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What do you think abt this scenario?

Sarina instead of getting reincarnated as Ruby it would've been better if she was reincarnated as Akane or Kana. Akane and Kana are a year older than Aqua & also, Sarina died before Gorou.

Also, Sarina died of health issues and she didn't even know that Ai was pregnant but Gorou was murdered bcoz of Ai's secret. So it kinda makes sense that he was reborn as Ai's child. Sarina was a dhf of Ai, even after she was reborn she shouldve stayed as a dhf not the daughter of Ai.

Instead of incest bs we could've gotten star-crossed lovers ending.

If the manga were based on a romance between a reincarnated child and her reincarnated caretaker (an adult man) I would've never read it.

#onk asks convos #like what #aka already blurred the lines a bit too much for my liking in his efforts to cater to mengo's tastes #but ultimately he never crossed the line #sarina's crush was harmless and goro always saw her as the child she was #that was pretty much goro's saving grace as a character btw #I nearly didn't make it through the first episode because of how uncomfortable he made me #but despite his dubious obsession with ai and sarina he wasn't a pedo and that's why I could keep watching #if you turn him into one then he's a dumpster fire of a character so why would I want to read a manga about him

soldierboys

Please don't leave me. Never.

THE BOYS 5.07 The Frenchman, the Female, and the Man Called Mother’s Milk

#otp: mon coeur #the boys spoilers #he's bleeding out and the first thing he does is ask her if she's all right #last thing he tells homelander is that he can tell he has never danced #reference to dancing with kimiko #to the way kimiko saved him #I love them so much they deserved their happy ending in marseille #why didn't they die together like in the comics why are they making kimiko suffer like this

stevenrogered

THE BOYS 3x08, “The Instant White-Hot Wild”

#they had gold and they're turning it into copper #what the fuck are they doing with this masterpiece of a ship #I ignored the way they messed them up in s4 because it had good pay off #but now they're just retreading their character arcs for the 11th time #why are they doing this to them oh my god #in the future I think I'll just rewatch s1 - s3 and skip right to the last episode of s4 and call it a day because this is absurd lmao #otp: mon coeur

also, if you don’t mind, i read that you’ve been in naruto fandom too. may i know what’s your favorite ship & the ship that you dislike. personally (nobody asked i know lol) i’m a crackship fan (sasuhina, yes) bcs i really can’t stand those ‘canon’ ships and it hurts me as a fan of sasuke. i mean, i like sasunaru/narusasu too but yeah. my taste of these naruto ships bought me into loving aquakane. i kinda wanna hear your thoughts about naruto ships bcs i always like your analyze skills.

Oh anon, as a fellow Sasuke fan I know that feeling. It's been a decade and I'm still appalled at that ending. It taught me to distrust every writer because they can change their mind at a whim at any time and there's nothing any of us can do about it lol

If I get going it's going to get lengthy, so feel free to message me off anon so we can commiserate to our heart's content 😂

wat r ur thoughts on the comments made by the dir. of onk abt aquaka?

I haven't read them but I saw a summary by a Japanese fan. The director sounds like a biased Kana fan, so needless to say I disagree with his takes.

I am however glad that he was so open about his bias, because as far as I'm concerned this all but confirms what I suspected during S3's run. My assumptions were: they bent over backwards to "fix" the scandal arc to save Kana from hate, gave Aqua an anime-original Kana-focused flashback because they didn't think it was fair that Akane got one in Chapter 97 and not Kana, rushed Chapter 97 and sandwiched it between Kana chapters to keep the viewer focused on her and Aqua, and made Kana into part of the reason Aqua chose revenge because the way it played in the manga (with the focus being on Akane) didn't sit right with them lol

It's great that he's being so forthcoming about where his priorities lie because that means there's no reason to expect anything better when it comes to the final season lmao

#onk asks convos #it's always better to have people like these be honest about their bias so one can set their expectations (or lack thereof) accordingly #this isn't the first time a studio is biased against my favs so I've been there and done that #so I won't be watching anything from S4 #unless someone makes an akane compilation after it ends lmao

Are you a final fantasy 7 fan? Who do you ship

#otp: my promised land

DID YOU READ THE NEW AQUAKA MAGAZINE AND AKNE IN A CHERRY BLOSSOM KIMONO

I saw the spread and some snippets going around, but I haven't seen the full translation yet 👀 if you have a link, I'd love to read it!

