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historyhermann · 1 year

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“The Executioner and Her Way of Life”: An Exciting Yuri Isekai Series

On April 2, 2022, The Executioner and Her Way of Life premiered on HIDIVE. This series tells the story of an executioner named Menou tasked with killing a Japanese girl, Akari Tokitō, but not everything goes as planned...

Reprinted from The Geekiary, my History Hermann WordPress blog (it will be published on there on Dec. 28), and Wayback Machine. This was the forty-third article I wrote for The Geekiary. This post was originally published on July 1, 2022.

The Executioner and Her Way of Life is a yuri isekai adventure series directed by Yoshiki Kawasaki and written by Shōgo Yasukawa. It is based on a manga and light novel of the same name by Mato Sato.

Trigger Warning: This post mentions sensitive topics such as bullying, murder, memory loss, and kidnapping

The first season of this exciting series began powerfully. The first seven episodes follow Menou (Iori Saeki) as she tries to kill Akari (voiced by Moe Kahara). Akari has the power to turn back time. She can revive herself if anyone tries to kill her. Menou works with her loyal aide, Momo (voiced by Hisako Kanemoto), who is jealous of how close Menou and Akari are getting. She gives Akari the nickname "booblicious".

The remaining five episodes of this series continue the story with unexpected twists and turns. This includes the encroaching Pandæmonium (Anzu Haruno) and its monstrous manifestation in the port city of Libelle. All the while, a warrior princess, Ashuna (M・A・O) follows them. She has little regard for her noble status and wants to fight villains no matter what.

Akin to extreme bloodiness of episodes of The Legend of Vox Machina or fights in Helluva Boss, The Executioner and Her Way of Life becomes almost horror-like in its final arc. This includes the gruesome death of Manon Libelle (Manaka Iwami). Manon tries to defend herself by calling on strong magical powers. Pandæmonium, in the form of a sadistic little girl, replaces her.

This series is in no way for children. It is for mature adults. Scenes in later episodes could almost come out of nightmares. It goes far beyond any mature tone in all-ages animations like Amphibia or The Owl House by leaps and bounds.

The series is engaging and intriguing, but it leaves more questions than answers. The series only had a 12-episode run from April to June of this year. Even so, the final episode leaves the door open for a possible continuation. This post is filled with spoilers, so be warned.

Memories and Manipulation

Menou and Akari fighting together, causing Akari to lose even more memories

The first seven episodes of The Executioner and Her Way of Life implied that Menou and Akari were friends in a previous life in Japan. The later episodes never clarify whether this is the case, but they do reveal a terrifying secret: any time that Akari uses her powers, she loses a memory. She loses a part of herself with each blast.

Pandæmonium taunts her with this reality and claims there is a way back to Japan. Akari rejects this. She reveals that she as a Japanese schoolgirl people bullied her. Unsurprisingly, she has no desire to return.

Later, Pandæmonium declares that someone is repeatedly causing her efforts, to make Menou kill her, fail. She realizes that Menou's former master, Flare, is the culprit. Even worse is the fact that her do-overs caused Pandæmonium to leave the enveloping fog. Once outside, she terrorizes the city and almost kills the woman she loves, Menou.

Every time she does a do-over, and sees Menou die, her regression gets worse. She no longer has a connection to the Astral Archive, which stores memories of the planet and its powers.

Her memory loss is not as severe as Kaede's two-year-long amnesia in Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai. In this series, it is not known whether Akari's memories are permanently deleted or are just inaccessible.

What Akari experiences is different from possible human experimentation on Eve, a protagonist of Birdie Wing: A Golf Girls Story. Flare is toying with Akari and repeatedly causing her anguish. Perhaps to protect herself from the mounting trauma, and near-death of Menou, she uses her powers to wipe her memory of the events.

In a possible second season, mind manipulation and destruction-prone tactics of Pandæmonium would be even worse. In the final episode, one of her fragments survives and makes an alliance with Manon to bring chaos to the world.

Bursting with Yuri

The series goes beyond being a yuri isekai about an assassin trying to kill those from another world. The plot and the characters are filled with yuri. First is the budding romance between Akari and Menou.

Reviewers like Vrai Kaiser have a point about Momo as a "stereotypical handsy stalker type" who worships Menou. I would slightly counter Kaiser's argument. When Akari enters the picture, Momo restrains herself to an extent. Even when she doesn't, Menou isn't the biggest fan of Momo fawning over her. She just wants to get her job done and execute Akari.

