Christie

english + 中文 + 日本語少し

RT heavy
Sometimes nsfwMostly TKRB (especially izumutsu), will occasionally yap about sword/history trivia, 2.5D actors or Toumyu, and other fandoms including but not limited to Mahoyaku, Twisted Wonderland, FGO, Wuthering Waves, Love and Deepspace, Pokemon, etc. This is not a fixed fandom account, sorry!MUTE / UNFOLLOW / BLOCK = OK.
I will do the same in return for people whose views do not align with mine. If it's just a matter of if pineapple should go on pizza or whether you say herbs with a hard H then you're safe. If you disagree with me on human rights, morals, and values, you will be blocked.

Hi, I'm Christie!Definitely not insane about 2.5D stage and musicals (mostly Toumyu), as well as general anime and manga.Toumyu (Touken Ranbu Musical) is my latest hyperfixation on top of Touken Ranbu and izumutsu ship hell, so enjoy your stay with me and my sword boys~I REALLY LOVE IZUMUTSU SO EXEPCT TO SEE A LOT OF THAT. Izuminokami, Mutsunokami, and Hizen are my top faves! Take a look at my Interests page for more info! I also play plenty other games such as Twisted Wonderland, Mahoyaku, FGO, Wuthering Waves, and Love and Deepspace.I self-learn Japanese: I used to be a translator for Dazaiscans, which used to do fan scanlations for the Bungou Stray Dogs manga, as well as subtitles for Toumyu shows with @strifescloud.I write often, so be sure to check out my Ao3 over at the Writing page!This also makes me...kind of a history buff? Most of my Japanese history knowledge is thanks to Touken Ranbu, but I also enjoy history and literature normally.

INTERESTSTOUKEN RANBU
Characters
Izuminokami Kanesada
Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki
Hizen Tadahiro
Horikawa KunihiroSHIPS
Izumutsu / Mutsuizu

~TWISTED WONDERLAND
CHARACTERS
Leona Kingscholar

~MAHOUTSUKAI NO YAKUSOKU
CHARACTERS
Cain
Oz
Mithra

~WUTHERING WAVES
CHARACTERS
Female Rover
Jiyan
Changli
Xiangli YaoSHIPS
jiyanfrover

~LOVE AND DEEPSPACE
CHARACTERS (in this order)
Zayne
Sylus
Xavier
Rafayel

~FGO
CHARACTERS
Hijikata Toushizou
Sakamoto Ryouma
Okada Izou
Nagao Kagetora
(Literally anybody from GudaGuda)
Miyamoto Mushashi
Karna
Senji Muramasa

NOTPs will not be listed, but I don't ship incest or ships involving minors (even those that resemble it).

~2.5D
ACTORS
Arisawa Shoutarou
Tamura Shin
Ishikawa Ryouga~GAMES
MOBILE
Touken Ranbu
Twisted Wonderland
Mahotsukai no Yakusoku
Fate/Grand Order
A3!
Love and DeepspaceCONSOLE
League of Legends
Assassin's Creed III
Assassin's Creed Unity
Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Detroit Become Human
Ghost of Tsushima
Wuthering Waves~OTHERS
History (particularly Japanese, including swords)
Classic literature
Mythology
Music

This page started out as a joke, but due to my limitless love for this ship I will attempt to do this seriously in a way.

Includes references to the Touken Ranbu game, the Katsugeki Touken Ranbu anime, and spoilers for the Toumyu Musical Musubi no Hibiki Hajimari no Ne; as well as historical references.

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If you're here then it's assumed that you know Touken Ranbu and the characters Izuminokami Kanesada and Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki. If you don't, turn back now.Likewise, please turn back if you are not prepared to read spoilers for any of the above media.Here I'm simply stating my reasons for liking this ship. This isn't meant to be a challenge towards other ships or to prove this one is superior, I just really really like this ship and (as my sister can testify) am constantly thinking about it.

