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Bnha is soooo much about how you cannot avoid your responsibility for long and also you cannot take responsibility for others' actions, even if you really want to.
In the very first chapter of the manga when Deku is trying to convince himself that he should simply ignore what is happening because he's a quirkless dude and it is not his business (responsibility). Yet the minute he sees Bakugo, he jumps to action and it makes All Might self-conscious and a bit ashamed that the pro-heroes in the scene weren't saving the kid. At that moment, Deku recognized saving others as his responsibility, which made him a hero.
The beginning of Tomura Shigaraki as a villain was when AFO told him that there were consequences for his actions. He could kill and destroy as much as he wanted, no responsibility taken.
The conversation Ochako had with Toga during the War arc, when they talked about how they'd have to take responsibility for the way they chose to live.
The Todoroki Family arc is all about responsibility and how it distributes. All the blame cannot be dumped into one individual, because everyone has their share in the tragedy of the family and how it can be fixed. No one is absolved.
The Hosu arc? It was a conversation with Stain and Tenya of what are the responsibilities of a hero. Yes, Stain was responsible for what hurting Tensei, but Tenya couldn't chase revenge when his priority at the moment should be saving others.
When Bakugo and Shouto stayed behind during the Hero Licence arc, it was about responsibility.
The OFA vestiges are about responsibility.
Time and time again, bnha talks about how every character must face their own burdens and how trying to avoid them ends up wounding society until it festers.
Civilians ignoring their responsibility as citizens make the resentment grow. When parents ignore their responsibility with their children, it causes hatred. The responsibility of mentors to their disciples, of teachers to their students. Also the responsibility of an institution and even the one of the government to the public, to the people.
It is an imbalance that the new generation of hero kids are trying to fix.
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Inko Midoriya is so beloved because she made a mistake with Izuku when he was a little kid, the mistake of given up on his dream, and then she went to apologize and went full support mode.
She didn't wait for Izuku to express how hurt he was, she didn't make excuses for herself, instead she made clear what she did to him was not right and vocally, clearly, openly apologized.
Izuku proved everyone wrong, including his mom and his childhood hero. Total king.
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I love the Todorokis because they are nothing like the celebrity family people makes them to be.
Shoto is awkward and really honest, he's so open and caring, so true. The whole cold cool persona was a response to his trauma, but as soon as he realized it he left it behind.
Fuyumi is also so awkward and so far away from the sexual icon someone would expect. The way she dresses, the way she's flawed and sincere, how she's gentle but still firm and the way she's so human, with all her ups and downs.
Natsuo and his rage, his hurt, his love that won't let him forgive and forget what they've done to him and his siblings. Natsuo and his girlfriend, his worry, his ability to be tender and unbending.
Touya with all his maniac energy, his devotion and turmoils. He dances when his happy and he seeks revenge and he cries blood for his family and he wanted to kill his brother and he taps his foot when he's feeling restless. He screams to see if someone is willing to listen and understand, he's loud and makes people feel uneasy, he's bold and sensitive and tries to play it cool but he's anything but distant.
I love love love love love them.
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A quick analysis of AFO's origin, the world frame of bnha and the core themes of the story :
From reading other people's metas and reading the leaks when they came out, my only solid take about it is that you cannot talk about bnha and the core theme of the perpetuation of violence without understanding how the Hero Society and the hero vs villain culture came to be.
That's what AFO origin is for.
Let's see if I can explain it:
In stories where a group of people suddenly gains powers, you'll always see that authors worry to portray how a change like that would affect the world at the moment. What does it mean that part of the global population now has access to something that others don't? Does that make them "better humans"? Are they superior to the rest and therefore should control them? Are they a danger to society? Should they be repressed or eliminated?
The thing is that powers can be viewed as a metaphor to real life situations we face. People with disabilities deal with the whole stupid idea that they are less than the rest of humanity all the time. You have sexism and racism and a bunch of other problems that at heart are about how to deal with different existences. Should people with certain privileges rule the world? Etc etc etc.
