i love their dynamic so much cos usami can clearly play the polite subordinate when he wants to but he doesnt even bother pretending w kikuta cos like. whats he gonna do. and yea kikuta just doesnt care his subordinates disrespect him all the time. kikuta didnt even do anything to him usami just hates him for being pathetic

I’ve seen that bulky build of yours enough to be familiar with it…Did you really think I wouldn’t recognize you?

compilation

remember when that gk live orchestra promo art dropped and kikuta was straight up holding the trombone wrong and he was the only one who didnt know how to hold their instrument like who tf invited this guy

happy birthday kikutaaa 🥳

they r so cute... ooughhh

okkkk so. kikuta is bisexual but hes only ever been with women. he doesnt have trouble getting a relationship but hes never maintained one for more than 3 months bcs his girlfriends all get sick of him when they learn hes both really self centered and completely oblivious to it. any time they try to talk to him abt this problem hes like aww :(( sorry u feel that way baby ill do better :( and forgets abt it immediately. when they break up he doesnt hold it agains them cos he thinks the problem is that men are too dumb to understand women. hes not fully conscious of his attraction to men (other than like. "aesthetic appreciation") he does however have an image of an ideal gay romance-not-romance heavily informed by like. war novels or smth, you know, that type of flowery melodramatic sterilized 'comradery that transcends traditional romance' deal. he thinks thats what he and ipopte have thats what inspired all his 'moon we saw from the trenches' nonsense. capiche? got all that?

one of these guys is in his 40s a father of two and emotionally cheating on his wife the other one is kikuta

kikuta moodboard

everyone assigning brad pitt to kikuta in their ironic american gk remake is WRONG white kikuta is obviously a bryan cranston character

i miss them so much actually

kikuta and ipopte's time in the trenches: ipopte expresses regret over having distanced himself from his cultural identity and openly grieves the loss of his father. this makes kikuta feel deeply guilty over his complicity and years of silence, but if he were to say why their relationship will be significantly damaged. in the end he can't bring himself to confess, settling for an apology that cant be fully understood and thus will never be fully accepted, no matter how genuine.

kikuta's memory of their time in the trenches: two bros smiling 😁😄❤ he held my hand.. 🫣☺️👬😊

remember when he said this and didnt do any of that like he said this and the next times hes shown hes just staring at the ground solemnly no joke and when he comes back he hasnt brought a single soldier with him

kikuta the entire series: im just gonna follow lt tsurumis orders and not think abt my guilt

tsurumi: do this extremely manageable task for me

kikuta: sir yes sir o7

kikuta the next times we see him: