Apr 9, 2025
IF IT (the fabricated nature of the reality you’ve been sucked into/the creeping realization you should be somewhere and someone much worse) SUCKS, HIT DA BRICKS!!
#nene trying to run from fantasy until they reach her reality together#vs mitsuba suggesting they run from the reality he knows they should be in…. even if he doesn’t think it’ll work in the end#and hanako pretending not to remember. to have been fictional from the start. in an effort to keep nene alive#vs kou looking away from what he knows is probably the truth#bc mitsuba’s alive! his mom’s alive! his life as an exorcist is a little dangerous sometimes but he’s ok. he has free time after school to#help with the school festival and see his friends and make new ones#ok the differences in how these realities are treated in the narrative and the character’s reactions to them are so interesting <3#shijima’s painting is just that - a preserved piece of artwork#a kind existence but a shallow one - especially for nene who would be imprisoned there#but the clock keeper’s world! that’s reality babey!#the sun isn’t just yellow paint. you could fall right through the clouds#mitsuba gets to live and kou gets to be there with him and nene gets to grow up!! like amane did!! until those hopes fall through#it’s enough to say maybe there’s a world out there where we could be sort of happy and sort of safe and where we could grow old.#but it’s not this one. and even if it was it’s not where we belong#but no wonder that nene wanted to stay! and that kou didn’t want to remember! and that mitsuba was ready to run from what he knew was an#inevitable truth!!#idk the way jshk discusses reality is so interesting to meee like functionally shijima’s painting is reality when you’re in there#the difference between that and the reality the clock keepers make by changing the timeline is that you know one is ‘fake’#once you know the painting is fake you can’t stay. but once you know don’t belong in the clock keeper’s reality you can’t stay there either#all you have is your own. good and bad it’s yours nonetheless and you have to live there#sorry for all the tags I just caught up and love to yap <3#tbhk#toilet bound hanako kun#tbhk manga spoilers#jshk#jibaku shounen hanako kun#yashiro nene#mitsuba sousuke#kou minamoto#tbhk hanako