I completely forgot to check in on Saturday with my week late update but I'd just like to say 1) Kenma calling anyone other than Kuroo his 'friend' melts my little heart, and 2) Fukunaga is now my favourite background / side character. wtf. I want an entire episode devoted to just him. Fukunaga defense squad. (side note, why did he call Kenma "Salonpas". what does it mean. is he calling him refreshing? a soothing balm? is he just being enigmatic and indecipherable? whatever it is, I love him)
Ah, hiii!! I seriously love you checking in every week lol :).
Yesss i love Kenma and Kuroo’s friendship, and then these two episodes emphasizing all of the Nekoma second years relationships on top of that is oooo, so good. I love how Kenma’s annoyance at Taketora’s insistence on using guts actually does help motivate Kenma and make him try harder in a round-about way and how they come to mutually respect each other
And then YEAH Fukunaga is just the cherry on top!! This little mini arc totally made me fall in love with him too, he’s so fuckin funny. And also reliable as a player?? I love every scene he’s in and now I always look out for him in the background n stuff bc his expressions are great too lol.
OkAy, bc of translation/interpretation stuff and I don’t speak any Japanese, I’m not positive and absolutely could be wrong, but my interpretation of Fukunaga’s humor is that it isn’t supposed to make perfect sense lol. Like I think he goes for puns that rhyme and sound funny rather than necessarily being double entendres like how we normally think of puns. I think he says “salonpas” bc it rhymes with “nice toss” and bc they’re in the gym and it smells like air salonpas, and putting them together is just his brand of semi-nonsensical humor, lmao. Like, when he throws water on Kenma and Tora in the previous episode, he rhymes what he says in Japanese with “Dostoevsky” which has nothing to do with anything else going on lol, which is why Tora is confused and Kenma just laughs at the absurdity. (the eng subs translated that line to something about mr. freeze bc the translation doesn’t make sense w/o the rhyme. personally, i wish they left it the same bc i honestly think it isn’t really supposed to make sense and that’s why it’s funny but *shrugs*). So yes, I go with enigmatic and indecipherable lolll, and I agree, I love him so much for it :)









