what makes minedai even sadder is that we never rlly see daigo try to build a bond with anyone else like he did with mine it rlly shows how badly it effected him like yeah he reached out to shinada in y5 but that’s rlly it and he probably would wanna leave him alone after that and not involve him in any yakuza stuff so i don’t think they would’ve hung out or anything like that afterwards. All he rlly had were saejima and majima but they were more like babysitters than anything, wish we saw more of their dynamic tho like we did with majima and daigo in dead souls since that was fun and we were lowkey robbed but in canon he’s just as lonely as he was before majimas promise to kiryu. And mine is the only person he really had a meaningful relationship with romantic or not they were still really close and we don’t see that again with daigo ever (from what i recall after y3) ok sorry for rambling LMFAO
even with shinada, he reached out to him more so out of 'duty' and trying to make up for the misfortune that befell him because of yakuza than wanting to rekindle any kind of friendship they might have had in high school (though it sounds more like they were just acquaintances if shinada needing a second to remember who daigo was is anything), so yah i doubt they really had any kind of bond afterwards
dead souls really was the only time after Y3 where we got to see daigo be more sociable with someone, but its as you say majima and saejima are more like retainers than close friends
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Every so often I think about Lizzie in Last Life and how she just didn’t know what was going on, she didn’t understand.
Mostly everyone else had gone through the cycle already, they had an idea of what to expect and what things would or wouldn’t work, what you should or shouldn’t prioritize. Lizzie was operating blindly. She spent time making a ring of trees and a wooden house and that was her main base, and somehow she secured the allyship of Ren, BigB and Cleo, gained several extra lives from You Bet Your Life. She was doing alright actually
And then BigB happened. And Lizzie, unofficially the leader of that group, was trying so hard to keep her alliance together. She understood how it drives you mad being the boogeyman, how your heart pounds and your mouth is dry and your hands keep twitching towards a sword or a crossbow. She empathizes with Cleo, who had been betrayed by someone she trusted and cared about. Lizzie knew Cleo, but she didn’t know Cleo and couldn’t have known how the betrayal would wreck her trust with the whole alliance.
Then Cleo burns down Lizzie’s whole fort. And Lizzie and BigB move into Ren’s yard. And she’s got to keep going, keep quiet even when Ren invites Martyn to come replace Cleo and gives them silly nicknames like nothing ever happened.
And once she’s red, it’s not uncontained bloodlust, she has a specific hitlist. This time, the bloodlust is less frantic. It’s calmer, it lets her take her time and plan how to feed it.
Then she dies and she is still confused. She doesn’t know that Bdubs had made a deal with his old team, doesn’t know he’s got a life waiting for him if he takes hers. In her eyes, she was just murdered randomly.
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Listen, Rhys Darby is SO precious with his unrestrained enthusiasm for everything he does, be it his job, trail cams or music concerts.
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the natsuyuu manga is so funny the volume will be like "natsume grapples with his desire for unconditional love versus his fear of burdening those around him, knowing the more he opens his heart to the people he cares about the more he stands to lose if something goes wrong; these people are the warmest he's ever known and he's the happiest he's ever been and that scares him because he can't shake the feeling that it's fleeting and fragile and could all disappear at any moment, so all he can do is fight to protect everything he loves and hope one day he'll deserve the precious happiness he's been given here"
and then the blurb on the back is like "natsume climbs up into the attic to look for some books, but... uh oh... is that a... g-g-g-ghost??!? things are about to get freaky deaky in here if he doesn't do something... quick!!! will natsume be able to handle it before the clock strikes thirteen, or will he become... gulp... the ghost's next meal?!?"
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Anyway congrats to cc Wilbur and Quackity for being the only competent storytellers on that shit show of a server. May they wipe their hands clean of that dumpster fire forever and not come back for volume 2. Fucking Christ
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