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Hanakou Familiar AU

So in this AU the idea of a Familiar is a supernatural being in a partnership with someone as in bounding their souls, not only do they share each other power but also their emotions and memories but that part isn’t controlled but yes also in a common definition of familiar in magic is a supernatural guiding and serving the person

My idea on this is kou come across this somewhere when reading some scrolls on exorcism and using it to save hanako in some extremely dire situation. soooo after that they tried to figure how this is going to work for now on. And also bunch of shenanigans in or even outside of school and the slow building of romance between the two.

Inspired by

Has anyone ever wonder why shijima wears glasses 👓

Any ideas and headcannons

i love Mei but like are they the same person or??? (Yes I read the manga but they still confuse me..)

So I just put it in persona series terms

As Shijima is the persona of Mei ideals and her dreams for the future in her tower painting she wants to show to the people but unfortunately she didn’t make it.

What really curious me is that he doesn’t even remember why he has to fix the clock at the end of the school festival

Any thoughts?

Chapter 101 was really wow for me... it was an amazing first chapter of the new arc.. it starts off really strong.

New promo art

Amane's the cutest ghost ever. In this art he looks really happy and his smile is real. My highest wish is for Amane to die and be truly happy with his brother. I hope AidaIro slowly enjoy Amane and Tsukasa together. btw Amane is the best!❤️❤️

It hit really hard. Amane repairing the clock. I'm so sad to see him sad and desperate to do anything to fix this clock. Repairing the clock was very important to him, but he failed.. Amane looks so cute, even when he's sad.... Seeing his living version makes me very happy. Amane's adorable even if he so sad!❤️

Perfection!!! Amane's perfection!!! ❤️❤️

This chapter was wholesome!!! 🥺✨

and also

This hit hard as well... Amane shows more and more that he misses being a normal student. My poor little moon😭 💔 Please AidaIro give him happiness🥺

Why is hanako associated with red camellias, I know 2 reasons which is love and it so happens to be his Chinese zodiac but there has to more to it right?

The first reason for me is so obvious. Amane has so much love for Tsukasa or Yashiro. And of course more for Tsukasa because it's his moon. As for the second one, I had no idea, cool to know! … Chinese things rarely interest me, but thanks for expanding my knowledge^^

okay so I wanted to update this bc I had another idea (thanks to @/sakuraswifee's theory!!!! you can read it first to understand this better) that train to the far shore mention really got me TRIPPIN. it is so good.

anyways, so long story short, yk one of the reasons kou wants to be an exorcist is to help nene with her lifespan, and also for hanako and his brother BUT he doesn't even mention mitsuba, anything about him to his brother which is sorta telling especially since hes trying really hard to figure out how to help him become human.

and yk what's MORE telling? he ignores his brother's worried texts in favor of being with mitsuba. HHHHHHHUUUUUMMMM

but if we look here at the clock keepers arc, kou aged, which is a total contradiction for the mtsk dying together yk

ANOTHER BUT. tsuchigomori said that there was one kid who changed his future (amane/hanako) and it's not revealed how, and depending on what it entails, it could give this theory credibility or crash it down

and we have no backstory on why yashiro manages to be able to break yorishiros other than bc she's a kannagi (like is her family ancestry's kannagi too?) but it's the reason aoi and her managed to switch lifespans because aoi's a kannagi too, and..... the minamoto clan... aren't kannagis...but they still concern supernatural stuff.

so are you picking up what im putting down rn? yep thats right!!!! it's a hard decision for kou to make but he did say he'll always be on nene's side :') and he even defied his own brother for it...he's so sweet ..

yashiro wouldnt want kou to sacrifice himself but then again it's his choice to literally agree to run away with mitsuba and basically just died with him

NENE AND KOU MAAAAY EXCHANGE LIFESPANS!!! so if not yorishiro HE WILL DIE WITH HIM

that's it for my yap session remember this is just me being delusional RAAAAAAHHH THIS IS REAL THIS IS REAL IN MY HEARTT

mitsukou has been lowkey eating my brain (once again) and this will probably sound stupid blabbering but im gonna try to make myself sound convincing. and in my defense this was just a random thought that popped up on my mind.

