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Souma Sumire post

JUNKO ENOSHIMA VS SUMIRE SOUMA

So unfortunately you gave me too much freedom into what to make my Sumire Souma post about and it turned into another cross media analysis post.

So, Comun knows why I'm comparing these two characters but since we're the only two people who've seen Sagrada Reset I better explain for anyone else who clicked on this post because they saw Junko.

Sagrada Reset is a series where all the characters talk like they care college freshment in their philosophy 101 course. That sounds like a criticism but I'm describing what I like about the series, it's about the two main characters trying to define their existence.

In one small town in a far off corner of japan every single person developed super powers, for practically no explained reason. This town is kept secret because everyone who moves away from the town simply forgets about the fact that they are able to use their powers. There are those who move from the outside world into the town who develop powers, but they have to pay the price of everyone who knew them in the outside world having their memories wiped instead.

In spite of how creepy that sounds on the surface, the town runs rather smoothly in spite of the fact that everyone has super powers ranging from useless, to highly destructive, thanks in part due to a bureau that works behind the scenes managing the powers of basically everyone in town.

The story starts with Kei Asai, someone who has the ability to perfectly recall everything down to the exact detail. Instead of reading every single textbook ever and becoming a super genius like Prodigy from X-Men, Kei Asai instead uses his power in conjunction with another character who rewind time until certain marked points like reloading saves in a video game. As Kei is the only one with memory that is immune to the resets, by working with her he can reset time over and over again in order to help people with a few limitations.

One of those limitations we discover in Kei Asai's backstory, which is the third novel in the series. A novel which shows that Kei was introduced the girl he currently works with by a mutual friend of both of theirs, a girl named Sumire Souma.

Sumire Soumma helps show them how both of them can use their ability together, but then Kei discovers that after resetting once they have to wait a certain window before they can reset again. Kei resets over something relatively minor and finds out that while before the reset Sumire Souma walked home just fine, after the reset she died under mysterious circumstances (which was totally a suicide but we don't find that out until later).

The gist of this entire information dump is that for the first part of the series we do not know really who Sumire Souma is, she is just a friend of Kei's that he wants to find some way to bring back from the dead using the x-men powers in this town. After he succesfully finds a way to bring her back, that's when the plot begins in earnest and we begin learning in earnest who Sumire Souma is.

In the same novel that Sumire is brought back, we learn of a woman called "the witch" who possesses the ability to see into the future. Part of the reason that the Bureau has run so smoothly is that they've been keeping this woman locked in a room and using her visions to write down practically everything that's going to happen in town her entire life. At the end of the novel Kei successfully frees this woman from her prison so she can spend the last week of her life with her first love.

It's no coincidence that this event and Sumire's revival happen almost immediately right after one another, because Sumire is another witch. She possesses the exact same ability to see into the future, but unlike the woman who allowed herself to be locked into a room Sumire herself uses her ability proactively.

This is where you probably finally realize why I'm babbling on about this series. Sumire Souma has the ability to perfectly predict the future down to the last detaeil, and as far as I understand she can also see alternate futures that different decisions can lead under. This gives her a basically supernatural version of Junko Enoshima's Super High School Level Analysis. If she were an X-Men, Junko would probably have Sumire's abilities or something like that.

Either way both characters can predict the future to an uncanny level, and it's something only they are able to see which gives them a perspective different from any other character in their setting, and makes it hard for both of them to relate to the other human beings around them.

I should probably explain the Danganronpa part of this post before I continue even though the only person reading this post is you Comun. Danganronpa is a death game series that takes place in a school for the best of the best, most talented students in Japan. If you are the best in a certain field, you can be scouted as an "ultimate talent" and invited to Hope's Peak Academy where you can work on your talent all day long and not have to learn actual math or useful like skills. It's like X-Men but instead of cool super powers, there's a kid who's a member of the richest family in the world and another kid who writes fanfiction.

You can kind of see the connection already starting to form right, one has a bunch of abnormal teenagers who spontaneously developed super powers, and for Danganronpa, the talents are essentially the super powers for which their entire character revolves around. No one's life however, is more defined by her talent than Junko Enoshima.

