Kokonoe's Weeb

--Satou

The biggest difference is obviously the length, which feeds into everything else. The anime over all 17 episodes (original 12-ep TV, "What you gave me" DVD Special, Summer Time OVA, 4-ep Ni-Gakki OVA) only reaches to about chapter 30 at most, and along the way leaves a lot out and also fabricates completely new material (the second half of TV EP5 is completely new, and REIJI PAANCH never happened, for example). The manga, meanwhile, is 95 chapters long.

Overall though the anime does keep with the spirit of the manga. Most things in it still make sense. There's even a scene in the Summer Time OVA which IMO is handled better there, because the manga just threw in a dick joke for no good reason and the anime skips it.

The manga's length really just lets you see everyone--especially Rin--grow as people. Aoki and Reiji's relationship is more complex, to say nothing of Aoki and Rin. Rin fights against adult hypocrisy, and puts herself in danger to help someone she doesn't know. Kuro's mommy issues are never even mentioned in the anime. Mimi... eventually learns to express herself, I guess.

Haha, geddit, because I've been titling my Rinposting Rin x Trails.. but this one's not Trails-related and she has a tail... ok ok fine it wasn't funny.

I give you: Rin Apollodoros Kokonoe La Mer or, in plain english: Rin, cosplaying as Laura's mermaid form from Tropical Rouge Precure. First, with Laura's hairstyle and decs:

Then, Kokonoe's hair, let down:

So, I used to be part of a waifuist community. I guess you folks here call it selfship. I love Rin but I don't really ship myself with her. In my mind, she belongs to Aoki. I would like to belong to her. But anyway.

One of the things that circulated for a while in that community was "Write 10 things about your waifu that you love without saying she's cute". That idea really resonated with me, so I thought I might share this, plus maybe introduce/remind the self-ship community here about the idea. So here's 10 things I love about Rin, without saying she's cute.

Her lewd sense of humor.

The way she cares for her friends. She'll go to great lengths for them.

Her abilities as a student and athlete, and her drive to excel.

Her playfulness. She never forgets how to have fun.

The tenderness she shows for her loved ones.

Her dedication to her love. She waits for years for Aoki and never strays.

Her thoughtfulness. She may act on a whim sometimes, but she's often reflecting on her actions, and have thoughts of others driving her.

The many facets of her character, the way she represents all the "Three Faces of Eve" -- the child, the seductress, and the mother are all present in her.

Her willingness to put herself in harm's way not just for her friends, but for all of those around her.

Most of all, I love how she has grown as a person and overcome her inner demons to become a wonderful young woman that deserves every bit of love and respect I can give.

Oh, and she's cute too.

No not a blue-haired Rin. Rin dressed up as Tio Plato. Actually this is Tio's Cold Steel outfit... maybe I should do a new one with her Azure outfit...

(Haha get it, cus the 3rd Trails game was called Trails in the Sky The 3rd)

Rin dressed up as Estelle Bright (Trails in the Sky SC/3rd outfit) and Tita Russel (see my Aethy for lood version of that one)

I'm a heathen who sometimes uses both at the same time

I give you... Rin Reise-Kokonoe

Although I tell you Rin would be jealous of how Alfin ah... develops... later. But of course, I prefer the smaller version....

Cookie for the reference! Anyway I guess it's about time I posted an “About Me” thing. It really took me a while to figure out just what I wanted to put into such a post.

I am...an older (people call us Xennials) anime fan who first came to tumblr primarily to try and keep up with an artist I first met on twitter. Since twitter is a dumpster fire I decided maybe I would start posting here the kinds of things I would post on twitter, minus the uh.. NSFW stuff, which is apparently verboten here. (You can find me on Aethy.com if you want to see it...same username) Mainly, that consists of screencaps of Koikatsu, where I pose and dress up some character I like...usually Rin Kokonoe from Kodomo no Jikan.

Speaking of Rin and Kojika, I love Rin, and Kojika is basically my favorite manga. L0li-Onee is basically my favorite thing in the world, and my second favorite manga is Yuzumori-san. So, yeah, I like l0li, but mainly from a softcore or yuri perspective.

I guess you could say I am #proship, considering the above. I never really put much thought into it, but I'm not about to harass people over their ships. Don't throw stones from glass houses y'know? Most I would do is ignore/mute someone if they made me uncomfortable.

Anyway TLDR, what you will find here:

Mainly pics which I consider cute.

Mostly of Rin Kokonoe in various outfits, created in Koikatsu using other people's models, or generated in stablediffusion (oh yeah, I play with SD)

Sometimes pics of other characters

Most pics will be girls of the smol and/or small-breasted persuasion.

Very occasionally me babbling about something or gushing about an anime or manga.

I might occasionally talk about mastodon/fediverse (or I might not)

What you will not find here:

Hate of anyone just for who they are, or who they ship, or what they like

So, one thing I did a lot of in koikatsu was put Rin in the outfits of various characters from the Trails/Kiseki series (Trails in the Sky, Trails of Cold Steel, etc.) Here's Rin as Musse from Cold Steel 3. She blinked just as I took it, but I figured it was fitting since Musse is smug, and the expression looks smug.

And here's Rin cosplaying best girl Fie Claussel, wearing Fie's CS3 outfit.. I don't have a good version of Fie's superior CS2 outfit. :(

The first friend I made on tumblr disappeared, and I'm bummed because I don't know why. Did they self-nuke, or get nuked for content? I think their blog was pretty SFW. They posted under pro ship and loved Happy Sugar Life and Satou/Shio, but there was nothing remotely lewd on the blog. At least, not that I saw.

Or maybe it's a tumblr error and they're not actually gone?

The Nep hoodie isn't very flexible so it clips badly with some poses lol

Noire's outfit blends into the dark background. Oops.