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[pusakalye]

akane banashi is crazy because these two old men couldn't get together in the old days so they just raised one girl and one boy independently of each other to be like them in spirit and philosophy so they can get rakugo married in another generation

[thelordofhats]

Akane Banashi Story 211

I have a possibly-unpopular take that I feel like putting out there regardless: Kaisei isn’t putting in a particularly good performance and deserves to lose.

Cut for spoilers.

Pitchforks down, Issho is still… well, Issho. I’m not saying he’s in the right, or that he’s vindicated in any way. If anything, this performance is an indictment of him as a teacher. I’m not passing moral judgment on anybody here. I’m just evaluating how I would judge this performance—which, unfortunately, lines up with what I’m pretty sure Issho will say.

The Art of the Personal is a tricky thing. By drawing on your own experiences, you are able to add that additional level of depth and realism to your characters, because you understand what it’s like to be in their shoes. And because this is a story you are telling, you can adjust the story to better fit your own experience and understanding. But there is a limit, and Kaisei has soared past it.

What Kaisei is doing is going onstage and blasting out his unresolved personal issues at everyone in a giant blatantly obvious subtweet. He’s a skilled storyteller, so it’s presented in a way that’s going to engage the audience, so they’re still going to be entertained, but the audience doesn’t even rate as a consideration to him. He is going up on stage and putting Issho on blast for his personal satisfaction, and as a personal plea. And that’s just so incredibly uncomfortable. It’s oversharing! Way back when Akane was a fresh zenza, she did that performance that took a little side swipe at Rien. And it was satisfying and funny, but it was also called out as not being a particularly good idea, from either an artistic or professional perspective. This is a more grandiose version of that.

But let’s set even that basic discomfort and courtesy aside, for a moment—all of that could be excused, if it weren’t for the fact that the story is suffering for it.

Kaisei’s rendition of God of Death has three characters of significance: the child, the master, and the God of Death.

The child is the most well-realized, because, well, he’s Kaisei as a kid. Full credit to Kaisei that he’s selling this well, as indicated by how the art of the manga portrays him so distinctly—you can see Pat Kaisei the Performer to see Kaisei the Child, because he’s evoking that so well. Kaisei has put in the time to pull all of these emotions together.

The master doesn’t get directly portrayed in a lot of panels, because the manga is using those opportunities to just show Issho directly, but he’s in the usual Rakugo-world style. His face is never actually shown, which dehumanizes him. Kaisei can’t really get inside the master’s head, because he can’t get inside Issho’s head. He can do a fine outward portrayal, because he’s very familiar with Issho, and I think he can even capture some of that intensity of Demon-Mode Issho. But the whole reason that Kaisei is telling this story is *because* he doesn’t understand why Issho did what he did, so this character is *inherently* going to be a bit of a cipher.

Also the master is, like Issho, an asshole. Gotta call that out.

Kaisei’s God of Death is just Kaisei Shaded Differently, because Kaisei’s God of Death is more of a story device than a character. He shows up, and perfunctorily fulfills the role that he needs to for the story, but that’s all there really is to him. He’s not putting any spin on it whatsoever. If you look at the panel without context, that’s just An Ominous Chracter Portrayed By Kaisei. The God of Death just isn’t the part of the story that Kaisei wants to examine.

But the story is literally called God of Death! That’s the entire point! This is the character that is the beating heart of it all, the soul of the story! This is like writing a fanfic that actually only focuses on your OCs! At this point, it almost doesn’t matter how technically well Kaisei is performing the story, because it isn’t really God of Death anymore.

And I’m not saying that to be prescriptivist, or say tht the story is incompatible with the Art of the Personal. Akane’s rendition was *intensely* personal! It is fundamentally built on her father’s career ending at Issho’s whim, on Shiguma collapsing from fucking throat cancer while she was with him. Death is capricious and cruel, and has this horrible black humor to it. But because these are things that Akane has been able to process (unlike Kaisei’s unresolved open wound), she’s able to actually integrate it into the story smoothly—her God of Death is a vividly realized character! Her doctor fucking sneezes himself to death in his moment of triumph, which is about as capricious and cruelly humorous as you can get! It’s incredible!