Junko is known to the world as the Super High School Level Gyaru, or a worldwide phenomenon fashion model, but her real talent is the ability to analyze situations and process information at such high speeds that she can basically predict how every situation can turn out. The novel Dangan Ronpa Zero is a good example of her skills, because in it Junko basically lobotomizes herself and makes it so her memory constantly resets and the only thing she can remember is her name, and the fact she is in love with her childhood friend Yasuke Matsuda. Yet, despite the fact that she wanders around as an amnesiac mess the whole time, Junko manages to predict the actions of everyone involved so far in advance that basically everything goes according to the plans she made before she had her memories wiped.

Junko was so good at understanding people that she was able to write out scripts and give her twin sister, and co-conspirator Mukuro Ikusaba notecards, containing lines on what to say.

Junko has the ability to meet someone and then instantly see through them, see all of their worst flaws and all the best ways to twist them into the worst version of themselves. Within five minutes of speaking to you, she will know you better than you know yourseolf, and she can predict the actions that you are most likely to take. Junko's greatest talent isn't just her ability to manipulate situations, but also manipulate people and move them around like pieces on a board for some grand game that she can only see. Junko isn't playing chess, because chess requires an opponent who understands the same rules and no one can look at the world the same way Junko Enoshima does so perhaps it's more accurate to say that Junko is playing calvinball. One big game that she is playing essentially against herself because she's the only one who has the grand perspecitve of someone sitting at the board.

Which is where I explain Sumire Souma's powers in more detail, because Sumire possess an uncannily similiar ability. I already established she was a precog, but she doesn't see the entire future at once like I eluded to. Rather, Sumire can see all of the memories and emotions of the person she is talking to. However, her power isn't bound by time, so she can see all of their future memories if she keeps looking. Which is means in essence she has the same ability as Junko, but arguably more powerful, she can know everything about a person simply by talking to them.

For both girls, their predictive ability robs them entirely of the ability to interact with others on a person to person level. After all, if you can predict everything a person is going to do, it's hard to see them as a person with free will, and an internal world and logic that's entirely distinct from your own. If you're having a conversation with someone, and you know everything they're going to say, it's going to start feeling like you're talking to a bioware characters and following a classic bioware dialogue tree.

Sumire Souma talks exclusively in theme, and like she just devoured a philosophy textbook whole and is regurgitating it back out at you, but it makes sense because she does not relate to people around her on an emotional level at all. She basically has access to Rohan Kishibe's Heaven's Door, she can read their entirely life stories if she wants.

Not only does it make the people around them feel less real, less worth engaging with, it also makes Sumire Souma, and Junko Enoshima feel like they themselves are not real people.

The story of Danganronpa and Sagrada Reset are about both characters respectively trying to solve their existential dilemnas. The stories are about other things, but Junko and Sumire are the main plot movers of each story. They are not the main characters, but they are responsible for the inciting incident and they are the reason that the stories are happening. They both essentially play the role of the mastermind moving things behind the scenes in DR1 and Sagrada Reset, and even though they have different desires they are both master manipulators moving their friends forward like game piece son a board.

I'd argue that the existential dilemna is the same for both girls.

Can Enoshima Junko / Sumire Souma be a normal girl?

Enoshima Junko is smarter than any adult around her, she can navigate the world unhindered, manipulate anyone into doing what she wants, and finds people so predictable they may as well be npcs following preprogrammed code, or fictional characters reading off some script somewhere that Junko can't see. She is essentially the Gojo of her world, except if you put her into Jujutsu Kaisen she would probably find some way to kill Gojo in spite of the limitless. That's how incredibly easy life is for Junko who is playing with the cheats enabled, and because everything is so predictable she finds herself completely under stimulated. She came to associate the thing that everyone else wants, safety, comfort, happiness, and most of all hope with an unchanging status quo that robs her of her ability to feel any emotional investment and connection with the world around her.

