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flyingfudgenuggets · 3 years

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yay~ now that you've already watched it i can share my thoughts with you! i don't have friends currently interested in honkai so i can't share these things with them T_T

so this will be somewhat long, ta-daaaam:

sooo when i saw the teaser trailer, i really thought Fu Hua was gonna die. the feather falling apart in Kiana's hand, Kiana saying "wait monitor!" being one of the reasons. then when the full song was released before animation (and i searched for it since i'm impatient and love spoilers), i thought, huh, curious. it's not a sad song at all... the singer said it was Kiana's feelings to Fu Hua... it was kinda a hopeful song. would be really awkward Fu Hua dying when the song was screaming LIVE!! hahaha

then hummm i started to think Fu Hua wasn't going to die. first, her birthday is coming, to kill her would be so cruel, besides, i don't think they'd kill her and keep HoS, because HoS is so new, why'd they get rid of her so soon? it wouldn't make sense. made sense Fu Hua's sacrifice, but not getting rid of HoS, imo.

second, after Himeko's sacrifice, Fu Hua's sacrifice would be "heh, not new". not that it wouldn't be sad, but it'd be kinda repetitive i suppose, people dying to save Kiana and save de world.

and this is the opinion of someone that loves characters deaths, even if it seems meaningless! i like when the story isn't afraid of killing off characters, it's more realistic, and i don't mind if it's "meaningless" (as long as the story is good, not like the character dropping dead instantly lol) because so it's real life in a way... death come and doesn't mean it was for reason. but that's just what i believe, and i think i'm going off topic lmao

ok so anyway! so, i thought, Kiana will be able to save Fu Hua this time if Fu Hua's not going to die... but that's kinda boring... (my previous opinion before full animation) how will they make it emotional? death of someone is emotional, but saving someone, i dunno, we'll have to wait and see.

when the full animation was released i went to bilibili by the way, i didn't know they'd release it too on their official channel on youtube LMAO i was watching like "aham aham man i can't understand a word of what they're saying..." so in the end i was like huh, so Fu Hua lives, now what? insert poker face. i didn't feel much, since i couldn't understand what they were talking about.

anyway then i found out they released with subtitles on youtube and could understand better :P oddly, the more i put it on replay the more i started to like it, unlike the first time where i didn't feel anything. and while previously i thought i wouldn't like if there wasn't the traditional tragic death, the end was refreshing, and the meaning of it important. in Kiana's words, trading sacrifices for so called victories IS WRONG!

also, the parallel "my mission", the same phrase Kiana told Mei!! Kiana probably realised it!!

however, is it weird that i pity HoS during all the animation? she was crazy and trying to kill them, but i just felt sad for her. maybe it's because i really really really liked HoS personality, she's so fun and baby, she wants to be loved and she's lost, she has the body and memories of someone else that she thought it was hers for in the end being told she can never BE Fu Hua... i want somebody to love her too T_T Fu Hua has Kiana, but HoS doesn't have anyone... yet :(

well, enough of HoS, i don't think Fu Hua is going to die so soon, after all Kiana did to save her. i just wonder what's going to happen now, HoS might be new but she's strong, how Kiana and Fu Hua will win the fight since she's not sealed anymore?

anyway these are my thoughts about the new animation! i think i could write more if i could remember everything i thought when watching yesterday, but i'm a little bit sleepy now~

what's your opinion on the animation?

ayt so for the longest time mihoyo has not let me off the pain train (i rode on it starting like ch 6 and it’s currently ch 22 in sea)

so i was really... fatigued with the sad stuff going on. and then seeing the animation trailer that seemingly was about to yeet bird out of existence i was filled with so much dread.

and then watching this i was shookt?? it was angsty at first but dang the overall message it gave me was one of hope and i was like??? mihoyo this you???

i mean it’s the same people who was seemingly giving off the message that normal ppl who work hard get thrown under a bus (*cough*hime*cough*) or that to give humanity a chance to fight back against honkai is to kill the unfit (*cough*kev*cough*)

and now these good lines coming from kiana firstly, as you said about how “trading sacrifices for these so called victories is wrong”, then she goes on with lines for fu hua reassuring her that “i’d never trick you!”, and she says “i’m tougher than that! i’ll shrug it off!” when fu hua says those who trusted her were harmed by her, and most of all the “i won’t let you become alone!”

like... we saw how fu hua trudged through her life solely for her mission. there was so much pain, loss and loneliness she went through. and it seems like she just continues on bearing all those while in a dark place emotionally and all alone until she encounters kiana who pulls her out of that.

initially you could see fu hua was gonna reach out to kiana’s outstretched hand but she holds back and hesitates. fu hua wants out of the funk she’s in but she doesn’t want to drag people down with her... then kiana yoinks her hand and fu hua holds fast.

and i felt that... it’s like seeing someone in a dark and lonely and self-destructive state of mind being given reassurance, a shoulder to lean on, a light to follow. and im choking up and feel my eyes burning now remembering that part as i type this out bc i felt like fu hua once too.

