Also, you're missing the loli is ok if Kiki ships it tag. :D/
Fixed! :D/
You know, as I was watching, I was planning on talking more about that, about how Kenzaki, like you said, had changed but remained basicaly the same, abour "I dont see you for awhile and you become such a loathsome dude", all that stuff.
But then Hajime had to go and do all that shit and djhfjdhfljsdhfajsdhfsks *_*
Yes, one track mind.
I think that making Kenzaki a guy that works picking up garbage was a stroke of genius. For the whole unsung hero factor, but specially because it shows exactly who Kenzaki is that at the end of the day, he's made his peace with who he is now, even though, as he says himself, he has his pride and back then was when he was happiest. I think that's exactly it... he's not pretending it had no effect, he's not pretending that it doesn't nag at him sometimes, he's acknowledging, he's facing it and accepting his feelings about it, and he's letting them go (it's interesting because quite aside from fandom I'm reading about buddhism and mindfulness and Kenzaki just kind of is a perfect example of all that). He justdoes the best he can, everyday, like he always did, whether he's fighting to save humanity or sweeping up garbage for an old lady.
And then I really liked what they did with Amane and Kenzaki. Kenzaki did what he had to do, and he hated it, but he accepted its necessity and lives with it and it's his burden but it doesn't really.... you know, it doesn't weight him down. He had to do it (like Hikawa in the movie, but more so, you know?). He's also made his peace with sealing Hajime, like he made his peace with everything else. But then he sees Amane again and realizes that he was a soldier, and he understands it was necessary and he put his feelings aside for necessity, but Amane isn't a soldier. She's a normal girl, with no idea of the scope of everything that happened, and all she knows is that the person she cared about most disapeared. She never got an explanation, and it wouldn't have mattered to her if she had. And it hurt her and changed her, and Kenzaki had never really had to face that, the specific effect his actions, done for the greater good, would have on a a normal person who had't really been part of the fight. And you can tell he feels really guilty, and it's his responsability, and he really wants to somehow make it okay. But the thing is, he can't, because she won't let him, and it probably would have weighed on his mind forever (even though he would also eventually accept it and shoulder THAT burden too) if things hadn't happened the way they did.
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Date: 2009-06-30 01:47 pm (UTC)Fixed! :D/
You know, as I was watching, I was planning on talking more about that, about how Kenzaki, like you said, had changed but remained basicaly the same, abour "I dont see you for awhile and you become such a loathsome dude", all that stuff.
But then Hajime had to go and do all that shit and djhfjdhfljsdhfajsdhfsks *_*
Yes, one track mind.
I think that making Kenzaki a guy that works picking up garbage was a stroke of genius. For the whole unsung hero factor, but specially because it shows exactly who Kenzaki is that at the end of the day, he's made his peace with who he is now, even though, as he says himself, he has his pride and back then was when he was happiest. I think that's exactly it... he's not pretending it had no effect, he's not pretending that it doesn't nag at him sometimes, he's acknowledging, he's facing it and accepting his feelings about it, and he's letting them go (it's interesting because quite aside from fandom I'm reading about buddhism and mindfulness and Kenzaki just kind of is a perfect example of all that). He justdoes the best he can, everyday, like he always did, whether he's fighting to save humanity or sweeping up garbage for an old lady.
And then I really liked what they did with Amane and Kenzaki. Kenzaki did what he had to do, and he hated it, but he accepted its necessity and lives with it and it's his burden but it doesn't really.... you know, it doesn't weight him down. He had to do it (like Hikawa in the movie, but more so, you know?). He's also made his peace with sealing Hajime, like he made his peace with everything else. But then he sees Amane again and realizes that he was a soldier, and he understands it was necessary and he put his feelings aside for necessity, but Amane isn't a soldier. She's a normal girl, with no idea of the scope of everything that happened, and all she knows is that the person she cared about most disapeared. She never got an explanation, and it wouldn't have mattered to her if she had. And it hurt her and changed her, and Kenzaki had never really had to face that, the specific effect his actions, done for the greater good, would have on a a normal person who had't really been part of the fight. And you can tell he feels really guilty, and it's his responsability, and he really wants to somehow make it okay. But the thing is, he can't, because she won't let him, and it probably would have weighed on his mind forever (even though he would also eventually accept it and shoulder THAT burden too) if things hadn't happened the way they did.