i just finished watching nichijou for the first time and it was SO MUCH FUN!!! i laughed so hard at times and felt so happy at others. just such a feel good, funny anime. i loved watching the girls become friends and go through life in silly, unique ways. i highly recommend this show!
skip and loafer has done it again. i am a WRECK. shima has become one of my favorite characters EVER written and this chapter just made my love for him so much stronger. his growth has been highlighted for so many chapters and getting to this moment where the truth of the incident is revealed was incredible. he had buried his true feelings all these years, all for his mother’s sake. younger shima had so much pressure with no way to let it all out for so long. however, because of the new path he has created, he finally had the courage to face his past. he has grown to the point where he can confidently say that he isn’t miserable anymore. that he’s finally okay. he performs for his past self now, to show younger shima that it does get better, that there are happier days to come. stl 68 was so moving, you can read it over and over again and never stop. shima has come such a long way from the beginning and i can’t wait to see what else is in store for him.
ace is such a beautiful character. growing up hearing the world hate his father & hearing how they would harm gol d. roger’s child yet never letting it tear him down makes ace so resilient. he grew up with so much rage & resentment but because of sabo and luffy, he understood what it felt like to have people love you no matter what. all his life, he was wanting to find out if he was worthy of being born. he wanted to become a pirate so he can become something and make a name for himself. despite his self hatred, ace found his way to the whitebeard pirates who made him feel welcomed.
even though ace felt hated by the world, his ability to love was so strong. it takes so much strength to be kind & to love so deeply when all you know is hatred. yet, ace was able to become a captain a few months after sailing the seas. he became a commander with loyal followers. everywhere ace went, there were people who cared about him. ace grew up to be an amazing person who can love & be loved in returned.
in his final moments, ace protects luffy. his little brother, the one who was there with him in his youth, the one person who truly knows ace. even in death, ace chooses to act with love. he was born into the world hated but he died surrounded by people who love him so much. ace was finally able to see his life was worth something. rather than being angry, ace chooses to thank luffy & his crew for loving him. it’s a huge testament to his growth to be full of gratitude in his last moments rather than rage like he once was as a child. it destroyed me watching ace die. he deserved so much more. he deserved to live, to find himself, to grow stronger, to love more.
his character is truly heartbreaking but so beautiful. i will always love ace & miss him so much. <3
THEY ARE SO BEAUTIFUL 😭😭😭😭
*smoooooooooooch*
i can not believe i woke up this morning to see aki hayakawa back in chainsaw man in 2024. i’m going to lose my mind I MISSED HIM SO MUCH. CSM 182 YOU BROKE ME AND HEALED ME.
i need to make an entire post dedicated to them. hakyona on my mind 24/7 they are PERFECT to me! one of the best ships ever written.
giyuu is always so full of love. he's the best ever <333
It’s actually killing me how canonically kind and sensitive Giyuu is.
He stitched the haori’s of his two loved ones together and wore it for years. He remembered Murata’s name after all this time. He felt so strongly about Sabito’s death he had to repress his feelings entirely to function again. He gave two siblings a chance to try to find a way to cure becoming a demon despite his duty to do otherwise. In the manga he helped Mitsuri up when Tengen accidentally knocked her over at the first pillar meeting we see. He wanted to try and befriend Sanemi by giving him his favorite snack.
The fact that he went from smiling so wide and tearing up over his friend slapping him to showing hardly any emotions at all–just so he wouldn’t succumb to the despair and hopelessness of his grief, just so he could keep living–it’s so heartbreaking.
the most epic slowburn to have ever slowburned...hak has been dealing with his onesided love for so long it's hard to get used to having it reciprocated. i love hakyona so much.
One of my favorite things about Hak is how he gaslights himself so hard when it comes to yonas feelings for him that he just cannot comprehend the reality of them. Like I’m pretty sure it could be April fools day, and they could be married and laying in bed next to each other, and Yona could say “yeah, you imagined all that, we’re not actually a thing.” And he would be like “Yeah that makes sense.” And then Yona would have a harder time convincing him that it was a joke than she did the actual joke. It’s really funny but also really sad at the same time…
Anyways, I love him