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I'm Danika~ I used to be pretty active but due to life I've mostly abandoned this blog but I miss it and my followers so sometimes I'll pop in.

[beesmygod]

[steals your baby immediately after his birth][raises him][trains him in the ways of an ancient martial art invented by cormorant fishers in 700 ad for 13 years][enters him in a tournament][he loses in 4 rounds] ok whatever. you can have him back

[glassgaleomorphii]

sigh

[meowkusunoki]

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[kaedesfleawaltz]

Putting my thoughts here too because I sure have opinions

[dunkstein]

Maid cleaning a massive chateau surely belonging to the richest people you’ve ever seen, and as she’s walking from room to room you notice that every single portrait is of her

[dunkstein]

You specifically understand

[ozth]

[lilaccheese]

who's this 👀

[kissmechaos]

why don’t i say it, then / i want you all the time

[snowstories]

If a man annoys you it is always morally correct to kill him.

[satosh1z]

Sherry sketch (*´-`)

[onesillystar]

100 kanojo screenshots from the latest season!!

[gallade-x-treme]

HELLO MONKEYS GIRLFRIENDS

[kaedesfleawaltz]

Emacchi💕

[snowstories]

I bet Comet is functionally impossible to kill and wholly unaware of it. Her home planet is a dangerous hellhole where people get constantly killed by everything and kids are chucked into a cave for a few years as a matter of course. Comet has an extremely dangerous symbiotic slime mold chilling on her skin. Poison is NOT doing her in, you could put straight up acid into her coffee and she'd go "Wow where did you find something this spicy?!" Any virus she could get is violently squashed by a traumatized immune system. She eats rocks. She can wrestle a space bear and outrun a space cheetah.

If you tried to hit this girl with an axe she'd dodge, and if you somehow managed to hit her the slime would catch part of the blow and she'd barely even flinch. "Hm? Oh it doesn't hurt that bad! Nothing compared to the sting of a purple rockeater, that was bad." Meanwhile you can see bone and she's actively holding her arm up against her body. Stella takes her to the infirmary in a panic and by the time they get there Comet's murder slime friend has stopped the bleeding but decided to start eating the bone and Comet's all like uuuuuuugh now I'm gonna need to boil it out and Stella goes what the FUCK does that MEAN.

Anyway yeah I think Comet will do just fine as an adventurer.

[yufumomo]

sherihan

Athey make me feel maternal

[rinamohn]

Light and Night now has a SEA server with an English translation!

Official website

The official website also offers a APK download should the game not be available in your region.

[korrectedtypo]

Go! Digitan! Spread the umagenda!

[moonxq]

i don't think the disappearance of the cat from the third trial is a mistake; i think that the presence of the cat before was because she perceived helping it as a sin. es literally tells her to sing her sins, and in her first mv the only things she can think to sing of that align with the belief system she so desperately clings to are things like helping the cat and watching a cartoon. she actively denies that her murder was wrong to es. killing her mother aligns with her beliefs and was justified, it has to be, or else what was the purpose of her entire life and the suffering she endured?

in her second mv, we do see a glimpse of her mother, but amane is still desperately clinging to her beliefs. it had to all have meant something. and so, if shidou continues down the path of giving others medical care, then he cannot live. because if he is allowed to help others when she was severely punished for wanting to do the same, then that would mean she was actually tormented for no reason at all. if shidou lives, then that would mean her mother did not have to die, that her family did not have to live the way they did.

keep in mind that she believed her true sin involved helping the cat in trial one and she was voted UNFORGIVEN for that. the song seems to say, can i still be a good girl even if i slip up and want to help others and watch cartoons? and the winning portion of voters said NO. they probably meant to tell her that murder is wrong, but i think instead they accidentally affirmed the abusive parts of the practice she was born into. it's no wonder that in the second mv she is so punishment-focused. she is a bad girl for helping the cat, she is guilty for faltering in her belief system. and so, everyone who breaks those vows must be severely punished (including herself).

however, there is some indignation in her second mv, especially right at the end where she says remember MY cries? why did you (her mother) punish me if you were going to break promises too? but at the end, when she's standing over the body of her mother, she's dressed in her imaginary world's attire. she is protecting herself by viewing the murder of her mother as her simply upholding the definitely unequivocally true belief system she was raised in, rather than her lashing out in anger at the injustices she went through.

if she was just upholding beliefs, then the life she'd lived so far still makes sense, she was loved (not abused) and it all means something. if she is lashing out in anger at the injustices she faced, then she has to accept the fact that her entire life was filled with meaningless suffering, which is a terrifying thing for her to come to terms with. the same belief system that hurts her is also what she is protecting herself with.

but shidou and es and everyone else who reached out to her made a huge difference. i think the cat is gone from the third trial because she is starting to think that maybe medical treatment is okay, that maybe helping the cat was not actually a sin. her imaginary world has dulled, and there's a lot more realistic elements to this mv. i think she's slowly realizing the horror of her life. her inner world, previously protected by dissociating herself from the abuse and painting it as something justified, something bright and colorful and not very serious, falls into chaos.

her mother needed medical help, and she knew this. i think she actually did have a desire to help. despite it all, she loved her mother. her hands shook, and her inner world seems to represent that she WANTED to seek out medical treatment (the pills being created on the assembly line), but the screen flashes "DANGER" warnings at her. why wouldn't it? she was told her entire life that it was wrong. so, just as she was taught, she steadies herself, denies the desire to help, and prays. this is all she can do. this is right.

however.

her mother, contrary to every lesson literally beat into her so far, tells amane to break her vows. she tells amane to call for medical help.

and amane is angry!! when she lifts a hand to hit her mother, it slams down on the console in her imaginary world. the pills shatter, and so does her entire belief system. it's okay to seek medical treatment, the rule was meaningless, so why did she have to suffer? she tried to bury it and shield herself, tried to deny it and protect her belief system by claiming her fury was actually a calm and logical upholding of her vows, but she is so, so hurt and angry inside.

she sings of the beliefs she was raised with, but she's barely holding it together in her inner world!! this entire mv seems filled with anger. this is not a bad emotion, it's merely her starting to realize the injustices done to her. it's good that she's allowing herself to feel this.

in this mv, she kills her mother not as a symbolic representative of her beliefs, but as herself, full of rage and grief and confusion. this shot is such a massive difference from the second mv. there is less mental distance (it's framed a lot closer than before). there are no imaginary elements. it's real, it's horrifying.

her inner world is falling into ruin. she replaces the previous mv representations of her belief system with her new emerging beliefs, but they are still shaky, uncertain. clouds of smoke still rise from this faltering landscape.

it may take her a while to fully realize the extent of everything, but she CAN heal and start over. shidou himself believed that it was not too late, even as he was dying at her hand. mahiru's pure and overwhelming love will stay with her, too. she's never had people reach out to her and show her affection without also expecting perfection from her and punishing her severely should she falter. of course people like shidou and mahiru would make her feel uncomfortable and conflicted. if pain is all you've ever known, then anything else will feel unfamiliar and therefore wrong.

but shakily, she asks if it's okay to change.

the answer is YES. no matter how long and difficult her road ahead is, she can change. she can learn to falter and make mistakes (ordinary mistakes, not the outrageous things labeled as such by the belief system she was raised in). she can learn that it is possible for love to come from people who will not hurt her.

she can start over. i think shidou and mahiru would want that for her very much.