For a second, think of having superpowers as having a ton of money. Those with more money can help others or totally ruin their lives, right? In our world, people with money are directly involved in how justice works. They can corrupt the system or make it work, you know how it is. Yet, people with money are only people. We are all just that. Humans. No matter the amount of privileges, you can't escape your own humanity.
The way a person looks, the amount of money they own, where they are from, how they identify as, none of that makes a person more or less human. Similarly, having powers or the nature of said powers... It doesn't make a person less of a person, you know?
When you apply that logic to superpowers, you get what MHA is trying to say.
AFO lived in these specific conditions that were a result of the violence of his time. He would have ended up bitter anyway, because since he was born he was marked as a threat. When you reject someone like that, when you reject their humanity and you make an enemy out of there, you're not asking for a nice ending. If you teach them that they have to fight for the right to exist, you are asking for a war. It's like that in our world, it's like that in bnha.
What I'm trying to say is that superpowers are just an added variable in the complex equation of human coexistence.
The moment superpowers start to appear, society has to adapt fast. People that are also weapons don't mix well with the world's problems, after all. If you want to prevent mass killings, you need to set a system that rules the allowed behaviors and balances out the board. It's a relief that humanity is both capable of great horrors and wonders, so to every criminal that's set to use their powers for evil, you'll get an individual that wants to use their powers to stop them.
That's how vigilantes were born.
Then comes the legalization of powers and the individuals who use it to protect the system. That is how you get villains (people outside the law) and heroes (people following the law).
Violà. You have the same set of problems with a new feature: quirks.
How does this connect to AFO, you ask?
AFO's origin explains the complexity of the bnha universe, comparing it to our own. It also shows that there is always a context, as in situational factors that contribute to a person being the way that person is.
That doesn't excuse who AFO became, tho. The general rule dictates that we are responsible for our choices and actions in the face of the reality we were presented with. Maybe not while we are kids, because we don't have the maturity to make those choices. However, the moment we become adults, we cannot blame our choices anymore in the world around us. If you have the frame of mind to stop hurting people and you don't, that is on you. You chose to perpetuate the violence.
Of course, simplifications don't do any good and bnha makes that clear too.
A tale of heroes that are always good and villains that are always bad is just that, fiction. When the bnha society started believing that said fiction was their reality, that's when the real struggle of bnha started. Villains and heroes stopped being perceived as such. The dehumanization went both ways. The heroes became untouchable gods and the villains unforgivable demons. The civilians all excused their apathy and lack of action by saying they couldn't do anything in such a world.
People ran away from their responsibility by putting all the weight on the heroes shoulders and ignoring whatever felt uncomfortable or mildly disturbing.
See how quickly we were able to analyze bnha?
That's what I meant when I said at the start that AFO's backstory is crucial to the story frame of the manga. If AFO had been a villain just because, then you'd have a story of evil without reason that would validate the idea of extreme moralities of black and white. Since that's not the case, we got more depth in general.
It all connects to the message Horikoshi is trying to communicate. If you compare bnha to other shonens, you'll get the feeling that they all have something to say about that violence, about the way the world is structured and how people move around it.
It's a basic of storytelling, sure. It's just that now you have the knowledge to properly study bnha, or something like that.
At some point I'll have to reread the manga and pay attention to AFO's origin... That's everything for now, tho. Hope you enjoyed it whdhjsbdjd
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It's so fucked up the way AFO is giving a speech about how good he has manipulated the LOV's feelings... Especially when he's confimating how strong are their feelings, how years and years of living in the shadows of the hero society had them regressing until now they're exploding.
They need closure. Toga needs closure with Hawks after Twice's death, Dabi needs closure with Enji after all the abuse, Kurogiri needs closure with his role as Tomura's protector the same way Shirakumo needs closure with Aizawa and Hizashi, Spinner needs closure with Tomura and his "mutant" identity, and Tomura... Well.
AFO's laughing in the face of everyone's trauma, pitying victims against the other, playing heroes and villains the same way he always wanted.
