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God I love these dorks

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a StarCube interaction I thought it'd fit

I started sketching it in an online class but u can tell by quality when it ended lmao

also came to realise that we didn't see that much of those two together but I bet it'd be fun ( "normal nerd with a crazy nerd how would it end ?")

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the kaminari and mina friendship is underutilized and i think we need to change that

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The way this show was so well written from beginning to end makes me kind of wish I could rewatch the show blind all over again lol. I think it did a great job of showing not only the helplessness and futility of war, but also how bigotry and prejudice is something that can't be easily eradicated or fixed by one person.

In season 1 everyone around Lena kept telling her that there was nothing they could do to help the 86, but by season 2 we learn that isn't really true. "Help" and "Solve all their problems" are two different things, and I think that's something that Lena ended up learning by the end.

Everyone else like Lena's friend were too bogged down by the idea of not being able to be some perfect savior immediately, or they thought helping the 86 was pointless anyways because of how badly they'd treated them. To the the higher ups in Alba society it'd be better to just get rid of every 86 they had than ever admit that they were wrong in mistreating people different than them.

And the thing I find so satisfying but deeply depressing, is that even in the end they're still terrible people when the other nations come to help them. It's satisfying because we finally get to see these people who have been oppressing others for so long finally humbled, but also depressing because Lena was right. There's no point in "punishing" a nation that doesn't see anything wrong with what they did. The "bad guys" don't get what's coming to them, instead they get their hand held the whole time and coddled while everyone else deals with their bigotry. Truly a "Turning the other cheek" moment.

Even after everything Shin and his team did, they didn't really win the war, just one more massive battle.

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One thing I really appreciate about 86 is that it didn't use the potential romance in the show as a way of "fixing" everything. I have always hated the trope of giving some war tortured man a girlfriend to "fix" him or make him better, and for a moment I was afraid the show would go down that route.

But it never did that, and instead we get to see Shin and Lena both grow as people away from each other and without romance "helping" them along the way. I do think its a little funny that the others tease Shin about his new friendship with Lena, but I don't think it ever went so far as for the show to just go "Yeah he got over his immense trauma because she showed up on the battlefield that one time".

Because in honesty, he didn't get over his trauma due to her just showing up, it was a multitude of things. I loved that when they have their first meeting on the battlefield, Shin almost can't believe she's even there, and the anime showed this wonderfully by having her quite literally breakthrough the frame lol. He had always struggled with the fear of being abandoned, and that battlefield was probably the loneliest place he had ever been. So for her to just miraculously be there despite all odds? The fact that she fueled herself to keep going because she refused to forget any of them?? It was both deeply touching and romantic, and made me so happy we got to see their relationship slowly build up over time.

I like a good slow burn and I feel this anime did it great even if it ends before we get to fully see their relationship go any further than just two people who admire one another.

I can't wait to read the rest of the light novels to find out what happens with them next now that they've finally met!

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Rewatched 86 with my sis and my brainworms activated like a sleeper agent taking over my brain they now live rent free in it

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Today's anime dog of the day is:

Fido from 86 (2021)

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@animangacreators action genre challenge favorite action animanga ↳ 86: eighty six

Even if you have no choice but to walk to the gallows, you can still choose how you're gonna climb the steps. We've made our choice. All that's left is to live by that.

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Something that really hurts while reading Eighty Six, like hurts in such an excruciating way is when Asato reminds us that the main cast are literally CHILD soldiers. When it shows a character doing something silly or childish and than it really hits you that these guys are just in their teens.

These are kids, literal teenagers, that have gone through unimaginable suffering to the point where they don't really know how to addapt to normal society because they are so used to the threat of war and the battlefield. They are not even adults yet they have to go through all that.

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left late enough for it to be too early

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Captains who misses and cares deeply about their fallen comrades, often being the one left to survive over the years

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i've been thinking about an 86 au set (vaguely) in the late 18th century. Giad and the Republic of San Magnolia are at war and Shin is a Giad soldier that was captured by San Magnolia. They try to pry information out of the infamous Undertaker that would get them an advantage over Giad but he manages to escape before they decide to just kill him off.

Lena is the only daughter of a highly decorated Alban commanding officer. Upon her father's death, she uses the fortune he left her to establish a shelter which house children orphaned by the war. To her mother's dismay, Lena breaks off the engagement her mother has set for her and moves to care for her children away from the city's prying eyes.

Shin and Lena cross paths while Lena is foraging for berries, nuts and shrooms with her children when one of them spots Shin near a riverbank, barely alive and wounded. Lena decides to bring him back to her shelter to care for him.

then romance ensues

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if captain shin says get in the juggernaut the we get in the juggernaut, bitch!

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I could have drawn a happy 86 scene, but that's not how the story goes, is it?

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shinlena!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!