#Shiho Sawaragi

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Tomodachi game chapter 125 spoiler

He who'd go against the world to save his friends

His friends who don't deserve it at all💔

[sushi-atsushilover]

°Tomodachi Game°

Yuuichi Katagiri:-

Headcanons:

Fics:

Infatuated

Shiho Sawaragi:-

Headcanons:

Kei Shinomiya:-

Headcanons:

[lilium-dragomir]

[electric-eulogy]

Thoughts on the Tomodachi Game Manga: Yutori Kokorogi

Wanted to put this out here because my friend told me that my thoughts were interesting, haha. Several months out from when I finished the manga itself, but my motivation to post things online isn't exactly great... Regardless, Tumblr is the only place to get my thoughts on the media I consume at the moment (as this is the site that I find has the friendliest UI for me).

Anyway, this is more like a character analysis for a few of the characters than any kind of story evaluation for the most part. I'll put the actual analysis under the cut for people who don't want to read it.

Keep in mind that I've only read the manga, so I don't know anything about anything that's (presumably) only in the anime.

I want to talk about the main cast here... Yuuichi Katagiri, Shiho Sawaragi, Tenji Mikasa, Makoto Shibe, Yutori Kokorogi, and Kei Shinomiya. I'll likely touch on Yuka Katagiri, Taizen Shiba, Masakazu Shibe, Yutaka Mikasa, and everyone else that comes to mind with that list more briefly… Not individually, but in their relation to the others and the parent/child parallel in the story.

This post is for Yutori, though.

Please note that there will be spoilers for Tomodachi Game below.

Yutori Kokorogi

Starting with Yutori, as she's one of the ones I found the most interesting by the end of the story....

Her character is rather... interesting, and feels similar to D'arce from Fear & Hunger to me. They're both... incredibly bold and opinionated individuals, but their whole world revolves around one man. For D'arce, it would be Le'garde, and for Yutori, it would be Yuuichi.

Yutori doesn't read to me as though she has a particularly cohesive sense of identity. From the beginning, her personality was an act (which I thank every star above for), but she's not actually that stable of a person once that facade falls. She's obsessed with Yuuichi.

But before we get to that, I want to talk about her beginning personality in the manga. The classic... moe air-headed klutz girl. Honestly, this is one of my least-liked tropes in the media. I don't like it. But I do think that it's worth mentioning as her facade of choice. I wonder if it's because that's the kind of personality that can be effectively utilized to elicit sympathy and pity points if not exasperation and/or a sense of protectiveness... if only because she acts so much younger than her age.

It'd be easy to get close to people that way, and she'd also be filling a niche in the group that they didn't have filled yet. In the most surface-level, distilled way of phrasing it: Shiho is the upright law keeper, Yuuichi is the glue that holds everyone together, Makoto is the rich kid who's... constantly wavering on the borderline between "normal guy" and "creepy pervert," and Tenji is basically the upright law keeper 2.0 (male edition). And Yutori can step in as the "cute nieve klutz that everyone steps in to protect."

It feels like she made the personality explicitly to target that protective instinct in people who have a concious. She's the sad, wet cat on the side of the road with the big eyes that everyone pities, but only a few will actually step in to help. And she's made it so that Shiho, Yuuichi, Tenji, and Makoto will all step up to help her.

But once that mask drops, it does get painfully apparent that she doesn't know what a real friendship looks like. She'll act out the fantasy of one, but I don't think she knows what it actually is. But it's not about the friendship to her; it's about Yuuichi.

Rounding back to my idea that her entire sense of identity is dependent on Yuucihi: When she talks about him, she talks as though he's a god, and she also quite literally refers to him as one (if memory serves). She sees him as a sort of arbiter of divine will-- if only because of how fucked up he and Taizen ended up making her family situation (although I'll talk about that more when I talk about Yuucihi. Because I'm not sure that Yuucihi is the one that should shoulder that blame).

Anyway, she has this... obsessive, perhaps religious, view of Yuucihi... And similar to how some people make things like Being a Christian (TM) their whole personality, her entire personality is dependent on her perception of Yuucihi and what he's done. I phrased it to my friend as follows: She spent so long pinning things on Yuuichi to the point that it's become a fanatical, cult-like obsession for her. Her sense of self is tied to that. Her sense of self is innately connected to her sense of "past" and not a (her) sense of "like/dislike" or "hobbies," so the idea of what she "knew" being wrong would naturally fundamentally shake her sense of self.

