#mini mochi konoha

[kimbapisnotsushi]

okay gang buckle up here are the highlights from the notes and mini comics in the back of the english version of "beginnings & endings" let's go!!

(also i know translated images of these are probs floating around somewhere but i have literally never seen these before except in the og jp artbook bc i don't go on twitter so like. this one is for the tumblr gang i guess?? anyways have fun!)

there's a small comic where yamaguchi tells tsukki that he hears hinata has been doing meiso (瞑想, or meditation) every day which i guess is a homophone because tsukki goes "he's been doing meiso forever, what?" (迷走, to stray/act randomly) and pictures hinata always going off on his own and doing random shit LMAAAO

also there's a mini comic where bokuto is wearing a lab coat and is like "omg don't i look good in this?" and komi and konoha are like "yooooo the lab coat is so sick it makes anyone look smart it's so amazing etc" and akaashi is in the back whisper-yelling "IF YOU GUYS PRAISE THE LAB COAT TOO MUCH THEN BOKUTO WILL GET JEALOUS OF THEM"

THERE'S ANOTHER MINI COMIC THAT'S ADVERTISING THE SALE OF VOLUME 33 WHICH KAGEYAMA THOUGHT WASN'T REAL BC "hinata's dig is on the cover!?!?! that can't be right!! that has to be fake!!"

and then he promotes it by saying "it's got hinata crappily bumping the ball on it. hope you'll like it"

another mini comic shows hinata sending a pic of himself and oikawa in rio wishing kageyama, yachi, tsukki, and yamaguchi a happy new year except like. oihina are squatting over a sand sculpture they made that's a replica of the kagami-mochi which is making yachi, tsukki, and yamaguchi lose their shit. kageyama (who is separate from them on a jog) does not seem to realize what it is and wonders why they built a pile of poop

KANBAYASHI SHOWS UP IN ONE OF THE MINI COMICS??? I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT JUSTICE FOR MY BOY LET'S GO

literally he just introduces himself and where he is ("i'm currently standing in front of the men's room at fukurodani high") and explains that today is the final day of a MASSIVE joint training camp and takes us to see how things are going AND THEN WE SEE EVERYONE BURSTING THROUGH THE DOORS AND SUGA YELLING "IT'S PARTY TIME!!!!"

dude i fucking LOVE this one bc like. kamomedai is there. it's at fukurodani so obviously they're there. the ppl that come in are karasuno members (the third years plus tsukki, hinata, and kageyama), kuroo, and oikawa (so we know nekoma AND seijoh are there) so i'm just like. who the fuck else is there. this IS a party. it's THE crossover. THE ensemble cast

tbh i'm a really big fan of thinking that this is the intro panel to that huge colored spread furudate did of all the teams gathered around the nekoma v karasuno match bc it's the only thing that makes sense!! that WAS the final day of their massive joint training day session!!!!

THERE'S A SHORT MANGA IN THE BACK DETAILING FURUDATE'S RESEARCH TRIP TO BRAZIL I'M SO FUCKING EXCITED LET'S GO

furudate used hinata, tsukki, and kageyama to represent themselves and two editors who went with them

apparently local sports sites interviewed furudate bc they wre curious to know about the manga and then furudate. turned around and interviewed them right back about beach volleyball LMAAAO

two of the women's beach volleyball players they met (barbara seixas and fernanda berti if anyone knows them!) did the kamehameha pose and furudate drew them in it

the meal that oikawa and hinata ate together was traced directly from a picture furudate took when they got lunch with the athletes LOL

they also visited barbara seixas's house and got to see all her medals and trophies!!

the next day they went to go interview from the men's side and met bruno oscar schmidt and evandro gonçalves. these guys were funny bc furudate asked them "do you ever clash over opinions or get into arguments?" and apparently schmidt (who is 6'1") pointed at oscar (6'11"!!!!) and went "what, you think i'd pick a fight with him?"

