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"If you try and go against réalité… Réalité will surely crush you." [The trashbin for the rantings of a person perpetually on a soapbox.] (Rants: heavy games with slight chances of manga, anime, film, fiction, television, & self-created works.)
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[VK/M] What's In A Kaname?

Before I dive into my thoughts concerning some recent happenings in the horror show that is VK/M, I figured I'd set the stage with a preliminary dive into the skeletal structure of Kaname's narrative arc from the original VK. If this is triggering to anyone, well, take it up with Hino.

I don't know why I've never done a deep dive into the skeletal structure of Kaname's narrative arc before, but I think it's because we were always waiting for the "big reveal" of his "great plans" that never came. Instead of sitting in that mode of thinking, I've changed perspectives for this exercise--I'm now looking only at what is ACTUALLY there once you strip away the dumb things that don't matter (like the vampiric politicking that never goes anywhere with Hino because this is a love story at its heart). Going into this without preconceived notions or expectations for "narrative twists" made it easier to parse what is actually in Hino's story. And once I did that, I found a very straight-forward, simple arc for Kaname. It'll take a minute to detail first, but I'll lay it out simply at the end.

We'll start post-time skip because the first part of the story is mostly Kaname working in the background without much narrative thrust.

  • Night 49: Kaname obtains what he's wanted--Yuuki is now a vampire, is in a relationship with him, and is estranged from Zero. Kaname thinks that he and Yuuki will be in loving bliss from now on.
  • Night 49-50: Things don't go as Kaname planned. Yuuki struggles with using her fangs on him, even though he wants her to and encourages her. Initially he thinks this is due to her humanity interfering with her vampiric side (6 months into the time skip). Their relationship stagnates while she starves herself. No progress. He's stuck in the "bro zone." As far as any super plans, he has none at this time outside of Yuuki.
  • Night 51-52: Kaname discovers Yuuki has attempted to not only bite herself, but also take blood tablets from Aidou. This shouldn't even be a thing when Kaname is a willing blood source for her--not only does he love her, but he's a Pureblood. She shouldn't be able to resist either of those two things, not when she loves him. Whelp, unfortunately for him, she confesses her heart is still attached to that Zero guy. But that's ok because she loves Kaname too, right? Whelp, about that...Yuuki won't admit she loves Kaname either and instead acts sorry while beating around the bush about it. Their interaction ends with Kaname placing a restriction on her eating--she'll have to take blood from him and no one else.
  • Night 52-54: Now that Yuuki is drinking blood from him and has confessed to having feelings for Zero, Kaname needs to test the depth of those feelings. He's reassessing where their relationship stands in light of this new information. He takes Yuuki to a ball with Zero, making sure to give her ample time to interact with him. Zero fails to drive home the estrangement, and Yuuki emerges from the ball more determined than ever to help Zero.
  • A sub-point here is this is when Kaname's Plan A begins. This plan is never detailed explicitly in the story, but I believe his Plan A was to gather all the Pureblood bloodline strains into Zero and then transform Zero into the cure (likely by killing him).
  • Night 56-59: Yuuki leaves the house (with Kaname's knowledge) for the first time in order to go and do what she can to help Zero. She runs into Touma and is injured. Zero appears. Kaname watches from a distance via remote-viewing from his familiars, keeping tabs on things but letting them play out because he's still testing Yuuki's feelings for Zero.
  • Night 60: While injured, Yuuki nearly bites Zero. She only stops because she a.) wants to savor him and b.) snaps out of her stupor to realize that she's in the arms of the man who supposedly wants to kill her. None of her motivations are Kaname-related, but she does run back to Kaname.
  • Night 61: Kaname is furious with Yuuki because she basically betrayed him entirely and revealed that her feelings for Zero are stronger than her feelings for him. His recourse now is to try to force her feelings to shift toward him. The best way to do that is to break down her image of him as her brother so that she'll see him as a man.
