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medea10 · 2 years

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My Review of Koikimo

(short for: Koi to Yobu ni wa Kimochi Warui)

(translation: It's Too Sick to Call this Love)

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Oh goodie, this is only going to go south from here.

How did I get into this anime? Seeing as I didn’t have many slots open for Winter 2021 animes, I wanted to pick up as many random animes for the spring season. That’s all. Wow, I’m late as fuck with putting this one out. Apologies for the lateness of this review…I’m being lazy.

Meet Ryo Amakusa! He’s a businessman in his mid 20’s. And because he’s very handsome, he’s a constant target for loose women. One morning on his way to work, he felt a little dizzy and almost fell down a flight of stairs at the train station. He was saved by a high school girl named Ichika Arima who proceeded to give Ryo her handmade lunch to make sure he’ll be okay. That night, he heads back to his parent’s home to find Ichika there. Turns out Ichika is friends with Ryo’s little sister, Rio.

Ryo didn’t fall down those flight of stairs, but he certainly fell head over heals in love with Ichika. And this girl is not feeling the same way Ryo is! In fact, she finds him creepy. Ryo ends up smothering her with compliments, flowers, chocolates, and all this unwanted attention. This is the story of a businessman falling in love with a normal high school girl.

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Oh God, this is getting too Matt Gaetz for my liking!

BETWEEN THE SUB AND THE DUB: Not a Crunchyroll original, but one that is being streamed on the site. It’s been a full year and still no dub. Although, a dub could happen. In the last few months, Crunchyroll has been going back through their old catalog and giving dubs here and there. I mean, if Natsume’s Book of Friends and Given were NOW able to get a dub after all these years, Koikimo could get one in the future as well. Aside from the notable male seiyuus, this is actually my first time hearing Yurie Kozakai. She seems relatively new but I think she carries the role of Ichika very well. Here’s what you might recognize these folks from.

*Ryo is played by Toshiyuki Toyonaga (known for Yuri on Yuri on Ice, Mikado on Durarara, Hideyoshi on Tokyo Ghoul, Asahi on Free!, and Shun on Kimi to Boku)

*Ichika is played by Yurie Kozakai

SHIPPING: Oh geez…

Let me look over my notes of what I was screaming during the first episode.

“How old are you? Dude, you’re a businessman and you’re coming onto a high school girl. Weren’t you just fucking some random skank the night before meeting Ichika? This ain’t one of those sick hentais that snuck onto Japan’s primetime slot, right?! How the fuck old are you? Remind me what the age of consent is in Japan! Are you some sick masochist that gets off of girls making a disgusted face while insulting you? WHAT IS YOUR AGE?! 27?! Da fuck, man!

Ah-ha, yeah this is not good! Ryo, bring it in. Sit boy! When a girl says “no” or she feels uncomfortable around you, that’s not a sign that she wants to see more of you. I feel like a restraining order video featuring Gary Busey should play when talking about the start of this ship. As you can tell, I’m not digging the Ryo x Ichika ship all that much. But like it or not, this relationship is developing throughout the series. I guess I should be happy that Ryo doesn’t treat Ichika like all of his other girlfriends/one-night stands. He actually treasures her! So yeah, dude gets a point there.

Then in episode 3, we’re introduced to Tamaru. He’s a space cadet, but there’s some potential for a ship with him and Ichika. So expect some jealousy moments from Ryo. We do get some cute moments between Ichika and Tamaru, especially during the field trip episode. I thought it was cute because Ryo wasn’t there to make things weird or ewwie. Things do come to a climax between those two in episodes 8-9 when Tamaru confesses his feelings to Ichika. It went as well as one would expect in this situation.

Dude is friend-zoned!

On the other side of this, Ryo has been with a plethora of women throughout his youth and into his 20s. Not only that, he’s pretty popular at his work. The girls in the office find him pretty. And one co-worker (nicknamed Arrietty) has a crush on him. Problem for her is that Ryo is in deep love for Ichika and only talks to Arrietty for anime advice to get on Ichika’s good side. Arrietty ends up finding out that Ryo’s in love with a high school girl and she worries about Ichika’s well-being having to deal with the stress of a May-December relationship. And at the same time, tell Ryo she loves him!

