Something more casual now~ I started this as a regular old meme redraw but as always I went a bit overboard. Oh well, I got to draw the sillies at the festival!
I will try to post more casual animatics / sketches but I canβt promise that I wonβt always go overboard.
Yapping about outfits under the cut~
I imagine Susie wears the exact same outfit but she ties her overtop/jacket round her waist to hide her tail since Noelle keeps pointing it out.
I suppose the festival is going to be Christmasy in some capacity or another, so I drew Noelle in one of the myriad of Christmas sweaters I know she has. And Noelle in a braid cuz she has to look cute for the date Susie has no idea sheβs on to the festival~
In trying to figure out what Berdly would wear to the festival, some friends suggested that Berdly dressing up would wear a polo with a fake print tie (same green from his dw design) with Cargo shorts and Iβm afraid its canon.
And Kris, like all my favorite characters, gets to wear one of my outfits. Plus they get a half up half down style cuz it looks good (totally not because Iβve been drawing deltanoir kris a lot)
I CAN FINALLY SHARE THIS MWAHAHAH YESSSSSSS LETS GO. LIVE BURRY REACTION. SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT
This whole chapter to me was like yay hirakagi!! Yay kagibashi! Whoa KAGIBASHI?!?! HELLO SASAHIRA?!?! SASAKAGI?!?!?!? Not even purely romantically but just character interactions and dynamics i did not expect to see. A FEASTTTT.
But right now this is about SASAKAGI because oh my GOD.
I think its the fact that nothing even happened. Like they just walked by each other. I just have to. I just have to. I cant. Dude. Just look.
I am having a visceral aggressive reaction like I genuinely keep curling up and clenching my fist and slapping my face bc I cant believe this happened. I'm LITERALLY tweaking. I'm in shock. Two whole pages dedicated to sasakagi I couldn't be happier. I literally just. My god. DUDE.
Its both serene and tense. Its weirdly beautiful and kinda overdramatic. Its awkward yet inconsequential. ITS SO SASAKAGI. THIS IS THE DYNAMIC IVE BEEN WAITING FOR. THIS IS WHY IM OBSESSED WITH THEM.
Kagiura is looking Sasaki up and down, basically. He notices Sasaki just a few seconds before he's noticed back. He sees the notecards. He knows where theyre from.
REAL QUICK CAN I TALK ABOUT THIS LOOK.
I WOULDVE SHIT MYSELF.
THE IDEA THAT THIS IS WHAT THEY WERE SEEING OF EACH OTHER. I CANT. I CANT DO IT
From the paneling, it almost looks like Kagiura looks back at the ground or the tray. But maybe only for a split second. An impulse to avoid his eyes. But he looks back up and he STARES. And he keeps staring as they pass by each other and then Sasaki stares back and acknowledges him before he does. And he's SURPRISED by it. Dawg. Good NIGHT. MY STOMACH HURTS
ALSO THE HEIGHT DIFFERENCR. CHRIST?!? Kagiura is already a good few cms taller πππ bro ππππ
I know WHY it is. Kagiura kind of internalizes everything he reacts to, and one of those things is his jealousy of one of Hirano's close friends that he takes care of PLENTY and has known longer than Kagiura (hello sshr), but ever since ch. 24, the fact of the matter is, even if its self-inflicted and self-conscious and not at all personal, Sasaki makes Kagiura nervous. Sasaki makes Kagiura nervous.
I think i might pass away. Like. Ultra polite Kagiura freezes when he sees Sasaki and takes way too long to react. Because he let his jealousy be expressed outwardly and now he's so conscious of being around the subject of it. He's likely afraid it will come out again. And/or he just doesn't know how to appear around someone he doesnt know that he KNOWS hirano is close to despite his own words and that hes jealous of. How should he be around Sasaki? Right now his automatic response is "deer in the headlights". Sasaki's acknowledgement snapped him out of that stupor. But what gets me is that Kagiura very much kept on looking at him. Like if Sasaki hadn't acknowledged him he woulda just stared anyway. He was completely entranced by his conflict surrounding Sasaki he genuinely didn't know what to do in this moment but stare. Bro. They didn't even exchange WORDS. I am EATING THE CURTAINS. I'M CRUNCHING ON A WINDOW PANE. WHAT THE HELL
They're so in love with other people bc if I was either of them coming down the hallway seeing the other looking like THAT I wouldve PISSED MY PANTS. I think theyre canonically the most attractive guys in the cast. They're having a mog-off. Sasaki mastered the half-lidded stare and Kagiura's hips don't lie
Lemme stop reading too much into the two pages and now just talk purely out of my ass. Bc ik Sasaki canonically is all like "yeah imma stay out of that one" per Hirano's weird ass relationship with his weird ass unsettling ass roommate but I wonder if Sasaki late in the night could be staring up at his ceiling and think of The Expression that Kgiura gave him That Day and get chills. And I'm almost certain he thinks of Kagiura sometimes. Even if he blocks his name out of his system... mostly. He does bc he left him that grad message. And he knows his sport (kinda hard to forget tbh) and asked about him that One time. Yes I still think about that. (Calling him kagi-kun was pretty diabolical I'll say. Not surprised he knows him by that bc Hirano is always yapping away about him. I bet Hirano forgot Kagiura's full name too at this point π). But what was going through his mind when he saw kagiura in the hallway. That he looked like a lost puppy? DUMMY. Probably.
Bro. I'm not one about the order of the names as an expression of dynamics/roles but sasakagi being SASAKAGI is SOO IMPORTANT... Kagiura's impulsive ass could use someone just as insanely and insatiably hungry as he is im just saying anyway more at 11... I'll talk about this in depth later...
I'm rubbing my hands together like a fly and laughing maniacally. Now all I gotta wait for is them to have a real one-on-one conversation in 2026... about something stupid. And watch that be the last conversation they ever have. Lmfao..then Sasaki graduates and they both breathe a sigh of relief like "thank god i dont have to see that weirdo again [anytime soon]" but they think about each other sometimes... trust
ANON THANK YOU FOR THINKING OF ME ππΎππΎππΎππ I AM BESIDE MYSELF
