"I have no idea how Plumerians get anything done with the number of stupid festivals they have.
Well, this one was okay I guess."
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For February and Valentine's, we have Plumeria! I can imagine them having loads of festivals and celebrations, and Catradora's visit coincided with the celebration of love.
I NEED MORE PEOPLE I KNOW TO WATCH BUBBLE. Like idec if you didn't like the movie. I mean the animation, the music, the canon autistic main character. Beautiful. Chef's kiss x 100. I literally can't with this movie.
Also I may or may not have rewatched the ending about 5 times now
When I started watching Bubble, I assumed Hibiki was just very autistic-coded because that’s all it ever is, coding, it’s never explicit—BUT NOPE HE STRAIGHT UP IS AUTISTIC, IT’S A MAJOR PART OF HIS STORYLINE, HE’S LITERALLY AUTISTIC.
Hibiki isn’t just presumed to be autistic by the cast because he’s somehow mystically aware of supernatural things, he is able to perceive supernatural things because he is autistic. The diagnosis came first. It’s not a case where it’s actually some superpower, where he’s actually the chosen one, he’s autistic and that means he’s hypervigilant and has auditory sensitivity and that makes him pick up on things that others don’t. He’s not neurodivergent-coded because he’s actually “special,” he’s genuinely special because he’s actually neurodivergent.
The leading female character, Uta, is autistic-coded but not explicitly such because of plot reasons. She’s mostly nonverbal for the majority of the film, when she does speak it’s with a very flat verbal affect. She absorbs information and gets really into math once it’s introduced to her. She has a special interest in The Little Mermaid, and also in spirals and how they relate to gravity and the cycle of expansion and compression throughout the universe. The only thing that makes her being autistic less explicit than Hibiki is that you don’t see her get a diagnosis (and she won’t because that would be a weird way to derail the story).
Bubble will make you cry—it’s based on The Little Mermaid, the original, which should make it clear that the title of the film has a distinct double-meaning in the context of the story—but I’ve never seen neurodivergence on display so clearly, so respectfully, and so naturally in an anime before, and I recommend it with every fiber of my being.
“where will you go?”
“elsewhere - and everywhere. there’s so much more to discover before the world ends.”
“and all this?”
“i leave it to you, of course. as it turned out, it was yours all along. i was merely trespassing.”
Does anyone else wonder what they are going to do about sylens now that Lance has unfortunately passed away. Will they make a sad scene where he dies in the intro in the forth game? Who knows.
What if puss panicked and got all of his 9 lives back but he wasn't a different person he was the same, and as the star lifted up and granted his wish death came to take his lives again because he thinks that puss wouldn't value them, and one by one he dies and kitty and the dog are watching.
He gets down to his last life, once again and Kitty caves and jumps over the flames using one of the bears because she couldn't stand to see him die. Death either severely injures her. puss sees his possible life with kitty flash before his eyes.
“You shouldn't have done that" Puss said as he stares down at his blade knocked out of his hands, death laughs at this. kitty had taken the hit to save him. This song plays but with a more menacing tone. Puss picks up the blade and stares down death. Death charges at puss with the intention to finish him in one strike. He dodges. No one has done that before. A sharp pain fills his leg as puss had struck him down the calf. Death had never been injured badly before, he could almost not even run.
It wouldn't stop him.
An intense battle plays out as puss surpasses deaths attacks and dodges death when he strikes 3 times.