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yuzuko quickie for her birthday
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The summit
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Yuzuko (Log Horizon)  » April 1
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instantcollectornerd · 9 months
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lilyginnyblackv2 · 1 year
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Buddy Daddies - Episode 7 - Thought Post - Side Kazuki
Not me literally just making a post before the episode aired wondering when Carol and Dorothy would appear and then:
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They appeared! Looking cute af too. <3
Okay, so I think the way I’m going to approach this is that I’m going to talk about Kazuki first in this post, then do a post on Rei, and finally a post on more miscellaneous things in this episode.  
Today happens to be a rainy day by me, so the mood and atmosphere was just right for this episode. I think they did a good job of handling the more heavy emotional stuff without losing the humor or charm, since it was still there, just a bit more muted. This is similar in a way to how they approached Episode 3, so it works well and still feels like the series, which is good. Buddy Daddies has handled tonal shifts well.
Between previous episodes and this episode doing a good job not only highlighting how Kazuki has been doing all the heavy lifting in regards to household chores and Miri, by having the anniversary of his wife (and child’s, I would assume) death, and then the presence of Karin in the city - all of it comes together to overwhelm him. 
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So we see him going back to old habits that he used to cope with his past trauma. What appreciate here though, is that the series doesn’t present Carol, Dorothy, or the other sex workers, nor the adult entertainment business itself, in a bad light. They don’t look down on them. The reasons why Kazuki going back to these habits is shown to be bad and ultimately lead to him getting thrown in the garbage is because he is using them for the wrong reasons. He is using them to keep his real feelings at arms lengths, locked away, so he can “forget” about them and run. 
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All of things he does in this episode such as drink and engage in adult entertainment, are all fine when someone does them for a bit of fun every now and again. But when they are used for a coping method, that’s when they get bad. I appreciate how they handled that.
I’m going to get into the more heavy-hitting spoiler stuff now, so I’m going to put the rest under a Read More.
I also LOVED how they had Karin talk to Kazuki. There were some cliché things here and there, like the rain stopping and the sun coming out, but the way Karin talked to Kazuki about her sister and his way of dealing with her death was really beautiful and something we don’t see enough of in fiction.
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She tells him, “So the thought that you only remember her looking sad...It doesn’t seem right.” She does go on to say some more conventional things like, “She would want you to be happy and live a happy life,” essentially. But I really like the line above.
To me, that’s like a gentle call out on how the death of women are often used to fuel the pain of men in fiction. Buddy Daddies is doing that here too, but they are kind of calling Kazuki out on it. Kyutaro tries to call him out too, but he approaches from a “you - Kazuki” perspective ( “YOU” need to move on already), while Karin approaches it from Yuzuko’s perspective. She is saying, “By only remembering my sister in this one way that allows you to keep running away and not face your emotions and move on, you are dishonoring her and erasing a part of her and who she was. It, in a way, gives some agency back to her dead sister.
Now, like I mentioned, Karin does make say something more conventional to him as well: 
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She says, “Why not live your own life, too? That’d make her way more happy than anything else you could do.” This is something that is said often, but I do think it is something that needs repeating, because we still have people getting bent out of shape at the thought of a fictional character going on a date again after he lost his wife (this is specifically about Pixar’s UP and the new animated short that is going to be coming out about him going on a date again...a lot of people on Twitter got angry at the thought of him moving on).
Of course, even here Buddy Daddies does something a bit different from the usual. Usually the “moving on” after losing a spouse results in the MC getting a new love interest. But here, Kazuki didn’t just lose his wife, but also the child she was carrying. He lost his family, so when we Karin says the above or when Dorothy asks this:
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“You didn’t get a proper sweetheart, did you?” The answer is, of course, yes. He did. In the form of Miri and Rei. He got a family. And in the paperbag you can see he has lots of fruit and snacks that are more common for kids to like. Lots of “sweet” things in his bag. Indicating, in Dorothy’s eyes, a significant other (likely a woman), since there’s a lack of foods that are more “manly.” Of course, this is all coming from rather stereotypical perspective, but that is how it is appearing to an outsider.
Later in Kazuki’s conversation with Karin he admits this that he is scared of changing, of forgetting what happened to her, and this:
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“Of being fulfilled by something else.” That sentiment may seem out-of-character at first. After all, Kazuki is the one that kind of dived headfirst into taking in and caring for Miri, but he is still shown keeping Miri and Rei at a distance. He’ll do what he needs to do for Miri, but you could see that a mask was still up. Rei has a wall around his feelings, while Kazuki has a mask (like a clown, or comedian, you know, sorry - I just needed to add that there).
