#zamuza

[yeetushaitus]

zoo key

funny sketyches

[meltyvalz]

Even if I’ll become a shadow of my former self, I’m still here

Even if I’m poisoned by the fringed iris

The light is there, at 25:00

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[wuvrevue]

Don't eat my DREAMS away (no kin/me tags please)

[nikka5983]

Zamuza Kanade doodle

[kuneko-kokono]

mafuyu may not be giving up on reality but i sure am.. after like 7 months of me having this concept in mind i did it

early ideas i can find from when immiscble discord first hit jp servers

[toranekooo]

please don't throw apples now, lock up, block out — SAMSA!

[ghostwwriter]

don’t say that you’ve given up on reality, samsa

samsa (teniwoha) layouts . self indulgent . like if using

[enananhearts]

₊˚ପ⊹ ZA-ZA-ZA-ZA-ZAMUZA.

[otterronpas]

I woke up at like 4AM, watched the live show, then went back to sleep.

Samsa the beloved, you will always be famous

[limesgarden]

samsa-kanade

i only asked for a mafufu alt :(

[fatherfigurefusion]

Since we all know that Lyrical Lily loves their literature references, they should cover “Zamuza”.

[callieloid]

did a quick cover with frimomen of yuri la cucaracha song

[statice-arts]

"Every soul is tainted far beyond survival" 🦋 ⏳

A personal project I've been working on - Vanitas x Zamuza! 🎶

I've also written an analysis to explain my thoughts behind it a bit! I'm glad over ever bit of support this receives 🫶🏻

[yourfavealbumisgender]

Zamuza/Kitty by Nightcord at 25:00 is Transgender!

requested by anon

[abel-leid]

[pocketsizedowls]

The first time I read The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, I was in my second year of college.

At the time, despite going to a university that was a 12-hour drive away, I faithfully returned home during every break, every holiday, and every long weekend. Much like Gregor Samsa, the protagonist of The Metamorphosis and breadwinner of the Samsa household, I thought my family needed me. They couldn't function without me. Texts and calls flooded in every day from my siblings, my mother, my father, so at the end of my second year of college, I wrote a creative nonfiction essay about The Metamophosis. My family is not like Samsa's, I claimed. Even if I get transformed into a bug like Samsa did, they would never faint at the sight of me. They accepted me each and every time I returned home from college, slightly changed from the last but still human at my core. They loved me, I said. They always will.

The recent release of Teniwoha's "Zamuza" via Project Sekai's N25 brought me back to that essay, and upon rereading it for the first time since I wrote it four years ago, I... pity myself. At 19, I had not yet come to terms with my family's dysfunction, my mother's narcissism, and my father's neglect. Being parentified growing up often means that you're the last of your siblings to realize you were cheated of a proper childhood, and that growing up too quickly has detrimental consequences on your health. Cortisol, the steroid hormone released into your body during long periods of stress, is only good for your body in smaller doses. Today, I am writing this post at 6am after rolling around in bed for hours, stuck in the limbo of waking and sleeping. Unfortunately, insomnia is only one of the issues that arise in adulthood after living in fight-or-flight mode your entire life. I would love to tell you more, but that would make this post way too long, so let's move on to the interesting stuff:

I see a lot of my younger self in Mafuyu Asahina, who puts on a "good girl" facade her entire life in order to meet the expectations of her demanding parents. By that I mean, she sacrifices her happiness and her identity to secure love and empathy from her mother, and boy do I know helpless that feeling can be. I only wish that when I was in high school, I also had good friends like Kanade, Mizuki, and Ena. That it didn't take me so long to realize that I am not responsible for my parents' emotions and that I did not need to take on adult responsibilities at a young age to be loved. Because love, as most people learn at a young age and I learned when I was a little older, is supposed to be unconditional.

Gregor Samsa, who transformed into a bug at the beginning of the story, died at the end of The Metamorphosis due to familial neglect. After sacrificing his entire life and identity to serve his family, they moved on quickly without him once he was no longer useful as their golden child. This would have been my fate, had I not pivoted my priorities later on during college to focus on myself. This would have been Mafuyu's fate, if not for her good friends who are unconditionally invested in her well-being. The song "Zamuza" is inspired by The Metamorphosis, and the song is often called "Samsa" when referred to in English. A tribute to Samsa, I think this song is not only Kanade's attempt to save Mafuyu, but also her way of making sure that Samsa, despite being forgotten by his family, will continue to be remembered by her audience.

Take a listen, if you haven't yet: