Yanagi’s#1fan

I love Tetro (not von fuck you)

[yanagisnumber1fan]

I wanna do an intro so I can start doing asks!!

Hi my name’s Robin I’m a minor (only for the next few months lmao) so you can send romantic asks just nothing smutty I beg. My pronouns are They/Them.

Feel free to send asks at any time btw I love yapping about stuff!!

Some stuff I’m into:

All the Danganronpa games

Danganronpa Tetro pink and Blue (I do not support vongpt)

Stardew Valley

Total Drama

Jojos Bizarre Adventure (Parts 1-5)

Musicals of all varieties

I’ll mostly write about Tetro at the moment cause that’s my biggest interest rn but yeah please please ask away with Tetro stuff!!

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Hey guys!! I’m actually gonna get in the musical theater part of my blog lmao. I saw this one edit of Maekawa to “Maybe this time” from Cabaret and it fits SO WELL and I wanna talk about it cause it hasn’t left my brain since I saw it. Credits to: ant1sthenes on TikTok for that amazing video

SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 5 OF BLUEEE

So let’s state the obvious: Maekawa sucks at any kind of game whether it’s mouse house or the literal killing game they’re in she just can’t seem to win. As a sign of foreshadowing for her eventual execution she remarks “Why do I always lose?” when playing. She genuinely almost makes it to the end of the killing game “Maybe this time I’ll win” she is so SO close before she gets fucked by the narrative but I will say as much as I despise her ending in tetro it isn’t unfitting, Maekawa hasn’t won once in her life isn’t the most despairing thing losing at the very end? (Ik that despair isn’t the theme of tetro but hope v despair is integral to Danganronpa as a whole media)

Something I find funny is that her ultimate title is the Ultimate Battle Bot champion but in her student 9 video introduction we see her getting heated at a loss, now I’m not saying this is completely indicative of her career I mean she had to get her title somehow but it just adds to the fact that poor Maekawa has a streak of bad luck. Both her and Sally want better for themselves Sally hoping to achieve true love and stardom and Maekawa just wanting friends and escape with those friends.

Here’s where we get into the lovey part of the song. The song of “Maybe this time” starts with Sally lamenting about her love life and how it’s gone just about as well as her career and how love seems to “hurry away”. Maekawa genuinely has had love hurry away from her on three different accounts: her mother who hurried away because of death, her father who met the same end but in this case Maekawa forced him to that otherwise she would die, and of course Shishikura who hurried away of his own accord by killing himself. Writing this out I just realized literally everyone she’s loved has hurried away from a death outside her control (I don’t count her dad as in her control she was literally 7-8 she had no choice). On Shishikura specifically the song hits hard because he’s probably the most stable person in her life “Maybe this time he’ll stay, maybe this time for the first time love won’t hurry away” she’s been bounced around the foster system with no stable support system at all. She mentions that she literally doesn’t leave her room at her grandmas cause she doesn’t remember who Maekawa is. She was so sure she had someone permanent in her life but because of the pressure of the game he hurried away from her and took her down with him.

Anyways that’s it this song hasn’t left my head all week so I wanted to talk about it :p thank you for reading, send tetro asks, have a good day!!!!

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Hi guys! So this has been rolling around in my brain so I’m just gonna talk about why I think as a character we were kinda robbed of Akiba.

SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 1 OF PINK AND 1, 2 and 4 BLUE

This might just be me but honestly until around the middle of chapter 2 of blue I did not feel super attached to any of the blue characters. I think this has to do with the nature of the morning games and how instead of working together they instead piled every other punishment onto Ikeda and those later in line didn’t want to make the decision or said their vote was useless but that’s neither here nor there.

Anywho it’s no surprise that tetro has a lot of queer characters which is really cool! As someone who’s queer myself I felt really represented through the cast but I feel like the one character they really did nothing with concerning that was Akiba. Now I realize that yes we do need a first victim that’s why we’re here it’s Danganronpa not Fruits Basket but I really think killing off Akiba wasn’t a smart choice. For one they set him up with something we’ve never seen before: prejudice against his sexuality. Out of Pink and Blue there really aren’t any characters whose sexuality is integral to their sense of self (Hirose’s backstory ties into his and Hiroaki is only briefly mentioned to struggle with it). Hiroaki especially should’ve had more of a development since he seemed to grapple with it a lot but we only got one episode on it. With Akiba we’re shown and told blatantly that he cannot be himself. He lost all contact with his family because they kicked him out over being bisexual.

