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zorkaya-moved · 3 years ago

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The Tiger of Yagyū lays in the grass, listening to the flow of the river where the grass shallows. Meditation seemed to be the only thing he's been doing lately; his heart unable to shake past an encounter with a dark specter. As a monk, he knew his heart shouldn't move for such affairs——but this time was different: Natsura was involved, the only thing he had left in regard to family. ( sure he had cousins … aunts, uncles——It wasn't the same as the immediate, nor were they ever that close. ) Hands shadow over his ears to better listen to the sound of the moving river. A peaceful sound that put him at ease, all until he opens his eyes.

There is a woman with him who made herself known to visit the temple; he didn't know her intentions——be they true or faux. Still, she was present … and his gut coached him to relay his concerns, having a feeling she would understand. ❛ My past is catching up to me, Sokolova-san. ❜ Not so much his past, but of the generations before him——the things he now had to bear the burden of in their place. ❛ My father's dying wish was to cleanse the blood drenched over the Yagyū name with our kendo art. That we may never have to kill again … but, it seems my heritage as a samurai exceeds my faith as a monk. ❜ He knew the next chapter would begin the moment he or she turns their blade in the prospect of spilling blood. ❛ I don't want to worry Natty. ❜ He speaks. ❛ But, should I ever go down that path. May you do me a favor and watch over her ? ❜ The way his eyes locked onto the clouds above him, blankly staring as he believed they moved per earth's rotation——he feels nothing but an emptiness. He speaks as if something doesn't bode well.

@yagyuchan

unprompted asks. ( always accepting ! )

Confessing one’s sorrows and concerns would’ve worked with an agent of good, a creature who would extended her warm hands to the sorrowful young man. A young man who did everything to protect those who mattered and to protect the peace and balance in this world. It would’ve worked if the one who stood by his side now was an angel instead of the cold-hearted devil. She was no specter, but perhaps she should be with the blood that coated her hands and how there was no care for the lives of others besides only worthy ones, the chosen ones, the one who were beloved by the winter’s embrace.

Yagyu Bret and Yagyu Natsura were not one of them.

Did he not chase her off the temple’s grounds? Did he not see danger in her presence? Did he not find her a reaper instead of a angel?

So when why did he ask HER out of all people who he could’ve asked? No, he could’ve been smarter and asked someone who was close to her. Or, perhaps, he was smarter than all of that and knew she would not move even if her beloved planet would tell her to protect someone for such a prolonged time.

Zarina didn’t come here to listen to his pitiful story of how he seemed to be coming to the ending of his story. It didn’t matter to her. If he wanted to whine in someone’s presence, it wasn’t in her interest to listen to it. Out of pure respect for his skillset, she did, but that was it. There was just a tiny spark of respect for the young man that proved to be the only reason she didn’t stop him from the very beginning. There was a problem: she never signed up for the role of Mother Theresa, her kindness was not extended to those who did not matter to her. The woman was cold, not even a bit touched by his words.

Instead, they brought up nothing in her heart. The words did not touch any nerve and no cell in her body. Sokolova didn’t even laugh, staying in silence after his inquiry.

All of these heroic types are so similar, it’s so boring. You’re a disappointment, Yagyu Bret. I thought you’ll be more interesting.

Should she shake him up a bit? Just to see if she can make this story more interesting, Zarina approached him from behind, making sure to stand right where his face was, looking down at him with a change in the usual expression. Eyes grew colder, they were no longer hidden behind the veil of a jester that would make everyone’s lives her own entertainment. They were colder than the winter’s night, they were calculative and analytical, but there was a certain unsettling glow to them now as she stared down at the monk. Her disappointment wasn’t hidden either as well.

To her, his expression was pathetic. To her, his inquiry was pitiful. To her, he was loosing her interest and it was becoming dangerous.

“So you will be choosing this over trusting your own sister and telling her the truth? What a pathetic little thing you are. I pity your sister if you are doing this for her,” she would’ve mistaken him for a bug if not for her remaining crumbs of respect that were slowly disappearing. “I don’t want to worry Natsura? I can hear only excuses in that. It seems like you simply do not trust her powers to assist you. You heroes are all the same, it becomes irritable.”

The air started to become colder around them, the summer breeze changing to something that would speak of autumn. The cold, unfeeling breeze that could bring goosebumps from people upon its first appearance. Zarina’s words were lacking any emotion, there was a certain threat behind the icy gaze.

Give her a better story than this. She didn’t want to get bored and search for another story when this one was getting pretty good. What a letdown.

“You and your sister are not worthy of my time. You are choosing to trust me instead of trusting your sister’s ability to become an important support to avoid the worst? 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐆𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆,” narrowed gaze became sharper as her own core value would speak louder: trust in your family, be honest with your family, and do not hide away the seriousness of the future. He was taking away her choice to help. Zarina wasn’t raised to hide such important things from family members. “Be strong enough to remain by her side, even if your hands are coated in blood. Natsura might as well be your saving grace from going into madness. But it seems like you see yourself as weak if you are asking me this... What a shame, you’ve had potential to be an interesting story before. You’ve seem like you’ve given up.”

The woman stood up straight, doing several steps back to then turn around and slowly start to walk away.

The temple was no longer interesting.

She might visit Natsura just to see how her potential will rise and to see if she will not disappoint her just like her brother just did. Oh no, her intentions were far from being virtuous and clean. The next time she’ll visit the Yagyu siblings, Bret might as well just cease to exist in her eyes until he’ll grow up a spine as she thought currently he lacked one.

“Live and remain just to make sure I don’t freeze little Natty myself. Maybe that’ll make you move your ass to become stronger and make sure you’ll stop thinking like a pig waiting for slaughter. Might as well kill you myself in front of her if you so want to involve me in your affairs.”

Not that she will, there’s no truth behind her threat, no weight to either of them. It’s said light-heartedly so the wind will carry it to him. As Sokolova said herself, the siblings were a waste of time for her to work with, be it protecting them or killing them. They simply didn’t matter enough. While Natsura was fun for now as a time-spending, Bret lost the hawk’s interest.

“Don’t get stagnant in your misery, Bret. Exhaust every other option before asking for favors from others. Not when you already started digging your grave.”

Zarina didn’t see a tiger. A tiger would rip apart whatever was in front of it. Yagyu Bret was not a tiger in her mind. He didn’t have what it took to be a tiger in those molten gold eyes.

How disappointing...

Maybe her words will make him change his viewpoint and then he’ll become interesting again. Sadly, Sokolova didn’t have any expectations of him now.

#yagyuchan #I . . . IM SO SORRY FOR HER #❄ ― IN CHARACTER. ╱ you breathe by the sun，i breathe by the moon.#☼ BRET. ―▐ when the faithful meets the devil，it’ll never be a fair fight but there’ll always be a moment when fun restarts.#long post //

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animal-loving-hermit · 5 years ago

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I really wish that fgo allowed the user access to more grails, even if it was a steady grind to get them - I love the idea of taking weaker servants or servants that have served Ritsuka well and gifting them grails, but I have to be so conservative with who I pick :(

My beloved Ibaraki has had 7, then Asterios 3, Medea 2 and 1 on each of Arash, Georgios and Bunyan, leaving 2 floating.

I'd love to use those remaining 2 on Yagyu, but that cuts me off from taking Medea further, or considering maxing Enkidu/Tomoe etc...

