#Tsukiyomi Utau

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Shugo Chara! Deformed Figure Series

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Shugo Chara! ~ Rakuten Collection Lottery Extra Bromide ~ Official Art ♥

HD Version Here.

Scanned by KuRo93

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Shugo Chara! Guardian Cyworld Character gifs (Part 5)

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Series: Shugo Chara! Artist: Peach-Pit Details: Character Sound Album Best! 2 (Including CD Scan and album booklet) Publisher: Pony Canyon Year Published: 2009 Source: Scanned from personal collection Other notes: I noticed that I still had the obi and an ad for the last Shugo Chara game released for the DS; Shugo Chara! Norinori! Chara Na-rhythm♪ And yes, I know the obi is upside down, don't @ me. In any case, happy Shugo Chara sequel news day~! PLEASE DON'T DELETE THE ABOVE COMMENTARY!

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Shugo Chara! Character Transformation Outfit Swap by EEO Store.

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It's been awhile since I last made a Shugo Chara render, and after seeing these HD scans from @kuro93 (massive amounts of thanks for these btw) I couldn't resist!

Individual renders below the cut!

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Sanrio X Shugo Chara Collaboration!

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My litmus test for if someone is worth discussing Shugo Chara with is how they think about Utau being attracted to Ikuto and the revelation of their uh "relationship."

[Spoilers under cut. If you know, you know.]

Like, do they understand why she's attracted to her brother? Do they understand what themes that attraction is used to highlight? Do they get how it relates to the wider themes of trauma and unstable identities and messed up family dynamics that warp the children within them?

Do they understand that Utau kissing her brother is part of the constantly reoccurring cycle of characters messed up by trauma and then becoming warped and unpleasant and harming others because that trauma is not being dealt with in a healthy manner? The cycle which underpins every single major villain in the story?

It's one thing to be grossed out by it, whatever, so were Kuukai, and Amu, and Ikuto! But when people start dismissing it as shock value fanservice or going "it shouldn't be in a kids manga!" it just tells me that they completely missed the point.

Yeah, it was messed up! Utau is messed up! Her relationship with her brother is messed up! Their childhood was messed up! Utau's behaviour towards her brother is a direct result of how messed up they are! The manga practically screams this at you!!!

And you know what? That should be in a kids manga. Utau's development of realizing her misplaced attraction to her brother is the result of her unstable family dynamics and learning to let go of him in that respect is important!

You think there aren't kids dealing with that? You think there aren't kids that have struggled with misplaced and inappropriate attractions to people because they've been messed up by trauma? You think they don't deserve to be seen and heard and told "you're not broken" and to know they can still be worth love and recovery? To know that they can still navigate a relationship outside of those misplaced attractions and messed up dynamics?

Genuinely: Utau's sub-plot with her dealing with her romantic attraction to her brother was both important and well written, and it ties in so neatly to every other theme about trauma and healing in the manga that if someone misses the point here, I just do not trust that they'll understand anything else this series has to say.

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Utau after kissing her own brother:

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Shugo Chara! ~ eeo Lottery Clear Files: Chibis ~ Official Arts by Peach Pit ❤

HD Version here 1 | 2

Scanned by KuRo93

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It's time for Part 2 of "I hate the fucking anime adaption so fucking much". Part 1 is here.

I've known about this since the start of the month since Nakayoshi posted a black and white ad in the January 2024 Issue talking about it, it just took a while for Marukuji to actually post about it in color. And it still doesn't make it any better.

That looks NOTHING like Amu. Holy shit is it bad. I had to do a double take when I first saw a cropped version of the ad on Twitter because that didn't look like Amu at all. It's horrible. Ikuto looks so fucking awful too. Why the hell is he wearing purple too? It looks way too similar to Utau. It's all so bad and out of character, and it's worse than usual because it's also a lottery. Yeah no, fuck this, I ain't buying it. Last year when they made that new anime art I refused to buy anything with the new art on it and I only bought the ribbons, purses, and mirrors. I hated it that fucking much.

Why do people think this is good? Why? I'm seeing so many people on here and in the Japanese fandom fawn over this and I don't understand why. There's so many yes men in these fandoms I swear, like you're all too afraid to say something is shit when it's shit. And this is shit. It leaves such a bad fucking taste in my mouth that they got the old anime character designer to do another set of merchandise. I really wanted that crap from last year to be a one time thing, and then this happened. Really makes me sick thinking about a reboot potentially bringing that old character designer back… God no. This is terrible. The art is so bad.

I know Rozen Maiden is doing the same thing lately, with the 2013 anime character designer making new art for merchandise and lotteries, the difference is that the 2013 Rozen Maiden anime art is actually good. It was a massive improvement over the horrid Nomad art. They never ever use the Nomad art anymore, and God I wish they would treat SC! the same way. Make a reboot, make merchandise using that new anime art, and please pretend the old anime art doesn't exist anymore.

I'm still convinced they will reboot it, with all the money they're hoarding from the constant new merchandise. Here's hoping we get some nice news after the sequel manga starts. Unfortunately right now they're going to focus on the Vampire Dormitory anime adaption. Shoujo anime adaptions are making a comeback, and they choose to give this trashy manga an anime adaption... sigh. And we still don't have a start date for the Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card Arc anime sequel either. I guess they just don't want it competing with these two anime at the moment, so they're waiting.

I need some eye bleach, I can't stand looking at this fucking art anymore.