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Fangs and Feathers
I think we all can agree that Hawks has more narrative foils than he can deal with, mostly with the League members. Many have made comparisons to him and Shigaraki, and Dabi, and Jin, but I think one member we overlook is Toga. I love her and it’s no surprise that two of favorite characters are so similar and yet not at the same time.
1. Appearance: Blonde hair, slit pupils, sharp-shaped eyes, round face -check. Surprisingly even their heights are not too different ( Toga is 5′2, and Hawks is 5′4) One important thing to note is how both of their appearances have a slight inhuman, almost predatory quality to their appearance. . Toga’s fangs and Hawks’ markings and wings. They seem human, but there’s something that’s just off.
2. Masks- Hawks constantly wears a mask-to society, his fans, other heros, to Commission and the League- to the extent that no one, not even himself, knows who he truly is. However Toga formerly wore a mask for the majority of her life, before she decided to become a villain and embrace who she is. Heck her quirk, involves wearing the masks of others by drinking their blood. Yet ironically, Toga embraces and accepts herself the most in the entire series. She’s unfiltered and the only masks she now puts on are for missions/infiltrations/intell.In fact one thing interesting to note is how they both specialize in spy work and intelligent gathering. However the main difference is that Toga only physically becomes her mask, while Hawks only mentally becomes them. Toga can get rid of her masks, but Hawks’ can’t since they’re so deeply ingrained in him.
3. The Concept of Freedom- Freedom and expression of yourself are major themes in the series. Both of them tackle these themes and convey the struggle of expressing yourself. Hawks is undoubtedly a caged bird who chose his chains, when he was too young to really understand them. ( You can’t ask a six-seven-eight year old what they want to be for their entire life) and has been so accustomed to his chains that he doesn’t know how to break away from them. He may dislike his restraints, but if they allowed him to help others are quickly as possible, then he would willingly accept them. The Commission tried to repress Keigo Takami to point that hearing his own real name shocks him on the battle-field. He doesn’t know how to express himself or be free, since he doesn’t even know he who is. However Toga has been painfully aware of she is her whole life. Yet she breaks away these societal chains and decides her to be herself. Though her methods of expressing herself are not legally or morally right and nor do I support them, but one has to respect how much she isn’t afraid to be what she wants, despite what others say. In short Hawks hates his chains, but accepts them, while Toga hates her chains and breaks them
4. Perceptive Intelligence- Both of these characters are immensely aware of the personalities and emotions of others. Though Hawks fails to understand meaningful relationships, such as Jin’s bond with the League, he still is extremely perceptive. He knew how to secretly send the message to Endeavour in a way that he would understand, even if it wasn’t his style. He knew how to rattle up the audience and still improve Endeavour’s appearance. Meaningful relationships are still unknown territory to him because he didn’t really have in for the majority of his life. His approach to people can be said to be more manipulative and mechanical, trying to obtain desirable reactions. Toga on the other hand is much more empathetic and emotional. She has immense perception, able to understand that Uraraka has a crush, and understands Jin’s meltdown and conflicting emotions. Her approach may come as creepy to most, getting up close, but her approach is actually much warmer than Hawks’.
5. Suffering from their Quirk- I think many, if not most/all of the cast, are victims of their quirks. Hori constantly comments on the drawbacks of quirks and these two are no different. Toga receives prejudice and innate desires which are unacceptable to society, from her quirk, while Hawks receives praise. However both of them are and were oppressed due to their quirks. Hawks was scouted and trained a child soldier, since his quirk caught the Commission’s interest, and Toga was trapped in another cage, called a monster, even though she couldn’t help her body for desiring blood.They still face oppression. The Commission will continue to use him as long as he has his Wings, while Toga is still termed as a ‘monster’ ‘
Both of them in a way, were youngsters not saved by heroes.
#though this is old#it just might come into play in the future…#toga#hawks#toga fave#hawks fave#mha#sometimes people have unique connections without it being obvious#and that connection appears when it’s most needed
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Toga: Every night I have a dream where a red sparrow enters my body, and I can feel it dancing around inside me.
