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tolbyccia · 3 months
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happy wet cat wednesday
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heibon-hiroo · 3 months
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Fashion icons!!
This was for the TWEWY secret santa exchange and I had a lot of fun drawing them!
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chelysii · 7 months
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girls girls girls!
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kwoojii · 3 months
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sorry man
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shitpostingkats · 2 months
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You gotta love the ntwewy squad just because every addition to the team is the polar opposite of a meetcute. Local death employee is so bored by your existence she actively hates you and just wants her shift to end. Goth furry crawls out of the dumpster and tells you you're gonna die in seven days. Weeb thinks you're a loser and straight up tries to kill you with her mind. Neku tried to kill his partner in his first day of knowing her but Rindo is just so pathetic that he has the exact opposite problem. These people will go on to be some of his best friends.
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waterpixelart · 9 months
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What if neo twewy was released for the Nintendo DS? Here's the Wicked Twisters in the style of DS twewy
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sitraxis · 3 months
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"Sorry but you're no match for me."
Also on Twitter | (Animatic: Watch here | Rebloggable Post Here)
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dj-of-the-coven · 6 months
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"please stop using your dad's mugshot as a reaction image" but it's Shiki trying to get the twisters to stop posting Neku's dead body
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windieblight · 1 year
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show me your best set 📸
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juiceycube · 8 months
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so i finished neo
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injuste · 18 days
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oh em gee i actually drew fanart for once
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mageknight14 · 18 days
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"Trust Your Partner": How NEO TWEWY Deconstructs and Reconstructs the Original
I think one of the most interesting things NEO TWEWY does as a sequel is how it takes the original’s game motif of "trust your partner" and explores that to show the negative downsides of that mindset before rebuilding it up again through new lenses.
In the original, "trust your partner" is a motif that’s there to encourage Neku to learn that it’s okay to be vulnerable and that not everyone in the world is out to get you. That you can become strong enough to withstand any emotional hardships that come your way.
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In the ending, Neku is rewarded for taking this lesson to heart and being unable to bring himself to shoot Joshua due to a combination of coming to value their relationship and still subconsciously trusting Joshua to do the right thing even in spite of everything he had done to him by getting revived back to life alongside the friends he had made connections with. He can't forgive Joshua for what he had done but he still trusts him regardless and it's a dynamic that still holds true in NEO.
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In OG TWEWY, this lesson works for Neku because almost everyone in the game was acting in good faith, doing what they felt was the right thing in the long-run. This was essential towards helping Neku learn to heal from the trauma caused by the death of his best friend and have him open up again. That even if he gets emotionally hurt, he can still keep moving forward.
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But NEO looks at that motif and explores a different side to it, showing how the original lesson can be taken into an unsavory direction if exploited by certain kinds of people or their mindsets. How bad faith actors can and will destroy you if you’re not careful. This is a theme that the game thoroughly explores, from Shiba’s relationships with the Shinjuku Reapers and Kubo to Rindo’s dynamic with Motoi, showing off the consequences of what blind faith and never questioning your idols can do.
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However, I think the day that best exemplifies this theme in full is W3D2, the Shoka/Ayano day. I think it should be emphasized that Shoka and Ayano DO genuinely care for each other; their actions show that off incredibly well. However, it’s a relationship that’s been broken down by the events that happened around and between them. Ayano, unable to decide who to trust anymore in the chaos that’s happening around her, latches onto Shoka as a security blanket (she even names her iguana after her!) and tries to do everything to keep her at her side, even gaslight her, out of fear that she will abandon her too. An aspect of her that only gets worse as she gets possessed by Plague Noise.
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She’s convinced herself that Shoka is just being led around by her emotions, not being able to see that she’s denying and suffocating Shoka’s agency, and that she’s secure in the choices that she’s made (though it’s understandable given what happens to former Reapers in the end). 
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On the other side of the coin, Shoka isn’t able to see for herself until the end that Ayano deeply, deeply misses Shinjuku and that trying to show her what life in Shibuya can be like has only depressed her even more, with Shibuya Survivor showing this in detail. She was simply content to have Ayano by her side, never fully thinking deeper about their relationship and its issues. And when Ayano is too far gone to the influence of the Plague Noise, Shoka throws all caution to the wind and tries to save her only to get herself killed.
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All of this shows the limit of trusting your partner for both sides. Ayano can't see that Shoka’s made her own decision and is going to stick with it, and Shoka can't see with a lot of convincing and support that Ayano can't simply be talked down. In a way Ayano's trying to give her life to Shoka by "saving" her and dragging her back to the Shinjuku gang and leaving Shibuya to be destroyed but she can't or doesn't care about the city due to her trauma, so she can't realize that is what Shoka cannot and wouldn't want. We as people can always do our best to trust and understand as much as possible, but there's a hard limit to how much that can work. Some people are NOT going to agree or come to a conclusion and in a lot of cases, it can be painful and tragic but we hit the limit of that.
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So what we CAN do is to try and soften the blow and trust and be kind/understanding to Shoka and in this case, the motif of "trust your partner" gets built up again via showcasing Rindo and Shoka’s relationship. These convos show off what it means to be a true friend, to listen to them when they tell you how the situation they’ve been through has affected them, and how that has to be enough, with Rindo assuring to Shoka multiple times that he trusts her and that he won’t abandon her. Maybe he won’t agree with what she decides but he helps her to feel secure in her own agency and come to decide what she truly wants to do, reinforcing what Neku had to learn: becoming emotionally strong enough to deal with what happens next.
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And the game showcases that the original lesson still holds true: it was possible to talk Shiba down by appealing to his humanity/better nature and Rindo still gives Motoi a second chances even in spite of what he had done to him.
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Having faith/trust in the inherent goodness of others is NOT a weakness but just like how there are people who act with good faith in mind, there are also others who WILL try to screw you over for their own intentions or mistakenly think that what they believe is best for you. And in a time where topics such as parasocial relationships, false information, and isolation are explored more and more, I think it’s an especially important lesson/topic to explore.
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frostbytemyrik · 9 months
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syringaledraws · 1 year
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Ah yes....the parallels
🎶 Warmer - Don't you worry, love
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kwoojii · 3 months
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SHOKA SAKURANE 🌸
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tolbyccia · 2 years
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nagis birthday and ntwewy birthday and twewy birthday……… head full heart bursting
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