#SakiMai

[superpilkyrose64]

They call each other everyday and eat bread together

#pretty cure #precure #precure splash star #otona precure #saki hyuuga #mai mishou #sakimai #saki mai #fanart #rosa art

[alintolya03]

Another portion of precure

#precure #futari wa precure #futari wa pretty cure splash star #nagihono #sakimai

[megamanofnumbers]

I can't believe I'm living in a world where fucking My Hero Academia is more openly queer than Pretty Cure right now.

#precure #my hero academia #pretty cure #boku no hero academia #otona precure #togachako #sakimai #bakudeku #otona pretty cure #lgbtq #lgbtqia

[rknchan]

#precure #pretty cure #futari wa pretty cure splash star #saki hyuuga #mai mishou #sakimai #futago kamikita

[mizuno-marmalade]

HIIII sorry i got distracted by a puzzle. never watched splash star but these two are super cute 🧡🤍💖

#mai mishou #mishou mai #mai misho #misho mai #cure egret #cure windy #hyuuga saki #hyuga saki #saki hyuuga #saki hyuga #cure bloom #cure bright #futari wa pretty cure splash star #futari wa precure splash star #splash star precure #precure #pretty cure #sakimai #maisaki #mizuno art tag #digital art #digital artwork #ibispaint art #ibispaintx #artists on tumblr

[plnk-sea]

GO by "Smiling is Victory!"

A redraw of an old screenshot redraw (lol).

Here's the old one and the original screenshot

#saki hyuuga #mai mishou #cure bloom #cure egret #sakimai #cure bright #cure windy #splash star #precure #futari wa precure splash star #precure splash star #pretty cure #pretty cure splash star

[gearchronocle]

sakimai makes me so ill. so so ill. so ill. ph my god. cries dies flies dies falls to the floor dies agaim

#precure splash star #splash star #sakimai #saki x mai #hyuuga saki #mishou mai #GAYYY #gayyyyy #GAYYYY #no omr understands the y make me so ill

[mahoutoons]

ik there was a very slim chance of toei actually making sakimai a thing and this is a silly thing to be sad over but... saki and mai had the whole "our meeting was destiny" trope only for them to get paired off with random ass men. and in saki's case it wasn't even kenta, the boy she actually had chemistry with in splash star but some random man we never even see.

#again ik this is such a silly thing to be sad over #but if saki or mai were boys they wouls DEFINITELY end up together #precure #otona precure #saki hyuuga #mai mishou #sakimai #rebecca talks

[na-na-namine]

Sakimai nation, how’re we feeling today ;-;

#sad day y’all #sakimai #saki x mai #hyuuga saki #mishou mai #otona precure #precure #pretty cure

[superpilkyrose64]

This is what Mai and Saki are up too in Otona Precure. My uncle from nintendo said so.

#pretty cure #fanart #precure #otona precure #sakimai #saki mai #saki hyuuga #mai mishou

[alintolya03]

I'm going to get an overdose of emotion with these girls soon...

#precure #futari wa pretty cure splash star #sakimai #saki hyuuga #mai mishou

[msimpossibility]

Why is SakiMai such an underrated ship i mean the girls needed to recharge their dragonball z aura powers with COUPLE'S THERAPY

#precure splash star #pretty cure splash star #sakimai #saki hyuuga #cure bloom #cure bright #mai mishou #cure egret #cure windy

[rknchan]

#pretty cure #precure #futari wa pretty cure splash star #saki hyuuga #mai mishou #sakimai #cure bloom #cure egret

[pochqmqri]

OtonaPre but it's only when Saki's nameless, faceless, and voiceless fiancé is mentioned.

I wanted to illustrate how little we actually know of him in the anime, as we don't even get three full minutes of scenes involving him in total, and he doesn't he even show up in the flesh in any of those scenes. He doesn't even show up when Saki leaves for Paris in the final episode, Mai does!

Also, it's really funny and sad that they set up early on that Saki is to be engaged, and they don't even show the wedding at the end. Like, did she even get married before she left for Paris?

#saki hyuuga #otonapre #anime #video #sakimai

[nozoditz]

Theory: Saki may be marrying someone else, but Mai is still in love with Saki.

