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CREATING BLUEY - Tales from the Art Director

Chapter 2 - We dive into the nuts and bolts of how Bluey is designed

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that one clip from the niigo minecraft video has been looping in my brain

theyre so cute i cantrcefcggefcgv despite the fuckass mc outfits

role reversal of ena teasing mizuki saved me

and not to take this super seriously but i just wanted to say!!!! mizuki is able to be comfortable and herself after ena5, but ena has a big weight off her shoulders too!! all that time she spent waiting for mizuki, she was always worried for her and looking out for her, and never felt like she could get close enough to her. but after ena5, she's able to be close with her and not be stuck waiting, wondering and worrying for mizuki. so!!! its like she's even more comfortable with mizuki now too and can have more fun with her, teasing her back like this :3 YES ITS JUST A MOMENT FROM A MINECRAFT VIDEO but their dynamic has absolutely changed and i am 10000% here for it :))))) okay anyways back into my cave i go

link below in case u haven't seen it yet

the part i referenced is around 5:07

also i was being generous in giving ena bangs cus why is her whole forehead out on her mc skin,, same w mafuyu why are they balding

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“i hope to become a kid who is loved…”

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Mizuki loves her transgender colourpallet more than anything. you can rip it from her cold dead hands.

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No matter how close I get to you,

my heart is only one.

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I KNEW IT, I KNEW SOMETHING WAS GONNA GO WRONG.

MAFUYU AND RIN WITNESSED KANADE FAINTING BC SHE OVERWORKED HERSELF AGAIN.

I'm not good at analyzing cards,but I want to start off with Mafuyu's

She's finally realizing that Kanade is harming herself by working herself to death for Mafuyu, her face says it all "she's hurting, just like I am."

We see in this card that it's all dull minus the apple, which is usually a reference for Mafuyu, but now, it's Kanade. Mafuyu is dressed up as an apple, now paralleling the DNA charm that has Mafuyu's unit color on top, and Kanade's unit color on the bottom.

I believe this means that Kanade is out of reach, just like Mafuyu was, that she's been distancing herself (emotionally) from Niigo to save Mafuyu. The apple also resembles this, as Mafuyu is looking down at the apple with an almost helpless (or despair) expression.

And for the broken diamond, it's cracking, and water is spilling out, almost like it's crying.

I believe this is a metaphor for Kanade, diamonds are known for being hard, so hard that only other diamonds can scratch it. Kanade has pushed her feelings aside, focused all her energy into saving Mafuyu, in being her saviour. She's been putting on a "brave face" so Niigo doesn't worry about herself.

But despite diamonds being hard, they crack under pressure, they're are brittle, making it easy for them to break.

Mafuyu being on top of the diamond is a metaphor that Mafuyu is putting pressure on Kanade, even if she doesn't mean it.

Or we can take it as Kanade putting pressure on herself, she's so desperate to be Mafuyu's saviour that she's cracking under the pressure. She's slowly falling apart for a selfless yet selfish desire.

Kanade's has been pushing aside her own wellbeing, her own emotions, her own wants and needs aside for Mafuyu.

I interpret this in a way that Kanade wants to prove herself, to show that she can save Mafuyu by her songs alone. But this is selfish, her heart might be in the right place, but it doesn't mean it's the right thing. She's intentionally working herself to death, just like her father.

She's pushing her limits, hurting herself and worrying the people around her. Mafuyu is seeing this now after witnessing Kanade faint due to the lack of eating and sleeping, that's why she's in the kitchen making food, she's realizing that Kanade needs to be cared for now, just like she's done for her.

Their dynamic is changing now, instead of Kanade providing care for Mafuyu, it's Mafuyu who'll start caring for Kanade.

I might be way off in my analyses, but I did my best! I'm so scared to read the story omg

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I would love to see what your hypothetical Kanade crash out would look like ngl (you don't need to draw for this if you don't want to a text explanation would still be awesome)

ok soooo this isn't exactly the crashout but rather building up to it i guess :P

the rest of this post is gonna be rambling and predictions ⬇️

alright this ask enabled me, im gonna just dump all my thoughts as of now on what's to come for kanade's story :) i could end up being completely wrong, but hey im just theorizing and having fun here while i wait very impatiently lol

To start, I don't think kana5 will be on the scale of mizu5 (i mean i might be biased but idk if anything will come close to that level of insanity again), mainly because there hasn't been as much build-up to a breaking point. Kanade's issues have been pushed aside (by herself especially) and not heavily focused on up to this point in the story. There hasn't been any increasing tension for things to reach a climax yet. Having her big break be in this next event would be too sudden and sort of unprecedented. For this event at least, I highly doubt that'll be the case. Instead, I think this event will start to touch on Kanade's buried issues more, and begin building that tension for something bigger. I can see this being a multiple event arc, similar to the events leading up to the climax of Mafuyu's story. Summarizing that, yes I think Kanade's got some real tough shit ahead of her, but that's why this won't be a one-off event story. I think it'll just be the beginning.

