Hi, if you enjoyed this video, please consider leaving a like & comment and share this video. ADDITIONAL THANKS TO: Skep-Tech 11037 EDIT: To clear things up, I am not blaming Yuna for being a victim, I was simply saying "the story makes it feel like it's blaming Yuna for being a victim", and I could have conveyed that better. I also forgot to put the time stamp in to skip the Yuna tangent. Sorry. The time stamp to skip it is 56:11. Translation of song lyrics were sourced from lyricstranslate.com.
you didn't have to give me additional thanks ww but apreciate it. Man. I've finished it now and you really made my day with this. Allthough i have thought about most of these things myself allready, hearing other people talk about them just deepens my apreciation for said things. Allthough the part of the ending was very much something i haven't thought about yet. But still.. the scene that i carry with me more than any other, even the ending, is the ending of ep 9 where shôko dies.. so many aspects of the story build up to that point.. the metaphor of the canaria bird coming to it's heartbreaking conclusion.. and the song just perfectly hitting all the spots to make me full of despair of everyone involved, but especially shôko.. one of the most intense experiences i had when it comes to a tragic event. Listen to this song still to this day everyday. But yeah, thank you for putting the good word of this anime out there. Really apreciate this. One of my favourite videos on this platform
@UltimateHikikomori I wanted to ask a question. In the video when I was saying how I didn't like how the story implies half of Yuna's suffer is her fault, was I clear enough on that I DIDN'T like how it came off as blaming her?
@@1fishmob (i saw the community post allready ww) If i have to guess, i'd say it's a combination of the possibility you presented to skip the part of you talking about her backstory in the manga, which maybe some people then did, your negative stand on the part itself with how it is just way too long and thrown into it in the middle of the story and you mentioning sometimes, that her being the victim of these things doesn't excuse how she treats her children. Maybe with the sensitive nature of the topic some people just got rubbed the wrong way. I understand that you didn't mean it like that. But yeah.. it's an nime about sensitive subjects and it's prone for these kinds of reactions. If it's the only big negative reaction you got, then i think that shows you did a good job in handling those topics.
I just love this kind of horror, it is not a jumpscare kind of horror. It is basically there to make you feel uneasy and disgusted, and reveal some information to you little by little. The thing is jumpscares in horror can scare you but it is basically to get either scared or angry reaction out of you but most of the time, you will be annoyed by them but for me a good horror story is the one which makes you feel uneasy, interested, it is like starting at the darkness and you feel like something is staring at you but there is nothing around you, basically you bulding your own paranoia.
@@fishmobsmovietv514 precisely, a horror is supposed to be uneasy, disgusting, interesting or basically to provoke some sort of reaction out of you. There are good jumpscares but most of the time they are a cheap scare, but i perfer when i'm the one who is building my own fear then a monster who run's after me.
The biggest mistake the anime made was introducing Shio with a brightly colored shot. The manga made sure to use a full page with neutral gray colors so readers can think for themselves about what they're seeing, which would be unease considering the start of the chapter talks about Sato basically being a prostitute, before using bright colors to showcase that the objectivity of the scene and the characters' happy emotions are two different things. The anime, however, using bright colors from the start makes it seem like the anime wants to make the viewer think what's going on is perfectly fine, which goes so against the viewers thoughts. I think that's a major reason why there are people who watched the anime thinking that it was a PDFile story. Edit: Oh, yeah, the anime also removed the scene of it bring heavily implied that Sato never did or thought about doing anything sexual to Shio. It's obviously very apparent that that was the case, but the anime not giving that confirmation just added to people misunderstanding the story.
@@revolutionarymagic3459 Yeah, Sato's aunt asks Shio about what kinds of things Sato does to her, which she tells was just playing in the bath or things like that. After talking about everything, the aunt turns to Sato and taunts her about being too innocent.