  • Night 62-64: Kaname drains Yuuki to the point where she has no choice but to drink from him and then sends her down memory lane. His plan backfires, though. Rather than seeing him as a man, she sees her own feelings for Zero in his feelings for the Hooded Woman and she also sees the utter darkness in his heart.
  • Night 65-66: Yuuki awakens and Kaname tests her feelings to see if she has changed her mind about him. He tries to see if she was jealous about the Hooded Woman, but gets a neutral response from Yuuki. He then asks how Yuuki sees him now. The best that Yuuki can offer him is that she adored him as her brother and senpai, but that she doesn't know who he is as the ancestor, and that she'd like to start over fresh with him. This is NOT what Kaname wanted. He wanted her to see him as a man and realize she loved him romantically. The answer here becomes obvious--he needs to accelerate Plan A (Zero cure) and get rid of the "interference" in his relationship with Yuuki. But the only way he can do this is of course if Yuuki doesn't know what's going on. So he gives her one last test--stay home and wait for his return. Yuuki fails the test.
  • Night 67-82ish: Kaname dumps Yuuki back onto Zero after he kills Aidou's father (and yes, I do believe Aidou's father is dead--we've never seen him in VK/M, not even for Aidou's wedding, and Ruka did not seem like she was creating an illusion for Kaname at this time), and then begins to initiate Plan A. This mostly involves him letting Sara run around, drinking and attacking Purebloods, and Kaname wandering around after her cleaning up the mess. Sara is then driven into Zero's vicinity, and Kaname allows Zero to drink from her. At this time Kaname has no plans for Yuuki outside of perhaps planning to turn her human again if she doesn't take well to the Zero-dying thing.
  • Night 83-88: Kaname breaks into Hunter Headquarters, but he doesn't do so in order to "find" the forge--he just "discovers" the forge, which implies his Forge Plan is Plan B. When he enters headquarters, he's still operating under Plan A (which I assume is the Zero cure). Zero and Yuuki catch up to him here, and Yuuki cuts her hair to signal her determination. Kaname, upon seeing the forge again, decides to open up to the idea of Plan B (a.k.a. he becomes the forge in the Hooded Woman's stead). He releases the Hooded Woman and runs.
  • Night 89: Yuuki returns to Kaname after having taken Zero's memories and destroyed her relationship with him. At this point, Kaname is ready to abandon both Plan A and Plan B if Yuuki genuinely wants a real romantic relationship with him. He attempts to suss this out by sleeping with her. After all, she gave up Zero for him! Surely she loves him!
  • Night 90-92: Kaname realizes all's not well in paradise; Yuuki appears to still want to turn him human even after sleeping together and her reaction once they both wake up is to huddle in blankets and accusing both of them of not deserving to be in Zero's presence. Kaien "sends" Zero over to Kaname, but I suspect Kaname requested Zero as yet another test for Yuuki. Kaname tests the strength of Zero's memory loss and finds it solid; he then tests whether or not Zero has feelings for Yuuki even without his memories and whether Yuuki still loves Zero without his memories. Kaname finds both are still true, and he picks Plan B back up again. At this point he's intending to have Isaya turn Yuuki because Zero has no memories. This also still "removes" Yuuki from Zero. Unfortunately for him, Zero regains his memories.
  • Night 93: Kaname completes Plan B, placing his heart in the forge and unloading his last thoughts onto Yuuki. She can't even give him a final grand love confession--the best she can offer him is wishing she'd never been born. Kaname gives up at last at the idea that he held a major place in her heart and wishes her and Zero well.
  • VKM begins.

This long ramble was merely to demonstrate the justification for the following skeletal arc for Kaname:

Nights 49-68 (before Kaname leaves Yuuki):

Gets Yuuki, separates her from Zero, gets Zero positioned perfectly for devouring purebloods. -> Finds out Yuuki doesn't actually love him, but thinks he can overcome this because, well, he's her master and a Pureblood, and we know from his past history that this can overcome love. -> Tests the strength of Yuuki's love for Zero while setting up Sara to gather bloodlines for Zero for Plan A -> Realizes Yuuki's love for Zero is stronger than expected -> Gets butthurt and tries to salvage Yuuki's feelings for him via changing her perspective on him with his memories -> Fails. Decides to pursue Plan A to get Zero out of the way.

