someone tell me if I alone on this but why did aoi only standing up to get closer to minato really gave me "maybe you saw something you wanted" vibes and I teared up?
Came for a reread after watching the music video for ado's new song "Elf" cause it really reminded me of this (=・ω・=)
NOTHING not a single thing of the story so far has been original or different. Every time something happened I was able to predict the outcome. The moment they said paternity test I knew for a fact that it was gonna be the same old situation with the temple messing with the results. Along with literally everything else just EVERYTHING about the story jesus...
Though I hope we get to see her in more actual full blown fighting action and not just being fanservice because so far she's only been doing the same 1 hit movement which is basically just slamming the person into the ground...and that's it. Now granted I do understand that it IS quite impressive and takes an insane amount of strenght, but after the third time it kind of lost it's charm. But on the other hand it's only just starting out so I should give it some more time first.
I'm worried about melinda. If by a work of god donovan actually goes to the joint therapy and reads loid's mind I really hope nothing blows up on her. She's so on edge mentally all the time but she seemed to have relaxed even if it was just a bit during this session with loid. I hope it doesn't go to waste.
so many things to point out all in one chapter
1st I cried, and I cried a LOT with yui's backstory I cannot stand children suffering. That experience must have so fucking scary I can't even imagine.
2nd other times when I see a story with a child involved it always feels like the child is
just an extra that comes along and that the other person is not AS attached to it as
their bio parent or guardian is but that was NOT the case with kaisei. That man loves that
little girl. He protects her, misses her when she's away, wants to understand her and be understood by her and validates and respects her feelings.
3rd literally jiu: "I don't want to spring such an important desition on such a young child
and I WANT to keep her with me but it's better to take things slowly and build a proper relationship"
LITERALLY THE DAD THAT SAME FUCKING DAY: "You wanna come live with me?" (proceeds to lose her in a mall right away) THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULDN'T GET THE CHILD
The reason why the portrayal of dehumanization in this story feels so raw is because you just KNOW this is something that could seriously 100% happen sometime soon in real life with technology moving the way it is and that is if it's not ALREADY happening and we just don't know it. There's a LOT of rich people who have enough money and corruption to get shit like this done/made under wraps for their own depraved amusement. AI is already being used for awful things involving children and god knows what else could happen. We're literally living in black mirror.
I keep reading just to see how it ends at this point but BOY...
there's so much of this story that is so cliche and predictable as HELL.
I find myself cringing with a LOT of the dialogues. They feel so corny and unoriginal.
The FL is literally just the same old boobs and tiny waist mixed with the classic kind but strong willed so she's super one dimensional and male gazey.
And then there's the MC who I will admit I don't SUPER dislike but again like I said, way too played out. He's got the whole "The world treated me like a villain so I gave them what they wanted" type shit going on and OF COURSE he's OP as all heck. Except the execution kind of makes me cringe for some reason, I don't know.
you know what I like about hirose? the man sees a problem and he's like "Okay let's talk about it'' He's bothered by something? "This made me unhappy so I'm going to voice it" He feels like he wronged adachi? "I'm sorry for hurting you"
Like that man did not miss a beat when comunication was needed
Illusion woman:
"Uh it's okay he too must be enjoying himself righ-"
Seth:
"Uh I think the fuck not
I love loretta, I really do and I will never hate her in a million years. But she's starting to turn into the type of child that I don't want to say I "hate" but the type I can't quite deal with super well. The type that's suppossed be like a "charming scoundrel" but not in the isaiah type of way but more "hmpp, everyone gets to go but me! it's not fair I'm gonna go either way because it sounds fun >:) !" Basically The type that gets into dangerous situations out of pure curiosity and self amusement but have no actual way of fending for themselves if something were to turn awry. Had evan not stepped in she would have ended God knows how.
"one is not required to forgive just because someone apologized, they forgive when they're heart is ready to forgive" >>>>> This is actually SO IMPORTANT.
Kids need to be thought when to apologize but at the same time know that sorry doesn't just magically fix everything. That their actions can have an effect on other people and that forgiveness is not guaranteed just because you're sorry. It should be something you do for the other person's sake in a sincere way not something you do to feel better about yourself.
waaaaiiit if richard did what I think they're insinuating he did, it actually makes sense why courtney had mentioned at one point when she met one on one with the emperor for the first time, that she felt this odd feeling that he "favored" her somehow
he must have thought she was pregnant then too
also side note but richard being all like: "I don't want to seem like I'm only interested in one thing"
BRO, U TRYNA PRETEND LIKE YOU'RE NOT, NOW???
Cause you've doing a horrible ass job pretending otherwise