Of course, after this conversation, like I mentioned before, the sun comes out and Kazuki is ready to go back home. When he gets home he sees a mess, but that bit of the episode I’m going to leave for Rei’s post. Instead, I want to talk about this line that Kazuki says after Rei hands him the French toast he made:
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“I’m gonna teach you suckers what good French toast is!” I think this is important probably even more so than him moving the photo of himself and his late wife out from the draw and out onto the desk, because it shows that Kazuki is:
1. Is no longer going to be keeping his distance from Rei and Miri by being the caregiver. I feel he likely took up that role (and wanted to care for Rei when he saw the awful state he lived in) because it was another coping method for dealing with the loss of his family. 
2. He is no longer going to make so that Rei and Miri can be so dependent on them. If you don’t provide someone with the understanding and skills on how to do something, then they won’t. If he teaches them, then they can learn, get better and more comfortable, and then be able to do these things on their own.
Both Kazuki and Rei are at fault here in a way. They don’t have either character say an apology, but rather show how they won’t let this kind of situation happen again. And I hope the writers stick with this and that we will actually see Rei continuing to help out more around the house (Miri too)!
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anesharem · 2 years
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⿻˚𔘓₊· ͟͟͞͞╰➳ ever considered that when gabriel isnt destroying the human race hes actually pretty hot
I also drew him with the vest of a biblically accurate archangel + yuz meeting him at work bc idfk exorcist stuff. this woman is not sane (she probably met him in a mcdonalds parking lot and hurled fries at him but okay go zaki)
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cornixnova · 1 year
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hi hi hello i have Things To Say about ogino's death
okay i don't think i need to go in detail about how fitting it was that he died unable to speak, and he and his creepy ass book of last words were burned before he could write them down bc others have but i do wanna say i think that's the most like, poetic justice-y death i've seen in a show ever BUT
i thought it was... a little weird that they put so much focus on his gurgling but then i rewatched the manor attack and came across this
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(also "burning out")
and i love that foreshadowing
but there's another callback too and it's
it's just
look
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do u see??
DO U SEE???????
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greenchlorine · 1 year
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Parallels
Episode 7
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Episode 12
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giltori · 9 months
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Eyebrows and their girl.
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ichiig0 · 1 year
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hear me out: kazuki and rei visiting the field of hydrangeas / yuzuko's grave before their FINAL job
or honestly you could interpret this as kazuki bringing rei to the field of hydrangeas / yuzuko's grave before the events of the show, when they open up to each other and kazuki is telling rei about his past
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dayninth · 8 days
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logicalbookthief · 1 year
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The fact that we’re nine episodes in and have seen Ogino interact with every member of the main cast except Kazuki seems very intentional, and the thought of this confrontation fills me with fear.
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himebushou · 1 year
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Comparing Two Homes
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I'll start by focusing on a few details from the home Kazuki shared with Yuzuko:
The number of plants in the room: there's a basket of flowers on the window sill, a sizeable potted plant nestled beside the sofa and a couple of succulents next to the TV
The matching mugs on the table; they're pink and blue and each decorated with a heart
There are two pandas on the windowsill
There's also a big knitting basket. Given that the yarn in the basket is blue and pink, I think that Yuzuko was planning to make their newborn a blanket, or something like that. (Interestingly, Kazuki wears a fair bit of knitwear throughout the show.)
Now, let's have a look at some of the items in Rei's apartment:
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In these three shots, we can see:
The home has several plants; there are large ones here and there as well as plants on the balcony; we can also see succulents on the windowsill
A lot of people have already commented on Rei's mug — there are little hearts on the feet of the R.
While having plants and using heart motifs is hardly groundbreaking, it's worth bearing in mind that Kazuki's the one who furnished Rei's house. It's also likely that he bought the mug for Rei. Therefore, we get a small insight into the sorts of things Kazuki associates with a happy home.
(If we see pandas in Rei's apartment at any point, I might just cry.)
We also see some of Kazuki's other likes — he's very fond of bold colours, particularly where furniture is concerned. His home with Yuzuko maintained a far more muted pallet: the sofa was cream and the chairs were brown. It's likely that Kazuki and Yuzuko had to compromise on colour schemes when selecting furniture.
However, when it came to Rei's place, Kazuki gave himself free reign: he selected a bright red sofa and eyecatching yellow chairs.
It's possible that Kazuki felt Rei needed more colours around so that he livened up a little.
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instantcollectornerd · 11 months
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lilyginnyblackv2 · 1 year
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Hmm, this is interesting to think about:
In Episode 7, we see how Yuzuko and Kazuki first met. 
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She found him in a field of hydrangeas during the rainy season, holding an umbrella. He was at a low point here, in the sense of being very badly wounded and in need of physical help, which I am going to assume Yuzuko provided for him.
 We also get the full picture of her death in this week’s episode as well.
