Ok you know what, I’m think I’m gonna elaborate actually since people expressed interest. Specifically about this part:
TLDR; I sincerely believe that Morishige was NOT a necrophile or interested in dead bodies/gore prior to Heavenly Host. I’ve honestly seen no convincing evidence for him being into that stuff beforehand.
If you ask me, Sachiko took a liking to Morishige because he was emotionally vulnerable and therefore easy to manipulate, not because he already liked gore. He was already quite insecure and took to the sidelines a lot (see the scene in chapter 5 where he insists to Mayu that he couldn’t take a lead role in the play despite his talents/knowledge, also how he took the iconic photo of Class 2-9 together and isn’t featured.) It really seems like taking pictures was what helped him feel connected to people even if he was on the sideline; we see him sitting by himself flipping through his photo album on his phone in the Missing Footage OVA; cats, plants, Mayu. Incredibly innocent, beautiful things. Photography was like his social lifeline; it had nothing to do with gore or violence.
Heavenly Host/Sachiko perverted this innocent source of comfort into something disgusting. She literally targets people’s comforts and takes them away — Yuka and Satoshi consistently get separated, Naomi was manipulated to kill Seiko and can’t save her in any timeline, Yui is crippled by injuries and can’t be there for her students for 99% of the story. These all target their specific weaknesses by taking away their “lifelines.” By extension, Morishige’s source of comfort was twisted into something he could no longer find real comfort in. It’s framed like an addiction. “Just one more look” so he can convince himself that someone else is suffering more than him, someone else is lonelier than him (…right?)
I honestly was never a huge Morishige fan but I do find him interesting to analyze. I think it’s kind of boring and reductive to his character to insinuate that he was already into gore and that’s why Sachiko targeted him so hard. He and Kizami are also foils in my opinion, with the latter pushing him to be paranoid about his sanity/morality even further. I don’t think they’re actually “cut from the same cloth,” or at least weren’t prior to HH, which is what makes them really compelling foils.
I’ve been here for over 10 years but it honestly wasn’t until maybe the past year(?) that it became somewhat common to see people implying that he was always into gore. Which is so… interesting? Strange? Idk. It’s been intriguing to watch. And maybe a little annoying lol.
Anyway this was a spur of the moment “rant” typed on my phone so it may be slightly incoherent. But there’s my thoughts. s
okay but can we talk about the amount of metal strength and resilience ayumi (and yoshiki) had to have to not go completely insane after witnessing mayu's gruesome death in front of their own eyes?
could you imagine seeing one of your closest friends be reduced to nothing but a pile of blood and guts? and you are partially responsible due to how you handled the situation with the ghost children?
the fact that they didn't instantly go crazy and succumb to the darkening really shows just how determined and mentally strong they are. they are brave as fuck.
if that happened to my bsf, i'd kms right then and there.
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