You watched Ajin?? Please bombard me with thoughts and opinions.
omg yes i have, sahana!!! thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to talk about it because i really love ajin a lot and???? there’s not enough people who has actually seen the show, so all my thoughts are buried inside. im assuming that youve watched it too, if you’re asking about my opinion :o if so, go ahead to read bc lots of spoilers and such! if not, tread carefully.
i really really like the fact that our mc is first shown to have a normal school life that got messed up after a car accident. in a way, it should be fortunate that he still lives after going through a fatal car accident, but the fact is that everyone ends up shunning him and there’s a bounty on him simply bc of something that he cannot control and he ends up having to run for his life even though he didnt ask for it. i just really like the idea that he literally didnt know that he is an ajin until the incident, and his life really did turn upside down – both in terms of his own identity & his daily life.
i also really enjoy nagai kei as a character? he’s an asshole, and sassy with a sharp tongue and intelligent. and although he doesnt particularly have a strong body / good at physical activities, he makes it up with his brains and quick thinking. moreover, i really enjoy how apathetic he is as a character. he literally doesnt care about anyone other than himself. i still remember that bit where a nice human tried to help kei but when he died, all he thought was ‘aww, he died. time to run i guess’. he doesnt care and i think he’s very fascinating to watch!
the fact that his character also influences his ibm is also something that i appreciate. which the sass and how dick-ish he is, it makes sense that even his ibm will refuse to listen to him.
furthermore, his r/s with the other characters are fun to watch too; he treats them so differently! we see how he appreciates kaito and pushes him away at the same time, bc despite the fact that he’s cold to many, he very clearly does care about kaito ( who won’t tbh? he’s such a sweetheart and i really cant wait to see him show up again in the manga ). and then there’s kou, where he constantly sighs bc kou is such a dumb and he cannot deal with his stupidity. the moments where he simply just disregards the naivety of his words (eg here) is absolutely hilarious to watch.
it doesnt help that his voice actor is mamo-chan and we both know how much i love him. usually his characters are either the popular, charismatic ( ouran’s tamaki ) or a completely joke / crazy ( tg’s tsukiyama ) and hearing him act as kei is very different from what he usually does and i really enjoyed the constant irritation in his voice!
if im talking about characters i cannot not talk about satou because as much as i love kei, the star of the series is undoubtedly satou. villains whose motives are simply to have fun have been done maybe a thousand times and usually it ends up making the villains dull, and evil for the sake of being evil. but satou is different! firstly, how often do you see a villain be an old man? and for once, i actually get how charismatic a villain is. his ploy… pushing the wheelchair… announcing to the entire world that he’s an ajin and with tear-filled eyes, tells the world how cruel ajin are being treated… it’s the fact that he’s an old man that makes it even more convincing.
not to mention, if kei is smart, satou is insane. ive never seen an anime character as old as satou have that much agility. and heck, he uses the fact that he’s an ajin to do absolutely crazy things. literally killing himself in order to play the game. okay this part is only in the manga, but heck, he literally cut his own hand and made them into like chicken wings to be sent to the location where he will infiltrate next and then throw himself into the shredder or whatever it is so that his body will start forming where his biggest body part is– ie his hands. that is downright crazy. and then there’s this!!
there are so many moments where i legit just covered my mouth because of the mind games kei and satou are having and how they outsmart each other in ways that are utterly inconceivable. so yee i really like it a lot!
i also particularly like the discussion of ‘what is death’ for ajin, who essentially cannot die. it brings up a whole new perspective. because arent you the same person if you have the exact same memories and experiences? but there comes a discussion that since your brain is where your thought processes and memories are and hence the very thing that forms your own individuality… if your head gets destroyed and its a different brain that is doing the thinking… arent you already dead? and you’re an entirely different person now.
which makes satou even more of a beast, bc he literally doesnt care if he did die in the ajin way. he just wants to have fun. and for that, he doesnt care if his comrades even betrays him because he’ll just see it as another obstacle – a new difficulty in his game.
lots of people dont watch ajin bc of the choice in 3d animation which i agree can be jarring and awkward to watch at first but once you get used to it i dont think its that bad. but then again, recently i came to realise that i dont really care that much for aesthetics because apparently some people do care a lot. but what i do care about is characterisation & plot. but either way i liked the choice in 3d animation. its because i think using 3d to animate ibm is a good choice and for them to go all the way in using 3d in the characters and such would make the ibms look more natural.
there are so many things that really appeal to me in this series particularly the way it treats its characters. and i only talked about two so far but uh i should probably stop here haha. oh and i really appreciate izumi and her backstory!