So yeah, Ryo x Ichika is inching closer and closer. Let’s see how the ending sizes up for this ship.

ENDING: After the events of Christmas, Valentine’s, and White Day, Ryo and Ichika are starting to feel something with this relationship. Ichika ends up rejecting and friend-zoning her classmate Tamaru some time after Valentine’s. It’s a weird new feeling for her, but it really seems like Ichika is really falling for Ryo. I mean, she turned down the sweet classmate to be with the same guy she called creepy not too long ago. Now what do you suppose would happen if Ryo x Ichika’s love is out in the public and around people not in the loop?

We got our answer when Ichika lied to several female co-workers of Ryo’s. The two were in public and were asked if they were going out. Ichika lied and told them that she was just friends with Ryo’s little sister and nothing more. Oof. Yeah, Ichika recognizes the stigma and pressure in this situation. If you’re 16 years old and out on a date with a 26-year-old businessman…yeah, it doesn’t sound too pleasant. And what do you suppose is gonna happen when Ryo’s father learns about this little relationship? He literally blew up at his son. But I’m going to be real here and kinda take Ryo’s side on this one.

Ryo’s father only learned about Ryo and Ichika through second-hand talk from Rio and her mother. The father started putting pieces together and jumped down his son’s throat without knowing the full story of any of this. Yes, it is kinda creepy that a mid-20’s businessman is taking an interest in a high school student. It’s generally frowned upon. But Ryo’s father is jumping to all kinds of conclusions that stray from the truth. Ryo’s father would always get angry at him for his promiscuous lifestyle and he immediately jumped to the thought that Ryo corrupted Rio’s best friend Ichika. I can’t say I blame the father for that. After episode one, I was calling for this mother fucker to get an AIDS test. But I grew to…lack of a better term, tolerate things for what they are in this series.

It was well established at the beginning of the series that Ryo and his father don’t get along at all. And the endless fighting from those two mentally scarred Rio when she was younger and potentially ruining Ryo and Rio’s sibling relationship for years to come. I just can’t help but get angry with the father right now. Dude is away for months at a time and doesn’t take the time to talk to his kids. Then again, if there’s distance between father and son, no chance of either one opening up about this sort of subject. Life is difficult!

In the final episode, Ryo decides to be cruel and intentionally puts distance between him and Ichika. Ryo sees how this relationship or lack-there-of is stressful. Arrietty had some good points and I don’t blame Ichika for lying in front of Ryo’s workmates. This distance was really bugging Ichika and worrying her to death. Even Rio was suspicious as her brother never uses “busy at work” as an excuse. Rio ends up laying it down for Ichika that she really needs to step up her game in telling Ryo her true feelings. Rio isn’t fond of anyone hurting her brother in any way. Rio’s very grateful for both Ichika and Ryo and hates to see them suffer.

Ichika ends up running into Ryo at the train station, the place of their first meeting. Ichika yells at him for ignoring her. They say they love each other. They kiss. They embrace. And they came to consensual agreement that they would wait until Ichika was an adult. And it’s not that long, I mean it’s only until Ichika graduates from high school and that’s like in another year, maybe nine months.

I didn’t expect to like this anime as much as I did. And before anybody asks, I didn’t watch Higehiro. I know both of those were similar in the premise, but I think I picked this anime for convenience sake, like the anime aired on a light day in my schedule. I can go either way when it comes to May-December relationships, especially when it comes to one of the characters being high school age. But I’m still hypocritical as I nod in agreement with some of animes cutest ships that were also May-December. Whatever, the case! Yeah, at first it felt creepy. It felt VERY creepy watching a mid 20’s male fall in love with a 16-year-old girl. Especially the way Ryo was acting in the first few episodes.

Now I’m not sure how this story ends for real. The manga ended around the time of the anime’s airing and I haven’t gotten word of what happens between Ryo and Ichika or if there’s enough material to constitute a second season or special in the future. But I suppose it’s satisfactory to leave us with their decision and imagine that things got better once Ichika becomes an adult. If you’re not like me and have no problems with May-December romance…

I can’t finish that sentence.

