#knb analysis

and left Kuroko. even if it’s portrayed as a goodbye .. one of joy. I can’t help but feel put off by it still.

their hug was adorable. the way kagami rushed back to kuroko was peak, the way they had tears in their eyes as they say goodbye. maybe they’ll say hello again one day.

as much as I love seirin, there is one fact that can’t be ignored, seirin won’t stand a chance against any of the GOM’s anymore. why? because they didn’t lose just one of their core members. they lost two.

Kiyoshi and kagami. they said it themselves that kagami is the only one who can handle those monsters. Even if they all grew as players and evolved, they could not match up. kuroko can try, he can do his best, but they won’t be able to succeed.

it was a good run for them. and they wished the best to kagami. they said their goodbyes. but Kuroko always knew that when you said hello, you’ll say goodbye one day.

kagami doesn’t look back after they hug. if he does, he probably wouldn’t have stayed.

like- he was born in the Akashi family too. likely he was held up to the same standards as he drilled into Sei, and you can imagine how equally bad, if not much worse, the torment and abuse previous generations had within the family

yes he is to blame as well, since being abused is not an excuse or a free pass to be the abuser. but I do have at least some sympathy for this stoic man, and he raised Sei in the only way he knew how to. because therapy? what's that? an Akashi is perfect in everything.

I do keep going back to this and will keep going back to it in the future, but in the manga it specifically said that he "tried to forget" Shiori. If he was raised in a similar way and environment as Sei, it's likely that he didn't know how to deal with his own grief either, much less how to comfort Sei in that time, because "An Akashi must be perfect". he can't show weakness to his son, or it will go against everything he taught Sei, the essence of being an Akashi, and his own values.

Hello everyone!

✨Here is the post that came out of a conversation with the wonderful beauties @fellow-deviant, @lamnwar, @0214letters, @officialparentofadrien ✨

What perfume could the Knb guys wear according to their personality (and in my opinion)?

I'll put my choices here, let me know if you agree or disagree. I have also included 3 characters that I am particularly fond of, but I am open to adding others if you suggest them.

Part 2 here

This particular post was requested by Blusshyy. so I hope you enjoy it.

Akashi Seijuro is one of the antagonists turned ally in Kuroko no Basket. He is athletic, good looking, comes from wealth, intelligence, well bred, well spoken, well-connected: as if Fujimaki-sensei ran out of adjectives to bestow upon him. Of all the impossible standards that the Generations of Miracle portray, Akashi is supposed to be the pinnacle of the impossible. This entire character creates a very rigid set of perfection which is frustrating and could be boring but it is borderline complex and quite disturbing when you dig deep. So let’s discuss the how Seijuro Akashi and his “anxiety of Leadership and Desire”

In my post  Kuroko no Basket Headcanon : GoM (+others) Horoscopes and Planetary Positions (Sun and Moon Sign) I have mentioned that Akashi is a Uttar Ashada Sun or the Constellation of the Undefeated (eng: Zeta Sagittarii), and His Aries Moon falls on Varani constellation or The Constellation of the Bearer (Eng: 35 Arietis). This is a very conflicting Sun and Moon position. Sun in astrology is the significater of father, soul, personality, body and authority. Sun is how people receive you in first appearance. The moon is one’s mind, emotions, mother, possibility of nourishment, psyche, friendship skills. So here is the conflicting part: Both his sun and moon signs are in fire signs: Sagittarius and Aries, but they are conflicting in nature: he has both Super Masculine and Super Feminine energy, volatile and non-submissive ones that clash with each other. 

Let’s talk his Sun sign now: Uttara Ashada is the last sun ruled sign, and it is considered the maturation point of Solar energy in Vedic Astrology. As it also placed in the Sagittarius sign, whose ruler is Jupiter, the eldest planet the maturation factor is even more powerful. Jupiter is the expanding benefic planet that never ends up giving: whether it is wealth, wisdom, capacities or kindness. This energy is greatly reflected in the Uttara Ashada, the Sun-ruled constellation. They fill they are obligated to give something extraordinary to the world, and they will do it by the means of authority and leadership. There is no harshness about this energy, but a keen superiority complex may plague them over time.

"Some are born leaders, some become leaders and others have leadership thrust upon them”: Sun males and concept of leadership

Uttara Ashada’s sense of “burdened with glorious purpose” is reflected on Akashi’s personality and behaviour with the others. Sun is a commanding force in the celestial cabinet, so it’s dominance gives great leadership skills in the person. In KnB there are three Sun ruled people: Hyuuga Junpei, who is a Taurus Moon belonging to Krittika Constellation which signifies the young rising sun, Aomine Daiki who is Virgo Sun belonging to Uttara Phalguni which  signifies the youthful midday sun and finally Akashi, the Uttar Ashada native signifying the old setting sun. Throughout the storyline we see three types of struggles for leadership.

