#saeriibon

Miss Queen Eva!!!!! I love her so very much, she's an awful disaster of a woman who never really learned how to be a person properly, she kind of got shocked out of her life of privilege and realized that if she wants anything in the Real World she has to engage with the world on its own terms and she is just not good at doing that. Her answer was to make everyone around her as miserable as herself and that's very powerful of her honestly. I love that her story isn't like, a linear road to recovery. She gets better, then she gets so much worse before she gets properly better again. It's human! It's good writing.

I don't think Urasawa dropped the ball per se but in the anime at least it feels like Eva's "I'm still in love with Tenma!!!!!!!!!!!!!" arc went on a little too long in a way that didn't add much to her story. I would've loved for those feelings to kind of just get lost amidst the animosity. The result of what we do get is that some of her scenes, while very good, are a little one-note in that she just digs so hard into that one issue. Which is fine and all but I've read Urasawa's other works and I know he can do a lot more with a similar character type. Audrey Culkin is what I would consider the final form of what he was going for with Eva in some regards. She just needed some more polishing off ya know?

Similar to Grimmer she kind of....isn't there for long periods of time and I think it's a shame! That said I don't think it would add much to introduce her earlier, the period she's gone for makes sense, I just miss her chaotic energy when she's gone.