If Nobody Ever Explained This To You, If Someone You See A Lot Does Something You Like And You Never

Analysis and rambles to be written and rewritten on tumblr

I'm currently planning to rewrite analysis I had posted on Twitter and Bluesky and making new ones... lot of them are pretty old (from 2024) so I definitely not only need to rephrase them to blog post format but also adding new information and thoughts to them

Lore Analysis

Gouenji and self-sacrifice (Gouenji and Kidou comparison)

Kidou and his (lack of) feelings over being put on pedestal

Kidou is kind of a prick actually (Kidou's selfishness)

Sakuma as a character who is defined by his love for another

Sakuma's emotional intelligence in Team K arc

Why did Sakuma say "I can't see your world?" in Shin Teikoku arc?

Nishiki's cultural gap experience

Kazemaru's mental breakdown in S2

Sakuma and Kidou's shared eye symbolism

Penguin symbolisms (likely need to make separate posts for them LOL):

Emperor penguin No.1's recoil damage is a symbolism of hate

Emperor penguin No.3 as a symbolism of the trio breaking themselves away from abuse and the cycle

How the penguins evolve and their metaphors

Character Design Analysis

Why is Hiroto so pale?

Sakuma's design analysis using color and shape theory

Analysis of GO's Raimon character designs (groups by school years and Break Trio)

Headcanons

Butch lesbian Kirino

Sakuma's family background

Shin Teikoku arc has really good animation and storyboarding in general; this particular scene has cleverly drawn frames where Sakuma's hair was positioned to look like how he normally looks until he fully turns at Kidou and you can see the the black eye

I don't have frames that are of 1:1 comparison but I hope you get the gist

sometimes i wish the gay people in my phone were gay people in my house. where i could give them snacks and blankets and hear the sound of their laughter

guys.... guys

The chances of Kidou adopting as an adult (when he's above 30yo hopefully) is 97% by the way. Even if he can get or already have a biological child.

Even more likely scenario: he would adopt siblings TOGETHER

the thing is like I genuinely can't think of any other sites that are any fun for posting art on where 1) people will see it (both in terms of enough people on the site & in terms of searchability (like with tags)) and 2) they'll say things about it (like they do in the tags here!!)

etch a sketch baby

heyyyyyy there do u maybe wanna share more thoughts on butch lesbian kirino? im very intrigued 👀

This is based on projection of my own experience of identifying as MLM trans guy to nonbinary butch lesbian so I headcanon Kirino to go thru the same pipeline, hahah. Though different to my labels, I headcanon that Kirino is both transmasc and butch lesbian.

The idea came from how Kirino keeps his pigtails despite not liking being mistaken as a girl, so I headcanon that he has a complex relationship with masculinity, hence his complicated gender journey where he mistook his masculinity as being a binary man, but in reality it's entirely outside of the conventional idea of gender (being butch)

Other than his refusal to let go of his pigtails, my main idea of the headcanon is the way he finds kinship in Joan of Arc who during her entire life was demonized for not conforming to gender roles, leading to her death. And Kirino's Joan of Arc theming doesn't end in his mixi-max but it extends to his keshin sharing the same traits as Joan's (banner bearing / raising morals of other fellow members)

I also found Kirino's development to embrace his calling as a defender and to support Shindou and other members similar to butches in history where they took the role of supporting and protecting other members of the LGBTQ community in past, too

kisaku for christmas

what's with me and my habit of forgetting to crosspost

(the number on their surfboard is a number pun of their names. reference to tsunami's surfboard in inazuma eleven's canon)