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Moon, tell me if I could Send up my heart to you?

Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine

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The more someone cares for me, the more scared I get.

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tanuma & natsume

NATSUME YUUJINCHOU SHICHI (2024) episode 01 ✴ the fragment's lament created by midorikawa yuki

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Natsume 🥺

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For your hurt/ comfort needs (?)

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"I think he's gotten even more handsome."

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Natsume being pretty is so very canon, and I love that

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We came to bring you this cloth that flew into the other yard!

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some natsume <3 (I still havent watched 7 season tho, waiting when it fully releases)

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I found this when rereading Natsuyuu. Sensei is being cute right here. What is he doing? Sniffing? Or listening whatever music Tanumi is hearing?

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Why is he holding the loquat like an egg

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I'm going to expand on the mom thing a bit because it's not that long anyway.

(a) Tanuma's priorities are basically 1. Natsume 2. his dad. He has shown zero interest in girls or a girl. (He's very friendly with Taki, but it's not remotely romantic.) Even if he did show an interest that wouldn't really be relevant to Natsume's story, but... zero.

(b) Despite this, Tanuma is a romantic. Nishimura is a "romantic" but mostly in the sense that he's girl crazy and wants to be a really good boyfriend. Tanuma thinks it's romantic to pine for your lost lover or to serve a goddess from afar, her never knowing your loyalty. Tanuma wants the couple in Natori's movie to live happily ever after even though it's a detective story and that's not the point. Tanuma cares about romance. Why? What is the relevance to his character?

(c) We now know that his parents are literally star-crossed lovers separated by forces beyond their ken (lol), and that his father still sends his mother beautiful love letters. This somewhat explains why he's a romantic, but it also strengthens the association. Tanuma has strong role models for romantic love, but the only character that comes remotely close to being a target for his affection is Natsume. Again, what is the purpose?

(d) Given the likelihood that yokai are behind the situation with Tanuma's parents, it seems that at some point Natsume is going to have to get involved, even if that just means telling them what's happening. (I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually the mom who is possessed by a jealous yokai—after all, Tanuma probably got his vulnerability from her.) That's pretty intense.

(e) Natsume's initial reaction to the postcard is kinda... ambiguous, but he's definitely really focused on the concept of a love letter, for some reason. "Even I don't know why I thought [it was a love letter]." lol

(f) The bridge.

(g) Tanuma finally calls Natsume his shinyuu (lit. intimate friend, often used to mean best friend). I've been waiting for that a long time, because it's a pretty big milestone for them. But for it to be in a story heavily centered on romantic love, rather than something more focused on the two of them... Again. Why?

Anyway, Tanatsu canon.

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Shūichi 🦎