#usagi replies

[nekkyousagi]

Hello! I know you probably won't see this for a while but that's okay. Just wanted to say that I love your art so so much! So beautiful and creative and I admire your flexibility. I have been wanting to support you and purchase a print of your art for a long time, though I haven't been able to yet. But! I'm very excited because I'm planning to get a mothra print from your etsy shop to hang on the collage wall in my new bedroom. And I haven't done that yet lol but I will soon. So... Idk I guess I'm just super excited because I love mothra and also that I'll finally be able to support one of my absolute favorite artists :D

This really made my day. Thank you!

I've been off of tumblr for awhile now. More active on Instagram. But its nice words like this that keep me going. It means so much to me. Thank you for the support!! *cries*

[nekkyousagiart]

Seeing your art of Orion Days, have you started drawing the comic? If so I would LOVE to read it, and if not I hope to one day do so!

Aw thank you! I'm excited to know you're interested in reading it!

At the moment, it's still in-development but I am planning to make it into a digital webcomic at some point in the near future.

Just trying to nail down the art style, and taking the opportunity with Inktober to do some world building. Stay tuned!

[charmtale]

sailor moon episode 200 .. revolutionary girl utena episode 39

[cokowiii]

Can we see more of leosagi?

Have some old dudes hehehehe

[rhinocio]

[lapinlad]

Hey

Maja, you're traumatising him

[purplepixel]

You like Casey Jones a lot. What do you think of her being shipped with April?

Yes.

It's prob the only ship I care about in rise. I like to believe if the show had like 7 seasons then this is where we'd end up. Casey/April is a TMNT classic. And rise's version is enemies to lovers + GAY? My recipe for an OTP.

Having said that, I am a little weary of capril in the fandom simply bc Casey is a VERY underrated character, and I HARDLY see her but when I do, it's shipping art/fics (I will say this is changing). But I fear sometimes that people only like her to ship but don't care outside of her being with april. The fandom hasn't even scratched the surface with casey's character post show/movie and I'm more interested in exploring that rn than the romantic side of things.

[alectoperdita]

i don’t know how this could be conveyed in fic, but i’m always thinking about kaiba filming promos and what not for tournaments/dm stuff and he makes snarky jokes about jounouchi’s presence but the camera keeps zooming in his face to emphasize the adoration and glee on his face when he sees jou do /any/thing. but kaiba is not selfaware. he reviews the footage wondering why the cameras keep recording his reaction during jou’s duels instead of the audience. they want u 2 notice something, kaiba

Ooo this is such a juicy idea, anon! I love me a pining Kaiba. It's even more entertaining when he's a bit oblivious.

I know you didn't quite mean this as a challenge, but it activated my outsider-POV-loving neurons. So I attempted to write a little ficlet based on your idea. Sorry, that was why I was delayed in responding to your ask. Also apologies that I'm a little rusty. Haven't been writing regularly recently. 😭 I hope you still enjoy it.

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Kenji always figured that Kaiba's, well, everything was an act. A show persona put on for the masses to sell his tech and promote his tournaments.

No one could be that genuinely ridiculous.

Except he was. Kaiba appeared to be every bit that extra, as Kenji's teenage daughter would say.

("Dad, no one says that anymore!")

Because in the week since he started following the larger-than-life CEO around, he recorded a number of baffling incidents on film. Initially, he wrote them off as the producers' or Kaiba's people's attempt to inject more oomph into the series. It wouldn't be the first time. Kenji wasn't paid to care about that. He was the film crew. His job was to point the camera wherever the producers told him.

But not even Kaiba would stage an attempted kidnapping as a publicity stunt, right?

Kenji could've done without that one. Not just because he got far closer to a gun-toting maniac than he ever wanted to. The police also confiscated his equipment and that day's footage for their investigation.

But they were back to business the very next day. Nothing changed except for a few extra suits lurking in the background. Kaiba showed no signs of being shaken or slowing down. He had a tournament to throw, after all.

