Talk:Fuyumi Yanagi/@comment-90.44.40.18-20140418161416/@comment-90.61.170.100-20140422082342

It's not she who wants to participate to the training (she's aware of her weakness and doesn't like fighting), if you could read the original Japanese text, you would understant that it's Staz who asks Fuyumi to help him training by punching him. The training with the old man (from chapter 55 ongoing) is about not being allowed to use their physical strengh and powers while being attacked without a warning by the other people in the house (namely old White Step, Liz, Nell AND Fuyumi), in order to learn to predict an attack and dodge it efficiently (like a human being). Step (the old man) explains to Wolf and Staz that they have to understand people's character in order to guess their intentions. Staz wants to better understand Fuyumi, since she's been avoiding him (because of the incident with Bell) and always keeps her thoughts quiet, so he asks her to punch him, hoping to be able to understand her "through the fists" (another manga idea). In some way, I think it's sweet.

You can see in chapter 55 that Fuyumi is very reluctant to punch Staz, so I think she will spill out all or part of what Staz wants to know and come clear with him (after all, Blaz's whole conspiracy backfired on everybody because of secrets, lies and misunderstandings, and if Fuyumi is smart enough, she won't reproduce the same mistake with Staz). I also think that Fuyumi and Staz have a lot in common : they're a little naive and not very experienced in romantic ways, they're quite shy and awkward in expressing their feelings, and when one does a move to improve their relation the other pull away (remember their "date" in the paltial cave, Staz completely freaks out from the idea of enjoying himself with Fuyumi and when she starts telling him she 's enjoying the time with him, he changes the subject). They remind me of Allen Walker and Lenalee Lee from D.Gray-Man.

In the end, I think this story is about Staz and Fuyumi accepting their true nature/personnality (Staz as a vampire and Fuyumi as a more confident girl, a little like Yôko Nakajima from The Twelve Kingdoms - I know I quote a lot of manga and anime, but Blood Lad itself is all full of shout-out thanks to otaku-vampire Staz).