This might just be me but while his death was a really big shock it felt kind of tone deaf? Like they’re openly discussing how he deserves to be loved and that he’ll find those who deserve to love him and that maybe one day he’ll see his family again and then they hit him over the head with a microwave. That completely undercuts any significance that moment is supposed to have and even promotes the opposite message to me that I guess he didn’t deserve to live to see a world where he’s loved by others. I feel like Akiba would’ve been great representation for bisexual people who feel too gay for straight people or are disgusted by them and or sexualized as seen in his tape. Imagine Akiba who is stronger with himself surrounded by people in the game who care about him watching that and not being as affected by the girls words anymore.

Another problem with him and Isono are that they’re so SO undeveloped. Again I understand they’re the first victims but even Sayaka had a modicum of depth to her but no. We see nothing of Akiba’s talent at ALL. I mean we find his bow and arrows later but no one talks to him about it he doesn’t talk about it, his fucking student tape is about his morning after with a girl (seventeen year olds btw). Like oooh yay he’s hot and chill but what else! The minute you give me something to hold onto you kill him off! This is also part of a bigger problem of Von using x character to develop y, in this case Akiba died to develop Ogura who died to develop Matthias who died because fuck you for believing a man stuck in sex trafficking could live happy and free.

On that note that’s why I think Akiba should’ve actually been more fleshed out he genuinely had so much potential to be an excellent character. Thanks for reading, send tetro asks, have a good day!

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Hi everyone! Welcome to yanagis#1fan blog, my name is Robin and today we’re counting down my top 5 picks for the most undeserved Tetro Danganronpa deaths. (If it wasn’t obvious SPOILERS FOR EVERYTIINGGGGGGG)

At number five we haveeeeee:

“Ultimate quiz show guy? Ultimate leave-a-fucking-mess-all-over-your-goddamn-desk-for-Kazutoshi-to-clean-up-guy?”

Always cold and witty Kamimura Kazutoshi was unfortunately killed by the hands of Okazaki Hanano the one time he wasn’t with Ken, so much for the buddy system. This was a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time as explained by the almighty phantom thief (was that a persona reference?-) they said his death was entirely unnecessary! It was all a plot to get under community superhero Tsuno Manami’s skin. Personally I think if that was the motive in mind Wada should’ve died but what do I know I’m not writing a killing game. His death just seemed out of place among many others in this list and the needless gore described seriously could’ve been nixed from the story. But as long as Kamimura can forgive the narrative I guess I can too

Speaking of unnecessary deaths that segways us into number 4:

“Right I’ll tell them that while they’re bludgeoning my head in”

Sassy and stupendously stylish another chapter 3 victim makes his way onto our list. At first you don’t even realize Yaitabashi Sou had died as his killer Ikeda Daiki has perfected his look and somehow his voice? Maybe Wada’s ghost was in that file? Somehow it’s not the most unrealistic thing about this murder. Ikeda killed Sou by drugging him, tying him up to the shower head and removing any of his distinct features all with a dislocated arm and a bad back. And the twist is actually really cool!…for the first 5 seconds until you question the murders logic. With this one my suspension of disbelief snapped because while this is a world with a hopping and talking bunny that is the only supernatural thing about it. The time it would’ve taken Ikeda to do this all without running into Shishikura (who was totally in character this chapter too), the knowledge that his skin would melt off (never been outside by the by), and alter his appearance as need be? It’s just too much and with Yaitabashi himself I can’t see him being one to turn a blind eye to a drug because while he is actually blind he isn’t totally as Nishiguchi said. I seriously think that Yaitabashi was too smart for the coming chapters and he needed to go, or it was an excuse to torture another disabled character even more, who knows?

Onto number 3 which is a personal least favorite of mine

“WHY DO I ALWAYS LOSE?”/“God in heaven, I-I come before you as a sinner, broken and ashamed of the unforgivable act I have committed.”

Both Brawny with a heart of gold we have a double feature for our number three spot to match the chapter where that happens! Both from different games but laid with the same fate Maekawa Azusa and Hama Ran were executed in their respective trials because of a trope I like to call an accidental suicide. No this doesn’t mean their victims accidentally tripped on one of their murderers belongings and died, the accidental suicide trope is when the victim sets up a suicide for themselves that is triggered by their “murderer”. In Hama’s case he came from a place of concern as Watari wrote a note to him saying she wanted to meet with him and afterwards leaving a suicide note he rushed to find her, slamming the door and causing a battery to fall onto the gasoline setting the school ablaze not unlike the prom scene from Carrie. With Maekawa she made Shishikura drink a gnarly concoction they made in the kitchen with snowball sneaking in poison, honestly with the amount of poison deaths in blue Tamba would have a field day. I won’t go totally in depth on my feelings because I have a whole post related to it on my page (shameless plug who?) but I’ll recap. I think that these two chapters could have worked easily as standalone suicides because honestly it seems extremely out of character for both Watari and Shishikura to burn their best friends in this way. It seems that Von had an execution quota to fill and so they decided to kill off two innocent powerhouses that realistically should’ve lived.

