#the town where only i am missing Tumblr posts

[pastacurls]

And what if I said them. What if I did. What then liberals.

[linggluu]

It's easier to talk to you these days.

[seeminglyseph]

it's so funny to me... looking at video reactions and content about the anime of Erased and realize how many people felt like... idk. cuckolded? by the fact that Kayo did not end up with Satoru in the end, but with Hiromi, the boy who also would have died if the timeline had not been reset.

and like. some of my amusement comes from like... my own ignorance in not realizing that would be a reaction. because like. Obviously. We've been in Satoru's shoes this entire journey and it felt like, especially in the anime, Kayo and Satoru were having these big meaningful moments. like. how could that not be a romance? even though Satoru repeatedly is like 'I am 30, I'm not catching feelings in this situation, what am I doing?'

which I took as like. "Oh, he's inhabiting his little 8 year-old body and also has not had social connection in a long time and is just... having emotions. and Satoru's story is about learning to care and feel again. because adult Satoru had shut down so much due to the trauma of both losing so much in his youth and having the adults around him cope by basically refusing to deal with it and shutting it down. Returning to his childhood before the trauma is reawakening his ability to connect, trust and feel again. Which is something adult Satoru is as confused and unfamiliar with as child Satoru would be with a crush so it reads very similar."

but I also like. ran out of episodes at episode 9, then read the manga, then got like... really really invested in what the story had to say about trauma and the cycles of abuse and silence and well meaning cruelty and convenient victims and patterns of violence and community scapegoats and justice and how people act to preserve face and the justice system and like... the anime picked one thing in the manga to focus on and it was Kayo. and it did that thing like... really really masterfully. it made Kayo's story so heartrending that people forgot almost entirely about everything else. but like. the manga is about like... multiple other subjects of which Kayo features predominantly but like. The character that Satoru is freaking out about having been killed in his flashbacks in the manga is Hiromi, because Hiromi was his friend. It doesn't change the fact that Kayo is very impactful, but the story doesn't revolve entirely around her. So the fact that Hiromi and Kayo found love instead of death, but many anime viewers seem to forget entirely that Hiromi is also a would-be murder victim, is because so much of the non-Kayo story is just... not present or altered.

And even stuff with Kayo because like. She came back after being taken to her grandmother and helped them with the investigation and protection of Aya, the other potential murder victim that goes to a different school.

Honestly sometimes I feel like even people who talk about the anime ending being bad vs the manga ending, miss the parts of the manga that the anime changes. The anime is very excellent for what it is as a stand alone piece, however since it had adapted so much out of the manga to make itself a stand alone piece it didn't give itself an ending that matched what it had created. The anime had devoted itself entirely to the Kayo aspects of the story because they evoked such strong emotions, but the ending... isn't about Kayo. because in the manga, the story wasn't about Kayo. the thing that seems kind of funny to me is, they were stuck with 2 episodes to wrap up a fat chunk of the manga. They were always gonna have to do an anime original ending. They *could* have just gone balls to the wall and gone completely original and played into the fact that they'd been focusing on Kayo the whole time. Not necessarily "waits for him the whole time" but something that puts more focus on her to give more emotional catharsis to the audience. Instead it went with the option no one was happy with and did a limp noodle fast adaptation of the last chunk of the manga with no character development or deduction or planting from the rest of the anime because half the scenes that made any of it make sense got cut.

And now everyone remembers Erased as that great anime with a terrible ending. which sucks because the manga honestly really has a lot to say about a lot of topics. And the anime is artistic and beautiful as hell. but like. the fact that so much of the message is fully not like... either adapted or perceived by audiences or like. Ignored. feels like a sign of something kind of frustrating...

Or I am overthinking big time. That's. I guess a possibility. It might not be that deep, but I think it is. there just might be a level of clumsiness in its execution sometimes, but I think the themes and messages are still there...

[mistystarshine]

the town where only I am missing

It's a simple enough situation: save a child in the past to stop a villain in the future.

But what do you do when the child and the villain are the same person?

