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Omg now that we're talking about the death again I did want to bring up something...

I always liked looking at the position of Tsukasa's arms! A stab to the heart is going to lead to someone losing conscious quickly, but I kind of like the idea that Tsukasa took it with open arms (so to say)... very little blood splatters his arms, almost like he hadn't bothered to struggle. As much as one can struggle when getting stabbed, anyways.

But who knows for sure! I love the idea of Amane snapping, and I can kind of picture it in my head, but Tsukasa is such a wonder. He's been fantasizing about this since he was 4, but does he still want it? And even though he knew about it, did it still manage to catch him off guard? There's so much he didn't know about Amane... so much everyone doesn't know about Tsukasa...

Anyways, Amane's socks are reminding me this took place in a house, so how likely is it do you think that the parents took their lives out of shame of their sons? Admittedly, as a twins purist, I dislike the idea of the parents getting in on their personal little shinjuu in the first place, but I think it would be an interesting way of incorporating suicide into the parents demise (if something else didn't kill them.)

On a more random note, I kind of mourn the fact that Amane didn't make it into the newspaper as a murderer. U_U I like the angst potential. But shinjuu is a fun word at least.

There's really never an implication of swaying arms or blood flying/spraying… paints such a picture of a very passive Tsukasa. The precision of a heart-stab feels like it implicates this, too….! The ability to plunge it in not impulsively, but decisively….

I also think about the status of socks and not shoes!! Being in their summer uniforms, but at home(?), it's got such implications… this didn't happen in the middle of the night, or during dinner, or even on a weekend, or something…. boys still in their schoolclothes… makes it somehow feel impromptu?

Whatever the case is, Amane feels guilty and miserable, and is harrowed by Tsukasa declaring his appreciation…. so even though he knew it was coming, I somehow doubt he (could?) express happiness or gratitude or love in the moment…. always wonder how his feelings towards the shinjuu changed, or didn't, over time… maybe I just like to think about a very sick Tsukasa, unable to communicate thoroughly, or one so speechless by Amane he can't express anything…. so many years of anticipation. Whether he was still waiting for it, or trying to avoid it, or even gradually lost his memories of the Red House or something…. sooo many possibilities….

I'd agree with you that I dislike the thought the parents were too overtly involved! It's almost…. gross to think about? Kimochi warui lol. Get out of here…. I consider any possibility, but, I'd prefer it to be a very personal action, not influenced by parents directly. Though sometimes I think it would be a little funny if the parents in any way WERE involved in the precursor to it, purely because Amane doesn't seem to harbor any strong feelings about them lol, it would say something that he's only focused on his brother, the person he cares about. Nene would forsake her family to die for Amane without warning, it's simply love that matters here lol…. I imagine the Yugi were very 'in their own world' for that moment, just the two of them. Everything else fading away… whatever it all is, it's not being considered. You really want the influence to be minimal.

I would prefer the parents to take care of themselves…. I always imagine the Yugi are such a spooky trip for whoever came to clean up those bodies. These cursed twins. Hope Amane just let his body fall over onto Tsukasa. It's alluring as well to imagine any of their blood intermingling….. weird things to say?

My favorite pet fantasy for the shinjuu (a crazy thing to say) is that Tsukasa attempted to harm himself, Amane came home to this, and couldn't take it… with Tsukasa hurting Amane already reminding me of Aoi attacking Akane, I would love Tsukasa to attempt to pivot by killing himself to change fate, but of course just running into his fate by doing so. These valentines day images are… so loaded??? Tsukasa's heart is crudely damaged… the same can be said for this odd illustration, and I'm sure you and others HAVE read my stupid post on this detail, but for the sake of the blog we must be REPETITIVE!! until we DIE

where Amane's heart is properly sutured up (well, Tsukasa did fix it!), while Tsukasa's is an openly bleeding and wrecked mess, just like the heart in the valentine's image. The X bandages match up with their most likely dying wounds, so I like, can't discount the hearts holding significance. So weird. Takase-Bune also features a guilty brother attempting to kill himself to free his sibling from the burden of his existence…. it would also be interesting for Amane to be sensitive to the idea of suicidal ideation, or dying for him, as Yashiro attempts to do so, too. Tsukasa is such the suicide boy as it is, crawling into a well, and positioning Amane to destroy him as a yorishiro, would bring it all home for me if Tsukasa tried to free Amane, only for Amane to refuse to allow him to go alone, and took Tsukasa's fate into his own hands for a sense of control in a moment of desperation. It's easy for me to imagine Amane feeling something like, "why are you trying to leave me? We have to stay together, I told you I'd always be here, why are you trying to abandon me? I won't LET you go…. I'll go WITH you." … it's what Akane feels as he plunges himself and Aoi into the well in Hakubo's boundary, and bares some resemblance to Sumire/Hakubo, as well. Something about AidaIro's concept of devotion, commitment, romance……… TT_TT

