@waywardfacegarden replied to your post:

the sad fact that i've seen all of those comments smh. like did you even watch the same ??? damn anime ?????? did YOU ???????

NONONONO. the other time i saw someone said that rinharu in australia was just "lazy and rushed writing to please rinharu fans bc they didn't have anything this season and then would be bitchy about it" and i'm like ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

H O W can you call the VERY episode where haru literally discovers what his dream is "just plain fanservice/lazy writing" ?????????????????? like that ep is SO IMPORTANT O U T S I D E of rinharu. the fact that they call it lazy just bc we "didn't have rh this season" like are you??? serious????? yeah, we didn't have that much EXPLICIT rh moments like on s1, but EVEN THEN, there was a LOT of rh in subtle moments. and the fact that it actually lines up with canon material that is RIN the one who makes haru discover his dream bc yk who's the one that always manages to stir feelings into him????? RIN. the fact that utsumi herself told that it could happen bc it was RIN and only RIN who did it. the fact that you can clEARLY SEE RIN CARING ABOUT HARU'S FUTURE NOT ONLY AT THE END BUT A L L THE DAMN SEASON????????? like he kept pressing on not to be annoying but bc he CARED and he wanted to make sure haru cared about himself, too. about his own desires. like even if he didn't choose what rin wanted for his future, he was okay with it, he just wanted to make haru feel better and have a dream FOR HIMSELF. AND THE FACT THAT PEOPLE KEEP CALLING THIS RUSHED WHEN YOU SEE ALL THE SIGNS OVER ALL THE FREAKING SEASON IS BC YOU DIDN'T CARE TO PAY ATTENTION/YOU'RE IN DENIAL/YOU HATE RH. BC IT'S SO FREAKING OBVIOUS SO IF YOU DON'T SEE IT IT'S YOUR FAULT

It’s like an echo chamber, all these comments that they keep repeating amongst themselves and deceiving themselves into believing. It’s so baffling, I can’t help but laugh at how blatantly their comments go against everything that is actually canon.

I legitimately cannot wrap my mind around it, and I’m pretty good at playing devil’s advocate and looking at the other side. I totally get not shipping RinHaru and personally feeling that Haru x Makoto make a better pair. That’s your opinion, and it’s valid. What’s NOT valid is pulling random wild crap out of your bums that completely disregards what’s actually in the anime, somehow deceiving yourselves into believing that crap, then going around claiming it’s canon when everything—from the official content, director, voice actors, staffs, anime, drama cds, and even the characters themselves—goes against your claims. 

Like, sure, have your headcanons, and maybe in your headcanon Haru only sees Rin as a rival and doesn’t deeply care and freakin yearn for Rin to be in his life (which is actually canon, as established in the entirety of Season 1, the novelization and Starting Days alone, not to mention the extra official content like mooks, skits, drama cds and the movies). But don’t get delusional about it, ‘cause no matter how much you keep chanting your headcanons within your echo-chamber, it won’t ever make them canon.

Ah, yes. I’ve seen those comments too about Australia. It actually makes me laugh because it’s such a blatant display of insecurity 😂 Those comments are lazy, like they’re flailing around blindly in the dark to find anything to try and discredit Haru and RIn’s deeply interwoven relationship because RinHaruralia was just too much for them hahaha. But that’s not really the problem: the problem is how they totally devalue Haruka’s character development by devaluing his experience in Australia as “lazy writing” to give rinharu shippers a scrap to pacify us (as if we needed that when we have majority of the canon content to feast on, but yeah sure huns).

The staff put so much care and thought into Haru’s dilemma in discovering his dream, and in the end they knew that the only one who’d be able to give Haru the push he needed was Rin (x). But despite Australia being a feasting of RinHaru, Australia wasn’t about any ship, but about Haru’s character growth and finding his dream, just like you said. It’s tragic that something so important as Haru—the boy who stubbornly kept running away from deciding on his future—finally embraces the future and discovers his dream is debased to “laZy wRiTiNg” and mere fodder to “sAtiSfY tHosE riNhArU sHiPpErS.” It just goes to show how much these kinds of mh shippers actually don’t care about Haru at all.