what if the thing about natsuhiko saying the way for a human to become a supernatural is to become a yorishiro? I mean think about it, what else is sumire other than a supernatural? If she just died normally instead of becoming a yorishiro she would've ended up disappearing along with other girls under the red house.

at first, I thought natsuhiko planned on saying it to kou so it could trigger something but he looks surprised here so I doubt it now but there's still a possibility

i think his face reads as "ooooh an unexpected reaction but I'll take it"

even if he was really mean that time he probably really did care about mitsuba someway and was hoping for him to make kou his yorishiro

AAAND another reach maybe that's why kou asked him out on a date (other than just wanting to hang out with him, ofc) like so he could maybe get more important to mitsuba and make him his yorishiro!

and get this, if he becomes mitsuba's yorishiro, nene LITERALLY wouldn't be able to destroy him at all, thus allowing her to live!!!! two birds with one stone, if you will

(but you could say then 'wouldn't the broadcasting trio not like that?' which is true but they did they'll do ANYTHING to make yashiro destroy every yorishiro, possibly by threatening her and especially looking at the sumire incident she wouldn't want that to happen again AND THE LOWKEY PARALLELS OF WHAT HAPPENED WITH SUMIRE AND HAKUBO WITH THE MITSUKOU CHAPTER. (with the cannibalism and all))

and it could be another reason why kou was so shocked at him when he asked to be exorcised (cough instead of making him his yorishiro cough)

BUUUUUT that is just inherent yapping so that's that. just wanted to get my silly ramblings out there pls dont take it too seriously thank u.

"no reason, huh?" GRRRRRRRRREEEAAAASHAHHSHSHSHSHWBSBSBBSNSNSJS

kou yorishiro is real guys that's why he asked mitsuba to go to the festival with him (so mitsuba has more of a reason to live ?) IDK ITS JUST REAL

hopefully hopefully s3 ends at the pizza party chapter/end of the red house arc bc any more than that and they'll have to make adjustments AGAIN or rush it (or maybe since it said grim reaper arc maybe that's the only part they'll be covering (like it'll only have 5 eps or something)

but if it ends at the end of the red house arc it'll be too short for 12 eps soooo YOUNG EXORCIST ANIMATED HELL YEAH

btw this was nene's reaction to hanako confessing that

hummmmmmm and mitsuba doesn't know (yet) about kou (and his whole complex) so what conclusion would he possibly make hummmmm

maybe someone pointed this out already but this hananene and mitsukou parallel goes insanely hard

Small and probably meaningless theory that somebody has probably already thought of!!

I'm gonna get straight to the point since I don't really need a big post since the theory is self-explanatory

Hanako of the opera AU ends with Kou and Mitsuba basically running away from the opera (or to be fair, Kou kidnapping Mitsuba💀)

Then we get this in chapter 118, which is basically Mitsuba saying, "Hey my platonic friend, let's run away together in a platonic way so that we can forget that we're doomed asf(platonically)".

The panel shows a train. They could've drawn snacks or silly stuff, but they chose a train?? What's the only other time a train has shown up in tbhk?

To finish off, Kou has been hinted at becoming a supernatural multiple times. One of my favorite examples is the Ghost Hotel AU..

...it's canon that in this AU exorcists are still a thing, because Teru is one...but Kou isn't one? And what does Teru say he's doing in this AU? Searching for his little brother.

Honestly, seems like foreshadowing lol

(And btw, as a fandom, we ignore HOTO way too much)

maybe someone pointed this out already but this hananene and mitsukou parallel goes insanely hard

tbhk 125 spoilers!!!

