ANIME: It's super effective!
Frugal living on a journey into the bottomless pit of moving madness.
Oh boy, let’s get started1.
For the bulk of my nearly 50 years on this rock, anime was a collection of very mainstream films—Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and the Ghibli Catalog. On the rare occasion some unfuckable friend tied me to a chair and forced me to watch something outside of the above list, the results were exactly as one may expect. Poorly concealed laughter and side glances for the rest of their lives.
Not in a mean spirited way, more in a “Hey man, some people get boners from high heels.” kind of way. All of us are broken. In many ways, friendship is really just the examination and alteration of the cracks.
After these forays beyond the mainstream my summation of the larger world of anime was:
I’m somewhat experienced in the medium, and I knew there must be more to it. Cowboy Bebop was cool, but Firefly later overwrote it. Like so many other things, I figured I was too far behind / old to understand it.
Then I found myself seemingly terminally unemployed. I began to shrink the list of expensive things I liked doing: drinking, cigars, having a home, you know, the non-essentials. Once you reduce your costs you need to start building a Catalog of Cope. Tools and methods to ensure the weight of failure doesn’t crush you, and remedies for when gravity wins.
Back in the day, books were pretty useful. I didn’t read because it was good for me, I read because it was a cheap distraction. These days, I am so brain-rotted that reading is off the table, beyond a meme or headline. So YouTube it was. I’ve always had a premium subscription, and dollars to hours it is one of the best entertainment values out there.
I spent most of my time watching various talking heads piss and moan about whatever discourse is their cash cow—political, cultural, philosophical exchanges with the odd lecture and the occasional “now-you-know”-type video. At some point, I wanted to stop having thoughts on the world.
Then I discovered Substack. I started scrolling on notes and commenting on odd bits and pieces just to get those little dopamine hits. I enjoy giving someone a chuckle or encouragement. But as I did this, I realized two things; Substack is 80% political, and the app is trying to spiral me as far down that brain-rotted discourse as possible. Seriously, no matter what you do, it’s taking information from your environment and sliding it into that notes feed. It’s creepy as shit2.
So I decided it was time to unsub from about 3/4 of my channels. I don’t use the YouTube homepage3. I have never had an interest in “discovering” whatever the hell YouTube thinks I should. I will sink or swim based on my own mental illness, thank you very much. But things do get through to me from time to time.
TELL ME ABOUT THE FUCKING GOLF SHOES!
Alright so anime. I don’t know when it happened, but anime must have really blew up in the States at some point recently for a guy like me to stumble into it. I’m sure there is some graph out that correlates the lack of fucking in the young and anime. I also feel like protein has something to do with it, but I have nothing to base that on other than I now have another gluten-GMO-cagefree-uncured-nitrate type graphic to avoid on the shit I’ve been buying for years.
As with most things, the beginning of a epiphany is often hard to pinpoint. Fortunately, I actually recall the inciting event.
As many men do, I went through a phase of being fascinated by the chopping, cutting, climbing and all around mangling of tree carcasses. I watched woodworking channels, carpentry, whitlin’, and eventually fell under the impression that I somehow had a kinship with lumberjacks and their ilk4.
So, as one does, there I am watching some video(s) about the lumberjack games, and there was a video thumbnail that stood out in the recommendations:
I don’t know what I expected to be on the other side of that thumbnail. Whatever it might have been, I was wrong. So very wrong.
The first 30 seconds of this video felt like it was meant for me. As if this man has been waiting for me specifically to click on this video. Seriously, if you’re familiar with the kind of stream-of-consciousness run-on-sentence-screeds I tend to write, and are already feeling faint seeing the length of this post about anime of all things, go watch that video. If you have a bone in your body that is susceptible to anime, that video WILL find it.
When it comes to deep-dive waxing poetic about a topic, I’m not your man. HOWEVER, this fuckin dude, he is (was?) the Johnny Appleseed of anime. Planting seeds and ruining cultural ecosystems for the love of the game.
When I saw this video, it had already been up for about two years. On the one hand, it made me feel left behind, an outsider. On the other hand, the series he was discussing was now an actual thing that, thanks to the high seas, I could enjoy. I immediately downloaded it and watched the whole goddamn thing in a sitting.
