#pretty panels

OHHHH WHAT A PANEL!! This might be one of my favorite panels in the series just from how serious and simultaneously goofy it is. Like it's just so detailed for no reason akdkajaksdhjadha.

Tales of Suspense #58 (1964)

I never get tired of panels like this. Taiyo goes through so much, but he never backs away from a challenge. He knows perfectly well that he's an ordinary person among trained professionals, but he was trained by the Yozakuras!! He'll make it through with everything he's got!!

Ahhhhhhhh it's the big romantic gesture!! Literally how can it get more romantic than this <33 If my man arranged for trained dolphins to write my name in beautiful water cursive at an aquarium, I would marry him on the spot.

THAT'S MY MAN!!!!!!

THEM <333

This also confirms a couple things about Mutsumi's accident: Firstly, it happened four years prior to the series, meaning Mutsumi was 13-14 when the accident occurred (we already guessed this from previous chapters, but it's nice to have explicit confirmation). Secondly, Taiyo doesn't know much about the accident, to the point that he didn't know it was what caused Rei's death. That isn't surprising, considering he only learned about the spy world and the Yozakuras' true nature very recently, but it did surprise me just how much he doesn't know yet—with the next two arcs looming, he's going to be learning a whole lot about the Yozakuras very, very soon.