I doodled…

OMG!!!! Save me this is too cute for my poor heart!!!! 😭💕

I CAN'T!!! I'VE BEEN BLESSED !!!!

Opening my eyes seeing this cute Seiji is aaaaa

Am I still dreaming ?? And gentle Natori looking at the boys T^T

Can't get past this cute Seiji at all !!!!! Can't stop staring ><

natsuyuu sketch dump pt.2

rewatching the taki intro arc and you gotta love seeing natsume be on the receiving end of some natsume-style shenanigans. like his reaction to taki offering herself as bait is so funny. not such a good feeling when other people do it now is it mr. bait boy?

Natsume Week Day 6: Travel

Natsume too jetlagged for Nyanko rn

Doodle Covers for Chapters 109-112 + a bonus alternate cover under the cut.

[ID: a digital image of Taki and Tanuma crouching infront of a child Natsume, they're extending their hands with kind smiles. Natsume is hunched over with a scared and tense expression.]

my entry for day three! kindness and cruelty, absolutely loved the days eater episode and felt it fit the prompt perfectly

felt bad for not doing smthn for taki or reikos bday so did some VERY LATE obligatory doodles <3

Autistic Anime Girls Group 3 Round 2 Match 16

SUBMISSION PROPAGANDA:

Tooru -

"she's fascinated by yokai to the point where she accidentally gets cursed by one. don't worry! she's fine! all of the main trio of this series are autistic to me but she's the only girl, so this isn't about them."

Suzuno -

"Suzuno is constantly reading and researching how to do 'proper' social interaction and is thirsty for this kind of knowledge. On her own, she comes across as pretty awkward and strange to others, but she's doing her best."

Natsuyuu requests: Taki and Natsume getting ice cream? Or just bonding in general?

Went a little harder than usual on this and tried to make it a little crunchy lookin cause theyre so soft and ive been thinking about their friendship and how much i love them🥲

It kind of. saddens me that Taki is always left out whenever the 4 boys (Natsume/Nishimura/Kitamoto/Tanuma) are hanging out.

Especially in the manga - the anime actually seems to try to include her more, and because in the manga Sasada isn't here it really feels like Taki's the only one excluded because.... idk, she's The One Girl of Natsume's friends lol.

Which is amusing because in the fandom she's pretty regularly included with the boys, even when it follows the manga without Sasada; when in reality in canon she's... never really been shown to be friends with Kitamoto & Nishimura. And it's like, okay on the one hand I sort of get it because I know from experience some teenage groups can sometimes have a clear boys/girls gender divide... but Taki still frequently hang out with Natsume and Tanuma and her being the only girl here doesn't seem to matter, so I don't see why it would be an issue for her to also hang out with Nishimura and Kitamoto?

It'd be fine to me if it were only some chapters/arcs where it's just the 4 boys together, but I can't recall a single one where it's the 4 boys AND Taki. Chapters where Taki are included are always only with Natsume & Taki or Natsume & Taki & Tanuma. That's especially weird given, rereading the culture festival chapter (chapter 27), the ending implies Taki was invited with Natsume and Tanuma to go fishing with Nishimura and Kitamoto. In the eastern forest arc (chapters 34-36), we know she went to the summer festival with them too (even if, again, on the last page there's only the 4 boys and Taki is nowhere to be seen. for some reason.)

So technically she should be at least kind of friends with Nishimura & Kitamoto by now already, but it's never shown on panel...? Again there's a few times where I think it's fine if Taki's not here, like the Tanuma arc where they go to his aunt's inn (chapters 66-67); it was a Tanuma arc and so it had to be focused on him, especially given the arc right before it was a Taki arc where Tanuma doesn't appears (chapters 64-65). (Though arguably she still could have come, given the mirror yokai arc was also a Tanuma arc and she still played a minor role here without overshadowing Tanuma.)

But then, why wasn't she invited during the childhood home arc when the boys went to look for a soda spring in the forest (chapters 44-46)? Or at the special 20 where they go see Natori's movie together? What about chapter 111 which was all about Natsume spending time and chilling with his friends at the beach? How come during the Man Upstairs painting/Tenjou-san arc (chapter 90-91) Taki wasn't the FIRST choice they go to to seek information!! They're investigating a legend about an an old painting - you KNOW that Taki, who lived her whole life in that town and especially who had a grandpa who spent his life collecting legends and is very knowledgeable on the topic, would have been the best person to know the most about it!! She would've had so much fun too!! But apparently that didn't even cross their mind to go ask her? (Though I guess you could argue she would've solved the mystery in 2 minutes then lol, but still. I don't see why she couldn't have investigated with the boys orz) There's not even a mention of "yeah I asked Taki but she said she couldn't" like?

It's just that every time I see the 4 boys together without Taki I feel like shaking Natsume and Tanuma by the shoulders and be like hey!! Taki's your bestie too!!! why are you not inviting her!!!

It just feel really sad to me too given we know Taki literally doesn't have any other friends besides Natsume and Tanuma. Ever since she got cursed she got very isolated from others at school, and it's not until CHAPTER 96 that she starts talking again to her classmates. So like, when she's not with Natsume & Tanuma, she's just... all alone. That's why this exclusion is just weird to me cause it feels like the boys don't notice this or just. always leave her all alone, when they could very easily invite her to join their group. Even if Chapter 96 implies she now has at least 1 friend it's still fairly recent and it's not been developed since then.

This is kind of funny to me sometimes too because Midorikawa always write in her afterwords how much she loves girls and wish she could draw them more but like. She still seems stuck in the All Boys Gang and never let Taki in. Midorikawa I love you but you can't complains about not drawing girls if you always refuses to include your second most important female character lmao (Taki always gets left out of official merch stuff too orz)

At least the anime tries to include her a bit more here and there and to show she has this friendship with Sasada so she seems a bit less isolated and left out; like they actually added her at the end of the Eastern forest arc, of the childhood home arc and even in the school trip episode (she wasn't here in chapter 79). (Though the problem with the anime is that this added inclusion often doesn't feel organic, especially with Sasada.)

Anyway. Can we PLEASE let Taki be friends with Nishimura & Kitamoto and tries to at least have ONE chapter where she hang out with the 4 boys T_T

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