Having many favourites is suffering ;_;

#fgo #text.txt #grails #ibaraki #bunyan #asterios #georgios #arash #medea #tomoe #enkidu

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talesofedo · 5 years ago

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This is a work of fiction. You can find more information about my blog 江戸物語 (Tales of Edo) and an index for this story’s chapters by clicking here.

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Samon’s Story Inspired by Yagyuu Hijouken Samon (manga) / Also on AO3 CW: Jubei is being an asshole, horrible family, abusive behavior and language toward an individual with disabilities

Chapter 3 Homecoming

The old doctor and his young apprentice returned twice more to check on Samon and explain his progress to Jubei. The first time was after seven days and the second time after fourteen days, and both times the doctor pronounced himself satisfied with the progress his patient had made, although he remained puzzled that Samon’s behavior did not at all appear to be in line with what he expected of someone who, as the elder brother described it, had taken leave of his senses. In fact, Samon seemed to be a sensible young man who was working hard to learn his way around without sight and to manage the logistics of living without his tongue. The doctor found this difficult to reconcile with the behavior of someone who had supposedly gauged out his own eyes or cut his own tongue, though he did not dare voice his suspicions out loud in the presence of Jubei or those who might report back to him.

As the doctor had predicted, Samon’s years of training in the martial arts had given him an excellent sense of balance and superior use of his other senses, so that he was able to move around the familiar mansion nearly as well as any other person, provided no furniture was suddenly moved in his absence to catch him by surprise. Jubei, of course, thought moving things was great entertainment and he would occasionally place a writing desk in a different part of a room or a serving tray in the center of a hallway, just to watch his younger brother trip.

During his visit on the fourteenth day, the doctor gave his permission for the brothers to travel home to Edo and wished them both the best of luck. He gave Samon’s shoulder a warm squeeze and expressed his heartfelt wishes for his recovery and safe travels. Samon touched the doctor’s hand in thanks, mustering a small smile, but he fully expected the long journey with Jubei to be frustrating and miserable, as his brother was likely to go out of his way to embarrass and bully him, as he had done over the course of the past two weeks at home.

Early the next morning following the doctor’s last visit, just as the sun was beginning to rise and the day started to warm, Jubei picked for Samon a gray-blue under-kimono and a brown kimono. The clothing chosen was plain and devoid of any family crests, more suitable to a poor country samurai or ronin than the youngest son of the shogun’s most trusted advisor, but Jubei was similarly dressed modestly in black and dark green and it would keep their group from being readily identified as members of the Yagyu in their travels.

Once Samon was dressed, one of the mansion’s servants came into the room to arrange his hair, combing and oiling it, and tying it back into a simple ponytail using a blue silk cord. This was a style Samon had worn for many years, his black hair cascading to below his shoulders, even though he had long been of age to shave his head and wear chonmage like most samurai of his day. He had always preferred this style, however.

It was how Iemitsu loved his hair, he thought with misery unfurling in the center of his chest as he remembered how much his beloved had enjoyed threading his fingers through the silky stands draped over Samon’s bare shoulders or how he would lovingly arrange them when they lay together feeling the warmth of each other’s bodies. Samon shook the soft, happy memory from his head in frustration, again feeling only the overwhelming sadness he now associated with his return to Edo, spreading over his body like goosebumps.

As he had expected of Jubei, his brother was in rare form during their journey, going out of his way to make every stop at a wayside inn an exercise in embarrassment and humiliation, like the process of traveling the twelve days from the Yagyu valley to Edo was not already misery enough.

At their first stop, late in the afternoon of their initial day of travel, Jubei tripped Samon when he stepped from the palanquin, causing him to fall forward and crash into one of the benches placed in front of the establishment for weary travelers to rest and enjoy their hot tea or afternoon meal. It was an unlucky fall that caused Samon to smash his shoulder into the very corner of the platform, giving him an angry purple bruise that ached for days, and all he could do was count himself lucky he hadn’t broken his arm or split open his head instead.

At a different inn several days later, Samon and Jubei sat outside with hot cups of tea waiting for their attendants to carry the luggage to their rooms, when Jubei made sure to bump into Samon’s sore shoulder while pretending to draw the serving girl’s attention for a refill. This caused Samon, who was in the middle of trying to swallow, to choke and sputter as hot tea ran down both his throat and the front of his kimono in equal amounts. The serving girl withdrew to the back room for a cleaning rag and passers-by whispered among each other. Samon held the warm, smooth clay of the teacup tightly between his hands and pretended to be oblivious to the people who were talking about him and to his brother’s smug snicker.

They finally arrived at the Edo Yagyu estate in the early afternoon of the twelfth day and Munenori met them inside the gate when they arrived, ensuring that it was fully closed behind the group before allowing Samon to exit the palanquin.

He warmly greeted Jubei, thanking him for undertaking the long journey on this family matter, and immediately excused him when Jubei mentioned he would like to enjoy a hot bath and perhaps a trip to the pleasure quarters afterwards to recover from his travels. Munenori then wordlessly looked his youngest son up and down. Samon’s kimono, the one he had been wearing for the duration of the journey, was stained from food and drink thanks to Jubei’s bullying, and Munenori could only shake his head at the miserable appearance his son presented.

“Bring him inside,” he said harshly. “We will need to have a talk.”

One of the retainers roughly grabbed Samon by the arm and maneuvered him into the main house. The family’s Edo mansion, located in the samurai quarter below the shogun’s castle, was where Samon had grown up and where he had lived for most of his adult life before his father banished him to the Yagyu valley, but it felt like a foreign place to him now. When he had left three years ago, without a single voiced complaint because it would have been inappropriate and pointless to resist the patriarch’s orders, Samon could have never imagined he would return to Edo like this, to be a prisoner in the home he had once loved.

He allowed himself to be steered through the entrance and down the hall, turning left into what he remembered as the parlor where his father normally received and entertained guests. Ahead of him, he could hear the gentle rustle of his father’s kimono as Munenori folded it while seating himself on a cushion, and shortly thereafter, the man holding him stopped and pushed Samon downward to sit as well. Samon smoothed out his own kimono, tucked his feet beneath himself, brought his fingertips together on the gentle texture of the tatami and bowed his head in respect to his father.

They sat in silence briefly, Samon waiting for permission to move.

Eventually, Munenori said, “I am sorry that it had to come to this,” but his cold voice did not betray any feelings of regret. “You understand that I cannot permit your relationship with his excellency to jeopardize our clan and since he continues insisting …” He sighed. “I had no choice. I do regret sincerely that Jubei went … overboard… but this can no longer be changed now.” A long pause suggested Munenori was considering whether there was anything specific he needed to address, before he finally continued: “You will remain in this home. We will tell those who need to know that you are suffering from mental illness and did this to yourself, and we will ensure your comfort and well-being, provided you resign yourself and make no attempts to harm yourself or others. Do you understand.” It was not a question.

Samon bowed, his mind blank. What point was there in protesting?

“Your mother,” Munenori continued, “Is understandably distressed by the situation. She has engaged for you a carer named Kenichi who will be with you at all times, to ensure your safety and see to your needs.”

To ensure I won’t do anything stupid, Samon thought.

“For the time being, I believe it would be best for you not to see your mother.”

