FINALLY got around to watching season 3 and. Oh my God. The Maki episode. Oh my God. Season 3 episode 4 you are everything to me. I cried. I had to go on a walk after it. I had to process for so long.
THIS EPISODEEEE???? It was so beautifully executed the lost of Mai was so profoundly felt the whole time even after it had passed, like the hole in Maki's heart that she had left. The whole Kill Bill references scene, the music playing being almost cheerful while she massacred them all (huge fan of the music showing someone's mental state, this sort of cheery childlike tune as she's fulfilling her childhood dreams.
The blood splatters being the only visible colour, and them being pink instead of red, the "feminine" colour is the prominent one in the remains of the most horrifically misogynistic clan. The constant flashes of the birds, her loss. I'm ill to my stomach I'm SICK TO MY STOMACH
Nevermind the incredible satisfaction that comes with watching Naoya get beat up in multiple actions in slow motion. And then also stabbed in the back <3 just like his own little self-fulfilling prophecy <3














