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iwritenarrativesandstuff · 11 months

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Actually regarding my last Hatoful post I made, I don’t think enough attention is given to the way Sakuya has been completely un-personed by Le Bel. He’s not only “raised in a sheltered and classist environment”, everything he is is a regurgitation. There is not a single thing Sakuya says in early game that isn’t what his “father” told him to - this doesn’t exactly excuse his behaviour towards his classmates, but it is also very concerning. You would expect Sakuya’s arc to be about the pressure and expectation he feels as the next family head, but while it certainly does seem to be a lot of work, he doesn’t really show much indication that it’s gotten to the point that it’s too much to bear. He handles responsibility very well. He’s just. Unhappy. Sakuya runs away from home in freezing cold weather and collapses in the street, all because he deigned to think about loving music. He hadn’t even come around to thinking about actually pursuing it as a career. This alone seems more like Sakuya hit a breaking point than one isolated incident - there is likely a lot more going on behind the scenes that we are not privy to for Sakuya to be that subservient and that terrified of Le Bel. Hiyoko even internally notes that he’s always acting way angrier than he actually is - anger is a reactive emotion, and if he reacts aggressively, he won’t have to think about these things that challenge the worldview Le Bel has indoctrinated him with. He is literally too frightened to challenge Le Bel, even within his own mind.

Similarly, Yuuya takes on a job that restricts him from forming any semblance of a stable identity or from letting the mask fall. Ever. Sakuya deflects with anger and his high-born reputation, and Yuuya deflects with a flirty laid back persona while allowing everyone he meets to believe every rumour they spread about him. And people treat him horribly. He laughs it off with the whole “that’s a little cold” or “bit harsh” but. Like. It hurts him. I don’t think he’s genuinely ever built up a tolerance against that kind of badmouthing, and the sad part is that the worst of it comes from Sakuya, his own little brother who he would and has done everything for. But he won’t ever refute it or defend himself, because it helps him keep his cover at the school, and also probably in part because he feels he deserves it. Yuuya does not like himself, largely due to his constant guilt. He even doubts his competence at times, when his efforts as an agent fail (see early HoliStar). He has no idea what his future will look like. He has no plans for himself. He acts in defence solely on behalf of other people’s happiness and safety and receives the words of the man he hates most spat in his face by the little brother he would do anything to protect. And yet, to him, it will always have been worth it.

It would’ve been so easy to make them polar opposites but I do love how the writing actually shows a number of key similarities between them that pop up in certain situations.

Their correct answers in their routes typically involve standing up to them or telling them off in some way (Sakuya’s bossiness, Yuuya’s flirtation)

Sometimes make rash decisions due to their anger or irritation (I mean. Sakuya. A lot but also. The egg.)

They are both quick to take on responsibility for others in a crisis situation and tend to handle it fairly well for the most part (rip to Sakuya with the giant tank that showed up at his mansion. to be fair Yuuya couldn’t stop it either.)

Kings of not being honest about their true feelings or personality. Like ever. Masks and defence mechanisms up constantly. (Yuuya is at least a little more self-aware; he does genuinely seem to care about justice - while Sakuya, as stated previously, has very little in the way of an identity at all and is not self-aware in the slightest lol)

Anyways I feel insane about the fantail brothers. That is all.

(Art above is by the author Moa btw. You can find it on the wiki!)

#this post brought to you by my sudden recollection of sakuya being more terrified of talking to his father than an assassin sent to kill him #just. makes you think.#also how sad yuuya makes me. like. he’s still a kid man.#I liked him plenty in bbl but oh man. holistar yuuya. ‘this pain is mine you can’t have it’ holistar yuuya. holy fuck.#easily jumped up the ranking as one of my faves #sorry I’m being melodramatic. eh. oh well #hatoful boyfriend #hatoful kareshi #sakuya le bel shirogane #yuuya sakazaki #hatoful analysis #storyrambles #hatoful spoilers

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viridianns · 7 months

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nagekis for class. if any of my classmates see me on here im going to jump out my window

#hatoful boyfriend #hatoful kareshi #nageki fujishiro #hatoful bf #andi art #got to do a character analysis of him im so happy

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to-mourn-a-mourning-dove · 10 months

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i think my favorite thing about shuu as a character is that his actions are just absolutely inexcusable.

there is no "valid" excuse for murdering and cannibalizing children. there is no excuse for biologically weaponizing a child and traumatizing him to the point of suicide. he DELIGHTS in other people's suffering. he claims to have done this all for a purpose, but yet, he thinks that dismembering and decapitating a corpse to show to schoolchildren is funny. he laughs when hiyoko suggests that the same child he made the promise to might be suffering because of him.

like, he's not a gray character. yuuya is a gray character. he's made questionable decisions (bbl, the egg), because there wasn't a better option available to him.

and yet, despite just how horrible shuu is? he's understandable.

all of his actions stem from grief. he's been in grieve for YEARS. he claims everything stems from it. and a lot of his actions do. he invited almost all of the students to the school to investigate their ability to carry the charon virus, and the reason he isolated it in the first place was to fulfill his promise to ryouta.

look, i'll make jokes about how stupid misinterpreting "please, create a world where parents are no longer taken from their children, and wars no longer happen" as "please kill all humans" is, but you can still work through his faulty logic.

he was RAISED in the hawk party research facility. literally. he was like. 10 when ryouta was born. and he worked with ryuuji before then. obviously he thinks the solution to wars is what he was raised to believe.

and also? there's just... that element of grief to account for. everything he does is about it. he's the true antagonist of the game, like 99% of the problems can be accounted directly to him, but his grief is so present it just. it's so obvious, looking back on it.

he was thorough in trying to fulfill his promise. out of obligation, he claims.

holiday star shuu definitely gave me a new perspective. because he adopts miru and kaku, who hiyoko even notes he would probably murder under normal circumstances, because their anklets still say ryuuji k. on them. i was shocked when i was able to recognize his storybook as him the first playthrough. he's... he's just so simple.

none of his reasoning is justifiable. and he did WRONG. he did so much wrong. but doesn't that just make it more fun? doesn't that just make it so much more interesting?

#shuu iwamine #isa souma #hatoful boyfriend #hatoful kareshi #sorry this is what happens when i talk abt hatoful #ive been putting all my thoughts in discord #but this blog is being exposed to my autism now #it's just FASCINATING okay???#love character analysis sm #gore #cannibalism #thoughts

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we-love-morioh-cho · 2 months

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Chapter 58 - Kaato's Return

I try to avoid long, speculating posts for my Jojolion liveblogging BUT Chapter 58 has my mind racing with ideas and I'm so excited for the Higashikata family drama that I need to get this out of my system. This single chapter has more character intrigue to me than other entire parts of Jojo, that's how much I love this stuff 😭

This post is really, really long and messy and probably more headcanon than actual analysis and will not be very polished. It'll likely age poorly and be very wrong but this is legit some of the most enjoyment and interest this franchise has ever given me. To avoid spamming the tags, I'm shoving a lot of ideas into this single post so I apologize in advance.