I probably said the phrase “what the fuck” aloud at least twice an episode. I was just about the most bonkers piece of media I have seen since Meet the Feebles. The premise, the characters, dialogue, hell even the music was blowing my smooth little brain. Being entirely without context of the larger world of anime and manga, this was like losing your virginity to the entire cast of Blue Velvet in an abandoned Pokemon theme park.
After the binge, I went to bed, perhaps inadvisable but I was cooked. When I woke the next day (that evening actually) I wasn’t sure how much of what I remembered was actually the show, or the mangled dreams I had while I slept. I decided to stare again into that void, as it stared back wide-eyed and manic, yelling obscenities. I want to say that I didn’t rewatch the whole thing in one sitting, but with no job, money, or shame, the deed was done.
I’m not entirely sure this should be anyone’s first foray into anime, but for me it kicked off SO many questions. I love me some esoterica and minutia, and it infested this stuff. I couldn’t even tell what was some kind of weird Japanese cultural thing (ie “normal”) or gorked out anime canon / trope.
It ALL seemed like madness, but entirely calculated, intentional and necessary to the story. I went back to the YouTube channel that got me there, and watched more of his uploads. Since I hadn’t watched much of the anime he was talking about, and despite his efforts to take it slow for the mouth breathers like me, it felt more anthropological and academic than anything else. The depth and breadth of this media was clearly and hopelessly beyond a casual approach. One needed immersion and documentation!
But I have the scholastic equivalent of Guillain–Barré syndrome—the mind rejects the organized data and attacks my memory centers. So I decided instead to step into the spoon-feeding normie drip-feed platform tailor made for dilettantes like me: Crunchyroll.
The platform’s name feels condescending to me, sort of like if there was a Chinese media platform targeting the U.S. market titled “Sweet and Sour Chicken” or like “Menu Item No. 16” with a half-red pepper as its icon. It just says “You aren’t going to actually ‘get’ this, but for what you lack in sophistication, you make up for in currency... just point to the picture you want.”.
They seem to always have a seven-day free trial, and the site’s overall vibe and layout is commendable. For $10 a month, you get access to all this stuff that is difficult to tease out of the high seas consistently, and in a digestible format. Despite all this handholding I still managed to screw things up:
I watched a sequel season of a show without seeing the first season
I spent a bunch of time reading subtitles when I could have been listening to the dub5
I got attached to a show that had died after like 12 episodes (a common occurrence)
Missed movie events in series because they weren’t directly listed in the show page
and Manny Moore
The next thing I wanted to watch (in typical sweet and sour chicken fashion) was more of the same. I saw that the studio that made Chainsaw Man made another show (many actually) that was called The Rising of the Shield Hero. However comparing the two is essentially a non-starter, and apparently that studio isn’t a one trick pony style wise. One thing that show did teach me is that you just have to keep watching.
Many of the shows I would come across in the future would have something that turned me off. I didn’t like the animation style, the voices, or comical tits and screaming, all kinds of stuff will lead me astray. But I have learned that until I have made it 4-5 episodes in, I have to just roll with it. Most of these shows will hook you in, one way or another.
You will be watching something you think is utterly irredeemable—so stupid and glad-handing to the target demo—that only the limpest of us could possibly enjoy it. But then they’ll toss in an episode about some side character, or sub-plot and you will be left slack-jawed and confused at the subtlety and depth of feeling (prime example later on). It feels like you have accidentally been fed an entirely different show, and many times I had to double-check Crunchroll hadn’t shit the bed or something. But nope, it is the same show, and in the next episode it is right back to normal, whatever that was.
This says a couple things. Just about everyone working on these shows—from animation, writing, music, voice acting, you name it—knows how to make quality, thoughtful and entertaining shows. But for the most part, they make the stuff that people tell them to, and due to the schedule and sheer shit tonnage of effort required, they will only hit that top level if it is absolutely essential to maintain the audience, bump up ratings, or, one assumes, stop the team from a mutinous revolt.
I can’t even comprehend the inner workings of either the anime studios or the manga domain, but I can safely assume whatever is going on there is not an error of effort or professionalism. However a kind soul Ichthy5 gave me this podcast to watch on that score, which I will certainly do once I finish this massive tangle of words.