Her entire personality is based on her personal worship of, and eventual vengeance upon, Yuuichi. So it's only... normal that learning or realizing that things were at least a little different from the way that she initially pictured it would destroy her. The idea that Yuuichi isn't the sole incarnate of pure, true evil and that there were more factors to blame than a child no older than her would also be something that I think wouldn't be pretty for her.

Because that's her obsession. That it's Yuucihi who did it, it's Yuuichi who did it, it's Yuuichi who... well, you get the idea.

But, in the end, she's also aware that she's no better than he is. An eye for an eye makes for an endless cycle of vengeance; somewhere in there, you will eventually become that which you hate. In an attempt to constantly get the better of, or win the battle between, you will sink to their level and worse because there are just some things that you can't feel like you've won/been vindicated by if you don't throw away your morals. Fire can only be fought with fire sometimes, and sometimes that means being worse, or at least on the level of.

And it could be said that Yutori is worse, just like it could be said that Yuuichi is worse. That's all a matter of personal perspective. But they're both not good people. And she knows that. So, by the end of the story, when everyone decides whether or not they want Yuucihi to live, she doesn't say anything until Makoto does because she knows that she's sunk to his level, sort of like the idea that her horse in this race is weaker than the others.

She's almost on the level of Yuuichi when it comes to manipulating others or at least pulling an act in front of them. This can be seen in how long she's able to fool everyone, including the cult leader Saika Kamishiro. However, it could be debated whether or not Saika was actually that perceptive to begin with.

Doesn't change the fact that she manipulated him so successfully, though.

Regardless, I get where she's coming from, but I don't necessarily sympathize. I can't condone her decisions and behavior, especially towards her mother and friends in the story (even if that's rectified in the epilogue).

I also want to mention what her name means: 心木 ゆとり... With 心 (kokoro), meaning "heart" in a sort of cutesy way (though it can also mean mind and soul). And 木 (ki/gi) meaning "tree/wood". ゆとり (yutori) all together can mean something like "space/affluence/time/reserve," and it'd be used as a noun that way, but broken up ゆ (yu) would mean "hot water" and とり (tori) would mean "bird".

I'm sure that I'll have more thoughts bite me later that I'll regret not expanding upon here, but this is it for now.

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Abe Hikari: Unchanged.

Ninomiya Suzu: She gets to be happy and fun again. Like, seriously, last time she told Itachi not to go look for an oni?? That’s not Suzu, she would have loved that.

Kazami Shiho: Largely unchanged. Whether or not the Allico stuff has still happened is up to Cyan.

Hanazawa Yomi: Exactly where we left her. Her remaining relationships are as intact as the other people involved want them to be.

Omori Kaede: She didn’t do much last time, but she’s mostly the same. Just angrier about her situation.

Sawaragi Naomi: Mostly the same. Slightly more unhinged. Has Hirou back.

Abara Chako: New! A klutzy failgirl who wants nothing more than to be a reliable upperclassman to the lower years. If we redo the student council, she will be running. She’s honestly really normal, but her adoptive family has history and baggage she isn’t fully aware of.

Emmie and Bonnie M.: Removing some of the angsty bits about Emmie that were stupid. She’s obviously still traumatized, though. Other than that, these two are largely the same.

Nikaido Azusa: Unchanged.

Urata Ruri: Unchanged, though her mom owns a bar now.

Yanagida Ginko: Honestly still under construction. Her family has new lore now. I’ll get to all that later.

Amagi Fuyuna: New! Haughty princess-type (derogatory) with a rich dad. Absolutely thinks she’s better than you, and makes sure you know it. On the hunt for a handsome boyfriend who’s on her level.

Nekōun Kohaku: New! A first-year who is determined to break away from the associations of her family and become cool and popular this year. Previously an outcast, but willing to throw those in a similar position under the bus if it benefits her now.