Except that's completely, without a doubt... wrong. The manga's first page is a color spread, it's black and white in the print release because that's how manga tend to come out when in tankobon format. The whole Sato being promiscuous thing is depicted as a rumor before she flat out admits to it while the manga paneling and stylings are akin to that of a shoujo romance manga, it's literally still doing this through a rose tinted lens, what are you talking about??? I haven't read the manga in 3 years and it only took the slightest amount of rechecking to get that right.
@Piradood I was talking about Shio being introduced, not the first page of the manga. Sato opens her door and greets Shio, then the next page is a full page of just Shio sitting in the corridor. _That_ page is a full shot of Shio, which doesn't use crazy bright colors, like the anime did. The tone shift of the manga goes from: Sato possibly killed someone > is a slut > got over it because she found love (so happy for her, look how happy she is!) > her love is a small child (*record scratch). Edit: I just checked, and what the manga does is use the white of her house at the top of the panel and then that slowly loses focus as more grey and black colors show up the further down the panel you go as you get to Shio. You can clearly tell that was intentional, and is completely different from how the anime adapted that page.
@@marchmelloow flew off the handle there, bad day at work. While that is true to a degree, I still don't think it's an accurate depiction of it all considering how the manga goes about depicting tone. The full page is indeed in greyscale, it's not depicted the same way the dullness of the world is shown in times where Sato isn't experiencing a great deal of joy. The manga often will change up its onomatopoeia, darken the areas, or even blotch it, making it seem dulled. It can be described as a sort of "unbiased" perspective of it, but the panels right before it still have that same tonality in its artwork, it's only when they're together that the joy is back with the aforementioned bubbly onomatopoeia and shoujo-esque visual elements, that are directly beside it when page to page in physical format. I don't think it's fair to shake the anime for this stylistic decision considering the manga doesn't go out of its way to show the ugliness of it all from the start because the perspective is entirely skewed in Sato's favor for a good majority of the first volume.
I still felt sympathetic for Asahi even after the whole torture thing. To be completely fair, Asahi was beaten down and abused by his father and was repeatedly let down. He trusted Pedo McGee and what happened? Turns out the one adult he put his faith in betrayed him in the worst way possible. Obviously, Asahi wouldn't believe Pedo McGee and could respond the only way he knew. Violence.
SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS THIS SHOW THANK YOU LORDDD I love psychological horror but HSL takes the cake for my number one spot. I like when media explores the horror in humanity. It's been my ultimate favorite for a few years now and It makes me happy that people are coming to their senses and understanding it's complexities instead of just going "it's weird" and dismissing the values in it's themes Really awesome video, glad to see someone else who likes this show as much as I do!
1:32:00 i take a little issue with dat statement. salt is often used in small quantities to greatly enhance sweetness. salt is a core component in most sweets, bakeries and so on. i dont know if you were purely talking about a 1 to 1 ratio, but mixing salt and sugar together certainly isnt unappealing or unappetizing as its actually a very important combination to enhance flavours.
I am aware of that, but that is a common thought process for some people and it is the main metaphor. I'm not saying sugar and salt don't mix, but it's more like mixing raw salt with raw sugar that is the metaphor.
As someone who grew up with a fucked up idea of love, an abusive idea of what love is, I relate to Happy Sugar life on a personal level. Satos Aunt reminds me of my mom… and Shios mom as well 😅 Blood on the Tracks is another series that has similar feelings
The algorithm works in mysterious ways. I felt I was going crazy being the only one thinking this was a legitimately good series. Even if every character was messy, the writing wasn't. I didn't expect to end the week watching an essay abotu this series that is over half as log as the series itself. Thanks for putting words to many of the feelings I had about this. Also an interesting bit about Shio's name and how 3 different people are obsessed with her: salt is considered a purifier (not just in Japan now that I think about it), probably because it is used to preserve food, it's often used to "purify a place" from evil spirits and to ward them off. So that's where Taiyou's specific wording for his obsession came from.
