#yuki vs the new!void

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It’s something for now

[best-underrated-anime]

Best Underrated Anime Group J Round 3: #J5 vs #J6

#J5: Girls live in a school, but not by choice

#J6: Students transported to bizarre new realities

Details and poll under the cut!

#J5: School-Live! (Gakkougurashi!)

Summary:

Carefree high school senior Yuki Takeya looks forward to the School Living Club every day. Consisting of the president Yuuri Wakasa, the athletic Kurumi Ebisuzawa, the mature Miki Naoki, the supervising teacher Megumi Sakura, and club dog Taroumaru, the club prides itself on making the most of life at school. There is only one rule the club members have to follow: all members must live their entire lives within school grounds.

Propaganda:

If you like Madoka Magica, you’ll 100% like this series. It’s hard to explain without spoilers, but it has a huge plot twist in the first episode. The anime is a short one with only 12 episodes, but it has an amazing manga as well! It mixes a cute slice of life high school anime with a darker plot, and it’s handled so well. It doesn’t seem like it’s just dark for the sake of being edgy like some other similar series. It covers topics like mental health and grief well, and it has as happy of an ending as possible for a series like this. The plot twists were executed so well, and I was sobbing by the end of the series.

Trigger Warnings: Animal Cruelty or Death, Graphic Depictions of Cruelty/Violence/Gore, Derealization

#J6: Sonny Boy

Summary:

Thirty-six students find themselves and their school building suddenly adrift in a void-like dimension. When supernatural powers awaken in some of them, a sense of detachment begins to divide the group. Despite the student council's attempts to impose order, they clash with the students possessing special abilities, who rebel against their strict control.

This conflict leads them to discover that this world has its own set of rules—and following them is necessary for survival. After one of the students decides to take a leap of faith, the school switches dimensions once again. While they deal with the unique challenges and circumstances that each world presents, the students must unravel the mysterious phenomenon and find a way back home.

Propaganda:

Sonny Boy is one of the best shows to come out in recent years. The setting and plot is very fantastical, with superpowers and dimension travel, but fundamentally the story is about the characters. The character writing is really unique. Even the side characters feel like real people, not just cheap gimmicks.

But the main draw for a lot of people are the visuals. Sonny Boy looks like no other anime. The backgrounds are just absolutely stunning, and the realistic character design helps contrast the unreality of the world. There are these amazing visual sequences that just blow you away with how creative the writers must be.

I can't say much without spoiling but it's the kind of show you just have to experience. This is the kind of show where people either love it or hate it. If you are looking for clear, linear storytelling, this is not the show for you. If you're looking for a straight mystery where everything is solved in the end, you might be disappointed. If you want to cry, and feel something, and think about what it means to be alive, then I cannot recommend a better show.

Trigger Warnings:

Animal death - a bird died and is used as a metaphor

Flashing lights - many weird kaleidoscope effects and other sequences

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[no1ryomafan]

SKL started rotating in my head again over a unrelated 2000s song that just reminded me of Kaido and Magami-not even joking lol-but upon reflecting on its plot I sometimes wonder if it would’ve been better off if like- they didn’t make new characters and just recycled the base cast just characterization them in a different way ala how Getter does it.

Cause I’ve thought about while I’m generally more biased I think Shin vs Neo feels significantly less flawed compared to SKL despite its episode length for not only having the advantage of “it has a lighter plot where as SKL desperately felt like it needed a longer run time” but because it used all the existing characters before and the characterization isn’t even TOO off, they’re all just kinda water downed versions of themselves. (Neo!Ryoma is a really interesting case out of the whole cast though in terms of characterization compared to his go manga self but I’ll save that for another post)

SKL has the issue of it’s introducing NEW characters we never seen to mazinger but we don’t have a justifiable runtime to get to know most of them, Yuki I feel is the only character who is decently developed due to the focus put on her which is why I consider her the MC over the boys even if there can be more fleshed out about her. Kaido and Magami do have a dynamic that bounces off of each other which is why I like them despite not being super deep but its still not fully developed, kinda worst by the fact we don’t get to know ANYTHING about Kaido and Magami’s origins aren’t entirely explain either- and honestly only feel there for the plot rather than expanding his character even if it HAS the potential to expand upon who he is.

But then I thought how this OVA could’ve been if it was like: Kaido=Koji, Magami=Tetsuya, Yuki=Sayaka. (Jun could be Scarlet ig and the villains could be whoever as followed from base show but they could also still get away with the new villains with this tbh) You could keep everything the same, even to the point of having this be a canon where Koji and Tetsuya aren’t related-IIRC they aren’t even related in the Mazinkasier OVA and Tetsuya explicitly calls him Kabuto which would be weird to call your brother/nephew, which would be funny if in this hypothetical SKL scenario they are more referred to as their last names then first-since even if the SKL trio more obviously took more inspo from the devilman trio they match the archetypes these three from OG mazinger canon had.

I’m sure SKL would still be consider a “not really mazinger” series if all other elements were kept the same given Armageddon still is regarded as “not really getter” in terms of source material accuracy but I do wonder if it’s three episode formate could’ve worked better if it it as another au. That said I still like the SKL boys so I’m not saying this should’ve been it over “GIVING IT 13 PROPER EPISODES FFS” and I do wish they could just be reused in a different mazinger iteration whenever we get one-grendizer getting something so hey, there’s hope and it’s slightly more likely than a new getter show-since it be cool if Mazinkaiser had a pilot over just being Koji again but alas my boys are stuck in the void with the Shin Jeeg cast to definitely never to be seen again.

[reverse-moon]

Op, i want to add on to this because I always had a similar way of Mafuyu meeting MizuSis (taking your MizuSis name for continuity)

TL;DR — I want Mafuyu to not be an only child and want said sibling to beat Mafuyu's mom in a court battle for custody of Mafuyu, maybe get a new PjSK unit with older sibling NPC's and two of their buds.

Mizane comes home for a long bisit / graduated so she doesn't have to live in overseas land anymore

Mizuki gets their Mafuyu sleepover and Mizane is like "Damn you remind me of this music major friend of mine" ; absolutely doesn't fall for the good girl thing

Nightcord is meeting up near Vivid Street the next day so Mizane tags along to meet everyone else.

Ena and Kanade are watching this super sick performer sing and even outsing Kohane for one song they both know

The non-gender conformers and their chaperone approach and listen after Kohane runs off for practice

Person performing sings two more songs, one in English and one in German. Both are covers of Japanese originating songs, and you can tell cause it doesn't scan quite perfectly, but still sounds amazing.

After performer sees Mizane and shuffles over, the super happy and excited face now almost void of all emotions (like a certain other black-purple haired person nearby) ((yes performer's hair is black-purple)) (((if you didn't know, Mafuyu technically has black hair, like ichika. Similarly to how like Kanade has white or silver hair not blue.)))

Mizane introduces the gang to the performer, who goes by Yuki.

Yuki takes one look at Mafuyu, hears just one word of the good girl persona and stops Mafuyu.

Mizane sorta confirms to Yuki with interjections by Niigo (minus Mafuyu) about the situation

Yuki just goes “so. The [more child friendly word for bitch that has the save vibe] is still that strict, huh...? I thought that was just for the failure kid she had before Mafuyu."