Munenori sent the attendant to fetch Kenichi and the pair returned a few moments later, Kenichi bowing to the old master from the back of the room before being beckoned forward to stand beside Samon.

He was in his early twenties, only slightly younger than Samon, but quite the opposite in appearance. Where Samon was of average height, pale-skinned and slender despite being well-muscled, Kenichi was tall with tan skin, muscular from doing hard work fishing alongside his father for most of his life. Although intimidating in outward appearance, he was also kind in spirit and even-tempered. Munenori had chosen him because he believed not only that Kenichi would be able to physically overpower Samon if his son tried to do anything stupid, but also because he knew the boy desperately needed the work to provide for his elderly mother after his father’s recent death and that he would therefore be compliant no matter what was requested of him, lest he should lose his pay and any prospects of finding other employment within the city or its surrounding provinces.

For his part, Kenichi had only been told that Yagyu Munenori’s youngest son had lost his mind and crippled himself, and that it would be his duty to care for the young master and ensure his safety once he returned to Edo. He had therefore assumed Samon would look or act like someone who had taken leave of his senses, though he was not entirely sure exactly what that meant. However, although the young samurai appeared disheveled in his dirty kimono and the stained bandage wrapped around his eyes, he was sitting politely before his father, hands placed on his thighs, just as properly as any samurai may have done before his elder.

Munenori turned his attention to Kenichi. “Kenichi, this is Samon.”

Kenichi immediately noted that his employer had not said this is my son, Yagyu Samon Tomonori, even though that would have been the expected polite introduction for the youngest of Munenori’s three sons, who had honorably served as sword instructor to the house of Tokugawa since he was a teenage boy, at least until he became ill and had been sent away from the city. He was unsure why Munenori’s choice of words felt so uncomfortable to him but made a note of it all the same.

When Kenichi moved to bow to show his respect to Samon after being introduced, Munenori held up a hand. “There is no need for formality. Take Samon to his rooms and get him cleaned up before his mother encounters him in this state.”

Taken aback, Kenichi bowed to the elder Yagyu and before he could reach out to grasp Samon by the arm as he had seen the other man do when they arrived in the courtyard, the other had stood up and reached out his right hand, finding Kenichi’s shoulder, as if to let him know I do not need you to manhandle me, I just need a guide. Kenichi threw a glance to Munenori to ensure that this was permitted and the elder Yagyu simply shrugged.

“Let us go, young master,” Kenichi said to Samon and started walking slowly from the room. Samon followed closely behind him, focused obviously on the way Kenichi moved so he would know when they came to a turn or a step or needed to avoid some obstacle along the way. They walked along the hallway and stepped down into the courtyard, and it was then that Samon realized he would be living in the guest cottage at the far back of the property rather than in the main house where he had grown up.

I suppose I should count myself lucky not to be locked up in the storehouse, he thought bitterly.

They turned the corner behind the main house and crossed a courtyard that was unfamiliar to Samon because it had been redone during his absence and now featured large, flat stepping stones of uneven sizes and shapes set into a bed of fine gravel, which made it difficult for him to find his footing and he stumbled several times catching the edge of his sandal on paving stones or stepping off into the gravel.

They soon reached the guest cottage and stepped onto the porch after taking off their sandals. As they came to the doorway of the main room, Samon stopped and Kenichi patiently waited.

“This is the guest cottage, young master,” he explained eventually. “It is where you will be staying in Edo.”

Samon nodded. He was unfamiliar with the guest cottage, having never spent much time within its rooms growing up, and he was wondering how he might best communicate to Kenichi that he needed to understand the layout in order to find his way around independently. Eventually, he tapped Kenichi’s shoulder to ensure the younger man was looking at him, and then pointed first toward his own eyes, then described a circle around the room with his hand, followed by a “talking” gesture. He hoped it would be enough for Kenichi to understand that he meant, describe the room.

“Sorry?” Kenichi seemed confused.

Samon repeated the three gestures.

“Do you wish for me to explain the layout, young master” Kenichi asked. “Mn.” Samon nodded. At least his family had chosen someone intelligent!

“We are standing on the front porch to the guest cottage, young master,” said Kenichi. “Directly in front of us lies the main room. It is rectangular in shape, wider than it is deep. To your right as you enter is a recess fitted with storage cabinets and on the same wall beside it is an alcove with a hanging scroll as its focus. On the far side, the one opposite us at the moment, are closets with sliding doors to store bedding and along the left side of the room are additional shoji that open onto to the porch, which wraps around the front and left side of the building. In the corner where the back wall and the shoji meet in the room stands a folding screen and behind it are stored the lamps for nighttime. To the right of this room is another, a smaller storeroom. Around the back of the building are the lavatory and bath, but there isn’t a kitchen. I will be bringing our food from the main house each day.”

Samon nodded. Kenichi had done a good job describing the layout of room and building, but he now needed to form a better picture of how big everything was and where it was located in relation to other parts of the room and building. He put his right hand out toward the open shoji, trying to find the frame, and immediately realized that it was much further than he had expected. He found himself stumble off balance and Kenichi instinctively stepped forward, reaching for his hand to steady him. Samon found that unlike the attendant’s rough grabbing and manhandling, he did not mind the kind and helpful way in which Kenichi reached out. He let the former fisherman take his hand and walk him around the room, explaining features as they went.

The storage cabinets in the recess to the right of the entrance turned out to be a lacquered dresser with carved metal hinges and corner fittings, painted with a design that felt ever so slightly bumpy under Samon’s fingers. He supposed it was a fashionable piece as might have been found in any of the upscale homes within the samurai quarter, serving both as a functional dresser and a handsome decoration. It had two large doors at the bottom, three smaller drawers in the tier above, and two compartments above those, which closed with sliding doors. Above it, mounted against the drop ceiling, was another cabinet for items that were not in regular use. Kenichi made sure to guide Samon’s hand to it so he could understand where and how it was positioned since it was at just the right height where he might hit his head if he were unaware.

They went on to the alcove containing the wall scroll which Kenichi described as having a single row of beautiful calligraphy. Samon pointed in what he figured was the direction of the scroll, top to bottom, and gestured “talking.” Read what it says?

Kenichi hesitated. “I am sorry, young master,” he apologized with obvious embarrassment straining his voice. “But I don’t know how to read.”

Of course, Samon realized at once. My father would have found someone to help me who cannot read or write so there is absolutely no possibility I might send a message to Iemitsu. He sighed and raised his hands in a gesture of apology, but Kenichi grasped them. “Please don’t apologize, young master. It’s not your fault I can’t read.”

They continued their tour of the room, Kenichi explaining the locations of various closets and cabinets, screens and lamps, and assorted other objects as they went, explaining where individual items might be found for use, and letting Samon carefully map out the dimensions of everything. As they were getting ready to move on to do the same for the rest of the building, Samon realized with a jolt that something was missing, something that should have been in the place of honor beneath the wall scroll: the stand with his two swords. He had understood why Jubei didn’t let him carry them on their journey, but certainly, he would not have left them behind in the Yagyu valley?

He pulled Kenichi over to that side of the room and pointed toward the bottom of the recess, then found himself at a loss of how he might be able to gesture “sword stand” in a way the other would be able to understand. Ah! Samon gestured to his waist as if his left hand were closing around the sheath and his right hand grasping the tsuka as if to draw the sword, a movement as familiar to him as parts of his own body. He pointed to the recess again and Kenichi understood that the question was Where are my swords?

