night-owl-bard

[night-owl-bard]

pretend this is a twitter reply ok

sorry for the mizu5 jumpscare but i saw this and had to do it... forgive me T^T

ill get back to nice mizuena content soon i promiseee :3

[night-owl-bard]

Observing Uika like she's been observing MyGO!!!!! I guess

Uika enters the dramatic scene. The viewer's attention is drawn to her, as she takes a step forward right when the camera pans to her.

...But Sakiko acts like she hasn't even seen her. She only has eyes for one person, not even the one who called out to her:

Throughout the scene, Sakiko only speaks about Mortis, although she does acknowledge Umiri enough to talk to her about Mortis.

Uika exists in the background. She reacts - in silence, unacknowledged, to one line...

And goes on to look like a background character again.

To Sakiko, Uika doesn't exist at all throughout this scene.

Of course, to the viewer's eyes, she reacts again:

"As much as you are thinking of me, I'm thinking of you too." She clearly didn't like that line. She closed her eyes and stayed silent.

Even in the "everyone is baffled" scene, Uika is standing at a slight distance from everyone else.

Sorry, wrong screenshot.

Well, this is just that one scene. Long time no Uika, right? She's not doing very well. In an earlier scene, we saw Uika at her scariest: is Uika's problem that she struggles with intrusive thoughts?

(Uika is jealous of Mutsumi. We could tell.)

(I did feel like Tomori could have reacted a little more to that... That was a clue, lol.)

Because this above didn't happen. Uika was shocked by this vision, and took the decision to walk away.

(Lots of close-ups on her eyes, I'm noticing.)

We don't know enough yet. There are two possibilities here: possibility 1, Uika struggles with intrusive thoughts. As Mutsumi has a Scary Disorder of her own, this is totally on the table. This can be supported by the fact that despite having this vision, Uika didn't want to actually do this: since she walked away.

Possibility 2: she is a person who knows herself to become violent. This was her feeling herself about to cross that line, and running away from it just in time.

Those are wildly different scenarios. If they're intrusive thoughts, Uika isn't someone who wants to cause harm. If she's hiding that she's a violent killer, well uh, that seems harmful.

Either way, Mutsumi moves on right away - though she herself has violent thoughts right then.

Right earlier, Uika read Tomori's lyrics and, yadda yadda, close-up on freaked out eyes.

What was that vision? Is it that Tomori's lyrics elicited a vivid image, which made her scared of CRYCHIC's potential? Or was that an image of her own feelings, that Tomori's lyrics reminded her of?

If that's the latter - wasn't she a country girl? I don't know what that was. (It doesn't help that I don't know if I can trust the translation of Tomori's lyrics.) Clearly, though, she's not happy.

Other people will have brought up that Uika only then learned what Sakiko actually meant when she asked to forget everything. I wonder if her next line is because she wants to practice the right thing, if a little late, and make Tomori feel like she's forgotten CRYCHIC as well?

Earlier in the episode, which I'm clearly going through backwards, Uika had a few more Certified Uika Moments...

I may not know enough to analyse those, but it's Oblivionis' (Sakiko's) discarded... well, not outfit, that she finds and cries over.

She embraces it, crying, saying Sakiko's name.

The beginning scenes were about her obsessing over the photo published by CRYCHIC. She decided to use Anon to learn more about the situation.

Not a cityscape in that icon!

That's not a very loving gaze towards that photo of an emotional Sakiko. Remember that photo of Ave Mujica, where Sakiko was obviously unhappy, that you loved? Idiot.

I'm mostly wondering if Anon thought this was a little weird.

And there's the final scene I want to look at: Uika sees Taki and Umiri leave together and makes sure to dangle joining Ave Mujica in front of Umiri... I guess?

"That's all." Bro why did you look at her like that?

...Was she looking at Taki? I can only assume she saw Taki - a member of CRYCHIC - as a menace. This could be why she decided to follow them and clarify to Umiri that she would join Ave Mujica, so she wouldn't... be convinced otherwise?

Umiri turning around to ask Taki "did you do something?" after she had herself asked that question sounds like usual Silly Umiri antics, but adding that to Taki's surprised expression, there's a good chance she's asking "why is Uika looking at you like that? Did you do something to her?"

I think that's all for my bout of Uika stalking. Her obsession with Saki is leaving its hidden place between the lines to come to the foreground - but other than that, only one real mystery was introduced, in my opinion at least: are those intrusive thoughts or is she actually That Close to killing a bitch?

...And if they're intrusive thoughts, if her entire shtick is that struggling with intrusive thoughts makes her feel like a monster, will that be underwhelming to her longtime fans?

[night-owl-bard]

Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread

[night-owl-bard]

yeah this band girls show that's coming out sends me into a depressive spiral every time I watch it and renders me manic & unproductive with lingering effects that continue even onto the next day. it's my favorite anime of the year and I watch it every week

[night-owl-bard]

need more of this

[night-owl-bard]

me when im in a burning bridges competition and my opponent is sakiko togawa avemuji

[night-owl-bard]

GIGGLING AND CACKLING READY FOR THE CRASHOUT OF THE CENTURY

[night-owl-bard]

Created by : ☆薯餅蛋吐司☆ Respective credits to the creator ⓟⒶⓇⒶⒹⒾⓈⒺ♡ⓎⓊⓇⒾ

[night-owl-bard]

mutsumi locking herself in front

[night-owl-bard]

ik every time glinda has to do some politics shit in oz she's crying inside like "this should be elphaba's job. i shouldve just been her trophy wife"

[night-owl-bard]

it should be illegal to take a nap and still have a headache when you wake up. like no i shut it off and back on again why are you still here

[night-owl-bard]

i need her fucking dead

[night-owl-bard]

[night-owl-bard]

OH MY GOD IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED MITSUAYA HAVE FINALLY KISSED AFTER 116 CHAPTERS LETS GO LESBIANS LETS GOOOOO

[night-owl-bard]

Through the horrors

Part 1

[night-owl-bard]

Speedpaint of my @willabee portrait

She always has the best expressions...

[night-owl-bard]