#Freakova

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Tiny comic panel of @freakova 's adorable fanbaby and Usagi. Two versions because I like both :3

(posting this here before I neglect to again orz)

[laqueus]

Just want you to know that ever since we saw POTO live in London I haven’t been able to stop thinking of it. I keep finding myself watching clips and listening to the soundtrack and want more. I finally get it. Calling this the Laqueus effect. 🌹🕯️

@freakova HDSUIHSFODSJISJIOJISO oh my god INCREDIBLE

me introducing you to phantom like

There are like five million phantom adaptations, so here are some suggestions if you want to feed the craving lol:

Phantom of the Paradise: a more 'loose' phantom adaptaion, but it's very fun & is a like a rollercoaster (first ten minutes are kind of slow, but you will be Rewarded)

Phantom of the Opera (1989): a horror film starring mr. freddy himself as the phantom, Robert Englund! I haven't seen this, but it made me think of u :)

25th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall: an official recording of the ALW musical performance :)

@wheel-of-fish does a stream each week of a different performance (though they are at like. 2AM our time, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but I just thought I'd mention it, just in case!)

[laqueus]

@freakova same energy as you & catnap

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comm for @freakova !!

humbug and jackie :o)

your characters are so fun and unique! clown muds my beloved

thank you for your patience, and thank you so much for commissioning 🫵🥺💞

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A comission for @freakova which made my heart melt 💗💗💗

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@freakova

[drawnaghht]

"Miyamoto when he finds out what Neo Edo think of him"

@freakova showed me this and it immediately made me think:

bunny man would shred if he could xD

[laqueus]

HAPPY HAPPY HAAAPPPYYYYYY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

Have a lovely day!!!!! 🎂🎁🎉🎈💖

CAROLINEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! THANK YOU SO MUCCCCCCCH!!!!!

I've been having a lot of fun today and everyone's been really kind to me :')

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ITS HIS FUCKING LAST NAME

THE ONE TIME TWITTER (fuck calling it X I’m not gonna) HAS BEEN HELPFUL

Yuichi is the surname(AKA his last name) and Usagi is the first name. So for people in countries like the USA, it’s Usagi Yuichi.

I HAVE THE LINK TOO SO I HAVE PROOF ITS REAL!!!

Link: https://x.com/freakova/status/1743756060043731047?s=46

If anyone has any questions you can use my post along with Tweet.

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OMMMMGGG, I LOVE THIIIIIS

i love how you put this new photo on top of the older set of photos! This looks amazing!!!

alsooo AAAHHH MY USAGI DESIGN RAAAHHH

28.4.25

Happy 3rd Anniversary Samurai Rabbit The Usagi Chronicles! 🐰

Usagi's outfit was inspired by @drawnaghht Neo Edo's best Idol Story! Check out their work!

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a reply to @freakova's tags on this post

#this would be a really nice ending honestly#cause YEAH why happened to his parents what gives they’re Usagi’s too#and the fact that auntie adopts the kids it shows how family can be found#+Yuichi know got lil sisters#He’s all about family (miyamoto and auntie) they could have explored it even further

same! would like to know more!!!

we never really touched on Usagi's backstory besides that his parents entrusted auntie with taking care of him, so I often wonder, if the show had been given a longer episode run, like maybe 30, 40, maybe even 26 instead of 20 - could we have seen more character backstories in general? Cuz there's also Kitsune, who's backstory we don't know at all, and then Gen and Toshiko, who we see explain their story a bit in bits and pieces through-out the 2 seasons. The fact that Usagi immediately goes back to his auntie, because he knows Hana would be safe from the ninja there, says a lot about how much he trusts his auntie. like the show makes it feel like he might actually be the most fleshed-out of all the characters, but his story is hidden almost as much as Kitsune's. I sorta get the reasoning there - their personalities already serve to tell their story a lot, Usagi is a big fan of his own ancestor and idolizes him, while Kitsune is a street-thief and grifter before we see Usagi bump into her puppet-cart and ruin her evening plans. The audience can get a lot of info out of just context-clues, but Kitsune and Usagi are also characters who are most easy to read at first, so we don't get their backstories really explored or opened the same way as Chizu or Gen, because, I can only guess, those stories don't seem to directly tie into the two larger arcs shown during the 10+10 episodes. But lol, would still like to know more, where are the activity books and character pages? a little side novel maybe? why did the age of flash games with extra info have to end before this show aired lol, if only Netflix spent money on that sort of stuff too, maybe we'd have more info besides just the shows on their own 😂😂😅

