#samauri

[originalgravity]

[uraniumsunglasses]

[vincentvega0721]

Samurai Troopers / Ronin Warriors

[lala-blahblah]

THE ACE ATTORNEY ANIME IS SOOOOO UNSERIOUS they include a whole extra flashback episode when Miles Phoenix and Larry are kids (it's so cute) and it ends and Nick is like "haha yep! What a great time we had! And now we finally solved the mystery of Miles's dad so nothing stands in the way of our friendship!" and then you get a jumpcut to Edgeworth saying "It seems like this is goodbye once again" and leaving behind his "miles edgeworth chooses death" letter as he walks out into the night LIKE BRO???!!!!

[scarletkaoru]

unlike mizu’s husband, if mizu held a sword to my neck and kissed me I would be thrilled

[bones-sprouts]

WHERE IS YOUR RAGE!!!! WHERE IS YOUR RAGE!!!!!!!!!

[laughableillusions]

just wanted to say that i absolutely love your shigeru kimura posts and i’m glad to see another shigeru enjoyer in the bullet train fandom 🫶

You know, on the “fucking that old man” website there is not a lot of love for the old man in Bullet Train and I am THOROUGHLY disappointed. The first time I watched the movie I was literally distracted for like a good chunk of it because Shigeru was on screen and I was like “WHO THE FUCK IS THAT HOT GILF GUY??!!??? WHAT???” And then I got sad when he was gone AND THEN HE CAME BACK‼️‼️‼️💪💪💪

Old man that has a rough history but still chooses to be gentle + sword cane + limp = my favorite guy ever.

[yurious-george]

Holy fuck man

[baronmagikcarp]

To be fair, Looney Tunes did a Casablanca. It's called Carrotblanca. It's... um, not so good.

STOP no more live-action remakes. We're going the other way now. Animated Casablanca. Animated The Godfather. Animated Oppenheimer. Animated Fight Club.

[jedi-enthusiast]

Similar Stories, Different Treatments: Anakin Skywalker and Abijah Fowler

Ok, so recently I've been re-watching 'Blue Eye Samauri' on Netflix and last night it dawned on me that, generally speaking, Abijah Fowler and Anakin Skywalker have very similar stories and actions...and yet their respective fandoms react to the two of them very differently.

So, here's my long ass post analyzing the two of them and why people react to them so differently.

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First, comparing the two characters...

So, assuming that y'all know me for my Star Wars content, you probably know Anakin's story but, for the sake of this post, I'll explain it briefly.

Anakin was born into slavery and lived as a slave for 9 years. Then one day he and his mother met two Jedi and a handmaiden, and his mother asked the Jedi to take Anakin and train him---which they agreed to do, so Anakin had to leave his mother. At 19 he had nightmares about and then witnessed his mother's death when he went back to Tatooine before being promptly drafted into war along with the rest of the Jedi by the Senate. After a harrowing 3 years of war and having his worst behaviors enabled/encouraged by the villain and his wife, Anakin begins to have nightmares about his pregnant wife dying. He then tries to prevent her dying, even though she's in perfect health.

We know a little less about Abijah Fowler's past, but we do know an integral part of it from this monologue:

"My country's history is one of manufactured suffering. I was a boy when the Tudors burned any food the rebels under O'Neill might think to eat. We starved. Everyone starved. Mouths on the dead stained green from chewing nettles---you get resourceful in a famine. My parents died early, left me and my sister catching rats. The rats ran out quick. Fed my sister on my blood, it kept her alive an extra two weeks. I didn't sleep for three days to protect her body from the starving 'til the ground thawed. I cut out her kidneys and buried her, fat cap on them like a pea. I haven't eaten a single meal since my mind didn't go to that bite. It was the last thing I ever did because I had to. I control my life now, every bite."

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From my point of view, Anakin and Abijah are very similar in their motivations.

Both of them started out as, assumedly, sweet and kind and caring young boys. You don't harm yourself to feed your sister and then cause more harm to yourself to protect her after she's already dead, if you're not. Similarly, you don't bring three complete strangers into your home because you're worried about them and then risk your life to help them, if you're not.

Both of them then went through great tragedies and likely felt completely powerless because of these tragedies and the circumstances they found themselves in.

For Abijah it was growing up during a famine, witnessing the horrors of famine and what people had to do during it, witnessing the deaths of his parents, being unable to stop the death of his sister, and being forced into cannibalism---of his sister and likely parents, no less---to prevent himself from starving. For Anakin it was growing up as a slave, having to leave his mother at a young age, witnessing his mother's death, and then being thrust into a war and witnessing the horrors of that.

Because of that powerlessness, both Anakin and Abijah hate the idea of them being powerless and their actions are made from a mix of anger at whoever they blame for what has happened---whether they're actually to blame, or whether they've done nothing---and refusal to ever be powerless again, or at least accept that they're powerless.

These motivations led them both to commit- (Anakin) -or attempt to commit- (Abijah) -mass murder, *genocide, **cultural genocide, and murder of their female main character counterpart.

*Abijah wasn't necessarily setting out to commit physical genocide, but he was willing to do so if the people of Japan weren't willing to go along with his plans.

**I do consider Abijah's plans as including cultural genocide, since he has a whole monologue about the people of Japan being "godless" and how he'd force them into Christianity- (Catholicism?) -if he succeeded in killing the Shogunate.

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Now, comparing fandom's reaction to the two...

For Anakin, he succeeds in causing Padme's death, destroying the Republic aka the only democracy in the galaxy, committing cultural and physical genocide against the Jedi, murdering an entire village of Tuskens including the children, and going on to oppress and enslave the rest of the galaxy for decades...

...in contrast, Abijah only succeeds in committing mass murder and fails in all of his other plans---and his success in committing mass murder is partially due to the Shogun's sons and wife locking people inside the burning palace.

