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Custom Toonami Block Week 177 Rundown

The Witch from Mercury: Well it took a while but we’re FINALLY getting into school slice of life shenanigans. Immediately after last time Guel takes back his marriage proposal with a ‘it was just a prank bro’ which is really funny cause I was watching sub last week and this makes sense but in the dub to match the lip flaps they even have him say “I’m serious” before he proposes only to immediately say he’s not serious so I’m kinda not buying it. Meanwhile Suletta fails her umm… mine… dodging… test, because apparently you need a team and they don’t tell you that ahead of time and if you show up without one you just fail, this school’s rules are both too generous and too harsh at the same time. She goes around to try and find the team which you’d think’d be easy given she’s the legally binding ace of the school but yeah corporate politics and racism and honestly a bit of plot shenanigans see her on her own. She even goes to the Earth Kids designated Slifer Red shitty dorm in the otherwise rich kid school and gets kicked out the adorably badass Chuchu and I just kinda love this character instantly, like I’m always down for a pink-haired girl that won’t hesitate to punch me in the face. Turns out Chuchu also failed the exams because of Space Racism (like I fundamentally don’t get Space Racism like I get the point is all racism is kinda stupid and arbitrary but like it’s not like the space people look or act different and moving to space probably only happened like a hundred years ago if that how do you develop a full racism machine in that time like it’s so alien to pardon the pun that I have a hard time getting my head around it) and eventually Suletta realizes her wife was the literal last person on campus she decided to ask and they go to Mio’s room to train and I guess they’re just sharing a room now, like that’s probably not a big deal for girls and shit but these guys are literally engaged I’m half expecting someone to pull them apart and say they’re not allowed to sleep in a room together until they’re married but I guess we got rid of Space Catholicism easier than Space Racism. Anyway Chuchu and Suletta both have to retake the test but Suletta gets her suit vandalized the same way Chuchu did and the weird thing about this school that is otherwise ready to fail everyone at the drop of a hat is you can retake the makeup as much as you want so through the power of shonen determination and Dark Souls runbacks she actually does pretty good doing it blind with Mio’s coaching but ends up breaking down realizing even her slice of life school shenanigans are gonna be filled with hamfisted political bullshit where Mio has to remind her of her dream of founding a school to keep her going. (Just as an aside what use is a Mobile Suit education going to be to founding a school? Like shouldn’t she be going for a teaching degree? Like I guess being a warrior is an all-purpose way to fame and wealth which can go towards school-founding better than being a normal teacher but I’m not quite seeing the career path here) meanwhile Chuchu fucking decks the girls responsible for bullying them both because she knows what it’s like to carry the ideals of people that count on her and seeing it happen to Suletta makes her even more angry than when it happens to her, leading to Suletta getting socked in the crossfire. So because everyone involved with the test got punched in the face they schedule a makeup makeup and now Suletta joins the Slifer Red dorm so she can stop living in sin with Mio and everyone’s friends now.

Inuyasha The Final Act: It’s time for Kanna’s finale and like, the group’s already run off and Kanna has like 90% of Tessaiga’s energy so like she could just leave and have Naraku send another demon to finish off the weakened Inuyasha instead of re-engaging them and risking them stealing it back but she doesn’t seem to be able to call back the Mirror Demon so I guess this is a ‘fight until you die’ technique which is why she hasn’t used it until now and also why any damage on the demon reflects back on her. It’s kind of clever the way the stage Kanna in the backline so the group can’t see her taking the damage at first and think the demon is just healing (also the demon remembers the Red Tessaiga exists, that’s something even Inuyasha seems to forget) so yeah Kanna gets busted up real fast which is weird because in her first appearance her mirror was just like an ultimate shield and it took Kagome fucking with it to kinda end in a draw but then again there’s been like a hundred episodes of powercreep since then so the demon might be her best shot. With all the demonic energy gone from Tessaiga, Inuyasha turns into a full demon but apparently since Tessaiga has enough energy to stay in its normal form that’s enough to let him keep his sanity so he gets all the crazy strength of his demon form with an actual weapon so the best of both worlds really. I kinda like that everyone says Tessaiga in an empty husk at this point and Inuyasha has so much faith in it and it turns out to be its protective barrier that saves him instead of any of the flashy destructive techniques he’s learned over the series like his faith is repaid by his defense being the key to victory. Also they’ve really been playing up how much faith Inuyasha has in Tessaiga lately, like bro has been shouting his confidence and affection for his sword more than Kagome lately and that may cause problems when they get married and he calls Tessaiga’s name in bed. But yeah they basically play Energy Tennis for a bit until Inuyasha does enough damage to Kanna that she can’t keep blocking and he is able to destroy the Mirror Sword and get all the energy back. The gang is kind of not cool with killing a child that’s basically Naraku’s glorified tv even though it’s tactically the right move so they just tell her to go and hope Naraku won’t look for her now that she can’t fight. These guys should know how fucking petty Naraku is by this point as he self-destructs Kanna while shouting about how she doesn’t have a heart or emotions meanwhile she didn’t get close enough to catch them in the blast and gives Kagome a vision of Kikyo’s light still inside the jewel which can still purify Naraku.

