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Slade's inclusion in MAWS always seemed completely random to me and like he specifically was not needed for playing the role they had his character playing in Season 1, but when they put him and Lex together it's worked so much better than I could've thought it would.
To me, My Adventures With Superman and Batman: Caped Crusader make for a very interesting contrast in terms of how their titular heroes are handled, and it's not a knock against either of the shows since I think they're both really good. I really like this Superman and this Batman - they're great renditions for modern audiences.
The key difference is this: in My Adventures With Superman, I love Clark Kent. In Batman: Caped Crusader, I don't give a shit about Bruce Wayne. And it really speaks to how important it is to not only put your own stamp on adapting and reinterpreting ages old, well known and loved characters, but to humanize them beyond their most basic, superficial traits. Clark has a fleshed out personality, developed relationships with other characters, a strong origin and an equally strong present day narrative, truly feels like an active agent and focal point in a plot that's not always centered around him but is ultimately all about him, and Jack Quaid is fantastic as his voice. Contrast this with Bruce, who thus far has showcased a very flat personality, has only seen any development in his relationship with Alfred, has a weakly executed origin story and no real storyline of his own in the present day, often feels like an afterthought or even a living Deus Ex Machina to resolve sotires that center around other characters whose actions are actually driving it, and I'm sorry, while Hamish Linklater doesn't do a bad job, he's putting on this very stiff sounding Kevin Conroy impersonation that does nothing to get me actually engaged with much of what he has to say in that voice.
Given the reputation Superman has for being the more boring, less identifiable hero compared to Batman, it's pretty incredible that the trend has officially been reversed with their newest animated incarnations. As it is, I watch My Adventures With Superman to see some adventures with Superman, whereas I watch Batman: Caped Crusader for practically every character except the Caped Crusader.
i don't know that i fully agree with your take, and i feel like at least part of it is intentional.
the issue with superman is he's basically a god, powers-wise , so writers need to find ways to humanize him. focusing more on the clark kent of it all is a great way to do this. the dynamic they've set up b/w him, lois, and jimmy also makes this divide bw clark and superman feel smoother.
batman is still in his early days in caped crusader, and it looks like he's still blocking himself out from the world. the key is in the scene after his parents are killed, when he tells alfred he'll make everyone pay. bruce is CREEPY as HELL here. the boy looks like a psychopathic maniac, his humanity and connection to other people just snapped. we can see remnants of this in how he treats dent after his accident, taking advantage of his friend at a vulnerable place and pushing him to his breaking point for the sake of the batman gaining more knowledge. his arc is about reconnecting with humanity THROUGH the batman mask, and we catch a glimpse of this at the end of the season when alfred says he's making friends, in his own way, and bruce starts calling him alfred instead of pennyworth. he even says "FOUR of us against an endless tide", meaning he's starting to let people in juuuust a little bit. my guess is we might be getting some more focus on bruce/batman in the second season
Welp, the second season has come and my original point still stands. Like I said he’s technically a really good Batman - he’s just still a weak ass Bruce Wayne. Like, there is nothing going on with his character that is any more interesting and engaging than what’s going on with most of the other characters in Gotham. The writers seem to have no interest in giving him anything beyond the most basic, expected, surface scratching substance of what defines Bruce and why he does what he does as Batman, so he remains one of the weakest parts of the show that's ironically named after him.
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I love (read sarcastically) that because Pink was still so sympathetic as a bad person when put next to her even worse family members in the main show, Rebecca Sugar threw these two at us to hammer in the point "PINK DIAMOND BAD, DO NOT LIKE OR STAN."
I never watched Mewtwo Returns as a kid, but I knew it existed because I read about it in a Pokemon book my family had. I remember reading about the part where Mewtwo saves the bus, and something about Giovanni.
I only just new watched it as an adult, and I was blown away by how good it was. It genuinely enjoyed it, and this is as an adult. As a child, I probably would have loved it even more.
