#arc analysis

⚠️Warning: Infinity Castle Arc/Manga Spoilers ahead...

(An Analysis of Inosuke/Kanao vs Douma)

Douma vs Shinobu has some significant lost potential, at least as far as the build-up of this fight is concerned, esp in terms of thematic gravity of their rivalry...This was an Upper Moon rivalry which had all flavors of becoming a dedicated sub-series, wherein the severity of motivation in clashing with each other is only rivaled by Akaza-Tanjiro fight, Kaigaku-Zenitsu fight (again an undercooked potential) and the ultimate face-off between Tanjiro and Muzan. Douma-Shinobu rivalry was among the very few rivalries where there was actually a past story to be told and an another story to unfold wrt Kanao and Inosuke.

And it is part of Kanao and Inosuke I want to focus upon. ...

Kanao is one of the characters who will undergo perhaps one of the most pivotal shifts in her character during this arc. In the beginning of the series, she is shown to be a quiet, timid yet skillful corps member who rose through the ranks pretty quickly and easily. So much so, that even Tanjiro comments upon how tough it has been to surpass her skill level for others. We remember how quickly she moved onto training with Sanemi when others only had just begun training with Uzui. Prudent or not, but Shinobu's trust in Kanao's abilities was certainly not misplaced...She had enrolled as a slayer despite Kanae and Shinobu stopping her but she proved herself enough to be trusted with such a risky plan.

On the other hand we have our beloved Inosuke (he is mine at least, not sure about others) who is ever ready to fight demons and ever ready to rip them apart... His ferocity and crudeness should not dislodge us from the fact that he invented his own breathing style and literally passed Final selection based on a whim... Very little is shown about his past though we get glimpses here and there. Kanao and Inosuke teaming together against Douma was an interesting choice, given Inouske is everything Kanao is not in terms of temperament— loud, crude, ferocious...I mean here are these two characters—one with extremely repressed emotions and one with an untamed ferocity getting teamed up against a powerful demon who wears emotions and vulnerability as a facade to lure in his victims and mask his depravity and inhumanity...

Kanao comes face to face against Douma in a moment of immense horror and pain, she witnesses Douma murdering Shinobu. She has lost family, her master and everything to him— again...Her grief and unbridled rage guides her against a formidable enemy and the first thing she notices and uses against him is his facade, and reminds him, tauntingly, of his own depravity....Her grief is immense, her loss monumental... She not only reminds Douma of the futility of his existence, she is also reminded of her own loss, grief and tragedy....She obviously did not want Shinobu to die, she had just begun to open up thanks to Tanjiro and had a whole family at Butterfly mansion...According to her, she had not grieved Kanae properly, now having to lose shinobu as well opened the flood gates of her own vulnerability...

But it was not only Kanao whose raw green grief finds an opening on that fateful night, someone else was to realise their own tragedy as well...

In this fight, one of the most painful realisations you can have regarding Inosuke is the fact how oblivious he was to the scale of his tragedy and how painfully aware he was about to become about this... Inosuke's clash with Douma and subsequent confrontation about his past life does something that tends to humanise his ferocity and aggression (something which has been done for Sanemi in the following arc)... For the first time in the series, we see Inosuke as a vulnerable child and not just an untamed wild boar/mountain god going on a rampage.... He is human like all his friends, he has also lost his loved ones and his life in itself is a gift of a mother's sacrifice....His grief is immeasurable and there is no escape from feeling all this pain and that too in such a sudden manner... His wound was always there but dormant, but now it throbs with an unforeseen severity..

I have seen many people tend to present Douma's dealing with Kotoha in a positive manner while it was a case of twisted mercy, one should not forget that we do not get an account of Kotoha's story from her perspective, we never know what set her off to discover his true identity.... Inouske realises with utmost horror just how much the vile being standing before him has robbed him of his life and how he has the audacity of painting it as something noble...

However, this is the moment where the key strength of this fight resides, both Kanao and Inosuke get to face pain like never before in this fight, their wounds ripped new and the realisation of scale of their loss hitting them hard... But despite the wretchedness of grief and depth of loss, they get to feel their tragedy...Their vulnerability, their fragility is a testament of their humanity — unlike Douma...

One of the most significant subtexts of this fight is how far off Douma is from humanity and no matter how much he pretends, he will never belong with humans again... He has lost one of the basic tenets of being a human — his ability to feel and unfortunately no matter what he does, he is never going to get it back...This makes Douma's facade even more vile and depraved, his pretense helps him feed on the vulnerability of his victims...He doesn't just kill people to keep himself satiated (unlike other demons), he makes a mockery out of them by pretending to save them...Douma is an outlier of sorts whose demonic self does not get posited in a sympathetic manner, he is a demon for the demon's sake....In fact, his humanity explains why he became a demon so readily.... He had begun to lose his human self way back in his childhood as a cult leader who became desensitised to others' suffering...There is a one thing Douma had lost even before becoming a demon— empathy.....

