#makochi

[nanakorobiyaokii]

please continue to give him love and appreciation until he finally learns how to love and value himself more. (˃̣̣̥ヘ˂̣̣̥)

[perpetuallyexhaustedlibrarian]

I've been thinking a lot about Makochi and its culture/society a lot lately, since I'm writing a Wind Breaker fic.

I wanted to talk a little about my headcanons/predictions on why things are the way they are in the Wind Breaker universe.

When I first started watching the show, I thought of Wind Breaker as 'an AU where gangs of teenagers rule the sections of the city and battle each other almost like feudal lords'.... and it turns out that's not actually far from the truth. But I think it's deeper than that. Nii-sensei is a much better writer than someone who would just shrug and say "that's just how things are."

I think Makochi is a city stricken with extreme poverty. We see it with Suzuri and his gang of orphans that had to beg and steal to keep each other alive, splitting a single cookie among ten people. We see it with the orphanage that Ume and Kotoha grow up in. In that none of our main cast seem to have parents, that there seem to be no middle-aged people in Makochi, just much older and much younger.

I think that sometime in the past, the gangs started to move in on Makochi, maybe paid off the police, and the police stopped doing their jobs. Or claimed it was too dangerous to do their jobs.

And so the well off people and businesses leave the area, taking jobs with them. The city government can't collect taxes to try to fix things from people with no money. There aren't enough jobs, so young men join gangs to survive. And so we get all the different gangs in Makochi, each with their little square of turf on the map: Shishitoren, KEEL, Noroshi, Furin High.

I think that the adults in Makochi accept being protected by these literal children because no one else will. The city and its people were left behind, failed by those in authority, until Umemiya decided to try to change things. That's why the teachers don't mind when kids leave class or go on patrols. That's why the townspeople love their Bofurin boys so much.

[thepathofinkandjasmine]

Makochi's probably the only normal and contemporary/slice of life setting I wanna go to so so badly

[cryzono]

Matching transfem chihiro and transmasc makoto icons! Free to use with credit!

[yunicouchiyama]

makochi channel

[felidars]

animal crossing’d them... drew this back in august and forgot to post it anywhere so! gestures?

i dont want to consider how animal crossing deer hold things ever again

[ayamizawa]

Happy birthday, Makoto!

[thethera-rossa]