That being said, to touch more on my predictions for kana5 itself, I think Kanade will start to slip, and the others, Mafuyu especially, will take notice. I can't really predict anything specific, but I think something will happen that will make her question her ability to save people, or cause her to be harder on herself, as she has in the past, to keep composing persistently, neglecting her own needs and health. However, things are different now than they were before niigo. She has more people around her that will be able to see the damage she's doing to herself. But she also knows they all look up to her, and that her music lifts them up. She knows they all have a lot they're dealing with, and she needs to be there for them. She can't let them down.

Then, when Kanade pushes herself past her limits at the cost of her well-being, what will she do then? She meets with the others on nightcord every night, and Mafuyu is living at her place. She won't be able to rot away by herself anymore without people noticing. But she still feels this need to be the group's rock and to be the one to save everyone, so she'll try her damn hardest to prevent the others from worrying about her. She'll shoot down their attempts at trying to talk about it. I think she might be especially stubborn this time around, and it might cause niigo to have to figure out a way to help Kanade, since they won't be able to get through to her at first.

Kanade has shown in the past to get uncharacteristically aggressive when she's pushing herself too hard, as shown above. She starts to take on everything herself, and snaps at anyone who tries to stop her. I think this side of her will be shown more going forward, as she begins to go down this kind of self-destructive path yet again. At least, that's where I think her story will go. Her tendency to work herself to the bone hasn't really been resolved, and she's gone so far with it before to end up in the hospital after passing out. She doesn't care what happens to her, as long as she can save people. The only reason she has ((slightly)) gotten better at taking care of herself is so that she can be able to keep composing without ending up in the hospital again. Not because she cares about her health. Because she must keep composing. She still only does the bare minimum for herself. If it's her cooking, she's only having instant ramen, and most days she's probably not going to see the sun. She still doesn't sleep much, and Mafuyu has said that she's often falling asleep at her computer.

This might be getting a little rambley atp, but my point is that Kanade neglects her own needs in her determination to save others. I mentioned how she neglects her physical health in the last paragraph, but she also neglects her own feelings as well.

She minimizes her own problems or just doesn't even talk about them. I think she truly believes that her problems don't matter, that they only distract her from her goals. The reason she doesn't open up is likely because she herself doesn't believe her feelings are important at all. She doesn't pay them any mind, and she doesn't want anyone else to either.

Of course, I have to bring this card up. I think this is just a perfect visual representation of Kanade's feelings, and it's great foreshadowing for what's to come. Those feelings are buried deep within Kanade, yet to be addressed or solved. THIS is what we're getting into. Kanade, depicted as an angel, surrounded by death. I think this is related to her guilt surrounding what happened to her father, believing it was her fault. That she destroyed everything. But because of that incident, she told herself she has to keep composing, and never stop, in order to save people. She feels like she owes that much, and that that's her sole purpose. She won't allow herself to think otherwise. No matter how much it destroys her, she must be a savior for others.

Last thing I wanted to add, because I saw this reblog under a prev kanade analysis post, and they brought up great points. Especially how dangerous Kanade's composing grind can get. We wouldn't even have a story if Honami hadn't found Kanade unconscious!!! I think she might get to a really low point again like this, but having Mafuyu there especially, it won't be able to go unnoticed. I don't have much else to add to those tags though cus they speak for themselves 🙏

Finally, just real quickly going back to the little comic I drew, this is just a rough idea of how I think Kanade could act. She'll get noticeably worse, but will try to hide that fact from the others and deny any help from them. I also mentioned that I think we could see more aggression from her again, so I included that, as she feels threatened in a way by Mafuyu worrying about her. She can't let that happen. Also, Kanade's impending doom aside, I think this progression in the story may also spark some change in Mafuyu. She might show some more emotion in this or future events, and she may realize how much Kanade means to her, motivating her to do more for her. I think it'll be a full group effort to save Kanade, but I wanna see Mafuyu taking a bigger role in this. I just think this also has the potential to grow Mafuyu's character more.