The only act of true love in the show is Satous maternal love and sacrifice at the end it breaks the cycles of abuse all the central characters were stuck in by tying shio to her memory no one else will be pulled into the abuse and torment of their lives and while no one gets a happy ending shio isn't stuck with asahi a character to broken to even know that he needs help shio being alone yet still able to form relationships is the best ending she could've had after everything thats happened to her and it keeps her from seeking death
Using images of sugar and stray sweets to create an impressive metaphor for the meaning of love, I used to think the "bitter candies" that Sato always talked about with an unpleasant expression because they represented effects such as anxious, insecure and inappropriate, and others simply do not know what the victim is going through. But looking back at the title and reviewing the first five episodes, it's just like you said! Those are still candies, they are still sweet, but not all sweets are the same, Sato loves her relationship with Shi-o but appears to hate other ideas of love, because she does not feel Other people's sweets are sweet, but the way to enjoy it is not
I absolutely loved this analysis - while I'll ironically say Satou did nothing wrong (and I'm a bit more like her than I'm comfortable with), I've always believed what Happy Sugar Life does best is portray its core cast as they are, complicated, sinful, and capable of more as they are, and challenge the viewer to develop a moral framing to deal with people who have gone through things said viewer likely has never even entertained the idea of happening to them. It's a complex, troubling, and uncomfortable story that all too many people end up rejecting or misunderstanding in an attempt to push that discomfort away - perhaps not wanting to consider it as a reflection of reality, or perhaps a reflection of themselves. For all those reasons, this has gotta be one of the best long-form pieces I've seen on the story, and it'll always have a special place in my heart (and a good few others). For 'further reading' I'd give a crack at Bitter Salt Life (a fanmade continuation that's somehow quality enough to seem official), or the discord server (a very... interesting? place) also timeskip shio is cute
in my own twisted way, regardless of Satou being a bad person, I find myself wishing that her and Shio could have stayed together. They were the best things that had happened to each other. it does make me happy that Shio continued to be happy later on, I never read the manga, so that's a nice thing to learn. As for most of the story, I understand asahi was supposed to be seen as a hero figure, the good guy, etc. But I never did find him to be someone I wanted to be successful. I felt bad for his upbringing, of course, but If he got what he wanted Shio would not have been happy. That's just the truth of it. Asahi nor his mother could have provided her with proper companionship or even good living conditions. The death of Shouko really is the one thing in this show that satou does, that I believe is completely unjustifiable, and that's a good thing for the story. It does cause that important development of satou and shio's characters that is so well done. Now on a personal note that isn't reiterating things said in the video, I know many see Satou as a pedophile. I want to say that I do not believe she is. Yes, she is in a relationship with an 8-year old, but I believe that anyone who was sufficiently "pure" or "innocent" and happened to meet satou in specific circumstance, could have become that person she loved. it didn't have to be a child. It's just far more common for children to be pure or innocent. Now many of Satou's crimes are caused by Shio being a child but none of those crimes are SA or Rape. It's important for the story that shio is a child, But again I think its not the case that she is a pedophile. just a personal gripe I have with the already undeservedly low reception of this show. the Pedo word is thrown around so easily these days it bothers me. I'm not very confident in my ability to articulate my thoughts, so I hope that came out right. This was a good video though, I enjoyed it, and you were surprisingly able to keep me engaged through 2 and a half hours.
Satō is an asexual pedo. As someone who had an intense pure romantic relationship with a teen as a kid, I felt very represented by this. While it was wholly positive interactions, it really warped my life and he was the most important thing to me (a child) and it took a lot of therapy to realize I should have never been so close with him. It robbed me of childhood. Satō is robbing Shio of a normal life with her actions, no matter how happy they were together. Also while Shio is happy at the end of the manga, we also see that she is still revolving around Satō, greeting her when she arrives home. I doubt Shio will ever have normal relationships and I bet she'd defend other child abductors if it met her definition of "pure love" bc she's been groomed to think it's ok. Just like I was, and like you seem to be (no offense) It's just not ok. It's not developmentally appropriate. I think the series tries its best to show that it's not truly a happy sugar life.