Castlevania: So this episode’s a little hard to talk about because it’s what amounts to a series of really cool fight scenes so I’m gonna frontload my weekly Carmilla bitching and then hit the plot beats after that. What frustrates me about the whole Carmilla subplot is that you get the feeling Trevor’s group’s escapade wouldn’t be possible without her interference meaning good doesn’t triump on its own, evil just can’t keep it in its pants long enough to beat good. What I liked about Carmilla when she first showed up is she seemed to be the only one taking the heroes seriously but it turns out that was coincidental and they succeed purely passed on her not acknowledging them as players at all and thinking Dracula would just kinda die on his own I guess after their forces wipe 90% of each other out to make things easy for Trevor. Anyway the group raids the great hall and has some really cool fights with like the five people left alive after Carmilla’s raid were Alucard does his best impression of Great Grey Wolf Sif and it’s pretty neat all around. Isaac sees the three coming and is ready to die being the first line of defense but Dracula sends him away to grant him his freedom for his loyalty. And to be fair, Isaac’s strong and all but I don’t really think he’d be a huge difference maker for this fight especially considering Trevor and Sypha end up sitting a good portion of it out anyway. Now granted Dracula is old and tired at this point and hasn’t eaten in like a year but it still takes a lot of hits from all three of them to wear him down until Trevor and Sypha get lost chasing them through the Magma Hole where this essentially stops being a fight and becomes that gif of the two Pikachus slapping each other and crying. Alucard says he knows Dracula just wants to die and his thirst for vengeance may be real but at the same time he’s literally just making himself the biggest target in the world and weakening himself as much as possible so someone can come finish him off. They fight some more until they break into Alucard’s childhood bedroom and the realization dawns on Dracula that he’s killing the last living thing he has left of his wife in her name, like literally a microcosm of the entire war on humanity thing, probably should’ve dawned on him sooner but they do a pretty good job on showing how it was a singularly sharp moment that pierces through the fog of rage and grief, like this shit was obvious to Alucard from the jump but Dracula seems to be the kind of person that relates better to singular people than broad ideals, kind of an Anakin Skywalker deal where he’ll get a better grasp of something if he sees someone embody it and be more attached to the individual than the actual core of what they are doing. So yeah, he lets Alucard stake him with his childhood bedpost and in true Dio-style fashion they still have to behead and burn his remains just to make sure because this is Castlevania and Dracula always comes back. But yeah, story over… except we’re only eleven episodes in and there’s twenty to go, that sounds like a lot…

Jujutsu Kaisen: Okay so this episode is kind of just really great, as expected of the final showdown between Mahito and Yuji with some Todo thrown in for flavor. Mahito creates some glass cannon clones to distract Todo to get to a 1v1 with Yuji but it doesn’t really go anywhere since they have 1HP. He does the thing Gojo did and activates his Domain and basically immediately turns it off, essentially just booping Sukuna’s nose before running off before he gets his head cut off. Since he basically activated it and pulled the trigger on the technique at the same time this costs Todo his arm but he does give Mahito an awesome Love Live style beatdown and uses Mahito’s hand as a second hand to clap to dip out and let Yuji and Mahito finally have their last encounter. In true DBZ fashion Mahito transforms into his final form which as usual is some weird alien thing with a tail and he’s officially out of tricks so he’s just in full punchy punch mode, no more being clever just a huge slugfest. The funny thing is a combination of one last Todo assist and Yuji’s original lag technique is what opens him up for a Full Power Black Fisting, I thought about it and I don’t remember if Mahito ever encountered Yuji’s double strike before so his original ‘inferior’ technique being what catches him off-guard here is kinda ironic. Yuji has him dead to rights and is just like ‘You know I’ve had it with all your moralizing bullshit, sure I’m the asshole whatever you fucking philosophy major, but only one of us is walking away from this alive’ and it’s REALLY cool cause they just keep dragging out how humiliating this defeat is for Mahito and what a cowardly child he is when he doesn’t have an advantage on someone and he really deserves it at this point, just missing a scene where he pisses himself. Anyway Kenjaku shows up but I have a feeling Mahito’s not getting out of this and since Kenjaku’s here that means Gojo’s hypercube is still around probably so we’ll see how this goes.

