so it becomes apparent that the hasegawa/tachibana family practises hitobashira, the ritual human sacrifice, and that's why yonghyun's father's gold mine became successful after headless corpses were placed there. now "ao" is obviously a god of some kind and since midori promises that she will free her after becoming the head of the family, i think that the promise was fulfilled through sho - as in ao and sho are the same entity, and midori "freed" them by taking them out of japan. there's some sort of memory manipulation that i think midori is able to practise, and we already see it in the way that she erased sho's memories of itami (which drives both me and yonghyun crazy ). and we already know the goddess ao is able to change their physical form since they are shown with both a male form (the flashbacks) and female form (when she met midori). i think its possible that through changing physical form + using whatever that memory manipulation ability midori has, ao has become sho. this also explains the hasegawa family heirloom that midori allegedly ran away with to korea, the heirloom being ao/sho.
i still don't know what midori wants with yonghyun or why she took him under her patronage (perhaps because he knows too much?), but since jujo thinks she gave him the key, that's where the belief that he will become the successor comes from. obviously that's not the case, although maybe midori IS looking for a successor, just not yonghyun. since the succession tests in japan took place during summer, and the only time yonghyun is allowed to see sho is also in the summer, perhaps its a condition for the entity god to have contact with humans in the summer specifically, as opposed to this being just a test of succession? idk but it feels weird that they would allow a child to visit sho and even go so far as to pay him to continue visiting for no reason.
i feel like there's more to tachibana jujo than just what we've been told so far, i think he is somehow connected to ao/sho in another way other than the fact that midori married him cause her gay ass wanted to be with someone that looks like ao. yonghyun mentioned that it wasn't just his appearance that reminded him of sho, but also his cadence and the way he carried himself, something that can't be pinpointed. jujo also mentioned that the title of "count" comes from his family and not the hasegawas which could also mean something to the story in the future.
i really want to know more about what happened to midori to make her like this, since she was so committed to finding justice for ao yet somewhere along the way she became exactly like the heads of the hasegawa family she despised so much. maybe everyone who gets too close ends up sharing the same will as the first head of the family, the initial one who rescued the "traveller", and this is what keeps them in the cycle of repressing the god and keeping them in bondage.
prayer circle that sho gets his memories and old personality back, his character is kind of pathetic now which hurts knowing how smart and ambitious he was as a child lmaoo i completely get how yonghyun feels in this regard.
i don't really understand a few things tbh but your explanation really helped me a lot omg thank you i appreaciate it so much!
tysm for this. i also just want to ask cos i'm a little confused about it. does that mean sho and ao are the same person? and if not where sho came from?
what i wrote is just my theory! the manhwa is still ongoing so we will need to wait for the author to actually know what is going on
Reading your analysis on season 1 before I go on read season two on lezh!n(which is free also) , would love to know your thoughts on season two and the ending if you ever completed it(if you do reply which I hope you do please put the spoiler warning)
i read the raws and mann this art style for the new season is so weird like dont get me wrong, the author has always been talented no matter what but the way she draws faces has devolved so much i mean like cirrus and skylar both look like crimson chin i was actually scared they were gonna puncture each other's necks while they was making out... why did she have to change it bruh it was perfect before
omg shut up
dawg both of them look MAJESTIC ASL
NOOOOO. Man, I hate it when that happens. Art starts off so good and then gets downgraded. I really I’m hoping it’s not as bad as you say it is :(
no i get it
Omgggg if u dont like the new art style gtfo, the art style is fire u all just don’t know when to stop fucking complaining istg
How about stfu and let people voice their opinions. Quit trying to be a fucking gatekeeper
Tell me where tf I was gatekeeping, from everything I said in my comment where tf was I saying that I don’t want nobody reading lost in the cloud, bitch read correctly before pointing out made up shit, second I don’t give a fuck if it’s an opinion or not shitting on an artist art is never an opinion its just straight up being ignorant and disrespectful asf, if u don’t like the artist art get the fuck out ain’t nobody forcing u too look at it, I will respect an opinion if it’s about the story line, but shitting on the art that’s fucking different.
u learned a new word and now use it in sentences where it doesn't fit? lmaoo
Lmaooo for real
Bro doesn’t even know the definition of gatekeeping. Plus shitting on an artist‘s art is not a fucking opinion it’s just straight up hate.
Ok you’re right. Gatekeeping wasn’t the right word. But telling people to gtfo out just because they don’t like a certain aspect about an art style isn’t exactly the way to go either. People are entitled to voice their opinions about anything as long as it’s not flat out hateful. That’s just part of publishing your work. Yeah nobody is forcing you to read it but you don’t have to love every part of something to keep up with it. I personally love the art style as it is and if it downgraded in quality for next season, I wouldn’t shit on the artist but I would say I preferred it as it was before. Just opinion. Telling people to stop reading because their opinion on the artstyle is not the same as yours is excessive.
Oh please, I will tell whoever I want to gtfo when that “whoever” is mocking and disrespecting someone’s art, you keep telling me people can have opinions, but this person wasn’t voicing their opinion, they where just insulting the authors work and progress. Plus you can’t have an opinion when it comes to someone’s art, it’s either you are insulting the artist work, or trying to help the artist improve their art, and its fucking obvious this mf was trying to do the opposite of fucking helping, and if ur all up about “I preferred the old art style” you can go right the fuck ahead and make ur own story with whatever style u like instead of complaining and bitching about it, if all ur gonna say about the authors work is solely focused on the art than honestly just stop reading it and get out?? If your focused so much on the art clearly your not enjoying the story as much as you say you are so atp you can leave and let other people enjoy the story and art without ur stupid ass “opinions”, call me “excessive” but I won’t allow someone to disrespect someone’s else art and try to back track by saying it’s an opinion, no matter what way you phrase your “opinion” your still shitting on an artists art.