Mini Celestial Brush

Heh, normally when people need to REALLY talk to someone about a fandom, it’s either to squee or to complain over things that others don’t squee or complain about. I’ve seen so little people pointing out the bad plot parts, and that it makes Amaterasu/Shiranui -which are still the same character to me- so irresponsible and cheapened as a hero(ine), and that it looks so bad for Akuro to be in a higher rank in the Sorting Algorithm of Evil than Yami et al., and how they turned Waka into a bigger douche than he already was. We do exist, we’re just drowned in a “so cuuuute” chorus of opinions!

In any case, I have a larger review here in which I expand a bit better on good and bad things.

…Whoo boy.

Is Kurow your favorite character?
He’s tied with Kagura for first place, so yeah. This also answers my favorite partners question. (I did cry a little, and I had been spoiled months before!)

Did you like OkamiDen?
I… liked it more than I expected for most of the game, but then I got to the last part of the game it kind of ruined the experience to me. I wish I only meant Kurow’s death by that, but I’ll elaborate in the next question.

What do you think about each of the partners? Who was your least and most favorite partner?
I didn’t care much for Kuni, neither positively or negatively. Nanami is sassy fun. I adore Kagura a lot. Kurow is just adorable. Manpuku is my least favorite but I assure you because I couldn’t stand his spoiled personality.

Did the connections in OkamiDen to Okami make any sense? What were it’s flaws?
NOPE. Like with the game itself, everything was almost fine at the beginning. After the last time travel, the plotholes were terrible, the implications on some main characters in Okami were appalling, contradictions ran amok, the big bad cheapened Yami (and the other Okami bosses)’s existence, and just trying to get that reconciled with what we know from 100 years ago was fucking impossible. This last act and the ending were the game’s flaw to me, because otherwise it would’ve been a cute spinoff to play and I wouldn’t had minded the minor stuff to handwave. I did like the gameplay and some additions to canon (especially moar Moon Tribe members to build headcanon on the civilization) but… I don’t know, man. Probably this is why I have this journal kind of neglected.

I’m sorry if this sounded too jaded! I don’t hate it 100% or anything. Like I said, it was just the last part what broke it for me. I played it with low expectations -because Okami was a hard act to follow and I have my personal biases-, but it was just not that well written. I have no idea if this answer disappoints you, but I figured it’s best to be honest?

About Chibiterasu: no one knows and canon doesn’t specify. But considering that Amaterasu is called the Mother of All by the other Brush Gods, I believe there’s a much larger chance that this wasn’t a sexual reproduction and I don’t think he has a father at all.

As for Kurow, there’s no way to say this without spoiling part of the ending. But I did warn in the Okami blog there would be spoilers in this one so, I apologize to any follower who didn’t know yet. He’s a replica doll made in Waka’s image, so even if Chibi was Waka’s son they wouldn’t be exactly brothers…? Maybe still relatives if his creation involved DNA but who knows. I honestly doubt Waka is the dad anyway.