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Nostalgic because of... Victory Road. ⭐

[yarameijer]

Raimon GO Trio: Growth

So I was busy answering an ask for AR, and then realized I got super carried away with it and didn’t really answer the ask anymore. Yet I’m also having too much fun with this particular analysis, so I decided to make it a separate post!

The ask was originally about Raimon GO Trio headcanons, and moments in which Original Raimon Trio saw themselves in the GO Trio. Anyway, things happened, and… oops?

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The relationship of the GO trio is one based on growth, I think.

To start, I need to talk about the original trio. Endou, Kidou and Gouenji have always had a friendship based on equality and mutual respect. They were equals from very early on in the anime, if not the start, I think (it’s been a long time since I watched it so I’m a little skewed on the details). Kidou and Gouenji were both established as phenomenal soccer players from the start. Endou was not, but he was the captain and that gave him a certain, status, I suppose might be the word, as well. The three of them have always had this sense of equality to me that the GO trio lacked for a very long time.

As for mutual respect; Kidou started on a different side, but he has very clearly been impressed by Gouenji’s skills since before the first episode even started, specifically challenging Raimon to draw him out and face him in a match, and he was relatively neutral to Endou but eventually started to respect him even while they were rivals. With the exception of the first two, three, episodes, Gouenji has always had a friendly relationship with Endou and (as far as I can remember) never fought his authority as captain, and he’s had a friendly relationship with Kidou basically from the moment he joined the team. Despite some hostility at the start, Kidou and Gouenji have always deferred to Endou’s position as captain. And I think we all know Endou’s opinion. There were some bumps in the road but the three of them have always held mutual respect for one another, and their friendship has always had that respect and equality as its basis.

Shindou, Tsurugi and Tenma are very different.

From day one they were hostile to one another and that lasted for a very long time, and unlike the original trio they didn't even respect each other to balance it out. Shindou and Tsurugi considered each other enemies and just had a general bad opinion of the other; Tsurugi was cruel and sort of crazy, to be honest, and saw both Shindou and Tenma as an enemy, although Shindou was probably the bigger threat in his eyes (now I'm thinking, despite the Gouenji-Tsurugi parallels, it's also possible to compare Tsurugi and Kidou as they were both originally antagonists, but Kidou never seemed as bitter as Tsurugi to me (it's been a long time since I watched the originals, so I could be wrong)). Shindou seemed very self-absorbed in the sense that he took all the weight on his own shoulders, like he thought that he was responsible for everything and needed to solve all problems primarily alone. Tsurugi was a Seed and his enemy and Tenma a troublemaker and distraction.

Tenma here would be the exception, but that didn't matter because originally Tenma held the weakest position. New to a team, good at dribbling but horrible at everything else, younger than Shindou (which, especially with Japan's focus on age differences, really doesn't help the equality thing) and generally discarded by both Tsurugi and Shindou. Sure, he respected Shindou and he didn’t have the same hostility towards Tsurugi as many others, but it didn’t matter because he barely had a voice on the team. Sure, he talked a lot, and I mean a lot, but people didn’t listen.

The three of them were a mess no matter how you look at it. You couldn’t even refer to them as ‘the three of them’ because they had nothing in common, no relationship to speak of.

As we all know that eventually changed, and it kept changing. Tenma got through to Shindou, Shindou started treating Tenma, if not as a friend, at least as an underclassman - as someone he had a responsibility towards to care for. Tsurugi became a tentative ally to Raimon, and they had to put up with him, and eventually he switched sides completely (still kept to himself a lot though). Tenma gained more confidence in his place on the team. They struggled, they fought together, they had to encourage each other and that builds bonds. To be honest, I don't know when these three became friends, I'd have to rewatch the anime for that, but I think it took a while even after they initially set aside their differences. Even during the last match of season 1, Tsurugi still refers to Tenma as ‘’Matsukaze’’ in his head.

(Another fun thing that makes them less compatible compared to the original trio - their positions. Endou, goalkeeper; Kidou, midfielder; Gouenji, forward. Defense, bridge, offense. They’re spread out equally over the field. The GO trio, though, consists of one forward and two midfielders; mismatched.)

