“Force Without Wisdom Falls of Its Own Weight.” – Horace
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The moment we have all been waiting for: the Ayanokoji vs Ryuen fight on campus!
Although to be fair, I felt like I was watching a superabound wrestle from one of Sega’s Yakuza video games – well-constructed with the musical score.
Does Ayanokoji Do Martial Arts?
Ayanokoji seems to have achieved a stratum of mastery in various martial arts due to his time in the white room. During his fight with Ryuen, Ayanokoji notes that while Ryuen does have wits fighting, it is solely considering Dragon Boy ripened his own original fighting style.
The thing that got me the most watching the two boys fight wasn’t the animation, but the fact that Ayanokoji was still holding when his strength and skills.
Ayanokoji was toying with Ryuen the unshortened time, and the latter didn’t plane notice.
Ayanokoji’s Unique Fighting Style
Kiyotaka on the other hand toyed with Ryuen by blocking his hits and throwing fast jabs to his knees and elbows in the Muay Thai fighting style. When speaking with Ryuen and blocking his punches, it seemed like Ayanokoji may have used a mix of Judo and jiu-jitsu to grapple Ryuen’s soul and gravity him to the ground for the finishing blows.
Ayanokoji could have moreover used mixed forms of Taekwondo and kickboxing while performing a roundhouse kick to takedown Albert and Ishizaki, while using a variegated set of quick skills to disable Ibuki.
Maybe Ayanokoji hit a knockout pressure point near Ibuki’s jaw to ultimately render her unconscious?
Ayanokoji the Mastermind
Despite the episode stuff fight-sequence heavy, we did get a few shit of story that hint toward Ayanokoji’s true goals. The first is his invitation of Chabashira-sensei and Horikita Manabu to the scene of the fight in order to “witness the aftermath”.
Inviting Manabu makes sense in the context that Ayanokoji once promised to help his little sister Suzune make it to Class A. Manabu hasn’t shown any interest in Suzune’s personal development, but maybe the race with Ayanokoji during the Sports Festival made the two boys respect one flipside unbearable to the point that Manabu would ask Ayanokoji to help Suzune join the Student Council?
Besides, Suzune tabbed Manabu to witness the bet between her and Kushida a few episodes ago. So although Manabu is no longer Student Council President, he still has a massive influence on the student body.
When it comes to Chabashira-sensei, I think Ayanokoji was using some reverse psychology here.
Ayanokoji mentions her own selfish desire to reach Class A, and then when Chabashira-sensei reveals that teachers cannot meddle in students’ affairs, Ayanokoji says that he hasn’t asked her to. While twin him, her inner monologue wonders why Ayanokoji made a deal with Manabu concerning Suzune, and if Ayanokoji was going to ‘take Ryuen off the board’ in one swipe.
Why did Ayanokoji fight Ryuuen?
Ayanokoji fought Ryuuen in order to weaken his influence in Class C and to defend Kei.
But…did he really?
At first, I took Ayanokoji’s words at squatter value when he admitted to sabotaging Ibuki’s espionage mission during the Island Exam (while moreover invertedly whereas that he unliable the unconnectedness within to steer Class D to victory).
When Ayanokoji mentioned to Ryuen that he orchestrated the unshortened situation transpiring at that moment to end in violence, I moreover took those words at squatter value.
Ayanokoji wanted to fight Ryuen and unravel him by using the methods he loves most: violence and aggression. The fact that Ayanokoji was emotionless while vibration Ryuen’s squatter to a pulp and uncomplicatedly told him that basically, it was nothing personal – is what tapped Ryuen’s ego, which in turn instilled fear in him.
Did Ayanokoji Orchestrate Kei’s Torture to Further Manipulate Her?
I was ready to winnow all of that, and then when Ayanokoji begins to repletion Kei he says “this will do” surpassing the camera begins to pull yonder and the episode ends.
In an scrutinizingly well-constructed mirror to season one’s ending where Ayanokoji monologued that he “never viewed (Horikita) as a friend” I now have to wonder if Ayanokoji’s real goal in permitting Kei to be tortured just surpassing her breaking point was to build her when up again.
As if to “make her stronger” so that Ayanokoji could protract to manipulate and use her due to the traumatic ‘bonding’ situation Ayanokoji has created once more.
Pretty sick stuff, but I think I’ll leave this one here.
But, tell me your thoughts.
What do you think Ayanokoji’s true goal was by displaying power and revealing himself as the Class D mastermind?
Why would he want Chabashira-sensei and Manabu to ‘witness the aftermath’
And…
Just how much does Ayanokoji intend to put Kei through?
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