Hori: Ochako and Hawks will become lights of hope in the final arc
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#i believe there will be some kind of continuation to this#there has to be#hawks#toga#toga fave#hawks fave#mha
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My Hero Academia, Chapter 374 Thoughts.
Why did the tide turn in the battle, just when Deku was about to finish off a ShigAfo who was well past his limit. Well, it was because Spinner managed to wake up Kurogiri, therefore teleporting all of the villains to the same battlefield sabotaging the hero’s strategy to keep them separate and finish them off individually. However, there are deeper thematic reasons beyond just the strategic aspects of the battle. The villains triumph when the heroes refuse to fix or face their mistakes, so how appropriate the last page of the chapter is Dabi and Twice facing two heroes who don’t want to own up to their mistakes?
Keep reading
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Top Ten Hawks Moments of 2023
For Keigo's Birthday and for the end of this year, I have decided to make my top ten Hawks moments for all the chapters published this year.
10. "Hawks" gets torn into shreds by AFO
we had a lot of near-deaths for Hawks this year, but I think this was the most memorable as it happened, giving a very needed burst of humor to the AFO vs Hawks and the Heroes fight. Tokoyami's reaction was particularity heartbreaking.
9. Whatever Level of Gay was Achieved Here
This entire chapter was framed in a way that constantly put Hawks and AFO contrasting and melding and there are panels where their thoughts connect. I thought it was a very good way for Hori to make their dynamic fighting each other stand out. Also, the fight was ridiculously homoerotic.
8. Hawks Reminds Us It's About Connections, Stupid.
A theme for the post-Jaku part of this manga has always been heroes needing to bridge that gap and see if they can connect with the villains. It's interesting that Hawks has been the canon mouthpiece among the adults for that view when he so utterly failed his own narrative-assigned connection. I know there was so much pushback in this moment because Keigo again thought of Endeavor, but it stood out to me in repeating this allegory of OFA linking everyone as the solution to the conflict in the first place.
7. Realizing They All Have the Power to Make Their Own Narrative
Against a villain like One For All who wants to believe he's in his own light-novel, Keigo's own issues distinguishing reality and fantasies managed to settle down. He's always resigned himself to being a caged bird and a martyr, so being pitted against a villain so into life being a foregone conclusion helped Keigo remember they all have more agency than they give them credit for.
6. I think all of Keigo's Rizz was in Fierce Wings
Seriously, this is his normal fake hero persona on STEROIDS? It's fascinating how naturally this stuff comes to him. Like damn, he even has his tongue out, mocking All For One as he gets hoisted by his own petard, and has an arm around a vestige lady who looks suspiciously like All For One's mom, which I am accepting as canon until told otherwise. Say what you want about Hawks, for all his failures and paradoxes, the dude has serious BDE. I'd rate this higher but he had a lot of good moments.
5. Nothing beside remains, round the decay
Probably one of the most striking panels this year, seeing a defeated, quirkless Keigo struggle to get up and meet the horde of encroaching Toga-Twice clones, holding the last remaining feather in a landscape of complete destruction made me think heavily of the Ozymandias poem. Keigo, who has always represented the hero system with his whole diamond-insignia carrying chest, seeing all the consequences of his actions and the futility of his actions in stopping the very future he'd allowed himself to commit murder to prevent. I wonder if it struck him how little it all meant as he faced his "presumed" doom.
4. Farewell, Fierce Wings!
we bid goodbye to the quirk that continued to fight even as it was stolen into the eldritchian amalgamation that is All For One! The look in the vestige's face is so resigned and bitter-sweet as he decays away. Keigo isn't his quirk, but it's remarkable how willing to face death both of them are.
3. What he really wants
The interesting thing is the narration implies that either Keigo was telling Naomasa that the aging made AFO stronger as the battle happened, or still had enough control over his emotional state after being left in the dirt to tell him what he observed. The latter is, well, not that surprising when it comes to Keigo, who won't let being quirkless or maimed or delimbed get in the way of being at his job, but that's not what Hori shows us.
