Animania: Everyone Loves Me

[T/N: This chapter is Author's ranting, not mine.]

I'm seriously confused now. I can't figure out what the screenwriter is thinking.

It feels like I watched more than ten minutes of anime, but also like I watched nothing at all. Did I even watch anything? Maybe I did.

Up until now, Sakiko has always had a lonely, cold, lone wolf image, but now she's turning into a comic relief character too. And Chihaya only got one shot.

But none of that really matters. The real issue is Mutsumi's character setup, it seriously makes me want to scream, "WTF, wsd!" What the hell are you writing, Sakura?

Let me briefly summarize the new setting thrown out in episode eight: Mutsumi doesn't just have a dual personality, she's actually Hassan of the Hundred Faces. She has hundreds of personalities. Among them, one super-guard dog personality rose to the top, killed off all the other personalities in the name of the Great Western King, and became the dominant persona. Only Teacher Momo was smart enough to pick the right side and survived the purge by kissing up to Mutsumi and pledging loyalty.

If you hadn't told me this was Ave Mujica, I would've thought it was some ancient Chinese palace drama. Is every throne succession doomed to be full of blood and gore?

The reason the Mortis group is so obsessed with keeping Chicken Card safe is also pretty simple, they just want to survive. Hah! This is a girl band anime, yet the characters aren't forming a band because of dreams, or because they're moved by music, or even because they want to bring smiles to audiences, they just want to survive.

Suddenly thought of a joke: a few members of a girl band meet and talk about why they formed the band.

One says: "I want to see the audience's smile."

Another says: "The band gives me strength."

A third says: "To stand on top of the stage."

And the last one says: "Heehee, I just wanna survive."

This scene is just too hard to keep a straight face at.

Anyway, I'm cutting ties with this. No matter what kind of character Mutsumi turns out to be, at least in this novel, she's not malicious. Just an ordinary little girl who doesn't want to be loved in a twisted way. With Kaito around, even Teacher Momo doesn't have to be so bitter and vengeful, struggling to rebuild Chicken Card just to survive.

Honestly, from the beginning, the main characters in this novel have been hard to write because their power level is set too high, their abilities are too strong. So a lot of classic, well-loved story arcs required tons of brainpower to patch up and make them at least somewhat reasonable. Burned through a lot of brain cells that way.

But now, I guess it's a blessing in disguise. At least I don't need to agonize over how to handle Mortis. Straight-up erasing them would be too cruel. Letting them coexist with Mutsumi would feel weird. Fusing the two would just be plain gross.

Luckily for Kaito, none of this matters. Sorry, but when you're a Godly Lord of the Cards, you get to do whatever you want.

I really like one line from Master of Kaito: "You're just an ordinary student. Can you really carry someone else's life on your back?"

Kaito: "I cultivate immortality. Just say it, how many lives do I have to carry?"

[T/N: Also, I don't know what that chicken card or teacher momo is. I just translated it as it is, without editing anything, or researching deep into it. Let me know if you know them, I will change it. Besides, when these character or plots appear in this novel, I will research and use appropriate reference for them anyway, so read with peace of mind. Signing off, AmbiTL~ 👍]