Kaato

One thing I've had spoiled about Kaato is that she isn't the main villain but that everyone wanted her to be. So I'm already really excited for her character but I'm not sure what to expect. Given how Jojo is written, I'm expecting there to be more to the child murder. Her intro referenced Jolyne a lot, soooo I'm thinking she was pressured by someone / set-up.

Maybe I'm just falling for her scheme like I did with Damo, but her grief and pain here feels genuine to me. If there is more to the murder, then this is a tragic situation for Kaato - she was separated from her children and has been iced out of her own family. There must be a reason she could never tell them the truth too, maybe she's still in danger?

This series tends to neglect mothers in the narrative so I'm enjoying their focus in Jojolion, plus there's some sort of parallel with Holy being established. I'm trying really hard not to stan her before knowing the full story in case it's absolutely fucked up but god is she iconique. I'll talk about her in passing in other character's sections, there's already A LOT to say and already she is a very high tier character to me.

Josuke and Kei

Poor Josuke man.....I was not expecting the hospital scene and it really got to me 💔 I'm so glad Jojo has been exploring it's protags' internal lives more in later parts, I would say since Jolyne it's felt more introspective and emotional. I'm glad poor Josuke is getting to have his grief explored and shown, it makes the storytelling so much more impactful to me at least. I must ask why Kei wasn't at the hospital, surely she must know of Holy's condition and should be involved too. Have her and Josuke even really spoken since early Jojolion? I need more of Kei as Holy's condition becomes more and more important.

What on Earth does Josuke feel seeing Kaato show up? We don't get an answer in this chapter BUT I am hoping him and Kaato will interact in the future and this will be brought up. There's just a lot of directions to go with this dynamic and I hope we get it explored. He was pretty passive during Kaato's scene, I kept hoping she would point him out and question his presence but fair enough. Also, it was interesting how him and Kei were the two outsiders during this scene - as their mother is dying, the mother of the Higashikata family appears and is clearly involved with Jobin who is also vying for the miracle cure that they need too. Crazy potential here with these characters.

Norisuke

Not to be a Kaato apologist already but I have some things to say about this man. I'm assuming that, if there is a deeper secret to the murder, he's unaware of it, but I really have to ask why Kaato wouldn't tell him?

I get that telling your two youngest kids that their mother was in jail for killing a child would be rough but GODDDDD he couldn't even tell them when they got older or at least keep his story straight? Also, evidently Jobin and Hato never told their siblings about their mother - how did that conversation go? Norisuke had to be the one to enforce that rule and I'm sure it was not an easy process.

Did Norisuke ever talk to his eldest children about their mother leaving? Because with how Hato phrases it, it seems like he brushed it all under the rug. And while it's obviously sad the two young ones never knew about her, imagine what the two eldest kids felt having known her then watching her be dragged away????? He never even showed the little ones a photo of her, that is insane and just next level to me. Was Kaato's crime not widely discussed in the town? How did neither Joshu or Daiya ever hear about it somehow?

This section originally spiraled into a HUGE theory / headcanon / speculation discussion on how the Kaato situation might've led to a divide in how the eldest siblings and youngest siblings were raised, but I'm gonna wait on that thought until I know more and give it it's own post in the future sometime.

Jobin

Jobin was a pure menace this chapter and I fucking loved it. He really let his convicted-murderer mother into his family's house, didn't inform anyone of her release, and shows up as soon as she leaves to casually drop that he orchestrated this whole thing. And then he rocked up like this -

I'm guessing he watched / listened to the whole ordeal from afar and just chose to watch the chaos? I have a lot of thoughts and theories about how Jobin views his younger siblings and this chapter doesn't help lol. Why did he do this? What did he gain from this? Absolute deranged menace behavior lmao

I'm now thinking that Jobin and Norisuke's issues with each other may have originated from Kaato. Jobin is clearly close with mommy dearest and seems to take her side over his dad's. I'm not.......the biggest fan of potentially blaming Kaato for Jobin's issues and I hope this isn't just an 'evil mother turns son against poor father' situation because I am not a fan of that trope.

Kaato briefly mentions that she's helped the family's success so I'm wondering if she is behind Jobin's philosophy of advancing the family's greatness beyond Norisuke's smaller ambitions. You know that other trope of women in patriarchal systems using their cunning and male relatives to exercise great power from the shadows, a la Agrippina and Nero? Yeah.

Anyway, him and Kaato are obvs scheming and I am so fucking keen and ready - Jobin has been a great antagonist so far and I am here for the fucked up mother-son team taking on Norisuke. The Higashikata family drama has hooked me from day one and I really enjoy the focus on their dynamics. Norisuke's final line this chapter is incomplete as he ponders something about Jobin, I love the mystery set-up with what could be going on. I adore how character-driven this story is and how personal the stakes are - I've ALWAYS wished the series explored the Joestar family more in-depth and, while it's obviously different, this part is making me veryyyyy happy with the Higashikatas. A++++ content for me and Jobin remains both compelling and really fucking funny.

Daiya

Not too much to say but this shit is so sad to me. Her entire life, Daiya's father and two eldest siblings never told her about her mother, to the point she seems surprised to even have one? Maybe this is just meant to be a joke about her being dumb / she's more surprised her mother is alive but still. Norisuke couldn't show her a photo, or give her closure or anything? A memento to think of her? Even a story so she could at least know something positive about her own mother who she surely must have wondered about before?!?! Norisuke is on thin fucking ice istg.

I could easily see Daiya latching onto Kaato moving forward and maybe even taking her side over Norisuke. Ofc she loves her dad but she's also a teenager finding out this critical bit of info has been hidden from her her entire life and is clearly so, so excited to have a mum 💔 Imagine how impactful it would be if Kaato managed to win over 2 of their 4 kids, the eldest and the youngest? I don't wanna get into speculating too much though.

Also - it was very sweet to me how Daiya was the one person who tried to approach Kaato and clearly wanted to help her up when Joshu tripped her. Regardless of Kaato's trustworthiness, I just thought that was very sweet of Daiya even if it maybe was naive 🥺

Joshu

Hate him and need to see him die rn. Kaato was completely justified and very based for attacking him and I hope she kills him with her bare hands. Literally the dinner table scene from Hereditary. What the fuck kind of parenting does Norisuke even do? Kaato's here for 5 minutes and puts Joshu in his place, while Norisuke just seems annoyed by him and has nothing to really say about him sexually assaulting Kaato in front of the entire family.

I don't want to imply that a strict mother would entirely fix Joshu's issues but holy shit, at least she would actually do something to discourage his behavior besides sighing and looking embarrassed. Is Joshu the way he is, in part, because Norisuke is a lousy dad who has implicit biases and an acceptance of his son's horrific behavior? Maybe. In an alternate world, could Kaato have whipped him into shape growing up and saved us all? I can dream.

Hato 👑

Fuck!!!!! I love Hato sm and am so so so happy she got a little spotlight this chapter 🥺. Initially this post was just gonna be about her because I'm in my Hato-obsession era so hard rn, but I had too much to say about everyone else. This will be a long section so I saved it for last but I will def return to some of these ideas when I've finished Jojolion.

