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okay but everyone needs a friend that psychoanalyzes you and says it straight up without sugarcoating
You're pretty and that's all they see. I am not and that's all they see. You think I won't understand what it feels like to not be seen?
My idea of how blue eye samurai ends... mizu comes back to japan after killing all the white men, her fight completely vanished, to duel Taigen. Taigen has gone on his own journey of self-discovery and is poised to accept his own guilt for how he treated Mizu when they were kids. Taigen wins the duel because Mizu is so empty without her revenge, but instead of killing her, he apologizes. I don't know what would happen after that but that's my prediction post s1.
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Mitsumi tends to hide her feelings and emotions and sometimes avoids showing vulnerability.
This isn’t as apparent as it is with Sousuke because we have less access to her inner thoughts.
There are plenty of moments where this becomes visible:
- When Mika tells her that Sousuke is kind to everyone and that she shouldn’t take it personally, Mitsumi doesn’t show that she’s hurt.
- When she talks about her dream to Sousuke, she laughs as if mocking herself and her big dream before anyone else can. (For instance, when she introduces herself to the class, she makes a joke instead of talking about her dream.)
- When Sousuke hurts Mitsumi by throwing her own words back at her, she runs away, pretending it doesn’t affect her.
Mitsumi also tends to avoid taking risks when it comes to her feelings for Sousuke because it puts her in a vulnerable position.
For example, she gives Sousuke a heart-shaped chocolate but doesn’t tell him she chose it especially for him.
Another example: when Mitsumi tries to confess her feelings to Sousuke, she does so indirectly instead of saying it clearly.
If Sousuke has trouble believing that Mitsumi loves him as much as he loves her, it’s largely due to his low self-esteem. But I think Mitsumi’s reluctance to express her feelings directly plays a small role in this too. (Just to clarify, this isn’t a criticism of Mitsumi at all—it’s obvious she needs to go at her own pace ❤️)
I think Mitsumi behaves this way because she feels self-conscious about being from the countryside. She’s afraid of seeming arrogant because of her big dream. She feels out of place among all the stylish people around her.
On top of that, she’s attending a school that accepts students with strong academic results.
So what made her special back in the countryside isn’t really that special in Tokyo anymore.
She’s also afraid people will make fun of her for her countryside habits and her ambitions.
And when she sees all the girls around Sousuke, maybe she feels like she doesn’t measure up.
Thankfully, Mitsumi has friends who are just as incredibly kind as she is and who make her feel at home in Tokyo!
I’m certain that, thanks to her friends and her own abilities, she’ll have no problem shining and moving forward 💛✨
guys, the scars are most likely from the operation. but now i can’t help but think of poor anya with similar scars 🥺
One thing I love about Blue Eye Samurai is how amazing the voice acting is. Everything about the show, from the way it's directed to the action scenes to how true to itself it is, is worthy of praise, but I was rewatching it last night and the thing that stood out to me the most is how well-acted it is. One of the more noticeable examples is Akemi switching to her softer, higher voice when she realizes the shogun's son has a stutter, which indicates to the audience that she now realizes she can manipulate him. Another example is how Abijah Fowler absolutely nails his monologues. Like, one of my favorite monologues in the show is Fowler's monologue as he reveals the guns to Shindo. The pacing, his cadence, how his tone shifts but he maintains his coldness... And it's because he's voiced by Kenneth Branagh, who has a background in Shakespearean acting. And it shows! And of course the only reason he could make that monologue sound so chilling is because he was given absolutely brilliant material to work with. I just needed to appreciate how brilliantly voice acted this show is.
Mitsumi really is such a liar though... She ends up being a bit of an unreliable narrator because the person she lies the most to is herself. She lies to protect herself and others from her own doubts, misgivings, and struggles. This is especially noticeable at the beginning of the manga, in which she is struggling more with the transition to high school, but the lies she tells later in the manga are more abstruse and denotative of her character, imo.
For instance, in chapter one, she lies to her family about how her first day went, saying, "there were no big issues." And then in chapter two, she lies straight to Fumi's face while at karaoke. If Fumi didn't know Mitsumi so well, she would have been fooled. Both of these instances were to keep her family and friends from worrying about her, as we know Mitsumi has placed a lot of pressure on herself to do well in Tokyo because this is such a rare opportunity for people from her town. She cannot bear the thought of disappointing the people back home.
But as the story goes on, Mitsumi's lies become more subtle that I think a lot of people end up overlooking her struggle. Especially when Shima's internal monologue is much more straightforward than Mitsumi's, so his angst is more apparent.
The most notable example of Mitsumi doing this is the entirety of Mitsumi and Shima's short-lived relationship. Mitsumi doesn't tell her friends that they are dating, which is a lie in itself, because she "wants to wait until they're more settled." But its only after they break up that Mitsumi admits that she never thought a relationship with Shima was going to last, though she doesn't delve into why she feels that way (screenshot below is from chapter 47). She didn't lie to her friends because she wanted to wait until her and Shima's relationship was more secure; she didn't want to admit to herself that she never thought their relationship would last in the first place. (My theories on that is for another post.)
After Mitsumi tells them, she ends up downplaying her feelings until Makoto knocks some sense into her with all the panache of a literary club member. But before Makoto does that, Mitsumi says that she's okay with just being friends and denies that she has any feelings towards him. After Makoto tells her that "Whatever you feel for him is just as valid as any passionate love affair," in chapter 57, Mitsumi, in her thoughts, admits that she thought that "letting him go would prove my feelings were never that serious... I guess it's okay that I still like him."
