#slaps roof of saiki kusuo: this bad boy can fit so much projection on him

[bucket-of-mold]

I think one of my favorite things about saiki k and the reason i keep coming back to it is how it takes superpowers that we are so used to thinking of as something amazing and highlights just how awful something like that can be. It takes the extraordinary and flips it on its head and say "hey but wouldnt this actually suck if you think about for more than three seconds?" Its something i really like because it creates much more interesting characters imo. A lot of super powerful characters in media feel pretty flat because the focus is on how great and awesome their powers are, but in saiki k you just have this guy who is basically god but hayes it and is dead set on being as average as possible. One of my other favorite things is all the disability metaphor potential

#slaps roof of saiki kusuo: this bad boy can fit so much projection on him #it really takes the usual superpower tropes and throws them out a window #my third thing is the gender but dont get me started #i have no smart articulation for it saiki is just doing gender so crazy and i want that #it is late idk if any of this is logical but this show is in my brain lately #the disastrous life of saiki k. #saiki k