Momo's actions are not as extreme as the stalkery fan in Carole & Tuesday, a series with poor LGBTQ representation. It differs from Haruka Nishida in Kanameno with a fetish for underage girls and more like the cute yuri couple in the same series.

There's no heterosexual explanation for this

By the end of the first season of The Executioner and Her Way of Life, Menou considers whether she could neutralize the threat that Akari causes by allowing her to live. Such a possibility would go against everything she believes as an executioner.

Menou is slowly falling in love with Akari. The opposite is the case for Akari, who is head over heels in love with Menou. As for Menou, she slowly shows signs that she may have feelings for Akari. Both of them tour the cities of Garm and Libelle together, in what could be called dates. Another season could focus more on their growing affections for one another.

Predictably, Momo wants Akari out of the picture and even vows to kill Akari herself, so she can have Menou to herself. Little does she know that Akari helped heal her by using her power to move back time!

In terms of yuri themes, it is just as strong as the little-known sci-fi yuri drama, Blue Drop, or the well-known yuri romance, Bloom Into You. This series is different from those, in terms of being a compelling yuri fantasy. It is also more overt than more mature anime like Otherside Picnic with yuri themes so diluted that they became meaningless.

Although there are occasional bouts of fanservice in The Executioner and Her Way of Life, it is nothing to the level of many other anime. For instance, yuri anime, such as Flip Flappers, Valkyrie Drive, and Mnemosyne, have more fanservice.

A Unique Isekai

The focus on yuri makes this series fundamentally different from other novels and anime about those who end up in another world. Often, girls are reincarnated in another world and draw attention from physically attractive men. This includes My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, about a girl who begins a new life as a villainess in an otome game she once played.

The Executioner and Her Way of Life explores the seemingly infinite possibilities of the isekai genre with a fascinating story. While it doesn't have the social commentary on overwork that series like the soon-to-be returning I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level, to give one example, it does provide social commentary. In the show's later episode, there is a focus on yuri horror and the sick plans of Pandæmonium. This could be interpreted as a criticism of the horror genre and how gruesome it can get at times.

At the same time, there is the inevitable clash of cultures, of the world Akari comes from and the world that Menou lives in. There are no themes of those disillusioned with their previous lives or have their genders transformed like in Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout.

Rather, it has magic and religious themes, making it different from other isekai which involve travelers from Japan, like the 1990s El-Hazard series, with one OVA even featuring a lesbian relationship. Some reviewers called the series an "answer" to the trend of isekai, terming Akari and Menou as "murder wives", and noting the show's "exaggerated approach to the genre" which is full-on gay.

Akari, dressed like Menou, asks Menou to wait for her.

The series focuses on the common theme: power can corrupt absolutely. This is shown, in later episodes, through Manon's attempt to defeat Menou by using "taboo" powers and even sacrificing herself to bring the Pandæmonium into existence. Earlier episodes demonstrate this through the sadistic plan by Archbishop Orwell (Tamie Kubota) to kidnap young girls in hopes of making her more youthful.

The parallel world of The Executioner and Her Way of Life is different from another other series I've seen. There isn't a science fiction element though the series fall into the common stereotypes for the genre. Rather, it combines the best elements of yuri stories with the best ones in isekai. Although the series has monsters, it is not based on or akin to a video game. Instead, it is a mix of romance, adventure, and suspense.

The series also differs from Western animation which involves dimensional travel. Although Akari can be goofy and aloof at times, the characters are much more mature than the teenage protagonists of The Owl House and Amphibia. There are also scenes with drowning, poisoning, grievous injury, and the like, going beyond even the most mature moments of the latter two series.

The Executioner and Her Way of Life does, however, have some similarities with Samurai Jack, in that the characters are on a journey, a quest, and face challenges along the way. As mentioned earlier, trauma is a major component of this series. It informs the actions of Manon, while everyone else has traumatic experiences over and over throughout the series.

Talented Cast and Crew

The amazing animation by J.C. Staff and background art isn't complete without the amazing voices, directors, and everyone working on the show. Some names were familiar to me, like M・A・O, who is also known as Mao Ichimichi. As it turns out, this year alone she voiced characters in thirteen anime series.

