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Tashigi is little, cute "katana maniaka" who is hated by a community for no reason

Well, in most of a time when I started read One Piece, I didn´t care of OP Community. With my own pace I read manga chapter by chapter and successfully avoided most of the spoilers before I reached ongoing (and dropped it now I don´t care so much about spoilers and start read manga again in that point where I stopped five years ago - and Wano is done :D ) To the point, I was horrified how many people hate Tashigi so much. She always was one of my favourite characters and I ship her with Zoro. Ok, in two cases I am able to understand why she is not popular character: 1, ZoRobin shippers- understand to their feelings, they root for their favourite couple and I feel their "pain". Still get it, it´s part of the fandom to prefer one ship to another one. 2, she is weaker fighter than the others- ok, I have some arguments (I will explain later), but I get it. Some fans have to compare everyone with everyone who holds a sword and yeah, Tashi-chan is really weaker than Zoro or Mihawk. What I don´t get it, why people hate her so much. Be honest, it seems to me that hating Tashigi is an act of misogyny. I'm not exaggerating. Tashigi is a perfect sample how it´s hard to be significant female figure in two almost 100% male domains. In OP universe there is not so much swordswomen and there is not so much higher ranked marines. In many stories there is a narrative if we see female characters among the men and she is "the best however she is a woman" and in many stories it´s explain like "be woman is something worse, but she is great"). Personally, I don´t prefer this type of narrative and gladly Tashigi is not that case.

Assuming for "for non-existent misogyny"

Ppl critisize her for assuming Zoro for nothing. However we knows that his reason why he didn´t want to fight with her it´s kinda different than she thought. But be honest, women don´t assume the men for misogyny without reason. Who knows Tashigi´s experience with discrimination because she is female? Marine´s bases are not space of understanding and tolerence overrun by unicorns. Most of her superiors are men and also most of her subordinates are men. From my own experience I know some women who are in leadership positions and every single of them has experience that they struggled with some dump male subordinate who didn´t respect them because "they are just women". She had to make many times more efforts because of her gendre so that the people around her began to respect her. To become a petty officesand later a captain. And maybe when she fought with the pirates, she was used to that they insulted and underestimated her. We don´t know. Probably, she just expected the same interection from Zoro.

Tashigi is "crybaby"

The others critisize her for her "overeacting" and that she´s weak and crybaby. It´s typical insult for women. Crying is human biological process through which, for example, sadness or frustration is expressed (for all of a people). And I seriously debt when Zoro has his defeated moment with Mihawk and cried and screamed, nobody said "oh, he is too weak, emotional crybaby". No, he is so cool, cause he is able to express human emotions and for female audince he´s more se*ier than before. For girls crying is "shame and typical female reaction", for boys it is "a courageous act in which they show their humanity". Tashigi also show her humanity. In Logue Town, in Alabasta, also in Punk Hazard Arc. She felt frustrated, helpless, betrayed by her own perception of justice. That´s the reason why she cried.

Tashigi is weak

Tashigi is different type of swords(wo)man. If we could look at it that way, there is a group of swordsmen -swordsmen´s comunity whose "members" are divided between pirates, marines and the other groups in OP Universe. Like in almost every pirate crew there is one member who is familiar with some type of swords. These swordsmen and swordswomen are belong to different crews, everyone has different mindset, different goals in their lifes, different personality. And Tashigi is also different than the others. Most of the swordsmen wants to be better and better fighters, want to reach their names into the heavens (ehm,ehm) and be more and more skilled in fight how it would be possible. And for most of them see swords just as tool for reaching their dreams. Tashigi is focusing on these "tools". She is sword geek with high sense of justice, sometimes out of the reality. She wants better world where all of the famous swords are in hands of good people and serve to good of mankind. I don´t get the fans who still compare every single character with Mihawk or Zoro. They throw away Tashigi over the board just because she is weaker than Zoro. Ehm, Idk but it´s the point of the story. Zoro made a promise to become the greatest swordsman in the world and his goal is defeat Mihawk. We saw him in every chapter/episode how he´s becoming stronger and strogner and slowly reaching his name into the heaven. We don´t see Tashigi every single day (or decade) but she is in different position. She is not pirate in the crew somewhere middle of Grand Line and she doesn´t have to face to great dangers every single day. She is captain, most of the time probably she spends in headquarters or on the marine ship where she plans and gives orders to the marines. Of course, she is also in action but with reference to the above it is as it is. And she is not bad.