“Young master, I am sorry,” he said regretfully. “I forgot. Master Yagyu said that he was concerned you might harm yourself and to tell you he would not be returning your swords.”

For the first time since hearing Jubei tell the doctor that they would be returning to Edo, the reality of the situation again threatened to overwhelm Samon. He had been angry and frustrated these past two weeks, but he had not yet fully grieved all that he lost at the hands of his own family. Now he found himself at a point where he could no longer continue to push his pain and grief to the lowest recesses of his soul where it had festered and become a large lump that threatened to choke him. His heart racing, he felt sheer despair raise in his throat and make his chin quiver. He gestured at Kenichi, pointing toward the shoji, and sliding his hands together. Close the doors! Close them! He unnecessarily repeated the sliding gesture twice more, even though Kenichi had already started shutting them.

As soon as Samon heard the last of the screens close, he allowed himself to sink to the floor, too exhausted with sheer misery to keep himself upright any longer. He curled into himself on the tatami, sobbing, covering his face with his hands, and wished the world would cease to exist.

Kenichi stood inside the door he had just shut and looked on with a mixture of bewilderment and embarrassment because he was wholly unsure of what to do. He supposed Munenori would have instructed him to either ignore the behavior completely or, more likely, to stop it because it was inappropriate for any samurai to act like this, illness be damned. However, it was not in Kenichi’s nature to ignore or chastise another person’s distress.

“Young master,” he said tentatively, his voice soft. He took a step forward initially but then stopped and stepped back again. “Can I help? Is there anything I can do to help?”

When the only answer to his question remained Samon’s sobbing, he stepped closer and eventually knelt next to the young samurai’s curled up form, reaching out a hand to gently touch the other’s shoulder to bring comfort if it was at all possible. The body beneath his fingertips was trembling and even to Kenichi, who had barely known Samon for more than an hour, it was heartbreaking. Had Samon been one of Kenichi’s own younger siblings – he had three sisters – he would have scooped him up and held him in his arms without a second thought. As it was, he remained with his hand on Samon’s shoulder for quite some time and, eventually, Samon’s breathing became slower and calmer and Kenichi realized that he had cried himself to sleep from sheer exhaustion.

He waited just a short while longer to ensure his getting up would not wake Samon, then went to the closet for a blanket with which to cover him. It was not yet late in the evening, but the sun had disappeared behind the horizon and the lamps had been lit in the main house. Yet Kenichi was reluctant to leave and fetch dinner from the kitchen lest Samon should wake while he was gone, alone in an unfamiliar place.

Instead, he moved the folding screen to divide the room and prepared his futon on the opposite side, mulling over the day’s events. Somehow, he was unable to shake the feeling that there was more to Samon’s story than what he had been told, and the nagging thought remained at the back of his mind that perhaps the young master’s family may have intentionally harmed him. Of course, one heard stories about samurai families doing horrible things to either safeguard their own power or support one lord over another, but he had always assumed these to be fanciful tales meant to entertain the masses with the strange behaviors and seedy doings of the elites. Now, he was no longer so sure they were just tales.

Not that Kenichi could complain, of course. He had gone from doing hard work as a fisherman, living in a ramshackle home by the beach with his parents and three older sisters (all of whom were now married and had families of their own), to sleeping in a room larger than their entire house had been, on a thick futon with a silk pillow and quilted blanket. And that was in addition to getting paid! All that was required of him in return was to help the young master throughout the day which did not seem like a difficult chore now that he had a better idea what to expect. The picture of Samon that had been painted by his father – that of a raving lunatic intent on harming himself or others – was not at all what he had been seeing thus far.

Thinking about the events of the day, Kenichi eventually drifted off to sleep as well.

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Early the next morning while the world was still colorless in the rising dawn, Kenichi was woken from a particularly pleasant dream by a blood curdling scream that had him on his feet in seconds. He nearly knocked over the screen as he rushed around it to find Samon sitting up, legs tangled in his blanket, hands tearing at the bandages over his eyes.

Worry that he might hurt himself, Kenichi rushed over and grabbed Samon’s hands, pulling them away from his face. “Please, young master. You’ll hurt yourself.”

Samon flinched at his touch, panicked and seemingly not fully awake.

“Please, young master.” Kenichi repeated, holding Samon’s hands just firmly enough to stop him but not so roughly as to cause pain, and gradually, the other appeared to wake and remember his surroundings.

Eventually, Samon breathed out very slowly, the tension receding from his body, and Kenichi apologetically released his hands. Samon untangled himself from the blanket before gingerly reaching toward his face, and in the semi-darkness of early dawn Kenichi watched as Samon removed the bandages and gently touched his face, graceful fingers tracing dark eyebrows and hovering reluctantly over the long-lashed eyelids that covered the empty eye sockets he seemed afraid to touch. It was the first time Kenichi had seen Samon’s face without the bandage and while he wasn’t sure what he had expected, it might have looked as if Samon’s eyes were simply closed were it not for the way the eyelids lay flat over absent globes and the small droop of the lower lids that exposed a pink emptiness beneath. It was a very handsome face with angular features and gently sloping cheekbones, so different from the rough features of his older brother Jubei.

“Since we’re up,” Kenichi said to break the silence after a while, “Why don’t I go and heat up the bath. You never did get a chance to bathe last night after your long journey.”

“Mn.”

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Language Notes

+ Chonmage - This is the traditional hairstyle people most commonly associate with the samurai today. The top of the head is shaved and the rest of the hair, which is fairly long, is tied in a topknot or, if shorter, tea-whisk style.

Getting there was normally a process - when a boy was 11 or 12 years old, he started wearing his hair in sumi-maegami where the top of his head was shaved but his forelock (bangs / fringe) remained. When he was about 17 or 18, that would be shaved and he started to wear chonmage.

Fun fact: Chonmage wasn't limited to samurai. It was a popular hairstyle across classes, including merchants and artisans, during the Edo period.

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fgodestinyawakenings · 6 years ago

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EOR Shimosa Singularity: Chapter 15~END

Kinda taking a break in writing and this... Away from FGO for a breather until Oda Nobunga’s event rerun kicks in. My interest went elsewhere temporarily but I’ll definitely get back once LB4 or new event starts!

Chapter 15 & 16

Combining final two chapters into as there’s nothing much left. The first arrow is the final chance to grind for bond points before facing the final conclusion of the 3 remaining boss!

1 Lancer Boar + 2 Assassin Ghost first wave, 3 Saber Samuari and one giant Lancer Orochi. So bring your required Servants to grind for bond in this final mob fight!

Second arrow... Where my Command Seals gone because of his fucking gimmick for this entire fucking fight! You’re facing Saber Emperiyo aka Yagyu Munemori with again, Musashi being locked for as your NPC support

Saber Empyrio has Human trait.

Gimmicks:

Normal Attacks Removes Your Servant's Buffs.

He has a Permanent Mental Debuff Immunity

First HP Break: Gain a permanent Attack Up Buff for 5 Turns.

Second HP Break: Gain a permanent Defense Buff that Greatly Reduces the Amount of Damage Taken from Enemies' Normal Attack by 100%

Player's Front Party Gains a NP Gather Up Buff [Unremovable]

I know it doesn’t look hard to some... The most fucking annoying thing is his remove buff that also removes taunt! >.> Regardless bring your best Archer team to finish this fight

The second last battle, where you’re no longer NPC locked to fight Amakusa Shiro. Being an Avenger via plot reason, is your final fight your playable Servants in this Singularity

Gimmicks:

Amakusav has a Permanent Mental Debuff Immunity.

First HP Break: Gain a Critical Damage Up Buff for 5 Turns.

Player's Front Party Gains a Star Gather Up Buff for 5 Turns.

Second HP Break: Gain A NP Damage UP Buff for 5 Turns.

Player's Front Party Gains a Star Absorp Up Buff for 5 Turns.

With BB around since this is after CCC event, bring a party revolving her to defeat Amakusa!

Using NPC Musashi for this final fight, Saber Kojiro doesn’t have any gimmicks. Do your best to keep her alive and defeat the final boss of this Singularity!

The final two chapters are Visual Story Mode, which... The singularity has finally been completed!

Thoughts & Observation

This is actually difficult for me to say because... I delayed this so long to complete it. But quoted with Edmond’s words, “Wait and Hope” with the right Servants, it’s going to feel easy to complete.

But otherwise immediately on the release to start the quest, it’s going to feel difficult if you ended up realizing you don’t have the right team to bring

On regards to NPC Musashi... Chronological order, this is the first they started with NPC support? If Shinjuku is tutorial mode HP bar, then Shimosa is Spartan tutorial for NPC-locked Servants for this.

I’m giving neutral as I don’t want to delve further that turned this post to a nasty anti post. She’s actually manageable if you can work around with the units you have to defeat your bosses

Hozoin Inshun

His boss fight is considered the easiet despite being support locked to Musashi. Given by the class affinity, it give players to get a feel of using her since she’s going to be locked to you in major boss fight

Skillset aside ignore evasion... Revolves buffing more and more on his normal attacks together with his NP. There’s also him debuff one of your Servant with NP seal, so careful your timing in releasing your NP

Which... By those buff if they actually stack... You’re in for a world of critfest. Yes, his gimmick already involving buff of crit chance so you want to avoid that!

HP recovery 3k per turn... With the right team, you’ll definitely be able to outdo that healing

Servants:

ST Sabers: Aside Musashi, you can always bring more like Bedivere and Caesar to back her up in killing him for DPS

Buff Removal Servants: Mainly you really don’t want his crit and attack buff to keep stacking

By traits:

Brynhildr’s beloved

Humanoid: Nightingale & Okada Izou

Male: Tamamo Lancer, Medb, Stheno

CEs:

NP Seal: He’s not doing heavy damage... But one way definitely to stop him from buffing himself

Kiyohime’s CE

Holy Shroud of Magdalene

Tomoe Gozen

Aside from DW trying to screw every player’s phone from their fire animation... This is the start of the chapter where burn debuff is stackable

Given with that sudden change for that debuff, Tomoe’s first gimmick of normal attacks inflict burn debuff dealing 100hp per turn for 3 turns

Mental Debuff Immunity preventing her from being charmed and stunned by Servant’s NP/skills

With an ST NP that adds and even buff her burn status, her skillset lacks defensive with only guts to keep her alive. Yet, majorly all are buffing her attack and NP damage, so be careful of getting your Lancer and support killed

Servants:

ST Lancer: Once again, Cu Chulainn is one of your best candidate with guts, evade and own debuff removal + heal to keep himself alive while killing her. Other than him, there’s Diarmuid and Jaguar Man as alternative DPS

ST Berserker: Not that it’s not recommended... You’ll definitely need to find one that has its own debuff removal, or a support with them removes the burn from killing them

Taunters: Aside her NP, you’ll definitely want them to take in all the burn debuff away from your support and DPS

Debuff Removal: AOE skill/NP preferably to heal your whole front-line. Otherwise on ST skill/NP, priority is your Support and DPS to keep them alive.

By Traits:

Female: Jack & Carmilla

Demonic: Tawara Touta, Raikou

Humanoid: Nightingale & Okada Izou

Weak to Enuma Elish

CEs:

Taunt CE: On your taunter to let her hit them as long as possible

Art of Death

Mochizuki Chiyome

The biggest headache isn’t her gimmick of debuffing your team on normal attack but HP break. Which, especially crucial if you need your support ready to activate their skill for defense from her NP

Thankfully it last for 5 turns... But RNG pretty much screwing you right there

Skillset has NP seal, increase arts performance, an additional curse debuff when normal attack, evasion + 1 unexpected NP charge

Her own NP also doesn’t help with HP break since it also debuff your one targeted Servant with Skill seal

Servants:

ST Casters: Medea definitely with her own buff removal NP as support and DPS hybrid to remove evasion and buffs to deal more damage against her.

AOE Caster: If you didn’t have Medea ready, AOE is still a choice since... Until Salem’s 4* ST NP Caster, most of the Caster are support or AOE. This is if you’re starting this Singularity upon release

Taunters: Again aside from debuff... You definitely don’t want her NP debuff to land on either DPS or support

By traits:

Female: Jack & Carmilla

Evil: Sanson & Vlad III

Humanoid: Nightingale & Okada Izou

Weak to Enuma Elish

CEs:

Art of Death

NP seal

Taunt CEs

Ignore Evasion CE

Shuten Doji & Raikou

Definitely the worst fight about this is Shuten’s charm and her class as Berserker for this Singularity

Raikou herself isn’t unless you actually brought Demonic Servants in your party

Gimmicks, definitely Shuten with a permanent buff that she drains your NP on normal attack and even a debuff immunity once HP break

Raikou isn’t that bad if you can handle for 5 turns of crit damage up buf

Servants:

AOE Assassin: The preferable Servants to have to wipe both Shuten and Raikou. But because aside Scathach, most of the AOE assassin are 5* and Kato will only be out once you finish this story. So if you don’t Scathach and want this for DPS, borrow either Shuten or Cleopatra for DPS

ST Assassin: Pick any for DPS with a support to buff and keep them alive from their AOE NP

AOE Berserker: Not your best answer to have... Just be careful for Raikou’s crit on HP break

By traits:

Female: Jack & Carmilla

Demonic: Rama, Touta and Raikou

Evil: Sanson & Vlad

Dragon: Siegfried

Divine: Oda Nobunaga, Arjuna, Karna, Scathach, Enkidu

Weak to Enuma Elish

CE:

Star Regenration CE: If you find yourself really lacking of it

NP regeneration CE/Increase NP generation CE: Definitely for support Servants so they can spam their NP often

Ignore Evasion CE: For against Raikou’s second skill

Versus & Fondant au Chocolat

Caster Limbo aka Ashiya Douman

The one fight I’m YOLOing because of the lack of Riders... Which surprisingly survived thanks to George, Quetz, Ishtar and Mecha Eli-chan

And considering this isn’t Ashiya Douman’s true form plot wise... It’s somewhat easier? Except this is the fight with Lahmu with that constant spamming debuff on normal attacks

NP wise being your still typical giant ghost doing AOE attack that drains front-line Servants

Servants:

ST Riders: Ushiwakamaru and your other available ST Riders definitely recommended to bring in this fight against him

Debuff removal Servants: Definitely needed on your DPS to keep them alive to deal damage at Douman

AOE Defense Servant: Party Evasion/Invincibility for against Ashiya Douman’s NP

Undead trait: Scathach & Martha

Large trait: Arthur

CEs:

Kiyohime CE & Holy Shroud of Magdalene: For a ghost.. He still got his trait. So do equip these CEs on both DPS & Support respectively

Healing increased CE: Particularly for your healers if needed thanks to his debuff spamming on normal attacks

NP generating CE: As his debuff spams that too, you can consider this equipped in attempt to get your NP charged as soon as you can

Yagyu Munemori

........ MY WHOLE COMMAND SEAL GONE BECAUSE OF THIS DAMN OLD MAN!