Asahi is more of a flawed hero than anything. He's not entirely pure, and his motivations could be seen as selfish, but ultimately he just wanted to get his little sister back from a potentially dangerous (in his eyes) kidnapper. Though i will say, all the conflicting opinions on who was in the right and who was the villsin says a lot about how well wtitten it is.
Frankly, i dont think the anime portrayed satuo's backstory too well since i only saw her as someone sympathetic, especially after she killed shoko. Also, for the asai, i didn't really notice his selfish reasoning to save shio. But also, i believe i watched this when i was too young to understand that meaning.
This is an amazing video. I really enjoy detailed dissections of media like this. I couldn't believe it when I saw that it only had under 2K views! Keep it up, man.
Wow, the fact that someone actually made a video about this is so cool. I still can't believe just how underrated and misunderstood Happy Sugar Life is. You've done an excellent job analyzing this anime / manga. Cheers.
Loved this video, you actually made me so much more understanding of Satou, i used to see her as "oh, messed up low-key pdf file" but you made me see her as so much more. The anime never brainwashed me, i never rooted for her nor did i ever deny that what she was doing was bad, but You almost did, ironically enough. You called out things i never even noticed, and that made me appreciate this golden, underground masterpiece So much more. If i didn't love it before, i would now. Thanks!
A bit late to the party, but I love your breakthrough of the series. I watched it 1 year after it came out and, ever since then, I wasn't the same. Satou and her struggles spoke to me like nothing else. Just like her, I was also young and searching for love, changing guys regularly, except, unlike her, I gave up, feeling like I wasn't meant to find love at all. That, of course, changed, but it took a few years. Seeing her being happy with Shio made me feel sad, because even now I still can't have that(some irl stuff, not important). Yuna(at least her manga version) was also very relatable. In my quest to find love, I dated this one guy who was very creepy, but, because I was desperate, I stayed in that relationship(I also had some troubles at home, but it's not that important). I was 17 and he was 20. He told me that he wanted to get me pregnant, marry me and take me away from my mother. I don't remember why I didn't just dump him after that, but I guess it had to do with my trauma and self hatred. Unlike Yuna though, I got out of that relationship without ruining my life. Going back to Satou, she's by far my favorite yandere. The main reason for that is the fact that killing people is not the only option for her to deal with obstacles(looking at you, Yuno). She mostly uses manipulation to get what she wants and, in a way, I admire that about her. I also have to praise her va Kana Hanazawa. This was my first time hearing her in an anime and she nailed the role. I wouldn't want anyone else to voice Satou! One more thing to add is the ending. It broke me. When Satou shielded Shio with her body to save her, I broke down. I didn't want this to be the end. I truly wanted Satou and Shio to be happy. I still love the ending btw. I have watched the anime and read the manga several more yes because of how much I enjoyed it. Heck, I even introduced my best friend to it and he fell in love with how morally complex this show is and, I still ended up crying at the ending.
Honestly this manga/anime makes me cry because these two kids became broken because of the adults around them. I feel like sato would had grown intona completely different person if her uprising wasnt so fcked up. Of course im not excusing her actions
Finished it a month ago and it's still with me. I couldn't stop thinking about the characters and what happened after the story ended. Even after reading the extra volume. Enjoyed this video a lot.
This video was a godsend, from going over the symbolic value of love each character saw the other as while simultaneously presenting the complexity of their situations(notably shio and Satou considering how I've seen people praise Asahi way too much with said people not understanding why shio left him to begin with. With satou's case being worse as alot of people write her off just some crazy girl instead of tortured soul like a majority of the cast). The Ending left me happy that shio found freedom but distraught when said freedom lead to her breaking mentally.
