#mitsurou kubo

[blonndiec]

If anything, I feel the urge to write more Yuri On Ice fanfiction. To keep reading amazing Yuri on Ice fanfiction. To draw more Yuri on Ice art. To purchase more doujin and support work of talented people who still create Yuri on Ice content/stories.

Yuri!!!on Ice is eternal.

The fandom made it timeless. And the fandom will keep it alive, no matter what happens.

Born to Make History, forever.

#yuri on ice #yoi #victor nikiforov #katsuki yuuri #victuuri #yuuri katsuki #yuri!!! on ice #Kubo #Sayo Yamamoto #Mitsurou Kubo #BORN TO MAKE HISTORY

[cherry-oppa]

You know what? I don’t even want a Yuri on Ice s2 if Mappa is never gonna make it.

Give all the rights to Kubo Mitsurou and let her make the manga. Her art is amazing. She already drew the short comic with Yurio and Otabek.

Just let her do it, and she’ll have the creative freedom that she had to fight so hard for anyway in the anime.

I’m so serious.

#yoi #yuri on ice #kubo mitsurou

[itsmangacap]

Moteki モテキ—  ch. 30 ⌈ 2008-2010 | by kubo mitsurou ⌋

#moteki #motekiedit #kubo mitsurou #seinen #seinen manga #seinenedit #mangacap #mangasedit #fymanga #mangaedit #fymanganime #dailyanime #anisource #monochrome #manga #animanga #itsmangacap

[astr-ll]

i’m rewatching yuri on ice after YEARS and damn i forgot how much fun this show was. i miss that so much. i watched it first in 2016 when i was still figuring out my identity and even though the show has nothing to do with queerness, i met some of the coolest people in the fandom that were going through the same thing as me.

it was so much fun to celebrate and laugh and cry with yuri. it was so much fun to see victor fail, win, and be self conscious. and it was SO SO SO much fun to do it all with the friends i made.

i miss seeing a queer asian person be anxious, be happy, win, lose, make friends, make rivals, and ultimately grow and it had nothing to do with him being a gay man but everything to do with his relationships with people outside his love interest.

#yuri on ice #yuri katsuki #victor nikiforov #kubo mitsurou #i forgot how much this show meant to me fuck #rewatching it made me realize how far i’ve come since i first watched it #2016 me would be so proud of me for being openly queer and trans and brown and happy #ICE ADOLESCENCE WHENNNNN #I MISS THE HUMOUR I MISS THE CHARACTERS I MISS THE ANIMATION I MISS THE SPORT I MISS THE MUSIC #astrlltxt

[cyansighs]

#again!! #kubo mitsurou #comics #wild to look up someone whose manga you picked up at random and find out she made yuri on ice lmao

[skibatlaw]

Picked up this manga at my local public library. This is amazing I absolutely love it. It got me quite hooked from the beginning until the end! I'm surprised this isn't as talked about online as I thought it would be while I was reading it. (Or I'm prolly not looking hard enough hah..) Bc this NEEDS to be talked about more!!! I can't wait to pick up more of this series!! OSU!

Synopsis:

"Kin'ichirō Imamura, a high school senior, prepares to graduate with no friends and having never participated in extracurricular activities. An accident on the last day of school somehow sends Imamura and Akira Fujieda, a popular girl in Imamura's graduating class, back in time to their first day of high school. Imamura seizes the opportunity for a second chance to improve his high school life, and joins the school's troubled ōendan club." (Wikipedia)

#Again!! #Again!! Manga #manga reccomendation #kubo mitsurou #Again!! kubo mitsurou #manga #shonen #shonen manga #my post

[limnsaber]

Stammi Vicino and the events of Yuri!!! On Ice are still mind boggling to me. Where’s that post about scarcely-fathomable level of romance.

