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gold-pavilion · 7 months

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Hanafuda references in Izana & Kakucho

I love how full of references all of Tokyo Revengers is, so here's a thread about the links to hanafuda around Izana and his kingdom!! Cause it's a week till S3 and I'm excited!!

As expected, his earrings are the best place to start from.

So first of all, I'll explain what the hanafuda deck is and which card from it they're representing.

Even though they only contain pictures without any visible numeric value or indicator, hanafuda are playing cards. They surfaced exactly like this in order to avoid prohibitions around gambling way back in the Edo period, when foreign playing cards were banned. These slipped much more easily under the radar.

As such, hanafuda became kind of a discreet symbol of the illegal. Peony cards were a sign of prostitution, for one, and the whole deck was a staple of gambling. Which is why, even though that time passed and hanafuda cards did stay as regular playing cards, it's fun to have the leader of a criminal group wear one.

Izana's card is the Full Moon, a highly-ranked card within the game (one of the 5 "lights" or "bright cards" which give the most points).

The hanafuda deck is distributed by months, in 12 groups of 4 cards each; each month also has an assigned flower/tree that appears in the 4 cards, visually tying them together. This card of the full moon over the pampa is part of the August set, matching Izana's birthday month!

But the hanafuda references aren't only around him. Moving on to his servant:

Kakucho's name (just Kakucho, mistakenly believed to have a surname due to a faulty fantranslation) is made of the kanji 鶴 (kaku) and 蝶 (chou), which mean "crane" and "butterfly". Both hanafuda cards.

The crane card is part of the January set and is one of the Lights, as it also depicts the sun over the pine trees. Being a Light, getting it alongside the full moon card is really advantageous and can build you some of the most point-earning hands. The butterfly card is part of the June set, depicting butterflies over a peony flower.

Both cranes and butterflies are thematically assigned to Kakucho! Taking a close look at his volume cover outfit, a crane pattern can be seen on the fabric, as well as a butterfly wing shape on the bottom of the jacket. Motifs that Wakui selected carefully for him.

( scan/translated commentary from @yokohamabeans )

What's more… take a look at Izana's recent illustration for the Nov 2023 TR Expo, 'cause it's pretty interesting in this regard.

Aside from the peacock motif and the yin-yang that were used for this outfit, there's a little cameo on the inside of the jacket: a crane. If you zoom in and take a good look at the bird's head, you can tell it apart from the peacocks. And another one, even harder to spot, so tiny that @anantagonist had to point it out to me: a butterfly, right above that.

No other Tenjiku member is linked to hanafuda references (the Haitani brothers have their assigned flowers, neither happens to match the flowers depicted in the deck), but Izana and Kakucho sure are closely linked through it. It's something they alone share.

Isn't it cool? Let me know if you dig this kind of reference-listing posts, 'cause with TR there is so much to dig into.

#tokyo revengers #tr meta #kakucho #izana #kurokawa izana #kakuchou #kakuiza #izakaku #references in media #tokyo rev #thoughts and talk and so

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wickedwitchofthesouth · 3 months

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Since its dean day let me remind you all that this is literally happened

#creation of adam #is my favourite overrated art reference in any visual media #happy dean day #supernatural #castiel #dean winchester #destiel #spn

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sophsun1 · 4 months

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Psych – 2.02: 65 Million Years Off

#psych #cinematv #filmtvcentral #userthing #smallscreensource #userrobin #tvarchive #userrlaura #userkitkat #chewieblog #userstream #tuserhan #tusercarolina #usermandie #usersitcom #usertelevision #THEY HAD HOLES IN SHIA LABEOUF ASFDJGKD #I love when they reference other media they've been in #3k

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chaotictoast · 1 year

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My favorite part about being in a fandom (or being interested in something) that isn’t massive like Marvel or Star Wars is when a reference to it comes up in another thing you enjoy and it just makes you really happy. Please keep referencing and helping grow the smaller, underrated fandoms that deserve to be seen by more people.

