#anime rant

Like in shounen we get kids being given insane amounts of responsibility at such a young age, and the adults around them don't care or feel responsible for them.

But in spy x family we see the main motivator of one of the main cast is protecting children from living the nightmare childhood that he lived.

And the kids, Anya and her classmates, they feel so real, it's so well written. It feels like childhood experiences of messing around with friends and the process of making friends when you were a kid.

I'm not a kid anymore, but there are some moments in this anime that sort of feel like they're forming a core memory. It reminds me of my childhood.

This makes the message of war is bad, and children are it's worst victims so powerful. We see the two types of experiences these kids and mostly Anya have, like normal childhood kids stuff at school, then stuff like the bus hijacking and all the other situations Anya gets into cuz of her mind reading skills.

And the mind reading itself was a result of experiments done in an effort to gain an advantage over the enemy. Anya herself is already a victim of the war, and yet living with Twilight gives her a chance for a normal childhood.

Twilight doesn't know about it, but he tries his best to protect her from his work. So he's not like adults in normal shounens, he's actually trying his best to give Anya a good childhood even though he says it's "all for the mission".

He does pressure her to study, but he doesn't want to traumatize her so he gives her breaks.

It's not like the usual shounen message of work until you get it or you're not my student thing.

And the romance is sort of barely there but also it's building up. I thought it would be like unspoken, as is usual in a lot of action animes, but it's more like it has to be spoken at one point cuz these characters are dumbasses.

Then ONE anime says “not today” and suddenly you’re sobbing at 3 AM questioning your entire life.

The anime that broke me even though I thought I was immune:

Attack on Titan - That Erwin/Armin choice. If you know you KNOW.

Your Lie in April - The ending. I wasn’t ready. Nobody’s ever ready.

Anohana - “We found you Menma” still destroys me years later.

Clannad After Story - Episode 18. Don’t even talk to me about it.

Violet Evergarden - Episode 10 with the letters. Ugly cried for 20 minutes straight.

Assassination Classroom - The graduation scene broke something in me I can’t fix.

Angel Beats - That ending hit different and I’m still not okay.

A Silent Voice - The bridge scene. The BRIDGE SCENE.

I went from “I don’t cry at fiction” to “lying on the floor emotionally destroyed” real quick.

What’s the anime that absolutely wrecked you when you weren’t expecting it?

Tell me I’m not suffering alone here 😭

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firstly, i think that people who find issue with his appearance are misplacing their discomfort at the idea of being attracted to a trans man. literally by definition, him being a trans man means he was born in a female body and where ever he lies on the spectrum of expressing his gender and changing his sex does not change his gender identity. you dont have to be fully transitioned to be trans and given yamato's story it really wouldnt make sense for him to be transitioned as he would not have access to those sorts of resources. him not being transitions is an element that feeds into telling his story but all of that nuance is dismissed because male fragility wont allow them to acknowledge both that he is a man and they find him hot.

the second main way people dismiss yamato's identity is that they believe that him identifying with oden meant that he was never really trans but simply wanted to be oden but i think that this stems from a fundamental issue misunderstanding of the narrative. yamato claims to embody oden but the arc of his story is literally about how he was using that identity as a crutch to deal with his situation and his journey as he comes to realize his own identity and separate it from oden, but at the end of his arc he still identifies as a man. him being a man was never even questioned.

apart from the way that the opposition to yamato being trans being bull, i think that yamato is actually a pretty good example of intertwining a characters trans identity with the narrative. him being trans is not the focal point of the tensions or conflicts but rather is identity is interwoven with his story arc and colors his interactions and experiences differently.

i heard someone once say that the trans representation in one piece is especially notable among representation because of the number of characters and different experiences because no one single character needs to embody all of the trans experiences. yamato does not feel like some token trans character just slapped in but rather he feels like a fully developed character with his own compelling and interesting story to exploare. it feels like the narrative treats him as a real person just like everyone else and where being trans just one part of his identity and experiences

I had made a post a while ago about turbo baba and how she is motif for women's safety and has been once since ages, given the sexual assaults and crimes against women.

The entire show covers and goes over how women's bodies and lives are taken for granted - as objects and vessels of control (even with the sex trafficking story with Acrobatic Silky). How the aliens play the role of the cold, entitled and almost incel Japanese men population.

And now we have another vulnerable population being targeted, who are always taken for granted and not treated with respect - children. This can be seen with the Evil Eye that is involved with Jiji, a child who was forsaken for the 'well-being' of the village.

I don't want to give any manga spoilers so I will be limiting the post to the instance of these populations being spoken about, giving a phenomenal social commentary.

which is why is PISSES ME OFF, when people say

"EWW Dandadan is an SA show"

Please gain back your media literacy and view fictional shows for what they are - FICTION. And fiction describes and explains social phenomena and issues, not 'lead' to them or impact them in the way that people on social media believe they do. (I am begging everyone for one class on media literacy and critical thinking)

k thanks!

This show really came out and said, you want to know what's just as manly as kicking ass?

Protecting and serving your community? Manly!

Accepting help when needed? Manly!!

Being mutually supportive and affectionate with your guy friends? Manly!!!

Being authentically yourself and liking things even if it doesn't fit within societies concept of gender norms? Manly!!!!

Supporting your friends who are authentically themselves even if if goes against societies concept of gender norms? MANLY!!!!!

Choosing to move forward and heal with the people who care about you even if it feels foreign and scary at first?

There’s something about Levi that feels… safe. Not because the world around him is safe, but because he is.

When everything else in Attack on Titan spirals into chaos - betrayal, destruction, impossible choices — Levi stays steady. He doesn’t shock you with sudden moral turns or emotional breakdowns. His actions are consistent, precise, and grounded in discipline. In a story where every character is breaking apart, he’s the one quietly holding everything together. 🥹

What makes him stand out isn’t just his strength - it’s the way he holds his pain.

For example, Eren’s pain explodes outward; it burns the world to make sense of it.

Levi’s pain turns inward; it becomes structure, control, and quiet endurance.

He kills, but never to dominate - only to protect. He mourns, but never collapses. His grief becomes discipline, his kindness becomes restraint.

That’s why, in a world as unstable as theirs, he feels like an anchor.

He’s not the loudest, not the most dramatic, not even the “kindest” in the usual sense BUT his steadiness is a kind of kindness. He gives others a sense of safety he’ll never have himself. 🥺

💭 Maybe that’s why characters like him stand out to people who crave order, reliability, or calm. It’s not about perfection. It’s about safety.

The same reason some of us are drawn to Overhaul (me included) — the calculation, the precision, the need for control in a messy world — it’s that desire for something that doesn’t fall apart when everything else does.

Levi’s not a hero because he saves everyone.

He’s a hero because he keeps standing when there’s no one left to stand beside him. 💔

For people like me who crave calm in chaos, Levi isn’t just a favorite - he’s a mirror.

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