#mitsumi my fave

[skybulb]

ch 46

[cappiecarp]

i was updating my favorites bingo bc a lot has changed in the 6 months since i last made it and i realized i had a row of my favorite cat characters. so i put them on this helpful guide.

[stuckatmyhouse12]

Before I stop Skip and Loafer posting for today, just want to say that I thought this part from chapter 60 was cute

[5yno]

ugh idk where to put this but i need to get it off my chest, i literally do not feel anything for this man (yet? idk) but his favourite anime charas + the fact that he matched my enthusiasm when talking abt skip and loafer makes me feel a special type of way

[kimdokjas]

2023 CHARACTER WRAPPED top 9 characters I loved in 2023

tagged by @difanghua @cowtiekento @edwards-teach — thank you for the tag hanyi, malina, and elio ♡

I only chose my faves from shows I watched this year, otherwise the list would be endless ^^'

tagging: (no pressure!) @kanbayashis @misakarose @icythot-bakubitch @evakant @mx-sinisters @ashiromina @milaghoul @sugaaz @userfrieren @usernanami @peskyfirefly @karura @taz-skylar @luffys @queenrojpag @himawaari @koushuwu @smol-ackerman + anyone else who wants to!

characters + honorable mentions under the cut

violet evergarden (violet evergarden)

shirosaki yuusei (atarashii joushi wa dotennen)

suwa rei (buddy daddies)

william james moriarty (yuukoku no moriarty)

vash the stampede (trigun stampede)

mu qing (tian guan ci fu)

mukouda tsuyoshi (tondemo skill de isekai hourou meshi)

iwakura mitsumi (skip to loafer)

yato (noragami)

honorable mentions: kim dokja (omniscient reader's viewpoint), lu guang (shiguang dailiren), katsuki yuuri (yuuri on ice), jiang cheng (mo dao zu shi), ryu hwa (myoryeongui hwangja), lloyd frontera (yeokdaegeum yeongji seolgyesa)

[all-inmoderation]

Challenge: Make a poll with five of your all time favorite characters and tag 5 people to do the same!

ooo this is a fun challenge! thanks for tagging me @lady-tortilla-chip!

these are some of my fave characters recently, in no particular order:

Honorable Mentions: Mi-ae Hwang from After School Lessons for Unripe Apples, Ichikawa Kyotaro from The Dangers in My Heart, Naomi Westfield from You Deserve Each Other. I love these characters too but we were only allowed to pick 5 :(

I'll tag: @thefudge, @lej222, @bioloyg, @praetorqueenreyna, @himbo-prince

[nicomrade]

i said id maybe make a post about my faves i was rereading this year so here it is ^-^ the other ones i reread i already talked about in my 2022 reads post lmao... so heres 3 comedy high school mangas that i love so dearly. none r really niche i will admit but i dont read school life much

Skip To Loafer - Takamatsu Misaki (2018 - Present) a seinen romcom about this country girl moving to the big city and making friends :) its honestly so refreshing and a mature, nuanced look at interpersonal relationships and growing up. i love every character in this? i will not lie the romantic arc IS there but its also kind of not the point. or its equally the point as everything else?. relationship hierarchies are explicitely discussed in the manga actually which i wasnt expecting. uhm "rep-wise" mitsumis aunt is a trans woman and this is also treated seriously without being the only thing going on with her and i am getting lesbianbaited soooooo bad. read skip to loafer and remember that we are all the same people deep down

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun - Tsubaki Izumi (2011 - Present) the thing about nozaki-kun is that it understands perfectly the 4koma format. every page is its own bit, with a punchline every single time. nothing happens in nozaki-kun if its not funny- which means that all the romance development that happens, happens because its funny. i really need to emphasize this 1. nozaki kun is really fucking funny 2. there ARE developments in the character relationships, it is not a static manga and 3. each page has a punchline. read some mediocre 4koma and then understand how fucking good nozaki-kun is. its about this guy who is a shoujo manga author and this girl who has a crush on him and all the weirdos who know (or dont know) that nozakis a shoujo mangaka. that manga panel with the guy saying "read some shoujo manga and develop some emotions"? from nozaki-kun. just read it and understand the strength of 4koma done well.