 Hyuuga, who is a Krittika Moon and Mrigshira Sun (Sun and Mars) influenced, has to struggle and establish his leadership all in the course of the story. He has been questioned, he suffers internally, faces conflict between self doubt and romantic desire for Riko, annoyance and fear of extinction: overall his self critical nature and downright Martian stubbornness has been a dominant feature of his character. The Constellation Krittika is the first Sun ruled constellation and it is the Sanskrit origin for the word “Critical”, and it’s symbol is also a blade. Although they possess the quality of being number 1 and bearing responsibility, their self-critical attitude and pickiness sometimes alienate them from their peers. Hyuuga slowly gets grip on his leadership position by using his critical sense of self on his development and his Martian energy for taking the team forward. He also projects this enthusiasm, hard-core positivism and critical nature on his team. He is called the “mental core” of Seirin, and it is a very rejuvenating narrative to see on screen.  

Aomine, who is the Uttara Phalguni Sun and Magha moon (Sun and South Node) had all the typical alpha male qualities of a Sun. In this Youthful Sun constellation, sun is very erotically active, and possessing the natural energy of the Fifth house Leo (the house of creation, sexuality, children), the Uttara Phalguni retains the same energy in Virgo, which is Aomine’s Sun sign. Here Aomine becomes alpha male in a very crude sense: he is lurking with big-bosomed women’s magazines, openly claiming his sexuality, and secretly he is giving major envy to all those boys around him with his basketball skills. Sun shines on everyone and thus this energic display was not targeted on anyone in particular: However, His moon sign is a South Node ruled Sign which brings a twist in his narrative. As South Node symbolises detachment, boredom and renunciation, Aomine becomes tired of the things he was good at. He stops projecting his positiveness on other people, he stops practicing and even becomes hostile with his only best friend. Aomine’s depression is similar to Kagami’s experience in middle school, and coincidentally both are Magha moon natives. There experiences is not only to be blamed on them only; as they both come from Japanese society where homogeneity and community is everything: anyone who aspires to be better than the rest would be punished with isolation and exile. Sun people are not really bothered to be alone, but it the South node with brings in a melancholy note to their isolation.

Let’s discuss Akashi now. What makes Akashi so different than the other two sun natives and why we don’t see him struggle like Hyuuga and Aomine? The first answer would be “age of the sun”. Children struggle to establish themselves in the world of adults, Young people are resentful of the past traditions and intend to break them, while mature old people are very cavalier about the people around them with a general calmness which automatically earns them respect (in general). Akashi’s easy grace and complete lack of outer anxiety made him see as the leader material by both Teiko and Rakuzan authority. This easy grace is hard earned. As Sun is the significator of Father and Authority. sometimes Sun dominant males have a strong rivalry with the father. In the Sky, there can be one Sun, thus the conflict of father and son is inevitable. In his earlier days Akashi struggled under the controlling restriction of his father; the hardships that were put on him made everything occurring in the outside world easy.

 I haven’t mentioned anyone’s ascendant yet, but in this case I will. Akashi is a Libra ascendant and having Sagittarius Sun in third house (connections, speech, friends)/ Libra ascendants hold the original energy of seventh house (house of other people, marriage, partnerships) and they always perceive a good public image and pleasing others as intrinsic to their own self. This is probably the reason Akashi took all hostility from his father lying down, in order to please him and keep the image of a model son and heir of the Akashi conglomerate. The Third house sun made sure his speech is dignified, refined and classy and made him “leader” amongst his peers. This came with a graceful manner (from Venus ruled Libra ascendant) and effortless older-than-age maturity (Sagittarius sun)

