I Diagnose You With Princess

Analysis and rambles to be written and rewritten on tumblr

I'm currently planning to rewrite analysis I had posted on Twitter and Bluesky and making new ones... lot of them are pretty old (from 2024) so I definitely not only need to rephrase them to blog post format but also adding new information and thoughts to them

Lore Analysis

Gouenji and self-sacrifice (Gouenji and Kidou comparison)

Kidou and his (lack of) feelings over being put on pedestal

Kidou is kind of a prick actually (Kidou's selfishness)

Sakuma as a character who is defined by his love for another

Sakuma's emotional intelligence in Team K arc

Why did Sakuma say "I can't see your world?" in Shin Teikoku arc?

Nishiki's cultural gap experience

Kazemaru's mental breakdown in S2

Sakuma and Kidou's shared eye symbolism

Penguin symbolisms (likely need to make separate posts for them LOL):

Emperor penguin No.1's recoil damage is a symbolism of hate

Emperor penguin No.3 as a symbolism of the trio breaking themselves away from abuse and the cycle

How the penguins evolve and their metaphors

Character Design Analysis

Why is Hiroto so pale?

Sakuma's design analysis using color and shape theory

Analysis of GO's Raimon character designs (groups by school years and Break Trio)

Headcanons

Butch lesbian Kirino

Sakuma's family background

childhood shows again...

Don't post another person's art without their permission under any circumstances. If you need to gush about the characters or your otp then post the link of it on the post where you're gushing over it without uploading their art. This is like the first fandom etiquette you should learn jfc

Edit: also added explanation under read more for this post too

Areori birthday arts batch

Flower explanations under read more

Sunflower: They symbolize loyalty, adoration, and happiness based on the myth of Apollo and Clytie. As for Native American cultures, they symbolize harvest, abundance, and prosperity

Aster: Flower named after the Greek word for "star". Meanings: love, wisdom, faith, deep affection

Carnation: January's birth flower. Meanings: love, captivation, and distinction. White carnations also mean purity and good luck

Borage: Also called starflower. In flower language it means courage, bravery, optimism, and hope

creation of emperor penguin 7

the penguins are rainbow colored because of pride

(procreate doodle)

kisaku for christmas

Adding to this post with my analysis of the emotional implications of this scene because it gets even crazier when one tries to visualize from Kidou's POV

You can see that Kidou was standing behind Sakuma in the initial composition of the scene's frame. It then switches to Sakuma's close up, which is more or less should be similar to what Kidou's point of view. So what possibly could be going on in Kidou's mind when it happened?

The close up of Sakuma's face ends when he fully turns his head, revealing the eye that's normally covered by his eyepatch and the disheveled hair his Shin Teikoku arc design has.

As one can see on the first post, looking closely Sakuma was drawn in a way that makes him look like his original design with the pulled forward hair and the eyepatch covered right eye, it was what Kidou saw!

What Kidou (and the viewers) initially saw was the Sakuma he knew, the one who played soccer together with him, the Sakuma who is his best friend. But something about it is uncanny, until Sakuma's entire face was shown and it was Shin Teikoku Sakuma that Kidou was seeing. It wasn't the Sakuma Kidou knew.

Even if their scope of love in their writings are different (Sakuma loves Kidou, while Kidou loves EVERYONE including Sakuma) Sakuma and Kidou care deeply towards each other. And it was Kageyama's actual purpose in the arc, to not win the match but rather to inflict as much trauma he could on Kidou by manipulating and hurting (mentally and physically) his best friends against him.

Shin Teikoku arc has really good animation and storyboarding in general; this particular scene has cleverly drawn frames where Sakuma's hair was positioned to look like how he normally looks until he fully turns at Kidou and you can see the the black eye

I don't have frames that are of 1:1 comparison but I hope you get the gist

Showing off my Sakuma collection because I know I’m cool

Sakuma merch of some of my favorite Ares!Sakuma arts and a GO!Sakuma charm (rare item!!!) and of course, that cat plushie

A poster and a bunch of Sakuma pictures printed on photo papers that I taped on the wall (taken from my Sakuma folder of 1,089 files worth 863 megabytes)

My junk journal which cover I just finished decorating with leftover photo papers and penguin stickers. Added a little bear plushie charm in matching color

i did this for a thing so might as well share it. enjoy transparent fubuki kazemaru celebration, use it for anything you'd like

eeghhghhg writing a sakuma analysis post after years of not doing so. probably going to be quite long as hell as well. praying hands emoji