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spitdrunken · 2 years

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It's Soft! And good golly miss Molly do I have words for you to read.

First, don't worry about taking too long to answer asks, especially from me. It's your blog and you can post on it at your leisure! I'm sure my fellow anonymous perverts agree! Time spent on words is between you and your commissioners.

Speaking of! No need to worry that I wouldn't like "someone to hold", I LOVED it! Oh spitdrunken it was just lovely. Emmet was the perfect amount of ornery and rude: not so much as to make him unlikable but just enough of a little shit because that is HIS brother and how dare Emmet be expected to share?! But also, he's clearly hurting from all the time traveling/amnesia nonsense because it was hard on him! It would be hard on anyone.

And the date! Reader-kun and Emmet in the cramped amusement park train is comedy gold. And we get to see Emmet's sweet side too, he may be mad at Reader-kun right now, but he won't let them get hurt or sick. Safety first! The two of them talking things out in the ferris wheel was great, it's nice and sweet and is a wonderful foundation for Emmet allowing Reader-kun to fuck his brains out.

Which segues wonderfully into the next section of my review: the smut! Fuck yeah, the porn was fantastic! I completely and utterly LOVED Ingo recounting his and Emmet's second first time to Reader-kun, in great detail. Imagining how shaky and aroused Ingo's voice must have been doing all that, all while being so submissive and desperate *swoons* I am weak. I also really like how Reader-kun is willing to fuck Emmet at this point in their relationship because, well, same. He may be being a brat, but he's hot and I want to make him the filling in a Subway Boss sandwich! I want those twinks obliterated!

Ahem. Anyway, the main event! Threeway on the couch! I love it all so much, how it's all coming full circle with the previous tension on the couch but now the tension is being resolved, Emmet's nervous little confession because he doesn't want Reader-kun involved if he only likes Ingo, "Make me listen" god what I wouldn't give to do that!, and Emmet now wanting Reader-kun's attention too! Ingo describing Emmet's face! And then Emmet being a horny beast who demands more! It's all so good, it's perfect! And then the ending, LOL. You snooze you lose boys!

All in all, I thought it was a fantastic fic. Well worth the wait! I'll wait until you post this ask to send in my additional thoughts on my scenario, just to keep myself from spamming you and to give others the space in your inbox that they deserve. I hope you have a lovely rest of your day!

hiiii soft!!!!!! i saw the absolute wall of text you left me and got so happy <333!!! and thank you for being so understanding, i really appreciate it <33!!

I'm so glad that Emmet was the perfect amount of rude :D!! One of the things that worried me the most was making Emmet just 'mean' enough that it shows how Reader could've been bothered, but not actually enough that no one can root for him LMAO And I'm glad it worked for you!! He was definitely just really hurt by his brother leaving.

The train scene was HONESTLY one of my favourite parts to write HAHA I came up with it after seeing a very ugly children's train online and just had to add it in. I also felt the ferris wheel scene was just necessary for them to kind of built a bridge between each other, so, exactly!!

'i want those twin(k)s obliterated'!!!!! LITERALLY ME. Soft we have the same brain because Ingo was sooo desperate and nervous telling all of that and it's soso good!!!!

The nervous little confession was something I just HAD to add in because I wanted there to be a moment where Emmet was finally more vulnerable and honest with himself <33 And Emmet just being slightly jealous for Reader's attention as well is just,, the icing on top of that HAHA

I'm sooo happy with all of your praise, thank you very much!!!! I'm not sure I'm expressing it well but I genuinely appreciate it <3

#cw.incest #nw #a.softdegen

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yunsoh · 4 years

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who do you think would propose first? yuki or kakeru?

kakeru, but i will say they take a long-ass time to actually get around to the whole marriage discussion lmao;

- kakeru during high school was pretty set on marrying komaki in the nebulous future, but after that relationship falls through & dies of natural causes it allows him some time to reflect. he’s individualistic as is, but he also didn’t spend any of his teenage years single, so he spends some time just trying to figure out what exactly he wants again as he grows into young adulthood. this involves casual dating here and there and also navigating some repressed feelings towards his best friend.

- marriage for yuki is kind of a different story. it’s not that he doesn’t believe in it, and he is a romantic at heart, but he didn’t exactly grow up with the best examples of it. neither did kakeru, for that matter, but kakeru isn’t as wary about the possibilities of marriage if only for the fact that he doesn’t project his parent’s situation onto his own love life. yuki is just more unsure about it, especially as someone who tends to be deliberate in how he expresses himself and is more analytical/critical when it comes to understanding his own feelings.

- in addition: after he and machi decide they’re better off as friends, yuki also spends a considerable amount of time navigating his repressed feelings towards his best friend. this period of their lives is known as ‘the great repression’ and met its head when they were 21 and got into a huge fight that was really just the culmination of them being indirect with each other and kind of just. acting fucking weird and standoffish around each other lmao.