Excluding permanent buff from CE and gimmicks of this fight, The worst of this is basically his own permanent buff that removes all your Servant’s buff on normal attack.

You can’t even use taunt without that getting remove on his normal attack, but timing it on his usage of NP

Aside from ST NP that debuff attack... His skillset is one thing to be careful with a more offensive and strong defense himself. Also, he definitely has his third skill to charge NP unexpectedly by 1 tick

If you think the one I’m complaining is bad... The real hell begins on his second HP break, where he buffs himself with 100% defense against NORMAL attacks!

That 2nd HP break requires you to get your NP spamming to kill him... And the NP generation buff they give feels bullshit. Because your normal attacks on him doesn’t charge your NP quickly

Servants wise:

ST Archers: David, Billy & Robin. Your best three which this round.. I feel Euryale is unfit after my 2 attempts on this fight. One is partly his evasion and her own HP... 2nd is debuff immunity which rendered her NP charm and 2nd skill. Also since Taunt is rendered useless unless timed well, she’ll die quickly. The three above at least can help each other in both surviving and attacking

ST Berserker: I really don’t recommended because your taunters won’t be able to protect them from his normal attacks. However, it’s still a good risk if you got the right party to beat him

Taunters: Though I say I don’t recommended... They are still useful on his NP because he doesn’t remove them when he used it. It mainly help doing minimal damage against your support and DPS

By traits:

Male: Euryale, Orion

Saber class: Mysterious Heroine X

Riding: Oda Nobunaga

Weak to Enuma Elish

Humanoid: Nightingale & Okada Izou

Human: Sanson

CEs:

Kiyohime CE

Holy Shroud of Magdalene, Melty Sweetheart: I’m recommending defense if you’re opting on not using taunters to equip this CE on either support or DPS to keep them alive

Steel Training

Ignore Evasion CE

Amakusa Shiro

........... The surprisingly easier fight after Munemori despite the gimmicks

Even having a class change, he’s still manageable to handle. But also don’t let your guard down with his NP and skillset

That includes the gimmicks that gives good chance of raining critfest upon first hp break, and NP damage up on the second

He has a mental debuff immunity so charm and stun effect like these will not work on him

Servants:

BB: This is already after CCC, so do bring a party revolving around her being the DPS to defeat Amakusa. Double BB also works well especially on the use of his NP... Otherwise, borrow your friend’s BB will do if you’re not able to get her

AOE Guts: More or less to keep BB and your support alive when Amakusa uses his buff removal from his NP to remove evasion/invincibility

By traits:

Weak to Enuma Elish

Male: Euryale, Orion, Tamamo Lancer, Medb, Stheno

Humanoid: Nightingale, Okada Izou

CEs:

Kiyohime CE: For BB to deal more damage on him

NP seal: Prevent him from using it

Guts CE: An alternative choice for BB to keep her alive when he used his NP

And I’m done! Now onto a good break before grinding hell returns next week or so! Depending on Aniplex and DW’s schedule since both are dragging a little longer for dead week right now

#fgo spoilers #shimosa singularity #shimosa JP #the shit I shit myself into #my whole body is drained out but looking forward to CBC later #and hoping my storage space can collect all of the CEs from gacha roll later #that's if i'm luck to get all of them first...

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animebw · 6 years ago

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Binge-Watching: Gintama, Episodes 79-81

Okay look, show, can you stop blowing my mind every ten episodes? Because it’s really kinda scaring me how you just keep topping yourself. Where does it end? The sky? The moon? The Kuiper Belt at the outer edge of the solar system? WHERE?!

The Darkness of Yagyu

I’ve talked a lot in the past about Gintama’s ability to blindside me when I least expect it, injecting stretches of real drama and heart amidst its usual goofiness. The show’s multi-episode arcs are where it can really cut loose, letting all the passion and chaos burst forth into glorious, epic stories that hit the heartstrings and adrenaline glands equally. And every single time I come to the end of an arc, there’s a part of me that thinks, “that’s it, the show has done everything it possibly could, there’s no way it can surprise me like this anymore.”

Every single time, I’m proven wrong.

The Yagyu arc already had a more noticeable edge than any arc before it, with a more uncomfortable, unsettling villain than we’d ever faced before. But if you had told me just how shockingly dark it was going to get, I don’t think I would’ve believed you. Even considering how brave this show has been in the past with tackling tricky subjects, the heights to which it soars here are jaw-dropping. To be clear, I don’t just mean Yagyu turning out to be a lesbian; yes, it’s nice to have an explicitly gay character, even if she is the antagonist, but that’s not the source of this arc’s impact. The impact comes from Yagyu’s backstory; she was born into a clan who only honored male heirs, so her family kept her true gender secret and pressured her into performing masculinity.

Really think about that for a second. Yagyu is a character who was born the “wrong” gender, forced to keep that gender a secret from the world, and suffered under the abuse of a family who tried to “convert” her into the “right” gender.

Yeah.

There is so much to unpack there. Yagyu could be read as a gay person who was subjected to homophobic conversion therapy, or a trans person suffering from society-induced gender dysphoria, or somewhere between those two points. Honestly, I don’t think it works as a perfect metaphor for either (and trying to force it to fit one makes for a lot of uncomfortable implications). But still. Holy shit. Is this really the same show that devoted an entire episode to uncomfortable “man in dress” jokes back in episode 24? Because this isn’t just dark, it’s... uncomfortably real. Like the author recognized the evils of conversion therapy and other such anti-LGBT practices long before they really entered the public eye. It treads right up to the line of too far in a way that most other shows wouldn’t even dare to attempt. But if the show wanted to tell a story about an abuser who redeems themself in the end, I don’t think there’s any other way you could’ve gone than with a backstory that sympathetic and understandable.

Cycles of Abuse

Because make no mistake, however you read Yagyu as a person and whatever trauma she suffered in her childhood, she is an abuser. She manipulates Otae’s insecurities and guilt to selfishly keep her beloved for herself, and she tears down all the other people who care about her, refusing to accept that she doesn’t know what’s best for Otae. She’s so determined to have Otae that she fails to recognize how her actions are only making her demons worse. Yagyu is a victim of hereditary abuse, unconsciously taking the pain that was inflicted upon her and inflicting it herself on the people she supposedly cares about. That is dark. And it’s a reminder that, yes, people in the LGBT+ community can be abusers as well. Like Gintoki says, when a person ignores the well-being of the people close to them for their own selfish ends, it doesn’t matter who they are; the only label that suits them anymore is that of “idiot”.