Mind and a violent Desire for self assertion: Moon and Venus

Akashi’s moon sign is Aries, which is seventh from his libra ascendant. Aries is the original energy of first house: self, soul, individuality and freedom. Aries’ nature is to assert oneself and express individuality, but since it is in the seventh house, the house of other people, it is not comfortable here. Akashi is a Seventh house moon, which is naturally a happy place for moon, since moon is considered a social and soft planet. However it is the constellation of the moon which should be taken into consideration. Akashi’s’ moon sits in the Varani constellation or the constellation of the Bearer, which is the first Venus ruled constellation. This is the Second constellation in the celestial cabinet and the birthplace of Venus, the refined feminine energy and thus it is aptly symbolised with a Vagina. Venus is a planet associated with beauty, desire, refinement, luxury, sexuality, and this Particular constellation is the internal, rather embryonic state of Venusian energy. Venus is an enemy of moon despite being two complementary feminine energies: moon is all accepting, accommodating, maternal, emotional and friendly while Venus is creative, refined, discriminatory and sexual. As moon is also the mother, Akashi’s mother can be seen from this sign. It was hinted in several places that Akashi’s mother was a model wife, who was nourishing, submissive and downright maternal and Akashi was very attached to her. However it is seen that he lost his mother quite early due to an illness. The death of the mother can also be seen from the deity of Bharani: the God of Death, where things end.

Bharani is one of the most violent energies that can exist amongst constellation. It is not necessarily violent towards others, but it can be quite destructive towards the native. Since its symbol is a Vagina, it’s nature is quite internalized. It struggles to express its’ desires and functions by internalizing the pains and desires of one’s owns.  This process of negative internalisation started with the demise of his mother. Akashi’s mother’s death put an end to his emotional discharge in the domestic plane and since the constellation is placed at the seventh house it also begins to internalize the desires and expectations of others: the pressure of his father to be best at everything, the expectation of captainship in Teiko basketball team when Nijimura quitted etc. He becomes a creature of other’s expectation by continuing to internalize others’ assumptions about him. 

However this nature is very ill-suited for Aries (his seventh house zodiac) since it doesn’t quite understand putting others before oneself. Thus it responds quite egotistically when confronted. Akashi has been challenged twice in his middle school year: first by Murasakibara and second by Haizaki. Murasakibara and Haizaki both refused Akashi’s leadership, and this became a threat to the self-image Akashi created through his internalization. This time his mind, (the Aries Moon) responded quite egotistically and diminished every opponent who dared to challenge him. This attitude “My orders are absolute” is quite Ariesian and he continued impose this ego onto others, destroying them in the process. 

The Multiple personality that Akashi developed over the course of time: the normal “Akashi” and egotistic “Bokushi” could be the result of this internalization. Akashi is Solar and Jovian in nature: he is a graceful, unquestionable popular leader that everyone, even people who are older than him, reveres. Bokushi is Lunar and Venusian, the complete opposites of his usual self. Venus is known to be discriminatory, it demands refinement and perfection, and Moon is mind and emotions. Bokushi is absolutely ruthless about playing standards and winning. His saying “winning is everything, the victors writes history, the losers are wiped from it” screams Aries energy, where his Venusian moon is placed. What is Bokushi, but the warped version of his suppressed emotional self that never got to heal after his mother’s death! The constant tug-of-war of living upto other’s expectation and violent desire for self assertion is what molds Akashi’s character throughout the series and it is depicted with deceiving simplicity by Fujimaki sensei.

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So I was thinking about the way that Akashi addresses his father in the series, and I wanted to point out something I've noticed for time but didn't think about too hard until tonight.

In the anime's English dub, Akashi addresses his father as "sir" to highlight the distance between the two of them, but if we look at the way Akashi addresses his father in the og Japanese, he's not actually that formal.

In the og Japanese, Akashi calls his father "tou-san", which is a variation of one of the most common ways to refer to your father, and it's still not even the most formal way you can address your father in this way. If you wanted to make this term more formal, you would add the 'o' prefix and the '-sama' honorific to make "otou-sama", but Akashi notably doesn't do this at any point. The only exception to this is the first day of middle school when he's talking to his driver about his father and uses the term "Chichi", which is a very neutral way to address your father. However, from what I know, this is just a rule of thumb when speaking to other people about your father once you reach adulthood and/or are speaking with another adult about your father.

Considering that Akashi deliberately drops formality when addressing his father, it gives way to an interesting observation regarding their dynamic. The lack of complete formality could hint at remnants of a closer relationship from the past before Akashi's mother passed. After all, Akashi's father was canonically less strict back then, so it's possible that he wasn't too particular about the way his son addressed him.

I think it adds another layer of complexity to their relationship because Akashi has experienced a version of his father in early childhood that wasn't as uptight and controlling, but his mother's passing changed everything and suddenly Akashi doesn't recognize him anymore. The "tou-san" he might have said with some form of warmth back then now just sounds hollow the moment it leaves his mouth.

