local clown robs a winery

Twewy’s story is so incredibly anti-suicide without the topic ever being mentioned explicitly. It’s a story about a bunch of dead kids who had the most important things in their lives taken from them, who have to choose whether to return to life or ascend beyond it. The city itself is suicidal. The city is you, and the city is Joshua, and the city tries to kill you, but it can’t let go of you, and you live another week.

Joshua’s suckiness being mostly personality by weight even despite having done All That is so great. He’s not even evil or anything he’s just an asshole in general and likes to torment Neku specifically. Like genuinely the rules of his Game make it something ultimately benevolent if obviously shitty and manipulative, what should be for all intents an angel producing machine is something fundamentally kind and human because it centers the second chance, encourages people to connect to each other and find reason to live. His worst crime save Neku is kinda just being apathetic and suicidal in a position of absurd power, but I have absolutely no reason to believe that other Composers are any better, on average. Other than killing one guy (and lowkey saving his life by doing so, paradoxically) he’s just an asshole.

when i was a kid i decided that killing people was bad therefore war was bad therefore the military was evil. and adults would tell me it's more nuanced than that and i would understand when i grew up. well i'm a grown up now and idk i still think that killing people is bad and war is bad and the military is evil