#fakiru

1. The soundtrack. It’s such a nostalgic beauty, perfectly aligns with the tone of the show and immerses you into the story. The soundtrack elevates the anime SO SO MUCH and I’m a sucker for a soundtrack gone right. And fun fact, Toshio Masuda, the composer for the Mushishi soundtrack ALSO composed the soundtrack for Ghost Hunt. The vibes for both are just immaculate, I can listen to both soundtracks all day (and I have done so many times). And then PTutu with the classical BANGERS?!?! Instrumentals go so hard for all 3.

2. Case by case story line. All three shows have a different focal story for the viewer. Ginkgo is a traveling Mushi master that we get to see interact with different people and the mushi affecting their lives in each episode. In PTutu, we discover a new heart shard hiding within the residents of Goldcrown town and return to the Prince. And Ghost Hunt focuses on a new case file every few episodes. And every individual story has more depth to them than meets the eye.

3. Between PTutu and Mushishi, there’s a fun oracle like narration aspect going on before the start of an episode

4. A lot of shared English VAs among all 3 💀💀 Todd Haberkorn was in his BAG back then.

5. Open ending aspects. There’s never a clear cut conclusion for the people we see in Mushishi. Ginkgo shows up, does what he can to help and then moves along. Ghost Hunt has pretty ambiguous endings to each case as well. The conclusion is inferred by the viewer but leaves room for speculation and questions. And then the ending for PTutu is bittersweet but also leaves some threads for the viewer to pick at. Was Duck’s presence ever truly gone in the end or did she legit have a lingering impact? What exactly is Fakir actually writing? Drosselmyer and Uzura?? Where are they going?

6. The absence of the trademark bold color anime hair, wild design and usage of over powered moves. There’s the exception of white hair and unique styles but overall the character designs are rather simplistic and realistic. And with there being powers/magic involved, characters are still semi limited by their human nature. With PTutu characters are limited more by their fate and intentions. In Mushishi, Gingko doesn’t have all the answers and can’t save everybody.

My Princess Tutu cameo shaker charms are back in stock, and now both she and Fakir are in my Ko-fi shop as well as on Etsy!:

https://ko-fi.com/bleedingheartscrafts/

My most controversial fakiru opinion is normie shit on tumblr but I do think they’re so so SO much better for not being explicitly romantic and not getting together. I see people on other social media sites like omg it’s so heartbreaking fakiru never got together WRONG! WRONG!!!! I can’t think of a better portrait of unconditional love

She can’t reciprocate his affection whether she wants to or not and he never thinks less of her for it. Their relationship is never transactional—he’s not “getting” any sort of romantic gratification for choosing her and yet none of that matters! None of that matters!! He loves Duck exactly as she is and that’s enough. She gave him his hope back and when she’s lost sight of a future for herself he returns the gift she gave him and creates a future her side.

All of this doesn’t have the same punch if he TOLD her he loves her or if they kissed or any other thing to make it explicitly romantic—that’s putting pressure on her to reciprocate.

Idk it matters a lot to me because as a teenager being on the aroace spectrum I thought I’d never be “good enough” for anyone to CHOOSE me over a traditional romance and then I watched princess tutu and it was like oh. Oh. Sometimes just being yourself even if you don’t have the capacity for a traditional romance will still draw the people that matter to you

Wips!! I started a new job so I haven’t had as much energy to draw as I’d like but I’m adjusting finally hehe more fakiru time