I wasn't really crazy about the first movie. It seemed gloomy to me, and the anti-fighting message in Pokemon seemed contradictory. So I was surprised to find that I enjoyed the sequel.
Mewtwo was honestly a step down from his first movie showing but he got a lot better in the second half, and this movie has got some of the best Team Rocket content and PEAK anime!Giovanni in it.
Mikan dashes through the streets of Towa, sweat built up on her forehead. She doesn't want to be home. Her head hurts. Nothing feels right. She runs as fast as her legs can carry her, before—
"O-ow!"
She bumps into someone, falling back and hitting the ground with a THUD. She starts crying, her whole form shaking and curling up.
"Oi, oi, watch where you're walking!"
"I-I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'll be on my way!"
Mikan quickly gets to her feet, walking off down the sidewalk past the woman she bumped into. What klutz she is! She bumped into that nice woman like an idiot.
Did she know that woman? There was something to her that was different. Can't put her finger on what.
"She looked... she looked like..."
The other woman is already walking away, rubbing her head and wincing.
"Jeez, just what I need when I got a headache. A klutz knocking me off my groove. Haven't seen someone that clumsy since... since..."
Both come to a stop. Names and faces flash through their heads.
"A-Akane...?"
"... Mikan?"
Both start moving back towards each other. First a walk. Then a jog. Then a sprint. Then a run-!
"A-Akane!"
"...Mikan!"
The two bump into each other again, this time one grabs tightly onto the other and pulls them closer. They look each other over, headaches starting to vanish as eyes widen.
"A-AKANE!"
"...MIKAN!!!!"
The two laugh as Akane holds Mikan in her arms, softly spinning her around as they watch each other. No doubt about it, it's them. They're finally reunited after all this time, and they both feel so nice. Akane laughs more, before giving Mikan a celebratory toss into the air... and she forgot her own strength.
The original version of Dangan Ronpa IF: Revival has now hit over 10K views on AO3. There is so much I want to say here, so let's start simple and efficiently.
Thank You, Everyone.
To everyone that's read Dangan Ronpa IF: Revival, Revival Remix, Junkan Week 2x2, and anything else I've written on AO3, here, Fimfiction or anywhere else. It feels good knowing that there are people out there that enjoy reading and seeing my work, that I do have some sort of pull for people. To think a piece of mine would hit that many for hits, especially with a ship that for the longest time was considered niche and went with the approach of doing f/f front and center. It's very lovely.
Revival, as I've said before on various occasions, was a very messy piece from someone who was still learning the actual steps and conventions of writing. There was no actual plotted out outline, chapters were added on a whim when I thought something would be cool, it was overly edgy for the sake of being shocking and getting a rise. It was a fic written by a teen who wanted to make something look super cool. You read that, it becomes obvious. But, people still liked it to get it to this point. People still commented. And now here we are with Revival Remix, that's actually pretty close to hitting 2K views itself, and this ask blog that's so very close to 50 followers. And I'm thankful for every single one of you.
Am I fully proud of Revival? Eh. It's got that teen cringe to it and reading through it again and not just skipping around through it would take some real determined focus, but I still love it. I still love the journey I put Junko and Mikan through, and you can tell that because I've done not one but two return chapters with both the bonus chapter in Revival Remix and the little return chapter at the end of Junkan Week. They were my first go, and so they'll always have a spot in my heart. Maybe they'll have a new adventure of their own, maybe past and present will in full despairing glory. Perhaps they are better off happy in their own lives without us interrupting. Who knows, but I am forever thankful for all they've gotten me.
After finishing the original ending for IF, I actually burned out on writing Danganronpa and JunkoMikan. That story had taken up years of my life and being in a post V3 world was kind of the like message "It's OK to take breaks. To step away. Danganronpa is over, and so is this story. And that's OK." And so I did. I got to writing for other things, I got into other games, anime, books, movies and more. I feel happy. I'm older now and I feel happy.