Gintama is a show keenly in touch with the past, both in the broad sense of the world at large and the personal sense of how the characters interact with that past in their own ways. The past drives conflict, motivates change, and colors the lives that everyone tries to lead. It’s no accident that Yagyu’s past is the true enemy of this arc, the pain of her abuse manifesting that same abuse at her own hands. Gintama has never shied away from the darkness before, but this is the first time it’s felt so immediate, personal, and intimate. For all the lack of giant aliens and massive airship battles, in terms of the emotions at play, this might have been Gintama’s most explosive arc yet. And the complicated feelings it brought up in me are things I’m going to remember for a long time to come.

Otae’s Smile

Which brings me to the lynchpin of this whole mess: Otae herself. Otae has always been one of my favorite characters in the show, her take-no-prisoners toughness never failing to entertain and inspire in equal measure. But this is the first time we’ve peered behind the hardened exterior she puts up and seen the person beneath, with all her insecurities and fears laid bare. And it’s really hard to watch a character this confident and magnetic show this level of self-doubt, or self-loathing. She wants to take everyone’s problems onto her own shoulders because she feels like she’s not worth living freely herself. It’s no wonder Yagyu’s manipulation screwed with her so much; she’s exactly the kind of person who’d be most suceptable to that kind of guilt trip.

But Otae is so much more than the girl who couldn’t save Yagyu’s eye. She’s the woman who smacked a panty bandit out of the sky when everyone else fell short. She’s the woman who never gave up on saving her family’s dojo. She’s the woman who’s fought tooth and nail alongside her friends too many times to count. She has more strength in her little pinky than any of the posers in Yagyu’s clan. She deserves to be happy for her own sake, not tear herself into a million pieces out of some twisted sense of responsibility for the people she cares about. And the moment where she broke down, admitting to herself that she wanted to stay with everyone, choked me up something bad.

But that wasn’t the moment that really got me.

The moment that got me was at the battle’s end, after Shinpachi had shattered the final plate and Yagyu realized she had lost. When the lady samurai realized she was wrong. When she realized how much pain she’d inflicted upon Otae. When they both broke down in tears as she begged for forgiveness, letting the pain and sorrow and heartbreak of the last two decades finally come pouring out. When- to go back to the LGBT metaphor the show was working with- Otae finally acknowledged Yagyu’s identity, after a lifetime of people trying to force her to be a man, by calling her a woman.

I’ve been driven right up to the brink of tears by this show before, but I never quite crossed the threshold. This moment, though? I was bawling. I had ugly tears streaming down my face and they didn’t let up until the commercial break. Wow. Just, wow. That was fantastic. That was the distilled essence of the power of Gintama, letting the accumulating blackness of the past few episodes finally release in a breath of pure catharsis. That was why Otae finally being able to smile will all her heart at the episode’s end was so meaningful.

This show is really good, guys. And I’m scared that at some point I’m going to run out of words to describe just how masterfully it manages every endeavor it undertakes. But for today, let’s just appreciate how it pulled off a story about cyclical abuse and homo/transphobia with more grace than pretty much any other show I’ve seen. That takes balls. That takes talent.

For lack of a better word, that takes Gintama.

Toilet Humor

But, because this is still, indeed, Gintama, it would be remiss of me to leave this arc without once again touching on the second half of what makes this such a great show: making me laugh at jokes I would normally hate. Episode 79 is basically one long toilet joke, with Gintoki, Kondo, and a pair of the bad guys all stuck in the same bathroom with no toilet paper in any stall, so they have to try and figure out a way to be the first to wipe their ass so they can kick the ass of their two still-immobilized opponents. I’ve never been a big fan of scatological humor; gross stuff for the sake of being gross has never been my thing. But once again, Gintama makes it work by focusing not on the toilet part of the equation, but the humor part. This is a legitimate high-stakes mind game the four of them are playing, trying to out-think and out-play each other to be the first person back on their feet, the kind of tactical battle this arc specialized in. It’s a Death Note-worthy mental face-off, a battle of wits of the highest caliber... that just happens to be about needing to be the first to find something that could be used as toilet paper. And because of that juxtaposition, it’s so much funnier than it has any right to be. Kudos, show. You got me again. Now, somebody get Kondo some lotion for his butt, because fucking ouch.

Odds and Ends

-Wasn’t the sky all cloudy before? Did we have a timeskip in between episodes or something?

-”How did they find us?” *sparkler gets even brighter* Oh, I’ve missed you, show.

-”Have you been in here for three episodes?!” Hey now, Kondo, the call of nature cannot be denied.

-”You’ve just been providing commentary over fights!” Gintoki, I’m ashamed of you. A true Shonen JUMP devotee would never shame battle commentary.

-I appreciate the monkey king reference. Finally, an Eastern legend I actually know!

-”Do you think Sis is a man! I mean, she’s kinda flat-chested but-” rip Shinpachi

-”Big Sis! Men are unreliable, so I came to help.” I FUCKING LOVE KAGURA

-Also, this fight is freaking intense.

-askjdhasdkj I forgot about the damn gorilla

-”They were so enamoured with their bananas a moment ago, but now they want to watch my banana?” help my sides

And with that, another incredible arc comes to a close. See you next time!

#anime #the anime binge-watcher #tabw #sakata gintoki #gintama #gintoki sakata #shimura shinpachi #shinpachi shimura #kagura

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zodiacs-web · 3 years ago

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Everyone shut up, it's yagyu

#tenkaichi #tenkaichi nihon saikyou bugeisha ketteisen #yagyu munenori #yagyu my beloved #zodiac's web

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mangaiwanttoread · 8 years ago

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Koi To Wana (Yaoi) Hatsukoi (Yaoi) Ani No Chuukoku Boku no Kichiku Megane Ai ga Love Shite You nanosa To the Sea Nichijousahan Bi - Beautiful Life Konbini-kun (Yaoi) Torikago Syndrome Innocent Blue Escape (kyuugou) Samenai Yume Double Mints Till Dawn Yume Touka End Roll Sasayaku no wa Sono Yubi Tatoe Toraware No Koi Demo Itsuka Koi Ga Kanau Made Toki no Rashinban Sakura Gari Sugar Dark Omae Sae Inakerya Saigo no Sangatsu Urahara to Dilemma (Yaoi) Mainichi Seiten Kodomo wa Tomaranai Children’s Time Kodomo no Iibun .Isoganaide .Hanaya no Nikai de Calling (OOTSUKI Miu) (Yaoi) Trap (OOTSUKI Miu) yaoi Tonari Ni Kimi No Nukumori Wo (Yaoi) S+M Recipe (Yaoi) KONO BIJUTSUBU NI WA MONDAI GA ARU! Ore-tachi No Kijou Jitai!! (Yaoi) Ze (Yaoi) Middle School, Third Year (Yaoi) Tadayoedo Shizumazu, Saredo Naki Mo Sezu (Yaoi) J no Subete (Yaoi) Blue Sky Complex Me o Tojite 3-Byou (Yaoi) High School Debut Denkou Sekka Boys (Yaoi) (r.i.p) X-day [switch] A Revolutionist in the Afternoon Becchin to Mandara ***********************Wendy by jiro matsumoto MAINICHI KIMI NO KOTO BAKARI Looking for Happiness K no Souretsu OIRAN GIRL Carmen (Yaoi) Shingakkou - Noli Me Tangere (Yaoi) OUMAGADOKI DOUBUTSUEN ????????????????????????? Star-like Words (Yaoi) Koi o Suru nara Kono Machi de (Yaoi) 1/3 No Kareshi HINEKURE SHISHO NO MIKAIKETSU JIKENROKU WELCOME TO THE SATURDAY NIGHT CLUB Ai no Gebokutachi (Yaoi) HIKIZURU OTO WHAT DO THE TEENAGE BOYS DO

mangaiwanttoread ARISA

YORU, TOOKU E MUKAU

HOSHIGARI LOVE DOLLAR

Sugar Sugar Rune

SUKI KIRAI SUKI (TSUKISHIMA HARU)

