Spoilerific Playthrough And Also Crying

big ZTD spoilers

i dubbed the same comic twice

Okay I’ve talked about this with @electric016 and she has a better viewpoint of this since Japanese traditions/standpoint on relationships in particular isn’t my forte.  But I guess it might be good to get the ball rolling? (And kindly nudge Jinger into writing a meta, lol.) 

Let’s get some of the groundwork done under the cut for length and spoilers oops.

But I’m just bitter about the ending in a lot of ways, and this post was mostly complaining that Akane’s characterization was all over the place in ZTD. She spent most of the game acting sweet and demure and without any indication she had a plan or any goal of her own.  There were a few spectacular times the Akane I was expecting came out - when she rigged the nuclear generator to explode, or the entire VLR end, I was also cheering, because yeah!  This is Akane!

For most of ZTD I just don’t feel like we saw that, though.  No mention of her goals, her self-sacrificial but also others-sacrificial “ends justify the means” attitude, no mention of her past, her trauma, her fear of loss of control - she was on a team with a firefighter when there were so many fires and we listened to him tell the story of how his parents died horribly in a fire and I was expecting some reaction from her at some point but it just!  Never happened!  This girl died in a fire ten years ago and it shaped her entire life since then and there was nothing!  Switching straight from demure sweetness to berserker rage when Junpei died, without any indication that she had anything else in her life going on besides Junpei (Aoi is still alive!!  The Crash Keys still need her!).  Akane crying and acting like it was the end of the world when people died in the decision game, as if she can’t time travel, as if she keeps forgetting that she can time travel, as if she hadn’t murdered people in the past to get a desirable result in her own Nonary game.  Akane’s “What’s the point in living if you can’t be with the person you love most?” was so un-Akane-like and obviously there to get Junpei and Akane together, without really addressing what makes them so interesting in the first place.  (Also, reminder, Aoi! is! still! alive!)

like/reblog this if you thought the ending was bad.