#seiji hotokeyama

[shysheeperz]

Mɪssɪᴏɴ: Yᴏᴢᴀᴋᴜʀᴀ ғᴀᴍɪʟʏ🌸 Eᴘ. 04 x Kᴇɴɢᴏ/Sʜɪɴᴢᴏ ғᴛ. Sᴇɪᴊɪ Hᴏᴛᴏᴋᴇʏᴀᴍᴀ

[sage-reads-things]

It fascinates me that Seiji and Kyoichiro are friends. Seiji has proven to be extremely driven by justice, bypassing red tape and delivering his own "punishments" to criminals who commit horrific crimes. Kyoichiro, meanwhile, is pointedly amoral, and his whole job is doing whatever the client wants and not getting caught up in what's "right" or "wrong." So the fact that they're able to be friends despite such a huge schism in morality is so interesting. Maybe it's because they're both relentlessly and unabashedly unforgiving toward their enemies, whoever that may prove to be. Despite the difference in worldview, they resonate over a similar mindset: whoever crosses me and my sensibilities deserves what's coming to them.

Makes me wonder about their childhood together—Kyoichiro was always destined to be a spy, but Seiji presumably chose to become a detective at some point. Did they influence each other? When did Seiji learn about Kyoichiro's spy family? Were they friends-friends or just the high school equivalent of drinking buddies?

[fealy-writes]

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[aceshadowstar]

Mission: Yozakura Family Anime Casts Yasuyuki Kaze https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-04-28/mission-yozakura-family-anime-casts-yasuyuki-kaze/.210302

[sage-reads-things]

People say that their blorbos look like wet noodles all the time, but Hotokeyama is the first character I've ever seen that literally looks like a wet noodle. He looks like a soggy paper bag on the parking lot pavement. He looks like a piece of paper you absently shoved into your purse and then left out in the rain. He looks like Inspector Gadget's grimy older cousin. He looks like—*gunshots*

[sage-reads-things]

HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE MAN.

[sage-reads-things]

Love that Seiji also thinks Kyoichiro is a creep ajkdhjahkdbjak. Even Kyoichiro's friends think he's a total dirtbag.

Also shout out to angry eeper Taiyo next to Seiji. I laugh every time I look at his little squinty eyes XD

[sage-reads-things]

Gotta love friends that talk smack about each other <3 Criticizing a friend about flaws you also have is peak bff behavior lmao.

[sage-reads-things]

Look at him just sitting there ahjskdhajdhkahdkaj. He's so nonchalant no matter how appallingly he's acting. Horrible, horrible man.

[sage-reads-things]

What is going on with Seiji's eye??? It looks a huge bulging yokai eye. Looks like there's some scarring around it, and it looks like it might be fake, maybe?? Maybe it's a glass eye that he purposefully uses to scare people. All I can say is that it is DEFINITELY not normal o.O

[sage-reads-things]

What I like about Seiji is how straightforward he is. He sees injustice and he deals with it—through legal means if possible, but if there's a drug cartel that keeps evading the law, or a corrupt businessman who's convinced the police to turn a blind eye, well, he isn't going to wait for the official channels to magically become workable. He seems to see himself as a knight templar, someone who dirties their hands for the sake of a greater good. It's a refreshing character type compared to the other characters we've seen, including the Yozakuras themselves, who accept work indiscriminately and eschew morals in favor of whatever the client tells them to do (hell, we just had an entire mini-arc about this very topic!)

I feel like Senji's total inability to lie is a side effect of his straightforwardness. Sure, he can say things that are untrue, but his natural inclination toward bluntness means he can't say it convincingly. He's the kind of guy who prefers getting straight to the point. But like I said: who needs lying when you've got a hammer?

[sage-reads-things]

Gotta love a wet noodle man who has no sense of lying or deception <3 He's good with a hammer, why should he bother learning to hide his intentions?

[shysheeperz]

[sage-reads-things]

It's nice to see Seiji calling on Taiyo to fulfill a mission. After evaluating him with that fake interrogation, Seiji seems to have decided that Taiyo is worth trusting with missions, to the point of giving him solo missions. Or maybe he just figured that this would be an easy mission for a beginner like Taiyo. Either way, it's great that he's decided to start putting his trust in Taiyo, even if it's for a pretty routine mission.

[shysheeperz]

[sage-reads-things]

The first explicit confirmation that the Yozakura family does actively cover up their exploits. We'll find out later that Kyoichiro's connections (mainly Seiji and their mutual government friend) are a huge part of the family's ability to sweep everything so thoroughly under the rug, but this is Taiyo's first encounter with that aspect of the spy world. He has no idea how likely or unlikely anything about this scenario is—for all he knows, a video getting leaked on "the dark web" could just be the spy version of uploading something to YouTube.

Also, I love that the mangaka literally just used a previous panel for the video thumbnail ajsnkkasjhdahdkj. Makes me wonder who was filming the video and how they managed to get this specific angle in the middle of a big fight. (Actually, who was filming this video? Was it Kyoichiro? I genuinely would not put it past him to have a secret camera hidden in his lapel and upload this video just to cause trouble.)