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THE BOSS

title: Dorohedoro

— I'll let you choose where you want me to stab you. In your head or your heart?

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... have... have we considered that perhaps the average reader just, like, knows what they like in a book? I mean... first sentences are famous for establishing things like *checks notes*... genre, tone, POV, pacing, character, voice, uhhh... writing style...

The average reader is putting your book down because they discovered it's in first person (or not in first person). The average reader put your book down because they wanted a cozy read, or they're sick of cozy reads, or romance, or grimdark, or assassin princesses, or vampires, or or or. The average reader put your book down because they just didn't like your writing style—no, not because it was boring... they just, get this, didn't like it.

The average critical reader put your book down because it had six grammatical mistakes in the first two sentences.

The average reader will read quite a ways if the premise intrigues them, they like the genre, the writing style doesn't get on their nerves, and the characters pop off the page. In fact, they'll probably read the whole book, so long as it delivers on its plot promises and doesn't drag in the middle section.

It's the perfect visual metaphor for Ogata's true intentions. At first glance, Ogata does not seem to be loyal to any one or anything. He's especially not loyal to Tsurumi considering he grew out his hair beyond the regulatory cut. But he keeps the sides and the back of his head shaved. This showcases that below his more rebellious tendencies, he still has a strong attachment to the military. Additionally, it foreshadows his status as a spy for Central and his twisted sense of devotion towards Tsurumi. But what I find really interesting is the stray lock of hair that's always in his face.

This lock of hair seemingly has no significance to the broader metaphor of Ogata's hair cut. It's a loose end that he subconsciously brushes back into the fold only for it to fall into his face time and time again. However, it could also be tied back to his family situation.

Ogata's childhood flashback reveals that everyone on Tome's side of the family has wild locks of hair in their faces. Ogata's grandparents have multiple as does Tome herself.

Initially I thought the hair lock was just a family trait, like Asirpa inheriting Wilk's eyes or Tanigaki and Inkarmat's daughter having wild hair. Or maybe its a sign that his family members just didn't have the time to make sure their hair was in place.

But then I looked at this panel closer.

Here Tome's hair is perfectly set. Moreover, it's the only scene where she acknowledges Ogata and is at her most lucid. With that in mind, the locks of hair in her face in previous panels take on a new connotation. They could point to inherited mental illness. While her mother has some short hair wisps in her face, it's her father that has the longer locks that resemble Tome and Ogata's hair. (Ogata's grandfather is also the one who taught Ogata to shoot and put a gun in his hands in the first place...)

Looking at Ogata's hair through this lens makes his subconscious need to push his hair lock back in place that much more significant. He does so less out of annoyance that its in his way and more as a form of reassurance almost, that he is right, mentally sound, and on the correct path.

It's not surprising then that when Ogata 2 shows up, he pushes his stray hair out of his face while Ogata has multiple hairs in his face.

It's only as the narrative progresses that Ogata's hair becomes wilder due to the chaos (and the wind) around him, revealing just how mentally unsound he is. It's during these scenes where his hair, just like his sanity, becomes completely untethered from his grasp...

that Ogata resembles Tome the most...