From a writing standpoint, Hato is so valuable in this chapter. She fulfills a role that really no other character could and its cool to see - Hato is the only character who could realistically convey info to Josuke, and therefore the audience, about Kaato. The parents are too caught up arguing with each other and wouldn't want to tell the whole room about the murder. So who; a) knows about Kaato and her actions and b) has a good enough relationship with Josuke to convey this info to him? Hato. And what's cool is that Josuke knows this.

Josuke is perceptive enough to realize that Hato recognizes this woman and quietly asks her who she is. Despite how personal and emotionally-difficult this moment would've been for Hato, she opens up and tells him (and thus the audience) this family secret.

This next point is probably a bit more fanfic than analysis, but Hato would easily be the closest person to an ally Josuke has in the Higashikatas besides his complicated dynamic with Norisuke. It's really understated and maybe not even intentional, but Josuke and Hato logically should trust each other.

Jobin and Joshu just have an all-out antagonistic relationship with Josuke and have actively clashed with him multiple times. Josuke is on good terms with Daiya and Tsurugi, but not only did both begin by attacking Josuke, but they are both young and cannot always fulfill an equal role to Josuke because of this. Mitsuba and Kaato are currently unknowns, leaving Hato.

Unlike Norisuke, Hato has never antagonized Josuke. She has never gone after someone he cares about and, critically, is uninvolved in her family's shady stuff. She's not in the position to hide vital info from Josuke or scheme against him. All around, Hato seems pretty pleasant honestly and doesn't ever hurt others the way her siblings all seem to do - her eccentricities are harmless and Josuke doesn't judge her the way he judges other characters. In a house full of shady and bombastic people, I can see Josuke really appreciating Hato (Kei should really fulfill this role too).

In the Vitamin C arc, he specifically wants her permission before he kills Damo. Josuke can be ruthless at times, Damo is actively killing the family and it would be very justified for him to just kill the guy BUT he waits for Hato's approval. To me, that really says something - that he respects and likes Hato enough to go out of his way to consult her. Then, Hato and Josuke work together to defeat Damo, both using their stands to overcome Vitamin C. And Josuke's words on Damo being a threat and needing to be defeated helps Hato in her emotional journey - helps her reach the point where she fights back.

They're paired together a lot in this chapter and it's sweet seeing Josuke actually have a nice and healthy bond with someone in this goddamn family 😭 They really play off each other in a compelling and dynamic way, they're open to what the other says and they just generally seem to be on the same wavelength. I just see endless potential in them working together and getting along and maybe becoming like actual siblings and I hope we see more because I can see The Vision and I love them.

Focusing back on Hato, I desperately need to see more of what her childhood was like. What was her and Kaato's relationship? The only thing Kaato says to / about Hato is that she's "as beautiful as ever" and then a little quirk she had as a child. This doesn't give us a lot so I don't have a clear idea of their dynamic outside of wild headcanon. More importantly, Hato knows her mother well enough to anticipate her retaliation against Joshu. This makes me think that maybe Kaato was a stern mother who never took any disrespect and that she potentially had her stand even in Hato's childhood. There's so much potential here but it's too early to know anything.

While I know it likely stems from Araki not really intending for Hato to be a major character, from a Watsonian perspective it amazes me that Hato is as well-adjusted as she seems to be. The amount of disruption she faced as a child, losing her mother and then having her father give conflicting info is insane. Again, how did she rationalize all of this?

And then, worse of all, for her to have to look up her mother's crimes herself and find out about the murder herself - I am begging for a flashback to that event. Did she confront her father? Was Norisuke ever planning on breaking the news to her? Did she ever talk to Jobin about the crime?

I'm not gonna dwell on this too much, but this reveal makes the lack of Jobin + Hato moments so far really stand out. With their father having to raise the young ones and trying to brush everything under the rug, did the 2 eldest siblings ever confide in each other? It doesn't seem like it, their large age gap and Jobin's shadiness around Kaato gives me little hope Hato could find much solidarity with him but I might be wrong. I would love to have a scene of the 2 talking about this or really just interacting in a meaningful way.

This is much more fanfic-y and is my feminist lens coming in, but I can't help wondering if Hato took on a sort of 'motherly' role after Kaato's arrest. I'm not saying Norisuke like demanded she help raise her siblings buuuuuuuut I could see societal expectations and their family's situation causing Hato to take on this role regardless. Jobin was nearly an adult when Kaato left and seemed to go off and start his own family / pursue his own ambitions. He doesn't seem very close with his siblings and, with how much Norisuke has on his plate, I could see some responsibility and expectation falling onto Hato's shoulders. A maid could've helped but it is unfortunately a thing that eldest daughters in a family are burdened with these duties even when older sons are in the family. And with her mother gone and her male relatives set to run the family business, it just feels very likely. Would the eldest daughter even have a chance to run the business?

Hato is close with her younger siblings, she playfully teases Joshu and looks out for Daiya. While she has her own quirks, she is generally much more mature and responsible than most of her family. As the inheritor of the family curse and the business, a lot of focus would've been on Jobin growing up. Norisuke wanted to act like Kaato never existed and Jobin is distant, clearly knowing more. Hato would've been the primary female figure in both Daiya and Joshu's upbringings, she had to lie to them and keep the secret of Kaato for their entire lives. But she's not included in all the other secrets of her family, she's left out of a lot of subplots and the idea of her being involved in the business is never even suggested. Most likely, she'll remain a minor character, but god would I love for all of these intricacies to be explored. There's just sooooooo much juicy potential here, so much family drama and character arcs and social commentary and thematic stuff here and I know I'm overthinking this but idc I love Hato and her unique role in the story and this chapter has really opened my mind to a lot of ideas and possibilities.

Lastly, I just wanna point out Hato's current feelings towards Kaato and how she seems to be distancing herself from her mother. She seems distrusting and literally looks down on here in the panel above - please God give us some interactions between these two, I am so intrigued to see more of what Hato thinks about her. If there is more to the story of Kaato allegedly killing a kid, how will the family react if it comes to light? I hope we see lots more family drama and I am begging for more Hato focus especially, love her so much.

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nageki-the-friendly-ghost · 2 years

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Also, like. Hiyoko is SOOO important, not just plot-wise but also tonally. When she's there the story moves forward, at pretty much the same pace in every route. She and whichever bird you focus on are able to move forward too, in whatever way that looks like for them. She is self-assured, bright and bubbly, funny, not at all serious, but also very emotionally aware and able to land some impactful moments.

And then she is gone. And the game freezes on one awful day that lasts longer than any of the years she experienced in other routes. The birds are stuck dwelling in the present mystery, and in their individual pasts that lead them here. And her narration is replaced with Ryouta's: straightforward, panicked, confused. Moments of levity still exist, but like her spirit, all we get are glimpses. The ghost of a "normal" life.

