"I thought that the closer the real and virtual world got, the better the future would be.
But the more the boundary between them blurs, the more it starts to trick people." [KIRIGAYA, Kazuto. Sword Art Online II. 2014]
"Glory lies beyond the horizon. It will never be achieved and that is
why you run after it. Tell them about the conquest and then make it
happen, for those who watch over your back." [Iskandar, the King of Conquerors. Fate/Zero, 2nd Season. 2012]
✥
"The more something is pretended, the more real it becomes." [HINAZUKI, Kayo. Boku dake ga Inai Machi. 2016]
"People are interesting. Even a five-year-old kid knows how to spend money,
but there are a lot of adults who don't know how to earn it. They
feel better about spending money than bowing and earning it. They talk
about how the customer you are always right, that you should always act
for him, but in fact, the seller shouldn't feel that, should they? But...
if everyone spends, who will be left to do the job? I think a society where
people prefer to earn rather than spend is healthier." [TAKIZAWA, Akira. Higashi no Eden - Movie II: Paradise Lost. 2010]
✥
"This is just how humans are. Evil men occasionally show good will. Saints commit evil acts on an impulse.
This contradiction is what makes us human. Living means nourishing both good and evil." [KOTOMINE, Kirei. Fate/Stay Night Movie: Heaven's Feel - III. Spring Song. 2020]
"A city where only I do not exist... a time where only I
am not... this is my treasure." [FUJINUMA, Satoru. Boku dake ga Inai Machi. 2016]
✥
"The law does not protect people. People protect the law.
People have always hated evil and sought a fair way of life. Their feelings -
the accumulation of these people's feelings - are the law." [TSUNEMORI, Akane. Psycho-Pass, 1st Season. 2012]
"To be honest, there are two reasons why people want to teach
something: they either want to pass on their successes,
or else their failures." [Koro-sensei. Ansatsu Kyoushitsu, 2nd Season. 2016]
✥
"In order to measure a person's worth you must do more than push them.
The real way to test their worth is to give them power. When they gain the freedom
to act outside the boundaries of law and ethics you can sometimes see their souls." [MAKISHIMA, Shougo. Psycho-Pass, 1st Season. 2012]
"From a psychological point of view, it seems that the uncertainty
in your heart is being revealed by your hand. So it is with me.
Instead of the hand, I use my tape recorder. But everything that
is recorded on these tapes is entirely objective. However, the
information memorized by your hand is affected by your subjectivity.
That must have been how it always worked. The memories
created by that hand are entirely absolute and you never make
mistakes in your judgments, right? Do you have a family?
What's yours hobby? You live just for work, right? Have you ever
made a mistake? Maybe you're afraid of making a mistake? For you,
Tenma has to be the bad guy." [GILEN, Rudy. Monster. 2004]
✥
"But it has not yet been born. If it kills after it is born, it must be given sins and punishments.
However, you cannot tell it not to be born. Or you are claiming that a criminal's son is a criminal
before he even he is born and therefore he must be killed?" [KOTOMINE, Kirei. Fate/Stay Night Movie: Heaven's Feel - III. Spring Song. 2020]
"What is education? Doesn't education mean creating
someone who suits society? What kind of education must be administered
to create a human being who satisfies the demands of society?
Education is an experience. Kinderheim 511... It's true that
an advanced educational system was established there." [PETROV, Mikhail. Monster. 2004]
✥
"The boy ate the monster that went to the West.
Although he had a name now, there was no one else to call him by name." [BONAPARTA, Franz. "Kierá Nemá Své Jméno". Monster. 2004]
"People are able to endure some things for money. The rich take advantage
of this trait, forcing people to serve them for the rest of their lives, allowing
them to live comfortably. Kings do not become kings alone. If the poor
declare that they do not want money, kings will not exist. However,
if the poor want money, there will be kings, which will further strengthen
the position of the current king.
They cannot escape this paradox. Kings cannot be defeated as long as the
poor want money. And the poor will remain poor. Kings will be cautious
and provide enough comfort that revolts will not occur. In order not to be
evident the rigidity with which kings rule." [HYOUDOU, Kazutaka. Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor. 2007]
✥
"Life is... living trought communicating, thoughts with someone. Telling yourself
that you're alive. Recognizing someone. Liking someone. Disliking someone.
Being happy with someone. Holding hands with someone. To me, that is life." [YAMAUCHI, Sakura. Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai. 2016]
"No one knows what the future holds.
That’s why its potential is infinite." [OKABE, Rintarou. Steins;Gate. 2011]
✥
"How many things can people tell others while they're still alive?
You probably had a lot of things you wanted to tell…" [LUNGE, Heinrich. Monster. 2004]
"I'm sick of it! Losses, gains, money, fortune. I'm tired of hearing all
this! The more we talk about it, the more we crawl and sink! Here, right at
the edge of the cauldron of hell. Don't you understand that? And the hosts
have fun watching us like this. The damn pigs who invented this system,
where everyone takes advantage of everyone, are laughing to death.
