been a hot minute since i last read and can’t make analysis yet but i think aglaea and princess duanrui would understand each other like no one else and be excellent friends before their respective Great Happenings but nobody’s gay enough to see my vision (hsr player and tai sui reader😔)
god bless mob psycho for having a main character who has a more dangerous kinda scary side to them and having the ending not be "yes!! we defeated the scary alter ego!!!" and actually be "everybody has a part of themself that they struggle with. in order to grow as a person you have to accept all parts of yourself". hell fucking ues
Actually this is why I love mob so much, I feel like hes just such a good role model for young boys. Lots of guys I know deal with anger issues, or other "bad" emotions, and deal with it in a really unhealthy way. Mob psycho teaches people how to deal with their emotions, and grow from their faults to become a better person.
Instead of having mob be this sigma chad alpha character, they made him into a sensitive boy, who learns to love and accept himself. So many young boys should learn this message early on. Lots of anime I see are all about, WHOS THE FUCKING TOUGHEST!!! WHO CAN GET PUNCHED THE HARDEST AND NOT CRY!!!
I just think its a beautiful story about learning to love all parts of yourself, especially the ones your ashamed of
no home is like… ah, you’re a miserable fuck like me and are tormented by a grief that haunts you like the ghosts that haunt this old house but i’m not letting you into my heart btw no way…
oops we keep hurting each other but we also keep choosing to save each other over and over again…
ohhh you can learn to live with your ghosts and the inherent transience of life means your past and present experiences shape you but do not immutably dictate your future…
also you changed my life and i found home and it lives within you, you enormous piece of shit
my tai sui playlist! (going ahead and posting it without a big lyrics breakdown... but i will try to do that eventually)
length as of posting: 5 hours, 30 minutes
as like my other playlists it's in chronological order from start to finish, trying to both establish vibes and retell the story, picking the most fitting songs i can ^^ there's no specific genre pick for this one, which is nice because it covers a lot of story and vibes, but the main genres that ended up in here are rock, pop, & hip hop, mixed with a few of the usual indie pop playlist suspects~
song list under cut for people without spotify, as well as a section breakdown/some brief annotations! — i'll add, move, and reshuffle songs, so this is as it is as of posting
also thanks to @lacieapologist for their own tai sui playlists they let me borrow some songs from :)
world establishment
the chemical worker's song - great big sea
it's the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine) - r.e.m
american eulogy: mass hysteria/modern world - green day (christian and gloria here are xi ping and jiangli, in my heart)
rich city kids - praying mantis
feed the machine - poor man's poison
xi ping makes an appearance <3
c'mon - kesha
party rock anthem - lmfao
it's all about me - chelsea staub
it boy - bbno$ (this is my favorite song in this brief section, it fits notably well and it's got a great beat)
jiangli
hey rich boy - millionaires (this is something of a section linker)
unsweetened lemonade - amelie farren
man's world - marina
angry too - lola blanc (this used to be in zhou ying's section...)
lie to girls - sabrina carpenter
if i die young - the band perry
"tai sui" (liang chen) arc
establishment:
robber baron - aurelio voltaire
riot - three days grace
a-xiang's first appearance: viva la gloria? (little girl) - green day
tai sui and xi ping's struggle, plus a snippet of xi yue:
you don't own me - saygrace
puppet boy - devo
zhou ying & the impassable sea
eat your young - hozier
deep sea - snail mail
pray for me - the weeknd (ft kendrick lamar)
hoops - the rubens
savior - rise against
xi ping's shattered consciousness in tao county :(
devil town - cavetown
chalk outlines - ren & chinchilla
hide n seek - doechii
qiu sha arc
okay now xi ping is fucking around:
cheese - stray kids
boa - megan thee stallion
a-xiang is also here and older: self m.ade - young m.a (this one kills, fits really well)
zhao qindan: just a girl - no doubt
indulgent xiangdan: uptown girl - billy joel
qiu sha: what's a devil to do? - harley poe
yu family bend arc
xi ping and his family:
profit - doechii
brother - madds buckley
baby girl 3rd version - sugarland
(this whole section hits hard....tai suiiii)
yu chang: time of dying - three days grace
xi ping vs yu chang: copycat - billie eilish
general xi ping songs, character development/tao county edition:
360 - charli xcx
bang! - ajr (this one might get across his mentality most accurately)
middle finger - bohnes (i like the album cover skeleton)
it girl - aliyah's interlude
rasputin - boney m (thank you spring lacieapologist)
bad reputation - joan jett & the blackhearts
i am a poseur - x-ray spex
yippee-ki-yay - kesha ft t-pain
zhouming & xuanwu
freak - sub urban ft rei ami
cut my fingers off - ethan bortnick
monster - dodie (this and others also apply more generally; really a lot of songs do we love a reflective narrative)
perspectives on xi ping
camisado - panic! at the disco
zhi xiu: pure - hey violet (also; his tribulation and the snow shuffler)
zhou ying & zhi xiu: look after you - the fray
zhou ying, xi ping & the way of clarity
the family jewels - marina
leave it alone - hayley williams
rot - dbmk
fresh concrete - bears in trees
need you now - lady a
that fades from zhou ying and xi ping into--
i don't like me - negative 25
alligator bites never heal - doechii
leave me alone - kari faux
xi yue, xi ping, and the memory wipe
i wanna be a machine - beat saber & the living tombstone (this song is a banger)
see you later (ten years) - jenna raine
not strong enough - boygenius
romantic homicide - d4vd
i bet on losing dogs - mitski
chihiro - billie eilish
i group those 2 arcs in: salt - bad suns
xi ping losing his personhood arc
my ordinary life - the living tombstone
oh ana - mother mother
gossip - maneskin ft tom morello
make believe - mother mother (this is more of a worldbuilding song)
who are you, really? - mikky ekko
he figures it out and starts doing the reverse, actually spending time with family and zhi xiu too
could have been me - the struts
pity party - melanie martinez
sweet tooth - scott helman
die young - kesha
class of 2013 - mitski
powerless - waterparks (zhou ying is also in this one)
everything stays - from adventure time
freaking out the neighborhood - mac demarco
be safe - the cribs
wangge luobao (my beloved chekov's gun villain)
god complex - april jai
redesign your logo - lemon demon (i listened to this on repeat while drawing him. it's great)
the world changing
build our machine - dagames/bendy and the ink machine (the furnace suicides <3)
eastward of eden - amelia day
zhi xiu and xi ping, as immortality runs out
as the world caves in - matt maltese
solsbury hill - peter gabriel
baby i'm yours - arctic monkeys
xi ping & friends, in general, as immortality runs out: ramblings of a lunatic - bears in trees
xi ping, alone:
mindful solutionism - aesop rock
photograph - ed sheeran
a different age - current joys
the kids are alright - barns courtney
young forever - jay-z, mr hudson (chosen as a coda song, something that hits emotionally and sums up a lot)