#love it.

[oblique-lane]

HOW DID I LET THIS SHXT HAPPEN?

[shishkaleshaya]

Bloody provocateur.

[howl-arnon]

I DON'T LIKE THE FIRST TWO AT ALL. But something about the third one it's so... SOFT IDK I REALLY LIKE IT -ITS SO GENTLEMANLY I LIKE IT SO MUCH Just gently guiding the person face towards them instead of actually grabbing them..

[luckydicekirby]

took me 90 minutes to watch that hour long episode because i had to keep pausing to put my face in my hands or perhaps take a lap. i love television

[surrender-souls]

one of the sexiest posters ever made. look at this.

[simplepotatofarmer]

the dsmp was good. it told interesting stories, in interesting ways. a lot of love and heart went into it. even the ending. there's no qualifiers here. it was just good and enjoyable and i'm glad it happened.

[specialfanboying]

i will fight to the death to defend killing game takemaru. like i know he's contentious but i played killing game early and spent the entire rest of the game chasing the high of him on that route. like imo it's him at his messiest and worst, but also incredibly revealing of the kind of person he is in a way i can't get enough of

first, i'll argue that i think he has a good reaosn to distrust takumi. he trusts him on day 1, and then takumi kills someone for what feels like a flimsy reason. despite this, he trusts takumi again, and takumi exploits his heart to get him to join the killing game, which kills at lest one more person and puts them all in danger. after that, i kinda get not wanting to trust takumi a third time.

but also! i think him going so black and white morality there makes a sort of sense with his character. something really interesting about takemaru imo is that despite that he visibly has a heart of gold...there are characters who struggle with killing enemy commanders and he is consistently not one of them. he's one of the few to smile when executing a commander, and even when they're begging for their lives, doesn't budge at all. he can be deeply kind and protective when it's someone he believes in saving. and usually, that's a good thing, as he believes strongly in protecting the team, the weak, women, and children. when it's someone who isn't on that list? then he doesn't hesitate or give mercy. as takumi learns the hard way in that route.

but also, we get to see his kindness in action. i love love love how he adopts the twins in killing game, who...let's be honest, without him, would almost certainly die. i think one of the best/most intersting moments there is when he tries to kill eva to save them, because he usually does believe in not harming women. but the situation's bad enough that he has the sadistic choice of letting one of the twins die or compromising his morals. it's a really interesting look at what happens when two tightly held values come into conflict and he has to choose. and he chooses the twins over everything.

idk i like him at his nice too but seeing him at his stressed and mean and just hunkered down and focused on keeping these two poor sad orphans alive at all costs is super interesting and eventually tragic. it's a fun flavor of "bad" for the bad boy, and i like how it probably does a lot for the twins, who haven't had anyone else but each other show that kind of prioritizing them above all else.