Akane-banashi - Ch. 206 - God of Death
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"It goes where it will... and only... takes."
forever ago, Shiguma drilled into Akane that her lived experiences would inform her storytelling, and back when Akane was learning Fetching Tea from Urara, the big conclusion she hit was that the stories she performed would grow and change with her, and I feel like this was a prime example of Akane internalizing those ideas. She could only represent a capricious Death like this because she's witnessed it herself, this is a story that only this Akane could tell Right Now and that's super cool to see
for a while I thought that she might use this story to show gratitude to Death, but finally reaching the end of this performance made me realize that gratitude is built into the next story she has to master to grasp Shiguma's Art, Shibahama. Maybe I'm reading too far into things, but it almost feels like this is a sort of healing journey for Akane? Her Shinigami presents the idea that life is inherently unfair, but Shibahama is about a man being blessed by a loved one watching out for him and eventually being rewarded for bettering himself. Akane's got plenty of love in her life but it still feels like Death had been hanging over her for so long, so now that she's starting to have fun with rakugo again it feels like she's primed and ready to embody all that love again and create a special Shibahama performance like what her dad was aiming for years ago. Hell, in Shibahama the main character only receives his fortune after 3 years of hard work... feels a lil familiar lol
rambling aside, what a sick performance start to finish. The choice of the sneeze ending is especially fun for how it still fits with Akane's exploration of the craftsman style and letting the audience interpretation carry weight, since you could see it as one last joke or one last instance of cruelty forced upon the main character
and of course, the art is still killing it, those last two double-page spreads are stellar
forever ago, Shiguma drilled into Akane that her lived experiences would inform her storytelling, and back when Akane was learning Fetching Tea from Urara, the big conclusion she hit was that the stories she performed would grow and change with her, and I feel like this was a prime example of Akane internalizing those ideas. She could only represent a capricious Death like this because she's witnessed it herself, this is a story that only this Akane could tell Right Now and that's super cool to see
for a while I thought that she might use this story to show gratitude to Death, but finally reaching the end of this performance made me realize that gratitude is built into the next story she has to master to grasp Shiguma's Art, Shibahama. Maybe I'm reading too far into things, but it almost feels like this is a sort of healing journey for Akane? Her Shinigami presents the idea that life is inherently unfair, but Shibahama is about a man being blessed by a loved one watching out for him and eventually being rewarded for bettering himself. Akane's got plenty of love in her life but it still feels like Death had been hanging over her for so long, so now that she's starting to have fun with rakugo again it feels like she's primed and ready to embody all that love again and create a special Shibahama performance like what her dad was aiming for years ago. Hell, in Shibahama the main character only receives his fortune after 3 years of hard work... feels a lil familiar lol
rambling aside, what a sick performance start to finish. The choice of the sneeze ending is especially fun for how it still fits with Akane's exploration of the craftsman style and letting the audience interpretation carry weight, since you could see it as one last joke or one last instance of cruelty forced upon the main character
and of course, the art is still killing it, those last two double-page spreads are stellar