Junko Enoshima has all the power of Gojo Satoru crammed into a tiny miniskirt and yet she is still a teenage girl, she has a sister who annoys her but she's fond of, she has a boy she's had a crush on since childhood. However, Junko's all-consuming need for stimulation causes her to mercilessly abuse her sister until said sister becomes slavishly devoted to her and lives and dies off of her approval, and make that childhood friend die by her own hand, feeling miserable, forgotten and unloved, just before she declared her love to his corpse. While it's undeniably abuse, it's also from Junko's perspective, a genuine expression of love and the only one she believes herself capable of because nothing else quite feels real.

There was a hint of sadness laid somewhere in that murmuring voice. "After all...you were the most important person to me of all..." Those were her true feelings. Yasuke Matsuda was an especially important existence for Junko Enoshima. Ever since they were children, he always stood up for her, always continued to unconditionally love her, and above all, just being by his side made her heart feel warm. But, she killed off that existence with her own hands. She stepped on it, forced it past the gates of despair, and brutally murdered it. "This...this is..." But, that's what Enoshima had desired. She loved him so much, that irreplaceable existence, more important than anyone else, almost obsessed with him to the point of insanity, always wanting to be within his embrace, even living in a world with only him would be fine. And by losing that incredible existence, just how much despair would I fall in? She nurtured her love for Matsuda all this time just to get a taste of that feeling. Seeing her loved one be smothered by despair during his last moments, she pretty much lived to experience that spectacle. Finally getting to taste that despair, "...INCREDIBLE!!"

I would argue that Junko's motivation is the same as Souma's which is why I'm comparing the two, that underneath all the screaming and crying about despair Junko's desire is to be a normal girl. It's telling that one of her last ditch attempts before committing to the killing game, is to essentially do the one thing that nerfs her talent, erasing her own memories so that her analysis can't allow her to predict the future because she's constantly forgetting the past and the present. It's doubly telling that Junko herself, goes out of her way to purposefully sabotage her attempted lobotomy so that her memories would come back and she would regain her sense of self and her talent.

When robbed of her talent Junko is still incredibly self absorbed and callous to other people's feelings, but she is in effect a normal teenage girl. To the point where Junko after recovering her memories is disgusted by how little thought she put into her appearance when she was Ryoko.

Back from her long period of absence, the first thing taken care of when returning to her dorm room was applying the makeup. Looking at her reflection in the mirror, Junko Enoshima saw despair. Geez, Matsuda-kun sure had horrible taste. Reflecting in the mirror was a simply plain, normal, and uninteresting female high school student. "...To think something like this was of value for despair." I don't know if he picked something up from his mother or something- Going over the sense of a loved one in despair while applying makeup, she next began to tidy up the room, beginning with picking off the numerous post-it notes saying "This is my room".

Junko longs to be a normal girl, or at least experience the world the same way everyone else does without the feeling of ennui making it feel like her synapses are slowly rusting making her incapable of feeling anything. However at the same time too much of her identity is informed by her talent. Junko wants to be normal, but she is a tad full of herself, and doesn't want to give up the things that makes her feel superior to others.

This is the logical paradox that destroys Junko's brain like she's one of those star trek super computers. Junko could be a normal girl if she gave up her talent, but she can't give that up without giving up her identity along with it because it's too fundamental to who she is. Junko thinks her talent makes her inherently different to others and therefore superior, making it impossible for her to emotionally relate to others which means the only thing that she has to build an identity around is her talent.

So you can see a character who can not only peer into your memories but your entire future just from having a short conversation with you like Sumire Souma might suffer from the same crisis of identity.

In fact Sumire Souma spells it out herself, what she and most likely Junko is feeling in one of my favorite pieces of dialogue from the show.