- so they get together, they graduate, they move into a place together. and for a while they’re totally and completely content just dating -- getting married isn’t something they really discuss, and it mostly just comes up because of ayame and tohru asking. it’s more or less put on hold because yuki doesn’t feel exactly ready for it, and kakeru’s in no rush for marriage either.

- it actually isn’t until ayame and tohru have their wedding ceremonies that they start to consider more readily what marriage could look like for them -- it’s something that yuki talks to tohru about (and eventually discusses with ayame, but that conversation keeps going off in fantastical directions, at which point yuki dips but is like.... “he’s insane but was there a point buried in there somewhere”).

- ayame and kakeru are email & text buds so this is something that actually comes up quite frequently between them lmao.... i feel like it doesn’t get too too deep between them, but ayame loves kakeru (and just wants to see his little brother settle down with someone he’s obviously happy with), so he’s very enthusiastic abt the idea.

- offhand this is making me consider what this conversation looks like between kakeru and tohru LMAO.... their relationship i feel like mends a little better over time to the point where they’re not quite so awkward/intense with one another, but they’re not like. really friends or anything. but i imagine it’s something that just kind of comes up during a lil family get together or something and. being what their relationship is it’s actually a somewhat serious conversation lmfao. yuki comes back and sees the two of them talking.... just like “:)? :)???” but it’s fine. anyways!

- they date for like literally ten years before anything happens. honestly it’s mostly because they just have their separate personal stuff to really work through, yuki especially; the concept of marriage is just something that holds a lot of weight, and i think yuki in particular would want to feel especially secure in himself before going forward with it. it’s not necessarily a commitment issue with kakeru, but it’s more like..... just knowing that he’s capable of such a responsibility.... if that makes sense. despite everything, he is a romantic and he does take it seriously lmao

- kakeru’s the one who proposes, mostly because he got the ring on an impulse and has been waiting until yuki seemed more at ease with the idea before going forward with it. there is no romantic speech or special date. he and yuki are literally just hanging around doing their own separate things; he goes over to him and asks if he can see his hand, and yuki’s like “sure whatever” because. every single time he just immediately gives in before having a second thought of wait are you going to put something gross in my hand-- but he’s too slow on the uptake.

- so yuki gives him his hand, literally not even looking at him, and kakeru puts the ring on and goes “oh good it fits! so by the way--” and yuki practically decks him. not because he doesn’t want it but because it’s completely out of the blue and he’s just a little in shock LMAO........ but ofc he cries a little and kakeru just kind of laughs about it. it’s a very tender moment. and then yuki roasts him about how lame it was at which point kakeru reminds him he still said yes, so “maybe you’re just into lame.” at which point he tries to take back his self-roast and just laments over it a little. but yuki is like..... “yeah i guess i am..... :,)” and etc it’s sweet and tender and just endearing and very them.

#so sorry this ended up this long but i have been. thinking about this for a while lmfao #yukeru #yuki sohma #kakeru manabe #fruits basket #hc #answered #fruits basket spoilers #Anonymous

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maiji · 5 years

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Some thoughts on the new YYH OVAs

Lots of spoilers if you've never read the manga, slightly fewer spoilers if you have, but I talk about differences between the two so if you don't wanna know before you see it yourself SPOILER

The following is mostly observations on technical and visual storytelling things I find interesting.

Voice acting. (I did amateur voice acting as a kid but I didn’t keep that up and obviously I’m super NOT a pro, so apologies if some of the following technical terminology use is not quite right.) Chiba Shigeru (Kuwabara) and Hiyama Nobuyuki (Hiei) are pretty consistent with their original voices from over two decades ago, which is pretty amazing in and of itself. Ogata Megumi (Kurama) and Sasaki Nozumu (Yusuke) have both drifted somewhat more noticeably for me.

In Ogata Megumi’s case, she's gotten so much more experience since her original breakout role, and is even more skilled at hitting and working through the tonal range/vocal register for a male character. This made it extra entertaining listening to TWO SHOTS since this is supposed to be a younger version of Kurama lol.

Sasaki Nozomu's voice seems to have changed a bit in the last decade or so. I hadn't been paying much attention to seiyuu stuff for a long time but I first really noticed a few years back when J Stars Victory VS came out (one of the Shounen Jump crossover fighting games) and I was watching trailers with Yusuke in them and was aurally thrown off. He had a pretty distinct voice with an unusual timbre that made me able to recognize him in almost anything I heard him in to the point where watching a Rurouni Kenshin OVA or hearing Cloud Strife yelling and grunting in Ehrgeiz made me go HEY THAT'S SASAKI NOZOMUUUUU!!!111. But I can't do it with his current take; it’s different. Or maybe I'm just old and out of touch now. lmao

Transitions and changes. 25 years later, animation technology has of course evolved hahaha. One thing I really noticed was how much more animation of the background it felt like there was compared to the original series, especially full-on rotations like when Kurama detects Hiei’s presence, or when Yatsude actually appears.