Delicious in Dungeon: So we follow a B party for a little bit here before they get ambushed by treasure bugs and one thing kinda stands out to me. They say the dungeon’s basically been picked clean of treasure at this point and like… why go in it then? Like I assumed there was a bunch of respawning treasure that drove people to go through hell like with Made in Abyss where there’s random cool shit everywhere that makes it worth going into but dungeoneering is canonically an expensive hobby so if there’s scant reward to cover the overhead why is it so popular? Like I get the whole One Piece angle of if you get to the bottom you win the game and get vaguely defined ownership of the dungeon but most people seem to not take that seriously and dungeon the higher floors for some other purpose but like how are they affording all this shit if they can’t find treasure? Anyway the gang ends up cooking the bugs which is probably the grossest thing we’ve seen so far since not only are they bugs but they also look like inanimate objects so it’s double icky but a neat concept nonetheless. We also get a nice bit of continuity as Laios’s sword bug guy gives him a sixth sense about ambush bugs and we get to see him interacting with it like a per which is pretty cute. Next the gang is reminiscing about Falin and emphasizing the hole she’s left in their party while they’re ambushed by ghosts without a cleric. They make up some makeshift holy water and drive them off while simultaneously accidentally making ice cream and resolving to not let Falin’s absence make them helpless before Laios lets the intrusive thoughts win and everyone hates him for a hot minute.

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End: We get the cleanup from the Aura arc, including the reveal that the Graf’s son was one of the suits of armor being controlled by Aura so Frieren REALLY got on his good side by setting his son’s soul free. The group stay a while in town and get to relax a bit before heading out. Turns out though they are legally required to have the mage equivalent of eight gym badges before going further north and Fern only has like three gym badges and Frieren is the kind of person that would let her driver’s liscence expire and then keep driving anyway because who’s gonna tell her not to, she’s got all the time in the world but still no time for standing in line at the Magical DMV. Meanwhile the second half of the episode is about Stark passing out in a blizzard wherein the meet an Elf Monk who kinda reminds me of Todo due to being jacked as hell and kissing a necklace around his neck. They just casually drop a six month timeskip while they wait out the winter and Frieren talks religion with this guy and it’s kinda melancholy like a lot of stuff in this show. He relies on religion because it’s the only form of everlasting validation he can achieve which is kind of sad to be honest, Frieren echoes the need for external validation but says she’s fine with the impermanence of human praise because of how close to her friends she was getting her through in the end, it’s just kind of a sad note to leave things on but we do establish that Frieren doesn’t entirely believe she’ll be able to talk to dead spirits when they get north and is really just doing this as something to do and is just kinda vibing with whatever quest Flamme is sending her on this time.

Vinland Saga: It’s character growth time for Olmar and god damn is it a good arc, he’s seen firsthand the effects of the war and knows he’s both the trigger of it and a murderer in his own right and is no longer comfortable with the violent ideals of his heritage. When it comes down to him to make a decision about whether to surrender or let their last twenty guys go down fighting he does what his father couldn’t and stands up to his brother, taking the real courage of dishonor after not being able to turn the other cheek before and it’s really neat to see. I like how he’s crying and sniveling the whole way like it’s not a cool and strong declaration he just admits he doesn’t want to die and doesn’t want to watch others die because of his stupid pride, it’s a really genuine moment and shows he’s already a better man than basically his entire family. Throgil basically tells everyone to fuck off and presumably goes to rush the army singlehanded. Meanwhile Thorfinn wants to talk to Canute to make sure no one else dies but gets punched out by the guards and even when Canute gets word of who it is he doesn’t want to see him, presumably out of shame for what he’s done in pursuit of his paradise. Einar comes to pick up Thorfinn but Thorfinn’s not going since he’s happy about all the cool shit that happened this season and grateful for everyone he met and all he’s learned, a stark contrast from the ‘I’ve never once been glad to be alive’ declaration at the start of the season. So he makes a bet with the men that if he can withstand a hundred punches from their strongest guy, they’ll let him see Canute.

