasons as a whole and considering my experiences with them from a self-reflective perspective. First, some stats: I followed 5 shows through the full duration of the season, as well has have two others that I started but never finished. In terms of pure volume, this is up from the season prior, but it’s interesting to note that even with a few more shows, I feel behind less often and generally felt more engaged than I did during the winter. Perhaps evidence of a better crop of shows?

But probably the most interesting thing that happened – one that rather curiously illustrates the difference watching something weekly or marathoning it makes for me – is the case of Saekano. I watched the first few episodes of the first season back when it aired in 2015, but dropped it. However, when people on Twitter started posting a lot of screencaps that made it seem like I’d like it, I marathoned both seasons in about a week or so. And because I watched it that way, even though Saekano Flat was technically a spring show, it doesn’t really feel like it to me. It’s a unique experience unto itself, not a part of the three-month event that was Spring 2017 anime.

But anyways, about those shows from this season!

The first show I finished this season – and so the first one I’m going to talk about – was the second season of Attack on Titan. Overall, I think I rather agree with Sakugablog’s Kvin on the state of the show as a whole: it was better executed than the first season but not necessarily as fun. While the final two episodes of season two were basically as good as the show has ever been, everything leading up to that was pretty dull, I though. The Ymir/Historia stuff had long been talked up by manga readers as being some of the best material of the story, but I found it horridly uninteresting and irking for how much attention was paid to it.

Attack on Titan (perhaps especially as an anime) is really not equipped to deal with the nuances required for something like Ymir and Historia’s relationship. Simplicity can be graceful at times; for this, though, it just came across as shallow (although others, like ANN’s Rose Bridges in her kick-ass article on the women of Titans, have a different opinion). But what Titans is good at doing is overblown action and people yelling at each other, and we sure did get a nice amount of that in the show’s final third. Everything from Eren and Reiner’s fight at the wall to their shouting match in the trees to Mikasa’s rage to Eren being able to control titans (lolololol) was very near sublime in pulling out all the stops. I’ll probably never think that highly of this franchise, but it sure is fun sometimes.

Sticking with the action theme, I also kept up with both My Hero Academia S2 and Ei Aoki’s Re:Creators for the full season. Both are ongoing into next season, and while I’ll definitely be watching MHA (it’s finally into material I haven’t already seen in the manga!), I’m not so sure I’ll be sticking with Re:Creators.

The strengths and weakness of both of these shows are rather obvious, but they make for an interesting pair. My Hero Academia‘s obvious debts to the traditions of both Shounen Jump manga and American superhero comics make it an easily watchable, momentum heavy experience – especially as it seems to have figured out a few of its lagging pacing issues from the first season – but the the real charm has always been its characters and how earnestly they pursue their dreams of being heroes. It’s easy to watch.

Re:Creators, on the other hand, I suppose I would say is more heady, although I’m not convinced it knows where to find the balance between forward motion and taking time to consider its ideas. Re:Creators having a mismash of characters from different kinds of stories gives it a prime opportunity to draw on these wells of meaning (as it did with the Mamika episode I wrote about), but on the whole it seems to be more interested in having action setpieces for their own sake and leaving the meaning-making to the talking. The show has proven it can do better – Selesia’s creator’s teary-eyed smile when Twitter powers her up was really special – but it hasn’t proven it can be consistent.

Consistency was an issue for more than one show this season, including The Eccentric Family 2. A long-time favorite of mine, The Eccentric Family‘s return to TV anime was surprising, but welcome. According to folks in the know, it seems to be a pet project for P.A. Works – and what a good pet project it is. Despite lacking the overarching plotline that helped hold the first season together thematically, the second season largely remained a delight for its wondrous collection of stunning individual scenes. If the first season of the show was a single tapestry woven together, the second was more like a series of individual paintings – and even the fact that they didn’t all flow together can’t take away from their individual beauty.

That aside, the most rewarding part of The Eccentric Family 2, really, was the chance to dive deeper into this cast of characters that we’ve all come to love. Whether it was the slow additions of nuances and humanity to Benten’s character, the ways new addition Gyokuran brought out different sides of Yasaburo for us to see, or even the way the OP sequence provided its own sort of fascinating context (as Brianwuzhere notes). Alongside the chance to explore new worlds alongside Yajiro or Yasaburo or delve more deeply into tanuki society and customs with Yaichiro, the additional textures The Eccentric Family 2 added to the decadent world of the show’s version of Kyoto were their own reward.

But my not-so-secret favorite show of the season was Alice and Zoroku (Alizou). Because I’m bad and slow at writing these days, I don’t yet have up the post I started writing on my thoughts on the show, but for now it’s interesting to trace my feelings on the show from seeing it as a good sort of Shana-type anime to being convinced its something quite different (and better) than that, an anime that can stand on its own without such comparisons. From its ideas on family (which I wrote about) to its humorous depictions of a small child slowly growing up to its fun explorations of Sana’s created worlds to its very seriously considered relationships between the children characters, Alizou is packed much more tightly with things worth thinking about than it might appear on the surface.

I’d even go so far as to say that Alizou was the smartest show of the season. Aside from how immaculately effective it was as a story, the ease with which it tackled questions as different as “what makes us human?” and “what does it mean to be a family?” was frankly astounding for a show that initially looked to be nothing more than just cuteness. In some ways, I suppose this is one of the hidden strengths of blending fantasy into a mundane setting – the mismatch inherently creates a space where questions must be asked to bridge the gap between worlds. Alizou did this wonderfully, adding a valuable extra level of engagement on top of its more basic appeals (i.e. Sana being a cute kid).

Maybe it’s good that I didn’t watch Saekano Flat as a weekly show, because otherwise it may very well have knocked Alizou out of the top spot & I’m pretty happy with having it there. As things stand now, I don’t have too many specific things to say about Saekano, though. There’s too much about that show that I still need to process. So congrats to Alizou, my favorite anime of Spring 2017!

I also started and did not finish Sukasuka (7 episodes), Tsukigakirei (5 episodes), Sword Oratoria (4 episodes), Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul (1 episode), and Granblue Fantasy (1 episode). The first two I may go back to finish; the rest I think I have said farewell to forever.

As always, you may yell at me in the comments about how I didn’t watch your favorite show of the season, am bad for not finishing Tsukigakirei yet, or just politely tell me what you enjoyed this season. Get to it~

As is our custom around here, it's time to take a look back at the shows of last season before the new one hits. As is our custom around here, it's time to take a look back at the shows of last season before the new one hits (actually, it's already here but oh well).