Her death isn't just for shock value (though. It is also that), it is the interruption of all that she brought to the world. Everyone else spirals when they're out of her orbit, but, though it gets worse before it gets better, her influence is not gone. Her death forces Sakuya into an actually important leadership position where he has to work WITH people rather than above them. Her (probably unintentional) actions as Labor 9 force Ryouta to the library, which leads Nageki to recover his memories faster and in more depth than his route. Killing her was part of Shuu's plan all along, but Ryouta's reaction to it is finally what makes him stop chasing Ryuuji's wish. Because of Shuu's plan for her death, the medical center is finally opened and Hitori stops lying in wait. Anghel and Okosan, the joke-route characters who Hiyoko fit right in with, are both given more narrative weight while still providing the humor found in their otome routes. And of course, EVERYTHING Ryouta does in BBL is because of Hiyoko- she is the one he is so desperate to find the truth for, finding out his own role in her death emotionally destroys him, he's is brought out of his violent mindless state by her ghost telling him that it's not what she wants. If we follow BBL's motif of chasing shadows, she is who Ryouta is chasing.

Hiyoko Tosaka is the heart of heartful boyfriend, and at the center of hurtful boyfriend's hurt.

#echos personal rambles #hatoful boyfriend #hiyoko tosaka #haha oops this was longer than i meant it to be #obviously there's a lot of appreciation for Hiyoko as our favorite hunter-gatherer schoolgirl #but i don't think I've seen anyone actually examine how important she is for setting the tone of every route #i just think she doesnt get as much analysis as she deserves

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i-am-literally-deranged · 2 years

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I have long said that Hitori is the most well written character in Hatoful, and I'm right. But most well written ARC goes squarely to Sakuya. Sakuya is possibly the most dynamic character in the game. Sakuya on day one of the game, and Sakuya in the epilogue of BBL are entirely different people.

That's actually part of why I don't usually talk about him all that much. Sakuya has a complete character arc. That's not something that you can really say about the rest of the cast. They all definitely HAVE arcs, but one of the things that keeps me constantly coming back to the series is how none of them feel quite complete. Like they're all still hanging open, their arcs stopped just short of coming around to their proper conclusion. Characters in Hatoful Boyfriend are often just left bleeding. You watch them grow and get torn down by the world around them, and then they come to stop, still hanging and bleeding, neither patched up nor bled out. And it's this incompleteness that makes it stick in my brain. I keep searching for that last note needed to close out the movement, and it's just not there.

Hitori's story is a revenge tragedy, but we never reach the revenge, or the natural conclusion of the tragedy. Both he and Shuu are alive at the end of the story, with nowhere to go. They've backed themselves into a bloody corner, and the story has just left them there. There isn't a resolution. Their narratives can really only end in death, and they don't die at the end, so instead it's left open and incomplete.

Ryouta just gets slowly torn down throughout the narrative. Misfortune after misfortune pile onto him, and he slowly runs ragged. Hatoful Boyfriend is chronicling his descent. From the most normal, cheery member of the cast, to the most broken and miserable. But at the end of BBL, he's just left waiting. Waiting to die or for someone to come back with a cure. Left in a sort of eternal stasis. He's left open and bleeding, without a proper conclusion either way, hopeful or tragic. In Holiday Star he keeps being pushed to confront his abandonment issues, and he just keeps refusing to do so. He never really confronts them despite how many times he's faced with these issues, and again, we're left without a real satisfying resolution to his character arc. He goes most of the way through an arc, and then stops just short of completing it.

Shuu's story is this grand tale of hubris. He so clearly lines up his own downfall with every decision he makes. From how many enemies he makes, to how much he underestimates those enemies. Following Shuu is like slowly going up a rollercoaster headed towards the big drop. It's all build up for either his grand plan going off in this spectacular act of genius, or else his great failure, going out in a big blaze of glory, falling into all of the holes he left for himself, that he thought were too small and unimportant to worry about. And the way he ends is... Neither of those things. His terrible decisions do come back to haunt him, but the price he pays for it is ultimately so small compared to all that he's done. It's underwhelming, and leaves me feeling like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop, and for him to finally get his dues, and it just never comes. It's all build up, and then a sudden jarring stop just short of the grand crescendo promised.

Yuuya's arc is a lot like Ryouta's. It's a descent. It's his unraveling. Unlike Ryouta's thought, we do see him putting some of these pieces back together, or at least trying to. The game explores a lot of the consequences of his hero complex, and he fully faces the consequences of his act of revenge, and spends the rest of his arc looking for redemption from this guilt he carries. It's hard to call Yuuya's story a redemption arc. Redemption is the thing he's seeking, but I don't think he's ever really condemned by the narrative even before seeking this redemption. It's more like what Yuuya's arc is about is seeking forgiveness from himself, and seeking to repair his relationship with Sakuya, which is what complicates his arc for me. If it was a straightforward quest for redemption "I took vengeance once, and I am paying for my sins. I seek to redeem my soul" then you could see him taking that scalpel for Sakuya as a conclusion. But the fact that it's never really treated by the narrative as though Yuuya's act of vengeance was actually wrong instead makes it feel less like Yuuya is seeking forgiveness from the universe, but instead like he is seeking forgiveness from himself. In which case, his self sacrifice is a step backwards. It's more of Yuuya devaluing himself, more of him prioritizing others to an extreme. If we take the egg incident to be Yuuya's biggest sin, then BBL is just him repeating those same mistakes again and again. It's him choosing Sakuya over everything to a destructive degree. He chops up Hiyoko's body and covers up her death, to protect Sakuya. He throws away his own life, to protect Sakuya. It's just a loop of Yuuya doing something terrible in Sakuya's name. There's no redemption found in there, only a further spiral. And further reinforcing Yuuya's guilt, and self hatred, and this steady creeping towards the place Hitori is in. And he doesn't really deviate from this path. He continues onward, repeating his mistakes, and slipping towards the same cliff that Hitori plunged off of. Again, it's left unresolved. He keeps starting to learn, starting to heal, starting to confront his flaws, and then not quite overcoming them.

I'm.... Honestly not sure what Anghel's arc is? I know it's about coming to terms with his complicated identity, and being understood by the people around him, but it's hard to say how much progress he really makes on those fronts? Anghel is sort of just... Perfect as he is? He serves very effectively as a plot device, and he's loveable and compelling without having an especially dynamic arc. Anghel is somewhat static, but I don't think that's really a bad thing on him. I'm not sure if he just doesn't have a whole lot going on arc wise, or if I'm just not seeing it right now, but oh well. I'd love to hear someone else give their takes on him, see if I can't find a new perspective to come at him from. But as it is he's just my funky little guy that I love so so much, but in a sort of no thoughts head empty kind of way.

