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smth that always makes me so emotional about wind breaker is that it feels kind

I've watched a handful of shonens in the past, especially in my middle school and early high school days. hxh was one of my firsts, and mha wasn't that far behind it now, I'm not saying these two are mean stories per say, but if you pluck the main characters and just look...both of them go through so much pain throughout the story. the reader gets to watch it happen over and over. they're put through the wringer, and the world around them isn't very kind to them. I never finished hxh when I watched it back in middle school; the chimera ant arc hurt me too much, and I couldn't make it through the arc. similarly, I slowly stopped watching mha after a good side character died (the first death of many for that series, from what I've heard)

but wind breaker is different.

the worst of what's happened to our main cast so far has all happened in the past. they're older wounds, or we don't get to see the metaphorical knifes cut their hearts and souls open.

what we, the readers, get so see over and over is not their pain and agony, but the recovery of it.

(manga spoilers below cut, sorry anime-only peeps)

we get to learn in a flashback of umemiya's family and the accident that caused their deaths, we get to learn of his grief and the agony he experienced. but seeing his pain wasn't the whole point of the flashback: it was to see him healing from that tragedy. it was to establish just how important some of umemiya's characteristics and habits are to him, not formed out of his trauma and grief, but out of the recovery and healing process.

we're recently been shown that kiryu's family life is far from ideal. the constant fights, the isolation, the tension and fear and hatred. but we also get to see the worst is now behind kiryu and akari now. we get to learn that akari is stronger than expected, that she's been holding her own and has a plan, that she hasn't been broken by this. their futures are looking brighter by the day.

as the story progresses, we're learning more and more about sakura and what it was like before makochi. ostracization. neglect. open hatred. stuff that makes my heart shatter every time I think about it. but that traumatic background isn't the POINT. all of that, although haunting and lingering in sakura's bones, is in the past. he's not there anymore, he's somewhere better. he's growing, he's healing, and learning the world and warmer and kinder than he thought it ever could have been.

yes, there's still pain. yes, there's still things that hurt. but the worst of it has already been crossed before the story even begun (at least for now...I can't say with 100% certainty something from sakura's past isn't going to rear its head at some point). wind breaker isn't about showing pain and blatantly overcoming hardships and growing through the tragedy, it's about healing, about growing through that recovery.

with other shonens, you might wonder to yourself if the main characters are going to be okay by the end of the series.

with wind breaker, you know sakura is going to be okay. and, in a way, it feels like wind breaker is trying to tell you that you're going to be okay, too.

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I LOVE CHARACTER GROWTH!!!

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tmw you wake up and immediately go read the new chapter and end up crying a little into your pillow

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Another week another Wind Breaker making me cRY

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Just a post to appreciate my adorable and lethal little sunshine Choji.

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compilation

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always love getting a kudos email but I feel like this one in particular does not bode well for me

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jokes to make after failure that aren’t self-deprecating:

I’m the best to ever do it

Nobody saw that (best if said loudly)

No one’s ever done it like me

I could be President/they should make me President

Behold, a mere fraction of my power!

The public wants to be me soooooo bad

I’m an expert in (thing you just failed at)

How could this have happened to god’s favorite princess?

Nothing ibuprofen and a glass of water cant fix

I’m being sabotaged

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he's so cute (ignore the horrors he's about to witness)

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Sorry I’m so sorry but I’m going insane about the Havens of Sirion again. Like. Do you get it. It was a refugee camp at the end of the world. It’s rulers were two refugees who also happened to be the only peredhil in the WORLD. The Falathrin dialect of Sindarin mingled with other Sindarin dialects at Sirion and became the common tongue for all elves throughout the second and third ages. It was probably the most diverse place in Beleriand, with Gondolindrim, Sindar, Noldor, groups of the Edain and Druedain living there. It was a place where art and history were recorded by at least Pengolodh and Dirhaval, and where art was lost when Dirhaval was murdered. It was a place of collaboration, working with Balar. It was a place where beautiful things were made, like Vingilot itself. DO YOU CARE

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i love characters who are always like fear not, i shall take care of this problem for you….. by sacrificing myself!! and everyone else is like i swear to god if you pull this shit again i’ll kill you

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just watched the first ep of to be hero x new blorbo is going THRU it

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Animators art for the end of season 2

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THANK YOU WIND BREAKER SEASON 2!!!! SEE YOU ON SEASON 3!!! WE WILL BE WAITING!!!!🥰

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togame trying to find that one bridge sakura gave vague directions to