#ooc #Toonami #Custom Toonami Block #The Witch from Mercury #Inuyasha #Castlevania #Jujutsu Kaisen #Delicious in Dungeon #sousou no frieren #Vinland Saga

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waynedunlaptheorgandonor · 3 years

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watched s11ep1

i will provide you with a quick review before i disappear back into the ether of twd avoidance

lots of spoilers under the cut. also i wrote way too much and i worked all night and haven’t slept so i didn’t bother to reread literally any of it, so it might be completely nonsensical, tho if you don’t expect that from me by this point idk whose blog you’ve been reading

enjoy:

hokay, first off, i’ll start by saying that i enjoyed it more than i expected to. i’ve been avoiding any sort of discussion about stuff, but my google algorithm is so fucked at this point that i still get recommended articles and stuff every now and then, so i was already pretty aware of what i was walking into, and was expecting it to be eh, but actually i prob enjoyed it more than i enjoyed the finale

(don’t get too excited tho, the finale was rly boring lmfao)

anyway

episode starts off with a tense scouting mission

it takes .005 seconds into the episode for caryl to exchange a look of longing, establishing that they are still having weird conflict and are both too fucking stubborn to do anything about it even tho they hate it desperately

i imagine that will continue for a while

rosita, kelly, carol, maggie, what’s her face with the bad hair, and lydia (i think that’s everyone?) lower down to some army bunker or something, where a bunch of walkers are taking a snooze, and the girls are very respectful of walker naptime, and do their best not to wake them up

obviously they eventually wake up, but i’ll get to that in a sec

as they’re tiptoeing through the walker tulips, there’s this split second where carol spots a machine gun, and looks at maggie with a face like, “can i plzzzz, i am mad horny for that machine gun,” but maggie tells her no. (i 110% expected her to defy orders and accidentally wake up all the walkers, but she actually behaved herself for once. well. mostly)

never fear, tho, after the girl gang collects a bunch of MREs they go back to wait for the dudes waiting up top to pull them up, and bc men ruin everything, one of the ropes break, and daryl catches it before it falls, but then a slow motion drop of blood falls on a walker’s face, and just like that, walker naptime is over, and carol uses her bow and arrow for two seconds before she is like “fuck this” and whips out the machine gun

yes, she is super hot using it

yes, daryl watches her do it

anyway, all the other girls get rescued, and carol is about to be pulled up, but bc she is a #girlboss, she first makes a beeline for one more crate full of MREs. daryl covers her while she gets the loot, and when she gets back up top they have another charged moment as carol hands him back his knife

just fuck already, jfc

titles!

cut to alexandria where everything is still not smilestimes

BUT, we do get to see uncle daryl run and hug rj and judith (and dog), and FUCKING HERSHEL JR, LIGHT OF MY LIFE is also there

istg, they could not have casted a better child, i a d o r e him

oh, and some friends of maggie’s show up too, idk

cut to a staff meeting where everyone is like, whomp whomp, we’re all gonna starve to death unless we figure out something quick

cue maggie going, “oh, i know where food is, but it requires me to tell you my tragic backstory, in case anyone didn’t watch my bottle episode”

she tells her dramatic backstory about all her friends getting slaughtered by the reapers for no apparent reason, and then she’s like “anyway, let’s go back there!”

no one thinks it’s a great idea, but a group of people decide to go anyway, including daryl and gabriel. rosita is super pissed that gabriel is going, and carol doesn’t go, probably partly bc it’s a shitty fucking idea, and also bc they have to keep caryl apart bc otherwise they’ll fix their problems ahead of schedule and they won’t be able to drag out the needless angst

daryl looks kind of annoyed that carol doesn’t volunteer to go

bitch, i thought you wanted her to stop putting herself in the line of fire! make up your damn mind!

moving on

cut to a thunderstorm, where, if you look closely, you’ll notice daryl is wearing the STUPIDEST hat i’ve ever seen. just get an umbrella, jfc

for some reason negan is with them, bc ig he knows his way around washington dc, and no one in six years has bothered to figure out how to get around the city and/or get a map, and he is like “hey guys, maybe we shouldn’t try to walk in this fucking hurricane,” and everyone is like “FUCK YOU NEGAN, YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF US!!!”

this will be a common occurrence

but eventually daryl is even like “actually, it’s rly unpleasant out here, and my hat is mad stupid, can we go inside plz?”

so they go inside an old metro station, which is actually a rly cool cinematic choice. i rly like the idea, and they executed it rly well

speaking of executions

there are some fucking RULL CREEPY walkers. idk why they bothered me so badly, but they were what they at first assumed were corpses wrapped up in tarps, but turns out none of them had been properly put down, so they go through killing these rotted bodies that had supposedly been there since The Fall, and it’s very gross and cool

this entire time, btw, negan is like “hey, i know i’m a shitty person, but i have some rational arguments about why we shouldn’t be doing this right now,” and everyone is like, “FUCK YOU NEGAN, YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF US!!!” and he’s just like “god fucking damnit”