ANYWAY, with this animation i also feel like the overall approach to fighting the honkai war can change. like they can fight against the honkai without needless sacrifice. or that maybe they can find a way to deal with herrschers and the infected without killing them. in any case there’s a hint of hope now and not just doom and gloom. there’s that angle now to try and reach out or to coexist.

although since this is mihoyo writing the story i wont get my hopes up too high xD but the possibility is there and it’s nice.

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late-stagechosen · 4 years

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Ken's Taste in Media

So I have the Star Trek thing, and that he was kept away from all non-educational media the whole time he was Mama and Papa's Cash Cow, Part II: The Neverending Story

And I've also been going "he's a Millennial. He wasn't even around when music I like was being made, and I don't know what he'd listen to or like because I don't listen to a whole lot past about '93 and don't care to."

And just now on break at work, I realised... Ken's been sheltered. He's already not in step with his peers. He's already not listening to what's cool.

Heck, I always thought he might be going to some kind of private Gifted-type school (regardless, he's in a separate school district from the others, but even if he wasn't)

Kids in those types of environments *do* pretty much get pushed to living to study. Polynomials, the English word I always thought sounded like a cereal (the Japanese sounds normal), really IS for breakfast! So the Chosen are probably his only real exposure to going to the arcade or the latest movies or Oricon chart singles.

But at the same time, as he leaves his home as an adult and gets out there, I think he's got the type of mind to walk into some little record store out of curiosity, where the owner is the only worker, and randomly pick up say, Bebu Silvetti, and now he likes European soft instrumental disco or something.

I know precious little about music after 2000, and even if 02 took place in the 80s, I really don't picture Daisuke or Miyako liking music he'd like. They'd like stuff like Van Halen and New Edition, respectively, I think.

Iori...yanno, I've met a few people in my life who just don't care for music all that much, and Iori seems like that type. I have a good friend of years like that. So I don't mean it as a diss.

(I may not "get" it, but there are things I strive to be like my dad in. One of them is that even though his music was Frank Sinatra and Perry Como, he wasn't critical of me liking Chaka Khan or Bruce Springsteen, and even sometimes watched MTV, music videos back then, they had a weekly program on TV Asahi, *with me* He went the extra mile there, but you don't need to "get" everything, just respect it's how the other person is and feels as long as no one's hurting anyone or being hateful)

I think if there was crossover with any of the other Chosen, he might like some of Takeru's records. Hikari seems like she might be into Romantic period pieces and opera, New Age at most modern, which might be a bit *too* much for Ken. Too much like the stuff that's "supposed to make you smart/be for smart people." If she listened to more mainstream stuff, it'd be like Celine Dion, who was everywhere at the time, especially since everyone still listened to terrestrial broadcast radio.

But Ken having been sheltered in so many ways for so long means he's kind of on his own when he finally does get out there.

I think he'd just be extremely self-conscious all over about sharing anything he found and he likes, even if it's not quite Nordic jazz fusion 30 years older than he is. But especially if it is.

He tends toward softer, smoother stuff. More Boz Scaggs and less The Whispers, but I think he might dip into some of the darker stuff, too, even if he doesn't go much further than New Order and definitely not Pink Floyd.

(Of course, I'm using almost all American bands for my examples on the off chance anyone knows these, as the whole world listens to English-language music American record companies had rights to)

I imagine Ken just picks up random stuff out of curiosity, so it's not like his collection is particularly well-curated.

It probably sits on a shelf with a small player, and he definitely doesn't put records on for guests.

I *can* also picture him putting Easy Listening/Beautiful Music on in the background at home when he's not too depressed. This is something people born past about 1940 just didn't ever listen to. It did used to play on store radios until about 2000 in some parts of the US, but it's not *quite* Muzak, which is this whole proprietary special thing. It's not really around anymore, but I actually have an album or two from defunct radio stations that are collections of songs from the genre. I'll upload some at some point.

But the actual Beautiful Music genre (which is really a radio station genre, the boundaries of the genre have fuzzed over, searching it on YouTube will lead you to basically anything instrumental and soft, but it was once better-defined) is *so far removed from"cool."* Even the stuff he runs across that is super-cool, like alternative dance, which was the music of the proto-goths, or classy jazz fusion, which was HUGE in Japan during the 80s econ bubble (well, what of it just isn't too rambunctious and way too super-duper happy for him) he also doesn't expect anyone else to see what he sees in stuff he likes.

But I think if he was coaxed into showing someone something, and they genuinely liked it, I think he'd be really, really happy. As in he'd actually smile. Which is big for him.

I do plan to upload some of my favourites I have on record and tape to the internet, ones that no one else has, but it's kind of a production to do that. One I just don't have time for, especially before it's too late to play records in an apartment building. But when I get around to it,when it's something I think Ken would like,I'll reblog it here under the tag "minidisc collection"

To that end, here's Bebu Silvetti, who several people have uploaded to YouTube. This is what I mean by "soft."

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