Stammi Vicino is the first skating sequence in YOI. It is the first full skating routine we are presented with and it’s the choreography we see in the very first moments of the show. Lyrically, Stammi Vicino is about a man calling out for someone to hear him, speaking of intense loneliness and decrying love. The lyrics were written by the creator of YOI, Kubo Mitsurou, and translated into Italian for the composition.

In the first episode of the show, both Yuuri and Victor skate this routine individually. Victor skates it for Worlds, and Yuuri skates it because he wants to get his love for skating back.

Unbeknownst to him, Yuuri’s performance was recorded and uploaded to YouTube, and Victor comes into his life from there (directly because of Yuuri’s SV performance).

Victor sees Yuuri’s performance and comes to meet Yuuri, and that’s the inciting incident of the show. Both of their routines were a calling out into the darkness, and they were answered. (That’s love!) Through the show, we learn that both Victor and Yuuri were in bad places at the time of the routine of the first episode, and we see them grow wonderfully together in their relationship and as people through the series.

Stammi Vicino is also known as Hanarezu Ni Soba Ni Ite in Japanese, or Stay Close to Me. This line is said by both characters throughout the show, perhaps most significantly by Yuuri in their argument in the parking garage in EP 7 (a major turning point for their relationship).

The first time Yuuri sees Victor in the flashback, we get notes of Stammi Vicino underneath the dialogue.

This song is perhaps the musical foundation for the entire show! Every aspect of Victor and Yuuri’s relationship is writ in, from calling out into the darkness to finally coming together— represented in the closing routine of the show, Stammi Vicino: Duetto.

Yuuri skates Stammi Vicino once more as the show’s final episode closes, and this time Victor joins him for a pair skate. The final episode is one where they’ve finally fully come together — they agree on their future and on their future together. It’s a beautiful bookend to the story, and represents, as the skating routines always do, their characters and their relationship.

In Duetto, the verses about condemning love are gone and the piece has two singers instead of one. Verses in both the aria and duetto say “your hands, your legs / my hands, my legs / our heartbeats / are blending together,” referencing — and they were crazy for this honestly — Plato’s theory of soulmates. At the end of the piece, the singers “leave together”.

The creator, Kubo Mitsurou, has stated in the past very explicitly and publicly that Victor and Yuuri are soulmates. Canonically! The first time Yuuri sees Victor in the flashback, we get notes of Stammi Vicino underneath the dialogue. Stammi Vicino is the musical thread of Victor and Yuuri’s relationship.

They’re engaged!! To be married!!! They’re canonically soulmates!!!

The music in YOI is deeply intertwined with the storytelling. Each routine is uniquely representative of a character, who they are as person, and their journey. The relationship between Victor and Yuuri is the core of this show, and Stammi Vicino is perhaps the most important piece representative of their relationship.

Stammi Vicino, the aria and duetto, represent a story about loneliness and calling out for love and that call being answered. That’s the thesis of Yuri on Ice.

“There’s a place you just can’t reach unless you have a dream too big to bear alone. We call everything on the ice ‘love.’”

#yuri on ice #yoi #katsuki yuuri #victor nikiforov #Stammi vicino #GOD this show is everything to me #lim posts #lim on yoi #victuuri #vikturi #viktuuri #victuri #tagging all 4 ship names like it’s 2016

[thegirlwhorideslikeasamurai]

When did Viktor choreograph Stammi Vicino and did he commission the music?

There are some controversies regarding Viktor's free programme and I took the time to look at them in greater detail and pin them down to the likeliest explanation. (some of the things discussed in this post I've mentioned in a discussion I was involved in recently. The rest of this post builds on that.)

Disclaimer: Please note that this is an analysis of the source material. Popular headcanons that have no basis in canon cannot be part of this discussion. This is getting a bit academic. Please bear with me.

1. Did Viktor commission the music for Stammi Vicino?

In an interview, Mitsurou Kubo called the aria a piece of music that exists in the world of YOI, but when we subject the hints in the anime to a close examination, they contradict her statement, making you wonder which is true.

