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straightforwardly) wrote2018-02-03 02:31 pm
straightforwardly) wrote2018-02-03 02:31 pm
180 | a brief update which mostly ended up being about shipping
► I’ve done most of Yuzu’s Day 8 in Devil Survivor Overclocked, save for the final battle. I was originally going to wait until I finished it completely before talking about it here, but that battle’s...going to take some prep work, judging by how my first try at it went, and I don’t know when I’ll get around to it, so I figured I might as well talk about the rest of it now. I don’t have too much to say about most of it. It’s an enjoyable ending, but not much that makes me sit up and take not—except for Naoya. I’m really surprised by how quickly this ending has made me feelings about him change from distrust/indifference/vague dislike to actually being intrigued by him. I definitely understand the appeal of Naoya/Protagonist now, after so many years of being baffled by its relative popularity.
There was this bit from an email he sent to the Protagonist after they (Protagonist, Yuzu, & Atsuro) make it out: In any event, as long as Belberith is here, there’ll be no doomsday event in the lockdown. I don’t care what you do with this information, just keep clawing at some means of survival.
And then there was also this (after the Protagonist chooses an option that goes with something along the lines of, ‘I’m glad you’re happy’, iirc): “Haha… You enjoy making me happy? That’s a good brother! Hahahaha….!” [x]
And then there were these two moments, which I can’t quite remember the context of anymore (I have a really bad memory and it’s already been a week since I saw this, sorry), but I also found appealing:
(It’s a little hard to see, but Naoya is smiling in that last one. I took these all with my phone, hence the quality.)
► Brief The Reader and Protagonist Definitely Have to Be in True Love update: Literally the next chapter I read after my last update (which was chapter 41, for the record) had the protagonist starting to return Xiu’s feelings, ha.
Two more things:
- Xiu’s thoughts at the end of chapter 48 (when he was wondering for whom Eric was trying to find Du Ze for) were...wow. If it is a person, eliminate it; if it is a Temple, destroy it; if it is God, slaughter God. I have a lot of problems with this LN, but the iddyness of Xiu’s feelings are not one of them.
- I started shipping Nina/Ariel almost instantly, and all based on one line in chapter 59: Muir turned into his humanoid form and rested in a corner while Nina and Ariel stayed together. That’s it. That’s the full-extent of the interaction they’ve had up to the point where I am now. And yet, I’m into it.
There was this bit from an email he sent to the Protagonist after they (Protagonist, Yuzu, & Atsuro) make it out: In any event, as long as Belberith is here, there’ll be no doomsday event in the lockdown. I don’t care what you do with this information, just keep clawing at some means of survival.
And then there was also this (after the Protagonist chooses an option that goes with something along the lines of, ‘I’m glad you’re happy’, iirc): “Haha… You enjoy making me happy? That’s a good brother! Hahahaha….!” [x]
And then there were these two moments, which I can’t quite remember the context of anymore (I have a really bad memory and it’s already been a week since I saw this, sorry), but I also found appealing:
(It’s a little hard to see, but Naoya is smiling in that last one. I took these all with my phone, hence the quality.)
► Brief The Reader and Protagonist Definitely Have to Be in True Love update: Literally the next chapter I read after my last update (which was chapter 41, for the record) had the protagonist starting to return Xiu’s feelings, ha.
Two more things:
- Xiu’s thoughts at the end of chapter 48 (when he was wondering for whom Eric was trying to find Du Ze for) were...wow. If it is a person, eliminate it; if it is a Temple, destroy it; if it is God, slaughter God. I have a lot of problems with this LN, but the iddyness of Xiu’s feelings are not one of them.
- I started shipping Nina/Ariel almost instantly, and all based on one line in chapter 59: Muir turned into his humanoid form and rested in a corner while Nina and Ariel stayed together. That’s it. That’s the full-extent of the interaction they’ve had up to the point where I am now. And yet, I’m into it.