And then the September Nintendo Direct came last year, and I was pulled back in. Two days later, and we were back with Junko Enoshima waking up in a hospital after what was supposed to be her end, and the only one at her side being her most loyal of followers. My brain was rushing and already filled with ideas and what I wanted, I felt so confident. I was back to my beloveds, and I've been back ever since.
Thank you once again to everyone who's read these stories, commented, kudos'd, left and ask and all the other stuff. You all want to make me keep writing. And I will. I'll keep writing and improving, and I'll get the ideas I want out to all of you. It won't all be Junko and Mikan, it won't be all fanfiction for that fact, but I'll be better and better at writing it because of your support. Thank you again.
"I swear, we get more rambling and long blogs than we do chapters at this point~!"
"I-is that a bad thing?"
"Of course not, my beloved lesbian of despair~! We ain't going anywhere in this broad's head. Any words written about us are good ones in my book~! Now come along, we have lots more despair to spread, don't we?"
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Loose Ramblings on Junkan and Character Writing/Authenticity
So recently there's been a series of interviews with Kodaka and some others about their work and idea process for Danganronpa 2x2. These were originally done at Anime Expo, but aren't coming out now to line up with anything so we're still using the same five promo images from last year (Please God gimme a new trailer). The interviews are about what you'd think for something like this, with little hints and snippets without giving anything away but are still interesting. The islands are getting new locations, probably new modes and mini-games for the new mode, we should play Rain Code before the new scenario, but what really got my view was this piece.
These words right here have given me full faith in 2x2's new scenario and shows me Kodaka and his team know what they're doing. More after the break.
I think it's very important to be out front on things like this, especially when writing for a game that's grown a large fanbase. Critique and criticism are taken in, but when you make a piece of art you're expecting to hear that from all forms of viewers and not just the fans. When you write, you need to write a story you want to make and not one that'll just make the fans happy.
Especially in a series like this where for the messages at the end to truly work, it has to actually be mean and cruel to the player so they can feel the despair but soldier on! We can complain about character development cut short and suddenly, but that's kinda the point. It's a killing game. You can say you don't want to kill and that you'll get out together as friends all you want, but the right person in the right moment needs just the right push and... bam, a body has been discovered.
Directly saying 'I know the characters better than the fans do' is so important because. Yeah! It's true! Kodaka knows these characters he created and wrote more than our gay little fanfic writings asses have, he's the guy that SHOULD know more. Are there character moments that suck and feel wrong? Yes. DR3 Side Despair. Who? IDK All of Em. But that confidence and knowing is what any writer should have. It's YOUR story, you know these characters!
So, how does this relate to Junkan and my own writing. Well, it's simple. I know I don't probably fully understand and know these characters on the level of the official source, but god I try my hardest to make them feel like themselves and be fully fleshed out.
The biggest different between DRIF:RR and DR cannon (you know aside from all the open transgender lesbians all wanting to smooch and get in bed with each other) is that I write Junko's feelings for Mikan being reciprocal. She's open in her love for Tsumiki, she loves her back! In DR proper it's like a real 'ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh' on if Junko had feelings for Mikan. She was lewd to her in DR3 that's enough fuel and her viewing Mikan as iimportant means she's on the level of Matsuda to me. Slayhem prove me right.
I know these characters aren't my own and I'm making them do things that they'd never do in cannon, but I also write and treat them as actual characters. I write them to feel authentic like their game counter parts while also still writing them my way. I write the two and their relationships and feelings like fully fleshed characters, not just cut outs of their popular traits. I think they'd have a good relationship together so I write and explore it to show that!
As a fanfic writer, I know my writing of these characters is going to be influenced by wanting to see my favorite disaster despair women kissing and smooching and cuddling and getting naughty with it. I know they're not actually 1 to 1 with their game counter parts who I fell in love with. But, I still love these characters, and I want this story ot be an actual story, so I write them to the best of my ability while also doing my own thing.