Also, as for the Kanade crashout, I really don't know how they'll handle that. I can't really predict what they're gonna do with her climax. But I want her screaming yelling and crying !!! like she better go insaneeee 🙏 and I also feel like they have a lot of potential with her seiyuu/VA and stepping out of the soft quiet voice to do some crazy shit, maybe in the songs too pls pls pls give us loud kanadeeee

OKAY THATS ENOUGH YAPPING its 5 am i havent slept....

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I pray that we finally get to see Kanade's aggressive side, it will show just how demanding she is to herself. In addition to this bc I saw someone on TikTok talk about this: I believe this event will also involve Kanadad, and possibly finally give us an update on his health. All throughout Kana's events we are not told whether or not kanadad's health has improved or declined, all we know is that he's in a state of confusion and amnesia, we might get confirmation that maybe his health is declining (adding to her crashout maybe, but I don't believe this will happen, but its a possibility.)

We know that Kanadad is a massive role model for Kanade, he taught her that she needs to push herself to her limits if she wants to save people, she got this behavior BY her father, who was someone that shouldn't have been her role model because he was still grieving over his wife and working himself to death.

↑This grief grew because Kanade's part in his song got into a commercial, making him believe that Kanade was better then him and that he needed to prove himself.

And let us remember his parting words: "Kanade, keeping composing."

Like this person said on tiktok (@/yuri.overloader) these words are Kanade's curse, the reason why she continues to compose even if it brings her harm. She doesn't compose for enjoyment anymore, she does it because her father wanted her to continue and "use her talent to save people."

Kanade is obliged to compose because she believes she's the reason why her father is in the hospital, she's the reason why he's hurt.

And to add with your prediction of Mafuyu's involvement: these chains of event will be what cause a change in Mafuyu, a possibly a change in dynamics.

Now, it will be Mafuyu who would need to break Kanade away from her saviour complex, to get through to her (along with Niigo) and making her see the damage she is causing to herself.

Kanade's aggression and outbursts will cause Mafuyu to see that Kanade needs help just as much as she needs it, that she's hurting just as much.

I would love to see what your hypothetical Kanade crash out would look like ngl (you don't need to draw for this if you don't want to a text explanation would still be awesome)

ok soooo this isn't exactly the crashout but rather building up to it i guess :P

the rest of this post is gonna be rambling and predictions ⬇️

alright this ask enabled me, im gonna just dump all my thoughts as of now on what's to come for kanade's story :) i could end up being completely wrong, but hey im just theorizing and having fun here while i wait very impatiently lol

To start, I don't think kana5 will be on the scale of mizu5 (i mean i might be biased but idk if anything will come close to that level of insanity again), mainly because there hasn't been as much build-up to a breaking point. Kanade's issues have been pushed aside (by herself especially) and not heavily focused on up to this point in the story. There hasn't been any increasing tension for things to reach a climax yet. Having her big break be in this next event would be too sudden and sort of unprecedented. For this event at least, I highly doubt that'll be the case. Instead, I think this event will start to touch on Kanade's buried issues more, and begin building that tension for something bigger. I can see this being a multiple event arc, similar to the events leading up to the climax of Mafuyu's story. Summarizing that, yes I think Kanade's got some real tough shit ahead of her, but that's why this won't be a one-off event story. I think it'll just be the beginning.

That being said, to touch more on my predictions for kana5 itself, I think Kanade will start to slip, and the others, Mafuyu especially, will take notice. I can't really predict anything specific, but I think something will happen that will make her question her ability to save people, or cause her to be harder on herself, as she has in the past, to keep composing persistently, neglecting her own needs and health. However, things are different now than they were before niigo. She has more people around her that will be able to see the damage she's doing to herself. But she also knows they all look up to her, and that her music lifts them up. She knows they all have a lot they're dealing with, and she needs to be there for them. She can't let them down.

Then, when Kanade pushes herself past her limits at the cost of her well-being, what will she do then? She meets with the others on nightcord every night, and Mafuyu is living at her place. She won't be able to rot away by herself anymore without people noticing. But she still feels this need to be the group's rock and to be the one to save everyone, so she'll try her damn hardest to prevent the others from worrying about her. She'll shoot down their attempts at trying to talk about it. I think she might be especially stubborn this time around, and it might cause niigo to have to figure out a way to help Kanade, since they won't be able to get through to her at first.

