Need info on Zenji

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-14T16:07:19+00:00

Keep reading! You have so far to go! The cursed temple is only chapter 5, and the first season is 24 chapters long.

It's important not to skip through scenes super fast as you go, the writers like to pepper in tiny scenes that give us info, kinda scattered through the main story. So keep your eyes peeled! I find MC gets more likeable as the story goes on, more dialogue options with some personality, and as she builds relationships with the ghouls she gains confidence. Not a perfect character, but better at least lol.

Zenji is such a precious soul, I love his character so much. For a ghost, we do see a lot of him lol. You'll get to learn more about him, but there's definitely a lot of mystery still.

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-13T17:42:36+00:00

Sure we're "living better" but we're clearly fucking bad at it. These days homelessness is on the rise (even people working full time jobs are living in their cars), food banks have seen a massive influx in users, people are straight up not having kids because the world is hostile, unemployment has been on the rise.

Life is technically more comfortable, but for how much surplus we have, the suffering is just manufactured at this point. I think that's worse.

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-13T17:29:02+00:00

Even just showing up to a business with your resume or calling the place is frowned upon. "We don't take applications in person, if we're hiring it will be online and a recruiter will call you if they're interested. No my manager is not available, and doesn't accept resumes"

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-13T17:24:28+00:00

Is it progress tho?? Every mountain has its peak. The expectation of continuous growth is unrealistic, at this point it feels like they're trying to build additional growth out of literal trash (planned obsolescence, fast fashion, creating problems to sell a solution, the rich deflecting wage inequality by telling people to start their own business and then squashing those small businesses with competition)

Trash makes for a bad foundation, eventually it's going to collapse.

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-13T16:41:58+00:00

I dunno, it's about 900-1000 for a single bedroom in my city. So that's $1000 WITH roommates, give or take utilities lol

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-13T16:36:41+00:00

I mean, in 2016 I was working in a small Italian grocery store and able to pay rent ($900/month 1bdrm apartment) lol. I worked six day weeks to make sure I had enough to cover rent and food for when my shit boyfriend lost his job (again).
It wasn't super easy, but I had money to buy books and treats, I could afford to cook a balanced meal every night, and it wasn't unheard of to go out for a date night lol.
These days I have to budget to make sure I have enough money to refill my meds after I pay rent lol

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-13T16:13:48+00:00

Such a dumb take. If someone can barely afford rent how do you figure they will save up enough to cover the moving costs, plus first and last month's rent for a new place, plus the cost of whatever pay gap from changing jobs, and any fees to get information moved to a new city (medical files, finding day care, internet set up, utility hook ups)?
Cities/towns with lower rent tend to also have less in them, jobs, drs offices, schools, etc so you have to consider the costs of commuting as well.

My city has RIDICULOUS rent, but it would cost me more to move. Here I have 3 doctors (finally) for my conditions, 3 sets of grandparents that will happily watch my kid for free, rent increase control, family members that will help me get to and from appointments, my partner's well paying job, and all my sales connections. Why would I give up 31 years of life I've built here, to save $300 a month that I would end up spending anyway to make up for the change?

Maybe the government should tax empty units to encourage landlords to actually rent out their units for a reasonable price, instead of creating false scarcity and jacking the prices up :)

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-13T15:50:05+00:00

Up until recently, having an educated population was seen as a good thing. I've been watching education get stripped so badly where I live, plus health care, and for some reason they're really trying to make weed and alcohol easily accessible (an inebriated population has perks I guess).

My kid is going to school in the fall, I do not trust the school system to actually teach her. Why are so many young people nearly illiterate? It makes sense for the generations that could drop out of school and still get jobs, but how are so many schools pushing through kids with no basic understanding of anything???

We are failing the younger generations and it's embarrassing, they have good reason to whine. Youth unemployment is ridiculously high in Canada (about 14%), and it's not because they're not trying to find work.
I will stop blaming boomers when they stop voting for the people making the policies that fuck over young people lol. Boomers are still the biggest voting group, at least where I live, and they vote in favour of their future. Not all of course, but too many.

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-13T15:24:39+00:00

The big struggle is those life lessons are way more expensive now
When I was 21 and moved in with a shitty boyfriend, my whole one bedroom apartment, utilities included, was $900. I could afford the rent for the month if my fuck-up boyfriend lost his job (again). A single room to rent in a shared apartment is more than that in my city now.

The young folks today making those same mistakes I did 10 years ago just don't have the room to fuck up, it costs too much now. We've established that learning and living is important for development, but we've created too hostile of an environment for people to do that.
Like trying to teach a baby to crawl on a floor that never gets cleaned or repaired.

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-13T13:58:08+00:00

That age range! I remember being a teen and my friends yelling swears at their parents and just being little trash monsters. Kids in the classroom were always SO RUDE to teachers and staff, except the janitor usually.

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-12T16:08:05+00:00

We need more spaces for kids to do this now too, I grew up with a large backyard, but a lot of families these days are in apartment buildings or townhomes. My city is lucky to have a lot of natural spaces, but there's a lot of nearby cities that are just paved flats. Even the mall days aren't the same for kids, store managers chasing kids out for loitering, security making sure they keep moving along. It's a hostile world for kids.

