#he’s voiced by a GOAT VA (which is makoto furukawa)

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I know some ppl in the BUCCHIGIRI?! community would disagree with me (or jump on me as a worst case scenario) but…

I truly feel sorry for Jabashiri as a whole cuz way back in Episode 2, he was kind of setup to be Matakara’s bitter and unequal rival.

I mean look at his design:

And then you compare it to Matakara’s:

Right there, you can see the obvious differences:

Design:

- Jabashiri has short blue hair and Matakara’s has orange-brown short but fluffy hair.

- Jabashiri wears his piercings on his left ear while Matakara wore his on the right.

Personality:

- Jabashiri likes to revel in violence but deep down, he has shown to have a honorable and caring side of him if him going up against a nameless Minato Kai grunt is of any indication after he and everyone else assumed that the latter group was responsible for Outa’s injury (when in actuality it was NG Boys) whereas Matakara is a caring and honorable person upfront but won’t hesitate to use violence.

- How both reacted to the truth of NG Boys being behind the Gang Wars: Matakara noticed Zabu being distressed and after the latter revealed that he recklessly challenged Akutaro, Matakara doesn’t blame Zabu at all and set out to confront the root of the problem itself. Jabashiri on the other hand was unaware of the truth and went ahead with the Gang War until Arajin brought in the NG Boys and both he and all of the gang members involved in it are shown the truth.

I can’t find anything they have in common other than having older brothers (Jabashiri’s bio reveals that he has a mum, dad and big brother) but we don’t know anything about Jabashiri’s relationship with his older brother while we are shown some aspects of Matakara’s relationship with Mitsukuni (whether or not Matakara is idealizing Mitsukuni and the latter is not how the former think he is would be another situation altogether)

I know it’s not a whole lot but long story short: I wish that Jabashiri and Matakara should’ve been each other’s foils.

Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk on why the writers sort of failed to capitalise and invest on this rivalry.