(i forgot to mention that at one point, when they’re headed into the metro station, negan is trying to warn ppl of the potential danger, and everyone is ignoring him, and he tries to talk to daryl, and daryl is like “fuck you, you think we’re BUDDIES?” and negan is like “oh, ok, so you’re gonna be like that too? fanfreakingtastic” and it’s very funny)

anyway. a fat monster zombie escapes its tarp at one point, and tries to eat some npc, and negan saves him, again is like “hey, anyone else realize that this is a FUCKING BAD PLAN?”, and everyone is like “we don’t care, you’re still shitty and we’re not listening to you, and you don’t actually care about random npc i would literally not be able to pick out in a lineup bc his face is so generic, you’re not the boss of us!!!”

it’s at this point that negan finally is like, “why am i even here? bc i know how to get around washington dc? do none of you have a map?” and i was like, “right?! that’s what i said!”

it’s then revealed that maggie only brought negan along to murder him under the guise of “oops, he got hurt in the line of duty, it wasn’t my fault,” and daryl has this look on his face that says, “i seriously need to stop hanging out with lethal women bent on revenge bc it’s gonna give me high blood pressure,” and maggie has a badass moment where she points a gun she has for some reason at negan and is like “i have like, one shred of human compassion left inside of me, and if you keep pushing me i will fucking kill you without a second thought, so shut the hell up”

(in her defense, negan had just dropped glenn’s name to purposely antagonize her, which was rude as hell)

(for the record, i’m completely on maggie’s side here, but negan still is right that trapping themselves in a metro station is a bad call)

anyway, moving away from that briefly

i think this jump cut happens sooner, i don’t actually remember, but whatever who cares, point is, we get to the part of the show that actually matters, and that’s anything involving my love, juanita “princess” sanchez

and also eugene, yumiko, and ezekiel

they are being asked increasingly invasive questions by commonwealth ppl, some of which i wish they actually would of answered (what do they use to wipe their asses with?? surely toilet paper has long since become extinct)

zeke, who is so much more tolerable as a character now that he’s not larping as a king, has this incredibly weird and sort of sexually charged moment with a dude in an orange stormtrooper costume, where he’s like, “i bet you were an asshole cop back before The Fall, you stupid fascist, #fuckthepolice, mb literally? idk, this moment has a lot of pent up aggression that could easily translate to hate sex, it might just be the intense eye contact, but w/e, let’s just move along,” and then he has a coughing fit to remind the audience that he’s currently dying of cancer, and orange stormtrooper is like “lolz, loser, drink some water you dumb piece of shit”

cut to the wholesome foursome sitting at a picnic table in a guarded courtyard eating gruel, and yumkio, who finally has a personality, and princess are like “hey, this place fucking sucks, can we leave?” and zeke is like, “yeah, i met this orange stormtrooper who i think might be dtf and/or murder, so we should probably bounce”

but eugene is like, “but i want some hot stephanie ass, and also some bullshit excuse about how mb commonewealth will save alexandria” which, they left before things went super downhill, right? idr. it was after hilltop fell, but they don’t know alexandria got fucked either, if i recall? w/e, not important

two seconds after he says this, they talk to some people who are like “we’ve been here for four months, or maybe it’s been nine, i don’t actually remember, i’ve stopped processing the passage of time,” and the wholesome foursome takes this as a bad sign, tho that’s just the life i’ve lived as a night worker during a pandemic, so i was like #mood

but then they watch some guy get dragged away screaming to get “reprocessed” and eugene is like “ok, nvm, let’s bounce”

(my theory on what “reprocessing” is, is that they’re stuck in a room and have to watch hours and hours of customer service training videos on vhs from the 90s)

i definitely got my jump cut scenes mixed up bc i think the negan accusing maggie of a murder plot thing happened in between this scene and then the next commonwealth scene, but w/e, i’ll just finish what happens in the commonwealth arch

the wholesome foursome are trying to hatch a plan to escape, except princess, my love, is distracted watching some stormtroopers flirt, and the other three are like “wtf, dude, how can you even tell any of them apart?” and princess then tells them every stormtroopers backstory bc she is brilliant and pays rly close attention to shit, and the other three are like, “this is useful information, thank you for being an insane person”

their plan involves yumiko and eugene dressing up as stormtroopers and leading princess and zeke out of the place, which works fine actually, except on their way out they come across the Depressing Wall of Probably Mostly Dead Missing Loved Ones

they’re about to leave, when princess is like, “wait, yumiko, you’re on here, that’s weird huh?”

