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MHA & how Horikoshi handled Izuocha is a perfect example of how ones culture shapes a person's depiction of relationships. Izuocha was always going to be endgame, but a majority of the western fans cannot comprehend subtle buildup & hints because they are use to grand & explicit confessions in their media. We're use to characters saying I love you to each other every 5 minutes & multiple sex scenes lmao.

Japan has this really weird double standard when it comes to things like love & sexuality. Because it's perfectly fine to includes copius amounts of overly sexual fanservice in series geared towards younger teens, but wholesome intimate acts like a kiss are way too much to put into Media.

This is why a lot of times kisses will be "off screened" or just heavily implied by showing the scenes after a kiss. The only time couples in animanga get to be physically affectionate with each other in is when it's either a Shouji/Josei or even a Seinin. Aka it's geared towards a completely different demographic.

We can sit here & argue about whether or not Horikoshi wrote Izuocha particularly well, but one thing you objectively cannot deny is his intent to make them a romance since the beginning because it's always been clear that was the case.

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NEW FTF STORYBOARDS DROPPED.

Willow was originally gonna say "I'm really glad you're still here"

and I'm totally normal about it.

IM VEEEEERY NORMAL. VERY.

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Lostbelt 7 if it was epic + i may be dyslexic

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My goal now is to draw them every year.

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i think i have a favourite ship dynamic (also i think its funny alhaitham has problems with a blond in every universe)

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phaidei comm for catiacchi ! tysm ☀️🍷

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confuse

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PERCABETH GREY STREAKS IN 2027!

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~ a place for crows to rest their feet ~

local couple continues to be insufferable after two kids and thirty years of marriage

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I just watched the owl house

I love my kidos ❤️❤️

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frieren aikotos......

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aikoto sketch comm for @/dewberts on twitter! 🌸

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aikoto sketch comm for @/dewberts on twitter! 🌸

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Things that actually happen in Tales of Graces:

- the healer gets into a boss fight with the mage b/c the mage is smelly and won’t take a bath. - there is a superhero brigade of composed of starfish and the party nerd is a HUGE fan of them. - the party puts on a Snow White parody play, and the most serous member of the party cross-dresses as the evil queen and hams it up. - the Big Bad collapses in the desert to yell about friendship. - the main character collapses in the rain to cry about how incompetent he is. - the main character uses the word “protect” over 120 times. - you can rest at an inn during a chase scene through an enemy city. If you do, the party starts brushing their teeth until someone reminds them that they’re being chased and they should probably start running. - your adorable pigtailed monk, essentially a thirteen-year-old girl, asks the Big Bad to make a friendship pact. He tells her to go die and magic-punches her across the room. - there are swimsuits available for everyone. You can wear them to the final battle. The king, however, does not have a swimsuit. He claims this is because he swims in his royal regalia. - there is an optional dungeon in space where you can fight child-aged versions of the main characters and also your own dead father. - one of the super-attacks features a chibified robot copy of the main character bombarding the field with missiles. - one character is armed with a weapon that /breathes in is a dual-bladed spear that can separate into two blades, create arrows made out of energy, or transform into a pair of handguns. And in one of his super-attacks, he fucking drops that amazing weapon and just hadoukens a bitch with his bare hands??? AND I FORGOT THIS PART BUT HE COPIED HIS FIGHTING STYLE FROM A COMIC BOOK - another of his super attacks has him yell, the best that anyone can translate, “Instant Balls”. - the king regularly dresses up like a superhero. - the descriptions on the items are utterly hilarious. any and all of them. I vaguely recall that an equippable ribbon is described as “the perfect thing to wear when you find out he’s been cheating on you!” and there’s a poisonous fang described as “so poisonous it could kill you, bring you back to life, and kill you again.” - the party tries to come up with a pseudonym for the prince traveling with them in disguise. The name they choose is “Tiger Festival”. - the Big Bad is actually defeated by the power of friendship almost entirely without exaggeration. - the king has his own line of fruit snacks. - the party is swallowed by a giant desert turtle, and there is an entire dungeon where you try to find the turtle’s butt to escape. The phrase “everyone thinks we should leave through the butt…let’s search for the butt” is used.  - the protag gets REALLY ANGRY ABOUT JEWELRY

- This happens.

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I finished Tales of Graces last week and wanted to celebrate somehow :)

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The rare time I contribute Hubert/Pascal and it's a stupid redraw —

(I realize that getting Hubert's attention, for Pascal, is as simple as "exist", but)

(Original picture by Lingvistov. I can't find the original link for the picture, though, so here's their shop instead!)

★ originally posted on Twitter in 2022 ♛ links to Ko-Fi, deviantArt, Twitter, AO3 → here

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