Iâm now imagining Phoenix Wright with a baseball batâŚ
Hm, CHEAP TRICKS, eh?
Symptons/Effects:
Bipolar Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Necrophobia
Delusions
Holy crap man. Several of these I never really made the connection with, but when you list them off here, it makes total sense.
[Spoilers] I can agree to all of that, but the self harm point was a lot more towards Sayuriâs character than it was to Maiâs. While yes she did attempt suicide (or attempted to attempt suicide in the Toei adaptation), but that was more because of what happened to Sayuri.
Self harm was in reference to the âdemonâ hunting. It became obvious that Mai knew what she was doing.
I remember some guy on 4chan was it (not to be trusted, I know) said that Haruka showed severe signs of PTSD. Considering her background, yeaaaaah. So, super cheerful, only to hide her angry side seems like a classification in that direction.
Well, I always said that Little Busters was a game where all the heroines have some sort of mental problem. At least, all except Kud
Walking around screaming Wafu is far from the picture of perfect mental health.
Haruka having PTSD is directly shown in Kanataâs route, where Kanata finds her in a broken state as kids.
Also, Kanon, wafu is literally the same thing as gao and uguu, so Kud is the least unstable one, only getting trauma through her bad end iirc.
Itâs got nothing to do with mental health. Itâs a verbal quirk and nothing more. Adding verbal quirks to anime characters is common practice and we are well aware of Key frequently using those (âAhahaâ, âHaeâ, âAuâ, âUguuâ, âGaoâ etc.)
And pls be careful with Kanata route spoilersâŚ
Wafu ainât the same as Gao and Uguu.
Ayu is effectively a 10 year old and Misuzu, well, thatâs not exactly hidden, sheâs definitely not a picture of perfect mental health.
Kud has no excuse, sheâs long past an age where she should be running around shouting woof woof.
What if I told you sheâs actually keeping that quirk around on purpose? During her route, we learn that Kud has accepted her role as the âfunny foreign girlâ. Sheâs fine with people finding her weird and laughing about her, because as long as they do, theyâre peaceful and they donât fight amonst themselves. Remember her first title? âExotic (self-proclaimed) macotâ. Sheâs simply acting according to the image which other students have of her and âwafuâ just might be part of it.
And you kinda didnât comment on Sayuriâs âHaeâ. Sheâs perfectly healthy in the head and her mental age is actually way higher than that of her peers.
Yeah and Iâm sure if I go pick up Kud Wafter where itâs just Kud and Riki and no other people to be the âmascotâ for, she wonât wafu once.
Horse shit, sheâll be screeching it like a broken record even with âno reasonâ too.
Itâs kawaii after all, gotta keep it around.
I didnât comment on Sayuri because it needed not commenting on.
Hae is a perfectly reasonable verbal tick, not a deliberate sound like Gao or Wafu.
lol at Sayuri being perfectly healthy in the head though.
Imma go ahead and ask Aspi or Biz to throw this conversation in itâs own thread when they get the time.
While you have a good point, what serious mental issue could it denote? If we think about it from outside the fourth wall, the writers probably put it in there just to make her cute I highly doubt they put it as a way to show her having mental issues. So while I would count it as extremely weird in a real-world sense, I wouldnât consider it as anything more than that.
To rephrase my point, Kud is the only one that the writers had no intent to show as someone who has mental issues, IMO.
And yes, please move to Kud discussion~ (we are back to the cursed topic, it seems)
Just chucked some posts in here because I thought this topic would be more fitting.
Unless Kud Wafter is a story about Kud and Riki blowing up their school and living somewhere far away on their own, I donât see how thereâs âno reasonâ for Kud to act funny. Being the funny foreign girl, or a mascot is not her role within the Little Busters group, but at school. So as long as thereâs high schoolers around, sheâll keep acting. That aside, being kawaii is a basic function of a mascot.
Even if, in Kud wafter, she would have âno reasonâ to act like that, I doubt that the game producers could just cut out a part of her character concept. After all, Iâm pretty sure many Kud fans are only in the boat because sheâs a cute wafu loli with a high-pitched voice (just listen to that opening, man. And people are digging that stuffâŚ). They wouldnât remove something that sells well even if they could explain it properly ingame.
What if Riki really liked the âwafuâ part? Just the thought he might have would be reason enough to keep it around.
And lastly, even if sheâs not behaving like a kid on purpose, itâs still not an actual mental defect. People not acting their age isnât all that uncommon.
Itâs not that I donât get where youâre coming from, but I do find it rash to question Kudâs sanity over such a minor quirk.
Elaborate, please. What exactly is so weird about her?
Sayuri is mature enough to approach a social reject unbiased, sheâs skilled at interacting with people and is knowledgeable in social and political matters. Most high schoolers look like driveling brats in comparison.
I can see youâre taking this seriously, but responding seriously to Kanonâs ramblings might be your first mistake ^^;
While taking Kanon seriously might indeed be a mistake, itâs also part of my role.
Just like how Kanon is playing the fool, I have a reputation of being overly serious to live up to ^^
Man you guys are all like âSHE WAFFLES BECAUSE SHITS KAWAII AND JAPAN EATS THAT SHIT UPâ.
And thatâs right, this âmascotâ shit is a weak handwave at best, because they will always depict Kud screaming Wafu at the top of her lungs. Because thatâs what Kud is. Take her entirely out of the mascot situation and she will still god damn Wafu.
And thatâs dumb and terrible.
Well first off âbetter cut me up them wristsâ, former suicidal tendencies are always a fun start.
Next up is the complete and utter disregard she has for herself, Mai this Mai that Mai Mai Mai Mai. Mai is her reason to go on, she herself isnât important in her mind.
Girl ainât normal.
Litbus characters could all be diagnosed. The whole thing is based on regrets that were so big, the regretful persons defied death. We donât know what the fake world exaggerated and what it kept true to life, but one thing for sure is that all the characters are shown to have a little something wrong with them. Kud has little to no self worth, struggles immensely at school, confides in animals for happiness, and tries to change herself dramatically - even changing the way she speaks and acts on a daily basis - to fit the will of the other students (more than your average student does.) Sheâs probably been doing it for so long that the changed Kud became a totally natural figure for her to play as. She is a mask of herself.
The Wafu thing could be totally left out of this, but itâs also possible that the Wafu is either an expression created to maintain her changed personality, an expression created to remind her of her old self so that she doesnât forget herself, or both. I honestly think itâs just a typical cute tick the writers threw in.
No no no. You need to go over her route again. Sayuri is friends with Mai because they are incredibly similar to each other - and Mai isnât mentally stable. That was one of the biggest parts of the Mai route. Mai and Sayuri rely on each other because no one else understands them in the same way.
Itâs dumb and terrible, yeah, but unlike the previous âverbal quipsâ that actually meant something, Kudâs, I believe, doesnât. So, yeah, really dumb, but not crazy.
And yeah, didnât wanna comment about Sayuri, but remembering those stuff just makes me all uncomfy about it =/
And hey, i never knew this existed. I donât have enough Psychology background to do any serious diagnoses, but nice touch. +1 on CHEAP TRICKS on DSM