Hot take from ID: Invaded, I like the character Akihito Narihisago more than Saikaido. I think Akihito is more dynamic as a character personally and although he has done (and unfortunately might try again) terrible things, but I get it, as another human (derogatory). Being a person with terrible flaws is understandable, and in that I find fellowship with him. Damn I feel his anguish, his self-loathing, his obsessive behavior. It sucks, and I get that. I really do.
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Do the people know about Id: Invaded. Do they know. Do they know about unhinged murder anti-hero of all time Akihito Narihisago and ultimate sad wet cat villain man Tamotsu Fukuda. Do they know about feral danger crime-solver girl Koharu Hondomachi who referred to the destruction of an entire dimension world in someone’s head as “pretty.” Do they know about the series’ exploration of the themes of what it means to be “broken” and to choose hope and self-improvement and how to really define the term “evil.” DO THEY KNOW ABOUT HORRIBLE YET TRAUMATIZED MURDER LADY NAHOSHI INAMI AND HER PATHETIC (COMPLIMENTARY, AFFECTIONATE) RELATIONSHIP WITH HER BOYFRIEND AND MURDER ACCOMPLICE
Sakaido: He’s the psychological representation of Akihito Narihisago, a former detective who killed the man who killed his daughter and now routinely drives serial killers to suicide, he’s done nothing wrong.
So Jung-hwa; The only competent detective/police officer in the entire series, and the only sane character as well. Give her a raise
The reason I decided to watch ID:Invaded was because of it's soundtrack. It completely hooked me, and so after several hours of listening to the music, I finally started watching the anime. My first impression was this: the animation is stunning, the mystery is intoxicating, and this world is completely new and unfamiliar. I was excited to see where the show would go from there, and how the characters would grow, but it didn't seem to move forward much. I will begin to discuss some major plot points that will spoil the show. Read below at your own risk.
Sure, we had our field specialist Hondomachi go from an innocent character to a cunning and cold murderer, but I would hardly count that as character growth since it seemed like the sudden growth was caused by nothing. It was like, she was caught by the perforator and then she decided to grow up and become the cunning character she is. The only other character with any real growth is Sakaido, or Akihito Narihisago, the only reason I'm giving this show 6/10 and not 3/10 is because of Narihisago. As a detective, it's been implied that he often focused more on his work rather than his family. When his daughter falls victim to the challenger, and his wife commits suicide, Narihisago realises how he took the time with his family for granted. Eaten up by guilt and anger, he finds and kills the challenger... then ends up imprisoned. Interesting, right? Why is a police officer going to jail for killing a murderer? They never explained why, it was almost like they expected us to know why. Okay, fine. Later on however, Narihisago kills the challenger in Kiki Asukai's Id well, and it was classified as self-defence, here are the differences between those two occurences: Narihisago had no proof for the challenger being who he is when he was in Asukai's Id, his daughter was not a victim to the challenger yet, he invited the challenger to a physical fight, he got injured during the fight. Does his inviting the challenger to the fight and getting injured justify how he killed the challenger any more than when he shot him after his daughter's death? No! Moving on from this point, the death of Narihisago's family takes a huge toll on him, and he ends up working for the Kura as a "brilliant detective" and that ruins his mental health even more. When he enters Kiki Asukai's well, we see him go back to his old life, doing all the things he regretted not doing before, while still denying reality. We see him heal, grow, and become a different person from the man who drove serial killers to suicide.
Other than Hondomachi and Narihisago, there are no characters with any real personality, I did not relate to them, I do not care about them, they just seem pitiful and bland. One might ask "but what about Tamotsu Fukuda?" (if they remembered his name, that is), and the answer is this: he is not pitiful or boring, he is just poorly written. A serial killer who drills holes in other people's heads, because he drilled a hole in his own head, because the world feels incomplete, and because he has arithmomania. How does this follow exactly? I do not know. Nobody needs to know, it's just a nice little backstory to make us sympathise with a serial killer, and to give him an advantage to other characters so he can become Hondomachi's knight in shining armor!
