WAAAAAAA EPISODE 25.......... I'm still eating but I'm so curioussss. I'll watch it over the course of several hours I think lmao
Edit: Holy FUCK I had a lot to say about this one lmao
SCREAMSSS THEY ALL LOOK SO SAD DFKJHGDFG
SCREAMS "why am I apologizing" Rip Karamatsu tbh
Tbh Jyushimatsu should try to do baseball in some capacity. It's the only thing he thinks about??? Idk
OSOMATSU YOU'RE SO TALENTED AND MULTIFACETED YOU CAN DO ANYTHING YOU WANT FOREVERRRR
Tbh the 6 of them should probably do some soulsearching away from each other. Like. They should make friends with other people, or otherwise leave their comfort zones. I'll say it again and again but I really think Choromatsu should've gone on that journey. I know he did go on a journey after the shit w Nyaa but so much of that was just a joke I think? Also then he got arrested so
I WILL I'LL TREAT YOU OSOMATSU
YAY CHIBITA IS IN THIS ONE THANK GODDDD
I'm really not sure this dude understands crypto. I mean I don't either but there's gotta be more to it than that
Oh damn did Jyushimatsu make something???
Ok Karamatsu
YOUR FLAG DOES WHAT?????
OH these are so so interesting. I love these scenes hold on let me break them down because I think each of them tells you EXACTLY why each sextuplet doesn't move forward in life
Osomatsu is walking down the street and he sees the riceballs trying and failing comedy, then they get into a fight with some kids. He stops and he laughs
This scene is really straightforward-- Osomatsu doesn't get his shit together because he simply doesn't want to. Particularly obvious after the previous scene where he proves he can do literally anything if he wanted to-- he just simply DOES NOT want to. He'd rather stop and enjoy life than work. You can maybe interpret the riceballs + the 3 kids (totaling 5 bodies) as his brothers, where he specifically does not want to because he's fine where they all are? Idk for sure though
Jyushimatsu's first thought is to see Chibita and ask for some snacks, but when he gets there, Chibita tells him about imaginary money. So Jyushimatsu imagines the money instead.
This scene is also extremely straightforward. Jyushimatsu's too caught up in his imagination. He definitely has something that he wants, but it's all in his own head. It's not actually real. It's also notable that Jyushimatsu's first thought is to go to someone with this-- this implies to me that he wants or needs someone else to tell him what to do with his life. Something more specific than "figure it out".
Karamatsu sits by himself on a park bench and wonders why no one's interested in him. He sees something he wants. He pisses his money away on a lotto ticket, which loses
Karamatsu really has an all-or-nothing mindset. You see it over and over. Chibita asks him what his dreams are, and Karamatsu lists a bunch of grandiose nonsense; then, during the skit where he's a bartender, he gets angry when his customers want regular drinks instead of the fancy cocktails he's invented. He wants things to go EXACTLY his way, EXACTLY to his vision, and he cannot comprehend the reason this is failing him. Karamatsu is definitely the most self-centered sextuplet. He thinks his failures are because no one pays attention to him; or because of ill twists of fate; and he doesn't do any ACTUAL work to make himself interesting or cool
Ichimatsu wanders around the city looking for something, but he can't find anything. He can't find anywhere he fits. "Maybe I should just go home," he concludes.
This one's also easy. Nothing is of any interest to Ichimatsu. I think all the sextuplets are depressed to some degree, but none of them to the same extent as Ichimatsu. And this is why he can't get up and move on-- he doesn't really get any joy out of anything. There's no room for him anywhere. Nothing interests him in particular, other than cats. So he just goes home, where things are familiar, because it's difficult to make a choice when all the outcomes feel exactly the same and nothing speaks to you in particular
Choromatsu's is REALLY fun and interesting because it's so short! He goes to the liquor store, picks up a bottle of wine, notices the price, panics, and almost drops the bottle
Choromatsu is willing to go to all of the right places; he knows what he has to do; but the end goal isn't worth the price. He panics because he has to do how much work? for what reward? and it's not worth it to him. In fact, it's probably panic-inducing, too. He has to really commit to wanting something before he invests wanting it, but he doesn't want anything in particular that badly.
Todomatsu's is the most interesting by far. He finds Hatabou tiny, with a huge flag. He immediately jumps in to solve the problem, and when his first idea doesn't work, he tries something else. And THAT works. But it works too well, and Hatabou ends up a giant
His problem is not that he can't think of anything, and it's not that he doesn't have the skill to do anything. Todomatsu is the best-equipped of any of the sextuplets to move out and get on with his life, and I've always thought so. He's creative and he's a problem-solver, and he's good with people. Todomatsu's problem is that he self-sabotages. As soon as something starts going too well, he does something to get in his own way-- often by accident, but you can see him doing it on purpose, too. I can't think of any specific examples but I'm really sure we've seen him just jump into something because he was too scared to do be on his own. I think he's both the most capable and the most dependent of the six.
See if it was me, I know exactly what my little scene would look like. I'd immediately think of the convenience store on the route and go, "okay, if all else fails, I'll hit that place." And then I'd procrastinate for the rest of the time, trying to think of what to get, how much, what does everyone like? What do they expect from me? I'd spend time imagining fancier places than just the convenience store on the way, but I wouldn't actually head to any of those places. And then by the time I get to the convenience store, they've closed for some reason. It's too late for me to go somewhere else.
My problem is that I'm a thinker and not a doer. I get really caught up in all the little details, but I struggle with taking the first step toward getting what I want. I'm a creature of convenience, too, and I don't go out of my way if I don't absolutely have to; I'm really good at seeing the very easiest solution and I emotionally commit to that instead of going after what I really wish I was doing. Then I miss my chance.
