#liz and the blue bird

[animefeminist]

Queerness and the Power of “Subtext” in Sound! Euphonium & Liz and the Blue Bird

Sound! Euphonium drew an audience of sapphic women due to the heavily implied romantic relationship between its two leads, Kumiko and Reina, but the show’s endgame saw them drifting apart as Reina confesses her love to an older male teacher and Kumiko becomes dedicated to her upperclassman friend Asuka.

The subtext between the characters has been enough for a small fandom to sustain itself for years, but the actual show ultimately failed to deliver. Years later, however, the spin-off film Liz and the Blue Bird, centered around side characters Nozomi and Mizore, provides audiences with the explicit queer representation many Euphonium viewers found themselves lacking.

Sound! Euphonium premiered in April 2015. Produced by Kyoto Animation, it exploded in popularity after a ship between the two female leads garnered attention online. The series is told through the eyes of Kumiko Oumae. A somewhat directionless young woman when we meet her, she is haunted by the final competition of her middle school band, when she unwittingly insulted a fellow classmate. The series follows her joining the newly rejuvenated concert band at her new high school and rekindling a connection with Reina Kousaka, the girl she drove to tears in middle school.

Even before any of their romantically coded interactions in the show itself, “Tutti!”, the ending theme for Euphonium’s first season, features a shot of Kumiko and Reina standing in a field, backs to each other, as a long red thread connects them. It’s the “red string of fate,” one of the most instantly recognized symbols of destined lovers.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

#sound euphonium #hibike! euphonium #kumirei #liz and the blue bird #naoko yamada #articles

[alaylays]

blues are becoming my favorite thing

#liz and the blue bird #kyoto animation #fanart

[bloodraven55]

just watched liz and the blue bird and this confession scene got me good 🫠

#liz and the blue bird #liz to aoi tori #mizore yoroizuka #nozomi kasaki

[animepopheart]

★ 【Enze_恩沢】 「 ■■■joint 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me! insta • x • bsky

#mizore yoroizuka #nozomi kasaki #liz and the blue bird #anime girl #hibike euphonium #artist: Fez

[bijuutamer]

#bijuutamer art #liz and the blue bird #liz and the blue bird fanart #mizore yoroizuka #nozomi kasaki #sound euphonium #hibike! euphonium

[17-million-years-of-pining-poll]

BEST LONG-TIME PINING SHIPS: REDEMPTION ROUND R1 M8

Reasons to vote for each ship under the cut!

Nozomizo: Nozomizo essay linked here!!!

Yoohankim: okay okay so. kim dokja reads about yoo joonghyuk’s life for 10 years (he’s the main character of a webnovel kdj’s been reading). han sooyoung waits for 50 years in an alternate universe she’s stuck in. han sooyoung and yoo joonghyuk wait together for 3 years for kim dokja to return after he died (once). yoo joonghyuk and han sooyoung regress (die and go back in time to start over) and live through another apocalypse to get to kim dokja. it’s revealed han sooyoung was the one writing that webnovel kim dokja read for 10 years (she wanted to keep him alive). it’s also revealed yoo joonghyuk regressed 1863 times (so at least 1863 years) to find kim dokja. yoo joonghyuk goes into space for a long long while in hopes of getting kim dokja back. han sooyoung waits for both of them. it’s complicated but i can say with full certainty that combined they have pined for each other for 17 million years

#redemption round #polls #rround 1 #nozomizo #nozomi kasaki #mizore yoroizuka #liz and the blue bird #sound! euphonium #yhk #yoohankim #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #han sooyoung #kim dokja #yoo joonghyuk

[oftheflora]

Liz and the Blue Bird (2018)

#film stills #liz and the blue bird

[cinematicmasterpiece]

liz and the blue bird (2018)

#liz and the blue bird #リズと青い鳥 #film #movie #anime #cinema #art #edit #screencaps #photography #cinematography #2010s #female director #directed by women #naoko yamada #queue

[honeycranes]

Late Summer Waves by 7co

#this song is so good #liz and the blue bird #liz to aoi tori #mizore #nozomi #nozomizo #nzmz

[silvercrane14]

[Image ID: Two screenshots from two different anime. Both are lit similarly, at a school as the sun sets.

