#saboten

[clownpalette]

Saboten and Yasa!!! 🧡💜

Been thinking abt them lately... Expect more art and maybe MAYBE some lore :333💜

[mikyapixie]

𝟏𝟗 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐠𝐨 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 "𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞" 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟐𝟎𝐭𝐡 & 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐀𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞. 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐡𝐚 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 & 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐨 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫, 𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐲𝐚 𝐓𝐨 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬!!

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐬 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲!

[ecargmura]

Bofurin Are Named After Plants (Part 1)

I like Wind Breaker, but what I like more is the creative thought process that goes behind a character's name.

Here's a post about the plants the Bofurin characters are named after.

Since there are some anime-only people on this site, the first part will only be about the Bofurin members who have been officially introduced and their affiliates.

Let's start with the MC:

Sakura (桜) means Cherry Blossom.

(Sakura Kinomoto from Cardcaptor Sakura also uses the kanji for Sakura in her name and both are born April 1).

The Nire (楡) in Nirei means Ulmus davidiana var. japonica, commonly known as the Japanese Elm.

Suo is an interesting case. Instead of having one syllable in his name being a word for a plant, both of the syllables in his name make up one word for the plant he's named after. In his case, Suo (蘇枋) means Biancaea sappan. The sappan plant can be used as dye, called Sappanwood, and the color is a reddish brown just like Suo's hair color. The color is actually called Suo in Japanese, which is actually really creative on the author's part.

The Sugi in Sugishita (杉) is the Japanese word for Cryptomeria japonica, commonly known as the Japanese cedar.

The Ume in Umemiya means plum (梅)

Hiiragi (柊) is the word for Osmanthus heterophyllus, which is commonly known as either holly osmanthus, holly olive or false holly.

For Bofurin's affiliates, they also have plant names too.

Kotoha's surname is Tachibana (橘), which means mandarin (as in the orange). This sort of goes along with her foster brother Umemiya who is also named after a fruit.

Sasaki, the middle school kid Bofurin saved from Shishitoren, is quite an interesting case. Sasaki is a common surname, but the way his name is spelled is actually a bit different from the more commonly way Sasaki is spelled. In Sasaki's case, the sasa in his name means bamboo (笹).

Not only are the people named after plants, but the shops too!

The cafe Sakura frequents and the one where Kotoha works is called Pothos, which is a plant.

The bakery that Sakura gets his bread from is called Saboten, which is the Japanese word for Cactus.

As a writer, the creativity behind the plant theme names really gets to me. I can tell the author put a lot of thought into their names and have them be consistent with a certain theme.

However, Bofurin itself means wind chime which doesn't really fit the plant theme, but it is powered up by the wind, which is a part of nature, which plants are from. I guess that counts?

Anyways, if you enjoyed reading this post, I'll be back with a part 2 once more Bofurin members are introduced.

Here's a video I made for this trivia.

[azstuck]

It’s been a while!!!

As many of you may know… there is a Homestuck resurgence on the rise.

On Sunday of Saboten (2025, yes you heard me) we have quite a few of the original members of our community cosplaying Homestuck! I’m considering putting an actual meetup together if enough people are interested. I know tumblr isn’t exactly the main form of communication now but I figured there has to be a few people left.

Tug those old cosplays out of the corner of your closet and join us!

[moonstonexgallery]

Welp, here he is! The new and improved "Saboten", now known as

Kai Monello 💀🌴

As someone who made random OCs in the past, i'm happy to welcome back some old ones and redesign them for my stories, and my other stuffs, so here he is, out with the old, in with the new

Goodbye Saboten, hello Kai Monello!

Old OC art here

[ozkar-krapo]

SABOTEN [サボテン]

"いつもある(Itsumoaru)"

(7"EP. Sabot rcds. 1984) [JP]

[catgirlemi-doodles]

Hey guys! I'll be at Saboten on Aug 30 til Sept 2! I'll have a bunch of new stickers and charms!

[sakkaro1959]

Debating should I make scans?

I remember coming across this on eBay one day back in 2018. I remember going through a huge Dr. Blackjack phrase and randomly bought these transcripts by a seller. Based on Ova episode 9 and 10.

Then around 2019 I was informed by Mary and Les Claypool who work on original English dub on Black Jack OVAs was coming to Saboten Con.

I decided to get their autographs and confirm this was their manager who passed away!? They think whoever cleaned his stuff out was his family selling off. But yeah they mention before everything goes digital, many physical copies are just toss in the trash and not thinking be worth keeping.

Don't know. Worth preservation?