#kaze thoughts

[empresskaze]

#WHEN I TELL YOU THIS JUST HAPPENED TO ME #GOD #kaze thoughts #snz meme

[kazemiya]

No because why aren’t you animated yet? My phone dropped out of my hand the moment I saw you and when I saw you coloured, I- no words

#niibashi juuya #kaze thoughts #no cause he’s so pretty

[bishonenspit]

Kaze To Ki No Uta (風と木の詩) on the cover of June Magazine (1987-88)

#kaze to ki no uta #the poem of the wind and the trees #vintage shoujo #keiko takemiya #kazeki #gilbert cocteau #serge battour #my scans #my collection #finally got my scanner up and running 👍so here are these #not sure if these have been scanned at all before but i thought i would anyways #apologies for any creases and scuffs but they are old! and two are just covers lol #note: june ran for longer than the yrs in the description it's just the years the issues are from xox

[andstuffsketches]

this is how kaze-sawa-kurumi gets together in my au

#kimi ni todoke #knt #its technically part of my #esper sawako au #knt100 #but it also works for any knt bc knt100 takes place post canon anyway and leaves knt largely unchanged #kuronuma sawako #sawako kuronuma #kazehaya shouta #ume kurumizawa #kurumizawa ume #sawako x kazehaya #sawakaze #sawako x kurumi #sawakurumi #kazesawakurumi #i have a lot of thoughts about them bc i feel like these 3 would only do something like this under specific circumstances #ill say this later too but the end result is sawako and kazehaya are dating and kurumi is sawakos ''roommate'' #and ironically bc it was the first crush i think kaze and kurumi are the last leg to really solidify #also yes that kurumi face is a reference to volume 26. of course #comic #comics #2023 #id in alt #also the bisexual colors are unintentional lmao #if they already have an ot3 tag. well. i dont know it

[kazehita]

Dunmeshi is just really good huh

#there is not a critical thought in my mind. #a rare occasion #u can just wholeheartedly recommend it to like anyone thats insane #kaze speaks

[darlix747]

wanderer/hat guy details we’re getting in parade of providence:

he is affectionaly bullied by nahida (the whole hat guy thing)

he gets coffee at cafes in his free time

he writes a killer essay and gives at least a passable lecture

he doesn’t like (or at least appreciate) seeing innocent/non-abrasive people in pain or discomfort, and he will help them to avoid those situations

he can sense nahida’s mind reading (if you try to use her skill on him he says things like “think you can see through me”)

in the jp dub he’s called “umbrella hat”

nahida put him in school as therapy. to process his trauma.

he very much acts like a regular moody teen with nahida, as opposed to his mysterious, sly demeanor around others

he didn’t want any actual harm to befall any of the contestants, and took measures against it (volunteering his water for tighnari in the second challenge, deactivating faruzan’s rouge device in the third). i doubt this is only on nahida’s orders, but that possibility is there

he does casually fly around like a little bumblebee

#i named my wanderer kaze-kun btw #genshin #genshin impact #wanderer #scaramouche #pinned for my easy update access #lix thoughts

[angelicalacrimae]

something i like about kazeki is that, to an extent, it doesn't paint gilbert's abuse as something good/desirable. the scenes aren't seen from a romantic point of view as far as i can remember, they're pretty raw even if the narrative (or the people around him) paints him as a nymph whose only goal in life is to fuck everyone around him, someone who enjoys what he's doing (because no one truly understands his behaviors, and it's not like they can do something about it either because they're not supposed to help)

we see gilbert being miserable because of it, during volume four we see how he slowly loses himself and like, it adds a little something to this whole thing, i don't know.

#kaze to ki no uta #gilbert cocteau #kazeki thoughts

[kindwhispers]

Kaze Hikaru: Slow burn romance, debunking the patriarchal gender roles, and the intricacies of a fractured Bakumatsu era

Disclaimer: Attached below are heavy spoilers, please read on your own discretion.

