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76. Ikari's Cardboard World (Paranoia Agent) (15.5 points)
Nominated by: trdl23 (3/5 remaining)

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Importance: 1
Fear: 6
Snake: 8.5

Paranoia Agent's themes of fear and repression are represented best in the cardboard world, where you may be able to run from your problems, but ultimately it's a flat and hollow existence. Ikari's train of misery, from his police firing to the illness of his wife, would definitely make anyone wish for safe passage out of our cruel, mad world. And it may seem nice at first, nostalgic, simple, pleasant, and easy, but as all the 2D, unmoving, flat objects represent, it's a life that lacks any meaning with no connections to anyone or anything. It's ironic that Tsukiko, the catalyst and driving force behind the events of Paranoia Agent, is the one who eventually convinces Ikari to break free from this fiction, smashing the fake boundaries and becoming real himself again. It perhaps lacks subtlety, but god damn if it isn't powerful and can even be personally touching for anyone going through a similar situation in each of our own ways.
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