i think the one asking ts is obvious but opinions on isamu pretty pls
My opinion on Isamu Uchiumi
First thing, I apologise for not answering soon, the thing is that when I saw this I had to sit down with myself and ask: “what are my opinions about Isamu?” So I gathered up my thoughts and tried to keep them clear and short without too much of my own personal headcanon thoughts,
Apart from the canonical viewpoints of him being courageous, brave, confident and a tad sassy.
I personally think that there is (or rather, there could’ve been) more to him when it comes to who he is as the Protagonist of Book 2.
Now most of these are just simply my own take, my own headcanon, my own overall observations regarding him.
First things first. He is definitely someone who has the concept of blaming himself.
Isamu self blames a lot. To him: it’s his fault that Akihito lashed out and bashed the glass bottle onto Senzai’s head, it’s his fault that Senzai ended up cutting himself out of the family, it’s his fault that Senzai had ‘died’. (Being blamed for Senzai’s ‘death’ was also a very taunting point coming from the Kiioribara Cult) it’s his fault that Tokyo was in shambles. Everything according to him was his own fault.
And that clearly stems out from his family. Akihito would yell at Senzai and ‘teach him lessons’ simply because he was nothing like Isamu. This made Senzai hate Isamu and blame him for everything going wrong in his life. Senzai used to make it clear that it’s all Isamu’s fault. (which baffles me, because Senzai does insult his own brother, but stays quiet regarding their father.)
Secondly, about Isamu as a Teenager (now here’s where I just throw random thoughts since we didn’t really get much out of Isamu’s childhood)
I always saw 2015 Isamu with a golden retriever personality. I saw him as someone who you could be a pure sense of mess with in the most comforting manner. That aforementioned golden retriever personality was definitely ripped away from him after what had happened to Senzai, and who Senzai turned into afterwards.
Isamu, witnessing something that scarred him for good, found himself with his own thoughts. Get this, He can’t talk to Senzai anymore because Senzai just assumes Isamu is a liar and a betraying “brat”. He very obviously can’t talk to Akihito about this, nor would he willingly open up to his school mates about something so tremendous. So I personally think, Isamu ended up dwelling in his own thoughts and found comfort in conversing with himself . (And I think about this quite often as Isamu was merely talking to himself throughout the chapters.)
Isamu grew up in conditions that were clearly mentally draining and it reflected deep onto him. For example: His inability to cook gets chalked up to something silly but I genuinely think him not being able to cook is just him never having the energy to take care of himself as an adult. We can only imagine the mess he lived in after Senzai was found ‘dead’.
To stop myself from rambling on, here’s just my other opinions, just at face value instead of deep analysis.
In my opinion, Isamu has a self blaming personality, he is clearly someone who has a lot of conflicts embedded within, he doesn’t stop to ever think about himself because others always came before him, he seems to try and play things off gently with his humour, like Senzai: he wanted to be Akihito’s pride BUT unlike Senzai, that wasn’t the only thing on his mind. He talks to himself because no one else was there, and overall he’s an abused child that went through hell, who also ended up dying without closure.
(I do apologise again if this is really inconsistent and sounds a tad slurrish, I’ve never been good with giving out opinions.)