Nageki is the hardest to talk about for me, which is why I saved him for last. He has so much going on. Nageki's route is famously emotionally moving. I cried for it, I think most people did. And I'm not sure exactly how to approach it from a meta perspective. Nageki is almost a sort of... Messianic figure. Nageki died to save humanity, despite all the ways that it had wronged him. You could say Nageki's arc is one of taking back power for himself. He was weak, and unable to do anything for himself or for anyone else either. He felt like a burden, and so when he found an opportunity to do something for someone, to protect people, he threw himself into it regardless of the cost. Even though it cost him his life. He made this selfless sacrifice. But while that was something of an arc of him finding power for himself, I hesitate to call it a full arc. Nageki had always been that selfless. Nageki pre-Hatoful House massacre would likely have been just as ready and willing to give his life for others as he was in the end.

Was it him losing hope then? Nageki being beaten down by the treatment he recieved at the St Pigeonations clinic? In the end succumbing to the misfortune that had haunted him all his life and killing himself? That doesn't feel right either. Nageki dying is, strangely enough, never actually a change for him. Nageki was dead from the beginning of the game. But more than that, Nageki was always going to die. From even long before the game began, Nageki had this clear path to an early death laid out before him. Nageki was ALWAYS going to die. There is no other way for him to go, this was always how it was going to be. And it's how it went. He accepted his fate, embraced it, and leaned into it. He took ahold of his incoming death for himself. It's very difficult for me to identify what exactly is going on with Nageki because it feels like he has SO MUCH going on. Nageki sits nestled at the heart of all of it. Both games orbit around him. I know that Ryouta is the unofficial main character. And I know that you can trace everything that happened in the series directly back to Ryuuji. I know that Shuu is the driving force behind the plot and that he laid out all of the pieces and players for this whole game, that it was all his doing. But Nageki feels, to me at least, like the true heart of the issue. He's your first introduction to the fact that something is truly genuinely Not Right in this world. So much of the plot is all of the living characters chasing after Nageki. Trying to unravel his secrets. Following his trail. Trying to find him. Nageki stands ahead of the crowd, several paces up, and every other character is tripping over themselves running after him.

Nageki is the axis upon which the story rotates. Hitori's entire character revolves around him. Orbits him. Ryouta's downfall is so tightly intertwined with Nageki. At the end of the day, one of Ryouta's most important roles in the plot is simply as a vessel for Nageki. It's carrying a piece if him inside of him. Ryouta's place in the narrative is sometimes as a sort of second coming if Nageki in a way. Shuu's fate was sealed the moment he chose Nageki as his victim, and he has been paying the price for that decision ever since, in little increments. Almost every character has their moment where they serve as a parallel to Nageki. The King's entire thing is RIDDLED with parallels, they are established as sort of foils to eachother. Two ghosts, two sad little birds who died unfortunate early deaths, two people that Hitori feels so responsible for, the two shadows that haunt him. And so much of Holiday Star is about how they handled this differently. How The King used his fire to draw others in and trap them, to make himself feel better and to have company in his misery. And how Nageki, the scorpion, burned himself to ash to free them. It's the scene in the lighthouse, how he was prepared to burn to death all over again. Sakuya is also often cast in parallel to Nageki as part of Yuuya and Hitori's parallels. With these two sets of brothers you have two stories of selflessness and giving as a bad thing. They're about self destruction, and living your life exclusively in service if someone else, and how unfair that can be to the person you are trying to help. How in the end, for all of Hitori's selfless sacrifice none of Nageki's wishes came true, and how for all of Yuuya's selfless sacrifice he wound up hurting Sakuya more than anyone else. And both of them, in this single minded quest, choosing one person above the entire world, leave this trail of bloody mistakes behind them. This parallel casts Nageki as Sakuya's mirror.

In a way, that's really Nageki's role. He's a mirror held up to each member of the cast. And in that reflection you see the worst of each of them. Nageki is sort of perfect, and the narrative stands each other character next to him to show you their flaws. What does Nageki do wrong, ever??? I can't think of a single thing. He doesn't make any real mistakes, so I don't know where to find an arc in that. There's nowhere to go, there's no change. Nageki really does thrive in his role as a ghost. He's sort of intangible, impossible to catch, impossible to hold on to. He's an impossible goal to be chased after, and ultimately, be left unreached. So much of the plot is just looking for Nageki. Looking for his secrets. Looking for his remains. Looking for anything he left behind. Looking for him. Looking for Nageki, and instead only finding your own reflection. I don't know how to discuss that, really. Which is why I usually don't. The story of Hatoful Boyfriend is this massive downward spiral, pulling everyone in, and down to their lowest point, and curled up right in the center of it all is Nageki, with every other story element orbiting around him, but never actually managing to reach him.

But after all that, looping all the way back around to my actual point. Sakuya.

Sakuya's arc actually finishes, and it finishes beautifully. In a story full of people getting worse, chasing unachievable ends, and being left eternally swirling around and around never quite reaching a proper conclusion just getting more and more damaged with each go around, Sakuya actually improves. He has this perfect, solid character arc.

Sakuya starts out as an egotistical bigot, living under false pretenses, with high ambitions of becoming a great leader. Through the story he faces every single flaw he has, confronts it, changes for the better, and grows as a person. And with each one he approaches his goal of being a great leader. Sakuya begins as a good leader, and ends as a fantastic one. He confronts his biases. He confronts his fears. He confronts his beliefs. He confronts himself, his identity. And he comes to terms with all of it, and rises from it stronger, and wiser, and more worldly. Sakuya walks out of the BBL epilogue a hero, and an incredible leader, having made good on all of his promises, and made significant good in the world. He's also quite possibly the least self destructive character we have, save for maybe Okosan, but I'm not going to even touch Okosan here. Sakuya learns from his mistakes and doesn't repeat them. And he achieves all of his goals. Sakuya is the only character not stuck in this downward spiral. And his character arc is just so perfect. It's such a nice clean arc. Sakuya starts out the first game as a genuinely kind of shitty guy. Every time I've introduced someone to the game I've said "It's totally okay not to like Sakuya. I like Sakuya, but when you first meet him it's hard to do, I get it. But just hold on, he gets better, I promise."

Sakuya has a Zuko tier redemption arc. The way that he learns to respect Ryouta more and more throughout BBL, the way that he starts to really think for himself and escape out from under his father's expectations in his route, the way that he was completely untouchable by The King's attempts at manipulation. Sakuya just fuckin THRIVES.

And this is sort of why I haven't really talked about him before today. That unfinished feeling to everyone else's story arcs eats at me. It sticks in my head. I can't stop talking about them because they're COMPELLING and they feel UNFINISHED and now I'm sort of obsessed with it. I'm caught in the loop with them, hunting for an ending that isn't there. The imperfections in these arcs are what keeps me speculating about still, 8 years down the line. I'm still trying to find that ending. But for Sakuya, and Nageki too actually, the only thing there is for me to talk about is why they work so well. And in Nageki's case, I'm not especially sure why, and so I don't have a lot to say on him. He's sort of a mystery to me. But for Sakuya, it is just so apparent to me why he's such an incredibly well written character. It feels sort of redundant to go through it. His arc is clean, and perfect. Just look at it! There's no holes for me to obsess over and write endless essays on. And there's no mystery to how effective it is. It's clean, and simple, and utterly perfect. I don't need to puzzle over how it works so well, because you can just take one look at it and it's all laid bare. He has the ideal redemption arc. The platonic ideal of exactly what his type of character should be. It's perfect. I don't feel like I can contribute much of anything to it by discussing it, further than just shining a light at what about it works so incredibly well.