I mean, there’s this (sorry for the crappy screenshot)

Technically, the YOI creators might just have used footage of this programme because there was no time to animate Viktor skating an entirely different routine, but due to the tight time constraints of 12 episodes that forced the creators to condense the plot to 50% of its initial size, every scene and every image demanded to be filled with meaning. Speaking of time constraints, they could have used a series of pictures that show adult Viktor in different costumes (like those that had been drawn for Yuuri's room), but they didn't do that either, which rules out technical reasons for this choice.

But there’s more.

From a storytelling perspective, it makes no sense to combine these lines with a short scene of Viktor skating Stammi Vicino if it doesn’t apply to this programme. It’s bad storytelling, period. As Viktor’s fan, Yuuri knows which songs Viktor commissioned because skaters love to talk about these things in interviews. Being a skater himself, Yuuri is knowledgeable in all kinds of music genres even if he lets his coach pick the songs for him. Skaters just happen to be exposed to a lot of music.

This scene makes it seem as if Viktor has been commissioning music for his programmes for several seasons at least. While this doesn’t rule out the possibility that he occasionally picked a song that already exists for whichever reason, Stammi Vicino applies to Viktor’s situation at the beginning of the show so neatly that the lyrics must have been tailored to him. The commentator’s words while Viktor is skating his FS furthermore suggest that this programme shows a new and personal side of him. Of course, that could also work for a song that already exists, but how likely is it that such a song 100% matches the vision of a perfectionist? That a genius like Viktor would just roll with that is debatable at least. He’d rather think “Okay, that’s nice. But this verse and that verse don’t match my idea at all. I think I'll call my composer and ask them to write a song for me.”

Stammi Vicino holds unambiguous references to Plato’s Symposium, which the YOI creators have mentioned repeatedly. And while this is neither an argument for or against the song already existing before Viktor even thought about a free programme for the season in question, it seems too coincidental from a storytelling perspective.

To me, all this points to Viktor commissioning Stammi Vicino because taken all facts together, it’s what makes the most sense.

Side note: It’s not entirely uncommon for storytellers to contradict their creation. Sometimes, you forget details, remember them wrong, or didn’t think them through. Or your views simply change. In the case of YOI, we have to factor in the possibility that certain details had to be de-homoed due to protests from parts of the Japanese fandom. The rings that were removed from many official arts that were released during the first year after the show had aired are such an example. In addition, interviews are often heavily edited.

2. When did Viktor choreograph Stammi Vicino?

The first time we see Viktor wearing the Stammi Vicino costume, is right at the beginning of episode 1 at the GPF. While there is no rule against wearing the same costume for different programmes and costumes are expensive, you usually don’t see this in real figure skating. Some figure skaters even get a new costume for the same programme mid-season because matches the purpose better.

The music, the composition and choreography, and costume build the concept of a figure skating programme. The more perfectionist a skater is (and many top skaters actually are), the more specific you can bet they are about the concept. Viktor is a perfectionist who has full authority over his programmes and he can afford having several costumes per programme. Wearing the same costume for several programmes is a breach with his characterisation.

Let’s assume for one moment that Viktor did indeed create Stammi Vicino because of his encounter with Yuuri at the GPF in Sochi. Why would the creators have been so sloppy and put him into the same costume which he wears at Worlds when they even designed costumes the other two GPF winners JJ and Chris?

Does he wear the same costume because he met Yuuri there? Well, Yuuri approached him at the banquet at the end of the competition and only because he was drunk. Before, Yuuri was to awkward to even talk to Viktor and was, in all likelihood, too busy not freaking out, dealing with having bombed his performance, and Vicchan's death. To reflect Viktor's first actual meeting with Yuuri in a programme, thus choosing a costume that resembles the suit he wore that night would make way more sense.