(It happened to me once when a reading of my favorite Grimm Fairytale, “The Juniper Tree” came up in my YouTube recommendation feed and made me really upbeat for the rest of the day)

#fandom #marvel #star wars #reference #grimm fairy tales #the juniper tree fairy tale #fandoms #references in media

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fungi-maestro · 27 days

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Happy tdov to fat trans people. 🏳️‍⚧️ Biggest thing that helped me as a trans kid was seeing older fat trans people. There were a lot of really irritating "advice" posts going around early in my time on the internet with a lot of misinformation in them, but one that I constantly saw (in addition to people claiming you should wear your pants rediculously low or only wear button ups) were posts saying you had to lose weight to transition. Can confidently confirm that is completely untrue. 👍

#seal.txt #tdov #that 'sky and mike' image of the two old trans dudes hugging was one that I had saved to my phone as a trans teen #and i would look at it sometimes and just wonder how they had made it #idk its just nice knowing we live that long and its not a requirement to be skinnyin order to be respected and loved and get old #some of the old 'advice' posts i saw were really completely bizarre and a lot of them stick with me to this day in insecurities #this would have been 2016 ish tumblr so i know not that long ago but i would have been around 13 for reference #weird that i remember so many of the things i read back then. i could probably fill a post with things i was misinformed on due to Tumblr #specifically tumblrs run by people that i didnt really have the knowledge or awareness to understand probably didnt have my best interests #like 'trans rights ' blogs i would follow and not notice until much later were quite the opposite #this is the consequence of viewing social media before i knew all the secret codewords and my brain was much less developed than it is now

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cozylittleartblog · 1 month

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400% sure he would love steven universe

#trigun #trigun 98 #doodles #art #comic #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #steven universe #anime #my first contribution is an illustration that took me like a whole week to get through #my second contribution is a silly i was up till 6 am for #as god intended o7 #hes so pathetic and sad i wanna shake him #^ every character i can say that about is my favorite character in the whole media hands down #we all cried during the bismuth episode dont say you didn't #EDIT IF YOU SEE THIS POST GO LOOK AT MY OTHER TRIGUN FANART FROM A WEEK AG O TOO PLS PLS PLS PLS P #edit 2 - EDITED WW's SKINTONE!!! the color reference i used made him look a lot paler than he's supposed to be. apologies!#i am so glad someone pointed that out before i put my trigun charms into production. i edited the charm too to be more tan #if i put whitewashed wolfwood keychains into production i would have SCREAMED

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howtokillavampire · 13 days

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do you ever see fanart so tasty that you are then obligated to join the fandom and spend all of your waking hours learning the lore behind the characters, or is that not a universal experience?

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fairygothmotherisgay · 21 days

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DC Social Media AU Part 8

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anwn · 1 year

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ok but i find it interesting how shadow's appearance was partially inspired by kabuki theatre

like ooo that makes sense. that makes a lot of sense actually

funny thing is it kinda fits perfectly with shadow's first va using a slight mid-atlantic accent. i thought the accent was a nod to him being from the 50s when it was still in use, but the fact it was almost exclusively utilized in theatrical and cinematic settings kinda makes me wonder if it was an intentional reference to the theatrical aspect of shadow's design as well? his dramatic demeanor sickens me

#sth #shadow #shadow the hedgehog #i guess that explains his serve #theatre references and symbolism in media my beloved #blingee.txt

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sixohsixoheightfourtwo · 1 year

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I actually love glass onion being set deep in covid times but where's the post that was like . Glass Onion should have ended with benoit blanc getting home and testing positive for covid . I really think that would've tied the whole thing together

