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Ultraman: Rising ━ Identity

ੈ✩‧₊˚ Just feeling sad and crying over the fact that this movie goes into identity and how I was able to understand Ken's character.

"Where's the Japanese version of this guy?"

I remember my sister asking me what this meant, and all I could do was let out a little sigh. I also remembered how Kenji got asked how he would adjust to "Japanese Baseball," with Ken responding with "Baseball is baseball, man." which could have a deeper meaning (I'll explain later) or the little montage when we see Kenji just being so tired and screwing up at Baseball and a fan yelling, "Go back to America." Or how the announcer commented on Kenji saying that "Japanese baseball was just too much for Ken." For/In Japan, he isn't Japanese, but American, all because he spent more than half his life in America, ignoring the fact that he was born (and raised until 6) in Japan.

However, in an interview with Ami, Ken mentioned how he was made fun of for how he looked, talked, and for what he ate. Signaling how he was racially discriminated in America, and all he could do was "give them something else to talk about," which was his success. They wouldn't talk about his looks, nor how he spoke, or what he ate or came from. Instead, they would talk about how great of a Baseball athlete he is, they wouldn't see him as Japanese or American, but as a Baseball Player; Ken Sato.

But not only does this film go into racial identity but also self-discovery/self-identity. Ken tries to balance his life out by trying to mix both his life as a Baseball player and Ultraman. And as we know, it doesn't go well in the beginning. Having built a persona around Ken Sato, the baseball player, and Ultraman (the one his father was) Ken is really struggling trying to find himself. We end up learning that Ken is a man who enjoys his career as a Baseball player, we also learn that, although successful, he had to try and reach that success like any other. We also learn that Kenji is still trapped in the past, a child with unsolved issues.

At the end of the film, Kenji is able to embrace his persona as Ultraman, adding it to his identity. Because at the end of the day, just like Ken said, "Baseball is baseball," and "ken is and will always just be ken."

The fact that Loid Forger doesn’t have a PTA mom enemy for him to have a passive aggressive cook off with is cruelty to me specially.

art by the.gauntlets

gofundme for the family

BE BLESSED WITH LAF

Lucifer:

Sorry for the lack of updates, I'm currently obsessing over two other men. I'm cheating on Lucifer /j.

Hoshina Soshiro and Iguro Obanai the men that they are 🛐

FOR THE GLOBAL DEMI'S AND/OR LEGACIES

New Rome Headcanon: Diversity

-Because children of the gods from all over the world live out their lives in New Rome, the medley of cultures and languages is so dense it’s nearly impossible. Eid al-Fitr is celebrated almost the same week as the Feast of Fortuna. Diwali sometimes collides with Halloween. You turn from the Via Principia onto the Rue de Fleur. Sometimes, you might return home from a Valentine’s Day celebration done by children of Venus only to see a Mardi Gras parade coming through the city. New Rome is the biggest cultural medley in the world, and no one knows it but a bunch of demigods. 

-For the first time in history, African American demigods march shoulder to shoulder with Jewish legacies, with Hispanic soldiers, and they’re all true Roman legionnaires. 

-Pictures of POC manifestations of the gods are put up on Temple Hill.

-New Rome is known as a safe spot for immigrants (illegal or not, they don’t care, because most demigods know what it’s like to have been hunted and homeless, and these are people who need help), but of course the Mist conceals the more otherworldly aspects of the camp. 

-Somewhere along the line, a praetor had to establish an exchange system between USD, euros, pesos, drachma, denarii, and dozens of other currencies from around the globe, because there was no freaking way this was going to work otherwise. 

-I LOVE THIS HEADCANON SO FREAKING MUCH OKAY

Circe's Stained Glass Painting in her palace, commissioned @yeyeyeuhah for Circe and most of the mantle design

Just cut off the bastard that speaks like a wannabe Shakespeare and the corp speak maybe because of his influence 💀

Send help I always end up speaking like I'm sending a corporate email in dm's I can't stop myself ;-;

When a teacher asks a question, you’ll always have that one classmate that says uhhhh...

This art should be more deeply appreciated

ohhhhhh my god;;;;;;;;;;