Pro Tip:
Crunchyroll gives you an option to skip things like intros, credits, and “previously on” with a little button. Here is the problem, depending on the series or episode, that can account for like four or five minutes of run-time in a show that may only be 23 minutes in total. Worse, sometimes these folks will change up something about the intro / outro or just outright tack on a mini-episode at the end. You can miss precious little nuggets of art, music, and character details if you blindly hit that skip button. Sometimes you will get things like a music video where the characters are in an entirely different style, or inserted into something entirely uncoupled from the normal program. I am sure they do this to A: fill out the run time and then B: give the viewer something of value in exchange. All types of serial programs use little tricks like this; flashbacks, rehash, post-credit stuff. But anime does it very intentionally and puts some mustard on it.
Characters make the shows
I think I have a preference toward side or second-level characters. I feel like these are written for people like me as a sort of friendly gesture to keep me hooked in. Every so often, they will say or do something to make sure I’m paying attention. Many anime really benefit from repeat watching, if, for no other reason, than to catch these little asides or gestures beyond the main story.
Given my Swiss cheese memory (and a phenomena I will discuss later), I’ll use the anime I watched most recently that I think best encapsulates what I mean.
SPYxFAMILY
I passed over this show many times along my journey because it appeared the main character was some kind of child spy based on its cover (also a bad habit). I figured this show must be similar to the One Piece phenomena I saw taking off, and I wasn’t ready for that kind of... commitment? Fandom, something. So I carried on skipping past it, and it sort of became invisible to me. Then I started seeing a slew of “so and so watches anime show X for the first time” on the YouTubes and this show was consistently featured. I figured I would give it a go.
The first episode of this show seemed to be TRYING to get me to pass on it. The main dude was the cookie-cutter “OP” type protagonist (lookit me use the jargon baby!) and his mission sounded ridiculous. The show takes place in a reinterpretation of Cold War Germany, in a city called “Berlint”. His mission is to recruit people and form a family, then get the child of said family into Eden College (read Eton College?). In order for the plan to work, this kid needs to find their way to the top of the academic ladder which will grant them access to some kind of gathering(s) of the elites. All of that to get closer to a guy who is a former prime minister of the country and looks like this:
No he isn’t shocked or dazed or otherwise enfeebled, that is just what this dude looks like. I get the feeling he is being mind controlled or something, but, except a few hints, they haven’t said anything about that yet. Having a big bad that looks like that gave me a sort of “wacky” vibe, which is not my cup of tea.
For the first step of his mission the hero “Loid Forger” (yep, that is his name) decides the first thing he needs to do is find a child. How does this super spy manage this? He walks into what appears to be a pop-up orphanage and picks a little girl.
No paperwork, no money, no real backstory or justification. Guy running the place is just like “Here take this one, she is weird so do what you want with her.” One has all kinds of questions here, and it says an awful lot about the characters and the world they live in (and maybe a bit about the world WE live in). A little trafficking isn’t going to stop Loid, or us for that matter.
As per usual we have to do some age gymnastics, because anime. He needs a six-year-old (age for admission to the school?), but Anya appears to be four-ish. However the trafficker swears she is six (does this count as subverting expectations in anime?) so Loid shrugs and goes along.
But first he wants to know that she is wicked smaht. Jokes on him because she is secretly a telepath and uses her powers to demonstrate her intelligence. Clearly wanting to escape whatever fresh hell she finds herself in, she picks up a crossword and fills it out quickly and correctly. One assumes she does this by reading Loid’s mind for the answers which proves she’s smart enough for the task at hand.
Unbeknownst to me, all of these things will have deep and long lasting implications for the 50 odd episodes of the show to come, especially for Anya6. At this point, I’m thinking “I don’t like where this is going, and I don’t like how it’s getting there.”.
Then she starts talking.
She speaks in some kind of high-level baby talk. Given this is the English dub, one assumes the actress doing the voice is an adult. But I would be curious to see the process for this, not only casting, but performance. There’s some subtlety here. She appears to have some form of lingering accent or first language in the way she mispronounces some words or scrambles their order.
Conceptually, she seems to intuitively just KNOW what things mean that an ordinary four-year-old might not. I say this understanding it’s an anime, so there are far FAR stranger things I’ve seen so far than some canny kid with a veiled history.
The over-all way Loid treats Anya (Ania?) the mind-reading toddler, in the early days of the show essentially stains him as a character for me in a “pet the damn dog” kind of way. This isn’t weird for anime either, the whole nonsensical cruelty, indifference and ignorance is a trait some characters need to have for the plot to remain plausible. Loid is great for this, his voice has all the charm of a made-for-school abstinence video, and his appearance matches the OP spy vibe perfectly.