No, Hori doesn't show us Keigo standing up or sitting up, no he shows us a Keigo clinging to Tokoyami, a complete break in the many masks he wears to show actual devastation and need for comfort.
There's no Keigo pretending he's okay. There's just one panel showing us a young man embracing his unconscious student after probably one of the most horrific experiences in his life. Keigo, who has been mentioned to be a person who puts so much distance himself and other people, is the one the one clinging to Fumikage.
2. He really was, wasn't he?
As the Twice clones disappear, we see a melting Toga-Twice on the brink of killing Keigo, who makes no move to stop her as she slices him open. No, he seems almost penitent as he accepts death, only pausing to tell her he knows why she's killing him.
Make no mistake, the moment he saw Twice back, he knew what this was all about; killing Jin. In this moment, he doesn't hold himself back with saying killing Jin was necessary - the future Jin's murder was meant to prevent came about anyway, no, this is just Keigo being honest that he really liked Jin, anyway. This panel might show the first real regret we've gotten from him, which is likely why he was so open about not fighting back. Because Keigo knows that he does "deserve" this.
1. Haven’t you already done your best, Hawks?
Chapter 185, this panel introduces us to Hawks.
Two hundred chapters later and we finally see Hawks, for all intents and purposes, resoundingly defeated. His quirk is gone. The army he had as back up, defeated. His student lying defenseless beside him. His hero-partner having left to fight his own battles.
And yet, despite it all, despite losing his quirk, despite every sign of failure around him, especially as he now has to reckon with his own moral event horizon, Keigo's capable of saying one thing:
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i have a question about this chapter
in the beginning, bakugou says “i’m done messing around izuku(?)” but i’m confused on what it means. does this mean that he isn’t gonna treat him horribly anymore or he’s done messing around and he’s coming into his own (quirk/name/person)?
Didn't wanna answer until I published the translation.
もうおめーの邪魔はしねえ
もうおめーのじゃまはしねえ
mou omee no jama wa shinee
I won't get in your way anymore.*
(*Note: This is a sentence that could have many potential translations: "I won't get in your way anymore," "I won't hold you back anymore," "I won't be a hindrance to you anymore," etc.)
This is one of those "Katsuki Bakugou contains multitudes" lines where he means a lot of things at the same time.
The surface-level, pseudo-obvious meaning is that Katsuki won't be a jerk to Izuku--but that doesn't actually make sense, because he isn't a jerk to Izuku anymore. That shit is long over.
I think the key to understanding this line lies in chapter 406:
The major struggle Katsuki has had throughout this final arc is about his sense of inferiority compared to Izuku. Remember, he was revived at the time when he could save All Might from AFO and make up for his perceived weakness that caused All Might's downfall.
So in one sense, Katsuki is saying he's strong now. His lack of power will no longer be a burden. Now he can run alongside Izuku and match his pace and support him without Izuku ever having to worry.
But there is also some deeper meaning behind that sentiment, one that's had roots in Katsuki's journey through the entire story, since chapter 1.
It's Katsuki's relationship with victimhood.
From the beginning, the one insecurity within Katsuki that was so great he would actually kind of voice it aloud was his fear that he couldn't match up to Izuku and that Izuku looked down on him for it.
And this all ties back into his insecurities about his role in All Might's downfall. All of this was a major point of what "Deku vs Kacchan, Part 2" was all about.
It's something I dissected a long time ago here:
So it's not that Katsuki wants to protect Izuku; Katsuki doesn't want to be the reason for Izuku's downfall.
And here:
Katsuki lightens Izuku’s load by looking out for everyone else, and this is why Katsuki works so well as Izuku’s weakness. He’s become the cornerstone of Izuku’s house of cards.
