#i dont even know if i can be qualified for it cuz i havent rlly finished the game tho i dont mind spoilers

[aria0fgold]

Me: Man, I sure miss being part of events, wonder if there'll be something I can join soon?

Also me at knowing bout a new p5 event: overthinking intensifies. rereads the rules and req page several times. fills out the forms but ohgod i need to join a server. rethinks everything.

[oceanwithouthermoon]

prev i honestly think this deserves its own post but i dont feel like im qualified to make it sooo if anyone can write this better or has more examples ummmmm consider this plz😝also plz tell me if anything like this has been posted before cuz i cant seem to find anyone talking about this and it makes me saddd but im pretty sure its been talked about a few times

kusuo and kurumi are similar in a lott of ways but its not always clear because kusuo, being the unreliable narrator slash tsundere slash effing liar that he is, downplays his own emotions and experiences a lot!!

i wholeheartedly think that kusuo got his anger issues from kurumi.. he actually resorts to minor casual violence pretty often (mostly as a gag, probably also more normalized because of super healing but he does do it far more than other characters, though in those minor situations hes clearly very controlled and aware of his own strength because he could easily badly hurt someone but obviously he doesnt because he doesnt WANT to OK ANYWAY) which is not very kurumi, BUT in an actual moment of genuine anger, he has a full on episode and blacks out so severely that afterward he doesnt even remember what happened during it.. this is very similar to kurumis episodes of true anger, and kusuo even exclaims that the SAME PHENOMENON happens to her during/after them

(ch 248 and ch 40, i'd also like to mention that both of these instances of severe rage are due to them being defensive of the people they care about !!! kusuo is defending akechi from bullies while kurumi is defending her family from con men. theres also the very first instance of kurumi rage in chapter 1 where technically shes just at her breaking point in a fight with her husband, but said breaking point is kuniharu stealing kusuos food lolz.)

theyre also both um. very ditzy and gullible. which for kusuo may not be obvious at first glance and even less if you havent read the manga... but very early on we see that kurumi is very gullible and naive, falling for scams a lot out of her naivety and trust in humanity AND her desire to help her family...

(ch 40)

and then theres kusuo who consistently has his vision clouded by his desires (namely: coffee jelly) and easily falls for scams or even just loses his ability to be rational or haggle like he usually can lmao (like in ch 81 where he successfully haggles a really low price for a tv and then ends up buying a coffee jelly machine at full price with no effort to haggle because he just... wants it really badly... lol...)

(ch 133 him making fun of her despite ch 201 him being the exact same way (ﾟωﾟ) silly psychic)

(this is 201 but ch 183 is the iconic 100 yen man chapter where he desperately does chores for money for a new coffee jelly machine, uses all his money on it, then sees an advertisement for a slightly cooler one, and is implied to do the same thing again (cough cough exactly like kurumi in ch 40 buying a bunch of the same things cough cough)... then we see the panels above in 201.. lmao)

along with that, theres also just the fact that he clearly has a lot of respect for her and learned most of his morals from her! so even though kusuo is very pessimistic about the world and humanity, he still navigates it in the way his mother would want him to because either he wants to make her happy or he just has internalized her views while obviously being raised by her... i dont rlly know how to give examples for this one cuz i just kinda feel it throughout the whole ass manga

The. Idiots.

(affectionate)