then they visited gonçalves' apartment where he also had a lot of trophies LMAO, and his apartment was used as inspiration for the apartments of hinata and pedro / heitor and nice!!!

keep in mind that furudate has been using hinata, tsukki, and kageyama to represent their team this entire time so it looks like those three have just been hanging out with irl volleyball players LMAAAO

then they went to corcovado mountain to see the statue and, in a rare moment of rawdog honesty, tsukki admits that the view from the top is pretty

ALSO THERE ARE PENCIL SKETCHES/ROUGH DRAFTS ON PAGE 369 OF DIFFERENT SCENES BUT ONE OF THEM BEING THE KARASUNO V NEKOMA SPREAD WITH ALL THE TEAMS WATCHNG

okay from this point we're going to be getting into furudate's work process and office space!!!

furudate's got his own desk in the back corner of the room right by a window. in the center there are four staff desks shoved together divided in half horizontally by a giant wall of tissue boxes. the reason for this is because they meant to buy a desk partitioner but kept forgetting to, and now they've decided that they don't need one bc they have the tissue box wall????

btw the tissue box wall suddenly appeared out of nowhere. like it actually says "the staff members must have felt awkward facing each other with nothing in between, because at some point there was suddenly a stack of tissue boxes there"

also they stuck like. alllll kinds of things to the tissue boxes. notes and diagrams and and sketches and literally anything that would make an easy reference

also furudate straight up admits that the most annoying thing to draw was hinata's head LMAAAO

and apparently inarizaki jerseys were supposed to have a line across the shoulders but everyone decided that was way too much work so they stopped

furudate has a stepping machine under their desk (it's two actually, one on top of the other) that they use while working bc they heard that Google employees do the same. they don't have any lower back pain so i guess it works??

furudate also really likes the fudenosuke brand of thin brush marker pens and goes through quite a lot of them. at one point one of the staff members drew the whole tokyo city gymnasium ceiling with only those pens

idk if you guys want me to go into the whole technique and tool thing if any artist wants to know send me an ask and i'll make a separate post for that bc this is getting really long already aaaaaaaaghhhhhh

furudate keeps a small volleyball whiteboard on their desk and uses magnets of the characters to plan how a game might play out which actually might be MY personal favorite fun fact about them like that's SO cool??? there's also a photo of the christ the redeemer statue stuck on it they got during the brazil trip and also notes about oikawa's and futakuchi's hair parts LMAAAO

they don't finalize the art digitally instead furudate calculates the size of the copy and then prints each piece out and pastes it onto the manga pages

i actually have no idea what that means i mostly copied it word for word but it sounded SUPER interesting

because of that tho furudate made a joke that paper cement was the most important supply in the office

they keep two pairs of volleyball shoes on the desk for reference . . . . it's hinata's and kageyama's shoes . . . .

they have fanart on the wall from not only fans and staff but oda eiichiro (one piece), kishimoto masashi (naruto), and horikoshi kohei (my hero academia). there's also a framed jurassic park poster which is apparently furudate's favorite movie (LMAO?? that explains some things i guess) and it was playing in the background as they drew the final chapter rather than music

they also keep video game consoles and video games in the office, and they'd play the radio during the day and switch to TV in the evening. they play pre-recorded shows or movies when they have to pull all-nighters which, like, mood

and furudate REALLY likes horror movies apparently? they like the grudge, the ring, one missed call, the conjuring, rec, zombieland, and the mist

okay the last few pages from here on out are insane it's furudate's comments on different scenes from each volume or the volume covers and spans like fifteen pages???? i might make a separate post for that one too

also at the bottom of each of those pages are the different hq characters walking and such and i'll probs also post separate pics bc THEY'RE SO CUTE AONE HAS A LIL CAT FOLLOWING HIM

anyways thanks for sticking with me guys!! that was a long one jesus christ

#sou says stuff #haikyuu #haikyuu!! #haikyuu: endings and beginnings

[marc--chilton]