Kuboshiro Nikki: New! A friendly and polite girl who lives with her grandmother. She is normal.

girl

[hopeymchope]

Completely addicted to Tomadachi Game, which is kind of like Danganronpa times Squid Game minus Actual Death?

Here’s your logline: Five friends are forced into playing a game wherein they could erase their debts, or instead, make their debts worse. Unfortunately, progressing in the game seems to require them to betray each other’s trust. What’s more valuable — the money, their friendships, or... something else?

Yuuichi is an incredible protagonist. What a friggin’ dude. The supporting cast has been really fascinating to watch, too. I need to dive deeper on this franchise. Maybe I’ll start reading the manga? 

[senjo]

[libretitamortal]

Me🤝Shiho: having horrible taste in men

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Manga: Tomodachi Game

this manga ia getting exhausting even thought is monthly

[tetrix-anime]

Megami Magazine July 2022 Issue (#266) - Tomodachi Game

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This is giving me Mikey vibes.

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[lisa9908]

Shiho Sawaragi 沢良宜志法 | Tomodachi Gam

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“Tomodachi Game” For Manga Gets TV Anime for Spring 2022

NTV revealed the primary cast, staff members, and a teaser visual for a television anime adaptation of Mikoto Yamaguchi and Yuuki Satou's Tomodachi Game (Friends Games) on Tuesday (pictured). The anime is set to broadcast on NTV and BS NTV in April 2022.

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Flufftober Day 10: Love language

Masterlist Fandom: Tomodachi game

Ship: shiho x reader

You discovered Shiho's love language pretty early on in your relationship, you even suspected it before you two became a thing!

Well, it wasn't really hard to find out since one of your first interactions ended up with her was her continuously opening the door for you. But don't get me wrong, this wasn't meaningless, she was thanking you for something of course.

Let me explain:

You knew Shiho ever since you were both in kindergarten. Always had a crush on her; ever since you learnt about what it was you knew you did.

However, when the stolen money scandal came out, everybody accused her. And even though you were now ashamed of it, you eventually gave in to them and started doubting her.

The more time passed without seeing her, the more you doubted her; forgetting who you had always loved was; confusing her with the person the others made of her during her absence, the thought of her stealing starting to find itself comfort in your head.

Though you just couldn't stop loving her. Even if you thought she did all those horrible things and ran away, your crush wouldn't go away. You regretted not telling her before so much. You promised yourself that if she came back like the others randomly did at some point, you'd confess. No matter what.

The day the disappeared came back was a hard one. Everybody was talking about the promised news report about them in the evening. But nothing was revealed yet. Still, the hated yet awaited "friends" came back. Nothing seemed to be like before for them. They didn't just go on a secret road trip together like you theorized, that's for sure!

Because of the accusation of her stealing the money, she was mostly ignored by her classmates, their attention mostly on Kokorogi and Yuuichi, as they were now seen only as tools Shiho used.

Tenji was a bit on the lonelier side, but that was nothing compared to shiho and shibe.

Shibe was of course hated because of the whole trial thing, the accusations still clear as day in their heads. A/N: the trial/court arc didn't happen we all just had an hallucination right?

So he was ignored for some reasonable, at least in your eyes, reasons. But Shiho? There was nothing proving she was in the wrong! And seeing her now reminded you of just that, her long dark hair swaying in the wind, her confident look; this was the Shiho you always knew. The Shiho who'd never ever steal anything.

And so, you walked up to her. Not to ask questions about where she was or anything, that'd probably be too much for her. After all, you had noticed all the bruises most of them had. This certainly wasn't a nice experience for her. Instead of that, you just had casual small talk.

And for shiho, this was like heaven. She didn't have this in so long. How could she when she had to doubt everyone and everything? She couldn't. So, someone casually speaking to her after all that, it felt like a lot.

You forgot about the confession. At the moment, the important thing was her feelings, not yours.

Ever since that moment, she loved spending time with you. Getting quality time

But she wouldn't let you be the only one helping her of course. Doors would magically open themselves before you when she was there; your meals started being a bit tastier for some reason, and your invites to your favorite restaurant much more frequent.

You loved this girl so much. If spending your whole life with her was what it took for her to heal, then that's what you're going to give her.

@flufftober

This is so ooc lmao Im cringing byeee