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EP. REVIEW: Kiznaiver

I think it's highly possible that someone could feel pleasure from any and every kind of pain, or whatever. There is no set-in-stone guideline for how to be a masochist. People have all kinds of strange quirks and fetishes that don't easily fit anywhere in particular. I've read/watched a lot of pornography, much of it BDSM, and what is meant to turn the audience on varies drastically from work to work. Some people like diapers so much that putting on as many as possible is sexually arousing. This isn't hard for me to buy and I don't have to chalk it up to sci-fi nonsense.

but I think people can imagine what the concept of unconcern (or lack of care) for your own or someone else's body and psyche mean.

I've seen people complain about the mean fat joke in the middle of the episode, and I have to say: if the character that's making that joke is characterized as mean, if the joke's intent was to be mean in order to keep another character away, and if the tone of the scene wasn't comedic at all, is it really a "negative" of the show?

But if I never see another “walk in on two characters almost kissing, run away in despair” scene, it'll be too soon.

The episode's second half featured a fairly predictable reveal about the nature of the Kizuna system - apparently, the Kiznaivers aren't just linked through pain, but also through their other emotions.

Tenga's disbelieving “this counts as saving Maki?”

In spite of that, Katsuhira's “I'm disappointed in you” actually does come as a blow.

Arguably the subs softened it quite a bit: the word he used in the original, 軽蔑する (keibetsu suru), is closer to "to despise" or "to scorn" rather than "to be disappointed". Granted, he used it in the perfective aspect (often simplistically equated to the past tense in Japanese grammar) which might imply that it was a momentary feeling rather than a continued state, but it's still an extremely confrontational thing to say to someone's face.