Anyways, Crunchyroll has all 12 episodes available.

#anime review #koikimo #koi to yobu ni wa kimochi warui #ichika arima #ryo amakusa #rio amakusa #kai tamaru #arie matsushima

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post-tg · 3 months

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Happy birthday meme

can never forget Kaneki's birthday. but it seems like I forgot the one in Tokyo hahaha.

PS: It seems like I don't remember the birthdays of the Tokyo Ghoul characters, I guess they were on vacation. (as far as I remember he said something that we should remind him of on one of the characters' birthdays, that's what I remember) 2023 was a very productive year for Sui Ishida

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tatatatatara · 8 months

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Eto is the cool auntie to Ichika. Like she would randomly barge into the house, bribe Ichika's dad with unpublished stories, lavish the kid with food and gift, take photos together, make a mess of the house together, and leave, in just for one hour.

Arima, as the passive guy he is, will sit there and do anything Ichika tell him to. Sometimes he is a noble woman having tea break with Ichika's dolls, sometimes he plays the prince to rescue her from the evil witch (Eto). (Pssstt Ichika thinks he is a bad actor but that's just because her dad and auntie ("BIG SIS" - screamed Eto) Eto are really good ones)

Koma and Irimi are the babysitters. Koma is fun and chill with kids. Irimi is there to stop Koma from doing stupid things, make Ichika clean up her toys and go to bed on time.

#the only natural one eyed ghouls must stick together #eto said while taking ichika to jump from building to another building until touka or shiono stop them and give them a lecture

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ipsen · 10 months

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HELLO, may I ask 9, 12 and 22 for the ask game?

Picking all the hater questions, are we? LOL I'll bite, sure. Under the cut.

Which character had the worst use?

Eto. No bias, of course. Why did she get cut out of the story like that. That's so stupid. She's like, the second strongest character in the series and arguably the most important one (pot stirrer that she is; I doubt Arima would have become the OEK without her in the picture). And yet her fate is left a complete mystery for over 80 chapters. Like, we barely got to know her, and just as things got good, she just... dies.

The other character that gets overlooked is Amon. Apparently when Kaneki's character goes down the shitter, his parallel does too. It's unbelievable how he doesn't show up until like chapter 90 of re. So stupid and a waste. He was literally given the pieces to do something about the CCG with Sphinx and stuff and just nothing came out of that. He didn't even join Goat. What a waste.

And which changed for the worse?

Mutsuki. The latter half of re, to me, should have been about subverting tragedy, and after Kanae, one of Mutsuki's parallels, met a grisly end, I would think we'd have Mutsuki be treated better. This was also around the time when "Tokyo Ghoul makes another crazy character" was starting to get stale (we got Takizawa, Shikorae, Kaneki, Eto, etc etc) and samey. It wants to both be tragic and subvert tragic at the same time and the fact that it couldn't choose up until the literal ending will always irk me.

What's your opinion about the final?

It's alright. Not much else to say about it. I like Ichika; she's cute. Didn't like how it treated certain characters (Eto, Akira, and Amon being some of the bigger offenders) while characters like Goumasa Tokage got both text and half a page to themselves. I'm glad Kaneki's dick works I guess.

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Thanks for the ask!

#tg #tokyo ghoul #ask #eto yoshimura #koutarou amon #tooru mutuski

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redthreadoffate · 2 years

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likeevalikeeve’s mini-celebration

so i’m celebrating my 1,050 followers (i know it isn’t much compared to others but hey, i can be happy about it, right?)!

