I never really viewed Shiki becoming a designer to be contradictory to her arc. One thing you gotta keep in mind was that while Eri said that she wasn’t meant to be a designer and that she had a great future as a seamstress, that was from ERI’S perspective and that her words deeply hurt Shiki, because becoming just a seamstress wasn’t what she really wanted for her dream. The fact that Eri used the comments about Shiki being "just" a seamstress who wouldn't need to worry about design work as reassurance and compliment speaks to her own worries and insecurities, and we also learn that she deeply regrets saying that. We can see throughout the original game that Shiki actually does have a good eye for fashion and catches up on the latest trends (her recognizing Beat’s necklace for Rhyme because she wanted to get it but it was sold out, Eji commenting on her fashion sense, her equating fashion to be something you do to express who you are, etc…) so I don’t think becoming a designer is actually contradictory towards that. I also don’t like how you gloss over the effect Gatto Nero has on one character in particular, who does end up being pretty damn important in the long run- Shoka, the deuteragonist of NEO’s story. Remember when Shoka talked about how when she first came to Shibuya, she was overwhelmed by the city and its clash of personalities which caused her to initially dislike it because of how lost it made her feel? Much like Rindo, she was directionless in her life and rarely made her own decisions, instead going along with whatever happened until she, like Rindo, eventually found her own interest; Gatto Nero, specifically the Mr. Mew brand hoodie. Unlike Rindo, who opted to half-heartedly follow An0ther’s teachings instead of committing all the way, Gatto Nero is used as the first step to help Shoka learn to create her own identity and come to love Shibuya enough to try and lay her life down for it, which is what also helps lead to her going against the Shinjuku hierarchy and join the Wicked Twisters to help save Shibuya. This one small act is arguably what inspires a majority of the game’s events to happen and chances are, Shibuya would be long gone without that one small act of buying a piggie hoodie, which is insane to think about.
@AnakhaSilver
10 ай бұрын
Gatto Nero is a sign that Shiki grew BEYOND Eri, tbh.
@rogue1248
10 ай бұрын
@@AnakhaSilver also cuz that brand also somehow references Neku a bit.
@singoflovesongs
10 ай бұрын
agreed about the gatto nero matter, but i also wanted to add onto the fact that BOTH shiki and eri own gatto nero. they wanted to make a fashion brand together and that was always their dream. so they both ultimately achieved their dream in the end by becoming the founders of the brand.
@mythaniakeroberos2405
10 ай бұрын
I laughed at "piggie hoodie". Way to slide that reference in at the end.
@Zleiff
6 ай бұрын
Ey its chungus! I saw you in some of nam compendium's twewy videos at the comment sections!
@Abananapie
10 ай бұрын
So basically, Twewy 3 requirements: - Shooter is the protagonist (naturally) - Shiki is a party member - Minamimoto composer (he deserves it 😌) - Tin pin - Hanekoma is actually in the game… please 😭 - Elegant strategy appears as a mini game - The return of… Princess K - The entire game is just math puzzles… it’s an educational game 😌 - Memes are re-canonised
@IwanMilner
10 ай бұрын
I think Shiki's character is more underused than rejected, she just gets so much less screentime in both games and spinoffs! (#JusticeForShiki!)
@marvin39195
6 ай бұрын
If shiki's underused... what about rhyme, who barely got development
@IwanMilner
6 ай бұрын
@@marvin39195 That is true, she barely got any development in both games! (Rhyme is CUTE and Beat is best brother for HER!)
@Official_MikeyT
10 ай бұрын
In Neo: TWEWY she is canonically on a business trip for Gatto Nero while all hell is breaking loose back home 😂
@slidingcoffee8113
10 ай бұрын
Just thank you for being like the only KZitemr who consistently talks about this awesome game
@jeleeoo
10 ай бұрын
That fake Kingdom Hearts dialogue is spot-on lmao!
@Julian-um2om
8 ай бұрын
major props for being the goat of all twewy content random. the fact that you’ve been talking abt this goat series no one knows says sm abt ur character. Here’s to a million years more of twewy! 🍻
@Julian-um2om
8 ай бұрын
*talking abt this for so damn long like 3 or 4 years post neo
@thenagito
10 ай бұрын
I think, if they make another game with another time skip, it'd be nice to see Shiki as a mentor figure, like Minamimoto but actually helpful. Even more props if her reason for being in the Reaper's Game has nothing to do with Neku. It'd also be funny (if Minamimoto comes back, which, face it, he absolutely will) if she and Minami work together for a day, then either on their own or because of someone else, realize who they've been working with, and just silently agree to never speak of this again.
@JayTacoDustyTowers
10 ай бұрын
FINALLY! THE SHIKI VIDEO
@reynXIII
10 ай бұрын
Another game, another Square female character done dirty
@kairi4640
10 ай бұрын
Yeepers. Glad I didn't play the sequels tbh after watching this.
@thebigchungus4515
10 ай бұрын
@@kairi4640That’s a pretty dumb outlook if I’m being honest. I wouldn’t use this pretty surface-level video as a means to shittalk a game you haven’t even played.
@Hebleh
10 ай бұрын
I love character analysis vids like these, I do hope we get another one on another TWEWY character
@AnakhaSilver
10 ай бұрын
To be fair to the Kingdom Hearts stuff, that's because they're all made from fragments of memories from JOSHUA. Joshua knew the LEAST about Shiki and Rhyme. Beat got the characterization in NEOTWEWY because he had very little in the original, given his week was halved. Also, like. Gatto Nero is more about her growing BEYOND Eri, what the fuck??? She has a subtler character arc than you're giving her credit for.
@themissingsamurai
10 ай бұрын
IT EXISTS
@RaxonXVI
10 ай бұрын
Shiki is best girl
@xaviersejour9183
10 ай бұрын
I seen the anime before going into the Neo The World Ends With You. I mean they both came out a sort of a similar time One or two months or even the same month I don’t know. I actually forgot Shiki looks came from her friend and I was upset when I saw her Neo. I thought they just gave her a terrible redesign.
@BlackJupiter
10 ай бұрын
This is legitimately hilarious.
@number__7
10 ай бұрын
Oh damn it's not 20 seconds this time
@shulkyboi
10 ай бұрын
Bro FINALLY
@jeleeoo
10 ай бұрын
I refuse to believe that this video exists.
@H4rdlex
10 ай бұрын
I think part of it is that they didn't know how handle the subject of appearance as everything beyond the first game were after thoughts so it makes look like they are underusing her instead. Eri's design is so tied to her character arc and how most of her portrayal in marketing or official art, It took many years later for then finally give us a clear proper view of her design and add up the times they had reuse the same sprites in the post-game or re-releases, Naturally most would would end up associating with her a such. It is most likely the reason why they didn't wanted to update her design as much in Neo so players of the first game could recognize her more easily, I do agree Neo could have benefited more of having both girls around and take some jabs at the appearance issue until they could give better context. That said I think she still had quite the impact in the story and as Neku's overall growth the most, and how she clearly grew out of her previous character arc too.
@realo3503
10 ай бұрын
Never played this game probably won’t, but it would be funny if #justiceforshiki got on trending.
@kairi4640
10 ай бұрын
Even if it did, Nomura probably wouldn't care tbh. Didn't the sequel to TWEWY undersell? So Square Enix probably going to gut the series. Oh well.
@theorycraft7138
10 ай бұрын
They could have just had it where her appearance wasnt changed, and instead it was just the memory of her appearance that was swapped with her friend, it would have accomplished the same thing and would have allowed them to keep the more popular model that everyone likes. It would have fit better thematically because Nekus ticket is his memories. Then their is also rhymes memories. It being her memory in some way would work better and allow square to use the design that they use anyway.
@Elssis_Twewy
10 ай бұрын
Yeah Shiki Misaki, the twewy main character that I most misunderstand, so... I doesn't hurt to listen to an analysis of certain darklit planet
@HectorCotto97
2 ай бұрын
Personally I really like Shiki's real look, I know she was insecure about her herself because of her appearance but I actually think she's cute in her own way. Also Personally I don't mind her plain looking outfit, in my opinion her not wearing flashy clothing could be seen as her feeling secure and confident enough in herself that she doesn't feel the need to wear anything too flashy like she did when she was still jealous of Eri. If anything her not wearing flashy clothing that stands out says to me that she's confident enough in herself that she doesn't need the attention and would rather wear something she's comfortable in, especially if she's going to be working on her business. Although I DO wish they had given her more time to stick around and interact with people. I ESPECIALLY want Neku to bring up at some point about the time Shiki *aggressively* told Neku to take off his pants before she *forcefully* took them off herself right in the middle of the streets.