Anyway, their relationship is constantly evolving. From enemies, to (tentative) allies, to sort of friends. I mean, there’s an obstacle simply in the fact that Shindou is older and therefore put in the ‘senpai’ role (seriously, don’t underestimate how important age differences are in Japan). Then there’s Tsurugi being a pretty quiet individual. They might be on friendly terms, even call one another friends, but they wouldn’t be good friends.

Tenma’s and Shindou’s relationship in season 1, to me, never really seemed like friendship. Tenma very obviously respects Shindou and depends on him and thinks he’s great, but he also sort of puts Shindou on a pedestal. Shindou seems, eventually, very fond of Tenma, and to be honest I think Shindou is actually the one to call him a friend first; less of an age barrier for him, and Tenma is a bit too shy to declare his captain a friend first (seriously, it’s easy to forget but especially at the start of the anime, Tenma is very shy). But especially as long as the barrier of Tenma putting Shindou on a pedestal exists, they can’t really be friends in the deeper sense of the word.

Tsurugi and Tenma, on the other hand, have learnt to work together and depend on one another by the end of season 1. It’s not very pronounced but it’s obvious (especially when they use Fire Tornado Double Drive) how much Tsurugi really depends on Tenma (and accepts that!), while Tenma is just super friendly and nice towards Tsurugi. At some point these two became friends, but gosh don’t ask me when. (I want to add here: we see clearly in season 1 how much Tsurugi depends on Tenma, and while we don’t see that sentiment returned, I do believe it already exists at that point; at the very least, Tenma’s reaction to Tsurugi’s kidnapping in season 3 speaks volumes.)

I haven’t mentioned the friendship between Shindou and Tsurugi much before, but that’s because they’re really hard to pin down. The one thing that stands out to me is how great of a team they are together, even, or maybe especially, without Tenma. We don’t see the two of them interacting as much as we see either of them interacting with Tenma, but what interactions they do have often occur during matches - I can’t really pinpoint any examples but to me it’s always felt like there was no real need for them to talk so much. Tsurugi goes along with Shindou’s strategies always without ever asking for explanation; he’s got a healthy respect for Shindou’s mind, I think, and seems very good at picking up clues from him. Which, to Shindou, probably makes him the perfect ‘’pawn’’ in his strategies, since Tsurugi is 1) a real ace of the team and 2) really good at responding to him instinctively. They’re very quiet together, and a very good team. They didn’t respect each other at the start, but once they saw eye-to-eye? Hell yeah, and I think that defines them for the entire series. Shindou never treats Tsurugi like an underclassmen, not like he does Tenma. When did these two become friends? I don’t think even they know - actually, I think they might not have been friends if Tenma hadn’t been there to be the bridge between them, but when it actually happened? No clue.

Anyway! Then there’s the next big change: Tenma becomes captain.

It always stood out to me that Tenma didn’t stop calling Shindou ‘captain’ until Chrono Stone. I always wondered why Tenma was still captain in Chrono Stone, since Shindou was out of the hospital at that point and they never discussed the - what initially seemed like a temporary - captain switch in the anime. I mentioned in an earlier post that I headcanon that this switch happened because Shindou insisted on it, because Shindou didn't want to be captain and felt Tenma was better suited to the role. This conversation would've taken place somewhere between season 1 and 2, or potentially somewhere in the first episodes of season 2. That's also why Tenma switches from calling him ‘captain’ to ‘Shindou-senpai’, and that's the start of the newest change in their relationship. It quite literally forces Tenma into being on more equal footing as Shindou, as captain to former captain. Obviously this switch is gradual, as we see him doubting himself quite a lot in Chrono Stone and growing into the position as the season goes on.

Now I have to wonder how Tenma and Tsurugi's dynamic would've changed in response to Tenma becoming captain. I actually imagine that Tsurugi had a very easy time with it; he’d been following Tenma’s lead quite a lot in season 1 already.

Finally, season 3. It starts out pretty great, actually - their teamwork is great. One thing of note is that Tenma, at least, switched to calling Shindou ‘Shindou-san’ somewhere between season 2 and 3, I'm not certain about Tsurugi - he doesn't often call Shindou by name but I think he already called him that? Or switches multiple times? - but it shows that Tenma is much more comfortable with Shindou than before. At least, until the start of their disagreement over the Inazuma Japan team.

