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Spoilers, so if you haven't finished Romantic Killer, don't read

Romantic Killer is legitimately such an amazing show. There are so many parts of it that are underrated, but I feel like somehow Kazuki's story doesn't get talked about enough despite it being the centerpiece of the plot in the last few episodes. I've seen people talking before about it, but not REALLY talking about it, you know? It was insanely well executed. The best part was that the narrative actually took it seriously and treated the subject matter with the respect it deserves. There is a disturbing trend in anime where stalkers, especially female ones, have their actions played off for comedy and treated like a bit. I think the most glaring example of this in popular media actually comes from a cartoon, Miraculous Ladybug. It's not an anime, but I think it does a lot of the same things anime does. Marinette is obsessed with Adrien to an unnerving degree. She has his schedule memorized, knows a disturbing amount of personal information, and guards him jealously. We have one scene where she follows Adrien and Lila home, groups a bunch of trash cans together, and tries to SCALE A WALL AROUND HIS HOUSE so she can keep watching them because she needs to "protect him" from Lila. There is also an episode where she breaks into his house and runs around smelling stuff, and one where she leaves an embarrassing voicemail, so she then steals his cell phone out of his locker and attempts to break in to delete the message. This is so important to her that she misses a ceremony officially unveiling statues of her hero form that the city commissioned to honor her. Yeah. It's bad. But Marinette is usually characterized as a kind person. Whenever Adrien isn't present, she's a pretty good character. She has her mistakes, but she's willing to take charge and stand up to people when they need defending. She is constantly portrayed as someone good, and her actions are deliberately cultured to come as exaggerated and ridiculous. It's supposed to be a JOKE. Everything plays it off as one, and since we are told repeatedly that Marinette is a good, selfless person at heart, and we know Adrien would never be in danger around her, no one minds. The potential consequences of her actions are never addressed. It's just meant to be funny, because she's a bit quirky. This is unfortunately not uncommon. When a guy is a stalker, it's usually taken pretty seriously, but when a girl does it, it's often treated as a silly joke, and consequences for their actions are never written in, and I'm not just talking about consequences like going to jail for stalking. Emotional consequences never occur for any character; the weight of what they are doing is simply never addressed. The girl doing it never feels guilty, the love intrest is usually never unerved, the friends see the behavior as normal. The emotional weight of what that character is doing is simply lost. On top of that, the yandere trope causes more issues. Don't get me wrong, I find it fascinating, and done right, I actually like the trope quite a bit. It's not realistic in the slightest because if you really knew a yandere, you would be calling the police. That relationship would never work. But it is an interesting concept to explore in fiction. The problem with that is that anytime we do get a female character stalking a male character, and it's actually treated like stalking, the action is heavily romanticized as something done for love. Yuno Gasai is probably the most famous example, but there are a bunch more. They are EXTREMELY popular characters, because they are given tragic backstories and everything they do is framed as something done for love. The protagonists may or may not react accordingly to this (a lot of videogame yandere's protagonists end up being the player themself, sooooo), but they usually end up falling in love and living happily ever after in a sick, twisted way. Very few anime do the trope and do it well.

Romatic Killer is one of those anime. For one thing, Kazuki’s stalker is portrayed as a normal woman for the most part. No exaggerated facial expressions, or blushing, or weird noises. She's almost plain. She blends into the background for the most part. There's something a little off about her, but nothing that screams to the viewer that she is important. She's a normal person at first glance, and that's what makes her scary. Because she can hide so easily. Her actions start off small, but they quickly escalate. It's not played off as a joke. The entire story makes a point to show just how impactful her actions are. Kazuki suffers from a constant sense of paranoia. He moved, and he's trying to forget about it, but we see in the show how she slowly invades every part of his life. From just picking up her bag, she moves from greeting him every morning at the same spot to being in other places along his route. From something innocent to something weird, but nothing Kazuki can prove. It could just be a coincidence, but it feels strange, and the atmosphere of the story is intense. She begins doing stranger and stranger things until it moves into the territory of downright weird. All of it is done in a single episode, but the pacing is incredible. That was one of the longest episodes of my life. It doesn't seem rushed at all. You watch this strange woman slowly invade every aspect of Kazuki's life like she belongs there, overriding all of his personal boundaries. There is no romanticization. No undercurrent of "she's doing it for love." She is just straight up insane. She made up a connection in her head, and seems to genuinely believe they are dating and that she is entitled to him. She never truly listens to Kazuki. The story is insistent that there is nothing he could do. His Dad scolds him for leading her on, but when he flat-out rejects her, she ignores him, continuing to live in her delusional fantasy realm. It reframes his behavior for the entire show as we see just why he behaves the way he does and how permanent the effects of such actions are. They can't be brushed aside, and it's not a joke. There were times I was terrified she was just going to appear somewhere, even if she had no reason to be there. It really puts you in Kazuki's shoes and helps you understand how horrifying this behavior really is.