Yugami-kun has no friends - Sakura Jun (2012-2019) what if i told you this school life shonen about a friendless guy and the girl who befriends him is not a romance? what if i told you yugami is autistic and treated with respect? what if i told you yugamis special interest is in rakugo? and what if yugami-kun was also really fucking funny. do you understand why this is one of my faves. the point of the manga is that social norms are fucking stupid and half the time you think someones rude its cause u are trying to force them in a situation they dont wanna be in. its fundamentally about meeting people halfway- one of the subplots is literally about how horrifying it is to have to keep up polite text conversation w someone you only vaguely know and how much both sides wish they could just stop texting without being "rude". and it transmits its deep love for rakugo better than [title censored for privacy] just read yugami-kun ok?

[timingmatters]

The colored panels are so fucking pretty please

Chap 51 is gonna be the start of my fave arc i just know it

Edit: I WAS RIGHT THIS ARC IS GONNA BE MY FAVE OMG SPOILERS AHEAD BUT HERE ARE THINGS IM SO EXCITED FOR:

- Mika has realized something is off with Mitsumi and Shima. I have always hoped that when she finds out what went down she becomes overprotective of mitsumi. Ik Shima doesn’t deserve hate at all, but i kinda hope mika goes from her beginnings of putting shima in a pedestal, to giving him some harsh words because she KNOWS and WANTS better for mitsumi and has her back. Idk at least be there for her and a little mad at shima dhhdhd.

- Mitsumi has been avoiding Shima. Which is completely fair and honestly a catalyst for how Shima has been feeling lately and misses her. BUT I think him witnessing the fight with her sister might make them open up to each other. And tbh Mitsumi has only opened up to our Uiji boy (my god ik thats not his name i already forgot im so sorry its my boy with glasses im so sorry son). She hasn’t opened up as much about her struggles as she did with him. So i think it would be good for her to take that step with shima and really open up about her family. And in turn, Shima can also share a vulnerable side to him and actually speak about his struggles and past at least a little with her. He hasn’t done it at all and i think its such a good opportunity for their relationship to reach a new level by really opening up to each other!!

- nao-chan’s first time back since years ago (probably maybe the beginning of her transition?). I want a chapter entirely focus on her and her family relationships as well as maybe just her going around town. She’s making such a brave fucking step because in a small town everyone knew her in the past as well as the family, SHE’S SO BRAVE I LOVE HER. I hope we see her having a conversation with her siblings too. A personal conversation away from the kids.

- Mitsumi’s sister clearly likes Shima lmao. I hope Shima kinda gets uncomfortable enough and chooses ti stick even closer to Mitsumi unconsciously, which wouldn’t be weird to anyone bc they have been that one since day 1 lmao.

- EVERYONE MEETING FUMI

- can you imagine if fumi just assumes makoto and yuzuki are already dating. Idk i want them to become canon so bad COMMON GIVE THEM A SCENE UNDER THE STARS. A LITTLE KISS MAYBE. A MOMENT. SOME CONFUSION AND REALIZATION. LETS MAKE THEM CANON COMMON PEOPLE!!!!!

- lastly if mitsumi and shina do have a conversation about their families or struggles and stop avoiding each other (rather mitsumi stops avoiding him lmao). I would LOVEEE to see her family and fumi’s reaction to how close shima and her usually are and how they always go together. Because so far her friends are picking up that something is off because they ARENT as close as they usually are, but if they solve it the family will not only see how close they are, but how normal and usual their closeness is to everyone else lmao.

- also omg if shima meets her other male friends whom she has always been close to because she grew up with them, will he be jealous?? Ik is immature of me but i do want the shima jealous arc IM SORRYYY. And that arc is technically already canon bc if the rumors of Mitsumi dating her friend (im so sorry glasses boy ik is uiji or something like that IM SORRY). So ik shima is already a little self conscious and jealous, but it would be fun to be forced to watch it closely on a vacation with her suddenly being so close to guys he has never seen and knowing that they have ALWAYS been close idk djdjdj. Just a little fun we dont need to be super angsty about it. Just shima a little too uncomfortable knowing that guys are very close to mitsumi YET he isnt at the moment (pls understand this does not mean i want him to be mad at her having close male friends, just him realizing that maybe now that they are not dating and have broken up he kinda is not more special than any of her other male friends bc she is very close to others and realizing that perhaps he does want to be someone special for her)

[misoshio]

Skip to Loafer Anime Episode 1, Part 1 - Thoughts and more thoughts? (Part 1/3)

WOW first of all - what an INCREDIBLE 1st episode! As someone who absolutely loves the manga, to see it in animation was something I was really looking forward to. I wouldn’t say I had high expectations, it was more so that I was simply excited to just see one of my favourite mangas be animated, but wow - honestly, I’d say rather than the anime doing the manga justice, I feel as though the anime does its own justice.