Kanao and Inosuke get to mourn their loss properly by the time Douma is defeated, they find a place deep within their heart to process and grieve...Douma never got to know where he should be keeping his own vulnerability and ache, he lost the ability to mourn, and by large, ability to feel way too soon and only managed to regain some of that at the precipice of hell....

While I stand by my criticism of the lack of proper build-up of Shinobu vs Douma fight, however, once the fight ensues, it falls into a completely opposite category— one of the rare fights in DS which actually had a common logic for everyone involved....Except for Muzan vs Tanjiro, no other upper moon fight has all those fighting bearing such an interconnected personal symbolism.. In this fight, all involved had been deeply violated by the given demon in a personal manner...

All three characters were essentially characters with borrowed identities, including their names, yet two get to know the feeling of kinship, pain, vulnerability and emotional bonding, while other one doesn't— and that was perhaps his tragedy...

You can’t ask me this and expect me to not drop everything else I’m doing. Little did you know they are my brotp. They are so special. Izutsumi gets along more with literally everyone in the party, but their relationship was so narratively important. They’re a really underrated and overlooked dynamic! I’ve had them as a topic at the back of my mind for a while, seeing someone else interested was all the push I needed gdbdg. This isn’t super long though, their issues with each other and lil arc is surprisingly brief and easy to summarize.

Laios & Izutsumi : what’s their deal with each other

For me one foundational train of thought for Izutsumi & Laios is, well. I read this awesome smart post deconstructing how Izutsumi’s beef with Laios is because she only just broke free and wants freedom without having someone ordering her around, and that’s sort of her whole character arc, isn’t it?

Isn’t Izutsumi’s picky eating a reflection of just that? In a life where she was a slave, she could at least control what she chose to eat and not eat. But then you might wonder, why did the narrative want her to grow out of that? Simply put, Izutsumi has a contrarian streak, one that is often extremely counterproductive. We saw that especially near the beginning, with how hard it was to make her work with them as a team. The issue is that now that she is free, she needs to not block out others by habit, to not lash out and refuse the healthy things in life, the people who want good for her. And that’s something that’s addressed in the succubus chapter as well as the fight against the ice golem, that she shouldn’t insist that she can do everything alone and fight against any team effort.

I love how onesided the Laios izutsumi dynamic is. He stays away from her generally, like doesn’t interact much, but he wants the cat pats… Which Izu made clear she did NOT want. And Chil is the only one in the party to not really see her as a cat for most of the story really, as shown in the relationship chart. He’s well meaning and wants the best for her, but he crowds her and doesn’t understand her at all. But he reallyyy wants to get along with her.

On the other hand, Izutsumi’s very existence and identity gave Laios an immense amount of hope that Falin could be brought back and still be herself and live well, even if she still had part of a dragon’s soul in her. I think that’s a lovely way to contrast the way that Izutsumi hates herself as a beastkin and her body, while Laios is like "Thank you, your existence as you are is the answer to all my worries" AND he super likes monster bodies and beastkins so it’s like. I think part of her hostility to him, besides feeling like he doesn’t understand her perspective and is maybe dismissive of what his party members want (which would remind her of Maizuru to some degree probably), is that he says all these good things about her being a beastkin, and it’s so jarring with her own version of herself that it raises her hackles and she reacts negatively, especially with how flippant and eager he is about it. But yes like, this is their first meeting!! Beyond his interest in her as a beastkin because of his monster hobby, Laios is just so very grateful for her and chooses to put his trust in her.

That’s interesting too, how one of the first things she asks about upon meeting them is why the hell they would want to rescue Falin even if she were to stay as a chimera-beastkin and still have the dragon soul in her. It’s her asking "Who would want to stick with a beastkin?" thinking that there’s something fundamentally wrong with having two souls and it making you unlovable. And their differing views on monsters do make them clash

But ultimately he chills out about her, which ironically enough shows in the way that they don’t interact much- He gives her space, and accepts that the beastkin may not like him. BUT at the end of the day they have an incredible bond of trust- Laios asks Izutsumi to kill him if something goes wrong with the Winged Lion. Not only is that sort of an intimate request and act, but that means that he leaves it up to Izutsumi’s judgement as well to know if it went wrong and when to act. He doesn’t only trust her skills but also her decision making, despite how tough they’ve been on each other in the past. He’s giving her the ultimate role, the go ahead to make or break their plan and be the difference between saving or destroying the world. And the last tidbit of info we get on their relationship in canon is when she hides behind him because she’s shy- Certified having befriended the cat moment. She trusts him and sees him as a safe person! And by saying that she’s shy, he’s showing that he did end up understanding her and how she is.