Niigo is all UNDERSTANDABLY CONFUSED AS SHIT

A few events later with way more Niigo and Mizane+Yuki bonding, Mizuki and Mizane find Yuki arguing with Mafuyu's mother ((we'll call her Madoka simply because i dont wanna type more than I need to))

Yuki is being called "a burden", "a terror" and other rather hurtful things by Madoka, hitting back with passive aggressive things based in truth.

Eventually, Madoka says if Yuki sees Mafuyu to not corrupt her and stay away, saying "my daughter doesn't need more terror in her life."

Yuki instantly hits back with "Follow your own advice then. Cause you're right, Mafuyu doesn't need more terror in their life and that's all you are.”

Madoka storms away, past the Akiyama's, grumbling about a "failure daughter".

Mizane just goes “so THAT'S why Yuki was wanting to know how much it would be to go to court here now. Welp."

Mizuki (And Kanade cause they were meeting up, so she appeared just in time for Yuki to walk over after seeing them) learn that Yuki is way about 15 years older than Mafuyu and is Mafuyu's disowned older sibling.

Why were they disowned? Cause music was the only thing that they were able to get any work done with and was good at, but because their mid grades were combined with "music is a distraction" despite being good at it, so because that was a bad influence on the baby Mafu, they were kicked out and legally disowned.

Yuki then legally changed their name from a "gross boring name" to Yuki.

And then it becomes Mizane, Yuki, Kanade, Ena and Mizuki vs Madoka as Yuki+Mizane go to court to prove child abuse and Niigo try to help Mafuyu adjust to the fact that she has a caring loving big sibling who wants Mafuyu to pursue music if she wants, or cut her hair if she wants or yadda yadda. Mostly Kanade, since its after the 3rd Anni and Mafuyu lives with Kanade.

Bonus stuff under the break

Bonus where Mizane pulls up old friends from the Legal Department of their overseas uni and we get a new unit with those four because Rhythm Games are known for after a while adding more units and even PjSK has set up for a few new ones that I person wanna see. Not sure what it would be called, probably something to sort of mirror Nightcord's darker vibe with a light one. Maybe Chasing Dawn at 1 or something like that. As a treat, they get only Miku to start and its a sekai originating only from Yuki. (Kind of a mirror to the Empty Sekai and Nightcord's story, but with a more positive outlook on how being abused can rarely do.)

As a small note here, while almost every case of mental abuse tends to end in a form of PTSD or trauma that hinders the victim after leaving, it can sometimes actually have the opposite effect. The victim can sometimes emerge from the abuse with a more knightly complex or even sometimes a hero one because they want to protect others from it. Essentially, different trauma responses.

Nightcord seems to focus on how getting out of negative trauma responses ((overmasking, excessive people pleasing, etc.)) are very strong and hard to break. The mirror side of that would be how ones that can be positive outwardly can be just as bad and soul breaking as the negative ones. And how its just as bad to get out of those ones. Or how you can turn something that seems never ending dark into something with a sliver of light. Things like that are what I'm calling "mirroring Nightcord."

The order of VS that would arrive through events would be reverse of Nightcord's (which was Rin, MEIKO, Luka, Len, KAITO) [KAITO, Len, Luka, MEIKO then lastly Rin] with only Miku to start off with as well for them. UNLESS they tried something new with the unit, in which I would like to suggest KaiMeiLuka as a starter pack and as Yuki becomes closer to being the legal guardian of Mafuyu, the three "adopt" Miku, Rin and Len.

Pjsekai scenario [feel free to rb with ur own ideas and thoughts]

Mizukis sister comes back for a while to visit

To finish the Trifecta of sleepovers, mizuki and mafuyu were gonna hang out

Mizukis sister[who ill call mizane from this point on] is curious abt mafuyu and basically immediately sees through her persona

She connects it to mizuki and how they were

Mizuki gets gifts from their sister

At one point mafuyu begins to get irritated as her hair keeps getting in the way, mizuki offers to cut it but mafuyu says no cuz mother would get mad

Insert mizuki annoying her with several ideas on how to come up with an excuse to cut it

Mizane wonders if mafuyu and mizuki are more alike than they think [perhaps the real transgenders were the friends we made along the way]

And Yada Yada Mayne mafuyu gets a haircut maybe they don't idk but the summary of this would be mafuyu is transmasc

[siriusanotherside]

I was thinking about how the class 77 will react to Yuki!Sora. I believe that some of them will think that he's Akane (Beacuse, he's in her body), but Hajime/Izuru (With the talents he has as the "Ultimate Hope (Or, as i call it, "Ultimate Ultimate")) discovers that, even if the body is Akane's, the mind is not.

OHhhh class 77 reaction!

Things to consider: How they would find Yuki; If they thought Akane and Utsuro were already dead/ If they even knew that they existed/

I usually lean towards they thinking both Akane and Utsuro were already dead, or perhaps not precisely them as individuals, but like, the external ultimade despair pair (their title) were dead, and thus not searching.

I like to imagine that they would become aware of Akane being alive("alive") when they caught wind of news of the Kisaragi Foundation, as well as the bizarre events surrounding them (ie: bridge collapsing)

Komaeda voice: Oh yeah that sounds like some luck power guys

(we interrupt this post for my little existencial realization that there are 2 Akanes djsiojia)

Fuyuhiko: Oh shit, another one?

Hajime, who had Izuru information and i suppose would be aware of the external despair pair: Uh oh, i recognize this luck method...

Kazuichi: Gee... wait if we threw Komaeda at them would that luck vs luck power neutralize itself?

Class, minus Hajime and Imposter that are organizing a plan as to how to scout for info and prioritize the situation:

Class:*X files theme starts playing*

Class: *scrum debate starts*

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As for going to find Yuki, i think that would be... hard perhaps. If Yuki didnt want to be found then i can see a scooby-doo-like chase where Yuki not knowing keeps avoiding them by sheer luck.

As for finding Yuki though, i think that since this process (heh) would have a lot of info gathering, they would end up slowly realizing that Yuki did more “good actions” then bad. Like, in a similar way the Voids tracked Utsuro, i imagine that they would start to realize a pattern of Yuki being around places where miracles/lifes getting saved happen.

So, while some people might still be “hmmmm dont trust” about him, i think most of them would be open to him. Like, in a neutral way. Ie: We wont have many preconceived notions, since you might be actually helping people, but if turns out this was only for a cover, your ass is gonna get kicked.

As for meeting Yuki... Oh ... so many possibilities in what could happen and what kind of interactions would happen.

I feel like there would also be an misunderstanding in the beginning, where they think its actually Akane, trying to redeem herself as a former despair. Oh, I also wonder what he would think on the 77th Class, since last he heard, they were actually still ultimade despairs.

Yuki, fists clenching: Time to check if those Divine Luck powers are actually that OP.

There would be a lot of wariness at first i think. In fact, maybe the true reason the class is able to find Yuki, is that Yuki himself allowed since he saw as an opportunity to arrest the other despairs and stop atrocities in some way.

Then after an epic drama of misunderstandings, he realizes they are actually not despairs, and only using it as cover to stop other despairs.

Yuki: I will defeat you despairs!!

Class: Wait What.

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I feel like Yuki!Sora and Hajizuru would be like *spiderman pointing meme* over “normal person that wished so hard to be special BUT OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK NOT LIKE THAT UNIVERSE”. And. “Wait YOU too had an AI friend/shaped you as a person, that went against their code and DIED in order for you to live??”. And “So now you want to go through atonament and use your powers to save lifes”. And “so you also had another consciousness of someone else in your head huh”. 

