Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai Episode 11 Discussion

I'm not seeing where she said to Mero that it was okay or a good thing. Just that she can somewhat understand and relate to it because she has had the experience of her own feelings being misdirected in a destructive manner due to lack of self-confidence over her identity and talent. She sees a kindred soul in Mero, who maybe would have made different choices if she had the experience that Mahiru had. It's easy for Mahiru to imagine an alternative version of the recent past where things happened differently - she never met Kano, never rediscovered her love for her art, etc., and that version of Mahiru would in her eyes be a much worse person than she is now.

You can place yourself in a person's shoes to better understand their situation and why they did what they did without necessarily supporting or agreeing with their actions and choices. This seems like a case of that.



It's a little more than that because since the VTuber avatars are interactive, she plays the role and uses a somewhat male persona, more masculine voice and apparently in Japanese more masculine or at least gender-neutral/ambiguous phrasing in terms of referring to herself as opposed to the feminine variants (just the sense I get from what I pick up on by ear from listening and then also reading some others' comments addressing this - don't know enough Japanese myself to break it down in detail).

But in the arcade scene, she also said, during the meltdown and argument, that "It's not like that" when one of her former friends asked her if she wants to be a guy now in an accusatory manner, so I don't get the impression that they're going to go in that extreme direction. Not with the type of show that this is and with the amount of time they even have left. That's why I was surprised in that scene at the end when Yoru/Mahiru described Kiui to Yukine as her friend who's "a girl and a guy". And just playing a male VTuber character isn't enough to portray her that way, since think of all the female seiyuu for anime playing young boy characters. It's basically acting.

The way the series has portrayed it up to this point has always been that Kiui's a tomboy type not interested in talking, dressing, and generally acting girly. And at the most asexual. You can as well, as a boy/man, not be interested in acting stereotypically hyper-masculine and as a girl/woman, not be interested in acting stereotypically hyper-feminine without actually wanting to be be or believing you're a different sex. I'm a male who has little interest in a lot of stereotypical masculine BS and yet would never entertain any notion that I'm secretly a girl inside.

😭 we only got one episode of this left man I can’t say goodbye to these girls. This needs to become a multimedia project. People saying the show nosedived are tripping, show got way better with the angsty drama. That’s exactly what I wanna see in my lesbian romances. Perfect contrast to Sasakoi where main ship instantly gets together.

Sorry GBC, but this has regained the number 1 spot after this Kiui masterclass. This episode was directed by Fujita Shounei who’s worked with SHAFT for over 15 years and it definitely had a distinctive SHAFT vibe, especially during Kiui’s “coming out” scene. A ton of good stuff in this episode before that as well.

For starters, love that Mei continues being there for Kano not just as a stan, but a genuine friend. Helping her focus on who and what she wants to write music for. There’s a nice dichotomy in this episode with Mei and Kano and Yoru and Kiui, both pairs have known each other longer than Kano and Yoru, so it allows them to connect in a different way.

Now in my opinion, Yoru did redeem herself today by the end of the episode in terms of the Kano situation by helping Kiui and also putting in a word for JELEE to perform with the sundolls next week. But at the start of the episode when Yukine was cooking her art and just being an asshole I didn’t feel bad. Never should’ve been working with her in the first place.

The last 10 minutes or so are just some of the best seasonal anime stuff you’ll see and Fujita’s handprints are all over it. Kiui going back to Omiya to confront her past and finally move forward took a lot of courage.

This is a girl who’s had to change her whole identity, stop going to school, move away from home.. then she makes a new identity and it’s doxxed, mocked and almost taken from her.. that pain would’ve been too much for a lot of people

And here go these lame ass losers who’ve never accomplished anything in life, making fun of someone pursuing their dream. So glad Mahiru was there to take a stand for her best friend and I love the scene going back and forth between the video game screen with the character fighting off a bunch of enemies.

Kiui’s impassioned “Normal people like you have no idea what it’s like to get mocked for the things you love” is something that everyone should be able to empathise with and feel. It’s also exactly what Mahiru needed to hear and gave her to courage to be herself and finally attach her real name to a piece of artwork. So happy for both of them. One episode seems like such a short period to wrap this all up.. I really hope DG can give us a great ending ❤️