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Steven crying at the end of I Am My Monster

Why you may ask? Because I love suffering and feeling my heart get ripped out. 🙃🙃😭

“we will always be your family.”

Anything can be symbolic in art and something like breastfeeding is an effective symbol for being about to care for your young. However, as most media shys away from including it, let alone giving it any plot significance, I’d have to say its inclusion in this arc of Chihayafuru is ingenious to say the least and its made  Haruka Inokuma into one of my favorite characters in the show. 

As a previous Queen and now mother, she became motivated to pursue Karuta again at the age of 32. Despite her determination to take back her old title, she is constantly barraged with doubts of whether her pursuit of Karuta is negatively impacting her children. There are several scenes where this is obvious especially the train scene in this episode where she gets a text on the way back from practice saying her baby is crying and needs milk. This isn’t the first time breastfeeding and Karuta have come into direct conflict as we’ve seen her describe her physical tension as a negatively affecting her play. This is built up as a hostile relationship: Karuta is hurting her ability to provide for her children and providing for her children is hurting her ability to play Karuta.

In comes the end of episode 11 where she just put on her Hakama in preparation of her qualifier match for Queen. Already we get her older kid sad she won’t be coming to the park with them but then disaster strikes when her baby needs milk and she insists she can’t breastfeed in a Hakama. This takes all the internal struggles shes having as a character and manifests them as a symbolic external struggle: Her Karuta is forcing her to wear a Hakama which is physically preventing her from feeding her baby. Then of course the savior of Oe’s mom comes in an informs her that you can in fact breastfeed in a Hakama and show her how. The resolution of this physical conflict is mirrored in her internal conflict: She only thought the Hakama prevented her breastfeeding just as she only thought Karuta was negatively effecting her kids. In reality, she realizes, there is no conflict between these two desires and she can have her cake and eat it too. 

Primary red color scheme

Voice that opposes physical appearance

Often dramatic & kinda petty

Antagonist to a bunch of kids

Can shapeshift

Usually shown laying luxuriously on a surface

Oh.

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