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ft hoshina utau from shugo chara ❤🦇
the sticker is her in her lunatic charm form. the lil card was for a halloween event i did on the patreon discord server ft her dressed as misa amane from death note!
for anyone curious the halloween event was a lil scratch off trick or treat card! patrons could either win a "trick" or a "treat" that could be redeemed in the server :3
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My litmus test for if someone is worth discussing Shugo Chara with is how they think about Utau being attracted to Ikuto and the revelation of their uh "relationship."
[Spoilers under cut. If you know, you know.]
Like, do they understand why she's attracted to her brother? Do they understand what themes that attraction is used to highlight? Do they get how it relates to the wider themes of trauma and unstable identities and messed up family dynamics that warp the children within them?
Do they understand that Utau kissing her brother is part of the constantly reoccurring cycle of characters messed up by trauma and then becoming warped and unpleasant and harming others because that trauma is not being dealt with in a healthy manner? The cycle which underpins every single major villain in the story?
It's one thing to be grossed out by it, whatever, so were Kuukai, and Amu, and Ikuto! But when people start dismissing it as shock value fanservice or going "it shouldn't be in a kids manga!" it just tells me that they completely missed the point.
Yeah, it was messed up! Utau is messed up! Her relationship with her brother is messed up! Their childhood was messed up! Utau's behaviour towards her brother is a direct result of how messed up they are! The manga practically screams this at you!!!
And you know what? That should be in a kids manga. Utau's development of realizing her misplaced attraction to her brother is the result of her unstable family dynamics and learning to let go of him in that respect is important!
You think there aren't kids dealing with that? You think there aren't kids that have struggled with misplaced and inappropriate attractions to people because they've been messed up by trauma? You think they don't deserve to be seen and heard and told "you're not broken" and to know they can still be worth love and recovery? To know that they can still navigate a relationship outside of those misplaced attractions and messed up dynamics?
Genuinely: Utau's sub-plot with her dealing with her romantic attraction to her brother was both important and well written, and it ties in so neatly to every other theme about trauma and healing in the manga that if someone misses the point here, I just do not trust that they'll understand anything else this series has to say.
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new shugo chara manga after THIRTEEN YEARS and if utau and kukai are broken up i'll die. i'll die i'll DIE i spent three years as a middle schooler as a TEN-ELEVEN-TWELVE YEAR OLD delusionally banking on their two (2) interactions in the manga and then peach pit said here you peasant FEAST on your delusions they are in LOVE they like each other sooooo bad and istg if they walk that back in this sequel i don't know what i'll do. my entire conception of romance began with them they are the foundation they are the ROOT if peach pit ruins this for me i will literally never recover all my belief in love will be LOST
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A long time ago, Utau gave me (Nyo) England vibes since she's a pigtailed tsundere with a demon and angel form (like sweet devil and Britannia Angel), not to mention she's voiced by a popular seiyuu who can sing (like Noriaki Sugiyama).
Because of this, I always kind of liked the idea of Nyo England being voiced by Nana Mizuki, though sadly that never happened. 😅
Anyway, I was thinking...I don't believe Nyo England would actually wear pigtails, but if she HAD to have them, I feel like the style should be more messy and punkish the way Hoshina Utau's are.
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amutau my fav girlies
i live for the rival to friends trope in magical girl anime!!!
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