Studio Ghibli’s Whisper Of The Heart: Green - Dir Yoshifumi Kondo (1995)

me watching neon genesis evangelion

episode 1: when's the white-haired guy gonna appear

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episode 22: WHEN'S THE WHITE-HAIRED GUY GONNA APPEAR

episode 23: seriously is the white haired-guy even in this anime

episode 24: wHAT THE FUCK

watching characters try to fight the narrative like i'm a roman senator at the coliseum

I will never emotionaly recover from this

The time my friend gifted me a Italy nendroid and wrapped it up like this:

I will never be this funny.

I think the reason why I enjoyed Shimanami Tasogare as much as I did is because it deals with homophobia and transphobia in a way that’s very real. It takes the time with pointing out microaggressions, showing that sometimes prejudice comes from ignorance rather than malice, that even people that consider themselves allies can harm us, that some people might not be against “the gay lifestyle” if it’s people they don’t know but be against their own children being gay, etc. 

I feel like other media makes homophobia something that’s too cut and dry, or just uses it as a plot device- and that’s okay. I don’t want every piece of gay media to center around the hate we recieve, that’d be exhausting. But I think these type of stories are important too, sometimes. There’s just something really powerfu about reading a manga that dives so much into our oppression and yet still ends in a happy ending, I think.

March Comes in Like a Lion | Openings and Endings

finally got my hands on the english wotakoi volume 4 the other day

(image is a two-panel comic of kabakura tarou saying, disgruntled, “otaku these days, it’s all ‘comfort character’ this and ‘comfort character’ that. you know who my comfort character is? MY WIFE.” koyanagi peeks up from the corner of the second panel, smug.)