Chaos Dragon

 In today's episode of Chaos Dragon, Boochi put Nasu's hand on his boobies, and this made Nasu very uncomfortable.
Alright, that's just a sentence I was dying to write, but I should probably stop pretending that this show has anything to do with the original tabletop campaign anymore. It's not just that this specific event couldn't have happened (because Boochi's character did not originally have boobies), but so many other dumb anime-esque clichés have popped up in recent episodes, and I don't want to attribute them to the original game's players even when eerie similarities do pop up. Because yeah, given the kind of imagery that echoes throughout his work, I can easily imagine Boochi seducing another character with one hand and reaching for a weapon of life consumption with the other. If anything sexual is happening in an Urobuchi story, it's a prelude to horror and regret. Nothing good ever comes of sexiness, at least not if it's girl-on-guy. (That said, if it's a guy character being sexual on his own, or if it's a girl-on-girl liaison, tragedy might not be around the corner after all! Oh, the complicated implications...)
Useless tangents aside, I don't think this moment (or most of the story at this point) was part of the original campaign, which means it only tells me what Makoto Sanda or Shou Aikawa thinks of these characters, not what Kinoko Nasu or Gen Urobuchi thought of them. So as the anime's significance as a window into creators' minds dwindles, so does my interest in analyzing it. I really wish I could extract more about the psychology of these three fascinating creators from their avatars, but Chaos Dragon just isn't giving me enough to work with.
Let me get back on track: this episode was pretty okay. In