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Ink study on Welcome to Demon school! Iruma-kun (volume 8, chapter 63) by Osamu Nishi "Does this make us even...?" And my heart was stolen ♡
Fandom Headcanon Survey for Mairimashita! Iruma Kun
If this reaches you, hopefully you’re a fan of M!IK and are interested in participating in my very quick survey!
I’m working on a project for a class exhibition where I’m looking to represent the positive strengths of headcanons of fictional characters within fandom spaces, and am hoping to collect different people’s headcanons of a specific character to reflect this idea.
I would greatly appreciate if you answer through the survey below one (or more) headcanons you have of Clara. If you have any further questions please just dm or reply to this post. If you don’t have any headcanons for the character please reblog and boost so this can reach more people!
More specific instructions are explained in the survey. Thanks!
This is a survey for a university project I am working on! I'm looking to collect your favourite headcanons for the character Clara from Mai
I would like to talk about the Music Festival arc - aka my favorite Mairuma arc until now. I love them all tbh, this is just very close to my heart for several reasons. [cw: non-suggestive discussion of s*x; if you are a s*x-repulsed asexual person you are very much welcome to interact, but this may not be the post for you, take care and proceed with caution ♡ edit: I'm uncensoring the words from here onwards thanks to a kind anon's suggestion] To make it short, I love that the main theme of this arc is pleasure, and the desire for it. Honestly, it's very horny - but not in a slimy or creepy way, which is sadly quite rare in my experience. The appreciation for pleasure coming from love (also platonic love) is there in several layers. First, the plot itself, as Lilith cries out her desire to find "a love that burns like fire". She is not satisfied by most pretenders, and especially this frame spoke to me:
Because... Well... It's so true. I am an adult, and I had my share of sexual partners. The expressions people make irl are not always aesthetically pleasing, but who cares! We are told to strive to be always attractive, but in those moments of intimacy it's really not important, not as much as being fully present and enjoying the moment! Then, can we talk about Kalego please?
I mean, Nishi here went all out and didn't even try to hide her fascination for ...discipline:
(and to be fully clear: I am NOT implying there is sexual tension between Kalego and his students, I am only referring to him!!!) When I saw the whip I couldn't believe my eyes. Of course in that context it's not used that way, but it's very much recognizable as an adult tool... But more on this later. Finally, I really like that the Misfits are growing up and finding out new things about themselves. They are characterized as high school students (even if we don't know how old they actually are), which is when humans tend to have their first experiences and explore their sexualities. They are building together this beautiful show full of emotions and desire, and honestly performing with other people is really an amazing feeling (I am a former musician and theater actor - let me tell you, every performance was fire). Look at their faces: from here...
...to here.
They are shocked, but happy! And definitely feeling ...feelings. And here is my main takeaway: I am really, really sad that sex is a taboo topic in our society, and when there's something about sex, it's mostly treated in a very bad way. This includes sex scenes in generic-audience movies, which I tend to dislike... I hate that sex is handled like a dirty and secret thing. I hate that sex is mostly treated as something that has to do with power imbalance and taking advantage of someone else, usually men that "want to do stuff TO" women (nonbinary individuals like myself not found) - and too often not in a hot and consensual way. I hate that social media are becoming more and more sex-hostile, because investors fear these topics, and use children as a shield to justify limiting contents for adults as well. I hate that sexual education is mainly reserved for talking about pregnancies and, if the students are lucky, prevention of STDs. Solo or reciprocal pleasure? Consent? Treating it as a normal part of life for many people (and not ALL, again, asexual people exist)??? Naaaah, why do that, when you can make people feel shame and embarassment and perpetuate trauma. Again, I am a grown-up now, and while this is legal and everything, I was conditioned to feel some level of shame nonetheless when talking about it irl (which I am working on). The whip I was writing about before (and the kneeling scene afterward)? It was a revolution in my brain. "So... That's a thing we can do...?"
(like that) I plan on doing some adult drawings in the future, but there's a part of me that resists the idea, because adult entertainment usually involves some level of dehumanization... But you know what? I want to take it back and make it about pleasure and enjoyment as it should be. Tbh, I could write a whole essay on the causes for all of the above and how they interact (patriarchy, capitalism, religions as power institutions, etc.), but this is not the place. So I'll just say that I am really, really grateful to Nishi for including this arc in a manga for a young audience, as those are important years to build a healthy relationship with pleasure and one's own body. And as Sullivan said...
I'm very much convinced that Nishi is doing a great job at sending messages for inclusion and social equality in M!IK, taking the role of educator herself. (Other reasons why I love the Music Festival arc are: Soi's story, Clara and Azz becoming closer, Iruma learning the piano, the appreciation of music itself, the immaculate art and more, but that's for another post!!!)
Ink study on Welcome to Demon school! Iruma-kun (volume 27, chapter 240) by Osamu Nishi "Your fire is strong, and beautiful, and so warm"
Headcanon that now Balam has tidy hair because these two became intimate after the Music Festival, and Kalego asked him to brush it (they both find it very relaxing)
Ink study on Welcome to Demon school! Iruma-kun (volume 12, chapter 100) by Osamu Nishi Our baby is growing so much ♡
Ink study on Welcome to Demon school! Iruma-kun (volume 25, chapter 219) by Osamu Nishi Did I use this prompt to draw my beloved Kalego's back? Yes, yes I did (I regret nothing)
Ink study on Welcome to Demon school! Iruma-kun (volume 33, chapter 291) by Osamu Nishi Well, this took a while! Honestly I despise Narnia's ideas, but I wanted to draw him so badly - with this prompt I had no choice