Yuki: Yours was also in the body of an terrorist??

Hajime:....I uh... was the terrorist.

Yuki & Hajime: 🤝

Dang, i really want to write an interaction between Komaeda and Yuki but i am unsure on how it would be.

I can see them talking and relating to each other’s luck. Perhaps while Komaeda would realize Divine Luck was mostly good and an amazing hope, it also had drawbacks in both isolation aspect and that if it was gifted to someone it would eventually deteriorate. 

An hope speech would likely get inserted there somewhere but i can see it either as uplifting or

Yuki: *blinking meme* Did you just implied people dying for me was a good thing? CatCH THOSE HANDS-

Imposter and Yuki talking and Yuki talking about his difficulties with the new body, and like, Imposter helping him as someone that, like relates to identity crises, and they chatting about gender and idsajoadjodasj yeah. Let them bond!!

I feel like there are so many possibilities its pretty fun to think through.

[seoafin]

BYE I WAS IMMERSED WITH GENSHIN’s STORY PLOT (AND THE FANARTS ON MY TL) WHICH WAS ALSO DROPPED EARLIER THIS MORNING AND FORGOT ABT JJK FOR A SPLIT SEVONDSJJSJEJ

but anyways ,, jjk 145// the more i write abt it, the more i’ll sound incoherent, this is ur last warning to ignore this 🧍‍♂️(1)

the one who is based on avalokitesvara (i’ll start calling it them as kannon from now) that i mentioned was actually brain (out of ppl) 😭😭

kenjaku (羂索) is shorten from "不空羂索観音 (fukukenjakukannon)" ,, they existed b4 the heian period... older then sukuna ?? suggested that brain is at least 1k years old... hsjsjjsjs

fukukenjakukannon, a manifestation of the buddhist god of mercy and compassion,, perhaps of some interest is that the fukukenjaku shares some kanji with gojou's infinite void followed by kanjis for trap & rope, with kannon directly referring to an all-knowing/overseeing divine existence. it rly does seem that kenjaku, tengen, and gojou's fates have all been strongly interwined throughout history,, kannon has been perceived as both male and female depending on the portrayal and the region, not unlike jjk's kenjaku switching bodies and genders over the course of time (kamo vs kaori vs getou)

some associations with kannon may be relevant to jjk. namely, as yuki mentions, salvation ,, kannon is a deity to serve his subjects, and resolve their suffering by eliminating its source,,, in which case, i think kenjaku's goal may possibly not be too far off from geto’s ,,,,, he may think that he is saving a group that is enduring greater suffering than any other. whether that is shamans, cursed spirits, or sth else entirely is up for debate. given his persistence over the millenia, and the likelihood of spreading suffering worldwide through a universal tengen merger, it's more than likely that he has a very personal motive. note that under his plan it is specifically the evil of a human that would spread and destroy all of humankind connected through tengen

this is an interesting contrast to sukuna, who is much more whimsical and far less calculated. i think the clash between these 2 in the past will have strong relevance for the future,,, on the other hand, since kannon has historically manifested in response to the suffering of various beings, it may be that the feelings of cursed spirits as a whole have led to kenjaku's existence. he could very well be a curse born from curses, instead of from humans.

okay now what i'm really excited abt: the relationship between kenjaku and the 6 eyes. 1 of the functions of kannon is to protect the 6 realms of rebirth/the 6 paths. u may already be familiar with this buddhist concept as it has been referenced in a variety of animanga (notably it is a major plot point of naruto, it's mukuro's ability in KHR, etc.). there's strong reason to believe this concept also has connections to the gojou 6 eyes ability. i think if we get to learn more abt the 6 eyes, i may be able to speak more on this point.

(as a side note here, i’ll mention that there’s an association between kannon and the protection of aborted children, perhaps relating to og kamo and the death paintings)

at the very least, we know that kenjaku and the 6 eyes are in opposition, and i'm speculating that the gojou bloodline is the true manifestation of a protective deity, at least for the humans, and kenjaku's goals are antithetical to that,,, perhaps, as yuki kind of suggested, taking the name kenjaku is a joke of sorts. if sukuna is malevolence incarnate, kenjaku is mercilesness,,

i think some of the core concepts being explored by the tengen storyline are that of form and existence. gojou satoru, tengen, kenjaku, and eventually the star plasma vessels are existences that transcend the norm,,, toji on the other hand, is the only example of the opposite. an existence that shouldn't have ever existed, in a sense. kenjaku seemed to have used that to his advantage in his manipulation of the events in hidden inventory,,, but it also leads me to believe that only a similar anomaly could undo the new destiny he's setting up for himself.

geto was the perfect piece to set kenjaku up for success in conducting a merger and putting this culling game into motion. geto's path has led to this outcome,,, in which case, an apt parallel as we have known all along is that gojou's path should lead to the counter-outcome: megumi, yuuta, and especially yuuji— these 3 will be the key to unravelling kenjaku's plan.

also tengen said that kenjaku’s objective is to send all the ppl in jpn to higan or turning all non shamans into one but he doesnt have enough cursed energy to do that,,, i did say that yuuji’s birthday took place in the 4th solar term where a part of a week long celebration haru no higan (higan 彼岸→other shore, buddhist pārāmitā), when ppl would honour the dead and sweep ancestral tombs took place,,,

so theres this buddhist mantra, called the “heart sutra” and the last verse of the sutra is,,

there are many sutras in buddhism, but the most well-known among them is probably the Heart Sutra,, altho it depends on the sect (of buddhism), the heart sutra is often read at funerals and memorial services, so even if,, and for some reason the sutra is often associated to kannon even in the utube thumbnail 👁👁 if u search up prajnaparamita sutra,,

heart sutra has the meaning of "an important teaching to reach the state of enlightenment by the power to see through the truth and essence." which is based on the idea of ​​"void" as this important teaching,, the sutra tells us what we shld do to be free from the suffering of this world and live in peace,, in the heart sutra, the idea of ​​"void" is especially important.

buddhism can be broadly divided into theravada and mahayana buddhism,,,,

theravada is a teaching that only some ppl (those who practice buddhism with strict lifestyle like the monks) reach the state of enlightenment, while mahayana is a teaching that all ppl (some who practice Buddhism) can reach enlightment even if u dont practice anything related to the religion,,, the idea of ​​the void has the idea of ​​not being caught up in individual things and not being obsessed with it, and the idea of ​​heart sutra belongs to the category of mahayana buddhism

"void" does not mean "empty" but "no substance (no fixed shape)". the sutra also states that "everything keeps changing" and "although it keeps changing, the essence (core) of things remains the same."

for eg, the idea is, "i am me, no matter how old i am,, my appearance and various abilities deteriorate, how I am evaluated by others, whether i feel good or bad."

in other words,,, it’s a teaching to be aware of the essence without being caught up in the phenomenon of change.

"void" means "no substance (no fixed shape)", which means that u don't have to be obsessed with things or get caught up in one value.

eg, the reason why diamonds are beautiful is that diamonds arent beautiful from the beginning, but that humans decide that they’re beautiful,,, and that each person has a fixed evaluation of the movement of their hearts that they feel is beautiful. but thats not always the case right?

the last verse goes like this :

“Therefore, Prajna Paramita is known as the most divine mantra,

the great enlightening mantra,

the utmost mantra,

the incomparable mantra,

destroyer of all suffering!