#onk asks convos

Aqua and akane- started their business relationship with a kiss at sunset on the set and confirmed this relationship at night during a conversation. - started their genuine relationship at night with a kiss after finding goro's corpse- aqua ended their relationship at sunset- then again at night aqua in his last moments wants to build an equal relationship with akane. do u think aqua ending their relationship is not from heart and its fake just to protect akane

do u think aqua ending their relationship is not from heart and its fake just to protect akane

I'm not sure I'm reading your question correctly, do you mean that Aqua only broke up with her to protect her and would've kept dating her if he could?

Because if so:

Yeah. Aqua himself says that he broke up with her to protect her and that he didn't want to let go of her lol

#onk asks convos #it's pretty much the most straight forward part of the aquakane relationship

graythursday

not a single lizzie mention in the immortal man is insane btw

#this is how I know the movie isn't worth watching #sorry not sorry

what do you think about directional choices of onk season 3? do you think they are ruining aquakane scenes by starting scandal arc before aquakane breakup?

I think there are two big problems with the way they reorganized the timeline, and they're both related. The first problem is that they have completely altered Aqua's motivation for feeling like he has no option but to go down the path of revenge. The second problem is that they refused to let this have any impact in the way they handled c98.

In the anime, Aqua has already kick-started his revenge by the time he and Akane have their confrontation in c98, and Akane is aware of this. This is a huge change. So it's kind of crazy to me that they didn't let these changes have any sizeable impact on the way they handled the Aqua/Akane break up and the lead-up to it.

To begin with, for me it makes no sense that we don't see Aqua and Akane calling each other or texting each other in between the new filler, re-arranged events because it was established up to that point that they're often talking to each other and their last conversation was a pretty important one that required follow-up.

It also makes no sense for Akane to not contact Aqua right away after she sees Ai's news on the TV Screen. In the manga she can't contact him because they aren't on speaking terms at that point, but in the anime she is still his girlfriend lol why in the world wouldn't she be shocked and rushing to him after she assumes that Aqua has chosen to go down the path of revenge again. They could've at least had her trying to call him, anything really.

This is even more nonsensical because the studio has already shown that they're willing to write anime-original filler and scenes, they did so during Kana's episode. But when it comes to Aqua and Akane, all they did was rearrange their lines to fit their changes instead of actually rewriting their scenes accordingly. Aqua revealing the Ai secret and thus initiating his revenge while still with Akane should have impacted the way c98 went down.

They showed Aqua tracking her before adapting c98 and they improved the way Aqua saves her from falling down the stairs, but both were kind of the bare minimum expected to make sense of c98.

So I don't think they ruined it per se, the scene is still touching. But I don't think the result was worth what it took to get there because at the end of the day, they just limited themselves to adapting the scene as it was in the manga with only the slightest of changes. If that was all they were planning to do with it, then I'd have much preferred if they could've slowed down their adaptation to spend an episode on c97 and c98 rather than giving that treatment to Scandal filler out of all things, but they clearly have their priorities just like I have mine lol

On the upside, one hilarious consequence of this change is that now Akane is the entire reason Aqua gets the black stars. In the manga it's the fact of giving up on his happiness and going down the revenge path, but in the anime he pulls the Ai reveal, betrays Ruby's trust and gets started down the revenge path and it's only after he gives up on Akane that he gets the black stars 😂

#onk asks convos #they've also washed akane's hands off the mess #because it's kana's scandal that forces aqua to reveal ai's secret and thus the thing that makes him feel like he has no other choice LMAO

I did not think I'd be here writing about OnK in 2026 BUT Akane is still a miracle of the universe and I'm powerless to stand in her way. So of course I've been keeping an eye on the anime so I can watch how they handle some of my favorite Akane (and AquAka) moments lol

I'll wait until they're done covering their mini arc to post my overall thoughts about it, especially since they're switching things around for reasons unknown.