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I'm the greatest Stain hater out there. I get why he's a well written character and he does bring a lot to the story, but I can't stand his face. Worst bnha come back ever to me. Of all the characters I wanted to see again he was not one of them.
He has a cool quirk and cool gear and cool outfit and whatever his ideology makes also zero sense and he's a professional bootlicker of a fake utopic past based on true heroism. His ass doesn't know what he's talking about.
He insisted that only the strongest people could be heroes, but if that was true the world would be screwed. Humanity can't survive on big heroics alone. You can't wait for things to become big to deal with them, you can't deploy a few heroes and hope for them to do all the work. Heroism is team work, not individual work. Heroism is a thousand acts of kindness in a day. What is so bad about heroes getting paid? They are people like anyone else, they need to eat. If they do hero work 24/7 they need an income. The answer is to change the laws so to better regulate the hero work, but why would you start killing people?
"They are weak", "they've become complacent", "they're soft", isn't that the ideal? All Might smiles because he's terrified of risking his life everyday. The dream is to reach a point where heroes like All Might don't have to sacrifice themselves in order for life to be peaceful. "But Stain actually lowered the crime rates by killing heroes!", he also took the lives and dreams of so many, crushed the hearts of so many families, he even drove more villains to the streets. Worst villains. Toga? Dabi? They were inspired by Stain. Maybe at first Stain's method worked, but it made things so much worse later.
Stain's ideals are all over the place. When you hear Dabi talk, for example, his interpretation is so far from what Stain originally stated. Stain would kiss the ground All Might walks on. Dabi believed there were no heroes, not even one. Yet, Dabi declared himself as the final manifestation of Stain's ideal.
Stain's biggest achievements were 1) saving Deku, 2) delivering crucial information to the hero side after breaking from jail and 3) his role in fighting AFO during the final showdown. I'd be tempted to add his little speech to Tenya, if Stain wasn't the reason why Tenya almost went full villain on him.
Again, I'm not saying he is not an incredible tool to move the narrative forward. His design is cool. He brings a much needed contradicting morality to the manga. All of that. I recognize why people would adore him. It's just that I hate him with my entire heart. Can't stand him. Find him annoying.
That's my personal position about it.
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Any opinoins on hero killer stain
If you want my personal opinion as a reader and a fan, here it is.
If you want an analysis of him as a character, I can do that and be impartial (not completely because I'm human, but c'mon I also know how to properly do narrative critique).
The summary is that Stain is a really important character to the story. Here's a quick list:
He's the closest we got to a vigilante in bnha, because he's somehow "working" to improve the hero society, but he's doing so outside of the law and by killing people.
He's the grey moral character by excellence in bnha. He decides what is right or wrong for society based on his own ideals. Proof of that is his introduction to the manga as thee hero killer and letter his participation in the events of the fight against AFO, when he helped the pro-heroes.
In his own words, Stain is the opposition of Shigaraki: he wants to destroy the current society not to end the heroic age, but to bring back what he considers true heroism. He introduced hero nostalgia to the story, as opposed to the way Tomura would dismantle the image of heroes being like perfect gods.
As far as narrative tools go, Stain introduces the conflict of creating a world where heroes get paid for their job. How do you regulate it to make sure that people are heroes for the right reasons? Where is the line between selfishness and selflessness? Where is the balance for a hero that is also a human being?
Stain kickstarts the League of Villains. He's the inspiration that leads characters like Toga and Dabi to join Tomura. In that sense, he is the beginning of the villains' success.
Although he isn't the one that starts the destabilization of the hero society, he is the one who starts destabilizing the pro-heroes per se. Stain introduced the first time in the manga when pro-heroes are being widely targeted by villains.
In consequence, Stain is the first to frame pro-heroes as just humans to the masses. By attacking them, Stain shows how pro-heroes can be in danger as anyone else. They need to be saved and helped, they are victims too.
Stain is the first one that faces one of the UA kids ideologically. He's the first who taunts the line between what it really means to be a hero and how so-called "heroic acts" can be bad in nature. This one is interesting because both Stain and Iida were willing to kill people in the name of "justice".