Since what is true is not in vain, listen to the mantra of the Prajna Paramita– it goes like this:

GATE GATE PARA GATE PARASAM GATE BODHI SVAHA!”

the translation of the last line is: “going, going, going on beyond, always going on beyond, always becoming buddha.”

quoted from a web here : “it suggests movement toward awakening. It expresses the enlightenment of a buddha as an unfolding process, rather than a steady state. It puts us in the hopeful position of one who may not have arrived, but who may be on the way. The destination may not be an end, but the journey itself.

As appealing as this translation is, it is by no means the only one. When you do an Internet search for the terms “Heart Sutra” or “Prajna Paramita” you get numerous references. At these various pages you will find several different translations of the mantra. These include:

* Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond. Oh what an awakening! All hail!

* Gone, gone, gone beyond altogether beyond, Awakening, fulfilled!

* Gone, gone, gone to the Other Shore, attained the Other Shore having never left.

* Gone, gone, totally gone, totally completely gone, enlightened, so be it.

* “Oh, you have done! You have done! You have completely crossed the margin. This is Enlightenment! Congratulations!” “

the irony though of toji dying thinking that he should've stuck his principles but actually having ridiculous impact on the world,, this also puts a new spin on the "look upon the flesh of one who is free" (afaik it was left untranslated on his cover page when he invade dagon’s domain) and the implication is imo,,, the more cursed energy, the more restrictions and so in a way humanity goes into a devolution the more cursed energy there is because they will be bound even more tightly to the cycle than before,, which is the irony of the kenjaku & bodhisattva linkage

toji had a heavenly restriction and has zero cursed energy, which is an anomaly that is his own, which makes me wonder what he would've been like if he had an expressed technique,,, but it's the zero cursed energy part, that uniqueness, that makes him powerful in canon

im rly curious how having cursed power automatically seems to lock u into a binding,,, which is seemingly fate. the shaman world rly operates entirely on rules,, where this is because of tengen's barriers or the origin of techniques being more commonplace im not sure

i used to think CTs came abt when individual sorcerers made pacts with supernatural beings etc but now im not sure,, despite leaning hard on shinto and buddhist frameworks there isnt much overt indication over what is and is not a real power in canon,,, like we have mahoraga but are bodhisattvas assumed to be real and exist? or as figures of belief, are they and other figures of shinto mythology, all just cursed spirits in the end?

but that tengen is linked with the proliferation of 6 eyes and star plasma vessel, makes me start wondering how and why tengen started this whole barrier thing,, like yes jpn has a ton of cursed spirits but was it before or after the barrier i can't remember now

maybe Kenjaku was messing around too much back then,, i like how sukuna also maybe had very lil to do with this and is possibly going to interfere as a wild card once more. is the idea to use him as a hail mary so u convey more ppl to the other side all at once? unless kenjaku thinks sukuna is the person who got closest to the next evolution of humankind and is actually a fan 🥴

but yeah if sukuna and megumi can remake the world together can they just hit the reset button so tengen isn't somehow this massive jungian collective unconscious? is sukuna going to accidentally save the world lol,,, i didn't care for fate themes before since it felt like akutami hadn't wholly committed to it as a theme,,, but fate and collective responsibility/influence on the individual just became a much bigger theme

also the mind/body/soul thing with tengen,,, when is that idea coming back

so tengen and sukuna are so far the only ppl who have said to have evolved into curses, whereas kenjaku still seems to be a shaman, as well as angel. what catalyzes that??

also how tf are the cursed weapons made i have questions,, just putting it out here but i actually thought that if toji, presumably, didnt rebel and defected from the clan,,, what are the chances of zenin thinking of turning him into a cursed weapon lol

,,, does being a cursed spirit mean u are bound even more tightly to fate? or do u escape because u are no longer a human bound by ur technique and u are instead just energy that keeps cycling over and over.....cursed energy rly just karma with strength mechanics???

why did gojou get rid of the black rope only for yuuta go to find more??? seems contradictory,, like...did he exorcise sth in that couple years gap?? or were there other reasons? or is HE the one scared since he also hid the inverted spear of heaven,,, makes me wonder how common knowledge all these mechanics actually are

trying to wrap my head around potential megumi learned helplessness or not being able to work through his own problems, or if it's this weird backward wishing that he didn't HAVE to deal with problems if he didn't HAVE to do these things and there were simple solutions,,, like i don't think he's exactly lazy bc he seems to do a lot of work behind the scenes, but there's a certain stasis to him, a wishing not to know. i wonder if he was ever given the "u are a child and I'm the adult" speech nanami gave yuuji

nanami, qifrey and maybe reigen are the adult/ mentor figures i wish was/ is in my life orz

i think it's kind of funny how 145 is like suddenly christianity! this manga is just abt the many ways people seek freedom and want to be delivered,,,

but im not going to talk abt it 😔 — i only have lil to no knowledge abt it other than the lil trivias my friends dropped time to time whenever we’re having a discourse abt religion suddenly lmao and im not a big fan of talking abt things idk abt bc i’ll just look stupid otherwise LMAO

its interesting to note that christian have this uh for a lack of better way to describe it, higher power which can grant u eternal salvation or damnation while buddhism is just fending for urself in pursuit of enlightment ,,, while buddhism also have beings like devas/ deities it just means that 1) if ur born as one, u must have done a good deed sometime in one of ur previous lives,, 2) u just have a ridiculous long life span but yes u’ll eventually die again and rebirth as sth depending on ur actions,,, that goes for living in gods, demi-gods, humans, animals, hungry ghosts or hells realms

this is completely unrelated but,, my mother used to blast the heart sutra frequently in my house back then and the only thing i catch is the “gate gate parasamgate bodhi svaha” which i used ,, whenever i see sth..that is supposed to be unseen

theres this time i stayed behind in cram school for an exam,, i purposely took a another path from my usual one to clear my head (but im still familiar) and i saw this guy standing on the side road and the only thing that went thru my mind back them was “why is he not moving? is he waiting for someone? is he lost or sth,, the main road is just 6 foot away tho lol”

it was until i keep looking at each house that i finally notice that the spot he stood on is not even a ground lvl asphalt,, it’s a fucking sewer which means that he’s actually floating 😭😭 i just jogged and say sth along the line “wow today, ma is cooking hotpot for dinner (i actually have no idea what she plans to cook everyday) i dont want to eat it cold,, so i better hurry up” out loud while chanting the verse in my head

theres also this time me and a friend were sitting on my motorcycle after getting our late night food run until a particular smell and when we stay silent, a woman is singing on the branch right above us that we dipped right away and i almost catch a ticket for speeding all the while thinking abt that verse💀

i dont mind seeing one of “them” but i do have a problem with them following me back home and end up haunting my house for some period of time,, that one or sth ghost who slam things around and giggle in the middle of the night is enough for me to deal with 😀

now im off crying abt genshin (again) now and i’ll go back to sleep afterwards,,, ALSO I LOVE WITCH HATE ATALIERJSJEJEJ- 🐱 (2)

you literally brought up THE SAME EXACT QUESTIONS I HAVE!!! like why would gojo send yuuta to find more of the rope if he destroyed it in the first place?? unless he destroyed it in the heat of the battle with miguel during the prequel but it didn’t look like that. also i saw on twitter kenjaku might not even be a male?? apparently when referring to kenjaku, tengen didn’t use gendered pronouns. im also super curious as to how the six eyes, star plasma vessel (riko...), tengen, and kenjaku are all entwined because kenjaku’s plan was a long time coming, even though he was foiled two times already.

