Okay so we all know about Meakashi-hen and Shion’s murderous rampage. It’s probably one of the most infamous parts of the whole entire Higurashi series. But my problem is how it’s portrayed in the anime and how it is portrayed by fans. My concern mostly rests on the anime cutting out important characterization points to get to the part where Shion stabs Satoko to death or when Rika commits suicide to avoid torture. Namely, I have a problem with how the anime shows her motives and how the fans perceive her motives.
Let’s get one thing straight. When watching the Meakashi-hen anime, your first impression of it is “wow, that Shion Sonozaki is a psychotic yandere bitch.” That’s what DEEN wants to give you. After all, “psycho” girls sell well as well as the whole archetype of the Yandere. There are people who are HUGE fans of Yanderes. Hell, if you ask people, they might say they got into Higurashi because of the gory horror, but kept on watching for other reasons. What DEEN gives us is an extreme misinterpretation of her actions simply to please these sorts of fans.
Here’s a case I would like to argue. Shion is NOT psychotic. That’s easy enough to understand. But my other case is that Shion is not really a Yandere.
Whoa, Tumblr user higurashiautocaptions! Shion is THE Yandere of Higurashi, you might say. She broke down and killed people because of Satoshi! That’s the definition of Yandere.
Well, yes and no. I can’t deny the fact that Meakashi-hen’s major plot points centers around Shion’s rage over Satoshi’s death and her suspicion that her family was involved in it. But if you think that’s all Shion killed for then you are mistaken…
“I’ve recently
decided to make a series of posts with hypothetical thinking and analyzing of
what Pokémon species could potentially be found in the world’s biomes. Not at
all relative to the games, I will be focusing primarily of the elements,
design, and relativity to real life flora and fauna of Pokémon to depict where
different species would roam on our big blue marble.”
One common struggle that I seem to be having while working
on these biome posts is that a lot of Pokémon who have more spiritual or
telekinetic abilities are a little bit harder to place as they don’t physically
have abilities the species may have evolved to their respective environments.
For example, many grass Pokémon often have adapted elastic, retractable,
prehensile vines. It can be argued that they evolved this from a form of root
system and utilize it as a form of mobility and appendage. However, species of
Pokémon that are usually Psychic, Dark, Ghost, or Fairy type are a little bit trickier
to place in biomes because they may not have obvious physical features they can
utilize in their environments.
Seeing as Halloween is here, I thought I’d be a good idea to
focus a Pokémon in Our Biomes Post on the unexplainable: Pokémon who don’t
necessarily have physical traits that are adapted to aid in their fitness. I
thought it might make sense to focus on a common theme for spiritual Pokémon
which is that they all more or less require some kind of spiritual energy, and
this is a common theme in places like haunted houses, graveyards, abandoned
hospitals or theme parks, old woods, sewers, and places that are constantly
hiding from the care and security of daylight.
You may have heard a couple of these Pokémon as having
particularly weird or creepy Pokédex entries. Hopefully we can shed some light
onto what it all means.
Get ready for a Gastly Pokémon in our Biomes Post, where we will talk about any Pokémon that is
scary, spooky, spectral, apparitional, unholy, divine, and unearthly.
Keep in mind that these spooky Pokémon have already been
written:
But she hasn’t told anyone and doesn’t plan to yet.
The only person that she has told is her editor, and said that her editor felt like vomiting afterwards.
All she will say is that a certain spell is involved, and then a horrific act is performed.
i want to know what it is so badly
Okay, let’s think about this for a second.
We know that making Horcruxes involves murder. It’s essential. So the “certain spell” is probably Avada Kedavra….with some extra words added to it to use the energy created by the death to split the soul.
What intrigues me is the “horrific act” aspect and the fact that the editor wanted to vomit after hearing it. So what could that be? It can’t just be the act of murder itself, which, as horrifying as that is, is exactly vomit inducing in the grand scheme of things.
So if we take the murder itself out of the equation, what other activity could be considered horrific enough to make someone want to ralph? Well, my warped mind can think of at least two.
