🎥, 💕 !!^_^
🎥 do you have any favorite scenes from your hyperfixation?
Oh man, MULTIPLE. The one I keep coming back to at the moment is in the third movie, when Kururu is trying to hack the enemies' shit in the Final Hour to defeat them, Mutsumi drops into save him, they work together and finally beat that shit + also develop these robot-things they deploy everywhere to cancel out and undo the enemies robot-things that had been hypnotizing the whole planet. It's just a legitimately cool teamwork scene that they don't get enough of!
I also, I admit, love the bit in the flashback episode where they met that... It's not A Scene so it's kind of cheating, but when Mutsumi catches Kururu out, this obvious alien invader who'd been trying to attack him, Kururu tries to pass off being a good guy and Mutsumi asks why he's there, and Kururu says "to protect love, justice, and peace" and Mutsumi fuckin laughs at him and answers, "you're terrible at lying, alien." Then at the end of the episode, a while later after they've become friends, they're bantering and Kururu asks him what he's using the thing he stole from Kururu for and the exchange flips around: "for love, justice, and peace, of course" "you're terrible at lying, human." I just love that. So much.
💕 tell us about one of your favorite characters and why you like them!
Honestly, I adore Dororo and Kururu both, they might be my top two faves, but I want to talk about my other fave here. Saburo Mutsumi, a fuckin. Totally normal-seeming, incredibly laid back teenage boy who is just... completely inexplicable the more you see of him.
He's somehow on the same wavelength as the universe's biggest known jerk, who is in return somehow utterly cool and friendly with him. He never goes to fuckin school. He's not just a radio DJ but a secret radio DJ who keeps his identity secret by using the alias 623 which he pronounces "Mutsumi." He goes along with invasion shit just for kicks, because he finds it fun. He can show up out of nowhere, even to the ninjas. He flies around on the top of a flying saucer-looking thing in one of the movies, which is just so extra and unnecessary. He seems to have a hard time getting attached to people besides the universe's biggest jerk, but is still willing to fuckin die to save Earth. He's a poet. He's a fuckin nerd. He plays multiple characters in shogi and can't win a game. He visits alternate universes in his spare time just to peek in on alternate versions of himself (including: invader of Earth, space pirate, trans girl??). When he decides he wants to stop working at the radio station he quits, claims to be an alien returning home to Venus, gets Kururu to help him fly away in front of an audience, then just keeps broadcasting from a private flying radio station probably also made by Kururu. Apparently he's an orphan who was raised on another planet by aliens since age nine (manga canon, but seems like it was also intended to be anime canon). In the manga he has an IQ of 350, which is like twice as high as IQ scores actually go. His introduction in the anime is a spoof on Kaworu Nagisa complete with O Fortuna playing because he's voiced by Ishida Akira.
There is nothing about this character that is normal and yet it's so hard to remember that sometimes because he's in the role of "Natsumi's senpai she has a crush on who shows up and gets involved weirdly rarely," but then sometimes the show'll go "reminder that this is Kururu's best friend actually" or "oh yeah, this guy's fucking wild, remember?"
