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md0rma:

(these two audio tracks come from episode 14 and Kiseki no Shiai, respectively)

There are two things common in these tracks. First is how Takao ‘provokes’ Midorima (he does something that annoys the other), and the second is how Midorima reacts to it. And that’s probably the most important thing—Midorima reacting to Takao the way he does.

Midorima is usually very reserved. But here, Takao changes that. Here Midorima reveals another side of himself to Takao, the complete opposite. If you pay close attention (track one), you hear Midorima pulling Takao out of the okonomiyaki house, and then he headlocks* him and smacks him. And (track two), he actually runs after Takao after Takao tries to get away from him (what he does to make Takao scream like that, I don’t know).

Not very reserved, is it?

He could have responded with a simple ‘hmph’, or could have merely ignored Takao, but he doesn’t. He acts on it. The best thing I like about this (and my point) is Midorima being comfortable enough to act that way around Takao. Like Takao is someone he can act naturally around with. And this shows how Takao was able to get through to Midorima.

(*Album art above. Also, in Teikou, there were instances where Atsushi had, more or less, gotten on Midorima’s nerves. But you don’t see Midorima headlocking him and pulling him out of the gym. He tells him off with that little tic mark on the side of his temple.That’s it.)