Honestly Geto and Gojo having the same death anniversary which happens to be the most romantic day in Japan, with a character in-story stating how romantic it is should be enough evidence to convince anybody that SatoSugu are supposed to be a romance.
On top of that, we hear that JJK0 is about Yuuta and Rika's love but it's also about Geto and Gojo's relationship.
Then Gege Akutami specifically assigning break-up songs to Geto and Gojo.
AND THEN; they each get canon songs made in each other's POV speaking about their feelings specifically for one another. Where Gojo's song contains lyrics like "Even though I’ve come to know the scent of you being different from mine" and "Any prayer, any word Could bring us closer, but they couldn’t reach you Just like a silent love, In the summery colors along my cheeks". And Geto's song has lyrics like "Even trivial conversations are fine. Show me your blushing face once more" and "It exists only here. I want to touch you" and "Though I understand a wounded heart. Why do I end up hurting and leaving the same scars?"
The animation team going out of their way to give these two more soft moments hanging, creating visual parallels through the Betta Fishes, the flowers, the entire OP for Hideen Inventory but especially the part where we are seeing Gojo's vision being filled with Geto looking amazing while he rides Geto's rainbow dragon.
I saw someone say we're just projecting western views of romance onto satosugu but like, LOOK AT ALL THIS. I cannot stress enough the insanity of their death dates. It's like two people dying one after the other on Valentine's Day. This is some Romeo & Juliet bullshit. JJK in general has next to no romance, no one's pining after each other, the few times there are implications, it's very short. The most obvious one is Mechamaru and Miwa. Now imagine if Mechamaru and Miwa were the ones who got Ao No Sumika and Akari. Imagine they got 5 episodes dedicated to their story and Mechamaru dies on December 24th and Miwa's the one forced to put him out of his misery for betraying them to Mahito and Kenjaku.
Okay do you fucking see how ridiculous denying SatoSugu is? If Mechamaru and Miwa got all that even WITHOUT saying an 'I love you' no one would question their romance.
I know people keep making fun of shonen animes for having a stronger 'romance' between the two guy leads than with any other love interest but I've seen that stuff and even there it isn't nearly as deliberately romantic as SatoSugu. I can tell that Kuroko & Kagami, Gon & Killua or Levi & Erwin are supposed to be friends, the shipping thing is based on the established friendship stuff but SatoSugu are so blatant it's hard to think of another explanation.
I saw a point about how people are projecting western perspectives of romance on platonic friendship expression in a different culture, which I do get, I think it's a valid point. Idk much about how people express friendship in Japan but I have heard there's a lot more skinship and openness as compared to western cultures.
But w/ SatoSugu there isn't anything that can be read as purely platonic, there's always an ambiguity or it's directly romantic.
At the end of the Zoldyck Family arc, when Gon finally reaches the mansion with Kurapika and Leorio, and gets to see Killua again, Killua and Gon get really excited and laugh at the other's appearance.
I've always loved this short moment. After all they went through, it's still a moment in which they can be happy and excited, they can laugh and just be kids. They are both injured, and they know it. However, instead of talking about it or make awkward pauses, they laugh it off.
Since both of them are hurt, they stand on the same ground. Because of it, even though they may be worried about the other, they don't need to talk about it or explain themselves. They are not even obliged to mention what happened, despite probably knowing the reason why they look like that. There's not a moment in which they feel bad for the other, they are just thrilled to see their new friend again.
Not only this, but also the fact they were both hurt because of the other and under the orders of the same people (the Zoldycks).
In Gon's case, he wanted to reach Killua, so he stood his ground and got through every obstacle. Even when Canary hit him several times to make him leave and everyone was thinking he wouldn't be able to reach Killua, he persevered. He was hit because he wanted to see Killua again.
In Killua's case, he must have thought he wasn't going to see Gon ever again while being punished. He had to go through weeks of punishment because he left, disobeyed his family and made a friend. He was hit because he met Gon.
I love the fact that neither Gon nor Killua needed to talk about what happened. They were both injured, so there's no awkwardness nor drama and, even visually, it makes them equal. It's such a small detail, but I fell in love with it. Such a sweet moment for such sweet kids. The start of their new beginning!
Hey so I'm curious, if y'all have ever thought about this reblog/tags/notes with your favorite spell casting sound (the little music notes/sounds that play as you cast a spell)
Was doing my second playthrough of cotl when i encountered Haro and I realised something about the dialogue that I hadn't originally.
This is an interesting choice of words. The others are described with adjectives delineating their personality: "temperamental", "cowardly", and "brightest". Given what we see and hear from them in our encounters I would even say that these words are the pillars of their characters, their singular most identifiable traits (that don't relate to their domains).
But hapless? I don't feel like our encounters with Leshy really get this idea across to us, and I suppose how could they from dialogue alone? To save anyone who doesn't know from a trip to google, hapless means unfortunate, or unlucky. My first thought was that this could be referring to how Leshy, generally speaking, is the first to die in a playthrough... but I also feel as though that would be an odd contrast to the adjectives we get for the other bishops - surely dying first alone wouldn't warrant Leshy's entire character to be distilled into "hapless". I'm also not sure if you even need to have defeated Leshy to get this dialogue from Haro either (I don't really feel like checking), which would render that point null.
I feel like this is alluding to something in his character that we don't actually know about yet, or maybe we will never know about. Does it allude to the order in which Narinder maimed the other bishops (could be, Leshy's dialogue about trusting 'the chained one' is... interesting depending on how you choose to read into it)? Or is it something else entirely?
Am I overthinking this? Definitely. Am I going to take this tidbit of dialogue and absolutely fucking Sprint with it for my headcanons? yes, yes i am
Taylor Swift released an album called ‘Bing’ and it was just an entire soundtrack of a movie that she had one song on, but like the whole album was hers.