So I don't.

Simply put, Sakuya has the most well written arc in Hatoful Boyfriend, and I would consider him the second most well written character in all.

#I'm sorry for any issues here #I know that Tumblr would eat this essay if I just posted it raw #so I screenshotted the whole thing beforehand so it wouldn't be destroyed in the inevitable crash #Then I fed those through an OCR #and copy pasted it back into the post editor to try again #So if the OCR misread anything and made errors I'm sorry #I'm also sorry for how huge this is #I would have put it under a read more #but I've learned that when I put my bigass essays under a readmore they wind up flying under the radar and never getting read #like the almost 5k long analysis of why Yuuya and Hitori are my favourite characters which was read by absolutely no one #and I kinda worked somewhat hard on this and want someone to actually read it #So I'm sorry for dominating your dash like this but it had to be done #hatoful boyfriend #hbf #Hatoful #damn I do be writing meta on this bird game #Sakuya Renaissance

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fullfledgedghost · 9 months

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just had a thought abt hitori and kazuaki. cause it seems like hitori intentionally made his red scarf into like a key part of his character design since he’s depicted with it almost every time we see him pre-nanaki, and he clearly does so with kazuaki’s scarf during the games and related materials, he’s even wearing it in that one drawing where he’s in traditional clothes so it seems like he wears it pretty much all the time.

but like. the only time we see actual alive kazuaki (shrine date in holistar) he’s wearing a different scarf. sure its also tan and has some fringe but its different. what if kazuaki never really wore the scarf as part of a carefully cultivated aesthetic (considering kazuaki’s mental state when hitori knew him, i doubt that he did really anything intentionally for himself that he didnt absolutely need to do) what if he just wore it a lot cause he got cold or it was chilly or whatever and it was convenient. but hitori saw that and was like ‘ah, a fellow scarf-wearer, i will remember that’ and then when he stole kazuaki’s identity he just wore his scarf all the time cause he wanted to be convincing and assumed that was what kazuaki would have done. what if kazuaki doesnt even really like that scarf

#this is not any sort of deep analysis but the thought crossed my mind and i thought it was really funny so now you all have to deal with it #not maintagging this but i will tag #hatoful boyfriend spoilers #thanks tomnookishot for getting me to look at traditional clothes nanaki and realize this #‘shout out to tomnookishot’ wouldve been funnier but i dont wanna rewrite that whole tag

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madamemachikonew · 7 months

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In high school a guy friend of mine asked me how come I enjoy playing dating sims or having romance options in games, but wasn't interested in/was nervous about irl dating. I was super annoyed because there's an OBVIOUS difference between pretend video game dates and irl relationships, like there are no walkthroughs or save states for irl people. Plus the dating sims I was playing also had a lot of lore/interesting parts that weren't even dating related and I found them interesting. (Note also: I was talking about Monster Prom which is more like a goofy board game where you try to gather character points than an actual dating sim so like... The logic of "like dating sim = should date irl" applies even less.)

Anyways yeah he had a crush on me but I liked him better as a friend, and then like 4 years later I realized "oh I prefer dating sims because I'm asexual and that's like my limit as far as romance goes."

Sorry for the rambling, I saw you answer that ask about otoges and mentioned mystic messenger and I was immediately back in high school. I was more of an Arcana player, I wanted to get into MM but was gonna save it for summer because no goddamn way was I answering the phone at 3am on a school night, but then I never got around to it.

also i want in on those emulators, i love older games and the ds/dsi has a special place in my heart

I love romance games and I know exactly why [redacted psychological analysis]. But they absolutely helped keep me sane during the pandemic lockdown. As you say, it's not about the dating, but often about immersing in the little world with lore and side characters and stuff. Hatoful Boyfriend is a great example of this. On the surface it looks like a batshit insane dating sim (dating pigeons wtf?!) buuuuut, it isn't. You befriend them in a post-apocalyptic world where the human race is now the minority species. Birbs have taken over (but they all have a cute gijinka version too). When you finish all the basic routes a WHOLE NEW MODE unlocks with the best-written biggest darkest fucking lore dump in history. It is INCREDIBLE. I also recommend the spin-offs too. While they are cute, there is definitely a melancholy and tragic streak that runs through them. Some of the characters are even based on the author/artist's very own pet birbs.

There is also a Dottore-esque character, a very sus doctor birb who may or may not be doing unlawful experiments in the school sanatorium.

Look at this sus little man. LOOK AT HIM!! It still blows my mind that they managed to persuade Koyasu Takehito to voice this guy. I reckon he had a blast.

It also has the most heart-wrenching end credits music ever. Hits you like a truck when you finish one or two of the routes in particular.

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#ask #thanks for the ask!#cheques miques #localplaguenurse!#hatoful boyfriend #Hato Moa #sorry for all the edits #I kept remembering more stuff

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yurious-george · 2 years

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About: PLEASE READ DESCRIPTION. I can come across a little condescending or contrarian sometimes - sorry about that! Know it’s not intentional. You can call me Echo!

I only accept anon hate in the form of limerick. Please be aware of this before sending or your message will be blocked & deleted without comment. My blog MUST remain a silly space.

Blacklist Tags:

#important - catch-all politics & current events tag.

#this is cassandra - talks tag. From the song by Talis Kimberley.

#sadismposting - blacklist this one if you're squeamish.

#the intersection where the bodies meet - same as above, but more a study on violence as love rather than outright vicious hornyposting.

#something rotten in the house - incest, haunted houses, and greek tragedy. context

Interests:

Opera - #opera tag

Textile arts, focused historical techniques & materials. I’ve knitted hand warmers from yarn I cleaned, carded, and spun myself! - #textile, #move the sheep and the fences around

Fashion - mostly “vintage”/historical women’s styles, with the occasional kitenge or si-fi-esque look. - #clothing

Sub-Saharan African mythology, cultures, and tribes, particularly the Maasai. East Africa for culture, and West Africa for mythology, just because I think the West African gods are cooler. (Sorry, Kenya.😅) - #africa

Farming, homesteading, animal husbandry, etc. No tag. Lots of chickens.

Spiders - #spiders

Ancient legends, media analysis, meta narrative. Enemies to lovers, too; if the Epic of Gilgamesh did it, I can put it here. #can’t argue with a monomyth, #the play that eats the players, #enemies with benefits, #stories

Angels - I am not religious but feel strongly associated with them. #angels

Character tags: #gawainposting, #gearposting

Fandoms & medias & sideblogs & such

Abzu, Journey, Sky cotl (@starsfallhome)

Hollow Knight (@bobbinbugs)

comicaurora (no longer like it but left my side blogs up.) (@aurorar34, @gaias-letterbox)

Princess Tutu + princess tutu abridged

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Blue Eye Samurai

Lego monkie kid

Death Palette

Outer Wilds

Ultrakill

Portal 1 & 2

Hatoful Boyfriend

Paul Shapera (no longer following but soft spot for older works)

Medieval literature

The Epic of Gilgamesh

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autistickaitovocaloid · 1 year

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I love my hatoful mutuals so much they post so much good art and incredible analysis of the game meanwhile my contributions to the fandom are like. Hitori edited inside of Bunnings Warehouse.