I started my psychology homework and this had to have been one of the best videos to stumble upon and watch. You did such an amazing job at analyzing every little detail not just in the anime but manga and the differences inbetween the two. Just total props to all the effort and work put into this, it was amazing! I would love to see an in depth analysis video like this on future diary too cause that was another psychological thriller that rattled my bones
Maybe someday. Ironically enough, I was looking for someone who knew psychology so they could give me some insight on the characters in The series. But I'm glad to know that I did a good job either way.
Honestly and I mean this sincerely I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a realistic depiction of how fucked up the world is. Everyone in this universe is terrible in some way. And I think it’s brilliant. Even after I read the manga after finishing the anime I seriously thought the ending was incredibly bittersweet and intentionally ambiguous. This world is full of evils we try to hide but eventually it gets brought to light.
Wow! This was an awesome video analysis of a creepy show I watched a few years ago. I may just watch the series again after watching your video. Two thumbs up, Fishmobs!
its crazy how i not only recently discovered and finished this anime, but i get recommended a long review of it abbhkns this was GREAT, i wish ur channel the best frfr
Very misunderstood anime and manga. Tbh I need to finish reading the manga cause that show was definitely something different. Manga has a lot more in it too
This is the best video I've ever watched on this topic. Happy Sugar Life deals with child abuse, and horrendously messy characters, but never in a glorifying way. I think many people simply can't get past its premise to see how in its horror presentation it deals with its themes in a more delicate way than many other media. HSL treads the line between the two extremes of "this is bad" polemic that I've encountered: this is bad and it's bad because I say it's bad and if you talk about it too much it you're bad too so we won't talk about it any more VS this is bad and I'll show you exactly how bad it is by portraying what's bad in gratuitous and questionably specific detail. You too did a great job of summing up the anime and manga in how their metaphors and character arcs work, and I also appreciated your few critiques. In terms of the "showing the father's face" problem, I think the anime actually did it best not only by not showing the flashback but also when Asahi first starts to turn into a villain, he has his father's face, the red eyed scribbled out face, which shows how he's falling into the cycle of abuse through the art. You kind of lost me on your complaint about "our overly woke culture" though. I'm not trying to start a fight, but I feel that throwing that super-politicised phrase in there didn't help the critique.
33:37 Sorry but you have a whole section dedicated to these words, so I have to correct you here: "Empathy is the ability to understand and share someone's feelings, while sympathy is the external expression of pity or sorrow." Or: "Empathy is the ability to recognize and share another person's emotions, while sympathy is a simple expression of concern for their misfortune." Or even (and I think this one is best and easiest to understand): "Sympathy is feeling sorry (on a surface level) for someone and empathy is feeling their emotions (more deeply)." Basically, what I'm saying is your definitions are very wrong, even with a few very differently written examples, none of them match up to your definitions. With empathy, you HAVE to FEEL what the other person is feeling. It's not just a possibility, that's the entire meaning of the word. Empathy is literally FEELING exactly what the other person is feeling. Sympathy is the less intense one where you only feel a surface level of bad for a person. It's JUST pity, you care but don't relate. As someone who IS an empath, it surprised me how backward you got the definitions.
Awesome video! Just one note on Japanese pronunciation- “i” is pronounced as “ee”, and “e” is pronounced as “eh”- so “Sumire” is pronounced “Soo-mee-ray” 😁
1:31:59 sugar & salt are mixed together in a LOT of recipes they're mixed in most cakes, cookies, some steak recipes, some pork recipes, some chicken recipes, some vegetable recipes, in lots of asian cuisine, etc.
I really watch the whole thing. I didn't know there was more to the story than what I had watched. Happy Sugar is one of the greatest anime I've ever watched.
About your tangent, I have an interpretation: At least on the panels you show, the father only shows his face on situations where he can't be his unhinged self, lashing on his wife and kid. I may be wrong, but perhaps it was intentional? Like on your own example, the Joker, it's like the times he comes up with this ellaborate lie about a Jhon Doe being his real persona.