As much as he hates being a weakness, Katsuki can’t just make it stop by telling Izuku not to care. Izuku will keep on caring regardless. So instead Katsuki has to convince Izuku that Katsuki is stronger so Izuku will keep chasing after him. Izuku needs to believe Katsuki is stronger in order to get stronger himself. Katsuki needs Izuku to believe Katsuki can handle himself, that Izuku can trust him, so they can work as a team and compensate for each other’s weaknesses.
Katsuki acknowledges in his apology in chapter 322 that Izuku is on the right path, that all his moves since receiving OFA have been correct. Katsuki has been a roadblock hindering Izuku and holding him back--yes, often by rejecting him and competing maliciously with him, but also by being too weak to stand at Izuku's side. He was caught by the sludge villain, kidnapped by the League of Villains, lethally stabbed and later nearly killed by TomurAFO. He wasn't the strong hero like All Might that fought to win and save the day. He wasn't an equal partner.
What I read when Katsuki says he won't get in Izuku's way anymore is that he's done it, he's strong enough to stand at Izuku's side, he's strong enough to let Izuku do what he does best, he's strong enough to support Izuku as Izuku strives to achieve what only he can achieve. AND I read Katsuki saying "I am no longer that weak person, I am no longer a burden, I am no longer NOT a hero, no longer NOT the hero I needed to be."
"I won't be a weakness others can exploit to get to you anymore."
(And I read that he's ready to let Izuku be the main character.)
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do you ever think about how Hawks had the biggest failure in the manga? Like if the core theme is that people who are left of society need others to reach out to them and that if people genuinely try to understand others there can be a connection, essentially the character and narrative who completely failed this theme is Keigo and Jin. Keigo failed Jin.
Like, Keigo's even been the mouthpiece for this theme of connectedness in the manga and bringing people together (his comments when Deku was brought in), several times over, and I keep thinking of how it will look when Shigaraki is saved and reached out to by Deku, how this will look when Touya is finally home with his family, when Himiko gets to have a normal night with Ochako and just be a normal girl.
Keigo's just going to have to live with the very apparent realization that the kids succeeded where he failed and that Jin's blood is on his hands needlessly. He'll look at the kids and the villains they saved and look around himself and realize he could have had that, too, if only he'd tried to connect.
Hawks has always been a really tragic character, and I know from the start we were into this idea of a boy thrown into tragic circumstances with no freedom out of them, but I think there's something to be said that the biggest failure in this manga, and likely of his life, was due to his own actions and buying into his own narrative of never having another choice.
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Dabi’s Love Language: Social Distancing
Yes, I’m going stir-crazy and am trolling with that title (but nobody trolls as hard as Horikoshi; I mean, REALLY to that censored panel?), but the point stands: Dabi’s defense mechanism is dissociation. Hence, I… don’t know how much we are to take Dabi at his word here.
Actually, I’ll argue we’re pretty clearly not supposed to take him at face value. What Dabi is doing is called dissociation; it’s a psychological defense mechanism. (I’m not using this as a way to armchair diagnose, for the record; it’s a pretty straightforward depiction of this; also, a coping mechanism isn’t an illness.) While most people associate dissociation with extremes–such as dissociative identity disorder–the reality is it is a very common coping mechanism, and most of us have engaged in it. Dissociation, at its simplest form, is detachment/separating yourself from emotions appropriate to the circumstances (or sometimes from the circumstance itself; i.e. a person might pretend something traumatic is not actually happening to them, it’s a dream, the perpetrator is someone else, etc.). It’s also employed when looking back at trauma: I’ll use myself as an example and state that I will frequently laugh when discussing something traumatic that happened to me. It’s something that multiple people have pointed out to me as odd, but it’s an unconscious way of protecting yourself. If you don’t allow yourself to feel those horrifying emotions, then you don’t have to deal with them.
It’s kind of a consistent pattern with Dabi: he’s an unreliable narrator specifically when it comes to involving the possibility of a Feeling (besides rage).