but anyway, with that in mind, guess I love the idea of Tsukasa being in a state of which he can't talk or move much... as a result. Injured, clumsily bleeding, something crude stabbed into him.... unable to answer well for himself, Amane doing all the talking looming over him, a real moment to... not be proud of, looking back on it, feeling like he didn't respond in. a sane way. to Tsukasa. If he got-- weirdly possessive and 'don't leave me! you can't!' as his motivator, feeling abandoned, rather than something more noble .... I would like that for Amane..... the end result of being eternally bound, aouhgh.

like aauugh. The idea of a Tsukasa stuck there listening to Amane go on and on, but, trapped behind a blood-filled throat, a hazy mind, unable to say I love you or embrace him, no matter how beautiful or touching it is, no matter how much he understands and is reassured by every tone, then only upon returning as a yorishiro and HOWEVER MANY YEARS, can he finally say, I LOVE YOU! I LOVED WHAT YOU DID! I LOVED HOW YOU LOOKED! imaaagine the satisfaction.... it’s basically my fanfiction at this point but we have nothing else TT__TT I MUST think about shinjuu...

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2n2n · 2 years

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Talking about finding Kou unattractive was fun! I want to be a shallow ho and rank the JSHK boys! I'll stop rereading the manga for the 100th time. I'll take the boys to task. This is partially like. Bc my husband wants to read it. When I was giving up on making this list, after the power went out, I thought of him. In the chair across from mine. In our workroom. And I persevered.

LETSS GOO-- FROM THE LEAST APPEALING TO THE MOST--! A RANKING--!!

Minamoto Kou

I looked deep into my own heart for this. I beheld all the images and I sat on it for a while. I placed different characters here for a time. But. Kou really is in fact, the absolute least appealing guy for me personally. The Minamoto look is: bad, it's bad. For me, it's no good. Kou's weediness is akin to an adolescent large-breed dog: a legginess, big-pawed, knobby elbows. An adolescent coyote. ...and I DON'T LIKE CANINES!! Typically, boyishness could add a charm in and of itself, at least to elevate him above the ikemen... but his knobby gangliness is a new kind of gross.

While Teru is your typical ikeman Kou really is your typical shounen hero, complete with loud mouth and frequent 'serious business' scowl! It's an unpleasant and unsexy gaze! The light hair and blue eyes, not doin' it for me! Kou's unique trait is his narrow, tall iris, ovals instead of circles. It's an interesting choice that makes him stand out in the cast, but somehow, it makes him look like Sonic the Headgehog to me?! Combined with that scowl.... It's.... no good! It's bad! What's worse is he's like, built/toned under all of that. Guy's all bumpy like a lobster under his shirt. GROSS lol.

Kou also displeases me with his gestures at times. He straight up throws a rock at Mitsuba’s head, and will just punch him in the head or ‘bonk’ him. I would rather see the guys pointing knives at throats, thank you. Let’s try to be a little more saucy with our domestic abuse, ok? Put a little more romance into it..... ugh....... you’re not even trying, are you.....

Minamoto Teru

GROSS. KIMOCHI WARUI! There's not a thing appealing about him, not even a boyish charm! Teru's icey blue eyes and pinprick pupils are effective at conveying his character, and his blond hair is the Minamoto calling card......... and it all makes him sooo unattractive! I'm not into the whole blond-haired-blue-eyed boy thing!

He's your typical ikeman, tall and broad-shouldered, built and toned underneath his schoolclothes. His only charm point is being completely deranged, with an unsettling control over his unwaivering gaze and flat, practiced smile. That's impressive, and I appreciate the bait-and-switch nature of his ikeman front, and his more socially broken and manipulating qualities. Doesn't change that he is freakin' unattractive, though! Such a gargantuan man! I won't have it!

....he used to be in last place, but I had to face that Teru has that interesting undercurrent of raw trauma and suffering, and a capacity for harm that is respectable. As well, his young self is far more appealing than Kou’s-- the blank-eyed, sad, bandaged boy coming and going to his training sessions, is quite interesting, and I like to see him. Teru will get credit where it is due.

