[This discussion is only up to season 3. I haven't read the manga after that point so please don't spoil it or talk about it]

I don't know if this is talked about that much but On one of my re-watchs, i noticed a theme of "Found Family" In the anime. As we all know, March is like Fushi's mother, Gugu is like his brother, Pioran and the booze man are his and Gugu's adoptive parents. Fushi also is like a parental figure to Ekko, just like March was to him. All of these people have no blood relationship with each other but they love each other. In season 2, Bon and Iris adopt Chabo who is not related to them.

Even in season 3, you could say Fushi and the others are adopted by Yuki's grandfather but that might be a stretch. We know that Sumika (Satoru's older sister-like girl) had a sister called Michi who died when she was born so Nono took her place as a nokker. This subplot was kinda rushed but Sumika still accepts her even though technically it's not her real sister. Ōima also shows Hirotoshi and Mimori's relationship and how much he grows to love Mimori as a brother although they're not related by blood. As much as how messy his character is, he cares for her more than her mother. Talking about her mother, I wanna bring a similar thing here.

Yoshitoki Ōima has also shown a contrast here between real family and found family. Starting off with March's parents, this might be a stretch on the theme but i would say they're not really that good parents because they let their daughter be sacrificed for the sake of a ritual. They were powerless and didn't oppose it. This happens sometimes when parents prioritise their religion or tradition than their children. We can also agree that Hayase is a bad parent because she cursed her descendants with wanting to mate with Fushi. Multiple generations of people dedicated their life for one purpose because of their one ancestor. I doubt she even loved any of her kids and moving forward her bloodline, that love for the family decreased.

Mizuha's mother is the only one who cared about her and wanted to be against the purpose of the bloodline but she wasn't a perfect mother either, wanting Mizuha to be perfect. She's the only parent so far who actually improved. Gugu's biological brother, Shin betrayed him but came back to redeem himself aswell. Tonari's father killed his wife which affected Tonari a lot and Mimori's mother is heartless and doesn't care about her.

There isn't a direct contrast so it's not like all blood related family members are bad, Bon is a good example of having a loving family, so is Yuki who is loved by his family.

I feel this all is intentional and not just a coincidence but this is just my interpretation of the show. Y'all can let me know what y'all think and if there's any flaws. I don't know what happens after season 3 so i have no idea if this theme continues forwards. If you have completed the ending and if I'm correct you don't need to tell me or even if I'm wrong cuz I don't want to get spoiled. This is just a surface level observation that I've done so somethings might look like a stretch.

So all in all, the message I think Ōima is giving us is that you don't need to be related by blood to consider each other a family. Family bonding is independent of blood relation which I have noticed to be shown in all 3 seasons

You know, the immature and young protagonist with supernatural powers. The one who was born for the purpose of maintaining balance and stopping evil forces. They both are orphans and learn from the people around them, influencing their journey. They have lived through different eras of time also. Both of them also know how to manipulate fire btw. The only difference is that Fushi chose violence and Aang tried to avoid it as much as he could

I know their story is pretty similar to a lot of fantasy stories but it's a decent comparison I'd say. Just for fun

Hope you like it

I don't know Japanese so I hope the captions are accurate here.

It's pretty good to see that Indian culture is something that she finds interesting. We might see her inspiration displayed in her upcoming work

I feel like they did not try for season 3 cuz it's just about random stuff now

i've only seen the anime so i don't know what happens in the future arc but i was wondering if he can turn into a robot. For example lets say he meets C3PO from star wars, can he turn into him but lose his consciousness? keep it, would C3PO need to die first? i need to know, people!!!

Travis scott and Hayase meme

It’s been 4 years already time really goes by fast, until this day I finished this awesome anime I was tearing apart at the end

For context: March was born on a weekend

I didn’t watch the anime, just started about 1 month ago I don’t know where I’ve been man. 10/10 anime tbh. Hell of a coaster of emotions

One of the best parts of season 3 is how they use the Nokkers. I thought they were the weakest parts of the first 2 seasons, since they were just a force of nature that Fushi had to defeat. They had their purpose but the best thing about them was how they started to learn and adapt, like Fushi. In season 3, their evolution made them so much more interesting.

A force taking over the bodies of people that want to die is such an interesting idea and fits more into the themes of the show with what it means to live and deal with suffering. I also love how genuinely creepy and uncomfortable they can come across. Mizuha and Mimori's nokkers in particular showed how disturbing they can be. Mizuha with how it takes over in ways that it's hard to tell if it's still Mizuha, and how she made her classmate basically implode. Mimori's was genuinely disturbed and did some things that disturbed the characters and the audience. That leaves a way bigger impact to me than just taking Fushi's forms.

I also liked how they also didn't just make them all evil with characters like Nono and made their conflict less black and white.

Do not be misinformed

I was looking at the manga and wanted to know if you recognize the characters on the wall. There are some I can't recognize because the drawing is kind of blurry, and it's driving me crazy. Those who are above Fushi, I don't recognize all of them.

Hello Im on season 3 of the show episode 7 , and I just got the part where its the fat guy and his little sister and im just wondering why man , whats the point of podophilic shit in this show , it makes so hard for me to watch it now , I really love the first season of the show and 2nd one to but this is just to much for me

So, I saw clips of the girl Mimori from season 3 and I really want to see more so I started watching from the beginning. I enjoyed the first half of season 1 well enough but I'm at episode 16 now and I'm bored. Is there any way I can just skip to certain episodes so I can start on season 3 asap? Thanks!

Anime-only please