the anime addition of suguru hearing applauses in the water sounds of the shower and the rain is such a genius move. he was so deeply traumatised even after one year and this detail really conveyed how easily his traumatic memories were triggered. literal chills.
Polaris likes the idea! Calmed him down a bit ^W^
Heard this audio on Tik tok and wanted to send it to you ^^
(Had to make a video of it myself due bc most of the videos that had this audio didn't have the saving option 😭))
I think the most interesting part of Satoru's "We're the strongest" sentiment transitioning to "I'm the strongest" is I don't believe there's canon proof that he ever said he, alone, was the strongest while Suguru was still alive.
We only hear Satoru talk about him being the undisputed strongest sorcerer once Suguru was already dead.
That makes me think Satoru always regarded Suguru as his only true equal, even when they weren't able to be stand together anymore.
I love Shoko so so much, but sometimes I think that people mistakenly treat Satoru as selfish and blind for, according to them, leaving her aside.
I'm not going to mention the fact that Satoru and Suguru were frequently sent on missions together, because Shoko's technique doesn't work on the battlefield, and that this helped them create a very deep bond. I want to talk about grief and loss.
Have you ever seen someone grieving the death of a loved one? 'Cause I have experienced that many times. People who suffer from grief react in different ways, we are not all the same, and yet I have seen something that almost all of them have in common: they withdraw from others.
They usually stay with what is closest to them, either other friends with whom they had a stronger bond, or they isolate themselves completely. I've had close, very close friends walk away from me and other people because they were grieving, and that never meant they pushed me away or were blind to my support.
I remember my best friend asking me in the high-school bathrooms "why is she pushing us aside?" when another friend lost a beloved one. She wasn't pushing us aside, she was destroyed by a loss and was coping as she could to survive the pain.
Satoru lost Suguru twice. The day everything fell apart, and the day he killed him. Maybe he lost him thrice, if we take into account Kenjaku using his body as a puppet.
I'm not able to blame him for withdrawing into himself and not seeing that Shoko was there.
I love this part at the start of Shibuya where this guy butts into a conversation between two girls and starts berating them for being too “uneducated” for not knowing why they were trapped under the veil, only for gojo to shove him aside