#bud. rants

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the worst part is that i feel like i need to reread tokyo ghoul to better appreciate it but i don’t think i’ll have the strength of mind necessary for it

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completely expected episode 17 rant because of reasons

so inaho finally got himself a spy (or has he?)

i must say this anime is making me very suspicious of everything i mean every time so far a vers character died just when i started liking them (give or take a few episodes) and so self-preservation is telling me not to expect mazuurek to stay alive for too long. but you never know

BUT GOSH. can we talk about rayet. i had almost given up on them continuing the character development they started on a lot of people in season 1 because obviously they were too busy making inaho 500% better than everyone and pushing slaine finally off his rooker but gosh, her scenes this episode.

i really didn't expect it. i'm really, really excited about where she can go from now on. i'm glad she talked to inaho, i'm glad that she finally said all those things. i'm glad that it was visible that she'd grown. it just-- she felt so much more there than before; her breakdown was so human and it felt so nice to see it portrayed like that. it was perfect because it was delivered in front of inaho and not anyone else because i'm still weeping over seylum not being there to interact with her i liked them as a duo so amazingly much.

what else what else. slaine? oh, slaine. i probably mourn him the most. season 1 slaine was great, especially because of the ending. but i don't know, i really don't see him well in a high position in society. not because of how other characters see him. it just doesn't go well with his character. he could've been overpowered in another environment, it might have been better. still, giving slaine power in his situation, with his background, with his emotional frame of mind; not good. hard, rough situations made him think; they made him somehow more cool-minded. there was something there. don't give the child a countship, he's gonna indulge his not-quite-but-almost-there-obsession. this isn't good. he needs to go back to reality.

though maybe he does have something in his sleeve? debatable, he doesn't look like it. but when has he ever before?

another thing!

i like lemrina. i expect a lot of things to come from her. but in this episode, i gotta say, near the end, i adored how, even disguised as seylum, one could see, very clearly, her own traits. i squeed over the way her eyes moved, it was amazing. this was nice.

good job, slaine, on your ghibli hair at the end.

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trying to ignore statistics but are you actually telling me i'll have to write my own slaine/asseylum/inaho if i wanna read it

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real talk tho this show has a lot of nice female characters i was kind of baffled at first and then i thought i might cry

and when i say a lot i mean pretty much all of them, they're so nice, so everything. i mean they're being badass while also being girly so that's really really nice; magbaredge is giving me such strong akira mado vibes i thought i was gonna faint; i'm delighted. then a lot of other girls who are actually allowed to do stuff and fine there are a few bits in which one of these hormonal teenage boys acknowledge they are girls but damn, there's so little focus put on that otherwise and it's really nice to see all these characters acting like human beings, without making it look like division of genres is a division of species. goodness me.

it was so nice and i really liked that most of the personality portrayals weren't rushed, i mean, come on, the thing had like 12 episodes. it felt nice, they were each given niches of time in which to do stuff. that's how description is done, through small (or not so small) actions that can be squeezed in in a lot of places (rayet, for god's sake), not always through dramatic monologues saying hey, this is who i am, stop looking for more.

i mean, okay, monologues and oral explanations can be effective too. look at saazbaum. man, i loved that man's development/unveiling. really good. really. it made me kind of mad that i didn't trust them to have a non-binary view of good and evil from the beginning. this was really great.

however, they made it quite clear with the opening that they have a duality theme of sorts going on, and it was really nice, tho it was mostly apparent-placidity vs impulsive-feeling as far as the 1st season is concerned. but this started to change around the end and now i'm really curious where it's gonna go and how it's gonna change because goddammit slaine

okay i got some of this out as a means of taking a break. shall proceed. i'll probably be back to waxing poetry sometime later

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one moment that always stays with me is the one when jason was finally talking to thalia in the cave and asked leo to stay and leo watched them and involuntarily started tapping the morse code for 'i love you' on his leg as he thought about things

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i watched the first episode of tsuritama and i'm really confused

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so really now

what is one supposed to do about deep shelves

like those weird frickasses that can accommodate 3 rows of books at once

what do you do so you can acc have access or at least see both rows or i dunno, use the space without making it seem like you have 3 books in your library bc the other ones are hidden behind the ones in front of them

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help i finished/caught up with koe no katachi wtf am i supposed to do now