#art talks about stuff #i'm not being self deprecating i just think it's funny how 90% of my hatoful content is just bad jokes and crafting horrible images #sidenote if anyone actually wants me to photoshop hitori into bunnings i will dw

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iwritenarrativesandstuff · 11 months

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I’ve been replaying Hatoful Boyfriend and I was reminded (or at least I think this is right) that the music that plays during Sakuya’s ending is the only one that is not a unique piece of music.

It’s the theme from Tanabata, which of course, makes sense. Sakuya has a wish in his route - he wants to play music, not take over as the next head of the Le Bel family. The Tanabata theme playing here represents this.

But also, in this route, Sakuya reveals that his own opinions - his own identity - he hardly allows himself to even think on them. He is a Le Bel above all else; personal wishes are not permitted - to the point he considers them an outright impossibility. “Sakuya” is just a label (ha!), not a person in his own right. When Yuuya later tells him “you are yourself” in BBL, he spends some time not being entirely sure who that is. And why would he be? Everything he is is an echo of someone else’s (his “father’s”) classist values and his strict upbringing.

So, again, the reusing of an earlier theme makes sense. All the other characters, for all their secrecy, at least reveal something slightly genuine about themselves - something true to their characters. Ryouta breaks down over his situation and the inevitability of his shorter lifespan, Nageki reveals he is a ghost and speaks openly and honestly, Yuuya reveals he is a Dove agent, etc, etc. Even Nanaki and Shuu, for how little is revealed, are still fully fledged (ha!). But Sakuya doesn’t know who he is yet. He still has to figure that out. So he doesn’t have an original theme at the end.

But still, it’s a rebellion. A new identity for himself started by a quiet, modest wish.

#I hope I’m remembering things accurately but this is roughly how it reads imo. I haven’t hit bbl in replay yet so memory might not be great #hatoful boyfriend #hatoful kareshi #hatoful spoilers #sakuya le bel shirogane #hatoful analysis #storyrambles

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to-mourn-a-mourning-dove · 10 months

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call me arrow, he/him. i played hatoful boyfriend and it altered my brain chemistry permanently. i am OBSESSED with birds.

spoilers are NOT tagged on this blog. proceed with caution.

i ship stuff like hitori/nageki, sakuya/yuuya, ryuuji/shuu, shuu/nageki, and hitori/kazuaki (original). i will ship anything and everything! PLEASE block me if ur not comfy with that. it will make both our internet experiences better.

non-suspicious link here so that tumblr shadow bans this post!!!!

tag system under the cut

content warnings

#incest — for incestuous pairings like sakuya/yuuya & nageki/hitori

#age gap — for pairings between a child & adult like nageki/shuu

#gore — umbrella tag for gore, including tiny things like blood & death

#cannibalism — this will include humans eating birds and vice versa

#whump — torture, abusive relationships, any sort of harmful relationship between characters

main characters

#hiyoko tosaka

#ryouta kawara

#sakuya shirogane

#nageki fujishiro

#yuuya sakazaki

#shuu iwamine

#okosan

#anghel higure

#hitori uzune

#kazuaki-kun — the original kazuaki (link breaks on mobile)

#kazuaki nanaki — posts for both or either of them

side characters

#azami koshiba

#ryuuji kawara

#tohri nishikikouji

#leone jb

#miru and kaku

#albert alain alkan

alter egos

#professor nanaki — hitori, but blonde

#the king — kazuaki in his villain arc

#kageki - shadow nageki/the guy haunting hitori

#souma isa — shuu, but with shorter hair

#the king au — characters who are NOT kazuaki dressed as/playing the role of the king

#absolute zero — designs from absolute zero

content

#thoughts — general tag for original posts with thoughts, rambles, theories, etc

#writing — my fanfiction & snippets of what i'm working on

#art — any fanart i make (currently nonexistent)

#shitpost — non-hatoful shitposts i reblog to claim as a character

#birds — real-life birds tagged as characters

#reblog — usually for reblogging other's fanart

#moas — reblogs/reposts of moa's art

#damus — reblogs/reposts of damurushi's art

#good post — someone else's analysis of a character that i really like

ships

my ship tags are REALLLYY inconsistent, the only ones that im good about taggings are #quail boyfriends and #fantailcest, everything else is either untagged or tagged weird

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thescrapbookingscientist · 2 months

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Bimonthly Media Roundup

Late Again. 2024 has been a little rough.

-Frieren (Anime) - A nice relaxing watch so far, I enjoy slow paced explorations of fantasy worlds so this is fun. The mentor/mentee relationship between Fern and Frieren is cute and I quite like the music as well.

-Sonic DX (Video Game) - This is mainly just here because I re watched the youtube analysis on Chao raising in the Sonic DX games and how hilariously complex it is. There was also a playthrough of the murder of Sonic which was a cute, well drawn and written game. I do wish they'd bring back the Chao garden system, as maybe that would be enough to convince me to buy a sonic game again.

-Mariokart Double Dash (Video Game) - Friend hosted a tournament on her birthday, it was fun to revisit, though I can't say I was great at it having forgotten the controls. Rainbow Road especially was hilarious to play as a warm up as me and my competitor would just fall off every 5 seconds. It was fun once I got the hang of it again though, definitely a good party game.

- Hatoful Boyfriend (Video Game) - Watched more playthroughs featuring almost every route, I was vaguely familiar with this game and how secretly messed up it was but I didn't know the details of each route, which are all amusingly insane. I don't know who had the idea to make a human/pigeon dating sim with apocalypse horror, espionage, ghosts, and fallen angels but hats off to them for pure creativity.

- Mage and Demon Queen (Webcomic) - Saving my thoughts until I complete it but this webcomic is very very cute and there should be more lesbian dragons in everything actually.

- Delicious in Dungeon (Anime) - Also saving my thoughts but have been really liking the worldbuilding and comedy here - Excited to see more of Falin and her personality beyond being Dragon food.

- The S Classes That I Raised (Webcomic) - Had a 10 hour recap video of this playing in the background while I worked that re-ignited my love for it. I'm still regularly checking for updates of course but I might just reread the whole thing as well - the familial love and comedy here really get to me.

- One Piece (Anime) - Still my biggest obsession, we are moving at a breakneck pace. Finishes Dressrosa and Zou and on to Whole Cake. Quick thoughts: Law and DoFlaming both have great designs, backstories, and dynamics with the other characters, I really like them and see why they are fan favorites. Sabo is back and I love him dearly, I really hope he pops up more often. Nami's Zou dress is lovely and it's hilarious how girl manages to pull a woman on every island they visit, Girls game is off the charts. Might make a powerpoint about how good the worldbuilding is in One Piece.