Some skaters change their programme mid-season. Some switch back to an old programme, other skaters create an entirely new programme. Again, a skater like Viktor could afford this and is skilled enough to bend a new routine to his vision in time for the big competitions. (For reference: Russian Nationals are two weeks after the GPF, which leaves a skater competing in both events one week in between. That’s just enough to pitch the idea to his composer and commission a costume.)

Once Nationals are over and done, Viktor could start working on the new programme and show it at Europeans for the first time. That would leave him about one month to bring it to a level that will win him this competition. Yuuri would now have about two months to create a perfect copy. As he his busy graduating and preparing his move back to Japan, it’s debatable whether this is enough time. That’s the only reasonable timeline for such a scenario. However, since Viktor wore the costume before the banquet, this doesn’t seem likely and the show gives us no clear-cut clue why that could be and I’m loath to speculate wildly.

BUT: Viktor can't have created this programme after Sochi because Yuuri explains to Yuuko that he started practising the programme when the competitions ended [for him, the season itself is not yet over]. For Yuuri, the season ended at Japanese Nationals, which happen to be at the same weekend as Russian Nationals.

Long story short: Everything points to Viktor having created Stammi Vicino at the beginning of the season in which he wins his fifth GPF and world title, respectively. And there’s a beauty in this choice because it gives Viktor an agenda beyond his love interest. Well-crafted characters exist outside of their interactions and relationships with the other characters. Giving them things that belong to them alone adds more depth to their personality and turn them into individuals. Viktor had a life before Yuuri and this life was lonely and his (secret) longing for love was an inherent part of it (I’m preparing a follow-up post that examines the lyrics more closely, so forgive me for not going into the details here).

Especially in a show that is limited to 12 episodes and in which every image is filled with meaning, including details that hint at the characters’ past are beyond precious.

Thanks for reading! <3

If you enjoy my meta, please consider checking out my works on AO3 (link in bio)! My YOI canon works all include my meta musings.

#yuri on ice #yuri on ice meta #yoi #yoi meta #my yoi meta #viktor nikiforov #katsuki yuuri #figure skating #anime #stammi vicino

[rikeijo]

Today's translation #609

I never imagined that something that was hardly unexpected (realistically speaking) can still be such a shock... I guess despite everything I still had hope that somebody with power will eventually say "okay, lets do this, why not", because so many risky projects do get funded... 😞

Of course, even if there is no new YoI ever again, it doesn't change the fact that it's still an amazing show, made by incredibly talented creators, so to honor them, I'm going to continue daily translations.

I think both Sayo and Mitsurou moved on long time ago (we know nothing about Sayo, but Mitsurou is very successful as TV personality now), but I still cannot even imagine how painful it must have been for them to go through all of this, after all the hard work and love they put into the show... I hope there is a lot of happiness waiting for them in the future.

(I also hope that karma will come for all those people who wished for IceAdo to fail, because it wasn't what they wanted).

Febri vol. 40, Mitsurou Kubo's comments

The reason, why I chose Karatsu (in the show, it's called Hasetsu) as the setting for this story, is because I've always had a yearning for jōkamachi [a city that developed around a castle]. So when I though that I'd like to draw jōkamachi, that went a bit into decline, one such place that for me, a person born in Sasebo, feels the most familiar is Karatsu. Actually, it's a city with great potential and, like at Kagamiyama onsen that we used as a model, which isn't at all located in a hot spring region so they had to drill very deep to get to the onsen, there is a lot of people with great passion there. I thought that they would surely accept Victor, too, and that's why I made my decision to use this place as a model.