I. Initial thoughts and impressions:

I am not well versed with Japan's Feudal history but I am well aware that this is recounting actual events during the Bakumatsu Era. At first it definitely felt like there's a lot of information bombardment in a chapter, as well as characters being thrown around and it was quite hard to catch up especially coming in with zero background on the Shinsengumi. There's definitely so much to consider and put into mind because of its setting and I can be highly critical with a lot of them (especially how huge gender role expectations were and how overbearing & cruel patriarchy is especially during this era, will get into this next).

II. Bakumatsu era, Bushido:

Just for a quick background, this was set in 1863-1867 during the decline of Bakumatsu, the last leg of Edo Period under Tokugawa shogunate, right before Meiji Restoration. Bushido is the "way of a warrior" and how bushis live with this code of conduct.

III. On antiquated patriarchal gender roles:

In the vast course of the series, Soji often offers a resolution for Sei to marry off instead of staying in Shinsengumi for a promise of safety... though distinctly coming from a place of care for her, is still in the end administering to misogyny where women were expected to be in households. It all essentially rows around patriarchy during Edo period.

Sei is someone who has struggled a lot to become a bushi as a woman. She is always told that she couldn't, as a woman, she should be married at her age instead, and so forth. Through Sei, we can see a lot of the constraining and dismantling the patriarchal gender structure as she climbs her way up to stand amongst Shinsengumi, which is domineered by mostly men. With her hard work and zeal, along with her raison d'être (first, joining to seek vengeance for her family, then, staying for Soji), she has earned her way up and is seen as a bushi on equal footings- and even better than most. Through all these, she constantly hears and deals with archetypal misogyny and sexist remarks, how being Feeling and Emotive is considered as a "girly thing," and how she always has to grapple with herself by being "a man" bc what she is doing is not "womanly" enough or what she is doing is still inadequate because she will always be a "woman" at the end of the day. This all falls on the rigid social dichotomy that is founded in patriarchy.

Below, from Volume 30, I believe, somehow counters those gender roles. Sei, when she saw Omasa looking a lot more "womanly" ever since she became a wife and a mum, came the scenes of her lamentations about letting go of her womanhood (marrying off, bearing a child, keeping the household, serving the husband, which were all what was believed to be what encompasses the happiness of a woman- an indoctrination of social mores re: what defines a woman that entirely stems from patriarchy) when she has already decided to choose to walk the path of a bushi. Though she has long been resolute with her decision, she still inevitably comes back to it, and she can't help but feel envious. Kondo saying "Soji would be a good wife" already disproves the gender stereotypes, and how the important conversation between Sei and Soji afterwards carries with it so much weight.

Because of her envy with Omasa, she sees herself insignificant both as a woman and as a bushi. She thinks that she is already past the age of a woman who's expected to be marrying off and having a family of her own, and that her mourning about it negates her being a bushi, that she is still as "girly" for thinking this way, even after coming a long way and proving herself in Shinsengumi. Soji then refutes this. Sei emphasized how she wants to be like the wind (Soji) that’s not clinging onto anything and that no desires could constrain, all she could do as a grass is look up to him and admire him even though she couldn’t be with the wind. Soji tells her otherwise, that the wind is envious of the grass that even has the ability to blossom with flowers and yearns to be like that. That Sei is already viewed as influential, and truthfully so. It's basically Soji saying he sees her as equals and is telling her that she is a strong woman and a fine bushi at that; that he, too, admires her (and how at this point Soji has already been perceiving Sei to be strong, as a great bushi and as herself, with how she carries herself & her ability to affect the ppl’s lives around her). Sei needs not to strip away her being a woman, she doesn't have to become a "man" to have been seen as equals, because she did it all being one; she is a woman of influence, and she actively debunks what were archetypal subjectifications of a woman- which, (thought not entirely), defies the patriarchal gender role expectations at this point.

IV. Slow burn romance, transformative and profound Love:

Finally, on the romance! The romance in this manga takes its time and it is wonderful.