Now, what about Kiki Asukai, if she's so important, how can she be so bland? Well it's because Kiki Asukai is not Kiki Asukai. She's a damsel in distress, with so much power she cannot handle. She's Lucy from Elfen Lied, mixed with the archetype of the damsel in distress, fitting for an anime that is so focused on Freud's theory of Id, but it is to be expected that a story that puts so much focus on a character must personalise that character, because archetypes do not have personality. Kiki Asukai is barely a character, even the scene where she leaves the Mizuhanome is so heavily influenced on Elfen Lied's Lucy. Of course, it is more than acceptable to be influenced, this is not plagiarism, but the fact that they did not try to be creative in how Kiki Asukai was walking outside the Mizuhanome and made it so that she was reacting exactly the way Lucy was, means the show has no originality whatsoever when it comes to Kiki Asukai.
To conclude, the music is amazing, the animation is impressive, the idea is great, but the execution was one character away from being an absolute failure.
I just want to add this to Anaido's list of dumb deaths, right below "Refuses to acknowledge numbers for his own mental health" and "Just wants to die but if he can piss Kura off it's one bird two stones !"
Matsutake Dobinmushi and Dragon & Phoenix (Food Fantasy)...
Nihongo (Touken Ranbu)...
...and Dainsleif (Genshin Impact)!
He also voiced anime characters like Suoh Mikoto and Zenjou Gouki (K Project), Tatsu (Way of the Househusband), Narihisago Akihito/Sakaido (ID: Invaded), and Kento Nanami (Jujutsu Kaisen).
Hello! I’m Evermor and I recently watched ID: Invaded and I really enjoyed it. The way I show my love for things I enjoy is by making aus, so, I’m going to explain my au Separated Gemini.
In this au Akihito has an older twin brother named Katsuhito Sakaido, they are identical twins, but, nobody remembers Katsuhito, if you asked anyone who should know him, they’ll look at you like you’re crazy, and that’s because Katsuhito was written out of the universe, He was around 19 when he was written out of the universe, it’s been, roughly 18 years since then. Just so you know, the actual people who are responsible for the universe and writing people in or out actually weren’t the people who wrote out Katsuhito, he was always supposed to be there.
In what is the first episode, Katsuhito wakes up in the brilliant detective’s body too, although in pieces. He can tell an amnesiac Akihito is there, but, Akihito, or I guess the brilliant detective Sakaido doesn’t know Katsuhito is there. Katsuhito takes a backseat despite being a better detective than his twin, because he could tell they were being monitored and they could probably tell a sudden change in attitude, and he’d rather not deal with that.
Here’s a little thing, every person has a soul, kinda like the ones in soul eater but nobody is aware of them, it’s an essential part of who they are, however, identical twins share one soul, when Katsuhito was written out, Akihito and his soul was spilt in two, this caused a lot of problems for Akihito, it made him very unstable, emotionally and mentally. Here’s the thing, if Katsuhito was completely written out, the soul would solely belong to Akihito, thus making him emotionally and mentally stable. Someone needed Akihito to be unstable, the person who wrote out Katsuhito is human actually, and it was non other than John walker. When Akihito finished the case, Akihito mentioned that for the first time in a long time, he felt complete, and he doesn’t know why, well the reason is obvious enough but, it’s because his soul was finally complete for the first time in 18 years, because his twin was with him. One more, even if Akihito doesn’t remember Katsuhito, he still feels incomplete when he’s not the brilliant detective Sakaido, because Katsuhito was just written out of the universe enough for their soul to split in half, so he can still feel him in a way, so this dull ache is in his heart and he doesn’t know why.
That’s basically it, it’s not fully fleshed out and it’s not complete but I’m really happy with it, if you have any questions please just ask, but please be nice.