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shitedits · 2 years
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Bubble & Parkour
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chiisanahoshi · 2 years
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on bubble 2022 parallels
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA just finished watching bubble again and oh my godddd the scene where kai was like. yeeting hibiki over the antlion pit!! they do a parallel of that w uta and hibiki later on in the tower when he hugs her after they fly away from each other like.
okay i know kai is portrayed ‘inferior’ to hibiki and that’s why in their scene kai is ‘left behind’ by hibiki- there’s even a part that shows when hibiki jumps away, the concrete beneath kai’s feet crumbles away and he barely hangs onto the road, further pushing that ‘hibiki is better than kai’ message -but the way how in their scene it was all ‘the heat of the moment’ thing they wouldn’t think too much about it it was just part of their routine, just what kai had to do to get makoto back...
but in uta and hibiki’s scene, they both play a part in escaping from the collapsing tower (hibiki’s parkour and uta’s bubbles launching them away) and there are multiple moments where their abilities are equal (the scene where they run up to makoto- ironically its just after when hibiki left kai behind HAHHAH IM FINE) there’s a moment where they FUCKING SMILE AT EACH OTHER ONCE THEY HUG like. like-
im just thinking about how kai had a recurrent metaphor for ‘flags’ and how he had assigned himself the role of the one to get that flag, but in the end he sacrificed that opportunity to get it to hibiki because he knew hibiki was more capable than he was. and then he had to watch hibiki throw uta up to get it instead- which is fine! they get makoto back in the end its no big deal! but surely hibiki knew what it meant to kai, to allow hibiki to achieve that final goal-
and then in the tower when kai once again has to act as hibiki’s ‘assist’. im just thinking. kai calls it being a team but being a team isn’t blindly supporting one person- its everyone supporting each other. kai helps hibiki get his ‘flag’, helps him save uta. kai has to ask hibiki for help to get makoto back. 
there’s something there, something about how kai has always been trying to be seen as an ‘equal’ to hibiki, how he didn’t want to be reduced to just a member of the blue blazes while hibiki gets titled their ‘strongest player’. there’s something about how kai always caves and sacrifices the flag to hibiki, whether its the chance to reach the top of the tower or to get makoto back.
fucking hell. he is always trying but he knows he doesn’t compare
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Today’s Autistic character of the day is:
Hibiki from Bubble (2022)
Requested by @asher-in-the-south
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They’re gay, your honor
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blenderskip · 9 months
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Reaching out
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ivaspinoza · 2 months
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I'm not big on anime, and usually skip the intro, but I need to talk about some reasons I find Bubble to be so brilliant.
Spoiler alert.
1. The little mermaid was one of my special interests for years, so yes, there is that.
2. The pure, tender but also "I will die/kill for you" love story. Beautifully done, even when we understand their fate, it doesn't discourage you from watching and it does not disappoint;
3. Good plot with cool characters that actually add to the story.Hibiki and Kai's development, first on that big jump when Kai shows how much of a true leader and self-sacrificing person he is, so we understand it was never jealousy but his desire to be useful and relevant - love how they animated that moment -, and then when Hibiki, that does everything alone, asks Kai directly, in front of everyone, to go with him. These are just two of my favourite moments, but let's keep moving.
4. The quality of the animation itself. Seriously, animating can be a pain but animating parkour? The camera movements are sick, and the dynamic is amazing! Parkour is not a cool background: they are fully committed. Also, they pay attention to other details (like Hibiki's freaking headphones flying on that epic scene) that make all the difference. I could post a ton of pictures about the poetry of it all, but I'm gonna stick with those four.
5. The way they portray neurodiversity: casually, naturally, and with its inherent value. It's a relief to see someone like Hibiki being a pro at something that is not what we usually see in this type of character. Enough with the chess player/reader/tech genius autistic characters. People can have other abilities! Other needs, other characteristics. They can be relevant because of what makes them different, even if it's "small", like an auditory hypersensitivity. This was something very special, and I quite like how this post talks about it.
Also, who doesn't like apocalyptical scenarios nowadays?
A lot of spoilers ahead:
At the very start, Hibiki falls from the tower and Uta follows him, presumably to save him. As he drowns, the bubbles of his breath meet Uta, and they merge into something that resembles a supernova. This is going to be referenced later by Makoto: "It's said that the world repeatedly collapses and rebuilds. Assembles, bursts. Scatters. Then assembles again..."
Uta becomes a human through him, quite literally. As she grows into multiple bubbles, we see a poster on the train with a girl on it, and the similarity between them suggests that she used that as an inspiration for her human form - although her hair is blue, which brings her authenticity forward. Funny enough, the poster says "beyond the border". Then, still underwater, they touch (kiss, in my opinion, for the sake of Hibiki's need for oxygen), but her human form is not affected by touching him like it happens when they are on the surface - beyond the border.
It's also interesting to think about the many layers of the word "bubble", not only as an obvious reference to the original fairy tale. A bubble can be a cage or a protection. When underwater, it holds the air, and "air", "breath" and "wind" are terms extensively used in literature and in various religions to refer to our spirit. We also have a similar situation with "sound" and "music" being connected to frequency and the creation of the world. We know Uta signs and her name means music, in Japanese. A name that was given to her by Hibiki, by the way, which I love, and definitely means a lot to me for so many different reasons.
With all that said, I believe there is a reason why Hibiki and Uta's parkour movements are synchronized and their hair is so similar (with rebel strains on the top of their heads). This sense of oneness is brilliant, and she chose it. She chose to follow him. In the same way she chose to use the shape of that girl in the poster, she chose to conform herself to Hibiki's image - which, to me, is the greatest way of showing admiration and love, the act of considering the "object" of your love so high that they inspire you, they influence you! They change you/ in the end, allowing you to become yourself.
