#sp: japan sinks 2020

[acearohippo]

So I just finished watching Japan Sinks 2020 and major spoiler warning ahead!!

So, in episode 4 or 5 the crew end up in that happy village (which high key, glad to know I'm not the only one who immediately thought it was a cannibalistic cult. What a reversal.) And in that village, Ayumu takes on a job to take care of a man who's fully paralysed. He can twitch his fingers pretty good and he can blink, but yeah that's about it, can't talk or make sounds or anything. Well, he's Onodera-san and even before that revral I saw him and was like "he's my favourite character. Iono how long he's been in this condition, but hell yeah dude, you survivin!" I mean, I figured he was definitely going to die when this mini Arc finished finished because it was clear that he was gonna be the sage character who gives the main character some much needed information and then once he did, there'd be no more use for him story wise.

BUT BOI was I wrong and FUCK YEAH I'M SO HAPPY I WAS. Tell me how this dude SURVIVED the ENTIRE PLOT -after being introduced- and his ONE LINE of "dialogue" (is, the only time the show gave us subtitles for what he was communicating rather than have the other crew figure it out through the note app and whatnot) was "I want to punch everyone in the face who said I was wrong" like DUDE. I'LL HELP YA.

Like, man, does anyone realise that by just existing, he single handedly stared a proverbial Charles Darwin in the eye and said "yeah, who's the fittest here?? Me bitch." And !!!!! An absolute legend. I am SO HAPPY that he lived, cause I'm honestly over this mentality of "leave the weak to perish" meanwhile it was the MOST "FIT" PEOPLE WHO DIED FIRST except my girl nanami from the beginning, that was so cruel to have her beat up a would be r*pist and then kill her off in the next episode but you know what?? Water under the bridge, because they 👏🏽kept👏🏽that👏🏽energy👏🏽 later on when ayumu bodied that pervert as well!

But for real, I'm so happy that Onodera-san made it to the end! You KNOW he was having some attitude in his head, judging the crew for all their dumbass decisions. like really, they decided they was just gonna ignore the big old barge of uber nationalistic Japanese people chanting "purify japan! We are the pure! We are real Japanese!" And STILL decided to drag their non pure asses to the boat guide?? I swear, Onodera-san was like "um... I know these fools ain't about to drag my dark ass, his foreign ass, and THEY dark asses onto that boat, mufuh's crazy and stupid.". Gods, I love this show.

Could've done without that random sex scene. It was consensual which, kudos to making the only graphic sex scene consensual and playing the noncons as disgusting before bodying them, but yeah it threw me off guard and came out of nowhere. And I guess it added something in hindsight? That the lady and her body guard were actually married with a kid who probably has some sort of intellectual disability and OK, another tangent, HELL YEAH MOMMA AND POPS making an entire ass community where everyone is accepting of others without expecting anything from anyone, JUST so you could raise your son in a community that won't shun him for his disability. Excellent spotlight on Japan's poor treatment of those with mental disorders.

Gosh this SHOW.