Mitsuba Sousuke

Mitsuba could not get it, from me. Personality wise he's, so annoying. The idea of being around a guy I am completely neutral on, looks fine sure, but then he's going to like, accuse me of wanting to rape him and scream about how cute and adorable he is-- horrible. Would piss me off so much to be around. Like Kou, I don't like guys who are going to freaking yell. I could hang out with Tsuchigomori, I could not hang out with Mitsuba. Repellent.

But like, this is a shallow list. AESTHETICALLY, Mitsuba is neutral. Perfectly neutral. The cardigan/muffler style is really pretty common, mundane, he doesn't really stand out. He doesn't really take the femme thing far enough to make me care about it or particularly notice it. He clearly doesn't like to be classed as femme either, which extremely loses him points-- like come on, that's your 1 appeal, isn't it? And you're not owning it? Tch.... what is the point of it, then.....

Unnatural hair colors don't typically do it for me, on boys, unfortunately. This pink-eyed pink-haired look is cute to me on a magical girl, but, eh... the only favor it does for me, is make it more distinct that Nene-chan's eyes are red, rather than pink. Which I like better....! She feels like some sort of albino animal ♥

Mitsuba actually isn't all that small/short either, which detracts points. He's actually middle-of-the-road, heightwise. He's not ghoulishly tall like Teru, nor as legs-akimbo as Kou, but he's also not as shrimpy and threadbare as the Yugi twins! Again, he's pretty neutral. Comparable to Akane.

Mystery-look is..... frankly cluttered, got a lot going on. The hood is fine, the scarf is on brand, but it's got a lot of fiddly crud attached to it which doesn't add anything but some noise. The gnarly beast hand is his sexiest trait, and he's NOT OWNING IT. Sad! Maybe if he could wear a skirt and embrace his spookiness, I'd notice him, but as it is, he fades into the background for me. And then he opens his mouth, and I'm actively annoyed by him. Unfortunately I would chase him with horrible bugs to make him scream, like Tsukasa does.

Ryuuji Tsuchigomori

He's................................... I'll be honest while making this list I forgot Tsuchigomori needed to be on it. Forgot he counts as 'a guy'. I think he is fundamentally sexless to me or something, he's like background noise. But you know what--!? He's more neutral than the Minamoto boys, as he isn't actively repellent in any particular way. He's grossly tall and long and I'm not into this sort of pointed spikey lanky appearance, nor does the pipe and glasses chain do anything for me, but, like........................................ he's a nice guy. His black/white hair is a fine look, and in a fine style. A large purple turtleneck and black gloves is a stylish aesthetic.

I respect that he is uncontrollably submissive to Amane. Like sure guy, I get it... he's a sortof pathetic man, afraid of loud noises, startled by cars and thunder.....that's preferable. Funny.

Aoi Akane

Little dweeb boy. Akane is interesting! His distinct eye-design is the center of his eye, his pupil, being a highlight, a pinprick of blue. Set in his brown iris, it has a different sort of subtle chilling effect-- less overt than Teru's icey gaze, but effective in scenes and illustrations. Akane's nature is complicated, so it suits him. I can tell Aida-sensei cared in designing that aspect. This concept of 'mostly normal, but something's a little off....' is well-conveyed.

I like natural hair colors, and Akane's is a very pretty red-brown, with matching eyes. It has a good 'boy next-door' quality, like he's meant to have! It kindof lends him an 'unspecial, normal' atmosphere, early on, so you don't think twice or expect the twist with him. Akane really does have that 'ooh, simply a boy' appeal. Like Mitsuba he's average, not tall, not lanky, but not weedy or shrimpy like the Yugi. He's not an extreme, but he's more on the 'boyish' side of things, with a smaller, shorter face.

That all said he DOES have the Boy Meets World, or Simba, if you will, hair, and, , I can't take it seriously. The middle part bangs is never a Look, for me. It's simply funny. It's good for his little dweeb quality.

In Clockkeeper form he sortof looks like a nerd boy about to attend a steampunk convention. God bless him but it's not for me. I guess he has no agency in it so I shouldn't judge him. The long ponytail is funny, it reminds me of a Jedi Braid or a rattail. Jim Hawkins here. It would look nicer and perhaps more interesting if he simply completely released it from the ponytail and let himself have long flowing hair. Wouldn't that be interesting? I'd like to at least see that.

