We make a lot of fun of Buggy but, honestly, I would be fucking angry at the world all the time too. Imagine growing up as your best friend's shadow, always being seen as the weak and the clown because of course, Shanks is the legacy. He's the strongest. He's the one to wear the straw hat. And you accept that and give up on your dream for him. To follow him because at least that way you'll be able to achieve your dreams, even if you can't call it yours, but his. You give up on your dream and decide to go for an easier path instead, maps and treasure and money and everything a pirate ought to be, but he fucking ruins it. And it's not even his fault, but he's the one to make it happen. Nobody takes you seriously because saying "He made me eat a devil fruit and lost my map" doesn't sound as awful as "He made me lose my independence as a pirate and only way to follow a path of my own and now the sea I love so much hates my guts". And then your father captain dies in front of your god-damned eyes, leaving the youngest generation to continue his legacy. You think "Oh, well, at least Shanks is here. He'll keep the memory of our captain alive", but he hesitates. He shakes under the thought of the future. Falters for a moment. Somebody you —everyone— considers stronger, rougher, smarter and way better as a legacy than you, doubts himself. After so many years of you trusting him despite everything else. After so many years of everyone else trusting him, leaving you behind. So of course it fucking hurts and of course Buggy is rightfully mad. And of course he refuses to go with somebody that doesn't take this as seriously as him. Somebody that made the sea hate him and also hesitates after so many people trusted him doesn't deserve Buggy's love respect. And so Buggy goes away. And now nobody takes him seriously when talking about his past because he has become the clown everyone thought he was. They don't understand how somebody like him shared a room with somebody like Shanks. They don't understand how somebody like him was raised by the king of the pirates himself. But what they'll never know is that Shanks was the one who hesitated. And they'll never know Buggy was the one leaving his dream behind.
So I think Buggy is rightfully angry at everything and everyone and especially Shanks, even if he hasn't actually done anything. Buggy's anger and resentment is one of the things I'll always defend.
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anw i'm mad this is how gojo died. after all those chapters, and we didn't even see him die on screen.
and the thing i dislike the most is he didn't even get to fight kenjaku and have the closure he deserves.
gojo got his closure with geto at the end of jjk 0. as sad as he is with geto's death (especially being the one who killed him), at least he was at peace with it. geto died with both of them knowing they still love each other (platonic or romantically, depends on your interpretation)
HOWEVER, all that was taken away when kenjaku took over geto's body. gojo's mistake of not properly getting rid of geto's body ultimately became his downfall and the reason why he was sealed.
the closure he had when geto died now means nothing when his mistake (a moment weakness from his side) now haunts him, and put his students and friends in danger (culling game)
gojo didn't even have the chance to face kenjaku again and try to correct the mistake he did. he didn't have the chance to properly bury geto, destroy his body so no other curse or creature could use his body, and mourn
instead he was killed in a battle with low emotional stakes that took so long and yet the plot didn't progress until he died :/
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god. sometimes i think about rebirth kon and how incredibly fucked up his entire situation is. and sometimes i want to play in that space and explore it but the thing is like... its pretty much impossible to actually resolve any of his tragedy there unless its just entirely a story about grief and i ... listen stories about grief absolutely have their place but i'm a softie and i like hurt/comfort and angst with happy endings. i can't do it.
like, genuinely. how fucked up would it be to spend most of your life suicidal until you actually die, and then a scant few years later - after you've been ripped away from everyone you know and love, and you haven't been able to go home but you've been aching for them, enough to persuade a woman to name her unborn child for your grandmother - you find out that they all forgot you. not voluntarily, but they did. and now they do remember you, but they also remember a timeline where you simply never existed. your most formative baseline thought patterns have always been ones where you're okay with killing yourself, and now you know everyone you've been yearning to return to remembers you, but also remembers a time when you simply did not exist, when they never knew you, when you weren't even an afterthought because you were never there.
would that not be completely and utterly horrific?
you know how kon has always been one giant existential crisis after another? haha yeah wow that sure has NOT changed. the only difference as far as i can tell is that so far, nothing in rebirth is acknowledging it. (possible exception to superboy man of tomorrow - at least the setup includes him outright stating he's not doing great and feels unnecessary, but we'll see where it goes!)
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Ride 747: Sugimoto's back
Pag 1
1: His spirit trained them, and now his back sees them off
Pag 2
1: Those who won just look forward.....
Pag 3
1: Danchiku has won this race!!
2: Since they arrived at the same time on the second day, three of their races ended in a draw
3: And the fourth, the last lap with the ban on surpassing....
5: Showing an astounding tenacity, he held Sugimoto down and got the better of the final sprint before the finish line...
Pag 4
1: The second year Danchiku Ryuuhou obtained the jersey of the Inter High members!!
