i wanna talk about mechamaru and miwa for a second and see if im stupid bear with me.
i read the manga about a month ago and the scene it cuts to as mahito touches mechamaru and kills him is way shorter there, like only a handful of panels. i initially assumed it was a memory that mechamaru was thinking back to as he was dying, sad that miwa wanted to visit him and now she would never have the chance.
however, watching the anime take it's time with it, i remembered that last week we saw miwa back at kyoto walking into a room where mechamaru was sitting on the couch, telling him to turn in an assignment etc. he told her he was going to go to sleep even though it was the middle of the day, right around the time his fight with mahito was beginning in the basement and im assuming he couldn't use that form and his real body at the same time.
that scene ends with miwa poking him and realizing he's in fact "asleep". then in today's episode, the set up of this "memory" is exactly the same, same room, same stances, same positioning. it was harder to notice in the manga with how few the panels were and the lack of detail, but in the anime it's very straightforward.
that means that miwa talking to him about meeting him and wanting to get closer wasn't one of mechamaru's memories. right? it was happening simultaneously.
he was dying thinking of her and at the same time she was confessing to him that she wanted them to get closer, back in kyoto. so mechamaru never knew this. he never learned that miwa liked him back and wanted to meet him regardless of him getting his body back.
it hit sm harder with this info and the time that was put into it by mappa. now however im seeing ppl on tiktok refer to that scene as a memory and im so confused bc i think its fairly easy to miss in the manga (or maybe i was just stupid back then lmao) but very much there in the anime, so im questioning my sanity and i want u guys' input on this pls fosmshsksk
HC where Kokichi paints on Kasumi's back with gouache, as on canvas. Once she offered, in the absence of canvases and watmans in the house, to draw on her back. And when everything is already drawn, Noritoshi photographs the drawing on a polaroid. Gradually it became a little tradition for three of them
Kasumi doesn't like to have breakfast right after waking up. To wash her hair to cheer herself up for the whole day and return to bed for a while - that's her answer to the morning routine on the weekend, as on this sunny morning
“.. these flowers are small, unlike roses“
“That's right!“
She has fair skin, slightly touched by a scattering of dark freckles on her shoulders. She lies relaxed and does not twitch when the wet brush in his cool hand draws the familiar outline of a rectangle and slides with confident strokes
“Hmm, for a peony, this flower has few petals. Cherry blossom?“
“No, not them. Do you have any other options, Kas?“
“Let me think… this is definitely not a bouquet of different flowers, and not a viola, the shape is not similar, and not forget-me-nots, for them you would use a thin brush. Besides, you've already drawn them“
Kokichi snorts with satisfaction
“It's so cute that every time you try to guess which flowers I draw“
“Because I know you well enough! when it comes to the realization of any idea, your meticulousness no equal!“
“How could it be otherwise, Love?!“
Both laugh softly
“I'm done, you can watch!“
Kasumi gets up and walks over to the mirror, intrigued. She is so beautiful in the sunlight, pink highlights play on her skin, they smoothly merge with contrasting olive shadows on her pumped-up arms and the shadow from the edges of the towel strips disappearing behind the elastic band of wide trousers. Kokichi helps her with her hair, throws a waterfall of wet strands on her shoulders over a towel so as not to smear paint, and lightly touches lips to her shaved temple. Her enchanted gaze is fixed on her back in the reflection of the mirror: from the peaks of the shoulder blades to the waist, a fire of scarlet flowers blooms inside rectangle.
“Red primroses!“ Kas says this along with Nori, who has approached them
“It seems they shine like after the rain“ said Nori
He carefully examines Kokichi's creation and calls both to have breakfast. He also clarifies, just in case, if Kasumi is cold like this, in one canvas on her shoulders and with wet hair. She shakes her head negatively in response and, hanging on his arm, mutters how she doesn't want to wash off the drawing, because they can go to the bathroom at any moment and wash off the paints, watching the multicolored water disappearing into the shower drain for an infinitely long time, but this way breakfast can cool down. Noritoshi presses his nose to aquamarine hair. She felt his lips stretch into a soft smile. Kokichi puts chin on his other shoulder and gently runs his palm along the spine to the lower back, deliberately touching the bow. Noritoshi is wearing only dark homemade joggers and maid's apron on his bare torso. It is still a mystery in their house when this apron for role play began to be constantly used for the kitchen, but no one is trying to solve this riddle. But that's a completely different story. In the meantime, shine, red primrose!
P.S. I associate Kasumi with a red primrose (used meaning of Japanese flowers language)
Explanation for this below the cut heh [mild manga spoilers!!]
In ch181 (?) We see this one panel of her super focused very scary, like she meant business (i cannot find the panel tho im sorry). This happens right after Yuuta vs Takako and Ishigori.
I remember thinking ooh maybe Miwa and Yuuta would team up, but then also why??
Then I had this thought of Miwa now having Mechamaru as a curse and going to Yuuta for advice, but because for Yuuta it comes much more instinctively because of his relationship wih Rika,he doesn't have much to offer (mostly because I'd like her to not have to rely on someone else too much) and she has to navigate having a curse with her.
Her recent appearances do make her look like she still has her brand of nervousness, which I like about her, so I've drawn her like that too. I also gave her Kokichi's ear piece thingy, wonder if that's what created the curse oohh.
For Kokichi I've mixed his human form with the bandages and hair and his mech from his fight with Mahito, because I like to think that was his sorta freedom form compared to the usual metal/wooden mechamaru. It was after he got his body ofc but also after trying to right his wrong.
I talk about why I wouldn't wanna exactly see this in the tags tho lol I'm am my own naysayer ✌️(Miwa has to find her happiness!! And that doesn't have to be a person or romantic!!+ more!!)
germansingergirl
s-u-f-j-a-n-s-t-e-v-e-n-s
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