#hiroto kazama

[wuxiaphoenix]

On Characters: Make Them Work For It

There’s an interesting conundrum when you consider cultivation fantasies. True, a lot of them are about people abusing power Because They Can. (Completely against the ideals of most martial arts teachings, where learning is supposed to make you a better person because you know how much damage you can do if you aren’t.) And yet, cultivation stories have an element that should be dragged back into more fantastic fiction: a great and powerful character has to work for it.

Yes, some people may be “born special” if the talent for cultivation is rare. (Depends on the setting.) You still have to put in the work to actually learn. Train. Overcome obstacles. Outwit your opponents!

This is also an element that comes up in Hakuouki, along with the blood-drinking, oni, politics, and swordplay. There’s a point in one of the final fight scenes of the first season, Shinsengumi Vice-Commander Hijikata Toshizou versus oni Kazama Chikage, where our Shinsengumi gets a heartfelt rant about everyone, oni and samurai, considering them fakes. “It doesn't matter if I'm a fake. I'll become the real thing if I fight my way through.”

This is, BTW, historically accurate. Most of the Shinsengumi, including Hijikata (the son of a medicine seller!), weren’t samurai at all. They came by their sword skills by hook or by crook, and earned their reputation for deadly ferocity. And now you know one of the reasons they’re so popular in fiction.

Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise is another story that gets this in. Not only do Hiroto and his friends need to learn to fight for real, it’s explicit that your Gunpla is “built” off the results from your scanned model. So you not only have to be a good gamer and tactician, you need to be a good crafter as well. A transforming mecha that uses pieces from several other Gunplas and can still fight - and fights well - is a masterwork.

The Mrs. Pollifax series has her survive her first mission as a spy only because of long experience dealing with people in ordinary life; she learns more spycraft as she goes. By the Sword by Mercedes Lackey follows a character from inexperienced teen to mercenary commander. In P.M. Griffin’s Star Commandos books, Commando-Colonel Islaen Connor and her people have to learn the dangers of each new planet with a problem, and rise to the occasion by adapting everything they already know.

I grant you writing stories where characters build their skills over time can be tricky. Plotwise you have to make it reasonable that they can survive with imperfect skills (or none!) to start. Meta, it can be hard to figure out how characters would learn - and fail, and recover - when we may never have the chance to gain anything like their skills ourselves. After all, if anyone’s got a trade school for empathic healing or starship piloting, I haven’t heard of it!

But if you can pull it off... this is the kind of story that sticks with a reader. Go for it!

[uyuforu]

Some people messaged me to know who are those characters, so I thought of sharing the list!

Natsume Hyuuga from Gakuen Alice

Shibata Rihito from Mei Chan No Shitsuji (actor's name: Hiro Mizushima)

Hiroto Kazama from Kilari

Trunks from Dragon Ball

Anakin Skywalker from Star Wars

Sinbad/ Chiaki Nagoya from Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne

Howl/ Hauru from Howl's Moving Castle

Ace from One Piece

Damon Salvatore from The Vampire Diaries

Yes I have Scorpio Juno and here were my different crushes growing up

(always preferred black hair Howl)

[saint-miroir]

Kirarin Revolution illustration featured inside the sleeve that came with the first manga volume, illustrated by series mangaka, An Nakahara. Scanned from my personal collection.

[mclzandaya]

bored af at 5 am and decided to recolour a scan of kilari just to see if i still had it in me.. spoiler: i do not ToT can't believe how difficult it is to colour skin on a scan (you can clearly see i tried to do hiroto first lol) but at least it was pretty fun!

[lachatalovematcha]

きらりん☆レボリューション

[sadisticsmiles]

January 19, 2020

The CGs from 恋人はキャプテン. The character designs are by Itaru, who did the artwork for Be My Princess, Be My Princess 2, Sakura Amidst Chaos, and Samurai Love Ballad Party!

[angiecakes1990]

thes 3 love triangles the dark hair boy wins the girl over 😍

Gakuen Alice/Alice Academy - Natsume x Mikan in both manga and anime

Shugo Chara - Ikuto x Amu manga and anime

Kirarin Revolution - Hiroto x Kirari manga and anime

[fuckyeahanimebirthdays]

Hiroto Kazama (Kirarin Revolution)  » June 10

[renakurisumasu]

[saaraofthesand]

I made more shitty World Trigger memes. Here you go:

[mclzandaya]

hiroto kazama best boi

yes im rewatching season 1 of kilari and falling in love with him all over again, 10-year-old me is THRILLED

[lachatalovematcha]

[allie-and-her-fandoms]

Oh hey, it's one of my first ships

[marciego]

"why are you bisexual" i watched hiroto kazama and fubuki todo stage kiss on tv when i was 7

[sadisticsmiles]

恋人はキャプテン Official Fan Book and bromides of two of the guys: Hiroto Kazama and Shun Ibuki. No bookmarks. Yet, the character designer is the same one for the Be My Princess series, and the Sakura Amidst Chaos/Samurai Love Ballad Party series: Itaru.

[black-silystya]