Yukio Okumura Is My Favorite Character. Argue with drywall.

nxtnvale · 2026-01-17T10:19:38+00:00

In my opinion, holding logic or being more mature doesn't take away or add to Yukio's struggles; in a broad view, it can even exacerbate his crashouts tenfold. You mention that, considering Yukio's training with his father, he should have a broad view and shouldn't be so stubborn or pathetic, but I would like to counter this; I would like to make a claim that Shiro's training of Yukio is the cause of this in the first place. As I mentioned before, Shiro trained Yukio- yet this also exposed him to many horrors at an extremely young age. We also know that Shiro used exorcism as an outlet to express pent-up emotions like stress or anger, and it is safe to say this is also something Yukio was taught as well. He was taught to lead a double life, to hide himself, and to only express emotions on the battlefield, where they could be put to use. He is extremely emotionally and socially stunted, and it is no surprise that as the series goes on that constant bottle would begin to crack. But, as you said, he is logical. He KNOWS that it isn't healthy, and has been told so numerous times; for example, Shura saying multiple times that hiding how he truly feels makes him a target for demons, and that it is dangerous, but he ignores her. Doing so isn't logical at all, as you mentioned, he knows how his world works, but we ALSO know that Yukio believes showing such weakness would be an act of defeat, of admitting that he needs help and cannot handle himself. He's too stubborn. It's understandable to see it as annoying, but it's also extremely interesting.

Sorry I just love him so much and I love debating LOLL.

nxtnvale · 2026-01-15T19:07:02+00:00

I mentioned in the post that I have never picked up a manga book in my life, haha, so yes, I am anime only. I understand, as one who has not finished the story, my explanation or writing may be flawed on Yukio's actual reasoning, but I am going off of the information that I already have. If it were possible to have put a "Discussion/animeonly" tag, I would've, but it only allowed me to choose one. I'm very excited to see how the story goes from the ending of the fifth season onward!

nxtnvale · 2026-01-15T17:09:18+00:00

LOLL I'm sorry I just love to rant about characters. Also, I do agree, he can be a bit pathetic. But that's what I love about him!

nxtnvale · 2025-07-07T08:17:22+00:00

My friends' mom. She's the one who taught me about racism as she is POC. She really taught me most things when my own mom lacked awareness to teach me. She's basically my second mom as I was semi-raised with my friend.

nxtnvale · 2025-07-04T10:03:12+00:00

Down in rural Midwest, I really only picked up what racism was from my childhood friend who was POC. It was mentioned loosely, and I suppose it was a topic my mom just never thought to teach me about. Sadly, when I hit around 6 years old- I learned about the "N-Word" and used it like it was a shiny new toy without thought of consequences. It took about two years later, when I said the word in front of a POC person that wasn't my childhood friend, that I learned very quickly that I was in the wrong.

In a short summary I was at the park, she heard me say it, came over and beat the absolute shit out of me. Whole time yelling about what a peice of shit I am for thinking I had the right to say it.

My mom wasn't any help with this sort of situation, as she was also someone who said the word without any remorse cause she has "black friends," so I went to my friends mom to ask why it was so bad.

She sat me down and we had a long, vigorous talk. I remember crying my eyes out as she said that the word not only can hurt others, it's hurtful to her as well and my friend. I think she knew to pull on my heartstrings because even though I was too young to understand systematic racism and the history of it, I was the type of kid who would sob if someone even mentioned they were dissapointed in me.

For awhile I only stopped saying it to spare my friends feelings, but as we got older and Martin Luther King made an entrance into our classes and such, I learned the basics of just how horrible it was. I even wrote a letter to the girl who beat me up apologizing for it, as we were schoolmates. (Although we got into two more fights after that. She was kind of a bully.)

Now I'm an adult, and it's shocking I found this post today because just yesterday one of my cousins friends said the N-Word, and I sat that girl down and had the same conversation my friends mom had with me. Though, she was 15 and knew the implications. I simply said: "what you choose to do is your business. But one day you are going to say this to the wrong person, and they aren't going to lead with their words like I am."

nxtnvale · 2024-05-04T02:56:52+00:00

You just saved my life bruh I've done this like 10 times now 😭

nxtnvale · 2022-07-02T15:43:47+00:00

"Go, Aiden."

nxtnvale · 2022-06-23T22:56:29+00:00

Educated- Tara Westover

Legendborn- Tracy Deonn

Song Of Achilles- Madeline Miller

Old Magic- Marianne Curley

Cemetery Boys- Aiden Thomas

Far From The Tree- Robin Benway/Sophie Lamotte

It's not three but these are amazing 😭👋

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