Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 18h

there is no question that their love transcends whatever will happen to what is ultimately just an artificial and uncertain world. (also having the very first battle track youtu.be/STNAvpNtGF0?... play during the final fight is the coolest trope ever)

Our Drafts Unite

YouTube video by Lorien Testard - Topic

youtu.be

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 18h

The voiceover at 1:50 is the best part of the song from a thematic standpoint.
It is essentially a powerful reflection on what goes through the minds of both siblings as they face their moment of truth.
It makes it clear that while their drafts would now collide-

1

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 18h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZXL... man Our Drafts Collides is prob the most underrated E33 OST - when the first chord hits you just know that "this is it."

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Original Soundtrack) 149 - Our Drafts Collides

YouTube video by Sandfall Interactive

www.youtube.com

1

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 21h

you can get a "rude" tag on your profile here?? that's funny as fuck I want one

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 1d

Asa is the type that self-sabotages because she thinks she doesn't deserve anything good - Cuck fetishism comes from insecurity and from the belief that you deserve to be mistreated and betrayed.
It might legit be a plot point considering fuji is not above entering fetish territory to tell a story 🤪

1

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 1d

Asa's mom is even portrayed as "faceless" there and earlier in the chapter, which is how fuji generally portrays someone when he wants to make them seem intimidating and "inhuman" - he did it with Makima and Yoru very recently.

1

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 1d

Or something else is going on. Asa doesn't lash out in jealously is because she is so utterly terrified of her mother crushing her father's skull with a stone over adultery that she refuses to bring it up? 🤔

1

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 1d

Asa still stood by his side even after the brothel thing, getting a hand job from Yoru, making out with Yoru various times, making a proclamation about girls and grub in aging's domain, almost getting chaired to death. The deal for sex with Yoru.
Asa is either the most devoted Denjisis of all time-

1

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 1d

they came in contact with the story through tiktok edits of the aquarium arc + speedread P1 in a day + it's the first time they experience something adjacent to the "star crossed lovers" trope

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 2d

wouldn't it be kino if pochita was about to eat a chunk of yoru's brain in the last panel? and asa just fucking disappears from the story 🤔

3

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 2d

Mossa is my fav csm artist

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 2d

1 1

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 2d

I don't want to agree with an asa pfp but out of the last 90+ chapters, Yoshida only appears in about 12-13 of them, and two of those chapters portray his death and him being a corpse.
that's not really a character who has had a lot invested in him. roughly Beam levels of importance.

1 1

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 3d

1

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 3d

Denji fucking around fighting the weapon humans while Nayuta was in mortal danger is unironically more similar to Asa falling on purpose hoping that her father would die than what actually happened between Denji and his dad.

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 3d

no but I remember kids on twitter calling me evil for pointing out what this panel bluntly implies lol

1 1

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 3d

I remember when people were like "Gege's female characters are amazing!!" because he had Nobara go "I like to fight and I like to look pretty too :3" before putting her in a coma for 80% of the story

1 1

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 3d

Maki 3 pages behind Naoya, as she should be

1

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 3d

Asa's dad did more to protect her from danger than Denji did for Nayuta during the church arc tbh

2

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 3d

how many accounts do you have

1

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 3d

reze biting denji's tongue off + forcing a kiss on him + giving him what's arguably the worst beatdown he's ever received is worse than anything fumiko has ever done to him 🤪

1 2

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 3d

Redpill: Fumiko could have triggered Denji turning into black csm

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 3d

It's all part of her plan. Death wants Asa to finally snap, weaponize SCUMji, and get herself erased by the resulting Chainsaw Sword. Reminder that she's the one who pushed Asa to fall in love with Denji in the first place (locking them in the aquarium together, the entire falling devil circus)

1

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 3d

Asa got used through and through. Death tricked her into believing she was doing something good for the person that saved her life. She also took the guise of a benevolent, authoritative family member, a "big sister"- the same sister that Denji lusted over a few chapters ago.

1 2

jirenbois.bsky.social @jirenbois.bsky.social · 4d

ship so garbage fuji has to put them in a pocket dimension 3 times for it to work

4