sure enough, yumiko is on the wall, with a note from ig her sister

the scene ends with yumiko going, “guys...i can’t leave...i have tragic backstory to unveil”

tragic backstory to be continued ig

back in murder metro town, npc and some other npc have stolen all the supplies, there’s a train blocking the track, and a horde of walkers are coming towards them, so things are not going fantastic

they horde is too big to take down, so they start to climb on top of the train car to get away

but dog runs away!

and daryl, being every pet owner ever, is like “gotta go get my dog, guys, try not to get killed while i’m gone, c u soon!” and he ducks under the train and disappears

#priorities

the episode ends with maggie climbing up the train car but getting grabbed by a walker and dangling off the edge, and negan is there and they have a lion king moment where maggie is like, “scar! help me!” and negan is like “long live the king, bitch” and walks away into the shadows, leaving maggie to a potential death

which, while i know isn’t actually going to happen, would be a really fucking funny move on the writers’ part

like, “look, lauren’s back! and now she’s dead, bet you didn’t expect that!”

anyway

my assumption is negan will actually end up helping her up or something, continuing his ambiguous morality bullshit that actually isn’t ambiguous bc he BEAT GLENN TO DEATH WITH A FUCKING BAT WRAPPED IN BARBED WIRE IN FRONT OF HIS PREGNANT WIFE

the maggie/negan arch is kind of dumb, but whatevs, i’ll tolerate it, as long as my boy glenn gets justice in the end

anyway, cue credits!

final assessment: good episode. i’m much more interested in commonwealth than the reapers, tho i am hoping that daryl’s personality-less ex turns out to be a monster killing machine with no conscience, that’ll be fun. princess is a gift from god. hershel jr needs his own tv show. needs more carol (and caryl)

the end! going back into my walking dead free chamber! see you next episode!

-diz

#i didn't mean to recap the entire fucking episode lol #sorry #it's to make up for my lack of content lately #or something #anyway #caryl #twd s11ep1 #twd s11 spoilers #dunlap tp

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makeste · 6 years

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BnHA Chapter 040: Deku VS Todoroki (Conclusion)

Previously on BnHA: Oh god. Shouto flashed back repeatedly to his horrific childhood. Deku decimated basically his entire body in his quest to get Todoroki to finally use his left side. Like, he literally chose the most perverse and insane possible way to do this. For reasons I can’t begin to fathom, none of the adults bothered to intervene in this bloodbath. My god it pissed me off so much. Anyway, Todoroki finally did realize that his power is his own and he can use it without it automatically meaning that he’s giving in to his evil father. It made him very happy and was a very powerful moment tbh. BUT AT WHAT COST.

Today on BnHA: Deku and Todoroki nearly blow up the stadium and each other before the U.A. faculty FINALLY steps in. Deku is blown out of bounds and the fight ends. Endeavor is all, YESSSSS, JOIN ME AND TOGETHER WE CAN RULE THE GALAXY AS FATHER AND SON but Shouto is just, WHATEVER, I DON’T EVEN CARE ABOUT YOU and it’s the best. All Might and Deku have an emotional moment in the nurse’s office while Recovery Girl is just like, “smdh.” Basically the manga shyly offers me an apology and a bouquet of flowers for putting me through all of that bullshit in the last chapter, and LIKE A FOOL I fall for it hook, line and sinker.

(As always, all comments not marked with an ETA are my unspoiled reactions from my first readthrough of this chapter. I’ve read up through chapter 94 now, so any ETAs will reflect that.)

so here we are at chapter 40. officially about 20% of the way through the story so far. a lot has happened! Deku has learned to control his powers! somehow it’s made absolutely no difference in terms of how frequently he’s been gravely injured! in fact if anything it’s all gotten much, much worse!

oh my god Endeavor is jumping up in the stands and fucking SCREAMING about how Shouto’s finally accepted his blood and now he can finally fulfill his (Endeavor’s) ambitions

someone push him down these stairs

oh my god the chapter is titled “Emancipation.” lol I assume it’s metaphorical, but what I wouldn’t fucking give for Shouto to somehow legally tell his dad to just fuck off forever

Mic calls Endeavor a “doting parent.” that’s... a take. possibly the most ironic fucking thing anyone has ever said

