Playing Notes
Feb. 5th, 2011 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kirabishie☆ So, Takuto's personality is seen to change dramatically between his backstory and coming to the island. His more cheerful, reckless, bright personality—and his stupid one-liners—seem to be directly imitating his friend who died. This isn't to say that Takuto's personality at his core isn't actually stupid optimistic shounen. However, it seems to me like a lot of the time he is acting a role (lol drama club lol) pretty deliberately. It just so happens that it actually reflects who/what he wants to be.
☆ A quote from Igarashi: Psychological trauma, like the secret (Takuto) is trying to conceal and so on, are all lumped together in “adolescence." I am not sure if this is referring to Natsuo's death, or if something happened to Takuto beforehand that . . . dulled him, so to speak. Obviously he has issues regarding his father who abandoned him, but that hasn't been approached in the series yet. This is significant! Since . . . this trauma would obviously be memory-related, and affect his personality. So, I'm toying back and forth with what his base personality would be as a consequence of neither having this trauma which may or may not be related to his father, or may just be the Natsuo backstory.
☆ "Generally speaking, Takuto is an optimist. Because he's only just 15 years old, he has many immature aspects, but if you embrace those qualities, it creates a sense of a bright, lively and fun boy." (Enokido)
Quotes:
Q: On one hand, Takuto’s been a bright and carefree boy since he arrived, but it doesn’t seem like he’s changed on a basic level.
IGARASHI: Yeah. Would you call it innocence or flawlessness? I depicted Takuto like that because he’s something that will “destroy” the customs, traditions and way of thinking of the isolated place that is Southern Cross Island. Since Takuto drifted ashore, time started to flow differently on the island, there’s the sense that something is changing. Since he’s a boy with the “power of destruction” so to speak, he can’t be troubled or lost very often. In other words, before Takuto came to the island, it seems that he’d already conquered some sort of conflict. Of course, he is a 15~16 year old boy after all, so stormy seas lie ahead of him too. But, he’s already passed one trial, and came to Southern Cross Island having grown up a bit.
Q: He said it himself, “in the past I used to be more closed off than I am now.”
IGARASHI: There was a time when he was like that. But, just because he said “closed off” doesn’t necessarily mean he was depressed, though I think you could say his way of thinking was much narrower than it is now.
Q: In other words, before Takuto came to this island, he was suffering through some “drama.”
IGARASHI: In a sense he understands that he “left a place,” or perhaps that he “broke his shell” and for that purpose he thinks that he had no option but to take action himself. Surely there was “something” to make him think like that. That’ll be depicted in the climax of the second arc.
[This was before Episode 16 aired, so this is . . . obviously referring to the Natsuo stuff, which was the climax of the second arc.]
☆ A quote from Igarashi: Psychological trauma, like the secret (Takuto) is trying to conceal and so on, are all lumped together in “adolescence." I am not sure if this is referring to Natsuo's death, or if something happened to Takuto beforehand that . . . dulled him, so to speak. Obviously he has issues regarding his father who abandoned him, but that hasn't been approached in the series yet. This is significant! Since . . . this trauma would obviously be memory-related, and affect his personality. So, I'm toying back and forth with what his base personality would be as a consequence of neither having this trauma which may or may not be related to his father, or may just be the Natsuo backstory.
☆ "Generally speaking, Takuto is an optimist. Because he's only just 15 years old, he has many immature aspects, but if you embrace those qualities, it creates a sense of a bright, lively and fun boy." (Enokido)
Quotes:
Q: On one hand, Takuto’s been a bright and carefree boy since he arrived, but it doesn’t seem like he’s changed on a basic level.
IGARASHI: Yeah. Would you call it innocence or flawlessness? I depicted Takuto like that because he’s something that will “destroy” the customs, traditions and way of thinking of the isolated place that is Southern Cross Island. Since Takuto drifted ashore, time started to flow differently on the island, there’s the sense that something is changing. Since he’s a boy with the “power of destruction” so to speak, he can’t be troubled or lost very often. In other words, before Takuto came to the island, it seems that he’d already conquered some sort of conflict. Of course, he is a 15~16 year old boy after all, so stormy seas lie ahead of him too. But, he’s already passed one trial, and came to Southern Cross Island having grown up a bit.
Q: He said it himself, “in the past I used to be more closed off than I am now.”
IGARASHI: There was a time when he was like that. But, just because he said “closed off” doesn’t necessarily mean he was depressed, though I think you could say his way of thinking was much narrower than it is now.
Q: In other words, before Takuto came to this island, he was suffering through some “drama.”
IGARASHI: In a sense he understands that he “left a place,” or perhaps that he “broke his shell” and for that purpose he thinks that he had no option but to take action himself. Surely there was “something” to make him think like that. That’ll be depicted in the climax of the second arc.
[This was before Episode 16 aired, so this is . . . obviously referring to the Natsuo stuff, which was the climax of the second arc.]
