I really love that this show's intense mlm homoeroticism extends to the fact that when the people making it try to come up with a character design that scans as "sexy woman" they can't do it.
I'm sorry but these are the most "gay guy tries to reverse-engineer what straight dudes like in women" designs of all time.
as for Bucchigiri itself, I respect what it's doing and I enjoy watching it for the craftsmanship basically. It's very fun to look at, I love the character designs (other than these girls who are bit characters to be clear, it's possible that their nondescriptness is actually intentional now that I think of it), and the fights are cool. I have yet to truly click with any of the characters and I sort of suspect I won't since this show is clearly made for a different audience than myself, but it's a fun watch regardless.
Oh also there's a bunch of scenes in this episode where Glasses Guy literally whips the protagonist. So that's something for those of you into sadistic guy / goofy dude fujobait dynamics I suppose.
I've just realized that Sua and Ivan had the same very weird type of jealousy:
- Sua was not jealous of Till even though Till liked Mizi, instead, Sua turned to be upset with Mizi 'cause Mizi was so silly goofy that she didn't realize Till's feelings for her though it was as plain as crystal.
- And in the same way, Ivan was not jealous of Mizi although Mizi won Till's affection. He turned to be upset with Sua instead because Sua's feelings was reciprocated and her affection for Mizi was both-sided while his was not, even though he considered that they were alike, that they were the same kind of person.
Also on the contrary, we can see that Ivan is very close to Mizi in some offical side-arts/side-stories (you can find them on Vivinos X account). Mizi talked to Ivan first and asked him for an explanation when she heard something she didn't understand, and she even asked Ivan to carry her on his back. Mizi and Ivan interaction was far closer than Mizi and Till. Actually, Till's relationship with Mizi was like one-sided, and he just followed behind Mizi to know more about her but did not dare to come closer or tried to strike up a proper conversation.
Sources of images: all are original works by Vivinos and Qmeng on the official twitter, translated by me.
Sources of the idea: the original idea of this post belongs to this blog on Facebook. Credit link: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/ryTLFhQ1E5VyAa7y/?mibextid=xfxF2i
I have their permission to translate to English and post it on my Tumblr account.
The ova announcement brought back my obsession with this anime and with them >:)
crying for the yuri that could have been...
(from the 4th dvd volume commentary)
bucchigiri is so funny bc like. arajin is a pretty flawed teen put into the wildest dystopic school of battle-hungry pretty boys who answer to no authority. if arajin were even the slightest bit interested in men he might actually play along with the premise of the show. he's drowning in a harem of eligible bachelors dying to fight him while simultaneously being given the main character powers needed to fight back, but he doesn't want ANY of it. arajin is actively nerfed by his heterosexuality.
ANOTHER SILLY FOR THE COLLECTION
I think I like the more subtle acting in this show. Like right here I think Arajin is understanding that when he talked down about Honki people (as a result of his own trauma about events in the past), he was belittling the sentiment keeping Matakara afloat without his brother. Before this he had been too absorbed in his own imagined problems to think that Matakara was struggling with something himself.
i dont quite ship them but this is their dynamic to me
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