feeling myself go into some kind of berserker frenzy at the image of ai of b-komachi's fans crowded around the funeral venue, waving around merch and light sticks and making a scene, while ai's actual flesh and blood children have to sit in the car parked away from the venue and aren't allowed to actually attend their own mother's funeral
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I've decided. So long as I'm an idol, I'm gonna dye all your glow sticks white!
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Why people don't discuss 45510 novel more, it's so interesting and it gives a lot of insight on what Ai really wanted, I wonder how would old B-Komachii members react to the movie that shows the real Ai. Would they finally confront the truth? Will we ever find out what Ai wanted to say?
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the character acting for ai in this moment is another reason i will champion the anime's take on this material as being so superior to the manga's it isn't even funny.
the manga doesn't even let us see her face here but the anime gives her this brief inhale of a moment where she briefly looks surprised - almost awed - and then she bursts into tears. To the end, the anime never focuses on the her bodily agony or the spectacle of the violence committed against her - it is necessarily, unavoidably a bit more gruesome than the manga just by the necessity of adding colour to the scene, but it pulls in much more closely on Ai's face, her expressions of joy, relief and release.
because of that, i think the anime really highlights and emphasizes something that is comparatively easier to miss in the manga's version: which is that Ai says these words to Aqua and Ruby expecting them to be a lie. The realization that her love is true doesn't come until she has already said the words and realized they're true.
Ai doesn't say these words for herself - she says them for Aqua and Ruby. Knowing it's the last and only chance she will ever have, even if it confirms her deepest and most horrendous fear, Ai cannot let herself die and cannot allow Aqua and Ruby to grow up without ever hearing that their mother loved them.
But that's just it, huh? Ai's absolutely desperate need to let Aqua and Ruby know they were loved is ironclad proof that she did, in fact, love them in of itself.
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With the full cast (or at least, all of the major players) of OnK basically finally appearing in today’s episode, I’m pretty curious about the type of person whose a fan of which character. Specifically in the ‘shipping wars’ as they were. Spoilers for the manga up to chapter 116 under the cut.
More broadly, I kind of am curious about who exactly is a fan of Akane x Aqua and who is a fan of Kana x Aqua. I think the actual series itself is pretty unambiguous -- it pretty explicitly says that Aqua is, at the very least, smitten with Kana. But all that aside, I’ve seen a lot of Akane x Aqua stuff and people talking about Akane like she’s the “best girl” or whatever, and while I really love Akane as a character, I’m a little baffled by how much certain elements of the fandom like her.
So I’ve been wondering, kind of, why people consider her to be all that. And like, the biggest answer I keep seeing is her support of Aqua’s clearly deranged motives and plans, and her desire to basically be his sin-eater, and idk. It just strikes me as a very.. dude view to like her for that reason, like she’s his mom or caretaker or something, and it bothers me. From a personal development standpoint, Akane’s mostly kept Aqua in stasis by knowing he was using her as a tool and not caring. Akane completely sublimates her self and her life for Aqua, and that’s like, not actually a good thing. But it’s also not like, unhinged yandere type of stuff that would appeal to the dollgirl mental illness girlies.
It just seems weird that she’s lauded as being the best for her functionally erasing herself for someone who half-loves her, and it feels, at least to me, to be twinged with a sort of misogyny about what women should be. And I say this all as a really big fan of Akane. It’s just...odd, to me. idk.
Anyway mem-cho supremacy we stan a 25 year old lying queen.
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