#a meta I should write sometime tbh it's much more important and in depth than this silly thing

[akechi-stole-my-heart]

obsessed with sumire's magical girl transformation. she is literally transforming herself into someone else. her awakening is nearly painless. she struggles at first but the moment she wears the mask--kasumi's mask--that all disappears. she doesn't bleed when she rips off the mask because she never really ripped it off at all. it's glorified beautiful and far too easy. it doesn't even make her that tired afterwards. the dialogue subtly foreshadows what's really going on with lines like "the spell cast upon you" / "well, if those really are the shoes you've chosen" and lines like "let me remind you who you're talking to, i am kasumi yoshizawa" get completely reframed by future events. even the way her outfit is a carbon copy of joker's--she's becoming the people she idealizes and casting off anything that makes her sumire. she starts the magical girl sequence with her hair down and it gets pulled up into the ribbon, completing her transformation into kasumi. she makes me so insane.