DREAM COME TRUE

The way Fujimoto discussed Denji’s mental issues in his interview was brilliantly said. Denji’s “fearlessness,” although very useful in battle, is not “cool” in any way, but rather a very pitiful thing. Denji does not actually lack fear or emotions. Instead, he simply never had a chance to develop a proper, healthy understanding of emotions. He cannot identify his own feelings; his own fear and sadness fail to reach his own consciousness the way they would for a normal person. This was very apparent during the gun-fiend Aki arc. Denji was scared of the reality of Aki’s death, so he didn’t want to open the door; Denji was sad about Aki, so despite how he normally finds everything delicious, he threw up eating ice cream.

Denji is only like this because he was never treated like a human being since his own childhood. Nobody was there to hold him as a kid and tell him that he’s a human being too, that he’s worth something too, that he matters too. Yet despite this, he had a strong desire to survive. He was scared of his father’s continued physical abuse, so he killed him. He was scared of being killed by the debt-collectors, so he worked his ass off for them.

And so Makima actually paved the path to her own downfall by creating her own killer. When Aki and Power were still around, Denji was incapable of defeating Makima. That time period was when Denji was most like a human – he was no powerful devil hunter then. Humans are social creatures, and “purely personal” feelings do not exist. All personal feelings exist under the premise of some kind of social relationship. Even if Denji cannot become a normal, healthy person through learning, he can still form relationships with others, and he can still experience love. It can be said that, under these conditions, Denji was able to indirectly or vicariously experience human-like emotions of fear, happiness, and unease. For example, when Power first moved into the Hayakawa household, Denji immediately took Aki’s side when Power didn’t flush the toilet. That was a moment of Denji being social – through Aki as a medium, he experienced second-hand anger towards a roommate being unhygienic. Aki having these emotions is because Aki was loved before – he remembers what a normal family is supposed to be like. He knows that humans have value, so he gets angry when disrespected. And so little-by-little, Denji indirectly experienced many important things. However second-hand those emotions were, they were very much real. Humans are only able to exist in the relationships between people after all.

and if you’re fine with that

look back 🤝🏻 csm

[ID: A tweet by Mark @/AgingRanchHand that says,

little kid in horror movie reveals his morbid crayon drawings of dead bodies

Me: that's awesome man. Keep at it. Keep working on these things / End ID]

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

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