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Super Sonico Appreciation Week

Favorite Quote: “I–It’s the Kitty Rangers…!”

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Umitober Day 13 - Time somehow, regardless of the passage of time, you're always there

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me and @smapis 's comic sans analysis of the moms and the sayos (inspired by @/werewolfcave 's utena charts)

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one of these days....one of these days i'll reread ep7 and gather my thoughts on the horror of lion's entire life into something coherent

something about how at face value it is a much happier life compared to sayo's but it's also underpinned by so much of the same shit at the end of the day. lion's fragment is the one where kinzo's guilt doesn't send him to an early grave because setting lion up for the headship is his idea of atonement. even in a happier world this child cannot escape being used and molded for that purpose before anything else. all while having that purpose kept secret until long after that damage is done

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my children 🫶🫶🫶 (someone write more fanfiction of them PLS)

don’t point out my horrible hand drawing attempts I know

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I made this edit after finding out about the “Ai is autistic” theory

corporate needs you to find the differences between these pictures

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With only the footprints in the mud, this level of reasoning is possible for Furudo Erika. What do you think, everyone!?

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matching with mama

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"It's common for unfair things to happen between kids. And you mustn't hold onto grudges for such things forever. With time, those memories get buried away, and forgetting them bit by bit is supposed to be part of growing up and becoming an adult. So becoming an adult is the same as separating yourself from all those memories."

"And because of that. No matter how much time passed, Rosa couldn't become an adult."

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🌹Rosa pen sketches that I scanned and colored digitally! My problematic fave....🌹

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Do you ever think about the fact that Rosa has to live with what happened to Kuwardian Beatrice. You're the youngest in an abusive home and suddenly there's blood on your hands and you just have to go back home where even your family will not care. You accidentally led a woman to her death and you just have to go into your dark and lonely room where not even the walls will care. Because this is an uncaring island. Because this is an uncaring world. How much of Rosa was changed by this? How many times do you think she saw this woman's head smashed against those rocks in her mind? How many times do you think she cried over it? Did she even care?

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Sayaka Maizono or Twilight Sparkle?

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I‘m reading through Umineko atm and am at the last episode of the answers arc and that made me think a lot about ONK for some reason (or rather they‘re both occupying the same amount of brain space atm lol)

Super big fan of both and I still love ONK and many of its characters for what it tried to do, even if i really don’t enjoy the direction the ending is heading at the moment for many reasons, but one of them is the whole wrap up of the revenge-plot and Hikaru and Ai‘s relationship. I loved the 2(?) chapters where Aqua confronted Hikaru with Ai‘s timeless love letter, because it felt so human, their relationship and how deeply tragic and emotional it was but also very… real? So, to see the last few chapters flip-flop between „Kamiki is a really fascinating character with a lot of depth and deeply human“ to „He is just a mastermind manipulating liar and is just flat evil“ is really sad.

Hope it’s kinda understandable what I‘m getting at, english isn’t my first language so excuse any mistakes…

Maybe I’m just spoiled by how Umineko handled murder-mysteries and also tied those mysteries to its themes of love and relationships but, oh well.

ANON!!! I'M GRIPPING YOUR SHOULDERS!!!! THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING ALL THIS TIME!!!!!!

Obviously OnK even at its best doesn't quite reach the same heights as Umineko and even when the character drama and story are in their most well-realized forms, OnK's mystery is still kind of half baked lol. Which to be fairness to Akasaka, is a VERY different skillset than what he made his bread and butter doing but still. Very funny.

THAT SAID... I do think it's really fun to put Umineko and OnK in conversation with each other if only from a thematic/vibes perspective because I think they have some surprisingly similar things to say specifically about misogyny, autonomy and abuse. They were coming at it from very different directions, but they arrive at very similar places. "Lies are love" and "without love, it cannot be seen" aren't... not basically expressing the same sentiment after all.

Those similarities really do make it all the more disappointing where OnK ends up, though.

(Umineko spoilers behind the cut, as well as some trigger warnings; ROT13 filtered because the CWs themselves are also spoilers lol - traqre qlfcubevn, fhvpvqny vqrngvba, puvyq nohfr, cneragny vaprfg & pfn)

As much as I constantly joke about Ai of B-Komachi being Hoshino Ai's Beatrice, I think Hikaru is actually the most Sayocore character of Oshi no Ko which makes it so much more of a let down that OnK fumbles him like it does.

Like... Umineko lets you see Sayo at her absolute worst, the peak of her traumabrained depravity and nevertheless trusts that you will be able to look at her with love and empathize with her when the time comes and you start to see her heart. It treats her with such tender care, letting you excruciatingly understand every step she took down the path to finding the gold and blowing up the shrine until you realize that there really was no other way things could have gone for her. The environment of the Ushiromiya family is so incredibly poisonous and putrid that she was already one foot into suicidal ideation before she found out about her heritage and what Kinzo had done to her mother. Even if you can't agree with her actions, you can understand and sympathize with why she ends up taking them.

OnK... sort of seems like it's setting up to be doing this with Hikaru then takes a massive swerve?? It's bizarre. We even have an accidental parallel to EP8's "an accumulation of sins" moment during Ruby and Hikaru's first meeting where she fucking looks into the camera and is like "btw nobody is born ontologically evil, when people commit violent and antisocial acts their environments are almost always to blame" and that combined with how Aqua's first confrontation with him plays out and tbh the Movie Arc's characterization of Hikaru as a whole really makes it feel like the story wants you to see him as we're asked to see Sayo in Umineko - with love (read: empathy and an open mind).

But then ig it turns out he was, actually, ontologically evil and also has a serial killer cult??? So who even knows lol. What I wouldn't give to be able to pick Aka's brain for even 5 minutes as to wtf he even thought he was cooking with Hikaru in the end

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“your characters need to be likeable” allow me to introduce you to the very worst guy who ever lived

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