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hypermascbishounen · 2 months

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Thinking again about how healing from cycles of revenge and abuse is a pretty common theme in manga and anime,

and in particular from fathers or other male authority figures who have hurt boys in shounen manga and anime,

and how most of them start off from the beginning with the stance that hatred is consumptive, sometimes from a cultural Buddhist context,

to set up how a character will ultimately need to move beyond hating his abusers in order to fully heal,

and how the current wave of english-speaking manga and anime fans new to the genre, don't seem to notice any of this, and get extremely angry if the story pays off its own set-up, and has any character heal in any way that isn't just hating an abuser forever.

#I really wanna know how these people always wind up long term stanning a series that blatantly disagrees with them #And then still react like surprised_tails.jpg when it concludes exactly how it said it was going to #“Why does my baby still love people who hurt him?#In the story where everyone who chooses resentment becomes a villain and is horse punched 1000 times?"#On one hand I think some of this is maybe cultural Christians not getting how something isn't in that context #Maybe also some people just aren't at that point where this type of story is as valuable as revenge catharsis comfort #But I'm just baffled by how often people seem to feel like a really consistent theme came out of nowhere or was “wrong” writing #Why and how are you in the fandom for the story whose opening arc was “resolving to resent your way out of trauma is destructive”?#Like I thought that was the thing you had to be cool with to get on board

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