#glass onion #fr coulda been a post credits scene! u don't want to disrupt the power of the final scene tho i guess #do u think the stuff ethan hawke shot in their mouths was a spurious miles bron vaccine or just like. ivermectin #anyway . I have seen this post thsi is not an original idea. where is it.#please can more media reference covid it's gonna be TOO ! WEIRD! if our popular culture just flat out ignores this major thing #that disrupted THEE entire world for so long.#saw someone be like 'covid happened two years ago why are people still talking about it' uh !#anyway . glass onion handshake emoji the borat sequel . for having covid in it #they fully all got covid that weekend. this is my belief

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arcanegifs · 5 months

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ARCANE S1 EP1 → ARCANE S2 TEASER

#something quick and simple bc i cannot get this reference out of my mind and i cant wait for season 2 to rip my heart into pieces again #arcane #arcaneedit #netflix animation #animationedit #netflixedit #vi #arcane league of legends #arcane vi #arcane jinx #jinx #jinx arcane #arcane netflix #vi and jinx #s1 ep 1 #media: arcane #type: gif #s2 teaser

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gothhabiba · 4 months

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“the gore and grit and violence and manliness and faggotiness of Black Sails / Hannibal / Interview with the Vampire would make the childish q-slur-tagging Steven Universe pansies who watch Our Flag Means Death scream and cry and shit their pants”

you are all watching Television Show.

#like. I hear what you’re saying. but it’s Television Show #(by which I want to refer to the material circumstances surrounding the production of any major media undertaking #and not really the medium itself)#f slur /

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fox-guardian · 5 months

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read a fic recently that had an interaction like

sasha: tim get like one social media PLEASE I am BEGGING

tim: I have linkedin?

and I cannot describe the Joy I felt reading that. they get it.

#ramblings with major #the magnus archives #tma #i love tim but he is so offline to me #if he does social media its very lightly #i mean his canon sense of humor is pop culture references like movie quotes and stuff. not memes.#tim's idea of a meme is an image with impact text and an image with impact text Only #danny was the fun online one finding all the weird niche communities and hobbies and whatnot #tim is the boring one #im telling y'all hes the 'straight man' of the archives

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seafoamsol · 11 months

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The boys!

#maccadam #transformers #rise of the beasts #rotb #tf mirage #mirage #rotb mirage #rotb noah #noah diaz #I’m combing thru every single promo media just to find references for mirage and imma tell you this was still a struggle #god I’m never drawin him ever again (lie)

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gildedoak · 1 month

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"Now we just have to let it cook on low heat for two hours." "Kaaaaay. What do we do until then?" "OH, I'm sure we'll find SOMETHING to do."

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I was listening to Water Wall from the Transistor OST and thought of Lucifer and Alastor dancing a slow tango to a bass-y jazz number in the hotel's expansive new kitchen. I ended up finding Unsolved by Mythical Score Society and it creates such a gentle, sexy mood. Loved how it turned out. ❤️

If anyone has additional music recommendations for this scenario, please pass them along! I'd love to hear them.

Not sure why, but the colors look more fluorescent in the photo than they really are. Must be the lighting.

ALSO, SOMEHOW I FORGOT TO ADD ALASTOR'S TAIL????

(Image description and reference photos under the cut)

[Image Description: A sketchbook page of four drawings of Lucifer and Alastor dancing a tango, with Alastor leading, as music plays in the background. Both men are missing their jackets, and are instead wearing kitchen aprons, with their shirt sleeves rolled up. Lucifer's apron is a buttery yellow, and Alastor's is lime green. Both look like they're actually enjoying themselves.

Various reference photos are featured under the cut.

End Image Description]

#my art #traditional media #sketches #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin hotel lucifer #radioapple #morningradio #duckiedeer #slow dance #soft intimate moments❤️#slow dancing in the kitchen #lucifer x alastor #alastor #lucifer morningstar #hazbin hotel fanart #photo references for the win

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cephalonheadquarters · 8 months

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#Third times the charm if i find one more mistake uhhh im deleting all my social medias and never returning ever #OKAY #PIKMIN #PIKMIN 4 #dingo pikmin #yonny pikmin #my art #okay. Okay.#Something something splatoon 3 reference on yonny's side idfk bye

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