He acts like he does not care, like he has no emotions whatsoever. But when he’s on his own (aka more reliable framing-wise in the narrative), the story is different:
So I’m highly skeptical of Dabi’s “I’m just here to fulfill Stain’s will!” statement. After all, he may be the one who showed far less emotion to Twice’s death, but Hawks is still the one who killed Twice, and Dabi is still the one who tried to save him.
Dabi then claims he just cared about Twice because of how he could use him.
Except again, there’s little showing us that this is any different than how he blocks out Snatch’s death and taunted Endeavor about it when Dabi was basically prepared to die trying to kill Endeavor after he fought High-End. Oh, and then Dabi claims that he is more able to fulfill his goals than even Twice like two pages later, so again, this isn’t exactly indicative of a rational mindset.
If projection is Endeavor’s defense mechanism of choice (and it is), then dissociation is Dabi’s. A child who grew up as the Todoroki children did is not likely going to be able to express emotions in a healthy sense,. Considering that we’ve seen Endeavor rage at Shouto for showing any sign of weakness, and considering Rei’s mental breakdown, emotions other than anger=danger but rage=strength would make sense as a mindset Dabi has. (Also, neither Shouto nor Dabi (presuming he’s Touya) were able to trust family growing up, so of course they struggle to bond with others.) The tragic irony of this, of course, is that it’s eerily similar to Endeavor’s mindset. The optimism, however, is that we know Endeavor’s mindset is starting to change.
I’ve been burned (heh) by stories before, but I still think Horikoshi has very obviously set Dabi up as redeemable. Touya, Shigaraki, and Endeavor’s redemptions are all wrapped up in each other’s, and Shouto’s, Deku’s, and Bakugou’s becoming heroes are wrapped up in their stories as well.
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WAKE UP BABIES!!!!!! WE GOT NEW DABI VISUALS TO OBSESS OVER 🛐
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me seeing people miss that Toga's decision to "die" comes from believing Touya has died and because Jin's suicidal devotion to his friends, worsened by the fact that his entire self-view and worth was determined by how much he FELT USEFUL to those said friends, has been romanticized by her as the ONLY way of finding peace and comfort in a cruel world:
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Saw the most insane take on this chapter today, and I feel like I need to say something.
Toga decided to die… NOT because she accepted Ochako’s feelings and her ‘healthy love’. If you were to actually read the chapter with your eyes instead of your ass, this is what you would see:
The structure of Toga’s monologue (and the monologue itself) here mirrors Jin's monologue. The narrative is basically throwing it in your face that Toga is copying Jin, even if unknowingly. Her entire 'sacrifice' is a parallel to Jin, who also decided to sacrifice himself for the people who accepted him (The League in Jin's case, Ochako in Himiko's case) because he didn't really care about himself anymore and didn't think rehabilitation was possible for him. She's not doing this because she accepted the 'healthy' concept of love, she's literally copying Jin's version of love - self-sacrifice.
Toga literally gives us an actual reason for why she's doing it: she doesn't believe (yet) that the world can change for the better and that the society would try to work with her instead of completely supressing her. She doesn't believe that she would have a future if she'd allow herself to be captured by heroes. This entire thought process is coming from the core ideology of the League of Villains. Not believing that the world can change and help them so the only thing left is to either destroy it or die is Tomura's ideology.
(Destruction is the main point. Destroying as much as they can and feel like before they're killed off or before they're left with nothing but ashes is the real purpose behind this entire war.)
And even when Toga speaks about the League creating an easier world for her to live in, the flashback shows them before MVA - alive and well. Twice is dead. Touya (as she thinks) is dead. Compress was captured. Currently, as far as Toga is aware - only Shigaraki (who isn't even Tomura anymore, the last time she saw him), Kurogiri and Spinner are left standing (and Spinner is actually currently laying on the hospital floor, dying). Ultimately, the League creating that world for her is an impossible, unachievable dream by now - and she knows it. It's not something that is going to happen. She gave up on that idea. She doesn't believe that she has a future if heroes capture her,
and she doesn't believe that she has a future if the League 'wins' (and she knows they won't).
