#calenor

uhhh i wish we got to have actually seen something about the Super Important Stuff about certain characters (like wada being tfem. i have never noticed this until someone brought it up in the comments. + as far as i know, also includes okazaki being a serial rapist bc ninomiya basically saying that she coerced him to do it for medicine + shelter) actually make its way to the main series, bc wdym i have to look up an entire google archival doc about the staffside and dates and everything. im a casual viewer i do not have time for that kind of thing >.>

i also feel like watari could have had more of a better design instead of her falling into the trope of a black girl w/ more straightened out hair... like i get that she lives in japan but still, we couldv seen her w/ more textured hair, maybe something like cornrows or box braids. hell why not some protective hairstyles!

i also feel like most of the way the staffside stuff feels like... idk. in some ways it falls flat in regards to the Many Monomoko sonas or whatever, like theres nothing memorable about them to me that makes me want to actually sympathize or care for these characters when, as far as i know from other folks who have read abt staffside, they basically just end up dying a bunch of times n it gets old. like yawn. (i get it could probably mean that like... idk. theyr supposed to b like. some writing stuff for monomoko + theming but honestly it just does NOT appeal that much to me!)

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I have some thoughts about these!

1. I completely agree with the issue of stuff being locked away behind days upon days of content, as well as plowing through tumblr asks and tracking down statements from the (now non-existent) official tetro discord server. Wada being tfem? Locked behind staffside. Okazaki being confirmed to be a rapist? Lucky shot because we voted the right person for a spotlight (though I feel like this is going to be discussed to an extent in blue's main story). Okazaki actually having a reason for being messed up and evil and not just for the lulz? Terminal. I'm aware that people have been trying to condense this information into simple-to-read formats, which is much appreciated, but... why not just put it in the main story? Long story short, and ARG is not a good format for a fangan because it means that so much information is lost to the casual viewer

2. Watari having more straightened out hair is realistic to Japanese schools, but now that I think about it, i feel like she'd be something of a rebel so she'd try to add a few bits of spice to it. Like maybe a hidden braid or a very small curl in her hair