this reminds me of the heavenly restrictions because im still so confused about what exactly it is!! is it something a person is born with or is it something that is placed on a baby by another person??

you brought up fate too and i think that’s such an interesting concept like with akutami making more and more references to the heian era and the “golden age of sorcery” in the end I feel like everything led up to this moment. the existence of cursed energy too just feels like this “endless cycle of fate” which makes sense considering this theme also kinda aligns with yuuji’s birth which was pre planned. idk...this whole thing is suddenly feeling so much more insidious than we may have originally thought.

the sudden christianity mention is a pretty odd choice on akutami’s part but a lot of ppl (including me) are speculating that hana is going to be a harbinger of doom or something. once again is she even japanese?? the western concept of angels have never been particularly altruistic either.

unfortunately gojo has always been treating megumi like an adult so i don’t think he was ever given the “you are a child” talk from gojo. we can see it in their first meeting too. when their conversation takes a turn to serious, it becomes a conversation is from one adult to another. gojo also seems like the type to pile even more responsibility onto megumi because gojo isn’t responsible, so megumi had to pick up that slack.

i agree with you. i think sukuna is literally a wild card LMAO he does what he wants when he wants and that’s in. i don’t even think you can have a contingency plan for sukuna because he’s just that unpredictable!!!

nanami, qifrey and MAYBE reigen LSDNFKJFKN....reigen beats gojo by far though so i’ll give reigen that (that's not saying much tho tbh 😭) reigen's still sexy as hell tho 😁

also you mentioned khr!! khr is one of my favorite mangas of all time....although amano akira cannot write women despite being one khr still holds a very special place in my heart. i had no idea mukuro was influenced by kannon (to be fair i was like 14) but then again...mukuro’s eyes....i can’t believe our tastes in animanga are the same....bestie our taste>>>

HELLO???? YOU’RE RUNNING INTO SUPERNATURAL CREATURES LIKE THAT??? also motorcycles!! now im like 80% sure you're in SEA somewhere, bc as someone who lived in a SEA country for 3 years and went to school in a haunted building I feel you LMAO

[igazikutya]

Zajok a nappaliból – Traxelektor 2021 04

Tavasz van. Azóta kisütött a nap, teraszokon rajzanak a térvitaminhiányos kapcsolatfüggők, úszva felszabadult örömükben. Áldás és kötés! Az április nem ilyen volt, és a március-áprilisban kijött zenei anyagok se ezt tükrözték vissza, inkább azt, hogy fogy a muníció és a türelem. Mintha kétfelé szakadt volna a művészi kifejezőkészség: az egyik irány a melankolikus, depresszív nyomasztás lett, a másik a projektált szépségesben való mindenfeledett lebegés élménye.

A göteborgi Höga Recordsnál jelent meg a Modern Ruin: Unemployment Line Disco című debut lemeze. A dark, new wave hangulatot kétezerhuszas ápdétben megragadni, szép teljesítmény, féltávon a Broken English Club és a nyolcvanasok szinti noir-ja között. Az Unemployment Line Disco a totálisan karanténpresszingelt, melankóliában veszteglő, mikrofonba dünnyögött oltakozásra és állásajánlatra váró panelproli cementszürkéjének ötven árnyalata.

Dalibor Cruz aka Pablo Paz a pandémiás izoláció másik kárvallottjának tűnik, a Riddled With Absence a nyomasztás magasiskolája. Nem tudom hány éves a Paolo gyerek, de nem lennék a napközis tanára, a lemezborító se éppen egy Rorschach-teszt.

A Manslaughter 777 bandanév elég cool belépő úgy, hogy még semmit nem hallottunk. Hát még, ha igen. Az oregoni Lee Buford és  Zac Jones kettősének debütlemeze a World Vision Perfect Harmony a new yorki Thrill Jockenynél jelent meg, az igazi nagyvárosi katyvasz zenei örvénye, gyakran csak szándékosan elbaszott slágerek gyűjteménye. Rövid trackek, elektronik-élő-fúziós zenei flessek, gyors és váratlan váltások (Gainax), nagyon érdekes album, és az I Can Not Tell You How I Feel bekerült a fülbemászó rovatba is. Kicsit rokon hangulat a tavaly októberi számban bemutatott Deadbeat Meets The Mole lemezzel. Oregonból szeretettel.

Üdítően bölcs harmóniát áraszt az idén hatodik x-et töltő amszterdami Michel Banabila:  Wah-Wah Whispers című lemeze. Downtemp dub, chill, lágy pulzálás, barátságos terek, árad a chi, semmi feszkó, szájkedelik trippin’, a fűszagot lehet csak odaképzeltem, a puha gyepet nem, és a gyógyhatás garantált. A néhol szemzőtibori hatásokat is hozó album a hamburgi Bureau B-nél jelent meg.

A francia születésű ecuadori Nicola Cruz műfajliag digitális folkban utazik, és a Subtropique EP sem szakít ezzel a hagyománnyal. Szoft latin ritmika, ütős dominancia, klubhangzás, legyen tánc!

S ha már tánc, Karl O’Connor aka Regis, a Downwards kiadó főnöke és Dominick Fernow aka Vatican Shadow is jelentkeztek új lemezzel. Regis egy mélyebb érintésű technoval, az A Hollow Moment EP-vel, Vatican Shadow pedig szokásosan zűrös közel keleti háborús cimkefelhőben úszva a SR-71 Blackbird Survivors, hamisítatlan klasszik VS hangzással. Az utóbbi idők szórtabb kvalitású kiadványai után - mindkét részről - ezek most feszes, erős anyagok.

Az O Yuki Conjugate 1982-es alapítású post- industrial/ambient banda Nottinghamből. A többszörös tagcserék, visszatérések és kilépések, tribal, etno kalandozások után a negyedik inkarnációjukat élik éppen. A jelenleg négy tagot (Andrew Hulme, Dave Collins, Rob Jenkins, Roger Horberry) számláló zenekar A Tension Of Opposites című lemeze a legjobb dolog, ami az ambienttel történhet manapság. Az, hogy összekenik valami fénytörős anyaggal, leborítják homokkal, összekarcolják, hajlítgatják, lefagyasztják vagy addig hevítik, míg a végén üvegként dermed vissza. Azt próbálom eldadogni, hogy az O Yuki (és más társai pl Spybeyék a Dead Voices in the Air-rel, Robin Storey a Rapoon-nal, stb) akik industrial irányból jönnek, nem olvadnak bele abba a műanyag, már-már önálló formát kiadni egyáltalán képtelen ambient trendiségbe, mainstreambe, amiben a legnagyobbak, sokszor műfaj alapítók is szépen, lassan belefulladnak.

ASC új EP-je, a detroiti Modern Cathedrals-nél megjelent Sacred Seven III, gyaníthatóan sci-fi anime ihletésű. A körülbelül félszáz kiadvánnyal rendelkező, tehát igen termékenynek mondható James Clements meglepően jól navigál műveivel az önismétlés csapdái között, pedig a rá jellemző formavilág önklónozás tekintetben aknamező. Így van az, hogy évek óta az ASC EP-k, trackek az éves summák folyamatos szereplői, és erről a lemezről is vannak pályázók az ideire.

