#reigenfucker

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pretty cool detail about reigen and the imagery bones chose for him:

hes almost always associated with water, going back to the s1 op (and probably many other moments in s1 as well!)

the “whats in an op” guy theorized that it’s a representation of the water glasses he gives to his clients. Probably so! I think that the water more broadly refers to reigen’s relationship with business/work/capitalism. In the op, it’s a glass of water because of the scale, he serves it personally to his clients one at a time because he is a small business owner.

contrast that with the corporate water coolrs we see in his office job. I think they actually....sold water coolers? I think that’s what his company did? Not too sure about that, but i think this wall of water coolers shows his relationship with that business as well. There’s a bunch of water coolers, none of them are personal, there’s no PEOPLE at them, and they’re all just kind of...there...watching you.....Also everyone individually has to serve themselves water. There’s no CARE with this water, in contrast to the water that reigen would serve you one-on-one at his place to show he cares and wants to help you. Everyone is on their own here.

And then here, in a brilliant stroke of storyboarding , they show a dead empty water cooler through which we see reigen in defeat, at his lowest. Now that I’ve pointed out the water motif it’s probably really obvious what this means, but just... poetic cinema... All his life he has known exactly what to say, he knows the RIGHT way to act. 

in the manga, ppl who knew him in high school describe him as a “serious boy who had good grades,” and i feel like we can tell from his mom’s emails that this is the way he was taught to act growing up. He has by all means what we would call an uninspiring and typical house life, where they told him to sit up straight and hold still and get good grades and go to a company. and all of that obviously made him really fucking depressed.

and even when he goes apeshit and makes his own company (which like . to quietly up and quit your job and rent office space with no plan? out of “boredom” and depression? thats a meltdown right there buddy), he STILL knows how to act. It’s so interesting to me that this job  as a psychic, it’s all about acting, and he does it SO WELL. he knows what he’s supposed to say. it’s because he’s had to do that his entire life, pretending to be a psychic is just as much a fiction as the well-performing office drone. and in a lot of ways this “charade” is a lot more genuine to his personality and character than the “serious boy with good grades” ever was.

So. To me the empty water cooler is about that. It’s about not knowing how to act anymore. He’s out of ideas. It’s about your mouth being dry when you’re in front of a dozen mics. yea. im getting dramatic now . but yea

[sadponyplayreigen]

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