Nights 69-93 (after leaving Yuuki):

Follows Sara and stirs up events to get Sara to gather Pureblood lineages and take them to Zero. -> Discovers Forge location. -> Plan B now an option (become forge). -> Nearly discards both Plan A AND Plan B when Yuuki takes Zero's memories. -> Gives up on Yuuki entirely after he has sex with her and nothing changes and she still shows signs of preferring Zero. -> Goes full bore into Plan B because it's the easiest and he can still separate Yuuki from Zero via Isaya. -> Fails to separate Yuuki from Zero and accepts his fate while succeeding at Plan B.

In the shortest sense, we simply have: After the timeskip, Kaname thinks he's won Yuuki's heart and can sacrifice Zero for Plan A, the Zero Cure. He discovers he's wrong about both and, after first attempting to win Yuuki's heart one last time, ultimately changes his plan to Plan B, becoming the forge. The end.

There is nothing in Kaname's arc that suggests he ever once felt secure in Yuuki's romantic love for him, and this is the key reason he follows through with Plan B.

What this shows me is Kaname is a shit for beans planner. He just throws things against the wall to see if they stick. The reason he seems "mysterious" is that he's always changing his mind, not that he has a master plan. His main motivation is to get in Yuuki's pants, and when he can't get that it's either kill the guy she actually loves (Zero) or kill himself. It's obvious how toxic he is when you break down the structure of the story and remove all Hino's flowery language and artwork. There's just nothing positive here to work with--he's literally the villain of the story.

The reason I wanted to work through Kaname's narrative skeleton here is because the latest chapter has a hint that Plan A (kill Zero for Zero cure) really did exist. There's tons of evidence for "a" Plan A in the original story of course--Kaname letting Sara run free, Kaname silencing Aidou's dad for investigating, Kaname disliking letting Zero drink from Sara but saying it's "necessary" (necessary for what, certainly not the forge plan!), Kaname seeming to only realize where the forge even was AFTER he entered Hunter Headquarters, implying he was there for a different purpose before discovering the forge's location.

Yuuki in the story assumes Kaname was always trying to become the forge, and because she's the protagonist, we're meant to assume that too in the original story. But I think there's enough evidence to suggest Kaname had a Plan A that involved the Pureblood lineages and Zero. The most logical conclusion is that it's the Zero cure, which lines up both with his attempt to reverse the Hooded Woman's sacrifice in the past AND with his "surprise" at discovering Ichiru and Zero were Hunter twins. It also explains his early involvement with Shizuka, which hasn't been narratively resolved yet. It's still just hanging in the breeze, waiting for someone to fold it up and put it back in the closet.

This is a long-winded way of saying the Zero Cure is BACK ON THE MENU, BABIES! More contemporary thoughts later!

#vk/m#kanamemeta#zerocuremeta
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we will get to the future, but first, the past

Revamping a blog isn’t difficult, but it does require some addressing. This blog originally focused on Vampire Knight with periodic tangents into various other interests of mine. This isn’t an avenue I’m interested in resurrecting, and so it shall remain buried. 

Why not start a new blog, then? The long and the short of it is that I enjoyed the writing stye of this blog (I have others, but this is the most natural/fun for me). I’ve never been a particularly popular writer, and keeping followers isn’t a main focus for me. Instead, I prefer to enjoy writing the things I enjoy. Since I’m no longer active in a toxic fandom, I don’t see a reason to keep this blog held in suspended animation anymore.

Where is this blog headed, then? Why, to beautiful new ventures! I’m not sure what the main focus will ultimately be, but my current obsessions are gacha games, with my primary loves being Love Nikki, Shining Nikki, Tears of Themis, and Genshin Impact. No one in my real life or online enjoys these titles, and I want a place where I can analyze and gush over all the things I love in my new obsessions without being a burden to anyone. 