She believes that dying is the conclusion all of them are heading towards, the League came there prepared to die - that's why she chooses to save Ochako (the person who accepted her and made her happy) and kill herself instead of getting locked up or dying in some other way. Dying on her own terms, dying by saving the only person who actually accepted her (like Twice did) is the only way she can see herself going out happily now. There is no other option left in her mind.
And hey! There is actually another huge factor at play here, which I feel like some people forget for some reason? Toga thinks that Touya is dead. Moreso, Toga thinks that Touya killed himself. Dying on her own terms, killing herself while smiling?
She is following in his footsteps.
That's why she 'asked' Touya if he'd managed to smile/laugh before dying, because *that's* what Touya's entire speech about laughter was about. Dying while having a fucking blast, dying while doing whatever they want and laughing at the world, accepting the fact that they will die, but at least they'll cause as much harm and pain to the world that hurt them as possible before that. Himiko has decided to kill herself while doing what she wants (sacrificing herself to save a person who made her happy) with a smile on her face.
It's not love & justice that lead to self-destruction, it's self-depreciation and inability to believe that things can get better that do.
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Lots of talk of Himiko’s self-sacrifice, and how it relates back to Deku via the All Might doll, but like….Ochako is one of the key people who STOPPED Deku from his spiral. It was HER idea to go to Nezu and lure Endeavor to UA for a confrontation. She’s behind Bakugo and next to Iida during the entire confrontation. It’s Ochako’s eyes that light up when Nezu says UA protects and provides shelter “from the moment a student is accepted into this school.” It’s Ochako helping Bakugo and Iida blast off into the sky to catch up and retrieve Deku. When they encounter a hostile crowd back at UA, Ochako holds Deku’s hand and tells him it will be okay to prevent him from running off again, then takes to the sky to give her rooftop speech. (It’s like how All Might redirected Shoto towards his family when Shoto was about to run off towards Deku & Shigaraki….)
The point is, Ochako isn’t just “All Might-like” when imitating Izuku. She has her own heroism that’s related to and that’s derived from — but not the same as —them. There’s no way she’d stand for Himiko’s self-sacrifice. Not merely because Himiko’s death would be an incomplete “save” but because that kind of needless sacrifice is exactly what Ochako has grown to dislike. The thing about Gunga is that Ochako isn’t alone; there are numerous other heroes, students, and civilians nearby who can help, especially now that the danger of the Twices is gone.
And if I relate it all back to All Might (because that’s how I do things around here) I see Himiko’s thought process similar to his before he met Izuku, and even before Kamino. All Might couldn’t see a world where he could live freely, as himself, without OFA or Pro Heroism. He expected to die fighting. He went into Kamino expecting it to be his finish line. When it wasn’t — because Izuku was there — he was lost for a while. But now he’s being the type of man he wants to be, without OFA or the trappings of the #1 hero. There is risk, of course, but I’m still betting he has a few tricks up his sleeve beyond the armor. If that freedom exists for All Might, it lights the way for others like Himiko.
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I will make exactly one (1) post about how Toga is not only paralleling Twice but also opposing him in a way and why Toga is not a tragic character like Twice because Toga actually WANTED better and was never content with the path she chose and actually acknowledges the absolute destruction and harm the LOV is causing and is acknowledging that the path she chose is the path where she LOSES people she cares about and is acknowledging that she was absolutely miserable the whole time and that salvation is what she wanted and was fully aware of what she wanted the whole time and that’s why she was able to accept Ochacko’s words and actually make an internal change and how she wa—
In a more coherent way, basically Twice was a tragic character. Everything about him was tragedy. He was sacrificial to the point of basically being suicidal. He was self-deprecating. He had a very flawed perspective of the people around him and his relationships to them. The fact that he was like a puppy who was just happy with his humans (the LOV) did not save him, because this story’s narrative does not take kindly to suicidal ideologies. It does not validate it.
