Akane-banashi - Ch. 202 - Transformation

[MangaDex]

 

[brndndss]

Akane playing it both ways at the same time really puts the heat on Kaisei. cause if he does the same, itll be copying and doing one version could feel less impactful by comparison. this perfect example why you dont have multiple retellings of the same story back to back

 

[fight2live]

i got jumpscared aight, Akane, continue

 

[SuperOniichan]

Akane playing it both ways at the same time really puts the heat on Kaisei. cause if he does the same, itll be copying and doing one version could feel less impactful by comparison. this perfect example why you dont have multiple retellings of the same story back to back

Lol, tell that to the Hollywood Spider-Man writers.

 

[skywardgem]

and here I thought she'd limit her Death to representing one person or experience, this is a super cool take on the story. Death is the kinda thing that just Is, and while it could be interesting seeing Akane reflect her own life in it (I imagine that's the direction Kaisei will take with his Death), drawing the audience in to define their own relationship to Death is sick while respecting that rakugo is something Shared with an audience... she really has grown as a storyteller lol

the idea of Transformation in her story also calls to mind the tanuki comparisons for Akane once again, she really is a capable shapeshifter to be pulling stuff like this off

and of course the art is still stellar as always, my favorite part about this transforming death is that it allows the art to shift through a variety of different styles to fit the shifting moods, Moue's art is just too cool at times like this

 

[DMan_chine]

At the end of the day, Death is neither something good or bad, it's subjective to the people who hears it. So, when a story about death is experienced or interpreted WIDELY by audience, you are basically bring out how a person feels about Death too. When she mentioned that God of Death was a story that was brought by the West and adapted to the East, I thought she go to making the God of Death, be more like an Angel of Death, or the personification of Death, a thing that is completely separated from the human but that is experience by the human.

Instead it was more about the diversity of experiences... I guess it's about the Human experience with Death, the Human relationship with mortality. I wonder where she's going to take it by the end of the story, and how Kaisei is going to interpret his.

 

[CheesiBoye]

So she really made it absurdist in how people would recieve it. I dont know, if writing it that way is accurate? Or plausible? In general, when you exprience performance art it wholly depends on how much reflection the audience wants to take in the meaning and implications of the text. Often times the best way to elicit a varied reaction is to perform a classic as written, having to adjust how and what an adaptation focuses on based on the present times and understanding of the people (in this case person) of the audience they perform to. Coaxing them or nudging then to a specific understanding had often been considered a shallow presentation of drama but in contrast a welcome exploration of the comedy of a piece. Hence the dichotomy between comedy and drama as the main push and pull at the core of performance art.
I had to check the God of Death when the story was going to try to tackle it, it reminds me a lot of beckett's godot and feels very much like the defining story that embodies what rakugo can say about performance art as a whole. A continuous lie of spinning a yarn to fool people into thinking you yourself are worth the money they pay to see you. Where the alternative to the lie is death whether socially, economically, or mentally. I think where akane is written to focus on death as unknowable. Kaisei will likely touch on the closer truth to the story, that it is about the human condition which he has lived through having cone from poverty and lying for a living. While this performance can be written as having as many varied reactions as possible, i think kaisei would win in having everyone experience all the emotions and subtext throughout the narrative.
Ironically it would mean that akane's was written to be a better performance, but Kaisei's would be written as a better understanding of the fiction and craft. I was hoping it'd be the opposite, but in terms of what each character can draw upon it only makes sense (big rejection event vs lifelong rejection by the world).

 

[Sollertia_]

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