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ray Curie Alma doesn't make sense
neither does his depression he's a
rising star in the world of professional
shogi one of us camp you two have gone
pro while still in middle school all of
them have been gone on to become masters
and she's got a range of people who care
about and root for him from peers like
the jovial friend and rival Nikaido to
the incredibly welcoming and gracious
calm mortal sisters to his shogi
enthusiast teacher two older pros who
keep an eye on him curio ma has plenty
of support for just about any aspect of
his life that could require an personal
professional or academic neither however
does depression itself make sense really
it's a feeling it's a state of mind it
isn't something for which a
determination of whether or not someone
should be feeling it matters much
phobias are by definition fears that are
not rational rationality is not the way
to go about judging psychological issues
the real tragedy of Rey is that his
hang-ups are such that he can't
recognize or appreciate the extent to
which people do care for and
unconditionally love him and is instead
made to feel guilt over every
relationship he takes pardon as much as
these relationships should theoretically
be sources of comfort and respite that
kiriyama can rely upon in times of
struggle or distress and do in fact
serve that purpose from time to time the
heartbreaking fact of the matter is that
they are also themselves some of the
most significant stressors in his life
and the root of this is kiri Emma's
guilt complex and lack of self-worth in
every interaction he feels like a
freeloader taking advantage of the
others kindness and offering no value in
return
he's a drain a drag someone whose
presence is only tolerated as a matter
of formality and without whom these
people would be better off after his
parents his death he was taken in by a
friend of his father and soon surpassed
that man's children and his shogi
abilities that game being perhaps his
strongest point of bonding with both his
biological and now this new adoptive
father being part of this shogi family
helped carry Alma's abilities blossom
but with a head of household who seemed
to value shogi above all else and
attached his children's values to their
abilities this left his two biological
children resentful and eventually
somewhat broken people curium is a
really sensitive boy and his sense of
empathy is the source of a lot of his
personal hardship he felt the pain who
was afflicting
cutely and came to view himself as a
sort of brood parasite the term for
species that will trick a different
species into raising their young for
them leaving the biological offspring
they're worse off in some instances
avian brood parasites will even push up
eggs out of the nests in order to give
theirs better chances and he couldn't
help but draw this comparison as he saw
his newfound father dismiss his children
as lost causes and invest all his hopes
in kiriyama this problem has incredibly
deep roots in carrion causing him to
even feel guilty when bringing the cow
motos a bunch of free fish because of
the food preparation work having all of
it will create for them even when in
reality it will be a huge help with
their limited finances they love to cook
anyway and they are of course elated to
receive it one of the most compelling
aspects of this series is watching
Carrie Amish development in this area
slowly coming to realize the value he
can have those around him know of these
issues all too well take note of how the
cow moto sisters will rope him into
visiting them in one instance they tell
him that they forgot to pick up a
grocery item and asked if he could do so
for them they exploit the fact that he
feels like a burden and this is looking
for ways to be helpful and certainly
wouldn't want to cause trouble by
turning this request down and use that
to get him to come over the fact that he
was being helped to them making it
easier for him to share meal with them
without feeling too guilty over it in
reality the lack of his presence is more
of a drag on the cow Moto's not just
because of their concerns about the
struggles it's indicative of but because
they find Carrie Alma's company to be
genuinely enjoyable and worthwhile of
course he does enjoy this company as
well in a way and will often see him
momentarily shaking out of the pensive
oppressive state he's usually and by
someone who'll barged their way into his
life bringing with them a dramatic shift
in visual tone that perfectly reflects
the emotional whiplash being experienced
by curio MA places like the cow moto
home are so incredibly warm and inviting
and I'll be damned if
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isn't the most simultaneously
heartwarming and to your jerking moment
of anime in 2016 and of course it's his
very warmth that carry a mystique to
distance himself from to stay with the
cow Moto's was such a positive
experience and yet he can't spend more
time with them doesn't deserve to and
his usual cold lonely existence is only
made all the colder after he had gotten
acclimated to that warmth he seeks to
avoid close contact with people because
with his insecurities preventing him
from spending extended periods of time
with them any brief interactions any
hint at what his life could be only
caused more pain these tragic
circumstances extend to the game of
shogi as well just like these