And okay yeah, Season 2 definitely wasn’t focused on Haru and Rin’s relationship like it was in Season 1; instead, it focused on all of the character’s development, but most importantly: Haru’s character development. Yet the fewer RinHaru scenes in Season 2 don’t hurt RInHaru at all—in fact, Haru and Rin having fewer interactions goes to show just how strong and powerful RinHaru is. Just like before, Rin was still a constant facet in Haru’s life, even when he was absent. And though Australia wasn’t about RinHaru, it doesn’t change the fact that, as the KyoAni staff revealed, only Rin could accomplish giving Haru that push into discovering his dream. And Haru himself confirms this is Take Your Marks episode 4 when he tells Rin during The Bench Scene:

Haru spent more screentime with the Iwatobi squad during Season 2, and yet it was Rin who got him walking towards the future. Goes to show the power of RinHaru’s bond runs way deeper than antis would ever like to admit.

And yes! ^_^ All the subtle RinHaru moments were still so sweet and meaningful. If Haru and Rin didn’t have a special kind of relationship built on genuine care and love for each other, Rin would’ve never taken Haru to Australia, Haru would’ve never blindly gone with Rin, and Rin wouldn’t have been the one to help Haru find his dream (a dream that has Rin integrated all throughout it).

What are your Top 5 RinHaru moments?

Hello love! I’m a larrie, this is all you need to know ;) btw no one asked for a rinharu top 5, so I’m more than happy to dive in this hell again and get my heart some feels with one of my favorite red and blue ships!

1. Rinharuralia. I mean, this is the Nirvana of the rinharu shippers. We got it all: Haru jumping on an intercontinental flight just because Rin asked him to (just let the enormity of this sink in), you have a cool attitude and eyes as clear as water (WHAT THE FUCK RIN), the savage wink from Rin’s Australian mother, THE BED SHARING, the pillow talks, without you I have nothing to aim for, you know?, Haru finding what he truly wants to do in life…damn it. Best 20 minutes of my life honestly. 

2. “Rin, come. It’s my time to show you a sight you’ve never seen before”. This moment would be seared in my heart forever. Not only this sentence, but the whole scene shows how deep their connection is. The fight, them rolling on the ground, Rin straddling Haru, “WHY ISN’T IT FREE” (that’s what he really says, the translation is wrong in almost every subtitle, dafaq) and then Rin’s tears falling into Haru’s face and he doesn’t even squints, he smiles at him with a fondness we’ve never seen before (not to mention how desperate he looked when he was searching for Rin). I think in that moment they both realized they would never be free, they would never escape each other and how much they’ve impacted each other’s life. 

(I put the video because why not, let’s just suffer together once more)

3. Every time Haru overly reacts to every single damn thing Rin does. Rin can either sneeze, step in the room, go to fucking Australia, smile from across the pool, fail to get out of the pool and sure as hell Haru will overly dramatically react to that. No to mention when Rin actually asks him to do something, he  just does and NEVER question it. He just does. Not that this doesn’t work the other way around, of course. They honestly exhaust me. 

4. “You’re gonna swim free for me” is a great example of #3 and also was it really necessary to kabedon him, Rin? I don’t think so but thanks for doing it regardless. 

5. You can tell me they don’t look like parents fonding over their children here but I’ll never believe you

- Bonus: the water fight that provided the visual definition of eye fucking

You know what fucks me up the most about them tho? The fact that they are such a great couple, they have everything…but they can’t be together as much as they can’t be apart. You truly can’t escape relationships like that. 

Thank you for your messages! 

(reposted from original blog, July 22, 2020)

An incoherent and unorganized scribbling of my thoughts while watching Free! Eternal Summer before I really came to grips with how in love I am with RIN MATSUOKA this anime. (so plz excuse how haphazard and unorganized this is, I wasn't really planning on journaling this but found myself doing it anyway)

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Free! Eternal Summer ☼

7/16/20, 2:39AM

Okay okay okay I know I should be sleeping because we're driving to the beach in the morning but I really wanted to check out the first episode of Free! Season 2 and OMG sooooo the intro theme song showed this new guy who seems to be on Rin's team and, ahem... He's rather very good looking 👀 Best looking boy so far, and that's saying something because you got Haru and Rin and even lowkey Rin's ex-team captain so...yeah. Welp I'm looking forward to this season 😁

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