When People Call Me Their Friend

i think it'll be a while before it all comes together but i can't stop thinking about how Ave Mujica plays off of MyGO's themes of like. Communication and failure to communicate? And how music factors into all of that?

MyGO ultimately is about discommunication, how words and action and conversation can fail, but music, because it is raw, earnest, open, and one-way, can pierce through any of that. Tomori spends the show unable to communicate properly, being misunderstood, being spoken for without her consent, being shouted down and convinced into doing things. but when it comes down to it, Tomori can express herself by singing everything she has as loud as she can. her raw emotion is able to pierce through everyone's fog and bring MyGO together in the end, because they all realize that they all felt lost all the same.

meanwhile have you kinda noticed that like. Ave Mujica really isn't a fucking band anime at all. like. at all at all. we haven't gotten any new songs, there's been more made about the times they aren't performing and are failing to perform than anything else. they aren't letting themselves be heard, they aren't communicating with each other, they aren't having that level of honest communication with each other. they aren't even singing for each other. Mutsumi falls asleep dreaming of singing, and the band never sings again. It's heartbreaking.

i think that's why the end of episode 5 is the first time i've felt genuine hope - Tomori reaching out, begging Sakiko to take back have that emotional honesty that Sakiko once forced upon an unwitting Tomori. Tomori asks Saki to join a band. It means something, goddamnit

it was my afternoon lunch eating pho where i had a newfound appreciation of genda’s character because my guy is the nicest guy to ever guy and he doesn’t have an inherent flaw compared to kidou and sakuma but the series still lets him experience insecurity and weak moments because he is a Person. OG teikoku trio are all loving in their own ways..

(Machine Translation)

Kidou: Truth is, I want to go to the finals with you guys (at Teikoku)

Genda: ………

Genda: You’re carrying our hopes as you’re wearing Raimon’s uniform

Tears in my kigen eyes

2:30 AM and can't sleep thinking about how sakuma has 0 selfish bone in him and his "i can't see your world" @ kidou line in shin teikoku arc is him venting his desperation over not knowing what is in kidou's mind 💔💔💔💔 even post shin teikoku he's beefing on fudou never about what fudou did to him but instead over the risk he could do to kidou. sakuma who is made of 100% pure love for better or worse

Someone on twitter said that Sakuma doesn't close his eye in the above frame because he's making sure Kidou is safe fuck my stupid baka kisaku life

Acrylic gouache painting + small review

Sakuma painting I just finished + WIP of him and an older Hiroto I've been wanting to post but I don't have a complementary piece to post him with. More talk under read more

Supplies used:

Holbein acryla gouache set curated by Rebecca green

Art Philosophy gouache (underpainting only)

Daler Rowney and Lyra synthetic brushes

Makeup brushes I no longer use for makeup purpose but performed better than my painting ones

I'm practicing painting again. This time using the Holbein Acryla Gouache set I bought for my birthday this January. I got myself acrylic gouache than regular gouache because my painting style is closer to acrylic and oil's than watercolors' (I'm really not good with watercolor)

Holbein's acrylic gouache performed really well so far. I love how opaque the paints are except for the gold color. I think it should serve a different purpose, like say, for glazing, than the opaque paints.

One complain I have for the Holbein arylic gouache is how quick they are to dry and the stickiness of it, so I had to pick more paint and use a bigger brush to fill a big area. I read a review that the Liquitex paints are less sticky and I wanted their set but they're too expensive in my country (Indonesia)

I really wanted to try the dry brush technique and I'm glad I did it pretty well on the left Sakuma painting. I rely on it to create color transitions because of how the colors laid previously show under the dry brushed paints. Honestly it's not that different than my digital art style where I keep brushing to create a feeling of gradient. Speaking of which it was a painting of this frame but I chose the wrong colors so the vibe ends up different lmao

The Sakuma on the right was rushed because I got too tired to continue further so he looks wonky with muddy colors. He's still my son even if he's a bit fugly. But yeah I had so much fun with this piece, I'm planning to do more traditional arts from now on, maybe I will try soft pastel too? Perhaps

stop… making… her… a… MOM FIGURE !!! *my psychic powers throw everything across the room*

jolly boy

kisaku for christmas

Very cute observation I've gotten is how physically affectionate Sakuma is with Kidou and Kidou not minding it because, Sakuma isn't as overly affectionate with the others.

Sakuma cares for the other members and is on friendly terms with them, but he's more lowkey displaying his affection than he does with Kidou.

Episode 94, after Endou gives a speech to the team after he and penguin trio were away and Inazuma Japan lost their match against Argentina's team.

Episode 96, everyone is raising their hand as they're sending Kurimatsu away. You can look closely that Sakuma isn't raising his hand and is doing the same crossed arms pose Fudou does.

As for Kidou, Everyday hints that he doesn't really like to be touched with him frowning whenever he is tapped by the player (Clip 1) (Clip 2) (It's so funny because everyone else smiles when tapped). While it is possible that he grows to become more accustomed to it, he's still awkward especially with sudden contact, lol

Going back to the first pictures I've shown, this is really one of my favorite Kisaku official arts... it's very sweet when one thinks about Sakuma's body language, he's hunching to Kidou's level as he's considerably taller than him, aww

snoozing

heeheehohoo