#yuri on ice #yoi translations #yuri on ice translation

[choujinx]

YUURI!!! ON ICE BANGAIHEN: WELCOME TO THE MADNESS (2017) by kubo mitsurou

#yuuri!!! on ice bangaihen: welcome to the madness #yuuri!!! on ice #yuri on ice #yuri plisetsky #otabek altin #fysportsanime #*nikki

[sussysatann]

Guys, I am geniunely so sad about the Yuri on Ice movie. We were waiting for such a long time. People were having their doubts with the lack of news but I wanted to have hope anyway. Hope that their story would continue. Hope that we would finally get to see all the years of hard work, passion and dedication that went into making this film. Hope that even after years of mostly radio silence, maybe we could still actually get something. Especially after the pandemic years.

MAPPA cancelled the film due to "various reasons". I feel like after all this time since they started production back in 2017, we deserve a more concrete reasoning. Especially the animators and everyone who worked tirelessly on this project from the very beginning to end.

I remember going to a local anime/cosplay convention years back and met the English VA for Yuri, Jessie James Grelle. It was super cool to meet them. I remember asking if there was anything confirmed for season 2 and them saying there was actually an entire MOVIE in the works. I remember feeling so ecstatic about it, especially since this was just before the official announcement released.

I really loved Yuri on Ice, the characters and the story. I really wanted to see it continue and let the characters and world grow.

To the writer, Mitsurou Kubo, Thank you for this show. Thank you so so much. Thank you for these beloved characters. Thank you for this story. I want to hope that this isn't the end of Yuri on Ice, but I fear it most likely is. I remember feeling so excited, waiting for the episodes to drop every week. It became a routine and my teenage self found a lot of joy through this show. 8 years later and I'm now an adult who's almost Yuri's age. I was really hoping we'd get to see them one last time but, If this truly is the end of Yuri on Ice- Thank you for everything.

but also fuck you mappa.

#yuri on ice #ice adolescence #yoi #mappa #mappa studio

[jewishvitya]

Looking at the trivia part on YOI wiki just for a bit of fun. Ignore me, I’m not doing well in summer, the heat is killing me.

Kenjirou was planned as Yuri's Planned Design.

Help, Minami is what Yurio was supposed to look like. Yurio was supposed to be an angry chicken nugget.

Georgi is known in Japan as the "pigeon".

DFJGLJGHJLHKL WHY??

Seung-gil has an extreme aversion (a strong dislike or disinclination) to women and vegetables while he likes meat and dogs

Dislikes women and vegetables. That’s the same category. I hate cabbage and also half of humanity. Where’s that meme. “You’re gay because you love men. I’m gay because I hate women. We’re not the same.”

Seung-gil doesn't look good in anything, but he wears sportswear when he dresses himself as he basically has no interest in fashion since he's so devoted to his sport

SDKGHJLSHFGLKFHSLDH “DOESN’T LOOK GOOD IN ANYTHING” WHY SO MEAN TO HIM. He didn’t do anything, he just wanted to skate as a rainbow parrot.

He also has many mischievous friends.

This is about Otabek. What does it meannnnn. I wish I could read the source.

According to SNS, Phichit is one of the Three Most Adorable Men's Figure Skaters in Asia.

The others are Minami and Guang Hong. I love that this is a thing.

The caption on his Instagram post during the credits reads "Reunited with bae".

This is about Chris. Captioning a post with his cat. I want to know if that’s the cat’s name or if he’s just being ridiculous. Probably just being ridiculous.

Chris is near-sighted. He uses contacts when skating.

See, Yuuri, you don’t have to skate practically blind.

Emil does extreme sports during the off season, which makes his coach nervous.

dhfghdjhghjkfg I did not know this. I love. “I swear to god if you come back with a broken leg--”

It is likely that Celestino has a low alcohol tolerance.

The way this is phrased compared to the image of him passed out on the table with Phichit taking pictures

Toshiya does not know much about figure skating as he is more of a soccer fan.

That’s not an excuse, Toshiya, your son started doing it when he was a child.

On the official site, she is described as "the woman of Yuuri's dreams"

About Yuuko. I’m. What fgjhghjlfhkjg Even with my interpretation of Yuuri being bi, this is a lot.