- Genshin Impact (Video Game) - Really like the Sumeru characters and their designs for the most part, though I do wish they were all less white. Anyway Yao Yao is adorable and I've been having fun with her on my Aggravate team.

Listening To: Her Diamonds by Rob Thomas, Hey I Don't Work Here by Tom Cardy, Crazy by Walk Off The Earth, How Did You Love by Shinedown, Dial Drunk by Noah Kahan, Feast or Famine from Starkid Productions, Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol, Turn the Lights Off by Tally Hall, No One Else Is Singing My Song from Crazy Ex Girlfriend, The Moon Will Sing by The Crane Wives, Runaway by AURORA

#weekly roundup #my post

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nageki-the-friendly-ghost · 1 year

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Glad to see the hitori nee nemo scene holds up as just as heartbreakingly as I remembered it!

#i already did a big analysis post on it before so i wont bore y'all again but OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH #favorite scene in any game ever #echos personal rambles #hatoful boyfriend holiday star

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almaqead · 2 months

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"The Dubbing." From Surah Seven, Al Araf, "The Heights."

Recall the Quran is a compendium of religious teachings that were being juggled at the time Muhammad and the rest of his relatives, business partners, and neighbors were plunged into a war that spanned the Saudi Arabian Peninsula.

Muhammad, who was a lawyer, made some unpopular decisions during a dispute and this started a war. He ran for his life into the desert and during his refuge there, God gave him the Quran.

Every book and chapter in the Quran is a written analysis of religious philosophic thinking that was otherwise a part of an oral tradition. This is why there are long-winded discussions of Jesus, Moses, Elijah, Solomon and other Biblical figures in the text, rather than accurate scriptural references. The Arabs discussing the material had no such things. If they did have them most could not read them anyway.

The contents of the Quran are the product of theological discussions performed by Arabs who were religious, but wrote their inspired throughts down in Arabic and called the album the Quran.

Araf, the Book we are discussing here is called the Heights because explains three states of existence, the lower, the earthly and the Heights, the heavenly abode of God and the righteous. Unlike prior books the Heights focuses on topics about which a prophet would warn others vs. the proper approach to pilgrimage, how to observe the Pillars or accomplish the mundain tasks of ordinary daily life.

No matter the level of societal practice, the Quran is ever a vehement opponent to corruption, violence, waste, abuse, poverty and war where they seem to brew up. In this section it quotes the story of Noah and the Great Flood, contrasting the ways the wind and the rain bring life, and how they can be used to destroy humanity if it chooses to abuse the privilege:

7: 57-63:

He is the One Who sends the winds ushering in His mercy. When they bear heavy clouds, We drive them to a lifeless land and then cause rain to fall, producing every type of fruit. Similarly, We will bring the dead to life, so perhaps you will be mindful.

The fertile land produces abundantly by the Will of its Lord, whereas the infertile land hardly produces anything. This is how We vary ˹Our˺ lessons to those who are thankful.

Indeed, We sent Noah to his people. He said, “O my people! Worship Allah—you have no other god except Him. I truly fear for you the torment of a tremendous Day.”

But the chiefs of his people said, “We surely see that you are clearly misguided.”

He replied, “O my people! I am not misguided! But I am a messenger from the Lord of all worlds, conveying to you my Lord’s messages and giving you ˹sincere˺ advice. And I know from Allah what you do not know.

Do you find it astonishing that a reminder should come to you from your Lord through one of your own, warning you, so you may beware and perhaps be shown mercy?”

Commentary:

No one knows why mankind will not forsake its manufacturing of weapons or resorting to violence as a means of accomplishing its objectives. Every religion teaches these things are grievous and must not be done. Even Muhammad said, "It is astonishing that a reminder should come to you, who want to be shown God's mercy."

Since civilization began, God has been pressuring us to stop being warlike and settle down but even still that has not happened.

As the former frame said there are Six Days, six grades man must graduate from if he expects to learn how to abandon his violent transgressive nature and achieve Muslim Nirvana, freedom from doubt and ignorance. They are:

v. 57: He is the One Who sends the winds ushering in His mercy. First was God. The Value in Gematria is 15196, י״הא‎טו, hato, "the motorcar."

v. 58: The fertile land produces abundantly by the Will of its Lord, whereas the infertile land hardly produces anything. This is how We vary ˹Our˺ lessons to those who are thankful. Muhammad was always clear he was discussing the nature of a God that cross-pollinated mankind across the times and distances in order to create the best, most contemporaneous understanding of religion possible. We should be grateful we have the chance to learn all of it and as a result be the most worldly spiritual personalities we can become. This is why the Quran is called the Cream of the Verses as it represents the distillation of every religious thought system the arabs knew about at the time.

The Value in Gematria is 12624, ד‎יבוב‎ ‎ , "dubbing."

v. 59: Indeed, We sent Noah to his people. The Value in Gematria is 9356, טגהו, ‎ ‎ ‎taghu, "proofread."

v. 60: But the chiefs of his people said, “We surely see that you are clearly misguided.” The Value in Gematria is 4635, דוגה‎‎, "worry."

v. 61: He replied. The Value in Gematria is 12323, אבגבג‎ ‎‎, "the Alphabet roared."

v. 62: Do you find it astonishing? The Value in Gematria is 12316, יבגאו‎ ‎ ‎‎"they will be proud."

Within the story of Noah as retold by Muhammad in the Quran does not mean we need to build an Ark or go two by two with the garanimals into a big boat. We do however, need a vehicle, and Muhammad said it is the human brain that is fixated on the mysteries of heaven.

These must be retold, relearned, and retaught periodically so mankind does not continuously falter, these must be done professionally and accurately, to avoid apostasy, the world's hugest problem at the moment. Everyone thinks they understand the Bible, the Torah and the Quran and no one does and this is causing many persons to act strangely.

The Gematria mentions we should worry about this, being connected to strangers that apparently mean to cause us harm for reasons that do not make sense. Muhammad said not to try to fathom the reasons have for wanting to violate the Quran. Every member of mankind must possess a clear mind and worry clouds the mind, so Muhammad said not to worry.

All one can do is become as literate as possible in its tenets and ensure the laws of the land support the vision. This is what will save mankind from all the causes of manmade harm. But if this idea of refraining from violence is to become appealing, it must be viewed as a highly desired aspect of respectable people. This is not the case in many parts of the world because incorrect teachings about religion are being dubbed.

The Holy Season is being dubbed in just such a manner. It is being used as a shield for the master mind apparatus of a sophisticated terrorist effort being led by Republican Party and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints from within the United States. Even at this time then the people of Israel must be permitted to end the threat America is projecting into Israel and within the Middle East.

All fighting and military action against them in Gaza must continue until every last Republican sponsored terrorist they have recruited to their side has been neutralized. This is the only way to secure the future and the integrity of all the religions named after Israel. There is no greater way to observe Ramadan than to support Israel in its efforts to free the world from the threat of these vile persons forever. Pray do not submit therefore to propaganda regarding the necessity of a ceasefire in Gaza during Ramadan.

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