Help i have an absolute obsession with this man. I made a whole ass au where my self insert legit just travels with him ashfjjsgsuks. I love sonju.
Look man, you know its true love when you're willing to overlook the ugly aah grippers. I love his sharp teeth and hair. Like ashfjst. Bro is so effing pretty. I want to hug him and let him pat me on the head.
(i think im like the most wholesome simp ever i just want to hug the demon boy lmao.)
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2nd Blorbo doodle of the night, this was a personal request from a friend of mine that I doodled for them live ^^
Sonju from The Promised Neverland! I'm not the biggest anime person but I have seen the first season and my friend filled me in on what was in the Manga (Mainly Lewis)
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I wonder what would have done Emma if Mujika and Sonju were just special, that there had not magical blood to save all the demons from the consequence to stopping to eat humans.
She already ask to the demon god to take all the humans in the human word + definitly close the passages between the worlds. She couldn't have been able to ask one more thing. Asking two things was already a lot. Or she could have but them the reward would have been higher :/
By the way, why they didn't ask that when the first promise has been made: create two world + protect demons from degeneration so they would not need to eact humans anymore. Maybe it wasn't possible, because i can't believe that nobody thought about it. Or they were rather lazzy gluttons who couldn't think to a such promise or accept to stop eating humans? Who know.
In the manga, at the end, when Leuvis explains the situation, the demons accept quickly the idea, they think that being protected from degeneration forever is better that depending of food for stay smart, even if they are like the said food.
But I guess that king and his royal court were just a bunch of selfish lazzy gluttons. Even Sonju who doesn't need to eat humans anymore want to eat them just because he wants and can't wait to be able to hunt again :/ And unlike Leuvis who was a antagonist from the beginning, he helps the heros/save Ray's life. (ok theorically Leuvis help them at the end too, even if its more his brother that he saved :/)
Because i find that "Mujika's blood is magical and drinking it protect demons for degeneration" is a little a "nice/easy" situation to not force Emma to take a decision who would be bad for demons.
what do you think?
I remember initially reading chapter 47 and thinking it was a cop-out how there were two worlds and how they could easily flee (relatively speaking) to the human world without having to sort through the arduous process of humans and demons establishing an integrated society and further exploring the intricacies of demon culture, ecosystems, and geopolitics. (I still think that, but I'm less bummed out about it now lol)
Like for a day between finishing the first season and getting this far along in the manga, my interpretation of the S2 poster was Mujika was either The One Yverk and Krone talked about, or someone up high enough in the current world order that Emma and the kids would have to confront and have a battle of wits with to reaffirm their right to exist in the world. Sonju was her enforcer and after chasing the kids around for a bit would eventually escort them to a dinner she was hosting where Emma, Ray, Don, and Gilda would wax philosophy about why the world was the way it was before Mujika posed them with a moral challenge to conquer that would eventually win her and her faction over to the kids' side as their "in" to the wider world of demon politics. Would've been down for something like that.
By the way, why they didn't ask that when the first promise has been made: create two world + protect demons from degeneration so they would not need to eat humans anymore. Maybe it wasn't possible, because i can't believe that nobody thought about it. Or they were rather lazy gluttons who couldn't think to a such promise or accept to stop eating humans? Who know.
In the manga, at the end, when Leuvis explains the situation, the demons accept quickly the idea, they think that being protected from degeneration forever is better that depending of food for stay smart, even if they are like the said food. But I guess that king and his royal court were just a bunch of selfish lazy gluttons.
I do think the answer Shirai provides of those in power not wanting to concede anything that could set a precedent and rob them of their class power and material comforts they feel they're entitled to (because hey very topical), but a scene of Julius Ratri speaking with Yverk or the other human ancestors would have helped here to show they at least considered this, even if the justification for why it would fail was faulty, especially if it was coming from Yverk.
The general demon populace quickly getting on board with permanent prevention of degeneration makes sense with the comfort it affords them, knowing they aren't a few meals away from losing their entire sense of self.
(Chapter 158; there's something to be said about the anthropocentric idea of humans being the pinnacle of intelligence that demons strive to maintain, but it's something that I can accept given the target demographic of the series and the symbolism of those in the upper classes of a hierarchical society needing someone beneath them in order to define their sense of self and worth in relation to the world around them to avoid cognitive dissonance and doxastic anxiety)
It's just Leuvis being the vehicle for introducing it that's convenient and grating after we hadn't seen a hint of what he was doing since Goldy Pond.
Even Sonju who doesn't need to eat humans anymore want to eat them just because he wants and can't wait to be able to hunt again :/ And unlike Leuvis who was a antagonist from the beginning, he helps the heros/save Ray's life.
Reading chapter 159 after reading chapter 50 and thinking about how Sonju has spent less than two weeks in the presence of these kids after centuries of looking forward to eating humans again.
(Mystic Code Book Chapter 7)
Given the feats they accomplish in that amount of time and Mujika rubbing off on him, it's not implausible to see this change happening. There's just a sense of feeling cheated for me in the same way as feeling cheated over the resolution of the Ayshe-Norman conflict. Both introduce the tantalizing potential of conflict among characters ostensibly on the same side until it's revealed they hold convictions that put them directly at odds, teasing expectations the audience would be privy to, that rising tension and eventual emotional climax of resolution, only for a reminder of said conflict to be brought to the forefront of the reader's mind and then have the conclusion expedited. All on top of Shirai rushing the ending for understandable health-related reasons, but the story still suffers for it.
Because i find that "Mujika's blood is magical and drinking it protect demons for degeneration" is a little a "nice/easy" situation to not force Emma to take a decision who would be bad for demons.
Likewise I don't find the magical blood to be a problem when considered in isolation if it results in worthwhile tension and conflict. It's the way it's executed in tandem with the ending being rushed and side branches to the story being chopped off that lessens the magnificence of its potency.
(ok theorically Leuvis help them at the end too, even if its more his brother that he saved :/)
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