Skip and Loafer takes place in a world in which every character is given grace and a perhaps unrealistic degree of introspection. Mitsumi stands apart from them because she is the least self-aware member of the cast. Whereas Shima, Mika, Makoto, Yuzuki, and even newer character like Ujiie and Yasaka all exhibit some level of awareness of their shortcomings, typically through personal monologues, Mitsumi doesn't demonstrate that. Her problems, on a surface level, are usually external -- deciding what club to join, or, more recently, building her friendship with Yasaka. But she doesn't dwell on how the way she is treated makes her feel (and I could elaborate on this but that would be a tangent several paragraphs long) or even what she is feeling at all. As a result, readers need to take a more proactive approach in deciphering what she is feeling, or else Mitsumi's perspective is at risk of disappearing from the conversation.
Mitsumi's conflict with her sister during her visit to her hometown exemplifies this. We, the reader, are shut out from her feelings when her sister rejects her gift. We get no internal thoughts or perspective at all. What we do get is a plastered smile and a half-hearted joke.
Anyways send my girl Mitsumi your love and well-wishes, she's an emotionally constipated perfectionistic 16 year-old girl with a crush on a self-centered boy...
Mitsumi lying yet again...
a sketch from a while back because miss them </33
[ID: two panels from the manga series Skip and Loafer. The first panel is a close up to the character Shima Sōsuke's eye, in his eye is a blurry version of Egashira Mika. The text reads {Guys who are considerate... tuned into those around them.} The second panel is of Egashira Mika who has a content smile, the text continues {The kind of guy who would see straight through... my shallow façade.} /End ID]
This scene 😂
Lockwood standing there while they discuss him like:
Rereading Skip to Loafer and it is true that Shima is a people pleaser but he has such a distorted version on himself on his head.
All the initial moments of kindness he shows to Mitsumi are him going out of his way to be kind to her. It is not him following some social script or doing what is expected to him to be liked or make things easier.
He sees her in the trains station and decides to talk to her, he sees her in the classroom and decided to talk to her, he sees her making an awkward joke on her presentation and decided to make it less awkward.
All of the times it was him initializing it, creating the situation instead of finding himself in a context where he feels the need to be nice to follow the script and have a mask
Nao is jealous of Mitsumi because she's living the life Nao has always dreamed of. And it's something that tends to make Nao feel guilty because she's aware that whatever difficulties she may have gone through in the past have nothing to do with Mitsumi.
But what Nao doesn't seem to realize is how much she's doing so that Mitsumi and her friends don't have to go through what she has. You can feel that she wants to give Mitsumi and her friends the youth she wasn't able to have.
When she heard that Mitsumi was going to the zoo with Sousuke, she decided to follow them to make sure he wasn't someone who could break her niece's heart.
She encouraged Mika to return to Mitsumi and the girls, saying that she wouldn't often find friends like them.
She knew just the right words to reassure Mitsumi when she felt left out because so many of the girls in Tokyo are into fashion.
She prepared a cute bento, thinking it could be a good topic of conversation so that Mitsumi could make friends more easily in her new class. ❤️
She also wanted to take Mitsumi and her friends to Ikejima so they could have a great summer vacation together, despite the fact that it was a place full of painful memories for her.
She guaranteed Mika that she would find someone who would love her as a person, even with her less pleasant side.
Nao seems to think she's a bad person because of the jealousy she may have felt towards Mitsumi. Yet her actions only show the opposite and how kind she is !
Nao is an amazing woman / aunt / big sister who just wants to give Mitsumi and her friends a joyful youth. You can really feel how much she loves Mitsumi ❤️
ujie and mitsumi are like a manzai comedy duo it's killing me
to all the people who seem to hate Shima, what exactly do you blame him for? you don't like his (logical btw) ship with Mitsumi? his storyline? I genuienly don't understand 😭
If someone can explain to me please 🙏
I don't hate Shima, but I think some people focus too much on his perspective and ignore Mitsumi, despite her being the main character, and that can get on my nerves. I think its a combination of people finding Shima more interesting than Mitsumi, as well as finding Shima more relatable than her, which in turn makes him more intetesting. I also really dislike when male characters get more attention than female characters, especially when the female character is literally the main character 💀 For instance, there are tons of posts about Shima's internal turmoil, especially with big moments with Mitsumi like her speech she gives him after they break up, but I don't see Mitsumi's character receive the same level of appreciation or analysis. For instance, when the break-up scene is discussed, its usually focused on how impactful it was to Shima and how mature and giving Mitsumi is to him. But I don't see a lot of posts talking about how much that hurt Mitsumi and how she must have felt. I mean, she literally burst into tears the chapter before breaking up with him when she realized she couldn't be in a relationship with him. A lot of these analysises really position Mitsumi in relation to Shima and don't look at her independently, which is so irritating because shes's a genuinely interesting character with her own internal conflicts that get sidelined by the fandom for the male lead (and if im being real, i think thats reflective of the greater misogynistic culture). I don't dislike Shima at all, and I think he's a wonderful character. But it's really annoying how he takes up much more room in discussions than Mitsumi does.
^redraw of a behind the scenes pic from a bout de souffle
This doesn't happen on page because it's a childrens book but I know in my heart it happened.
and probably some former english major student somewhere recalling howell jenkins, circa 1980: