everyone complaining about how complicated this series is but every time i reread it i fall in love with it a little more lmao.
honestly i'm ecstatic about the fact that Norio is no longer spellbound, for me all it does is highlight how desperate Kunimasa is to keep Norio, & it's already pre-established canon that sex is a signifier to others of a claimed mate (this isn't new, Kunimasa was nutting on Norio's face & sexually harassing him since the start & cnc is Baked into the series for pretty much everyone). Norio might not be in love with Kunimasa yet but at this point, i wholly believe Kunimasa when he says he's in love with Norio. i also don't doubt he'll switch up his position on hurting Norio in the near-future (e.g. "there was never any Love, it's just because you're Special") as a means of pushing Norio away when Kunimasa is inevitably put in peril because this is just a trashy supernatural yaoi romance. it's like junkfood lol
VB has aligned himself with the Returner-to-Ancestry Norio whose presence within their world has potential to shake up their pre-established hierarchy despite VB's personal desire to go to his own fated mate, Shinobu. the likelihood of VB aligning himself With Norio with the expressed purpose of freeing Shinobu from whatever madness Shinobu's biological father (not Makio, but Kunimitsu) subjects the Madarame family to is very high.
with Manami in traditional garments & lopping off his hair, there's enough within the text to suggest that he's getting ready to take on whatever work Shinobu, Makio & Kunimitsu do.
nearly every side-story is an extrapolation & exploration of the canon (the aogiri/shima & the seth/wakaba pairs to explore the mpreg aspect. the rinda/izuru pair to highlight the ways characters can make or break the spells they put on themselves or on others & how they work, which is what Kunimasa had been doing to Norio up until this point. the issei/kanamori pair gives us Spells Gone Wrong & the segue from the son into the kagashi/haruki romance gives us a proper introduction to Haruki, who has presumably at least been a Concept within the series since at least Animal 40). it feels like Tarako started writing this for the fun of it but got kinda locked into the way this world she made works & i love it when that happens, though you Rarely get to see it happen in genres where BL is the selling point. & i'm not saying it's Good writing, it's frantic & a bit all over the place & definitely unfocused, but i'm having fun with it.
at this point the key players are: Norio, Kunimasa, VB, Shinobu, Kunimitsu, Manami, Haruki & potentially Yonekuni & Omikado
i don't have an excuse for David/Maxamillion & Makio/Karen & the polycule though lmao i just really enjoy seeing their backstories & the Nightmare House (affectionate) that is the Tokashiki Household, all of the parents are insane in their own right & it's extremely entertaining to me to see Inukai senior showup & change designs so drastically & see Tarako give the man random hobbies like photography.
everyone's upset that Yonekuni is potentially back to fucking dog-type girls again but no one's acknowledging that the reason Yonekuni & Shiro were able to spend copious amounts of time together was cos they were on summer break. Shiro probably went back home to live with his guardians, & Yonekuni is already established to share a space with Kunimasa. Yonekuni's constitution doesn't stop being precarious just cos he got himself a boyfriend (though the probability of those girls also doubling as bodyguards isn't 0 & that's very funny to me). ain't it wild that the main characters have all spent less than an entire year being in an established relationship together? the bears, kunimasa/norio, yonekuni/shiro, it's only been a few months, maybe half a year at most.
everyone in this series sucks everyone is possessive & a freak & selfish & jealous. it's great it's like a telanovela
everyone complaining about how complicated this series is but every time i reread it i fall in love with it a little more lmao.
honestly i'm ecstatic about the fact that Norio is no longer spellbound, for me all it does is highlight how desperate Kunimasa is to keep Norio, & it's already pre-established canon that sex is a signifier to others of a claimed mate (this isn't new, Kunimasa was nutting on Norio's face & sexually harassing him since the start & cnc is Baked into the series for pretty much everyone). Norio might not be in love with Kunimasa yet but at this point, i wholly believe Kunimasa when he says he's in love with Norio. i also don't doubt he'll switch up his position on hurting Norio in the near-future (e.g. "there was never any Love, it's just because you're Special") as a means of pushing Norio away when Kunimasa is inevitably put in peril because this is just a trashy supernatural yaoi romance. it's like junkfood lol
VB has aligned himself with the Returner-to-Ancestry Norio whose presence within their world has potential to shake up their pre-established hierarchy despite VB's personal desire to go to his own fated mate, Shinobu. the likelihood of VB aligning himself With Norio with the expressed purpose of freeing Shinobu from whatever madness Shinobu's biological father (not Makio, but Kunimitsu) subjects the Madarame family to is very high.
with Manami in traditional garments & lopping off his hair, there's enough within the text to suggest that he's getting ready to take on whatever work Shinobu, Makio & Kunimitsu do.
nearly every side-story is an extrapolation & exploration of the canon (the aogiri/shima & the seth/wakaba pairs to explore the mpreg aspect. the rinda/izuru pair to highlight the ways characters can make or break the spells they put on themselves or on others & how they work, which is what Kunimasa had been doing to Norio up until this point. the issei/kanamori pair gives us Spells Gone Wrong & the segue from the son into the kagashi/haruki romance gives us a proper introduction to Haruki, who has presumably at least been a Concept within the series since at least Animal 40). it feels like Tarako started writing this for the fun of it but got kinda locked into the way this world she made works & i love it when that happens, though you Rarely get to see it happen in genres where BL is the selling point. & i'm not saying it's Good writing, it's frantic & a bit all over the place & definitely unfocused, but i'm having fun with it.
at this point the key players are:
Norio, Kunimasa, VB, Shinobu, Kunimitsu, Manami, Haruki & potentially Yonekuni & Omikado
i don't have an excuse for David/Maxamillion & Makio/Karen & the polycule though lmao i just really enjoy seeing their backstories & the Nightmare House (affectionate) that is the Tokashiki Household, all of the parents are insane in their own right & it's extremely entertaining to me to see Inukai senior showup & change designs so drastically & see Tarako give the man random hobbies like photography.
everyone's upset that Yonekuni is potentially back to fucking dog-type girls again but no one's acknowledging that the reason Yonekuni & Shiro were able to spend copious amounts of time together was cos they were on summer break. Shiro probably went back home to live with his guardians, & Yonekuni is already established to share a space with Kunimasa. Yonekuni's constitution doesn't stop being precarious just cos he got himself a boyfriend (though the probability of those girls also doubling as bodyguards isn't 0 & that's very funny to me). ain't it wild that the main characters have all spent less than an entire year being in an established relationship together? the bears, kunimasa/norio, yonekuni/shiro, it's only been a few months, maybe half a year at most.
everyone in this series sucks everyone is possessive & a freak & selfish & jealous. it's great it's like a telanovela