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It is, once again, the rainy season and she is holding the same umbrella. So Kazuki met her and lost her around the same time of year. This adds even more depth and emotion to Karin’s words to Kazuki:
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“So the thought that you only remember her looking sad...”
Since it is highlighting her later sentiment that “memories aren’t prisons.” Kazuki was locking himself in the memory of her death during this time of the year, rather than the memory of his meeting her. 
Now, when it comes to Rei, we don’t know when exactly it was that the two of them met. But it was likely a good bit before the events of Episode 1, since there was a familiarity between the two of them already. The interesting thing here though is that Rei didn’t find Kazuki like Yuzuko did, it seems more like Kazuki found him. This is based off of the February Animedia interview where the producer, Toba says:
Kazuki is very family-oriented; he's the so-called maternal type. The reason why he started living together with Rei is that he saw the complete shambles of Rei's lifestyle, went, 'This won't do!' and started fussing over him.
And we know from Rei’s general personality and the dynamic they have going on that Rei follows Kazuki, not the other way around. So, at his lowest he sought out someone to care for. But when it was just him and Rei, they were still at their lowest, diving deep into their bad habits and styles of living. 
They were both just in survival mode. They weren’t really living though. 
The one who finds Kazuki this time though is Miri. 
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She finds him when he is at his lowest, and her existence in his life gives him the motivation to start changing and to start actually living again. This was in the middle of the winter, when everything is dead. And then this little ball of energy and sunshine entered his life. She provided him the same chance at a family that Yuzuko did, though obviously in a very different way than her (through being a daughter as opposed to a romantic partner and wife like Yuzuko).
And he jumped at the chance. We see him accepting her into his life slowly, bit by bit and through various different aspects and areas. But he still has boundaries set up, he still has a part of himself that is holding back, and he still sees Miri as something that was given to him in a way, then something he actively sought out.  At the end of Episode 7, though we see him “find” Miri. 
He chooses to go back to her. 
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He also chooses to go back to Rei too. When he looks softly at the end of Episode 7, it is a look directed at both Miri and Rei. He’s proud and happy to see that Rei actually stepped up and took care of Miri. His warm smile is at the thought of him having a true second chance at a family again, without past memories blocking emotional bonds and connections.
And the thing is, this all happens, again, during the rainy season. Kazuki was, imo, seriously contemplating not returning at various points in this episode. But, he decided to go back to this unexpected family instead of losing the chance again, during the rainy season.
Episode 7 was a great leap in Kazuki’s character development. He’s finally starting to allow himself to properly heal, and like how Yuzuko found him when he was at a low point and in bad shape during the rainy season 5 years ago, Kazuki is here now, in the rainy season, actively returning to Rei when Rei is at his lowest point (in terms of caring for Miri). 
It almost feels like Kazuki is being to Rei what Yuzuko was for him, like taking on that same kind of role, though maybe not with the same kind of dynamic, more so just being the helping hand needed when in a bad place. 
That’s lovely in a way, but it does keep Kazuki in a sort of perpetual “giving” position in the relationship that he has with Rei. Since Rei grew up without love, we haven’t really seen him reaching out for it. Not in the same way it seems Yuzuko may have done with Kazuki or in the way that Kazuki seems to instinctually do with Miri or in the way Kazuki has done with Rei now. The gasp at realizing Miri was sick, then the confused stare for a moment, and finally the soft stare when he realized Rei stepped up and everything was fine.. That’s us seeing him making an emotional connection with the both of them at that moment, even if they were both asleep.
Something clicked there and we can see that a proper shift has happened, and that while Kazuki has always been more of an animated personality type than Rei, there is something much more true and genuine about this smile than the ones he has given in the past:
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I think it’s because Kazuki has finally found himself and the obvious weight that he was carrying around has lifted. I feel like Kazuki maybe doesn’t feel like he needs to be found anymore and needs to reach out to Rei and Miri like he was doing in the past - to survive and deal with his trauma, but now he just wants to be with them and reach out to them and connect with them (we can see this through him saying he’ll teach them what good French toast actually is).
With Rei, we see that he has literally reached out to Miri in this episode:
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And he is reaching out to Kazuki too. Usually Rei just goes with Kazuki’s flow, but he doesn’t actively seek anything out from Kazuki. At the end of this week’s episode though, he is actively seeking some kind of approval from Kazuki in regards to his French toast.
Kazuki may no longer need to be found or reached out to, but I hope we see Rei still try and do that, not so he can continue to take, but so that he can start to give back.
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fushisdogs · 1 year
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Not sure if anyone’s said this before but Kazuki putting a tracker on Rei’s phone just screams to me that he doesn’t want to lose his partner again. He probably never wanted to encounter losing Rei like he did with Yuzuko (who he most definitely thinks wouldn’t have died if he had made precautions like he does with Rei)
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