Anonymous
7/28/2025, 3:04:56 PM
No.8673854
>>8673675
I think they all fulfill a slightly different but similar type of male power fantasy so it's hard to choose. I tend to lean strongly towards female characters that look down on others in some fashion and share some combination of traits involving being cocky, stubborn, and strong willed but are mostly heroic in a general sense. There's just something so immensely satisfying about seeing them conquered. Iris is a naive princess but is also kind of a spoiled brat. She's a loose combination of all three of those categories and I think a lot of the girls in Murakami's works are similar.
Kangoku Senkan is probably the perfect example of this. Naomi and Lieri fit into all three categories fairly well. They are neither perfectly innocent nor completely evil, but they did wrong the protagonist from his perspective and they're definitely cocky heroines that get humbled from the perspective of the viewer. Most would probably agree they don't deserve what they got to the extent that it happened but it sure is hot seeing them get completely and utterly destroyed. They're the perfect combination of all three of those things which would probably explain why it's my favourite Murakami work by far.
I think they all fulfill a slightly different but similar type of male power fantasy so it's hard to choose. I tend to lean strongly towards female characters that look down on others in some fashion and share some combination of traits involving being cocky, stubborn, and strong willed but are mostly heroic in a general sense. There's just something so immensely satisfying about seeing them conquered. Iris is a naive princess but is also kind of a spoiled brat. She's a loose combination of all three of those categories and I think a lot of the girls in Murakami's works are similar.
Kangoku Senkan is probably the perfect example of this. Naomi and Lieri fit into all three categories fairly well. They are neither perfectly innocent nor completely evil, but they did wrong the protagonist from his perspective and they're definitely cocky heroines that get humbled from the perspective of the viewer. Most would probably agree they don't deserve what they got to the extent that it happened but it sure is hot seeing them get completely and utterly destroyed. They're the perfect combination of all three of those things which would probably explain why it's my favourite Murakami work by far.