LOOK AT HIM!!! Someone Is 100% Gonna Cosplay His Ass And It's Gonna Be So Early 2000s Core.

Alright I'm throwing my own view on Arajin as a character since I've seen people shade him and dislike him. The annoying thing about him is that (as Senya said lol) he thinks with his other head too much. Clearly he has no luck with women and only with men, which isn't something he's overjoyed about. For that idk, I think its kind of cute that he wants to love someone, but at the same time its sad that he's just being used lol. But I'm not a fan of the pervert horny trope.

But I mostly want to focus on his whole "I don't want to fight" thing. Yes, he's a coward, there's nothing bad about that imo, but I think they're setting up character development for Arajin in regards of that, since it's a big thing holding him down. As kids, him and his best friend Matakara used to practice to become honki people, and it was really fun for them until the day when three older boys made fun of them. Matakara thought he could take them on, and Arajin was cowardly and probably knew 2 on 3 fight (with clear age differences) wasn't gonna end good. He tried backing off but Matakara went on and attacked anyways. Arajin ran off crying, and the picture of Matakara beat up on the ground stayed stuck in his head.

Nowadays, it's very clear that Arajin feels guilty. He feels guilty that he got Matakara to believe they were strong enough while practicing, to the point he took up 3 boys by himself. He feels guilty that he was too scared and cowardly to help Matakara, that he ran off and left him alone, even though Matakara looked up to him. Matakara said that Arajin is a really nice, strong guy who doesn't like to fight others, and he still believes that, he still looks up to him even 5 years later, he still thinks of him as a friend and holds his best friend stone closeby. He doesn't hold a grudge against Arajin. He isn't mad at him at all. It is Arajin whos still stuck in the past. This whole thing is something Arajin has to get over by himself.

Every time Arajin is around Matakara he remembers the past, so he tries to avoid him or brush him off, but Matakara still wants to be friends and doesnt seem to understand how guilty Arajin feels. ("Matakara didn't deserve to be treated this way", true, but I don't think Arajin thinks Matakara deserves it either... He definitely doesn't think Matakara is a bad guy or anything like that. He thinks him treating Matakara badly (avoiding him, not talking to him) would make Matakara give up on trying to be friends. Clearly, its too rough for Arajin to be near him. And the one sided feeling hurts Matakara in return.)

Matakara knows Arajin is avoiding him too and guessed why correctly; "Is it because of what happened?", "I'm stronger now", but Arajin is still holding that guilt. So for them to come to an understanding, both sides should WANT to talk it out. But its clear Arajin doesn't want to, at least not yet. His character arc isn't there yet, which makes everything a little frustrating since we are halfway through the anime and things are just now getting down.

I don't personally think Arajin is a mean person, he's a 16 year old guy who wants to get a gf and be romantic and all that, he doesn't wanna be in gangs or fight or anything. I think he's just insensitive towards Matakara because he has his own issues he doesn't want to deal with. Totally unfair to Matakara. But I want to believe Matakara when he said Arajin is a really nice guy. The dude looks completely smitten. It also kinda sucks that only time we saw Arajin interact with a friend was in a flashback. Nowadays, he has no friends. He avoids Matakara, doesn't really consider anyone else but Mahoro (lol) his friend, so all his relationships are currently one sided lol

WOULD THEY PASS THE FITNESS GRAM PACER TEST? (P:EG EDITION)

I hate him [affectionate]

so many essays ab arajins portrayal so far and all i have to say is hes like 14 14 year old boys are kind of shitheads hes a kid, a kid trying to use a facade of apathy and selfishness to run away from what he doesnt want to face its also only been 5 episodes so far relax. i am aras number 1 hater but even i know to just be patient. also hes not even that bad of a character hes just trying to pretend to be someone else what he believes is a ‘cool guy who gets the girls’ yknow like a kid does…i think he just lacks the emotional maturity to own up to his faults and apologize for those faults

The only thing stronger than the power of friendship in anime is the power of homosexuality

its still the 14th for me so i can pretend like i didn't forget to post these here

the sillies inspired by this cute art

y'know what this is good enough to escape the tags zabu being the flying carpet (flying carpet -> zabuton -> zabu) correlates to how while he isn't enough to save the day on his own, his ultimate strength comes from being the 'vehicle' who pushes arajin to save matakara and escape his darkest hour through he continuously badgers arajin into checking on matakara throughout the series, all culminating in him getting komao to drag him to the kenichiro fight (which is what ultimately convinces arajin to take back senya) but also he's the carpet bc lmao look he's on the floor

I think this is an interesting image to show in that it depicts a situation where Arajin isn't afraid to jump into danger and try saving Matakara. I think what prevents him from doing this at other times has to do with him fearing the malice of other people.

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