[BagJo]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

My favorite touch, and the one that had me dying, was there's a point where she's getting basketballs thrown at her during gym class. It starts with her missing a pass, then her teammates are just whipping them at her. (In fairness to her bullies, there're a few of these that, like, she just needs to put two hands up to catch them. I don't have it in me to physically bully someone, but even I was like Jesus Yuka.) So it's this quick montage of her getting hit with a basketball, and then she's hit by multiple basketballs in succession. Her classmates grabbed other basketballs just to throw at her! Amazing!

It's, again, totally ineffective at garnering sympathy. It's like a fairytale, where her struggle is all cautionary tale, all metaphor. And the way it's divorced from any sort of realistic human psychology, it makes it work gangbusters as comedy. And, you know, your mileage may vary on it. I've definitely found stuff like this a slog before. Here, maybe it's because so much of the rest of this episode was full of charmingly manipulative jerks and pathetically defeatist do-gooders, but the Yuka stuff played great as comedy. I don't know. Maybe this show is just making me an even bigger asshole than I was before?

Oh man Die, you get it. THIS is part of the brilliance of Faiz.

There's this almost dark comedy aspect to Faiz that really does it for me. This is going to be a fun thread.