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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 08:18:21 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

   just learned I have more pics of the petite alcoholic than I do bocchi. Anyways we watched it again over the weekend and it’s actually pretty cool how even the laid back slice o’ life things in anime STILL have that grit, determinated “I’m gonna work hard to solve my problems and turn my life around” attitude

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 08:21:17 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     Her ‘mentor’ is interesting, too. Someone who’s gliding on the goodwill of others, who’s wearing out her welcome to someday fall into a dilapidated, broken life of alcoholism.

     Kinda turns the usual childhood hero thing from shonen seasons on its head. In bocchi’s case, her mentor isn’t to be imitated all the way.

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 08:22:30 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     Kikuri took the easy way out, she turned to chemical enhancement to develop the ‘strength’ to be outgoing and sociable on stage.

     Bocchi wants to gain her strength naturally, putting herself into increasingly tougher situations in the hopes she surpasses herself, overcomes her weaknesses and becomes what the mentor is without any strength but her own

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 08:24:53 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     Watching this chick really just reminds me of loveable but unsavable fuck ups. She’s probably never gonna turn it around, at best she’ll be a warning to bocchi’s kids someday, but in the moment you see her at her youthful, ephemeral peak.

     I have a certain empathy for people like her, because I feel more like her than someone doing things the right way. She’s the one looking for shortcuts. She’s shirking, weaseling her way out of the difficult to spend her time in the pleasures of the sun no matter how she imposes on the people who love her.

     Ha…..dammit

   • KaiserKitty (kaiserkitty@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 08:28:14 JST KaiserKitty

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot I found boochi relatable but I'd rather read the pure male angst and sexuality of Daredevil. It was nice that Boochi didn't just have people throw stuff in her lap some other anime do with reclused characters where they just get dragged out by super cool and hot people for no reason. Its the little victories that build you up in the end.
     Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks likes this.
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 08:28:58 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • KaiserKitty

     @KaiserKitty Very realistic in that push-pull of being in a high energy state, feeling confident when the commitment lies safely far away on the calendar….and the angst of seeing it approach for real

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 08:55:59 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • prettygood

     @prettygood She’s not though, she’s a kindred spirit. She’s only 22 and already ruining her life to the point the only way out of the poorhouse and gov-enforced rehab is a man taking pity on her and marrying her.

     Or I guess striking it big in music, but, the show is realistic in that it’s something you do in your youth

   • prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 08:56:00 JST prettygood

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DrunkenMaster
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 09:01:26 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @givenup @prettygood Doesn’t have to track 1:1 with reality, just has to provide motive fodder for kids looking anywhere for inspiration w/ their entertainment.

     It’s far better than the messaging we get here: It’s not YOU that’s the problem, it’s all reality that surrounds you!!

   • givenup (givenup@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 09:01:27 JST givenup

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @prettygood of course anime characters can just do an unprompted magical 180 at any point and live happily ever after becuase they're not real people who have to live with their desires and temptations scratching at their willpower daily