Stain is part of this saga of events that are meant to deviate the class 1A kids from the vigilante and villain paths. Bakugo would have his moment in Kamino, Deku would have his during his "dark era" and Shouto already had his at the Sports Festival. It goes a little like the kids finding out who they DON'T want to be. Stain was Tenya's moment. Tenya didn't want to be like Stain, but like Tensei, his older brother. Stain is Tenya's narrative foil too.
I can continue the list or dive into one of the points, but I don't know if this already answers what you were asking for, anon.
If you have any more questions or requests, let me know!!!!
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>They are really following the “saving child shigaraki” path 💀
No? Well, yes, but Deku seeing what happened to Tenko and talking to Tenko was always going to happen, it doesn't mean that only child Tenko gets saved lol. Tenko is Shigaraki's origin, his core, his genuine ideas, his honne (true feelings and desires). Of course Deku has to understand and save Tenko to save adult!Tenko, lol. Nobody seemed to complain when child!Ochako was talking to child!Himiko and etc., so what's up with some people's attitude now? 😭
I think the fandom is a bit paranoid because they really fear some theories.
I sometimes entertain those theories just to fuck around and create what ifs. It's a mere childplay. "Oh what if the school burned today and we all graduated earlier" type of mindset. The odds of it happening are non-existent, but c'mon. Unless you plan to burn the school yourself or you know someone will try, the odds are almost zero.
"but somewhere in the world a school burned—"
Sure, some mangas decide to end things the worst way possible only to cause shock, to fuck with fans, for money, sometimes simply because they don't understand their own stories. Even the big mangas is subjected to that. The author can go bananas for whatever reason and give you a terrible ending.
From my perspective, Horikoshi has rarely lost sight of the story he wants to tell. If he opens a plotline, he takes care to close it later. We got our traitor, we got the resolution with the Todorokis, we got AFO, class 1B, the villain comebacks...
Even when there were moments I knew Horikoshi went a little on the tangent (like Stars and Stripes) he was quick to return to the main issue. In bnha, to get an answer for your question you only have to wait for the manga to explain it— or in some cases, check the spin-off. If the answer is not in bnha itself, it normally is in the Vigilantes manga.
When someone asks me "Hey Shan, do you think that is possible?" the correct answer is always yes, because as long as the story is not over anything can happen. Objectively speaking, yes, it is as possible as anything else. As long as you're alive a lightning strike can hit you. A shark can bite you. An alien can come for you. The odds are there.
Now, is it probable?
No, not much.
Turning Tomura into a child to erase his crimes and resolve Deku's role within the plot is not only the lazy route, but also a disservice to the story. People don't resurrect out of nowhere in bnha. Limbs don't grow again. This is a story where the consequences are permanent. Even saving Mirio had a cost. There are only a few characters that can magically heal and their participation is soo little, it's almost as if they weren't there.
Each story has rules. You don't care about the real life rules or your own law code or whatever; you care about the inner rules of that story.
So far, Horikoshi has taken care of not breaking the inner rules of bnha. Why would he do so now?
Another bnha trait is that it doesn't stay stagnant on a plotline that is interesting yet irrelevant to the main story. It also doesn't hurry the story if it needs to go down a certain path. It will happen on its own time, after the events that need to happen had happened too. Example: saving Tomura has been a whole process. If Horikoshi were to turn Tomura into a child, why would he show all that he has shown us?
That's 'cause Horikoshi is explaining Deku's choice of saving Tomura. I know the trend of separating Tomura from Tenko, but it's absurd. They are one and the same. The kid is the adult and vice versa. You save the kid version, you save the adult one too. In order to save the adult one, you need to save the kid first. And if you went all the way to save that person, why would you want to erase all of it and turn them into a child again?
Isn't the story about how Deku giving little Tenko a chance? Isn't the story about Deku telling others they can do the impossible? Didn't Nighteye say that Deku could change the future and now we see him also changing the past, if only to allow the present to be a little more bearable? Livable?
