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Tower of Karma is often reduced to its complexe mind games and psychological battles, but that surface-level reading hides something way deeper.

This arc is ultimately about chaos as a force of identity destruction and reconstruction, and the collision between two opposing ways of surviving inside it: Baku, who embraces uncertainty, and Suteguma, who tries to dominate it.

There it is, my first part of my Tower of karma analysis, focusing on the character of the black child, Suteguma, the evolution of The Lie eater and their dynamic.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12u3yw6vsZHUhMCNX2MnvFCyTnlDYDWXwn4WtpjVlsrM/edit?usp=drivesdk

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Good reading guys, I hope you will love it✌️

I was planning on doing only one dense analysis of Tower of karma but the amount of thematics, parallels and side characters is just crazy.

It will probably do a series of 3 or 4 documents on it 😼

What if Baku Madarame's true power in Usogui was never just his mind... but the people who orbit him?
Because Kyara, Kaji, Marco, and Yakou are not just allies or side characters. They are what happens when you get too close to the Lie Eater himself, creating four completely different answers to the same impossible question: how do you survive a world built on lies, risk, and absolute loss?

Kyara becomes sacrifice pushed to its limit.
Kaji becomes awakening through ignorance.
Marco becomes broken innocence trying to be rebuilt.
Yakou becomes order slowly collapsing under chaos.

Baku doesn't just "lead" this group, he distorts them, reveals them, and ultimately reshapes them into reflections of himself... or warnings of what he is becoming.

This is not a simple mind game's team.

It's a system of human reactions orbiting a single existential anomaly.

And every one of them pays the price for standing too close to him.

To understand how deep this influence goes and how does every characters of Baku's team reflect a portion of his existence, we need to look at each member of Baku's "team" individually.
Here my analysis of Baku's team structure:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/124GTCRtiYcfVgsbBwu3Lry-FcfvXM5zTO0VGI4\_lqrU/edit?usp=drivesdk

I hope you will enjoy it 🥂

In Usogui, some characters are not introduced in a linear and classic way, they are deconstructed across time.

Where Madarame Baku’s introduction builds a chaotic but readable presence, Souichi Kiruma is the opposite, a character who can not be understood from a single moment, because he was never meant to exist in a single form. His existence itself was fragmented, such as his introduction.

Royal leader, Hal, Souichi Kiruma, Hachina Naoki. Hal isn’t a single person, he is a system where multiplies identity coexist for the quest of an impossible goal: the achievement of perfection.

This analysis does not explores a simple introduction, but a structural phenomenon: how a character can be written as a fragmented identity spread across multiple chapters and arcs. And why this fragmentation is not a narrative flaw, but the very expression of his core theme, the pursuit of perfectionism at all cost.

To understand Souichi Kiruma, we must not ask ourselves who he is, but why he can not remain one person.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-vtyxeCASwH\_c8ugKXYWy0lux5Iyey5NcKvlzQdwFjQ/edit?usp=drivesdk

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Disclaimer: It contains a lot of spoilers of Souichi’s backstory and conclusion.

I hope you will love it 🥹🥂