TL;DR: My new soapboxes will likely consist primarily of analyses and complaints and admirings of the four primary gacha games I play. I certainly don’t expect these things to be the cup of tea of people who previously followed me, and so I thank all the people who once supported me for their loyalty and wish everyone will and happy on their future journeys, whether or not my bog is included in their travels. In the meantime, I’m looking forward to meeting all the new people (maybe?) who will find my new content to be to their liking.

Until next time!

#new beginnings#hey look i'm back#i missed these silly tags#loen and qin yi and mercury need all the love#childe and zongli too#and of course luke always luke#tears of themis#shining nikki#love nikki#genshin impact
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to all my dear followers

Thank you for sharing a bit of your lives with me over the past couple of years. Your support and encouragement have meant so much to me and have kept me returning to this blog even when things are hard. 

For a great many reasons, I have done my best to continue this blog in spite of dogged harassment and deep disappointments, but I’ve come to a point in my life where I need to start cutting my emotional ties to old things, and sadly this blog itself is part of the cut. I’ll be archiving this blog in the next few days, just in case a time might come in the future when I want to return. 

To those of you who followed my Star Wars posts, I’m sorry I couldn’t finish my First Impressions series. To those of who supported my Vampire Knight posts, thank you and I’m sorry I couldn’t make it to the end. I hope you all get what you want from the story to make your investment worthwhile. To those who supported me just because they liked my writing, thank you from the bottom of my heart. 

Perhaps we will all cross paths again in the future, but until then, keep shining your individual lights in your own unique ways. Bless you all. <3

#my stuff#parting is such sweet sorrow#thank you all for the fun couple of years#sorry to be leaving so soon
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So, Banana Fish is finally over and thank all the stars in the heavens Max lived through to the end and got a happily ever after with his ex-wife! That alone is a win in my book. (He even got the best farewell scene with his “son,” fufu.)

The ending was nice in sentiment, if a bit on the unnecessarily melodramatic side of the scale. To the very end I was just never able to invest in Eiji to the degree I wish I could have, so I don’t really mind that he’s left in the dark and seems to have settled on denial as his way of coping. It’s a shame Ash couldn’t find his way back to the light, but at least he found a sliver of peace anyway.

All in all, it was a fun ride, but I’ll admit I’m ready for something new.

#max survived!#best man lived for once!#it's a christmas miracle!#the ending tried hard to be poignant but just couldn't quite make it#can we get a series based on the cornered mouse dreams of cheese now ktnxbai#also angel sanctuary yeah?#and maybe basara?#if we're gonna resurrect old things let's resurrect the greats#banana fish
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[GS] it’s the little things

I love how Goblin Slayer packages these tiny detail barbs into the storytelling without dwelling on them, trusting the viewer to pick them up and think them through. I finally caught up on the last few episodes, and a particular comment from the Goblin Slayer in Episode 10 gripped my attention.

When he reminisces about his childhood dream of being an adventurer, and how all he ever wanted was to leave behind the sister who had raised him, everything clicked into place without ceremony and I was quite floored by it. If I unpack that statement, it reveals so much about the Goblin Slayer:

  • He resented his small-town life and the sister who’d raised him. 
  • His sister very likely gave up her own dreams and goals to raise him, dreams he never knew of because she protected him from her own pain.
  • When he failed to save her, it was almost a karmic blow for him because he had wished her gone and, worse, did nothing in her final moments.
  • The death of his sister sealed his own fate--with her went his true dream.
  • His sheer ruthless obsession with murdering goblins runs deeper than even he appears to know--he seems to be stuck on his sister’s death, but it seems to be more guilt that her death freed him and tore his life apart simultaneously, and he probably can’t face the shadow within his own heart, so he projects it onto the goblins. 

Seriously, I’m just speechless at how this story--which is arguably ridiculous on the surface--continues to pack these deep psychological punches without any ceremony at all. 

Also, Cow Girl’s monologue in the ending of Episode 10 is beyond chilling. Pitch-perfect execution. I salute the production team on this one. 

#goblin slayer#random musings#i'm going to be so sad when this is over
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[anime] fall season initial impressions

This season took forever for all the first episodes to come out, and by the time they finally did, my own life got a little crazy, so this is extraordinarily late. Better late than never, I guess. 

