I Don't Even Know

Just another ghost who loves anime, art, and music .-.

[sweetbottletops]

I picture the zebra representing Narita. I will not be taking questions at this time.

Ch 171

ngl, I thought Chizuru's head was a small owl they were petting. What a year this day has been.

In my defense, there's already an entire zebra here.

They are all back as their high school selves, but wearing more traditional clothing? Mitsuki's mind...

Mitsuki uses music to process things more than the average person and we hadn't been given a ton of music crumbs during this stretch of angst. Now she's straight up mentally defragging to a song and going all the way back to where it all began. Give or take a zebra.

She couldn't reach Aya on her own (ladder? flying?), but the zebra threw an idea at her head and gave her a way to cross the void.

Aya is the one that is lured over to her via the guitar hero bridge and she replaces the guitar Mitsuki had been holding in her arms.

Aw, they had fallen asleep listening to song from the old iPod that Mitsuki dug up for the boys earlier. So this might be a really old comfort song for her. I mean, it's from 1995, but since it's on the old school iPod it's probably from middle school.

Around the 3:53 mark the music is notably jamming without lyrics. The lyrics are kinda depressing, but the nice thing about songs are sometimes it's about the feeling and wash of noise vs the actual lyrics. When you go back and listen to something that was meaningful in your youth and are transported back to those feelings you had back when you didn't have a relationship like that to reflect upon and it's just pure vibes.

(I used to sing along in the car to Third Eye Blind's Semi-Charmed Life in front of my parents without a thought in my head for example.)

🎶HUM - Stars 🎸

She thinks she missed the train to Mars She's out back counting stars She thinks she missed the train to Mars She's out back counting stars

She's not at work, she's not at school She's not in bed, I think I finally broke her I bring her home everything I want Nothing that she needs

I thought she'd be there holding daisies She always waits for me She thinks she missed the train to Mars She's out back counting stars

I found her out back sitting naked Looking up and looking dead A crumpled yellow piece of paper Seven, nines and tens

I thought she'd be there holding daisies She always waits for me She thinks she missed the train to Mars She's out back counting stars

I thought you'd be there holding daisies You always wait for me She thinks she missed the train to Mars She's out back counting stars

[kiniotoarchive]

Narita and Shu illustration - countdown for the reveal of the 4th volume of TGSWIIWAGAA

[sweetbottletops]

Homophobia has entered the chat.

Ch 172

Aki is empty brained when asked to have non-Bug Rangers related thoughts.

So Riku is his school friend who acts a bit more serious for his age. Someone who knows him well enough to bail him out of this girl situation.

Interesting dynamic. Riku seems at least on the surface accepting of someone a bit more eccentric than himself. Aki still likes childish things, but Riku isn't doing that lite social bullying even friends tend to do at that age.

Oh man. The first betrayal is the worst.

Riku, the arbiter of all things cool, appeared to accept Aki's bug show love but does not accept his sister's love.

He could have used his power to tip the scale the other way and understood that these people are important to Aki and it's not cool to laugh about them, but everyone fell in line behind him the wrong way.

And that is what society will tend to do from here on out for Aki. About the little things like Bug Rangers and big things like Aya and Mitsuki. They will try to flatten you out. To have that first feeling of supression be from your closest friend too. That's rough.

[violetn1ght]

She's always there for her.

[masterqifrey]

THE GUY SHE WAS INTERESTED IN WASN'T A GUY AT ALL (2027) official teaser trailer created by arai sumiko

[crimson-chains]

A true story of something that happened to me at a con a few years ago! I just couldn't believe that bag saldjaldjalkd!!!

[sabertoothwalrus]

shoutout to the person in my building that left their halloween skeleton on their balcony and proceeded to dress it up for other holidays

thanksgiving

christmas

not pictured: when I came back from the holidays and there’d been a huge storm while I was gone, so all that was left was a pelvis

but we persist. valentines

st patricks day

and the latest, easter

[sabertoothwalrus]

HAPPY PRIDE!!!!

[sweetbottletops]

Back on a level playing field. Can't be cross when you're wearing coordinated festival outfits. Right???

Ch 170

I noticed the ring Aki was wearing in the last chapter. Is Mitsuki passing down the Koga genes through proximity now?

Since he’s wearing it on his thumb it is probably sized too large and likely off Mitsuki’s hand at some point. She really won over the entire Oosawa family, huh?

I am betting Amu takes after off-camera Papa Oosawa. I'm going to keep saying this until he appears. (So far he only exists as this set up from a Moonlight magazine where he gives her a camera.)

Face plant? Not the money maker! She didn’t catch her fall at all. This is why you need to hold onto someone’s arm when you’re walking in platforms and that short stride kimono.

Why does it seem like Mitsuaya are the entire cast of Samurai Champloo at the same time?

He is definitely still a shipper. Or at least prefers Mitsuki being cool in this way.

He still believes in his bug hero buddy from way back.

Think of the children.

I’m believing this is his shoujo vision view of them.

It is nice they have the sibling age gap where they can still hero worship their sister some while also knowing exactly how to get on her last nerve.

If only Mitsuki could see herself the ways others see her. Alas, we don't get to do that in rl either.

[sweetbottletops]

There is an English version of the official site!

From the anime's twitter account. I guess it's going to be a Japanese account mainly. Maybe there will be an English one too eventually. [x]

[sweetbottletops]

"👀🎧" [x]

Some positive movement reported at Anime Expo ahead of the industry panel and potential anime update.

[camil7777]

[yuzukahachimir]

I always love it when Aya's siblings arrive because they're chaotic and super funny.

And given the current situation, it's better to have this and it lets us breathe a little.

They're so cute and I've always liked how well they get along with Mitsuki.

[magatamahairclips]

I love how the anime changes this scene from the manga

In the manga this scenes more so played for laughs, with nakamuras expression being directly seen, and hifumi looking a little horrified tbh

But in the anime, we don’t see his face from the front. But from what we can see, he’s been crying. And it isn’t portrayed as comedic at all

And unlike the manga hifumis expression isn’t that of fear/uncertainty at all. Her face softens a little cos she understands that this time the request is much more serious.

I actually cannot do this holy shit ik how the chapter ends in the manga but the anime made it 20x more emotional and it just rlly rlly hit me. Pls give this boy a happy ending

[lazyrunawayphilosopher]

Nakamura showing Icchan (his octopus) Kawamura's Hirose drawing and trying to kiss it after which Icchan makes a heart. This is so adorable.

[thy-lovelylionheart]

Nakamura that is the body language of someone who likes you back

[astralanesthesia]

Among the most iconic moments in this manga.

I actually squealed when I read this for the first time.

Our boys are so beautiful together ( ; ω ; )

[rositafart]

i wanted to buy green yuri at this bookstore i went to but it was $25 for one volume wtf 🥹🩷