Project Sekai Characters' Eyes Based Off The Emojis The Fandom's Assigned To Them

project sekai characters' eyes based off the emojis the fandom's assigned to them

i was too lazy to include their other eyes, but there are a couple things i wanna mention: - tsukasa has a 4-armed star in both eyes, while saki and toya have a 4-armed star in one eye. so that when you add up the numbers of arms in tsukasa's eye, it's 8, and then you add up saki and toya's, it's another 8 :) - an's other eye would be the other side of the headphones - rui's other eye would show the string of the balloon instead of just another balloon (it starts at the top and then spirals in the middle) - kanade has an F clef in the other eye

i'll probably be drawing them with these eyes from now on just cuz i think it's funner (～￣▽￣)～

So I just finished the event.

Nightcords stories are honestly so good because yes they deal with heavy subject matter, but through each one is the constant message, constantly buzzing through, constantly shown in the subtle development of the characters that “It gets better.”

The way the Sekai fills out with vocaloids after it started as literally the Empty Sekai, the way Mafuyu tries echoing advice the others have given about expressing yourself, the way Ena goes from snippy and stand offish to running all the way to Mizuki to give her a promise, yes Nightcord is constantly joked about for being the most depressing story, but to me, even though it constantly shows characters dealing with depression in a realistic way, Nightcord makes me feel so much hope. It reminds you that the pain isn’t forever and you will wake up one day surrounded by friends who are going to be there through thick and thin.

dni if you have no whimsy and no joy for the miracles found within the mundane

i think n25-KAITO is the funniest character in project sekai. man takes so long to show up in n25 sekai that it’s lampshaded in the first april fool’s event that it’s taking him forever and it almost takes him until the next april fool’s event to finally appear. he’s grabbing mafuyu by the neck and forcing her to speedrun her own arc. he felt the arc fatigue setting in so he’s hitting it with a stick until it does something. hearing KAITO’s soft robotic voice grilling the fuck out of mafuyu is genuinely hilarious. the inter-virtual singer discourse when he inevitably tries to order the others around will be so funny. i hope he and MEIKO get into a fist fight while the others cheer on the sideline and mizuki starts a betting pool. also samsa fucking slaps.

anyone else waiting desperately for pjsekai to properly unpack that tsukasa made his sekai alone or is it just me

because like mafuyu making the empty sekai is one of the driving forces for n25 (especially in the main story) but with tsukasa and the wonderland sekai it’s always only ever really mentioned in passing if at all? like the wxs main story focuses on tsukasa recovering his repressed memories/feelings in regards to why he wanted to become an actor but aside from that it’s never really made that important? 

and given the only other instance of a single person creating a sekai is mafuyu it feels strange that with tsukasa it hasn’t been given that same level of focus

The first time I read The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, I was in my second year of college.

At the time, despite going to a university that was a 12-hour drive away, I faithfully returned home during every break, every holiday, and every long weekend. Much like Gregor Samsa, the protagonist of The Metamorphosis and breadwinner of the Samsa household, I thought my family needed me. They couldn't function without me. Texts and calls flooded in every day from my siblings, my mother, my father, so at the end of my second year of college, I wrote a creative nonfiction essay about The Metamophosis. My family is not like Samsa's, I claimed. Even if I get transformed into a bug like Samsa did, they would never faint at the sight of me. They accepted me each and every time I returned home from college, slightly changed from the last but still human at my core. They loved me, I said. They always will.

The recent release of Teniwoha's "Zamuza" via Project Sekai's N25 brought me back to that essay, and upon rereading it for the first time since I wrote it four years ago, I... pity myself. At 19, I had not yet come to terms with my family's dysfunction, my mother's narcissism, and my father's neglect. Being parentified growing up often means that you're the last of your siblings to realize you were cheated of a proper childhood, and that growing up too quickly has detrimental consequences on your health. Cortisol, the steroid hormone released into your body during long periods of stress, is only good for your body in smaller doses. Today, I am writing this post at 6am after rolling around in bed for hours, stuck in the limbo of waking and sleeping. Unfortunately, insomnia is only one of the issues that arise in adulthood after living in fight-or-flight mode your entire life. I would love to tell you more, but that would make this post way too long, so let's move on to the interesting stuff:

I see a lot of my younger self in Mafuyu Asahina, who puts on a "good girl" facade her entire life in order to meet the expectations of her demanding parents. By that I mean, she sacrifices her happiness and her identity to secure love and empathy from her mother, and boy do I know helpless that feeling can be. I only wish that when I was in high school, I also had good friends like Kanade, Mizuki, and Ena. That it didn't take me so long to realize that I am not responsible for my parents' emotions and that I did not need to take on adult responsibilities at a young age to be loved. Because love, as most people learn at a young age and I learned when I was a little older, is supposed to be unconditional.

Gregor Samsa, who transformed into a bug at the beginning of the story, died at the end of The Metamorphosis due to familial neglect. After sacrificing his entire life and identity to serve his family, they moved on quickly without him once he was no longer useful as their golden child. This would have been my fate, had I not pivoted my priorities later on during college to focus on myself. This would have been Mafuyu's fate, if not for her good friends who are unconditionally invested in her well-being. The song "Zamuza" is inspired by The Metamorphosis, and the song is often called "Samsa" when referred to in English. A tribute to Samsa, I think this song is not only Kanade's attempt to save Mafuyu, but also her way of making sure that Samsa, despite being forgotten by his family, will continue to be remembered by her audience.

Take a listen, if you haven't yet: