Sukisho 10

[mllelaurel]

Ok, I so did not expect this series to go where it did. I've remarked before how numerous anime toy with the idea of multiple personalities, usually utilizing some kind of magical excuse for it. I just assumed that Sukisho would do the same. To my surprise, it went down a different path. The Multiple Personality Disorder (or, more correctly Dissasociative Identity Disorder) here is precisely what it is - additional personalities (or alters) created when the person is traumatized to the point of disassociating from the situation. (Usually said trauma would involve severe abuse in early childhood, particularly sexual abuse.) Effectively, this other personality is what the person would have been like, had they not experienced the trauma, or a different personality type, better equipped to deal with the trauma.

The way Sukisho ended up framing it, Yoru and Ran are alters, created by Sora and Nao, which is a more relistic path than any I've seen taken by an anime before. To think that such a daring move would be taken by a series so easy to dismiss - one based on a smutty BL game!

Disclaimer: To my knowledge no other anime has explained a character's tendency toward multiple identities as actual D.I.D. before. I could be wrong. Also, my own knowledge from D.I.D. comes from online research, rather than interviews or personal experience, so I could have made some errors in summing it up. If so, I would genuinely appreciate any and all corrections.

But still, I'm a little bowled over that the series would do this, considering I dismissed it as completely silly, after watching the first few episodes.

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[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Hehe. Nooo, they are not.