#the boxer

the boxer - kazuhira miller

I love how they wrote Red and The Boxer’s story, and how it was very much a show don’t tell thing. I mean, come on, you start with SPOILER 🚨 the boxer’s dead body without knowing how fucking important he is or what happened. You had to work to get all the details but it was so fucking worth it. Also preferred over spoon-feeding because learning about their past brick by brick just added to the overall experience ＿|￣|○ to this day, i cannot find a book or any other media with romance in it that i like as much as Red and The Boxer’s love story.

Transistor really gave us gut-wrenching YEARNING with a sci-fi backdrop, music built into the world-building, and a soft-spoken sword boyfriend. It was fucking devastating at times but they played with my crybaby heartstrings so well. Transistor no one does it like you

Also. Again. The music. Hades and Hades II both have bangers in them, sure, but truly Paper Boats is built DIFFERENT. I still have it in my most played. Darren Korb put his whole korbussy into that damn track and nothing beats listening to Ashley Barrett belting it while Transistor’s credits rolled (and you got more crumbs of Red and The Boxer’s history). Core memory. Wish I could experience that for the first time again.