"Do you know what ai no kusabi means?" @claudinecore - Tumblr Blog

Hello! I originally made this blog to post about retro shoujo manga, but I will also post about some other things that I feel like don't belong in my main blog. I'm autistic and currently have a special interest in the novel Ai no Kusabi by Yoshihara Rieko, so I mainly post about that.

Tag for my original posts about Ai no kusabi: #kusabi tag

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favorite manga: Oniisama e... (1974), the heart of thomas (1974) and kaze to ki no uta (1976)

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Delusions

#ai no kusabi #beautiful

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週刊少女フレンド Weekly Shōjo Friend No.44, October 1972

Cover art by Waki Yamato

#shoujo

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more scans from midnight illusion!!!!!

#ai no kusabi #midnight illusion #i loveee the old june illustrations sniff

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#finder series #cute!!

Do you guys see the vision

#ai no kusabi #iason mink #ank riki #iariki #kusabi tag #i think this joke only makes sense and is funny to me but it's okay

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#ai no kusabi #*screams*

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#ai no kusabi #iason and riki look so pretty!!#iason saying Riki’s name half sleep aughhh

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七つの蕾 (Seven Buds) by Matsuda Keiko, illustrated by Nakahara Junichi, 1985.

#shoujo

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I feel very complex about the interpretation of "Guy was actually right and is the most morally correct person in the story" because while I'm happy that Guy is getting more love and is not being reduced to "asshole who gets in the way of Iariki," I feel like while not to the same extent as that opinion, it is still an oversimplification of Guy’s character and his morality. Guy is not evil, and I would say that between all the characters in Ai no Kusabi, he is the most well-intentioned and kind. But even so, like all the characters in the story, he is deeply flawed in moral terms.

When Guy kidnaps Riki and they have their conversation, it is very clear that what makes Guy angry about the whole situation isn't the horrors of what Iason has done to Riki. He isn't sympathetic at all to Riki, who is the victim in this situation, and victim-blames him: he questions his lack of fight back (when he is literally powerless) because he believes Riki has to fight back at any cost and calls him "Iason’s bitch." Guy’s lack of empathy towards Riki makes sense when we understand that Guy’s anger is not so much about the horrors Riki has experienced, but about how he feels that Riki's pride and masculinity have been broken by Iason, and by consequence, his own pride has been too.

This is not to say that Guy doesn't love Riki. He loves him, he really does. I'm just saying that his actions don't come from him being a very moral person who is disgusted by the horrors he is seeing, but from a place of protecting what he feels Riki should be: prideful, powerful, never wavering, fearless, and above all, a man.

#ai no kusabi #riki #ank riki #riki ank #guy ank #i hope i was able to explain myself well #i just don't really vibe with this interpretation of guy acting purely out of moral duty #like imo guy is a very conservative person and has very rigid ideas of what a man should be #and that is what motivates him in the climax of the story #kusabi tag

Something people don't understand about Ai no Kusabi's ending is that it is a subversion of the typical tragic endings of the genre at the time. Yes, it plays with the idea that the endings are supposed to be tragic, but it also ultimately subverts it because that tragic ending is at its core a happy one. Ai no Kusabi is not simply replicating the typical tragic ending: it is ultimately subverting it.

#ai no kusabi #iason mink #riki #kusabi tag

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Title: Ouji-sama Lv1 ( 王子さまＬｖ１) (His Royal Highness Lvl1) Staff: Fumya (screenwriter) Hisato/Suzuken/Yoshio (artist) DragonAttack (composer) Fumya (planning) Hisato (CG supervision) TADA (game design) Shade (sound effects) MACKY/Okamura/Shira King/Ten'ichi/Yasube/Yoshitaka (special thanks) Developer: Alice Blue Publisher(s): Alice Blue & KID, maudcomm (english version) Published: June 22nd 2001 Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/2000 Main Tags: Yaoi/Shounen-ai (optional intimacy scenes) | Fantasy | Dungeon Crawling | Multiple Endings | Royalty | Knights Voice Over: Yes Language(s): Japanese/English (unofficial patch) Availability Online: available (you can find the jpn one and there IS the eng patch I simply am not good enough with these things to make it work, please somebody help)

#kid yaoi vn???? omgggg

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happy 50th anniversary to Kaze to Ki no Uta 🤍

#Kaze to ki no uta

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