Umemiya, Kotoha n’ Sakura sibling dynamic 🔥
What are your fav musicians/bands?
Also gimme your playlist if ya have any. Your music taste is goated.
I have a lot of musicians/bands I absolutely love and I really couldn’t only choose a few, so here’s a list of artists I enjoy listening to:
- Will Stetson, Trickle, Sena Kiryuin, Rachie (I’m actually obsessed with their English covers)
- Snail’s House
- Kerusu
- Hinkik
- Seycara Orchestral
- Laufey
- JVKE
- wave to earth
- d4vd
- Good Kid
- The Vanished People
- Natori
- Yuu Miyashita
- Ado
- Eve
I love piano covers of songs/soundtracks! Here are some channels I follow and have even learned a few of their piano renditions from:
- ChaconneScott
- Hayashi Studios
- Toby Brand
- CC Music - Piano and Stuff
Obsessed with video-game/anime soundtracks from:
- Persona
- Ghibli Studio
- Genshin Impact (more like all hoyoverse games)
- Jujutsu Kaisen
- Ensemble Stars
- Legend of Zela
- Project Sekai (while they do Vocaloid covers, I do enjoy listening to their covers)
Those are the ones I can think of from the top of my head
If there’s any questions feel free to ask. ^^ And please do send me recommendations of artists I should check out!
Also Yegdreon, there are a ton more artists and songs I did not mention because this post would be waaaaaaay too long so I’ll make and send you a playlist of songs I have on repeat 24/7 (which is a lotta songs)
Quick doodle of Sakura with a cat 🐈
Look at my friends art!!!
“Kyahaha, don’t worry Niki. I have my lovely goddess of victory right beside me after all!”
How could I call myself a proud Crazy:BP without ever drawing our favourite gambler, Rinne.
Oh, this is hilarious! When I first played Enstars, I also thought Souma was Gackpo at first 🤣🤣
in honor of enstars x pjsk collab
[This is a fanmande, non-profitable project. Neither me nor the creator of the original idea have any connections to the creators of neither the anime nor manga of Wind Breaker]
(writen by: Yegdreon)
(original idea by: @aiiry-0 )
[Chapter 1]
Sakura Haruka, a 15 year old boy who was born with an interesting but odd appearance. His hair is half black half white, and his right eye is blue while his left eye is yellow. His been bullied for almost his whole life because of that, so, as a way to shut those bullies mouths, he learned to fight. He was so good at it that the people of his town started calling him a monster. Those were rough times to Sakura. But one day, while one of his bullies fell to the ground with his punches, said bullie dropped something, a CD. Curious as a cat, Sakura asked:
— Why would you carry this with you while fighting? Are you trying to damage it or somethin'?
— It's for my sister.— said the bullie, trying to get out of Sakura's enemy list— She's in the hospital and music is the only way that she'll stop cryin'.
Sakura was intrigued by this. He liked music already, but he had never thought of it as a way to relieve stress.
— Hey, you!— yelled Sakura— What store did you get this from?
— From the store down the street— said the bullie, not noticing Sakura's obvious blush— Just, please let me go. I'll never do that again.
At this point Sakura wasn't even listening, as he walked away, going in the direction the bullie pointed to.
Once he got in, he silently walked to the counter.
— Where's the rock music section?— he mumbled, barely understandable.
— What? —The girl on the counter asked, teasingly— You'll have to speak up.
WHERE'S THE TOCK MUSIC SECTION? —he yelled, with a burning red blush.
That's more like it!— she said, laughing— It's the one more at the right.
Sakura quickly turns around, walking really fast to said section.
He picks up a CD, and comes back to the counter.
— Ya know...— says the girl— If you really like music, you should come to Furin High. We have an amazing band that'd be more than happy to let you join.
—Huh!— says Sakura, perplexed by the straightforwardness of the girl— I don't like it that much! And you shouldn't go making assumptions like that about people you don't even know!— he picks his new CD, and sprints at the door, before suddenly stopping— I'm already enlisted at that school anyway.
Sakura walks out. The girl smiles and yells:
—Then see you there!
Two months pass by, and Sakura has turned into a regular at the CD store. Over the course of those two months, he has accumulated an amount of 30 different CDs.
—How do you even get enough money to buy so many CDs?— Asks the girl that works at the CD store, worried about his financial situation.
— It's not like I'm stealing it from anyone, nor something like that!— responds Sakura, worried that he'd be judged.
—Dude, no one said anything about stealing.— She said, trying to figure out what led him to such answer.
They hear a deafening loud shout coming from outside.
— Who's that?! —asked Sakura, a bit scared of such vocal strength— Is it someone tryna to pick a fight?!
The girl sighs, then she turns to Sakura and says:
— No it isn't. Just come with me please.
They both leave the store and are immediately met with around 20 people outside. Sakura changes to a fighting stance, prepared to fight. The girl stops him, gets closer to the man at the front of the crowd. She raises her hand, and SLAPS him.
