With a television series, you would have to negotiate more with others to devise what you will make, but you can do more to draw and plot your own book if you write one.
We are increasingly making the idea that the free will of each person involved in some matter is the most important element in a healthy bond, which is good, but sometimes this is broken. Sometimes it is a case of the villain doing something that obviously goes against what someone wants, like Demande, but he is supposed to be the villain, an evil traitor, probably killer, who along with others was found guilty of capital crimes, committed to exile on a prison planet. He also obsesses around NQS and her looks and some other aura of hers.
Why though would people meant to be the protagonists, in the moral right, be shown though doing some noncon things? Like that time when Mamoru kisses the rather drunk Usagi at that party, or when Luna tries to give one to the professor in the R movie? I grant it's not that they couldn't learn from those mistakes, and is far from the terror and violation that Usagi would have felt from Demande, someone who would not have cared at all what Usagi's opinions are vs what Mamoru and the other Senshi feel, where they do genuinely care about her wishes, but still, it's not exactly ideal. I think Usagi becomes aware of that, and Luna knows that Mamoru did that as well and Luna is hardly one to keep such a secret from her.
Knowing what it's like to be a relatively amateurish early 20s Japanese woman in the 1990s was like and why she drew it that way is hard, and perhaps she meant it as little more than a literally romanticized version of fairy tales we find completely normal like Sleeping Beauty; we can easily gloss over things when we believe the person is fundamentally good and ultimately makes up for it later with good deeds. I wonder what women reading those chapters for the first time felt as a reaction when they read it.
I wouldn't be mad if it was something like Usagi waking up to see Mamoru next to her in bed and she leans over for one on the top of his head before going off to get ready for the day in the kitchen, but I doubt you would be doing that immediately in a relationship the way Mamoru did at the party.
We are increasingly making the idea that the free will of each person involved in some matter is the most important element in a healthy bond, which is good, but sometimes this is broken. Sometimes it is a case of the villain doing something that obviously goes against what someone wants, like Demande, but he is supposed to be the villain, an evil traitor, probably killer, who along with others was found guilty of capital crimes, committed to exile on a prison planet. He also obsesses around NQS and her looks and some other aura of hers.
Why though would people meant to be the protagonists, in the moral right, be shown though doing some noncon things? Like that time when Mamoru kisses the rather drunk Usagi at that party, or when Luna tries to give one to the professor in the R movie? I grant it's not that they couldn't learn from those mistakes, and is far from the terror and violation that Usagi would have felt from Demande, someone who would not have cared at all what Usagi's opinions are vs what Mamoru and the other Senshi feel, where they do genuinely care about her wishes, but still, it's not exactly ideal. I think Usagi becomes aware of that, and Luna knows that Mamoru did that as well and Luna is hardly one to keep such a secret from her.
Knowing what it's like to be a relatively amateurish early 20s Japanese woman in the 1990s was like and why she drew it that way is hard, and perhaps she meant it as little more than a literally romanticized version of fairy tales we find completely normal like Sleeping Beauty; we can easily gloss over things when we believe the person is fundamentally good and ultimately makes up for it later with good deeds. I wonder what women reading those chapters for the first time felt as a reaction when they read it.
I wouldn't be mad if it was something like Usagi waking up to see Mamoru next to her in bed and she leans over for one on the top of his head before going off to get ready for the day in the kitchen, but I doubt you would be doing that immediately in a relationship the way Mamoru did at the party.
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