The more we think about winning or losing, the more obsessed we become
and the more we fall into their clutches." [ITOU, Kaiji. Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor. 2007]
✥
"Why, huh? I already forgot. I wonder the same thing... when I started to develop the Full-Dive system... no, well before that, I dreamed of nothing but creating that castle, a world that overcome all of our rules and all of our limits. And now I saw someone overcome even the rules of my world... how old was I when I started dreaming of a steel castle floating in the sky? I wanted to get off the ground and fly to that castle. For a long time, that was my only wish. You know what, Kirito-kun... I still believe that in some other world, that castle still exists. (...) I forgot one thing. Congratulations on winning the game, Kirito-kun, Asuna-kun." [AKIHIKO, Kayaba. Sword Art Online, 14th episode. 2012]
"If I eat this, then what will happen next time? Will anything change? If I eat to survive, and if I'm lucky enough not to get sick, and avoid being killed, and if I finally get to a peaceful place... Will all this pain end? Happy days await me? Looking back, I think it was a mistake to believe that happiness will come to us once these painful experiences are over. Even if we really do find happiness, it will inevitably disappear soon. When death is near, happiness becomes meaningless. It is a mistake to believe that when you accept the inevitability of death, you will live a more meaningful life. Life, no matter how significant, will eventually cease to exist someday. And I... The core of my existence has completely disappeared, so what does it matter if I live my life meaningfully or not? There is no place to hide or to take shelter in this world. And we are just being swept away by the waves of this icy, dark sea, waiting to disappear." [Random Woman. The Horizon, 12th chapter. 2016]
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"Do you think to do nothing when you see a fellow human crying?!
Is this what the advancement of civilization has lead to?!
Urban life weeding out and killing the weak?! It's appalling!" [Boogiepop]
"I have no such hopes, but I believe humans need some sort of dream.
Am I wrong? When you have no dream, when you can't imagine a future,
that means something in this world is flawed. Unfortunately, it is not I who
will battle that flaw, but you and Miyashita Touka." [Boogiepop]
"Her anxiety had called out Boogiepop?
Was that the 'devil in the school?'
Does that mean—that I had defeated it?
She had told me of her worries through Boogiepop, and she
no longer needed to be afraid. The 'danger' had passed." [TAKEDA, Keiji]
"Normal means you leave everything as it is and nothing ever changes.
If you don't like that, you've got to do things that aren't normal. That's why I—" [KIRIMA, Seiichi]
"'It’s pretty dang important to me! I've been over this hundreds of times. Why am I still alive?
I’m only alive because the killer went and killed himself? Yeah, that makes me feel real good,
knowing that. That means that the only way that good things happen is if you just sit and wait
for bad things to selfdestruct. What kind of explanation is that?! It sucks! And you know
what else sucks? That there’s nothing we can do to make the world a better place.' Yes.
That was it.
Justice might well prevail in the end, but ordinary people like me had no guarantee of
surviving that long. We might get killed on the whim of some serial killer first.
But even then, if we at least knew that there were some people fighting for us,
it’d make things a lot easier to bear. If we knew these people had saved us,
we’d feel much more alive than if we only survived because the bad guy
just up and killed himself." [SUEMA, Kazuko. Speak and Monologue.]
"When money gets involved, there's no telling who'll come out of the woodwork.
That's how human society works." [SAOTOME, Masami]
"Humans just aren't that great. However much our civilization advances,
we can't seem to do anything to make ourselves happier." [KIMURA, Akio]
"He still didn't understand. Which were humans? Humans had captured him
for being different, and forcefully and quite mercilessly studied his body.
Humans had made the Manticore. But the people who had saved him, the cloaked boy
in the black hat, Kamikishiro Naoko, and Kirima Nagi, were all human too.
Which was it? Which was the truth?" [Echoes]
"Life is brief, young maiden, fall in love;
before the crimson bloom fades from your lips,
before the tides of passion cool within your hips,
for those of you who know no tomorrow." [KAMIKISHIRO, Naoko. Ikoru song.]
"Possibility, or what we refer to as Imagination, is 99% imitation. The real deal is only 1%.
The problem is, this 1% is simultaneously referred to as 'Evil'." [KIRIMA, Seiichi. VS Imaginator.]
"Not really. If you liked it, it's simply because you already had a
predisposition to liking it in the first place." [MINAHOSHI, Suiko]
"Still, she was whithout a doubt the most real person I'd ever met,
up to that point. I can't think of any other way of describing it. Everyone else
was just imitating someone else, trying desperately to pretend that it was their
true nature. They were all frauds." [KOMIYA, Mariko. Monologue.]
"Mariko-san, there's nothing in this world that is ever truly decided. Birds sometimes fall
out of the sky, and sometimes it snows in April. Everything is uncertain, nothing is 'unnatural'." [MINAHOSHI, Suiko. KIRIMA, Seiichi's quote.]
"I know a lot of people who slaved away, got into college, and then had
no idea what to do once they were there. All they’d ever done was study,
and they didn’t know how to just let go and enjoy themselves. So they'd go off
to try and pass the civil servants exam or something.
They were just pointlessly limiting their options for a... I dunno, a decent future.
They meet the person they were supposed to fall in love with, but they don’t
recognize how valuable they are, and before they realize it, they wind up
missing out on the most important things in life.
They’re college students, but they can’t shake the exam student mentality.
And very few people can pass on their first try. Most people fail. They become ronin.
They fritter away their precious youth, and end up, frankly, really screwed up because of it." [ASUKAI, Jin]
"He couldn't help but notice the flaws on everyone's chests. It annoyed him, occasionaly.
Human effort was entirely devoted to making up for this flaw. He knew this.
But he also knew that what they lacked was never in them to begin with, and that it was
something that could never be obtained." [ASUKAI, Jin. Monologue.]
"People with no leaves feel like they aren’t connected to the world around them.
No matter what they do, they can never feel peace of mind when they are around other
people. To compensate, they pretty much lose themselves in methodology. They know all sorts
of approaches to things and all sorts of tricks, but all they’re doing is
trying to make up for an inability to communicate with others.
Being nice to them, praising them... it’s all useless. Staying firmly
on a practical ground worked best.
But the end result of all of their tricks only served to drive them even further into
isolation. Since nobody else needed these tricks, they couldn’t understand how
much work went into them. Those of the same type were especially cruel — if they happened
to be using different methodologies.
None of them would ever find an ‘ally'." [ASUKAI, Jin. Monologue.]
"Plus, people tend to ignore cries for help, anyway. The only real way
to get anyone's attention is to just lie and scream, Fire!" [TANIGUCHI, Masaki]
"Do not doubt your work. No matter how pointless or unrewarding it may appear to be,
anything is better than knowing for certain that is actually is." [KIRIMA, Seiichi. VS Imaginator.]
"I can't. The Imaginator doesn't force anyone. It's a simple choice.
You can influence events, or you can be swept along by them." [ASUKAI, Jin]
"But recently, I started watching you, and I realized that you were
only angry because no one understood the true nature of your feelings." [Anou's Girlfriend]
"You are experiencing what we call 'emotion'. Your heart was moved by something
in that painting. But you've had no such experience in your life before, so you had no
sample data inside to tell you how to react." [ASUKAI, Jin]
"Not all confusion will ever be cleared up.
Sometimes it will solidify, still confused, and attempt to judge the world.
Like a curse, affecting the world with no rhyme or reason..." [KIRIMA, Seiichi. VS Imaginator.]
"But you know, like, that sort of killer, or shinigami or whatever... it's so blah.
Typical adolescent imagery. Everyone's anxious about something, so part of them
feels like it would be just great if everything around them were destroyed.
Like they want to be killed. And grown-ups are all irresponsibly saying crap like,
'This period of anxiety is only a phase. Things will get better soon.'
Ha! Like that helps. Things just aren't that easy, right? That's where he comes in.
Boogiepop. That's why he exists. To protect an unstable heart and...
And keep it like that. That's all he is, I think." [SUEMA, Kazuko]
"It's impossible to live without someone hating you.
Being alive means you have to come into contact with other people.
No matter how hard you try, you will end up hurting some of those people.
There's nothing we can do about it. That's just life." [SUEMA, Kazuko]
"There certainly is something out there. Something that makes people believe
that they have to know their place in life. This knowledge gets in between people, and
rocks the very foundations of this world. If there is anything that gives value to human life,
it is the struggle with that 'something'. In the battle with the Imaginator that does
your thinking for you — VS Imaginator is the starting line on which all humans must stand." [KIRIMA, Seiichi. VS Imaginator.]
"(...) but the point is, humans are all bound by the chains of common sense far more
than we realize, and this is what makes us suffer. Right. If we're bound by
something, we've got to cut ourselves loose; that's what he's going on about." [SUEMA, Kazuko]
"Rather than ask yourself if you are correct, it is far more realistic to think about
how you are mistaken. Most humans have not been designed to be right very often." [KIRIMA, Seiichi. VS Imaginator.]
"When humans think something is absolutely correct, in most cases,
that truth is already in the past." [KIRIMA, Seiichi. VS Imaginator.]
"Something i'm passionate about one day, I'll more than likely grow tired of the next.
I'm always thirsty for something new." [SUEMA, Kazuko]
"(...) but all hopes, ultimately, are achieved in the future. Everyone dreams, desires
the realization of those dreams, but it is not the dreamer that obtains that
realization. It is the following generation. Furthermore, for those that receive
the fruits of that success, it is no longer a dream, but established fact. All hopes
must therefore become the sacrifice of the victor, but this is how humanity has advanced.
Our only road is ahead of us, for people cannot live in the past..." [KIRIMA, Seiichi. The Victor's Principle: The Victims Future.]
"Your feelings are, sadly, nothing more than childish admiration, Kotoe-chan.
You will never be able to truly love anything. That's the way you are. Half of your
feelings for me were nothing more than pity. You were only able to convince yourself
that this was love because you are still a child. And you will always be lonely.
You will never understand why you seem to be incapable of being truly passionate about
anything... which will be an eternal source of sorrow. That's why I interested
you. I appeared to be sad, and you wondered if I was the same as you — but that was a delusion.
I never really felt sadness. Only despair. I lacked a future, but had
no feelings like yours. Whatever you wanted from me, I could have given you nothing." [ASUKAI, Jin]
"Simply put, I plan to standardize humanity's psyche - putting an end to all the sadness,
all the disconnections, all the misunderstandings that arise between us." [ASUKAI, Jin]
"Just as no truth is certain, there is no such a thing as a perfect lie." [KIRIMA, Seiichi. VS Imaginator.]
"Um, how can I put this... humans tend to follow certain patterns.
I don't mean stuff like, 'that girl's pretty, so she's stuck-up', or anything like that.
No, I mean everyone has a good and a bad side, you know? They're sensitive to some things
and totally clueless about others. We all have a certain balance." [SUEMA, Kazuko]
"Music is extremely effective in stirring people's emotions.
Much like a makeup. But music can create a response in a great
number of people simultaneously. It rattles them, robs them of
their rational judgement." [Boogiepop]
"Have you ever done anything that you are totally sure was of your own free will?
Adapting yourself to society is essentially being brainwashed to match societal requirements.
The only difference from your situation is that the source of it is not clearly defined.
There are no humans who have not been brainwashed. Now the problem: within that context —
within your brainwashed, restrained psyche—what do you value the most?
Bound lightly by the world, what do you still desire?" [Boogiepop]
"Asukai Jin seems to have fatally misunderstood his own ability. I do not know exactly
what that power was, but it seems to have been something to do with seeing people's hearts.
However, the human heart is not complete in and of itself, and it is not so easily understood.
The heart is purely a product of communication with others, and is not to be mistaken for
the true self, the ego. Asukai Jin failed to grasp this. No matter how much you change
a person's heart, it will only be fleeting, and eventually, it will return to its original form.
So from the start, I was ignoring Asukai Jin himself. No matter how much he poked at
people’s hearts, it would never amount to anything significant. Even if he had taken your
heart from you, you would have recovered. You see, you have something protecting you from deep within.
And because of that, a one-sided power like Asukai Jin's was unable to affect you." [Boogiepop]
"I knew that... but it seems flaws are merely a space for something new to be born
and can never bring about enough power to break through. You... are very impressive.
This is it for me, there is no more... but as long as there are people as strong as you,
I'm sure someone will 'break through' one day." [MINAHOSHI, Suiko]
"'The problem lies with your own frailty of resolve that forces simple, easy to understand
answers and resolutions on others. This is the main reason the Imaginator is
overrunning the world. No matter how long you wait, nothing ever begins.' When I read
that, I thought I understood, but now that I found myself in this very situation,
I desperately wanted a simple, easy to understand explanation and a happy ending." [SUEMA, Kazuko. Monologue.]
"And the Bible does go into what happened to Cain after that.
He founded a town, had a happy family, and achieved great success in commerce,
industry, agriculture and the arts. He was the foundation of everything we know today
as 'culture'. The man who killed his brother in a fit of jealousy became
the progenitor of everything we consider great." [SUEMA, Kazuko]
"The future. To be more precise, premonitions and harbingers. In other words,
the greatest misfortune is to know for certain what is going to happen. I mean...
You know everything. You know the good coming your way, as well the sad partings.
You've already seen what's going to happen. If we knew all of that,
how would we go on living?" [SUEMA, Kazuko]
"They'd been turned into wild things. And wild things are much smarter than humans often assume.
Instincts honed over the course of thousands of years can be far more aggressive and accurate than
the conscious human mind. And all animals, from the tiniest amoeba to the largest whale, share
one instinct in particular: 'destroy all enemies'. People who think wild animals do not kill
unless necessary are only seeing part of picture. They don't kill simply because they can't kill more;
but once seen as an enemy, animals - humans included - think nothing of wiping out an entire species." [Narrator]
"Many cults viewed humans as a filthy species that the world would be better off whithout.
According to them, the 'savior' was the one with the power to wipe us out." [KOUJI, Koumoto. Monologue.]
"And in that moment, I knew why. I was always feeble. Big body, weak will. If I'd
predicted that with any degree of clarity... I wouldn't have been able to do what I did.
I'd never have been able to push Kasumi, Nanane, and that Kit kid out of the way and stand
in their place. I'd have freaked out, and... so that's why I was never clear on any of it." [KAZUMIYA, Mitsuo]
"Hey, Kasumi-kun. You remember? We've been here before. The six of us... we weren't trying to do
anything, weren't trying to find anything, not really. We never needed anything. We were happy
the way we were, and didn't need anything else at all... we had everything we could ever want.
We had so much fun." [NANANE, Kyoko]
"Hope, despair, joy, grief, love, hatred, ecstasy, loathing, heaven, hell,
the past, the future, yesterday, today, tomorrow, dreams, nightmares and the world... all
made by man. And what man made, man can destroy." [KIRIMA, Seiichi. Sickness in the Air.]
"This day will last
A thousand years
If you want it to." [Moody Blues. Days of Future passed.]
"Hehe... but nothing in this world is guaranteed to be what it seems, kid.
Everything is distorted or twisted somehow." [King of Distortion]
"What had Saotome Masami and the Manticore been doing? I couldn't begin to imagine.
I didn't even want to. I felt... part of me knew I'd be jealous of them and that scared me." [NIITOKI, Kei]
"You are suffering. The suffering is so great you've driven it out of your mind,
but it never went away. There's no way to erase your suffering. That suffering is the
core of your heart now. That's why - that's wy your wish to ease the suffering in your heart
must be turned into gold. Yes. All that shines." [King of Distortion]
"It wasn't sure when it first noticed the distortion in the world.
By the time it had taken form, the world had long since lost its shine,
buried under layers of the useless and meaningless. At least, that's what it thought.
It couldn't see those useless thing as useless, and couldn't see those meaningless things as
entirely worthless, either. They were just distorted.
Those distortions had turned what should be
a road sloping upward into an endless Mobius strip. To it, 'meaningless' things were like stairs.
If you checked each step, carefully and kept moving forward, you'd eventually break
thought to something beyond. But it seemed to it that no one else could perceive this.
No, it wasn't that they couldn't perceive it. It was that they were actively rejecting it.
Turning their eyes from the shine their hearts produced, forcing themselves into a corner
of suffering and acting like that was all there was." [Narrator]
"I can't say for certain. But Niitoki-san... there is one thing I know for sure.
Nearly all instances for multiple personality disorder ar fake. Lies and acting. Almost every time.
(...) Sure. But we have no way of ever proving that. Multiple Personality Disorder is nothing more than a theory.
One created by Stevenson for Jekyll and Hyde. If something like that existed, it would explain why people suddenly change.
The theory was mostly popularized in America, were lawyers trying to make a name for themselves used
the idea to bolster claims their clients were not guilty by reason of insanity. Niitoki-san, even you have
a least one secret, right? Can you really say you've never had to put on a performance to keep that secret?
A performance that might make you seem very different than your usual self? But claiming that as distinct personality
is quite a leap. Human hearts are really very flexible.
You know how in melodramas they always go on about not lying to yourself? We do that all the time.
To the point of inventing a new personality. But ultimately, that's still that person's actual personality, to my mind.
It just seems obvious that personalities and human minds have far more sides to them than people tend to think.
(...) They claim they don't remember at all. But how can we prove that? Give them a lie detector test?
All that measures is stuff like how much you're sweating. Useless on a decent actor. People have fooled them by
sweating when them telling the truth, and faking calm when they're lying. Measure their brain waves?
Only thing that shows with any dregree of reliability is if you're awake or asleep. So what? Pray to God?
Multiple Personality Disorder is a kind of Xenon's paradox. Maybe they're lying.
But, if we try to prove they aren't... well, that's easier said than done. Obviously, someone bad at it will get caught
quickly. Even it courts, it gets rejected most of the time. But if it's really elaborate, then why go that far to hide
anything? That's another condition all together. That makes it even harder to figure out if it's actually MPD. After all,
there's clearly something wrong with them. In my book, MPD is a product of desire - the desire we have to an action
we took be the work of someone else entirely. When they catch compulsive shoplifters, they often claim it wasn't
them, their hands just did it on their own. Just like MPD. Everyone feels like that sometimes. And that makes us
want to believe MPD is real. I think. And in that sense, I guess you could say it really does exist." [SUEMA, Kazuko]
"It all sounds like reasons you came up with after the fact.
You found yourself liking him first, and then you found a way to explain it.
However forced it may sound." [Boogiepop]
"You'd completely forgotten about me until we met here. No. You forgot because
your guilt was too much to bear. And that kept you bound, though you weren't consciously
aware of it. But no matter how much time passes, Hinako will never be anything but a source
of harm for you. When by all rights, you should be enjoying yourself, as we are now." [King of Distortion]
"There are always options. You just haven't found them yet.
But there are infinite ways of looking at things." [King of Distortion]
"You may think you've told your son nothing about his father, but you're mistaken.
Your attitude, the things you don't say, the look in your eye, the emotions you
can't help feeling... everything tells Makoto-kun things about his father." [King of Distortion]
"Nobody really wants to be killed. (...) That is simply because if they continue to live,
they'll be choosing to allow whatever meaning their life has had so far to
die. A will to live, the idea to continuing to exist, is inherent in the concept.
They have not actually rejected that at all. You only have the right to say you wish
to die if you have truly lived with everything you've got." [Boogiepop]
"Your King of Distortion is a part of you. If it was nice to you,
then that is because you are nice. The King of Distortion is like me - just like you said.
I doubt it has a will of its own. It simply gave shape to your distortion.
Which means you have been distorted your own kindness. That couldn't have been much fun.
The distortion must have made you suffer. But you are as kind as you have suffered.
Hina-chan appeared to tell you that. You care about her? You love her? Then... haven't you already
succeded? If these feelings don't count as 'gold' then what in the world does?" [Boogiepop]
"Have you ever considered whether the world has a 'flow' to it? You can call it destiny, or perhaps a 'trend'.
Have you ever really thought about it? Thinking about it didn't get you anywhere, did it? Ha ha, I suppose not.
But this is a problem mankind has thought about since we first arrived in this world. A problem we still ponder today.
And there are parts of it we've come to understand. After all, it's been quite a while since we came up with the
concept of 'evolution'. Yes... that isn't something that can be explained with mere probability. No matter how
you look at it, there must have been some direction, some flow on it. I can only think of how giraffes' necks
must have suddenly become incredibly long, and how whales abruptly became so ludicrously hug.
These changes took place far too fast for these to have been before quite quickly. When they didn't replace their
predecessors, things were even more extreme. The new and the old were so different they didn't even try to
kill each other off, just divided their territory up. Like humans and monkeys. And this line of thought naturally
leads us to wonder if this flow is still going. And if so, then what comes next? Perhaps we can't know for sure,
but can't we at last get a read on which direction the flow is going in?" [TERATSUKI, Kyouichirou]
"Not one powerful man in all of human history has ever resisted to the impulse
to meddle in God's domain. But in our modern age, it is harder to tell who is in charge,
who holds the real power. Instead, we have a system." [TERATSUKI, Kyouichirou]
"I never wanted to know how unsettling love could be." [NIITOKI, Kei]
"Your adaptability shows both the depth of your conviction, and at the same time,
that some uncertainty exists. Nothing in this world exists without some uncertainty.
If one without uncertainty existed, that would be someone who had given up hope.
And that is not you." [Boogiepop]
"No, once a distortion is resolved, no one remembers what it was.
You survived your battles with your mother. So you no longer clearly remember how you suffered.
And that's the way it should be. The value in any distortion's existence arrives
only when it has vanished." [King of Distortion]
"And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul." [Led Zeppelin. Stairway to Heaven.]
"They performed research on evolution. The Organization was driven to divine the
source of human intelligence, to figure out what would come next, and ultimately to
control the process that would get mankind there. More accurately, they were focused
on keeping as much of humanity as possible in whatever that next step was. They
saw it as a fight for survival. For them, it was an ongoing battle to ensure mankind
would win the inevitable evolutionary war." [KURODA, Shinpei "Scarecrow". Monologue.]
"Unfortunately, genuine effort is never understood by others.
It is only understood when you emerge victorious, but when you win, the beauty
of the effort extended is subverted into something else entirely.
The true fruits of effort lie only within that which is sacrificed." [KIRIMA, Seiichi. The Victor's Principle, The Victim's Future.]
"It is a mistake to say that humans see only what lies in front of their eyes.
They do not even see that." [KIRIMA, Seiichi. When a Man Kills a Man.]
"Whenever you are hiding something from other people
the world is hiding ten times that much from you." [KIRIMA, Seiichi. The Proliferation of "Dunno".]
"Analysis... part of it involves taking apart indescribable fears.
I was a huge coward when I was younger, and always wondered why there was such a thing
as fear. Maybe I ended up here in the hopes I’d be able to answer that question..." [KISUGI, Makiko]
"If iron are a warrior, born to fight,
then the object of your life’s purpose exists only within the enemy." [KIRIMA, Seiichi. Isolation and Faith.]
"To be strictly accurate, the potential to become the world’s enemy lies in every human.
Humans are like fuses... they can break at the slightest opportunity. Any human is capable
of shaking the foundation of the world without a thought for the consequences..." [Boogiepop]
"Being normal is what makes them dangerous. If you encounter, something truly unique,
people with a strong sense of self can accept that calmly. But if someone is too normal,
they will get swallowed by the waves, pulled along by the current. That kind of rampage is the
most dangerous. People who are satisfied with being ordinary have no resistance. And... the world
is not as stable as those people believe. It is always in danger. People who wish to break
the wall down have no shortage of chances." [Boogiepop]
"Everything has many sides. Even with an idea like the absence of fear, there is always another interpretation.
For example, ‘If nothing died, then there would no longer be fear'." [Boogiepop]
"Loneliness can be your greatest gift. The more isolated you are early in life,
the greater your ability to connect to a large number of people later on." [KIRIMA, Seiichi]
"He had just said it himself. Everything in the present would resist the appearance of the future.
The scale of that made him dizzy just thinking about it. Such careful and knowledgeable targeting
went far beyond the level of any natural organization. This was a war for survival. There could be no mercy.
The new people would be killed the instant they showed even the slightest glimpse of themselves." [KIRIMA, Seiichi. Monologue.]
"Do you know why birds can fly? Because there are very few creatures that can fly.
Insects and bats are about the only other living things in the air. That’s why.
If there is nothing else there, they can live without fighting. The sky is the birds’ domain,
and nothing else gets in their way. The birds have survived like that for a very long time." [KIRIMA, Seiichi]
"And sometimes it snows in April.
In other words, danger and the unexpected exist for all living things equally.
The question is how you survive despite them." [KIRIMA, Seiichi]
"Maybe. But I don’t really believe that much in words. If my words have given someone
encouragement, then they already had the strength to follow through within them.
All I’ve done is give them a little push, tell them they can go ahead and use that
strength-that’s the most that words can do. I can neither order them to take the first
step nor prevent them from taking it. The words I write are nothing more than
weapons-tools. How they use those weapons is up to them." [KIRIMA, Seiichi]
"Who decides what failure is? The will remains. Even if it doesn’t look like anything but evil,
if you try to do something, and seriously work to make it happen, then that will leave its mark
on other people. Those people might not get there either. But what they do will be passed on to other people.
And who knows? One of those people might finally reach the heart of the world...
(...) Whatever you choose to do with it, even if it ends before you finish, someone else after you might be more
successful. It might be your enemy. It might just be a random passerby. It might even be someone who has
no connection to you at all. I don’t know. I have no way of telling. Nobody does." [KIRIMA, Seiichi]
"Humans do not possess a single, focused will. In their hearts, they have countless bugs,
buzzing in all directions. There are times when all these bugs in pounce on the same food,
but when they are focused on different desires, people take actions that can only be
described as incoherent." [KIRIMA, Seiichi. When a Man Kills a Man.]
"The world is not moving unrelentingly in one direction.
It moves in all directions, like a swarm of bugs.
Sometimes they make one unified motion, but other times,
like this case, the movement simply collapses,
without ever resulting in anything. That is all." [Boogiepop]
"Man was born for love and revolution." [KISUGI, Makiko. DAZAI, Osamu's quote.]
NOTE: Originally, while reading the first six volumes of Boogiepop,
the number was 117 quotes. However, some were cut to remove
the excess.
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When I finished watching Monster, I transferred all the quotes I wrote down from the work to my MyAnimeList profile. However, as a result, I found out (in the worst possible way) that there is a limit to the number of characters for the profile and missed part of my trivia. For that reason, I rewrote most of my profile and unfortunately I won't be able to add more spoiler tags with quotes around here. In that sense, the quotes I annotated from Monster and SAO Light Novel are displayed in the "More" tab of the respective animes, in my list. About SAO, in particular, they are separated according to their respective arcs and anime seasons. As I read the Light Novel, I will be adding quotes from the following arcs. If you want to check them, feel free.