1) Necrophilia. Now I don’t actually think this is the answer, but it’s gross enough to make anyone vomit on the spot, so I’m throwing it out there. I just don’t think that’s it at all. My personal theory is…
2) Cannibalism. There are a lot of cultures that believe that to eat the flesh of one’s enemies is take your enemies’ power into yourself. Most specifically the heart, though really any flesh or organs would do. So does Voldemort eat the dead as his “horrific act”? I think this one is the most likely and is grotesque and taboo enough that it turns the stomach.
Also, consider this fact: HIS FOLLOWERS ARE CALLED DEATH EATERS. Hmmm. Weird, right?
There’s an obvious problem in these theories though. If either these acts is essential to creating the Horcrux, HOW DID VOLDEMORT ACCIDENTALLY CREATE A HORCRUX WHEN HE TRIED TO KILL HARRY AS A BABY AND NOT KNOW IT? Voldemort didn’t have time to cannibalize Lily. And he certainly didn’t sexually assault her corpse, thank GOD. So how did he turned Harry into a Horcrux that night in Godric’s Hollow?
Consider this: nowhere in the text does it say that Voldemort’s physical body was found in the wreckage of the Potter’s house. Perhaps when the spell rebounded on him….he…ate himself. Not physically chewed himself up and swallowed, but more in a magical way. Think of it like the house being sucked into the Other Side at the end of Poltergeist.
His spirit was so corrupted that it devoured his physical body when the Killing Curse was turned back on him. That would be the cannibalistic act needed to create the Horcrux. And perhaps Voldemort wouldn’t realize that it was a cannibalistic act? He probably wouldn’t even think to consider the fact that his rotten, fractured soul ate his body.
is umineko worth gtting into again. i read the first five chapters. is it worth it.
it’s very entertaining because it’s so fast paced and it’s basically full of crazy meta magic and allegory and it takes the unreliable narrator trope and has a fucking marathon with it, because everything on the page could be someone’s dramatization of the story at any given time. it’s a huge muddle and it’s full of new and resurrected characters and very meta and shit, and half of the time you’re just like ‘this is ridiculous’ but in the end, it’s lots of fun. If you’ve only read the first 5 chapters, you’ve seen the most normal arc. Once beatrice shows up, everything goes to shit. I havent finished it, and it’s hard to say whether it will resolve in an intelligent way, but I’m interested in finishing it.
OH MAN THIS LIKE FANART OF WOBBUFFET PERTAINING TO THAT ONE THEORY For those of you that never heard of it, it’s about Wobuffet’s Pokedex entries.
“It hates light and shock. If attacked, it inflates its body to pump up its counterstrike.” – Pokemon Gold
“Usually docile, a Wobbuffet strikes back ferociously if its black tail is attacked. It makes its lair in caves where it waits for nightfall.” – Pokemon Emerald
“It desperately tries to keep its black tail hidden. It is said to be proof the tail hides a secret.” – Pokemon Black/White
The theory states that the blue portion of Wobuffet is nothing more than a decoy, an inflatable dummy – sort of like a punching bag. The actual Wobuffet is the black tail, which it conceals and keeps hidden.
woah
Wobbuffet is actually a really interesting Pokemon. If you’ve wondered, for example, why it always looks like it salutes everything (as it does in the anime), it’s because Wobbuffet is an homage to late Japanese comedian Sanpei Hayashiya. His trademark catchphrase was “
そうなんす、奥さん sō nansu, okusan
”, which means “That’s how it is, ma’am.” He usually said this while touching his forehead, and Wobbufet’s Japenese name is Sonans, which of course comes from sō nansu.
The facial design (of the blue part) is based off of these dolls, the ones that bounce back at you however hard you hit them, which is why Wobbufett’s thing is countering any hit it receives. It’s supposed to be a good luck charm and a symbol of resilience, which is probably why Wobbuffet has the third highest HP stat of all Pokemon.
Am I the only one who imagines Mewtwo to be much younger mentally than physically? Or is that just kind of accepted as a thing?
Mewtwo is definitely hella younger mentally than he is physically, because he did technically grow up in the lab, but he was stuck in the same place, without interaction after Amber died, he was at a bit of a status quo, he could only talk to himself and think about what he THINKS he knows.
Without outside interaction he definitely still has a childish mind, which is why his overly dramatic reactions and hate for humans sort-of makes sense, the first time he opened his eyes, he wasn’t treated as a person and his initial assumption was, that everyone in the whole world is like that, he jumped to the conclusions very quickly due to his first experiences, like a child might.