That tenacity and resilience were admirable. Kenji could see why Kaiba was so successful at his young age. Barely nineteen and he had the world in the palm of his hand. It was easy to forget the boy wasn't that much older than Kenji's little girl.

Nowhere was that more apparent than when Kaiba was surrounded by his peers.

Kenji kept his camera trained on the trio of teenagers. Kaiba towered over most, including people twice his age. Next to Mutou Yugi, he looked like a telephone pole.

"Kaiba-kun!" Yugi grinned, craning his neck to meet Kaiba's eye. "Glad to see you're well!"

Even an old fuddy-duddy like Kenji (again, much to his heartbreak, his daughter's words) knew about the storied rivalry between Kaiba Seto and the King of Games. But he was surprised by how calmly and politely Kaiba returned the greeting, even if his tone was a touch gruff. Kenji was unfamiliar with the blond boy who slung an arm over Kaiba's shoulders, however.

The blond boomed. "Still in one piece, eh? Saw the news about what happened. You really kicked those guys' asses."

Kaiba swiftly threw off the arm, but the blond didn't seem too offended. He also took a step to the side to put space between them. In profile, the tips of his ears went pink.

"They should've known better than to try anything. They've learned the hard way," Kaiba grunted. He made a motion to dust off his left shoulder, where the blond's hand rested mere seconds ago, yet his fingers seemed to linger momentarily on his flamboyant coat.

Not that the blond noticed. He was busy sweeping his gaze across the surrounding. "Yeah, tournament security's tighter than usual. Noticed 'em spooks hanging everywhere." Then he spotted Kenji. Or more likely Kenji's camera lens. He immediately perked, straightened, and puffed out his chest while flashing a crooked grin. "Hey, are they filming me?"

"No, deadbeat. Who would want to film you? They're filming me," sneered Kaiba.

The blond snapped toward Kaiba and took a step forward with his hands fisted at his side. A menacing move if directed at most people, but Kaiba wasn't cowed. He merely stared down his nose at the other boy.

The air crackled with palpable tension. If they started fighting, should Kenji keep filming or break up the fight? His producers probably preferred the former.

Yugi's eyes flitted between the two boys, then to the camera. "Kaiba-kun, Jounouchi-kun, calm down. Let's not fight before the tournament. I'm sure Kaiba-kun didn't mean that."

Kaiba and the blond, presumably Jounouchi, stared at each other for several more beats.

With a scoff, Jounouchi wheeled back and stuffed his hands into his ripped jeans. "Whatever. They can get a load of when the great Jounouchi-sama beat your flat ass out in the arena."

Kaiba smiled a sharp, toothless grin. "In your dreams."

Another charged pause.

Yugi shifted nervously.

"Only if you're lucky."

Kaiba's expression froze up. It looked as if he'd blue-screened and crashed. His ears were definitely pink now, though Jounouchi likely didn't catch that given how intensely he was staring at Kaiba's face.

But it didn't escape Kenji's notice. Or his camera.

Jounouchi smirked. "What? Cat got your tongue there, Kaiba?"

Kaiba coughed, making an admirable recovery. His expression retained an imperious quality when he replied, "Hardly. I'm merely stunned by your astonishing lack of self-awareness."

Jounouchi rolled his eyes. "Whatever, man. You're fulla hot air."

And just like that, they found their way back to the conventional arena of trash talk.

Yugi checked his watch. "We should get to our places, Jounouchi-kun. It's almost time."

"Run along, deadbeat. Or you'll be disqualified before you even take a step into the stadium."

Jounouchi made a rude gesture that Kenji was sure they'd blur in post. Yugi cheerfully wished Kaiba luck before following the other boy. Strangely, though, Kaiba's gaze seemed to linger on the departing figures. For no more than a beat or two, then he straightened and strode down the hall in the opposite direction, coat tails flaring dramatically in his wake. Kenji had to hand it to the boy's stylist.

***

There was a surprising amount of downtime when the duelists weren't playing. Much more standing around and gossiping and observing the current game than Kenji expected. Now that the tournament had officially started, Kaiba joined the other duelists stadium-side. Kenji naturally followed him.