Aww, Marc! I feel so flattered that you think about the snippet I wrote. Reading that tags brought a huge smile to my face. Do you have any thoughts about what happened in Konoha when they recieved the news and after when Kakashi is reunited with the twins? (Fun fact: The girl has a bruise from on her face getting smacked by Kai after biting him that I wanted to include in the mini fic but word count) I only know what happened in the middle. Thank you for your inspiring au and Ocs.-Mochi

qoqoHFh I HAVE FEELINGS I’M GONNA END UP WRITING SOMETHING FOR THIS SCENARIO I’M SURE

it’s like some hamfisted idea, right. like. “blhuhgh peace? psh, copycat kakashi, the ~hokage~ killed my best friend/relative/acquaintance i kinda liked so i’m gonna fuck him over by taking his kids and seeing how he likes it” just pulling that out of my ass bc like....... surely kai didn’t think too far ahead i mean. cmon

and everyone’s waiting for kakashi to give the order on who to send and he just takes his hokage garb off like “what kind of father would i be if i can’t even save my children on my own” and that’s when the room drops like thirty degrees bc he’s gonna straight up SLAUGHTER

he only has pakkun lock on to the scent and the rest...

sharingan or not he’s getting his kids back or die trying

#fic talk #i read that snippet over and over #like honestly? got me Feeling #is kai just like a random baddie or do you have anything for him mochi?? #he sounds gnarly #also your snippet is the whole reason i rechecked to see if my submit was open i won't lie lsjfkj #I REALLY LIKED IT if you ever wanna try again without the word limit ;3c #jflksl thank you again #i'm not even sure what i'm thanking you for anymore since i'm falling asleep but thANK YOU #Anonymous

[marc--chilton]

We know Team Gai's and the Rookie Nine's reaction to the pregnancy. So what was they're reaction (with the hilarious exception of Naruto) to news of Gai being pregnant with twins?-Mochi

sakura: something along the lines of “christ you can’t just make it the tiniest bit easy for us huh” since she knows she’s gonna have to be present at delivery

sai: apathetic congratulations bc he has no personality

shikamaru: preemptively ascending. gai reproducing means he is less likely to find sleep and that, my friends, is a drag

ino: waiting on gender reveal, if there is one, to start getting them baby clothes bc with those hot messes as parents, those kids are gonna need all the fashion help they can get

choji: “so are you gonna like.... balloon, yknow?” (ino bonks him on the head like ‘don’t be rude!!’)

kiba: !?!?!?!? DOES THAT MEAN KURENAI’S BABY GETS TO HAVE FRIENDS HER AGE??? WOAH!!!!!!!!!!! (dog man of course he’d be excitable could you IMAGINE what he’s like while kurenai’s expecting?? christ)

shino: starts wondering if that means either kakashi’s or gai’s clains have heightened chances for twins. it becomes a hobby of his to investigate this. hard when there’s jack shit about either clan.

hinata: says they’re going to have cute babies. gai agrees, loudly, but when they get back home he cries on kakashi like “oh my god we’re going to have The Most Adorable children”tenten: worries about the stress it’ll put his body under. sure he regularly shreds his own body by opening the gates but like this is different. she worries about him and the twins the most but she hides it bc she knows how gai feels about people thinking he’s weak (she doesn’t think that!!! but she doesn’t want him to get the wrong idea

neji: buffering.... buffering..... buf-- WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE’S GONNA BE TWO??????? (he just imagines two rowdy mini-gais and like. having been part of a squad with gai AND lee he knows he can pretend to hate them all he wants but it’s just him hiding his affections. i just want soft neji so bad y’all....)lee: “I Will Die For Them” i was gonna say more but i feel like it can be summed up pretty well in that one statement honestly. that said, lee is the most excited out of everyone in konoha, no joke

#asks #fic talk #i need to actually. watch more naruto so these seem more feasible #the only shit i have patience for is the non serious spinoff #it's so fucking funny but the actual shows i need someone to watch it with so i can make jokes #it's My Process #Anonymous