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YEIHHHHHH!!!
Por fin Free!!! ya entrañaba ver este anime jajajaja
xD Rin Matsuoka <3 :3
KAWAII...............!
<3 :3 xD
It’s unfortunate that many people tend to label Free! as just a purely fanservice anime because it’s more than that. Free! is about friendship, youth, camaraderie, and sometimes even hardships. Just because this anime comes in a very fine looking package does not mean it lacks substance by any means. See you next summer indeed!
genre i love: queer sports
examples:
Haikyuu!!
Creator: Haruichi Furudate
Sport: Volleyball
Medium: Manga + Anime
Queer coded to hell and back with no explicit canon. A popular anime that's very engaging. Whenever I watch it I feel like I should get my life together. It's super good, but fanbase can be a lil weird.
Fence
Author: C. S. Pacat
Sport: Fencing
Medium: 5 collated graphic novels + 2 novels
This one changed my life. I discovered it and haven’t been the same since. It’s cute, the two main characters are oblivious wee things, but there is canon representation in the older characters. Almost (if not all) of these characters are Queer As Hell. It’s brilliant. If you like Golden-Retriever-Sunshine-Boy-with-Troubled-Past x Grumpy-Black-Cat-with-Emotionally-Distant-Parents trope, then you’ll love this!
Check, Please!
Author: Ngozi Ukazu
Sport: Ice Hockey
Medium: 2 graphic novels
I saw this in my local public library once, picked it up, and never (emotionally) put it down. These books started my craving for 2D queer sports. This is what put me onto “Fence” in the first place. It’s canon, it’s sweet, the main character is a cutie, what more could you want?
Free!
Creator: Kyoto Animation
Sport: Swimming
Medium: Anime
I’ll be real, I didn’t finish all the seasons of this,,, the first two seasons slay the house down. But I dunno, guess it just didn’t keep my focus. I also don’t think anything gets canonized later,,, so it’s still just hashtag queer coded :( which is not slay.
AFTG
Author: Nora Sacavic
Sport: Exy (??!)
Medium: 3 novels
Now, you might think, “Exy isn’t a real sport” and you would be correct. Nora invented it for the novel. It’s like if the basics of lacrosse met the violence of ice hockey and it was played on a football (soccer) sized field with a balance of genders on the teams. This nonsense altered my brain chemistry, for better or worse, we will never know. However. If you seem intrigued, and want to read, PLEASE google the trigger warnings. Anything you think could possibly be triggering is definitely in this book. If you don’t want to google for fear of spoils, feel free to message me. These books are simultaneously the best and worst things I've ever had the (dis)pleasure of reading. I love them. They’re terribly written. They’re a mastery of metaphors set on a background of college sports with a mafia subplot. It’s like if a crazy fanfic got published. ALSO short king representation. Main man is 5’3, second main man is 5’0. I love this to pieces and I hate it to nothings.
Yuri on ice
Creator: MAAPA
Sport: Ice-skating
Medium: Anime
You know this one. If you don't, it’s not technically canon, but they buy each other (engagement) rings and kiss (sort of) on screen. Slays. Victor Nikiforov has my heart.
SK8 the infinity
Creaotr: Bones
Sport: Skateboarding
Medium: Anime
This one makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside i love it so much. There's angst and love and found family and tragic backstories and funny characters. Not canon though. Hashtag Japan Definitely Doesn’t Have a Homophobia Problem and That’s Definitely Not Why All of The Anime’s on This List Aren’t Canon. Anyways, it’s really cute and I watched t when i was in my own skateboarding era so i loved it so much.
If i remember more, or watch, or read more, I will add them :)
I fucking love free but and I wish they would do like an epilogue of what happened after eternal summer. I just don’t understand those people who want a third season cuz the thing is unless you want new characters with just nagisa and rei or just a season based on haru, rin, and makoto after graduation. But the thing is either way people will probably complain because rin, makoto, and haru aren’t there or vice versa.
Next episode, for sure.
If you're wondering why Rin is dressed and Nitori is not, this is the reason: I was so focussed on getting his body type right (less buff than Rin, but still with some muscles as he's still in the swimming team at a powerhouse swimming school and all) that I totally forgot to draw clothes on him. That is 100% really what happened.
I'm supposed to be drawing goth comics and I spend my morning on this.
Also something I'd normally put on my junk blog, but wow horror imagery. The second gif really scared me when I first saw it!
I've made some more mini-notebooks to take to London MCM tomorrow. I've got 10 Free! based ones, so I've only made 4 of each design. (40 seemed quite enough to be sewing in one day.)
2nd February
Rin Matsuoka from Free!, since apparently the 2nd of February was his birthday.
It's not a very nice birthday picture, but I had so much trouble getting his face right that in the end only a grumpy face seemed appropriate. He's prickly all the time anyway.
my favorite anime ships pt.2
kurapika x leorio - hunter x hunter
levi x erwin - attack on titan
arcangelo x kaz - neo yokio
kiyoko x yachi - haikyuu
tsukishima x yamaguchi - haikyuu
taiga x tetsuya - kuroko no basket
haruka x rin - free
jean x marco - attack on titan
naruto x sasuke - naruto
