They Deserved To Have A Fistfight

Rei and Kazuki’s timeline and life event parallels, explained

No, they haven’t lived together for 3 years.

Episode 8 was set on August 10th. Rei turns 26.

Rei left home three years ago, I’d guess it’s around August too, give or take, so let’s say in the summer. He was 22 almost 23. Around the same age when Kazuki lost Yuzuko.

When Kazuki first met Rei, this is how he looked. His hair was past his shoulders. Given that Rei has changed a lot as a person since he left, I think he had shorter hair before, and I doubt that it was long enough to put into a ponytail. To grow one’s hair out to that length, it’ll take at least 6 months.

So Rei left home in the summer 3 years ago + 6 months (2 seasons) of hair growth, Kazuki met him in the spring of the following year. Rei was 23 and Kazuki was 25.

Judging from Kazuki’s clothes, it’s not that warm yet. It supports the theory that they met in spring.

In present time, Miri has been with them for eight months. Let’s back track their time.

First year

Rei left home in summer

Second year

Kazuki and Rei met in spring

Met Miri on Christmas Eve

Third year

It marks 3 years around August since Rei left home

Kyu brought them together for jobs, not roommates. Not on purpose, at least. So when did they start living together?

From Rei’s words here, we know what he thought of Kazuki as a partner and a person, before they became roommates. They had worked on a number of assignments together before Kazuki “started cleaning”. Give or take, they probably had worked together for at least a month or two.

Judging from Kazuki’s clothes again, it wasn’t summer yet. So let’s work the timeline again:

Second year

Kazuki and Rei met in the spring

Worked together for around 2 months before Kazuki barged into Rei’s apartment and started cleaning

Met Miri on Christmas Eve

In conclusion, by the time Miri came into the picture, they'd been roommates for around 8 months. As of episode 8, they've lived together for 1.25 years.

Life parallels

Age 22 turning 23

Kazuki lost his family, the lowest point in life

Rei left his family, the lowest point in life

Age 25 turning 26

Kazuki met Rei and decided that he’ll care for him

Rei met Miri and decided that he’ll care for her

I just think it’s neat when they do this.

I just think it’s neat when they do this.

Kazuki met Rei and started taking care of him

Rei met Miri and started taking care of her

I just think it’s neat when they do this.

I love gay dragoons 🏳️‍🌈

This is like the weirdest non-anime post I’ll make but I recently cut ties with a long time friend because she prioritized her partner over her friendships.

For the longest time I would be so confused why someone who said they were scared to lose me, would fly me out to visit them and stay up at night talking to me would also leave me on delivered for 6-8 weeks at a time. And she was so strict about that being a non-negotiable about her. She was unemployed, didn’t go to school, and didn’t have a car. She would tell me that there would be nothing going on in her life because she can’t do much but play video games at home.

I would beg her to get back to me sooner because I didn’t want her to miss out on big celebrations in my life but she almost would. However, for some reason she was there for me for emergencies.

I confronted her about it because I no longer wanted to tell her anything because the being left on delivered hurt me.

We concluded that it was an incompatibility issue but she made a statement what brought so much closure. She genuinely believed and strictly followed the principle, that if you have a partner/dating someone, you don’t need to maintain friends the traditional way. You shouldn’t share anything more about yourself or make time for others because you’re not dating them. The majority of emotional intimacy would be with the partner. Like purposefully not put effort into a friendship anymore. That’s why she was so strict and even proud of leaving majority of her friends on delivered for weeks to months on end. She told me that she compromised with me by getting back to me within 6 weeks rather than 8 weeks like what she does with her friend group. Her comments made me feel like I was being too needy for being left on delivered for 6-8 weeks at a time. Doesn’t that just fuck you up? She believed it was abnormal to check up with friends once or twice a month. It was abnormal to know how they were on a day or week to week basis because she’s not dating them.

She got a little defensive when I responded back with that it sounds like you center your partner above all else.

People sure are interesting. She said it works for her other friends, despite her not knowing them very well. Also, all of her friends are dudes who she plays video games with. I wanted to tell her maybe the reason why they don’t say anything about it is because they know you refuse to change.

In all fairness, I guess I should have noticed I was her only female friend. Also she made a comment before about how her perfect friend is someone she sees for dinner twice a year. That’s not a friend, that’s a co worker.

YESS

I feel like no one acknowledges that realistically, the two weren’t going to work well together in an environment where there are higher stakes. They both have different life philosophies among other things.

It’s a general life lesson everyone learns but that’s not the point of LC but an interesting aspect/deconstruction of the best friend trope working together.

Link Click & AX

Was not able to go to AX but found this from someone who did on reddit.

This is one anecdote from the director regarding the show.

"...regarding the choice/dynamic of having 2 male MCs: having observed many other media, Haoling decided that splitting 1 protagonist into 2 characters would make for better storytelling. by giving the characters only half of what they need, their abilities are more grounded, they are forced to cooperate socially, it gives the audience more entertaining and dynamic banter, and they must build trust in order to effectively accomplish tasks."

Love this statement. When I would explain to my friends why people should watch LC, I would say its a time travel show with an unique premise. There are two main leads. Imagine both are trying to ace a midterm (you can pair up with a buddy lol). One person has the paper & pencil and the other has the answer key. They can't ace the midterm alone without the help of each other's resources - so they must to work together to ace the test because they can only do it once. What seems like a simple example gets applied to solving puzzles/mysteries and finding data.

The interesting part is that the main leads have very different approaches to accomplishing the tasks that they are given. Even though they were friends for a long time, when serious things happen like working a job together, they struggle with their different mindsets and it causes a lot of strife between them.

Slowly, there became a lack of trust between the leads as both of them start to withhold info from the other. That makes it worse and it hits a boiling point.

Something so simple that happens all the time in real life yet is often never depicted in such a real sense, particularly in an animation format. I like the style of anime but I want my stories to be grounded. I want to see my struggles on the screen.

It's also kinda validating to see a friendship fall apart once you decide to become co workers with one another and realize that just because you two both like basketball, doesnt mean maybe you should run a high-stress somewhat illegal business together right after uni to pay off debt :/

I think the stage play did a decent job of adapting this two :)

Also really like the costuming too.

Griffith: Does arranging assassinations to protect my life from royalty who have dedicated themselves to murdering me and have in fact already tried to kill me at least once make me awful?

Readers: Yes you disgusting sociopath.

Guts: The fuck are you even talking about, I see no problem with murder why are you even worrying about this.

Readers: A true saint and a gentleman.

Naruto is fucking insane bc as someone who's never actually watched the anime, I'll have just THE gayest shit pop up on my dash of Sasuke and Naruto, and when I go "oh hey nice edit, this looks really good" I FIND OUT ITS CANON OFFICIAL MEDIA DIRECTLY FROM THE ANIME??? Insane. How did they get away with that.

Naruto hasn’t given up on Sasuke but I certainly have.

Naruto is fucking insane bc as someone who's never actually watched the anime, I'll have just THE gayest shit pop up on my dash of Sasuke and Naruto, and when I go "oh hey nice edit, this looks really good" I FIND OUT ITS CANON OFFICIAL MEDIA DIRECTLY FROM THE ANIME??? Insane. How did they get away with that.

the real reason howl kept his castle moving was tax evasion