[good-amv-mmv-fmv]

Title: Game of Survival

Music: Ruelle - Game of Survival

Anime: Boku Dake ga Inai Machi

Why is it good?: A fitting video for a thriller series in which music, lyrics and scenes chosen match each other and well deliver the atmosphere of the story. Who has seen the anime will enjoy it, for who hasn't beware of spoilers, even though it's still very enjoyable.

[mugmegan]

[blizzardfluffykpop]

why the fuck do i miss pigeons

[rowenabean]

[maulfucker]

[listening to any random song] I could make this about Maul

[orchideius]

if my life doesn’t get better in two years, I think I will join the 27 club lollll

[pastacurls]

You have no idea how upset I am at this. HE WAS ORIGINALLY TALKING ABOUT FUCKING HIROMI!!! YKNOW LIKE THE KID HE WAS ACTUALLY FRIENDS WITH THAT JUST SO HAPPENED TO ALSO GET MURDERED?!?!??

I get that the anime wanted to push his and kayo’s relationship but was it necessary??? What was the reason to take away the importance of his friendships???? WHY?????

And this isn’t even the only instance of things that were taken out that showed an emphasis on his friendships with the others.

Like??? Kenya’s reactions??????? They’re so emotional and so good WHY were these not put into the anime adaptation????? (And yes, I know both of those are in the live action but STILL!!! I would’ve loved to see it in the style of the anime itself)

I will never get over what we were ROBBED of when it came to some of Erased’s manga to anime adaptation, it’s an amazing adaptation but still I wish this stuff was kept the same/kept in

[linggluu]

It's March 2nd, will you come?

[whorefordarlin]

I am 100% unable to focus, especially when trying to focus on one project

[mistystarshine]

@latest chapters of ttwoiam

my prediction is that denji is gonna find aki and talk him out of joining public safety before he makes a contract w the curse devil

im really loving the format of ur drabble style fics, sometimes i just want something quick to read but its just as effective as ur longer stuff

also im using these asks as a way to comment on ur fics bc i dont want to make an ao3 acc to comment there

Hnnnng thank you! I'm loving these asks, thank you for sending them!

And maaaaybe. We'll see

[thefunniestguy]

how the fuck do you make friends in college AHHGHGHHGH . send tweet

[sea-salted-wolverine]

So there are some perks to living in a tourist destination. There are a lot of detractors mostly that you cannot shoot the tourists because you rely on them for your income but you have a semi captive audience with no context for any of the bullshit you spew. You can tell these people anything and they will believe you, the trusted friendly local. Now this is a very much Spider-Man situation where Great Power begets Great Audacity and even worse Responsibility.

My buddy goes on a run and when hes done there is a bar near a creek. So he wades into the creek because the day is hot and the water is cold.

Tourists ask what hes up to, with his running stuff he didn't want wet piled on the shore and him very obviously cooling off in the water. He says he's fishing.

But now here is why I am telling you this story. The universe occasionally aligns in such a way that we get to really really fuck with people and their perception of said universe. The opportunities do not come often and when they come you must seize the day. This is what my buddy did.

So this Creek runs through town and as a result of the highway and neighborhoods and culverts and roads it does not have a great salmon run. It's a short Creek the headwaters are only a few miles from the ocean it never had a great salmon run to begin with. But there are salmon.

One such fish brushes past my buddy's leg. Immediately he knees the fish like he is juggling a soccer ball and pops it out of the water, then slaps it out of the air on to the shore.

This is dumb luck. He could not do this again if he spent years training. Noodling (catching fish with your hands) is a thing that is legal to do with salmon but it is so much harder than literally every other way to catch salmon, including grabbing them with a garbage can. What he just managed is the kind of thing that should make you want to grab the fish and swing it around your head like a stripper with her panties off.

But,

He has an audience.

This is the opportunity offered by the universe.

He plays it cool.

He puts on dead pan straight face on and wades up to shore to grab his fish and nod to the tourists. Someone asks something and he assures them this is the standard way to get a quick dinner here. The tour guide has caught up with his group. He looks at my buddy and his fish and the general lack of fishing accoutrement. Without missing a beat, the guide backs up every ounce of bullshit out of my buddys mouth because if there is one true fraternity it is locals bullshitting stupid tourists.