Thread by @Emiko_Wisp

So...why do I like Uta Kata?

The series is a bit everywhere, but honestly it resonates with me.

So when I first watched it I hadn't come out in any capacity, I wasnt even comfortable with myself.

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Uta Kata was the first time I resonated with media about and for girls and didn't feel guilty. It was liberating and inspiring in that way.

I found myself hooked by Ichika's kindness and struggles.

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IRL, especially then, I tried to play by the rules, and be obedient to rules without really understanding them or my place within them, and obviously it cause a lot of harm, living the prescribed role I was told to live by society. Puberty struck hard there.

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The series ends with Ichika deciding not to live with these asinine rules being thrust on her, wanting to live, and in a world with other people.

This...was mind blowing to me. I watched a lot of Shonen and played games parading self-sacrifice.

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I thought long and hard after that, trying to convince myself that the self-sacrifice was better, after all that's what was for the greater good...right? I thought about going down with a smile, saving the world, but here was this anime with this girl rejecting that

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I think that may have been on of the first big pushes that put me on track to understanding myself, and it still hasn't left me, leaving a mantra of living in good faith, to live a life where I can be happy in a world with others.

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Ichika standing firm, even after all the pain these beings forced upon her, clinging to life for herself and the world, it was Earthshaterring for me, and led me to be okay rejecting the rules that I so trusted which were grappling me down.

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Maybe its not the cleanest show. It has problems, but to me, it will always be the most important, because it let me feel like I belonged, and that its okay to be me and showed me the joys of being emotional are worth the pain and not burying them.

I just...I ❤ it

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Im tearing up a bit tbh.

But I want to end this on a revelation about recently.

I really divide things I like into two categories. Candy that's fun, but unfilling, and stuff like Uta Kata that I just come back to and help me learn about myself and the world

Thank you~<3