Tired

21 | High key in a constant state of fuck this

[grimalkinmessor]

Was gonna make a post about Jigokuraku and referred to Chobei as "discount Bakugou" in my head but honestly that's fucking disrespectful to my absolutely BONKERS boy Chobei to imply that he is in any way watered down so I'm switching it up and now Bakugou is "discount Chobei" instead thank you 🙏

[your-mums-nuts]

“Mark and Eve have no chemistry” she rearranged the atoms of her own dying body because he told her he couldn’t live without her

[yesokayiknow]

glass onion really was benoit's day off like yeah there was an explosion and he had to run around in the dark while a murderer was carrying a loaded gun but ☝️ helen didn't keep trying to confess to murder

[onfiretakemehigher]

no context wake up dead man spoilers

[seerofmike]

benoit blanc interrupting a murder confession by hopping onto an organ to play the phantom of the opera for the hashtag drama of it god i wish to be a cunty old gay the way he is one day

[riza-hawks-eye]

Unproblematic fave Izumi Curtis was a talented alchemist that never joined the military and never had anything do to with Ishval.

She just minded her own business, being a housewife, killing bears, abandoning children on islands, performing human transmutation, etc.

[theblueeyedfirebender]

“I hope she plays Hot To Go.”

This is a military coup and you’re in the back of Colonel Mustang’s armored ice cream truck. He’s definitely going to play Hot To Go.

[scolipede-enjoyer-deactivated20]

Gachiakuta REVELS in punk aesthetic with some of its posing and designs and I adore it because it is authentically punk in its themes

In a society that demands constant consumption and replacement, the message “take care of your things and hold them close as precious objects, and they’ll return it in kind” is genuinely punk and anti establishment

[tigermolk]

I dont mean to be the harbinger of doom, but Enjin Gachiakuta is written like a man born to die.

[thoreau-up]

Don’t say that

[tigermolk]

the writing is on the wall, henry

[incorrecttowerofgodquotes]

Me watching Takopi’s Original Sin:

[incorrecttowerofgodquotes]

Me finishing Takopi’s Original Sin:

[nickpeppermint]

I've watched Takopi's Original Sin, and after reading some comments, i quickly realized this work is WAAAY too nuanced for most anime fans

[currently-haunted]

I just want him to be as annoying as possible. oh og nice the man you could have been and probably were. at some point. *head in hands screaming*

[spidersinyourshoes]

shoutout to Gon and Killua for having the goofiest fucking phones on the planet I wish I had one of those clunky ass beetle phones

[asly-y]

Very old art but it’s them so it is worth posting as my first post

[lacerta123]

The Twelve Kingdoms is one of those animes that deserves more love. Sure, it’s ugly by todays standards, but it has some of the best world and character building I’ve ever seen. The isekai genre usually uses its premise to seamlessly introduce the audience to its fantasy world. The protagonist doesn’t know anything, so the audience can learn the ropes alongside them, seeing through their eyes. The Twelve Kingdoms, on the other hand, wants a rocky, painful introduction to its world. Yoko is hurled into the world with no explanations, where she is a part of a hated underclass and being actively hunted by the highest power in the land. The show goes to great lengths to stick you in her shoes. Not short of making a whole conlang, so that you feel just as confused as she does. No kidding, when I was first watching Twelve Kingdoms I thought that the sub I was using was just not translating some Japanese words, expecting me to be weeb enough to get it. But no. Those are words for concepts that can’t be translated into Japanese by Yoko’s innate knowledge of the new language (and were never meant to be understood by the audience, or Yoko.) In addition to the conlang confusion, the show goes out of its way to explain nothing. Why is Yoko the chosen one, and for what is she chosen? Why are they being attacked, and by who? Who was that white haired guy who swore fealty to her and what does he want? Why does he turn into a unicorn, get blood dumped on him, and then get kidnapped? Actually, that whole scene where Keiki gets kidnapped would make a lot more sense if it was a flashback later on in the show. Yoko doesn’t even see that event- it’s presented in its chronological place solely to be a confusing wtf moment. All of this confusion works together to make you, the audience, empathize with how scared and out of place Yoko feels. The girl can’t even feel safe in her own body- she gets genetically rewritten, can speak a new language, and has a goo monster living in her now. She doesn’t get an explanation as to why any of this is happening and it’s painful.

