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What do you think of Sora Siruha character?
Before this chapter, i thought Ishida seems wants us to think of her character as a tragic hero and a character that is fallen after leaving yamato mori, but then he drop a chapter where she committed genocide when she was still in yamato mori, so i wonder what do you think of her character?
Sora Siruha is an interesting character because Nietzsche would have hated her. Yet she’s still seen as morally ambiguous by both characters in her own story and members of the audience. Not that you’re wrong to see her that way but Nietzsche sure did hate it was religion. So, perhaps the literal nun, with angel wings, with cross tattoos, and a black halo that doubles as a crown or thorns might be a bad guy in the Nietzsche manga.
That’s not to say that she’s irredeemably evil, it’s just ironic the Choujin X of her generation named after the “ubermensch” represents the antithesis of a lot of Nietzsche’s ideas.
In Crime and Punishment, the 1866 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky the main character Raskolnikov schemes to murder and rob an elderly pawnbroker. The reason he wants to murder this pawnbroker is not just because he is in debt, but to prove his theory of mankind. For Raskolnikov, all men are divided into two categories: ordinary and extraordinary. The ordinary man has to live in submission and has no right to transgress the law because he is ordinary. On the contrary, extraordinary men have the right to commit any crime and to transgress the law in any way.
We have seen this ethical argument play out again and again in Choujin X in the past few chapters of Choujin X, so I think it’s time to take a closer look under the cut.
Hello, it’s time to cover the climactic battle and rescue of Palma a recently introduced character who will probably turn out to be a major player considering the sheer amount of time that has been spent on this battle. This is also the first time we’ve seen the trio truly work together in a fight since they got separated before the time skip so there’s a lot of interesting character and thematic moments to dig in here.
Another interesting chapter with lots of character development for Tokio and set up for future plotlines. In my last post I speculated their might be a future relationship between Azuma and Palma so it’s interesting that this chapter it’s Tokio who senses that she’s in trouble and goes out of his way to save her. More thoughts under the cut:
New chapter! New development for Palma Shishinegura’s plotline along with the artificial choujin making experiments that Batista was having her conduct. I’ve got a lot of thoughts on her Choujin Form, especially the fur. Those are hyena spots on the fur which might be further evidence of her eventual connection with Azuma.
Choujin x ask: what do you think of sato, Azuma’s mentor? I enjoy how he’s written to be extremely evil-seeming, and everyone seems more or less aware of it to some degree
Sato is an interesting character especially as Tokio’s chosen mentor. What I find the most interesting about him is he seems to be one of the more morally grey members of Yamato.
Post timeskip the plot is quickly picking up from chapter to chapter. While the majority of this chapter is just spent with Tokio investigating with his new team, there’s some interesting ideas introduced on the other sie of the story, following Batista and Palmia the choujin with the ability to bring others back to life. More thoughts underneath the cut.
Your Choujin X writeups are great, it's a shame the fandom is so small that they get relatively few notes. I'm glad you appear to have a more sympathetic view of Azuma than most CX readers I've seen. I think I remember you predicting before the time skip that Azuma would be the one to leave Yamato Mori, but recent chapters look more like Tokio will diverge from them - any predictions for the how our main trio may be split up?
This is a great question anon, and my answer is… I dunno. By which I mean to me it could go either way at this point. Me and my friend have actually debated on this, which one is more likely to side Sora and which one is going to stay with Yamato Mori. I’m still leaning towards Azuma leaving Yamato Mori, but there’s evidence for both sides of either Azuma or Tokio leaving. Predictions about the Azuma and Tokio breakup underneath the cut.
Holy character development Batman! We are in this latest chapter seeing the results of Tokio’s year of training and learning to be more independent, not only in just questioning the established authority around him but actually taking responsibility for himself in the investigations. On the other side it seems like Azuma is stagnating or at least not progressing as fast as he wants to which is causing a rift between him and Tokio once again. More on my two favorite boys underneath the cut:
Hey, I was wondering what you think of Queem/Quiem McMann from Choujin X? He hasn’t had much screen time besides a couple flashbacks, some lore dumps and a few quotes, but I think he’s already very interesting. His quote that states that humans only have one real emotion being fear (which implies he was extremely fearful) and the fact that he has a similar obsession with weapons and violence makes him sound like a parallel to Azuma, perhaps the Zora to Azuma’s Tokio.
As well, you’ve often analysed the series from a Nietzsche lens, and I think Quiem is by far the most overtly Nietzschian character. He outright refers to himself as the Ubermensch of War (in his backstory page in a volume extra), comes from a Choujin (supermen) supremacist country and doctrine and even explicitly hates God and religion enough to commit terror attacks on the clergy. I think his rivalry between Zora has very interesting connotations from a Nietzsche pov. Both are Choujin supremacists who treat Choujin as having more of a right to live and be free than humans, but while Quiem sees the Choujin as having moved past the need for God, Zora and her followers think the Choujin are the very manifestation of God
Hello, sorry for taking some time to think this over but I believe I’ll be even better able to answer this question in light of what we learned in this most recent chapter. You’re right in that Queem seems to be a heavily important character to both the lore and the themes of the series. I discussed the religious angles of his character and Zora on another post, but there’s still more to be said about Queem as an embodiment of war.