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I have yet to watch csm, but I was very curious about your song choice for your animatic "robot" :D it felt like a very specific decision and I was wondering if the song itself meant something to you. I'd love to hear about it if you are comfortable!

also, your animatic is gorgeous! even as someone who has no idea what's going on, it feels like it's radiating an emotion I can't place but definitely feel. I showed it to my brother who has watched csm and it really got to him, haha

hope you're surviving in this horrible heat TvT have a lovely week!

so glad someone opened this pandora box for me;

So the song is by a greek alt rock band called Xylina Spathia (The Wooden Swords) and they were one of (if not the) the most influential bands in Greece during the 90s-- super ahead of their time (for our country, that adopts every trend approximately 20 years after it's been popularized in the West), and super SUPER anti-government and anti-capitalist.

"Robot" in particular is essentially about a guy who gets into it with a clanker (common man vs the capitalist state). It starts by saying "this guy" (the bot) is looking at him as though it's a camera recording everything he (the man) does and how it must not have a heart but a bunch of tangled up wires, stretching into infinity. My favourite lyric is toward the end and it translates to "merchants of all, invisible and visible",, basically a critique of how under capitalism everything has a price, including you, and the state is doing the selling and buying.

It's my favorite song of theirs, mainly sonically, and I've thought about how much it fits with Chainsaw Man's themes ever since Christmas, and have been circling this idea around in my head. The thing about not having a heart, the suits, the evil corporations, being constantly watched, having your dreams stolen and commodified-- it's all very Denji. Also the song was released in 1997, which is the exact year Chainsaw Man takes place.

The animatic is basically like a reel of Denji's traumas from part 1 playing over in his head, getting tangled up and interconnected like a broken tape, under the general idea of Makima watching his every move.

On a more personal level, my brother used to put Xylina Spathia songs to me from his iPod when I was a kid and we would bang our heads together. They have a particular lyric in their most popular song that says "Time will pass// the wheel will turn// Helen of Troy will now be a hag" and I used to think it was hilarious since I was just learning about the Illiad at school .

Later on, when I first started dating my partner,, the first song he ever sent to me that reminded him of me, was also a Xylina Spathia song, and on our first road trip together we listened to almost their entire discography front to back in the car

Anyways, they're lovely. I wish they still played as a band.

I am on a quest to break the comfortable mold/bubble i have lived of media i consume and watch a bunch of movies to expand my media literary and learn to understand stories more

What are soem movies you'd say are underrated or are must watch ?

Hope you have a good day ^_^ and thank you

Hello :D

Not sure about underrated, but here are some of my favorites that I keep coming back to and thinking about, that I truly think are a mastery of their medium in some way;

Aftersun (probably favorite of all time)

Her (I need everyone to be okay with a bunch of stuff very quickly)

La Haine (quintessential French movie about racial tensions in Paris)

Blade Runner (the original, although the new version is also good)

Whiplash (they had 20 days, no budget and talent)

Princess Mononoke (favorite Ghibli movie )

Fallen Angels (art directional masterpiece)

Everything Everywhere All At Once (unexpectedly profound exploration of generational trauma in immigrant families)

Lost in Translation (the other half of the divorce of "Her")

Parasite (one of the best movies ever made actually)

Fantastic Mr Fox (amazing use of stop motion, phenomenal writing)

Moonlight (queer coming of age masterpiece)

28 Days Later (yes, a zombie movie. THE zombie movie)

Anora (fair share of controversy but quite artful)

Well I can’t think of a single one of them that’s straight, I’ll tell you that much.

I’ll start with (what I think are) some obvious/ popular ones:

Chuuya, transmasc bi. I’ve never explicitly written him as such (on the transness) but he has a certain je-ne-sais-quoi of over-performing masculinity and is volatile when underestimated so dingdingding!

Atsushi: disaster bisexual if I’ve ever seen one

Half of port mafia is lesbian to me. Higuchi lesbian, Kouyou lesbian, Yosano (former mafia but still) lesbian.

On Gin im thinking agender for sure but im debating the lesbian bit….mayhaps bi with strong preference for women.

Fukuzawa is a gay old man that barely likes his own company

Kunikida is aroace. To me.