Season 3. Damn, what a ride.

I mean, I’m sure everyone remembers Shindou and Tenma in this. Pretty hard to forget, really. Shindou’s angry, frustrated, incredibly emotional and basically seems to revert back to how he was at the start of season 1. He seems to be taking it all out on Tenma and Ibuki; which while not fair is at least understandable. Tenma’s constantly disagreeing with him, someone Shindou believes should have the same opinion as him, whereas Ibuki keeps on challenging him. 

The funny thing is, this doesn’t affect their teamwork at all.

In the first episodes, it’s Tsurugi, Shindou and Tenma basically doing all the work during the matches, and it is their incredible teamwork that gets the team through the first stages of an intergalactic championship, which, damn, is pretty impressive if you ask me. They’re arguing but still in sync, and I love that. The three of them have always been a great combo when playing soccer, whereas outside of that they definitely weren’t - they’re perfectly balanced yet horridly incompatible. The contradiction is incredible with those three.

Something else I noticed is that, even after Tenma’s been captain for quite a while, he still follows Shindou’s orders without question, and Shindou still orders him around without hesitation. And yet Shindou doesn’t overstep; he’s very clearly not trying to be captain anymore, and in the instances Tenma thinks he’s wrong, Tenma is not afraid to disagree.

Tsurugi, during the early episodes of season 3, is really the eye of the storm. While Shindou seems to have a pretty short temper around Tenma, that’s not the case when he’s around Tsurugi, and there’s multiple instances where he asks for Tsurugi’s opinion. At the same time, Tsurugi doesn’t make it any harder for Tenma, either; he really stays out of it. Lmao he basically saw Tenma and Shindou fighting and went ‘’oh hell no I don’t want any part of this’’, so he’s really the neutral ground between them (and then he gets kidnapped pretty quickly, sooo…).

Of course everything gets turned upside down when they find out about the whole alien thing, and though Shindou doesn’t argue with Tenma anymore, he does put a lot on his shoulders.

He’s not wrong, per se, but way to put pressure on the kid! Which, fair, he is the captain, but Shindou, honey, c’mon. You know Tenma. You know how he’s gonna take this.

So yeah, I don’t think that Tenma at any moment in Galaxy beyond the first and last episode is actually happy. Even when he’s cheerful, he’s constantly trying to keep a team that’s falling apart at the seams together - do you see the parallels here with Shindou in season 1? - or gauging their mood, or dealing with internal conflicts, or arguing with Shindou (and to some degree Tsurugi), or dealing with the stress of being the captain that has to save the entirety of humankind. Even when he's laughing, there's no way he's able to let go of that fully, no way he can be carefree. Despite outward appearances, Tenma in season 3 is so fundamentally different from Tenma in season 1. There’s no freedom, no fun, no ‘wind of the revolution’ when that is exactly what his character has been about all along. He's restrained. He's pushed into a mold he doesn't fit into, by everything and everyone around him, and the ones who know him, who could've put a stop to this - they don't see it happening. An extra interesting detail is, Tenma rarely reaches out to his friends when it's about himself or his issues, it's only when they notice that something's wrong and confront him that he actually opens up. And Tenma, in season 3, has become a lot better at keeping up appearances - understandable, since the whole spiel is that he has to be the captain, has to keep everyone's spirits high, and he cannot allow them to see him hesitating and worrying. It's actually probably not a good thing that he learns that lesson, because it means it'll be even easier for him to smile and say he's fine and divert people away from the fact that he's struggling. And then to add to that, Tsurugi and Shindou, people he would usually depend on and let down the mask for, aren't there.

Y'see, in season 1, Tenma is never really alone - despite the rocky start, he’s got Shinsuke and Aoi. In season 2, he’s alone for a while before Fei comes and by the time Fei betrays him, he’s got Raimon with him again. In season 3, Tenma is cut off from Raimon, pushed away by Shindou and Tsurugi, not opening up to Aoi, surrounded by a team that expects things of him as captain that no one has before, and Tenma is alone. And he has to deal with that. Learn from it. Grow with it. Find himself again, and he does. And that is the growth Tenma goes through in season 3.