Pag 5
1: Ruaaaa!!
2: Yes!!
3: Let's go to the Inter High together!!
Hahaha, Danchiku!!
4: Danchiku-kun....
5: Ah!
Sugimoto-kun....
Pag 7
4: Sugimoto!!
Sugimoto!!
Imaizumi-kun
Pag 8
1: Nii-chan!!
Sugimoto fell!!
2: What was the crash just now.... huh!?
Huh
3: Sugimoto-san!?
He swayed.... and fell down as if he completely lost his tsrength!!
Is he conscious!?
Is he alright!? Sugimoto-kun
With that fall...
Pag 9
1: Sugimoto!!
6: Are you okay? Do you need ice water? Do you want a towel?
Pag 10
1: Imaizumi-kun....
Hotshot....
2: Did you give everything you had?
4: It....
5: It.... sure... seems like it
6: ….. everything
Pag 11
1: When I saw.... Danchiku from behind.... and I saw him raising his hand.... I don't know why but....suddenly... all my strength.... left me
5: It was a run that made us shake, an all-out sprint that captivated those who were watching you
6: You were cool
7: Could you.... pour some ice water on me
Pag 12
2: It made me shake too....!!
I felt the strength of Sugimoto-kun's wishes!!
It was the best run ever!!
3: So cold... it feels...so nice
4: Imaizumi
5: Yeah
6: Teru
Pag 13
2: Huh!? No... that's... that's
3: Teru?
4: Imaizumi... maybe, if on the fourth day... I go all out
5: If I get to go to the Inter High....
6: Could you call me “Teru”?
Ah? Why- ah, Teru as in... Terufumi?
7: No, no, well, it's just an idea!! I'll ask you again on the fourth day, yes!!
8: It doens't matter how I call you
You- you're right, it doesn't matter
9: But I'll ask you! Imaizumi
Please call me Teru from now on!!
Let's fight together in our last Inter High!
If I win...
Pag 14
2: That was supposed to happen if I had won...
It doesn't matter...
4: Thank you
5: Imaizumi....
6: Imaizumi
7: Please
Pag 15
2: Ride with my feeling of three years too
4: To the Inter High
Pag 16
1: Go there, Imaizumi!!
Pag 17
1: Got it, Teru!!
3: Sugimoto-kun.... you pushed Imaizumi-kun's!!!
4: Back!!
5: Danchiku!!
Pag 18
3: You too!!
Be resolved!!
4: Yessir!!
Pag 19
1: Thank you much for this all-out race!!
Thank you!!
2: Nii-chan!! On
Ah... Sadatoki...
3: I'm sorry, I wanted to show you something cool, but
4: I los....
5: Um... well, how do I say... if I put it into words, then that's it...
I los...
6: Imaizumi, could you give me the towel
Pag 20
1: Uaaaaa, I lost
Pag 21
1: I lost, I lost!
2: Uaaaaa
3: You fought by yourself, and you never gave up, over and over
Sugimoto, today you were the strongest
4: Dammit, I'm so frustrated too
Can't you do something about it, Onoda!?
5: Sugimoto did his best! And without doing anything wrong, too!!
Pag 22
1: On the fourth day of training camp, at 19:10 of the last day, the third year Sugimoto Terufumi.... with 45km out of 1000km left, retired
2: “Retirement race”....
Pag 23
1: Imaizumi, Naruko, and Onoda cleared the laps they had left
2: At 19:50, with plenty of time left, they cleared the whole 1000km
3: The two second years, Danchiku and Kaburagi, cooperated and cleared the whole 1000km, too
The other first and second years decided to retire early and ran errands
Pag 24
1: On the course
2: Remained two people, the first year Kinaka Tsugunao and Rokudai Renta
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on a scale of 1 to satan how bbg is mephisto
Satan has had far more time to establish his place as the ultimate babygirl (to me at least), so I can't give Mephisto the honor of being anywhere near his level but man the devs are making sure that he's at least getting close
I mean he
is the local horsegirl
apparently has a massive sweet tooth
stakes his entire self-worth on being useful to the future ruler of the land
seems to be great with kids
is super diligent. Just look at how much effort he is putting into journalism despite absolutely having no interest in pursuing that field in the future
is an honorary member of the Anti-Lucifer League, yet refuses to spread any false information about him in the school newspaper and mostly ends up singing his praises instead
runs said newspaper (and as someone who did the same for a year, I respect that a lot)
isn't really all that interested in MC, which is a nice change of pace
and finally, seems to dye his hair purple which makes him look like an eggplant <3
Also when he saved MC from falling on the ground and then brushed it off afterwards because he "only did what anyone would have done" back in season 4? That part was so good
ALSO Solmare could easily give him the perfect blushing face. Just look at him
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