Tachihara is also transmasc. To me.

Sigma is so nonbinary they could be making my starbucks order. On less popular aspect….also aromantic.

Now for some of the ones that I might need to defend:

Dazai I’ve written five ways to sunday but i think my current favourite is the idea of him being gender fluid and bi, the way he is in mfof (did people realize that in mfof? I think i did a poor job of communicating it but yeah). I do like using he/him regardless though, almost in a punishing sense….since a vague sense of masculinity is always tied to humanity as a whole (think of “mankind” or “man” as a reference to all humans) and Dazai evidently struggles with this idea so he/him feels fitting. Do like when other people play around with him in different ways though.

Ranpo is aroace to me. I know the most popular bit is him being mlm but I just always circle back to aroaceness and NOT for some infantilising reason or correlation to his presumed autism,, I just read him as the typa guy to be in a lavender marriage with a lesbian and live with her for 40 years or some shit.

Not sure what the fuck is wrong with Fyodor but there is a degree of asexuality in there for sure. And I would say he’s intriguing-people-sexual. I can’t see him caring much about what’s in their pant pockets. Or gender as a whole for that matter. Fyodor is a concept not a person

Hear me out on aroace Nikolai from a point of fleeting and altering obsession with varying individuals and not disinterest….hear me out on sex purely as a means of exploring its violent aspects….hear me—

I also think Akutagawa is agender. I like to think both of the akutagawa siblings just don’t fuck with the concept. Like,, you live in the sewers why would you have any concept of gender norms, societal expectations and limitations of expression.

I have this vague concept of Lucy being transfem. In general characters who are tied to doll, muppet, toy themes or anything that has to do with lack of control over your appearance and hyper-femininity are very trans girl coded to me.

"you bet your ass I am, dad."

(hi ito glad you're having fun with tiktok discourse. thought I should drop by your ask box with a meme since it's been too long)

we ended at a 1600 likes on me, and me having the last fucking word so......

Happy me replying to it a week later!!! Im so sorry!!! People are so very kind to me thank you so much :DDDDD

If you would like to: feel free to use this ask as an excuse to ramble something about an oc of yours, or just any cool thought that you have!

Oooo thank you so much!!! Honestly the day itself was pretty shit but I got to have a nice dinner with my partner so !!! Small wins small wins

Honestly this is the greatest gift people can get me here; free ranting pass

Not an oc rant but I went to see Obsession on Friday since it finally released in my country and then kept thinking about Kenjaku possessing Yuuji’s mom in jjk, and how if Gege was allowed a bit more freedom in shonen jump he could hardcore lean into the horror of it in a similar way.

There’s such a lovely set up there with Yuuji’s father evidently knowing his wife isn’t really his wife, but either locking down in trauma response and accepting this clearly “wrong” version of her, or having something genuinely wrong with him the way Bear in Obsession does and conceding with using her body, if only because it’s her body and it looks like her and smells like her and has her voice and if he just doesn’t look at the stitches for too long—

Also Kenjaku genuinely not knowing how to act like a modern day suburbian woman or even a “normal” person at all would create such amazing horror. Him moving abnormally, him laughing abnormally, him not being able to get people’s cadence juuuuust right, him not blinking because he forgets.

Plus the implication that Nikki was conscious and just out of control while whatever it was possessed her body (I choose to think it wasn’t an entity or a “her” but Bear’s own obsession with Nikki repackaged and projected onto Nikki’s body like a vessel for something so intense it borders on sick) ,,, sometimes sprinting and jerking trying to kill Bear for letting her be used, sometimes flinching back in horror when kissing him.

It kinda brings me back to Shibuya and Geto’s body having muscle memory and trying to choke itself in reaction to Kenjaku trying to hurt Gojo with it? Amazing.

I love the accidental comedy one gets from Kenjaku but if one sits and thinks about it for just a minute longer you get shit like the two-sided SA between him and Yuuji’s father, or the realization that Gojo left Geto’s dead body on the street, or that even Sukuna calls Kenjaku truly sick in that one panel and you’re like…. Heavy metal shit. We could have gotten more.

Aw man thanks