Reddit reviews Beautiful Fighting Girl

Short answer: Sex sells.

Long answer: There's a great book that I like called Beautiful Fighting Girl that explains how fans (particularly anime fans) consume different versions of a character and how anime creators enable and often encourage the consumption of the different versions of the character. I used these ideas to write an essay on Rei Ayanami once, touching on how she is often a vehicle for the projection of the consumer's values due to her understated personality.

I'm not one of those that says NO LEWDING THE KEIONS or am elsewise unable to consider alternate versions of a fictional character. I've read those doujins. But I do think it's passing ironic that the probably the most coherent message in Kill la Kill was pretty much the antithesis of this figure.

I agree I would not buy this, not because I am offended, but because it does not represent what I loved about the show and character, where I would absolutely buy figures like yours. Doesn't mean Trigger or other fans are obligated to the same morals or that the figure won't make money.

Oh my god I did not even know until now that I have been waiting years for someone to make this post

As a very much out-of-the-closet believer in waifu-ism I can totally get this. Have you ever read Beautiful Fighting Girl by Saito Tamaki? There's a really interesting excerpt in it where he actually talks about how he thinks that people that experience serious attraction to fictional characters don't so get reality and fiction confused so much as they have a heightened sense of the line between the two. Like, you kind of have to be able to mentally acknowledge the difference to really get that feeling.

Whispers' Waifu omake by Whispers please make this happen

Your waifu is pretty high tier :O I gotta get back on that... It got deleted off of my laptop somehow, but I have it on my hard drive :O

But yeah. I totally hear you. I think at first I got into Saber because she was cool and she hit stuff with a sword and she disappears at the end of the 2006 anime and it broke my heart, but as I got more into the VNs and the new shows I started to really connect with her on a deeper level. She has this self-sacrificial altruism that's really admirable and tragic to watch, and she has a pretty simple wish, but she's surrounded by crazy things and people that make her life crazy.

She's definitely not a perfect character at all, she's idealistic, but often to an impractical fault. I like that she's tough and has a strong sense of responsibility, but she can still take this really cute and innocent joy in simple things like food and get adorably petty about silly little things.

With the "It's probably not the healthiest" thing, you're right, it's not "the healthiest." But there are so many things that could be worse than owning an anime body pillow (daki master race reporting in :D)

For me, the waifu thing did start kind of as a joke, but I have the same thing where having Saber as an anchor really pulled me out of some really long-term, self-harming interactions with people.

When things get extra crazy, I actually have an email account that I label as hers, and I'll just send emails to it from my own email. So it's like a diary, but it's a bit more... personal, I guess? Like starting my diary entries with "Dear Saber, " instead of "Dear Diary." So it's like... There's an instance of the character who lives in my head, and by addressing my journal entries to her, I'm still writing to myself, but I can do it without an extra helping of self-loathing XD

And now her regalia is my GWA namesake :3 Look at how far we've come! I think this July marks my five year anniversary of officially declaring Saber as my waifu XD

I think audios are a wonderful way to entertain fictional character fantasies, too :) I'd love to hear more shenanigans like that!

Wonderful post :) Thanks so much for sharing these personal feelings with us :D

Here are some of my favorite works in anime academia

Beautiful Fighting Girl

Moe: Exploring virtual potential

Imagination after the earthquake