Aizawa seems to know a little bit more about Shouto’s history with his dad though, since he’s thinking to himself that they’re not on good terms. but maybe he just figured that out from Shouto’s insistence on not using his left side

Todoroki is completely thawed out now and on fucking fire and Deku is grinning and Shouto asks him what the fuck he’s smiling about lol. he’s smiling because he helped you, silly! but yes you’re right he is totally fucking screwed

can we get this match ended at last please?? can we get a fucking mercy rule implemented into this fucking tournament

please help me out here, U.A. as unfathomably badass as Todoroki is at full power, I really don’t want to sit through another whole fucking chapter of Deku doing insane things he really shouldn’t be able to do

you know what I would enjoy, though? a quick cut to show how the villains are reacting to all of this. or Deku’s mom, for that matter! assuming she hasn’t passed out or anything. but even if she did, she said she was recording it, so

(ETA: lol are you guys sick of me speculating about Deku’s mom every five paragraphs yet)

DEKU YOUR SECRET IS FUCKING OUT NOW. IT’S WHAT YOU DESERVE, QUITE HONESTLY

and finally Cementoss is springing into action. JESUS CHRIST. TAKE YOUR TIME WHY DON’T YOU. honestly, both he and Midnight -- and really the entire faculty -- are lucky if they’re not charged with child endangerment after all of this

(ETA: well I’m glad U.A.’s student safety record does actually become a plot point later. but slightly annoyed that no one had any problem with this particular spectacle and that it only became an issue after the second villain attack)

having no self-preservation instincts isn’t a fucking superpower and it isn’t something children should be aspiring to

fucking look at these idiots

DON’T EXPECT A ROUND OF APPLAUSE FROM ME NOW, CEMENTOSS

jesus there was like a fucking shockwave. that was all Deku, I’m sure. the giant fire tornado erupting from the stadium is all Todoroki, though!

I’m pretty sure everyone in the stadium just collectively shat their pants

lol forever if a single one of the heroes in the stands even thinks about having the audacity to think they could ever claim either of these two as a sidekick after this. no matter who it is, THEY’RE THE ONES WHO WOULD BE THE FUCKING SIDEKICK

fucking I don’t even know, Mic

so who fucking won. was it a tie?

there’s so much fucking steam from all of the suddenly-melted ice

that shit should be scalding Deku and Shouto both. but we’ve long since torpedoed past the boundaries of realism within this particular fight

there’s a panel of Deku’s shoe but not showing the rest of him...

HE’S OUT OF BOUNDS. OH MY GOD. PRAISE ALL MIGHT. FUCKING FINALLY THIS FIGHT IS FUCKING OVER

so Todoroki moves on to round three

no matter who wins in the Shiozaki/Iida match, they should just fucking forfeit afterward lmao

the audience can’t understand what Deku’s strategy was. there’s no point in trying to understand it, he was basically just trying to make his friend feel better to the point that he became near-suicidal in that pursuit

still, would anyone in this crowd actually want to fuck with him after witnessing that??

YOU DON’T COUNT

lol do you still want these two as your rivals though. and Deku went and made your job even harder for you

and he overheard that conversation earlier, so he understands the significance of what just went down better than anyone else in this audience

oh look, Shouto is being confronted by a walking piece of flaming shit. what an interesting sight

he says Shouto is finally ready to replace him. fucking get over yourself. I’m trying to think of truly awful things to compare you to but I’m so mad I can’t even come up with any

but he seems to think that this means Shouto is done “rebelling” and has anyone ever been so wrong before I wonder

FUCKING YESS

YESSSS RIGHT IN HIS PRIDE

AND NOW HE’S WALKING AWAY

SHOUTO STAY RIGHT THERE!! I’M COMING AROUND!! GOT A BIG HIGH FIVE WITH YOUR NAME ON IT

aaaaand the nurse’s office again!!

so just how dead is Deku this time

shit

shit. I hope they maxed out his painkillers, this poor stupid fucking kid

WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE GOING TO TELL HIS MOTHER GODDAMMIT

and okay but, can you please stop putting it on All Might though. yes he put pressure on Deku, but Deku’s inner fire has like a psychotic edge to it that even he couldn’t have ever anticipated. All Might told him to go out there with a smile, not screaming like a madman and methodically breaking all of his bones one by one

also, he didn’t anticipate Shouto’s involvement in all this and just how far Deku would go for him

which, by the way, I know there’s a sizable chunk of the fandom that ships TodoDeku (or really it’d probably be the other way round wouldn’t it), and like, it’s hard not to see why. you know I’m all about that BakuDeku ship, but Deku clearly has a lot of love to go around. lots of terrifying, violent love

anyway, the point is this wasn’t All Might’s doing. he’s not fucking Dumbledore manipulating the poor kid left and right. he’s still new to being a mentor and he vastly underestimated his protege’s propensity for getting himself deep into the shit

