Who will guard the guards?

Yes, yes 100% to all of this. 

It is at times like these that I’d like to smack Cinnabar’s pretty head because their “somebody who is beloved even on the moon could not understand loneliness” is bs. Utter bs. Maybe Phos doesn’t “understand what it feels like to be lonely” because they suck at emotions and cannot really empathize with Shinsha, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t absolutely lonely themselves.

Phos is as alone as they can get because there’s literally nothing as excruciating as being lonely even when you are surrounded by people.

Cinnabar chose to be alone and now they are finding out that the gems may actually care for them. Antarc was alone because of their condition but they never felt lonely because Sensei loved them and the gems valued their work. But Phos? Phos grew up as an outcast and no one has ever spared them a second glance that was not of contempt. 

Being a bubbly extrovert doesn’t mean you can’t be lonely. Not everyone can be an emo loner like Cinnabar. And that’s just how gem society works and that’s why it’s dangerous: if you have no perceivable use, you are worthless. Phos has always been lonely because these gems are terrible at caring for each other and at acting like adults. They are children, literal children. 

The second Phos’ newfound power was no longer useful because they were using it against the gems, they became an outcast again. The second Phos asked for collaboration and for the gems to think about something that was not themselves for a split second they were alone again. 

Complete version PV for Kunihiko Ikuhara’s “Sarazanmai” anime is now currently streaming. It will premiere on Fuji TV’s Noitamina programming block in April 2019.

-Staff-

Director: Kunihiko Ikuhara

Chief Director: Nobuyuki Takeuchi

Series Composition: Kunihiko Ikuhara, Teruko Utsumi

Original Character Design: Migi

Character Design: Kayoko Ishikawa

Music: Yukari Hashimoto

Production: MAPPA, Lapin Track

-Cast-

Ayumu Murase

Kouki Uchiyama

Shun Horie

Junichi Suwabe

Mamoru Miyano

Yoshimasa Hosoya

1. Cairn has no concept of gender and he is forcing it onto them and the negative gender roles

2. Cairn has no idea what a wife is, what it entails, etc. And Aechema is abusing that fact

3. Only validating feelings you want (obsession with Aech) and devalidating feelings you don’t want (past memories of gems, ghost, phos, etc) IS MANIPULATION

4. A date is parading Cairn around and separating them from all the other gems to further manipulate them emotionally

5. Ichigawa uses contrast very effectively and with purpose, if y’all don’t see the issues with the contrast between characters settings etc then ??????

The main point is the Aechemeas main methodology is the fallacy of ignorance (appeal to ignorance) which is a flaw in logic that depends on the absence of knowledge to its contrast

Ie. X is true because you cannot prove that X is false

Aech relies on this fallacy to manipulate the gems; it’s seen with cairn, phos, padpar, and other lunarians. For example, he doesn’t tell Phos the full truth about restoring gems, he doesn’t provide information and relies on that lack of it to make his point

Finally gotten around to doing this. The school descriptions are out of date because they didn’t change from the first chart. 

Once again, enjoy my bad attempts at typesetting. Open image in new tab for better quality.

Under the cut for spoilers.