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twintailsofdeath) wrote2013-06-11 11:19 pm
twintailsofdeath) wrote2013-06-11 11:19 pm
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Character Profile
NAME: Sanae Dekomori
CANON: Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai!
CANON POINT: After the end of the series (when she’s seen having reverted back to her “Chuuni” ways)
AGE: 15
APPEARANCE: http://i.imgur.com/4IFCcnq.jpg?1
PERSONALITY:
Dekomori is a prime example of a chuunibyou or a person going through “eigth-grader syndrome” as it’s translated to. The series describes it as “an adorable, yes dreadful disease resulting from new-found self-awareness mixing with an overly active imagination which results in the peculiar behavior.” Basically it’s when children start acting like fictional characters of their own creation and get immersed in their own fantasy world. As far as Dekomori is concerned, she’s the wielder of the Mighty Mjolnir Maul and with its might can make “men meet their mortality”. In actuality she’s just a normal junior high schooler named Sanae Dekomori with no mystical powers to speak of, but a girl can dream can’t she?
Being a side character, the series doesn’t dwell into too much of her past. From what we’re told, Dekomori had started frequenting online forums a year before the start of the series in search of answers about the “Otherworld”. That’s when she came into contact with the wielder of the Wicked Eye, Rikka Takanashi, who granted her with personal responses to her questions. During their messaging back and forth, the two soon realized that Dekomori was actually Rikka’s servant from a past life! This soon led to a close friendship between the two girls, and they remained in close contact ever since then. Another important person whom Dekomori came into contact with during that time was a mage named Forest Summer. Forest Summer wrote about all phenomena throughout the world from birth to death in a book called the Mabinogion’s Rainbow Manuscript, which according the Dekomori is the “source of all knowledge.” Dekomori believes that she’s the prophet of Forest Summer and refers to the Mabinogion often for words of wisdom.
Outside of her “Chuuni history”, not much is known about Dekomori’s personal life. In the last episode it can be inferred that she comes from a wealthy family since she arrived at Rikka’s house in an upper-class sedan and having a butler with her as well. It’s also revealed that, despite coming off as quite the ditz, Dekomori’s grades in school are among the best in her year level and at one point she’s seen tutoring one of her fellow students in math.
Dekomori, at first, comes off as someone who thinks very highly of herself. Since she sees herself as a powerful warrior, she looks down upon other humans with arrogance. When she first meets Yuuta, she refers to him as a “foolish mortal” and comments that “his eyes are that of a commoner rotten to the core”. She carries herself in a very grandiose way and expresses herself physically to an almost ridiculous degree. One of the ways she loves expressing herself is through flailing her twin tails around and sometimes points them at people for emphasis. That being said, she doesn’t always come off as cool or graceful as she intends. Dekomori has had many moments during the series where in the midst of her dramatic hair flailing, she’s managed to trip on it or become completely entangled in her hair. As much as Dekomori wants to come off as tough, in the end she’s still a dorky middle schooler and it shows.
Despite putting up the front of someone with boundless confidence, Dekomori still has her own insecurities and flaws. She gets very sensitive whenever anyone mentions her short height and usually responds with “I have a lot of growing ahead of me!” or something of that manner. She absolutely hates milk yet she forces herself to drink it in the hopes that it will help her grow taller. She has terrible motion sickness, but remains stubborn when offered help when dealing with it. Dekomori also has moments when she can act like a true child and will throw mini tantrums (though since she’s such a drama queen, they can’t always be taken at face value).