I'll say this here: the theory that dictates that the heroes will turn the villains into kids to save them and the villains will stay like that has absolutely no foundation within the story.
If it happens, it's bad writing.
Horikoshi uses the kid images as symbolism. It is meant to represent the core of a person. It's the part of them that would never change, the part of them that dictates their dreams and goals, what they hate and love, who they are. It's the most basic of their forms, their essence, their soul if you want to speak on those terms.
Heroes are meant to connect with those parts of a human in order to save them, because the job of a hero is not only saving the body, but the human as a whole. To preserve hope, to heal past wounds and give people a reason to smile. To help people laugh as a kid again, to bring back their wonder and their innocence, to fight the apathy and the cynical part of themselves.
Bnha is fantasy. People have powers. The dead can communicate with the living. Of course that the heroes can talk with the childhood versions of the people to heal their past traumas.
Easy as that.
I can't say for sure if the villains will live or die. I only have my opinion (they'll live), but I am not the author. Horikoshi can have an epiphany tomorrow and kill everyone in the story with a meteor. Idk.
I can only say that Horikoshi has presented a cohesive and coherent writing, one that follows the lines it dictates to their natural conclusion. If things stay like that, there's no need to fear none of the crazy theories circulating the fandom. At the end of the day that's all they are, theories.
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please don't compare the LOV who are mass murderers and LN, Gentle and La Brava.
Respectfully to Gentle and La Brava because I love them and they deserve what they're getting right now (the recognition).
But they can't never compare to the League.
So don't compare them.
Don't compare them to a kid who lived 5 years in an abusive household. Who lost control at that age (like any fucking kid) and because the world is cruel, accidentally killed his entire fsmily. The kid who no one rescued for looking like a monster, so he wad convinced he deserved to suffer. 5 years old. And he then got groomed and manipulated, who got his identity and memories stolen. Who, in order to worsen his condition so he wouldn't heal, started using the amputated hands of his dead family around his body. Who doesn't even owns his body right now, doesn't even ownd his mind.
Don't compare them to someone who burned himself alive waiting for his dad to appear to show he cared. A teen who was willing to burn himself alive if it get his dad attention. A failed product of his parents arranged marriage. A kid who was isolated from his family only to be later discarded. And when he woke up, he did it in a hospital where he almost became a test subject, to be turned into a nomu. Who ran away, went back home and realized he was dead to his dad.
Don't compare them to a kid who was called a monster for an accident where she couldn't control her quirk impulses anymore, after years of neglect. Who got erased from her family with relief almost immediately. Who never tried to help or understand, because she was their shame, their tragedy, not their daughter.
Lady Nagant, Gentle Criminal and La Brava had it bad, but never, ever compare them to the League.
Of course it's easier to redeem them. They were already half there. They weren't completely broken as children, they weren't shattered to their very cores until they couldn't cry anymore.
So. Don't compare.
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I said this before, but for me the best example of a real hero in the bnha universe is Iida Tensei, also known as Ingenium.
It appeared to me so stupid when Stain attacked him. It was the moment I lost respect for Stain and started considering his ideals as empty.
When they show you the recap of what Tensei used to do as a hero, you can feel he is the type of man who would have helped the villains before the villains if he had met them. He was advocated to the little things, the daily struggles, situations that can become way worse if not treated on time
Helping neglected or abused kids are not things below him, for he is not a hero of great acts and entertainment, but a hero of the people, a hero so close to you as a person that you can forget just how important pro-heroes like him are.
He was also a wonderful friend and an incredible older brother. Even after Stain, Tensei showed a level of maturity that impressed me.
Why was he considered a fake hero while All Might was regarded as a real one?
If you compare the way All Might firstly treated Deku to the way Tensei constantly talks in both the Vigilante spin-off and the main series, it hits you like a train just how much of a wonderful role model Tensei is. I don't have a single bad thing to say about him, I can't find a single one, for real.
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Isn't more people like him what the hero society needs? heroic at heart and not at mind or mouth, heroic in the details and not just on tv, heroic even if no one's watching, heroic on their homes, heroic for the sake of it, because they can, because it's the right thing to do, because it's who they are.
