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「あなたを思うと胸が痛む」 (Anata o Omou to Mune ga Itamu)
“My Heart Hurts When I Think of You”
Everything about this world is designed to make these girls suffer.
Sorry for the late post, my birthday was yesterday so I was out partying, and then suffering through the results of my partying today. Speaking of suffering, while hangovers fade with time (and ramen), the suffering just won’t end for these girls. There really is some great writing going on this season, and I think at least one person in the writer’s room is one of those insufferable sonofaguns who ask questions like, “Why wouldn’t she just ask her friends for help?” And thank the gods for that insufferable writer, because I would have been asking that very same question, and the addressed it. Through the world being made of asshole, as usual.
The realization that, for any time Yuuna tries to tell someone about the pain she’s under, they’ll suffer a misfortune small or large, was—well, damn. Right? I can understand her hesitating to talk to the others, but she was going to do the smart thing and do it anyway, only for the world to step in and shit all over her dreams again. The despair was palpable, because what do you even do when you don’t know what’s going on and can’t talk to anyone? I would have liked a better explanation as to what this duty entails for her—is it just a boatload of pain, or is she going to get whisked away, debilitated, or die before long?—especially when Sensei showed up, and I said out, “Sensei, no… Whatever you’re doing, stop it.” The girls are right to be paranoid about the Taisha. Even if they don’t mean ill will, they’re functionally out to get the Yuusha-bu at every step.
Special kudos go to Itsuki’s seiyuu, Kurosawa Tomoyo, for delivering an especially fine performance during the hospital sisters scene, in which, along with the always peerless Uchiyama Yumi, they were just dripping was loving, bittersweet, familial sisterness. Points also go to the handful of seconds before Fuu gets hit by the car, when the pacing slows down, the soundtrack becomes eerie and ominous, and it makes you realize what’s about to happen without enough time to process it before the punch strikes. That windup was devilishly effective, and I hate/respect the Studio Gokumi team for playing their hand like such bastards.
If there’s one spot of hope, it’s in Sonocchi, who may have figured out what’s going on. Because if anyone knows what it’s like to sacrifice yourself for others, it’s her. Which just reminds you what she had to endure before. Everything is pain, everyone is suffering, and nothing matters. Fun fun!
Random thoughts:
- A riddle about shouldering someone’s debt, and the rale about the red ogre who sacrifices himself for the blue ogre. A little on the nose there, but it only heightened Yuuna’s panic, which means it was perfect.
- Wasshi’s and Sonocchi’s alpha waves are my new favorite running joke.
- Another Sancho. It’s spreading.
- Oh yeah, I’m blogging this btw.
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The world in YuYuYu seems to follow the principle of Equivalent Exchange. For every happy moment present despair will always come to them.
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Congratulations…GIRL! You Got yourself…TILTED (Emotionally) FOR LIFE!!! 😛
Does the misfortune have effect on people outside Hero club?
Yuuna could try telling Taisha, it’s fine if those masked men get unfortunate accidents instead..
Knowing this show, it’d be poor Aki Sensei that would be told the truth…. and suffer the unfortunate accident. After all, she’s the most sympathetic Taisha character we currently know of.
That’s a great turn of phrase that really describes this universe well.
For the love of all that’s holy, poor Yuuna just wants to live a happy life with her friends. Is that really too much to ask for?
Apparently it is.
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Healthy…healthy…
So this episode confirms that the Taisha was full of shit last episode as to why Wasshi could leave being a sacrifice and still be alive. It was just transferred to Yuna and no doubt the Taisha knows it, as evidenced by the face covered priests hanging around Yuna’s house.
The more I think about it the more I think Wasshi was right last season and the whole remaining world should just burn. Anyway who knows what will actually happen if the Taisha is gone!?
I’d more go the Fu-sempai route myself (in multiple ways), and take out the Taisha myself first. Or go all Sonoko and make them heel, but for reals this time.
Btw, the pressed flowers Yuuna dropped outside Fuu’s hospital room were purple Christmas Roses. In the language of the flowers they mean “relieve my anxiety.” Coming from her there’s no question it’s a plea for help.
Ooo, good catch. Thanks!
You guys might not respond seeing it’s been two days since the last post. I’m guessing we are now picking apart the entire hero system. Since the first season then then prequel were about odities and sacrificing. So the purpose of this season is to have the girls shed their hero system by resolving the issue where the girls have to be sacrificed.
I found Yuuki’s predicament oddly convenient tell her loved ones she is suffering and they get hurt. This World seems to be a real thug. I say, the world has become another oddity one that oppresses young women and should be opposed I feel like the world is calling whatever shot comes to mind and throwing its weight around while girls are fighting on its behalf.
If you think upon the old Japanese tradition shrine maidens who’s purpose was to be sacrificed were oppressed. This scene is just extreme for no reason at all for this it makes great drama.
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of course most of the taisha are dudes and ALL dudes are either evil not around in this universe right and of COURSE the only sympathetic one has to be a woman because why not.