The same is the case for other voice actors in the series. Hisaki Kanemoto, who also voiced a character in Love After World Domination, voiced characters in the wonderful sci-fi adventure, Bodacious Space Pirates, and the second season of The Demon Girl Next Door. Iori Saeki has just as many voice credits, lending her voice to characters in Adachi and Shimamura, and in the upcoming Tokyo Mew Mew New. Yuma Uchida is also voicing a character in the latter series, and another in Heroines Run the Show.

Other voice actors lent their voices to characters in series such as Spy × Family, Yamibou, Strawberry Panic!, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet,B Gata H Kei, and many others. Many of these anime are yuri or have yuri themes, which gave them something to build on in The Executioner and Her Way of Life.

Those directing and supervising the series are just as skilled. Some have worked on the fantasy isekai series, Ascendance of a Bookworm, while others have worked on other series like the romantic drama yaoi, Given.

Looking Toward a Second Season

Although this series may be, like too many anime, a solitary season, there are many areas for expansion. For one, there are colonialist undercurrents in a society comprised of commoners, evil nobles, and priests, as one reviewer pointed out. In my original review of the series, I noted the same, noting that the world is Japanese-influenced and split into various classes.

Another season would continue the romance of Akari and Menou. All the while Momo remains jealous, even trying to kill Akari if she gets the chance. This could cause Menou and Momo to compete with one another, deciding who will kill Akari first.

On the other hand, Akari, Menou, Momo, and even Ashuna, may have to put their differences aside and come together to fight a common threat. This could be Flare, or the combined evil of Pandæmonium and Manon. Another season could focus more on the family of Manon and the troubled life of Akari back in Japan. Both are briefly touched on in this season.

The series could further focus on the origin of the "pure concepts", magical powers which offworlders have, and how their powers work. So far, the series has delved a bit into this, and talks about the "great human errors" which attempted to ruin the world in the past, but further focus could make the series even more compelling.

There could also be a focus on the role of religion in society and the power of the church. This is a major theme of the series, but another season could do it more justice.

Closing Words

Hopefully, the series improves in the second season, with stronger storylines, characters, and more unified tone. The tonal change of the series in the last few episodes to almost yuri horror was a bit jarring.

The success of this series will likely inform future yuri series by J.C. Staff and others on HIDIVE. In the end, while I have my criticisms of the series, I look forward to seeing where it goes in a second season, and beyond.

The Executioner and Her Way of Life can be watched on HIDIVE.

#the executioner and her way of life #yuri #isekai #anime #lgbtq #hidive #mature animation #adult animation #memories #manipulation #kanameno #carole & tuesday #el-hazard #life with an ordinary guy who reincarnated into a total fantasy knockout #blood #ascendance of a bookworm #samurai jack #j.c. staff

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hubristicassholefight · 7 months

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Swordswoman Showdown Round 1 Part 4

Kikunojo (One Piece) vs Yamada Asaemon Sagiri (Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku)

(Better here in a "preferred character" sense, not "who would win in a fight")

Propaganda below cut

Kikunojo

She is a samurai and a retainer for the Kozuki Family, serving as one of the Nine Red Scabbards, a group of samurai that protect the Kozuki family and their country. She's a very skillful samurai, and she and her group managed to delay and hold off the main villain of the arc, (which was an almost insurmountable task for even the main character) and survived the experience despite her horrible injuries; She's canonically and openly trans! And she's gorgeous. And huge... She's 287 cm tall, which for the USAmericans in the audience is 9' 5". She's simply the coolest.

She’s a samurai and fights with a sword; tall trans woman <3

Legendary devoted samurai!; She's 2.87m tall, a time traveler, and not even losing an arm in the middle of the fight stopped her- she had it imediately cauterized and went back to the fight.

She's a lady samurai! Pretty and very skillful with her katana!

She is a samurai who was sent 20 years into the future to avenge the death of her lord; She’s so tall and canonically trans and I love her

She’s a badass samurai who fights for what she believes in and to help people. She is known as Kiku of lingering snow. She’s also canonically trans

She's a time traveling trans samurai, the only woman in a group of 9 legendary samurais; Her arm was chopped off by the biggest baddie so far and she continued fighting, isn't that badass?

