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I CANNOT. I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS

THEY PUT THE SINGLE MOST PAINFUL PAGES OF MANGA IVE READ UP ON THE WALLS OF AN ANIME STORE

THE MY HERO HOMIES ARE NOT OKAY WITH THIS

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On one hand, it’s nice that Hori actually confirmed that the jailer WAS his father

On the other hand... Shishikura, your father was a hateful man, I HOPE you don’t follow in his footsteps

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Chapter 297 Manga Spoilers⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

I legit forgot that this happened on in the manga, it's been a few month

We get to see her this season I think

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*squints* Did the Twitter refugees somehow contaminated Tumblr with that blue mark business?

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n°4

AU where, the day of the entrance exam, All Might loses the hair to a strong gust of wind right after explaining the condition to transfer One for All so Izuku hesites 0.02 seconds before biting All Might’s arm like a vampire.

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I feel so sorry for the Twitter users who have just emigrated to Tumblr because when I saw the first Goncharov posts, I was confused for a few seconds before I checked the tag and nodded when I saw #unreality. I was “Ah yes, people are inventing stuff.” because all of Tumblr going insane on one specific thing is something I’m used to.

But I don’t think people who aren’t used to this strange environment are in any way prepared for that kind of craziness and oh boy, what a way to be introduced to Tumblr.

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n°2

I already don’t like All Might bashing but nothing annoys me more than the specific brand of All Might bashing where All Might furiously discriminates against quirkless people.

When All Might tells Izuku that he doesn’t think someone without a quirk can be a hero? Most of his answer is about himself. He is the quirkless kid who became a hero and he is now horribly alone, depressed, has PTSD, too many organs lost in action and a husk of his former self while the pressure of being the number 1 hero is grinding down on him as he is losing more and more time to use his quirk every day while being extremely aware that criminality staying as low as it is fully depends on him being the number 1 hero.

When Izuku asked him if he could be a hero, All Might probably had a magnificent flashback to his whole life and couldn’t, in good conscience, tell someone so similar to him to follow the same path because of all the hardship he went through.

Izuku being the only one to help during the second Sludge villain attack didn’t make him realize that “Even someone without a quirk has the potential to be a hero!” but it made him remember what heroism really is about.

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Loid is such a funny character, the first time you are introduced to him he seems like a cool, suave, charismatic but also ruthless man who focuses only on his mission and the embodiment of every spy character troupe there is and he is! But also few chapters in and he's like "My daughter/wife doesn't like me 🥺🥺🥺🥺 i am a failure of a spy 😩😩😭😭😭😭" at like every minor inconvenience

Loid, who bought an entire library of parenting books right after getting Anya and who makes sure to arrange dates with Yor despite being overworked and who gets actually angry when people say bad things about her: "I am just doing this for the mission."

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Typing BarrenClan Cats in OPS

i'm rereading @barrenclan so I thot this might be fun :P

Right now, I'm only on chapter 15/16 I think? But I think I have enough info (plus prior knowledge) to do a quick typing on the slug sibs

Pinepaw: Pinepaw is definitely a gatherer, though I don't know if I'd say he's overdoing chaos...he doesn't have a need for new things as much as he has a need for individuality.

This might not SEEM like the case since he's not an individualist per say, but when reading the comic you can tell he goes away from the tribe and focuses on his wants, he is looking for answers not FOR the tribe but purely because he wants to know.

This can be seen in many scenarios, but mainly in him wanting to leave the group. Someone who's tribe over self and an organizer would prefer to stick to traditions, like Cootstorm, they would hear the cries of the past barrenclan warriors and want to stay, because that is what the tribe and tradition wants.

This leads me to either INTP or INFP, though I think he's more of an INFP. He doesn't care as much about efficiency, even if he is logical he prefers to think about his values

Also idk if it's necessary to say ne>se he's clearly intuitive, moreso coming to as many conclusions as possible instead of paying close attention to the surroundings

ALSO Consume>Sleep>Blast>Play is my best guess but I'm not too sure

Examples of INFPs:

Shinji Ikara from NGE

Belle (Beauty and the Beast)

Spider-Man/Peter Parker (Marvel Comics)

As for other typologies, these are just possibilities:

6w7 (4w5 is also a possibility!)

694

RCUAI or SLUAI

ELFV

Phlegmatic-Sanguine or Phlegmatic [Dominant]

Neutral Good (or neutral moral if we're doing 5x5)

Heir of Doom (Prospit)

NEXT Daffodilpaw ! One of my favorites...first off she is DEFINITELY tribe>self and is overdoing tribe...this is not even a question at this point. She focuses too much on others, deciding her only worth is what she can contribute.

Though I think, instead of being blast, she's mainly a play function, meaning she's a jumper!

Now the hard part is figuring out whether she uses ne or se, though I'm gonna go with ne...she's always thinking of possibilities to make the clan a better place, so her ne assists her fe

This leaves ESFJ! Play>Blast>Consume>Sleep :3

Examples of ESFJs:

Spongebob SquarePants

Ochako Uraraka from BNHA

Katara from Avatar

Other typologies:

2w1

297

SLOAN

EFVL

Sanguine-Melancholic or Sanguine [Dominant]

Lawful Good (or Lawful Moral)

Page of Heart (Prospit)

And finally!!! Asphodelpaw :3 weirdly enough, she's also tribe>self, but unlike her sister she is blast and a te user, she doesn't care about values she wants things to work efficiently

Fe is definitely her main function, the entire story she's battling with herself over gaining approval with her mentor, meaning she neglects a cay like Pinepaw who is more individualistic and doesn't really want to partake in tribe beliefs. She definitely gets healthier as the story goes on, but she's a good example of a tribe savior being selfish.

As for whether she uses si or ni....I'm gonna go with ni, she isn't tied to si but there also isn't much showing her ni so I skipped over to the third function and (imo) she's def se>ne so. Ni it is!

so she's ENTJ ! Blast>Sleep>Consume>Play

Examples of ENTJs:

Katsuki Bakugo from BNHA

Asuka Langley Soryu from NGE

Light Yagami from Death Note

Other Typologies:

3w2

386

SCUEI

VFEL

Choleric-Melancholic

Chaotic Neutral (or Rebel Neutral)

Maid of Blood (Derse) Mainly a guess cuz idrk...

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I'm gonna be really bummed if BNHA ends without a huge payoff for all the work Horikoshi put into developing Shigaraki as a character. This isn't only my simp side talking, I mean it would genuinely be a massive waste to keep him permanently as AFO or get a shitty, quick "oh he's fine now let's forget about him and focus on AFO" ending after spending SO MUCH time building him up as both an incredibly powerful antagonist in his own right AND a deeply sympathetic character.

Tomura got taken over by AFO SEVENTY-TWO chapters ago! After that, his last big moment as himself was a brief appearance at the beginning of the Tartarus jailbreak in 297. He, the real Shigaraki Tomura once known as Shimura Tenko, needs a big, multi-chapter, badass finale or all those chapters spent developing him will have been for nothing.

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Ramblings about BNHA chap 381

And here chap 381 comes…

..and I’ll warn you beforehand so you know if you want to keep reading or not, this is not a chapter I particularly enjoyed because fundamentally nothing happens, beyond the story trying to give a positive light to the heroes… which wouldn’t be bad at all if it wasn’t for the way it chose to go at it… All for One going for a Villain decay path and… a previous important point of the story being destroyed. So, if you decide to keep on reading, don’t expect words of praises for this chap. Consider yourself warned.

In fact we start with the POSITIVE VIBES immediately thanks to the Shiketsu kids and, more specifically, thanks to Shishikura’s inspiring speech who claims he’d like to kill All for One for killing his father but won’t do it because his father was a prison guard set to protect.

This of course remarks how nobles the hero kids are, you might remember how, back in the past, Stain scolded Iida for giving in to hate because a real hero wouldn’t have gone there for selfish reasons but to save Native.

So where’s the problem?

Shishikura’s father is a Tartarus guard and, although we don’t know exactly who, among them, he was, from the little we saw of the Tartarus guards, they viewed the Villains as sub humans, beasts, and would have probably not hesitated to kill All for One if they had been given the chance.

We’ve the bit in chap 297, with a Tartarus guard who claimed all the Villains there are disasters on legs or wild beasts, animals, claiming that the convict might walk and talk like people but are actually disgusting beings who only managed to  be allowed inside society solely because Quirk have warped the standards for humanity, while we’re also informed Tartarus is basically MHA version of Alcatraz with plenty of accusation of human right violations… and we’ve the guard in chap 327 who yes, managed to heroically hold the information that Stain will later deliver to All Might, but also clearly shared the previous guard’s ideal as he asked Stain if he was a man or a beast.

Maybe neither of them was Shishikura’s father, all right, but since we saw them, they left an impression and this impression wasn’t of positive role models.

Yeah, they guarded the prison, which resulted in protecting people from criminals… but what about protecting the prisoners from human violations?

It would have felt better if Shishikura aimed to surpass his father, to protect everyone, to be always rightful, instead take him as a role model.