But Kaisei isn’t managing all that! He’s just sharing his own personal pain, and resonating with the audience because they are feeling sympathy for his ongoing plight… but as Issho correctly said, as infuriating as it is, Rakugo is not the art of making your audience feel sorry for you! But when you go this personal with it, there’s not really another outcome you can get.

Look, Issho is still a bastard and history’s greatest villain, but when he drops the hammer on this performance (and probably goes Way Too Far in the process), he isn’t going to be Factually Incorrect.

[trashsketch]

Hey akane banashi enjoyers does anyone else here ship issho/shiguma cause i. look theyre such dysfunctional old men with a closely knit past i just am really enjoying whatever dramatically twisted exes thing they have going on while rereading the flashback arc

I know everyone is here for akane/hikaru but i am also not finding enough fics of them (and are there even fics where karashi’s their third???) so i guess i will read what i can for now and go attempt to write…something. Idk…anything. Im starving. i cant believe this series is so incredible it’s making me wanna write fic

[nishnormp]

cant comment on the post so im reblogging it

[mikayare]

I honestly find it so amusing how even without watching any of Dezaki's interviews and seeing him act like a giggling fujoshi you can clearly see that he's the most hardcore rikijoe shipper (Ashita no Joe spoilers tho I highly doubt anyone unfamiliar with anj will even find this)

like yeah tbh laying these two a bit closer to each other and changing the hand placement is not that big of a deal

but did we really have to make sure that not an inch of their clothes is visible in this frame (not to mention Rikiishi gazing at Joe with his gay little smirk instead of watching the fight)?

yeah sure whatever you say

I sure wonder why the scene which Dezaki managed to inject with the most yaoi is his favorite (Joe here is like a puppy that simultaneously suffers 20 depressions whenever its owner leaves for work)

'I miss my wife, Nishi... I miss her so much...'

'fuck everyone else' said anime Joe when in reality Rikiishi was the only one he desperately wanted to fu–

she may be a hallucination or a dead man's ghost that haunts you, but a wife is still a wife

Dezaki probably was so upset that this happened off-screen in the manga that he made Joe visit Rikiishi's grave twice

is it gay to see your dead rival's face somewhere under a ceiling (also with implications that he's the one keeping the flame inside you burning) so now you keep looking there any chance you get and till your last breath?

[mikayare]

I honestly find it so amusing how even without watching any of Dezaki's interviews and seeing him act like a giggling fujoshi you can clearly see that he's the most hardcore rikijoe shipper (Ashita no Joe spoilers tho I highly doubt anyone unfamiliar with anj will even find this)

like yeah tbh laying these two a bit closer to each other and changing the hand placement is not that big of a deal

but did we really have to make sure that not an inch of their clothes is visible in this frame (not to mention Rikiishi gazing at Joe with his gay little smirk instead of watching the fight)?

yeah sure whatever you say

I sure wonder why the scene which Dezaki managed to inject with the most yaoi is his favorite (Joe here is like a puppy that simultaneously suffers 20 depressions whenever its owner leaves for work)

'I miss my wife, Nishi... I miss her so much...'

'fuck everyone else' said anime Joe when in reality Rikiishi was the only one he desperately wanted to fu–

she may be a hallucination or a dead man's ghost that haunts you, but a wife is still a wife

Dezaki probably was so upset that this happened off-screen in the manga that he made Joe visit Rikiishi's grave twice

is it gay to see your dead rival's face somewhere under a ceiling (also with implications that he's the one keeping the flame inside you burning) so now you keep looking there any chance you get and till your last breath?

[aamy2100982]

Just ranting for myself

Do Dell and Fred hate each other or are they estranged?

Most likely. Although I like to believe that there was some affection between them merely because of this image

and Dell referring to Fred as "daddy" in the response "That's what my daddy taught me to do to backstabbers." But many parts of the game mean nothing or very little in the world of comic book canon. So a picture and a line don't really say anything.

