30 Days of Anime, Day 21: Crazy bitches!

[plasmoids]

Best Yandere Character



Yandere pretty much come from two places: Higurashi and everywhere else. I never planned on watching Higurashi and I never really saw yanderes "anywhere else" in anything else I had watched. I thought it was creepy how much the fans got off on loli bitches killing each other, but Erik talked me into watching Higurashi. So I watch the first season. He got bored rewatching it halfway through, so I finished it myself.

I didn't really get it at first. I knew there were arcs, but how come they overlapped? Why did the main character suddenly start remembering them later on all of a sudden? It seemed very cop out-ish. But then Rena went nuts.

And how! While in the other arcs the characters went crazy, no one went AS crazy as Rena eventually does. The maggots, the alien invasion theory, the fight on the roof. If you're going to be crazy, you might as well go all out. And Rena certainly did. Where Satoko and Rika just didn't go crazy enough and Mion and Shion pulled all the twin/family drama bullshit, Rena just threw up her hands and went "Nah, Imma just go CRAZY being CRAZY." And then she did.

But I also like her when she's sane. She's got that whole detective thing going on and isn't the helpless derp she comes off as. She's smart, she's skilled and she's persistent. And until she inevitably goes crazy, she's a pretty amazing character. And then she goes crazy and she's even more awesome.

Tl;dr, I totally get why loli bitches going crazy is awesome and I will watch the second season and OVA eventually. 8Db

Comments

[puncture.livejournal.com]

higurashi is amazing. Rena is my favorite. I never watched the second season or ovas, either.

[plasmoids.livejournal.com]

♥! Lmfao, I'm so glad I watched it.

[roomgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hated Rena so.

[plasmoids.livejournal.com]

Really? Why's that? :O?

[lychii.livejournal.com]

Speaking of yanderes (although I think Rena goes under yangire since she's not motivated by love), a good portion of my favorite Vocaloid songs are about yanderes. This one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY60xu-Bm00) is my current favorite. :3 I should also finish reading the manga (or switch over to the anime) and stop treating Japanese words like they're English. :X

[plasmoids.livejournal.com]

Lmfao, yeah, I don't know the difference. I stay away from the animu labels. And seriously? Why are so many Vocaloid songs about yanderes? XD

[kakebuke.livejournal.com]

A word of advice: don't watch the OVA. It is full of WTF and HORROR (not in a good way at all).

The second season is all right, though.

[plasmoids.livejournal.com]

Really? You think that'd be the point? I don't mind spoilers. What happens?

I hear it makes a little more sense than the first.

[kakebuke.livejournal.com]

Actually, it is merely the first and last episodes of the OVA that you probably don't need in your life. Unless you really must watch something about cursed bathing briefs complete with manly fanservice courtesy of Tomitake, Ooishi and Irie.

[plasmoids.livejournal.com]

...Yeah, I'm starting to see your point. So they pretty much just gave up trying to make sense in the OVA, huh?

[kakebuke.livejournal.com]

I remember the middle arc as vaguely making sense, but still kind of forced. Kai is a suitable conclusion, I think.