#jnauary please come soon. im over waiting thank you

[todayisafridaynight]

NO I WAS THINKING ABOUT SEEING MORE OF ARASAWA IN INFINITE WEALTH JUST NOW since before Akane was brought up and the young Arakawa screenshot came out, I was 100% certain the flashbacks would be from Jo or Ichi's perspectives, if any... now that it's most likely between Jo and Akane, I'm not sure what to think...

Because there's probably more than one scene with Arakawa (just based on the huge tonal shift from the screenshot to his voice line + him being part of the main lineup). Jo definitely has seen both sides of Arakawa, and he definitely has enough screentime to have the opportunity to reminisce about him. At this point I'm still half-expecting Akane to be a perpetual "your princess queen is in another castle," or for her to at least be endgame enough that tying up loose ends with Arakawa in that time might be tricky.

On the other hand, Furuta's co-writing the script, and for his games, you kind of figure out "the mystery" like halfway or two thirds in and the main person of interest shows up pretty regularly from there. The idea of Akane having screentime that substantial is SO crazy... this 70 year old woman who's got almost 50 years of catching up to do with her son and Potentially still remembers her man clear as day... another Potential point of contrast with Jo forgetting Ikumi btw...

Anyway. Point is. We could get more young AraSawa scenes... It's A Possibility... but if the alternative is young AraAka (among others such as "more than one or two people can remember Arakawa" and "the flashbacks occur independently of perspective") I'll shit my pants either way that's a promise <3 Can't wait for answers in January <3

the possibility of experiencing young arakawa through both sawashiro and akane's memories is ticklin my bones in some kinda way. i dont know HOW different their perspectives of arakawa will be, but it aint deniable that they'll have a diff view on him that im PRAAYYING will be shown through the flashbacks just to see the comparison (if we do get both their povs anyway. its hard not to imagine that possibility, though i wouldnt be totally mad if we just got akane's perspective either. homegirl been out the game too damn long she gets to say her peace me thinks)