Don't Disturb Him, He's Dramatic Today

I love the second panel, mithrun's past self looking at him like "this bitch..." is so incredible ryoko kui it's a shame you'll be known for writing one of the most rich and detailed fantasy settings in all of manga bc you're so good at writing visual gags

hey, what are you lookin’ at / like you never seen a broken man?

Let's try this again

Drawing Tanizaki Junichiro from BSD Beast because I got scammed and never got my manga.

Crying. Never ordering anywhere ever again.

Oh that two year gap on my resume was when I was the architect of my own hell

Concept: When Kenji first joined the Agency of all the people he could stick close too, Dazai was surprised it was him.

That wasn’t too say he didn’t like Kenji, far from it. The kid was sunshine incarnate and Dazai happily informed him about the city.

And maybe made up a few things but he always said when he did.

It did make him wonder why him of all people though he didn’t ask. He had grown to enjoy Kenji’s company and didn’t want to scare him off.

It was all a big mystery until Dazai learned of the circumstances that made Kenji join in the first place.

Then it all fell into place.

“Who did you lose?” Asked Dazai one day out of the blue. It was probably a bit too blunt but Kenji always seemed to appreciate that approach.

And just for a second the ever present smile on Kenji’s face fell. The light in his eyes dimmed and being the cause of it made Dazai legitimately feel bad for it.

“My best friend”

Dazai smiled not out of pity but out of a shared understanding few could ever reach.

“Me too.”

generally speaking i think miya chinen is a stellar character, but what i really like about him is that he uniquely and subtly subverts the ‘younger character who is unnecessarily mean to the main cast but is secretly revealed to have a heart of gold by the end of the anime’ trope by overtly caring about the other characters from like. the moment he appears on screen.

like yes, he’s cold and cocky, he calls people slimes, and his favorite pastime is tormenting reki— but he’s also pretty bad at pretending like he thinks he’s too good at skateboarding. he’s bad at pretending he hates his friends. and i think that’s where he differs quite a bit from the normal trope. miya doesn’t really think he’s better than anyone, and that becomes abundantly clear very quickly.

he’s only mean to reki because he sees potential in him, to the point that miya wants to see reki continue skating, wants to see him improve— but he doesn’t want to say that out loud, so he instead hides behind insults. he cares very deeply about reki’s opinions on his own skating and is sad when reki stops showing up at S to watch him. even just as a person, he cherishes reki as a good friend who promised to stick by his side no matter how great he got at skateboarding. even at crazy rock when miya skates with reki and langa for the first time, he asks langa, “are you really the one who beat shadow? because that slime back there (reki) was actually better than you.”

and when it comes to others, he practically wears his heart on his sleeve if you know where to look. he loses his first race against langa only because he stopped to warn langa that the rails he was skating on were broken. it’s his idea to go to the hot spring to heal reki’s injury. he has fun skating with everyone in the beach episode. he takes the time to teach reki and langa new tricks. he waits for reki in the hospital after his race with adam, and shows up when shadow’s in the hospital. he eats kojiro’s food without complaining at all. he roots for his friends and worries about their well-being.

he is literally a bundle of love!! and he doesn’t hesitate to show it when it matters most, even if he does sometimes hide under layers of aggression!! i love him

thistle ; the fool