![]() ![]() ![]() IWAMINE SHUU IS NOT A PIGEON! He is a chukar partridge. My 7th grade English teacher would be proud.I just have to clear up something because I’m a total bird geek. It’s one of my favourite themes to explore, and I personally love how they put it together in so many different ways. I don’t mean to tell you all that Shuu is an angel and Kazuaki’s a piece of shit, I instead mean to say that a careful examination of each character’s motivation, intentions, actions, and execution will wind up with the lines between “good” and “evil” blurred together. In conclusion, I don’t mean to erase the wrongdoings of those with pure intentions, or the pure intentions of those who have done wrong. Even Ryouta, who never wanted anything bad to happen, who never could even fathom being evil, blaming himself for not only the start of Shuu’s malice, but the execution of it as well. Pigeonation’s fierce involvement in the coexistence movement, despite their launch of the Human Representative Project, Sakuya, obediently following and believing in his father’s rules of oppression, Yuuya, helping Shuu with his operation to shrug off the guilt of his past, This theme is not just laced between these four characters, but with almost every character in the game (excluding Okosan and Hiyoko of course, they’re pure). However, if he only had more skill, he would be a major threat, and possibly a non-redeemable *problematic fave*. Unfortunately for him, he just sucks at being a villian, so he’s reduced to a comedic supporting character. He’s fuelled by nothing but jealousy and arrogance. Don’t laugh, but, objectively, Tohri is the most evil out of them all. Once again, it all comes down to intentions and execution. What about The King? The real Kazuaki? He was an antagonist too, but there’s no way you could call him evil at heart. People that haven’t played Holiday Star, and ESPECIALLY people that haven’t played BBL, don’t get all of that character development.īut Kazuaki and Shuu aren’t everything. ![]() No one expected Kazuaki to have killed someone and be willing to kill again, and no one thought Shuu would’ve been anything but a ruthless killer, so we cling to that initial image of them. We shout, “Shuu is still a murderer!”, but at the same time, “Hitori just did it for Nageki!” It really makes you think about the first impression you get from meeting a character. We don’t think of a cynical man named Isa Souma, no, Ichijou Utsuro, dedicating his life to fulfilling the last wish of someone he loved.Īnd on the opposite side- When we think of Uzune Hitori or Nanaki Kazuaki, we all think of the sleepy teacher, narcoleptic quail, harmless cutie, etc, and not the heartless man who coaxed another person into suicide so he could take over his life. If anything, Shuu’s a lot less corrupted.īut when we think of Shuu, we think of a homocidal doctor, a cleaver-wielding partridge, a murderer, etc. So why is it that we see Shuu as the main threat, and not someone like Kazuaki, or hell, even Tohri? Shuu and Kazuaki share similar drives of love, Kazuaki wanting revenge and Shuu wanting to fulfil a promise. If we judged everyone in the game by their intentions alone, it’s possible that we would consider none of them evil. The constant between all of these is pure intentions. The first we learn of that is Shuu, but there’s many different examples, in different forms. The theme of Hatoful Boyfriend is 100% “Evil is how you perceive it”.
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