To be honest, all three of them have their own stories in Galaxy, kinda like in season 1 but whereas in season 1 it converges from separate places to the same path, in season 3 it’s the opposite - they come from the same story and then split up. Tenma with his learning how to stand alone; Shindou with letting go of his steadfast opinion; Tsurugi with, uh, getting kidnapped by aliens?

Not gonna lie, one of those three doesn’t quite feel the same as the others…

Seriously though, Tsurugi’s arc in Galaxy is a little less introspective than the others, I think. Now that I’m thinking about it, maybe it’s about stepping up more? Previously he just went along with Raimon a lot. He’s a relatively quiet character and happy to leave the decisions and speeches to Shindou and Tenma - to be honest, in Chrono Stone when he was acting captain for one of the El Dorado/Raimon teams against the Second Stage Children, I was a bit startled before remembering that canonically, Tsurugi was captain previously. He never seemed to care much for the position. Like I said, he’s always followed along with Tenma, and he’s always been easy with following Shindou’s commands as well. But in season 3 that switches - he’s left alone, but it’s very different from Tenma’s situation. He’s becoming much more proactive in trying to convince Lalaya that her planet sucks, that she doesn’t need no man to be Queen, and most interestingly to me - the whole development with him becoming captain of Faram Dite. He steps up in a way he doesn’t really do in the rest of the anime.

To be honest, Tsurugi’s a hard character to pin down because he’s so quiet and composed most of the time. One thing about him, though, is that he’s got a major guilt complex. Just look at the whole situation with his brother, the fact that he blames himself has driven him for years before the anime even starts. It’s the reason he’s with Fifth Sector. After Tenma and Yuuichi give him that much needed reality check, Tsurugi backs down a lot and stays quiet. I think, and mind you this is all speculation - I think Tsurugi is afraid. Afraid of making choices, afraid of speaking up, of speaking his mind out loud. He follows Tenma, and Raimon’s, lead a lot, and while I think he does agree with them and doesn’t hesitate speak up after they already did so, I also think for a long while he would not be the first one to openly speak his mind. He’s been through a lot. He’s made mistakes, big mistakes (coughcough-joining Fifth Sector-coughcough) that you can’t blame him for considering the situation and the fact he was a literal kid when he joined Fifth Sector, but with what we’ve seen with his guilt complex with Yuuichi, who’s to say Tsurugi doesn’t blame himself? It’s like he needs the confirmation from Raimon that yes, this is the right choice, before he decides to speak up.

And in Galaxy, that changes. He’s left alone, no example to follow, dealing with a girl who’s even more afraid of making mistakes than he is, and for good reason. Lalaya has the lives of an entire planet on her shoulders, and she reaches out to Tsurugi because she has no faith in herself at all. Kind of like Tsurugi has no faith in himself either unless an outside source - Tenma, Yuuichi, Raimon - confirms it. Suddenly this girl is looking towards him for his approval on her decisions, same way he’s always done, and she doesn’t see what he does - that she doesn’t need it, that she can stand on her own. And Tsurugi committing to helping her, making that his priority rather than getting back to the Earth Eleven - and then, of course, switching sides and joining Faram Dite, knowing Earth Eleven won’t understand, Tenma won’t understand, won’t approve, and doing it anyway. For the first time in a long while, Tsurugi makes a choice because he believes it’s right, regardless of what anyone else thinks. That’s his character growth.

This already is eight pages, but now I’m committed, lol. Two down, one more to go!

Shindou Takuto. Honey, what a mess you are.

I could talk for ages about the impact that his rich kid life and likely demanding family would have on him. He’d be one of those ‘’piano lessons, Chinese lessons, fencing lessons’’ kids that get so much pressure put on his shoulders at a young age, to be perfect, to be worthy of the family name. I don’t think his family’s necessary neglectful or bad or anything! He gets to play soccer a lot, and it’s clearly because he likes it. But I do think that Shindou is an incredibly intelligent kid, and he’s always been pushed to perform the absolute best in whatever he does. It’s why he cracks under the pressure in season 1, when everything is falling apart around him, when the one thing he’s got for fun, because he loves it - soccer - becomes just as stressful, or even more so, as everything else in his life.

Season 3’s interesting, because from every damn side, Shindou is told he’s wrong.