No matter the rocky parts of their relationship, they still have a strong foundation to it and were great allies and road companions, one of the few persons that had each other’s back when it mattered the most, both for the world and for their personal arcs. And post-canon, well…

He’s accepted that she needs space and whatnot, and meanwhile she’s accepted his interest in monsters and taken it in stride 😌 They end up having this familiarity with each other and even if there’s still a bunch of emotional distance imo and they never really got into the nitty gritty with each other not like her with Chilchuck or even Marcille, they see each other. They nod in greeting and respect each other from afar……. But also still tease and chat familiarly up close and if she offers him the opportunity for cuddles he will take it. You know, if it’s not her just falling onto him because she’s sleeping she has no respect.

Siblings behavior… If you know my take on the general party dynamics, I love thinking of Laios & Izu’s dynamic as him being an older brother figure where they have a love-hate relationship. Siblings rivalry. I have a bunch of funny little doodles I’ve wanted to make with them for months, the prompts for which are in the screenshot put below. But yeah like you know, they’re protective of each other but in that very critical way as well, truly forged by being stuck with each other for a while and having to come to understand and accept how the other is. Strife with conflict, but ultimately sticking with each other through thick and thin… Siblings siblings SIBLINGS SIBLINGS SIBLINGS. Sigh I just want them to cuddle on a couch and she purrs while simultaneously being snide and mean to him, they are so… Izutsumi is the character ever

Oh, which! While I’m here, I always recommend this fanfic about the two of them interacting and Laios treating her like a cat, it’s just fun and lighthearted. They’re suuuuch an underrated duo

If I find more Laios & Izu moments I think are worth sharing I’ll just add it onto this I think. We shouldn’t be too hard on him he was raised by dogs so cats are a whole other language to him but also, so wild to me that he never tried to engage with her on a cat level properly like where is the hissing at the catgirl and the cat taming moments, he sucks at socializing with cats smh smh.

Bit of a backstory here, I am a big Naruto fan and for a long while it was one of the 3 few animes I had watched in my whole life 'till recently I decided to challenge myself and, per request of my friend, try a new anime. I was like "okay, so what is the one you want me to watch?" and they were like "Jujutsu Kaisen". I obviously DO NOT live under a rock so I had heard of it, especially since I'm from Naruto fandom, so of course I had bumped into Team 7 x Nobara, Megumi and Yuuji crossover a few times already. In the end I was like "okay" and in a few days I had made my way through half of season one. A bit confused and definitely lost on how somehow everyone is related at some point - since most of those backstories are only mentioned or weirdly hinted at but the anime never does more than superficially explained them - but I kept persevering and now am on season 2, episode 41.

[Crunchyroll couting]

For disclaimer reasons I must say there will be spoilers from here on since I will be doing a quick recap and calling back some later mentioned facts of JJK 0 as well as 2 season episodes. But your choice to proceed, of course.

Neither one really wants to confront the other directly about what’s happened, but I think at times because Naru is the more extroverted and has been Usagi’s friend for longer, at times it almost feels like the responsibility falls on Ami to give the correct responses in the correct way. Give a wrong answer, and not only does she not get to be with Usagi, but she also gets snapped at for not responding correctly. And I get it, she handled the Naru Showing Up at the Door Unannounced scenario poorly, but at the same time, the response does seem a little disproportionate. 

With the English exercises, I know Naru snaps at Ami for trying to yield instead of agreeing to do a group of three because she’s “not really saying what she wants” and “making [Naru] look like the bad guy,” and that I’m supposed to agree, theoretically, that Ami isn’t being honest enough or something to that effect.

But at the same time, I’ve been in that kind of no-win scenario before, and technically, yes, she did give the “correct” answer, just not in the way Naru wanted it. At times, it almost seems like Naru would have preferred for Ami to argue and then lose, or accept the group of three but then not get to talk very much. But because she didn’t give the “correct” answer in the “correct” way, it ends up being wrong.

