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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

So to sum it up from your takes, Yuka is overall, a people pleaser right? Her abusive backstory shapes her into 2 modes, the one where she puts the burdens on herself to please other people like by becoming what other people expect - to make people not hostile like they usually are to her, or her being a troubled from the trauma she received by killing people she perceived as bad - because obviously, all the hell those kind of people give.

Yeah, I think it's mostly that she's internalized a lot of the abuse she's received, and her decision-making is largely about placating the person she's with, of doing whatever will make them happy. The killing, that's a choice she makes for herself, and it's maybe the only one she ever has?

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

And speaking about acting.... I don't know if acting must be all about goofy, or over-the-top, or larger than life, or laugh out loud, or in your face and wide-angle lenses, or other kinds of that. People usually cite that as bad acting or no personality, but it can be just the people mindset that they just throw that term to those they think “this person doesn’t stimulate me”, or “this person doesn’t interest me”. Also a term to say someone is not extroverted, that because they can’t figure their personality, it doesn’t exist. A rather lazy and egocentric view of other people tbh, and a very superficial judgement. And that there's no such thing as " no personality". The person refered as such may be a little hidden if they are very shy, but they have a personality.

I'm not sure if I'm entirely getting what you're saying, but the problems I have with Yuka's actor, it's that I feel like I'm not seeing honesty in her performance. She's hitting marks and saying lines and portraying emotions, but it doesn't feel like Yuka, it feels like an actor. Like I said, I think the story they're telling is solid enough that it's mostly just that she's not elevating it, instead of being a distraction. I don't know if that addresses your comment?

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Or that he didn't know yet that Yuji is an Orphnoch?! Means even more vile then!

Uh, I did not for a second think that Kusaka knew that Yuuji was an Orphnoch. This was just an injured guy that he could watch suffer.