I want to start off with how Soji really came a long way of acknowledging his love for Sei (someday I will make a separate post studying his character), how it has always been there, no matter which form, and how transformative it was. At first, he still doesn't fully recognise his feelings about Sei that he instead analogizes it to a parent having to let go of their first born, then how he was with Kondo as a sensei-disciple, then how his love for Sei is that above of a familial love. Now having met Sei, how he finds himself loving her in the process, he subconsciously files it under emotions he’s most familiar with: and that is his love for Kondo, or familial love. What he feels with Sei is something completely alien to him, he doesn’t yet have the awareness that it’s an entirely different form of love (and I will always believe that all the forms of love he had for Sei is just as significant and doesn't need to be measured, even when it doesn't have to necessarily metamorphose into a romantic love). Asking Toshi to reassign Nakamura, allowing his personal feelings get in the way of his work, was the first huge step in coming face to face with his feelings.

“It’s better than marrying someone I truly love so I can just die anytime” monologue of him, and having the dilemma of NOT being like that with Sei… because with Sei, he has something to value and that scares him more than anything. I feel this is interwoven by his past (I will also make a study on Sei & Soji's pasts, their similarities and how their contraries attract, both interlaced by their upbringing). Having ingrained the ‘bushido’ through Kondo & Toshi at an early age, and how he detaches himself from his emotions and dismisses them when it's all right in front of him just to shield himself pain links to his trauma from what happened with Sae.

Soji telling Sei that he wants her happiness more than anybody. At this point, he still struggles to rummage through how he feels. He tiptoes a lot on Sei and keeps her at an arm's length (and how Sei do not want this at all, having witnessed her mum having to bear it all alone, despite her dad loving her- again, will make a separate post about this) because he's scared of unintentionally hurting her.

So many factors come in between their love, the biggest one should be the societal structure during this era. Sei choosing to stay as a bushi & how this is the bridge that continually allows them to be together, so the best they could show it is by protecting each other with their lives. Sei coming to terms of not seeking love in return but just a love that gives and this love acts as a bridge for her to stay in Shinsengumi, to stay with Soji.

They’re both making peace with being able to be by each other despite despite not being Together… How immense their love for each other is that they have to constantly find ways for it to be selfless. 

Going back on the above panels of Sei & Soji's conversation about the analogy of wind-grass inserted in III. On antiquated patriarchal gender roles, him saying there's the desire of whisking away a flower is him wanting to bring her with him. Probably because that flower is still part of a grass so there's a part of Sei that he wants to whisk away with him, and how this ties to both of their inner desires of being together as lovers despite being unaware of how each other feels. That they feel the same about each other and have the same ‘selfish’ yearnings for their love to bear fruits.

Soji finally understands that they both have the same happiness, of being able to watch over each other as the best they can do with their love. He doesn't anymore push her to quit and marry off for a promise of safety but rather respects her agency of choosing to stay so he just does everything he can to protect her, to not lose her. Sei is the same with him. Their love transcends the formalities of marriage, as they get to be by each other's side as bushi, fighting alongside each other with their lives. That they do not need to be wedded to love each other, it surpasses it instead.

Sei and Soji: a profound love that has a pressing desire to be selfish but resists that very selfishness & instead endures all that is fencing their togetherness for each other’s sake. They can’t find themselves to gather this selfishness (of wanting to be with each other as lovers) because they want their happiness more than anything… and that happiness is mirrored by their shared longing of being by each other's side.

Ripened thoughts (under the limitations until Vol. 30):

The charm of Kaze Hikaru is the slow burn romance, & seeing how Sei fares well in a male-domineering environment. I am glad that Sei reiterates that her being a girl doesn't matter as she can be a bushi on par with men, that she does not have to be what is expected of women in that time. Although I initially have qualms about her character as a bushi in the end still being revolved around a man, but the good thing about KH is it dislodges heteronormativity. To Soji, and even to Saito, Sei's gender identity truly didn't matter much. There is also plentiful of iterations in the manga about normativities in sexual preferences, though mostly between men (I have read that sapphics were not much accorded the same way, sadly. And I have yet to read a sapphic manga occurring during the same era, please if you know some recommend them to me...), during Edo period.

This manga doesn't weather down how barbaric this period can get, it instead reminds us many times that deaths were inevitable, no matter how unjust- people die and people kill. It's so bittersweet, yet it manages to keep a balance by showing us how there are found joys & bonds in their quotidian lives, which I really loved and stayed for. Love Kaze Hikaru for how unhurriedly progressive the characters are, how the story takes its time to venture into such a fractured era, & mostly how passionate the mangaka is to chronicle historical events.

