Wherein SoulEater questions my honor
Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy
I'm sure most of you have seen this... but... I love it anyway. Emailsfromcrazypeople. Don't read the comments, though, because they're YouTube level of stupidity, for the most part.
...So, anyone at Bella last night is aware of my deep-seated contempt for Tsubaki (Soul Eater)'s backstory. I'm aware that the Hyuuga Angsty Backstory is not exactly original, but MY MUFFINS are in it, and Tsubaki and her brother are so sappy.
It doesn't take a genius to draw the comparison between BlackStar and Tsubaki and Naruto and Hinata. Leaving BlackStar and Naruto mostly out of this (as BlackStar wormed his way into my good graces somewhere along the way and now I think he's kinda adorable), I just thought I'd take this journal entry to tell you why Hinata (my least favorite Hyuuga) > Tsubaki (an action badass).
Hinata and Tsubaki are both submissive traditional Japanese women. Which doesn't bother me all that much in and of itself...
The thing is, everyone Hinata knows thinks that she's weird for being like that. Naruto introduces her as the weirdest girl he knows. Kurenai and her family think that she's a complete trainwreck. All of them are constantly saying, "Hinata, if you're not going to stand up for yourself, you are not going to survive as a warrior. It's just not how this works." Hinata has friends, people like her, nobody wants to see Neji beat her up, but everybody is just really happy to see her grow a little backbone.
Whereas all of Tsubaki's friends act like her self-denying behavior is normal, and Tsubaki never seems to be even the slightest bit passive-agressively upset that she doesn't get the appreciation she deserves. In the manga, it's different, and I'm actually kind of fond of her in the manga. Manga!Tsubaki seems more motherly than anime!Tsubaki; manga!Tsubaki gives me the vibe that she's a very patient person who is very fond of BlackStar, and so she's willing to wait for him to get serious, rather than force the issue. Anime!Tsubaki has more of the well-I'm-just-a-weapon-and-I'm-not-worthy-to-make-suggestions... possibly because I can edit her tone in my head in the manga, but in the anime I'm stuck with her hesitant pleading.
It really bothers me that nobody in their group of friends takes BlackStar aside and says, "Dude, can you please at least acknowledge that Tsubaki is way too good for you and that you'd be dead without her?" and nobody takes Tsubaki aside and says, "Hey, Tsubaki, we know that you're much better than you let on. Good job!" or "Hey, Tsubaki, you are allowed to tell BlackStar what to do. This is a partnership. You two are equals. Your opinion matters." So I suppose that Tsubaki herself isn't my problem, more how the people around her seem to find her submissiveness validated, but since Maka, Soul, Liz, Patty, Kid, Stein, Spirit, and Shinigami-sama have never placed all my Hyuuga muffins in a blender and made a bland backstory smoothie out of them, Tsubaki and her off-brand-Neji bear the full brunt of my wrath.
(As a completely unrelated aside, the Hyuugas aren't original, but I think what I like about them is that they take several different cliches from the same situation, mixed several generations, threw all of them together, and came out with a veritable clusterfuck of angst and destiny. And that makes me tremendously happy in a way that Tsubaki's episode of whining cannot.)
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy
I'm sure most of you have seen this... but... I love it anyway. Emailsfromcrazypeople. Don't read the comments, though, because they're YouTube level of stupidity, for the most part.
...So, anyone at Bella last night is aware of my deep-seated contempt for Tsubaki (Soul Eater)'s backstory. I'm aware that the Hyuuga Angsty Backstory is not exactly original, but MY MUFFINS are in it, and Tsubaki and her brother are so sappy.
It doesn't take a genius to draw the comparison between BlackStar and Tsubaki and Naruto and Hinata. Leaving BlackStar and Naruto mostly out of this (as BlackStar wormed his way into my good graces somewhere along the way and now I think he's kinda adorable), I just thought I'd take this journal entry to tell you why Hinata (my least favorite Hyuuga) > Tsubaki (an action badass).
Hinata and Tsubaki are both submissive traditional Japanese women. Which doesn't bother me all that much in and of itself...
The thing is, everyone Hinata knows thinks that she's weird for being like that. Naruto introduces her as the weirdest girl he knows. Kurenai and her family think that she's a complete trainwreck. All of them are constantly saying, "Hinata, if you're not going to stand up for yourself, you are not going to survive as a warrior. It's just not how this works." Hinata has friends, people like her, nobody wants to see Neji beat her up, but everybody is just really happy to see her grow a little backbone.
Whereas all of Tsubaki's friends act like her self-denying behavior is normal, and Tsubaki never seems to be even the slightest bit passive-agressively upset that she doesn't get the appreciation she deserves. In the manga, it's different, and I'm actually kind of fond of her in the manga. Manga!Tsubaki seems more motherly than anime!Tsubaki; manga!Tsubaki gives me the vibe that she's a very patient person who is very fond of BlackStar, and so she's willing to wait for him to get serious, rather than force the issue. Anime!Tsubaki has more of the well-I'm-just-a-weapon-and-I'm-not-worthy-to-make-suggestions... possibly because I can edit her tone in my head in the manga, but in the anime I'm stuck with her hesitant pleading.
It really bothers me that nobody in their group of friends takes BlackStar aside and says, "Dude, can you please at least acknowledge that Tsubaki is way too good for you and that you'd be dead without her?" and nobody takes Tsubaki aside and says, "Hey, Tsubaki, we know that you're much better than you let on. Good job!" or "Hey, Tsubaki, you are allowed to tell BlackStar what to do. This is a partnership. You two are equals. Your opinion matters." So I suppose that Tsubaki herself isn't my problem, more how the people around her seem to find her submissiveness validated, but since Maka, Soul, Liz, Patty, Kid, Stein, Spirit, and Shinigami-sama have never placed all my Hyuuga muffins in a blender and made a bland backstory smoothie out of them, Tsubaki and her off-brand-Neji bear the full brunt of my wrath.
(As a completely unrelated aside, the Hyuugas aren't original, but I think what I like about them is that they take several different cliches from the same situation, mixed several generations, threw all of them together, and came out with a veritable clusterfuck of angst and destiny. And that makes me tremendously happy in a way that Tsubaki's episode of whining cannot.)