No The Joke Was He Hates Cubes - Tumblr Posts

Kazunari brings Misumi to his art school to hang out on the campus and then they decide to have fun painting together for half an hour on some spare $1.6 a pop 5x7 canvas boards, and then a professor walks in and starts gassing Misumi UP, like stumbling back in utter amazement at his "profound grasp of shape and color" etc, and suddenly there are like 7 feral art teachers in the room urging Misumi to pursue his gift, chatting amongst each other about securing his scholarship, marveling at the triangles he painted, "his comprehension of composition, shading, light", and they are EATING IT UP, "we could be looking at the next Picasso in the rough", even Kazunari's like "okay, it's getting a little much, but go Sumi!!"

And then there's like a week long stint where Misumi's never at the dorms or missing practice because the art profs are keeping him busy at the university, he comes back caked in charcoal or paints or oils or literally whatever at the crack of dawn only to go trudging back yawning at 10 AM. And then suddenly the headmaster's sitting in the living room with a grave expression like "listen, he has a GIFT. He is BORN TO CREATE ART. LOOK AT HIS SHAPES" it's all just triangles, good for Misumi. "You're going to have him rot in THEATRE? LOOK AT THIS." They're actually putting up a fight to take Misumi from MANKAI. The headmaster and the feral art profs vs Izumi and MANKAI, just yelling over each other about what's best for Misumi. And then,

"Are you daft?! Are you blind to this boy's potential?!" one prof yells. "He could be the most important contribution to Cubism since Popova!"

And then Misumi, at the table ignoring everyone's nonsense in favor of doodling triangles, suddenly looks up. Perturbed.

"What-ism?"

And then the scene cuts to next week where absolutely everything is the same again and no one breathes a word about art school