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"Touya should have known that killing Shouto..."
How old was Touya there? Maybe 6, 7 years old? Let's say he was 8 year old, for the sake of it.
I'm gonna repeat this slowly and gently. Because I swear to God I'm scared of how you all talk about little kids as if they were obligated to be in full understanding of his surroundings and identities.
If you tell me a 8 yrs old jumped out the window because they felt lonely, my instinct is never going to be "he misunderstood his parents, poor them, they couldn't express to the kid how much they loved him, he didn't try to..." IT IS A CHILD.
You brought the baby to this world, the baby has no idea how this world works and have no sense of control because you should be teaching them. Along as they are minors, especially if they're younger than 12 or maybe 13 years old, they are your responsibility. Fully.
Those are not workers you can fire. Those are not barbie dolls you get to dress up but they must behave perfectly or you are gonna send them away. They are humans and you are in charge of raising them, of their safety and education.
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If Enji was too busy with his job to raise a kid let alone four, if something was mentally and physically wrong with Touya AND THE DOCTOR TOLD ENJI IT COULD HAPPEN but Enji was not even there for it, if he knew the source of Touya's distress was his fault for trying to crossbreed Rei like she was some cow to get the prized animal of the festival, that is on him.
If a kid kills another kid with his father gun, I'm not thinking "omg that child", I'm thinking "what the fuck is the father that he 1) show the gun to the kid, 2) taught the kid how to shoot, 3) left the gun unsupervised and the kid unsupervised and 4) decided it was on the kid if he took the gun and decided to kill his brother".
With 8 years old.
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Bnha is fiction and we're talking about s topic that has more to do with the intention of a good storytelling than the rant on this post, but once again I swear you all talk with the confidence of a a system willing to see a child in jail.
At least treat Touya as a fictional character and be done with it, but don't ever again try to argue a kids point of view with me.
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Just my opinion, but softening Dabi's crimes (as an adult, if I see one more person say pre-Sekoto Peak Touya was a criminal...) equals to softening his trauma and the way it shaped him.
I've seen this kind of discourse before with other characters that didn't have passive or soft trauma reactions like crying or just hurting themselves. People try to erase the dark parts of them, but the idea is that it makes you feel uncomfortable.
Violent societies and violent homes lead to violent individuals. Hurt people not always direct their rage and sadness to be destructive to themselves, but to others. It can drive people mad, like hurt animals in the wild. They can make extreme decisions to try and get rid of the pain or at least get rid of their abusers.
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Dabi's killing count is not morally good but it's also more complex than people make it to be. Trying to erase the weight it has on the narrative would be like trying to erase Dabi's backstory and how it's related to the failure of the hero society.
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I won't deny the League of Villains is not a thing to be maintain. It is not a healthy environment for its members to heal, it was instead encouraging violence and not correctly dealing with their traumas and many other points that just held the League of Villains as an unsustainable situation.
What also can't be denied is that without the League of Villains, most of its members couldn't be saved at all. The League as a group restored the faith in humanity of most of its members, something that yes, it started with Stain as a symbol, but Stain was a celebrity inspiration, the League was the real thing, the constant support, the reinforcement.
Before the League, all its members were separated and alone. Why would you ever believe in a society that has done nothing but reject you? Chase you down for being different? Cast you away? Gave its back to you?
With the League, even as shitty and violent and toxic as it was, these members realized hey, humans are not all monsters. Hey, there's people out there willing to accept me and help me and become my friends not because I'm a tool to be used or just a step in a ladder, but because they really want to get to know me and they truly enjoy my company.
Dabi went from talking like he was the only villain that a matter to being proud of the League! And using the "us" pronoun! After what happened in Sekoto Peak, they were the first to let Dabi know he was not alone!
Society has completely giving up on Toga Himiko. You know what the League did? They say you're not dying on us. If anything, we're dying for you. While her parents treat her as she was already dead, there were a group of criminals worried about her, taking care of her, listening to her.