More theories and rambling below :D

My theory about Usagi's parents is that they died in one of the wars mentioned by some of the older characters in the show :) Cliche, I know! but it seems to sorta make sense. Could have been many other reasons too of course! Maybe they went to the city to find or do something related to the family business or history, but found their end somehow. One of my other theories is that there were gang wars in Neo Edo, around 10-14 years before the series starts. Maybe they found their end there? We don't even know how old his parents would have been, but judging by auntie's look and how she speaks and acts, maybe she's like, around 60-ish? she has raised her nephew for 15 years, meaning since she was around 45, so maybe her sister/brother would have been around 35-40 something when they died. I personally headcanon that it's his mom, who is the Miyamoto family member here, so maybe his dad really was a farmer by birth and thus, the family did not have a name anymore (they've always preferred staying in hiding after Miyamoto died) and that's why they gave him the name Yuichi Usagi with meaning... related to that earlier Senso-connected theory I had ^^;

The "big" wars, mentioned by Lady Fuwa and Armiral Nochi, being recent makes sense tho. bc even though a 1000 years have gone past and Edo (our real-world Tokyo) in this world has been able to embrace some more advanced tech (courtesy of the Ki-stone), perhaps even alien tech, depending on how you view what happened with Miyamoto Usagi in the show's past, some of the culture and tech has sort of stayed in the Edo period. This is mainly because the show creators and staff wanted to keep both Edo sensibilities as well as modern tech and create an interesting fusion on an artistic and story level. One of the older interviews from last year mentions that the crew was inspired by Stan's 2015 story Senso - that what if Edo got to take all that alien tech and use it for themselves? From one of Stan's answers in this 2022 Popverse interview:

"They took one of my stories – Senso, a miniseries I did where Martians invade feudal Japan – and wondered what if they took some of the technology they got from those Martians, how would it affect their society generations down the line?

That was the premise, with the story taking place in a city called Neo-Edo; with Edo being the old name for Tokyo, the capital of Japan. It also takes a lot from Japanese culture, such as vending machines, pachinko parlors, karaoke bars, and things like that. It integrated everything, the old and the new, and I’m quite happy about that."

So the wars would make sense to be more recent because to me, it seems that maybe with this tech, from a story-world level, they should be further along the line than having just flying cars and airships, right? But wars are one of those things that always and if Edo didn't have those outside influences that we had, maybe they wouldn't have some things, i.e. we don't see phones or trains on the show vs the phone boom we had in the 1980s in the real world and the hi-speed train rails japan is known for now. So they probably would have also missed out on the 60s Space Race between the US and the Soviet Union, which popularized the 1960s "space age aesthetic" for example, which is what we might think of when trying to remember 60s tech and fashion. So the show creates its own retrofuturism in trying to consider all these different elements.

(images from Flickr, Lehza Vintage)

(from The Rake, The Olympians)

I wonder if they even considered some cultural things that stuck and became popular before and after the US occupation, such as baseball Harley Davidsons and jazz - what would those be like in the world they created around the city of Neo Edo?

(from AnotherDesignBlog, Eiko Hanamura on League of Extraordinary Cosplayers, Sally the Witch on Wikipedia, 60s Vintage MENKO on eBay)

We see some semblances of what we could call western influences in how Gen installs new kitchenware in episode 5, how Kitsune looks like she could be a 1970s Harajuku girl, how Admiral Nochi and the Bat Squadron dress etc. It's an interesting balance throughout the show and thinking about it more just makes me more curious about it haha.

