Every time I see someone hating Rui for being “weird”/“crazy” I feel it as a personal attack. This person genuinely becomes a GIGANTIC red flag for me.
Now y'all are gonna bear with me because I'm going to rant about this. And I believe this is an important discussion to the fandom in general, even if you don't do these things.
The first wxs event immediately establishes that Rui cares about the safety of those who are going to perform his stunts even MORE than the stunts themselves. He doesn't have ill intentions, and his actions actually benefit others instead of hurting anyone.
Now, I'll admit it, Rui crazy jokes are kinda funny, and they're not the problem on itself. I laugh about them. I make some menace Rui jokes. I don't think the jokes themselves are the problem, when they don't cross the line and are actively disrespectful or harmful towards people who may act the same in real life.
Shows not only a lack of actually reading the stories, but also ignorance at the very least.
Every single project sekai character has their "main struggle" mirror the experiences of actual real life people. And to dismiss Rui's struggle as just "he's quirky XD" is disrespectful at the very LEAST.
Now the thing is. I kin Rui. I went through the exact same thing he goes through: people thinking you're “weird” or “crazy” for being hyper and out of the box, to the point of being excluded due to some kind of fear/disgust and openly bullied and/or harassed, having people be ENCOURAGED to mistreat you because "you're weird".
I've seen many parts of the fandom react this exact same way towards Rui. SOME people would not HESITATE to actually harass Rui if he were to exist. However, everyone who actively promotes or believes that this kind of treatment towards someone like him is right are perpetuating it being applied to actual real life people.
"Oh, but he's fictional!"
Fiction mirrors real life. Reacting this way to a character based on real life experiences DOES tell a lot about you, and DOES tell a lot about how you'd act in real life, even if you don't think you'd act that way. Many perpetrators believe what they're doing to be okay and that it's something that should be done, mostly because they were raised to believe that it is natural, and that to act the opposite way would be socially unacceptable.
Yes, he's funny and just a lil guy but people need to know when shit needs to get serious. Fiction affects reality, reality affects fiction. Fiction and reality are correlated, no matter what some people may want to push into you.
To be clear, I don't have a problem with Rui jokes AS LONG AS THEY DON'T CROSS THE LINE. He IS a silly guy, but he's not limited to just that. Know when to get serious and take actual real life lessons, people. It is crucial to one's development as a person.
im so sorry for this yapfest but i am very passionate about rui kamishiro. tldr at the end
this probably isnt even a hot take. cold take even. but the mischaracterization of rui in this fandom is actually wild, especially among rui fans. as someone who has had a lot of similar experiences to his past experiences it's really upsetting to see.
rui is a very nuanced character and (at least in my opinion) far more subtle than a lot of the more tropey characters in the game. and my guys. he is patently NOT insane. he has NO will to hurt people. hes just very passionate about his interests and he's actively incredibly kind to his friends. but so many people in this fandom misread his passion as a will to hurt others or like. literal insanity?? which makes me really mad because guys!!!!!! THAT'S THE SAME THING THE PEOPLE WHO BULLIED HIM DID!!!!!!!!!! THAT'S MISREADING HIS PERSONALITY AND USING THAT AS AN EXCUSE TO WRITE HIM OFF AS THE "TOKEN CRAZY ONE" BEFORE EVEN GETTING TO KNOW HIM!!! this is the EXACT kind of behavior rui's story is supposed to preach AGAINST. reading comprehension! please!
"but it's just a joke otter it's not that deep" heres the thing it stops being a joke when its repeatedly being used to flatten rui's character. especially since he was bullied for the exact things the fandom likes to "joke" about (him being "crazy"). and also if we cant respect the struggles of a fictional character who was bullied/ostracized im not sure how we'll be able to properly respect real victims of bullying!
"oh but he's always trying to hurt tsukasa with his crazy stunts" im not even adressing this one because theres literally an entire rui event on it. and its literally the FIRST one. the FIRSTTTTT one. go read wonder halloween
i really dislike that people are saying the exact same things as rui's classmates who ostracized him as a "joke." i feel like if we're fans of rui its our job to properly understand at LEAST what is arguably the biggest conflict he dealt with as a kid and to be sensitive to his struggles. i could go on for DAYS about the way the struggles of neurodivergent people who present more "hyper" are constantly trivialized and how commonly theyre villainized but thats only tangentially related so. guys. lets PLEASE be better
tldr: in my opinion. the jokes about rui being "insane" have LONG crossed the line from being just jokes to being lowkey insensitive mischaracterization
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I just read a mmj event story (Hear me! Hopeful Show ♪) and while I don't have anything to say about the event itself (Minori my beloved, keep growing motto motto) I have some ponderations:
1 - Minoharu section. We always talk about Minori being gay af for Haruka and ok that's basically canon but OMG HARUKA
I SWEAR I couldn't print every moment she simped for Minori because there were TOO MANY but GIRL--
I swear she fell even harder for Minori it's just that Minori's more vocal about it, I love my minoharu <3
2 - Seriously. HOW do they decide who's gonna be the 4 stars and everything??? Because I swear every single event I read has a card distribution I don't agree with
Who decided to give my girl Airi the 2★ treatment????? Also Shizuku as a 4★ while Luka gets 3★ is just unfair smh
ANYWAYS mmj I'm coming for you I'm gonna read all of your stories and become obsessed with you too just you wait (they already got points w me for this story. love you Minori and Haruka's a sweetheart (I already loved Airi and Shizuku though I think I love them more now)
WDYM THE PJSK MOVIE IS ALREADY OUT ON GLOBAL???? (aka US for some reason)
PPL, PLEASE TAG ANY PJSK MOVIE POSTS AS SPOILER! I AND A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES WILL ONLY GET TO WATCH THE MOVIE IN MAY OR LATER THIS MONTH!! </3
If ppl start posting too many spoilers I'll have to watch it pirated in some way. I don't want to, I really want to watch it on the movie theaters but I don't think all "global" pjsk fans will be so polite like the japanese ones. Not generalizing !!! I know most people are actually polite and don't spoil others over nothing. There just seems to have more fans in global that'll leak events, post them while they aren't over yet, etc, for whatever reason. Or I just feel like that because I can't read any japanese so it just seems to me like they leak less stuff lol (either way don't take it personally, if you don't leak anything or tag spoilers you're fine)
Either way, please tag movie content as spoiler until it has aired in the last programmed country, which is may 29th! (date subject to change)
y'all literally just need to come out with a tag like "#pjsk movie spoiler" or something. please don't screw this up
I just read Carnation Recollection and my GOD
I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT HOW JUST DEPRESSING KANADE'S STORY IS I'M CRYING
THAT FLASHBACK SCENE HURT DEEP MAN
LIKE SHE WAS HAPPY AND HAD A HAPPY FAMILY AND THEN HER MOM JUST LITERALLY DIED AND NOT SO LONG AFTER HER DAD BASICALLY DIED TOO AND SHE BLAMES HERSELF AAAAAA KANADE ILY GO GET SOME THERAPY 😭
KANADE 😭😭😭😭😭
Also this is the kanamizu event of all time. Why is Mafuyu a 4★?? She appeared in like 2 chapters while Mizuki was alongside Kanade through the entire event basically. I don't ship kanamizu but y'all deserved that set
I find it both funny and concerning that up until this event the answer to Kanade's problems is just going outside with a friend and relaxing. Like chill girl you can't compose if you're locked home 24/7 without even getting some sunlight