*more under the cut

wasn’t supposed to tag mutuals as to not disturb them, but... here we go! @trumpkinhotboy @angel-cap @everythingnerdyxoxo @mimatosstuff @himetsundere @dutchforstrangers @ri-ships-takari @tangledupblue @earlgreymon @ashandpikachu @singinprincess etc. no worries if you don’t want to participate! this is just a little thing. please tell me if you want to be removed!

as a thank you to those who follow me, and especially my mutuals, i will be accepting requests for any of these (i have the right to refuse though):

celebrities/influencers

anthony mackie x reader

ben hardy x reader

chris evans x reader

sebastian stan x reader

tom holland x reader

william moseley x reader

criminal minds

matt simmons x reader

spencer reid x reader

digimon

mimi tachikawa

hikari yagami

taichi yagami & sora takenouchi

yamato ishida & mimi tachikawa

takeru takaishi & hikari yagami

jianliang lee & ruki makino

koichi kimura

harry potter

george weasley & katie bell

oliver wood x reader

inception

ariadne

arthur & ariadne

eames x reader

law & order: special victims unit

sonny carisi x reader

marvel

bucky barnes x reader

sam wilson x reader

peter parker x reader

the chronicles of narnia

caspian x x reader

edmund pevensie x reader

peter pevensie & eva skye bellamy (*they’re my grandparents’ names, not mine)

top 30 animanga ships

akatsuki no yona - hak & yona

akkuma no riddle - tokaku azuma & haru ichinose

alice 19th - kyo wakamiya & alice seno

*bleach - ichigo kurosaki & orihime inoue

cells at work! - white blood cell & red blood cell

d.n. angel - daisuke niwa & riku harada

devils line - yuki anzai & tsukasa taira

digimon adventure - takeru takaishi & hikari yagami

*fate series - shirou emiya & rin tohsaka

ghost hunt - naru shibuya & mai taniyama

ginban kaleidoscope - pete pumps & tazusa sakurano

harukanaru toki no naka de - tenma morimura & akane motomiya

kamigami no asobi - apollon agana belea & yui kusanagi

kawaii dake ja nai shikimori-san - yuu izumi & micchon shikimori

*kaze no stigma - kazuma yagami & ayano kannagi

kenka bancho otome: girl beats boys - rintaro kira & hinako nakayama

koi to yobu ni wa kimochi warui - ryo amakusa & ichika arima

koroshi ai - ryang-ha song & chateau dankworth

la storia dell arcana famiglia - liberta & felicita

magic knight rayearth - lantis & hikaru shidou & eagle

mahoutsukai no yome - elias ainsworth & chise hotori

marmalade boy - yuu matsuura & miki koishikawa

shin shirayuki-hime densetsu pretear - hayate & himeno awayuki

shintei tantei yakumo - yakumo saito & haruka ozawa

*spy x family - damian desmond & anya forger

*tenkuu no escaflowne - van fanel & hitomi kanzaki

tesla note - kuruma tanaka & botan negoro

*yashahime: princess half-demon - hisui & setsuna

yu yu hakusho - yusuke urameshi & keiko yukimura

zombie-loan - chika akatsuki & michiru kita

(*super selected)

i will also be doing a top 30 + selected prompts thing, though I’m not going to do it everyday. i realized i’m too ambitious, hehe. so I’ll be doing this during my own free time. what i do need help with is which ships and prompts i should write for first; you can fill this form here.

and, another treat for anyone who wants, send me a “meet cute” prompt + a ship/reader insert (listed above) and i’ll write a super mini-fic about it (3-5 sentences).

and for mutuals! send me a *🐾* and i’ll tell you my super first thought/s about you.

so that’s it! i know this wouldn’t be a big hit but hey, i tried, right? thank you!

#type: eve celebrates #what do i tag here...#you know what let this post be a post by itself

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ao3feed-izch · 11 months

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Idiol & actor siblings can't lie against the telepathic child

by SPYxPSYCHIC

When Anya says to the Hoshino twins that she knows secrets about them, Aqua wants to take advantage of that ability. But can you lie to someone who can read your mind like a movie?

