Tag: kuroken

kisukke:

Just thought I’d point out that in Haikyuu 266, Taketora refers to Kuroo as Kenma’s miuchi （身内）, which has the following meanings: 

noun:

relatives;  one’s family
friends;  members of the same organization
followers;  henchmen
one’s whole body
いつくしみは、身内から始めよう。 Charity begins at home.
神は私の身内に存するが、そうでなければ全然存在しない。 God is in me or else is not at all. ▾

I point this out because it has more meanings than just the most plain natural meaning of the word “friend”,otherwise Tora could have just used the word “tomodachi” – there would have been no other reason for this particular choice of words to use ‘miuchi’, but for the fact that a meaning beyond just a general ‘friend’ meaning was sought to be conveyed – hence my choice of words in the translation here.

I suppose my thought on this is that Tora wants to say that Kuroo is Kenma’s close friend, or a friend Kenma is acquainted with beyond being a general “friend” in the most plain meaning of the word.

Fyi, Tora doesn’t just mean “childhood friend” because there’s another word he could have used for that – osananajimi. 

kisukke:

So the story behind this panel of gremlin kenma is that:

  • He (the one-and-only Kozume Kenma)  “wakes up” at 2am to play games
  • He’s still awake at 5am
  • Kuroo notices that Kenma’s room light is on at 5am often when he goes on morning runs and passes the Kozume residence, assumes Kenma is pulling all nighters
  • Kenma tells Kuroo that his parents will bin his games if he pulls all nighters and never sleeps, so he “wakes up early” to play games, that way his parents have no valid argument.
  • Kenma’s grades never dropped a single point throughout this whole gremlin phase.