— How many times have I told you to knock on the door when you need me? Huh?— she yells her lungs out, while raising her hand preparing to slap him again.
— I'm so sorry Kotoha,— he replies— I just didn't want to let them out here waiting so long.— then, he holds her left hand and says— Could you please open the restaurant for us, we're starving.
She promptly slaps him again with her right hand. Then she says:
—Give me five minutes.
After she closed the CD shop, she goes up to the door of the café right beside it, and opens the door. All of them go in and sit down. Sakura goes in as well, confused about everything that's going on.
— Umemiya, meet Sakura. He is the guy that frequents the CD store daily.— Kotoha then turns to Sakura— Sakura, meet Umemiya. He's the one that manages both the fighting club and the band from Furin High.
— Nice to meet you Sakura!— says Umemiya, bursting with joy— So, what kind of music do you listen to?
— R-ro-rock music— answers Sakura, still trying to get a grasp on the situation.
— Hahah!— he laughs— Seems like this year's students all have the same taste. Well, Sakura, if you ever want to try playing an instrument or even singing, just come to the club room. We'd be all happy to teach you.
Sakura fervorsly blushes. He then sprints out while yelling:
— I'll think about it!
How it feels like being a Niki fan at this point
meanwhile crazy:b's tiktok is just a bit all over the place, mostly kohaku runs it but he prefers to film over be in videos and the others r unwilling to go along with trends so he sticks to replying to fan comments mostly. himeru never shows his face to the point that it spawns a trend of people acting out crazy:b choreo/interviews with the guy playing himeru comedically hiding their head behind various household objects. niki streams his cooking. rinne posts the most actual videos and gets copyright striked for using audio of his own solo at one point. the videos are a bit nonsense but they go biiig big viral way more than any other idol video just for the chaos. he films himself sneaking up on niki and niki freaks so bad he flings a wooden spoon into the ceiling. for the next month every cooking stream chat is spammed with 🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄
The title explains itself (heed the disclaimer please), so I’ll get straight to the point.
Firstly, I believe that Suo is blind in his right eye.
Typically, eyepatches are mainly worn by people who
Are recovering from surgery
Cosplay
Have eye trauma or are half-blind
The first point is immediately negated, since it’s confirmed that Suo has been wearing an eyepatch on his right eye since middle school at the earliest. I doubt that even the most extensive eye surgeries would need him to be wearing one for years on end. Most eyepatches are made out of adhesive material, whilst Suo’s is made out of leather. I won’t dwell on this point much since I don’t think this outcome is very likely, but I just wanted to bring it up anyways (lol).
The second point could be plausible, considering that Suo voluntarily draws attention to his eyepatch in his introduction, even stating that there is “an ancient Chinese spirit sealed” in it—there’s a story behind it.
However, Nirei’s question immediately disproves this. Nii Satoru is a very deliberate writer; I don’t think there would be any reason to include Nirei’s dialogue about a ‘past accident’ (more on this later) if it wasn’t meant to serve as foreshadowing or at least be somewhat true.
Theres also the fact that Suo directly agrees with Nirei’s claim, though his wording is very vague (ie. it’s what other people say rather than Suo himself confirming it).
I believe this scene is mainly meant to showcase Suo’s goofy side (backed by Nirei’s comment about expecting Suo to be more cold/aloof and with Suo introducing himself as Leonardo di Caprio); but I also assume that he decided to make up a story about his eye because he’s been questioned about it many times in the past. It’s obviously not true, but I don’t think that Suo would voluntarily wear an eyepatch for years on end just to look cool (not to mention the depth perception issues!).
It’s also important to note that Nirei’s information is scarily accurate as well. He even figured out that Suo hated natto despite how secretive the latter is, but I digress.
This leads me to the third point, which is what most of the fandom (myself included) speculates. However, I’ll be focusing more on the prospect of Suo being half-blind.
If Suo is blind in his white eye, he would have a white iris. Although many blind characters in anime/animation have their eyes closed or just lack pupils, some do have white/clear/sheen irises:
Additionally, some people who are blind do have ‘milky’ eyes in real life!
Even other animanga characters who wear eyepatches have some sort of eye trauma (if they aren’t pirates/concealing some power/forced to give their eyeball up for a contract, though WBK isn’t that kind of story) such as Hange Zoë and Asuka Langely Soryu.
Personally, I believe that Suo had injured his right eye in the past to the point of blindness, given with the evidence presented before. I can’t really provide any theories as to how this happened due to a lack of canon evidence, but it’s probably linked to why he tells Nirei to never close his eyes. It’s highly probable his right eye is linked to a traumatic incident of his past—though anything further related to Suo’s backstory prompts an entirely different conversation.
Theres also a possibility that Suo might have been born half blind as well, and uses his eyepatch to protect/cover it; though it’s merely speculation on my part (and I’ll talk about this theory more in a bit).
You’ve probably noticed that I’m drawing a lot of attention to the color of Suo’s right eye, rather the cause of his blind eye. This is where my theory gets delusional.
Let me bring in our beloved protagonist of Wind Breaker; Sakura Haruka!
