#seichirou agawa

[gayelderstourney]

OLD MAN YAOI BRACKET ROUND 1

Propaganda:

Ilya Tchaiko/Seichirou Agawa:

DEAR GOD BRO. you don't actually learn about the two of them until later in the manga but tchaiko is always talking about his record player that "an old friend" gave him and how much he loves music. in volume three we get some of their backstory and we find out it was seichirou that gave him the record player!!! we see them go on a few record buying dates and dancing together and it is truly unbearably sweet. i believe they are somewhere between 60 and 70? they met in college and have been together for 30 years, but seichirou got married and had a kid before then. in present day though seichirou is sick in the hospital. tchaiko visits him everyday though he makes sure he only visits when seichirou's son won't be there. this means he gets less time to spend with him :( finally, on the day of the main lesbian couple's wedding, tchaiko gets a text from seichirou's son saying he's in critical condition. tchaiko hesitates to go because he's scared but a mutual friend of theirs pushes him to go. when he gets there we get a sort of dream like visual where seichiro floats out of bed to hold tchaiko, looking how he did before he got sick, and they tell each other they loved spending their lives together. and then seichirou dies. it's soooooooooo sad that shit makes me cry every fucking time bro i cried getting the pictures but it's also soooooooo sweet love is so beautiful. AYUGH.

The manga has alot of different characters going through different things in their life, but all of these are different LGBTQ+ issues. These two are husbands who have spent most of their life together, and now have to accept that death will do them part. They often exchange classical music reccomandations that Tchaiko will play while Seichirou is in hospital and vice versa. Seichirou also has a son from a previous marriage so the manga touches on their relationship aswell. And (spoiler warning) but Seichirou dies from old age at the end of the manga and the scene is, while sad, also very heartwarming, as his son kind of realises the relationship the two of them have and tells him that "his favourite person is here"

Heavy/Medic:

They are referred to as boyfriends in an achievement (Beaux and Arrows) and on the official page for the End of the Line sfm it's described as "an action packed cinematic romp full of comedy action, romance action*, drama action, and actioney-type action.", there are no women in the sfm.

pretty sure they're both over 50 judging by some lines in the comic and their appearances (when the medic is asking satan to be put back on earth he says "another 50 years", implying he already lived for 50 years before he died). these two are typically seen together in canon as an unstoppable duo, and they are the KINGS of romanticizing surgery.

[kinosternon]

Written for the Kamatani fans gift exchange!

Title: Recollection Characters/Relationship: Ilya Chaiko/Agawa Seichirou Rating: G (all audiences) Genres: Romance, Fluff, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending Warnings: Implied/referenced homophobia, discussions of divorce

Summary: In the aftermath of Seichirou's divorce and at the start of their life together, Ilya visits his partner's current living space and gains a deeper understanding of his needs.

[kingjinxii]

Cat’s Clowder Pride Icons

How could I not make Pride icons for the best LGBT+ manga on the market?

For those of you who haven’t read it, Shimanami Tasogare is a fantastic manga about a gay boy named Tasaku coming to terms with himself, with the help of the residents of Cat’s Clowder. It’s a wonderful and relatively quick read that I highly recommend.

I’m doing Pride Icon Requests!

[saccharinescorpion]

Tchaiko and Seichirou are listening to the score to The Nutcracker in that last flashback and i’m curious if that has any specific significance- other than, of course, the fact that it’s written by  Tchaikovsky :’)

[pekorosu]

chp 16 hhhhhhhh spoiler alert

read the (jp) chp here

good news: the mysterious (t?)chaiko is confirmed to have a partner of 30 years. if i’m reading it right his partner's name is agawa seichirou.

bad news: said partner has terminal cancer.

scream

WHY

would u DO THis

yea so the chapter is basically the long-awaited tchaiko life story:

- tchaiko and seichirou met in uni where they were both exchange students (that was 40 yrs ago oh dear how old are these lovely elder gays /feels soft)

- they dated for a while, but broke up and seichirou went on to get married and have a son

- eventually he came to terms with being gay. wife wanted a divorce the very same day he confessed, and she received custody of their son

- then seichirou and tchaiko got back together

- when seichirou fell ill, his son (now 30yo) came to visit and they mended their relations

- tchaiko is super happy for him, but has decided never to let his husb’s family know of his existence bc he doesn’t want to ruin things for them

- tsubaki (👀) goes all... but if that's the case, u won’t be able to watch over him when the time comes right? without the family’s approval, u won’t be allowed in during his last moments. that’s what i heard (lol u sure Hear a lot for someone who’s not Into The LGBT Stuff 👀)

- tchaiko is just like… that’s true. welp. already made peace with that. he’s more than satisfied with the many years they have spent together

- and proceeds to be super cheerful, talking about how they can still keep in touch thru the wonders of technology

- this NERD

[“you know, he writes me reviews of his hospital meals every day. he sends such cute things~ look!”]