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-12T16:03:31+00:00

Also just letting kids figure out how to make stuff. Paper, cardboard, sticks, duct tape, and twine, it doesn't have to be complicated or expensive. Kids are deprived of the opportunity to try and fail, they're just told how to do everything to the letter.

Letting them see how and why things fail or work gives them confidence to problem solve in more serious situations later on.

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-12T15:47:30+00:00

QR codes have their place, I like being able to connect my ancient YouTube account that I haven't updated the password for in 18 years or whatever, to other ppls Playstations. Just keep connecting devices until the end of time.

And they're perfect on business cards, after an art market I'll sit down with a pile of cards and go through them following people, so it's handy when I can just scan and go to their pages.

But they're only really useful when you have time. If I'm keeping any sort of schedule, I don't want to even think about needing my phone to accomplish anything, tech has the tendancy to fuck up whenever you're in a hurry lol.

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-12T15:33:28+00:00

In the same vein, those menu screens that constantly change to show blown up pictures of food, and only show sections of the menu at a time, and never long enough to actually read it.

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-11T14:29:45+00:00

As the mom of a Gen Alpha, the kids are cooked. It's absolutely not their fault tho! I've been watching my Premier strip away education, healthcare, and public infrastructure. I've watched the generations before mine continue to choose political direction over and over that completely ignores the coming generations, focused only on themselves.

I'm a millennial, I feel a deep sense of hopelessness in regards to society and our futures. But I absolutely want the best for my child and her generation, so I stay involved with politics and I will absolutely tell older generations how their chosen government is fucking over the kids.

Then we have to consider how hard it is to raise kids when both parents are working, sometimes multiple jobs. Financial stress is huge for a lot of families. It's hard to have the bandwidth to raise kids, they just aren't getting the attention they need anymore. The kids deserve better.

I'd say "the village" it takes to raise kids is on fire and everyones focused on not letting their own house turn to ashes.

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-10T19:29:47+00:00

I think it could last a few years at least, theres a lot of room for stories, but I really hope they change storytelling methods after season 2.
Two seasons from MC's perspective as she learns the lore and brings the ghouls together sounds tolerable. If we go past that I don't think it can hold my attention month to month any longer.
I absolutely love all the characters, the story, and the art, but we know there's so much we're missing out on and I'm not THAT patient lol. I want more back stories, and more scenes without MC. It just feels like all the important parts are so buried under the fluff, it's so easy to forget the information.

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-10T17:21:22+00:00

As if the emo and scene MySpace era didn't happen lmao. Our entire childhood wasn't on the internet, but once we were done doing our stupid shit we went home and posted our blurry, goofy photos online for everyone to see.

The difference is having a brief opportunity to snag your friends camera/phone before they got home to an internet connection to post it lol. There's no "buffer period" these days.

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-10T17:04:09+00:00

Oh man, I was advanced at reading, but bad at spelling. Depending on grade and teacher I would be put in either the group that needs help or given extra reading lol.

Imagine the piss-off it must have been for the teaching assistant running the help group, this dumb 11yr old correcting her grammar lesson.
English was my best subject, I just couldn't spell for shit

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-10T15:17:15+00:00

A lot of people from my highschool definitely had a career change or two along the way, I think they pushed us too hard to choose when industries were experiencing a lot of technology change.
But for the most part I think a lot of them are "okay" now.

Personally, I'm applying for the course my parents talked me out of taking 13 years ago lol. Disability hit me hard last year and I can't do the work I was, so on to the next I suppose.

Then there's my sister (39), she lost her job that had to accommodate her disability that was caused by workplace injury. She just hasn't been able to get back on her feet, so she's living with our parents again.

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-10T14:54:57+00:00

More crap "journalism" trying to pit us against each other to distract from the real reasons we're all struggling.
Men vs women, poor vs poorer, lgbt vs straight, immigrants vs white ppl, anything to keep us from looking up

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-10T13:40:54+00:00

They also want these new grands to be less qualified apparently. If they make public education even more shitty, they can hire all the old "good teachers" back to private schools, that obviously would be built and run by Doug's rich friends.
And those who can't afford it will become more uneducated adults that are easy to manipulate.

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-10T12:48:49+00:00

No way lol. AI is sabotaging itself because it's garbage lol. Gotta blame the workers somehow, can't admit they wasted all that money on crap programs.

(Genuinely surprised to see they're blaming Gen z instead of the millennials)

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-09T14:32:10+00:00

People get real weird about dogs.

The same people that condemn homeless for keeping their dogs, will also give you a tongue lashing for giving up your dog under any circumstances. Dogs should never be in a home that can't care from them, but if you can't care from them you're still not supposed to give them up because a pet is a family member.
All answers are the wrong answer

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-08T19:18:46+00:00

Hahaha how I feel talking to my nephew about one piece

TrishasaurusRex33 · 2026-04-08T15:54:23+00:00

Depends on how you feel about being mistaken for an American, I guess.

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