I watched the episode twice, on the surprise early livestream in the skip to loafer discord, as well as the pre-scheduled livestream, and then once more up until the halfway point to make screenshots.

My first impressions were as follows:

what studio ghibli vibes (this is a big, big compliment)

this pacing is awesome, and the anime has really awesome transitions/new perspectives that weren't in the manga

the visuals, especially the colours really stood out to me

the characters - the voice acting

the soundtracks coming in and the sound effects AHH!

but let’s take a deeper dive! with things that stuck out to me with the episode and differences between the anime and the manga that I thought were interesting!

NOTE: this does contain manga spoilers/ spoilers to episode 1 of the anime

1. Cherry blossoms and our very first visual scene

I’m going to mention cherry blossoms A LOT, because they’re also laid out throughout the whole episode. Interestingly enough, cherry blossoms are not in the first chapter itself, but they are the cover of volume 1 as well as chapter 1! I LOVE the inclusion of it. Throughout the episode it’s used often as a means to transition from one scene to another, but I think the use of it is also a standout in a certain scene (which will be mentioned later on in part 3)

How cool is it that as the anime has just released its first episode, in the SPRING season of anime, and that the sakura are in full bloom right now in Japan. (I was actually recently in Japan just this past week and Tokyo's sakura were in full bloom, which is why seeing this inclusion in the skip to loafer anime when the manga chapter didn’t have any of it, is a change I found really awesome and also personal!)

2. This shot that I am dubbing the Mitsumi dun-dun drone-shot

LOVE this pan-out of Mitsumi turning her head to make her pose on the balcony, SUPER cool shot visually, it gives me epic, it gives me life. Visually, it's just a great transition! And it's one of MANY great transitions

3. Train window reflection

In the manga, we don’t have any idea where Mitsumi is having these thoughts as she thinks about her friends and her hometown, but in the anime as she says "Growing up with my best friend, how cool is that" and is looking at the panda pin, we see that it’s while she’s on her train to Tokyo, which is different from the manga and is very cool - and...

... this then transitions gorgeously into this

4. Our first Magical Cherry Blossom Transition

With the petals blowing with the background of Mitsumi’s hometown, then focusing on a single petal (which, hmmm might be a symbol for Mitsumi? ) and then we see our petal-Mitsumi fly into a background of Tokyo

Sidenote: I saw this white car moving and was like huh? I’m 99% sure it’s the car Mitsumi’s friends used to drive to the station so they could see Mitsumi off! It's something SO small, but i thought it was lovely to see their car drive away, the last bit of Mitsumi's hometown going, and then seeing the gust of cherry blossoms transition into a single one and then we’re in Tokyo

lol, moving on

5. Getting ready (well, most of them)

Quaking and shaking.  Here we are with some lovely getting ready shots of some of the significant characters at this point early on in the story. I think a lot of us manga-readers were absolutely pleasantly surprised by these shots! Our faves in action!!!

First, Yuzuki

Second, Mukai

Third, Mika??? I zoomed ahead later on in the episode since this person had their nails painted and I wanted to see if Mika did in the shot of hers when she first talks to Mitsumi. Alas, no nails done, and honestly though I would think that having one character constantly have painted nails for everything would be a lot of work. Painted nails does seem very Mika to me though!!! I just want confirmation on who this is haha!

Fourth, Kinomoto? Was honestly surprised to see her included if this is who it is! I'd assume though, given the short hair, and the twirl does say Kinomoto to me!

Fifth, Makoto

Sixth, Yamada

Seventh……..SHIMA

VERY FUN that our intro to him is so contrary, not only in action of not getting ready as we see the different characters do in the previous shots, but also!! the colour schemes is pretty much in dark whereas everyone else is in bright light

Eighth!!!!!! Last but certainly not least: MITSUMI-CHAN (and the panda-pin I mean how cute is that!)

ALSO "Kanpeki"

C’mon, that attitude in the “Perfect." This little self-comment is another anime addition that is just so tasty!

I mentioned this in my general comments about the voice acting, but wowza does the voice actor Kurosawa make a perfect Mitsumi

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Link to Part 2/3

[cappiecarp]

i will shimamitsu the world i am insane i am crazy they are so yuri.... if u disagree u r wrong this is straight yuri. i hope they explode i will explode them with my mind they are rattling in my brain. they are so cat and dog and silly

anyways so my friend req'd danganronpa from me and i have no new art to post so if u see me posting danganronpa i need you to step back and pretend u didn't see anything