relationships shogi is something
integral Tam but also something that
causes him immense suffering in the
beginning he wasn't even particularly
fond of shogi itself pursuing it
zealously merely as a way to connect
with his father and subsequently his
adopted father being a social outcast
for the most part as a child he clung to
shogi is the only reliable automatic
manner of putting someone in a position
to interact with him on some level by
this point he relies upon shogi one of
the only things validating his existence
is his independence the idea that she's
supporting himself and so minimizing the
burden he places upon others and shogi
is his means of doing so in spite of the
pain such competition necessarily causes
others the struggle that puts his
opponents through and the resulting
agony Koriyama feels over this he has to
keep playing and he hates himself for it
sometimes his opponents take it fairly
well and kiri Alma's concerns are
overblown but in some instances the
stakes are actually that high for them
and in episode 10 the series director
from Attica magico was brought in as
episode director to handle the
bone-shattering gut-punch that with very
ominous reaction to beating down an
opponent in one such high stakes match
delivering an awe-inspiring display of
the power of anime in the process
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really partisan got to know lion that
involved Kyoko in anyway tend to be
particularly impactful in general she's
got this incredibly powerful aura to her
and power over Toriyama and it's
tangible whenever she's on screen or
even exerting her influence from off
screen
she's the manifestation of the harm
kiriyama can cause someone who's seeking
out of powerful older men is clearly a
thirst for a father figure to fill the
holes that were left after she was
estranged from her own by him it's
alluring and terrifying all at once
and an intentional lashing out by her as
cartoonish as it may seem like it's
threatening to be this antagonism is
something I can tell you from personal
experience can be elicited from siblings
when there's bad blood I just wanted you
to know I hate you or I really hope you
die said with a straight or even
sardonically cheery expression in
everyday life with no provocation the
strong establishment of its supporting
cast as a whole is key to some Gutzon
Alliance success it's a series decidedly
focused upon Ray's mindset and struggles
and their nuanced and stellar
presentation drives it but due to their
very nature the examination of those
struggles both relies upon and allows
for great strength of characterization
for those people surrounding him as well
because of curium as mindset as opposed
to everyone else a dynamic is created
that lends gravity to all of his
connections the hang-ups about his
relationship with his adoptive father
are the groundwork for his relationship
with Kyoko his existential struggles
with showed you do so for his
relationships with various opponents of
his in the first half of the series and
his relationship with that guilt of his
plays into his relationship with
schemata over the course of the series
up to the point where he starts
interacting with schemata will have come
to understand the nature and source of
that guilt and shimada's mature
perceptiveness is able to get at the
heart of raised issues in the illogic of
his worldview Ray's starting to realize
that a logic when expressing his
concerns that Shimada is helping him
much more than he's helping Shimada
aloud and having this wiser
well-intentioned person to assure him
that that isn't the case he's so
troubled therefore everything is
troubling to him but all in empathetic
engaging manners ultimately it's one of
the more pathetic characters that's able
to seemingly make a breakthrough with
Tyrion
specifically because he's like that taka
she comes off as the kind of sad figure
really someone who will cling to kiri
alma because no one else would put up
with him
while some hints of relative popularity
with his students suggests otherwise the
impression he gives off is that he isn't
a pitying teacher eating with kereama so
that the kid doesn't have to be alone
but it'll only dude who hangs out with
him at lunch so he can have some company
he pitches the idea of a shogi club to
kiri Amma and frames his interest in it
as a selfish desire to get some coaching
from a shogi pro like him after all this
time after all the obsessing over the
idea that he was exploiting others it
was the idea that someone could be using
him that started helping kiri Amma to
believe that somehow some way he could
offer something to others and make his
presence worthwhile it won't be an easy
road for him from here on out and I'm
very excited to see where a second
season later this year leads him but
kiri Amma has finally started to shed
those shackles to have his misguided
perception that dragging other people
down is intrinsic to his being corrected
and now he can start to see a truth that
can be all too easy to overlook for so
many you do have something to offer you
may not know exactly what you may not
know to whom but you've got to move
forward because all the time you're
wallowing in your depression and regret
over the lack of an impact you've made
you're missing opportunities to go have
one you do have value and it's up to you
to take advantage of it
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