Anyway, hijinks ensue and after attempting to return her to the foster / trafficking system because he wants to shield her from his “dangerous world”, and another time for thinking she is “too stupid” to do the entrance exam, he rolls the dice with Anya. She takes the test, manages to pass, and he faints from all that work of brow-beating a child into doing his job for him. The episode ends with a twist where Loid finds out he is gonna need a wifey to go to the entrance interview at the school, so we are off to episode two.
Lucky for me I have that rule of letting a show take a few episodes to reel me in, cause had I left at this point I would’ve missed out on one of my favorite characters I’ve seen thus far in my journey.
Yor Welcome
Loid needs an old lady for to do the talky-talk with the school, so he has to hunt one down. No crazy spy work here; she basically just falls in his lap at some tailor shop.
Who is this convenient solution to his problem? It is Yor Briar (soon to be Forger). By day, she works as a secretary in a government office, and is a secret assassin for hire by night, codenamed “Thorn Princess” one assumes because of her last name. After a small chat and an initial mis-adventure to a coworker’s party, she agrees to be Loid’s wife because in order to maintain her cover for her assassin work, she needs to appear “normal”. It’s a win/win! Three people with secrets, two killers and a mind-reading child living together. The mind boggles. Here we go.
This show would be essentially unwatchable were it not for Yor. Essentially every time I laughed out loud watching this show it is Yor’s doing one way or another.
However, after watching the whole series it is with a heavy heart that I have to admit, Yor is dumb. I could be charitable and say she is only ignorant. Sort of in a similar way that “Leon” from the movie The Professional is. There are many parallels between the two that I assume are intentional. But after many episodes and deliberation, I just have to accept she possesses a lukewarm IQ at best, even by anime standards.
For what she lacks in brains, she makes up for in other attributes. She is considerate, earnest, lighthearted, warm, and most of all, has the god-given retard strength that only a medium like anime can illustrate. Every time I thought the show had reached its limit exaggerating her physicality, it makes her do something even more comical and physics-defying.
Even better than “she under-estimates her strength” type deal, because her ignorance here is justifiable. For most of Yor’s life, the only times she has let loose her strength is doing her assassin job. Meaning that she was operating in the dark and expediently. She has no idea what normal really is because the only other “normal” people in those scenarios that could say something like “wow, you are really strong and that’s crazy” end up as bloody smears and heaps before they can drop a Yelp review of her service.
The showrunners really delivered here. Every time I was hoping for Yor to somehow be put in a position to do some crazy shit, it ends up even better than I could’ve hoped.
Apparently, the only thing matched by her strength is her inability to cook anything that doesn’t become a war crime. Her brother would be another character that annoys the piss out of me, but thanks to a lifetime of being subjected to Yor’s strength and cooking failures, he’s basically Stockholm Syndrome made human7. He loves his sister with such ferocity that it can only be tempered by bouts of projectile vomiting from her cooking and egregious yet seemingly unintentional pugilistic attention from her. His borderline-romantic mania for her is a parallel to my experience with the show. I will carry on, for Yor.
Fun Fact:
As I write this I decided to go onto youtube to see if someone had done a “greatest hits” video of Yor. Any anime fans out there will be laughing at me now. Because OFCOURSE there are a bazillion of them because this is anime and these people go HAM in fandom.
I don’t want a figurine, body pillow, or charm / whatever of Yor. I love her character in an honest, wholesome, heel-crushing-my-balls kind of way. You know, Platonic like.
I assume there is a name or label in the anime world for her “type” of character. They are great, the anime people, when it comes to exhaustively defining, categorizing, and collecting all the characters out there in the world. I am sure I will discover it someday. But for now, she is but one example of characters I have enjoyed thoroughly in my anime journey, and in many ways a character only possible in this particular medium.
There are others I could relay to you now after nearly a year of somewhat consistently watching anime, but thanks to another phenomenon that may only apply to me, it is very challenging.
Ani-mnesia: The Medium of Laughter and Forgetting
Anime characters and the shows they are in seem to be patterned from a relatively short list of templates. Nothing is new under the sun, and if you look at any media you’re basically going to see a similar tendency toward conformity with the past. You got your hero journeys, your Greek stuff, Shakespeare riffs and what not. But in anime it is more structured. They seem to start with the constraints; genre, setting, character, plot and dialogue, all the way down to music and color palette seem not so much choices as rules as a beginning.
