We cover two big anime adjacent news events with the end of the My Hero Academia manga and the official English language release of the original Fate/stay night visual novel. Forget the clickbait, listen on if you want to hear the real title of this episode.
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Show Notes
0:00 Intro featuring Elden Ring chat – and not the DLC
7:52 Iro is on a hot streak with the release of Fate/stay night
26:23 Rest in piss My Hero Academia
44:08 Makeine – Too Many Losing Heroines!
56:03 Shoushimin – How to Become Ordinary
1:07:28 Nier Automata Ver1.1a 2nd Season
1:19:10 Sengoku Youko
1:26:48 Senpai is an Otokonoko
1:36:53 Mayonaka Punch
1:49:18 Ramen Akaneko
1:54:46 Dead Dead Demon’s DeDeDeDe Destruction
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Re: Senpai wa otokonoko, I don’t think it was implied that Saki is worried that she doesn’t love Makoto as much as Ryuuji – I think it was fairly openly stated in her internal monologues that she doesn’t know if she even loves him or not. Kids, especially girls, are bombarded with all those cultural tropes about romance, like how love is supposed to make you feel, how it’s supposed to be communicated, how you’re supposed know that what you feel is real, how you’re supposed to know whether a person you have feelings for is your special someone, etc etc… and maybe I just relate to this, as someone in whose life nothing seems to go the way it’s “supposed to” (least of all romance and everything related to that), but I absolutely get her when she looks at Ryuuji and then her own reactions/feelings, and goes “I think I love him, he’s special to me, but I’m not having all those epic dokidoki deredere reactions I’m supposed to, and that Ryuuji is having, so wtf??”
Also, the story not really getting into the “am I gay” “am I a lesbian” aspect quite so blatantly is what I tried to point out before when I said people who expect this to be another My Wandering Son or Shimanami Tasogare are probably going to be disappointed, because it’s really not as on the nose about these things as those stories that specifically focus on people figuring out themselves in the specific context of their identity/sexuality. This story is really more about these kids trying to figure themselves out in a more general context of the world, from “what love is like” to “what is my place in my family when I’m [being x]/they’re being [y]” or even “what does ‘family’ mean when it’s not like what a family is ‘supposed to’ be” etc. etc…
Anyway, I’m not saying it’s amazingly successful at all that, or that the love triangle can’t be annoying (as love triangles tend to be, to me anyway) but honestly I think that’s the least important aspect of the story. 😀
I could be wrong, but I seem to remember a line where Saki almost literally word for word asks herself is she loves Makoto as much as Ryuuji. Point was, she was definitely comparing her feelings to Ryuuji’s feelings. I think I was mostly weirded out by the whole promise to her grandma thing, which felt like a very contrived anime plot point.
Overall if I sounded more negative than usual, it’s probably because we were covering two specific episodes that happened to have a lot of focus on the love triangle aspect. So hopefully that won’t be the case next time.