Though Dekomori comes off as standoffish towards most people she is shown to be extremely compassionate towards Rikka. Part of it ties into the fact that Dekomori sees herself as Rikka’s servant, but their relationship has clearly evolved past that into a close friendship. In one episode, Dekomori tells Yuuta how Rikka would call her almost every night to tell Dekomori about how she was doing and would ask Dekomori’s advice on certain things going on. Another important relationship Dekomori has in the series is her relationship with Nibutani, the real identity of Forest Summer. Nibutani has since rejected her past Chuuni self and her and Dekomori throughout the series have a very rocky relationship. The two go back and forth, tormenting each other constantly. However, by the end of the series you see that the two have come a long way with their relationship and Dekomori even lets Nibutani comfort her when she’s upset. So while Dekomori can seem detached from most people, she really just takes a while to warm up to people at first before being able to become friends with them.
In one of the last episodes of the series, Yuuta confronts Dekomori about her eight grader syndrome, telling her that none of the attacks and magic she’s been pretending to use has been real. At first she merely tells him to shut up but after more badgering she finally breaks down and tells him that she knows that. In this moment you realize that Dekomori has been able to separate herself from fantasy and reality this whole time, she’s just chosen not to. This is different from Rikka’s case who needed the cling onto her fantasy in order to cope with the real world. Dekomori simply preferred the fantasy she had created but wasn’t bound by it. This explains why Dekomori had seemed to have adjusted to Chuuni life much better than the rest of the cast since she still seemed to be on good terms with her other classmates (unlike the other Chuuni cases, where they had been generally outcast or ignored). In one of the earlier episodes you get a glimpse of this as you see her go back and forth between talking to Rikka and then speaking normally (for the most part) to another student she’s tutoring in math.
After her confrontation with Yuuta we get to see “normal” Dekomori. She’s much more polite, referring to all of her older classmates as “senpai” and uses very formal language when speaking. She still has moments of her usual, dorky self (finding ridiculous things to be “deathly cool”) but for the most part her normal self is the opposite of her Chuuni self. At the very end of the series, we see that Dekomori has reverted back to her Chuuni ways and seems happier because of it. While she can pass for a normal person if need be, she clearly enjoys living a fantasy life with her friends much more.
OTHER: In the show, Dekomori ends most of her sentences with “desu” but since that sounds really awkward to do in English I’ll be handling it the way the anime subs did and will have her use the word “death/deathly” as a substitute (since her use of the word desu is meant to emphasize the word death).
CANON: Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai!
CANON POINT: After the end of the series (when she’s seen having reverted back to her “Chuuni” ways)
AGE: 15
APPEARANCE: http://i.imgur.com/4IFCcnq.jpg?1
PERSONALITY:
Dekomori is a prime example of a chuunibyou or a person going through “eigth-grader syndrome” as it’s translated to. The series describes it as “an adorable, yes dreadful disease resulting from new-found self-awareness mixing with an overly active imagination which results in the peculiar behavior.” Basically it’s when children start acting like fictional characters of their own creation and get immersed in their own fantasy world. As far as Dekomori is concerned, she’s the wielder of the Mighty Mjolnir Maul and with its might can make “men meet their mortality”. In actuality she’s just a normal junior high schooler named Sanae Dekomori with no mystical powers to speak of, but a girl can dream can’t she?
Being a side character, the series doesn’t dwell into too much of her past. From what we’re told, Dekomori had started frequenting online forums a year before the start of the series in search of answers about the “Otherworld”. That’s when she came into contact with the wielder of the Wicked Eye, Rikka Takanashi, who granted her with personal responses to her questions. During their messaging back and forth, the two soon realized that Dekomori was actually Rikka’s servant from a past life! This soon led to a close friendship between the two girls, and they remained in close contact ever since then. Another important person whom Dekomori came into contact with during that time was a mage named Forest Summer. Forest Summer wrote about all phenomena throughout the world from birth to death in a book called the Mabinogion’s Rainbow Manuscript, which according the Dekomori is the “source of all knowledge.” Dekomori believes that she’s the prophet of Forest Summer and refers to the Mabinogion often for words of wisdom.
Outside of her “Chuuni history”, not much is known about Dekomori’s personal life. In the last episode it can be inferred that she comes from a wealthy family since she arrived at Rikka’s house in an upper-class sedan and having a butler with her as well. It’s also revealed that, despite coming off as quite the ditz, Dekomori’s grades in school are among the best in her year level and at one point she’s seen tutoring one of her fellow students in math.
