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that eremika (?) cover reminds me of ch108 a little, you know that scene at the end of the day where they’re all red and the panels focus a little on Mikasa and Eren after Eren says how much he cares about them all. Do you think that this moment in ch108 was implied to be an eremika moment by the way, or not at all?

I don’t know–I personally interpret 108 as more found family, like Eren does love all the SC, as it focuses on all of them. This cover’s definitely more shippy, though, but it’s also worth noting the happiness shared by all three of them, a happiness that could have been but isn’t.

i’m dying because people said spoilers these months were about the end of the eremika friendship because it was a lie from the beginning or so were the spoilers and now we get this cover and i can’t be sure these spoilers aren’t real after all? armin and mika and eren aren’t on best terms right now since eren ran away to meet zeke after all so why the joyous cover???

Well, we don’t know that those spoilers are legit–I’ve seen no updates from the people whose leaks I do trust, so while they could be real, they could also be along the lines of “Levi is dying” spoilers from a few months ago.

Either way, if they are or aren’t real, I do expect something like this pretty soon? Mikasa has to grow away from Eren and find her own identity; that’s what her arc has to be about. It’s nothing to do with shipping. I think “it came to an end” might be a very simple summary of a far more complex situation–if it is even the case, but if it’s not, there’s almost certainly something like that coming.

I think people are probably doing what fandoms do best: overreacting. This is almost certainly going to happen at some point, and it’s necessary for both of their growths. Eren needs to face consequences for fucking up and pushing everyone away from him, so things need to get worse before they get better. And they will get worse for the trio 😦

For the people I have upset about Eremika in my inbox: I still think Eren and Mikasa will have a moment before the end; like I’ve said, I was expecting/am expecting something like this eventually, so it doesn’t affect my predictions are all. The joyous cover points to that (like, it’s absolutely giving a mutual romantic vibe). But like I’ve been saying, a happy ending isn’t happening for them 😦

You wrote an analysis for Shirou a while ago. Could you do the same for Rin?

Rin’s a great female character, but I’d have to rewatch the series to be able to best discuss her! What I can say is that her self-confidence appeared to in many ways be a shield and in some ways even a facade to protect herself from the reality of how terrible of a person her father was (like giving away Sakura to the Matous). Rin’s a strong person, but she’s had to be to survive, and she doesn’t excel in vulnerability–though like Shirou, she tries to protect others; unlike Shirou, she’ll be a tsundere about it. Rin’s role as a mage was written for her since birth, and learning to control her own agency is part of her arc. Through Shirou, though, she learns to trust again and to allow herself vulnerability. I immensely enjoyed their relationship. 

You have said Foxx is Dino without complexity. Could you explain what did you mean?

I will have to get into anime spoilers here, so also under the cut!

Dino wants to control Ash, using his past trauma to force him to do exactly what Dino wants Ash to do, to carry out Dino’s will, to isolate him and turn him into essentially a puppet (hey there’s the thematic tie in with what Banana Fish does). That’s exactly what Foxx wants to do, but he doesn’t dress it up in adoption and respectful dialogue with politicians–he’s legally dead, a sadistic monster without any sheen of respectability. He’s cruel beyond belief, nauseating, and everyone can see it from a minute spent with him.

That’s why it’s powerful to me that Dino kills Foxx, because in that moment he’s essentially killing himself, and there’s nothing left of him: all the adoption and suits and respect were all a facade–all fake as Ash said. So he dies then, too, because he is Foxx, and everything pretending he wasn’t wasn’t real.

Dino’s a monster and I hate his character immensely, but he’s a well done and genuinely upsetting and scary villain. Dino’s partnership with (and then betrayal by) Foxx essentially calls out all of what Dino’s been doing and forces him to see it: he set in motion his own demise, in other words. I wouldn’t say Dino felt regret (I don’t even know if he was capable of that, and I don’t care either way), but he in the end I think realized that he made a mistake by trying to control Ash.

What is your criticism for Ringo’s arc?

Under the cut for subject matter!

Her arc as a whole is extremely strong, and she has the best arc in the entire show. I love her, and she’s my favorite character for this reason.

That being said, while it crops up only in two episodes, I didn’t like how sexual assault played into it. The seriousness of what she was going to do is never addressed, and Yuri being the shows only lesbian and survivor of sexual abuse then trying to rape Ringo was also never fully… the horrors of what it means to take someone’s agency completely away from them in such an intimate way is glossed over/the ugh implications of Yuri kinda ignored. Which is really a shame, because the same person who made it also made Utena, which deals with sexual assault in a very responsible way. That being said, I don’t think it’s the most terrible handling of it ever (it was way better than Tokyo Ghoul:re’s handling of it, for example)–it’s still framed as wrong and disturbed, and works within their individual arcs devoid of real world context–but after seeing Utena, I just think it could have been handled better.

Oooohh you finished Made in Abyss? What are your thoughts on it? Also, did you read the manga or watch the anime, or both?

Anime!! My thoughts are basically that it was a wild ride. I’m looking forward to more of the story, because in some ways it really felt like it was just the beginning, almost a prologue. I grew very attached to Nanachi (despite only entering the story for the last three episodes), Riko, and Reg.

The villain set up was also well done, but horrifying–like nauseatingly horrifying. I like how it seems to be tackling, again, the way orphans are treated by society as junk that no one cares about, and how it’s critiquing that via Nanachi and Mitty’s story, and also of course through Riko and Reg.

The abyss in some ways can be viewed as the dregs of human nature/society symbolically (from what I saw in the anime, at least, and I’d have to watch again to really write about this in depth, and maybe this is or isn’t continued in the manga) and of course, kids are the ones who suffer the most from it, who are used to test things. The orphans especially.

Hi! I just want to ask what do you think about Shigaraki’s words to Overhaul in chapter 160. Do you think Overhaul deserved that treatment or not (I mean he needs to suffer) Also Shigaraki was pretty savage too lol. What do you think about him too? (chapter 160 is one of my favorite, the chase was pretty cool too. It was one of the ‘classical’ thing that villains do in movies. You know be cool and walking in front of an explosion. Also because sensei doesn’t give this type of moments to the them

Ahhh so, I think @linkspooky wrote a fantastic meta on that scene here. I agree with Link’s perspective, and also would say that that scene in 160 is one of my favorites in the entire manga as well. I can’t wait to see it animated, lol. 

As for deserve… it was narratively karmic, but also terrifying and not good for Shigaraki’s development (well, narratively, good, in terms of boy get help, not good, if you get what I mean!)