#Tamako Kitashirakawa

[pinklacedcoffin]

꒰⠀me and who 🎀⠀⠀꒱ the mochizō to my tamako

[thebenefitsofheartbreak]

Tamako Love Story

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[purrnyan]

Tamako Kitashirakawa (北白川 たまこ) - Tamako Market

[zorcha]

Posted this challenge on my VK page and here I have it completed in a very sketchy way Oh god i can draw male characeters (sort of)

[anipast]

Personally, this makes me a lot happier.

[animebrit]

[bestanimecouples]

Best Anime Couple: Tamako Kitashirakawa and Mochizo Oji

Anime: Tamako Market

1 season: 18 episodes

1 Movie

Sub & Dub

[solarfire-art]

This anime genuinely still brings me so much joy ✨💕

[starryjelly]

Tamako from Tamako Market

[ultrakart]

GOSH Mochizou’s confession in Tamako Love Story is such an excellent scene. Just LOOK at the setup:

Tamako is being Tamako, rambling on and on about mochi like it’s her entire world. Her passion for making mochi has always been one of her defining character traits and she shows absolutely no sign of changing that. If a royal marriage proposal couldn’t alter the course of her life, then nothing can.

But...

She never considered that the life of her closest friend could change... without her.

What more, her childhood friend is actually in love with her! The force of his declaration physically knocks her back and she takes a spill into the river.

The events of Tamako Market firmly establishes that Takamo puts a lot of value into the same old staying the same old, and Tamako Love Story is all about how she struggles to cope with change.

I cried during this movie. I had to pause and process and profusely wipe my eyes. Tamako was knocked off her feet by tonal whiplash from the anime, and so was I.

It’s brilliant stuff. Plz watch Tamako Market + Tamako Love story.

[yukisubmarino]

Tamako Love Story captures the unspeakable agony of young romance, and does so better than just about any movie of its ilk I’ve ever seen. It takes such a huge step up in quality from an already very good show that I wouldn’t hesitate telling people to skip Tamako Market entirely and just watch Love Story. It’s that good.

One of Market’s biggest shortcomings (aside from the Mochimazzi clan, and thank goodness their token appearance in Love Story is brief) is that Tamako is lowkey a fairly uninteresting main character. She radiates sunshine, but hardly faces anything resembling conflict, whether internal or external, and that makes Market kind of slow at times. Love Story changes that.

And it does so with a brilliant narrative twist, introducing the story from Mochizo’s POV before flipping it to Tamako after his big confession. From there we see a once-confident shopping district princess descend into the helplessness of a first love, and this movie nails all of the complicated emotion surrounding it. Everything about Tamako feels unbalanced, and the artwork, music, and vocal performances all make us feel as pleasantly confused as our romantic leads.

The production quality understandably benefits from the movie-sized budget, but so does the movie from the tonal changes, both visually and narratively. The colors lean towards earth tones and the pace drops the frenetic outbursts from Market in favor of grounded interactions (with notable exceptions for joke-telling purposes), and Love Story just feels so much more satisfying as a result. The jokes slap harder, the pathos lands better, the drama feels actually dramatic. If Market is strawberry mochi with a dusting of powdered sugar, then Love Story is heavy daifuku with a rich anko paste and a cup of warm tea.

It doesn’t quite rank as a 10/10 for me, as I feel a little bitter about Midori not feeling empowered enough to explore her feelings for Tamako (*shaking my gay fist*) and exiting this world knowing next to nothing about the shopkeepers, but those are small complaints in the big picture. I love this movie and implore everyone to watch it. 9/10

[honeybxbygirl]

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Tamako Kitashirakawa

[kyomiji]

☕️🍃

anime: tamako market

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😵

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