****** Homunculus

Rinjin 13 Gou

Ichi the Killer

Enjokousai Bokumetsu Undou

Voyeur

*****Blue Heaven

****** MUJOU NO SEKKI - OUMA NO KETSUMYAKU

TANABATA NO KUNI

ALIVE

Dead Flowers

DARE NI MO SHIRANAI

***** FERMER MARDI

Yoru no Sugao

Kono Uta wa Kimi no Tameni

RYUU TO HIDARI TE

Love and Baseball (Yaoi)

Hanamatsuri

Home

Hana no Namae

Trans Venus

Muku Na Princess

Blue Dragon Ral Grado

Terpenoid (Yaoi)

The Melancholy of GOGO-BOY

Yuigon (Yaoi)

Mousukoshi Yoru Ga Nagakereba

Giocatore, Hokaku Keikaku (

Watashi Wa Hoka No Otoko To, SEX Shite, SEX Shite, SEX O Shita. ~Itsunomanika Kanojo Wa~

Sensitive Pornograph

Kareshi to Ore to Ore no Kouhai

Burning Hell

Baka de Guzu wa Daikirai

Yukimura-sensei To Kei-kun

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Hana wa Saku ka (Yaoi)

Akudama (Yaoi)

Horikou Hanemono Ranger

Love Stalking!

Sick

Interval (Yaoi)

Kichiku, Encount

Ichi Ni no San!

Ouji to Kotori (Yaoi)

No Color (Yaoi)

Hajimari no Niina

Masaka Kore ga Koi Nante (Yaoi)

**** Bouzu to Kumo (Yaoi)

Momoiro Shoukougun (Yaoi)

Aku No Hana

Hakuji

Erotic Fairy Tales: Red Riding Hood

B-men Kazoku

Erotic Fairy Tales: Bluebeard

Devil x Devil (Yaoi)

Dounimo Nannai Soushi Souai (Yaoi)

*** Snow Maidens

Kekkai Sensen - Mafuugai Kess

Taro-kun Wa Kou Miete Igai To Xxx Desu.

Aru Otoko no Uta (Yaoi)

USAGI DROP

[Taropun] Haeru Bou | Sproingy Stick

Uso Mitai na Hanashi Desu ga H (Yaoi)

Yume no Kuni in My Darling (Yaoi)

Double Bullet~~~~~~~~~

Abnormal

Ookami Shounen To Hamu No Hito

Sei naru Yoru ni

Saishou Kouyakusuu

Shisen

Girls’ Lives ?????

Girl’s End ?????

For You, My Beloved

Boys Like!!

Akisato Wakuni Kessakushuu

Love My Life

Shibuyaku Maruyamachou

Azami (Yaoi)

Sabita Yoru Demo Koi Wa Sasayaku

Renai-rubi no Tadashii Furikata

Narrow (Place collection)

Hadakeru Kaibutsu ?????

Maka Maka

Heaven!!

Nii-chan (harada)

Dog Style

Kaibutsu Ouji

Sumomo (harada)

Koi to wa Baka de Aru Koto da ??????

Hi Manyuaru Ren Ai (Yaoi)

*****Honey & Honey

Mitsu na Kotoshite Kudasai

Oujitachi wa Izonsuru

Atokata (Yaoi)

????? Naa-tan to Goshujin-tama

****Monster

Fork In The Road (kirino Hajime)

Old Boy

Superior Day

Jackass! - Sawatte Ii tte Dare ga Itta yo?

Kanemochi-kun To Binbou-kun

Konoyo no Hate made I love You

Negative-kun To Positive-kun

Basilisk

Shibou to Iu Na no Fuku o Kite

?????? Mephisto?????

Takashima Kouichirou no Risou no Koibito

A Falsified Romance

Shuumatsu No Tenki

Oingo Boingo Brothersâ Adventure

Ryoshuu Reijin

danshou no koi

Basara

Doutei Hitsuji To Abazure Ookami

Hitomi no Dokusenyoku read 5 chps dropped

Yuugure no Machi

Dakishimetakunai

Mou Ichido, Nando Demo

?????? Sasen No Warukunai

Kikoeru?

Void (zariya Ranmaru)

Blood+

Romanticer’s High

Lample

Wakatte Kudasai

Messiah no Yakubi

Messiah no Kyojitsu

Messiah no Sentaku

Tsukiatte Agete mo Ii n Dakara ne

Beast & Feast

Itou-san KURAKA Sui

Spicy & Sugary

Boku No Mama Chan (43) Kaihatsu Nikki

straight kun to gesu

Oshitone Tenzen

Akai Proposal

Puchitto Hajiketa,

Tonari Ni Sunderu Neko No Koto

Tasogare wa dare

Something Happening

Michi Dzure

Retsujou

Nemuri Otoko to Koi Otoko

Sleeping Man Loving Man

***** Shoujo Tsubaki

Innocent (sakamoto Shinichi)

Barairo no Kaibutsu

Yume no Q-Saku

Motte Meisubeshi

Long Vacation

Nozomu Bekumonai

Yamete Kudasai, Koishii Desu.

Yamete Kudasai, Mabushii Desu

ROUGE (KATSURA Komachi)

Sun-ken Rock

Nise x Koi Boyfriend

Love Mission @

Similar Terms

Mimitabu No Riyuu

Kurubushi No Hone

Senaka made no Kiyori

Shitasaki No Netsu

*** My God

Immoral Sandwich

Otoshiana ni Hamerarete

Kunpuu Tango

Romantic Joutou

Kurui Naku No Wa Boku No Ban

Oyasuminasai No Ato Wa

Abarenbo honey

Rift (Conro)

50 X 50

Kaeru no Prince-sama

Hana To Ryuu

Billion Dogs

Kir///ei n/i Shi///teyo

Feeding lamb

If You Do Not Obey Me

Kyuuso Ha Cheese no Yume Omiru

Shitsukekata = Nijuumaru

Usotsuki Na Kimi No Toriko

Ore to Omae no Stalker Boushihou

Teppuu

Mugen No Juunin // Blade of the Immortal

Fire Punch

Baka Ga Zenra De Yattekuru

[Tomochi] Doronuma – Because I Love You

[Tomochi] Doronuma

Kuzu de Baka ni wa Nido to Awanai

He Is a High-school Girl

Fox Princess

My Little Noir

Hitorijime My Boyfriend

Shimanami Tasogare

Dokuzetsu no S na Ore ga Jimi Riman ni Kuwaresou desu

Nakenai Usotsuki

Koi to wa Baka de Aru Koto da

Sotozura dake wa oujisama

Nimona

Himizu

Pochi Kuro

Majime na Jikan

The Perfect Finger

Asahinagu

I am a Hero

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