Two Sides Of The Same Stone: In Defense Of Arajin As An Mc & His Parallels With Matakara In Bucchigiri?!

Bucchigiri?! has pacing of weekly webcomic with 20-30 pages being smashed into one episode

not bad, not good, definitely unusual, tone shifts all the time, but at least there's so much happening in each episode it's never dull

my honest reaction after watching what I thought for months was Arajin gazing at Matakara and Mahoro just for it to turn out that he was looking at some random girls:

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the episode was interesting story-wise as always (aside from arajin having one extra cringe hetero moment not related to mahoro) it fell a bit short for me. maybe because it felt less crazy than the last two eps. Don’t get me wrong, it looked good as always, by no means disappointing- just between shots and the way the story plays out feels more… choppy?? something feels a bit off. I can’t explain it. If there’s something happening behind the scenes I hope gets remedied because I don’t want the production/story to go downhill because it has so much potential

On the positives: we get to see mahoro being an evil girlboss this episode, siguma squad and more delinquent gang lore seeing how differently each gang operates. the welcoming party you can tell they’re all having fun even tho they’re beating each other up

theories/questions for future episodes: does that mean if arajin is going to become marito’s successor will he fight matakara??? or will matakara fight marito or mahoro? it’d be interesting to see mahoro fight someone because she’s clearly capable of force and manipulation in other ways (slaps arajin, screams like a siren to get matakara to go away) Now that he knows the reason why arajin joined siguma I wonder how willing matakara is to fight for him/get him back.

I also wonder how the NG boys will play into the next/future ep. next episode is probably about the war between the gangs because that’s where the episode left off.

i love how she is 0% concerned about her son's wellbeing

we don’t see eye to eye

Pls accept my low effort drawing and I apologise about jabashiri I only know how to draw twinks

Happy Valentine’s Day from everyone’s favorite boyo ✨🩵✨

You see, these screenshots actually foreshadow what's going to happen in the Bucchigiri finale.

Mrs Tomoshibi, wearing CHERRY pajamas (a symbol of virginity), explains to her dumbass virgin son that loving someone means "surrendering your body and soul". This is going to be important to Arajin, who will realize he DOES care about Matakara and not because Mahoro or Shindo told him to ("Have you ever thought about Matakara's feelings?"/"If you don't hurry up, Ichiya will take over Matakara's body!"). To save Matakara, stricken by despair, Arajin will have to surrender his body (to Senya, because a fight with Ichiya is inevitable. His wish will no longer be "losing my virginity") and to surrender his soul (to Matakara. Arajin will have to make himself emotionally vulnerable to connect with Matakara and help him). And then-

It's gonna be another boy who lights a fire within him-

But also Marito- got that early 2000s fit on I'm surprised he doesn't have a fucking Gir backpack to go along with it like damn.