Maybe what happened with the Makkine a 1000 years ago is that a few sentries arrived with Kagehito's ship. Because of the surprise Kagehito expresses about the makkine warbotto self-replicating in the present (the s2 warbotto ep), we can surmise that they didn't back then, so they didn't replicate. Did they leave any ships? In the first season, Kagehito's ship is underground and covered by hundreds of years of rubble and rock. The Mogura Gang helping him then, actually find gold before they find his ship. So if any ships did come through with him those 1000 years ago, it seems that they did not "park" into the same place, or, likely that whatever happened, they were used up by locals.

The show is also quite fast-paced in reality, as we can see from how each episode jumps from POV to POV, or topic to topic and we get a lot of info in a short time, so to me it seems that the story crew REALLY crunched every bit of important info, story or jokes into the episodes, but just, didn't have more time to show or do anything about Usagi's parents.

lol what I'm doing to avoid more brainworms like this is to.... I guess continue writing my fanfic where I try to solve this (the main storyline from the comic i posted haha), but I also realized while writing this... I am waiting to see if I can get one of the new books coming out this or next year that bridges the stories/worlds between Yokai Hunter and Space Usagi, to see if there might be some new connections to be from there about Space Usagi in general, but maybe there could be something there nodding back to SR as well? maybe the new character is inspired by that or somehow bridges those things? lol a fan can hope ;D

[laqueus]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!

Have a wonderful day!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MY SPECIAL BOY!!! MY SPECIAL BABY BOY!! THANK YOU CAROLINE!!!

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btw, just an addition in case it didn't show up, @freakova posted the reply on her tumblr too, but tumblr has just been hiding it in some tags/searches 😅

https://www.tumblr.com/freakova/738803294989860864/the-writers-of-samurai-rabbit-have-confirmed-that

ITS HIS FUCKING LAST NAME

THE ONE TIME TWITTER (fuck calling it X I’m not gonna) HAS BEEN HELPFUL

Yuichi is the surname(AKA his last name) and Usagi is the first name. So for people in countries like the USA, it’s Usagi Yuichi.

I HAVE THE LINK TOO SO I HAVE PROOF ITS REAL!!!

Link: https://x.com/freakova/status/1743756060043731047?s=46

If anyone has any questions you can use my post along with Tweet.

[shellsweet]

Hello! Since your wanting asks about your ocs, I wanna ask about Alice. I really love her (also love her name that’s one of my fave names tbh) and her gentle relationship with Donnie, it’s cute 💜 I got 2 questions!

1) Does Alice have any powers? She has the marks on her body so wondering if they play a role in her story or abilities.

And 2) just for fun…have you ever considered what would happen to Alice in the SAINW universe? (The 2003 episode)

I appreciate that so much! Alice means a lot to me personally, she’s a lot of fun for me to mess around and that is the perfect way to describe her relationship with Donnie. Oh my heart. 😭❤️

1. She does not have any special powers or abilities, the marks on her body are kind of a way for the L’yntians for label/control their slaves, they’re actually used to punish them when they use the crystals to tase them. (Much like the tattoo/stickers the triceratons used on their prisoners.)

In some scenarios! I would like to think that the markings could be a double edge sword if she were to run into any trouble and if she were to be shocked/tased by anything-anyone, it would just revert it back to the perpetrator and shock them instead. (Because Crystal magic is weird and the markings can only be used by the crystals. I haven’t quite figured out the proper way to explain this yet, but it’s one of those fun surprises she discovers way later in life!)

2. I have thought this over quite a few times! None very happy haha! I have a current SAINW AU floating in my head where the reason Donnie disappears is because he went through a 2nd mutation and they never found a cure for him. Either way, I’ve always kinda just…kill her off pretty early on as much as I would hate to admit it, but it puts her kids (Kevin + Angie) in a situation where they’re navigating a world without either their parents or uncles much since they’re disbanded.

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Blu's Misadventures on Discord - The Double Feature

Also featuring @freakova

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hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!