Touken Ranbu -online-

- When Izumin and Mutsu are paired together for Internal Affairs sparring duty, Izuminokami comments that they both use the heretical way of swords and thus would get along well.
- After sparring, Izumin remarks that the way Mutsu wields his sword is more beautiful than he expected.

*Katsugeki Touken Ranbu (anime)

- The two of them start off butting heads, but eventually end up working together and looking out for each other (see: ootachi battle).
- Throughout episode 1 to 5, Izumin's mindset about protecting history has changed from "I'll protect what the Saniwa tells me to protect" to "I'll protect what Hijikata-san wanted to protect" - personally I believe this is due to what Mutsu said to him in episode 3 when the ship at the harbour sank, that Izumin's belief of "history wasn't changed so it's okay" would get him nowhere and that he'd never be able to protect what's important. Though Mutsu stormed off and Izumin was pissed at him, it's clear that he listened and thought about what he said, leading to him affirming that he will protect what Hijikata-san wanted to protect (when they're on the rowboat to the ship to save Yagen).
- Episode 5 ocean scene. BYE.
- Episode 8 with Mutsu's tantrum and the favourite food thing. Enough said.
- Through episode 9-11, they show more understanding of each other - Izumin of Mutsu's sentimentally, and Mutsu being able to correctly analyse Izumin's feelings from seeing Hijikata and how Kunihiro must have reacted to it.
- The moment they high-five as Mutsu sends Izumin off to Goryoukaku hhhhhhhhh

*Katsugeki Touken Ranbu (manga)

- The manga has some differing + additional scenes to the anime, such as when Mutsu and Kunihiro are trying to think of a way to deal with the roushi in chapter 5: in the anime Mutsu simply tries to come up with a solution and doesn't find one; in the manga however he thinks of Izumin and wonders "what would Izuminokami do [in my place]?"
- In chapter 6 rather than being stopped by Tonbokiri, both Izumin and Mutsu rush the ootachi together first. Not just at the same time, but as a team.
- Chapter 9 ends with Mutsu saving Izumin in the ocean, though while the anime has no dialogue in that scene, in the manga Mutsu says/thinks "don't die - everyone's going home [together] to the Citadel".
- Chapter 10 Mutsu runs around the entire Citadel looking for someone and Kasen correctly guesses that he's looking for Izumin and directs him to the training hall. Once there, their conversation dialogue differs from the anime: in the anime Mutsu is more rough and hostile, only observing Izumin as he trains and taunting him if he really understands what it is to be Captain; but in the manga Mutsu calls out for Izumin to stop his training or he'll never recover the way he's moving, and asks almost desperately if Izumin knows that he's the Second Unit's Captain. Izumin blames himself for causing Kunihiro and Tonbokiri's injuries, and Mutsu objects that that's not true. Rather than Izumin challenging him and Mutsu walking off, Izumin asks Mutsu to give him some time alone and Mutsu grants him that. Personally I enjoy the manga's direction more.