She is just annoying. Poor Zoro.

For Zoro Tashigi is one of the few people in the universe who: - is not Zoro´s enemy however she is not member of Strawhats crew -and she is swordswoman and she is not rival at the same time - he avoids her in fight by his own decision (in most of cases, he just follows Luffy decision to unite with the others), but Tashigi is not little child or unarmed citizen. Kuina who is gone is big issue of Zoro´s mind and Tashigi´s appearence doesn´t make it easier but in Punk Hazard arc is significant, that Zoro already moved from the statement "Tashigi makes troubles because she is similar to Kuina" to "Tashigi makes troubles". If we miss the interactions between Zoro and female crew members, there are not many female characters with whom Zoro would interact as much as Tashigi. And, you can think that Tashigi sucks but Zoro chose to be in her company voluntarily (depends of the situation where they are stuck together). He could decide for different ways how to interact with her, but in half of the shared moments he is kind to her. In Logue town he listen her chattering about the swords like no anyone else (and it was useful), he was willing to help her, when she was attacked by two pirates in Logue Town and he handed her a glasses when she fell while the others laughed at her. In Punk Hazard, he could left her because she is Marine after all, but he didn´t. Their talks are also awkard. Of course, it doesn´t mean that they will end up together as husband and wife with bunch of children but it was Zoro´s decision to let Tashigi into his life (somehow). According to me, Zoro sees Tashigi as someone who is brave, kind, protective to those in need with strong sense of justice and great geek into a swords in the cutest way as it is possible. It´s probably hard to talk with her, because she stubborn but he never underestimated her as a swordwoman, but he knows that she has different limits than him and that´s the reason why he is ready protects her when it is needed.

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Why I don´t ship Robin with anyone

I saw many ship variantions like Zoro x Robin, Franky x Robin etc. (btw. it probably never happen, cause Oda said no space for "hanky panky" inside the crew, sorry guys) but I didn't choose any of them and my statement is that Robin should be single for rest of her days. She deserves love, a lot of love after all of things happend in her life. But I suppose, that she is not interested in romantic relationships. She is not like the Nami (we know...) and also I suppose she is not asexual. But, look at her background and all of things what happend to her. In the phrase "survive at all cost" are many meanings and some of them cannot be clearly shown in story which is aviable for children. Yeah, I bet, that Robin is very capable, smart woman and for 20 years she was in desperate situation and I bet, there were a moments, when she was to forced to resort to extreme actions like use everything what she had for survival. And I suppose that she had to use her own body since she was child, because OP universe like our world is not kind place for many little boys and girls. In whole OP we can see quite often contextual allusion for se*ual viollence. It´s significant in Sabaody arc where we can see slave trading and we know that some of the "items" (especially the beautiful women) are not used for physical labor. My theory is that Robin had to use her body for many times since her childhood and right know she traumatized and disgusted use physical touch like act of the love with men. And she is comfortable to be single. What she needs is a loyal group of friends who will support her when she will need (also it took some arcs cause she had big trust issues). It can change or mabye Oda has different plans with Nico Robin, but I guess that staying single makes her more charming than put her into relationship.

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K Dramas: mirror of feminity

Kdramas surprisingly are my gate to discover many faces of feminity through the popular culture. I was in shock after watching The Glory, Mr. Sunshine, This is my first life, My liberation notes, Hyena, Little women and many others, that the storytelling with female main characters (and also side characters) can be so real. Like that most of them what I watched can passed Bechdel test without any problems. When I was younger (around 16 y.o.) I found my passion in the anime and Japanese culture. Idk why maybe Japan is in the other side of the world and I was attracted to difference of the Japanese culture. Nevertheless I always missed something. Especially, my imagination and my inner world always missed the potential of female characters. Except for a few exceptions they were always same, they didn´t have personality which I would sympathize with. Most of them were subordinated to the behavior of the male characters. They just existed for love and support of the others. How years passes, this fact started to bother me more and more. Of course, I have my favourites, and most of them based of quality of female characters (for example Psycho-pass, Another, some Ghibli movies), but mostly male storytelling about women is something sick all around the world. I suppose that I am included (with my age and level of education and place where I live) into the targed audience of k-dramas. And it´s ok, cause media work in that way. One of my first kdrama which I ever watched was title Strong woman Do Bong Soon, in that time I was in my early twenties, and still I wasn´t into kdrama like in nowadays. But I was suprised. In last years I watched many kdramas with better storytelling, but Do Bong Soon, however she had a crush, sometimes she was naive, she was really strong. She has strong moral statements, she was so brave. And however the end is little bit cheesy and there is a tons of cheap female gaze, I really enjoyed the story. And personality of Do Bong Soon. Then, after few years, when I passed some relationships, almost finished my studies and moved for several times (in my homecountry and also in abroad and back), I felt little, little bit mature than before. And I realized, when I open the Netflix or other platform, that I want to watch something where I can put my shoes and say something like "Oh, I know how they feel." or "I like how she is independent, strong and at the same time so natural". In the other words, I wanted to watch female believable storytelling. And accidentaly I found kdramas again. My experience with Because this is my first Life was stunning, I loved everything (almost everything) about the story. Than I realized how the stories show females. Like individual human beings. Another milestone in my journey of discovering of beauty of womanhood in pop culture, was experience with The Glory and Little women. For the first time I watched story about broken INTJ female (I am also INTJ female and know how it´s f**king hard to find something like that, trust me), then The Glory was my little pleasure. And Little Women was my big pleasure. It´s a great example how women are able to be dangerous, powerfull, many faced and cold blooded. And maybe for the first first time I watched how the male characters are "just" puppets in this complicated, crazy, cold blooded and rational tricky games. It doesn´t matter how powerfull or capable they were, they couldn´t do almost anything. I don´t like the "fact" that rationality and thinking is some man´s thing. And the women are sooo emotional and they are not able to control their emotions. Nonsense, women have to control just more things in their lifes. Men can focus for only one thing (for example career) and the society passed them without note. If woman want to do same thing she has to deal with many obstacles, so she has control more emotions and feeling, and still, women are able to be rational human beings (I personally belive more than men). In kdramas I noticed one thing. It is admitted here that being a woman is hard (in many cases)

to be female lawyer without rich family and traumatic backround is hard (Hyena)

to be single female in her 30s´ without money or family who will help you and looking for a accomodiation is hard (Because this is my first life)

to be unmarried 27yo woman is hard (Strong woman Do Bong Soon)

to be a young woman who does not conform to beauty standards is hard (The Mask girl)

to be young woman who has traumatic experience with se*ual abuse is hard (Mad for Each other)

For the first time, in k-dramas I saw many faces of women. Women are humans. Women deal many things. Women doesn´t live just for male pleasure. Women have debts, siblings, healthy problems, traumas, pets and hobbies. I still realize that kdramas are fictions. There is a lot of female gaze (I know and honestly I don´t care *smirk*), many cheesy endings with love and weddings, the good, supported and handsome male characters don´t have copies in real world (sad) and amount of drunk bottles of soju in reality should by alarming (thanks for My Liberation notes where it´s focused of alcoholism). Also South Korea is not feministic paradise, it´s just the opposite. But the kdramas which are aviable to North America and Europe audience is something what sees female in real life more than most of titles of western production of film industry.