One of the strongest samurai in her country; She's a trans icon

Yamada

She’s an executioner and fights exclusively with her sword! She’s a master Swordswoman (the wording used in her Wikipedia description) and beheads and cuts through multiple of the antagonists.; [[Hell’s Paradise is a manga series about a group of criminals sentenced to the death penalty who are sent to an island with professional executioners who are there to monitor them, in order to find a elixir of immortality. The one who comes back from the island with the elixir will get a pardon for their death sentence from the emperor of Japan. That isn’t as easy as it seems though, because the island is populated by monsters and hostile immortals who aren’t just going to let them go. The main characters are Sagiri, the only ranked female executioner of her family, and Gabimaru, the criminal she monitors, who is a ninja who tried to quit his village to live a normal life with his wife but was betrayed by the village chief and delivered to the authorities]] I love her a lot :) at the beginning she struggles with her doubts, but as the series progresses she learns to keep a balance and the very doubts that were tying her down become her strength. She is kind. She is strong. I am a bit gay for her.

Trained to be a sword-tester all her life and master the art of execution, uses a katana and slices through things with deft precision. Her sword is integral to her character; She forces a wifeguy to keep his hands tied because those are the rules even when the world is trying to kill the both of them. Also she's got really good faces.

#kikunojo #one piece #yamada asaemon sagiri #hell's paradise #jigokuraku #poll #official #swordswoman showdown #round 1

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deadbyoffering · 1 year

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25 things that the killers (mainly Mr. Carter) are not allowed to do

Due to the “chainsaw Myers incident,” killers are not allowed to steal or borrow a another killers weapon or power for trials. Yes, it was awesome, but it puts an unfair advantage to the survivors.

The Legion are not allowed to steal Jeffrey’s bottles and make them into Molotov cocktails than claim it’s their new power rework.

Just because Mr. Carter is called The Doctor and have medical knowledge, doesn’t mean he’s a license doctor or thee doctor or the best doctor there ever was. He’s not allowed to claim so.

Mr. Carter is not allowed to ask the survivors if any would volunteer for any kind of his experiments outside their campsite.

Killers are not allowed to play dark souls boss music when there’s a brawl or argument between killers. No, not even music from Spongebob.

Just because Miss Mora was a close associated with crows, doesn’t mean she’s their handler and hold responsibility for anything they do.

Lisa is not allowed to “borrow” Mikaela’s “Book of Spells” to improve her power. May that monstrosity clone of yours be a lesson on using someone else’s magic without approval.

Mr. Carter is no longer allowed to assist Mr. Jeffrey with his “improvements” of his concoctions and formulas. Don’t ask.

Telling new arrivals that you can tame The Demogorgon with a tummy rub and rat meat is right out.

The Shape is not to be taunted with. Go ahead and see what happens on your accord.

The Nemesis's zombies are not toys, practice targets or crash dummies.

Mr. Carter and Mr. Jeffrey are not allowed to interact without the presence of a responsible overseer. Mr. Morrison does not count as a responsible overseer. Nor does Mr. MacMilian. Or Mr. Johnson. In fact, let's just keep the two of apart, period.

Mr. Hak's knives are not be construct into any kind of cosmetic. Yes Miss Lavoie, your earrings and spiked jacket are impressive, but both have been confiscated.

Mr. Johnson's camera is only for Mr. Johnson’s personal use only not the following: Shooting photo shoots, selfies, pictures of the wildlife and [Redacted]. Really?

Mr. Carter is no longer allowed to host game night, trivia night, movie night and any group activities of sort with his colleagues. Not even if you ask nicely. Or even with the survivors.

Mr. Carter is no longer allowed to argue with historical events with killers from the time period that the events took place. It was three days to clean up the aftermath from your argument with Tazan about the “Fall of the Samurai in Feudal era.”

No one is not allowed to declare war on any animal, thing or even The Entity (Me).

The Legion No one is not allowed to contribute to this list. That is not a challenge.

Mr. Carter is not allowed to go to fan conventions. Let alone use them as recruitment for volunteers for his experiments. Not even [Redacted] conventions.

"For The Entity" is not an acceptable justification for any decision. Unless I required you to do.

Yes, forum trolls are annoying. No, they don't automatically become Survivors.

Mr. Quinn is no longer allowed to offer the solution of “Use more guns" to any problem. Or "Get bigger guns."

Mr. Carter is not allowed to organize authorize or create in any form a “Dead by Daylight Derby”, staring the Demogorgon, Maurice the Horse, Talbot Grimes, Victor Deshayes, The Legion, The zombies, Kazan Yamaoka and Meg Thomas.” No…Just no.

Joey is not allowed to get on the PA system and announce to the survivors that he just won “The Game”. You know what, Joey is just never allowed on the PA system for any reason, ever.