Words: 6478, Chapters: 12/12, Language: English

Fandoms: 推しの子 | Oshi no Ko (Manga), 推しの子 | Oshi no Ko (Anime), SPY x FAMILY (Anime), SPY x FAMILY (Manga), One Piece (Anime & Manga), 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Hoshino Aquamarine | Goro, Hoshino Ruby | Serena, Anya Forger, Saiki Kusuo, Becky Blackbell, Aiura Mikoto, Damian Desmond, Arima Kana, Kurokawa Akane, Tony Tony Chopper, Nico Robin, Bakugou Katsuki

Relationships: Hoshino Aquamarine | Goro/Kurokawa Akane, Arima Kana/Hoshino Aquamarine | Goro, Komi Shouko/Tadano Hitohito, Midoriya Izuku/Uraraka Ochako, Nakano Ichika/Nakano Itsuki/Nakano Miku/Nakano Nino/Nakano Yotsuba/Uesugi Fuutarou

Additional Tags: Idols, Actors, Multiverse, Manga & Anime, Post-Betrayal, Jealousy

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/47354059

#ao3feed #izuocha #dekuraka #izch #izuku midoriya #ochako uraraka #ochadeku #auto

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wabatle · 1 day

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Fandoms and characters I will write for

Be warned, below is a long list

Jujutsu Kaisen

Yuji Itadori

Nobara Kugisaki

Megumi Fushiguro

Satoru Gojo (I personally only think of him in a platonic way so any romantic stuff might be bad/ooc lmao)

Suguru Geto

Maki Zen'in

Toge Inumaki

Yuta Okkotsu

Attack on Titan

Eren Yeager

Mikasa Ackerman

Armin Arlert

Levi Ackerman (same thing as gojo)

Pieck Finger

Annie Leonhart

Tokyo Ghoul

Ken Kaneki

Touka Kirishima

Ayato Kirishima

Shu Tsukiyama

Juzo Kirishima

Demon Slayer

Tanjiro Kamado

Zenitsu Agatsuma

Shinobu Kocho

Giyu Tomioka

Mitsuri Kanroji

Muichiro Tokito

Tengen Uzui

Kanao Tsuyuri

Hetalia

America (Alfred F. Jones)

England (Arthur Kirkland)

France (Francis Bonnefoy)

China (Yao Wang)

Russia (Ivan Braginsky)

Germany (Ludwig Beilschmidt)

North Italy/Italy (Feliciano Vargas)

Japan (Kiku Honda)

Canada (Matthew Williams)

Spain (Antonio Fernandez Carriedo)

South Italy/Romano (Lovino Vargas)

Prussia (Gilbert Beilschmidt)

Hungary (Elizabeta Héderváry)

Finland (Tino Väinämöinen)

Iceland (Emil Steilsson)

Norway (Lukas Bondevik)

Toilet-bound Hanako-kun

Hanako/Amane Yugi

Tsukasa Yugi

Nene Yashiro

Kou Minamoto

Teru Minamoto

Aoi Akane (girl)

Akane Aoi (boy)

Mitsuba Sosuke

Sakura Nanamine

Natsuhiko Hyuuga

Oshi No Ko

Ai Hoshino

Aquamarine Hoshino

Ruby Hoshino

Kana Arima

Mem-cho

Akane Kurokawa

Mashle: Magic and Muscles

Mash Burnedead

Finn Ames

Rayne Ames

Lance Crown (same as gojo and levi)

Dot Barrett

Lemon Irvine

Project Sekai

Leo/Need

Ichika Hoshino

Saki Tenma

Honami Mochizuki

Shiho Hinomori

MORE MORE JUMP!

Minori Hanasato

Haruka kiritani

Airi Momoi

Shizuku Hinomori

Vivid BAD SQUAD

Kohane Azusawa

An Shiraishi

Akito Shinonome

Toya Aoyagi

Wonderlands × Showtime

Tsukasa Tenma

Emu Otori

Nene Kusanagi

Rui Kamishiro

Nightcord at 25:00

Kanade Yoisaki

Mafuyu Asahina

Ena Shinonome

Mizuki Akiyama

Vocaloids

Hatsune Miku

Rin Kagamine

Len Kagamine

Megurine Luka

MEIKO

KAITO

Doki Doki Literature Club

Sayori

Natsuki

Yuri

Monika

Villains are Destined to Die

Penelope Eckhart

Reynold Eckhart

Derrick Eckhart

Winter Verdandi

Callisto Regulus

Eckles

#Wabatleland

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