Kanade has shown in the past to get uncharacteristically aggressive when she's pushing herself too hard, as shown above. She starts to take on everything herself, and snaps at anyone who tries to stop her. I think this side of her will be shown more going forward, as she begins to go down this kind of self-destructive path yet again. At least, that's where I think her story will go. Her tendency to work herself to the bone hasn't really been resolved, and she's gone so far with it before to end up in the hospital after passing out. She doesn't care what happens to her, as long as she can save people. The only reason she has ((slightly)) gotten better at taking care of herself is so that she can be able to keep composing without ending up in the hospital again. Not because she cares about her health. Because she must keep composing. She still only does the bare minimum for herself. If it's her cooking, she's only having instant ramen, and most days she's probably not going to see the sun. She still doesn't sleep much, and Mafuyu has said that she's often falling asleep at her computer.

This might be getting a little rambley atp, but my point is that Kanade neglects her own needs in her determination to save others. I mentioned how she neglects her physical health in the last paragraph, but she also neglects her own feelings as well.

She minimizes her own problems or just doesn't even talk about them. I think she truly believes that her problems don't matter, that they only distract her from her goals. The reason she doesn't open up is likely because she herself doesn't believe her feelings are important at all. She doesn't pay them any mind, and she doesn't want anyone else to either.

Of course, I have to bring this card up. I think this is just a perfect visual representation of Kanade's feelings, and it's great foreshadowing for what's to come. Those feelings are buried deep within Kanade, yet to be addressed or solved. THIS is what we're getting into. Kanade, depicted as an angel, surrounded by death. I think this is related to her guilt surrounding what happened to her father, believing it was her fault. That she destroyed everything. But because of that incident, she told herself she has to keep composing, and never stop, in order to save people. She feels like she owes that much, and that that's her sole purpose. She won't allow herself to think otherwise. No matter how much it destroys her, she must be a savior for others.

Last thing I wanted to add, because I saw this reblog under a prev kanade analysis post, and they brought up great points. Especially how dangerous Kanade's composing grind can get. We wouldn't even have a story if Honami hadn't found Kanade unconscious!!! I think she might get to a really low point again like this, but having Mafuyu there especially, it won't be able to go unnoticed. I don't have much else to add to those tags though cus they speak for themselves 🙏

Finally, just real quickly going back to the little comic I drew, this is just a rough idea of how I think Kanade could act. She'll get noticeably worse, but will try to hide that fact from the others and deny any help from them. I also mentioned that I think we could see more aggression from her again, so I included that, as she feels threatened in a way by Mafuyu worrying about her. She can't let that happen. Also, Kanade's impending doom aside, I think this progression in the story may also spark some change in Mafuyu. She might show some more emotion in this or future events, and she may realize how much Kanade means to her, motivating her to do more for her. I think it'll be a full group effort to save Kanade, but I wanna see Mafuyu taking a bigger role in this. I just think this also has the potential to grow Mafuyu's character more.

Also, as for the Kanade crashout, I really don't know how they'll handle that. I can't really predict what they're gonna do with her climax. But I want her screaming yelling and crying !!! like she better go insaneeee 🙏 and I also feel like they have a lot of potential with her seiyuu/VA and stepping out of the soft quiet voice to do some crazy shit, maybe in the songs too pls pls pls give us loud kanadeeee

OKAY THATS ENOUGH YAPPING its 5 am i havent slept....

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Hannah: I love you.

Akko, not paying attention: What was that Hann?

Hannah: I said I’m selling you to the zOo-

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Akko: Yeah!! Penguins are so cute, I should practice!

Hannah: Akko- you idiot...

Hannah: I love you.

Akko, not paying attention: What was that Hann?

Hannah: I said I’m selling you to the zOo-

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Hannah: I love you.

Akko, not paying attention: What was that Hann?

Hannah: I said I’m selling you to the zOo-

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WE'RE BACK, LET'S GOOOO

Hannakko 🔛🔝

Akko: I think I just figured something out. I got to go.

Hannah: Aren't you forgetting something?

Akko: Uuh...*hesitantly kisses Hannah's forehead before running out.*

Hannah: No, pay your bill! Damn, who raised you?

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Akko: I think I just figured something out. I got to go.

Hannah: Aren't you forgetting something?

Akko: Uuh...*hesitantly kisses Hannah's forehead before running out.*

Hannah: No, pay your bill! Damn, who raised you?

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KANADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gacha will also have 4☆ saki and 4☆ niigo rin..>_<

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team RWBY exchanges outfits [vol2] [ R -> B -> W -> Y ]

RWBY Vacuo vol10 // fan-concept

My Vacuo concept before we got the VIZ good news!

Those screenshots are from rwbyJL2 ^.^ I only edited by painting over. Character concept is my passion so you might get to see a lot of it (also join twitter to discuss abt rwby!)

now these are after the news :

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