Dekomori, at first, comes off as someone who thinks very highly of herself. Since she sees herself as a powerful warrior, she looks down upon other humans with arrogance. When she first meets Yuuta, she refers to him as a “foolish mortal” and comments that “his eyes are that of a commoner rotten to the core”. She carries herself in a very grandiose way and expresses herself physically to an almost ridiculous degree. One of the ways she loves expressing herself is through flailing her twin tails around and sometimes points them at people for emphasis. That being said, she doesn’t always come off as cool or graceful as she intends. Dekomori has had many moments during the series where in the midst of her dramatic hair flailing, she’s managed to trip on it or become completely entangled in her hair. As much as Dekomori wants to come off as tough, in the end she’s still a dorky middle schooler and it shows.
Despite putting up the front of someone with boundless confidence, Dekomori still has her own insecurities and flaws. She gets very sensitive whenever anyone mentions her short height and usually responds with “I have a lot of growing ahead of me!” or something of that manner. She absolutely hates milk yet she forces herself to drink it in the hopes that it will help her grow taller. She has terrible motion sickness, but remains stubborn when offered help when dealing with it. Dekomori also has moments when she can act like a true child and will throw mini tantrums (though since she’s such a drama queen, they can’t always be taken at face value).
Though Dekomori comes off as standoffish towards most people she is shown to be extremely compassionate towards Rikka. Part of it ties into the fact that Dekomori sees herself as Rikka’s servant, but their relationship has clearly evolved past that into a close friendship. In one episode, Dekomori tells Yuuta how Rikka would call her almost every night to tell Dekomori about how she was doing and would ask Dekomori’s advice on certain things going on. Another important relationship Dekomori has in the series is her relationship with Nibutani, the real identity of Forest Summer. Nibutani has since rejected her past Chuuni self and her and Dekomori throughout the series have a very rocky relationship. The two go back and forth, tormenting each other constantly. However, by the end of the series you see that the two have come a long way with their relationship and Dekomori even lets Nibutani comfort her when she’s upset. So while Dekomori can seem detached from most people, she really just takes a while to warm up to people at first before being able to become friends with them.
In one of the last episodes of the series, Yuuta confronts Dekomori about her eight grader syndrome, telling her that none of the attacks and magic she’s been pretending to use has been real. At first she merely tells him to shut up but after more badgering she finally breaks down and tells him that she knows that. In this moment you realize that Dekomori has been able to separate herself from fantasy and reality this whole time, she’s just chosen not to. This is different from Rikka’s case who needed the cling onto her fantasy in order to cope with the real world. Dekomori simply preferred the fantasy she had created but wasn’t bound by it. This explains why Dekomori had seemed to have adjusted to Chuuni life much better than the rest of the cast since she still seemed to be on good terms with her other classmates (unlike the other Chuuni cases, where they had been generally outcast or ignored). In one of the earlier episodes you get a glimpse of this as you see her go back and forth between talking to Rikka and then speaking normally (for the most part) to another student she’s tutoring in math.
After her confrontation with Yuuta we get to see “normal” Dekomori. She’s much more polite, referring to all of her older classmates as “senpai” and uses very formal language when speaking. She still has moments of her usual, dorky self (finding ridiculous things to be “deathly cool”) but for the most part her normal self is the opposite of her Chuuni self. At the very end of the series, we see that Dekomori has reverted back to her Chuuni ways and seems happier because of it. While she can pass for a normal person if need be, she clearly enjoys living a fantasy life with her friends much more.
OTHER: In the show, Dekomori ends most of her sentences with “desu” but since that sounds really awkward to do in English I’ll be handling it the way the anime subs did and will have her use the word “death/deathly” as a substitute (since her use of the word desu is meant to emphasize the word death).