Kei: Say Souma what did you want to become in the future? Sumire: My future self? You sure change the subject fast. Kei: I was curious about it for some reason. SUMIRE: I had all sorts of dreams a long time ago. I believe I wanted to be the director of the zoo when I was in middle school. KEI: The Zoo? Sumire: I went on a field trip there and I wanted to be a director because the penguins were so cute. Kei: I see. Sumire: And there was a time when I wanted to be a picture book author, and another time when I dreamed of being a fashion designer. Kei: What about now? Sumire: Maybe it's to get into a decent university and find a company I can work at? Sumire: It occurred to me that for work anything will do. No matter what the job, I feel like I'll be able to enjoy it if I do my best. Kei: This brings back memories doesn't it? The rooftop was our hangout spot in middle school. Sumire: You're acting weird today. Nothing but uncharacteristic questions from you. Kei: I wanted to get to know you better. Sumire: I lost my future dream because I met you. KEI: Huh? Sumire: In elementary school knitting was all the rage in my class? Kei: Did you knit scarves? Sumire: Yeah, and stuffed toys but I couldn't comprehend what was fun to me. I couldn't help but feel sick of doing the same things forever. That's why I didn't like school either, because you keep doing the same thing day in and day out. Sumire: Yeah. I wear the same uniform every morning, take the same roads, and go to the same school. I feel like I'll crack from that. I wanted to lead a more free life even when I become an adult. But I realized when I met you... That sort of thing doesn't really matter, does it? Sumire: If I go to school, it's okay for every day to be the same as long as you're there. Sumire: I'm sure I can even enjoy knitting a sweater of wool if it was for you.

Sumire is speaking in metaphor here, but basically she is saying her ability to see the future was a curse because she felt like it robbed her of all freedom and all ability to be surprised, until she met Kei Asai and when she looked into his life she thought his selfless good nature was so beautiful that she fell in love.

Then she stopped caring about whether or not she was the doing the same thing day in and day out, because Kei was there with her, and what gave life meaning was not how exciting it was or how unique she felt but her relationship with him.

Their relationship is also center to the Ryoko Gambit that Sumire plays throughout the whoel series. As mentioned above Sumire kills herself, and Kei eventually finds a way to revive her but what he resurrects isn't Sumire herself. Technically, what he does is bring a copy of her from a photograph back to life. The photograph has basically all of the same memories, because her future seeing ability can fill in all of the gaps the moment she talks to Kei.

So the original Sumire sees a disaster unfolding two years into the future, and enacts a plan to prevent it that requires offing herself. Then Kei Asai creates what is essentially a swampman. A swampman is an old philosophical problem, a man walking into a swamp gets struck by lightning and died. Then, an exact copy of the man with the exact same memories randomly appears from the atoms of the swamp and keeps living like the original never died. The second Sumire has the same memories, the same motivations, would essentially be Sumire if the original didn't already exist as a corpse buried somewhere in the ground. Or, she was cremated probably. The copy could also leave Sagrada city and forget that she was a copy, because leaving the city erases all of your memories of supernatural events.

However, the original chooses to stay to enact her longterm plan. A plan that similiarly relies on her middle school friend and crush Kei Asai to act as the protagonist and carry it out.

However, the difference between Junko and Sumire isn't necessarily that Junko has destructive intentions, and Sumire's intentions are mostly helpful and beneficial. Sumire even brings this up herself once, that she isn't actually all that altruistic

“Imagine a god.”, Souma nonchalantly started telling a story. “The god started an experiment. The goal of the experiment was to turn a normal person into a saint. And one young man was chosen as the experiment’s subject.” He was already getting used to the suddenness of her long-winded metaphors. Kei nodded. “Go on.” “As the first step of the experiment, the god created a fake version of the man. The fake had no will of his own. He only acted the same way the real man would. The god thought that if the man had another one of himself, he could watch his own actions from an outsider’s perspective and that knowledge would make him a better person.” “A god should be able to learn the result without having to actually do the experiment”, Kei giggled. “This god was mostly omnipotent but far from omniscient.” “Heh, how so? If you’re omnipotent, you have the power to become omniscient.” “He had obtained all the knowledge in the universe once but quickly did away with all of it. That way he became mostly omnipotent but as close as possible to ignorant. Being a god is not easy.” (I’m curious about the god’s reason to choose ignorance over omniscience, but that’s not what Souma’s story is about.) “Okay. So the god made a copy of a man as part of an experiment to create a saint.”, Kei put the conversation back on track. “Yes. But the man didn’t change his ways. He was definitely not evil, but he certainly couldn’t be called a saint. He was sometimes kind, frequently cowardly, had common desires, and was capable of cruelty. His fake lived the same way, not good nor evil.” “And was the god satisfied with that?” “Nope. That’s why he made a second experiment. The god cursed the man. The curse made the man feel excruciating pain all over his body whenever he saw someone sad.” “Heh, sounds nasty.”, Kei answered with a completely uninterested voice. “That way, the man could no longer ignore other people’s suffering. He reached out to people in pain to relieve his own pain.”, Souma continued. “That’s exactly what the god wanted.” “The fake obviously did all the same things the man did. He wasn’t in pain or anything, but he was built to imitate the man’s actions. So, both the man and the fake lived seemingly saintly lives. The end.” The story didn’t sit right with him. “And what did the god do about what he saw?” “He gave different names for the man and the fake.” “What names?” “One was Virtue and the other was Hypocrisy.”

