#tbhk sousuke

[sayo1]

Mitsuba !!!!! I haven't drawn him for so long . . . .

[kaps1c]

Mitsukou week day 1 omgg

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[phymarsh]

he's literally one of the best feminine boy representation I have ever seen in media so far, no one can argue

[yourfave-isqueer]

Sousuke Mitsuba (School Mystery Number 3) from Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun is boyflux, a paraboy and gay!

(Requested by anon)

[kagomeno-7]

Confusion - Mitsukou Angst

1 ~ Stargazing ⫘ 2 ⚚ 3 ⚚ 4 ⚚ 5 ⚚ 6 ⚚ 7 ⚚ 8

Mitsuba looked out the window, marveling at the stars. He was going to go to the rooftop and set everything up, but he saw the amount of people and went 'Oh, fuck no.', and decided to stay and watch the stars in the building since they were so beautiful.

He was just looking at them shimmer in the night sky when he heard footsteps coming in his direction. 

"Lame-Ass Traffic Earring? What are you doing here," Mitsuba raised an eyebrow. 

Kou handed him a goodie bag. "The real question is why you're here and not on the rooftop helping us," Kou shot back.

"There's too many fucking people up there. No way do I want to mingle with them fuglies." Mitsuba grumbled. 

Kou frowned at him. "That's some messed up reasoning..." He murmured, sitting on the floor.

"No it isn't, you know I'm the cutest," Mitsuba did a peace sign next to his eye.

Kou's frown deepened. "Not this again-"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN NOT THIS AGAIN?!" Mitsuba yelled.

"Lower your volume, we're still in the school building, you know idiot!" Kou exclaimed, looking up at Mitsuba.

Mitsuba pouted visibly. He begrudgingly sat down next to Kou and opened his goodie bag. It had two cookies in it, a star shaped one with yellow icing and a constellation cookie. 

"Hey, do you know what this constellation is?" Mitsuba asked, showing his cookie to Kou. 

Kou shrugged. "How am I supposed to know? Amane's the expert," 

"Okay, dumbass." Mitsuba took a bite.

"A- I said I didn't know ONE thing, Mitsuba." Kou said.

Mitsuba ignored him and continued to relish his cookie. Kou decided to open his bag and eat his cookies too. They ate in silence.

Mitsuba didn't like this silence, however.  He didn't like the direction this conversation went and will go. Especially since their conversations have been less banter and more actual conversation. He didn't like that.

He finished his constellation cookie and blankly stared at the star one, thinking. 

"Mitsuba!" Kou shook Mitsuba's shoulder. He looked up at the windows.

Streaks of light beautifully raced across the moonlit night sky. Mitsuba watched in amazement. He glanced over at Kou, who seemed to be just as starstruck as him. He saw the reflection of the little flashes across his eyes and smiled. 

Kou looked back over at Mitsuba. "They're pretty aren't they," he said, grinning.

Mitsuba looked away from Kou, technically caught staring. He didn't know how to feel about the butterflies in his stomach. But he did know how to feel about the blush on his face. Mitsuba despised that his feelings showed on his face.

"Yeah, Minamoto-Kun." He mumbled.

They were quiet for a few moments until Mitsuba spoke up louder. "Not as pretty as me though,"

"MITSUBA," Kou yelled, annoyed. "Just look at the fucking stars alright?" he turned Mitsuba's head to face the windows. 

Mitsuba swatted his hands away, but obliged and looked at the shooting stars.

After a few more minutes, Kou calls out for him. "Mitsuba?"

"What?" Mitsuba said, turning to look at Kou. He had taken the last bite of his star shaped cookie and had small crumbs on his lip.

"What would you do..." Kou looked away, unable to keep eye contact.

"If I died?"

Mitsuba just stared at him cluelessly for a moment. "What."

"What would you do if I died?" Kou looked at Mitsuba again.

Mitsuba paused for a moment. He didn't want this conversation to go just like the recent ones they had.  "I'd make sure you weren't wearing that ugly-ass earring of yours. I'd yeet it into a nearby lake." 

It was now Kou's turn to just stare at him. "I'm being honest, idiot! What would you do if I died?" Kou now glared at Mitsuba.

"I'd make sure you weren't wearing that earring." Mitsuba shrugged casually, though the question jarred and even scared a part of him. He hid it quite well.

Kou sighed. "You're insufferable."

"That's because you can't see the fact that I'm cute."

(A/N) And that's the first chapter! Please feel free to give constructive criticism, and make sure to be nice in the comments! Have an awesome day/night! (I'm new to posting fanfic stuff on here so please give some tips as well if you have any!)

Edit: I know the 3 and 5 aren't underlined, but if you click on them, it'll still take you to chapter 3 and 5! Sorry for the inconvenience :,)

Moon out! (Yes, Moon is my pen name)

[bonxichi]

⌇﹒✶﹐Mitsuba + Sousuke !

