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I’ve been kind of biting my tongue and letting the show play out before I posted anything like this, but the final episode really rubbed me the wrong way in terms of where it leaves the viewer, so I’m just gonna go ahead and write it up now.
Aku no Hana is not a work about a choice between living in society and living in deviance. On the contrary - society, says Aku no Hana, is inescapable. It is also far more perverted than Nakamura ever dreamed of.
There follow major manga spoilers for the purpose of analysis.
I’m gonna go on a brief rant but. I think whos lila is also about internalized misogyny. Putting this under a readmore so I don’t torture my followers
Take a look at how Lila specifically treats women and girls in game compared to how she treats male characters- while it’s true she has a certain playfulness with all of them, Lila seems to have a certain bitterness, disgust, and jealousy towards women in the game. The only female character she does not seem to regard with negative feelings is Mrs Hutchins, who she might consider too old to “bother” her.
We know that Lila has a bad relationship with her mother. In jungian psychology, a “devouring mother” is a mother who feels so oppressed by her own emotions, society, etc. that she takes complete control of her children through abuse- this can cause a lot of complicated feelings for obvious feelings, etc. i feel like it’s not out of possibility that Lila could have this instilled subconscious respect for Older women, while bearing a grudge/resentment/jealousy towards young ones.
Reasons as follows: Lila has something negative to say about every female character in the game. (Calls ellie a “gossip”, Martha a “rat/bad girl, insane for eating junk food, etc” and Ofc, Tanya, who she refers to as “stupid bitch, copycat girl” she also seems to have a strange jealousy towards Tanya, calling herself “more beautiful”, despite them looking the same. Internalized misogyny is unfortunately a very common result of maternally based trauma, so it’s not at all uncommon for Lila to have trauma like this.
Contrarily, even to her biggest male “enemies” in game, she rarely insults them, (the exception being Strupnev, but he deserves it so it’s based) even the detective interrogating her, she doesn’t really have anything negative to say about him.