Mafuyu Asahina - Blog Posts
⩩ SIMPLE MATCHING MAFUENA GRAPHICS ! ! ★
❝ NOTES : When I said simple I meant it . . . Wish I did more with these but my back hurt like hell and I couldn't move that much 💔 I'm feeling a little better now but at least I posted something . I don't want to be too inactive you know (´ ∀ ` *) .
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Mafuyu….
doodled this so here you go
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ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ ㅤㅤㅤㅤ 🖇 ᐢ..ᐢ : 重なる 円と円
Mr. Showtime and Ms. Nothingness!!!
This Mafuyu commission is slowly becoming my favourite Mafuyu commission so far, and honestly it’s well deserved. I have so many thoughts of her commissions’ progression.
For a long time it felt like [the themes] was getting lighter with every commission. Jackpot Sad Girl felt like the song was written for a marionette show, just like how Mafuyu was her mother’s marionette. Reborn is like a small reprieve, a balming essence to the soul, a cry for help perhaps. Bug was her finally realising. Engeki is her taking charge and trying to escape for her own survival. Empurple is her hope of reconciliation.
Yet, the new song felt like her heart has been broken, choked. She is relapsing into trying to please her mother and yet that is hurting her more, like the thorns and barbed wires she set up around her heart to protect it only to get hurt instead. The road to recovery is a long way to go, and it isn’t always easy, but I hope Mafuyu’s story will come to a happy end!!!
The song made me feel a lot of things. It is definitely in the same veins of Unpoison, and definitely feels like a song OWN, not Yuki, would write and compose. A choking sense yet it is her deepest and rawest emotions. It also somehow reminds me of Maretu’s and Kikuo’s songs and I love it.
I also love the 2D MV so much!!! I love the detail of for the first 2/3rds-ish of the MV it shows only Mafuyu and her being alone. Surrounding her are balloons of her different masks and her test papers. Someone pointed it out but at the end with the full group Mizuki is also the only one to be looking up, the only one to have her peace for now because her secret has been told.
I think Ena might be a better fit to be Mafuyu’s savior compared to Kanade.
Kanamafu is actually toxic, what with Kanade’s savior complex making her neglect her own needs and Kanade focusing too much on saving Mafuyu with her music giving her tunnel vision. Though it’s not a permanent solution, Mafuyu running away is actually good for her because it gives her the breather she needs. Kanade was not the one to suggest her running away, instead it was Mizuki. Kanade’s character, to me, feels like she sees Mafuyu as this helpless damsel in distress, controlled by her mother, and that she must be this shining knight to come save her.
Kanade and Mafumom carries a lot of parallels, more than this fandom would like to admit. Both of them thinking they’re ‘helping’ Mafuyu, wanting the best for her. Despite their intentions, their actions are obviously not the best for Mafuyu. The thing about this is that both Kanade and Mafuyu need to get better before they can truly have a healthy relationship.
Why do I believe Ena is the best option for Mafuyu getting saved?
First of all, I don’t think Kanade should be the one to ‘save’ Mafuyu at all. Validating her savior complex and letting her think she was able to ‘save’ Mafuyu would lead to her finding other characters and trying to save them as well, that she was able to ‘save’ Mafuyu so why couldn’t she ‘save’ others?
Second of all, Ena’s whole theme of ‘art’ and being able to capture the inner beauty makes her the perfect candidate to being the one to lure out Mafuyu’s “true feelings”. It would be a great converging points for two characters who, so far, have been portrayed as opposites. One having talent and no passion, one having passion and no talent. One being unable to understand their own feelings to the point of not being able to feel, one feeling everything so fully with their entire beings.
This is my own personal opinion and I might be biased, might’ve also gotten a few things wrong bc I haven’t gotten to reread all of Kanade’s stories, but this is generally what I feel about Kanamafu as a whole.
Howard Asahina whaaa 0_0