I imagine this has more to do with the audience than the creatives as I mentioned before, but I think it’s within those clearly defined rules that you will find some of the most engaging variation possible. Though when someone does do something different, it stands out even more. I’ve heard people say things like “oh yeah, that show introduced that expression to anime”. Imagine that. Of all the countless shows, characters, stories there is an appreciation and even a reverence for something as simple as a tilted head or a type of smile. So much so that it then becomes part of these levers creators get to pull. They become short hand in a way that things like the Wilhelm scream does, but on a much more fundamental level.
I say that to illustrate that I have some deeper appreciation here in my ignorance, because I believe this may help me rationalize my biggest failure so far in my journey.
I forget.
Scrolling back over my history in Crunchroll for this bit of writing, I realized that I was incapable of recalling details from many of the shows or characters I’ve watched. I assume there is something to be said for binging and how that affects impact, but I was having trouble recalling another character specifically to stack next to Yor as a counter example.
There are some shows that stick, most of them huge and well-known. Frierien, Cowboy Bebop, OnePiece, and Chainsaw Man, are there in my head. But after maybe a thousand episodes of various anime shows, many blur together. I’m confident much of it is my doing. I made choices based on what I saw before, or what vibe I was feeling. Some of it can be handed to Crunchyroll, as I use their website to find what to watch next. I know there are exceptions that kind of prove the rule.
I saw a video on YouTube about a show called You and I are Polar Opposites!, and after watching that, then watching the series I feel I was given a gift. Were it not for that guy’s video, I would have NEVER sought that program. It led me down a vein of “slice of life” high school shows that I had zero interest in. Kaguya-sama: Love-is-War is one I know I’ll rewatch, but there are like five or six other similar shows that I recall nothing of other than one character, or a intro/outro.
It makes me understand the sheer batshit madness that is most anime. How else could one possibly stand out and hold attention with an audience like me, let alone a hardened veteran.
Darling in the Franxx: that’s one way to do it.
The above is a screen shot from the show, and to those who can not quite wrap their minds around what the hell is happening there, let me explain. If you were to see the cover of this show, it looks like some kind of vanilla Voltron-eske, mech-suit show. But once inside, things are… different. Not all at once, mind you. It gives you a minute to relax and catalog some things in your head before it hits you with its gimmick.
That gimmick is that there are these giant robots which have two pilots each. Those pilots are one boy and one girl (they have to be young… for reasons) and in order for them to fly, the above the seating configuration necessary for success. Yes, the girl is on all fours. Those are controllers (joy sticks?) attached to her ass that the boy uses to steer the mech around the battle field through her.
This show is a heat-seeking-missile for a certain audience, but for everyone else, the teen-ass-piloting-action is a bit too much. I imagine at the time of airing they started testing out some scenes on people and well, there was some uncomfortable discussions. SO, what can be done? For the creators of the show, and the artists and actors working on it, it is a dead end. That is when they break out the “we actually know how to do something good” episode.
There is a pilot in the show who discovers he is “compatible” with a this elite sexy-demon-nympho-type8. The demon takes a shine to him calling him her “Darling” (ladies and gentlemen we have a title). It seems rather out of the blue, this infatuation she has with him, but being anime, not TOO out of the blue. But tucked in these episodes is a gem where get to see exactly why this is the case. You see they knew each other when they were little, but their minds were essentially scrubbed of most of the experience. The flashback they do in the show of what transpired between them back in the day is some of the most endearing, emotional, and beautiful shit I have ever seen.
But then in the next episode, back to jiggling asses, yelling, and “making weird noises”. The entire show is not worth watching, and if I were to recommend that show to any sane person, they would understandably question my sperm count. But yet, even in a show that is hopelessly gorked, there is something both memorable and meaningful. Just boggles my little virginal anime brain to no end, and is one of the main reasons I wrote this. I don’t know if they did it in an attempt to save the show, or as a resume for the jobs they would soon be looking for, but that episode is some great work. Your results may vary.
I could probably go on for a while more, but it is feeling a lot like “Then one time I saw this! Cool huh?!”
As with other posts, I may not write about anime again. Chances are I’ll burn myself out making graphics and futzing about with the order and content until I’m entirely disinterested, but who knows. If you have read along with me, and you happen to be an anime-type person, drop some recommendations in the comments.