HEAR ME OUT on past kako duuuudddeeee

he's giving father🤞🤞🙏🙏🙏

I looove this quiz!!!!!! AND HELL YEAAAHHHHHHH I GOT MITSUBA HELL YEAH I really do kin him💯💯💯💯 but a funnier thing I realized is that I was debating on the good poker face thing (until I eventually decided that no I don't really) and the answer leads to aoi WHICH IS ANOTHER KIN OF MINE??!!! this quiz is too good gang...🙏 thank u for sharing this op

and it's quite interesting how similar teru and hanako are! two sides of the same coin if you will, which I find really ironic

I really love this little quiz

Because it tells us a LOT about each character:

Straight off the bat, Akane, Natsuhiko, Aoi, Mitsuba, Teru, Hanako, Tsuchigomori and Sakura all have secrets.

This was actually incredible foreshadowing for characters like Natsuhiko and Mitsuba, whose secrets were revealed in later chapters.

Some are more obvious, like Hanako's secret, and some we have yet to discover, such as Tsuchigomori's, Sakura's and Teru's (unless his crush counts as the secret).

Now for the fun stuff :)

Hanako:

- He likes exercising! Unsurprising with how much fun he was having during the picture perfect arc while in pe.

- He would not be the first to confess, yippee more foreshadowing

He's generally an action over words guy, and probably gets shy actually needing to express his feelings verbally.

Teru:

- He'd also wait for a confession! It's a pretty common topic of debate so I'm happy there's an answer, and also the better answer. It adds more depth to his character.

- He's also a good leader.. he is charismatic but "good" as in "people like him as their leader" is debatable.

Akane:

- Ngl, not much is new. He too likes exercising, and is stubborn especially when confessing.

Natsuhiko:

- He's not actually that stubborn! The rest is well known

Tsuchigomori:

- He dislikes exercising, which is perfectly in character I love that for him (⁠｡⁠ﾉ⁠ω⁠＼⁠｡⁠).

- He's curious! That must be hell when you're the fifth wonder.

Both him and Sakura are dog people, which surprised me for half a second before I thought about it:

Yeah no damn wonder.

Sakura:

- She's not curious! If I was an immortal being who knew practically everything I don't think I'd be too curious either, so fair

Aoi:

- She's a cat person, which is rather sad actually (as they dislike her)

- She has a good poker face ofc

Mitsuba:

- He hates exercising yay

- He is a cat person. *Air punch*

- He has a terrible poker face, which I think I need to draw now actually

Mokkes:

- They like sciences over liberal arts. huh.

Tsukasa:

- He isn't easily sacred!

- Likes science, he did use it to create an artificial spirit, so that tracks

Nene:

- Susceptible to trends, which we've seen first hand with the mokke hat

- She takes care of others more than they take care of her :(

Yako:

- Taken care of as she should be

Kou:

- Eats strategically

- He doesn't care much for trends, as Mitsuba loves pointing out

Shijima:

- She eats the best part of her meal first, that doesn't say too much but it's a cute detail :D

That's all! I'm the Aoi type btw (￣y▽,￣)╭

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does anyone have an idea on what the tbhk timeline could be. atleast like just in their school? the months? like when the show started it was in the middle of the school year right? so maybe august?? if anyone has headcannons I'd be glad for some help

tbhk s2 ended put me back in the suicide risk watch

Mitsuba is my baby

been writing a sorta plotless terukaneaoi fic and my confusion is increasing while doing so because . What do I do next . this is why you always have an outline ready, kids.

then again this will just be a silly one shot. if anyone is interested I'll be reblogging w the fic link whenever hehe

mitsukou has been lowkey eating my brain (once again) and this will probably sound stupid blabbering but im gonna try to make myself sound convincing. and in my defense this was just a random thought that popped up on my mind.

what if the thing about natsuhiko saying the way for a human to become a supernatural is to become a yorishiro? I mean think about it, what else is sumire other than a supernatural? If she just died normally instead of becoming a yorishiro she would've ended up disappearing along with other girls under the red house.

