I have a question po. Is it really true that they were forgetting the events or what happened on that day the other alter appears? I mean for example to rei and kazuha. Kazuha doesn't remember other event's that happen with Yuuma?
Yes he can't remember at the moment but he can feel that he turn into somebody else. It just like you're sleeping while you switching.
So, the alters have amnesia (either complete or partial) so they forget what the other alters do (unless they're in co consciousness). It's as if you're eating a toast right now, then you doze off and wakes up 3 days later at your room reading a book, no toast, you're not in the kitchen and you don't like the book in your hands. You can clearly tell you swithched but not what happened in the last 3 days.
Oh I see. Tysmm for answering(▰˘◡˘▰)
So, i slept this one off and realised there are things i forgot to talk about. This is pretty much gonna be a "explaining integration and why it's very not accuratly despicted" in more depht.
What is integration? DID is a system the brain creates to cope with trauma.
Alters might choose to integrate or the integration might be involuntary.
The system's first integration was involuntary, when an alter either cannot cope effectively anymore or alredy coped sucessfully, they'll either shut off or integrate (they could not, and still keep existing and be active, though less likely) to create a new alter who can cope better.
One miss potrayal in this case was how fast it was, integration is most likely to happen at sleep or at the very least after a while, the brain needs time to process everything.
The second integration was voluntary, now, i'm not quite as knowledgeable is this field, but if there's one thing i know is that it's so, SO unlikely that more than 2 alters would integrate at once, and even more unlikely that i'd happen so fast, the process could take months or even years and either the alters would integrate with the host one by one, or the alters would integrate with each other and then the host (2 alters integrate + 2 alters integrate, creating 2 new alters and then those alters integrate and become 1 or they integrate with the host separatly, like a pyramid).
As to "Rei" after integration, my skeptcism of him might be due to the fact that most alters would change their names and not keep a name from one of the alters they were born from.
So, Rei from ch 1 is different from Rei from ch 11, Rei from ch 11 is a completly new alter with everyone's memories, and that's why i think their personalities should be less alike. There's no such a thing as "i see traits of all the other alters in Rei (from ch1)" you see them in Rei (from ch11) and also sees trais of Rei (from ch1) in Rei (from ch11).
They trated Rei(11) as a Rei(1) with some spicy, while he's actually a completly new dish with all of the alters ingredients plus his own flavor.
You see where i'm comming from? It'd be much more accurate and easy to understand if Rei (ch11) would've simply changed his name, thus my confusion ╮(￣∇￣")╭
You're welcome ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
As a person who's a bit knowledgeable about DID, i couldn't help but cringe a little everytime they adressed something wrong (￣∇￣") but i understand that it's literally IMPOSSIBLE to be 100% accurate if you don't have the disorder, or even then, there are artistic choices that have to be made to make it more "entertaining".
Bad stuff:
The way the integration is potrayed specially anoyed me. It painted it like this: X integrated with Y, thus X is gone. No! X integrated with Y, thus Z was born! X and Y are no more! But Z is both of them, while being itself! I'm happy they did it a little more justice in the final ch.
I also don't like how they despicted the switching, way too fast, way too painless and way too clear headed. Switching is a slow process, it hurts, and dissociating does make you confused. Though you might be semi or totally clearheaded when u switch during co consciousness.
I don't like how, after the second integration Rei didn't show any major changes, he was less fierce but he should have traces of the other alters before ch 11. Also, integrating is birth but also griefing, i would've liked if they had adressed the sadness and guilt a bit more.
Me missing changes in Rei might be due to the fact that he went through integration and the new alter kept it's name as Rei, but even so, i feel like he's too little of everyone else and too much of og Rei, until last ch.
The worse for me was the 4 (Rei should count as well) in 1 alters integration, like wtf?! But it was a quick scene so we ignore it and pretend it was a gradual process :)
Good stuff:
It tries it's best, 100 points for effort but 70 for execution. As i said, even if the author had a major in DID they still wouldn't be able to be 100% accurate, cause 1: if you don't have it, it's very hard to grasp the emotional side of the system, u can do it through patterns, but everyone is different. 2: even if they did have the disorder, as an author there are things that have to be left out, because at the end of the day, this is a bl not an essay.
I like the idea, having a bl that adresses DID is pretty endearing. Even more so when it did such a good job at potraying the relationship of the system with an average person.
The relationship, the mc is pretty much all you could want in a relationship, he tries to be inderstanding despite being ignorant and tries his best to learn (even though it seems like he doesn't know google? Like, there's SO much you can find in here, but a psicologist is an even greater souce, so props to him). Ps: it'd be ideal if mc also did therapy, to get to understand the system better.
Overall, despite it's flaws, it's pretty good. It's as accurate as it can given the ciscunstances. And you can clearly see that the author did their best to inform themselfs and to try to do it justice. I'd rate it a 8/10 but 10/10 for the effort.
Discleimer: i haven't studied DID nor do i have it, I've only informed myself because i think it is fascinanting, so feel free to call me out on anthing.
Also, english is not my fist lenguage, so sorry for any mistakes.
If you read ultil here thank you for putting up with me and please share your oppinion! If you want to ad something, roast me cause i'm dumb or do anything really, don't feel shy!