Kaze Hikaru is nowhere near perfect, but it is still a wonderful manga that deserves more audience. Please read it and let's team up against V*Z to give us a more consistent volume release.

#reflections after K #animanga #kaze hikaru #風光る #kaze hikaru review #my ramblings because im obviously so smitten by it #i might be rehashing the same things but i just had to collect my general thoughts #anw im open to discussions abt kaze hikaru #i love hearing different perspectives and seeing it on a different lens but theres only like 4 of us that i know LOL #shoujo manga

[sirenicornio]

I'm surprised by people who call Alois a whore or a slut, because I've never really seen Alois behave that way and it makes me wonder, did we see the same show? Yes, it is somewhat flirtatious and "provocative", but it does not go beyond that line. On the contrary, he was very jealous and possessive of the people he considered important. A character like Gilbert Cocteau, to contrast, does have more characteristics mentioned (but he is a victim of sa, so those characteristics should not be attributed to him at all)

#just girly thoughts #vent post #tw csa #alois trancy #black butler #kuroshitsuji #kazeki #gilbert cocteau #keiko takemiya #kaze to ki no uta #the poem of the wind and the trees #la balada del viento y los árboles

[hakodatemonamour]

Look, on the one hand I'm bummed out that there is no Kondo route in Hakouki*. On the other hand, one of my biggest gripes with Hakuoki is how old everyone is in comparison to Chizuru, and adding Kondo does not help at all.

On the third hand, I feel that the game designers were just not interested in his character all this much and probably thought that the target audience naturally felt the same. Which, if true, a pretty big design failure IMO. Like there is not any number of young women who would happily roleplay having a moderately competent paternal figure in their life.

Well, at least Watanabe-sensei of Kaze Hikaru understood the assignment.

*I know he is canonically married because history, but this game also have demons and vampires, so.

#hakuoki #kondou isami #kondo isami #t #kaze hikaru #i have my thought on general disregard that shinsegumi media usually have towards kondo but this is for another post i think

[empresskaze]

Person A has a cold/allergies/whatever and has been sneezing like crazy.

Person A to Person B: Can you g-get me m-m-y *sneezes*

Person B: Youuuurr?

Person A: My *sneezes sneezes*

Person B: *guesses*

Person A getting annoyed: *sneezes* N-No...my-my *sneezes*

Person B guesses again or starts guessing ridiculous things*

Person A very annoyed: Oh forget it... *sneezes*

#this came to me last night #im glad I remember it #snzario #kaze thoughts #snz kink

[kazemiya]

LOOK AT THE CUPS ITS THEIR COLOURS

REKIS ONE IS YELLOW AND LANGA IS BKUE

#sk8 the infinity #kaze thoughts #OMG I MISS THEM SO MUCH #I LOVE THEM #REKI HEADBAND IS THERE AND LANGA HAS ONE TOO (kinda) #PLS PLS PLS GIVE ME SOMETHING TO SCREAM ABT #KNOWING SEASON ONE IK THERE WLD BE ANGST

[eliezersaul]

L: Me (June 16, 23) - - R: Sahar Kazes, IFBB. Since I was a teenager, I've had 3 or 4 goals that haven't changed with the years ... One of those goals, is to ... Yep, to become a musclebro. Or a gymbro. Or whatever people call them now - - I mean, my brother used to be a personal trainer back then, and I loved seeing him getting massive, and all the good vibes and positivity he used to exude. Then, he left the fitness world because of, well... Things unrelated to what I wanna say. I tried the musclebro thing back then, but my brother never understood I was just a newbie with a lot of stuff and problems on his mind... So, everytime I went to his gym, I ended up sore for two weeks!. So, long story short... I avoided training with him like if my life depended on it! ... and ironically, didn't have a lot of motivation or self esteem to go anywhere else to workout. My cousin followed my brother steps though, and he is right now what I still want to be. A biker musclebro. We don't talk a lot, but I feel happy for him. Genuinely happy.

