Last minute forced kaiju transformation with her breaking down emotionally/ confliction was a poor attempt to emotionally manipulate the audience into thinking she was a victim.
And how cowardly was it to make some ghoulish looking villain archetype in the computer the “real” bad guy instead of committing to Akane being the problem,.
COP OUT.
Ofc the pretty girl was the real victim and the tall, lanky mf is the REAL bad guy. Trash, weak, lame, safe.
Akame Ga Kill is mediocre too but i will give it this:
- They didn’t let the fact that the murderer was cute get in the way of justice. She didn’t get to log out scottfree and move on with her life.
- That bitch got cut open. Respect.
So nope, she can pose in her bikini all she want, not enough to wipe away all the shit she did, couldn’t stand her or the awkward fanservice/blatant creepy eroticism writers kept forcing on her either.
Don’t care if she’s got glasses on, or if she’s hugging on a body sized pillow, trying to be cute and shit.
Or putting her funky feet in the camera- all the classic, creepy as shit (because someone animated that and said: “YEP”) soft kink baity tricks these studios use to pander to the males/audience- to MANUFACTURE attachment to a character through sex appeal when they’re too lazy to give her an actual identity or purpose.
not buying it, i’m here for the writing. Not the bait.
Akane really should’ve been the focus, and Gridman was presented as the bad guy through her eyes throughout the Anime. If they wanted to go there and make it actually interesting.
She’s a manipulative little snot, petty, evil and she didn’t suffer enough. Period.
She needed to die, or be written to have an actual redemption arc, fix her goddamn mess.
Not a last minute feels fest after a bunch of soft spoken attempts at character depth through pretty colors, quiet moments, girl x girl bonding and vague presumptions of what the fuck her issue is.
Like her cracked glasses supposedly being a reference to nemesis prime or her “shattered” self?
Lmfao, okay? Put that kind of effort into her character arc instead of “THEMES” surrounding her and then we’re cooking with grease.
And then to find out [SPOILERS]: She’s just some Japanese high schoolgirl IRL, aka first world problems.
Not a disgruntled abuse victim, not a rape victim, not someone being seriously mistreated (or that we see, not told); Something that would reasonably filter as malignant intent if they suddenly had the role of “god” essentially.
Something worth exploring instead of her body, her being a minor btw.
The kaiju references were one of the best things about the show, but that had nothing to do with her character.
Point being:
Take away that modern Baby Doll Anime appearance and instead she was looking plain jane like Anan from Turn A Gundam; Or actually ugly.
She’d get nowhere near as many people willing to just settle with her walking away from her mess. Or thinking she’s deep lmfao.
Which is where 90% of this leeway is coming from, thirst and sex appeal.
No amount of fanservice & cutesie waifu bait scenes will alleviate her of her actions or paint her as some victim that someone used for their ends-
Even as that is the case, she gets to log out despite still choosing to do what she did? She wouldn’t get that excuse if she were a creepy fat looking dude character with a heart of gold. Fact.
Alebit reluctantly, Imma watch SSS-Gridman again at some point anyway for refreshed context, so i’m not just talking out my bum (which i'm not either way because I actually watched the show). Just to observe her character specifically & the writing surrounding her coming to terms with her deeds.
Otherwise, It’s only symbolic that while in her crib, the character always surrounded by literal TRASH-
All i can say to that is: “How appropriate-”
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