A team of amateurs, when from basically his first appearance in season 1 it’s so damn obvious how much the Raimon team means to him. It’s a disgrace, not to him but to his friends, and Tenma - who should by all means agree with him completely - doesn’t seem to care. His plans are denied, his ideas are denied, except during matches. And these amateurs are just trampling over everything he believes in, everything his friends have worked so hard for, everything he holds so dear and hurt for and cried for and they don’t even have the grace to care. No wonder he hates them. No wonder he hates Ibuki, because Ibuki doesn’t understand a single thing about it but still has the gall to pretend he’s worthy of the position of keeper. Ibuki tries but not because he gives a damn about what Shindou believes in, but because of spite (I don’t actually think this about Ibuki lol, but I think Shindou would, I’m writing this from his perspective). The Inazuma Japan team spits on everything Shindou and his friends have fought and cried and bled for and he’s told to suck it up. No wonder he’s angry.

But, of course, things get a little better when they do start trying, for real, and keep trying. And then the whole hahaha-hey-you’re-actually-fighting-aliens thing gets revealed, and, well, new priorities and all that.

But still, Shindou’s stuck in his own head. Still dealing with a team he may or may not even like (don’t recall tbh). And at this point, Tenma’s retreated into his shell again (which, fair enough! Shindou hasn’t exactly been supportive and Tenma’s insecurities are acting up! There’s no way he’ll be the first to reach out again if he’s not sure it’s welcome - but Shindou, at this point, has missed all of Tenma’s angst because he’s keeping it quiet, so Shindou doesn’t know to reach out either! Which is also fair!! But they’re just in a continuous spiral at this point, rip) and Tsurugi is kidnapped by an alien queen like five episodes into the whole space adventure, which I’m gonna say is a fair reason not to have great communication at the moment. Also, honestly, both Tenma and Shindou not realizing something’s wrong with Tsurugi is a bit questionable but they both have so much going on in their own heads, plus the pressure of, y’know, trying not to get the earth destroyed, so I’m gonna give them a pass for this one.

Anyway. Shindou is put in a situation where things are, to him, completely spiraling out of control. He never wanted any of this - in fact, he probably was super excited for the international tournament, to just have fun for once and now the whole Grand Celesta Galaxy mess happens, poor kid. He has an idea of how things should be, within the team, at least, and he has such a hard time letting that go. He’s bad at adjusting. He’s not like Tenma. He doesn’t see the good in people as easily as Tenma does, he doesn’t adapt as easily as Tenma does (the wind is adaptable, haha) to this situation, doesn’t go, ‘’okay, I’ll make the best of this’’. He’s prideful, and used to, while not everything going his way, at least knowing his place, about having a certain image of the world around him, good or bad, and for once it doesn’t match up to his expectations at all, and he can’t change it, can only get through it. I’m very tired right now so I don’t think I can explain it very well, my words aren’t working (I’ll probably make a separate character analysis for Shindou at some point where I touch upon this again), but I think that Shindou is a person who needs some sort of control. His whole theme is music, being a music conductor, the strategist, calling the shots, and in Galaxy that’s taken away and he doesn’t know the stage, or the players and that might be similar in a way to Chrono Stone - but in Chrono Stone he still has the majority of his team, his support system, and in Galaxy he only has Tenma and Tsurugi and I just discussed why that whole thing isn’t working out. All he can do is get through it... alone.

Isn't it funny how that's a reoccurring theme with all of them?

Y’know, now I’m reminded of his Kami no Takuto hissatsu. How he directs the entire team like it’s a play or an orchestra. They do exactly what he wants them to and maybe that’s lulled him into a false sense of security. It might even go beyond that - his family demands perfectionism, tells him that if you just work hard enough, you can get everything, be everything, you want. That life will work how you want it to. But it doesn’t. He can’t strategize the entire world to his liking, and that’s okay.

And the fun part about all this? By the end of Galaxy, these three haven’t reconnected.

Oh, it certainly seems like it, because they concluded their own respective arcs. Tenma learns how to be captain and how to be true to himself. Tsurugi learns how to make his own choices and stop being afraid. Shindou learns to be patient and let go of his preconceived notions. They learn their lessons but they never talk about this. They grow, again, as they always do throughout the entire series, and rarely if ever do they talk about it, but why should they? They were together for the entire journey, right next to one another, so why should they tell each other what happened when they’ve all witnessed it?