Speaking of should’ve lived this death specifically had me seething number 2 isss:

“Sometimes I think I make bad decisions, I wish I didn’t do that…”

Someone who changed for the better OUTSIDE of the game but we love him development or not, Haraaaaada Keizo was the blackened for chapter two of pink. Harada is a special case because he didn’t actually kill our victim, Chiba Airi but was executed anyway. Harada was the Ultimate Zookeeper and was fostering a tiger cub, Sawa and she was seen as an extension of Harada according to the scientists. Harada had Sawa with him in the auditorium to watch Chiba climb the rope, she succeeded but because of the adrenaline gas this caused Sawa to follow her up the rope and attack her. So my really big problem with this one is that Harada didn’t directly kill her, he covered up the murder yes but that’s like saying Byakuya was an accomplice to killing Chihiro by messing with their body. Harada couldn’t stop Sawa and the acknowledgment of the two as one (Sawa as an extension of him) just doesn’t make a lick of sense to me. What makes the is worse is that the characters act like he killed Chiba too save for Hama after he dies. This reminds me of the chapter 5 trial in Trigger Happy Havoc where they pin the murder on Makoto but that actually had merit because that was a trap meant for Kyoko because she was close to figuring things out. This was just a poor call writing wise. For everyone’s shock that Harada pulled before the tiger it’s not a surprise he didn’t pull after.

Now onto our number one spot but first a few honorable mentions for those who didn’t deserve their deaths but didn’t feel justified enough to stick on the list:

HM #1: Nishiguchi Mutsuko, poor girl was killed just as she was starting to grow on me. Another case of wrong place wrong time.

HM #2: Ninomiya Youhei, a victim to bad writing because there’s no way one moment he’s cuddling Matthias and the next he’s poisoning him

And our number one spot for the most undeserved death in Tetro Danganronpa goes tooooo:

“Because I need you to love me, I love you so much it hurts”

Ever trusting and optimistic, Matthias De Clerque was my personal favorite out of the blue cast and was killed by Ninomiya Youhei. Now I do realize that I put his killer above him in the honorable mention spot but I think I can have my cake and eat it too in this case. Outside of Ogura the person Matthias was closest to was Youhei as when they were handcuffed together they hit it off. After the chapter they got closer romantically and looked out for one another even sending letters even though they were just down the hall. The two of them were attached at the hip during chapters three and four they were never apart and being lovey dovey to the point where footage was lost. The one issue in their relationship was the difference in how to continue their relationship. In Youhei’s student spotlight it’s shown that he has some form of commitment issues and rather his romantic pursuits stay physical which is reasonable! Matthias wants his relationship with Youhei to go beyond something more physical and border into emotional territory which is also reasonable! What isn’t reasonable though is cuddling someone and saying you care about them and then killing them an hour later. While not said by him directly, in Hanano’s student spotlight while pretending to be him they say that self preservation is very important to him. Now the idea that Youhei killed over insulin isn’t a bad idea, you could have him kill Ruka because she stole it last chapter and have HIM slowly kill her this time around. But what clashes DIRECTLY with his characterization is that he killed Matthias and then at the class trial he’s crying “I loved him, I loved him” YOU CANT HAVE BOTH. You can’t have his need to survive override his love for Matthias and then turn around and have him crying about love and how he shouldn’t have done it. Up till this point Matthias has shown nothing but care toward Ninomiya from the letters, threatening Ruka over her stealing his insulin, being with him as he was literally dying, I just realistically can’t see Ninomiya killing him. This also proves something Hirose said but not in the way you would think. Romantically I don’t believe Ninomiya took advantage of Matthias, he was his own person and the two of them admitted they cared about each other I think Hirose projected a little (no hate I love Hirose). However he took advantage of the fact that Matthias loved him to lure him out and kill him. More on Matthias now I feel like Chapter 2 set up a really good arc for him after Ogura died but they decided not to use it. Like he prayed to get out but Ogura couldn’t fulfill it so he had to get out now without any sort of help and pave his own way to get out. He was becoming more confident too, he mourned Ogura but carried her with him as he continued to live. They talk of him being unsure what to do when he leaves whether to stay in Japan or go back to Belgium which I think could’ve been explored in chapter 5 as they got closer to leaving and they could’ve delved into where he goes in survivorside snd who he decides to keep in touch with and if he visits. I find it really upsetting that the two characters implied to be victims of some sort of sex work die inside the game not really knowing anything outside of their terrible environment. It also kills me that Matthias never got to see his parents again :(. Maybe I feel really strongly because these are two of my favorite characters but I think that this chapter is riddled with poor writing choices and that Matthias and Ninomiya were victims in their own right this chapter.

