#reposting from discord because I wanna remember this later and no one reacted to it at all

[grandvoyant]

Otherside Picnic is so good when it’s doing what it is good at…Just got to a bit in the third novel where Sorawo very casually drops something that sounds very traumatic for others, but is just something that she has accepted as true, and doesn’t care about talking about. She is more interested in talking about the direction it sent her in than the event itself.

Toriko stops her and hugs her and Sorawo can’t understand why she’s being given this sort of response at all, even if she’s otherwise desperate for Toriko’s affection, so it isn’t described in quite as needy or sweet a way as even the sorts of “she said I was pretty and it caused me to have a nuclear meltdown” moments of the first two novels.

The anime really robbed us by taking us away from the perspective of our damaged main character…That’s where all the depth is, in her handling of events.

Saving people begrudgingly and being annoyed with them and herself for going along with them, not wanting to make human connections despite being a deeply lonely person, that paradoxical desire she has to be close to Toriko in a hostile world because she feels it belongs only to her…Sorawo is such a good character!!!