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ABOUT ME
Just another fan of anime/manga and Japanese culture. Yes, I'm brazilian. However, the profile is written in English (insert "sorry for my bad English" meme) to "universalize" the understanding.
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My grade criteria is the same as the MyAnimeList standard. There's nothing special about it. Anime with a score of 5 means an "Ok" experience. Variants below 5 mean "bad" at different scales and which, however, in some cases, do not necessarily represent that I cannot have fun watching. Variants above 5 mean "good" at different scales, too. There was a time when I used a criterion where 6 was the "average" line. However, due to the difficulty of placing animes above 6 of broken notes in the same note range, I reluctantly changed my criteria. Despite this, I know that most people tend to give higher marks and have a displaced criterion of 5, and at one point I was part of that majority. So please, if you have a different grade criteria, don't judge me by a 6, 5 or 4.
About my favorites, animes that feature more than one season are, as a rule, represented by the first season. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that season one is my favorite, it's just a way of representing the franchise itself. There are two exceptions to this system: Psycho-Pass, which is in the favorites only considering its first season; and Sword Art Online. In the case of SAO, it's my favorite anime, franchise, work and anything else. However, my favorite arc in SAO is Alicization, with a big margin for the rest. Still, I decided to represent Ordinal Scale in the favourites, as it is the only part of the work that is not contained in Light Novel and I wanted to represent the franchise as a whole in my profile, so much of a fan that I became it.
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My taste is very variable. There aren't many genres that I don't like and even for Battle Shonens or works from the Ecchi and Harem genres, which I don't really like, I give it a try. I don't have a lot of prejudice with most works, even if MyAnimeList's rating is low, and I decide which anime I will see, mostly, via wheeldecide.com. However, my favorite genres by far are Psychological, Thriller and Sci-Fi. Drama, Romance, Mystery and Police are also among my favorites.
I really like works that address the psychological aspect of characters a lot, especially those that contain dense monologues, approaches to memories, specters of human psychology, and characters that contain relevant social illustrations. Particularly, I really like to look for these social representations in what I watch or read and I highly value works that teach me new values or rescue old ones that are important to me. Works like Sword Art Online, Boogiepop Series and Boku dake ga Inai Machi influenced my perception of things in a way that I keep and apply their teachings to this day, which is why they are among my favorites. Also, my favorite moments in anime are usually not action or climax scenes, but rather revelation scenes and foreshadowing connections.
Because of this factor, I often value the message that certain works have to convey more than structure and these particular plot aspects, although I don't discount them. As you can see from the ones listed on the profile, I tend to prefer serious and ambitious works to comedic works. I have no problem with the fact that you, the reader, prefer this style, however I rarely like works that alternate between serious and comedic moments. With rare exceptions, the works I like are either purely serious or purely funny.
About characters, I generally prefer those with remnants of humanity, who make mistakes, have tragic stories and exposure to the psychological. I place (much) more importance on the characters' stories themselves and the social illustrations they compose than on their personalities. Likewise, I generally prefer the show's protagonists and rarely will a supporting character overcome this barrier.
I'm a huge fan of anime openings and endings. Having memorized the letters of more than 100 of them over time and played several quizzes, this is an ongoing memorization effort. However, in addition to the songs, I tend to give even more importance to the imagery symbolisms that are presented in the openings and endings. The ones listed below are sorted by a personal assessment I made, following the criteria of image symbolism, lyric symbolism, music and animation, not just music. However, as we tend to develop greater affection and to analyze more deeply the works we like, it is possible to notice that most of them correspond to my favourites.
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I have a hard time summarizing the things I want to talk about. I'm extremely wordy, as you've probably noticed. For that reason, a lot of the time the boxes on my list are small for what I have to say about the work, and this is one of the reasons why, in some works, I have added bigger comments in the "More" tab of the list. My profile comments are disabled in order to avoid spoilers and haters of certain works. Due to previous experience with other social networks, I prefer to keep it closed. However, feel free if you want to send me a friend request.
That's all, folks.