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Don't worry if your life is in chaos, you are like the universe itself and its law of entropy. もの久保 on Pivix

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Akane´s (love) interest(s)

According to my personal feelings and thanks to nostalgia which I have for years from ship „Shinkane“ I really wanted to avoid this topic, but I think that I really can´t.

Can it really works? Like Shinkane? Of course yes, the authors almost indicated that the two are soulmates. But can it really be enough for a working relationship?

And my doubts grew when I watched the third series and met him – Homura. I have nothing against him, but at first I was worried that he was somehow connected to Akane. Somehow.

But I am not sixteen y.o. fool to think that Akane will live like a nun and wait until Shinya "dares" to "somehow" return home.

This brings me to an idea that came to my mind when I read the theather play Pygmalion (by Bernard Shaw) years ago - play, not a musical.

In the author's speech of the end of book, Shaw states that Eliza will not marry Higgins, but Freddy. In short, Higgins is a perfect soulmate, but Freddy is a perfect match because he is able to give her everything she needs for love. While Higgins will compete with her and never show her that he loves her.

There is something about it. I recommend that all young people read it- romance in relationships is not enough.

Back to the point. I can't associate this author's idea with the characters from PP Universe. Because:

Shinkane is not a toxic relationship. On the contrary- in most of time.

We know nothing about Homura. So we can't say he's a supportive man for Akane. They could have something in common, but we can really only guess what kind of person he is.

But… Psycho pass is one big soap opera with dominators from the beginning. First season is about relationship of two men, also about son-father complicated relationship. About the beginning of a romantic interest between two people put together by a terrorist (really, Kou and Tsu are closer because of Makishima, crazy, right? ). Only two people who are not drama queens is our cute lesbian couple (Kunizuka × Shion).

But it´s sounds as a fun. If Akane dated with Homura before her arrest and imprisonment and after her release, Ko picked her up and took her somewhere on date ... why not. Really why not. Maybe, for Kougami it can be sign of last chance like „don´t fuck up it again“ because Akane hasn´t to wait for him forever. In PP3 Kougami behaved as fool and it was clear that he had something against Homura. Guess what.

I really want to watch PP4, really… girls just want to have fun, yo know.

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I never mentoined before, but Akane´s ordinary clothing is full of warm clothes. I guess, that´s expresses her kind and warm-hearted personality.

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I mean this act was childish (don´t say to his "comrades" how their ex-superior looks) because one day they will find out for themselves without you, Shin. And, what´s wrong for the answer "she is pretty and she is in our age"? All of you are young soldiers in the midlle of the biggest conflict in the world, so what´s wrong to pay homage to the Lena in front of them? They can laugh to you, but your life can be too short to have worries or feel embarrassed. And I bet, that no one will try to "steal" her from you. Nope, you´re too dangerous for someone to risk it. Trust me.

Shin lying that he didn’t see Lena because he wants her all to himself and doesn’t want any guy to know how attractive she is

He saw this

And was like, “Damn, that drawing Theo drew of her doesn’t do her justice!! She’s so beautiful!!”

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Couple weeks ago I found a documentary video how the Psycho-pass movies were made. The video is over one hour and aviable on Youtube. there are a lot of interviews with the creators. And it looks very interesting. The problem is language, the video is only aviable in Japanese. Do you know if anyone created English subtitles for that?

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In Psycho-Pass Universe Kougami is considered a legendary detective with brilliant judging skills:

Well...

Rikako: "He is absolutely right! Me and my naked non-breathing friend´re just talking about homework...in bed."

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some interesting topics of PP Universe which could be filmed or created a miniseries

Masaoka´s past - I really want to know something more about Masaoka-san. His beginnings in a police career, how he met his future wife and maybe his fall and how he became enforcer. How he got his revolver which is soo important for fate of many characters. There is no need for revolutionary ideas in plot. Just set it with noir vibes, in Cowboy Bebop or Trigun style. Just I am kinda sorry that Masaoka´s voice actor is already passed :(

Kougami´s childhood - I am kinda curious of Kougami´s early life. In SS3 movie was mentoined that the relationship with his mother is kinda complicated. I really want to know why. Plus, Kougami´s father never was mentioned. And there is no information about him. So, it could be interesting to see if Kougami´s childhood was traumatic and if he felt alone and if he carried the consequences from his past into his adulthood

The Specimen case - d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y, I know the novel already exists but, I assume I am not only one who want to see the investigation of horrible murders and maybe some scenes from Sasayma dying.... We are Psycho-pass fans, we can handle some blood on the screen. Just add 18+rank, that´s it!