Recovery Girl says All Might better not praise him for what he did. okay, yeah, that I can 100% agree with. it wasn’t healthy or sane or smart by any stretch, and it accomplished absolutely nothing that a couple of sessions with a halfway decent therapist couldn’t have done. though from what I’ve seen, I’m not sure if this school believes in things like therapists

and here comes the fam

oh shit I just realized All Might is still in Skinny Steve form

-- DEKU IS CONSCIOUS???!

HELLO NICE TO MEET YOU

DEKU IS FUCKING CONSCIOUS THOUGH??!

I HOPE HE’S DOPED UP TO THE NINES

apparently they took a break to repair the arena

this piece of shit is expressing an opinion I happen to agree with. it happens

but that’s okay because Deku doesn’t need to be some stupid shitty so-called pro’s shitty sidekick. I hate like 90 percent of the pros outside of the U.A. faculty anyway

well. but Best Jeanist though...

now Recovery Girl is chasing them all out and saying he’s about to have surgery

they’re all like “SURGERY?!” YES, SURGERY. WERE YOU NOT WATCHING THE SAME FIGHT THAT I WAS

sdlfkhl damn it and Deku’s apologizing now

he’s so fucking out of it, I can’t be mad at him even though I was so fucking mad at him!!! you idiot!!

All Might, hey, hold it. wait up. dude. you don’t get openly emotional and you never have up till this point so don’t start now when it’s so late and I’m not prepared. if you lose it even the slightest degree I will literally be a mess

and now All Might is realizing Deku was trying to get Todoroki to get over his hangups

and Deku’s saying yes, because “it was just too sad...”

does All Might know what he’s talking about? he can probably guess some of it, but he doesn’t know just how bad it was with Todoroki and Endeavor

Deku says he tried to mind his own business, but he couldn’t take it

“it was so frustrating.” kid, I 100% agree. but like, you and I have different approaches to solving problems like this oh my god

anyways so he completely forgot about his goal of winning the tournament and “lost himself”

well at least this exonerates All Might from having had anything to do with this outcome. just in case he was prepared to blame himself

Deku hasn’t cried once during any of this, incidentally. is he just too exhausted

he needs huuuuuuugs. surgery and then hugs!!

you know what could have changed what happened. literally anyone intervening at any point before the match actually ended

ooooh just like that I’m starting to get mad all over again lol. but not at you, All Might. and not at Deku, who was clearly out of his mind, just totally off the rails with his psychotic good intentions

“however, giving help that’s not asked for... is part of what makes a true hero.” awww ;_;

look, again, I don’t deny that Shouto needed help in some shape or form

and I guess all’s well that ends... sort of... okay

just. wow, what a fucking outcome. what a train wreck of a battle. that was something, all right

“Midoriya Izuku... finished in the top eight”

and the chapter ends

bonus

looks like we’re done with character profiles for the time being! NOW IT’S COSTUME COMMENTARY OH GOODY :D :D :D

how much of this did Bakugou design himself, I wonder? he probably just explained how his quirk worked and what he wanted the gauntlet thing to do and that he wanted it to look cool (by his weird definition of cool)

I really love Bakugou’s quirk. I don’t know if I’ve said this. but it’s probably my second or third favorite, after Ochako’s and possibly Aizawa’s. just something about explosions. I’ve been a Gokudera fangirl for too long lol. and I also love his fighting style and his blasting all over the place

look at the thought that went into even the fucking grenade pin design

Bakugou can fucking blow shit up with his knees?? holy shit. I thought those were just weird Mad Max style knee pads lmao

(ETA: I think maybe by “kill with his knees” they just mean he could like. crush some poor dude or something. just bludgeon them or some shit. how violent)

and he can put his explosive sweat into the grenades on his belt too. “what’s the point?” well, you never know. plus it looks cool to have the grenades there on his belt

“all in all: heartless” this guy never stops shitting on my favorite character lol

#bnha #boku no hero academia #makeste reads bnha #midoriya izuku #todoroki shouto #endeavor #all might #bakugou katsuki #I forgot all about bakugou's knee pads #fucking kill somebody with your knees already bakugou #are you just going to leave us all hanging or what

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