Microcorps pszeudóba bújva keresi a kiutat buddhai türelemmel Alex Tucker, ki a szintetikus és az elemi között félúton rekedt az öreg tölgyfaszekrényben, amit olcsón bérelt, de már kifizetett, ezért boldog buzgómócsingok bitumennel festettek feketére, miközben táncolva ordibálták: hogy elnyelje! elnyejje! elnyejje! enyejjee! És körbetáncolták. Nem valami beteges betűmágia, mikor a Microcorps XMIT cimű albumát a Download Microscopic-jának göttelmentes, nyílegyenesített, vegán kiadásaként posztrofálom-a, miközben a sarokból, csendben figyel összegörnyedve Stanley Pain.  Nagy ez a szekrény belülről, négy vendégművész is befért, köztük Gazelle Twin (Elizabeth Walling) vagy a korábban Chris Carterrel és Cosey Fanni Tuttival másik szekrényt megjárt Nikki Colk Void.

Megjelenések:

ASC - Sacred Sevens III [2021, Modern Cathedrals][EP] Azu Tiwaline - Draw Me a Silence Remixes [2021, I.O.T.][EP]

Dalibor Cruz - Riddled With Absence [2021, Natural Sciences][LP] Manslaughter 777 - World Vision Perfect Harmony [2021, Thrill Jockey][LP] Michel Banabila - Wah-Wah Whispers [2021, Bureau B][LP] Microcorps - Xmit [2021, Alter][LP]

Modern Ruin - Unemployment Line Disco [2021, Höga Nord][LP] Nicola Cruz - Subtropique [2021, Rhythm Section International][EP] O Yuki Conjugate - A Tension Of Opposites [2021, OYC Limited][LP] Regis - A Hollow Moment [2021, Downwards][EP] Timothy J. Fairplay - Pathfinder Theme / UFOs Over China [2021, Höga Nord][S] VA - Khidi 002 [2021, Khidi][EP-Comp] Vatican Shadow - SR-71 Blackbird Survivors [2021, Hospital Productions][LP]

Traxelektor:

Traxelektor 2021 04 - Spotify playlist

(66/83, 6:03/7:30) Aktuális fülbemászók: Manslaughter 777 - I Can Not Tell You How I Feel Nicola Cruz - What Now Samuel Sharp - Longdown Hill

Traxelektor:

Anunaku - Luminosa [042, AD 93] ASC - Traction [Sacred Sevens III, Modern Cathedrals] ASC - Triton [Sacred Sevens III, Modern Cathedrals] Atoloi - Chiusura [Inflorescenze, Sure Thing] Atoloi - Fioritura [Inflorescenze, Sure Thing] Atoloi - Umida Superficie [Inflorescenze, Sure Thing]

Azu Tiwaline - Berbeka (Flore Remix) [Draw Me a Silence Remixes, I.O.T.] Azu Tiwaline - Until the End (Don't DJ Remix) [Draw Me a Silence Remixes, I.O.T.] Commodo - Guah [Scabz/Guah, Sector 7 Sounds] Dalibor Cruz - Everyone's Ill Will [Riddled With Absence, Natural Sciences] Dalibor Cruz - Never Sort Yourself Out For Them [Riddled With Absence, Natural Sciences] Ellen Allien - True Romantics (Hadone Remix) [AurAA Remixes 1, BPitch Control] Eomac - Falling Through The Cracks [Cracks, Planet Mu] Eomac - Mandate For Murder [Cracks, Planet Mu]

Forest Drive West - Ritual [Dualism, Livity Sound] Gavsborg (Equiknoxx) - 11 AM with Frankie Bubbler [Equiknoxx Meets Feel Free Hi Fi, Digital Sting] I:Cube - Session 5 (Live) [Cubo Live Sessions Volume 2, Versatile] I:Cube - Session 6 (Live) [Cubo Live Sessions Volume 2, Versatile] Lake Haze - Sun Rising on Concrete Landscapes [Sun Rising On Concrete Landscapes, Shall Not Fade] Lake Haze - That Rave Saved My Life [Sun Rising On Concrete Landscapes, Shall Not Fade]

Manslaughter 777 - Gainax [World Vision Perfect Harmony, Thrill Jockey] Manslaughter 777 - I Can Not Tell You How I Feel [World Vision Perfect Harmony, Thrill Jockey] Manslaughter 777 - Jump and Spread [World Vision Perfect Harmony, Thrill Jockey] Manslaughter 777 - No Man Curse [World Vision Perfect Harmony, Thrill Jockey]

Michel Banabila - Hidden Story [Wah-Wah Whispers, Bureau B] Michel Banabila - Take Me There [Wah-Wah Whispers, Bureau B] Michel Banabila - Tic Tac [Wah-Wah Whispers, Bureau B] Microcorps - DOR [Xmit, Alter] Microcorps - UVU [Xmit, Alter] Microcorps - VEQ [Xmit, Alter] Microcorps with Astrud Steehouder - ABII [Xmit, Alter] Microcorps with Nik Void - ILN [Xmit, Alter] Modern Ruin - Cement Dust [Unemployment Line Disco, Höga Nord] Modern Ruin - Hold [Unemployment Line Disco, Höga Nord] Modern Ruin - Monkey [Unemployment Line Disco, Höga Nord] Modern Ruin - Permanent Vacation [Unemployment Line Disco, Höga Nord] Modeselektor - Mean Friend (Telefon Tel Aviv Remix) [Mean Friend, Monkeytown] Modeselektor - Un Amigo Malo [Mean Friend, Monkeytown] Modeselektor feat. Blixa Bargeld - Komm [Mean Friend, Monkeytown]

Nicola Cruz - Individuality Riddim [Subtropique, Rhythm Section International] Nicola Cruz - Naeku (John Talabot Remix) [Hybridism (Remixes), Multi Culti] Nicola Cruz - Naeku (Multi Culti Micro Dub) [Hybridism (Remixes), Multi Culti] Nicola Cruz - Subtropique [Subtropique, Rhythm Section International] Nicola Cruz - What Now [Subtropique, Rhythm Section International] Nicola Cruz & Nasiri - Third Eye Dub (Azu Tiwaline Remix) [Hybridism (Remixes), Multi Culti] Not Waving & Romance - Say Goodbye [Restoration Of Bliss, Ecstatic] Not Waving & Romance - There's A Fountain Filled With Blood [Restoration Of Bliss, Ecstatic]

nthng - Energy Reloading [Unfinished, Lobster Sleep Sequence] nthng - Subnautica [Unfinished, Lobster Sleep Sequence] Ø [Phase] - Human Error [Before This, Modwerks] Ø [Phase] - Liquid Form [Before This, Modwerks] Ø [Phase] - Underwater Acoustics [Before This, Modwerks]

O Yuki Conjugate - A Far Cry [A Tension Of Opposites, OYC Limited] O Yuki Conjugate - Antipode [A Tension Of Opposites, OYC Limited] O Yuki Conjugate - Contra [A Tension Of Opposites, OYC Limited] O Yuki Conjugate - Discrepant [A Tension Of Opposites, OYC Limited] Orphx - Suspended Animation [Khidi 002 , Khidi]

