#3gatsu

[zip-zoom]

i get so excited about rei and nikaidou they are frolicking around inside my brain. yippee !!! hooray !!!

[yioh]

when will anime be as cozy as 3 gatsu no lion.. the ultimate epitome of cozy!!!!!

[ace-and-ranty]

But reading all the chapters all at once really shows Rei's progression from

"Oh no, now that I am happy, using shogi as a coping mechanism actually really sucks and it's making it hard to play. What if being happy makes me a crappy shogi player?"

to

"Actually, now that I feel emotionally secure I don't need to hyperfixate on shogi to the detriment of everything else, so how about I... try not doing that?"

to

"Holy crap, it is actually much easier to concentrate on shogi when I'm not doing it to avoid my feelings of isolation"

to

"This is actually fun?? I'm having a lot of fun playing crazy shogi with my best friend Nikaidou :)"

[bytebun]

if I don’t read 10k of traumatized guy getting a found family I will die immediately

[douglasandknuckles]

3gatsu stop drawing bangers challenge (impossible)

[hachisongs]

i thought it might be fun to do some smaller scale polls while waiting for submissions to fill up (which, to anyone who hasn't done so yet, check out the google form & submit your fave kenshi song to be entered into a poll tournament later this jan!)

[yume-kara-samete]

Irotoridori Nobi yo!! - Hello Pro Kenshuusei Unit '24, Kawano Soara, Makino Toa, Hayashi Niina

Hello! Project Kenshuusei Happyoukai 2024 3gatsu "Mimosa"

[loopingpyre]

I read both Orokamonogatari and Wazamonogatari in roughly the space of 24 hours whilst still dealing with work and stuff, whoops. I guess I should go into Nademonogatari now hehe. But first, a couple of thoughts. SODACHI FIASCO AND TSUBASA SLEEPING WERE SO GOOD. Fiasco made me upset repeatedly, and only reinforced my feelings for Sodachi.... she just like me fr...

Tsubasa Sleeping had the greatest use of character voice and was so rich in implication and augh, Tsubasa...... I mean I don't wanna talk about them too much for spoilers. Wazamonogatari was far better than Orokamonogatari, I don't usually compare books directly, but I felt that since these two off-season novels are just 'three arcs' with no real theming, I think I can. It's also easy since Oroka has 1 really good arc (Fiasco), and two arcs I didn't really care about (Suruga Bonehead and Tsukihi Undo), whilst Waza opened up strong with Acerola Bon Appetite and then proceeded to follow that up with the fun Karen Ogre and really fun Tsubasa Sleeping. I wonder if I'll read Nademonogatari or the 3gatsu crossover first....

[majorbaby]

what anime do you like? ^_^

i really could stand to watch much more anime than i do. i was so into it growing up, i just don't have the time these days.

my favourite serialized media of all time is fullmetal alchemist. i collected all the manga a few years ago and i try to re-read it once every two years.

i'm currently obsessed with blue eye samurai. i havent binged a show like this in forever.

the rest of these are old/new based on when i watched/read them, not based on how old they actually are.

old faves: sailor moon, wolf's rain, cowboy bebop, inuyasha, cowboy bebop, neon genesis evangelion, NANA, tengen toppa gurren lagaan, witch hunter robin, digimon, serial experiments lain, noein, ouran high school host club, xxxHolic, 3gatsu no lion, lupin III, trigun, vision of escaflowne, mawaru penguindrum, gintama, banana fish

newer-ish faves: devilman crybaby, jujutsu kaisen, mob psycho 100, lucifer and biscuit hammer, kakegurui, tokyo ghoul, baccano!, one punch man, gin no saji

[zip-zoom]

THE SUN AND THE MOON!!!!!!

[not-poignant]

hi pia i saw this old post of yours (https://not-poignant.tumblr.com/post/190676283907/top-5-fandoms-you-want-to-write-for-but-whatever) and i just wanna tell u that if you wrote anything at all for natsume or 3gatsu i would spontaneously combust. (oh btw i don’t want to make this seem like pressurising sorry, im just thrilled that my fave author is in two of my fave tiny fandoms.) have a nice day!

Hi anon!

Man I still think about whumping Natsume so much though, and like, they really did give him some amazing potential candidates for hurt/comfort but also crunchy and difficult relationships.

Natsume's such an awesome character to daydream about on that front! No really clear story has ever presented itself to me, so maybe it will be a oneshot if I ever get around to it, but this show is so great and it makes me so happy it exists. (Also a lot of its music absolutely goes off, I feel like it's an anime that way too many people sleep on to be honest!)

And oh my god don't get me started on Rei Kiriyama, though the people I ship him with are people that almost no one else ships him with, so it's like hmmMMMM (Shimada or Hayashida, so big age gap for a start, and most people are too busy shipping Shimada x Hayashida which is also plenty valid, lmao).

I remember going into the fandoms and you know AO3 actually comes through with a few decent whumpy m/m fics for Natsume! But there's pretty much nothing I liked in 3Gatsu.

*vibrates in maybe I'll get to write about it one day*

[ace-and-ranty]

Also amazing in Sangatsu is Nikkaido and Rei realizing, one after another, "Wait, suffering for your shogi is stupid, actually."

Like. Nikkaido unfortunately can't stop suffering because he can't recover from his chronic illness quite the same way Rei can recover from trauma. But it is excellent seeing them both realize that, hey, actually, I think I'd play better shogi if I was NOT suffering. I think suffering is not the price of greatness. I'm not a good shogi player because of my suffering.