And those are my top 5 picks for the most undeserved deaths in Tetro Danganronpa. I realize that Matthias’s spot was more about Youhei but I think that’s justified just because of the nature of the kill. This was a long one but thank you for reading and making it till the end! Send tetro asks, stay hydrated, and take care of yourself!

Yours and nobody else’s, yanagis#1fan

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I’m on a kick right now cause I just finished blue so I wanna talk about how the bleeding should’ve won if not for Ikeda and DenDen’s meddling. Inspired by my friend who I watched Tetro with and some of our discussions about it.

SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 2 OF BLUE

So sticking my Ogura bias aside (I love her so much) her plan was damn near full proof: Kumada to poison and distract Yaitabashi, DenDen to play sick, Hirose to play doctor, Ikeda to pull the alarm and go into the freezer, and Ogura to actually kill her.

Why do I think this is full proof? One sour move and they’re fucked right?

Well that’s why they lost full stop because everything had gone off without a hitch but they didn’t hold out. While Maekawa found Hirose’s note about the storage room and him, Kumada, DenDen were outed as bleeding if DenDen didn’t break the group had a 50/50 shot at guessing wrong. But that was only the first domino Ikeda was the straw that broke the camels back.

Now am I blaming Ikeda for regressing? Absolutely not. Regressed or not he was planning to throw the trial because of Tei. In one of the bleeding tapes maybe several he asks Ogura if Tei can join and she shoots him down time after time. He wasn’t going to ever let this trial lose, despite what he says he liked Tei too much to sellout. I am certain that had Ikeda not brought evidence of Ogura’s participation in the bleeding they would’ve won. They were so close to pinning it on Shishikura and Maekawa was willing to vote with the bleeding if they had, that’s a 7/6 voting rate. Unfortunately Ruka had to be Ruka and took advantage of the fact that he was small in order to win the trial.

Well aside from the intricacies of Ogura’s plan why did I so badly want this side to win?

The bleeding was the last solid motive before everything went to shit.

Ogura had a palpable motive, no “the chemistry in my brain got fucked cause of a motive I gotta kill and torture another disabled character!” motive. Ogura wanted to save Matthias and Ikeda, she was selfless in this way and it actually aligns with her character thus far (looking at you chapter 4 & 5) because of her how to catch a predator persona. She defends those who are preyed on and screwed over by circumstance. She wanted to save them and in the process help 3 others leave. This is also my favorite motive so maybe I’m biased.

So yeah I really liked chapter 2’s motive and I seriously think the game should’ve ended there, I think it would’ve been cool for them to interact with pink as those who “won” vs. those who survived. I also think 2 should’ve had a double murder but that’s a different post.

Thank you for reading, send tetro asks, have a good day byeeee

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Hi guys so hot take or maybe not a hot take I’m not sure either way bottom line: I HATE the accidental suicide trope in tetro and I want to talk about why.

SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 4 OF PINK AND CHAPTER 5 OF BLUE

In the case of Watari I just feel like it was really out of character for her to screw over Hama in that way. I wasn’t surprised at her committing suicide because in chapter 4 there’s an obvious spiral happening but I just don’t feel like she has enough awareness to know that the groups going to figure it out. Also the way it happened was so reliant on what ifs to the point it almost didn’t happen. I really really hated this specific chapter because Watari knew he had people waiting for him.

“But Robin wasn’t that the reason Watari did it for Hama? How is that out of character?”

CAUSE WATARI ISNT INCONSIDERATE AND STUPIDLY IMPULSIVE.

Despite being depressed and suicidal Watari’s brain didn’t fall into the abyss or it shouldn’t have. While she’s shown to be still of mostly sound mind unlike Tei (we’ll get there). With minor things such as her form Watari is impulsive yes but with the people she cares about she’s shown to be thoughtful in the long term (dancing with Yanagi, inviting Wada back to the school staff, making Hama a teacher, bringing Hasegawa food, etc) so her plan to “help Hama escape” being so short sighted doesn’t seem to fit the narrative we’ve seen so far.

