Episode 26: My analysis of Daiji/Kagerou
aka: 'note to self'
Daiji killing Kagerou in episode 26 is the equivalent to Ikki and Vice's growth in episode 13.
I just think its funny that while Ikki learns to trust Vice (himself) because Vice would never hurt him,
Daiji's is literally about fking fiGHTING Kagerou to the DEATH.
I mean it makes sense.
A big part of Vice is Ikki's desire to be loved as he truly is and needed.
While Daiji created Kagerou as a coping mechanism cause he hated himself so much he was like one decimal point away from harming himself.
And I guess we got to see that fking FRONT and center today boys.
Ikki and Vice Episode 18:
:D....Ikki's slowly learning to love and trust himself;;;
and Daiji -- by effectively killing off his 'self-hate' coping mechanism; is learning that he can be both ruthless AND kind.
.....Fked that he has to literally fight himself to the death to grow as a person.
Yeah so that's the parallels and mirrorism between Kagerou/Daiji's arc and Ikki and Vice's arc that I was seeing as I watched their fight LOL.
Literallllly word for words but directly fking OPPoSITE-
I mean I should've known better
¯\(°_o)/¯
I even said in episode fking 9 (when Kagerou told Daiji to watch his fking mouth, and Daiji apologized meekly) that Daiji and Ikki worked as each other's FOILs.
Ikki would rather die and take Vice down with him then let Vice run around unrestrained. Versus Daiji apologizing when Kagerou yells at him
Ikki ultimately deciding to trust Vice -- Daiji refusing to trust Kagerou
Ikki apologizing -- Daiji thanking ---it's
it's fked up and poetic and really REALLY fking GOOD storytelling.