It could also be Lucretia and it's just that Amano draws everyone (men and women) the same way 🏃♀️
[GamesRadar] 27 years later, Final Fantasy 7 veteran Tetsuya Nomura wants to know why you all find Sephiroth so attractive
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Especially considering that very much looks like Setzer and Celes, lol. He's even wearing Setzer's cravat, a neck piece Sephiroth would never, ever wear. Amano really phones it in a lot of the time.
You know they will!
Sephiroth is now the tragic villain turned ally like in other jrpg's!!!
I find the start and end dates here adorable.
Nomura got to be trollin surely lol
Oh, he not only remembers, he knows he was responsible for a lot of it.
Pretty sure that's just Riku from Kingdom Hearts from someone's fanfic setting and someone just slapped Sephiroth's name on there
He's the fucking Man in Black and I'm In Search of him.
You did this to me! You made me chase him!
You did this to me! You made me chase him!
Personally, for me his descent from obedient lapdog of the government to maniacal God complex once he slowly realizes hes been played by everyone around him, plus the separate betrayals of his best friends made him quite an interesting character to me. I definitely am of the opinion that Sephiroth and Cloud's backstories are among the best in the franchise.
He's just a dude whose dad pressed his buttons too hard, minus all the alien DNA lol
He's just a dude whose dad pressed his buttons too hard, minus all the alien DNA lol
I mean it's a translation from Japanese, he probably just said main character equivalent.
I actually see Sephiroth as a rather weak person. Cloud and Sephiroth both go through traumatic experiences, but Sephiroth can't accept his birth. He is an abomination, his dad is Hojo, his mother is an alien calamity. He gains a God complex because he can't accept himself as he truly is. Cloud, on the other hand, goes through accepting himself for who he is. Sephiroth just can't. He is the big silent hero who breaks.
The original goes into showing that Sephiroth has lost his mind. I don't know how that will be handled here.
I mean by the literal definition of the term (the person in the story trying to accomplish a task), he definitely is. He's trying to summon Meteor to wreck the Planet to become god of the revised planet once the Lifestream revives it. Cloud and Co. (specifically Aerith) are trying to get the white Materia to stop him.
But yes, as said above, the Japanese term for protagonist, shuyaku, is more akin to being the central character of a story rather than the direct definition of protagonist.
(Thank you New Japan Pro-Wrestling, specifically Tetsuya Naito, for helping me understand that.)
Accepts who he is, gets redeemed, tries to help Cloud during his mental struggles, then gets fucking rocked by Jenova who kills his ass.
I'd bet the house on it.
Reading the article, I think there's a bit of a mistranslation here. It isn't what makes him attractive physically, but what makes him attractive as a character as he's the most well-known villain in the franchise and considered one of the greatest ever in gaming. And honestly, I agree with him. Kefka is a far more menacing (and successful!) villain, but because he's not super bishounen and has a massive sword he doesn't get nearly as much attention.
This thread:
It is like how Yano is the ace but never the champ.
It is like how Yano is the ace but never the champ.
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See, this is more like it. Cut the bridal train down to a mop, it wouldn't even up for discussion.
Idk I always found Sephiroth to be a fucking loser, never understood his popularity even when I played it as a kid.
I don't even view his story as tragic, dude was basically a pampered super soldier that gets butthurt has a mental breakdown and then tries to end the world. What a fucking loser
I don't even view his story as tragic, dude was basically a pampered super soldier that gets butthurt has a mental breakdown and then tries to end the world. What a fucking loser
Kefka also has the depth of a puddle. It's not like there's a lot more to Sephiroth, either, but "dutiful soldier who lashes out to the world after feeling betrayed" fuels the fanfics better than "evil clown who is evil."
Nomura might be joking, but i'm pretty sure Gege is legitimately unsure why people like Gojo
I love Genesis and there are dozens of us!
He's not a villain though.
Curious, but is that really the case though? Or are people misinterpreting Gege's cheek as him actually hating the character?
Still new to JJK myself and I haven't delved into Gege's interviews in depth to know for sure whether people are misunderstanding the man's comments, or if he is legitimately expressing dislike towards his own character. It's the internet, so I can never know for sure.
Why is he smiling like it's a hair commercial 🤔They know exactly what they're doing lol.
Gege legit hates his own character I wont go in any details but he truly does, theres no explanation for some things that happen in JJK later on
Gojo is extremely popular and quite likeable, so it's hard to imagine a character like that hated by his own creator. I can't fathom as to why.
This is certainly the first I've heard of such an instance. Can I ask what Gege has said about him?
Also, I already know what happens to him unfortunately. Twitter wasn't exactly subtle about it.
(Some) people tend to be enamored with violent male figures in an attempt to deal with their own fraught relationship with patriarchy and genocidal imperialism.
Physical attractiveness and unreflected ideology aside, the reason people "connect" with Sephiroth more than with Kefka is because Sephiroth has a direct and intimate relationship with Cloud. Or more correctly: Cloud has a love-hate, oedipal relationship with Sephiroth wherein Sephiroth is Cloud's manifestation of anxiety and trauma. (In contrast, Sephiroth only takes notice of Cloud the moment he gets killed by him and thereafter is manically fascinated by Cloud.) This is a far more nuanced and interesting antagonist than the pinnacle of the crazed maniac stereotype (Kefka is literally a Jester!).
So for anyone who connects with Cloud for being traumatised and mentally struggling, Sephiroth is an amazing representation of that struggle.
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He might be joking about Gojo fans being annoying but I truly think he hates his own creation just because its own existence puts in on a corner. I wonder if Nomura feels the same way with some character he has made