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i really love the idea of kusuriuri being acquainted with every single supernatural related character regardless of their media and origin

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_exorcise.💊

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execution_[離]

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shape, truth, reason

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Just a smol Ri—

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Medicine seller with earrings in the last arc... do you think he pierced them at Claire's...

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Ri Kusuriuri

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I've seen the Mononoke's film on netflix, I like the old characters more, however I kinda like Shingi's outfit but not in the colors they chose, so I made my own version lol. I mixed both version. I think Shingi's kimono/yukata would have looked good in crimson/red too. Unfinished stuff as usual, I'm lazy. I was testing a new tablet and clipstudio 3.0 as well, but it seems my computer is too old for that T-T

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i do in fact headcanon the medicine seller of ri as asexual, because i cannot truly picture him as being interested in sex. of course, he is very much aware of his physical magnetism and does take advantage of it when the situation benefits him. but that doesn't mean he's particularly eager.

in terms of romance, i'm a believer in the nopperabo theory of him being in love with ochou. similarly, i think he has previously fallen in love with many other individuals on his travels, but he is very aware of the limitations that his position provides. maybe it's something he's made his peace with, as bittersweet as it still feels.

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I just want to see Medicine Seller bottom, anyone will do

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cat dad ri appreciation piece

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i decided to go back to tumblr!!

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Medicine sellers

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One thing about Mononoke that I find kinda funny is that the samurai in the series are always pretty useless.

A lot of anime present samurai as these, like, hardcore unstoppable badasses, but whenever a Medicine Man runs into a samurai, they're either stupid, cowardly, or they just get in the way. At best, they're portrayed as being in way over their heads. Even the evil samurai in the series aren't particularly badass. They're just portrayed as thugs and lowlives that happen to have swords.

Not only is this funny, it also ties into the feminist themes of the franchise. A lot of Mononoke has to do with the hardships women face in a male-dominated world. That an exalted, all-male class like the samurai are in reality a bunch of losers helps show how bitterly unfair the gender dynamic in Edo society is. A lot of these guys are just allowed to fail upward because of their connections or social status or whatever while lower class women who are braver and more competent than them just get crushed by the system.

One thing that's never said outright but is still clear from the reactions of the characters is that only men of the samurai class are allowed to carry swords. Legally, a merchant like the Medicine Man isn't allowed to have one. However, not only are the swords the samurai carry completely useless against mononoke, but none of the samurai are even good swordsmen in the first place. Whenever they do use a sword to kill someone (which is rare), it's usually an unarmed civilian that can't defend themselves. These aren't hardened warriors; they're just bullies with a title. The Medicine Man is way more qualified to carry a sword than any of them.