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Spoilers, so if you haven't finished Romantic Killer, don't read

Romantic Killer is legitimately such an amazing show. There are so many parts of it that are underrated, but I feel like somehow Kazuki's story doesn't get talked about enough despite it being the centerpiece of the plot in the last few episodes. I've seen people talking before about it, but not REALLY talking about it, you know? It was insanely well executed. The best part was that the narrative actually took it seriously and treated the subject matter with the respect it deserves. There is a disturbing trend in anime where stalkers, especially female ones, have their actions played off for comedy and treated like a bit. I think the most glaring example of this in popular media actually comes from a cartoon, Miraculous Ladybug. It's not an anime, but I think it does a lot of the same things anime does. Marinette is obsessed with Adrien to an unnerving degree. She has his schedule memorized, knows a disturbing amount of personal information, and guards him jealously. We have one scene where she follows Adrien and Lila home, groups a bunch of trash cans together, and tries to SCALE A WALL AROUND HIS HOUSE so she can keep watching them because she needs to "protect him" from Lila. There is also an episode where she breaks into his house and runs around smelling stuff, and one where she leaves an embarrassing voicemail, so she then steals his cell phone out of his locker and attempts to break in to delete the message. This is so important to her that she misses a ceremony officially unveiling statues of her hero form that the city commissioned to honor her. Yeah. It's bad. But Marinette is usually characterized as a kind person. Whenever Adrien isn't present, she's a pretty good character. She has her mistakes, but she's willing to take charge and stand up to people when they need defending. She is constantly portrayed as someone good, and her actions are deliberately cultured to come as exaggerated and ridiculous. It's supposed to be a JOKE. Everything plays it off as one, and since we are told repeatedly that Marinette is a good, selfless person at heart, and we know Adrien would never be in danger around her, no one minds. The potential consequences of her actions are never addressed. It's just meant to be funny, because she's a bit quirky. This is unfortunately not uncommon. When a guy is a stalker, it's usually taken pretty seriously, but when a girl does it, it's often treated as a silly joke, and consequences for their actions are never written in, and I'm not just talking about consequences like going to jail for stalking. Emotional consequences never occur for any character; the weight of what they are doing is simply never addressed. The girl doing it never feels guilty, the love intrest is usually never unerved, the friends see the behavior as normal. The emotional weight of what that character is doing is simply lost. On top of that, the yandere trope causes more issues. Don't get me wrong, I find it fascinating, and done right, I actually like the trope quite a bit. It's not realistic in the slightest because if you really knew a yandere, you would be calling the police. That relationship would never work. But it is an interesting concept to explore in fiction. The problem with that is that anytime we do get a female character stalking a male character, and it's actually treated like stalking, the action is heavily romanticized as something done for love. Yuno Gasai is probably the most famous example, but there are a bunch more. They are EXTREMELY popular characters, because they are given tragic backstories and everything they do is framed as something done for love. The protagonists may or may not react accordingly to this (a lot of videogame yandere's protagonists end up being the player themself, sooooo), but they usually end up falling in love and living happily ever after in a sick, twisted way. Very few anime do the trope and do it well.

Romatic Killer is one of those anime. For one thing, Kazuki’s stalker is portrayed as a normal woman for the most part. No exaggerated facial expressions, or blushing, or weird noises. She's almost plain. She blends into the background for the most part. There's something a little off about her, but nothing that screams to the viewer that she is important. She's a normal person at first glance, and that's what makes her scary. Because she can hide so easily. Her actions start off small, but they quickly escalate. It's not played off as a joke. The entire story makes a point to show just how impactful her actions are. Kazuki suffers from a constant sense of paranoia. He moved, and he's trying to forget about it, but we see in the show how she slowly invades every part of his life. From just picking up her bag, she moves from greeting him every morning at the same spot to being in other places along his route. From something innocent to something weird, but nothing Kazuki can prove. It could just be a coincidence, but it feels strange, and the atmosphere of the story is intense. She begins doing stranger and stranger things until it moves into the territory of downright weird. All of it is done in a single episode, but the pacing is incredible. That was one of the longest episodes of my life. It doesn't seem rushed at all. You watch this strange woman slowly invade every aspect of Kazuki's life like she belongs there, overriding all of his personal boundaries. There is no romanticization. No undercurrent of "she's doing it for love." She is just straight up insane. She made up a connection in her head, and seems to genuinely believe they are dating and that she is entitled to him. She never truly listens to Kazuki. The story is insistent that there is nothing he could do. His Dad scolds him for leading her on, but when he flat-out rejects her, she ignores him, continuing to live in her delusional fantasy realm. It reframes his behavior for the entire show as we see just why he behaves the way he does and how permanent the effects of such actions are. They can't be brushed aside, and it's not a joke. There were times I was terrified she was just going to appear somewhere, even if she had no reason to be there. It really puts you in Kazuki's shoes and helps you understand how horrifying this behavior really is.

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some art of my best ace-representation done well girl 💖🍫🐈👾🍬

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'Romantic Killer' ep.3

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Todays aromantic character is....

Anzu Hoshino (Romantic Killer) !

PT: Anzu Hoshino (Romantic Killer) ! /end PT

Anon headcanons Anzu as aromantic !!

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A Riri from Romantic Killer stimboard for @mmanicpixiedreambutch !! x x x x x x x x x

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🐚!!

I'm bored here's another one.

@reyna4ever @bisexual-bat @shark-tranny @boldofyoutoassumeicanspell @dusty-does-stuff @bisexual-bat @iris-flower1019 @loki104-uwu anyone else

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RomaKira Promotional Illustration for the Live Action!

Made by the RomaKira author, of course! (Posted on her Twitter account wataru_k111)

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takahashi kyohei as kazuki tsukasa in romantic killer (2025)

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takahashi kyohei as kazuki tsukasa in romantic killer (2025)

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Romantic Killer live action!!

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Happy Birthday

Junta Hayami (21st May)

Romantic Killer

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emoji disc emotes / favicons whatever, f2u no credit needed, 1/2

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Romantic Killer Underrated fr

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wrote a fic in which sleep is hard for the Hoshino household and they’re all a little too broken and a little too in love for their own good. can be read as a polycule, found family, or just plain ol' highschool friendship