@frostace8057
10 ай бұрын
FINALLY!!!!!
@ave2086
5 ай бұрын
She didn’t recover her entry free IRL
@niog4534
10 ай бұрын
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@kairi4640
10 ай бұрын
6:53 it's also funny from a meta perspective that the devs are literally saying"look we don't have enough crunch time to pump out more assets for a scene with a one time scenario, use your imagination." I actually didn't realize it at that time that the devs really were just chastising us. 😅 There's a reason why Shiki Misaki is compared to Kairi. 🙃 Also the reason why I decided not to play any other TWEWY sequel etc is because I figured the female mcs wouldn't get good spotlight treatment. Nomura just doesn't like to focus on his female mcs lol.
@thebigchungus4515
10 ай бұрын
This is a very odd complaint to make considering how NEO actually does place a lot of focus on its new female cast while also adding new dimensions to old faves (Uzuki for example). Also, Nomura isn’t only the sole creative force behind the games. It’s collaborative effort between him, Tatsuya Kando, and other such artists/designers. Hell, he’s not even the director. He’s creative producer.
@HokutoShinkento
2 ай бұрын
her entire character was based around being a hybrid of her and her friend, her personality adapting to her new body and how she thought she could be, take that away, and shes just a femcel, fans may pretend they wanted her back but its just another character now with a bland visual and a finished story that cant go further
@JPEGRUBYSOUL
10 ай бұрын
Shiki deserves better!
@professionaldogblogger587
6 ай бұрын
I do really like this video, but I am not sure if I fully agree with it. As much as I love Shiki (she is one of my favorite characters of any media... EVER) I don't think we needed more of her. Her story concluded in week 1 of twewy and that was it, unlike Beat and Neku who had a lot more going on in the UG, Shiki doesn't have that. She had her story and it's perfect the way it is and ends. I do wish they just left her out instead of just "putting her in the game because she is in the “box” like you said. I do think her being the fashion designer for Gato Nero is weird though, but I feel like it wouldn't make much sense for the characters in NEO to know that Eri probably helped her. Neku has been gone for 3 years, Coco probably doesn't care for Eri, why would Tsugumi know Eri, and Shoka didn't even know who Shiki was, so there is no way she could know Eri. I do understand why it feels weird for people to just confuse her for that and I wish Another Day fixed that, but maybe you are right and in a "Final Remix" of NEO she just clears it all. Could be a cool little side story how she hates being seen as the designer when she isn't and is upset that Eri doesn't get the recognition she deserves. Awesome video though, I just finished NEO two years late I will be sure to be watching all your videos so I can keep my twewy brain rot going.
@Grandy12
10 ай бұрын
Watching the video it seems to me that Shiki is just this serie's Kairi. The love interest character that exists in the background and even though is teased to have done something, actually only is there so the protagonist can react to them existing.
@kairi4640
10 ай бұрын
Yeah, a lot of people compared the two when TWEWY first started. Seems they were all spot on all the way through too. 🙃
@xaviersejour9183
10 ай бұрын
I remember watching the anime before purchasing the sequel The anime does nothing to prepare you for the sequel so what’s the point ? I think it was popular enough that it might’ve made its money
@xaviersejour9183
10 ай бұрын
You know considering Shiki dreams to be a fashion designer. When we finally see her in Neo She looks so boring. And this is from the man who does final fantasy and kingdom hearts designs. I remember a bonus image of kingdom hearts 3 with Sora, Riku and Kairi wear designer clothes. KH 3 END screen gets more love than Shiki
@laurensmith4456
10 ай бұрын
Shiki’s NEO design was not done by Nomura. Miki Yamashita designed her, as well as Nagi, Eiru, Ayano, Kaie, Kanon, Fuya, Sho, Coco, Uzuki, Kariya, and Rhyme. (She also did Strelitzia in the Kingdom Hearts). Nomura’s design contributions include Rindo, Shoka, Tsugumi, Kubo, Hazuki, and Joshua. (This isn’t to refute your point cause everyone is entitled to their own opinion on her design, but just for context).
@il3fortunato664
10 ай бұрын
Poor Shiki... she deserved better. Well, she did I guess... she created Gatto Nero and helped during Neo's story.
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