According to Mitsurou Kubo, while the staff did their best to portray the appeal of the skaters, they didn't try very hard with Takeshi. 

GSLJHSLKDGKHJLDH SO MEAN

Mila is seen during the Sochi GPF banquet taking pictures of Yuuri Katsuki pole dancing.

And I want to see her pictures too. We got pictures by others, give me hers too.

Sara's Instagram is sala-crispino

And I find this now, years after we had the naming discourse.

Michele is ironically described as a virgin.

The “Ironically” is the part that kills me here.

A portion of Michele's free program is skated by Yuuri Katsuki in the opening credits

Does he deserve the honor? And he was so rude to Yuuri too ( ᓂ︿⁾⁾⁾)

Actually this made me think about Viktor deciding to get back at Mickey for disrespecting Yuuri, and encouraging Yuuri to skate his program just because he’ll do it better. I think Viktor is that kind of petty.

Some part of one of Michele's skate program "Serenade for Two" have been a part of Yuri Plisetsky's skate for the opening of anime.

Definitely Viktor’s idea. And Yuri was in on it.

#riki babbles #yoi #yoi thoughts

[itsmangacap]

Moteki モテキ—  ch. 30 ⌈ 2008-2010 | by kubo mitsurou ⌋

#moteki #motekiedit #kubo mitsurou #seinen manga #seinen #seinenedit #mangacap #mangasedit #fymanga #mangaedit #fymanganime #dailyanime #anisource #monochrome #manga #animanga #itsmangacap

[harocat]

Join us on October 6, 2022 at 2:30 AM JST (the exact time Yuri!!! on Ice's first episode aired six years ago) for an international hashtag; #MappaWhereisYOI

As dedicated fans of the series, which became at the time the third best selling anime of the twenty-first century, we have been waiting for news on the continuation of the franchise for years. As reboot upon reboot, second season upon second season, and new IP upon new IP is announced by Avex and Mappa, Yuri!!! on Ice, a cultural phenomenon at the time it aired, is left behind.

We want answers. We want to know why this series, which was explosively popular; which touched millions; skating fans, lgbtq+ fans, and so many others, has been ignored for so long. We want to know what's going on, both for the fans, and the team and creators behind the series who put so much love and care into it, and who talked many times about how much they wanted to continue it.

As of April 2022, it has been five years since the film was announced. We have only gotten a brief teaser which was released online almost two years after it aired in Japan. As of late 2018, merchandise and promotion for the series almost completely halted. Other IPs that catered toward similar audiences, continue to be promoted for years after their conclusion. Yuri on Ice gets radio silence. It's hard to overestimate the popularity of YOI when it came out, the cultural moment it created internationally, but according to Mappa and Avex, it is acceptable to just leave those dedicated fans in the dark.

We want to see the continued creations of Sayo Yamamoto and Mitsurou Kubo in this universe, but if for some reason, that's not possible, we also want to know that.

On October 6, 2022, starting at 2:30 AM JST, the time in which YOI aired its first episode six years ago, please use #MAPPAWHEREISYOI on twitter to share your thoughts on what the series means to you, why a continuation and/or answers are important to you or whatever else (safe for work and appropriate for all ages) you may have to say.

We want to get this hashtag trending internationally. We know companies like Mappa and Avex pay attention to social media trends. Help us let them know that we're still here.

Please retweet and share this thread far and wide; ig, tiktok, tumblr, etc. The more participants, the more they'll see how many of us are frustrated by years of radio silence.

Yuri!!! on Ice was born to make history, but that doesn't mean we want to let it remain in the past.

Here is a link for time zone conversion, so you know when the hashtag will start in your time. Please pay CLOSE ATTENTION to the timezone conversions! For example, Wednesday 10/6 at 2:30 AM JST is going to be the afternoon of 10/5 in the continental United States. In order to get this trending, it's important we all do it on the same day.

Thank you so much.

