I saw your post that said Satomi is a tsundere. I agree with that. I love your analysis it’s great ❤️
Do you think that maybe Kyougi might be considered a soft yandere? I saw another post spoke about how he knew that Satoru was uncomfortable going to karaoke with him, but he still pressured Satomi to go with him. Also, considering Kyouji is a yakuza he has a dark past. Please tell me what you think!
I think... Kyouji has done a lot of violent things and easily resorts to violence when his favorite thing (Satomi) is threatened. That happens twice in KaraIko and has happened once in Famiresu already. I would honestly love to explore a side of Kyouji more... Violent? Dangerous, definitely, and very possessive over a reluctant Satomi I think.
Thank you for the ask! May yandere Kyouji reign supreme...
he'd be on here with a lana del rey profile pic and if it didnt say 14 in his bio he'd just be instinguishable from any other type of tumblr mutual and he'd come on here every day posting like "still havent fucked that old man" and we'd be like nooo 😭 dont give up king 🥺
Oka Satomi, the "understated tsundere" that you can read a little too much into, if you want to make yourself depressed
AKA: Coming from a person with Borderline Personality Disorder that developed majorly between the ages of 13-16, Satomi is an extremely relatable character, and this is an essay explaining why.
My partner and I got into Karaoke Iko! in particular a while back. I think when the first episode of the anime adaptation dropped, we rushed to read the manga and then binged most of Famiresu right then and there. Then "I like Kyouji, and Kyouji is alive" dropped, and we were basically inconsolable. The recent announcement of an additional scene with Kyouji turning himself in sent us into a familiar spiral.
That spiral being, we're writing fanfiction again, and there's no coming back from that. Screw being published BL authors, let's go write some Karaoke yaoi!
...With that unnecessary preamble aside, after a rewatch of the anime, I started thinking more about Satomi until I couldn't stop thinking about him. Truthfully, I doubt this post can address everything I have in my brain about him simply because I won't feel satisfied until I'm able to write his POV properly.
Satomi is such an interesting take on the understated tsundere character to the point he exhibits actual traits of the "quiet" type of borderline personality disorder, and Wayama-sensei writes this with brilliant ease. I'm constantly blown away by her subtle characterization of both Satomi and Kyouji, as well as how she writes characters in her other works. I do not think this BPD "coding" was intentional, nor do I want to call it "coding" for that reason, but...
It definitely, definitely fits, and makes for an extremely satisfying, if a bit more depressing, sort of reading on both Famiresu and KaraIko. I don't plan to finish this in a single post, as it requires a total reread of Famiresu for sourcing, but I would like to begin this thesis with the most Obvious Example that I cannot and will not ever get over.
The watch.
That damn boiled watch.
If it weren't for the typical "teenagers are hormonal and do stupid things for stupid reasons" theme of Satomi's entire character, I would genuinely say that this action alone proves a case of Satomi having some cluster-b disorder without any hesitation. If nothing else, it shows just how deeply Kyouji has scarred him.
"Teenagers are hormonal and do stupid things for stupid reasons," sure, but Satomi isn't just a regular teenager. He is a scarred one, traumatized by the perceived death of his first crush and the sudden loss of that very same man directly after.
Satomi was spending every day wondering when Kyouji would just show up, because surely he wasn't dead. He just survived an accident like that, so he can survive anything. Kyouji wasn't dead...
Until it made more sense to think that he was, just because Satomi couldn't understand why else he'd have left him without a proper goodbye.
Satomi's feelings for Kyouji are as jumbled as you can possibly explain. He hates him, he likes him to death, and hates that he likes him. I think he's in love with Kyouji, and has been for a very long time. I don't think he's gone a day without thinking of Kyouji.
Kyouji wanted to repay him for his time in a way. It makes you think of that moment in the anime where Satomi mentioned being compensated for his music instructing, and Kyouji brushed it off with an inappropriate joke. That was his way of subtly repaying his debt, and Satomi was blind to it. Why would Satomi deserve something like that? Why is he throwing away money? The real question is, why the hell is Satomi reading the situation like this, rather than seeing it as the obvious "thanks" he never received before?
I'll be continuing this in the near future, probably, with much shorter spiels than I went on in this. I just really needed to get this interpretation of the damn watch scene out of my head. Wayama-sensei, thank you.
Wait now I can write an essay about Satomi having borderline personality disorder. You know besides his trauma, which is definitely affecting him Badly, but. Yeah he is so borderline to me his scenes in Famiresu actually had me cringing out of self-reflection
Wait now I can write an essay about Satomi having borderline personality disorder. You know besides his trauma, which is definitely affecting him Badly, but. Yeah he is so borderline to me his scenes in Famiresu actually had me cringing out of self-reflection
kind of want to start using this blog again >< which is crazy bc the last time i was here, i was exclusively writing fanfiction and now i'm a self-published author... :O
Something so fun about going back into fandom stuff, just like dipping my toes into it sometimes despite having actual yaoi books to work on. Like I know I should be focusing on That but... oh god oh fuck (long ass 3914 fic in the works soon to be posted) FUCK
kind of want to start using this blog again >< which is crazy bc the last time i was here, i was exclusively writing fanfiction and now i'm a self-published author... :O
kind of want to start using this blog again >< which is crazy bc the last time i was here, i was exclusively writing fanfiction and now i'm a self-published author... :O