*Musical Touken Ranbu:
Musubi no Hibiki, Hajimari no ne

- The musical starts already with a conflict between Mutsu and Izumin, who witness the assassination of Sakamoto Ryouma and Nakaoka Shintarou in Omiya, Kyoto. Izumin is displeased about Mutsu's lack of a real reaction to watching his former master die, and it is only halfway through the musical that Izumin finally asks Mutsu to explain himself.
- To the Bakumatsu swords, Mutsu says that he's already forgotten [what he felt], but states that he understands it was Ryouma's time to die. To Tomoe privately, however, Mutsu says that it's because all his tears have already dried up. Why didn't he say this to the Bakumatsu swords? Maybe it's because he understands that the real answer wouldn't have worked: to say that all his tears have dried up would mean admitting that the only way to overcome a former master's death was to numb yourself to it, to witness it so many times that there was no point crying over it anymore - much more different to simply understanding and accepting the reason for that death.
- By the very end, when Izumin is unable to bring himself to kill Hijikata and Mutsu emerges at the top of the stone cliff, all the other Shinsengumi swords look back at him, almost in surprise; but not Izumin. Izumin only sits up straighter, as if he knows what's about to happen, and is bracing himself for what's to come. Despite their arguments throughout the musical, they understand each other enough to shoulder each other's pain.- Not related to the plot, but just an observation from Musubi's merchandise: on bromides and the cast listing, Mutsu is placed between Izumin and Kunihiro. He has NO business being there. ANYONE ELSE would have put Izumin and Kunihiro side by side, both being Hijikata Toushizou's swords. BUT MUTSU IS THERE NONETHELESS, NEXT TO IZUMIN.
- The musical live portion included a part, done exactly twice in almost two months of Musubi's runtime, where Tomoe talks about how carrying someone smaller than yourself can make you happy (referring to Iwatooshi carrying Imanotsurugi). The result was Tomoe carrying Kunihiro, Nagasone carrying Yasusada, and once, Mutsunokami carrying Izuminokami, then the second time, Izuminokami carrying Mutsunokami, princess-style. The other pairings stayed the same on who carried who but this one changed, and the entire izumutsu/mutsuizu Japanese fandom LOST IT.

*General

- Izumin and Mutsu's official Katsugeki character song features the phrase "天下無双 (tenka musō)", which means peerless or unparalleled, and more literally "no other [like this] under heaven [on this earth]". While vague in Japanese, in Chinese this phrase is specifically used to refer to people: the fact that there is no other person on earth like the one that the speaker is referring to.
- More Chinese references: while Mutsu is usually likened to a dog because of his personality and his hair resembling a dog's "ears" and "tail", he is also commonly linked to a dragon due to there being a dragon design on his sword tsuba and the "dragon" kanji in his former master's name, "龍馬" (ryouma). On the other hand, Izumin is linked to a phoenix, obviously due to the design being present on his kimono and on the sheath of his sword. in Chinese history, the dragon and the phoenix together represent the perfect married couple, with everlasting love and commitment. This belief is so much that in ancient China, the emperor (husband) was represented by the dragon and the empress (wife) was represented by the phoenix.- Uh, factual references aside: they're both canon dumbasses which makes them perfect for each other. Oops.
- I just...really like their chemistry...and the way that their differences are actually quite similar: though their former masters fought for different things, both of them stayed by their master's sides - one as a weapon to kill and the other as a protective talisman; and in the end, ironically, both were helpless in the time of their former master's deaths.
- Through this I feel that the core of their relationship is through overcoming their differences and recognising similarities in one another. Izumin seems wise on the surface due to embodying Hijikata Toushizou's demeanour as the Shinsengumi's Vice-Commander, but can be quite naive since he is a very young tsukumogami (his sword was forged in 1867, after the Ikedaya Affair, and the youngest sword by forge date in Touken Ranbu); while Mutsu acts playful but can be wise since he was forged in 1688 and passed down in Ryouma's family, therefore probably having seen a lot in his lifetime.

Look the izumutsu/mutsuizu fandom is really lovely for both the Japanese and Western fandoms. There's beautiful art and writing and just a lot of love going around for these two idiots, there was even a mutsuizu wedding a while back, and recently there was a mutsuizu event too where they sold doujin and products like card holders and pillowcases and A FREAKIN ICE CREAM SPOON. WITH MUTSU AND IZUMIN'S CRESTS ON IT.

*If you're still here by now...

Congratulations, you've scratched the surface of why I love this ship! Jk, those are the main reasons that I ship them, but definitely not all of them, and there's definitely a chance that this page will be updated as time goes on.If you're new here and I've managed to convert you to izumutsu/mutsuizu, please check out my Ao3 (or the Writing tab) for more writing that I've done for this ship!Anyhow, thank you for reading! ^-^