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i think it'll be a while before it all comes together but i can't stop thinking about how Ave Mujica plays off of MyGO's themes of like. Communication and failure to communicate? And how music factors into all of that?
MyGO ultimately is about discommunication, how words and action and conversation can fail, but music, because it is raw, earnest, open, and one-way, can pierce through any of that. Tomori spends the show unable to communicate properly, being misunderstood, being spoken for without her consent, being shouted down and convinced into doing things. but when it comes down to it, Tomori can express herself by singing everything she has as loud as she can. her raw emotion is able to pierce through everyone's fog and bring MyGO together in the end, because they all realize that they all felt lost all the same.
meanwhile have you kinda noticed that like. Ave Mujica really isn't a fucking band anime at all. like. at all at all. we haven't gotten any new songs, there's been more made about the times they aren't performing and are failing to perform than anything else. they aren't letting themselves be heard, they aren't communicating with each other, they aren't having that level of honest communication with each other. they aren't even singing for each other. Mutsumi falls asleep dreaming of singing, and the band never sings again. It's heartbreaking.
i think that's why the end of episode 5 is the first time i've felt genuine hope - Tomori reaching out, begging Sakiko to take back have that emotional honesty that Sakiko once forced upon an unwitting Tomori. Tomori asks Saki to join a band. It means something, goddamnit