Kaiba stood ramrod straight, his arms crossed over his chest as he watched the tournament proceed. It was a picturesque pose, but even that became dull when he did and said nothing further. He had already played his first seed of the tournament and won summarily.

Kenji hoped this wasn't how the rest of the day played out. It would be dreadfully boring in that case.

Then Jounouchi took center stage for his duel.

Kaiba scoffed silently, but he remained as attentive as ever. Maybe even more so.

Not even two turns in, the mic picked up Kaiba's stray comments.

"Again with that unreliable gambling mechanic."

Still, he grunted in near approval when Jounouchi called his coin flip correctly. Soon, his stance and facial muscles eased to a state one might even call relaxed.

"Lucky," he muttered when Jounouchi countered his opponent's trap, but the light in his blue eyes shone brightly.

Kenji was a Duel Monsters novice, but he could read the room. The crowd's energy—Kaiba's energy changed as soon as Jounouchi was backed into the corner. Even Kenji winced when the opponent's monster halved Jounouchi's lifepoints with one attack.

Kaiba took a step forward before catching himself. A newfound tension vibrated through his body as Jounouchi picked himself from the floor. "Don't tell me that's all you got, deadbeat," he snapped to no one in particular. "This is just the first round."

Jounouchi didn't give up. Determination shone through his every move and declaration. It made for dramatic television, which the official tournament crew was filming. Kenji stayed focused on his assignment, which was recording Kaiba's every reaction to Jounouchi's moves.

A cheer rose among the spectator.

Kaiba stiffened, but the corner of his lips twitched. Upward. "Oh, he updated his deck."

Something warm and fond bubbled beneath the surface. It might be pride.

A dragon materialized on Jounouchi's side of the field. Kenji couldn't help but be struck by how its appearance was the polar opposite of Kaiba's sleek, white ace monster—black leather wings, sharp, and covered in spikes.

Ironic.

Or, dare Kenji think it as he zoomed in on Kaiba's face, serendipitous, judging by Kaiba's familiar expression. It was the same one Kenji's daughter wore when she thought of her "beloved"—one Kenji probably still made for his Ikuko. Infatuation was the best word for it.

***

"Isono."

"Yes, Seto-sama?"

Isono glanced up from where he was taking notes of his boss's comments to send back to the production team. Reviewing the cut footage took time, but Kaiba had a vested interest in how he was portrayed and he preferred the hands-on approach in this instance. Kaiba's brow furrowed as he watched scenes of Jounouchi's tournament duels interspersed with close-ups of his own face and reactions.

"Why is it so focused on the deadbeat's duels?" he asked. Not angry, though clearly baffled. Even now, Kaiba's attention was glued to Jounouchi's face as it always was whenever the blond duelist came into the vicinity.

A moth drawn to the flames.

Isono's eyes flitted between his boss's current oblivious face and his smitten expression caught on film. Most people wouldn't recognize him as smitten, including Kaiba himself. Isono did, thanks to his years of employment, though he initially doubted it. Evidently so did the cameraperson.

For a second, Isono contemplated confronting his employer about his crush. But he liked his job. Kaiba was a bright young man. He would eventually realize it, right?

He cleared his throat. "Jounouchi-san performed quite favorably in this recent tournament. Stories about underdog competitors are always a crowd favorite."

He gave himself a mental pat on the back. Both statements were technically true.

"He did perform above expectation," mumbled Kaiba, studying the paused image of Jounouchi on the screen.

Isono dared to hope on his employer's behalf. Then it was dashed.

"We'll see how long his luck lasts then," Kaiba smirked.

One day, thought Isono, Kaiba will realize what had been staring him in the face all along.

[drawnaghht]

btw, if you liked my post analysing just the magnet "holsters" in Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles, I'm eventually gonna post more outfit description/analysis! just cuz I've already been writing some longer descriptions for a while now - that's one of my fave things to research and write about, since it can be good art reference for my own drawings, and especially since I can go through the episodes looking for anything new to write down or connect :)

Also, thank you so much for the replies on my post! LOVING the reactions I'm seeing on it, I didn't expect this to do numbers at all but I'm pleased people enjoy reading me ramble about details in a show I like haha xD I don't usually get replies on my other fandom posts, so this is very surprising, even here. I'm touched!