- tchaiko mentions they had dreamed of opening a cafe&bar together

- cue haruko and saki going :O!! 

- (pls bear with me but seriously? gay culture is wanting to run a cafe/bar)

- they travelled the world collecting all sorts of utensils and furniture with that in mind, but in the end had to part with them to fund medical expenses ):

- they even took coffee roasting courses CAN U BELIEVE IT

- apparently that’s where he met anonymous lmao. they knew each other long before the lounge was set up woooowww

[smth like “there was a tv special featuring cafes that serve delicious charcoal roasted coffee ^_^ hope i’ll get to dream of visiting those places with you… zzz”] [teddy bear sticker says “good night”]

- (im Howling)

- cue montage of their time together

- (More Howling)

- (there’s a panel of tchaiko being called “iriya” im guessing that’s his actual name lol)

- tchaiko: it’s not a big deal even if i won’t get to watch over him. the 30 years that we spent together isn’t something that will vanish just because of that.

- which leads to tasuku being all pensive and thinking, are u sure u won’t regret it? why don’t u try talking to his family?… but unable to voice it out

- bc this is the decision of someone with wayyyyyy more life experience than him so who is he to butt in with his presumptious opinions right?

- (😭)

in other news:

- haruko and saki having similar conflicts re: their plans to marry and coming out to family, but are supportive of each other as always I LOVE WHOLESOMENESS

(oh haru bb)

- saki: haru… i wonder what will happen to us in the future

- YALL GONNA GET MARRIED AND LIVE A LONG HAPPY LIFE TOGETHER THATS WHATS GONNA HAPPEN IT IS NOW FACT!!!

- nothing much has progressed re: tsubaki tho. he's real chill like the confession didn't happen *squints loudly* What Is Your Secret, Son? (i have my suspicions but hmmmMMM)

anyway this chp is spectacularly gay as usual 10/10 can’t wait for the next one yells loudly

[gayelderstourney]

Bracket Be Upon Ye

This was really hard to seed because I know half of them will be eliminated round 1 but I don't really want any of them to lose lol. I ended up deciding to dedicate entire quarters to (mostly) yaoi or (mostly) yuri, with yaoi and yuri only going up against each other starting in the semifinals. This is just because most of the yaoi pairings are more popular and if I seeded solely on popularity most of the yuri would be eliminated immediately.

(I'm not trying to misgender Raine, and I'm not gonna label that specific pairing "yaoi" or "yuri"; it's just their partner is a woman and there's no easy way to split up the contestants otherwise.)

Round 1 on the left side will start Sunday, July 23. Matches will start being posted at 10:00 AM CST (15:00 UTC) and last for a week. Right side will be next week after the left side concludes.

[Image description: A 32-contestant tournament bracket labeled "old man yaoi + old woman yuri bracket!" with multiple exclamation marks. The background is a pink and lavender gradient. The matchups are as listed below. End ID.]

Hemithea/Josephine (Percy Jackson) vs. Grace Hanson/Frankie Bergstein (Grace and Frankie)

Gertrude Robinson/Agnes Montague (The Magnus Archives) vs. Buddy Aurinko/Vespa Ilkay (Penumbra Podcast)

Red/Blue (This is How You Lose the Time War) vs. Arcee/Aileron (Transformers)

Ms. Bitters/Countess von Verminstrasser (Invader Zim) vs. Miriam Forcible/April Spink (Coraline)

Gerald Robotnik/Black Doom (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs. Sheo/The Nailsmith (Hollow Knight)

Jean-Luc Picard/Q (Star Trek) vs. The Once-ler/The Lorax (Lorax 2012)

Ilya Tchaiko/Seichirou Agawa (Our Dreams At Dusk) vs. Heavy/Medic (Team Fortress 2)

Dr. Coomer/Bubby (Half Life VR But The Ai Is Self Aware) vs. Statler/Waldorf (The Muppets)

May Parker/Olivia Octavius (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) vs. Aunt Holiday/Auntie Lofty (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Raven Darkholme/Irene Adler (Marvel) vs. Maggie Radcliffe/Jocelyn Knight (Broadchurch)

Hanayo Nishida/Yoshiko Dojima (Hanamonogatari) vs. Navani Kholin/Raboniel (The Stormlight Archive)

Kelly/Yorkie (Black Mirror) vs. Eda Clawthorne/Raine Whispers (The Owl House)

Sir Alistair Hammerlock/Wainwright Jakobs (Borderlands) vs. Irving Bailiff/Burt Goodman (Severance)

Jean Valjean/Javert (Les Miserables) vs. Ravenpaw/Barley (Warriors)

Fiddleford McGucket/Stanford Pines (Gravity Falls) vs. Xehanort/Eraqus (Kingdom Hearts)

Bob Zanotto/Helmut Fullbear (Psychonauts) vs. Craig Cuttlefish/DJ Octavio (Splatoon)