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WHAT

Bucchigiri?! has pacing of weekly webcomic with 20-30 pages being smashed into one episode

not bad, not good, definitely unusual, tone shifts all the time, but at least there's so much happening in each episode it's never dull

i tjink hes a soup guy

it's interesting to me how merged arajin's punch winded marito for a moment, but merged matakara's kick took marito out of the fight entirely. really shows how large the power gap between ichiya and senya is!

This is for you. Give it here. That's so cool! It's a best friend stone! Let's become Honki People together! Yeah!

Mahoro, Matakara, Aladdin and the Princess

I think Episode 8 finally confirmed to me that the role of the Princess in the Aladdin allusion was actually split between Mahoro and Matakara, rather than it being one or the other. There's a reason why they're both represented by Jasmine-chan during the Nyan Nyaight Love cutaways!

Preface; imo Bucchigiri's narrative takes inspiration from both Disney's Aladdin and the original Aladdin story, so I'm going to switch the Princess's name depending on which version of her I'm referring to. So Jasmine -> Disney's Aladdin, and Badroulbadour -> 1001 Nights Aladdin.

From what I saw in the 1001 Nights Aladdin, Badroulbadour didn't have much of a personality, so it makes sense that a lot of Mahoro and Matakara's personalities were taken from Jasmine, while their roles in the story were slightly more influenced by Badroulbadour.

Mahoro: The feistier side of Jasmine. She has a sharp tongue and always speaks her mind, regardless of potential danger. Eg. Mahoro stands up to Akutaro after he gains the upper hand on both gangs, similarly to how Jasmine refuses to bow to Jafar when he becomes Sultan.

She's also regarded as pretty desirable, and has charmed several men to get them to do what she wants (something that both Jasmine and Badroulbadour do at some point to trick Jafar/the sorcerer). Arajin falls for Mahoro at first sight, similarly to how both versions of Aladdin fell for both versions of the Princess, and like Aladdin his crush on her becomes his driving motivation throughout the series. Akutaro also talks about turning her into a NG Girl and…abusing her, a la Jafar. Ik it's just to trigger Arajin but yk what I mean!

Matakara: The gentler, more naive side of Jasmine, in that he trusts/believes in Arajin...a lot more than he should, really. The main 'lying' plot point between Disney's Aladdin and Jasmine is directly implemented into Matakara and Arajin's relationship. On a surface level there's also their blue colour schemes and phonetically similar names (Asamine -> Jasmine). Near the climax of the 1001 Nights version, the sorcerer tricks Badroulbadour into giving him the lamp with the genie in it, similarly to how Akutaro manipulates Matakara into shooting himself with Ichiya. Both actions trigger a Very Bad Turn of Events that Aladdin stops/will have to stop with the help of his own genie.

Also very interesting how Ichiya has a moon motif, and Badroulbadour's name is a metaphor for female beauty meaning 'full moon of full moons'. Totally not losing my fucking mind over that no sir

Though they both fit the Princess allusion, the entire show is screaming that Matakara is Arajin's true Jasmine, and Arajin is going to realise he was what he needed all along. Honestly, it doesn't get more obvious than Episode 9.

That's not to mention how Mahoro and Matakara also have many, many parallels to each other via their relationships with Arajin. (Both visit him one-on-one at his mom's restaurant to convince him to do something and order the exact same dish, Arajin thinks of child Matakara after seeing both current Matakara and Mahoro get hurt, his meetings with both of them are juxtaposed with one another and described as a 'fated meeting' in this trailer, etc.)

Aside from that, there's also a lot of little stuff that the two have in common! (Both suck at cooking, both deeply care about their older siblings, both are cute as hell etc etc.)

(it's also pretty neat how they're technically both the respective 'princesses' of Minato Kai and Siguma, being the younger siblings of the leader/former leader of each gang!)

doodle dump!! ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و ♡

"Arajin doesn't care about anyone"

The thing people don't get is that Arajin doesn't HAVE to care about others, about strangers. They're not his friends. They're nobody important to him. They're random men who want him in their gangs -- gangs that Arajin only got involved with because he wanted to impress a girl he liked and wanted to be her friend. Even then, Arajin doesn't show he doesn't care when others get physically hurt?? He gets freaked out, he doesn't like fights, he found Outa beat up and bloody and screamed for his life lol. He caught Matakara so he wouldn't fall and get hurt, then pressed a cold handkerchief to his forehead. He's trying and failing to distance himself from these men and their gangs.

The only person who he considers a friend (Mahoro) never got hurt, and yet just a simple threat of her being a trophy girl got him really defensive and angry. Which is why I believe that he's not the same as he was when he was a child... I don't think he realized yet that he's gotten less cowardly. He throws punches easier, because Senya was there in support, Senya kind of helped him become less of a coward. But he punched that dude without asking for Senya's help, in a pure rush of anger (then immediately got sick when he realized what happened lol), which is something he would've never done before. When Matakara got bullied, Arajin ran away. This time he stood his ground and punched first.

Also, he has no real friends, the only person who used to be his friend is getting rejected because Arajin is filled with guilt and avoids him. He doesn't want to be in gangs or fight, he wants to experience a highschool romance story with a cute girl lol

So of course he doesn't care about random gangs ?! Those aren't his friends, he never wanted to be involved in fighting, bloody stuff, anything like that. Its annoying to see people shade him for... being "self centered"? He's surrounded by strangers who just wanna fight and he doesn't wanna die lol. I think Arajin trying to avoid that life is the most normal thing anyone in that anime did lol

the sillies inspired by this cute art

hmmm