He's a SIMP and a stalker so his personality's very appealing. He's a good, deranged, obsessed, devotional boy, and we love that here. He's not my boy, but I'm glad he exists.

Hyuuga Natsuhiko

It feels like confronting something to place Natsuhiko so high on the list? I'm surprised, but I accept it. This is where he naturally is inclined to go...

Natsuhiko's hair is a rich, deep brown, as are his eyes. It's pretty! He's on the taller end, more of the ikeman shape as Teru has, but ueh, his personality is really his saving grace. He's such a charming little SIMP, slave to a hot girl, and dedicated caretaker to the little ones. I like Natsuhiko's genuinely caring vibes, and his politeness and chivalry is both funny and cute. He's happy to lavish compliments. He will dive into the ocean after Tsukasa. He does his best to set a good example for the kids.

His incompetence and yet sublime confidence, the way even someone like Nene can quickly gather "something.... is not right about this hot guy...".... the idiot cell.... it's all great. He's really soooo fun and funny to watch in scenes, I'm always happy when Natsuhiko is involved and in the panel. I'm never not excited to have him about. It must mean something! He deserves credit for his affable personality trumping his aesthetic. It would be nice to receive his toothless flirting-- and it really is toothless, isn't it? He's so dedicated to his lady, but it doesn't stop him from being complimentary and charming to any girl.... what a nice nonthreatening guy to receive some attention from. Most of these guys I would not actually want flirting with me, but Natsuhiko could do it, its fine.

There's not much art to display of him in full-color, but his everyday look is quite nice, honestly! The choker/collar, the little titty window, the relaxed and easygoing eyes, the little kitty mouth..... a good bimbo, Natsuhiko. I hope he can dip it.

Hakubo

The people can say whatever they want about Hakubo. He is decadent, gorgeous, an utter dreamboat. I understand Sumire-- I would let him consume me, and I would also do everything in my power to be his wife. What a pretty boy..... Hakubo's innocent gaze in his youth is so precious..... ah, he has a delicate quality to him. He's on the thinner side... he can feel so small, when he's young. Passive... an observant eye... quiet. Ever-calm, like still waters.... He has dark, dark deep brown eyes, and hair. His eyes are more defined by sparse highlights than anything, his pupils lost in the shadows. A smokey gaze..... I'm biased, 'cuz my husband has dark hair, eyes, and brown skin..... I'm glad all these choices were made for Hakubo.

He's always adorned in gorgeous robes, kimono, peppered in accessories of ropes, gold, beads... always goooorgeoussss. The setting around him is so often as lush as his finery-- flowers, rainfall, ferns, foliage.... Hakuboooooo!!! Everything about him is drenched in preciousness, in a sacred energy. Aida-sensei has drawn him so many times in so many detailed, gorgeous illustrations..... and it's paid off!! I really understand the dreamy quality! An otherworldly creature... a pitiable thing without agency, his own desires unknown to him... ohhh, Hakubo!!! So so kissable. His design does everything expertly. I'm glad Aida-sensei and I have compatible tastes in this situation....

His horns downturned shape compliment his personality as well, so charming. As a Shinigami, the blackened furry arms are soooo captivating, sexy, cool!! Just so cool!!! That he’s completely solid black from the jawline down is hoooot... such an awesome look!!!! Black is-- the best color ♥ His mask and the draping fabric hiding his face, are such AWESOME looks, so-so-so cool! Hakubo makes only the coolest aesthetic choices!

I have not a single bad thing to say about Hakubo. Personality, clothes, hair color, eye color, he's drop-dead.... Such a dramatic leap from “I would let Natsuhiko flirt with me” to “Hakubo could eat me”-- please understand the dramatic gap in attractiveness. Hakubo has blown everyone else in this list thus far out of the water.

its the

hottest boy. It's the ultimate..... boy.... time.

Yugi Amane

Our title character for a reason. I feel as if we preserve black hair in our cast purely to make his all the more special, all the more captivating. What a beautiful honor to give to what is typically seen as a hum-drum hair color. And again my husband’s hair color, ohhh what can I saaaay

If Akane is meant to have a kind of 'everyboy charm', Amane has that even moreso, and maybe a little.... something beneath that, scraggly charm. He isn't meant to be in-world conventionally attractive. He is decidedly short, shrimpy, without muscle toning (the Yugi twins were not trained fighters, they were merely unfortunate boys), in Picture Perfect we get to appreciate just how small and weedy the boys are under their finery. Amane has big, round bug-eyes, distinctly huge even in-world, perhaps more of an odd or offputting trait rather than a handsome one, to most. Compared to the slender eyes of the conventionally attractive Teru, the Yugi feel like some bizarre little urchins.

