I’m exploring a little bit into DID as a subject in anime and manga a bit, since the accessibility to it seems a lot easier. I’m actually shocked there’s a few I’ve read now with the accurate diagnosis, Dissociative Identity Disorder actually mentioned (and in the case of Change 123, actively brought up)
Evidently when ‘Split Personality’ is used, its typically a more general condition that could be magically created (like in the end of Othello, the writer explains that this wouldnt be accurate to DID and if assumed you should speak to someone about it!) but I find these pieces of media to be valuable too because usually there’s some sort of resolution between parts and I find that really nice to see
Anyway, if you know of any multiples in anime and manga you’d like to recommend, please let me know! (Games are a lot more inaccessible to me, and maybe thats a topic for another day too)
My tolerance for ‘anime bullshit’ is pretty high so don’t worry if your suggestions are at all ‘cringe’. I like hearing what people have found personally relatable and comforting (though I’m really unlikely to look into horror)
Also, I’ll be coming out with a review on Fractale soon!
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The thing about Hantengu...
He's so seemingly weak on the outside, so frail and thin and old but he's so strong. And what makes him a sick bastard is the fact that he /knows/ he is strong. This man cowers in fear even as this horrendous creature yet he went full Order 66 on his wives and kids. He stabbed a blind man to death after he confronted Hantengu about his stealing. He wants you to believe he is weak and vulnerable so he can continue to kill and not get caught. Not because he feels a deep shame for the murders but because he can't handle the consequences that come with being guilty. Could he have a personality disorder? Yes. Absolutely. And the clones are my backing. I have no idea if his malicious tendencies are because he was neglected as a boy or not, but he shivers and cries as though he genuinely doesn't remember committing such crimes. Unless of course he's a great fucking actor, but this is not likely. He may truly be delusional.
His physical manifestation as a demon has eyes sunken further into his head than when he was human, glowing red with yellow irises so small his kanji is hardly even visible. As a human his eyes were still sunken but buggy and all white. No irises to be seen until he widened his eyes in realization at the magistrate who condemned him to death. There's an aura of anxiety that surrounds him, yes, but speckled in pure evil. His appearance is so cold but inside he is burning with a fiery rage and intent to kill. He took the last breath of countless lives in his lifetime and as a demon, he devoured even more, ripping them to shreds like a rabid beast. He is creepy and calculated- his correction to Gyokko with his recollection of how many years since the last summons was quick and it shows in his time alone, he is hung up on power and battle. He WANTS to unleash his young and handsome clones. He WANTS to live vicariously through them completely unharmed. He felt as though his evil was unlimited as a demon, something a human man can not relate to.
I love him because he is complex, dark and psychological. He is a mentally sick man, but god I find him so sexy and I don't know why. It's not that I romanticize mental illness, I myself am diagnosed BPD and DID and there is nothing sexually appealing about what I go through, but Hantengu is remarkably sensual in the way that his mind won't let him survive without making sure you know you've upset him, the way his collar bones show through the V line opening in his silky kimono, his joints and masculine bones exposed through his tight and withered skin... His unruly black hair that rests upon his narrow shoulders, his rugged demonic nails and pointed chin with defined jawline and cheekbones... The way each tendon pulls with every turn... The Adams apple in his exposed neck... Never truly seeing his facial features in the light, never truly seeing all the little details in each line and protrusion... Just an expression of sheer terror. A traditional Oni.
To me he is beautiful. To me he is mine.
I love him.
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DID Series Review
Facts -
Series name: Fractale
Run time: 2011-2011 (11 episodes)
Fiction or Nonfiction: Fiction
Was there a diagnosis of DID? Not explicitly, no
Was the person with DID presented as evil for having DID? No
Major Trigger warning list:
- Heavy Religious Themes (talk of purity and sin and all that)
-Incestuous Sexual Abuse (nonexplicit but heavily implied)
- mild Anime Bullshit (Awkward sexual themes and fanservice of minor characters that all anime seems to have some of)
- Gun violence, blood
- heavy themes of government control and gaslighting
- themes of people going ‘crazy’ and suicidal
- attempted sexual assault
- Clones being created and evaporated as a government experiment (is this a trigger? It might be)
- the implication of purposefully created DID via traumatic experiences
Subjective Review(this is how I felt about it) –
Personal triggering scale from 1 to 10 (1 being not triggering at all, 10 being a badly overwhelming experience that might cause personal harm): it goes from 1-8 for me because the implications are close to home and it did send me down a weird spiral every time I watched the last episode. There’s also some fairly violent scenes
Personal relatability scale from 1 to 10 (1 being unrelatable, 10 being OMG THAT’S ME!): 9
Personal avoidance scale from 1 to 10(1 being eager to get on with it, 10 being impossible to finish): 2
My interpretation of the media(Includes spoilers):
Fractale takes place in a futuristic society that relies entirely on the Fractale System, which is kind-of like the internet + VR capabilities. Most people use avatars, or named in this series Doppels to travel throughout the world while staying stationary themselves elsewhere(?). The logic of it all is both explained throughout the series and also very vague and hard to understand
The story follows Klaine as the male lead who doesn’t use the Fractale system, instead living in a rural little town on his own, away from his parents. He doesn’t seem to care about anyone or anything but collecting tech from the old world(which would be our modern society). His whole life is turned upside-down when our interesting female lead Phryne flies into his life, evidently on the run from rebels trying to capture her. Phryne hides with Klaine and leaves him the next morning with a little pendant; the key to the Fractale system.