I randomly came across the video in my YT feed. Love the topic, love your take on it. You've got a sub from me for sure :D. Small critique, at one point when you played some OST's in the video the audio wasn't leveled with the audio of the video, and it jumped scared me and tore my ears apart (I had headphones on :D ). I actually like the png fish more :D. Keep up the grind!
1:14:54 I recommend Aipysurus apraefrontalis or some kind of insect as the new mascot for wildlife charities. Cuz most people find them scary but they’re still very important. Also an elusive reef animal that is possibly venomous & doesn’t look conventionally cute while still being endangered & are close enough to humanity to elicit some sort of empathy sounds like a more proper symbol, don’t a think? Or y’a know…you could pick a fish, of a species most people eat, like oh idk, a grouper.
So happy I found a 2 hour essay on this underrated Anime. Thanks for your work ❤ I appreciate that you elaborated on how normalised it is in our media to show men being assaulted for laughs. It’s terrible. I have some male friends that are afraid to open up about their abuse because society has taught them that sexual assault by women isn’t „real abuse“, which is BS.
I usually skip video by people who use animals or png images to represent themselves, but I deiceded to watch the video anyways as background while I play video games And surprisingly this was well made and lot of passion and effort when into this. maybe i have skipped so much content like becuase of such tirival thing thank you mr Big Mouth Billy Bass animatronic singing prop for changing my views
this was one of the first anime’s i watched when i was starting to explore a little more it truely haunted me but it did help me though a dark time it really changed my world view
I have so many feelings and not enough words to describe it. Like it’s giving me more complicated emotions than Omori did. I’m just like… what do I do now with this information???
I feel personally that giving him the face made him anyone, not monster from nightmares. Maybe better way will be if they left him as this creature in story, although gave his face on some photo in the background where he acts like normal guy, maybe even him as a child (that will be hard to show, I know, that's an idle idea). But yeah, Yuuna's backstory for interpretation. is betterGreat video, lets continue watching 💖
@@StarBoxz Now I really wonder if they wanted us to ship them. That is so messed up. Not to mention the last chapters really tried to show that even though their relationship is messed up they love (romantically) each other truly. Also showing Sato sacrificing herself for Shio.
@@nabsnab1158 Well I mean those are Tomiyaki Kagisora's characters at the end of the day. They can do what they want with their characters. It's messed up realistically, but I don't think people should assume bad things about the author because it's just a work of fiction. What the author draws and illustrates doesn't necessarily reflect what they condone in real life. That aside, I like the two main character's codependency. They both were raised by abusive parents and they both rely on each other to feel whole. They don't understand true love at all, but they both try to in their own way. Their relationship is messed up, but they end up truly caring for each other near the end with Satou and Shio trusting and loving each other fully and Satou committing a selfless act to keep her lover alive.
@@StarBoxz I would have preferred if the author showed that they love each other platonically but since both of them have no real relationships with other people they mistook it as something else. It feels like the show is saying its okay if it is a girl doing grooming since they show the teacher character in a negative light. Then again the show is tagged as yuri. No hate to the author even if I feel weird about them.
..... goddamn!😮 This was a wild video but really really good my man. There's no shot I'm watching this so thanks for suffering for the collective benefit of mankind 😂
I will never forget how uncomfortable I felt the first time I watched it, so much so that I didn't want to watch it alone anymore, respect to the anime
I had a very similar aunt w satou, she wanted me to behave like her because she was so lonely, everyone thought she was pshycotic wich was true but i felt sorry for her, she abused me to the point where i hated everyone and myself because she made me believe i was just like her. She told me i am possessed and If I can't find a way to cast out the demons I will use and abuse every man I love for my own pleasure, she thought me how to use my body and acted like i am a manipulative whore, for the record i was 12. After I got involved in a big incident that I can't describe here and showed everyone that I was really a "bad person", my family finally stopped talking to my aunt and i never saw her again, today i am 15 knowing she probably broked me too much that i can't stop myself from being abusive, i have too many toxic behaviors just because a adult woman felt lonely and wanted me to be messed up with her.