Mr. Compress? Twice? They had no one, they had nothing. To this day, everything there is about Mr. Compress past is a distant heritage and a dream. No one, no place, no clue. And Twice only had himself, his clones and his trauma over not being even able to trust who he was or he was even alive. And they had two of the most amazing moments in the whole manga, sacrificing themselves for the League, saying how much they felt loved and who their existences only came to matter thanks to the League.
Fuck, Magne got avenged. A woman who thought nobody cared got an entire group that came from from actually not caring, going all in and creating a crazy strategy to make sure the people who killed her suffered.
Should I talk about Spinner, who's only felt seem with the League? Who found out about how he was more than just a lizard with them?
Or should I talk about Giran? The man who underwent torture for them even if he didn't have to? The man who build that family as much as the others did?
Or about Tomura? Man, I'd probably never state enough who much Tomura meant for the League and how much the League meant for Tomura.
So what the League did was heal the distrust and hopelessness of each member, making them believe there was some future where they didn't have to be alone. So when the heroes hint they could be that, companions that would help them heal and pay for their crimes at the same time, it doesn't sound as crazy because they already know from experience there's someone who wants and can do just that.
That's why I keep repeating that waht the League means doesn't cancel out what other people means to the members of the League, and the other way around. Those are complementary relationships, they don't exclude each other.
The fact, they couldn't exist if not together.
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My thoughts on bnha 377:
I love the visual representation of the cherry blossoms because it plays perfectly into Tomura and Deku'w theme of life and death.
It holds this feeling of hope, of course, but also they come with the return of Tomura and La Brava. It feels like it needs to be repeated, but there's no way the heroes can success on this fight without reaching for the villains and the victims. If they're trying to bring spring to the world, to the hero society, it can be a partial change. The pro-heroes don't even have the strength to value their egos over everything else anymore.
Absolutely adoring that La Brava is back!!!!!! She's so an underrated character!!!!!!
Everyone wondering what happened back at the hospital :( Spinner...
The genius touch of Tomura reversing his skin. Feeling like this needs to be a post on its own, because,,,, he's inside out, vulnerable like never before, and he's not partially back, he's there. “what would you have done if you were there?” he asks, still doubting Deku, still not totally convinced they are more than just two boys playing the roles they've been assigned. ALSO HOW HE MENTIONS THE MALL CONVERSATION THEY HAD, I'M SCREAMING. TOMURA I LOVE YOUUUU <3
With the fight on hold, I'm expecting more talk between Deku and Tomura, along with more interactions between past villains and current villains.
HORIKOSHI WHERE IS MR. COMPRESS????
I hurts a lot to see Present Mic, Aizawa and Kurogiri on their current position. There's still a lot unsaid between them and I expect more on them later.
It hurts to see Twice clones as much as everything related to the League of Villains have been hurting on the last chapters. They are so silent, it's unnatural to see a Twice that is not vibrating with life :((
This one is for the girls and the villain lovers and fuck AFO, please die already.
That's it. More meta to come. Happy 2023 !!
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One of my favorite things on the current arc on the manga is the big X on Dabi's chest.
It's the perfect parody of Endeavor, the visual proof that his fight with Shouto market him and rhe best representation of how he's a target, something to be discarded, cross him down and then move on.
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The League of Villains panels are always so gorgeous, so clean and well placed.
There's a level of tragedy and desperation there that you usually get with the heroes. Unless of course we're talking about Deku, the Vestiges or even more gray characters like Hawks or Bakugo.
The light and shadows over the villains, the way they are constantly surrounded by symbolism and how the narrative is alway carefully referring to them... They feel very artistic. Horikoshi has the skill to present a panel full of horror and softness, great contrasts.
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The best thing about bnha its the villains. Almost every other aspect is inferior to other mangas, but the cast of villains has a level of importance, a presence and a deepness that mangas like jjk and csm lack. Sure, they have great villains too, they serve their plots well enough, but their stories are often shallow, little worked or they're too quickly gone.
Bnha has grown along with its villains. They are the main characters as much as the main heroes.
Amazing.
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