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I was happy to see a subbed clip from this episode shared (two of my James' icons come from scenes in this clip, including this icon!), because this Diamond & Pearl episode is so important for how I write James alone. This is basically James' mood in Ultern... ^o^;

This is also the episode where Kojiro/James and Musashi/Jessie's promise to meet again if there is another world after they die came from. ♥ It's a beautiful episode.

DP 117: Rocket-dan Breakup!? (Noodles Roamin' Off!)

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Hmm, I can't seem to get the link to work. The opening H is missing, but when I add it, it goes to the blog's main page instead of the post....

Oh no! Here's my reblog, it should work...

https://runawaycarouselhorse.tumblr.com/post/745951156570849280/background-music-kojiro-cant-handle-even-one

Thanks! Oh, that is definitely better than the English version of the scene. I still don't know what to think of Jessie's attitude, though. It bothers me she doesn't even invite James to come with her and instead would encourage him to go home when she knows how awful things were for him there.

Her attitude is definitely weird!! Her phrasing implies she doesn't remember much about Rumika/Jezebel/Jessiebelle/however we're supposed to spell it, so it sounds like she doesn't recall how bad she is. Musashi can be a bit self-absorbed to the point she forgets things harm Kojiro...

There's also a scene in XY where she's cracking a whip (only making the sound and hitting the ground) while training Nyasu and Kojiro's obviously disturbed, quiet, withdrawn, and turned away in the background. Musashi gives an order with a crack of the whip and not only Nyasu responds, but Kojiro jolts and answers obediently too out of sheer fright. I think she genuinely, genuinely forgets (they're both a bit spacey and not the smartest/most aware at times, so I don't think this is intentional cruelty on her part), because there's no way she'd do these things on purpose. ;_;

At the time I first saw it, I thought it was just OOC writing, but this is an interesting analysis. I agree she'd have to have either forgot or just simply doesn't get it. Maybe she misses her mother so much that part of her keeps thinking any family is better than none.

I think I may have seen that XY episode. Yikes, poor James/Kojiro!

It also goes the other way, there's an amusing scene I wish I could track down where James claims Jessie hasn't experienced hardship (he was upset about something at the time and therefore also totally in his head) and Jessie just gives this hilariously deadpan look. She grew up in abject poverty and largely in foster care, James........... she doesn't even say anything, PFFT.

But yes, Jessie and James have very opposite desires. James is gamophobic to the point the word "fiance" triggers him, he had every material pleasure, but no familial love and affection. Jessie had nearly nothing, she grew up so poor, she ate leaves (inedible kashiwa leaves which are usually only pretty much decorative around riceballs, you aren't supposed to eat them...) and looked forward to eating snow, lost her single mother young when she had to put her up for adoption (and implicitly died, possibly because of Mew, if she is the "bad person" killed by Mew in the Mew Project episodes)... Jessie had near to nothing material growing up, but she had familial love.

Deep down, Jessie is a romantic who adores the idea of romance and weddings and finding love, despite her unluckiness with it, but James is deathly afraid of marriage. It does sound like she might've thought okay, being with his family bad, but marriage is great, right, and he can have money and live comfortably??? Musashi probably does think any sort of family and (importantly) money to live is worth it...

Jessie is definitely subjected to OOC writing by writers who really don't get or like her (Ohashi...), especially later on when most of the writers who really get her are no longer on the show (Shudo Takeshi, the head writer, who based her off a woman he loved in I think his college years and Takegami Junki, who also gave us a lot of sweet Rocketshippy scenes and wrote the Love and the Origin of Youth/Training Daze special)... but this episode was written by Takegami Junki too, so I think he probably intended it this way. Musashi just prioritizes financial stability and marriage/familial love, she likely just forgot Rumika is even worse than his family...

Oh yeah, I remember that one! I cringed so hard at that scene, lol.

It is really interesting and really sad how they each experienced things good and bad that the other didn't.

Jessie being such a romantic is a really sweet aspect of her character.

That's good to know that it was written by someone who does know and understand the character! That makes me feel a lot better. :)

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