Yuuki Yuuna #10 — Same Ol’, Same Ol’
December 11th, 2014
 
 
The more things don’t change, the more they stay the exact goddamned same.
Impressions:
You know what I adore? Pointless flashbacks. Moving past that completely unneeded and pointless third of the episode… it was pretty much more of the exact same as the last couple episodes. The only thing that’s changed from the early obnoxious episodes is that the tune has changed from “Friendship is magic!” to “Woe is I.” It’s still padded out. They’re still covering no important ground. There’s still no actual antagonist to provide any kind of direction to all the “world is unfair” schlock, and they’re still not bothering to do anything but put on a front about everything supposedly important, be it “the world is in extra super mega danger now” to “our lives are the worstest ever.” Aaand since they steadfastly refuse to do anything to address the situation and about 98% of the woe is delivered as a talking head simply sitting there narrating how awful everything is, it’s impossible to feel even the slightest bit of empathy for them or their supposed plight.
“We have it so bad!”
“Well, what are you doing to change things?”
“I tried killing myself.”
“That helps how?”
“Can’t you see how bad I have it?”
“So… for attention. What else?”
“I tried killing myself again.”
“We’ll table the suicide option. What else?”
“I threw a temper tantrum!”
At the very absolute minimum, they need to understand that they had to sacrifice something because they were unprepared and they screwed up, and then move forward from there. If you want to pile on suffering and woe on top of them actually giving half a crap and trying to improve things, we would be in an entirely different situation (and show). Instead, they hit the first hardship and have spent a month now crying about how awful it is. So they’re doing the absolute bare minimum, and refuse to get up the very first time they hit any kind of hardship that lasted for more than 30 seconds. Go team.
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Here’s a thought: would you be willing to be a soldier in an endless war? Sure, pay is awesome, the job benefits many, and the Veteran disability compensation, quite literally god-tier. In exchange, every battle, you run the risk not of dying, but rather giving up one of your body functions, and if you screw up, anything from a few dozen to all of humanity dies.
“At the very absolute minimum, they need to understand that they had to sacrifice something because they were unprepared and they screwed up, and then move forward from there. ”
But they are basically child soldiers in an endless war. So if anything, perhaps Taisha Yuusha doctrine is just really really sucks? I mean, these are teenage girls at the most emotionally unstable time of their entire lives. I think only Yuuna, and perhaps Karin is incline to think in that military manner – the goal is to win while minimizing the number of Mankais used – if you are prepared, you don’t have to sacrifice anything. The trick of course, is that eventually, you do have to make sacrifices – if you are lucky, maybe you could go ten or twenty battles without sacrifices, so perhaps you might live out an entire human lifespan before being confined to a bed forever, if you do well. And then, it’s immortality as a cripple, but one worshiped as a god.
Does that really sound like a sweet deal to you? That’s basically the deal offered to the Heroes in Yuuki Yuuna, only, the Taisha lack transparency, and after seeing Togo go apeshit this episode, I don’t blame them.