The Legion is not allowed to arrange, schedule, advertise, promote or sell tickets to "cage matches" between The Executioner and anybody.

See more 25 things that the killers are not allowed to do

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ariesgamesandminis · 6 months

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Restocks are up from Iron Wind Metals!

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ryutarotakedown · 5 months

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i know we always joke about how edgeworth is supposed to be The Best Prosecutor Ever and yet he loses to phoenix in every single trial but like. looking at the first trilogy we have

turnabout sisters: edgeworth pleads for an extension even after phoenix proves redd white entirely guilty on the basis that phoenix hasn't proved he himself is innocent. the judge grants it. the judge grants it. edgeworth would have won if not for mia giving phoenix the dossier of people redd blackmailed and psychologically breaking him into confession

turnabout samurai: dee vasquez would have gotten away with it if not for the fact that edgeworth deliberately objected against her because of all those weird unnecessary feelings of uncertainty and unease

farewell, and turnabout: i mean. edgeworth wins. in the mainline canon anyway. even in the "bad end" he really only loses because he trusted phoenix to not actually send adrian to jail

turnabout beginnings: edgeworth did not study "defendant drinks poison on the stand" in law school

…and that's it. that's all the cases edgeworth is prosecutor of in the original trilogy. this man is good at his job when he chooses to be (very very unfortunate given that his job is essentially Executioner) (but he is good at it.)

#jules.txt #g: ace attorney #suicide #the college homework still isnt done by the way.

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toky09 · 1 year

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#Samurai Executioner #manga #edit

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randomhobbyist · 9 months

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Sagiri Asaemon (Work in Progress)

#sagiri #asaemon #yamada clan #executioner #samurai #hell's paradise #jigokuraku #vector #WIP #workinprogress

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littlemissymeowsstuff · 11 months

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Samurai manga recommended

Vagabond

Samurai Executioner

Blade of immortal

Rurouni Kenshin

Afro Samurai

Samurai champloo

Lone wolf & cub

Drifters

Gintama

Gamaren

#manga #blade of the immortal #gintama #lone wolf #gamaren #Samuraiexecutor #afro samurai #drifter #Rurouni Kenshin #samurai champloo

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idv-fifis-toybox · 4 months

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SKINS UPDATE: PART 1

I am a slow worker UEUEUE but also seeing this in my drafts is pain and there are. way too many skins in the whole thing LOL so im just dumping those that have requests atm! Skins under the cut

Waterfire II: Operation Dagger

S-Tier: Soixante Quinze ( The Voidwalker, Rue ) ( bonus, Cent Vingt-Cinq, R, it was too perfect )

A-Tier: Jack Rose (The Executioner, Exe)

B-Tier: Gimlet (The Hitman, Zane Bracken)

S-Tier: Bloody Mary ( The Vedette, Vanadis )

Waterfire III: Troupe Disaster

B-Tier: Trial of Fire ( The Knife Thrower, Flynn Smith )

B-Tier: Trial of Water (The Puppeteer, Rosalyn Darling)

B-Tier: Trial of Silence ( The Novelist, Orfeo )

B-Tier: Spotlight ( The Lampsmith, Wayne Strickland )

S-Tier: Saraste (The Tailor, Angel Drew)

A-Tier: Agent Clubs ( The Veteran, Lyra Blake )

The Slumbering Realm

S-Tier: Ukiyo (The Samurai, Shiori Aikin )

A-Tier: Directions (The Cameraman, Akihiko Sato)

A-Tier: Tickets (The Gardening Fool, Basil Vines)

B-Tier: Busy Passenger (The Activist, Peterson “August” Drew)

B-Tier: Lost Passenger (The Scion, Ian Varon)

B-Tier: Regretful Passenger ( The Glass Artist, Delilah Fowler )

A-Tier: Train Conductor ( The Showman, Phineas Smith )

The Purgatory

Note: this is about another afterlife, the Seven Evokers (based on the seven deadly sins) are the Seven ‘Kings’/‘Queens’ of the realm, second to the god of the realm who is not within the packages. The two A-tiers are the direct servants of their Evokers

S-Tier: Gula (The Falcon Tamer, Yvette)

A-Tier: Insatiable (The Baker, Beth Anastazja )

A-Tier: Lullaby (The Upside Down Artist, Amy Kazuichi)

A-Tier: Hollow Praise (The Radio Host, Laurence Godfrey)

