#Tsubone

[laurearte]

🐐oh & TMAX🏍️ubone

[marosii]

Ging keeps throwing chicken at the knights

[alluka-nanika-archive]

[znsluc]

https://x.com/ryosuketarou?s=21

[beatle-07]

In honor of the mobage card ending, I made a collection of some of my all time favorites. They will be so missed...

[everyillumi]

[s0ftand0nly]

Some more butlers

[whoishotteranimepolls]

"Who's Hotter?" Gmilf Battle

[rimeywoo]

Kickass elderly women who can school me in a fight are objectively the best characters

[imaginarylungfish]

how are these not the same characters lol

[satirickitty]

[kursed-arcana]

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[mayxo-hxh]

Illumi using blunt sarcasm is my favorite genre in all of hxh

the anime sucks ass for cutting these out

[alluka-nanika-archive]

[city-of-ladies]

Little is known about Ichikawa no Tsubone’s life apart from her remarkable military exploit. Her exact birth date and parentage remain uncertain. She was married to Lord Ichikawa Tsuneyoshi, a vassal of the Mōri Clan, though it is unclear whether she was the mother of his two biological sons.

Ichikawa no Tsubone is remembered for her extraordinary bravery in the face of danger. In 1569, when her husband left to join a military campaign, he entrusted Kōnomine Castle (located in present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture) to her. Soon after, the castle came under siege by Ōuchi Teruhiro, who commanded a force of 6,000 soldiers. In contrast, Ichikawa no Tsubone had only 300 soldiers under her command.

Likely between the ages of 40 and 50 at the time, given her husband’s age, she did not let the dire circumstances shake her resolve. Donning armor and wielding a naginata, she fought alongside her ladies-in-waiting, rallying her soldiers and urging them to stand their ground.

For ten days, Ichikawa no Tsubone and her small force endured intense fighting and successfully held the castle. Their resistance proved effective until reinforcements arrived, turning the tide in her favor. Her courage earned her a letter of commendation from Mōri Terumoto, praising her exceptional exploit.

Ichikawa no Tsubone passed away on April 5, 1585.

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Further reading

市川局

 市川局(いちかわのつぼね)

Sylvester Kate, Women and Martial Art in Japan

[eileennatural]

i am once again thinking about killua and nanika

like I can't stop thinking about how much they are the same. Like nanika really kind of mirrors killua's emotional/personal arc throughout the series. thinking about the traits they share like...

pre-canon, both killua and nanika are tools. people (their family) are cruel to them, and they are made to enact cruelty onto others. the only difference is that killua can be controlled while nanika can't be. killua 'earns' his 'freedom' by virtue of him being much easier to manage/manipulate. nanika, on the other hand, cannot be managed so she and alluka are shut away permanently.

killua and nanika are largely beholden to the will of others -- for killua, its through illumi's needle as well as years of isolation, conditioning, and abuse by his family, and for nanika its in her nature.

but when they find someone who treats them like kids, or friends rather than monsters or a means to an end, when they're not being made to hurt others, killua and nanika both give freely and ask for very little in return.

killua, over and over, makes gon's 'wishes' come true, even if its at cost to himself. gon, kurapika, and leorio all pass the hunter exam because killua breaks a rule, ensuring the victory of everyone else there. he takes gon to heavens arena so he can train to beat hisoka, he agrees to help kurapika fight the phantom troupe because gon wants to help kurapika, he helps gon win greed island, and he gives everything to help gon beat the chimera ants. and all killua asks in return is that he be allowed to stay by gon's side. gon very rarely verbally asks or demands anything of killua (which some people portray as a sign of his selfishness, or that he takes for granted that killua will do whatever he wants, but i digress) but killua gives regardless because what gon has given to killua means so much to him --freedom, his friendship, his company, his trust, and his open and verbal affection.

nanika, in turn, fulfills all of killua's wishes and asks only for his love in return -- that he hug her, pat her head, and tell her she's good. She never makes cruel demands after killua's wishes because he never makes self-interested wishes, he never makes her hurt anyone for him. even as a child, he treated nanika like just another little sister, asking her to play with him and to fulfill the kinds of wishes she likes to do, such as healing people/animals.

killua (for most of the series) and nanika don't really have concrete goals or objectives of their own beyond securing love and affection by being useful to their favorite person (codependency twins !)

of course, killua and nanika are both eventually betrayed and incredibly hurt by their person, because that's just how codependent relationships play out, especially among people as young and emotionally immature and traumatized as gon, killua, and nanika are.

all of this culminates in maybe my favorite scene of the series, where killua realizes that he's hurt nanika in a similar way that gon have very recently hurt him, and also that by shutting nanika away, he's really just repeating their parents' abuse of her. so he doesn't just apologize, but he demonstrates that he knows why what he did is wrong, and why he did it, and promises never to do it again.

i only wish we cold have seen gon's apology :/