There was one thing that had me like this though

(Just in case: this post contains manga spoilers!)

Akane's observation on the top-left right here:

"Meeting Kamiki reeled in [Ai's] self-destructive urges."

Granted, what Akane doesn't know is that it worked the same way for Kamiki and that meeting Ai is what reeled his destructive urges, period. But I digress!

I felt like that inclusion is meant to serve as commentary for what we witness in regards to Aqua and Akane during this set of episodes. Aqua knows that if he goes down the path of revenge, all that awaits for him is self-destruction.

What stands between him and those self-destructive urges is his genuine desire to be happy, and Akane is the person who has come to embody that happiness for him.

So just like meeting Kamiki 'reeled in Ai's self-destructive urges', being with Akane has reeled-in Aqua's.

Another reason I really dug the inclusion of that line is that by subtly inviting anime-onlies to draw a comparison between Kamiki and Ai and Aqua and Akane, it also invites us manga readers to compare what we know about KamiAi's relationship to what Akane tells Aqua here:

The kind of relationship Akane would like to avoid having with Aqua is precisely the kind of relationship Ai had with Kamiki.

Sadly, we know that Akane's gamble doesn't pay off, but I still really liked that the anime pretty much referenced the way KamiAi/AquAka parallel each other.

Funnily enough, this is the second time they have pulled something like this. Though last time it was just an easter-egg lol

It's ALSO funny to look back on my old posts about their parallels HERE and HERE because back then I naively thought the point was to have Aqua and Akane succeed where Kamiki and Ai failed, so I focused on the positives 😂 Oh my sweet summer child...

#aquakane #aquaka #onk spoilers #my aquakane meta

mafuyuh

#she's a goddess #onk's one and only saving grace #glad the opening gave her the respect she deserves

elyonholic

Aqua and Akane

#aquakane #all the animation budget went to akane #she looks so beautiful #aqua looks like he's stuck in 320p mode but his voice??#he sounded so sweet they practically made him smile #cautiously optimistic that they will deliver when they animate his I don't want to let go

I followed u for aquakane just to discover u also ship tsumuchisa from lull in the sea and honestly it makes sense I always thought they were similar to aqak actually when I shipped aqak they reminded me of them personality wise

I never thought of comparing the two, but I think I can see what you mean Anon! Always happy to meet a fellow Tsumugu/Chisaki enjoyer, they truly were the best part about that show for me. Their writing was everything I love in a slowburn!

#fandom: nagiasu

Hi kanae! I know it’s been a while since you talked about onk and its failure of its manga that manages to let every fan down, but this https://www.tumblr.com/aihoshiino/797147982210400256/how-do-you-think-ai-would-react-to-akane discussion of Akane got me curious. What do you think?

Hi anon! Your description of OnK had me like 😂

The link doesn't seem to work so I can't read the post, but to be honest I'm not sure I'd have too many thoughts at this point since I'm so disconnected from the OnK lore lol

When it comes to how Ai would react to Akane (assuming we're talking about Ai seeing OnK Akane rather than Akane growing up around Ai), ultimately I think that Ai would find it sad to see Akane going down the same road as her, putting on an act rather than being her genuine, flawed self. I think that Ai would see Akane, someone who grew up loved and knowing how to love, and she would feel like Akane should have nothing to hide. Like it's a shame for Akane to hide her heart instead of trying to grow a little stronger, more thick-skinned.

So I think Ai would advice Akane to be honest (and honest with Aqua in particular) in the way Ai herself wasn't able to be while she was alive.

#onk asks convos