╰╮graphic ☆﹒requested by anon

F2u w/cred , reblog appreciated !

[puzzlingbot]

Mitsuba art!!

To the people who want VeriMob content from me, I'm sad to say the ship has SAILED. I have no motivation to draw them, but I'm glad I got to be one of the first-ever fan artists for the series!! Also, thank yous for the 2000+ saves on my VeriMob playlist 🩷🩷🩷 I'll probably be drawing some SBS art still, but I'll mainly be drawing anime stuff because I've been watching a lot 😓

Rant:

I watched TBHK recently, and ever since episode I feel like a whole different person. I usually don't even read manga, but I was so enamored with Mitsuba and Kou's story that I lowkey went on that grind. New hyperfixation alert!! My hyperfixations have been coming and going fast recently, but I think this one will be longer because I'm DEEP in this. Mitsuba is genuinely a very well-written character, and I absolutely love him and heavily relate to him, bro 💔 I was so surprised when I found out people hate the dub voice since I think it sounds good and fits his personality 😿 Anyway, Mitsuba is life. He is my phone wallpaper, my pfp, affecting how I dress/how I look, and so much more. Holy impactful character 🙏

Also, I'm a proud Mitsuba and Kou shipper; they are my otp frfr 🙂‍↕️

[lavatory-sealed-hanako-kun]

Words on Chapter 120

“You became what you hated most.”

Point Nr. 1: When Teru attacked Kou with spirit lightning to save Nene, Kou was already a ghost.

I am going to throw out a seemingly controversial take here immediately: Teru did NOT KILL Kou and additionally, there are NO PARALLELS between him and Hanako/Amane within the current events and arguably most of the entire manga. Especially not in relation to his hate of Hanako for having killed his twin brother.

This is going to be a very detailed and long one, so have fun.

In chapter 118, Sousuke and Kou are dragged into the exact same door, next to which Aoi later finds Nene's hair clip laying around. We know from the current chapter that this door leads to the basement of the Red House and the opening of the well. We also already know what purpose this well had, since it was established in chapters 68 and 80, that this is the well leading into the pit to which the Kannagi were sacrificed as offerings to a god.

It's a pit of sacrificial corpses, which due to the events of chapter 118 where Sousuke and Kou were dragged into that door and down to that basement, as well as this current one where Kou's possessed spirit tries dragging Nene into it, is clearly a spot still piled up with sacrificial bodies, nowadays the victims of the Red House. And those two boys were both thrown in already.

So now back to the scene where Teru attacks Kou!

Teru specifically uses his spirit lightning to slash at Kou’s hand gripping onto Nene. His sword blade never comes anywhere near Kou's body and we know for a fact that, while spirit lightning can hurt humans who are to some degree supernatural-

It has never been shown to go so far as to chop off limbs or leave very long lasting damages. (Which again, Kou’s hand being chopped off wasn't from Teru's blade either, it never came anywhere near Kou or Nene.)

After the attack, Kou's entirely blood and gore-free wound is shown and he suddenly starts crumbling into mist, exactly like most of the supernaturals did throughout the manga, showing us that this is exactly what a supernatural looks like when they’re exorcised!

Point Nr. 2: Teru knew Kou was already dead.

Alright, buckle in.

When we see Amane kill Tsukasa in flashbacks, it is bloody. He's got him pinned to the floor, using a knife to stab him in the torso, clearly spaced out in some way but committing a very real murder on a very real, living person beneath him.

Without even fully getting into just how completely different Teru's and Kou's dynamics are with each other, in comparison to the situation Amane/Hanako and Tsukasa have going on, you can't just claim that two characters are “parallels” to one another simply because they both happen to have siblings? Tsukasa and Amane were twins, Teru and Kou are not, they’re not even each other's only siblings, they have Tiara there too. Amane was never the one to sacrifice his childhood and future for Tsukasa's wellbeing, he killed him. Teru didn’t take his brother's life, the Red House did.

Tsukasa and Amane always had a very strange dynamic, glued by the hip and overly dependent on one another, Tsukasa even sacrifices animals and later himself to the wishing entity to grant Amane a chance at life without constant pain and illness. For several reasons Amane wants less and less to do with his brother as time goes on, they're still close, but Amane’s keeping his secrets from Tsukasa, and he in turn even accuses Amane of wanting him gone again. Amane immediately refutes that, yet still through a series of still somewhat unclear events, Amane later ends up brutally killing his own brother with what looks to be a kitchen knife (so very likely at home) on the floor, very dazed, but clearly intending to hurt Tsukasa.

Now back to a member of the “I professionally catch strays from the fandom” trio.