(Disclaimer: I have nothing against and in fact support all the actual canon ships, and I'm okay with Takkun, even if he's deliberately a faceless nobody because the show is about the characters we already know. Please do not flood the notes with shipping discourse. The tag is full of that already.)

So when we meet Saki and Mai, they are both in relationships, but while Saki is engaged to Takkun, Mai and her boyfriend are on the outs. In her focus episode, Mai is encouraged, even by Saki, to talk things over and try and fix it, but when she gets dumped over text message, all Mai feels in the moment is relief. She immediately feels guilty over it, because shouldn't she be sad? Isn't she supposed to want to get and keep a boyfriend? Isn't she supposed to want it more than she wants to succeed in her career or reconnect with her friends or the other things she actually cares about? The others (save Rin) are all either happy in their relationships or putting in effort to save them, so why does Mai just feel relieved of a burden instead when she loses hers?

This, gentle readers, screams comphet. Not in the way that some Sakimai shippers are making the rest of us look bad by insisting that Saki's relationship with Takkun is straight-ironing on Toei's part (that's bi erasure, by the way, or have you forgotten Kazuya?), but in-universe societal pressure on Mai to not question who she is and conform as best she can. This isn't enforcing the idea that liking other girls is something you grow out of. Given the themes of the show, this is condemning it.

Think about it. The others each deal with their own complexes, from Nozomi being told she can't move heaven and earth to support a child's dreams to Rin caving to the pressure to ignore a Shadow and focus on saving her career, each coming to a head with the character trying to rationalize her failures and caving to what society told her to leave behind and grow out of by saying "things are different, I'm not a kid anymore." Mai, in this light, is dealing with the same thing. While, unlike with the others, she still can't transform after her focus episode because Saki still needs to deal with her issues, Mai moves forward learning that even if no one else understands, it's okay for her to be okay with not being with a man she didn't love anyway.

And speaking of Saki's focus episode, it's called "Their Bond." Saki and Mai are two of the few characters who stayed close their whole lives. They still go out a lot and talk to each other about their feelings, and when Saki isn't talking about hers, Mai starts to realize what's wrong. She's the one who makes Saki face that she has her own dreams that she's afraid to chase because they'll get in the way of the important people in her life.

And when Saki starts to worry about what studying abroad might do to her parents and her fiance, Mai says that if she were the one marrying Saki, she'd want Saki to be happy. She isn't saying this to try and steal Saki away, of course. Again, she does want Saki to be happy with the person she chose. But it's an interesting choice of words, especially considering that at this point, the creators had had to make a statement about Otonapre being "only a possible future" because of all the shipping discourse surrounding the show, particularly from Sakimai fans (Coconozo and other frequent targets of antis don't get nearly as much hate in Japan).

Most importantly, when Mai asks Saki to try to transform again? Saki breaks down and gives the same "I'm not a kid anymore" lines that the others had given, but specifically, she thinks of her engagement while telling Mai she's "not the same person." These two are close. Close enough that the people rioting over the sunken ship almost feel like they have a point. And while Saki had been among the people telling Mai to just patch it up with her now-ex-boyfriend, Saki is also the person most likely to know what Mai is feeling at any time, especially when Mai just told her "if it were me" like that.

It seems pretty clear that while Saki feels she's letting down her parents and her fiance, she also thinks she's letting down Mai because she's figured out in this moment that they don't feel the same way about each other. Can their bond really survive that? But just as her parents and fiance are fine with her decision and just want her to be happy, so does Mai, and their bond does survive that. Even if Mai knows how Saki feels, Saki is, as Mai says, still the same person. And that's when they can combine their powers again.

In conclusion, Karekuru and (if Hugtto and anniversary merch apply here) Nagihono aren't the only reasons that Otonapre isn't a sign of straight-ironing ahead. And also I'm surprised I haven't seen more people starting to ship Mai rebounding with Rin. Maybe once we finally see adult Hikari.

#Otona Precure #long post #sakimai

[incorrect-magicalgirl-quotes]

Mai: Hey, you want some leftovers? Saki: What's that? Mai: You've never had leftovers??? Saki: No, because I'm not a quitter.

#precure #splash star #mai mishou #cure egret #saki hyuuga #cure bloom #sakimai #maisaki