It’s important for the show to make you empathize with Yoko, because she’s not going to be doing any “likeable character” work for a little bit. She starts out as a very weak person, who’s thrust into a leadership role by virtue of being the only one who can speak the language, and she does a terrible job. Her friend group dissolves into infighting. She’s too limp wristed to make good decisions. And she ends up alone. The series explores how her upbringing surrounded by sexism has damaged her. Her self image is that of being a good woman, a good girl who doesn’t hurt others. But when she learns her friend genuinely hates her, that she has hurt them, that self image is shattered. Betrayal after betrayal by the world, and Yoko accepts that hurting people is the only way to get by. And if she can’t be that acceptable good woman, then the world has no place for her, and she doesn’t owe it anything either. She has no confidence that she is strong enough in her own identity to exist outside of acceptable womanhood. So she stops being acceptable all together. She gives up on learning anything new, gives up on learning with the world, and resorts to violence to force her way. The series throws you and Yoko down into this hellish world so that it can break Yoko down to her lowest point.

So Twelve kingdoms is a confusing show with an unlikable protagonist, you may be thinking? Why do you want me to watch this? Because the payoff is wonderful. Do you remember Rising of the Shield Hero? Yoko’s like the Shield Hero, but the betrayal that makes her give up on society is xenophobia from that society. And the solution to resolve her disillusionment is receiving kindness and grace from a denizen of the new world who is equally disenfranchised. So Twelve Kingdoms is Shield Hero, if it was actually good. Yoko gets reminded of her common humanity, and slowly comes out of her funk. She starts learning about the world again and realizes that there is a way out of her current predicament- she can escape to a country that’s less racist. She begins to feel genuinely thankful for the people who have gotten her this far. She draws a line of acceptability for herself, that she won’t cross for her own sake. This show lets you watch Yoko become a person. She decides that even though she doesn’t know why she’s here, she values herself and the people around her, and that’s enough to live with purpose. It’s a really good character arc, and it reminds me of one of my all time favorites, Yona of the Dawn.

Once Yoko gets to this level of confidence, she becomes ready to learn. And finally, the show teaches you the conlang. It’s so satisfying to be able to understand what has happened up till now in retrospect. You even learn what happened with that weird guy who turned into a unicorn and got kidnapped. The chaos of the first episode gets reframed into an unfortunate event in history, brought about by subterfuge and political intrigue. And that’s how the rest of the story is framed too. The Twelve Kingdoms is a historical record of what happens within the twelve kingdoms, and Yoko, though she didn’t know it at first, is now a player on the historical stage. The series won’t focus on her so closely from here on out. It instead examines other historical events and characters that surround her. She is no longer the protagonist, instead the Twelve Kingdoms themselves are. Is this a plot twist? Whatever it is, there is only one word that I can describe it with, and that is “grand.” Every heart wrenching struggle Yoko delt with up till now could be summed up with no more than a single sentence in the tombs of history. And The Twelve Kingdoms is history, with all the vastness it entails. If worldbuilding is the art of making a world feel big, then there can be no finer examples than the Twelve Kingdoms.

[claremikas]

"oh but youko and keiki's dynamic is ass compared to the other two kirin and king dynamics we have"

you fool. you absolute buffoon. those two are more intriguing to you because you get the kirin perspective and not the king one. youko is keiki's second liege and the first one developed an unhealthy obsession with him that almost ended up killing him of course he's going to keep his distance. plus the "rebellious teen daughter and mother hen" thing they've got going on is too good for you to hate on it

[claremikas]

Youko Nakajima is THE protagonist of all time. She's an icon. She's everything. She got yeeted to another world by a gorgeous long haired blonde dude to be the empress of a kingdom at 16. Her sword tells her to kill herself 24/7. She almost starves to death like 5 times. She's getting attacked by man-eating monsters left and right. She befriends a child-sized rat and then abandons him while fighting giant birds like a lunatic. She almost got sold to a brothel. She has to unlearn the patriarchal standards placed upon her back home. Her next door neighbor and friend is a 500yo playboy. Her other next door neighbor is a bigoted old man trying to kill her. She rescues herself and the gorgeous tall blonde dude who's actually her heaven-assigned secretary. She lies to her ladies-in-waiting so she wouldn't have to have her ears pierced. She joins an uprising against herself. Her other two friends are 40 and 100 years older than her but consider themselves the same age as her. Both have contemplated ruining her life. She gets confused for a guy sometimes. She considered banning sighing because everyone was doing it around her when she became empress. She's illiterate.