Twice was wonderful, but the narrative was not kind to him. He died. And looking at the circumstances around his death make it worse.
Twice did leave a legacy though. His heroic feelings did not go unnoticed. They’re living on through Toga right now.
And if all goes well, it’s very possible they will then live on through Hawks, who has the potential to really face what he did to Twice by saving something that was precious to Twice.
It hasn’t happened yet, but it’s possible to go there.
But all of this to say—-the narrative is a lot kinder to Toga. Toga battled self-hatred throughout the manga, but she continued to value her life despite all of that. She isn’t a tragic character surrounded by a sad reality where she is ready and willing to die for people who won’t die for her. Which is something this manga does not approve of. She was given salvation and she accepted it, and now she’s about to do something this story doesn’t approve of—self sacrifice. But because of the way she has carried herself throughout the manga—by valuing her life, something the manga does approve of and encourages, especially in the heroes—she will get a different ending than Twice.
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A brief moment separated from the chaos of everything.
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Japanese vs. English Dabi and Toga - A 341 Comparison
Finally, after what feels like forever, we get another lov-focused chapter and it sure did not disappoint. In particular, it gave us quite an insight into Dabi, Toga, as well as their relationship so let’s take their conversation apart and break down what they said in Japanese, starting with Dabi:
「てめェのよーなイカレ女にも感傷に耽る心があるとはね」
「てめェ ; temee 」-> you
「のよーな ; no you na 」-> like; similar to
「イカレ女 ; ikare onna 」-> insane woman
「にも ; nimo 」-> even; too
「感傷 ; kanshou 」-> sentiment
「に ; ni 」-> in
「耽る ; fukeru 」-> to be lost in; to indulge in
「心 ; kokoro 」-> heart
「が ; ga 」-> subject marker particle
「ある ; aru 」-> to be
「とは ; to wa」-> adds emphasis to the prior word/phrase
「ね ; ne 」-> sentence ending particle; used to seek confirmation
= “Even a crazy woman like you has a heart indulged in sentiment, don’t you.”
This line is very rich coming from the guy who - not too long ago - was lying shirtless in an abandoned building, crying blood as he told his non-present family members to “watch him in the depths of hell” - I wonder how much longer he can tell himself that he doesn’t feel anything… Either way, it sounds a bit like him warming up to her. Of course, continuing to call her “crazy” isn’t great evidence for that, but admitting to her being sentimental is him admitting that she isn’t some label he assigned her, but a person with feelings - in other words, he is humanizing her, which in turn would make it harder for him to dismiss her as someone he doesn’t care about.
On a linguistic note, “you na” is written in a slightly odd way. While the word is normally written in hiragana, the dash is actually how vowels get extended in katakana. The rest of the word remains written in hiragana, though, so really, the only part being emphasized is the extended “o”. So yes, Dabi’s many ways of emphasizing parts of his speech continue. The “to” at the end of the sentence also gets used to emphasize the word or phrase it attaches to, and the “ne” is used to seek confirmation, and by putting so much emphasis on this, it shows a certain amount of interest and curiosity, possibly wanting to hear more but also possibly emphasizing it to signal Toga that he is noticing this situation being important and also emotionally challenging to her. In summary: he cares.
「ちょっとお家気になっただけですフツーです」
「ちょっと ; chotto 」-> a bit
「お家 ; ouchi 」-> home
「気になった ; ki ni natta 」-> was interested in; wondered about
「だけ ; dake 」-> only
「です ; desu 」-> to be
「フツー ; futsuu 」-> normal
「です ; desu 」-> to be
= “I only wondered a bit about my home. That’s normal.”
If you know a little bit about Japanese, you might have noticed that Toga uses “desu” here, which is used in polite speech. I’ll address this in a bit, so just keep that in the back of your mind for now.
“Futsuu”, which is usually written in kanji, is written in katakana here for emphasis due to its significance for Toga’s character as it has come up repeatedly during her backstory in chapter 266:
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