wowee! what a coinkidink.

i want to put endo yamato in a saw trap

[oriontheatre]

caved and made a wbk sideblog 😔

riko/manu | 21 | he/him | main is @wormcoded

original posts are tagged #riko.txt and Opinions are tagged #shut up riko for filtering purposes. my drawing tag is #riko doodles :)

i get excited and spam reblog. i do not tag anime spoilers.

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[choberr]

Yeah I need Hiiragi to come in and say "no you can't march into unknown territory with 30+ ppl at once" to the hiiragilings ASAP bc it'd look like an attack from the outside and it'd tank their reputation within bkk-gai and rc. Hiiragi do your numero uno apex bullshit handling thing and handle the bullshit before it's too late and the bullshit spirals into burning pile of shit pls pls pls pls

[togaki-kun]

Something that makes me feel unbearably soft about WBK is the fact that in Japan, the cutoff date for entering into a grade is April 1. That means kids born on April 2 of one year through April 1 of the following year are placed in the same grade.

Sakura was born on April 1, which means he was just one day shy of being in the same grade as the kids currently in their third year of junior high.

He is the youngest member of Fuurin’s first-year batch.

He is the youngest student enrolled at Fuurin High.

He is the youngest captain in Bofurin.

In short, he is the baby of this whole-ass found family of delinquents with hearts of gold, finally able to receive the love and affection that he should have had growing up.

And I am so soft for it.

[viridiansilverr]

I'm still here

[serene-sabo]

Nirei-kun, what’s the matter? Huh? Me? You seem odd today. Usually, you’re the first person to speak up whenever Sakura-kun doubts himself. Oh… haha, I’m just dazing out a lot today!

[jacaranda-ash]

hey thats crazy anyways

[oriontheatre]

happy pride i hope kiryu spent the first sixteen years of their life knowing they were a little different from other boys but not minding it much and then i hope they laid eyes on tsubaki for the first time and their whole world suddenly made sense

[takiishis]

the strings connecting Sakura to Suo are growing out of his right hand, by the way.

his right hand.

[goatedgreen]

kotoha consistently being the person who can interpret and explain sakuras state of mind because she just Gets Him ohhh that's literally his first ever friend im sick

[oriontheatre]

something i find kinda funny about wbk is that while homophobia canonically exists, it doesn't seem to touch makochi, noroshi, or shishitoren's territory. nobody seems to have any issues with tsubaki, endo, or togame (ik togame's not textually gay, but come on). makochi reasonably wouldn't have a problem with it bc tsubaki helps protect them and is a set part of their community, but nobody beyond that has taken any issue with it either.

but like, then again, if i were a hypothetical homophobe, i would also be keeping my mouth shut if the most high-profile queer person i knew was a teenage gang enforcer who was 1) very popular with the rest of their crowd and 2) capable of introducing my teeth to the stratosphere

[pitchblackkoi]

keep thinking about the fact that suo formally withdrew from furin before fucking off. motherfucker was going to disappear off the face of the earth and went “okay well if i disappear with no notice everyone is going to come after me. so i have to telegraph that i am leaving On Purpose Of My Own Volition.” and so he filed formal paperwork about it. as if, by the way, that would not have the easily foreseeable consequence of umemiya showing up at class 1-1 like “heyyy guys. where the fuck is your vice captain?”

[miss-choco-chips]

People hiding these gems in the tags I've been wheezing for 15 minutes lmaoooo

[cherrypikkins]

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[blehfurin]

of course suo, the 15 year old whose character heavily features maturity and reaching adulthood, is shown being a peacemaker and lecturing grown men...once again put in a situation where he acts rational to a degree which is unnatural for a teen. #adultifiedchild

[imustbenuts]

the more i read wind breaker the more i see the 'political commentary' being slathered in the unspoken parts of the story

the whole plot centers around kids who basically act out in delinquency and engage in gang wars. the whole society as a whole in the narrative is strangely absent in working adults with a proper job or even working parents. the cities are run down in the corners, sometimes littered with grafitti or just abandoned.