I’m going to remind everyone of the fact that this isn't the first time Teru has attacked Kou with his spirit lightning within the last few chapters. A couple chapters prior, when Sousuke invites Kou to search the school for his missing upperclassmen, they encounter the Red House. Aka Tsukasa's possessed soul most likely, since it only seems to take on the appearance of victims it already devoured and we know from the Yugi family photo in chapter 119 that Tsukasa must have died either before or after he went into the red house as a 4 year old, since he doesn't show up in the photo even when he would've still been very young. (This is a bit of a timeline discrepancy, considering the clock keepers went back to 1968 and not 1959 when Tsukasa first goes into the Red House, but I won't get into that right now.)

After this encounter, Kou gets possessed from chasing the entity around and right as he's about to seriously hurt Sousuke, Teru interrupts them by blasting Kou with spirit lighting, a thing he acts VERY CALM about (keep that in mind!). His stance is measured, he's clearly using a lot of force here too despite not using his preferred weapon, it even leaves Kou knocked out and a bit charred on the ground, but clearly not severely hurt in any way.

When even Akane points out how this was a bit overboard, Teru basically assures him that this wouldn't actually hurt Kou, he consistently has a ton of confidence in his brother's toughness.

This also shows he has experience with also using spirit lightning on possessed people and that it proves severely damaging or even fatal on supernaturals, but seemingly never on living humans.

And yet, attention back to the moment it all goes down: Teru is clearly screaming Kou's name in distress, moving to slice the space BETWEEN him and Nene, intending likely to merely free Nene from Kou's grip. If his intention was to just exorcise the entity possessing Kou’s body like he did earlier (in a very calm manner), why didn’t he just blast Kou with spirit lightning again? Why was he screaming his name with a face of agony before even making his attack?

It's because he already knew by this point, that wasn't Kou's living body, that was his ghost. Kou was already dead. He was too late to save him and now all he can do is stop him from dragging another victim down into the well.

Point Nr. 3: But how did he notice?

We can guess Teru has almost completely different senses from anyone else in the cast. He feels and notices things even Kou, Nene and Akane, all of whom can see supernaturals, don't notice. He mentioned seeing literal cracks between the near and far shores in chapter 73, he saw Hanako looking like that on the rooftop, he was the only one to immediately react to Nr. 6’s ambush attack and he is the ONLY ONE in the red house to feel a cold dread and fear of something powerful overcome him, a sensation neither Kou, Akane or Nene felt at all in the house. And again they can all see supernaturals, but they're not attuned to them like he is.

He could see down that well in complete darkness, immediately knowing that what he was looking at were the corpses of Kou, Sousuke and countless other victims. Akane needed a flashlight to get even a glimpse of what had made Teru collapse at the sight, he couldn't see it immediately, no one's eyes are as sharp as Teru's.

He knows supernaturals, he knows the clear difference between a ghost and living human, even when others can't see those. He knew from the moment he laid eyes on his little brother standing on the edge of that well, that he was already dead, a spirit walking without a living body.

He never “killed” Kou, there is no parallel between him and Hanako. He exorcised the shackled spirit of his beloved brother, possessed and puppeteered around by the red house to lure in more victims, because it knew they'd let their guards down around the sunshine boy Kou. He was one of Nene's best friends after all. 

Kou didn't want this, he would have never wanted to hurt Nene or lure anyone else to the same fate he and Sousuke endured here. In his very last moments, there was no anger, no blame towards Teru for attacking him to stop him from dragging Nene down. And none of the morbid fascination and happiness Tsukasa felt at being killed by his own brother.

All he felt was glad that Nene was safe now, hoping he'd get to see her again when the world turned back to how it once was. 

Endword!

So there you have it. Usually I don't make these kinds of commentaries for things I read, because quite frankly I don't care and I’m too busy to make these, thank you for sticking with me through this because huuhhh it took hours to make dear god. Props to everyone who makes these more often, solid troopers fr. I’ll make an exception for TBHK this time (and maybe if I’m asked to again)- solely because I see so many takes that I find are just very strange or completely wrong and that last chapter had me actually super interested in this series again.

I will take this is due in part to the very young average age of readers for this series and the fact it is often (as much as I enjoy reading this hot garbage, find its worldbuilding super fun and love the characters in it), just genuinely not a very well written series. It has an immense amount of plot holes, inconsistent character writing, situations for the sake of it with no proper set up and lets down on a lot of mysteries it builds up because it never resolves them, even several arcs later.

Anyways, if you disagree with my points and/or want to add something to this, feel free to comment, reblog or send in an ask about it. I think discussing stories does the best job at letting people realise things they never noticed before, so I highly encourage doing that lol. Also you made it to the end of this, you get a cookie. If I could bake cookies..