Story out of Police Department - we already watched a lot big and small stories about crimes, investigations, the fates of members of all possible security forces in this new Japan (sometimes out of Japan). That´s absolute extreme edge of society. Maybe it would be nice to show us daily life of ordinary people. One day with ordinary family. Teachers in kindergarden and propaganda of Sybil for the little ones. Daily routine in office, hospital, public library (censhorship of books) I believe that´s a big potential in PP Universe.

Investigation in the countryside - Imagine that Foreign Affairs Operations Department and Division One join forces in some case in the countryside. Scenes in onsen. Sheep/cows in the middle of the road. Some Shinkane moments with fireflies at night. Mika stinged by mosquito...

Training process of new inspectors - I dunno what to say. Just curious of this process of training of elite of new world

Tsunemori´s relationship with her grandma - I am curious why Akane is (used to be) "Grandma little girl", why they connection was so strong. And maybe it might be related that Akane can't (couldn't) swim. Maybe some childhood trauma connected with water.

And from other many many ideas...

University life in the end 21st and the beginning of 22nd century- In PP1 was mentioned that universities were cancelled for dangerous ideas. Maybe I want to see the beginning of the end of universities in Japan. Students ordinary life, academy policy of these days and maybe Saiga-sensei in action. What I really don´t need to know is Kagari and Makishima flashbacks - because... why? Everything important about them was already shown. It´s a point of the well written plot- just important things for the story were written. Their stories has come to their end. In this post I didn´t write anything like "we want see shinkane happy ending, or origin of new characters of PP3" because I believe it will be mentioned somehow in next series or movies. I just want to mentioned some complex suggestions.

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...Well dude, you were born in 2058, decade when TikTok generation is retired or dead, and you have no understanding for modern technologies and cringe? Btw. first working hologram was found in 1962 (the concept is older, but still it´s approx hundred years before Tomoni´s birth). But still, holograms are... yuck.

But... he is not only one-

-Kougami Shinya, born 2084 I still think Psycho-Pass is an allegory for the 21st century, change my mind. I mean Masaoka is typical boomer, the cold war generation, noir detective. Kougami is old fashioned pessimistic early millenial who might accept cellphones and ... maybe Internet (but... who knows). Akane, only one, was born in 2092 (similarity with late millenial) naturally understands that holograms are normal part of her life in 22nd century. And also AI controlling their lives ... or cyborgs ... or self-driving cars.

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Why Mika-chan is a bi*....

Mika and her role in the police division reminds me of the conditions that prevailed in the countries of the former Eastern part in Europe in the second half of the 20th century (countries which were under the occupation of USSR - e.g. Poland, Czechoslovakia (today CZ and SK), Ukraine, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary etc etc etc)

People like Mika have been selected for senior leadership positions for their "proper descent" or "being exemplary citizen". They were chosen on the basis of political opinion. But often it was the people we would call "trash" today.

They didn´t have the necessary knowledge to perform such a complex job. They often had no compassion, moral principles, or basic intelligence on how to deal with people. But they decided on human lives.

And something like that is Mika. She is an "ideal citizen" who works in positions where the Sybil System mostly places the nation's elite- Safety Bureau Divisions. Tsunemori, Kougami, Ginoza were chosen cause they are brilliant, skilled and gifted in many ways. At the same time, they always wanted to help society and protect the weak. In this case, the system was really fair. They are unique.

