>>7755014
I know what you mean but in this case it was for the dramatic effect, the girl has been slave in afterlife for centuries constructing the titans from the sand and in her life too she was slave since a child, was hunted and tortured for fun, sought refugee in old tree trunk that happened to be home of extradimensional eldricth horror that granted her the power of titans and even with her titan powers she chose to stay slave for the king, fought for him with her new powers, became the king's wife and bore children to him and even gave her life to protect the king because of her slave mentality.
In the context of OP's panels she just were told by the MC to take reins of her own fate and cast away the shackles of slavehood. I get what you mean with the western counterpart, it is kind of same but in wesern Ren and Stimpy the close ups are for disgusting comedy effect while in this case a centuries old trauma is being confronted.