#back on my earlier train of thought yeah daiya’s one signature is the tokenism | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

daisyachain · 1 year ago

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For a show with so much well let’s say fan base, Daiya surprisingly avoids the clumsy accidentally shounen relationship focus, instead using subtler, slower, deliberate development of Sawamura’s relationships with Chris and Miyuki. The show about having a good time playing ball is in fact just about having a good time playing ball. That’s what makes it even odder that it’s Ugumori that fits into ye goode olde unintentional subtext

#not the most well-known characters nor the most prominent rival team. but how else can you look at umemiya and nao!#kelsey liveblogs anime #yes it’s because of terajima’s ill-executed well-intentioned commitment to tokenism and his inability to write those characters he brings in #still. something refreshing about hearing some good old hot blooded roaring about giving your life up to someone else to be a proxy #I do enjoy that kind of friendship #back on my earlier train of thought yeah daiya’s one signature is the tokenism #admirable in a weird way. it’s never more subtle than a hammer to the head but it’s there and it keeps chugging along #there will be exactly one (1) character every two arcs who represents some kind of oft-ignored marginalization #and who will be given a mildly micro aggressive characterization.#Wakana the coed athlete…who is on the losing team and is banished to the provincial school where we don’t know if she even plays #Kamiya the Brazilian star runner…who wanders around without a shirt on #the Todorokis the lower-class strivers…who are loud dumb and crass #nao the mobility-impaired former player…who is so generically inspiring he gets the team to new heights

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