This is from your translation Comun. You wrote it. Credit to you.

The original Sumire helps people because she feels pain due to her ability to see into the future and experience their emotions, and the copy of Sumire helps people because... well she's a copy of Sumire and that's what the original did. Neither of them are particularly altruistic because they don't really choose to be, they are just good aligned by nature of their ability.

The difference between Sumire and Junko stems from how they treat Kei and Matsuda respectively. Junko treats Matsuda far worse than Sumire would ever treat Kei, but again it's not even a matter of Junko's tendency to inflict misery on those who love her.

Rather for both of these master manipulators, Sumire makes a choice that Junko doesn't, and probably would never. Sumire puts the choice over her future and everyone's future entirely in Kei's hands.

It's not just that Junko is bored by people, but on top of that she has an unfortunate tendency to cut people off at the knees, hampering any ability they could have possibly had to surprise her even if they wanted to try going against her plans. Junko wants Mukuro to betray her, she has for her entire life been trying to push Mukuro away because Junko is more interested in an enemy than an older sister. However, at the same time Junko does literally everything she can to make her sister rebelling against her all but impossible. She frequently physically and verbally abuses Mukuro at the smallest sign of disobedience, or if Mukuro even questions her actions. When Mukuro makes friends for the first time in her life besides Junko, she makes all of those people forget Mukuro existed, and then forces Mukuro to dress up as her and do an impression of her. Junko has so completely and thoroughly destroyed Mukuro's personhood that practically nothing is left, but Mukuro's love and loyalty for her sister. Junko wants Mukuro to betray her, but she also does not allow Mukuro to be a seperate person from her in any real tangible way.

In fact in the one au where Junko actually does release her sister from the death grip she has on her, Mukuro almost immediately betrays her like she's always wanted.

Sumire on the other hand makes a long term plan in order to prevent the big bad's plan to remove supernatural abilities from the world, but she leaves all the choice on how to fulfill that plan in Kei Asai's hands.

Sumire: Please Kei, say my name. Sumire: If you say my name correctly, you win. Kei: You were always Sumire Souma. The voice message reached you. Sumire: How can you believe that? Kei: I can tell if if I think about you. If it didn't reach you, then you wouldnt've said that my choice was correct because you're kind. Sumire: But you know, Kei I couldn't decide anything until I had you decide. I planned everything since I knew my weakness. I let you decide my name, my identity. Sumire: I gave you more baggage to shoulder. Kei: [...] The weight of the baggage was perfect. My ability exists for keeping it.

Kei is able to restore a sense of personhood to Sumire Souma just by accepting her clone, and treating her clone as the same person. When before Sumire Souma had just been a "nameless system", Kei brings her back by treating her like a normal girl.

In that sense Sumire gets a much more satisfying answer to her lifelong existential dilemna than Junko ever did, much more satisfying then Makoto's "Well, we should just hope for the best at least."

Sumire finds her answer to the dilemna in other people. Sumire Souma is Sumire Souma, because Kei knows her, because Sumire Souma has allowed one person into her life that she relates to like a friend.

So my argument on why Junko fails and Sumire succeeds has nothing to do with morality, or even the personality of the two characters, but just that Sumire found at least one person who she could relate to and Junko Enoshima remained an island to the end of her life.

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No need to choose. If read Sagrada Reset, you can get adult Aoko with both the brown hair and the white shirt and jeans aesthetic.

