#this panel is from one of the untranslated epilogue chapters and I am. obsessed with it | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

grassbreads · 7 months ago

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Gonna be rotating this dude in my head forever

Man, genuinely there's little that excites me more than encountering queerness in fiction where I wasn't expecting it. I'm gonna be thinking about Kikuhiko/Yakumo from SGRS for so long.

Even setting aside the subtext of his feelings for Sukeroku, the narrative around his relationship to gender norms and his own expression is so fascinating. Guy who grows up steeped in rigid 40s gender roles and actively tries to enforce them, yet only truly feels like himself when he's acting on stage as a woman. Guy who says his life would have been better if he were born a woman and then refuses to elaborate.

#this panel is from one of the untranslated epilogue chapters and I am. obsessed with it #thank you again to beloved mutual riri cinammonelles for sending these chapters to me this morning #he's so. like. coy in this scene #he's having fun and relatively free from the pressures of his real living life #he's just vibing #and this is how he acts when he's in that state #what I wouldn't give to see him in a life where being queer was a real option #anyway shouwa genroku rakugo shinjuu is a really good manga and y'all should read it #invasion of the frogs

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