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About the heavy pain Ichino Nanasuke carries inside.

I want to thank author for inspiring me to see Ichino's pain from a new side.

On X(Twitter), I quoted Tsurugi Kyousuke's words:

"Didn't we fight, did we?~"

But, what I really want to add for my art, is this:

No matter who it is, Aoyama or anyone else, who says... Ichino isn't to blame for the defeat of the Raimon Second Team...

Ichino will always blame himself.

And even if Ichino became a "Dark imperial" or "Dark Raimon"...

He would still blame himself...

And turn all the power and pain against himself, not the First or Second Team.

But look how this villain Kinzan cares for his cat!🥺🥺🥺

Look how well-groomed she is and how lovely she is petted. At least there is some good in this monster Kinzan!

What a beautiful cat🥰

I came up with this art-meme and I'm posting it while the "orange iPhone" meme is still actual.

The cat isn't in pain, she's just confused by what a cringe her owner is?

I thought of this backstory:

Firstly, these two moral monsters of Raimon School tell coach Kudou (wow what a man😍), with a straight face, "Your work so bad, you don't obey Fifth Sector." (Kudou in his thoughts: "What the hell...")

Then, as soon as the door closes behind Kudo...

The legendary fucking villains Kinzan and Fuyukai immediately change their act – Taking a mirror selfie with a cat on a fancy iPhone! Is it fashionable to take pictures with a cat? Is it always a classic?

(while no one is looking)

(the cat is their only witness)

https://inazuma-eleven.fandom.com/wiki/Kinzan_Gouzou

But I definitely didn't draw many full art for them.

I'm very grateful to everyone who supported me. I want to support you too and make you happy!🥰 Thanks to you, I decided to make current post!

Today I'll share you some my old sketches that I've compiled into a this collage...

I think we'll get a little closer, and my search for style and coloring can be interesting

And of course, we'll be able to see some of my successes and failures (fail#1)

Sorry that the sketches don't go together so well... (fail#2)

✨️ Aoyama has become the center of my little universe in this collage! (As you can see, I'm looking for a way to draw Aoyama's hairstyle more beautifully than in canon)

✨️ Yeah, Minamisawa is actually here in Fifth Sector uniform, you're not mistake...

✨️ Allright, Ichino is here too, in love...🥺

✨️ Kariya, hi! How are you? What's up, our favorite liar? Are you making up another story about how your day went?

✨️ I mentioned Kurama for a reason in my previous post... I adore his personality, not only appearance.

✨️ Hikaru, Kageyama Reiji's successor, is such a cinnamon bun🥰

✨️And of course, a bonus – a Akane's cat from my fanon!

Those who are particularly observant might have noticed: Best friend pairs! Hikaru x Kariya. Minamisawa x Kurama, Ichino x Aoyama...

I think I'll post some sketches in full version later. So let's keep the suspense going: What'll the full art look like?

Disclaimer:

1) I have cited articles from wikia

2) This is not about fanaticism or a request to rethink the character

3) These are my first humble thoughts, supported by facts, because I am very worried

Thank you for reading this💓

I selected beautiful screenshots and tried to back up my arguments with wiki articles! 👉👈

Thank you all!💓

During drawing, I still sometimes look at Ichino-kun in canon, so as not to go completely OOC.

And I have so, so and so many questions:

Why does Ichino Nanasuke have such an appearance, vibe and poses in the anime, game, openings, endings, as if he's an "average-anime-crush"?! (So normal form/hairstyle of short hair, like Handa💞 from season 1, Shuu💞, Kurama💞, etc. not only Ichino)

Here are, for example, a couple of poses from the openings

At the last one, I didn't expect that Shindou was passing the soccer ball to Ichino the whole time…

Then why did this cinnamon bun remain secondary?

Why was his team destroyed in episode 1?

Scriptwriters, why?!

Ichino was disgraced by losing to Tsurugi-kun on the field in front of the entire Raimon School?

And that's all where Ichino's story ends?...

(Why? 3 episodes: in the first, Ichino gets completely crushed, and in the third, Ichino listens as each player leaves Second Team?)

And what's surprising is that Aoyama said to Ichino: "Are you planning on staying on a team that no exists now?" "Dude, yes, of course!" - the impulsive teenager Ichino would have said, had he not been blacklisted by the scriptwriters.

I think if Ichino hadn't been a supporting character, he wouldn't have left the club and joined the Main Team ('cause everything points to that).

I'm more than confident, in this outcome and consider it practically a headcanon, not my own "imagination".

(I can't imagine how Nanasuke internally carries the guilt for the destroyed Raimon Second Team and the shame, the weakness he showed in front of the entire Raimon School.

A monument should be made for such resilience.

Although, the scriptwriters didn't want to expand on Ichino's arc and left him secondary).

Why doesn't such a handsome boy get love letters from girls and guys (gay) at school?

Hairstyle and a really interesting idea with the red streaks (I’d like to think it’s his way of rebelling as a teenager)

Athletic body (Rensuke-kun is certainly better~, but Nanasuke-kun is no slouch either~~)

Tall (he really is tall, I thought he was short)

Blue eyes

Intelligence

Calm

He also knows how to cook and loves doing it, take a look. ( https://inazuma-eleven.fandom.com/wiki/Seishun_Oden_(Chrono_Stone), https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/inazuma-eleven/images/0/06/IG-P4-020.png/revision/latest?cb=20250324102939 )

I won't even mention that in the official art, Ichino Nanasuke so athletic, it's as if he's not a reserve player who sat on the bench until episode 44.

(Why didn't the coaches put him in the start line? He wasn't injured, he's absolute not weak, he have "strategy sense" https://inazuma-eleven.fandom.com/wiki/Ichino_Nanasuke ).

Ichino, after literally sitting out the entire "Holy Road", learns the technique "Britannia Cross" (from Teikoku! https://inazuma-eleven.fandom.com/wiki/Britannia_Cross ), which instantly destroys an opponent's Keshin.

Dear scriptwriters, how did a reserve weak football player who had never played a single match in "Holy Road" manage to learn the Teikoku technique and defeat Keshin?...

I don't understand this abusive relationship between the scriptwriters and Ichino Nanasuke. Despite all his failures, he is number 13!

I have so many questions about the canon.

I thought I'd given him a teenage vibe:

A multifaceted character, he can be gloomy, sarcastic, cheerful, stupid, kind, sad, and silly.

Look at Ichino in canon and draw a spinning loading wheel.

You'll laugh, but it suits him perfectly.

But nope (so I wasn't wrong about Ichino having a teenage vibe), the canon doesn't understand who he is either?!

Or here’s something else, straight from the scriptwriters, who seem to either dislike Ichino or just enjoy adding such interesting details for him:

2:47 - 3:01 (3:05 even Tsurugi was stunned by how Ichino managed to make his "bones breaking" like that!)

I found out about this awesome CD-drama from this person - @wmiescieinazumy !😊

I'm writing a biiig fic😄

The first chapter is already done, but I've been stuck editing it for so long…🥲

Y'all really think I’m not writing a fanfic about them right now?!~

1) Texting in love-themed OP (why isn't Shindou?)

2) Together in the circle(where is Shindou?!)

3) On the SAME team! (and where is Shindou again?!)

Stop making me cry for my boy Nanasuke 😭💔

Love triangle kills me:

Ichino➡️Akane➡️Shindou➡️❌

Level5 do this on purpose lol! She friendzoned him so hard just to vent about her crush. Breaks my heart he has no chance 💀

They are very often close to each other! Why?

Well, after ages of not posting, I finally made my first tweets—now it's time for this place! ✌️