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The elusive Souma Sumire

(plus alt version under the cut bc I couldn't decide which one I liked better lol)

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Hanazawa Kana Enjoying Being Called a Lovely Onee-san by Ishikawa Kaito

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On the side note since I am in my time travel saga fever - if someone wants some high school drama filled with supernatural characters who have abilities connected to time (and memory) and even time travel on top I'd also recommend Sagrada reset - it's bit lacking compared to main three everyone knows but all time travel enthusiasts will get fed well. And when you get to the good stuff you came for, you'll find one of the most tragic female characters (second choice ehm ehm) who could run LG and Okabe and Subaru for MONEY FR (try to spot her on pic below). I've never seen more tragic character suffering from her ability and I've watched BSD

Ig if you liked anime Charlotte (like me) you'll enjoy it cos it gets like similar vibes

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Song: Tonari Au

Artist: THE ORAL CIGARETTES

Anime: Sagrada Reset

Type: Ending

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I got a wonderful anon ask and I immediately wanted to hear your answer, so now I'm asking you!

What is some Beatles lore that shook you to the core when you first heard about it ?

That's such an interesting question! Thank you for passing it on.

I think three big ones for me are the following:

a) Barcelona. Specifically, the fact that no effort was made to come up with a 'professional reason' for John and Brian to go together (business meeting or the like). They went, because they wanted to. Yes, I'm aware of the whole "John got angry people thought he was queer!/ He was a smart cookie and asserted his leadership"— chorus—and yet. Here it is: a curious waypoint in the becoming of the Beatles, right along with the Fete and the arrival of Ringo, when John split from the other three, and Brian, against his later professed principles, picked a favorite, and two of them took off and disappeared into the shadows thrown by the Sagrada Familia.

b) Massey & Coggins. Paul McCartney's coil winding job he held for eight weeks at the beginning of 1961, ended by John giving him an ultimatum asking him to either quit the job or be thrown out of the band—events John later framed as himself forcing Paul to "choose between me and his dad," "and in the end he chose me." Picked this one for 'the Beatles almost didn't happen' reasons, and for 'what is this John and Paul business' reasons.

c) The physical reality of McBeardy. I'd long been aware that Paul had a full beard at some point, but seeing wasted, majestic, masculine, feminine, seductive, tall, curvy, all-at-once McBeardy in motion reset the parameter space I used to represent the Beatles' band dynamics. And the moment he plucked GET BACK from thin air by sheer will. (That one is seen, not heard, but...)

Thank you for the ask!

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So I’m fucking around and finding out Lmaoo. Tryna get back right You know the girlies and I’m pretty sure some of the fellas too wanna know how I keep this waist snatched and I’ll give you some of the tea…no pun intended on how we’re staying in shape, healthy and know transitioning into winter were strengthening our immune system. A lot of the tips and things that I’m sharing is actually a perfect time because a lot of these things would be perfect time to implement while we go through this phase of hibernation. By summer we wanna pop tf out and be our best selves. With me it was a spiritual journey more than anything.

Before we get into the good stuff 1st I wanted to get into with you guys is the body. Our bodies are temples right. They’re the temples of our individual consciousness so it’s important they are well taken care of and remain in constant balance with ourselves.

Being healthy comes from that our body is a piece before we start any journey the 1st thing we want to do is make sure our bodies are at peace. When committing to a holistic lifestyle for whatever reason it requires discipline and it’s hard to remain discipline if you’re not at a stable level of peace. Without that peace you’ll be traveling down a wormhole in space. So work on meditating and grounding yourself everyday centering on the goals as well as the transformation you’re beginning to take in becoming a more whole you. Once you master the mind you’ll begin to be ready to master the body.