Replies below! :)

@ranarenee - I already replied to you on the original post, but I genuinely just wanted to feature this comment cuz I'm glad ppl are having a positive reaction to this post xD

I also think it was probably a bit easier to animate them! in addition, because it provides an interesting change of technology in the world of Usagi Chronicles, it means that it might have become more interesting to design this hypothetical descendant-world. I'm sure they might have also just thought it was an interesting and unique element of what they were making, but from Art Director Khang Le and Stan Sakai's CBCC interview, and the SDCC@ Home 2021 panel I remember it was mentioned a few times how many clever things they found to make the production spending smaller on the more trivial things.... so the magnetic holsters feels like a thing that might have hit many birds with one stone, so-to-speak. You have the easier drawing of boards and maybe a few things made lighter for the 3D crew (no extra models or rope to animate, for example), but you also have a pleasing design element to give the main fighters in the cast - Usagi, Gen and Chizu - as well as other characters who would happen to wear weapons on their person aside from Karasu-Tengu. Like mentioned in the post, Kitsune is an interesting exception here, because of course, she's based on UY Kitsune who is also not a direct fighter or anything, but also, the world of SR appears to be at peace of some sort, and it's mentioned several times that there were wars at some point, so not many ordinary citizens of Neo would even have these unless they wanted to use or carry weapons every day. Kitsune wants to blend in with this ordinary citizenry and does so quite well.

I just thought of this today and I guess my post sort of mentioned it, but this existence of the magnets also seems to imply some hierarchy of income or money flow. Kitsune doesn't have any because she doesn't need them and she wouldn't spend money she doesn't have on them anyway. Chizu is Lady Fuwa's favourite student despite how she treats her - and gets the best undercover gear, so like Gen and Usagi, custom magnets. I suspect also that Chizu deliberately somehow got herself assigned to the temple-job (headcanon for now), or perhaps hoped it would be something like that, because she didn't want to get any of the more victim-heavy missions the Neko Ninja do. Gen obviously has spent his own money on the holsters and they are there out of pure practicality - can't be a bounty-hunter without wepons, can you? So the magnets seem more like they're ordinary but custom for the outfit. And Usagi, as discussed before, possibly inherited them because of the clan mon adorning the inlay of the magnet.

@kinokothere - thank you!! I will probably continue making posts like this even if I have no audience! why I made this blog at first was to collect my SRTUC fandom theories and drawings under a more organized platform compared to twitter, where this specific fan-account started. I now write almost explusively about SRTUC so you can bet I have way fewer notes than if I wrote about shipping or something else popular for example xD

Thank you @0yasumi-0-ya-su-mi! it's a fun little world-building detail that I really liked when I started wtaching and I hope other fans also include it more in their work x3

@umhuhwellthen x3 thank you!! i love seeing reactiong tags like this one!

[triggerblaze345]

Welcome to the final round of the Strongest in the Multiverse Competition

Today our three winners from the previous rounds will face each other for the title of strongest.

Allow me to the man who can beat anyone in one punch,

Saitama!

Next, please welcome the future queen of the world, the pretty guardian in a sailor suit,

Sailor Moon!

Finally, say hello to the god of mischief,

Loki!