It’s not so much that I don’t think it’s good for Ami to be more honest about the way she feels, particularly since through part of the episode, she had effectively decided she was a shit person for “deceiving everyone” about the kind of person she was. Obviously, you wanna confront that and get that sorted out. But I don’t think her responses in the group scenarios or not wanting to have a direct confrontation with Naru, which she knows she is likely going to lose, is technically wrong or an attempt to be manipulative or “putting on a poor-me act” or any of the other “actually Ami is 100% the bad guy here” interpretations I’ve heard over the years.

Lol um. Yes. No. That’s another time I get to use this gif.

But no actually, I can make some sense of it.

So “Rogue Air” is interesting because Barry hired Len to do a job, and Len did that job (he protected Barry and his friends from the metahumans). He also sabotaged them, but his job was literally to protect them if something went wrong and he did it. He tells Barry that Barry “owes him” for not killing him / letting Simmons kill him, but… that’s not really true?

It’s important to note that Len’s sort of bluffing his way through all of this. I can’t find my post where I first talked about this, but if you look at this face when Mardon strikes the airplane down, it looks like genuine shock. He was also complaining about them being late. I think he expected ARGUS to show up and fight the metas and for his involvement to be a lot more minimal than it was. I mean, he absolutely sabotaged the truck, he just didn’t expect things to go down how they did. So he’s forced to kill Simmons to hold up his end of the deal and forced to lie about his motives to Mardon, and forced to just sort of keep going from there.

Which brings us to him lecturing Barry about trusting him and all that. Milking this for the most he can get out of it because damn did it ever end up going his way after all. 

But I don’t think he actually expected Barry to really follow through. Owe him for not killing him? For showing mercy? Maybe he’d expect the Flash to steer clear of him. Maybe he’d expect to be able to pull it out on him some time and use it to manipulate him. Barry has a lot of honor, after all. And he did stick his neck out to make sure Simmons and Bivolo and Mardon didn’t kill Barry, like well and truly, so maybe he wants a bit of extra compensation for it.

But I don’t think he was expected what he got.

In “Family of Rogues”, Barry was insistent on helping Len. He comes to him three times that episode – while Len is stealing the blueprints, in Saints and Sinners, and again at the place Len and Lewis are laying low. He continuously seeks him out and offers help each time despite being rebuffed and injured for his efforts. 

And he comes to him that last time because he knows Lisa is in danger. And I’ve talked about that at length before, about what that means to Len, but that’s sort of it here.Barry didn’t just save Len, he saved Lisa. 

He went so far above and beyond to save both of them – sustained injury, almost got shot, pretended to be a criminal and helped on a heist (almost exposing his powers to Lewis in the process), and just generally did everything in his power to save their lives.

Barry didn’t owe Len that much. And they both know it. Barry (well, his team), saved Lisa.

So even though Len goes to prison at the end of the episode, he stills feels in Barry’s debt. His father is dead, his sister is safe and alive and free of that shadow, and prison (which he knows he can escape from with a bit of help) won’t hold him for long. It’s part of their deal. Part of the process.

So when he gets out and finds out there’s a plot on Barry’s life that involves him? He recuses himself from it and, attempting to level their playing field a bit, their debts, he goes straight to Barry.

And well, you can argue that there’s  more to it than that. There is honor between them, and the fact that he doesn’t want Barry to die, I think. They seem to like each other alive and in opposition. They both care about the city, and enjoy being a thorn in one another’s side. Barry wants Len to join on him on the good side. Len isn’t ready to do that, but he is somewhere he wasn’t before, and that’s heavy in that scene between them.

An Arc Flash Risk Assessment is the general interaction that distinguishes dangers, gauges the expected seriousness of injury or harm to wellbeing, appraises the probability of event of injury or harm to wellbeing, and decides whether defensive measures are required.

The 4 fundamental stages to think about when performing out an arc flash analysis are as:

Distinguishing the Hazards Assessing the Severity Assessing the Likelihood Deciding the Protective Measures

Arc flash and arc blast dangers were round in view that electric strength has existed, however they've handiest lately been addressed in country wide standards. The National Fire Protection Association`s Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace (NFPA70E) states that each one centers ought to carry out an arc flash risk evaluation to decide the prevailing diploma of dangers, after which observe suitable system labeling.

  The aim of an arc flash analysis is to: 

1) pick out arc flash dangers, 

2) estimate the chance of incidence and the capability severity of damage or harm to fitness and 

Art by @nanaboodraws on twitterA story’s components and flow are determined by the little puzzle pieces of plot devices that authors drop along the line for us to grapple onto.The entirety of a series is made of small arcs that are embedded into the story, sometimes longer sometimes smaller, they all make sure to show us all kinds of details that are pursued by the cast. In anime, story arcs are…