> is born > scientists congratulate each other on job well done instead of paying him utmost attention at the moment > he feels like they think he’s worthless, kills everyone > Giovanni offers partnership > Giovanni betrays him > Mewtwo decides that ‘fuck it, every human is like that and I hate them all now’
It’s a childish and naive way of thinking, but that’s exactly because mewtwo was a child. He also asks a whole lot of questions constantly, which, again, is like a child would. Mewtwo undoubtedly possesses an incredible intelligence, but at his core, he is, in fact, just a child.
I think a lot of people tend to depict mewtwo as this big wise man pokemon but he’s really not. He’s very ignorant, but he’s learning, and when he learns something, he knows damn well how to word it. (I love the theory that the whole English dictionary was downloaded in his brain as he was created, as that would explain his dramatic way of talking lmao)
Sorry for a longwinded response lmao, I really love talking mewtwo theories
Mr Krabs canonically served in the navy and fought in a war but we know nothing about that
if we go by his drivers lisence
krabs was born in 1942. the youngest he could have possibly been to serve in the military is 18 which he wasnt until 1960. bikini bottom uses US currency so we can safely say he lives in united states territory.
My favorite thing about Thomas the Tank Engine is that it canonically takes place in a train post-apocalypse where the Island of Sodor is the only safe zone in a totalitarian dystopia in which steam trains are routinely killed and their body parts are sold or cannibalized for repair
If you think I’m kidding you need to read the original books
could you please direct me to a source? i would feel much better if this was validated.
It took me so long to find this quote online but I did it because it’s so much darker than one might expect from Thomas the Tank Engine:
“…Engines on the Other Railway aren’t safe now. Their controllers are cruel. They don’t like engines any more. They put them on cold damp sidings, and then,” Percy nearly sobbed, “they…they c-c-cut them up.” -”The Bluebells of England.” Stepney the Bluebell Engine. Rev. Awdry, Wilbert. London: Egmont Publishing, 1963.
This illustration, by Gunvor and Peter Edwards, accompanied the above text in the original book, and depicts a pair of unfortunate Other Railway engines moments before being disassembled with a blowtorch.
HOLY FUCK LOOK AT THE ONE IN THE BACKGROUND THEY TOOK ITS FUCKING FACE OMG
the early thomas the tank engine books are pretty standard stuff. saccharine bubblegum type stories and illustrations. if you watched the show, it’s like that in book form.
the second half of the railway series are so fucking dark and surreal i’m convinced they were a result of reverend wilbur awdry doing copious amounts of lsd and having hallucinations of his own death.
Excuse me but the very first story in the Railway Series is about an engine who hides in a tunnel and refuses to run because he doesn’t want to get his paint job ruined in the rain, so railway management seals off the tunnel.
They eventually let him out because another engine breaks down or something, but the original plan was to just leave him in there forever.
On the show, didn’t they also hook up one engine to a generator, so he’d never move again? That was literally one of the lines, I think. It’s on some other post on here. It was chilling.
Yes! This also happened in the books, to an engine referred to only as “No. 2″, but the television series applied the same scenario to an invented character named “Smudger”, in the episode “Granpuff”.
“Smudger,” said Duke. “Was a show-off. He rode roughly and often came off the rails. I warned him to be careful, but he took no notice.” “Listen, Dukie” he snared. “Who worries about a few spills?” “We do here! I said, but Smudger just laughed.” “Hahaha!” “Until one day, Manager said he was going to make him useful at last. Smudger stopped laughing then!” “W-w-why? What did he do?!” “He turned him into a generator. He’s still there behind our shed. He’ll never move again.”
This is so fucked up
No, listen.
Okay, so we see Railway Management doing all this shit, right, but supposedly it’s so much worse in the Other Railways? I mean, sure, you might get turned into a generator or bricked into a tunnel for not doing as you’re told, but at least you’re not cut up and sold for parts, right? It’s not so bad on the island of Sodor, right?
Or maybe that’s just what Railway Management wants the engines to think.
