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Yano and Sekiguchi

More than boss and bodyguard?

These two Yakuza gangsters are a big part of the Odd Taxi manga and anime. In the show itself it is made clear that the large and intimidating Sekiguchi has a LOT of respect for his small, eccentric, rapping boss, to the point it borders on reverance.

While this could just be deference to his boss and respect for the hierarchy, he does not behave this way towards anyone else, even other higher ranked Yakuza members like Dobu. While Yano for his part is never shown seriously scolding or losing his temper with his henchman, even when the latter fails in some way, like not stopping Dobu from taking their hostage, or not checking the money they recieved was real before their arrest at the end of the series

But its the extra content for the series that makes it very clear how close this bond is.

Yano tells us in his song that Dobu refused to take him to a Yakiniku (BBQ) place because they are "the kinda place you'd take someone on a date", only for Sekiguchi to reveal in his song that Yano took him somewhere like that

Sekiguchi is shown to have a violently intense jealousy of Dobu and his history with Yano...

His talk of “being left behind” implying that he thinks he is just a "rebound" from Yano’s falling out with Dobu and that if things improve between them ("Black crows can turn white") Yano will throw him away, and that "violence is neccessary", meaning he feels he may need to "prove himself" to Yano by defeating Dobu.

This seems to be an entirely uneccessary jealousy and a paranoia of someone taking Yano away from him

Later in the same song Sekiguchi starts making clear just how much he looks after Yano, to the point he seems to behave like his butler/valet rather than just a bodyguard or hired muscle. Meaning he is going far beyond his job description to be close to him

He even gives Yano advice on buttoning up his shirt, raising the question of why Yano is shirtless in his bodyguards company

This "malewife" side to the usually terrifying enforcer is further backed up by this official art

Yano saying in his song that he "hates Dobu making him look bad in front of Sekiguchi" specifically which parallels Sekiguchi not wanting to look weak in front of Yano in the show.

They are both very concerned about looking their best in front of each other

Yano is his audio while rapping at Sekiguchi while unconscous from the fight with Dobu, and instead of being angry he lost the fight makes clear that he is hungry but that he usually relies on the big guy to help him with this sort of thing, not beinf used to using Uber etc

Tellingly he say he doesn't want to ask another henchman to bring food to their warehouse hideout as the place is "secret", impying its a place only for them

Yano calls Sekiguchi his “family”,  promises him he "won’t let him say he is lonely anymore" and that he sees them as underdogs that will rise to the top together, and that "eveyone else is fake", and therefore that they can only rely on each other

Other details include the scents sold with the Odd Taxi brand had this line attached to Sekiguchi’s bottle

Then of course there are things the Odd Taxi director himself has posted

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bunch of art for my Angel AU cuz I've had severe brainrot over it since September 🎉

1. Clara and gang (Azz, Lied, and Mysterious Bear Nigga) (Sabro)

2. Ameri and Iruma

3. Ocho and Orobas (they get two arts because I am sick in head about them and this entire AU was originally made just for them)

they make me ill.......anyway

4. extra stuff

also the cause of this brainrot is the fics my friend wrote based off my brainrot so uhhh idk read that shit or explode immediately 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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a fun study sort of thing bc I watched tatami time machine blues!!

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I noticed that only a-witchs-tale is posting fanart and other posts about the game (A Witch’s Tale) and I want to help as well! I don’t draw or write, but I can make forum signs and I thought I could help the fandom with this. This isn’t my best work but I don’t think it’s bad either.

This sign was made using the official art (I only edited it to make a sign):

I hope you like it! ><

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There was a Witch's Tale app⁉️

Some of the screenshots from the A Witch’s Tale app!

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I got the official A Witch’s Tale soundtrack for Christmas~ ♪

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By the official A Witch’s Tale artist, Taniel. This image was almost impossible to get in high quality. I’m glad I could find one. I had to take screenshot after screenshot and paste them all together in order to get the picture in the highest quality possible. ^_^ Enjoy!

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HOLY FUCK HIIIII

Was binging nichijou yesterday (for like the 2nd time 💀) and one scene reminded me of a post I saw that was like "Nano's character arc could be interpreted as a trans allegory" and....

yeah I see it

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Would y'all believe me if I said I started drawing this cuz I wanted to draw Kiri with a certain face and then ended up not drawing the face at all

anyway here's the face

I literally just wanted to draw him with void eyes

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Wrong it's drool

He's getting drool on Baal's shirt

Chapter 325 ruined my life dawg I can't stop drawing them

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Chapter 325 ruined my life dawg I can't stop drawing them

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the tatamy galaxy and tsp kinda remind me of each other so-

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Sorry I haven’t drawn these guys in forever

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It's Halloween!!! I'm Afraid (Aaah!!!) that I'm still a little busy this year, so All I have for treats are a Handful of wet grapes and these reference from my Ko-fi! (Delicately Places Them one by one into your Pumpkin pail Shaped Pumpkin Pail shaped Pumpkin Pail)

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I lost an hour of my life tracing over the words in a meme for this

little homie has not fucking slept in days

btw the 1st image is based off this meme my friend sent in reply to the 2nd image

night night time