#and tokugawa says ''yeah those don't exist''

[waitineedaname]

actually I'm not done thinking about teru and ritsu's friendship. I think teru might be one of ritsu's first real friends. ritsu isn't like,, the most social kid in the universe, and I think he has plenty of superficial friends (see: "I talk about the weather with pretty much anyone") but I think the only real close friends he has are teru and shou. and I think it's bc both of them are people he met without his Perfectly Ordinary Middle Schooler mask. he has to fill the role of honor student, perfect son, doting brother, etc. all the time while ALSO trying to blend into the background and be inconspicuous, and that's part of why he lashed out like he did during the cleanup arc, but with teru and shou, his first encounter with both of them involved him being an arrogant little shit that's willing to pick fights, which contradicts the perfect kid act AND the perfectly ordinary middle schooler act, and is in fact much more honest bc he's not hiding this kind of nasty side to himself. and that honesty works out for him with these two! teru sees himself in ritsu because he's also kind of an arrogant little prick, and aside from initially trying (and succeeding) to intimidate him, teru looks out for him and risks his life trying to save him and they genuinely get along pretty well! and with shou, he sees that ritsu is willing to fight him on his own and he's like "oh you're fucking nuts, we need to be best friends now" and immediately respects him a lot just because he's not gonna run away from a fight he's certain to lose. idk, I just think it's important that ritsu's first real friends are ones who saw him in rather ugly circumstances and wanted to be friends with him anyway

#mp100 #ritsu kageyama #I have. BRAIN WORMS. #if this seems extremely rambling it's bc I was forming these ideas as I wrote #idk I just think a lot about the bit with tokugawa where he's like ''I'm just a perfectly ordinary middle schooler'' #and tokugawa says ''yeah those don't exist'' #I feel like we acknowledge the fact that he had to fill the honor student/perfect son role a lot #but he ALSO had to try and blend into the background (which tokugawa attributes to him acting like his brother) #and I think an important part of his development is acknowledging these negative parts of his personality #like. he can be arrogant! and aggressive! and kind of a shithead! #but he's also a loyal friend and very brave and such a good brother #such a theme of this series (especially the final arc) is about being honest with and about yourself #and accepting both your flaws and the good parts of yourself #and I think it's important that teru and shou saw him at these low points for him #also!! I'm thinking about his fight with shou #and how there was no way he was gonna win against him but he fought him anyway #and then how that's repeated when he fights shimzaki to buy shou time #idk. he's a brave kid. #I am literally always thinking about ritsu. help me. I am unwell.

[beardedmrbean]

Same anon and about the Scarlett Johansson thing playing as the android. As someone who was able to get the first movie ultra 4k copy at a cheap price…yeah it made sense. The major of the first film had a European look vs her later incarnations. Also Johansson was black widow at the same time, and both characters have themes of having a facade while trying to maintain their humanity.

Sorry just like…anyone watch the og film? Not to mention in the GITS universe heavily cybernized people can get any body they want if they have the right connections and money.

Whoops sorry, been getting the blu rays of the tv series and such. So I know the lore.

Sorry autistic ranting, but black activists, people will enjoy African stuff. Just drop the fetishized version of Africa (hmm i was thinking about making a book called “The False Eden” on how black Americans was raised on Africa being a utopia before Europeans colonization ) properly researched African kingdoms and such.

I mean sure the whities my glamorized the Spartans and Romans…but at the end of the day most will acknowledge while those two don’t exist anymore.

Sorry

>Sorry autistic ranting,

That got a laugh, thank you I needed it.

I don't know enough about the comic/manga ect adaptations to know how the characters are "supposed" to look, except when it came to Ghost in the Shell and people were pulling out the comics and the previous adaptations and saying 'hey dum dum this is how she was here why are you bitching' which we all know why they were bitching (racism shhhh it's a secret)

ScarJo thing they just didn't care about source material, waiting for someone to remake James Clavell's Shogun so people can bitch about the character based on a man named William Addams

The book shifts names around but you'd have to be incredibly dense to miss Toranaga being the stand in for Tokugawa.

Miniseries they made for it in the 80's is beyond outstanding and I always recommend it to anyone learning Japanese because they don't give you subtitles and 93% of the cast is Japanese and don't use English, I picked up a little here and there watching it all the different times.

John Rhys Davies is in it too good stuff

Tangent over.

We did do that with the Greeks and Romans for sure too, oddly nearly all of the people I've ever seen point out that Jesus wouldn't have been white aren't white themselves I've only seen a few people try to argue that he was pretty even split between LDS (Mormons) and racists that hate anyone that isn't white completely missing one of the points Jesus was trying to make about love.

Just drop the fetishized version of Africa (hmm i was thinking about making a book called “The False Eden” on how black Americans was raised on Africa being a utopia before Europeans colonization ) properly researched African kingdoms and such.

If you get around to this I would love a copy, not even for the humor of it it's a interesting concept to run with.

#anonymous