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I’m assuming that they’re not eating Agni at this point, but they’re still somehow eating meals every day. It’s been a problem to find fresh food and animals up to here, so why does that suddenly stop?

Bonus question: why does Agni pretend not to have killed the deer?

I’m reading the manga for the first time. I might be wrong, but while watching the anime, I thought, “I totally understand why people call this gooner and fanservice-heavy, as much as I love this show,” but the manga doesn’t give me that same feeling. It just feels like a romance with more perverted aspects, and a lot of the suggestive stuff Marin pulls comes off as a girl who’s somewhat socially inept from watching anime all the time (although that part is pretty much the same in the anime).

But the biggest change I appreciated was how obvious it is that Gojo loves Marin from the start! That scene in the first slide is included in the anime (though slightly changed to be more dramatic), but in the anime it makes me think, “Gojo is blushing because a pretty girl just crashed into him,” vs. in the manga I think, “Gojo is blushing because he’s had his eyes set on Marin since before.” In the anime, the shot into her cleavage (slide 2) and up her skirt (slide 3) didn’t immediately read to me as being included because Gojo had accidentally looked there, although I figured. It seemed like it was just there and Gojo happened to look, while in the manga it’s there because Gojo looked.

Just finished the land of waves arc. Maybe I was more shocked because I was expecting a wholly admirable character from my childhood impression of him, but I was still shocked by Zabuza’s relationship with Haku. Takes an incredibly vulnerable kid off the street, tells him he’s worthless first thing, then makes him into a “tool” for his use to the point where Haku could only see himself living if he could be of use to Zabuza. Still a tragic villain and genuinely admirable (a product of his environment, breaking free from that mindset). Guess I wasn’t expecting to be so moved by their story and for my impression as an adult to change so much.

Zabuza reminds me a lot of Makima, whom I did also genuinely admire when I was younger than Denji and reading CSM (and am now thoroughly disgusted by as an adult. Although, Zabuza never lays a hand on Haku, so take the comparison with a grain of salt…)

Did anyone else find changes like these after rewatching as an adult? Honestly can’t wait to see more of this as I watch. I suspect there will be a lot.