We always talk about how Akashi's personality changed after Teiko, but his father also seemingly went through a personality change after his wife's passing, and he went through that change much earlier than his son. So both of them are sitting at the dinner table, Seijuro isn't really Seijuro and Masaomi isn't really Masaomi, but they're both playing a twisted game of 3D chess hoping the other won't notice that they aren't themselves and haven't been for a while now. They're trying to cosplay who they think the other needs them to be and are horrendously failing because the woman who connected them is gone and they don't know how to reach out to each other from the other side of the bridge.

first of all i really like your posts about KNB!!! It’s been not too long since I’ve opened my eyes to Tumblr :) but I’ve found so many veteran KNB fans (esp Akashi fans)! I appreciate how ur analysis stay close to canon.

I have sth on my mind for quite a while now that could be seen as hot take 😬. But I’m just intepreting what’s being written in the official materials. It’s about Kuroko and Momoi’s relationship (and Aomine). I think Kuroko knows Momoi has feelings for him. Okay, so, I noticed how most people say that Kuroko’s just super dense about romance bc he shows no signs of reciprocy to Momoi’s obv crush on him. BUT we all know just how observant Kuroko is. There’s absolutely no way he doesn’t notice it.

Moreover, remember how Akashi mentioned to Niji that ‘everyone has probably noticed [Momoi’s obv crush on Kuroko] EXCEPT Midorima’? ‘Everyone here’ has to include the GOM plus Kuroko since he’s talking about the whole squad :) only Midorima doesn’t know. Another thing is, in the Summer Festival chapter, Kise and Momoi were talking about how they can shoo away the ppl who approach them by simply being next to each other. And then Kuroko butts in and says ‘am I interrupting sth?’ LOL HE WAS TEASING THEM. Kuroko KNOWS Momoi likes him and is aware that Kise is their cupid. Thats why he was fking around with the both of them 😂

Also one thing I notice is how Kuroko doesn’t act on it. Maybe this has to do with Aomine. Everyone in the GOM (except Mido lol) knows Aomomo is end game. Even Akashi admits it. The author hints it in many subtle ways. 1) Aomine mumbles to himself that ‘Momoi already looks pretty in what she usually wears’ in that one CD Drama where they went out shopping w Kise. 2) She’s his type 3) He eats her curry portion bc he knows she doesnt like spicy food then asks her to get ramen at the end of the day since he knows she’s hungry (and doesnt take no for an answer). Maybe Kuroko’s neutrality towards Momoi doesnt lie in his attraction (or lack thereof) towards her, but in the knowledge that Aomine and Momoi have a much stronger bond and shouldn’t be interrupted. Unspoken boy’s code :)

also I get the feeling that Aomine is a little aware of Momoi, while Momoi still doesn’t really notice him that way. For now :)

But with Akashi Kise and possibly Kuroko lowkey pushing the Aomomo ship, I find it to be possible :) I don’t ship in the KNB fandom nor talk often about characters other than Akashi, but I just want to take in what canon hints at.

Sry for the long text. I hope to hear ur insights on this as a longterm fan xx

Hey! Thank you so much for the message. And don't apologize for the long text. I love when people write essays.

I have to agree. It would be very odd of Kuroko to be super observant of others and yet not be able to comprehend that Momoi likes him. I think Akashi for sure meant to include Kuroko when he told Nijimura, "everyone has noticed by now", because, of course, Kuroko would know.

The Kuromomo dynamic is interesting because of the fact that, despite Momoi's lovey-doviness around Kuroko sometimes, when they're both just being chill, they are fantastic friends. I don't particularly care for Kuromomo as a ship because it's not super compelling to me, but if I were the creator of this series and I had to make Momoi have a crush on Kuroko, I would have given her a different reason to be infatuated with him. It just seems quite shallow that Momoi fell in love with him just because he gave her a winning popsicle stick, especially because she doesn't seem like she cares about romance outside of that. So you never really see any instances of her being a love-on-the-mind type girl in general, which makes her sudden crush on Kuroko very unconvincing. At least, to me.

I would have liked it if maybe she had fallen for Kuroko because he was different, especially because Fujimaki loves putting Momoi in situations where she's harassed by other boys. Maybe she found solace in Kuroko because he treats her with so much respect and doesn't objectify her. Maybe because he doesn't see her as just a pretty face, but as a valued member of the Teiko basketball team. Maybe because he actually listens to her and understands how she feels. Or maybe their personalities just complement each other. Idk, anything would've been better than the popsicle stick as the sole reason. It would've even been cool if, at first, it seemed like she was in love with Kuroko for just that, but as the series goes on, you start to get hints that there's more to her infatuation and she has deeper reasons for why she loves him.