Find Solace In The Rain: Recent Episodes
Sage's Rain
Find Solace in the Rain. A place to listen to my thoughts on certain scenes, characters in a multitude of mediums. Find me on YouTube for visuals alongside these stories. YouTube: Sage's RainPatreon: patreon.com/sagesrainTwitter: @sagesrainInstagram: @sagesrainTumblr: sagesrain
Looking at the Akatsuki members and their reasons for fighting/living.
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Exploring the relationship and dynamic between Ice King and Simon, and their many relationships.
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Breaking down Arcane's weighted battle between Ekko and Jinx.
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Taking a look at the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, his strengths and weaknesses.
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Appreciating The Storm, episode 12 from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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A message to you, and to your younger self.
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Exploring Adventure Time's incredible emotional complexity, and maturity, through the lens of Finn, with mentions of Ice King, Marceline, and Princess Bubblegum.
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Analyzing Junji Ito's Tomie and the different monsters that permeate the story.
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Exploring Po's journey in Kung Fu Panda to discover his true identity and answer the golden question.
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Exploring the motives and philosophy behind Naruto's Orochimaru
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To truly enjoy sports, you must be strong.
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Breaking down Roy Mustang's Flame Alchemy.
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This video explains the curse of hatred displayed over the Uchiha clan, and a flaw I believe the Mangekyō Sharingan holds. My first video.
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Makoto Shinkai manipulates all of our heartstrings very effectively. He uses the common theme of distance that transpires in all of his works so far.
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Deconstructing Aang's Heart and Thought Chakra.
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Charles Xavier vs Erik Lensherr, Professor X vs Magneto, The X-Men vs the Brotherhood of Mutants. A constant battle between two opposing ideas, but with the same goal.
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Superman plays a role of inspiration. He is there to show what a model human is. Someone who is compassionate, loving, and always chooses what is right. In all reiterations of Superman, when he dies; they do not mourn his strength, but they mourn the hope he brings. They mourn a person who always does what is right.
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Kratos changes from "you must be better" to "we must be better" A change that is noteworthy, and exemplifies the change in Kratos' mindset and behaviour from the first time we saw him, yelling in Sparta, until now.
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Taking a look at Arthur Morgan from Red Dead Redemption 2, and how he truly was a good man, as well as an amazing, and very real protagonist.
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Taking a deep dive into Itachi Uchiha and his questionable morals.
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Exploring Violet's character in Violet Evergarden.
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Looking at the journey of Naruto and Jiraiya. This is a reupload, as the original was copyright claimed and blocked everywhere as of May 2021.
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Looking at Fairy Godmother and how she's Shrek and Fiona's perfect villain.
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This is a reworked reupload of Adulthood and the Train. It got copyright struck by YouTube in 2018. Exploring the consumerist greed of adulthood in Spirited Away.
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Looking at Cassandra Cain and her unique character.
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Exploring why I think Shen is Kung Fu Panda's strongest villain.
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Exploring Tai Lung and the different aspects of his character
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Going through why The Beach is one of my favourite episodes.
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Taking a dive into one of Attack on Titan's most interesting characters, Erwin Smith, looking at his actions, motivations, and his intentions. Is Erwin Smith selfish or selfless?
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Exploring Masculinity through the lens of Barry Jenkins' Moonlight and bell hooks' book, "the will to change"
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Taking a look at how the women of Naruto were, in my opinion, poorly written.
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Looking at the fourth hokage, and how reanimation saw his dying moments as a failure.
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Taking a deep dive into the fifth hokage, Tsunade's journey as hokage, and as protector of dreams.
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Looking at Rock Lee's journey, and the ideas of hard work and talent in Naruto.
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Exploring the first Boy Wonder, Dick Grayson, and how he is Batman's greatest protégé.
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Looking at the Before Trilogy, and how love changes through the ages.
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Analyzing DC Comics' Damian Wayne.
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Analyzing Asuka's character from Neon Genesis Evangelion
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Exploring why I believe Korra Alone to be the Legend of Korra's greatest episode
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Trying to understand Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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Exploring Kurapika and his journey of vengeance and rage.
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Understanding Neon Genesis Evangelion...
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A short poem inspired by Portrait of A Lady on Fire
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A letter to a dear friend of mine.
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Looking at the meaning of the Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind title.
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An analysis of Makoto Shinkai's Weathering With You, and its themes of love and selfishness.
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Toph's journey of friendship in Avatar.
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Looking at Sokka's journey of growth and masculinity.
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Exploring Aang's final decision in Avatar.
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I challenged myself to make a defense for Azula's actions in ATLA, here it is.
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Looking at Roy Mustang's leadership and values.
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Analyzing the relationship between Amy and Laurie in Greta Gerwig's 2019 re-adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.
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Some motivation for you to keep going through these uncertain and unprecedented times.
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A short story created and written by myself.
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Expressing why I love Studio Ghibli films.
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Exploring the under appreciated Robin, Tim Drake and why he's Batman's perfect partner.
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Taking a dive into the core motivations and philosophy behind Naruto's Madara Uchiha.
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A closer look at Parasite's themes of family, class, and morality.
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Looking at Cowboy Bebop's core theme of forgetting the past.
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Looking through the importance of Zabuza and Haku, as well as their relationship that helped define Naruto as a character, and as a show.