That, or we could have been shown a Tartarus guard that actually was a role model, someone against mistreatment of prisoners and who wanted to improve things at Tartarus.

The way Tartarus is depicted, a place in which Villains are abused and jailed for life so that they can be forgotten instead than reformed is why, when someone suggests that the LOV should end in it to pay for their crimes, I would find more merciful if Horikoshi were just to kill them. There’s no redemption path in Tartarus, it’s just a place to bury them alive.

Meanwhile, thanks to Inasa we move on DESTROYING SOMETHING THAT HAD SEEMED SO IMPORTANT PREVIOUSLY.

In fact Inasa is effortlessly holding the Toga as Twice’s clones at bay.

Why this is a problem?

Because the whole excuse for Twice’s death was that his Quirk was oh so powerful if he were to be left free to run rampant, the heroes would have lost the war and Hawks, to save the war, had no other solution but kill him.

Hawks knew of Twice’s Quirk. Students were deployed during the previous war as well. Yes, they didn’t ask Inasa, but they should have if he could be the solution without causing any death.

It was all organized and planned with so much care, Endeavor and Eraser Head knew of Inasa’s Quirk and Twice’s Quirk was known as well and… no one thought at it?

What’s more, Twice’s Quirk was never used to his full potential, not back then nor now.

I mean, in both situations Twice and Toga as Twice are using the Sad Man’s parade… when they should have just cloned Shigaraki or Dabi or All for One.

Twice has strength in numbers, but Twice isn’t particularly strong or fast, we saw how Geten could easily kill a good bunch of Twices with his ice attacks… but we might have given it a pass because if Twices were to keep on coming the heroes would eventually exhaust themselves… but here we’re outright told they just had the perfect Quirk to stop the Twice problem and… didn’t even think to use it.

And yet, we’re not really tackling how bad it was from Hawks to kill Twice. Actually, since the sad man’s parade was so easily stopped, it seems as if Himiko’s revenge too won’t manage to affect him and, anyway, he’s just not caring to face her (and Twice).

Yeah, maybe this will come back to bite him later, maybe one Himiko will manage to get to him and make him regret what he did but it’s been a long time from Twice’s death and it risks to become a case of too little too late.

It would have been a great development for Hawks to ponder on what he did, to face it, and I was fine with waiting a bit but… all this waiting makes me wonder if at the end there will really be a payoff or if it will be all just shrugged off or rushed through. We’ll see.

Okay, going on with the next part which is… A RECAP OF THINGS WE ALREADY KNEW.

We’re remembered that Deku and Shigaraki left U.A., which we shouldn’t have forgotten already since it happened what? 2 chapters ago and was mentioned in the previous chapter as well.

Tsukauchi has a chat with Hawks in which we’re told Shiketsu students came there on their own… which was also said on the previous chapter. How, in case someone has missed it, All for One got back his old body and how they’ve to keep All for One at Gunga because this could decide the whole war... which was something that was made clear from the start of the war, in case someone has forgotten.

We then get an All for One monologue in which he explains how he can solely steal Quirk by touching the body of the owner, not by touching the effects of the Quirk (meaning he can’t steal Touya or Enji’s Quirk by touching their fire or Kaminari by touching his electricity and so on)… which I would like to think everyone figured out already even without this monologue but whatever. I can’t remember this being spelled out, but I never really felt the need as it seemed intuitive enough.

Then All for One claims that why the heroes attacked him with solely Endeavor and Hawks instead than a larger force. Which we already knew as it was said in chap 354 and still wasn’t such a great plan.

All for Once goes on saying they’re now attacking him with a larger force because they’re tossing all precautions away… because yeah, in the previous chapters it was said the divide and conquer strategy didn’t work and it was also made clear Endeavor and Hawks needed back up, but I guess it was important All for One were to remark it so we can waste some panels on all this.

So, in the best Shonen tradition, All for One starts using stronger attacks combining more Quirks together… only to focus on HERO POSITIVITY by showing how bravely they’re resisting to his attack.

Okay, this doesn’t have any backfiring, different from the previous one but… feels like a waste because it simmers down the threat that All for One is by showing the heroes resisting anyway.

All for One is a cool adversary as long as he’s scary, when he knocked down everyone in chap 89, we were all scared and in awe, and we got even more impressed when he could keep up with All Might, but now he’s not really sending the Number 4 and other heroes down on the ground causing them to be hospitalized for months. Now he’s sending Kinoko and Kamui Wood fly away but we hardly see the damage, so it doesn’t feel as scary as when Best Jeanist was sent on the ground with Midoriya’s group hidden and trembling in fear.

