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#note how the Ashinaka kids are so prominent in S1 but not ROK for example
ridiasfangirlings · 4 years
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What's with the "the only thing I'm interested in is blood and flesh" line in episode 5 do you think it was just GoRA trying to make Fushimi edgy before really having his character more thought out?
Honestly....probably XD I do feel like there was a lot of stuff in the early parts of K that Gora did not entirely think through and Fushimi I suspect is one of them, his behavior is just so different from season one versus the rest of the series. Gora did lay the groundwork for why Fushimi acts that way, since he's actively copying Niki, but considering that Fushimi never puts on the act quite as strongly as he does in episode 5 makes me think they deliberately dialed him back and the Niki explanation was tacked on later in order to make the earlier characterization make some kind of sense. I feel like originally Gora intended Fushimi to be more edgy and twisted and then when he turned out to be one of the most popular characters in the series they realized the more twisted villainous characterization woukdn't work. I do think they at least intended to give him some deeper characterization regardless – I believe the hero show drama CD came out rather early on and Fushimi's got a lot of interesting character stuff going on in Side Red – but I think it's likely that the reason they decided to play up more of Fushimi's tragic sad mess vibe versus crazy yandere vibe is due to his popularity causing them to rethink the character a little. (Incidentally, Gora also mentioned after ROK had aired that they had at one point intended on killing Fushimi off and I suspect that time was still early on when Fushimi was stuck in his episode five characterization, possibly intending to make him more of a straight-out traitor who goes to jungle on his own and then ends up with some kind of redemption-via-death. But then when they started giving him more depth as a character that plot made no sense anymore and so they scrapped it and gave him a happier ending.)
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