A-Tier: Double-edged (The Cultivator, Eiji Narukami)

A-Tier: Bloodlust (The Nurse, “Lazarus”)

A-Tier: Blackened Knight (The Vet, Luke Watson )

S-Tier: Luxuria ( The Radio Hostess, Adeline Deniere )

A-Tier: Desire ( The Living Mannequin, Miss Manni )

A-Tier: Lady Rose ( The Huntress, Ellie )

S-Tier: Avarita ( The Scholar, Romero Gray )

#[ vices ] — the purgatory i #[ the magic flute ] — waterfire iii #[ aquaignis ] — waterfire ii #[ limbo ] — the slumbering realm #illusory closet — costumes

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summercreolefanfictioner · 10 months

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People talk a lot about chemistry or dynamic between characters. This character has best chemistry with that character. It leads to assumptions that good chemistry is the highest rank in character's relationship, the most qualified one even if they're platonic or not romanticized. How do you think the importance of this 'chemistry'?

is this about jigokuraku?? idk but let's just say this is jigokuraku hehe (since the only fandom I've talked abt this topic on is jigokuraku cause there will always be an endless battle between gabiyui vs gabisagi out there)

for me, chemistry plays a lot in a character's relationship, may it be romance, friendship, battle partnership (like when they duel the same enemy together), work, etc etc. but for me, even if two characters have an insane amount of chemistry together, it doesn't mean they're going to be good romantic partners or what not bcos that's not how romantic relationships work (even in real life)

remember, chemistry is just one thing. however, having your own character development while being invested in that romantic development is another thing. plus, many factors can ruin a character's romantic chemistry with another character (e.g. social status, difference in goals, beliefs, romantic interests)

you might think gabimaru and sagiri can easily be together but there are so many reasons the ship ain't happening aside from the fact that they don't have feelings for one another. remember, gabimaru's end goal after the island does not align with sagiri's ultimate goal in life.

and if gabimaru was uhhh let's say to marry sagiri, he would have to give up everything he had before and be a part of the asaemon and that involves killing again and like what the manga and anime emphasize, gabimaru doesn't want to kill for a living anymore. and our girl sagiri is a samurai and she kills people for a living. ya think that kind of marriage will work? no. besides marrying sagiri would mean gabimaru abandoning yui and there is no freaking way gabimaru will abandon his wife for a girl he just met for a few days the same way sagiri will not marry a man just bcos that is what she is supposed to do as a woman during their time period.

so yeah, gabimaru and sagiri both have tons of chemistry as friends and as executioner-criminal duo. but other than that, their romantic chemistry is like little to none.

(tbh people who kept on saying sagiri should be gabimaru's wife are disregarding her goal to become a samurai just like how the other characters looked down on her. sagiri doesn't want to become anyone's wife; she wants to become a samurai worthy of her clan and soon become the clan head)

#jigokuraku #hell's paradise #yamada asaemon sagiri #sagiri #gabimaru #gabimaru the hollow #yui jigokuraku #yui hell's paradise #gabiyui #gabiyui for life #gabimaru x yui #gabimaru and yui #gabimaru's wife

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Lupin iii Pred headcannons!

This list will focus on the 5 main characters plus a bonus 1! There will be details about hunger, WG, vore capacity and digestion details for each one, fujikos's a little different from the rest.

Arsene Lupin iii

Pred

Prefers female prey, but will happily accept the larger masculine prey as well, along with his friends/lovers on the odd occasion!

Can do Endo/safe vore but when unconscious, he has a higher risk of his stomach churning his prey or items if he doesn't wake up in time

HUNGER: Huge appetite

METABOLISM: below average; the skilled thief will gain a lot of fat and faint muscles from each lupin size prey he consumes, lowering and forcing his over all prey limit for strategic reasons, not because he's full. The fat lupin gains from prey will melt away within a couple weeks being the longest of the 3 lupin gang members and they tease him for it

PREY LIMIT: About 75 people, just a little larger then a big carousel of belly fat, after that limit lupin gets nauseous and self conscious about how much fat he'll gain afterwards

Daisuke Jigen

Pred

Prefers large male prey, the bigger the better, but any gut filler will do, the team 'metal smelter' easily destroys most objects without indigestion

Can NOT do Endo/safe vore, the deadly ex-merc has trained his gut to smelt and burn the flesh and metal of his food in seconds, meaning he can never devour his lovers or friends without them literally dying right as they enter the stomach... if he knows they will respond afterwards, he will happily take the rare chance!