“God Tier” of season so far (i.e., shows I’ll probably blog about):

  • Goblin Slayer - For reasons I can’t explain, this show really sunk its claws deep into me and hasn’t let go yet. I love the GS’s character, I love the side characters, I love the premise and the storyline and the angle they’re taking. It’s possible this story will fall apart entirely before the end, but for now it’s the one I look forward to the most this season. 

“Best” of season so far (i.e., shows I’ll probably watch to the end):

  • Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru - I. Love. This. Show. If it maintains its current trajectory, it’ll move to God Tier by next season. Sports anime aren’t usually my wheelhouse, but this one is my sport--I love running. Moreover, the characters are so different from the usual sports anime. This is truly an ensemble cast where each character has his own life and his own unique traits to bring to the table (Ouji is the best seriously). Even better is the drama fulcrum of the story--our two leads have issues that are very different from the melodrama of stories like Free. One is dealing with a serious injury he’s had to overcome (and of which we still know nothing) and the other is dealing with having been a superstar who couldn’t work with his team properly and thus lost out on the joys of being a part of a team. I can’t wait to see where the story goes; I love how it gives each character room to breathe rather than making them revolve around the two leads, and how it lets them all have goals and lives and dreams of their own that merge into the mix that is this team they’ve formed. 
  • Tsurune: Kazemai Koukou Kyuudoubu - I actually almost dropped this little gem because a.) it’s Kyo-Ani, and I’m not really a Free fan (though I love Kyo-Ani’s other works, I don’t appreciate their fujoshi pandering as a fujoshi myself) and b.) I already had a superior sports anime on my hands. But damnit, the second episode cut my heart to shreds and so it’s got me for now. The hero’s target panic really hit home in my heart, and I adore his best friend’s silent but cutting loyalty. The team is less fanservice-oriented than Free too, so I feel this is could genuinely become a great sports anime as well as a great slice of life. 
  • Irozu Sekai no Ashita kara - This show reminds me so much of Mahou Tsukai: Natsu no Sora, only it’s more cheerful. The grandmother character is my favorite--something about her both in the past and future gets me. But all the other characters are wonderful, and I’m quite enjoying all the relationships and the mysteries so far. 
  • Kishuku Gakkou no Juliet - I cannot express how much I love this show. All the characters are just absolute fun, and I adore how devoted the main pairing is to each other despite the revolving secondary love interests at both their disposals. The RxJ premise doesn’t hurt either. 
  • Rerided: Koku Koe no Derrida - This show is what I’d consider a “solid staple” of the season, but not a stand-out. The characters are just interesting enough to hold my attention and the scifi premise is quite entertaining, but it does tend to make safe/bland choices rather than trying bolder directions. I did really enjoy the psychotic breakdown of the researcher when she faced the evolved android last episode, though.
  • Beelzebub-jou no Okini Mesu Mama - I have a huge love of angels and demons and cute things, so if you mix them all together in one slice of lifey soup, you’ll find me at the table. This isn’t spectacular by any means, but it’s sweet and endearing and nice to watch after a hard day’s work.
  • Hashiri Tsuzukete Yokattatte - This is a cute short series about two kids working toward their goals of being voice actors. It’s just a nice little series. 

On the fence (i.e., shows that more than likely I’ll drop within 3-8 eps):

