Sanosuke no Kanojo

"…Hold me tighter. I'm here."

Waiting for dawn

I'm a simple being. I see my favourite character in nice lighting, and I want to draw it. The temperature's gone down to tolerable again, and I used the opportunity to ease back into drawing.

Waiting for dawn

I'm a simple being. I see my favourite character in nice lighting, and I want to draw it. The temperature's gone down to tolerable again, and I used the opportunity to ease back into drawing.

yamachizu taisho outfits 🥺

Under the pale sakura 🌸

In the meeting room filled with officers, the page's eyes would occasionally drift back to her vice commander.

"Eh someone? Behind me" ((Looking back))

"Where? Are you hallucinating? Ugh there's no time, I'll go or he didn't keep his promises, bye! "

Commission art from nkcllg from twitter

I strongly deslike how they drew Hijikata for this particular merchandise series (*gestures to my main blog if you want to read the rant*), but that doesn't mean I can't have fun with it. In fact, it maks me want to draw him all the more.

Fighting art block, a heat wave and A Whole Lot at work these days. Happy HijiChi day!

⚔The flag that connects us⚔

Today is the anniversary of Hijikata's death (according to the old calendar), so I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to show my entry for the Hakuouki zine ( @ephemeralblossomszine). I knew right away that I wanted to do somthing with one of my favourites numbers in Musical Hakuouki Shinkai - Hijikata Toshizou hen. That number, The Flag that connects us, has the Shinsengumi members that passed on halfway remind those still struggling (Sano, Shin and Saitou) that their fight is far from over, and their vow to the Makoto no Hata still stands.

夢見た明日の前で倒れても Even if we fall before we reach the future we dreamed of 仲間に托して信じ抜けば if we entrust [our dream] to our friends and keep believing 辿り着けるはず 目指したあの場所へ we're sure we can reach the place we aimed for

In the end Hijikata appears saying that he got the message and that he will take care of it. They can leave it all to him (The song is set between him leaving Chizuru behind and her joining him in Ezo).

I always thought that was such a strong image and the choreo has been engraved in my mind. If not for the zine, I would have drawn someting for it anyways, but I'm glad I got the opportunity to do it this way.

Heisuke and Okita throwing petals is a small nod to the final HijiHen curtain call where they burried Kubota in petals.

I hope you like it as much as I do.