i am tragically not the ichifumi anon. but please share your AA thoughts because that entire set of episodes made my brain go bzzzzzzzzzzz
ooooo there's a lot to unpack but here goesss
the festival performance feels like the need to catch up how she won't be in the last part of elysion for fumi. she laid out all the work to be part of siegfield legendary play only for her to fall and not reach that high.
ichie could be the same. she was on a popular idol group but was cut short of her dream in a similar way. that being they all were in a group that were pushing them to overpass themselves to reach greater heights only for the same group to be their downfall.
they both dealt differently with it obviously [gestures vaguely at everything] but the most important difference is how fumi grew resentment of siegfield as a fuel whereas ichie's fuel was to make sure that nothing like that happens again. sidenote this is absolutely why i love fumi and shiori having the green color as their colors. both can be easily interpreted as this vile petty envy but also as grounded and on the way towards growth.
already in the early chapters of AA, i felt Something of how fumi was starting to act with tomoe. it was so different but in a way familiar and then it hit me. there's that hint of fear and admiration how she has with akira. and then all the parallels grew more obvious and i was so happy when ichie confirmed it. yes. rinmekan is starting to turn into siegfield's stage.
ichie not winning this revue when she have done so easily is coming right into fumi's ways of siegfield. not playing your all and more when you should and could. being content of what you have and grow what you already have.
ichie is so worried for yukko and rui. and while fumi wants to make rinmekan to grow for them, it's mostly to Redeem herself that she want to do it. she left her sister and a whole school look at her dirty now. better try to get something out of it you know.
ichie being the sun card is so cool here for several reasons. she obviously fits the meaning of the card but i like the image of being confronted to the sun. you can't hide yourself from it, it's blaring right in front of you, it leaves no space for any hidden intents. fumi not only reveal herself to ichie during this fight, more or less directly, but most importantly to herself.
and honestly i can't talk about how this revue is so impacted by tomoe's death. both death and the sun have the parallel of not being able to being confronted right on you have to find your way around it. except that death is death. you only get this conclusion from being around it. the sun can bring way more from being around it. you can grow with it. ichie noticing how tomoe seem to trap herself in her acting while ichie gets to have adlibs that are considered good enough to be added to the play is a great exemple of this.
fumi being temperance between the two seems to be a very imaged version to her trying to grasp to her old self and habis to grow which is obviously a self doom way to go.
