#people with no media literacy and so much hatred ruin it

[miss-allsundays]

i was kind of expecting it (because of the danny motta pandemic), but the amount of people that just. write off octavia as some sort of ungrateful brat is really pissing me off.

we, as the viewers, have a much broader understanding of stolas, his life, and his relationship with stella. we are also made to look at it in a positive light for stolas, because we are shown instances of stella and her brother being the terrible antagonists they were written to be.

and most importantly, we do not have an attachment to stolas and stella’s relationship.

octavia instead, has had her life recently upended, has seen her father do a 180 change and (in her eyes) ruin his whole relationship.

her parents are divorcing, and they’re going about it in the worst way possible. they keep badmouthing each other, and they are, quite frankly, very dismissive of octavia— stolas as well, even if he doesn’t mean it.

and then, her father risks his life for the guy he destroyed his family for. and she is left with her mother and uncle, who clearly don’t have her best interests in mind.

of course stolas deserves to be happy, and of course he can love both blitzø and octavia at the same time, but what a lot of people don’t get is that she is a hurt child, who is very lonely at the moment, and who has not had the time to process everything.

instead she has to watch her dad fawn over his affair partner, talk shit about her mother even after the divorce, and then he suddenly leaves and oh! he will be banned from their house for a hundred years.

of course she holds resentment over her father!! he hurt her, just as much as her mother hurt her!!

because yes, stolas’ hatred towards his ex-wife is justified, but he has subconsciously let that feeling cloud over his love for octavia.

for a child, seeing your parents go through a divorce is really fucking tough. even if their relationship wasn’t the best, even if the love wasn’t there anymore, your parents splitting up still feels like a point of no return. as someone who went through that, i cannot tell you how many nights i spent as a teen wishing my family would go back to normal, even if the rational part of me knew that their separation was a much better outcome, and that the normal i hoped for hadn’t been that in years.

their divorce is only a couple of months old, it isn’t nearly enough time to begin getting over it, especially if you don’t have a good outlet for your emotions— which octavia doesn’t have.

and as i’ve mentioned earlier, the fact that her parents hate each other so openly is also another big fucking problem!! it does nothing but make the child in between feel bad, because they feel guilty for still caring about both of them, like their love for their parents is wrong and tainted.

(again, stella is terrible, and we can all agree on that— but octavia doesn’t know the full extent of it!! sue just wants her family back!!)

i feel for stolas, and it’s so, so obvious that he loves his daughter more than anything in this world, but i also understand why octavia wants some distance from him.

even though he didn’t mean to, he failed to think of how his daughter was holding up, until it was too late.

(and to everyone that says octavia hates her dad, go fuck yourself and pick up a pair of glasses. there is a difference between being hurt by someone’s actions and hating them. she went to IMP to give him his meds. she saved stolitz + IMP from andrealphus. learn some media literacy before you speak thanksssssssss<3 )

[anotherfanaccount]

For a movie that's all about loving Manu, mostly I'll say, there's not enough appreciation for Manu, the character and for Tapsee playing it.

Manu is maybe my favourite female lead of 2023. A really well written character tbh. She was just a young person hoping to take away the word of her family and had the dream of finding love repressed for it. She does succeed in part of her dream but slaves away her entire life for it. She was worthy of being loved and more than that. I get why Hardy falls for her and I get why Manu does too.

Tapsee plays her so beautifully. She makes you laugh at her innocence and naivety but you feel for her pains when she has to choose. You understand her needs and why she calls when she does.

Giving her the ending part with the flashbacks and the song was so beautiful.

[animehouse-moe]

Have you been keeping up with Kagura Bachi? What do you think of it so far? I just opened the Manga Plus app and saw that it's at second place on the trending list💀. I honestly can't tell if people actually like it or it's just the memes

I have been keeping up with Kagurabachi (sort of). I think a good comparison to why its popular could be Kingdoms of Ruin.

It (currently) has a 7.59 on MAL, and has 91,000 members. It is not good. It should not be more popular than Shangri-La Frontier or Mahoyome or Kamonohashi Ron or even Ragna Crimson. It should not have a better score than Kamonohashi Ron or Overtake! or Dead Mount Death Play.

But it still does. Why? Content.

Anime fans love isekai, they love harem series, and they love edge. It can do enough to hide its bald spots from a casual viewer and reel them in with "I only feel hatred and will kill anyone in my path". Similarly, it's got a concept that isn't challenging to follow and understand, nor is it stupidly simple or plain.

All of this relates to Kagurabachi. A series without great art, action, narrative, and most of all execution. Yet it's still popular. The "revenge story featuring a black-haired swordsman" is a powerful trope that caters to the absolute lowest common denominator. Add on top the heavy handed and easy to follow humor, cookie cutter characters that fulfil tropes that fans eat up, and you've got a winning recipe.

Personally though, the one difference is that none of Kagurabachi is as offensively bad as Kingdoms of Ruin. That's also why it's so high up, it's much less offensive to the craft so it doesn't turn off as many people.

Anyways, yes Kagurabachi is not good. The issue is the fact that media literacy and knowledge of animanga is still in the mud for a lot of the Western audience. A meme is all it takes, an edit making it look cool, a single slideshow on TikTok going viral. The base level of people in the community, and what it takes for them to get invested in a series, is so far beneath the ground that it rivals the fervent fanbase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And so people will follow the crowd, they'll latch onto a single idea or pick something easy to follow. It's not like the vast majority of people that read Chainsaw Man or Jujutsu Kaisen really get what's going on with those series either, they just like them for shallow and superficial reasons that they can find anywhere.