#;__; hellhoppers...... man....

[doomednarrative]

The thing is that Light Yagami is actually one of my favorite characters of all time, I just don't say it a lot cause I don't want people getting the wrong idea that I agree with him or think he's in the right. He's not, and he sucks, but he does have a depth in the same vein as L that fascinates me, and tbh if I hadn't watched DN for the first time when I was 12 maybe I'd feel different but like. He definitely influenced my taste in characters iirevocably going forward.

[pleuvoire]

my translation :)

Yaguruma and Kageyama were both introduced as elite characters, so it's surprising that they've run off into the gutter in the second half.

Tokuyama: Yeah, since Yaguruma's revival I've put a lot of effort into building his character. I think he must be kind of insane, and I have to figure out to what degree I want to convey that. But he also has scenes like slurping cup ramen and falling in love [with Mamiya Rena], which were not at all part of the mental version I had of him, so I questioned myself and worried endlessly. But then, as if someone else understood my struggle, on the Toei homepage it said about Yaguruma, "Stir things up, within the boundaries of a children's show" (laughing). So I thought that, to take it positively, I could just relax and not think about it too hard.

For Kageyama in particular, his character is constantly seesawing back and forth, wasn't that difficult?

Uchiyama: Honestly, it doesn't make me go "Huh?!" as much as it did at the beginning. On the contrary, part of me has started to look forward to seeing how his character will change next. He's not so much changing gradually as brazenly flipping every time, enough to make you go "Who are you?!" (laughing), so I've decided to just play him as being super contradictory.

When Yaguruma said "become my little brother", it was really shocking! I thought, why his little brother...?

Tokuyama: To me, he's saying things like "become my little brother" and "let's fall into hell together" to manipulate him. They aren't just sweet invitations...

Uchiyama: At first, I felt the same - even though he was calling them brothers, they didn't feel like the type of pair who could trust each other to fight back to back. I think Kageyama himself doubted that, somewhere inside of him. And another part of him was gunning for it, thinking "maybe, if things work out..." And now they're best bros. (laughing)

It looks like you're really in sync performance-wise, when did you feel that starting to happen?

Tokuyama: Around the time of Yaguruma's revival. We had a lot of scenes together, and we'd wrap up at the same time and go get something to eat together, stuff like that. We hang out regularly, and we get along really well together. I don't hold anything back, and I encourage him not to do so either.

Uchiyama: Because if someone holds back on me, I end up doing the same.

So as actors, how do you view each other?

Tokuyama: Not just as an actor, but as someone living as a Rider now, I feel like he's - and I mean this in a good way - awkward about his performance. He doesn't pull any clever tricks.

Uchiyama: When Tokuyama-san flips his switch, it's really amazing. Between talking to him on the studio bus versus when he gets on set, everything about him is different. Since I'm always the closest to him, I can tell even from his smallest gestures, "Ah, he's completely in the zone now!"

Tokuyama: Even though I don't notice it myself...

Uchiyama: My parents are certified teachers, so they're always telling me "You could learn a thing or two from that Tokuyama-san, being that composed while crawling around on all fours!"

Tokuyama: Make sure you write that down! (laughing)

Uchiyama: If it were anyone other than Tokuyama-san, I don't think we'd be nearly as good a combo. Tokuyama-san, I'm glad to have you ♥

But right when you've finally become a powerful combo even in-universe, Kageyama got turned into a Worm and Yaguruma had to defeat him... That sounds so sad! Though I haven't watched it yet. (?)

Uchiyama: Yeah, I feel that way more than anyone (laughing). I was hoping there'd be a final boss at the end that everyone would work together against...! Though in the end, the way I can't really tell what the Hoppers were there for, or what Kageyama was fighting for, it's quite...

Tokuyama: Personally, I think the fact that Yaguruma was searching for the light is exactly what let him find a partner, and now he'll sink even further into darkness and pain... I want to hurl that story [of their last scene] at the audience.

Uchiyama: Since Kageyama realized he was a worm, he didn't want to become a rerun of Kamishiro Tsurugi - he wanted to die as himself.

Tokuyama: It's all right, I won't let that happen. (T/N he's speaking as yaguruma here, using "ore" instead of "boku" like he usually does.) No matter what acting you do, my reaction is going to be totally different, so even if you turn into a Worm, I'll still look expressionless. Uchiyama: If you do that, even my face will change when I die. I just want us to keep being brothers until the last shot of my final moments. Tokuyama: But my (T/N still "ore") ideal vision is that, even if we couldn't be "perfect harmony" in your last moments, we're still Yaguruma Sou and his dear subordinate Kageyama. Like we finally found a place to belong... I want it to end with a little bit of hope. Uchiyama: I feel like, when Kageyama turns to Yaguruma, he's already found it. If he didn't find it, he could just run from there. But instead he faces it head-on. Tokuyama: And instead, Yaguruma accepts that and strikes him down. And that's the "perfect harmony" those two end on. It's very sad, but a good story. Thank you very much!

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[doomednarrative]

hellhoppers!

How I feel about this character:

I'm So Normal About Those Losers

In all seriousness tho, they have haunted me for a year now and every single time I think about them (and the Zi O episodes that brought them back specifically to hurt me even more) I just start wailing. Yes they're losers, yes they kinda suck, yes they created a lot of their own issues. But they're MY beloved losers and they're tragic and I take them more seriously than they probably were intended to be and therefore I love them dearly, enough to have their CSM Zector even.

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

They're a set do not separate!! Only made for each other in hell <3

My non-romantic OTP for this character:

None really, tho they were funny with Tsurugi in their group too

My unpopular opinion about this character:

I mean I'm already in the more niche bit of the fandom by taking them uber seriously and writing meta about their bullshit so I think that alone does it lol

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:

I mean fuck man I just want Yaguruma at least to be able to not be miserable for the rest of his life at this point where the series ends but I'm not getting that.