SxF Season 2 · · · I love "Souvenir"
Honestly, I got so caught up in the new opening that I think I fainted from the overdose of sugar and beauty I saw in just a few minutes and I've come to talk about everything I loved, especially my speculations and personal analysis:
Anya's life changed "Everything is more fun since dad adopted her."
Just to see how a poor girl, who was treated like a lab mouse, an accident to be taken advantage of. Who ran away from that dark world, to know the outside, was trapped in a cruel world, was adopted but was returned so many times just to be peculiar.
To see the contrast of a girl alone, in an orphanage, without friends. To see her walking next to Becky, her best friend. A happy little girl, surrounded by adventure, love, play and fun.
I love that Anya clung to the hope of being happy, and after so many opportunities she has already achieved it. And even though she is still fighting to preserve that happiness. Being adopted by Loid/Twiligh has been the best thing that ever happened to her.
I really like the subtle reference, even though most of the opening we see Yor being beautiful. I like how they constructed the image sequence of Yor, receiving an assignment with her cold and unflappable assassin's face, moving on to a scene where we see her walking as a shadow in the streets bringing death with her.
But right away we see a fragment of her taking care of Yuri, in a possible reference to the fact that everything she has done, she did it to protect the one she has loved all her life. It perfectly exposes Yor's "maternal" side, being the best sister/mother Yuri and Anya could have had. Exposing how she sacrificed herself so many times.
The visual references of the Forgers driving around in the car
I don't know how significant this is, but I love seeing the Forger's riding around as a family in a car. Loid/ Twilight driving for sure after planning a whole outing with his family, Yor so beautiful and cheerful, Anya laughing and happy for her day of adventures and our adorable Bond as a gentleman.
Yor being beautiful, tender, sensual and sexy.
For this alone, the opening is already a masterpiece. The reference to Endo's art with Thor Princess bathed in flowers, even in everyday clothes, is a masterpiece.
I make mention of how they use darkness whenever it is understood that a Forger is alone or makes reference to their secret/past life.
I feel it's somber atmosphere shows the sadness, resignation and how isolated the Forgers are individually. Yes, well, it is understood that Twilight as a spy and Yor as assassins have made the choice to isolate themselves from the world and their own happiness, for Anya this loneliness was not her choice.
It's a huge contrast, seeing what her life has been like previously to being a family to what the three of them have become together. This whole opening is a display of the happiness they have and will have as long as they are together.
This detail is great because in the manga we canonically don't have a scene of Yor in her training days with the shopkeeper. While, there are scenes of her in her assassin work, I would still love to see Yor's past and her path to becoming the legend among assassins that she is today. I thank the anime for having given her a sequence in a few seconds.
As I mentioned, the use of dark shots is a reflection of the seriousness with which Twilight executes its work. He lives hidden from the world, almost like a ghost or sudden apparition that he embodies in a respective role/character. But this same lonely man, who lives in fear of a war existing
Now he is someone who cares for, protects and makes these two beautiful girls happy. The contrast of Twilight shooting at a target, to Twilight shooting at a fair to surely win a prize for Anya and Yor, is sublime.
I also love that Yor and Loid are in the same vehicle waving to Anya, as a couple as they greet their daughter!
What more wonderful than to see Yor and Anya with such sweet and intimate moments, a mother brushing and sheltering Anya in her arms as her little baby. Just in the most beautiful and I wonder if Yor's melancholy face in the second panel is a reference to her dismay during the arc where Fiona appears, and the way she hugs Anya is a way of saying that she doesn't want to walk away from her ever
Love this very recent theory, just because it seems so believable to me. Much of the manga Twilight's look is a reflection of his deepest thoughts, which he doesn't usually admit to
The perspective of many scenes seems like Twilight watching Yor and Anya, carefully detailing their happiness, treasuring it as the most wonderful thing in their world. It feels genuine, because of the angle at which the viewer is looking. Anya's scenes are looking down or up, marking a distance (because of the height between them) and Yor's scenes are close up.
The true peace of twilight
I think what touched me the most is knowing that Twilight is a tormented man who longs for peace, but I think deep down Twilight is searching again for the meaning of his life. He looks for a way for everyone to be happy, to have the opportunities he missed, but at the same time, he lives isolated to this happiness, so no matter if he gets happiness between East and West, Twilight was condemning himself to a life of loneliness and exile.
Yor and Anya now represent that light at the end of the tunnel, although his rational side prevents him from pushing away those shadows of the past, and letting that seed of love germinate fully. I hope that in the end he can wake up and realize that he already has everything he needs.
In short, Yor and Anya represent Twilight's happiness and Twilight represents the happiness of the two of them.
I feel the red ribbon symbol at the end, reference: to the red thread of destiny, which is unbreakable. So no matter when the Forger's relationship is stretched or strained, they are already bound together for the rest of their lives.
This opening came to invade my heart and never ever leave.
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