  • Tensai Shitara Slime Datta Ken  - I like the premise, I love the dragon/slime relationship, I like how silly this thing is, I like the human design of the slime before he becomes slime, but I despise the “heroine” designs and I’m not sure their personalities will be much better. It’s taken a long time to introduce the heroines, so we’ll see how long this story can hold once they’re involved. 
  • Yagate Kimi ni Naru - The yuri showpiece of the season, and I like it quite a bit better than some of the other yuri shows that have been out in recent seasons. The heroine is a bit on the annoying side, though, and so I’m not sure how long I’ll be able to stand her. We’ll see.
  • Dakaretai Otoko 1-i ni Odosarete Imasu. - I’m a diehard fujoshi, so of course I’m going to watch this silly show even though I ache for better BL series to be given anime. I don’t know why TPTB always choose these silly BL stories rather than the well-crafted ones, but it is what it is.
  • Ingress - Other than Goblin Slayer, Banana Fish, and Golden Kamuy, this is really the only action-oriented show I’ve got this season. It’s decent enough, but the subtitles are terrible so I’ll probably wait ‘til a more decent variant comes out. 
  • Otona no Bougaya-san - This is just a silly short gag series that makes me laugh. There’s literally no substance to it, just game nostalgia and debauchery. 
  • Jingai-san no Yome - Another short series that is so weird it makes me laugh. There’s nothing worth shipping in this, but the premise is ludicrous and humorous for now. 
  • Sono Toki, Kanojo wa - A series of josei short stories. It’s all right, but nothing to write home about. 

Dropped after the first episode:

  • Conception 
  • SSSS. Gridman 
  • Ulysses: Jeanne d’Arc to Renkin no Kishi 

Holdovers from last season and sequels:

  • Banana Fish
  • Golden Kamuy

Overall this is a pretty solid season, though not so great in the music department, which is a disappointment. 

#my anime adventures#fall anime#fall anime 2018
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Anonymous asked:

What kind of worldbuilding do you wish Hino’d have done in the story? If you don’t want to do a long response could you just do bulletpoints?

Well, I don’t think the world building is the problem in Hino’s story so much as it is narrative focus and scale. But here’s what I’d add/change to improve it:

  • Ditch the incest. It serves no narrative purpose other than shock value, and even royal families in the past tended to marry cousins and not siblings/uncles/parents. (You have to go into the ancient past to find that sort of thing, and VK’s world is too developed and technologically advanced to support incest).
  • Keep the vampire lore consistent. Is bloodlust only for romance? Is it not? Can a vampire have only one lover? Does a vampire’s blood heal injuries or not? To keep a worldview coherent, these factors need to stay consistent.
  • Expand the world to more than just a single city. (Our characters should be worrying about presidents/kings/dictators, not mayors.)
  • Be consistent about the threat vampires pose. Are they innocent victims who are unjustifiably vilified by humans or are they legitimately evil and the humans have a legitimate reason to fear them? You can’t have both of those things in the same story, so that needs to be cleaned up and clarified. A proper narrative world can’t be be built on “anyone who dislikes my hero and heroine is bad.”
  • Allow characters to have motivations and storylines outside of the main characters. Allow them to have feelings that are inconvenient to the main characters while still being justified narratively.

Again, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the world Hino built in and of itself, I think the problem is execution and focus.

I hope that answers your question at least a little bit. Thanks for dropping by. =)

#vk stuff
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Anonymous asked:

I know you’ve done a Takuma analysis as the Vampire King, so could you also please do a character analysis of him like you’ve done for Zero and the Hooded Woman? I think it’s just fascinating and fun to view him as a villain. Same with Kaien. Because they’re slightly more subtle than Kaname, Shizuka, Rido, etc. and never really get called out by others. You know what I mean?

I’m sorry, friend, analyzing characters who are ultimately just puppets on a string for a writer who changes their personalities and motivations on a whim rather than writing them consistently just isn’t of interest to me right now. Whatever Hino was doing with Takuma or Kaien, some of it was most likely buried so deeply in her subconscious that she herself had no clue. Ultimately, much like the rest of the characters in the story, they were characters who had potential to be something more and didn’t get there. There’s not much else to analyze anymore.

#vk is garbage tier
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Anonymous asked:

I don't want to piss you off by repeatedly asking the same question. I really love reading your posts. Just that Only IMAGINING a future scenario in which zeki do get married, how will it change your opinion on zeki? because I want to know whether your issue is only with Zero looking like a sidepiece. If they get married, will it get better for our ship? They haven't even had those serious quarrels yet :)

I know you don’t mean any harm, but I think I’ve been remarkably consistent in my criticism of this story since the beginning, and I don’t really appreciate anonymous shit-testing when I’ve been nothing but completely open and honest about my feelings regarding the story and its trajectory since day one of starting my blog. If null!Zero marries Yuuki in the last chapter of VKM, that isn’t going to change the trajectory of the story in my personal opinion–Hino still chose to not hit the key relationship milestones in order, and marriage at this point is just painting lipstick on a pig to make the fans who don’t care about anything other than ticking off checkboxes happy. I care about more than ticking off checkboxes, especially when my investment in the pairing was as significant as it was.