•cascara sagrada. •nettle leaf

Now 1st thing we’ll be doing is removing the waste that harbors in the body. Creating diseases, excess fat, mental fog, skin issues and bad gut. One of the key components in detoxing is understanding gut health and cleaning the gut. The gut is connected to our nervous system which in return is connected to how we feel. Once we get that together we can kickstart the process easily. Restoration has begun. Starting our detox process with these two herbs for me has worked because cascara sagrada is a known herbal laxative cleaning the colon. In turn helping us remove waste, get rid of stomach fat and promote better food digestion. Which I need okay I been eating so unhealthy and I need to just kickstart getting the trash out of my body. I’m gonna follow it up daily with nettle. (Cascara only once or twice a week. It’s extreme and with laxatives you never wanna take often just to kickstart your process then when you’re feeling irregular or constipated.) We’re following up with nettle because this plant is so high in nutrients and vitamins as well as so gentle but effective it’s recommended to expectant mothers. Nettle good for the joints and bones, great for beauty and great for boosting the immune system. Nettle is also great for magical purposes as well. Great for protection, attracting wealth as well as purification which we are doing purifying our body as well as giving the body restoration needed to obtain strength and wellness. Especially by getting rid of the accum waste of the body and mind. If you cannot do the intensity of cascara degrade which is not recommended for those with kidney issues, inflammatory bowl diseases, stomach pain or appendix issues. I’ll recommend

With any laxative especially the activated charcoal which is a total reset use probiotics to restore those lost for a healthy gut flora. I also love to take my charcoal with aloe juice

Lakewood is my favorite brand of pre pressed juices at the current moment. Or another good one that’ll give you that glow is celery or a good green juice.

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The Essential Guide to Colon Cleansing and Natural Detoxification for Optimal Digestive Health

In today's fast-paced and stressful world, maintaining a healthy digestive system is crucial for overall well-being. With the rise of sedentary lifestyles and consumption of processed foods, issues like fecal buildup and digestive problems have become increasingly common. Fortunately, there are effective methods to address these concerns, such as colon cleansing and natural detoxification. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the benefits, techniques, and tips for achieving optimal digestive health. Part 1: Understanding the Importance of Colon Cleansing 1. What is Colon Cleansing? Colon cleansing, also known as colon detoxification, refers to the process of eliminating toxins, waste, and accumulated fecal matter from the colon. It aims to improve digestive health, remove harmful substances, and enhance nutrient absorption. 2. 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[insomnia-hurts-me]

I just thought I'd speak my mind on here since I've been stressed and I found out you can add songs since I'm always listening to music anyways maybe I can help somebody find a new song they might like or something I don't know I guess I don't listen to really unheard of songs though so.

[kaibutsushidousha]

What’s the best way to translate “正義の味方” in your opinion? I always thought Ally of Justice was best since Heaven’s Feel talks about Allying with people a lot.

Simply "hero" is what works best for Concrete Revolutio since tokusatsu heroes are a central part of its imagery. Fate/stay night, however, can't afford this usage because the term "hero" needs to be saved for actual mythological heroes, so the solutions you see around are the thoughtlessly calqued "ally of justice", the clumsily appended "hero of justice", and "superhero" which works beautifully for the scenes meant to highlight the silliness of Shirou's unrealistic dream but feel detracting when used in his moment of triumphs. I probably used hero of justice in the Fem's Casa summaries, but those are not real translation, so recognizability takes priority over proper delivery. For a real translation, maybe I'd go with champion of justice, but I for the time being that's not my problem.

Now for the part that actually is my problem. Sagrada Reset. Ukawa's debut is coming relatively soon, so I would have to deliberate on seigi no mikata with our without this ask. This is likely to change once I get an actual feel of the text, but tentatively I'm thinking of going with superhero. Unlike Shirou, Ukawa is more consistently presented as highly unserious in her justice speeches. Champion of justice, or even paragon of virtue, are another really appealing options for Ukawa's over-the-top nature, but I feel like the single word superhero is a better for Kouno's minimalistic prose. Not to mention, virtue is already a semi-unrelated keyword in Sagrada Reset.

Those are the only cases I remember seigi no mikata being a recurring keyword. For everything else, the idiom appears as one-off lines, so my options will depend on the character and situation. Your average JP-EN dictionary already provides plenty of options, and if you're creative enough, you can find other fitting synonyms not mentioned there, like my previous "paragon of virtue" example.

[sorairoknife]

I still use my notebooks from highschool so whenever I turn a page I risk getting jumpscared by a pencil sketch of the heroine from a random 2017 seasonal anime

[strawberry-metal]

Noein: To Your Other Self, and Sagrada Reset are two of my more obscure favs in the time fuckery genre!

