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The Bespectacled Guy wrote: DiegoAnime3000 wrote:

And so, I'm afraid. Afraid that this fanon Ruby doesn't feel very different from Canon, afraid that when she finally fights Cinder she will try to befriend her instead of defeating her and win her over a speech about love and friendship, afraid that the show will chose love over logic in pure anime fashion and turn those who move by logic into the new bad guys that Ruby has to win over through love and friendship. Oh fuck. That's so saccharine it makes Forrest Gump look like a Shakespearian tragedy. I doubt that will ever happen, though.

As for Henceforward... that's a shame. I read the first couple of chapters and really enjoyed it, but from the way you describe it, it sounds like it's gone downhill really sharply. I guess that Kuma, since being from Japan, likes to play a lot with anime cliches. For instance, his definition of insanity is:

''Yay! I'm happy. Let's kill people! Yay! Now time to act like a serious person and make psychological attacks. Mmmm. Yay! Let's kill more people! Yay!''

And we're meant to be terrified of that.