But, anyway... The thing is, I've kinda hated when people have told me silly things (and this is an understatement!) for talking about this goal. Not a surprise that many people assume that: Bodybuilding/Going to a gym/Getting muscled = Becoming arrogant, dumb, or an obnoxious man... Sure, some dudes who go to the gym are that way, and some like to be that way but because (according to my own theory) they already were that way! Besides, there's always SOMETHING to learn about this world: Either a new routine, or a diet, or how your muscles work, or which workout will help you with which muscle, or the chemical components of what you eat daily, how to do a correct meal prep, supplements... Even those who use roids have to learn A MASSIVE TON of stuff. I remember my brother used to train a couple dudes when they were getting ready for a competition, and, maaaaan... Tons and tons of information.

Started going approximately a year ago, and, well... My diet is not the best one... Yet. But I like the testosterone rush I feel everyday after a good workout... And I don't consider myself a brainless, dumb dude... Nor planning/thinking about going that way.

...Honestly, F those who disencourage YOU from doing what you'd love. Get your gymspiration (or whatever inspiration you need to do good things) anywhere you need it!

And, yes. Getting big, hairy (test, minox... you name it), a couple tats, a sweet bike when cash allows it... BEING HAPPY WITH THE WAY I LOOK... I mean... Why not? I love that idea. Maybe I fell in love with the action stereotype from the 80s (yep, 80s/90s kid… Former trust fund kid anyway but that's a VERY different story mwhahahahaha), and, seeing that, and my brother, made me love it until today. I still want that!. The roid thing... I'm not exactly partial to it for myself. If it makes your boat float, go for it dude! In my case... Well, MAAAAAAAAAAYBE if I were a pro bodybuilder, an IFBB one, maybe/whoknows/i'dtryit/whatever... I'm not condoning its use, though! But, my motto is never say never!

For me, well, right now, seeing those giants at my current gym is a MAJOR inspiration. Can't talk to them or befriend them because, well... Issues to make friends, can't/don't know how to... (Thanks high school, you damaged me so much my ability to make friends got ruined forever).

Anyway... Just wanted to talk a bit about it.

So, yep. Still wanna be a musclebro, bro. PS: If anyone reads this, I'd love to read your comments! Thanks for making it this far!.

#from me #personal thoughts #men #personal things #things i think about #muscle #musclebro #flexing #bodybuilder #huge biceps #muscle bro #musclejock #Sahar Kazes #Bodybuilding

[just-things-i-like016]

#this is so cute and pure and thoughtful #he is building a space just for them #just like his father #once again im crying with joy #kaze to ki no uta #kazeki spoilers #kazeki reading

[almoststedytimetravel]

The best thing about ignoring (most) of the child characters in fates is that I can give them parents solely for the comedic potential of the pairing without sabotaging a unit I want to use.

#the only child characters I don’t ignore entirely are Soleil and Ophelia #Forest and Dwyer will occasionally get dragged along for extra staff utility #but other than that it's only comedy #pairing Selena with Kaze because Midori has the same hair style as Selena #pairing up Laslow and Azura because Inigo's jp name is Azure and I thought that would be funny #you thought my favourite fates ship would be safe from the Olivia comedy beam #but no my obsession with them started with a joke #no one is safe #fire emblem #fire emblem fates #fe14 #I geuss Gaias and Cordilia also started this way #they would find each other in any universe type shit

[angelicalacrimae]

you know,, since gilbert wasn't expecting to live that long, do y'all think he's kinda stuck in a younger state mentally? that would explain why he was struggling SO much to adapt to the adult life (unlike serge, who -despite being the same age and was still struggling- seemed to adapt a bit better to the whole thing)

the trauma and the lack of a plan probably kept him in a younger mental state, because he wasn't expecting to grow up and he wasn't really expecting to be thrown out like that (even if it was a planned escape) and having to grow up so fast to adapt didn't help either so, ig it was a recipe for disaster

#gilbert cocteau #kaze to ki no uta #kazeki thoughts #風と木の歌 #totally not projecting but also it makes sense so #slay?