Watched the first few episodes of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, and honestly, while I could tell that it was an excellent version of what they were trying to do and totally get why it's so popular, I sort of feel that it's just not for me.
So I switched to Summertime Rendering, and yeah. Definitely up my alley. Very Higurashi-esque.
I just realized that if I depict the early stages of Shinji, Asuka, and Rei's relationship in (After)Life, that'll probably mean confronting the whole "Homophobic Asuka" thing. As if in, heavily traumatized bisexual teenager in a harrowing survival situation having to process her feeling versus her internalized homophobia mixed with a healthy heaping of self-loathing not helped by the two people she's developing feelings for being walking embodiments of everything that she's been conditioned to despise.
She'd totally throw a bunch of slurs at them both, wouldn't she?
nah we need to critique toxic hookup culture/casual sex and those who participate in it. your bpd hypersexuality is just preventing you from seeing that