The first is from the movie Liz and the Blue Bird. It depicts Kasaki Nozomi looking to the right, her hands behind her back. The subtitles at the bottom read "I'm not the kind of girl you think I am."

The second is from Skip and Loafer. It depicts Shima Sousuke. He smiles with his eyes closed, facing the right. The subtitles at the bottom read "You think too much of me." /End ID]

Hm.

#crane screams #image id #skip and loafer #skip to loafer #liz and the blue bird #liz to aoi tori #shima sousuke #kasaki nozomi

[symphonic-scream]

Context: hi! I realized my anime watch list was 100 anime long and, I need to get on that! And I can't choose where to start, so I'm leaving it up to Tumblr!

Rules: Three rounds of voting. Top 5 from each poll on round one go to round two, 5 polls of 10. Top 2 from each of those will go to the finals! I'll watch the winner of that

The tag to find all the polls will be 100 anime poll!

#100 anime poll #polls #anime #wolf children #skip and loafer #pop team epic #gundam #mobile suit zeta gundam #mobile suit gundam 00 #liz and the blue bird #hellsing ultimate #fire force #chainsaw man #another

[frogetmenot]

if i were liz, i would never let the blue bird go

liz and the blue bird (2018)

#liz and the blue bird #liz to aoi tori #anisource

[studentofetherium]

i wrote about yuri of absence in Liz and the Blue Bird, which is part of why that movie is so wonderful. check it out on my blog or on AO3

#yuri #liz and the blue bird #hibike! euphonium #lesbian

[hishima]

mods are asleep post wind,glass,bluebird scene

#i'm so obsessed with this scene it basically works as a short film by itself #liz and the blue bird

[caitvithinker]

nozomizo <3

if i could keep the feathers of you, a remnant of your love, a piece of your irises painted blue.

you long for my hesitant hands knowing of the cracks in my mind, a string connecting our fates colored indigo incapable of untangling.

you are the only thing in this world i feel vividly, a photograph stained with tears on a late night accompanied by the thought of you.

i drown in the ocean of you every night, a reminder of what i will someday lose, of the love i do not deserve.

i am greedy, selfish and desperate to know and hide every beautiful shard of you from the sunlight, mine and mine alone.

but i love you too much to do so, too much to let you surrender your life to someone so rotten. i will not let you ruin yourself for me, you with the world in the palm of your hands.

you must not be contained by me, not kept by my word to live in isolation for the rest of your life; you must meet others, must leave me to ash by the sun so that you can find your fallen feathers in the grass.

you are not mine, a gift too beautiful to be claimed. the strain on my veins and my limbs grows more tireless through the rejection of your love, but i cannot say i love you if i allow you to do this for me.

please, i ask of you, do not beg me to stay because everything inside my blood is begging me not to leave. i will break our string by my own hands, a tragedy to prove my affection.

#rewatched l&tbb #was extremely deep in my feels writing this #nozomi i love you so much #nozomi loves mizore so fucking bad i will make a whole essay about this later #i have to talk about it i feel CRAZY #i miss reina and kumiko theyre so gay in l&tbb #caitvi #revolutionary girl utena #utenanthy #juriori #hnk #orv #jwqs #yoohankim #liz and the blue bird #latbb #nozomizo #writing

[17-million-years-of-pining-poll]

BEST LONG-TIME PINING SHIPS: ROUND 1 MATCH 15

Why you should vote for each ship under the cut!

Nozomizo: nozomizo essay :)

Dreamling: They've been pining after each other for about six hundred years. It's such a great ship because Dream is super depressed and suicidal and struggles to find a reason to live besides his function but Hob is hedonism incarnate and despite going through humanities worst times he still refuses to give up because life's worth living. Plus we've got RANGE: On one hand it's cutesy love confession and cuddling and smooching and on the other hand it's cannibalism. Also depending at which point in their lives they get together they can either be feral4feral and "I can make him worse" or realizing the error of their ways and helping each other become better people. Also also Dreams whole thing with Hob started off as a bet with Dream wanting to see Hob beg for death but somewhere along the lines he realized no, fuck, I think I actually care about him

#round 1 #polls #nozomizo #nozomi kasaki #mizore yoroizuka #liz and the blue bird #sound! euphonium #dreamling #hob gadling #dream of the endless #the sandman