Except in Galaxy they don’t. They weren’t on the same path. They’ve missed things, and now they’re, sort of, still assuming that the others will just understand because it always worked that way, right? So they don’t talk. And by the end of the season, they haven’t talked, despite the misunderstandings and the hurts. And oh, that’s an opportunity for angst I’m having so much fun exploring in my stories😈

Okay, I got like, so carried away with this. How did this turn into a character analysis for the Raimon GO Trio?? How did it get so long?? This was never the intention. To quote AR!Tenma…

Oops?

[puzzlevision]

this is a normal inazuma eleven go galaxy screenshot please scroll

[platimoonie]

[zakura-ss]

Believe it or not i used the hair color as shading for the shirt

[endouxgofan]

(My abuser just died, 90 years old. Dunno how to feel, I'm not bad tho, just guilty because it's a little of relief for me... So I'll be distracting with my hc's)

Wouldn't it be so cool, like, funny. If the Ie Go boys, played the games of Ie? Like, Kariya watching his two dads and the Aliea academy, and Yukimura discovering that Fubuki had a brother... And the hospital scene of Gouenji and Endou with Gouenji's sister. Tsurugi would relate and go hug Yuuichi. And The Resistance Japan watching Kageyama's army of traumatized kids, and Fudou itself and his relationship with Kidou... Genda and Sakuma are cool too! And maybe, Taiyou can relate and get why people compare him with Ichinose (need more Ichinose saves puppy, Ichinose goes hospital) Etc...

Or them with the Ogre team and watching Kanon, or Tachimukai fanboying and Hiroto being a simp. And Aphrodi would've so cool! And his kids would've like "God's nec-" his villain arc and then playing with them...

And Rococo and Fideo would probably be a crazy impact. (Also, it's interesting the depressed Endou and the emperor's being Kazemaru and the hospital one's)

So it's kinda a request? Well, an idea, because I'm already writing a Pokémon x Inazuma Eleven fanfic.

[foolartqwq]

FUDOU AKIO!!

I love drawing him like this 😭

[dailyfalco]

"DAY 14/HUEVEMBER DAY 5: Shadowed with lies"

this is an experimental art

first time drawing normal matatagi and the result is not that bad! but he kinda looks like a mix of his dark side design though

[psychedelya]

my favourite war criminals

[zaidaoriori-comms-open]

" Those who forget their own history are condemned to repeat it. "

[yarameijer]

Things The Raimon Team Is Not Allowed To Do, Part II

Continued from Part I.

76. It is not allowed to challenge an opponent to a dance battle during a match.

77. Shindou is not allowed to charge his teammates for his aid. Yes, we are aware that this implies that it’s allowed to charge non-teammates.

78. If anyone from Raimon senior tries to lure you away for whatever reason, you must call coach Endou, coach Kidou and/or Haruna.

79. ‘’But they said they had candy’’ is not a valid excuse to go along with anyone from Raimon senior.

80. Ichino is not allowed to signal SOS when on national TV. This includes mouthing it, tapping it, flaring it with a flashlight or phone, writing it, or otherwise visualizing it.

81. It is strictly forbidden to travel back in time to prevent the birth of one of your teammates, no matter how much they have annoyed you and/or otherwise deserved it.

82. Sangoku is not allowed to create a swearing jar for the team.

83. It is not allowed to physically fight an opponent if they made a teammate cry. It will get the team disqualified. Wipe the floor with them during a match to utterly and completely crush their spirits instead.

84. The managers are not allowed to rig the showers with glitter.

85. If you use ‘’that time I traveled to the 8th century’’ as a reference for your history assignment and get a failing grade, that is entirely on you.

86. Shindou is not allowed to pay and/or otherwise extort Fei for information on next year’s stock market.

87. Kurumada is strictly forbidden from creating a ‘’Flamethrower Shot’’.

88. It is absolutely forbidden to ask ‘’what could possibly go wrong?’’ under any circumstances.

89. Bringing a flamethrower to a match is strictly prohibited.

90. Bringing a flamethrower to practice is strictly prohibited.

91. Shindou is not allowed to pay and/or otherwise extort Fei for any information about the future.

92. Tenma is not allowed to dye the captain band to make it match his uniform because “technically the captain band is not part of the standard uniform and therefore not in violation of rules 15 and 17”.

