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Why Anya Forger Is One of the Best‑Written Child Characters in Anime!
I’m so tired of people acting like Anya is “just the cute mascot” when she is genuinely one of the most thoughtfully crafted child characters in modern anime. Like no, actually, she’s not just funny. She’s not just adorable. She’s not just a gremlin with pink hair and a peanut addiction. She is narrative gold, and I will die on this hill.
First of all:
Anya acts like a real child.
Not a mini-adult. Not a baby. Not a plot device. A child. She’s messy, dramatic, easily distracted, overly confident, insecure, curious, and deeply emotional. She’s the perfect blend of “I’m five and the world is huge” and “I’ve seen too much and I’m trying anyway.”
And that’s the thing she’s not written as a joke.
She’s written with respect.
She’s allowed to be silly without being stupid.
She’s allowed to be scared without being helpless.
She’s allowed to be smart without being unrealistic.
She’s allowed to be loved without having to earn it.
Except… she doesn’t know that.
And that’s where the heartbreak sneaks in.
Because Anya genuinely believes she has to be useful to deserve love. She thinks she has to perform, impress, help, entertain anything to make sure she isn’t abandoned again. And she’s FIVE. She should be worrying about crayons, not espionage-level emotional labor.
There’s a scene where she and the other kids at Eden Academy want to eat the “special” macaroon to earn a Stella. She says something like, “If I don’t eat it, I’ll stay dumb,” and then she starts crying until Damian lets her win the card game. Like it made me feel so bad for her.
Like…she’s a baby.
She’s not dumb.
She’s just surrounded by adults who are stressed, traumatized, and emotionally constipated, and she’s trying to navigate that with her tiny legs and her big heart.
And the wild part is:
She still chooses joy.
She still laughs.
She still plays.
She still dreams.
She still loves with her whole chest.
That’s why she’s so special.
That’s why she stands out.
That’s why she’s one of the best-written child characters in anime.
Because she’s not just comic relief.
She’s not just a plot tool.
She’s not just “the kid.”
She’s a child who has been hurt, who has seen too much, who carries fears she can’t name and she still wakes up every day ready to love her family, make new friends, and try her absolute best.
She’s resilient in the most childlike way:
not by being strong, but by being hopeful.
And honestly?
That’s harder.
That’s braver.
That’s why she hits so many people right in the chest.
Anya Forger isn’t just cute.
She’s not just funny.
She’s not just iconic.
She’s one of the most emotionally layered, realistically chaotic, heartbreakingly hopeful child characters anime has ever given us.
And I will defend her every time.
Very well said!!!
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*chuckles randomly because I remembered "Man stop wasting them peoples time"*
The one case where he's not wasting them people's time.
Okay I don't know where you got that idea from but I found the original episode on YouTube and he has no twin brother nor claimed the kids were his brother's.
He really was wasting them people's time.
(and he's also an asshat who verbally abused the kids and their mom)
I just want us all to step back and appreciate that on a post that said "stop wasting people's time" some goober showed up and immediately decided to waste people's time.
Reblogged cobrilee
This was 30 minutes of surgery time
have received word that this is 'not cute' but instead 'mildly disturbing' because 'their tongues are hanging out and they look like they're dead'
They are all recovering from anesthesia and sleeping off the sedatives and the tongues are out to help us monitor their mucous membrane color easier when we have that many to keep track of. The tongues also let us know when they're starting to wake up more because they pull it back into their mouth.
oh my god their little tongues are out on purpose for their health....babies
Reblogged queerasaurus-rexx
Legolas pretty quickly gets in the habit of venting about his travelling companions in Elvish, so long as Gandalf & Aragorn aren’t in earshot they’ll never know right?
Then about a week into their journey like
Legolas: *in Elvish, for approximately the 20th time* ugh fucking hobbits, so annoying
Frodo: *also in Elvish, deadpan* yeah we’re the worst
Legolas:
~*~earlier~*~
Legolas: ugh fucking hobbits
Merry: Frodo what’d he say
Frodo: I’m not sure he speaks a weird dialect but I think he’s insulting us. I should tell him I can understand Elvish
Merry: I mean you could do that but consider
Merry: you can only tell him ONCE
Frodo: Merry. You’re absolutely right. I’ll wait.
Legolas: umm well your accent is horrible
Aragorn: *hollering from a distance* HIS ACCENT IS BETTER THAN YOURS LEGOLAS YOU SILVAN HICK
Frodo: :)
Frodo: Hello. My name is Frodo. I am a Hobbit. How are you?
Legolas: y’alld’ve’ff’ve
Frodo, crying: please I can’t understand what you’r saying
wizard-guff
Ok, but Frodo didn’t just learn out of a book. He learned like… Chaucerian Elvish. So actually:
Frodo: Good morrow to thee, frend. I hope we twain shalle bee moste excellente companions.