[anxietypossumart]

You and your sailor moons

@uhhhhhhhh1234567

[tsukiyon]

Sailor Moon fandom is disgusting. They are sending a lot of hate towards Keiko Kitagawa just because Kotono Mitsuishi isn't voicing Cosmos and she even had to apologize 😭 I was so happy and excited when the trailer came out but now I feel really bad. Like if I knew it would ruin my mood this much after seeing the reactions, I wouldn't even watch the trailer. I feel like I have to distance myself from the series because there is nothing good about this fandom. I hope people stops saying Sailor Moon has one of the best fandoms because it is not true. And I feel bad that a meaningful piece of art like Sailor Moon has such a trashy community 😭

[ducknotinarow]

🍷💖 ( gimmie drunken Usagi :' 3 Let's see 2k3 drunk uwu for Leo ofc )

| Send a "🍷💖" and My Muse will drunkenly flirt with Your Muse

Usagi eyes were lost to all the light of the city Leonardo called home. They were captivating his world didn't have anything even close to the bright lights of this city. Usgai did have to admit it had a draw back as he eyes flickered to the darken sky above him. It seemed the lights of the city drowned out the stars above. Something he felt his world had over the one Leonardo came from. Now his eyes fell to look at the turtle beside him. Seeming to also be taking in the stars of Usagi's home.

The rabbit loved when ever they came here, though he just loved being with Leonardo is what it came down to. More so when there was no urgency for it. Just so he could enjoy their company. As they called it a day and found a nice inn to rest in for the night. Sake given for them to enjoy but Usagi too advantage of the peaceful visit and let him self have just a tad more than usual.

"But neither really compare to how much I like looking at Leonardo-san" Usagi suddenly says breaking the quite between them. TO be fair he hadn't said anything till just then so the look on Leo's face was a fair reaction at the sudden statement. The rabbit seemed to catch that himself and merely offered a faint chuckle as his face easily gave away the blush on his face. "sorry I guess that was sudden of me?"

"Was just thinking about how nice those lights in your world look at night all bright and dazzling even. And how nice the stars are here. But neither is near enough to compared to you." Did explaining his thought process really offer much? Maybe. Or maybe not. "You might be my own personal starlight in fact Leonardo. It's a tad unfair of you to be that distracting but I don't mind at the same time. I've been all over my own world but all I tend to think back to? you." He confesses smiling more "I think how you may like a lot of what I see, or what you might say about it. I don't think turtles and being slow makes much sense seeing how you seem to run my thoughts all the time."

Turning to look down to his cup debating if he should have more or not before looking back up to the sky. "The moon is lovely tonight as well don't you think?" he asks the blush on his face going from the soft pink to a more crimson red. Yeah he should set his cup down he has had more than enough for tonight.

Wondering if Leo even catches on to what he said just then. He tends to forget how different everything between their worlds are after all. Hand set to rest on top of Leo's own. "It's why I want to show you all of it, may time a long time though. But I don't mind moving at a turtles slower pace if it means getting to spend all that time with you."

[strawbrryrush]

closed starter for usagi !! @drvcxrys

"-you got to tell me, where'd you get your outfit from? it's so cute! -are you a model by chance? -i've been looking for other model friends- but it's so hard." she pouted.

[cokowiii]

Mom can we have a ref for yuichi and cali's clothes?/nf

Saw the ask at work and held onto it for when I got home. Some things might be a lil off cause I have a migraine but I had to get this out

Very off…something’s wrong here..dammit

[rhinocio]

Hi!! I'm the person who sent you the ask a while ago with the promise of Tomoe fanart.....it took my foreverrrrr oops but here it is! Tomoe fanart! I hope it's accurate to what you had in mind <333

BRB GOING INSANE

Serviiiiiiiiiii she's so PRETTYYYYYYYYYYY this is BETTER than what I had in mind!!!! her big fluffy tail!!!!! you totally nailed down that shaggy cat fur look and she's like?? equal parts unkempt and elegant oh my GOSH the white highlights are so sharp!!! THE LITTLE MON PATTERN ON HER KIMONO and the PAW BEANS I'm running to the tallest hill I can find to show this off to everyone in the vicinity are y'all seEING THIS SHIT?!?!?! damn dude I didn't realize you were doing a wholeass render!! I feel like her expression in the front-facing drawing is SO conveying comic Tomoe she's PERFECT

bowingbowing grovelling at your feet could I embed / link to this drawing in the fic???? I want to like. blast it at as many eyeballs as possible oh my GOSH thank you so much!!!! ;;;;;;w;;;;;; crying sobbing inconsolable look at my DAUGHT E R