93. The Raimon soccer club is not the same as ‘’Fight Club’’ and ‘’Fight Club Rules’’ do not apply.

94. The team is not allowed to meet behind the gym at three in the morning for any reason.

95. Midori is not allowed to be within an arm’s reach of a roll of duct tape.

96. Kariya is not allowed to feed and train raccoons behind the gym at three in the morning at any time of day.

97. Amagi is strictly forbidden from using his Great Wall of China hissatsu to entrap his teammates for any reason, unless given explicit permission by either coach Endou or coach Kidou.

98. Aoi is not allowed to be within an arm’s reach of a roll of duct tape.

99. No one shall petition for the Raimon soccer club to be renamed ‘’Raimon theater club’’. We don’t know who it was but none of you are allowed to try it again.

100. None of the managers are allowed to be within an arm’s reach of a roll of duct tape.

101. Kurama can only tell people how much their organs would be worth on the black market if they ask about it.

102. It is not allowed to stab a soccer ball with a fork in front of Tenma and/or coach Endou.

103. Shindou is not allowed to extort, blackmail and/or bribe anyone for anything.

104. None of the following objects are considered an acceptable replacement for a soccer ball: a watermelon, a soccer ball with a picture of Senguuji Daigo’s face on it, a bagel, a soccer ball with a picture of Fuyukai Suguru’s face on it, a disco ball, a manhole cover, a toilet seat, a bowling ball, Shinsuke, a pufferfish, eggs, a hamster ball, a soccer ball with a picture of anyone’s face on it.

105. The team is not allowed to respond with ‘’eat the rich’’ or variants thereof whenever Shindou mentions his family’s wealth.

106. Aoyama is not allowed to start a gambling ring on soccer match outcomes. That’s how Fifth Sector started too.

107. It is not allowed to hang up pictures of people and then try to hit them with a super shot, no matter how good of a ‘’stress relief’’ it is.

108. Team therapy sessions are mandatory.

109. Aoyama is not allowed to start a gambling ring on who will start the next fight in the team.

110. No matter how effective it is, Aoi isn’t allowed to set anyone’s alarm two hours early to make sure they are on time.

111. Kirino will not sacrifice Kariya to the soccer gods.

112. It is not allowed to start a protest again school uniforms because ‘’Tsurugi has never worn his, so why should I?’’

113. It is forbidden to push teammates into volcanoes, active or otherwise.

114. Kariya will not sacrifice Kirino to the soccer gods either.

115. It is not allowed to ask Fei for spoilers about your life.

116. Nobody is sacrificing anyone to the soccer gods.

117. Akane is not allowed to style anyone’s hair without their written consent, and the use of glitter is strictly prohibited.

118. It is not allowed to sell any of your teammates to another soccer team.

119. It is not allowed to put any of your teammates up for adoption by another soccer team either.

120. It is not allowed to donate any of your teammates to another soccer team.

121. It is not allowed to sacrifice any of your teammates to another soccer team.

122. Kurama is not allowed to sneak snakes along in his bag or clothes.

123. Cage fighting is forbidden.

124. Aoyama is not allowed to start a gambling ring on who will win in cage fighting.

125. Ichino is not allowed to livestream cage fights.

126. Tenma is not allowed to burn the captain band.

127. Cage fighting while in Soul form is forbidden as well.

128. Aoyama and Ichino are not allowed to arrange any types of cage fighting ever again.

129. Human sacrifices in any sense of the word, to whatever god you may come up with, are strictly prohibited.

130. Anyone who comes in through the window will immediately be thrown out of that window.

131. Shindou is not allowed to have contact with the Japanese Government.

132. Calling Gouenji to ask him ‘’would you defend me in court?’’ is no longer allowed.

133. Amagi is not allowed to throw any of his teammates, with or without screaming ‘’yeet’’.

134. It is not allowed to throw glitter during a match.

135. Shindou is not allowed to have contact with individuals connected to the Japanese Government.

136. Human sacrifices in any sense of the word, to whatever higher or lower or real or fake power you may come up with, are strictly prohibited.