HUNGER: Ravenous

METABOLISM: Extremely high; The marksman does not keep his fat or muscle gains from his prey for very long, the most his belly and butt fat lasts is 4 days - 2 weeks depending on how much prey and items he's consumed, he doesn't have an exact prey limit as lupin, but if he over does the goon gurgling on a heist he might just have comparable WG to lupins that could inconvenience him.

PREY LIMIT: ??? ; Jigen devours and melts down prey so effectively that he's never reached his limit yet, but would one day love to see what it would be.

Goemon Ishikawa xiii

Pred/Fatal Prey (usually kills his Preds from the inside out, if lupin devours him he enjoys it and his heart beat is soothing to the samurai's mind)

Has very picky prey preference, will rather starve then devour a person whose flavor is foul or too dirty for his liking, that being said he's usually the get away pred (Endo) for the gang capable of being able to dine on roughly 4 people and still able to fight, jump, and dash away.

Is fully capable of Endo and safe vore, has the most control of his hunger and gastric acids. You won't die inside him unless he wants you to be some samurai pudge.

HUNGER: Average but hangry

METABOLISM: High; although not as high as Jigen's burn rate or acid efficiency the samurai performs quite well with breaking down most living things, he struggles a bit with metals and will want belly rubs and acid relief tablets if that occurs. Minimal WG but has increased MG from the prey whenever he works out after digestion.

PREY LIMIT: roughly 50 people or a small house worth of belly before he gets queasy

Koichi Zenigata

Pred/Unwilling Prey

Any wrong doer, his baseline goal as an inspector is to detain and sometimes be the judge jury and executioner of some of his outings. His main goal in life is to always have lupin detained inside him, and eventually permanently digest Lupin iii! he will literally squeeze lupin out of another pred and then devour said pred just to reassure lupin goes back to the station inside of him, if he's ever lucky enough to get the slick monkey man.

Best pred for Endo vore! The cop has a gentle gut and slow acid production. Prey could stay alive for nearly 48 hours or so, but eventually the large man gets into a nutrient deficit and will automatically start to churn his prey.

HUNGER: Hungry, but resilient

METABOLISM: Below average, gains a round heavy overhang with increased gut fat every time he processes a prey. Can take weeks to burn off the extra thickness, sometimes it takes a matter of days to burn off the blubber if he doesn't eat anything and in harsh climates tracking lupin down.

PREY LIMIT: can handle a lot of squirming prey! A prison or two a year might ask him to clear out death row, which could have up to a 100 prey at once, definitely the gassiest out of all the Preds due to his age.

Fujiko Mine

Prey/Unwilling pred

Prefers no prey! but will devour if it keeps her safe, can't vore lupin because the horny man enjoys it too much, will threaten jigen with it, but never actually does it. Will always be prey for lupin in a exclusively sexual way, otherwise she doesn't enjoy it... But being inside a gut happens to her a lot more than she wants it to

Can't do Endo, traditional digestion they will suffocate and pass out first then digestion will start.

HUNGER: Reserved but hangry

METABOLISM: average, scared of the WG the men get, she doesn't like to vore often in general, when she does she takes a week off to work out and do squats to regain her body figure, can't process metals will regurgitate them.

PREY LIMIT: 3 people is a lot for her, she refuses to do more

Arsene Lupin I

Pred

Food over people most days, the vegetarian man makes rule breaks in his diet for big pesky villains and copers! Prefers his food dressed in a sauce or some form of vegetarian food to meld and increase the flavours!

Is capable of Endo vore, but improves his gut acid control and gut activity better with the usage of his abilities in age, easily In the first 5 years of him voring he's accidentally melted several people and items.

HUNGER: Always hungry

METABOLISM: below average; gains weight in the thighs easily along with an increasing overhanging gut when empty over the decades of feasting, his vegetarian body can't process bones very well and he will usually regurgitate them well after the prey is soupy. Will keep weight and muscles gain for as long as his grandson does

PREY LIMIT: goes from 10 early on, about the size of a large hot tub of gut space, and evloves his limit in his golden years to around 100 prey, the equivalent gut size to an Olympic swimming pool.

And that is my main vore headcannons for the main cast of the series, was quite fun to do this! I have other series I'm a fan of and can do more if anyone wishes me too!?

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