I’m just a Team Gai fanboy at this point like🪷🍡
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Shout out to the not quite middle aged man yaoi ships that get so underrated because despite the deep connection, unending loyalty and love for each other, and scenes upon scenes of them being each others rock, partner, and family, the fact that one of them is a “joke” character and not conventionally attractive makes it so that fans, even queer ones, don’t see their relationship as meaningful and even take their genuine interactions as jokes.
+bonus parallel
Their silly little families
I love kakagai, I just got stuck in madatobi hell so bad I couldn't draw anything else...
Anyway, ANBU Kakashi should get some psychiatric attention
ok i got into naruto thinking i’d be a sasunaru shipper, like i really wanted the genuine teenage naruto yaoi experience because i totally skipped that phase cuz as a pretentious young person i thought i was too cool for naruto. anyway i have learned some things: 1) no one is too cool for naruto. 2) i think it kind of backfired cuz instead of narusasu i’m shipping these two old dudes i never thought i would and i love them so much. i am in yaoi hell
a fun thing in the naruto universe is how names work
because like, in japan, the polite thing to do is call people by their LAST names, with given names being like. a friends/family thing?
except, in the naruto universe, they had the clan wars, which went on for GENERATIONS before the hidden villages were formed. And clan tensions were so tight that if you introduced yourself by your last name, someone might just try to kill you because your clan is allied with a clan thats allied with another clan who is an enemy of the person you're talking to.
obviously, this was a hassle.
so, there was like, an unspoken rule of only giving your first name, as seen with Hashirama and Madara. Because if you didn't know for a fact that someone was a senju or an uchiha, you could just treat them as another ninja and mutually decide not to kill each other. Things like the sharingan or any notable techniques would be a dead giveaway, but as long as you're not fighting, everyone can just. Politely not ask questions.
but also, because clans are important, they still want to have something which ties the clan together, if last names are omitted from conversation with outsiders.
This is less important in the modern era, but it's still present - everyone in naruto's academy class, even students who aren't friends, exclusively use their classmates first names. Even the teacher isn't immune, he's called Iruka-sensei, not Umino-sensei.
Which is why most clans have first names with common, repeated elements, especially where the main line comes in.
Ino/Shika/Chou is the obvious one, but you also have things like the Hyuuga having a history of the first-born having their name start with Hi (Hizashi, Hiashi, Hinata, Himawari, etc.) or the senju having -rama (Hashirama, Tobirama, Kawarama), the Inuzuka being named after animal body parts (Tsume - claw, Kiba - fang, Hana - nose), all sorts of stuff like that.
It works both in universe (clan loyalties and traditions) and out of universe (group similar characters together)!! its really neat!!!
kishimoto did a lot of dumb things with the Lore and consistently forgot details he'd written about earlier on, but when he DOES have a consistent worldbuilding thing it's super cool to think about.
gift from the divine
something sweet to make up for that last one
Naruto but these guys get to be 70s
I've become so numb I can't feel you
another old art :) drew this before I even properly started watching I was always good friends with this guy
more old narts stuff :3
Itty bitty rivals…. couldn’t think of a better start
happy to be kakagai’ing in the year of our lord 2024 (forgive me I do not know how to use this site. Yet)
What's funny is with most stories, there's an argument to be made that two characters never get together, because "they never kiss." Or "They didn't even hold hands." Or "we never see them on a date!" Its a total anti-ship narative to shut a conversation down and those should usually be ignored (because they're buzzkills. Ship what you want!)
But then you have an author like Kishimoto, who hates drawing any couple related stuff, so even the canon couples never get that romantic treatment! So everyone is forced to theorize instead based on how close a bond they share.
Temari and Shikamaru: never kiss, but we all knew!
Sai and Ino: Nothing. But we all got the hints.
Naruto and Hinata: It took an entire movie years after the war arc to get that smooch, and Kishimoto turned away when it happened because he got embarrassed.
Sasuke and Sakura: Don't make me laugh. There are more on screen moments of them trying to kill each other than there are moments of affection. And even then, he's smacking his girl in the forehead!
The only reason we know these couples do anything more than banter and hold hands, is because we actually see their kids in Boruto and are like "oh. So they did get/stay together. That's awesome."
All this to say, it's VERY funny when you have a couple like Gai and Kakashi, who do just as much couple stuff as any of the canon het couples, in fact there are literal parallels between Minato and Kushina of Gai doing the exact same thing or saying the exact same lines as Kushina (watching from behind the trees~, my man of destiny, childhood to adult partners~), and there are people who are STILL like
"Oh they can't be together. They never kissed. Or held hands!"
Bitch, neither does anyone else in this universe! The only on screen kiss Kishimoto ever depicted, was between Naruto and Sasuke! And clearly, they wern't end goal!
I'm just saying that if either Kakashi and Gai had a vagina, we would repopulated the Hatake clan in spades!
did not manage to do anything big for kkg day this year but i do have these sketches for you at least
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