Eeghhghhg Writing A Sakuma Analysis Post After Years Of Not Doing So. Probably Going To Be Quite Long

Shirou talks about looking into one's own self and Kidou and Sakuma's gay asses choose to look at each other

Cover art of the Inazuma Eleven GO: Bonds Beyond Time Drama CD (イナズマイレブンGO ドラマCD 時を超える絆) including an extra art to commemorate the Inazuma Eleven GO vs Danball Senki W popularity poll

Shin Teikoku Sakuma piece from 2024 when I was trying to analyze Sakuma's feelings in the arc (I keep forgetting to repost it outside twitter, oops)

Explanation under read more

The idea for the piece is to convey what Sakuma actually felt in the arc. What the aliea meteorite did was amplifying his negative emotions and converting them to hunger for power. Like how Kazemaru originally only started seeking power in a bout of deteorirating mental health; Sakuma (and Genda) only seeked the meteorite because he felt that Kidou abandoned him / them because they weren't good enough. So the idea here is to convey sorrow.

Unfortunately I'm very bad at writing analysis post in Tumblr's blogpost format as I'm very used to Twitter and Bluesky's thread style of writing; so I perhaps will revisit and rewrite this explanation.

Sakuma with covered eyepatch

Based on this frame from the end of episode 38, after he came to his senses:

The windows

Sakuma is wearing the same patient outfit as he did in episode 37's flashback

The sequence of closing the curtains is to express "closing one's heart off" (accepting the meteorite, going back to Kageyama, cutting ties with Kidou; etc etc anything works LOL). Also a reference to how Fudou entered their hospital room from the window lmao.

The eye

Should be self explanatory. It's also a reference to eye as a common symbolism used in Sakuma's character, which... he has... because Kidou himself has eye motif. gay ass.

stop… making… her… a… MOM FIGURE !!! *my psychic powers throw everything across the room*

this is about procrastinating. or executive dysfunction. i think

Doodles are whats keeping me sane at this time.(also why dose fukaze look so lesbian.whatever that means.)

me @ my mutuals

The T-Shirt

Endou and Kazemaru in those outfits and chibis everyone and their mom poked fun at

(wonky quality because my hand started aching mid drawing, sorry)

over-psychoanalyzing blorbos is healthy and needed enrichment for the girlies in order to avoid over-psychoanalyzing themselves. like giving a dog a chew toy in order to redirect chewing on its hind legs