Pessimist - Empty Words [All Hope Lost, Berceuse Heroique] Pessimist - We Did It [All Hope Lost, Berceuse Heroique] Prefuse 73 - Estate Pt.2 [The Failing Institute Of The Contras, Self-Released] Prefuse 73 - Obtaining Initial Feelings [The Failing Institute of the Human Voice, Self-Released] Prefuse 73 - Pathways NonNon [The Failing Institute of the Human Voice, Self-Released] Rapoon - The Orange King [In These Ancient Times, Klanggalerie]

Regis - A Hollow Moment (Original Mix) [A Hollow Moment, Downwards] Regis - The Empty Centre [A Hollow Moment, Downwards] Rhyw - Salt Split Tongue [Slithering, Avian]

Samuel Sharp - Fireworks From The Tower [Patterns Various, Boot Cycle Audio] Samuel Sharp - Longdown Hill [Patterns Various, Boot Cycle Audio] Samuel Sharp - Winter's Approach [Patterns Various, Boot Cycle Audio] Tamburi Neri - Barritono [Ombre, Worst] Tamburi Neri & Hiroko - Giochi d'ombre [Ombre, Worst]

Teresa Winter - Emptiness Is Also An Excess [Motto Of The Wheel, The Death Of Rave] The JDs - Kitty Litter (Single Cell Orchestra Remix) [Proust EP, Pretension] The JDs - Proust (V3) [Proust EP, Pretension]

The Orb - Narcotics (Head Crusher) (David Harrow Remix 2) [Abolition Of The Royal Familia (Guillotine Mixes), Cooking Vinyl] The Orb - Queen Of Hearts (Duck Or Drown) (Moody Boyz Remix) [Abolition Of The Royal Familia (Guillotine Mixes), Cooking Vinyl] Time Cow (Equiknoxx) - The President Eats Children [Equiknoxx Meets Feel Free Hi Fi, Digital Sting] Timothy J. Fairplay - Pathfinder Theme [Pathfinder Theme / UFOs Over China, Höga Nord] Timothy J. Fairplay - Ufos Over China [Pathfinder Theme / UFOs Over China, Höga Nord]

Vatican Shadow - All The Molds And Dies Destroyed [SR-71 Blackbird Survivors, Hospital Productions] Vatican Shadow - Nothing Lived There [SR-71 Blackbird Survivors, Hospital Productions] Vatican Shadow - Outrunning Machine Gun Bullets [SR-71 Blackbird Survivors, Hospital Productions] Vulkanski - Selfish Traps [Khidi 002 , Khidi]

[0w0tsuki]

My take for the Main Theme of SDRA2

I know I said I wanted to talk about Syobai or trans Yuri first but I feel like in order to write my future kinda long post analysis essays I will first need to talk about this. Because it ties into a lot of how I view the characters designs.

And the thing I need to talk about is the themes that are the driving message. Dr1 had hope vs despair, Dr2 had the future, and Drv3 had Doubt vs Belief and Logic vs Emotion. But as SDRA2 is want to do it does the same but with a bizzar twist. Instead of sending a message it instead sends a question. "What makes you...you?". The equivalent of this is asked in the Mastermind Mikado's only FTE and he proposes a couple answers, though they will not be all of the answers look into this post. The answers I will be looking into are your genetics, your memories, your surroundings, the people close to you, fate, and finally yourself. And these answers are shown throughout the individual stories of each of the characters.

Let's begin with the initial 3 Mikado mentions in the FTE. Genetics, memory, and surroundings. The odd one out is has the most obvious correlation. Now I say genetics but it's more or so your body. But Mikado uses genetics as a reference for the Okononji twins, who have genetically the exact same bodies but are two and complete different people. Now with this is where we get to the faults in the logic of the Mastermind. He uses this example as a reason to discard the idea. To him it's plain and simple that your body does not affect who you are a person but it does. Just not to the extent that satisfies him. No matter how many times your memories are reset or your surroundings are changed there are just some things that will remain with you as a person because your just BUILT that way. But what little idea could an AI have of how the body effects you when he has none.

With the odd one out of the bunch out of the way let's get into what I believe are two sides of the same coin. Memories and Surroundings combine together to make a greater core theme of "The Past" in a way to spiritually Mirror the main game it's based off of whose main theme was the future. Memories I believe are a more solid form of how the past effects you as a person. They are specific. Things that your mind is able to pull up for you. Positive life changing experiences or in the case of our characters trauma. Mikado also dismisses the because as in the case of the former answer, it does not personally effect him. Mikado is an AI created to be an exact replica of the real version. Even his memory was deleted he would remain the same person. It's why Mikado's "backstory" are played by a robot Yomouri. A robot aproxamation of someone you know who's dead gives backstory on the motivations on a man who's dead and this info is actually if I'm correct doesn't even come up in the trial. And then he destroys because the backstory of the man who created him has no effect in his master plan.

Instead he suggests his answer. Your surroundings. Surroundings are morso how your past affects you in way you don't remember. Things that just sort of happen over the day to day and imprint themselves onto you. The things you do without thinking because that's the way you were raised. And with this we can begin to understand his thought on his own identity but also for creating the killing game. You see Mikado the AI had a completely different surrounding than the real one. A digital one. One no human could not experience. This is why I think while linuj said that the real Mikado would have gone down the same path that AI Mikado goes out of his way to make himself look so different. I also believe they have different end goals. Mainly because AI Mikado specifically destroyed and made irrelevant any motivation would have for seeking out Usturo. Now maybe one the the Mikado stans who have watched chapter 0 ten times over can extrapolate what the original's end goal might have been but that's not who were here for. What was Mikado's plan? It's one of two parts. First is to create the surroundings that led to "creating Utsuro" in the first game. Create a killing game, have each trial vaugly keep some of the elements as the representatives in the original killing game, and have a Yuki stand-in to experience it and ba da bing ba da boom. You got yourself an Utsuro....ok let's get into the secret ingredient that makes all this work.

FATE! The divine will of the cosmos! DESTINY!!! Or in the context of this story a plot device known as "The luck of the Heavens". Now I would kind of get into the mechanics of the luck but it was done some wack and contradictory bullshit. I'm at this point it just does whatever it wants. Because sometimes its working against his will but still pull of some crazy bullshit to fulfill the dying wish of his. And Mikado is kinda banking on the Ultimate luck to make everything just work? Like him being brought back is a good thing as the luck has thought in the past then the mere act at an attempt of resurrection should work. It's why he always says "The Outcome has Already been Decided" because even though he's not aware Sora posseses the luck he will believe it's still working in his favor. Funnily enough it works not out of Utsuro's will to live but out of Akane's desire to be with Utsuro. That horny fuck is still working her magic even when removed of her memories. You see I believe the way Akane received the luck from Utsuro is because he wished "that she would find someone who loved her in her next life and not someone like him". And now here she is in this new life. But now the luck is in possession of Akane the idea of someone to love her was different. The luck of the heavens was now following two different wills for the same goal. This is why we have Yuki, the one who will eventually become Utsuro, the one who Akane desires most. And also why we have Yoruko, Utsuro's last will, someone for Akane in her new life as Sora, someone who Sora latches onto not because she was saved from any pit of despair but out of the genuine kindness and caring she gave to her. Yes I'm going to say it. Soruko is the entire reason for the killing game but I will get more into that in my Soruko essay.

