I can assure you I had extremely normal feelings seeing Shima perform a video game stealth move on Kikuri and then manhandling her.

skip to loafer

i might kill myself im ngl

Soothing deep greens hues for this outfit, pairing a stripey kimono with a kujaku (peacock) patterned obi (the resist-dyed work is so pretty!)

sure... let's sneak in some skip & loafer charms/stickers one week before a con... i needed an excuse to draw my lil friends anyway....

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everyone: shima’s so cool and popular

shima:

Skip to Loafer introduces a rare aspect: the back and forth of relationships, the fact that they are not linear.

It's something I often find ignored in manga of this genre, yet it's the great common denominator of all relationships

Sometimes, despite the attraction, it's not the right time. Mitsumi is a well-balanced, confident person who can take responsibility for her decisions, while Shima needs to find out who he is, and it's this identity crisis that prevents him from projecting himself and believing he's eligible for happiness.

But it's Mitsumi who quietly observes Shima and notices that something isn't quite right. She doesn't reproach him, even though it might upset her, but she takes matters into her own hands to put Shima in a more comfortable position.

The fact that she proposed a break-up is a huge show of love

I think it was incredibly mature of her to put it like that, and I have to admit that it upset me

Skip to Loafer sets up simple aspects of life, so simple that we miss them, but when they are written down, put on paper: they are sublimated and we relive them all over again

redraw of an illustration from ch 54 of skip to loafer!!! 🌻 one of the bestest and most touching works of fiction i’ve ever read 🥲🥲💖

recent blue exorcist anime happenings reminds me of when I made a fake manga page of shima being possessed by yamantaka

SS0273 Shima Production

random mitsumi and shima sketch cuz I couldn’t get into the skip and loafer zine

might finish this or make diff sketches

wanted to do some color-themed oc + otherwise groups… maybe got a little carried away!! 💦💦 I was just making these for fun, but now my brain is all over wondering what they'd be like working together on something. a game show. a social experiment on an island. they have to work together to solve puzzles or fight things and run into each other along the way. you know how it is.

I started thinking about how edward would immediately become the leader of team red, how drew is surrounded by a bunch of ladies with a thirst for violence plus an evil god chicken, how arthur would dedicate himself to protecting his group (and tolerating felix) and how he carries the entire team, how team green has the most argumentative people that are barely being held together, and how team purple is pretty good at getting along and has a comical dynamic considering it contains dez, monster people AND louis. I was gonna say team blue is the obligatory disadvantaged team, but they have the most hilarious family dynamic and are led by the biggest pacifists of everyone here and will probably end up befriending a dragon. also kage is there and he's the weird uncle.

list of characters:

team red: edward quinton (ibvs) 16 year-old with stringy powers ellie (fatal flaws/dreamswap) 25 year-old engineer kazune (hopeless) 25 year-old shady guy xaki (greyscale) 12 year-old violent runaway ari (reverie) 20 year-old mystery zinnia (???) 17 year-old mystery with an axe team orange: drew jovel (ibvs) 15 year-old with healing powers crystal mccrae (fatal flaws/dreamswap) 24 year-old bodyguard kevin (fatal flaws/dreamswap) chicken october (october) 16 year-old vampire katherine schultz (bizarre saga universe) 25 year-old evil fire demon noble team yellow: arthur von licht (fatal flaws/dreamswap) ?? year-old political fighter cassie blanchet (hopeless) 12 year-old traumatized child isaac beamer (ibvs) 16 year-old student with art-related powers madeline lockwood (bizarre saga universe) 24 year-old with ice magic felix wolfe (ibvs) 17 year-old student who keeps summoning demons team green: ani gautier (fatal flaws/dreamswap) ?? year-old craftsperson nevin jovel (ibvs) 15 year-old with self-destructive powers brooke (reverie) 20 year-old college student jet (dintis) ?? year-old evil noble joey (hopeless) ?? year-old shady guy saria (bizarre saga universe) ?? year-old maniac team blue: alix (greyscale) 12 year-old student blue lebeau (fatal flaws/dreamswap) 26 year-old yoga teacher dark (dintis) ?? year-old distressed gay man nick rivas (hopeless) 12 year-old traumatized child kage (kagehara cinematic universe) ?? year-old speedrunner team purple: dez gonzalez (ibvs) 16 year-old student with energy powers louis lopez (ibvs) 17 year-old student that is a demon-fighting wizard miles newton (fatal flaws/dreamswap) ?? year-old guy (criminal) endy (oldie) ?? year-old vampire with magic powers shima (kagehara cinematic universe) ?? year-old Demonic Being

the music for this scene man... genuinely amazing what the anime did with these two pages like it's enough to make a grown man cry

K'od

Ao no Exorcist Blu-Ray Limited Edition Illustrations for the new anime!

Of course they tempt me with the izumo, yukio, and shima one! like is Kato stalking me? Does she know how much i love this trio? and Of course the one with Rin?

The special edition illustration will be for those pre-ordered volumes!

Volume 1 will include the first illustration with rin, yukio, and izumo and will have the first episodes. Projected release date April 2024

Volume 2 will have yukio, shima and izumo with the second half. Projected release date May 2024

Also, y'all who follow me or have started follow me! Hi! and y'all can hate me! im sorry for my inactivity! I do miss y'all and nostalgia has brought me in the return of the anime! I will do my best to help bring the aoex hype!