But, despite all of this, if you look into how their respective fandoms treat them, you'd assume that it was the opposite.

Anakin is lifted up as this good person who had no agency in any of his actions or, if he did, then the people he murdered "deserved it"---he's loved by most of the fandom and everywhere you look you see think pieces about how Anakin was really a victim, how his actions were justified, how he's not to blame for anything.

Meanwhile Abijah is hated and his actions are labeled by the fandom as bad. He's a terrible person and he's seen as such. I've never seen a single post justifying his actions or trying to say he isn't to blame for his actions.

Now, this is not me saying that the Blue Eye Samauri fandom is wrong to view Abijah this way---on the contrary, I agree that his actions are heinous and he's a terrible person, there's nothing there that I don't agree with.

However, I do think it's interesting how differently both characters are treated when one of them is, unequivocally, worse than the other.

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Why is this?

Now, I'm going to preface this section with the disclaimer that part of it is because Anakin is the main character of his media and Abijah is not---however, I believe that this has a very small effect on how fandom treats them since, as we've seen with other characters, screentime doesn't really matter that much when it comes to whether fandom likes a character or not.

Moving on-

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I think a lot of it is just that Anakin is conventionally attractive and Abijah isn't.

Anakin and Abijah are both selfish, misogynistic, racist, have violent responses to most things, and have committed atrocities in the name of personal gain. The only difference between them---besides the obvious differences that come with the medias they're in---is that Anakin is pretty to look at and Abijah isn't.

It'd be even worse if Abijah was a POC or a woman, even if he was conventionally attractive---as proven by other Star Wars characters.

Mace Windu? Fandom hates him and makes him out to be a villain.

Saw Gerrera? Same thing.

Rey Skywalker? People hate her and say she's "unrealistic" or "too OP."

Reva Sevander? People fucking CRUCIFIED her!

None of these people even come near Anakin's level of "I'm a terrible person and I do heinous things because why not!" Mace and Rey never did anything wrong, and Saw and Reva did the things they did because of trauma/revenge and/or working to take down a greater evil---and even then, neither of them do anything near as bad as Anakin!

Yet they're hated and held to a higher standard and crucified in a way that Anakin isn't.

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Another reason is that people can project onto Anakin in a way they can't project onto Abijah.

With Anakin, they can twist the Jedi's actions to fit whatever trauma they personally relate to, they can shove characters like Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Mace, Yoda, etc. into whatever archetype they want to fit their story, they can excuse away every atrocity Anakin commits because he's doing it out of attachment and they think attachment means love, etc.

Meanwhile it's hard for people to project onto Abijah because everything and everyone around him is harder to change to fit his narrative.

There's no one really around him that you can say manipulated, abused, or otherwise forced him into doing the things he did. The other characters don't really interact with him, so people can't say the characters "deserved" what he did to them. And he openly admits that he's doing things out of greed, whereas Anakin says he's doing things out of love when he's really not.

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In conclusion, Abijah Fowler and Anakin Skywalker are both people that experienced tragedy and became terrible people that did heinous things because of it---but people only justify one of their actions because they think he's pretty and project onto him.

They're the same person in different medias 🤷‍♀️

[penpinetree]

Vague Phoenix Wright Spoilers

im sorry but watching Edgeworth start to work together with Wright to catch the murderer at the end of Turnabout Samauri was the most romantic tension i've felt between two men in a courtroom ever

[vincentvega0721]

[delta-drawsarts]

Idk way but I can see clover dressing up as a samurai for Halloween instead of a cowboy like he das every day and year..

Clover be like ok maybe a little change dasent hurt this time around! A samurai were cool and was around the same time period as cowboys.

(( fun Facts samurai were still around win cowboys were around and sum samauri actually carried western style revolvers with there kantans. ))

Like I said, I just went off on a whim. Sure Clover can be a samurai for Halloween, takes some inspiration from the Ketsukane's family culture or sumthin Also, that is a pretty cool fact to learn!

[deadpool-wade-wilson]

The Medieval Knight Wolverine may have not known what the strange weapon that Deadpool had been holding, while they 'tango' clashing with ferocity and strength that only these two it seems to understand, while arms are bent and heal, a head butt leaves a dent before it sorts itself and his armour gets nicks fron sharpened samauri swords held by Deadpool - a stab here and there when one gets close to other.

And if the Medieval Knight Wolverine was enjoying himself, well he wasn't going admit it out loud of course, but his fangs bared and adamatium claws out while whacks the pommel of his longsword 'Laura' into the side of Deadpool's face then hits with gauntled fist it can been seen from his body language he's enjoying it.

Until finally he pins Deadpool down with claws touching Deadpool's throat and his longsword in their shoulder to keep them down as leans over, breathing heavy under his armour as his chest rises and falls half his armoured mask shattered revealing his face (sidenote: imagine the Wolverine from the Anime Wolverine is the one underneath) a wee bit.

"Yield, Bub..." He gets out, panting hard only to still when feels something that looks at Deadpool then where Deadpool's hand is between his legs. "Where...have you got your hand, Bub?"

Oh no I’m accidentally touching the balls sire! I hath made a terrible mistake ;)

I’m sure the knights at the round table are going to enjoy this story.

[thoughts-and-crackers]

Just finished episode three of Blue Eyes samauri, and it's like so funny that he ACTUALLY WAS expecting her to make good on the legal agreement they had to duel.

Like she was going to follow the law, the same law which states her existence as illegal. To properly follow the law she'd have to either disspear in a puff of smoke or die.

Like wtf were you expecting lol

[butchshevik]

Hmm. not to be a broody mixed asian/white butch lesbian about blue eye samauri but. oh my god. is this how men have felt about like spike spiegel this whole time