at first, I thought natsuhiko planned on saying it to kou so it could trigger something but he looks surprised here so I doubt it now but there's still a possibility

i think his face reads as "ooooh an unexpected reaction but I'll take it"

even if he was really mean that time he probably really did care about mitsuba someway and was hoping for him to make kou his yorishiro

AAAND another reach maybe that's why kou asked him out on a date (other than just wanting to hang out with him, ofc) like so he could maybe get more important to mitsuba and make him his yorishiro!

and get this, if he becomes mitsuba's yorishiro, nene LITERALLY wouldn't be able to destroy him at all, thus allowing her to live!!!! two birds with one stone, if you will

(but you could say then 'wouldn't the broadcasting trio not like that?' which is true but they did they'll do ANYTHING to make yashiro destroy every yorishiro, possibly by threatening her and especially looking at the sumire incident she wouldn't want that to happen again AND THE LOWKEY PARALLELS OF WHAT HAPPENED WITH SUMIRE AND HAKUBO WITH THE MITSUKOU CHAPTER. (with the cannibalism and all))

and it could be another reason why kou was so shocked at him when he asked to be exorcised (cough instead of making him his yorishiro cough)

BUUUUUT that is just inherent yapping so that's that. just wanted to get my silly ramblings out there pls dont take it too seriously thank u.

OHHH MY GOD I LOVE YOUR ANALYSIS!!! your predictions are sooo good!!!!!!!

also, idek much about germany culture AT ALL but when people were like "let's theorize where they're from" I was like "isn't it germany" like???? thank u for reaffirming my guess because honestly it was just something out of my ass like its vibes were giving germany idk🔥🔥🔥

Let's talk about the clock keepers boundary!

(warning: spoilers until chapter 124!!)

I've had some guess on where they could be from so let's look at what we have in the manga for now. I will keep things on surface level for the most part but it's just some things I noticed!

The first mention of the town is in chapter 111, where we finally have a view on their boundary.

A lot of fans already guessed from their clothes that they were not from Japan, this panel definitely confirms it and even points more precizely to a European country, mostly Western Europe. And also a country where Winter with snow exist.

It's also not an English speaking country, since Akane cannot understand the language and we know he has english classes at school.

Now there are several things we can look at to have more clues!

First, the architecture.

This type of house is called Timbered framed houses. It’s important to note that the roofs on those houses are really really sharp here. Which means theywere built for snow, so it can slide off the roofs more easily. The trees are also pines, something that can be found in a lot of Europe. (wood was needed to be able to create houses made of wood/with visible Framework( Little note: I know Italy was a guess for a lot of person because of the link to Pinocchio, but Italy main material for houses is stone not wood. And it is also not known for its winter.)

Here we can also see bricks which is something more associated to countries like Germany, Belgium or the Nertherlands, we don't have the colors so we can't guess from which minerals it was made for now.

But we have even more informations when we look at chapter 124!

The bridge and tower may be inspired by a fortified city, something that you could find A LOT in Western Europe during the middle age, not a lot of cities still have their entire walls but you can still see it if you go into old medieval towns. We can also see something that looks like a Belfry on several panels. Towers used mostly to indicate each passing hour of the day (may be a campanile or a bell tower (the difference is wether it's linked to religion or not basically)

Second! Let's do a little bit of clock making history!

I won't go into details, but there are some countries to point for this. England, The Netherlands and Germany. We already took out England before and we can easily erase Nertherlands from the list with the next step (my favorite one).

The food! I already had my suspicions confirmed with this bonus art from volume 22.

First of all, they have tea which is not something that was in Europe before the XVII century. But let's look at the sweets they have here.

Chocolates which look close to Belgian chocolate ( I say Belgian but other countries' chocolate is pretty close to it) , Christstollen Cake, and Spiztbuden.

We have even more to look at with the new chapter! And they confirm that it's indeed a stollen cake.

With all these foods it's now pretty obvious which area the clock keepers are inspired from.