We’ve already seen Zero and Yuuki’s “serious quarrels.” VKM 14 and 17 provided them for us. It’s just Zero being overprotective of Yuuki for no reason. That’s it. 

It’s totally fine if you want to keep hoping things get better for Zero and Yuuki, but I must emphasize that I myself am not and never will be pro-Zeki in its current form. The only reason I was excited about VKM’s developments during VKM 6-8 was because I thought we finally had a shot at fixing what went wrong with the pairing, but Hino blew it by VKM 9. I need a lot addressed before I will ever be okay with Zeki in its current form, and even if that happens I can’t guarantee I will be okay with anything that has occurred since Night 89 til now.

If I didn’t have a specific reason to stay in this fandom, I would have abandoned it after VKM 13, that’s how deeply disgusted I am with this series and how incredibly unhappy it has made me. But since everyone and their mother has tried to get me to leave every single chapter, unfortunately I can’t leave on principle. As such, if you’re looking for positivity or reassurance, please find a different blogger. Thanks. 

#seriously why
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Anonymous asked:

You said once you'd hope your man moves on with another woman who isn't going to screw some other man and raise children with him while he burns for 1000 years. Yumes say she'd have to wait 1000 years before the furnace is out. PM is important for coexistence so it's not wrong to settle with her childhood friend and be happy rather than mourn forever. You said Zero is her sidepiece while she mopes for Kaname. does that mean Yuuki 's a mourning widow who's treasuring her life? Your opinion?

I guess if you consider that sort of behavior to be treasuring your life, that’s up to you. I personally don’t consider settling with a person you don’t love to be treasuring your life (especially not when you could work toward finding a way to bring your true love back), nor do I consider torturing a good man over another man who was involved in destroying the good man’s life to be treasuring your life–or at least not treasuring your second partner’s life. This is also assuming Yuuki can even be considered a legitimate “mourning widow,” which I don’t believe (Aidou and Takuma are better examples of “mourning widows” than Yuuki will ever be). But hey, to each their own, eh? If you like trash like this and think Yuuki’s an admirable character, that’s your call, but I’d appreciate it if you just fangirled the story on your own blog rather than anonymously sending me passive-aggressive attacks, thanks.

I to this day do not understand why pro-Kaname folks cannot understand that I do not interpret the story they way they do and do not believe the forge is necessary nor that the forge, if it was necessary, had to be Kaname–Isaya or another pureblood could have been used. There is no legitimate reason why Kaname had to abandon Yuuki if they were truly in love–there aren’t that many purebloods out there, and Kaname can easily keep people like Touma in check by himself without requiring weapons (not to mention Yuuki could keep people in check too). It’s not like Kaname had any difficulty with it during VK proper even without weapons. Plus, if Kaname was alive, he and Aidou could be working on the cure together and maybe within a mere 100 years there’d be no need for a forge at all because Aidou wouldn’t have to start Kaname’s research from scratch. Ever think of that as a solution rather than a contrived “suicide” ending?

But hey, let’s not let logic get in the way of the feels, eh?

#seriously why#time to turn the asks off
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Anonymous asked:

why do u think hino is being spiteful and taking it out on zeki fans? is it because vkm sales are not so good?

Who knows what’s going on with her behind the scenes. Could be the sales, could be a plot direction got nixed, could be she herself wrote herself into a corner she can’t get out of. 

It could even be that she’s not being spiteful at all and that she just is completely clueless about how storytelling works, but given that she’s been successful with shoujo stories before (not just VK), I can’t imagine that’s the real answer.

#vk is garbage tier
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