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A quick look at one of Avatar's most effective episodes, from Book 2, Bitter Work.
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Ocarina of Time is a game that has been close to my heart for so long in my life, long before I had actually played it. Now, after having played it, here are my thoughts on this enchanting story of coming of age, and courage.
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Gaara once loved only himself, here we're looking at Gaara's evolution, from selfish jinchuriki, to selfless Kazekage.
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Wolverine has so much history tied to his character. So many different comic runs and iterations. I chose a few that I felt truly highlighted his character, and character journey. Enjoy.
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Analyzing Kakashi and Obito's weighted final fight.
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Looking at the themes of fate, separation, and the individual, in (500) Days of Summer.
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Taking a look at one of the greatest relationships in television, the legend of Iroh and Zuko.
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Looking at the movie Coraline and its amazing, yet creepy art, and messages.
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Exploring one of the most popular Titans, Raven, and her complex and dark story.
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Exploring the seventh episode of the second book in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zuko Alone.
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Deconstructing the 31st episode in Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Desert.
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Exploring the lore and relationship around the second Robin, Jason Todd, and Batman / Bruce Wayne.
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A Silent Voice, is an important story that deals with mental health, and suicide, but also that discusses redemption, and forgiveness.
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Looking at the emotional journey of the relationship between Naruto and Jiraiya.
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Looking at my favourite Frank Ocean songs.
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Taking a deep dive into the complex, but memorable relationship between Gon Freecss and Killua Zoldyck.
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Taking a deep dive into the complex, but memorable relationship between Gon Freecss and Killua Zoldyck. Part 2
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Avatar: The Last Airbender has many themes to offer, and forgiveness and mercy are themes that are some of the most important in the show.
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A letter to everyone working towards a goal. Keep going.
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An in-depth look at the caring mother of the gaang, Katara of the Southern Water Tribe.
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Black Panther's Ancestral Plane is a place where we go to learn more about the characters' current emotional state, and we learn about what they are struggling with. Killmonger and T'Challa are at two completely different places in their lives, due to their upbringings.
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"Train yourself to let go of anything you may fear to lose."
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It is okay to love, and to fall in love, but it is also okay to fall out of love. There is in fact beauty in separation.
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Today we're looking at the ways that Avatar the Last Airbender and the Legend of Korra writes characters who have disabilities, and how the characters are portrayed in the series'
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After Season 3 Episode 23, I felt I could finally sympathize with Bakugo, and see him as the well written character he is, as the foil to Midoriya.
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Looking at the grand duty of the Avatar, and the successes of both Aang and Korra.
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"Madness is a lot like gravity, all it takes is a little push."
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Dick Grayson realizes that he doesn't want to be THE Batman, anymore. Why?
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Up's opening sequence, is a ten minute-long movie in itself, that wraps itself around characterization, and love.
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Azula of the fire nation is one of my favourite villains ever. I loved to hate her, and I feared her, but I also felt for her.
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Pain is my favourite villain in the Naruto universe because of his philosophy, but also because of his leadership. Pain was terrifying, calculated, menacing and not to mention, he also had the best voice of any character in Naruto dubbed or subbed.
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Korra is a character that we haven't seen in the avatar universe. A character's who's suffering was constant, but necessary.
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What is the reason for All Might and Midoriya's infectious inspiration?
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My thoughts on silence, and on what solitude means to me.
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Taking a look at my favourite Homunculus Envy, and his ironic, but sad death.
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Understanding the motivations and reasoning behind Obito Uchiha's change in heart, and his second chance at life.
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Samurai Champloo teaches us that in life, sometimes the journey is more important than the destination.
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Do you think Zaheer's beliefs are wrong?
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Taking a look at the theme of faith, and how it affects some of the characters over the course of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
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Analyzing the Failsafe, and Disordered episodes, and how Young Justice copes and approaches trauma created in these two episodes.
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Amy Dunne was wonderfully played by Rosamund Pike, in the movie adaptation of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl. Alongside David Fincher's excellent direction, this movie will always be one of my favourites.
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Call Me By Your Name was wonderfully directed by Luca Guadagnino, and scored by Sufian Stevens who did a masterful job giving us a soundtrack to match the heavy emotions of this film. Today we will be looking at how Michael Stuhlbarg, and Timothée Chalamet delivered, when it comes to the idea of emotion.
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We yearn for companionship, a connection. A touch, to be recognized, to be loved. Garden of Words uses the idea of koi and the rain to illustrate this need.
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Taking a look at Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's most renowned movie, and the number two grossing anime film of all time, Spirited Away, and the themes of adulthood, and maturation, while looking at the iconic train scene.
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Analyzing the Twilight scene of one of the most popular anime films of 2016, and of all time, Kimi no Na Wa/Your Name.
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Looking at a overlooked scene, as well as analyzing what it means to be a shinobi in the ninja world of Naruto.
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Iroh and Ozai are brothers, yet not once in the entire show they are seen interacting with each other. Why is that?
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"...those who abandon their friends, are worse than scum." Kakashi Hatake has one of the saddest stories in the Naruto universe, but rarely talked about. An underrated backstory, that I wanted to shed a little bit of light on. Enjoy!
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The dismal music, the animation, the choreography of the fight, the believable voice acting, and the emotional weight. I believe this fight is one that is under appreciated, and I wanted to shed some light on why I loved it so much. Enjoy!
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