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official world trigger anime account posts "12.4 reboot"!???!?!

[battlech1cken]

they should invent a walking around at night where everyone else stays the fuck inside and leaves me the fuck alone

[valsplaceactually]

"go with the flow" the flow is a 400mph running river that is boiling hot and filled with jagged sharp rocks and used fent needles

[briarglades-old]

I Love Franziska Von Karma

hi im playing ace attorney game name of ‘justice for all’ and meeting franziska von karma and: i love her? so much? like shes horrible and is doing horrible things and has a wildly skewed worldview and sense of justice and oh god she cares about her baby brother who’s half a dozen years older than her SO much...

every time i open jfa again after a month (im bad at remembering to play video games often but its fine i want to play it so ill eventually get around to it) i think about franziska and edgeworth’s relationship and get extremely emotional... its good! its really interesting as a depiction of a complicated sibling relationship where they were both emotionally abused and it really strongly affected both of them and their relationship but they care about each other a lot and are making decisions with each other as a priority!!!

i have more thoughts about this but i want to finish the game first - im in the last trial now and its like. relevant SO

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For the World Trigger away test, my biggest hope in terms of "who passes" is that Katori and Hana both pass and are asked to join the expedition, and Wakamura and Miura aren't. Specifically, I'm hoping for a scenario where it becomes relevant that we know Katori said on the pre-test questionnaire that she'd only go with her squad, because it turns out that Hana just gave her answer as "yes, i want to go." I just think it could spawn some really fun drama if Katori wasn't expecting it :)

I think this could be interesting for Hana, too. She's an extremely intelligent person who joined Border with a lot of ambition ("I'll be aiming for the top"), and has ended up stuck at Katori Squad's level (and stagnating in Katori Squad's dynamic as a sort of emotionally absent father figure, which is Crazy with what we saw of her family life before the invasion. thank you Ashihara!). Having her decide to give up that place in Katori Squad in order to better realize the ambitions that led her to join Border in the first place could bring some more oomph to a character who's very fleshed out, but not very dynamic at the moment.

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my "klaus wulfenbach google alert" is giving me more information on klaus wulfenbach than i care to have

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The way that Osamu's overprotectiveness towards Chika manifests more when he's feeling insecure about his ability to contribute to his team is really interesting to me. I think specifically because in both Round 4 and Round 7 when we see it manifest, we see him make... questionable strategic decisions because of it.

In Round 7 this is more telegraphed, because Hyuse is there to argue with him about it, but in Round 4 he also pulls Yuuma off of what he's doing in order to make sure, not that Chika is safe and can contribute further to team tactics, but that she can retreat. And this comes directly after Round 3, where the commentators made sure to acknowledge how much value Nasu Squad got from Hiura and Kumagai choosing not to bail out, but to stay and fight to buy time for their ace. "To catch up to the top group, you need to score, not worry about losing points." Osamu also made sure in Round 3 to let Yuuma do what he does best and fight without having to worry about escaping in order to cover his teammates. In Round 4 we see Kitazoe and Ema immediately resign themselves to dying as usefully as possible to buy time for Kageura to go wild. Yuuma, in contrast, is being pulled off of a fight he should be concentrating on as the squad's ace in order to cover Chika's retreat, and it seems to be... mostly just because Osamu is panicking?

But what really makes this interesting to me is that this overprotectiveness doesn't really even raise its head in Round 5. Teruya kills Chika and Osamu is completely calm, because he's still locked in on beating Katori Squad. When she apologizes, he just says "No, you did well. Nice work, Chika." And it's not that he's gotten over it, because it's a pivotal point in Round 7 that Azuma is able to play on his protectiveness towards Chika in order to manipulate him into making a worse tactical decision. It specifically manifests when he's bailed out early and can't contribute more to the team physically--he goes into panic mode.

It's just super fun to see the precision with which Ashihara is writing his protagonist! Osamu's relationship with Chika and the ways he's prone to coddling her are obviously crucial to both of their arcs, but digging into the specifics of how and when he goes overboard and lets it interfere with doing a good job as Tamakoma-2's captain is so interesting. It really speaks not just to a generalized want to protect people and specific care for Chika, but also to his insecurity about his ability to do so.

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just finally finished my hxh 2011 rewatch along with media club plus. great time, def recommend, etc. but what im thinking now is things like "this is like the ending of mgs4 in that the protagonists dad shows up and talks for a really long time and i need to kill him" and "i feel like my understanding of yuugo kuga really blossomed when i was like ohhhh hes kind of like if ging freecs decided to raise his son, isnt he."