Who is Kashima (and why is he so strange?)

Summary

Kashim's eccentric introduction sets the tone for dangerous and unlimited antagonists.
The impact of the contrast in Kashim's characterization creates a sense of discomfort and premonition.
Kashim's twisted sense of justice stems from past experiences that led to his loyalty to “X”.

During a laboratory arc Sakamotowho correlates with episodes of 7 to 9 in the anime, we will learn about Shin's past, and exactly how he got psychic forces. We get a first sight of the series's antagonist and we are introduced to another strange murderer that could only be the strangest.

Kashima, concisely named for the head he wears as a helmet for most of the time, is a character that would be a sub -evaluation, but under the strange exterior of the character, there is something as sinister as it is broken. So who is Kashima and why is he so strange?

“Slur” makes a scary debut when Shin's arch closes in an episode of 9 days Sakamoto 9

Shin and friends save the laboratory that lends, while Kashima is thoroughly defeated. The series antagonist will appear for the first time.

How is Kashima introduced

Ghost

The laboratory arch begins with a ridiculous misunderstanding that leads to a group of men from a hidden laboratory in Osuutabi Science Museum, a place where shaving was brought up and gained strength and kidnapped Sakamoto shortly after she had an argument with him to wear his apron to make more dirty fats.

Despite the fact that the leaders of the kidnappers, Tanaka, his colleagues are told again and again that they certainly have an incorrect person, refuses to go back and instead decide to overlook Lu as “shaving”. The primary inspiration for his mentally wicked idea is the visceral fear of their boss, a man who kills for any mistake, or even worse: let them use them as experimental objects in the laboratory.

This group has enacted enemy takeover of the laboratory, imprisoned the chief researcher, shina's father's father, Asakura, and forced the remaining scientists to engage in research on supernatural forces. Tanaka's fear of Kashima communicates that he is a dangerous man, but what really causes warning bells is the fact that he is first shown on his purple suit and the head of reindeer as masks.

Until now, they have been throughout the type of eccentricity SakamotoBut this particular choice of fashion is one thing in the whole series that excels as the final indicator of the general lack of common sense. Normal rules do not work for someone like this, and when it lifts the mask slightly to endanger tanaka, it reveals a body that is heavily modified and crushed stitches.

The impact of a contrast

Conflict information creates a disturbing experience

On the basis of the importance of Kashim's introduction, interesting directorial elections are made on the scene when he threatens to kill Tanak if he is lying on the kidnapping of shin. The contrast is strongly in the game in Kashim's characterization, while the head of the reindeer creates a dissonance from the “sensitivity” communicated by his suit. When he speaks, he has a monotonous, calm tone of his voice that does not differ, although there is a risk that someone is murdered, which is even more terrible than more bombastic efforts to seem threatening. The choice of music is very interesting in this respect because it has a playing piano theme when it asks why shit doesn't look like shaving in front of him.

The scene is dissonant because it is a simple question, but it is a situation of life or death for Tanaka, which is clearly frightened, because the soothing piano plays in the effect of jingle of the elevator. But when Kashima reveals his face, she plays instead of the sinister and anxiety that is played instead when they are Tanaka and Lu, literally kicking and screaming, to their terrible fate after Spaba, as well as Kashima.

Kashima puts the head of reindeer back and tells the seb to be necessary to find shaving because he can't afford to disappoint him (“X”). He put his hand on Self's shoulder and pressed it unpleasantly. Music turns back to a pleasant piano when Kashima says, “I count on you” and adds to a few conflict information we get about Kashima when it first introduces that it creates a feeling of premonition, disharmon and discomfort.

Kashim's polite way of talking and obvious obsession with respect and behavior directly in contradiction with his actions. Although the murderer is mourning over the loss of the lives of his minions to order Shishiba and Osaragi members, and the slid claims that they have no respect to human life. His choice of fashion reflects a sense of sensitivity, with suits often associated with professionalism, but creates disagreement with the head of reindeer and the body dotted with evidence of constant modifications. Its calm, low -regional way of speaking does nothing to suppress the sharp edges of his threats or bloodthirsty, and the sound accompaniment expands this feeling of whipping by combining the calm and pleasant tones of the song you hear in the elevator with clash, frightening swelling you hear in horrific movies. Overall it's a contrast that increases the introduction of Kashima, which is strange as an antagonist because Is endless.

Connection with “x”

Kashim's twisted sense of justice

Kashima receives acceptance x - Sakamoto Days Episode 9

During his battle with Sakamot in Episode 9, Kashima remembers his first meeting with “X” and we will learn something about his past. When he was younger, Kashima was very violent in his neighborhood with a group of miscreants because they tortured a cat, which led to the rest of the community to avoid. Kashima can have very intense responses to perceived injustice, sometimes play the smallest offenses to cardinal sins, and so the punishment that can often be disproportionate to the offense.

I do not want to say that the incident of the time you were younger was necessarily an incident of disproportionate punishment, but what represents his distorted sense of justice or anyone is the belief that the elected arbitrators of the justice are elected. After being avoided, “X” was found to assure him that he had done nothing wrong. The X -shaped shirts through his mouth show Kashim's loyalty to a man who accepted his sense of justice instead of calling him “excessive” or distorted, giving the justification of Kashim's most dangerous delusions.

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