the community is often the gangs the characters find themselves in and hang out with. while the protag's school offers protection to the local area outside of school, it doesnt change that there is a serious detrioriation of the economic health of the setting. there's a severe disconnect between the characters who need help and actual aid rendered from welfare services which should exist.

the characters in the settings are outcasts in some way. more often neglected if not abandoned by the adults who should be in their lives.

its also really not far from reality. tokyo itself is full of business and working adults. but go to just about any other cities even 2 hours away and suddenly there's an empty shopping street and abandoned buildings in the middle of a main street. tokyo feels like a city that grows and siphons away able bodied workers and money away form the other cities, of which makochi feels like.

this all then leads nicely into actual gangs, yakuzas and mafias. these groups are often comprised of the same types of outcasts, the difference is just the age and the way they operate. yakuzas often also recruited from delinquent gangs in the past. there's even more history of them originally being outcasts themselves due to discrimination based on their social status or race. and if you know anything about japanese nationalism, this is a huge and intense can of worms.

so suo or sun fei being an officer of basically a mafia genuinely doesnt surprise me. but i think what does is the race angle here. up until the manga drops his sun fei name and a basic outline of what red chanpuru is, the whole commentary seemed to still be focused on the topic of ethnically japanese only outcasts.

in case no one's talked about this yet; the word chanpuru is a okinawan dish which is basically stir fry. fwiw okinawan is the land of the ryukyuans, who had their own culture and language, and was annexed just like the ainus during the meiji era (which domino'd into ww2 in the asia theater, but im summarizing heavily about this topic). the ryukyuans has historically a lot of interactions with china, korea, southeast asia and even the austronesians.

since wind breaker is also marketed as shounen im not expecting satoru nii to go super deep and explicit with the commentary, but i do smell something worth chewing a lot on. i recognize this ball and i want to play with it

[yamalvr]

he looked so pathetic in this panel that i had to redraw it <3

[22ndiliad]

[plumblossompop]

Windbreaker 216 made me so crazy I decided to stop lurking. In my frantic post-chapter frenzy I ended up opening several academic articles, so there might be wilder posts to come, but first I wanted to touch upon Suo's connection to the number 4 and what 4 signifies in Chinese culture.

A lot of people have brought up the four = death connection, which is correct, but I feel like it's important to mention that the number 4 is a bit more complicated than that. Four is a bit of a weird number, because it's both lucky and unlucky simultaneously.

For example, there are a lot of good things that are grouped into four. There's the Four Auspicious Beasts, which are associated with the four cardinal directions. There's the Four Gentlemen, which are four plants representing traditional virtues and the four seasons. There are the Four Great Beauties, the Four Great Classical Novels, etc.

Actually, while googling to fact check myself, I discovered that there are even some folk wedding traditions involving the number four. There's the concept of "四红四喜", a wedding tradition where the bride wears four reds that symbolize four happinesses, and the four fruits, which are used in the wedding ceremony.

However, tetraphobia (fear of the number four) is still definitely real. You're not supposed to get married on a day with 4 in the date, and buildings will avoid having floor numbers with 4 in it.

I find this concept kind of intriguing when it comes to Suo. Four is connected to death, but also to the four happinesses, which include longevity (arguably the opposite of death). Suo's name references resurrection, a transition between death and life. Four is both lucky and unlucky, and in a way that makes it a sort of mysterious number, and isn't that kind of fitting for a very mysterious guy...

Anyways, I don't have an exact conclusion to this. I feel like four = death is a pretty well known thing, but it's a bit more complicated than that and I wanted to mention it. And something about the whole "stuck between two meanings" thing is kind of making me think of being stuck between two organizations? Maybe someone else will think of other directions to take this, I believe @silfurskin mentioned that four also has organized crime connections.