Reiiyo

You can call me Rei! I primarily post SFTH/RFTH content (as it is also my main fandom currently), but I'm hoping to post more of my other fandoms, specifically Tears of Themis and Detective Conan!

The first season is very enjoyable, in my opinion. It has a cool concept and many comedic gags that I really like. I'm also really glad that first and foremost, the main character is NOT ATTRACTED TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRL AND IS ACTIVELY LOOKED DISGUSTED WHEN SHE "FELL IN LOVE"!! He only sees her as a daughter!!!

Of course, we can't talk about anime without talking about the opening and ending songs. They're both SO good! Both the music and animation! When I first watched the opening, I legit thought it sounds so Kpop, lo and behold aespa is the one singing it! And the ending was by RIIZE! Both Kpop bands, I did not expect that! Good job for them cause the songs are BANGER!

I was impatient when I finished watching it, tho, lmao, so I decided to read the manga as well, seeing as it had already ended. The rest of the story left me with many things to think about, and I want to talk about it.

I'm putting it under the read more section cause I understand most people are anime only and didn't read the manga at all. So, spoilers for Kill Blue until the ending :)

Like the characters' motives, or I guess the one that's been plaguing my mind for this post, Hanamiya Makoto.

For them to get into the Winter Cup, they have to win at least two matches in the preliminaries. That's why Kirisaki Daiichi can just throw their match with Shuutoku.

Which is the interesting part.

Why did they choose Shuutoku instead of Senshinkan?

If they just like to hurt other teams for fun, wouldn't the team with a Generation of Miracles be more interesting?

Unless that motive is inaccurate, which is possible lmao. I don't like Hanamiya, he's not my most hated cause his role in the story is fascinating.

I'M JOINING ARTFIGHT THIS YEAR!! :D

My friend group has been wanting for me to join them last year, but that time I was not feeling well, so this year I finally did!

Happy MidoTaka day!! Yipeeee!!!

My beloved OTP, my comfort ship <33

Anyway, I also wrote a fanfic for this day :) check it out here!

I think Shuutoku is the real rival of the series.

Not Touou, not Rakuzan.

Shuutoku.

You can even say Shuutoku, and particularly Midorima, is the secondary protagonist.

Let me explain :) *pulls out a board filled with red strings* So :)))

Out of all the schools with a Generation of Miracles member, Shuutoku is the only one with no emotional stake to them, except the fact that the second years lost to them the previous year because they lost Kiyoshi and there's Midorima, one of the GoM.

Kuroko is close with Aomine (and kinda Kise), and Akashi is the reason he found out his style of basketball. So Touou, Kaijou, and Rakuzan already have high stakes to them for Kuroko personally.

Yosen is a bit different because it's more emotionally staked to Kagami. Because Kuroko does not get along well with Murasakibara (and even after getting defeated, Murasakibara didn't change much, really) so the series introduced Himuro.

Shuutoku, on the other hand? Kuroko is also not really that close to Midorima, so nothing really had stake in that area. But what do they have instead?

Opposition. The "natural enemy", if you will.

Our two main characters are Kagami and Kuroko.

Kagami is known to be able to jump high, rivaled with Midorima, whose shooting style defies the law of physics–I mean shoots really fucking high.

Kuroko's whole thing is his misdirection, the fact that his presence is really low, people don't tend to notice him, so enter Takao, who has the ability to see him even outside of court.

And then there's the fact that Seirin fought against Shuutoku twice, technically thrice or more if we count the training camp. Yes, they also fought Touou and Kaijou twice, but those stakes are different. So already, Shuutoku is the school we see the most of after Seirin.

There's also the character development. Midorima didn't change much from when they're in Teikou. In fact, he's the one working the hardest, often seen practicing after everyone else leaves (except Takao who decided to accompany him), as opposed to the other three whose grown compliant and Akashi whose all about he never loses. It also didn't help the fact that, when the others get new abilities when they're about to lose *coughcoughzonecoughcough* Midorima instead learn teamwork.

Hm, a character who started as arrogant and selfish, who is so sure of himself, slowly learns to trust his teammates and that he can't win alone? Sounds like a typical protagonist character development to me.

Have you ever realized that? The others, even Kagami, ultimately is dependant on themselves, but Midorima is the only one who actually embody teamwork *screams about the sky direct 3p shot*.