I'm fascinated by how things are adapted for different media and how the animators fill in the gaps between panels and sequences - I just love seeing what they come up with that didn’t exist in the original. So I was much more interested in Noruka Soruka than TWO SHOTS, the latter of which has already been tackled in other versions before. But all that said, and maybe this was a result of my expectations - I was actually pretty pleasantly surprised at the level of new tweaks they DID bring to the table in TWO SHOTS, and in some ways maybe more so than Noruka Soruka. I thought TWO SHOTS tackled adaptation challenges/changes exceptionally well. I also liked their decision to drop a less critical sequence (Maya's arrival at Yatsude’s) and give more focus to Kurama and Hiei's coordination during their fight VS Yatsude. And I really liked the use of colour! The contrast between the warm sunset palettes in Kurama’s “everyday” world/school life and the cold palette of the warehouse, for example. I found it really nicely executed.

I had a lot of fun noting keyframes based on the manga, particularly parts that are flipped compared to the original panels. Decisions in comics paneling are generally based around how the artist wants to guide the eye for reading (e.g., characters facing towards the direction the reader is reading, like right to left in Japanese, help create forward momentum, while characters facing the the opposite way help to create mental pauses or slow the action down). It was interesting to note when the orientation changes in the anime, since animators are technically not constrained in the same way by that kind of composition consideration (albeit they still have others).

Other changes are often made to accommodate, or simply exist because of, the fact that animation has additional variables of sound and motion, and often things get exaggerated. For example, Kurama says something out loud instead of it being a thought in his mind as text on the panel; his reaction to something seems more overt because not only are we looking at his facial expression and a speech bubble going "Huh!" or whatever, we see the jolt of his head, the actual movement of his mouth, and hear the force in the startled exclamation, etc. I always find it very interesting to compare the directing with the additional factors now available. In some cases I still prefer the manga, perhaps because I tend to like subtle (boring...hard to explain... lol) things. For example, the intro with the guys wandering into Yatsude’s lair - I preferred the manga version where it cuts out as a straight on shot instead of the OVA where the camera has the motion of something zooming towards them from an angle that accelerates at the end. For me personally the former created a starker horror mood.

But I have to say what MOST impressed me about TWO SHOTS was probably Yatsude. I thought they did a fantastic job translating his design and fleshing out this character’s motion/movement quirks and attacks for full animation and giving him a really solid presence and weight.

As mentioned when Noruka Soruka was first announced, I was most curious how they would handle the ending since it actually concludes in the next chapter and was adapted for the anime's actual ending. And they... did it in possibly the most straightforward way possible. Which for some reason I didn't think was what they would do since I thought it would be too abrupt. Hahaha.

Some frivolous things that amused me:

Seeing Yusuke's bedhead rendered in anime yeahhh!

Seeing and hearing Yusuke talking to Enki on the phone while the latter is getting Salonpas applied lmao

Watching the takeover of the guards with the timer. Mainly the part where Yusuke and Kuwabara land on the guards after coming out of the Jigentou dimension cut lmao

Hearing the interpretation of what the parrot grass sounds like lmao

Seeing big Puu with ears. (Togashi forgot about Puu's ears or maybe consciously changed Puu's design or SOMETHING in nearly all the panels throughout the end of the story.)

The additional sequences in the evacuation scenes. The Easter eggs of Kuwabara's dad and another alien Hiei made me laugh. Especially because I’M PRETTY SURE THIS IS THE ALTA BUILDING

SEE

(also while trying get this streetview Google maps tried to give me directions to this building from Canada lmao)

Also this part:

Me: “Who’s that dude?”

Me: “OH YeAH IT’S YUSUKE’S BODY.”

Me: “For god’s sakes Keiko can carry him herself AND run out of both a house on fire and an exploding stadium.”

Last but not least, Hiei using Kokuryuha made me laugh. This doesn't happen in the manga, but I understand the need since it's considered his signature move. I just found it really funny because it's technically such an OVERWHELMINGLY DESTRUCTIVE MOVE saved for only the utmost of opponents. At that proximity it probably would have immolated not only all the enemies but also all of the Spirit World people they were trying to save. So it was kind of like watching someone go "man there are a lot of annoying mosquitoes in this room" and then whipping out a flamethrower to get rid of them lmao

#yu yu hakusho #anime #noruka soruka #two shots #spoilers #manga #anime adaptation #voice acting #seiyuu

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