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thecottagecorebisexuals · 16 hours ago

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Yeah it's definitely telling about society. Hamefura is intended to be mindless fun rather than thought provoking social commentary but there are so many elements to analyze that don't get very expanded on (like Sora getting sold bc he tried stealing the medicine to save his mentor bc it was too expensive) in it that I'm saying "hold up, you can't drop this and leave it at that" many times throughout it.

About how FL affects Hamefura, we do know that some things just have to happen (like Pochi for example or Catarina getting accused of bullying Maria) but it's in a very flexible way. So fate definitely exists but maybe not in a set in stone way. I feel that we have a script that it's written mostly in graphite pencil with some words written with ink and we have an eraser for the pencil but no way to change the ink.

That's pretty interesting! And more confidence definitely is essential in the makeover™️. Which is why the shallowness social commentary they sometimes have often falls flat to me, since beauty and confidence are never really separated in them. Irl they're a bit connected ofc but movies don't visually commit to separate them.

My Next Life as a Villainess provides an interesting commentary on how appearances do change the way people perceive you, but it doesn't feel intentional

Because the Unnamed girl who reincarnated into Katarina has the same personality she had in her previous life once she regained her memories and that obviously is a huge part of what draws people to her, but we literally only see her with one friend in her previous life, when she's less conventionally attractive (she's not even unattractive, she's just like plain)

Yet in her new life everyone wants to be around her and be her friend (or her significant other) and it's not her personality that's different in this, it's her appearance

And literally the show, manga, and light novels don't go into any of this at all really, it's just there lurking in the background

Which is fascinating in its own right as it makes it difficult to tell if it's because it's unintentional on the author's part or if it's intentional but not something they want to deeply address, either way, I still think it's important overall

#hamefura #my next life as a villainess #like. some things have to happen no matter how ridiculous like Cata getting accused of bullying Maria #but other things like Mary's character went off the rails #this reminds me of this isekai maid is forming an union #things happen as usual but the moment the words written stop or no longer reflect the universe it goes in a direction that makes sense but #it's not the intended one #they're not longer bound by the story because it ended or was changed by an external force but they're still what the story made them to be #but due to plot holes or lack of self-awareness or by writing an unsustainable situation characters change and do stuff that go against the #author's intent #like there was a character whose origin story was workplace abuse but ends up abusing maids. when called out it's like: what am I doing?#or a romancing the tyrant story reaches the ending and then the kingdom goes through revolution because the king was awful #the fl characters were made a certain way. they can't be easily a drastically different person but you can change their circumstances #how much the og narrative controls them ig that depends on how much was a coincidence and what was something that the universe needed it to #happen.#like do the capture targets have to be attracted to the player? or that was bc Catarina accidentally was their type #(+ Mary)#like as people with their personality and history they have something that catches their interest (Geordo: Peculiarity #Keith: genuine connection Mary: Validation Nicol: Acceptance of Sophia who's a big part of his life #alan got closer to both og maria and cata because of his inferiority complex #or notice them better at least because they were better at something and that made him mad #)#so they got close to Cata because of who they were but could she have charmed them in another way? Could another character have?

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