Oh Shishikura my beloved, what the fuck man. So I’m not sure if it bugs me extra hard because I just finished blue so it’s fresh or what but I seriously l didn’t like chapter 5. The cult stuff was really cool and maybe a ritual gone wrong where it was unclear whether DenDen or Tei killed him would’ve been so so cool. But no actually we got another trick suicide! Hoorayyy…

Again I think the writing up to it was good, there was his deterioration of faith and his willingness to die for the cult but then where does Maekawa fit into this? In the trial they just explain it away by saying “Well he thought we weren’t getting out anyway so might as well” but that’s actually not good writing? Hey so that’s actually no motive at all!

I really think that a normal suicide could’ve worked out because again I can’t see a world where Shishikura would screw over Maekawa of all people. Literally anyone else would’ve done it, hell have Ruka do it and have her successfully use his medical history to his advantage I don’t know literally anything else.

In short I really don’t like this trope because it smudges away characterization just for a gotcha moment to kill off an innocent character.

Anyway that’s all, send tetro asks please thanks for reading bye bye!!!

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Hey guys I kinda wanna just share my experience of chapter 2 and how crazy I got over the prospect of Yanagi dying cause it was really looking bad for him.

SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 2 OF PINK AND CHAPTER 3 OF BLUE (Brief mention but still)

So the adrenaline gas had Shigeki FUCKED UP and I was worried that as it was maxing out either he would kill someone or he would get killed (although YouTube recommended spoiled me with the trial thanks YouTube)

He was going actually crazy from beating the shit out of Hiroaki so I wouldn’t have put killing someone past him at the time. But seeing as it was Chiba I had hope because of his devotion to protecting women.

I also figured that while he was able to get up the rope his hand was still majorly out of commission like I can’t move my fingers out of commission so killing Chiba via hanging would be damn near impossible (this was before I watched blue and the impossible shit happened with Ikeda).

So I’m logicing it all in my head and I’m feeling better but wait what kind of flowers are those around Chibas CG in Trial of the Hanged? DAHILAS. LIKE HOW YANAGI WOULD CALL SASAKI MY FAIR DAHLIA? HOLY SHIT.

All logic was OUT THE WINDOW.

YANAGI KILLED CHIBA AND I WAS ABOUT TO LOSE MY FAVORITE CHARACTER.

I was on the phone with my friend at the time too and they laughed at my logic cause they originally thought they weren’t Dahlias and highkey thought I was going crazy (I was).

To the point where I started doing a really bad Joyce impression because I felt like I was her in the scene with the Christmas lights “Hopper, I need to find my boy” It didn’t help that every chapter they kept saying “YANAGIS THE KILLER YANAGIS THE KILLER!!”

Anyway it wasn’t Yanagi yayyy!! But I did go insane thinking it was 😛

[yanagisnumber1fan]

Hi yes, as the number 1 Yanagi fan—what do you think Hayashigeki?

Hi hi!!! Just as a heads up I’m getting into Tetro Pink SPOILERS for every chapter so scroll now if you’re just stumbling onto this!!!

Next to Hirojima they’re genuinely my favorite pink ship. I genuinely thought they were going to make it out because they kept bringing up their trip to Azumino and I thought omg maybe we get a little something with them in the epilogue!

NOPE SILLY ROBIN YOU GOOF SHE OBVIOUSLY HAD TO DIE!!

Chapter 5 genuinely tore me open because the Hasegawa’s motive was genuinely non-existent. The notes were a cool source of conflict for Hayashi and Yanagi I won’t lie though.

Outside of Yanagi getting so totally robbed I love how Mai swears to protect him and holds her word till the end. Their dynamic of princely man whose job it is to protect women vs dude I’m literally a bounty hunter is genuinely my favorite. Cause Mai definitely appreciates the effort but if it came to a (not rigged for the narrative) altercation she’s winning. They are genuinely so sweet to each other it kills me. Even at the end Yanagi’s concern for her melts my heart.

Don’t get me started on “Yanagi on Thin Ice” that episode had me in TEARS because at first Yanagi’s presented as a player even from your first look at him so you assume he just sucks BUT NO. That poor poor boy was just hardcore abused at 14 years old. Mai telling him seriously “That wasn’t love” after Yanagi says Lilah loved him broke me.

So long story short even though he’s my diva forever after I can’t deny that him and Mai are tied for my top spot for ships in Pink.

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