43:01 a lot of jokes make fun of dark subjects, Family Guy make rape joke on women a few time, just because they joke about it doesn’t mean people don’t take it seriously.
analysis of the horror of the series is rlly spot on but I do kind of feel like the way you talk about more supernatural horror is kind of reductive? everyone has their own tastes obviously and I do get where you're coming from with the more realistic horror hitting closer to home but the way I see it, horror doesn't necessarily have to be completely realistic to be effective. like take nightmare on elm street for example, the premise is obviously outlandish, but the fear of being hunted by something you just can't get rid of is still very real. a big part of the movie's backstory is freddy krueger managing to escape justice bc of sloppy police work, which has historically happened a lot, so him killing people through their dreams can be read as sort of an extension of that. same with zombie and alien horror, it gets at fears of the other, fears of societal collapse, etc through more exaggerated means. obv how effective this is will vary from person to person, I just feel the need to defend my best friend supernatural horror a bit lol (will say tho absolutely get why you wouldn't include a tangent about this lol like the video must have been an absolute monster to write and edit as is and it's a comparatively minor detail. kudos to you for tackling a series that seems really, really heavy!)
Something that I haven’t seen anyone address is how The Manager never gets punished for what she did to Taiyō. After he was freed, we never get a clear picture as to what happened to her. Her wiki is just pure speculation as to what happened. Like that she killed herself after being presumably exposed offscreen and her life was ruined by Satō, she was arrested by the authorities, or that the café was shut down entirely. The most likely answer is that the Manager didn't face any repercussions. Satō got her pay, thus there was no reason for her to do anything with the recording as she quit that job after. Taiyō just wanted to get the Hell away. The Manager is free to keep acting just like she did before, to find a new victim as women predators are rarely treated as seriously as male predators.
Excited someone is talking about this show! I came across it on Prime 2 years ago, and thought the premise sounded interesting... boy, was I naive in thinking it would be a cute feel good show! Still think the show was great, but definitely disturbing. Was very hard to recommend to people, because of all the serious topics in it.
@@fishmobsmovietv514 What?! That's so disappointing! After watching your video, it really made me want to rewatch the series. Maybe I'll search for the manga instead, this time. Thanks for a great video btw!
@@xhelxhelcosplay if you want to find the manga, I would recommend finding it on mangadex. It's not official, but it does have the 11th volume translated to english, and the only place where the 11th volume is in english.
I can proudly say i never liked satou or empathized with her, from start to finish the only one i did with was shios brother ( tho he did do some things) and satous friend. Yes, they are traumatized but that doesnt excuse what they did 🙃
33:38 This is going to sound nitpicky, your video is awesome otherwise- but I think you got it flipped. Empathy is when you understand and even share the same feelings as another, Sympathy is closer to pitying. So if I understood you right, you empathize and share feelings with Po. But you sympathize and pity Tai Lung.
53:09 I’ve got to disagree with this part. I feel like no matter the circumstances, the victim shouldn’t be blamed for what happened to them. That’s like saying “well of course she got raped, didn’t you see the clothes she was wearing?”. Maybe you weren’t referring to that part of her story during this section, and I apologize for misunderstanding if so. But if you’re telling me it’s half her fault for making the mistake of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, I think you need to reconsider how you approach discussing those kinds of situations.
As I mentioned with @aerisviel, I wasn't blaming Yuna for being a victim, I was trying to explain how it came off to me like the story itself was saying half of it was her fault, and that is one of the biggest reasons I do not like her backstory.
I think you mixed up the definition for sympathy and empathy. Sympathy: "feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune." Empathy: "the ability to understand and share the feelings of another."
I made a video and put a little info bubble for that video acknowledging that I got it mixed up. I just wish the annotations were still around. They are far more practical for that.