Among the enforcers are brilliant people such as Karanomori or Hinakawa, who take their uniqueness for granted and do not brag about it. Other capable or gifted people include, for example, Kunizuka, Masaoka, Kagari or Sugo, etc. etc, etc. (because there is also a selection process for enforcers and not everyone can do this profession)

And Mika works among them. She doesn´t reach their abilities and qualities. Yet she was given power over these people to decide. And that's why she makes bad decisions.

(In the third season we see that Mika is technically skilled and she likes to improve weapons (dominators), so she is not completely worthless, she would be a perfect technological support, she could work as a developer in the military industry.

But she can't work with people because of her nature (and probably traumas). That's why she's such a disaster and that's why a lot of PP fans hate her - rightly)

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Dating strategies in Psycho-pass universe

Take your crush to you favourite therapist (and teacher, of course)

Comfort your crush, that now you are on the same ship, because your BFF´s died in horrible way and they were murdered by the same person. Now you finally have something in common - Makishima. Promise something really really really important... and don´t keep it! Your masculine vanity will break her heart but who cares! she will be ok... maybe... someday.

You were given a miraculous opportunity to keep your promise ... erm, break it again for sure. She will get it.

Comfort your crush via anonymous phone call that she may find you dead in the days to come, and that this is the last goodbye among you and her. Since she probably still has trauma about a broken promise and also a dead Masaoka she didn't know about, because you didn't tell her about him, she would definitely appreciate your call.

If you meet your crush on the battlefield and immidietly recognize her... don´t stop with attacking her and definitely don't say any word or short sentence (e.g. kanshikan, it´s me!) so she doesn't recognize you by your voice and still thinks someone wants to kill her because you attacked her from behind.

Cover her crush with your own body during explosion. Almost like hug. Every couple has its own body language.

Take your crush into the insurgent camp somewhere in the territory of today's Cambodia... you know, stars... and mercenaries and dictator´s army... she likes that.

Give your crush a grenade. Girls in 22nd century like grenades, better than flowers.

Be taken with your crush to your own execution what should look like an accident. And be saved at the last second. Girls like so much adrenalin in their blood. Visit your crush in prison and promise her (cause promises are you strenght at all) that you will tell her about your advanterus on your long trip. You know... how u almost be killed by every second person u ever met... how many people u already killed.... about your career as tactical advisor of guirelas... and how you took cadre of the child in the Himalayas and then you were declared a terrorist there. Because why not, your crush's been worried about you all along, but this won't upset her at all

For some reason... it works.

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Don´t get mi wrong. Akane is embodiment of strong and natural womanhood. She is capable, independent and her life is really hard even though she is the kindest (ex)inspector in the entire police department.  But she is also sweet, sensitive and she doesn´t deserve so much cruelty and inhumanity that she has to face. From time to time, someone should protect her and tell her that everything will be fine and that she does not have to be afraid

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I don´t know what I should think, but I noticed that in every case, Kougami is the object of interest of weird and dangerous people like terrorists, mercenaries or war criminals... simply put- villains. All villains in PP Universe with different personalities, desires and various disturbing life-philosophy are totally obscessed with our heavy-smoker from Japan. And it always ends in death. Why? I don´t know. Desmond R. from Gekijouban had a poetic dialogoue with Kou during his torture (dialogues with Kou is something like listening to Wagner for him). Garcia in PP Case 3 is excited about Kougami´s personality and skills. He likes Japanese... and Makishima... about his obsession is the almost whole first series. Kougami is really atractive man for the other men, except 3rd season. No main protagonist, no obsessed villains.

Maybe in 4th season I want to see Akane in similiar position. She deserves a lot interest from villian´s side (we want to see her in action!). So far most of villains have overlooked her potential. Maybe I want to see her as a someone´s target and maybe Kougami how he would save the day (so far, these have only been battles for survival, defense, or manifestations of untreated depression).

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Kougami visits prisoned Tsunemori:

Stories from his long trip:

Almost killed by child soldier

Almost killed by bandits

Put his life in danger whenever is possible

Makishima still in his head. (Shinya has been hallucinating for four years.)

Akane´ll love it.