#PLEASE SHARE #yuri on ice #yuri!!! on ice #yoi #mappa

[psychewritesbs]

Don't you think it's funny cause actual canon gay characters in BL manga/manhwa will say "I love you" but only the shounen bromance can spew out some of the most romantic shit akin to a 19th century poet writing a letter expressing his surpressed love for his lover 😭.....

ok but when you put it like that...

This is an interesting conversation to have because I am not sure it's so much about the demographics (shonen is more of a demographic than a literary genre although it does have certain characteristics that define it because of its intended demographic), as it is about writing skill and being able to show vs. tell.

Because, as a fujo who went through a thirsty fujo phase, I consumed a lot of bl. Like... A LOT. And I came out of that phase accepting the cold realization that I did not like most bl/yaoi because it is highly clichéd and relies on tropes entirely way too much.

Like I literally used to say "I read yaoi for the plot" because...

GIVE ME THE CHEMISTRY, GIVE ME THE DYNAMIC, GIVE ME THE DRAMAAAAAAAAA!!!!

To your point under the cut 😂 ...

Man, I just can't get over how well you put it.

Anyways, given how you framed your ask, so do you think it's a male perspective thing? I ask because I do recognize that sometimes the way male friendships are portrayed in animanga feels very intimate and very unique to Japanese media, although I could be wrong.

Because, if we're talking about the big battle shonen bl manga out there, jjk, naruto, bnha, hq, etc. are the big "offenders" and these are all male authors (well, we're not sure about hq). So I can see why you feel like these characters are able to express their perspective for each other in a way that you don't see in other manga.

Personally, I am a big fan of how CLAMP (who are all women and very possibly all queer) executes LGBTQ+ dynamics. An example found in a shonen manga that I particularly love is kurofai from Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle.

And the thing about this pairing is that you never hear them say "I love you." Instead you are shown through their behavior towards one another and the subtext how much they have grown to care for each other.

In addition to the majority of CLAMP's m/m dynamics (across a variety of manga published for different demographics), another couple of examples of gays I love include Tomoko Yamashita's pairing in Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru (although I didn't care for the ending), Yoneda Kou's Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai, and obvs Sayo Yamamoto and Mitsurou Kubo's Yuri on Ice. I haven't read/seen Banana Fish but I understand that's another bl fan fave classic that is good.

So there are some good dynamics out there outside of shonen lol, you just have to dig for them like a maniac... or so I've been told ehem.

But even as masterful as CLAMP is at executing soulmate dynamics, if you specifically take itafushi for example, Gege's ability to vest that bromance with so much beauty is just off the charts something else. As a woman I find the container of this dynamic to be deeply aspirational. There's this shared and unspoken understanding between the two characters, not to mention love that... idk.. it just has this... je ne sais quoi.

idk... I am curious about more #thoughts on this because there's a lot going on here in terms of self-insertion into male characters, equality in dynamics, just so much to unpack.

Please feel free to send all the #thoughts to whomever else reads this!

Thanks for reaching out anon!!!!

#ask the mental gymnastics anime girl #you say fujoshi like it's a bad thing

[a-few-of-my-favorite-mangas]

Again!!

Story and Art by Mitsurou Kubo

Manga Volume 03

Shounen, School Setting, Sports, Time-Travel, Romance, Drama

Story   ★★★☆☆   ||   ★★★★☆   Art

Summary

Aiming for the Top -- Kinichiro Imamura is trying to get high school right the second time around. So far, he's managed to reunite the old members of his school's ouendan cheer squad, saving the club from the brink of destruction, but his time-traveling troubles are far from over. With the newly-revived ouendan tasked to cheer at their school's next baseball game, they'll have to cheer harder than ever if they want to bring their team to victory. To pull it off, Kinichiro the cheering newbie is going to have to learn from the very best...

#Again!! #shounen #high school setting #sports #time-travel #do-over #romance #drama