Stollen cakes are German cakes, ginger cookies are from Germany too. I will also add that there is a chance the crescent moon cookies are VanilleKipferl. We have another panel showing Sausages and bread. Only the Almond is something not typical from Germany but which clearly was all over Western Europe with trades.

Their city already looked like the 'perfect christmas city' you can see in movies, inspired by German culture. And they also mention Mulled Wine which is THE beverage to take in any chritmas market in Europe.

Chritmas markets are inspired and coming from Germany first, but I wanna point something more.

My main guess was, Nuremberg, the city where the ancestor of the pocket watch was created, the Nuremberg Egg. It's also a Fortified city and it has forests around it. It's also known for its Ginger cookies!

So Germany would be a great pic, but the more I think about it the more I can also see the link to another region: Alsace.

Alsace is a region from France right now BUT it's a mixt of german and french culture (I will not make a history lesson but it is a place that always switched between France and Germany basically, now it's French).

All the food mentionned before are also made in the Alsace region!

It's situated in the Vosges, a chain of mountains known to have a lot of forets of pines and which is known to have villages like this:

Which were also the main inspirations for movies like Howl's moving castle for example. You can see the similarities between the artchitectures

The first ever Chritmas Market was in Strasbourg, the capital of Alsace, when it was German and it spread accross Europe after.

I will now look at something I usually don't do because I exclude Aus from canon but it's just a funny thing to point out.

This au shows a snow town inspired by ginger bread houses. I just find it funny because Aoi is shown as a baker, with bread (which are not baguette I think, it's way larger here) but with some croissant on her table (disclaimer: Croissant are not french at first, this form here is, but it's from Austria otherwise) And Kako clearly has something similar to a Wine bottle in his hands. This au is the only one featuring them, was given with their volumes and the vibes are really similar to their boundary.

I would say no matter what it's definitely closer to German culture but I wanted to point out this region which is known for it's Christmas season and its typical houses.

I will mostly say that it's an inspiration from this region of Europe, I don't know if a real country is the reference for it since we don't even know where tbhk takes place, but it's always funny to look at those things :DD

Little bonus:

In a more messy note, the clothes. I put them at the end because besides their hats, I had no idea how to describe it, since it seems pretty typical of what people could wear in winter.

I did the research in the other way, to look for German and Alsacian clothing to see if it match and it kinda does but I don't think it's speficific to this region. The girls wear classic white Charlotte and big clothes with layers for Winter.

The clock keepers clothes are different, it looks like a mixt of Japanese and western European clothing (especially from england).

Their main outfits for Akane and Kako really just look like a typical waistcoast/costume you can find in the XIXth century in Europe and Mirai's seems more inspired by a mixt of a Kimono with several layers(she also has sandals and frills) and a coat? The little knots Kako and Akane have on their coats look like something inspired from Mizuhiki knots too (I actually saw a costume with those exact same knots in a museum but I didn't take a picture rip)

So I would say they probably changed slowly their attire when they arrived in Japan, we don't know since how many times they are here, but we know that what is happening in the deeper place of the boundary is linked to memories previous to their arrival. According to their origin I think we can say that it's pretty sure they arrived after the Meiji/during the Meiji Era in Japan (1868/1912), since it's a this time Japan mostly imported Western culture (for clothing here, the first contact was before this. And note: it was mostly rich people who dressed like this). And If we look at some others dates like the things they are eating, used to have or even their clothes, I would say it's more probably the Meiji Era and not in the XVs.

Another note is that their clocks have the numbers written in japanese on it (in the og version but it maye just be so it's readable for the japanese readers? idk if it's a choice or not).

I haven't searched much on their clothes but it was still something I wanted to note here ^^

The new chapter was crazzyy

Hanako of the Opera ☆

— Dedicated to the lovely @aizawashoutta

Toilet-bound Hanako-kun Chapter 94

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A, let’s say, re-imagining of a certain manga page (no real spoiler to be fair) I just really like projecting myself onto Yashiro and her sharing my reacitions ok?

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