Series:Sugar Sugar Rune Artist: Anno Moyoco Publication: Nakayoshi Magazine (09/2005) Details:Chocolat no Rune Heart Uranai Source: Scanned from personal collection
invited blanca to the roost and her dialogue is killing me
—for context: blanca is a faceless cat in the previous animal crossing games. she appears during multiplayer and asks the player to draw a face on her, while in new leaf she is the host of april fool’s day —
I know some of you have requested this pin since last year, I finally can fulfill my promise . I can’t resist to make the tuxedo Ash and I also make Eiji as his pair! Hope you happy with them all!
I finally made an attempt at making an animatic for my OCs, so this is very self indulgent haha
It’s far from perfect, but it would’ve taken me an eternity if I didn’t just let myself be messy and not worry about making it clean, so here’s the end product :’)
I actually did a test run before this one but it’s very short in comparison since I had gotten bored of it LOL
Idk if someone already talked about this but i think that the reason why Ash trusted Eiji since the beginning was the age and the way he sees adulthood.
For Ash adults were always people who tried to get something from him, or in general people who only want money and sex and power, using others for their interests and then throw them away. He doesn’t have a great idea about adults at least not in the beginning.
(despite that he had some “mentor figure” in his life like blanca and i’m pretty sure books played this important part as well, giving him a sense of normal life so he had something good out of it)
The only people he trusts without doubting are only the ones with the same age as him like Shorter and his group (which is formed only by young people) or even a child like Skipper.
But Eiji is older than him, so why does he trust him so carelessy?
I think that Eiji stands in the perfect line between adolescence and adulthood for Ash.
At the beggining Ash makes fun of him for being too young, the series in general tend to look at Eiji as someone who has less experience than Ash in like everything. Ash plays with him calling him onii-chan and protecting him knowing that Eiji isn’t like him and should not change. So he is put as someone “childish” than Ash and this makes him feel safe and trust him.
At the same time Eiji is not only that. He’s responsable and have a lot of stereotypical asian behaviour like waking up early, being healthy ecc and being the one who takes care of Ash in his own “old” way. But not only, he recognize Ash feelings and understand it better than Ash himself. He has this more “passive” behaviour that is in contrasy with the crazy life that Ash has and is exactly what Ash needs. He’s like the Yin energy, being passive and listening, showing love by spending his time with his loved ones, caring for Ash in a way that is almost like a healthy parental figure and the list goes on.
Ash sees that as a form of maturity and being a responsible adult but doesn’t hate it. He loves Eiji for that, because Eiji is like that. He isn’t getting anything by caring for him. For Ash this is a healthy adult. Eiji doesn’t put himself in a position of power for being older, doesn’t use Ash to get something, he’s not after money or power, he’s just himself.
This applies also with the culture they are from: american culture is more of an active, masculine, strong energy while japanese culture is the opposite. For western culture being passive is seen as weakness while in the japanese culture passivity is a feminine energy and is another form of power. Emotions are a part of us and if you understand it, that’s power. Listening is power, giving time to others is power and Eiji do that perfectly.
The balance between the two is almost perfect despite the differences. I think that the story wants to talk about that: eiji is not seen weak for not being active or fighting, he’s doing a lot just by being there for Ash. He has this “power” on Ash to the point where he wants to die for him because love and care are power.
