just a running list of things about azuma that make me feel some kind of way:
that line about how maybe a roly poly doesn't like damp places so much as it dislikes dry places
sandek saying that his goal is to stop the people causing chaos on a busy street that interferes with other people just driving/living their lives, and azuma's rebirth as a choujin culminating in a fight that takes place on a highway and causes a bunch of accidents (pretty on the nose there bro)
sandek saying that azuma reminds him of his younger brother...
azuma mourning that he and tokio became choujin because it meant he was no longer tokio's personal hero (where is his sense of identity? who is he if he's not what tokio saw in him? all that work to be that person and what did it amount to?)
asking tokio to kill him if he lost control again (he didn't see how tokio reacted to finding him dead, he didn't know what tokio went through, he doesn't know what kind of ask this really is)
crying over the hyena
urging tokio to take zora's power because he was afraid that he would cause the calamity (see also: asking tokio to kill him)
after the timeskip, wanting to kill a chaos choujin before trying to save them (does he still want to be the person who risks his life to save someone when tokio is gone? )
absolutely ignores tokio from the moment he gets back but then "i wanted tokio to talk to me once he got back" bro...
"maybe i'll feel better if i punch you" but then feeling worse because he can't beat tokio in a fight anymore
this is cheating because it's a tokio thing but it's ABOUT azuma: sato trying to convince tokio of his way of doing things and failing, and then having the thought that "baby chicks imprint on the first thing they see" and the very next panel being azuma (tokio imprinted on azuma but azuma was a reflection of tokio who admired azuma who admired tokio who -)
"i'm going to make sure each of you gets me a present" then his present is an existential crisis
he does the thing kaneki did where he copies things easily. learns weapons from books, sees other battle strategies and uses them as his own, that honors student learning without trying vibe (is it because he had to learn how to be human that way?)
trying to be the thing people see in him. the hero tokio saw, the reliable partner ely saw, the battle prodigy bb saw, where does he start and where do other people's expectations end?