Hell, the Shuutoku vs Rakuzan have the same vibe as Seirin vs Touou.

There's a reason why Midorima and Takao are the only duo officially called the "Light and Shadow" in the series.

I, of course, choose Kuroko no Basket as my fandom since it's my current obsession, and one of the sections is favourite scene. I can't chose between the okonomiyaki scene where Takao flung his okonomiyaki to Midorima's head (fav bc funny as hell) or the sky direct three point shot (my ship time to shine we forget about last game okay), so I put both of them. Since I have two, my friend who edited the thing combine the two images and it's just so funny 😭

It's like they're making two different kinds of very high accurate shot 😭😭😭 they're so silly!!!!

(Yes, that picture in the corner is my pfp on discord)

Ootsubo, Miyaji, and Kimura's younger sibling are shown at the end of the story.

Midorima and Takao are said to have a younger sister.

Midorima's lucky item was a tv remote during the match, that he likely took from his own home.

Now imagine his mother frantically searching for it "Where's the remote?! I can't watch the match now!! My son is playing!!!" Lmao

That being said, watching Last Game again, it would've been so funny if Jabberwock didn't understand japanese at all and only speak english throughout the movie. Then like half of GoM would not be able to understand them lmao.

The keyword here is tried to because now that I'm rewatching it as an adult those explanation sometimes doesn't make sense LMFAO

Like Vanishing Drive, from my understanding, how it works is Kuroko going diagonally down and using Kagami to use misdirection. If that's the case, shouldn't it not work for the audience? And Takao also, misdirection doesn't work well against his Hawk Eyes, but Vanishing Drive does, even though it still at its core using misdirection? Don't get me started on Misdirection Overflow, if using it made them not able to use misdirection against Touou ever again, shouldn't it also not work against everyone who watched the match?

Is it something that he was born with? Probably, right?

But supposedly he didn't use them during his middleschool match against Teikou because he was able to see Kuroko and that would've made him memorable. But Midorima and Kuroko didn't remember him, and he also didn't seem to remember Kuroko.

So either 1) he didn't take basketball seriously enough back then (thus not remembering any players and wouldn't even bother using his Hawk Eyes) and only did because of his loss to GoM, specifically Midorima, or 2) Kuroko didn't play when the match happened, so Takao wouldn't have had any memorable traits (even with his passes without seeing, if your team didn't get the ball, it was worthless).

Or it could be, as my sister said, "Fujimaki didn't think the story far enough in the beginning", lmao

They'll be like meeting accidentally in public and they'll go "hey bestie :) long time no see bestie :)) haha just you wait I'll be the one winning our match :)))" and a few days later the moment they step in court they went all "I'm going to break and tear you apart even if it's the last thing I do"

And suddenly I am fifteen again when I was OBSESSED with this anime, and one ship in particular: MidoTaka.

I'm currently rewatching the anime again and holy shit it's a lot gayer than I remember lmao.

I've been singing the songs nonstop (especially Punky Funky Love by Grandrodeo, it's so fun to sing) and thinking about my old fanfics that I want to polish and rewrite.

It's really a shame this is an old fandom so little people still talk about it, but I still scroll through the MidoTaka tag on ao3 and tumblr. It's really nostalgic.

Oh, boy, don't get me started on MidoTaka. OTP, basically canon, what do you mean it's not–

I am screaming 24/7 about them.

Kuroko no Basket may not be the best anime but honestly it's so entertaining, I recommend watching it if you're into sport animes.

My rfth obsession is still quite strong tho for some reason, so there's still that.

Just from their one appearance on the first episode, we can already kind of see what type of parents Simon and Elizabeth Creeley are.

I do believe that they do care for Kevin, just not enough. They give him like the bare minimum (food, clothes, home, toys) but always choose for him, never asking him what he wants. And even then, they rarely interact with him, sometimes even leaving him behind while going somewhere that Kevin had trouble eating when he's alone. Yes, they never hit him or things like that, but they are neglectful, both physically and emotionally. Who knows how many times Kevin cry while they just watch, never offering him comfort, as we see in that first episode (him stopping his crying is so sudden after his father gave him the disney music book, like he knows it doesn't really matter, THEY DIDN'T EVEN GIVE HIM A HUG).