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HOSHIAI NO SORA : TYPOGRAPHY HEADERS! (as promised lol)

Not sure if anyone’s posted about this but look at Maki’s shirt from Episode 8!

つづく (tsuzuku) means ‘to be continued’ and it’s often at the end of anime episodes.

There are three reasons I love this shirt:

Aesthetic. Not gonna lie, I want this shirt because it’s cute. The end.

The possibility of it hinting at a second season? I know it’s reading too much into things, but one can hope.

Ties to their conversation. Episode 8 spoilers to follow. Maki is wearing this shirt when he and Yu are talking about gender identity. The つづく can tie into their convesation in two ways:

They talk, finish getting ready, pause the conversation, then they continue the conversation post outing.

Gender identity is something that can change over time and may actually never stop changing. Yu and Maki are still trying to figure out who they are. Yu currently IDs as nonbinary, but after the outing in girls clothes and being around other girls, they don’t feel like they necessarily fit as a girl. Maki mentions in their second conversation that they don’t have to decide right then and there, that it’s a continuous process. Another way つづく is defined is as ‘to occur again and again’.

You guys know how the Moon and Venus keeps popping up ALL the time in HnS?

Right after this shot of Maki framing the moon, a seagull flies. Seagulls are also EXTREMELY important in the series. They appear in almost ALL the episodes.

But then, the seagull flies down

And then we see a shit if Maki looking at what's infront of him

And the camera pans down to Touma.

I recommend watching this scene again to understand it a but more without just screenshots lol

Soooo

Touma = Seagulls.

But then who's the Moon.

Well, remember earlier in the episode Maki receives a Astronomical Almanac as a gift from Ryouma? Look at the cover of the Almanac.

So theory that either Ryouma might be the moon and Maki might be the venus which would kind explain some of the backstories. Before I do more with that, I need to state some observations I noticed in the first episode and combined with the rest if the series.

-Maki and Ryouma seem to be a lot closer than Maki and Touma are. Touma took a while to even fully comprehend who Maki IS being all "Maki..." Then you could see his eyes literallly grow in realization whereas Ryouma already knew Maki was in town AND had a specific Almanac for him considering Maki already KNOWS what Astronomical Almanacs are meaning he's read them before so must have wanted a specific one and maki says oh it's the Astronomical Almanac. Also they refer to each other with their first names (Maki calls Ryouma as Ryouma from the start and Ryouma calls him Maki without any honorifics. In Japanese culture, considering their age gap, this is a blatant sign that they're close enough to drop honorifics altogether. even though he calls even Touma as Shinjo at first and Touma called him Katsuragi at first. Nai thinks it might be because they felt awkward at first and didn't know where they stand with each other so that could have been it)

-Even though we KNOW that Maki and Touma are pretty close from the past, they never actually CONFIRM they were friends?? When You asks Touma if Maki is a old friend of his, he smiles but doesn't affirm or deny it. Maki seemed ti get really irritated with Touma when he saw him waiting for Maki the second day which, from Maki, is really cold towards a former Friend??

-Maki seemed to be annoyed with the whole prospect of Touma throwing money around at first and when Touma mentions his brother, Maki fulls STOPS. At first, Touma had to hold down Maki by his wrist to make him listen and cut his way to make him stay. When Maki agrees and makes that,,,let's be honest,,,kinda ridiculous demand, it feels more like a "you're not serious about this do DROP it" kinda thing to me? When Touma hesitates Maki even says in the dub "that's what I thought"

Basically, my theory here is that their backstories run a LOT deeper than we know or have seen yet. It's a lot of stuff to unpack in like two episodes but from what I can tell, the symbolism considering that Maki and Ryouma and seemed closer in the start and then Touma arrives to make Maki join the club and offer to play soft tennis to him.

Put that together with Ryouma being the moon and Touma being the seagull that suddenly flies in and that makes Maki the venus.

Sooo

Moon = Ryouma

Seagull = Touma

Venus = Maki