#like if you know oh okay im looking for a normal guy protag who gains some kind of power esp through physical combination with a nonhuman

[rivalcobalt]

Adding onto this because I have so much goddamn useless info on this topic but my friends & I have a theory that victuuri are derivative of the BL/shojou line of ryoakira progeny:

Ryoakira → gilserge (kazeki) → debatably asheiji (banana fish) → victuuri

This isn't solid proof of any of this but Kubo-sensei has posted kazeki fanart before, so it's not a huge stretch to think that they're part of what led to the similar tropes we see in victuuri. Ryoakira (great?) grandchildren, possibly

(To clarify, asheiji are definitely gilserge expies, but the debatable part is whether they had any impact on yoi. I wanna say yes but ?? This is not my branch of expertise in this)

I personally don't think Komaeda is the most obvious beat-for-beat Kaworu (there are a variety of really blatant ones, but afaik Akise Aru (mirai nikki) is winning that race) because he has pretty clear personality and character tone differences. Imo this is because Komaeda also pulls from Joshua Kiryuu (twewy) and possibly Ryou Bakura (ygo). The Kaworu is very strong in him (even to the point of even having "I thought I was born to meet you" in one character song lmao), but I think he's more similar to Joshua after the ch1 trial reveal. A bunch of their sprite poses even match (source):

I wrote a bunch on it here if you're interested, but this is the gist of it:

I swear to god every anime ship that has hit me hard since 15 is just like assorted flavours of ryoakira

ok so hear me out