Maybe the island of Sodor is the real totalitarian regime, and the engine citizens (slaves) are fed propaganda, illustrated in hellish grays and sulfuric yellows, about how bad it is everywhere else, at all the Other Railways.
There are a lot of Harry Potter theories that have existed in the series’ fandom, such as Snape being a vampire or Sirius and Remus being secret lovers. Many of these theories have been contradicted by the books themselves, and others seem to have little evidence supporting them in canon.
One such theory, however, bears notice. Draco Malfoy is an annoying antagonist throughout all seven Harry Potter books, but noticeably less so in the sixth and seventh. Presumably, he stops his sophomoric pranks as a consequence of his highly stressful year-long assignment to play a key role in the assassination of Albus Dumbledore.
However, there may be an even more powerful reason for the trajectory of Draco’s character development in these latter books. This is that between the fifth and sixth books, directly after Lucius Malfoy has failed to retrieve the prophecy, Voldemort allows Fenrir Greyback to bite his son, Draco.
We’ve gone back through the 6th and 7th books, and compiled some of the most convincing evidence below:
Draco is not a Death Eater At the beginning of the 6th book when Harry is hiding in Borgin and Burkes, Draco threatens Borgin, and shows him something on his arm. Harry thinks the thing on Draco’s arm is a Dark Mark, but we never see this. Harry always immediately assumes things and they turn out to be false. If Harry wakes up in the middle of the night months later it is usually right, or if he talks about it with Hermione and Hermione gets it, then it’s right. Hermione doesn’t think Draco is a Death Eater, so he probably isn’t. Another reason Draco probably doesn’t have a Dark Mark is that at the end of the sixth book there is a barrier to the Astronomy Tower that you can only pass through if you have a Dark Mark. This barrier goes up immediately after Draco goes up to the tower, and comes down just before he goes down. Additionally, Draco is never treated as a Death Eater (and there is no reason for Voldemort to give Draco a Dark Mark). So what is he? One ongoing arc in the 6th book is that Draco is sickly and stressed out. This is supposedly because of his quest, but Rowling does this misdirection a lot. Fenrir Greyback is introduced as a character who specifically punishes people who’ve messed up by biting their children. Remus Lupin is explicitly mentioned as an example of this. Why set this up if not to use it later? Relatedly, Lucius’s demonstrated punishments do not seem severe enough for his transgressions at the end of the 5th book, by the standards we are supposed to expect from Voldemort by this point in the series. It is also important to keep in mind that Lucius also mishandled Riddle’s Diary, resulting in the destruction of one seventh of Voldemort’s soul. It is likely that Lucius’s additional punishment was unspeakably terrible. Voldemort says, “Maybe you can babysit the cubs,” to Draco when the Death Eaters find out that Remus and Tonks are having a baby. This is a throwaway if he is not a werewolf. For us, the nail in the coffin is that, while showing Borgin the mark on his arm, Draco says that Fenrir Greyback is a close personal friend and he’d hate for him to have a to pay a visit. And if the thing on Draco’s arm in Borgin & Burkes’ was not a Dark Mark (which it’s not), what else could he have possibly shown Borgin to make him so frightened? Finally, Rowling has said in an interview that one scene in the third movie, there was a moment that foreshadowed something she knew was coming that gave her chills. In that movie, Draco impersonates a werewolf and does a wolf howl. This also works for the arc for the flipping of the Malfoy family, who take care of themselves instead of following Voldemort. It makes more sense for them to throw away decades of servitude if one of them has been turned into a half-blood, making them idealogically incompatible with Voldemort’s pure-blood regime. So why hide it? There is precedent for J.K. Rowling revealing only the tip of the iceberg in some of her characterizations. For example, Rowling was originally going to write a whole arc about Dean Thomas’s family, but instead she focused on Neville. Additionally, Dumbledore’s love of Grindelwald is never addressed during any of the books, and was only revealed by J.K. Rowling during a Q&A after all the books had been published. There are likely many other elements of the story that have been left behind the scenes for one reason or another. It may be entirely possible that Draco’s reveal was planned for the seventh book, for example, but got cut for pages. Rowling has new content being released by book, and could be saving this to reveal on Pottermore for the seventh book. One reason this would be really cool: It makes Draco’s relationship with Snape even more interesting if Draco is relying on him for Wolfsbane potion.
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