Especially since Dell seems to have a closer relationship with his Grandfather, having significantly more photos of him and referring to him with much affection and respect in the canon.

Is Fred even really Dell's father?

Apparently, yes! I used to think not, and that there was room for other theories, like that he was Dell's uncle or just a distant relative.

This is never explicitly stated in the game or in the comics, but apparently the picture shown before has this name (this is on the official wiki);

Interestingly, this is literally the only explicit, canonical evidence that Dell is Fred's son

Did Fred know he would have to confront/kill his son if they fought the administrator?

Maybe yes, maybe not. We know that TFC started working for Gray Mann at the time all TF employees were laid off. So, if Fred and Dell communicated during that time, or by pure logic, Fred probably knew or thought that Dell was out of the loop on this whole thing.

probably reaffirmed by the fact that Dell didn't show up when they were going head to head with the rest of the TF2

They might have meet again in the hypothetical case that the TFC beats TF2 and they go to the coordinates indicated by Miss Pauling, but even then they couldn't kill Dell, because he would currently be the only one with the knowledge to make more immortality machines and better than the ones Gray Mann had

If Fred really worked for the Administrator, why doesn't he remember how to make or fix immortality machines?

Good question, there is no answer for that.

We already know that Fred is really Dell's father and that he really worked for TF. I would say it is an inconsistency in the canon. Anything beyond that is just speculation;

Maybe he forgot how to do it. From the time TFC was replaced until they reappeared, Fred was out of the picture for what seems like almost 10 years.

There's also the theory that he simply didn't want to help Heavy. Because his excuse was

"That damn thing's more biology than engineering..."

Like bruh... aren't you the same guy who made himself two fucking 100% functioning robotic legs + gave your best friend two fucking enhanced robotic eyes? You think I'm dumb or something?

Also, maybe it's just me who thinks that way, but that's the way he says it; "That damn thing's"

Honestly, I don't think any of the Conaghers really like immortality machines. Just based on what Dell tells us. Although all the Conaghers did not want to delve deeply into the administrator's plans, probably all of them (at least Dell did) were aware of what it was used for

They are aware of the cruel and terrible things that have been done to it and want to distance themselves as much as possible from it.

I mean, think about it. All the Conaghers had direct access to the plans for these machines, especially Radigan, who was the creator of these machines

And you tell me that NONE of them wanted to make one for themselves or for family or any loved ones?

If Fred was as scarred by this as Dell is, to the point of saying "if you find any more, get rid of it", it's understandable that he doesn't want to do anything even remotely similar for his friends.

[nishnormp]

im back . A lotta life stuff happened, also tumblr got briefly banned in my country, but I'm back. Will be making a post about australium soon, that thing is pretty weird

[awweshuucks]

Hc that dark cacao cookie paints the people he loves and cares about in his free time but only a select few know he does this and even less people are allowed to even see the paintings

[nishnormp]

idk if you know this buuut

There's actually a lot of white lily stuff scattered in Dark Cacao's castle, specifically his medical bay . Its . Weow

[awweshuucks]

YES PH MY GOSH THATS WHAT THAT HC WAS BASED OFF OF ITS SO CUTE

THEYRE MY FAV ANCIENT X ANCIENTS SHIP BEHIND POLYANCIENTS THEYRE SO ADORBS 😭😭😭

[nishnormp]

darklily is very underrated u are so real for that

[awweshuucks]

Hc that dark cacao cookie paints the people he loves and cares about in his free time but only a select few know he does this and even less people are allowed to even see the paintings

[nishnormp]

idk if you know this buuut

There's actually a lot of white lily stuff scattered in Dark Cacao's castle, specifically his medical bay . Its . Weow

[nishnormp]

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[nishnormp]

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[nishnormp]

I love this artstyle, it reminds me of old-school graphics stuff

[nishnormp]

hi so this account exists

take a cheavy . man I hate rendering metals