When writing, I don't think you should strain to just be one to one with the source and still do your own thing but like, still write these characters like you know them. Make it feel like them at least to SOME degreee, right? I mean you're showing why you love the characters after all!
I'm excited for 2x2. There's a confidence to it that the feeling like it's going to be a cruel bastard, and that's what I love. Kodaka and team aren't making a game just to fuel our fantasies (though I do want a Junkan CG please please please), and are writing it as an actual new scenario and story. I do the same for my writing, treating this exploration of Junkan, trans woman Mikan, Mikane and more as an actual story, and I think it's the way to go, even when writing fanfic. Much like you should read and take from actual art and writing and movies to learn from and improve your own works. Anyways this has been going long enough... what to end on.
"Mikan, this random rambling has me bored as hell. Do you wanna have some intense, passionate, transgender lesbian sex?"
"Why yes, beloved! I'd love to make raw, intense, passionate love to you as a transgender lesbian myself! We should also be sure to involve our other girlfriend Akane in our hot, sweaty, long and driven transgender lesbian love making!"
After owning this game for over a year and saying "eh I'll get around to it," I decided to lock the fuck in and get around to it, a decision that I think was to my benefit, because I really really enjoyed this game. Not a perfect 10/10 or anything, but nothing ever is, especially not within the hands of Kodaka lol
1- Worldbuilding
Kanai Ward is by far my favorite setting we've ever gotten in a Kodaka series. Being familiar with Danganronpa, Tribe Nine, and THL, I didn't have very high expectations, but the combination of the maps, the music, the sidequests, and the constant presence of others made Kanai Ward feel like a real, lived-in city with people that had dynamic lives outside of the story, all without pulling away from the plot at hand. If anything, the believability of the people found in Kanai Ward only enhanced the story's biggest twist. It helps that despite the gloominess of the constant rain, the design is gorgeous. They make good use of the neon lighting and the depressing nature of the city to make some really beautiful scenery. I mean, just look at this shot from Kamasaki district.
And did I mention the sidequests? The sidequests were great. Getting to follow up on characters from past cases like the nun and Iruka and help them recover was awesome, and so were the smaller cases with unnamed characters processing their own tragedies, like the ghost attempting to protect the children of Kanai Ward or the man deluding himself into believing his girlfriend was still alive. It feels like a lot of time and care was put into making Kanai Ward and its residents, and that sort of thing goes a really long way.
2- Plot
Kanai Ward's Ultimate Secret and the Great Global Mystery, almost in conjunction with the worldbuilding, felt pretty tight-knit as well. There are a couple of contrivances here and there (how did Makoto and/or the Amaterasu homunculi discard the remains of all the bodies before the general populace were fully awake? Uhhhhhh dw about it) (real Yuma just so happened to perfect a ramen recipe that perfectly replicates the homunculi's nutritional needs offscreen and by accident? Sure I'll take it) but the clue-ins within the environment like the pink blood and the addicting meat buns were clever tie-ins, especially when targeting an audience that's already used to pink blood as a stylistic choice. And of course, the whole "citywide failed experiment leading to an entire replacement of people with homunculi safely contained within artificial rain" story had solid logic given the setting, was difficult but not impossible to figure out given the evidence, and paced out pretty well on the overall. The individual cases in chapters 0-3 also did a good job of setting up the stakes, threats, and clues, as well as making the city as a whole more sympathetic.
3- Characters
With the exception of Desuhiko, I wouldn't put a single main character below an A tier ranking. Yuma is by far the highlight as lead, and easily the best male protagonist Kodaka ever has made and probably will ever make, but supporting characters like Vivia and Halara were top notch as well. Makoto's story was incredibly tragic, and I loved the ways you can tell he and Yuma came from the same person in their shared desires to bring people happiness even when their unique circumstances have brought them down very different paths. Fubuki and Kurumi were also quite delightful, and I enjoyed the both of them a ton. Even Yomi, who's absolutely despicable, is despicable with a lot of intention behind him, and thus, is a well-established villain.
