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6/28/2025, 2:53:22 PM
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And I strongly dislike this direction for her character.
Instead of using Asa as a narrative anchor point, she is being treated as this "elusive magical creature" for the sake of propping ambiguity and mystery surrounding her actions and motivations. It's almost as if we're seeing Asa through the eyes of another...and that would very likely be Denji's, further supported by the fact that we still see Denji's inner monologues, and as much as I wouldn't like to see it that way, it's hard not to think that this is due to AsaDen.
This kinda sucks because it carries the implication that her character exists entirely in function of another, again, this wouldn't bother me at all if Aki and Denji weren't different, especially Aki. In laconics, in recent writing it feels like Asa is effectively being treated as "the good human side of Denjis girlfriend" while Yoru is "the bad devil side".
This idea of "putting a veil" on her character to prop speculation from the readers kinda falls apart at the seams when you consider that lots of situations that were "obscured" are completely new to Asa herself, such as dropping out of school(presumably), fighting monsters, becoming a celebrity then a terrorist, getting grievously injuried etc.
Kinda circles back to the initial argument and why I haven't been particularly fond of AsaDen, for both Denji, Asa and everyone else. My greatest (c)hope is that eventually the "POV" will return to Asa to tackle things like her chicken dream, which presumably reflects the her darkest hour that can only really exist from her perspective. It would royally suck if Fujimoto keeps this "outsider's perspective" with Asa through stuff like the aforementioned chicken dream, dealing with Yoru and Death, a poor decision to rival big lebowski itself.
And I strongly dislike this direction for her character.
Instead of using Asa as a narrative anchor point, she is being treated as this "elusive magical creature" for the sake of propping ambiguity and mystery surrounding her actions and motivations. It's almost as if we're seeing Asa through the eyes of another...and that would very likely be Denji's, further supported by the fact that we still see Denji's inner monologues, and as much as I wouldn't like to see it that way, it's hard not to think that this is due to AsaDen.
This kinda sucks because it carries the implication that her character exists entirely in function of another, again, this wouldn't bother me at all if Aki and Denji weren't different, especially Aki. In laconics, in recent writing it feels like Asa is effectively being treated as "the good human side of Denjis girlfriend" while Yoru is "the bad devil side".
This idea of "putting a veil" on her character to prop speculation from the readers kinda falls apart at the seams when you consider that lots of situations that were "obscured" are completely new to Asa herself, such as dropping out of school(presumably), fighting monsters, becoming a celebrity then a terrorist, getting grievously injuried etc.
Kinda circles back to the initial argument and why I haven't been particularly fond of AsaDen, for both Denji, Asa and everyone else. My greatest (c)hope is that eventually the "POV" will return to Asa to tackle things like her chicken dream, which presumably reflects the her darkest hour that can only really exist from her perspective. It would royally suck if Fujimoto keeps this "outsider's perspective" with Asa through stuff like the aforementioned chicken dream, dealing with Yoru and Death, a poor decision to rival big lebowski itself.
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