Wait, isn’t this a theory about Suo? What does Sakura have to do with Suo’s eye?
Although Sakura and Suo do have their stark differences, they’re also eerily similar (and this criteria applies to Suo + Nirei and Sakura + Nirei as well). The most prominent thing they have in common [design wise] are their ‘abnormal’ eyes (with Sakura having heterochromia, and Suo with only one eye visible), and how they’re somehow linked to some sort of past trauma. I (albeit briefly) went over how Suo’s right eye connects with a potentially traumatic incident earlier, so I’ll be focusing on Sakura in the meantime.
In the beginning of the anime, we see snippets of dialogue by people from Sakura’s past, which mainly consisted of a barrage of criticism and rude remarks towards him. This line in particular stands out to me:
Japanese society is very conformative both in real life and what we see in Sakura’s memories—being unique or looking different from the norm is 🆖. We see different people in the series poke fun at Sakura’s hair, but I feel like this comment hurts the most. You can’t exactly change your eye color easily without contacts, unlike hair in which you can style/dye it as you please (though I’m not trying to justify the mistreatment Sakura has experienced by comparing apples and oranges; simply put, it’s incredibly vile).
Because of the above, Sakura has been consistently ostracized in the past mainly due to his ‘weird’ appearance. This causes him to internalize those sentiments for years on end before coming to Furin. He then begins to project his insecurities externally throughout the manga whether it relates to his leadership skills or how he interacts with the other students (initially questioning why people can accept him given his ‘strange’ appearance and mannerisms). There’s also this:
Sakura used to cover his hair and eyes with hats/sunglasses, however it failed to work as people still avoided him. This is even shown in the anime!
Poor kid took all those comments to heart and internalized it to the point it essentially crippled his self-esteem—but who wouldn’t, honestly? Being constantly alienated and perceived as ‘disgusting’ by others causes a sense of distrust to a person, especially during their developmental stages (as Sakura experienced most of this as a child/teen), hence why I’m classifying this as traumatic for Sakura. Even though he’s in a better place now, the ghosts of his past still haunt and affect him to this day.
Since Suo + Sakura are written to foil/parallel each other at times, there is a chance that Suo might have also covered his eye for a similar reason to Sakura’s: he doesn’t want other people to know he is blind (either to not be perceived as weak, or Suo was ashamed of for a different reason—perhaps other people thought his blind eye was scary?). Maybe Suo was born with a blind eye, much like how Sakura was born with a “half and half” appearance.
As I’ve mentioned before, Sakura has heterochromia (wow no shit Sherlock); his left eye is yellow, while his right is black[ish-grey] (his eye is sometimes colored a light grey/blue but thats usually a stylistic choice)
Both Sakura and Suo’s character colors are based off their left eyes: Sakura’s being an amber and Suo’s being red (rather than mainly sappanwood but its a shade of red anyways—and Suo is usually represented with a bold red in other official/merch art so shhhh)
And if we were to follow my theory, Suo would hypothetically have a milky colored right eye and a red iris for his left as in canon. Do you see where I’m going with this?
Both Sakura and Suo would have their character color as their right eye (amber and red respectively), while their left eyes (black and white) would contrast each other. Black and white are considered opposites, after all.
If my (delulu) theory holds true, this could perfectly showcase Suo and Sakura’s differences and similarities—but instead of it being almost hidden through the layers of their unspoken relationship, they are physically represented through their character designs.
Okay, I know you’re probably thinking that this theory is too far fetched (hell, even I think the same). But hear me out:
There is another duo in Wind Breaker who have character designs that contrast each other: Togame and Choji!
Nii Satoru makes it a point to emphasize how different these two are—and it’s no secret given their designs: Togame is tall, beefier, and has straight dark hair while Choji is short, lankier, with light and curlier hair. Even their eyes contrast each other; Togame’s are thin, slanted, and green while Choji’s are wide, round and red[dish brown]. (I KNOW THAT HIS EYES ARE MORE BROWN IN THE ANIME BUT THEYRE COLORED RED SOMETIMES BY NIISATO PLEASE TRUST ME ON THIS)
Honestly, this entire section makes me want analyze Choji and Togame (must… control… my demons…), so I’ll just move on to my next point.
Additionally, Sakura is sometimes drawn with his hair slicked back, which makes him look eerily similar to Umemiya…
I believe this is entirely intentional by Nii-sensei, but if I speak any more I fear that I will start rambling about Umemiya/Sakura parallels like a madman. My point is, two characters with similar/contrasting designs do already exist in WBK.
And in the case of Suo and Sakura, these two elements could possibly coexist in their character designs via their ‘irregular’ eyes.
TLDR; Suo and Sakura are the only characters in the cast with messed up eyes -> If Suo’s blind in his right eye, it would be white -> which would contrast Sakura’s black iris thats also in his right eye -> this shows their differences -> but also reinforces the fact that they are similar since their left eyes are red and amber -> which are their character colors -> I am severely delusional -> and I need to be euthanized immediately
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