4- Shinigami
Shinigami is my favorite character in Rain Code, for a few reasons. Having a death god that's so unabashedly needy and clingy while simultaneously jabbing at Yuma for being needy as well is relentlessly funny. Having a death god that gets a magical girl transformation from blob to sexy princess is fucking amazing. Having a death god with a magical girl style execution with black wings and a piano riff is even more fucking amazing. Her being a rampant misogynist who hates the poor is so incredibly indicative of a being that's so removed from human society that she can't fathom the strife humans go through. Her arc of growing to care about human beings and feel compassion for them, to the point where she can't even bring herself to harm Chief Yakou's soul when reaping him, doing so because of Yuma's influence, it completely caught me off guard until it was happening in front of my face, and yet in retrospect it makes so much sense. Her petty one-sided rivalries with the other girls solely on the basis that they were taking attention away from her was annoying, until Fubuki came in and kicked the door down with the power of considering Shinigami's feelings at the end of the ch 3 Mystery Labyrinth after a slew of confused back-and-forth between them. Even the worst of her lends itself to the best of her, I think.
I won't lie. For a long while, I was sort of holding my breath and waiting for some grand reveal that Shinigami's pact with Yuma had taken more than he knew, that she was going to end up being somehow tied to the mysteries of Kanai Ward, maybe she'd end up the final boss, etc. The Vivia arc definitely didn't help my fear of that, at least not for the first half. But what I got instead was so much better- a literal goddess of death going from total apathetic joy at seeking out the deaths of humans, to willingly ending her pact with her favorite human being for the sake of him living. Those two things don't cancel each other out, persay, but she's a little bit kinder at the end than she was at the beginning, and for a centuries-old goddess, that means a lot.
Also, she's sexy as hell. I'm.... a simple creature. Seriously, what 5-course meal was Komatsuzaki cooking with the sex appeal of this cast????? This is but the natural endpoint of finally having grown adult characters instead of teenagers; you get Halara and Shinigami and Vivia and Fubuki and Martina.
5- Critiques
I'll just put them in a list for organization's sake
Desuhiko, the adult pervert, crossdresses to enter the all-girls' school even when he didn't need to; Yuma was the one who needed access. On top of that, he shoved Yuma into his backpack without asking first and told him he'd be gentle over his screams. Kodaka, you are not beating the transmisogynist allegations. Their having to disguise as women was a problem decided on by real people while making the game, and they could've just as easily made the school have male faculty or even just..... had Yuma (and Makoto by proxy) be women from the outset, thus only needing a uniform.
The other characters pushing Yuma/Kurumi is retroactively so weird once you know he's a grown ass man and she's still 16
Hearing the results in the epilogue from the people of Kanai Ward was cute and all, but I would've liked to at least see Makoto's emergency broadcast. His accountability being offscreen was disappointing
I mentioned this earlier, but I'll be a bit more specific here- Yuma and Makoto did not know that real Yuma had managed to find a ramen recipe that could replace the human meat buns. As far as the two of them were concerned, they were gonna tell all of the homunculi the truth of who they were and then either continue harvesting death row inmates, or let them starve while they scrambled for an ethical food source. They got so fucking lucky with that, and I feel like even the smallest interaction with overhearing real Yuma's customers say they "haven't even gone for meat buns in days" because of how much they love his ramen would've covered that
I wish we'd been able to explore the rest of Kanai Ward in the epilogue outside of Kamasaki. I'd've loved to see how characters like Iruka and Makoto were doing after the truth was out
Conclusion
This honestly might be my new favorite Kodaka game. Much as I love UDG, Rain Code really, really delivers. DR will always have my heart as a franchise, but Rain Code is a fucking gem, and criminally underrated.
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