137. The team is not allowed to start another competition on who can eat the most chili peppers. Two times was bad enough.

138. Aoyama is not allowed to start a gambling ring on who’s most likely to die during the apocalypse.

139. No one is allowed to ask Fei about the apocalypse.

140. Kurama is not allowed to suggest the team starts the apocalypse.

141. Aoyama is not allowed to start a gambling ring on who’s most likely to set off the apocalypse.

142. Shindou is not allowed to collect favors from any politicians, Japanese or otherwise.

143. It is not allowed to treat the rules of soccer as ‘’more of a guideline’’.

144. Human sacrifices in any sense of the word, to whatever higher, lower, fake, real, fictional or non-fictional person, people, being, beings, object or objects, are strictly prohibited.

145. Hayami is not allowed near a fire alarm ever again.

146. The following phrases are not to be used in hissatsu names: ‘’the ol’ razzle dazzle’’, ‘’homoerotic tension’’, ‘’and they were roommates’’, ‘’GOAT’’, ‘’hot girl summer’’, ‘’essential oils’’, ‘’honorificabilitudinitatibus’’, ‘’OK boomer’’, ‘’the power of god and anime’’, ‘’vibe check’’.

147. It is not allowed to donate any of your teammates to a zoo.

148. Benched players are not allowed to throw water balloons at their teammates on the field.

149. Tenma, you are captain until you graduate or I say otherwise. Quit it.

150. If you do not stop trying to sacrifice each other, Kidou will get my permission to sacrifice you.

This list shall be updated as necessary, and only by coach Endou.

[kapane-luyeshu]

it takes time and patience, but it does get better with enough love and care

[puzzlevision]

a goo for @woopersuper (well a gijinka goo actually)

honestly i dont want my gijinka design for him to be a full-on human or at least a humanoid with slimey features (i can imagine stuff happening in my brain and imagining him being human with these features—especially when it comes to modifying abilities such as enlargening—may come off as weird) so i took a logical route by making him less of a human and ended him up look like a pokemon/digimon lol (my gijinka goos height is around the same size as a chair)

2024 thoughts under cut

what do you mean 2024 is ending 🤣🤣🤣 2014 is almost ending today get over it

but seriously i didnt expect to get into another hyperfixation after i stopped watched smg4 due to glitch prod still not apologized to celeste yet + lack of interest and visiting an old favorite from 2017-early 2020 (inazuma eleven). thats how i got into the osc hellhole. i already knew the existence of it since 2019 through bfdi (specifically bfb; my very first osc episode ive watched is bfb episode 15) but never got into the fandom because i am more of an "i got into [insert animated tv show here] because our local tv station aired it in my native language" fan at that time.

speaking of object shows, inanimate insanity became my number 1 favorite object show. i watched the entirety of it to get caught up before s2e15, but before that i watched them through no context clips, and suddenly i grew attached to it. maybe because i found out that it progressively gets darker than bfdi (thank you yugioh gx/arc v and smg4 for making me a lore angst lover lol). i still dont have the desire to watch the entirety of bfdi though.

i have mixed feelings about the ii movie, especially the last act, but overall its good. i didnt expect the plot twist here, and the deaths of mepad and knife is not what i expected and at the same time… its unneccesary. the last act focuses a bit too much on shipping (payjay is fine though since it finally confirms it but my half side is iffy about it since it may cause problems for those who ships either oj or paper with others/dont like payjay) and BOX?? WHAT THE FUCK YOURE ALIVE??? AND YOU HAVE BOOBS????

joining the osc also increases the notes i got from my original posts than i expected. like what do you mean a post of a theory of melife ending its support got more notes than my "uke judai yuki" post. who even are you people.

i dont know if theres gonna be new hyperfixations next year, but who knows? will i lose interest in ii and ie next year? take a guess. since 2 people started watching ii because of me.

[akirandthekoi]

How fascinating it is that one of the coolest ships ever it’s a inazuma eleven one lol

Id watch a series just abt them fr, probably this is the kind of fanart I daydreamed to be able to draw 10 years ago :’) very late, but I enjoyed drawing them a lot! 🩷🩵

[zakura-ss]

Fire is definitely more difficult. The perspective didn't make it better.

[eky11]

Ranmasa 💚🩷