#wakamiya

[maomaojinshi]

The ending art illustrations in Yatagarasu after each episode are so gorgeous.

Yukiya, Wakamiya, Sumio, Natsuka

[yatagarasuarchive]

I wanted to share this one for some time, but I didn't want to spoil the anime-onlies while tagging. But now I can finally share it with everyone!

I hope all Wakamiya x Hamayu shippers have a good day!

Source: Matsuzaki Natsumi-sensei's Twitter.

[seekers-who-are-lovers]

“… but sorry I hate you…”

Anime vs Manga, Chapter 36 & Episode 13

I’ve been waiting to post this manga cap.

[sasya00025]

[inahochi]

What did you do there, except make enemies? - Are you worried for me?

YATAGARASU: KARASU WA ARUJI WO ERABANAI (2024)

#04. an imperial council ⋆ 御前会議

[miyamiwu]

Now I don’t know how old Yukiya is, but he did say he hasn’t even come of age yet… Are you sure you should be trusting him this much???

[ydotome]

So your finally here. It is an honor to meet Your Highness. I am Yukiya of Taruhi. I've been waiting for you, Yukiya of Taruhi. - Karasu wa Aruji wo Erabanai - Episode 2

[harulogue]

wakamiya

[wintermadness]

[webdiggerxxx]

꧁★꧂

[maomaojinshi]

The ending art illustrations in Yatagarasu after each episode are so gorgeous.

So pretty

(Cour 2)

[yatagarasuarchive]

The Imperial Brothers!!!

Am I even exaggerating if I say that the summer episodes have the best endcards? If we can also get one with Hamayu and Masuho-no-Susuki, the I can die happily.

Source: Yatagarasu anime's official account (drawn by Natsuki-sensei).

[seekers-who-are-lovers]

Those intricate illustrations from Wakamiya observing the technology, food, and the ways from the world outside.

Imagine Wakamiya as a young boy forcefully had to live among humans and observe their ways. He had a help of course in order to navigate the new situation where he was. He ate donuts and burgers, loved bananas, observed the salarymen going to work. He must have tried the different vehicles to experience them. Learned how to cook for himself. Talked to different kinds of people and interacted with them, conversed with them about their rights and pursuits. No wonder, he wanted to give the same freedom of choice to the girls at the Sakura Blossom Palace, however uncanny the formulation he used. And perhaps, some people thought that he was an eccentric artist drawing the typical, mundane objects, from his point of view.

And Yukiya absorbing them as he couldn’t fathom that there is a world outside of Yamauchi. @ynxnyx I concur, his hometown is minuscule compared to what Wakamiya has seen and experienced. So far, he seems to be open for the possibilities. (In the books, he is in denial sort of.)

In Yamauchi it seems like the time stood still. This is Japan upside down in different eras (Kamakura, Sengoku, Heian, Edo and Meiji rolled into one).

Come to think of it, it is amusing to think of new scenarios of what will these characters do outside of Yamauchi.

How will Yukiya cope going to a school outside? Will he cut his hair? How will he look in our world with loose shirts and baggy pants? Or Lord Natsuka with his haughtiness? Will he survive it? Will he be as untouchable as he is in Yamauchi? Will he survive without Rokon? What is he going to do? A traditional businessman, a trader, an upstart CEO? How about Hamayū? Will she learn a new skill to keep up with her husband? Will she go to the uni with Masuho no Susuki?

I wonder if the anime staff will give us a glimpse of that time where Wakamiya spent his life outside Yamauchi.

[sasya00025]

[inahochi]

WAKAMIYA (若宮)

YATAGARASU: KARASU WA ARUJI WO ERABANAI (2024)

#04. an imperial council ⋆ 御前会議

[miyamiwu]

The Yatagarasu anime is so BL-coded, so I’m inevitably a YukiWaka shipper. As an anime-only, I wonder what the experience is like to those who read the novel/manga first...

I have no complaints about Hamayu being chosen in the end because she’s cool and I like her, but not gonna lie, it caught me off guard when her history with Wakamiya was revealed and when Wakamiya suddenly acted so familiarly with her. I did not connect her at all to the ragged kid who was with Wakamiya in Asebi’s flashback, so the whole Wakamiya-Hamayu pairing feels sudden to me.

Was the pairing perhaps built up more in the novel/manga?