Legolas: Wots that mate? ‘Ere, you avin’ a giggle? Fookin’ ‘obbits, I sware.
Aragorn: *laughing too hard to walk*
dYinGggGggg…
i mean, honestly it’s amazing the Elves had as many languages and dialects as they did, considering Galadriel (for example) is over seven thousand years old.
english would probably have changed less since Chaucer’s time, if a lot of our cultural leaders from the thirteenth century were still alive and running things.
they’ve had like. seven generations since the sun happened, max. frodo’s books are old to him, but outside any very old poetry copied down exactly, the dialect represented in them isn’t likely to be older than the Second Age, wherein Aragorn’s foster-father Elrond started out as a very young adult and grew into himself, and Legolas’ father was born.
so like, three to six thousand years old, maybe, which is probably a drop in the bucket of Elvish history judging by all the ethnic differentiation that had time to develop before Ungoliant came along, even if we can’t really tell because there weren’t years to count, before the Trees were destroyed.
plus a lot of Bilbo’s materials were probably directly from Elrond, whose library dates largely from the Third Age, probably, because he didn’t establish Imladris until after the Last Alliance. and Elrond isn’t the type to intentionally help Bilbo learn the wrong dialect and sound sillier than can be helped, even if everyone was humoring him more than a little.
so Frodo might sound hilariously formal for conversational use (though considering how most Elves use Westron he’s probably safe there) and kind of old-fashioned, but he’s not in any danger of being incomprehensible, because elves live on such a ridiculous timescale.
to over-analyse this awesome and hilarious post even more, legolas’ grandfather was from linguistically stubborn Doriath and their family is actually from a somewhat different, higher-status ethnic background than their subjects.
so depending on how much of a role Thranduil took in his upbringing (and Oropher in his), Legolas may have some weird stilted old-fashioned speaking tics in his Sindarin that reflect a more purely Doriathrin dialect rather than the Doriathrin-influenced Western Sindarin that became the most widely spoken Sindarin long before he was born, or he might have a School Voice from having been taught how to Speak Proper and then lapse into really obscure colloquial Avari dialect when he’s being casual. or both!
considering legolas’ moderately complicated political position, i expect he can code-switch.
…it’s also fairly likely considering the linguistic politics involved that Legolas is reasonably articulate in Sindarin, though with some level of accent, but knows approximately zero Quenya outside of loanwords into Sindarin, and even those he mostly didn’t learn as a kid.
which would be extra hilarious when he and gimli fetch up in Valinor in his little homemade skiff, if the first elves he meets have never been to Middle Earth and they’re just standing there on the beach reduced to miming about what is the short beard person, and who are you, and why.
this is elvish dialects and tolkien, okay. there’s a lot of canon material! he actually initially developed the history of middle-earth specifically to ground the linguistic development of the various Elvish languages!
audreycritter
Legolas: Alas, verily would I have dispatched thine enemy posthaste, but y’all’d’ve pitched a feckin’ fit.
Aragorn: *eyelid twitching*
Frodo: *frantically scribbling* Hang on which language are you even speaking right now
Pippin, confused: Is he not speaking Elvish?
Frodo, sarcastically: I dunno, are you speaking Hobbit?
Boromir, who has been lowkey pissed-off at the Hobbits’ weird dialect this whole time: That’s what it sounds like to me.
Merry, who actually knows some shit about Hobbit background: We are actually speaking multiple variants of the Shire dialect of Westron, you ignorant fuck.
Sam, a mere working-class country boy: Honestly y'all could be talkin Dwarvish half the time for all I know.
sainatsukino
Pippin, entering Gondor and speaking to the castle steward: hey yo my man
Boromir, from beyond the grave: j e s u s
Tolkien would be SO PROUD of this post
It got better
there may come a day when i do not reblog this post, but it is NOT THIS DAY
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Tracking the family through the openings: “Mixed Nuts”
The openings do a great job to show where the Forgers are as family. We can directly track the progression based on how the three characters are shown together in the openings. Starting with the first opening, we have “Mixed nuts.”
Everything, especially the family, is bright and abstract. We hardly see everyone in the same frame with their faces shown. When their faces are shown it’s conveniently abstracted by the simplified art deco style.
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“but what if i’m being annoying :(“ everyone’s annoying dipshit it came free with fucking being alive and existing. now go talk to your friends
you’re a living breathing human being on this bitch of an earth and you have wants and needs and take up space and that’s literally fine. if your friends don’t get that you need better friends. there i’ve solved it
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Spent way too much time on this. (Original)
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