I’ll spend a moment talking about how Touya seems to be chasing Endeavor, who had previously promised he would FINALLY, FINALLY look at his son. Well, he’s apparently looking back at him as he seems to be escaping. Small consolation.

I know people have already joked on it and, actually, it’s possible the idea might be to lead Touya away from that battleground so as to cause his flames to shrunk while he’s away (because Inasa’s wind tears up trees and their roots, so they can’t feed the fire… but I guess this means they’ll end all up in the air? And there’s also rain) but who knows.

It sure doesn’t look good how Endeavor is letting his son burn himself alive, instead than doing something to stop him, like, I don’t know, talk to him, apologize or whatever.

But I think Endeavor’s plan was always to die with Touya (because it’s unlikely they’ll let them go to Tartarus together since in Tartarus prisoners has single rooms and therefore this would make hard for Enji to keep on watching over him) and watch over him while they’re in hell together, and not try to save him or something. Maybe he thinks if he wounds up as a corpse with Touya the same way his father wounded up as a corpse with the little girl he failed to save, it’ll count as atonement.

I don’t know. It feels like Horikoshi is planning to go for redemptive death, because as burned as it is, I’m not sure Touya can survive (and we were already told he shouldn’t have lived this long) and have him die due to this instead than being killed would be awfully convenient as it would be kind of a suicide instead than a murder and… well if Endeavor, who’s the one who caused Touya’s downfall, is the one who survives while Touya dies it won’t really be that inspiring so maybe Endeavor dies of blood loss due to his lost arm.

But whatever, let’s wait for future developments.

Meanwhile we move to… ALL FOR ONE GOING FOR A VILLAIN DECAY PATH.

What’s a Villain Decay path? The process by which a villain who is extremely scary on first appearance becomes a joke after a few more appearances.

So how’s being done.

All for One launches in a speech about how the heroes think they can beat him because they don’t know of his glorious past, his golden age… meaning until now he hadn’t accomplished anything worth looking scary or impressive or whatever. -_-

I mean, he’s not boasting about his powers, about how he broke All Might, about how he continued to manipulate the underworld, no, those things wouldn’t be scary at all, he boast about his glorious past, sounding like a grandpa who just can’t stop reminding everyone when he was young he did something great.

All for One isn’t the sleeping beauty who just awoke and can only talk to us about how he was in the past, to feel as a big threat to us readers, he has to impress us with what he did NOW. Or up close.

If he has to summon a golden age we hadn’t read about after he’d been around for so many chapters… we aren’t impressed. And the narrative seems to think it’s a bright idea to remark this by dismissing the whole of All for One’s speech.

In fact Inasa informs him he has studied all that at school… or better, All for One was condemned to damnatio memoriae and never mentioned in class but the dark age is some trashy thing they study at school so no big deal.

I hate to repeat this, but for the battle to work and the heroes be amazing, All for One has to feel like a genuine threat. If the heroes who’re attacking him en masse aren’t at disadvantage it isn’t scary.

Think at classic shonen like “Dragon Ball” or “Saint Seiya”.

The enemy is always this overpowering force that the hero must struggle with all he has to overcome and who feels fearsome until the hero finally manages to find inside himself enough strength to triumph.

Instead, although occasionally All for One’s group managed to land some good hits, the heroes have been more or less in a stronger position from the start.

They divided the group as they wanted. Yes, Deku didn’t end where they wanted but eventually got there and yes, Bakugo died but it was made clear it wasn’t permanent so no harm done.

Touya didn’t manage to cause any serious harm to Shouto, Shouto almost knocked him out and yes, Touya managed to recover and to reach Endeavor but he’s basically burned to a crisp.

Spinner was beaten up and half out of it due to incompatibility with his new Quirk and the people helping him decided against it because… violence is bad.

Yes, he freed Kurogiri, and Kurogiri managed to move people around but… Kurogiri is short circuiting now and even saved Eraser Head and Present Mic.

Skeptic basically didn’t manage to accomplish anything as all he did was thwarted by La Brava and Gentle and he was captured.

Himiko’s back up was taken care of, she used Sad Man’s parade but, guess what, Inasa is making it ineffective so she can’t face Hawks.

Shigaraki was out of commission for a while as All for One took control of him, but now he’s back and ready to fight Deku which, again, is a nail in how All for One’s plan fail and the man who previously predicted Lady Nagant would betray him, felt surprised when Lady Nagant continued to help the heroes.

As for All for One himself, Endeavor and Hawks managed to get a good hit at him but yes, he rewinds but then… does nothing but babble of how cool he was in the past? He doesn’t have to say anything about his present? He can’t show us how he’s cool RIGHT NOW?

