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JJK 30 Day Challenge - Day 24: Favourite Volume

Volume 7

Who is realy imprisioned here? The way this shot is framed makes it clear that Zuko is in a prison of his own mind. In fact you can look at how Zuko and Iroh are generally framed in this scene

Zuko:

and Iroh:

Even in shots where Iroh is framed together with the iron bars he is far removed from them while Zuko is right in front:

What takes the cake though is the following shot sequence:

When it shows Iroh it zooms in from this:

To this:

While with Zuko it’s the exact reverse. It zooms out from this:

To this:

Say what you want but man Avatar had some amazing shot composition. 

And the twin blades? Zuko himself says they’re two halves of a single weapon, and shouldn’t be thought of as separate. The twin blades which we really first see in The Blue Spirit storyline, in which Aang asks Zuko if they COULD HAVE BEEN FRIENDS. It’s been stated that the blades represent the good and evil parts of Zuko, but isn’t that just a direct result of him grappling with his lineage, which is directly tied to Aang?

no one:

absolutely no one:

(yes, it's another Akechi post, because I can talk about him and p5 for hours. so what)

People have been arguing about whether Akechi is dead or not after all for days and days, ever since the game was released. It's totally up to you to decide if you believe he's alive or not, so here's just one more theory for those who want him to be alive and kickin':

We all remember how Morgana's thief form disappeared when the Metaverse got destroyed, and he said one pretty damn interesting thing to the team: "The whole world is a product of cognition, not just the Metaverse. It can be freely remade - same goes for you and everyone else". When I was playing the game for the first time, I was sure that he means it in a metaphorical way - like, how your cognition changes things around you in the real life and so on. Wise and true, but nothing new.

But then.

Then Morgana comes back as a cat and drops a bombshell that the Thieves pay absolutely no mind at that point:

So basically what he's saying is that he stayed in reality, even though he should've died/disappeared, because the Thieves didn't forget about him.

Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Hell yes, because the game gives you EXACTLY THAT CHOICE:

To forget him - or to hold on to their promise and his glove... Or should I say "to remain cognitive of him", huh? Maxing out his confidant link and choosing not to forget him are the only two conditions of getting that after-credits scene, which is damn suspicious if you ask me, because they don't even interact. Akechi just passes by, alive - because Joker remembers him and their promise.

Because his resolve brought Akechi back, when they all were on the border between the new world that was coming and the Metaverse, where the cognition decided what is real and what is not.

a cold february evening