I’ve learned the best way for me to find stuff I enjoy is to have someone make a case for me first. I don’t know how many folks on Substack (or my “audience” for that matter) are into this kind of thing, but there is usually at least one freak out there willing to preach to the newly converted, so have at it. All in all, it’s nice to know things can still surprise me.
As a parting note I have been seeing a lot of discourse out there about how “anime is ruining boys and men” which is a pretty hilarious hot take given the shit a lot of dudes are going through these days. Yeah it’s the cartoons making people go south, not like you know, everything else. Not to mention the people who seem to be shilling this discourse are the same folks flicking the bean to novels about milking centaurs or LARPing about in military gear drinking protein infused Starbucks. Be still your collective tits I say. Anything is bad in excess, but the LAST thing we need is yet another moral panic, especially one targeting this particular demo. Anywho, its midnight so imma hit send.
Thanks in advance to those who made it this far, and as usual I’m sorry.
If you are a long time, avid consumer of anime much of this post may be boring, unoriginal, infuriating, ignorant, or all of the above. I have tried not to venture into the nerd warren that is anime fandom, with the intent of having my own impressions, and commentary free from any education. Be advised, see you in the comments!
I gaslit myself for quite a while thinking that it was a coincidence that I would be watching a random thing or talking to someone about something and then seeing related content in my notes feed. But now I am more or less convinced that no matter what settings you change, the app is both listening, filming, and farming anything it can from your phone to whatever ends it sees fit. Next time you get bored, on a separate device cue up a video on a topic you have no interest in and play it with your substack app open on your phone. Then go do some scrolling on your notes feed in the app. I bet you will see it in there in few minutes. They are subtle about it, which is why it took me a while to see it as more than coincidence… jesus we just got started, this is going to be a LONG post, but you came here. That is on you.
This browser plug-in changed my YouTube life so I feel the need to spread it like gospel to the masses (you are welcome / I am sorry): UnHook App
There is a whole other missive on Train Dreams I was going to shoehorn into this post about anime, but my attorney told me “Outlook not so good” so I sent it to my growing “someday maybe” file.
I understand that a lot of “real” anime people watch them with subtitles as opposed to dubs. I have on occasion done this as well, and I will grant there can be a marked difference in not only the words, but the feeling and tone of the overall program. Which makes sense as actors in regular media have a huge impact on the overall outcome of their respective media. However, for me I found that when I try watching shows with the subtitles on I spend so much time speed reading that I sort of blur out the actual animation happening on the screen. The art in anime stands above almost all other forms of animation, and a lot of the neat, quirky side things that I like in anime happen visually. One that comes to mind is in the show “Kaguya-sama: Love is War” where one of the characters named “Chika” has a running gag that she can’t whistle. As far as I can tell it is never specifically mentioned by anyone, but there are several scenes where she does her best in the background to whistle, and at first glance you find yourself going “what the hell is she doing” but once you figure it out, it’s a chuckle every time it happens. All of that to say I am not ashamed of my preferences for dubs, or rather, that I am a little, and this is how I cope, attempting to whistle in the background.
What seemed to me as a sort of irrelevant fact at the time, Anya is likely 4 maybe 5 years old at the most. While numerically and appearance wise the difference between her actual age and those of her classmates seems slight, developmentally the difference can be pretty huge. She gets an awful lot of flack from her classmates, teachers, and even Loid about being dumb, lazy, or otherwise inferior intellectually. But unlike many characters, I get the suspicion Anya is actually a bit of a genius in spite of her special powers. A traumatized war orphan who was apparently experimented upon and tossed aside, living with two killers who lie to her face and often speculate about leaving her behind. I don’t know about you, but I reckon scholarly pursuits would take a back seat to all that shit in my head. Of the three main characters I find Anya’s predicament the most harrowing. The razor’s edge she walks day to day makes what Yor and Loid do seem hilariously low stakes by comparison in my opinion.
Some of the funniest scenes to me in the show is watching Yuri (Yor’s brother) eat the dark-purple slurries she makes, vomiting while continuing to eat, screaming loudly that Yor is such a great cook. I am a simple man, with simple needs.
I am not sure if this is an identified type of character, but I have now like 3 examples of girl devils with pink hair, red horns, and a penchant for fuckery. It could just be my left over feelings from listening to Lords of Acid, but I think I like this type of character. I guess I will find out now that I can lift my embargo of lore and fandom consuming.