Within the pendant is a little girl Doppel named Nessa, who seems to have a both physical and digital form and is full of energy and attachment feelings
Everything about this anime is unoriginal, based heavily on Castle in the Sky I’m guessing, as well as maybe Ready Player One(or maybe Sword Art Online? I can’t say because I haven’t seen that one though). But somehow, by taking these honestly better Ips and mashing them together, they’ve made this incredibly unoriginal and bland piece of art. I couldn’t find anything interesting about Klaine to even root for him really.
A lot of the series is focused around The System Bad But Also The Rebels Bad Because They Are Extreme. So the message is very blurry and poorly portrayed, especially when we have the ending that… Both Are Good Enough Anyway So We Didn’t Change Anything Actually Despite Many People Dying For Both Causes. It’s…. really ambiguous as to what the fuck all this was for? The anime was made with a lot of spite and hatred for the anime industry and you can just tell there’s not a lot of love put into it, unlike other series I’ve watched for these reviews.
Except.. For the portrayal of DID. Which is what we’re here for.
Maybe it’s because of how vague the whole anime is, but it lends enough room for the portrayal of DID to be fairly accurate, which can vary wildly from individual to individual as it is.
To explain shortly, Nessa, the key to the Fractale system, is a dissociated part of Phryne. In fact, that’s explicitly what she is, as revealed in the final episode.
1,000 years ago, when the Fractale System was created, they chose a girl to be the key to rebooting the whole system if it was ever needed, essentially making her God. God was a 16-year-old girl with DID, as a result of her father molesting her. It was within this split that they based the whole Fractale system’s stability on.
Now Phyrne had been cloned thousands of times to replicate the original God, but to no avail. One of the clones had been raised by one of the temple’s men as her father. He did some beep boop research into the first Phryne and found out about the DID, so he.. Created DID within her by molesting her too. Thus she split Nessa, who took on a physical form in a Doppel.
Throughout the series, we see the two parts interact a little more over time, from Phryne being negligent and cold to this attachment, pure part of herself, them hating eachother and slowly coming to understand and love eachother in a very DID way that’s honestly quite beautiful.
All of this is vastly interesting and I’m so furious they didn’t focus more of the story on Phryne and Nessa!!!! So much was centered around the boring main character guy’s personal conflicts of am I A Rebel Or Not which ULTIMATELY DIDN’T EVEN MATTERRRR AAAAA
Overall, the execution of the anime was really poorly done and honestly boring, but I actually loved the concept of Phryne and Nessa and I really wish there was more of them and their relationship. I’ll go into the DID a little more in the rest of the review.
What they got Right in my opinion:
- The cause of DID being childhood trauma, in this case incestuous sexual abuse
- Nessa, although a ‘happy’ part, encapsulates Phryne’s needs for love and attachment, and since she’s dissociated off the whole (and therefore condensed, as parts tend to be), her needs and intense and her reactions are easily triggered
- Phryne being in a lot of denial and inability to confront the fact that Nessa is part of her
- Phryne explicitly dissociates multiple times(eyes go blurry and blank, she goes limp, she seemingly looses time and doesn’t have the full awareness of what may be happening)
- Phryne is notably strong-willed and confident but fawns ‘for the greater good’
- Nessa and Phrynes relationship can only be described as someone coming to love their younger self in such a… Parts way, you know? Like the accepting that you’re eachother and you also love yourself and eachother and ugh, it’s just beautiful
- Nessa and Phryne integrate/fuse at the end, and it’s shown later that they’re now one complete person with traits from both of them, just no longer separate
- Oh, the insecurity and feeling worthless and unlovable from trauma is palpable
- While I thought the incestuous father was portrayed to be pretty over-the-top, I really appreciated how fucked up and not okay and creepy they portrayed it, rather than going more of one of those anime grey area ways you see sometimes. I feel like he was ridiculous, but you felt the weight of what he was doing reguardless
- The portrayal of Nessa being a Doppel really fits into the magic/technology system of the world, where people already tend to have a separation between soul and flesh. It felt like the DID naturally fit in
What they got Wrong in my opinion:
- Klaine is boring as fuck why do we focus on his inner struggles when theres literally so much more to be focused on around him
- I couldn’t think of any glaring issues with the DID representation otherwise. Since things are left fairly vague, there wasn’t anything in particularly ‘wrong’ that they latched onto as fact
Would I recommend this to someone with DID to watch?: Uhhhhhhhhh maybe. I think Phryne and Nessa are somewhat worthwhile, but it can be triggering and otherwise really bland to watch. I’ll just give you a similar vague message as the anime does: sure, whatever
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Just wanna put this out here!
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Hi! You can call me Kitsune.
I wanted to give y’all some information on me so you’ll know me a bit better maybe hopefully!
I’m 28 years old and a melanated/cross fox Therian.
I was diagnosed with Autism, ADD, CPTSD and DID. Yes I do have alters. (don’t be afraid to ask questions~!)
I’ve been cosplaying since 2014 and I’ve always been a nerd who loves fantasy, anime/manga and darker things.
I’m a transsexual demiboy (pre op everywhere but I want both done) started back on testosterone on 3/24. I’m a sub leaning switch.
I plan on doing a lot more cosplaying and content creating once I can get a camera and a proper computer, I might even return to gaming streams and voice acting! I’m planning on gaming in cosplay and in character~!
MDNI!!!
Ageless accounts will be blocked~
If you wanna ask me stuff feel free, just please be kind and don’t be a bully.
Buh-Byeeeeeee ☆彡
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