#once again begging for an obbligato stage play...

[mihai-florescu]

"id rather be trampled to death than stop being myself" is crazy foreshadowing (im assuming jun said it and kaname just agreed with it based off the context of the screenshot. but it's still very thematically important).. the implication that kaname's only options were either to stop being himeru, or to accept his fate; that just existing as himeru was always something that was marching him towards the same horrible end as super idols before him (ie akehoshi) but kaname was so attached to being himeru that he would rather choose to doom himself than give that up..but in the end he got trampled AND had to give up being himeru. fucked up!

YEAH and i sometimes think about how one of the themes in enstars is that the characters are able to avoid the fates of the solo idols before them through forming units and having people by their side so they dont end burning up alone. And kaname doesnt get to experience that salvation, what's worse is he gets hospitalized at the event where him and tatsumi were announcing theyre forming a unit. Even when he does the right thing and is seemingly on the path for a happy ending that all other characters get, it's too late, the tragedy cannot be avoided. He's paying for his mom's sins and he doesnt even know it. Where love for idols is what saves every other character, it's what dooms kaname, who perhaps loved and wanted to be loved as an idol the most. But his brother gets all of that, under kaname's idol persona. And oremeru has his own issues too but things are calming down now, he is part of a unit that he's learned to get along with and they're starting to form deep bonds. Wouldnt it be the perfect time for kaname to come back and witness it all as an outsider in his own life, ready to take back what he never wanted to give away in the first place...but can he do that anymore? Im sure it's what he'd want, but isnt it too late? I can speculate but i cant say what the right course of action would be. I dont know what the sequel to a tragedy should be, i just know i want catharsis. Ah wait no enstars taught me what the sequel to tragedy is, and that's comedy. Im not exactly sure if that's the formula we're going with here though, i really cant say whether happyele have anything planned for kaname, and what that could be exactly