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—i am an i d e a l i s t walking the earth, and a pragmatist in pursuit of ideals.

—  REIGEN

「SERIZAWA + REIGEN, OVA 2」

Yes!!! Everyone say thank you @akai-koutei, the hero the fandom needs.

It seems to be setting up for a final battle this arc (dare I hope we see Akutagawa?) but obviously, the chapter is mostly set up and a lot rides on who exactly “Kamui” (god) is and whether “erasing” the ADA is his ability or the book’s.

Suggestions I’ve seen:

Mishima Yukio, the writer of The Decay of the Angel. Started a coup, which could be related to what he’s doing now.

Kawabata Yasunari, the first Japanese author to win a Nobel Prize. He committed suicide by gassing himself. He was friends with Mishima, and since we know there are two  more DoA members, they might come together. 

Rilke, which was suggested on Twitter for the way his works notably inspired Mishima and for the er, stunning resemblance here. His poems are great.

Tolstoy, for no other reason than no collection of Russian writers is complete  without him and War and Peace as an ability. But to stretch things  further, Tolstoy is known for exploring concepts of God in his works, and he got heavily religious in his later life. TBH he’s the least likely on this list and will probably appear in a later arc.

Honestly, I think the remaining DoA members are the first two, so Kamui is one of them. But I’m happy to be wrong.

But let’s get back to Sigma,who might not appear again for a bit. Through exchanging the information he most wanted to know with Atsushi, Sigma for the first time experienced a relationship that wasn’t transactional, but transformational. He most wanted empathy, which Atsushi gave him. It’s what his ability could be used for, rather than using him as essentially a safe vault of information.

When had I ever tried to grasp the feelings of others? - Sweetheart, even though you treated me kindly, I was as stubborn and selfish as a child. Waking to intimations of morning breaking outside, Which somehow register through this pounding in my head, I remember your kindness, and also that drunken other. And as I sadly wonder who I really am on this chilly morning, Something tells me that I am nobody at all.

- Nakahara Chūya, “Untitled” Part I from Poems of the Goat