And it really says something about Nikkaido's excellent emotional skills, that he gets it in the span of 0.5 seconds. As soon as he starts thinking about it, he realizes, "Well, fuck, I would take recovery if I could." It takes Rei several chapters, plus help from his teacher and Hina, for him to fully absorb that he doesn't need suffering to be good at shogi, and Nikkaido thinks about it once and figures it out all on his own LOL

[seoafin]

yeah idk how I feel about yellowjacket ending i have mixed feelings…i think they’re gonna be doing another 3 season also? not sure how that’ll work. Idk if you’ve ever answered this but what are some of your favorite anime’s you’ve watched? and also some of your least favorites or any you just disliked?

i typically read more manga than i watch anime and i like it more too but some animes i rlly liked are 3gatsu no lion, 86, bungou stray dogs, dorohedoro, durarara, hamatora, kurage, noragami and houseki no kuni!!! ALSO VIVY: FLUORITE'S SONG

[myrfing]

https://at.tumblr.com/myrfing/i-think-it-was-essential-in-my-twisted-mind-that/oxfk8cfan1n7

Poyo, honestly I kind of read it the same way ToT the bunnies were just trying their best and since they're an extension of her, it's def Hydae trying her best bc time is just running out and she's panicking and has nothing else to go on besides her brave little spark that keeps her going

yes! if you’ve ever watched 3gatsu no lion, the elder sister of one of the characters goes like “I don’t want her to do the right thing, I want her to run; is that selfish of me?” while her grandpa, even though he has the same doubts and fears, just looks her in the eye and says “you should be proud of yourself, you showed courage”. the scary thing of in the end only having gone down one path yourself and really not knowing the right answer for the people you’re supposed to guide so you can only really SAY I know they are capable I know they’ll find a way and support them when they do show conviction and kindness. like WE’RE GOOD HYDAELYN we’re gonna be okay….🐛💕

[kaoarika]

Early this week I was able to watch Undelu's first episode and I still have the same complaints I had due to the first impressions I DID have when it aired WAY back last year :)

I don't think the first ep needed to be SO artistry or too symbolic in some parts. I mean, I know ex-SHAFT staff worked on this... but I still don't feel it needed it (the tilt heads meme that SHAFT is full well known is still rotting in my mind after all these years, it seems) and I feel it goes better with stuff like 3gatsu rather than... Undelu.

OH, the first sequence is NICE and it implies in some way or form that might be the anime adaptation of To You From Me, with all the context/parallels of the Loops, Victor, Juiz and the fact that I ALWAYS forget Undelu happens in some weird alternate world than ours... but it didn't have to go hard like THAT, lol (also some parallels with IRL Undelu's anime adaptation vs the manga... I have read reactions that are ALL over the place for the pacing of the anime's season, so, that might be fun :)) )

I miss the crowd from the first scene of Fuuko and Andy... it feels so strange and lonely... it works better that there was a crowd and not... just THEM???

My brother insisted to watch it with the LatAm dub, so I cannot really be against it. So far, it's good... but it feels a bit... weird because it's ALSO using other Spanish translation than what the manga uses (I always suspected that the manga is using Spain's manga TL and it's being "fixed" for it to be neutral) and there's also the biiiig familiarity of reading the manga in English. SO. WEIRD.

To put it briefly:

English -> Spanish (Manga) -> Spanish (Anime)

Unluck -> Desafortunada -> Infortunio

Soemthing about synonims and words and nouns that are rarely used in Spanish becase there are alternatives that are better well known and used in our dialect and some feel like REAL, REAL deep cuts that I have rarely seen other ppl use in prose context (ie unluck is basically mala suerte)

Andy is named like such in the LatAm anime's localization because "Anti-muerte" and Anti -> Andy sound similar I guess (we all know it's because Andy - Undead and it's pronounciation in Japanese as its a borrowed word from English... so)

I know that Tozuka never anticipated the series would get translated other than English (and I think he even mentions that his assistants may know a bit better English than him, regardless), so there's going to be nouns and such that would be weird in my language translation later on (Unjust and Unfair both mean "injusto" >.>, the manga opted for "Ilegal" for Unfair... and yet it still doesn't sound right when certain someone gives hints of what their real ability is >.>, it TECHNICALLY has the same meaning as "injusto" in certain situations -ie cheating-, i will be real, but other than THAT...)

The dub is okay, so far. I think Edson Matus is the highlight because he fits Andy's gruff voice a lot (yet I want to listen to Youkyan, because... Youkyan) and he is currently one of my bro's fave dub actors at the moment (he voices Charlie in Smili*ng Friends, and I concur, he sounds awesome there). look, I am SOOOO tempted that in any chance they get him here, I will bring either vol 1 or my figure to get it signed (below the figure base, sorry :V*) (I'm SOOOOOO out of date with latam dubs that I THINK L from Death Note was his biggest anime role?? and that was 14-15 years ago?!)

STILL A FREAKING DAMN SHAME D*SNEY+ GOT THIS, THOUGH.

(I'm just looking at the next new anime adaptation releases of Blue Box and Sak*amoto Days in Ne*tflix and... FRICK, you know?)

*Reminder that I don't go to anime cons since 2017 because going on my own is not fun and it's basically "rinse and repeat" with merch stands and the expensive tickets for all that and a conventions monopoly and open secrets about the whole organizing event thing????

[anti-thesh]

Αγαπημένα manga?

Vinland saga, Houseki no kuni, Akatsuki no Yona, dorohedoro, 3gatsu no lion και homunculus, εσύ ανων;;