But while we are talking about Utsuro let's talk a bit about how we let others define ourself. This one affects more on an individual level than it does a narrative level so I'm just going to list some examples. Akane let's her obsession with Utsuro define her. Nikei let's his hatred of Mikado define him to the point where his little void card focused rather than it did his actual trauma that led to him becoming a void like it did with the others. You learn that in her past Yoruko changed a lot of how she looked and lived in order to get closer to one person. Sora is affected in many ways affected by Akane. Someone who is like with the twins the same as her but not her. A wholey different person that lives on through her. All of the voids let their desire to see Utsuro define them.

And we get to our final answer. And remember none of these are to be the definite answer but all of these inform who you are. But the final most powerful thing is what Yoruko beats into Sora's head in chapter 5. You. It's a little bit cheesy but no one is better at knowing or defining yourself than you. Sure your past can affect you but you can understand it as a part of yourself and something you can live with rather than letting it overcome you. That yeah she does share the same body and past as Akane but she does not have to let that define who she is but she can decide that for herself.

And that's one of the things I like about the ending when you look past some of the more wack shit. It wasn't a good or a bad ending. It was just an ending, a mixed bag of tragedies and the good things we have left. Yeah the masterminds dead but so is everyone else who died. Sora is trapped in the program but hey! Try is working on getting out. Because life is just like that. The happen to you good or bad, they affect you but ultimately time passes and your story continues. I think it's why Sora told everyone to "live" as her parting words. Because yeah the situation sucks but they are now on the other end of the tunnel so the best thing they can do is to live on.

But yeah anyways those are my takeaway of a bunch of ideas I had bopping around in my head. If it's a little incoherent I'm sorry I kinda free wrote this while high. Hope this all makes somewhat sense and I'm not just talking out of my ass.

[archiebuns]

Amaiaki Kohona

Went insane after “falsely” being arrested for neglect (or so she claims it’s all) she became the most dangerous and strongest patient in all Juk’a asylum. Not needing any superpowers to defeat whatever comes in her way

[archiebuns]

So see how everyone in new!void has long hair? Hahaha...

[archiebuns]

He thinks he's God 🤨

[archiebuns]

BROTHER ROBERTO. (<-literally just scrolled past your meet the artist sheet because CARTOONRONPA ARCHIVE CALLS)

Tell me about Yuki vs. The new void pleeeeeeaaaaaaaseeee

SO A LITTLE MORE LORE REGARDING AMAIAKI BECAUSE SHE'S HONESTLY INSANE AND FAIRLY (or unfairly) SO.

When her marriage was falling apart instead of doing something to fix it or break it with Shinji like a healthy couple would do when they see it's not working anymore, they ignored this issue, Amaiaki kept herself busy with work and her daughters to avoid her problems with Shinji, of course when everyone found out about the cheating her world crumbled not only because she was the last to find out but because she knew she could've done maybe something to avoid it? Or maybe leave when she could to avoid the pain. But she couldn't, it's not her fault her marriage fell apart.

As Shinji distanced from her family Sato took the chance to take Midori away from her when she told the police she was being neglected in her house, with believable proof Amaiaki was arrested and while Midori was sent on the care of her teacher, Ochako was sent to foster care until her mom rehabilitate.

But Amaiaki fought that statement, she knew it was false, and spent her first days in jail protesting and demanding to be set free hurting many guards in the process, but the more she fought the worse it got. Later on in her trial she was declared dangerous and transfered to Juk'a asylum as suggested by an impartial judge. There she became insane as nobody believed her, despite her knowing she never hurt her family, she could never put them in danger. Blaming everyone, her husband for abandoning them, and Sato for brainwashing her daughter.

Amaiaki became so hostile she was handcuffed and forbidden from using her hands, so she developed her other senses to keep fighting, no matter where they put her she kept fighting back someway somehow. Many can say if she wasn't crazy before she is now. But Shinji doesn't think so, he doesn't see an insane woman when he goes to visit in the asylum. He sees a woman who's fighting, and will keep fighting until she's set free.

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Ochako Kasai

Orphan vigilant, who defends those that can't

A few facts about her:

-After her mom got arrested she was put in the foster house system but due to mistreat she and a group of kids escaped and live on the streets now

-She stole her crossbow from a hunter in the park while wandering, she learned how to use and hand made arrows

-She gain her title of vigilante after successfully beating a certain amount of bad guys that were threatening her neighbourhood

-Her favourite thing to do is colouring and sleeping, as those are the one times she can let her guard down

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New!Void ("well know" new faces)

I wanna talk about them a little more and kinda archive my au here sooooo get ready for some info dumping excuse me.

The New!Void is the main antagonists of Yuki vs the New!Void, my au, they're the foster children of Sato Sannoji, famous well-known scientist and investor, each teenager is famous in different areas, and success in their own ways, from fighting, designing, programming, gardening and modeling, they success and are the hot topic of all town, the New isn't just there for aesthetic. Since there was once a group of elite people called the Void who unfortunately aren't relevant anymore, since fame is hard to maintain. But for them? Not so hard, someway or another they'll always get the attention they deserve. It's not something negotiable.

But there's something odd regarding them, questions like where they came from, who are their real parents, what's their relationship to Sato, it's weird how they one day just appeared on the spotlight and stayed.

Here's the rundown to all the members:

Haji Sannoji: action stunt and champion in karate, judo and taekwondo, adores a good fight and challenges, despite this he's cold headed, smart but overshadowed by his need for action sometimes. His picture is in more than a few girl's bedroom

Nyx Sannoji: fashion designer and enthusiast, designs for artists and movies, a crossdresser who's ego is just as big as his wardrobe, with little to no words to say, the only two things they care for are his personal appearance and gossip. He loves a good gossip

Mike Sannoji: the least publicly known of them 5, but popular nonetheless, he's the favourite of a niche side of the internet and people who admire his abilities with programming and robotic development, given his knowledge to many, but he doesn't seem to be satisfied with anything, or anyone.

Iro Sannoji: leader of her school's gardening club, adorable, sensitive and very capturing, a seeker for attention who loves to see people, loves to spend and give stuff to others, she doesn't care if it's her money or someone else's.

Emma Sannoji: probably the first name it comes to mind when you mention the Sannoji family, there's no one who loves praise more than Emma, a definition of "today's beauty", face of magazines, a trend maker, a queen bee.

Sato's love for his children is immense, he loves some more than others for sure but each gives the world something. And the world can't get enough of the group.

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I decided to make a character inspiration sheet along with voice claims, these are fun but the hard part is looking for characters, some I had many inspirations, some not, I encourage anyone to do this is helpful (at least for me-)

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"azk me abt my auz"

i wnana hear >:]] tell me any of em i dont mind+! :DD

I'm gonna talk more about Yuki vs the NEW!Void:

Yuki is an orphan that was adopted by Shinji after he was rescued from a fire that killed his parents. He was left on his care and trained as another agent along with other kids.

The reason Shinji joined the Kisaragi Foundation is to find his daughter who disappeared when she was 12, the police says she's dead but no bodies were found on the accident so he knows she is somewhere.

The Kisagari foundation here is an agency in charge of keeping the world safe from evil, but has a different name in every country. It's named Kisagari after Yamato's father (duh)

Some agents choose to go by code names to protect their personal lives, Akane and Sora are one of these, since Akane besides an agent is also a housekeeper for elite families, and Sora goes to highschool

Yuki is a freshman in the agency but has proven to be more capable than many seniors, it's why he thinks the mission on Valley High to spy on the NEW!Void is denigrating and too easy and boring.