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doing uquizzes is insane. youll be doing some "what aesthetic are you" quiz and the creator starts talking about weeb shit and it's like. yeah whatever. and then they say that osamu dazai is their fav and. you mean the man who wrote "no longer human" one of the most harrowing novels on the planet? and they mean an anime character version of him where he's mentally stable. you cant do that he was a real ass guy and you made him anime. what s bongo stray dogs

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they’re so cuuuuuutttteee

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anyways

original poster from camw1n on deviantart

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this couldn’t be said any better

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Hunter x Hunter 101 is PEAK anime to me. Like, this is what it is all about baby. Two characters we've never seen before or will see again with a power that could have been generated by pulling words out of a hat come the closest anyone has to killing one of our protagonists and he's only saved because he spared the life of an octopus who has a gun that shoots fleas as bullets and dreams of becoming a squid. Our protagonist being an expert dart player saves his life. This is all treated with deadly seriousness. This is the aspiring squid, by the way.

Transcendant. No notes.

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it was too much for him

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they’re so short

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:DD

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early valentines comic-

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the parallels between lee gilyoung and kim dokja haunt me. both abused as children, both forcibly removed from their parents, both abandoned by their relatives, both forced to kill to survive at a very young age, both struggle to feel empathy for those they kill because they view it as 'just a game/book'. both survived by becoming obsessed with and projecting onto a vague idolised figure who they view as their saviour........

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please 😭

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best characters to ever exist in the history of media

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“Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!” / “I can’t stop!”

Whisper of the Heart (1995) / Haikyu!! To the Top

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Whisper of the Heart and Haikyuu!!, both being feel-good stories about personal growth with a foundation of interpersonal support and self-care, how very special places in my heart. Whisper of the Heart’s storyline of two people inspiring each other to pursue and improve in their crafts and Haikyuu!!’s focus on human connection and relationships, specifically revolving around Hinata and Kageyama’s relationship, led me to realize that there are A LOT of parallels between Shizuku & Hinata, and Seiji & Kageyama.

Shizuku and Hinata are the protagonists of their respective stories and therefore undergo the most growth. Shizuku sets a goal for herself to finish her novel by the time Seiji returns from Italy, and Hinata aspires to be good enough to beat Kageyama, the “King of the Court”, declaring that even if it takes ten or twenty years, he will do it.

Seiji is very good at making violins and has high aspirations that will take him elsewhere on the globe to improve. Kageyama is hailed as being a prodigy setter and has a strong drive to become the best there is. (I think the moment these parallels clicked for me was when I realized that their aspirations brought the both of them to Italy: Seiji to be an apprentice violin maker in Cremona, Kageyama playing for Ali Roma). They have worked hard for what they love and their goals have been set for a long time, in contrast to Shizuku and Hinata. Shizuku and Hinata acknowledge they need to catch up; Shizuku says “it must be nice to know what you want to do with your life. Me, I just go from one day to the next” and Hinata, having started playing volleyball later than Kageyama (and playing in a proper team even later), learns along the way what he wants to do and HOW best to do it

Seiji and Kageyama start farther ahead in their personal progress but give Shizuku and Hinata the inspiration and the means to start theirs. They create a place for them to use their talents – Kageyama using his precise setting to make use of Hinata’s incredible speed/jump height/overall natural athleticism, Seiji being a part of Shizuku’s connection to Baron and part of her inspiration to write. They open up their viewpoints to a world they could have never seen without them.

And these relationships spark passion and drive and inspiration between every individual. Kageyama makes Hinata promise that he will meet him at the world stage one day. Long before Shizuku even noticed him, Seiji admired her talents and checked out dozens of library books hoping she would see his name on the cards. They excel on their own but with Shizuku and Hinata there, they can become even greater.

These relationships are about having someone around who makes you want to be better, who makes you want to dig deep and learn about yourself and go through the hard work of improving without the glamour and glory. I got into it briefly with this post but there’s a whole lot more i want to talk about (especially after seeing this beautiful piece of fanart by hazwqste !)

i got carried away and this got super long so i’ll be going into this in more depth (and including haikyuu manga spoilers!) under the cut:

Keep reading

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princess

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the moral of sasunaru is that actually its okay to have toxic tendencies so long as you get with someone that has the exact opposite but complementary toxic tendency so they cancel out and you become a healthy couple.

for example if you are willing to die so the ones you love can live, get with someone who is willing to die because you love them. that way neither of you can die and you just get to be in love.