@darkest-symphony replied to your post “What is this trash clown, pls enlighten me, my mind is coming up with...”
I do learn of the weirdest characters from you lolololol. Tsukiyama got me into Tokyo Ghoul and now I guess I'll be reading HxH. This powersexual thing sounds......intriguing. Thanks so much for such a detailed answer omg! I hope you're doing good these days!
I am a bad influence on you I see. XD While I’m slightly horrified that Hisoka would be the reason why you’regoing to read HxH, I’m glad you want to read it though! I only finished the anime slightly more than a month ago, and I can safely say that it’s my favourite anime after like 5 years of unsure answers. Personally I think HxH shines in its characters and worldbuilding. I don’t think I’ve ever talked to you about action shounen but I hope you like shounen!
Also I should probably warn you that HxH goes onto hiatus a lot because the mangaka has health problems. We’re in the middle of one right now actually. Well, it isn’t a decade long hiatus like our favourite CLAMP manga tho, hahaha........
What is this trash clown, pls enlighten me, my mind is coming up with terrible things when I look at your posts without prior context. :D
OH MY GOD. IM SO SORRY YOU CAME TO KNOW OF HIM. HADSJFKSG
Trash clown, is actually Hisoka, a character from Hunter x Hunter. And, uh, it’s very difficult to explain him, even with context. What you need to know is that he is uh, powersexual. He gets off by fighting strong people?? And he goes to lengths just to be able to fight them. Including betraying people and acting as a mentor in order to ensure they might quickly reach their potential.
EDIT: tumblr ate up the my reply and my script keeps dying when I try to upload a Hisoka screenshot so here’s a link to the actual unedited screenshot. Clearly my laptop knows that Hisoka should never be shown to anyone. Keep your children far far away from the creepy, terrifying clown.
Anyhow, Ishida Sui also likes him enough to write a one-shot about him last year? AND ... he is also my favourite hxh character.
@darkest-symphony replied to your photo:AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ...
Yayyyy, it reached you safely!! :) I’m sorry it’s so battered and old but I think the art inside is safe? Anyway, good luck for everything ahead and I know you’ll ace it all. Hope you enjoy reading and find lots of CLAMP inspiration!! Take care!
Oh no, don’t worry about the battered state it’s in! I just think it’s amazing that you can still find a copy. It’s been 10 years since this issue came out omg. And don’t worry! The art is still safe and very pretty (I’m gonna put up that X poster inside AHHH. Can you believe it’s my first CLAMP poster? I can’t either)
Thank you for the luck again! I will do my best and enjoy my break after~ And write too haha
You have the right to feel hurt and unhappy without making yourself think of other people who might have it worse. Your feelings, right here and now, are real and valid and you deserve care without guilt. Take care of yourself.
Omg... Thank you Sahana. I didn’t mean to come off like that however. It’s just easy to forget that maybe others are hurting as well when you’re in pain yourself. It was supposed to be a reminder to myself to not wallow in self-pity and forget about the others around me.
@darkest-symphony mentioned you in a photoset:sumeragimikoto: todayintokyo: shoku-and-awe: ...
@sumeragimikoto So kind of you to tag me in this. Thank you so much, you’re really sweet! :) :) I’ve tried the Shojin Ryouri in Kamakura but I’ll definitely try it in Osaka when I can! :D Thanks a lot for this, it means so much to me that you remember. Did you get to try it during your trip to Japan?
Started a new post for this; hope you don’t mind!
AHSIKFMAFHSUFSHADKS You flatter me as always, but glad I could help! I remember you mentioning how difficult it is to find vegan food in Japan, so! Do share when you try it~ It looks delicious. ;~;
Unfortunately I didn’t get to try it either! And I would plan on rectifying that except that I probably won’t be going to Osaka until years later :/
