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Anonymous Coward · 3mo
i saw your tweets about illumi and silva and I AGREE i don’t even think that illumi realizes silva is letting him do all the dirty work so he can be the good guy in killua’s eyes. thankfully killua is smart and realized at the end that silva and the rest of the family are no better than illumi
this is also why i don’t want a redemption arc for illumi i hope he gets worse actually 😭 and for it to all turn against silva
yeah i think illumi would probably never view himself as being exploited, his self awareness skills are extremely poor…. and i would hate an illumi redemption arc because he doesn’t deserve it! there is nothing that could justify how he treated his little siblings, even if he was made that way by silva and kikyo. i’m tired of illumi woobification. i need to see more of him just being the worst. i would love to see him leaning more into that malicious side of himself we saw in the election arc in the future for hxh. when we initially meet him he seems cold and robotic and like he has no free will, only mindless obedience to his family. but illumi becomes so sinister later in the election arc because we realise just how psychotic he really is. he’s got a lot of malevolence within him and he’s not purely a mindless servant.
Anonymous Coward · 3mo
https://x.com/asakapilled/status/1818264396931469354?t=JhN08B81ecivKhIT_8fq9Q&s=19
potential akio fan anon here... and oh wow... funnily enough since that pretty much describes one of my favorite characters from another franchise who is also a terrible horrible no good very bad person, yeaaaah i probably really shouldn't risk getting into utena or i'll get brainworms
Anonymous Coward · 4mo
is it weird that i see oscar and andre as a lesbian couple?
Anonymous Coward · 3mo
Do you prefer the anime's slight revisions of oniisama e or do you like the manga's writing better?
i like both for different reasons. anime added extra scenes that gave more character/relationship exposition. at the same time it changed certain aspects of nanako and rei’s relationship, cut out their kiss, and replaced the lesbian kiss between the two with an incest kiss. and then it made the ending 10x more lesbophobic. rei’s death still has slight ‘bury your gays’ undertones in the manga but it also made sense because oniisama e is a tragedy, and i feel like killing kaoru after marrying henmi and making it so nanako didn’t date anyone else after rei was ikeda’s act of defiance against typical class S narratives. the manga also has beautiful imagery and art. at the same time i feel like it’s too short and the anime does a just job of expanding ikeda’s original work. overall both are good and i think the anime is best to start off with as a first timer but the manga is equally important to understand ikeda’s original intention.
Anonymous Coward · 3mo
have you read witch hat atelier?
Anonymous Coward · 3mo
in isolation from the rest of the adaptation, do you prefer 1999 leorio or manga leorio?
Anonymous Coward · 3mo
i want to get into utena but given my track record of fixating on the worst possible men in every franchise i get into i am worried if i start watching utena i'll become an akio fan 💔
Anonymous Coward · 3mo
Opinions on sasuke?
Anonymous Coward · 3mo
hi! are you still going to post that thread about what Dezaki changed in his adaptations of Ikeda's manga?
Anonymous Coward · 3mo
do you think child illumi had long hair or short hair? this is very important question to me because sometimes i feel like he probably looked like a porcelain doll and sometimes i feel like he had a bowl cut
i feel like he had short hair as a kid and started growing it out as a teen… i mean his clothing is very boring when he’s a teen so i imagine he didn’t become yassified until he was an adult. also he was probably so focused on becoming a good assassin he didn’t care about his appearance until later when focus shifted away from him when killua was born and he was granted a degree of freedom.
Anonymous Coward · 3mo
Is it bad if the reason i started watching Utena was bc I saw an edit on TikTok that shook me to my core so much it finally gave me the courage to try it?
Anonymous Coward · 3mo
there’s no difference between liking hisoka and akio