I also like the way they chose to approach our post-modern dilemmas, like doing dangerous stuff for views, the collective "orphan" feeling, as well as this "danger" and "independence" that they "seek" as a way of escaping the ridiculous reality outside (or are they pushed to it?). As a result, they end up living inside another bubble, the bubble that actually originated their trauma. When they choose to live and thrive on their own terms inside that doomed place, it's just a weird but relatable type of irony.
Now, let's talk about the end. I absolutely love the end? Like yeah, smashed my heart, and I'm gonna cry again every time I watch, amazing voice work and all, but that final scene has tons of hope and an amazing perspective of what truly happens when we have a connection (love), which is it never dies.
Love does not die. It lives inside us, and it changes us, and it becomes part of us. It is true that love suffers, but isn't that a consolation? The reality is that suffering can not be avoided unless you want to live a meaningless life, isolated with your headphones, struggling to be yourself, to find your path, wishing you could cease your own existence.
It even makes me think that we can only be ourselves through others.
Society is all about being independent nowadays, but this is just pure bullshit. Our level of co-dependency is higher than we think it is. Without love (connection), all will die. We die, and I mean this literally.
That's why, in my opinion, Hibiki says he wants to leave at the beginning of the movie. He is not going to leave the bubble. Why would he? I believe he wants to leave. You can tell his actions are not only autistic traits or trauma response, and that he is not deliberately rude - they are clear signs of depression: he is just not interested. He is somewhere else, a place no one can reach, detached. He threw the flag after a victory because it didn't matter. It's that stage where we look bored, rude, cold... But we are actually sinking.
Well, if I'm right and he wants to end it, he still needs to understand what that sound is, that song, that calling. So when he goes to the tower, it seems to me he is actually fine with risking everything for it. Hibiki is confident in his skills, but also smart enough to know how dangerous it is. It's better if he dies trying, though, right? The need to find meaning is more important, so he doesn't care if the answer costs his life; he has nothing to lose.
In fact, maybe it's something to win because in the worst scenario, he would not be taking his own life, he would be trying really hard to find the purpose and dying for it. It's a good excuse to die.
This search for meaning is present in the whole crew, but here I have literally so many things in my mind that I can't type, so I will jump to the conclusion that the purpose is found in the community.
And that's the most precious thing Uta did. Since her first moments with them, she was bringing them together in her own way (in chaos, with crazy chickens), and birthing a new pattern. Because of her giving nature, her surrender, her love, and her being, all of them end up overcoming whatever patterns were holding them back before, and that's why I said we can only be ourselves through others. Community is powerful beyond measure when its foundation is true love.
But above that, sometimes there is that one special connection, that powerful type of love, that will change everything, that strong and pure love that is just... Something else. And we crave that. As humans, we crave spiritual, deep, mystical connections. We crave the things that are beyond. That we can feel but can't fully explain. We crave love in its deepest, most consuming levels.
"Love suffers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends."
I truly hope we can all be found by it.
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zuskiscoiningflagz · 2 months
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★ Utacharic - A gender related to Uta from Bubble ! // Um gênero relacionado à Uta de Bubble !
Bubblemovieic - A gender related to the anime Bubble ! // Um gênero relacionado ao anime Bubble !
★ Hibikicharic - A gender related to Hibiki from Bubble ! // Um gênero relacionado ao Hibiki de Bubble !
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itsfloortimebabey · 2 years
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i love the way hibiki is just *chefs kiss* autistic 
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uncleanime · 1 year
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akasdkasdjk ok so i just finished watching Bubble on Netflix and there are like no fics on ao3??
smh why do i gotta do everything myself around here
like/reblog/reply to this post if you're interested in reading a little fic from Uta's POV
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on bubble 2022 parallels pt II
the way kai’s voice is all harsh and his brow is perpetually furrowed its like he’s fighting against the world he never gets what he wants not fully not truly
the way uta’s selective mutism (i mean kinda? idk the word for it but that) makes hibiki want to be closer to her and how her melody is so soft and ethereal and unlike everything in the battlekours (which kai embodies) 
and how hibiki finds comfort in uta but he doesn’t address kai doesnt seek him out all we ever get of our interactions are 1) the fucking argument 2) when kai acts as hibiki’s jumpboard 3) when they’re doing parkour
uta and kai have something in common as well like. kai tries so hard to get a half-beaten ship, eroded by vines and age and rust, he tries to get it going and does maintenance for it only for it to fail him when he needed it the most. he tries so damn hard to get makoto’s approval and angsts about how hibiki doesn’t want to be part of their team anymore but he’s still. he’s still so intense and supportive and trying to be good underneath it all.
uta is literally the catalyst of the bubble fall phenomenon and she doesn’t stop watching over hibiki even when her presence is reduced to a bubble. it pains her to touch hibiki but she does, she still does, she covers up the evidence that she does, and in the end she has like. two minutes of warmth in his embrace and then she returns to her sisters
theres something about how uta and kai represent different things to hibiki (comfort v passion, safety v risking it all) and yet how they are so similar to each other in their own ways (both wanting something that they can’t have)
i wonder if im reading too much into this
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fractalflare · 2 years
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250 HIBIKI ICONS / BUBBLE (2022)
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chiisanahoshi · 1 year
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Bubble | Parkour Compilation
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jacuzziwaters · 2 years
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Have I said Hibiki from Bubble is autistic already? Imma just say it again to make sure the people in the back heard me.
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