#ayana otonashi

[funubashi]

[hikkisaviour]

[kstnt]

it's nothing. mamiya-kun just jumped off.

[556ch0cl8]

Cursed Life/Blessed Life

[nekomoder]

[bootlegraven]

Off-putting women set to stare at me at the rare moments I open my main monitor's desktop

[chaos-thea]

The more experimental/trippy/psychological weeb media I consume the more I notice a pattern that I fondly call “the denpa girl”, because all these works have some connection to the denpa genre and use similar motifs/symbolism.

Rei Ayanami - Lain Iwakura - Aoi Mukou - Ayana Otonashi - Tamara Nozomi

There are probably many other characters who I’m missing, but the binding characteristics in all of the ones listed above are: they’re silent/stoic or off-beat in some way. Disconnected from the world. Associated with rooftops. In series which have motifs either relating to telephone lines or the psychological transformation of the protagonist. Sometimes both - sometimes they are the protagonist.

This is because “denpa” quite literally means “electromagnetic waves causing bizarre behavior and disconnect from reality”. So the connection to the roof and telephone lines is a way to show these characters are affected by the “electromagnetic waves”. It’s also an easy way to show disconnection from others and the mystery of them knowing something the protagonists don’t, with the rooftop being symbolism to portray them as beings connected to a higher plane.

Either way, they work as a sort of symbol and callback to other works under the denpa umbrella. Since all of the titles I mentioned above are deeply interconnected to and inspired by the other.

And to be honest? I just love this kind of character.

[orange77588517748]

[c0ckedgun]

ayana

[supersuperlove]

[joyce-stick]

Never played the Metal Gear games (yet) but we made an edit of this a while ago putting in Ayana's theme from Subahibi which makes it a lot better

You should never forget literally the best line in all of video games

[hikkisaviour]

Denpatron

[kstnt]

ayana

[556ch0cl8]

Ayana

[sghwwyji]

[junosartz]

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