I love an underdog, don't you? The Yugi's look is not for everyone, in-world, but it's devastating for those weak to it. It's an acquired taste. Nothing looks like them.

Amane's eyes are golden. Not as unrealistic as something like purple, yet not very human, either. Like big gold coins. Or perhaps, like the eyes of a wild animal... His pupils stand out hard against the bright glow, and typically adhere to the top of his iris, looking sort of indirect. When Amane's pupils finally leave the outline of his eye and sink to the middle, you pay attention! He's got an incredible knack for looking down the barrel at you only when it counts. His expression otherwise is frivolous, and the pupils floating to the top remind me of some sort of vintage toy. To me, Amane's eyes show off how rarely he is taking something seriously. They suit him so well.

His hair feels thick, choppy, multilayered. The edges are blunt as if cut clean sideways with a pair of scissors in the home. They rest messily like heaps of straw in a pile, they do not lay flat and smooth across his crown. In profile-views, you can tell the length is a bit shorter mid-way down the cranium at the back. Some longer strands overhang....

Messy rough hair, furthering this... bit of a ragamuffin look. Scruffy, like a kitten. Despite his small stature, Amane doesn't have petite hands, at all. You'd expect them to be more understated, for all the other ways he's a shrimpy thing, but they're sizeable, long fingers, distinct knuckles, knobby, a bit. The tips are blunt, but the nails are long, a sssssslight feminine detail. His fingers are almost always posed very deliberately, very distinctly. Aida-sensei clearly loves hands! She puts endless care into depicting them. Hanako's are lovingly illustrated all the time.

His Gakuran.... ahhh, an elegant all-black silhouette, with peeks of red embellishing here or there. He feels like some sort of sports car, I don't know how else to say it. Sleek, glossy, smooth. Aida-sensei takes great care to often draw his belt-buckle and even his white tucked-in undershirt visible just between the divets of the gakuran's hem. The red-detailing on the edges of the jacket's bottom, weren't even there, in the earliest volume. They add so much, though! The gakuran pinches tightly around and under his chest, shoulders, lower back. It loosens right around his belt, and tends to bunch or crease along its rim, making you perpetually aware of the belt's thickness just below. Lighting tends to strike the peak of his ribs and shoulders, first, and shadow his stomach and lower back. He feels all ribs-- his body sinks immediately beneath them, makes him feel underweight. Hot. HOT. Hot tragic boy hot boy died in sad circumstances hot. Hot. Ghost of tragic miserable boy. Small scrawny underweight. HOT.

The gakuran's buttons are a lurid detail. Big, gold, round-- to compliment his eyes-- metal, shining, and engraved with sakura blossoms. Really really easy and tempting to imagine running fingers over the rounded, bold buttons, feeling the dips of the engravings. So much texture.

When first introduced, his pants were long, and draped over his shiny classy black shoes. Aida-sensei however became addicted to drawing his ankles, and exposing those bright-red knit-texture socks of his, so now, we always have that additional jolt of color, and a peek at his small body under the patterns. They're very nearly capris, lol, his ankles are so exposed, now....

The last kisses of red on this design are the ropes on his hat, and the characters on his seal. He's not overrun with color, or embellishments-- predominately black with only splashes of gold and red where it's needed. Simple, not cluttered at all. A very elegant design. He himself feels like a shrine... some sacred thing. Opulent.... clean, nothing out of place, somehow... somehow! It’s miraculous, how he balances this trim feeling with the urchin vibe.... that’s Amane....

When the tsueshiro comes into play, he gains a cool vampiric edgy allure! It's without clutter too, just some fanciful detailing at the collar, and a solid red lining. Whether Amane is mischievous and smirking, wide-mouthed and laughing, squinted and glaring, lidded and leering, or tongue-lolling gnasty sleezeball, it's all immaculately alluring.

Amane could do anything to me he wanted, he could call me dummy, he could stab me, I would be lucky to have earned the grace for him to look upon me for a moment. He can be a dangerous leering liar all he wants. He can lie to me aaaalll day, I’ll listen ♥♥♥ I feel like I could go on for 100 years about Amane... I have to stop at some point!!!

whoaaa this list doesn’t include Tsukasa.... WELL, IT’S COMPLICATED....! I think I relate to him too much to be able to rank him externally.... it’s the limits of my psyche, gomenasai.

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