Oh hell yeah I love obscure stuff! Thanks for the recs!

[cuchufletapl]

Free! (2013) is a sports anime that (while not being an actual shojo) caters to teenage girls, and one of the main draws of the show is what I like to call fujo-bait: the main cast is all attractive teenage boys whose relationships with each other are very easily read as gay.

And that's not just fandom doing fandom things, it's very obviously intentional. I guess it's a sort of queerbaiting, except, unlike western media, there's no "will they, won't they" aspect to it — the anime isn't marked as a BL (probably because it allows it to be aired during daytime[1: edit below] and to be marketed with further reach), so everyone who watches it knows that none of the ships are gonna be canon. The almost "kisses" and the pushing against a wall and the ambiguous dialogue and such are meant as fanservice to inspire doujinshis and other fanworks in Japanese fujoshi fandom.

Here's a pretty good video on this subject in general, if you're interested.

Anyway.

Enter Yuri!!! On Ice in 2016.

A sports anime. Not marketed as a Boys' Love anime. If I remember correctly, it also aired at daytime[2: edit below].

Both the Japanese fujoshis and western otakus thought that we knew what to expect. Something along the lines of Free! and any other anime that had decided to lean into queer fandoms as a marketing tactic.

I remember when in episode one Victor stood up from the bath completely naked and people where like, "Holy shit, okay, they're starting really strong with the fanservice." The couple episodes that followed it, when Victor was still coming very strong onto Yuuri, there were jokes about how the amount of exclamation marks in the title seemed to correlate with how gay and fujo-baity an anime was gonna be. That's all we thought YoI was ever going to be, like its predecessors in the genre had been.

And then they kiss in episode seven. And actual, honest-to-god kiss.

People lost their shit.

Tumblr's servers collapsed.

The censorship of the kiss gave way to heated discussions on whether it had been a hug instead, but their faces' angle and the audience at the rink's reaction made it clear that it hadn't been — particularly when the show kept going and things like Yuuri and Victor getting engaged in front of the Sagrada Familia happened, further cementing that their relationship was textually, explicitly romantic.

It also reframed every interaction they had had up until that point, because then, oh, it's not just fanservice for the fujoshi watchers, it's build-up to an actual romance.

Obviously I can't speak for everyone who watched YoI, but in my corner of fandom and what I saw outside of it, everyone was shipping victuuri but no one was hoping for them to be canon. I can't emphasize enough how unexpected it was.

I believe that was the point, also. I think (I'm not sure, maybe I'm misremembering, I can't find the statement, take it with a grain of salt) that Kubo said something to that effect — she wanted to make a sports anime that wasn't (strictly speaking) a BL and that had an m/m couple as endgame.

A lot of people getting into Yuri!!! On Ice after that go in with the knowledge that victuuri is canon, so I think some of that "cultural reset" feeling may be lost? Particularly if they're not familiar with other sports anime and manga like Haikyuu!!, Kuroko no Basket or the aforementioned most egregious example, Free! — because they haven't experienced what the fandoms of not-canonically-gay-but-still-very-gay animes are like. (On the other hand, it allows y'all to view and enjoy the anime as an actual romance from the get-go, which is cool.)

[1] edit: so I recently learned that it's a myth that BL/yuri can't be aired during daytime. Actually, most anime except really popular series (or kids' television) is broadcast late at night anyway, even if they're not considered to be 18+. That probably included Free!, given that it first aired on Tokyo MX, which is known for late-night anime according to Wikipedia. Sorry, I should've fact-checked that before posting!

[2] edit: no, it didn't and I wasn't remembering correctly. YoI airing during daytime as an explanation for why the kiss was censored is a rumour that's been going around in the fandom since the beginning (see above for limited broadcasting of yuri/BL not even being a thing). I've taken it at face value for years, but it's patently not true. dragonaeve set me straight in the replies: Yuri!!! On Ice aired past 2am. Sorry again!

I don't think anyone should be permitted to watch Yuri On ICE and judge it unless they have not watched the first two seasons and one movie of Free! before. You just cannot understand the cultural impact without.

[animecatoftheday]

Today's anime cat of the day is:

Mike from Sakurada Reset!