Idk anyways it's why I think Osomatsu & I would be really strong as a couple? Because our weaknesses negate each other. I have all kinds of ideas for things to do but I never do them; he's here to enjoy life but has no clear plan. Together we'd make 1 whole functional human being :)
ANYWAYS BACK TO THE EPISODE TOTOKO IS HERE
OH HEY THEY ACKNOWLEDGE TOTOKO'S PROBLEMS HERE TOO???
HER PROBLEM IS THAT THE ONLY PEOPLE CHALLENGING HER ARE PEOPLE WHOSE OPINIONS DON'T MATTER TO HER
SHE DOESN'T GET THAT HER CUTENESS DOESN'T HAVE AN IMPACT IN THE REAL WORLD. NO ONE WANTS TO TELL HER.
OH THERE'S MORE THERE'S MORE THERE'S MORE
Todomatsu scrolls on his phone and thinks about getting a part-time job for real. He ends up looking at ordering dirty magazines online.
I think this one is about? Todomatsu doesn't actually understand why he hasn't moved up and on yet. That's how it seems to me. He's got friends (the first shot is of a group chat I think), then he's looking before he gets distracted. I think it's both that he doesn't get what his problem is, and before he can even start to think about it, he's distracted by something. Probably porn like 90% of the time. But he doesn't really give himself a lot of space or time to actually think-- he's always on that phone lmao
Jyushimatsu hangs upside down at the park and then tightropes across electrical wires. He forgets what he was doing and is pecked to the ground by a bird.
This scene is still about how he's caught up in his own imagination. He's literally shown being childish in the first shot, and then doing impossible shit in the second. It's about how he distracts himself, too. He forgets what he was doing until some external force drives him back to reality, and he comes crashing back down to Earth
Osomatsu actually buys exactly 1 beer, which is not enough for everyone. He tells himself not to drink it, then does anyways, all the while chastising himself. Then, he runs into Iyami who is selling vaccines of some sort, which he is not interested in. But Iyami goads him into doing it by using his identity against him
OH I get it. The first scenes were about the reasons they don't pursue what they want. The second scenes are about why they ultimately fail when they try.
Anyways. Osomatsu's scene is about how being a piece of shit is so ingrained into his sense of self, he's willing to do any amount of stupid shit to reinforce it. Buying one beer and drinking it himself is the selfish thing to do-- the kinda thing he'll just laugh off even though other people will say it's crappy. He literally does that himself. It's not that he doesn't care-- he did put an effort in! No one can say he didn't! But that effort wasn't for anyone but himself. It was just to uphold this sense of identity that he holds so dearly-- it's why he freaks the fuck out when Nyaa is into him. Because being kind of fundamentally unlikable is ANOTHER facet of this identity of his that he thinks is unshakable. When Iyami goads him into doing a stupid thing because "it's what Osomatsu would do," Osomatsu agrees and does the stupid thing! He doesn't have any thoughts past, "this is who I am to everybody." And he'll do anything to reinforce it because tbh if I can project a bit the way others interpret him is all he has. I don't think he really understands who he is as a person except through this persona (while not completely made up) he projects, and the responses other people have to it
And in that way, Osomatsu is JUST LIKE ME FOR REAL
Anyways Iyami's problem is that he's a piece of shit for real. He can lie and manipulate all he wants but everything he puts out in the world comes back to bite him in the ass. Maybe if he stopped sucking, life would stop sucking for him. Just a thought
Ichimatsu encounters Dayon and Dekapan trying to make contact with space people. They end up roping him into their shenanigans and they all get blown up a bunch.
The other problem Ichimatsu faces is that he keeps getting sucked into other peoples' bullshit. Even though he doesn't really want to, and even if he thinks it's ridiculous, he lets himself get pulled into whatever nonsense is directly in front of him.
I guess Choromatsu and Karamatsu's problems are like. Good enough in and of themselves lmao they don't need added bullshit
BUT THEY DON'T EVEN GET TO THE FLOWER BLOOMING VIEWINGGGG THAT'S . THAT'S ACTUALLY SUCH A GOOD ENDING??? IDK THAT'S SO PERFECT FOR THEM. THEY DIDN'T DO ANY OF THE WORK AND SO THEY DIDN'T ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS. MAKES SENSE TO MEEEE
WAAA THIS WAS A GOOD SEASON AND EPISODE I'M SO SAD I'M FINISHEDDDD
Btw if anyone cares my secondary reason for not showing up would be that on the way to another location, I'd meet up with someone that wants to go to X place and they'd ask me to go with them and even though I'm pressed for time, I'd agree to help. They'd say things like "oh you're so nice" and whatever and, similarly to Osomatsu, I'd feel obliged to uphold that image of myself. And I'd just run out of time to do the thing I wanted to do because I was focused on solving someone else's problem
Which, again, is part of the reason I view Osomatsu & I as so compatible-- his self-image depends on this selfishness, and mine depends on selflessness. But if we came together we would not need to hold each other to that standard-- because I think, as much as we perform these traits for others, we also expect them from others. So I'd expect him to be more selfless than he normally is, and he'd expect me to be more selfish. So we'd be able to really meet in the middle and negate these expectations
Episode 25: 3.11 "Mystery Spot" and 3.12 "Jus in Bello"
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Sources for references made in this episode:
bowlegged image search (warning: some pictures are medical)
Time Loop Nihilism video
Trickster :3c face
@housenatural's post about Sam waking up in the same bed
Phil Sgriccia's excellent jacket
"men who only have one tattoo" TikTok
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Threats of suicide
Death by car, crushing, choking, food poisoning, electrocution, dog mauling, shooting