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TRIVIA
20| Shinichi Izumi
Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu
19| Heinrich Lunge
Monster
18| Kirei Kotomine
Fate Series
17| Armin Arlert
Shingeki no Kyojin
16| Eugeo
Sword Art Online
15| Sakura Matou
Fate Series
14| Iskandar
Fate Series
13| Johan Liebert
Monster
12| Akane Tsunemori
Psycho-Pass
11| Rintarou Okabe
Steins;Gate
10| Koro-sensei
Ansatsu Kyoushitsu
09| Shuu Ouma
Guilty Crown
08| Akira Takizawa
Higashi no Eden
07| Emiya Kiritsugu
Fate Series
06| Kenzou Tenma
Monster
05| Rei Kiriyama
3-Gatsu no Lion
04| Shino Asada
Sword Art Online
03| Shougo Makishima
Psycho-Pass
02| Satoru Fujinuma
Boku dake ga Inai Machi
01| Kazuto Kirigaya
Sword Art Online
Last update: 26/12/2021
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20| "To The Beggining" (Kalafina)
Fate/Zero [OP2]
19| "Invisible Sensation" (UNISON SQUARE GARDEN)
Ballroom e Youkoso [OP2]
18| "Chou no Tobu Suisou" (TK Ling Tosite Sigure)
Pet [OP1]
17| "Nostalgic Rainfall" (CHiCO with Honeyworks)
Koi wa Ameagari no You ni [OP1]
16| "Grain" (Kuniaki Haishima)
Monster [OP1]
15| "We're not Alone" (Coldrain)
Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin [OP1]
13| "Seisuu 3 no Nijou" (Kanako Itou)
Occultic;Nine [OP1]
12| "Ignite" (Eir Aoi)
Sword Art Online [OP3]
11| "Trigger" (Yūki Ozaki)
Zankyou no Terror [OP1]
10| "Resolution" (Haruka Tomatsu)
Sword Art Online [OP7]
09| "Jiyuu no Tsubasa" (Linked Horizon)
Shingeki no Kyojin [OP2]
08| "Out of Control" (Nothing's Carved in Stone)
Psycho-Pass [OP2]
07| "RESISTER" (ASCA)
Sword Art Online [OP6]
06| "shadowgraph" (MYTH & ROID)
Boogiepop wa Warawanai [OP1]
05| "Shinzou wo Sasageyo" (Linked Horizon)
Shingeki no Kyojin [OP3]
04| "ANIMA" (ReoNA)
Sword Art Online [OP8]
03| "Re:Re" (Asian Kung-fu Generation)
Boku Dake ga Inai Machi [OP1]
02| "Hikaru Nara" (Goose House)
Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso [OP1]
01| "ADAMAS" (LiSA)
Sword Art Online [OP5]
Last update: 21/09/2021
NOTE: Film openings such as "Fanfare" will not be considered in
this ranking. Special openings, such as "Euterpe", specific to one
or two episodes, are also not included. These and other mentions,
however, have a place in my memories.
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20| "Swing Heart Direction" (Mikako Komatsu)
Ballroom e Youkoso [E2]
19| "Overfly" (Luna Haruna)
Sword Art Online [E2]
18| "Forget-me-not" (ReoNA)
Sword Art Online [E7]
17| "Pino to Ameri" (Huwie Ishizaki)
Naruto Shippuden [E38]
16| "Torikago" (XX:me)
Darling in The FranXX [E1]
15| "Whiteout" (Riko Azuka)
Boogiepop wa Warawanai [E1]
14| "Last Theater" (NoisyCell)
Death Parade [E1]
13| "Ring Your Bell" (Kalafina)
Fate Stay/Night: Unlimited Blade Works [E2]
12| "Iris" (Eir Aoi)
Sword Art Online [E6]
11| "A Far-Off Distance" (Galneryus)
Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin [E1]
10| "Akatsuki no Requiem" (Linked Horizon)
Shingeki no Kyojin [E5]
09| "I Will..." (Eir Aoi)
Sword Art Online [E9]
08| "Sora wa Takaku Kaze wa Utau" (Luna Haruna)
Fate/Zero [E2]
07| "ScaPEGoat" (Hiroyuki Sawano)
Owari no Seraph [E1]
06| "Jigoku no Mon" (ALI PROJECT)
Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom [E1]
05| "Dare ka, Umi wo." (Aimer)
Zankyou no Terror [E1]
04| "Startear" (Luna Haruna)
Sword Art Online [E3]
03| "Sore wa Chiisana Hikari no You na" (Sayuri)
Boku Dake ga Inai Machi [E1]
02| "Unlasting" (LiSA)
Sword Art Online [E8]
01| "Memoria" (Eir Aoi)
Fate/Zero [OP1]
Last update: 16/06/2021
NOTE: Film endings such as "Sparkle", "Grand Escape", "I Beg You",
"Hana no Uta" and "Uchiage Hanabi" will not be considered in
this ranking. Special endings, such as "Niji no Kanata Ni" and
"Kamado Tanjirou no Uta", specific to one or two episodes, are
also not included. All these and other mentions, however, have a place
in my memories.
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It may seem contradictory at first, but it is precisely the way in which she is extremely human that put me on the pedestals of this feeling. When I first saw her, I was an immediate person who barely understood the complexity of the word "judgment." The moment I first faced this painful humanity, I immediately began to rethink my world and the low limits that were my ceiling. From the most melancholy sigh, she drew strength to move forward, walking against her trauma and struggling, curled up in the blanket of herself, against the distortion her being had created. The one who created another of herself, a dissociation, and saw in this simulacra of her own god.
Shino-non is a portrait of humanity facing the virtual. It represents what we most manufacture and unconsciously do when caught up in our routine about digital polygons. The essence of virtuality is the creation of unlimited, ideal worlds and interfaces. And why not ideas of perfection? When a person takes 1000 photos of himself, those 1000 photos will not be the object of ostentation he will announce in front of a megaphone. There will only be five. The five best captures, the ones that will best define your qualities and hide your flaws. Society is an omnipresent jury, and exposing its true nature means opening itself to the judgments of all eyes. However, the real persona is made up of the joining of these thousand photos.
That's why her journey is a mirror of ours. Every day, people essentially project what they consider conveniently good traits and hide the negative ones. Virtual profiles are often collections of this, and it's no exception what I do here, replacing my problematic traits with quotes, rankings, and tributes. Sinon is their virtual "god", the ideal object that became an objective and an example to be pursued. Shino Asada, on the other side of the mirror, is the human being, imperfect and whose psychological is extremely fragile. And so we are.
I love her for scaling my choices and dimensions of the world. I love her for giving me back humanity and rescuing me from the backslidden path I was walking. I feel a deep gratitude for helping me to accept my personality. And most of all, I love her for being human. A dichotomous flower, of great strength and, at the same time, so fragile. After all, it's the imperfections that made her perfect for me.
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