But we pause a moment in his decay path to have another moment of hero positivity that doesn’t really work well with Inasa claiming he decided that he’s just going to cheer up for Shouto and Endeavor because their hot-blooded passion is going to make them win the day and he wants to see a future for the guys he’s cheering on which prompts Hawks to go in Endeavor’s fanboy mode, dismiss how Inasa mentioned Shouto too and claim it’s not just One for All but Endeavor also who’s linking people’s hearts together.

And why this doesn’t work very well?

Because the reason why Inasa decided to cheer for Endeavor is totally unconnected to Endeavor. Endeavor did nothing to gain that trust apart for fighting for the same side Inasa is fighting for.

Inasa, after his hero licence exam with Shouto, simply decided to give Endeavor a chance too based on how his interaction with Shouto affected him and then we never heard how he reacted to the news of how Endeavor abused his family, Shouto included, because it doesn’t look good for this HERO POSITIVITY moment.

And yeah, I guess it’s a big deal but it dismisses completely Endeavor’s previous abuse of his family. Which I get people who’re afraid of All for One don’t care about, why should they feel sorry for Shouto, Touya, Rei, Natsuo and Fuyumi when they can just have Enji fight in the frontlines to save them?

And don’t take me wrong, in many tales the wrongdoings of a man are forgiven due his doing some heroic acts… but this happens when he can make up for his wrongdoings directly to the people he wronged.

If character X murders someone and then saves 100 people, it might feel as he atoned, because he can’t undo the fact he killed someone but he can prove he has understood murdering his wrong and has given his all saving people.

But here all of Endeavor’s family is alive and the most he has done is to stop beating Shouto and Rei and building a new house for Fuyumi and Natsuo.

And let’s not forget Endeavor is the number 1 hero, which was what he longed for through all his life, as much as this fight can be risky and painful, this was what he wanted.

He’s not a child who didn’t know what he was getting into. His battle with All for One doesn’t work as atonement, it’s just his job, it can save him from the public opinion who might not care if he’s an abuser at home as long as he saves them, but it doesn’t wash away what he did to beloved characters.

Poor Shouto still has to see him acting like a father.

So this ‘oh, Endeavor, you too link people’s hearts’ speech, which is here merely to give out HERO POSITIVITY vibes, actually doesn’t work well.

And back to ALL FOR ONE GOING FOR A VILLAIN DECAY PATH we go.

All for One decides to steal some more Quirks, but his oh so powerful blast only manages to bloody Inasa a bit and not stop him at all, which again remarks how he’s not that all powerful and scary.

He then has an inner monologue in which he complains about how heroes has a light in their eyes which might go out but then is relight, which feels as another round of HERO POSITIVITY this time from a bad guy because heroes are so damn amazing and hopeful they impress even the big bad… which somehow doesn’t seem to fit with All for One. But whatever All for One never fully had his character well defined so he can do everything and the contrary of everything.

More ALL FOR ONE GOING FOR A VILLAIN DECAY PATH comes when All for One can’t read the mood and claim the heroes don’t dare to approach him for fear of losing their Quirk when we had Endeavor and Hawks getting up close in the past and other heroes still coming close enough if he were fast to move (and he can be fast, we saw him being fast in the past but now I guess he feels like being lazy), and then All for One challenges them to come to him and meet his fate because evidently he doesn’t want to run after them and expect them to come to him in a line and stand still so he can steal their Quirks comfortably. -_-

I wonder… where’s the chessmaster of the previous parts of the story, the guy who could predict people’s moves? The guy that since he had tons of Quirk was oh so fast and oh so strong? Where All for One went and who’s this stranger who realizes too late that Dark Shadow has gotten behind him and, when he does, seems to realize it’s an attack he needs to dodge at all costs because evidently Tokoyami now has an attack that’s scarier than Endeavor’s.

I get that part of MHA’s goal is to have the adult heroes pass the torch to the kid heroes, but it somehow feels again as if All for One got depowered if he’s scared of Tokoyami, because previously we were never told Tokoyami’s dark shadow could creep out even someone like him.

Tokoyami gives him a speech about darkness and how he doesn’t get to speak of the dark because they already devoured the darkness All for One brought and, as he does so, he thinks back at when they brought Midoriya back to U.A. as that moment evidently solved everything.

No, I don’t mean to say it didn’t help but… Japan was in disarray with all those Villains roaming so Midoriya finally getting a chance to rest among friends doesn’t really feel like they swallowed all the darkness All for One brought, just that they managed to turn on a light in it.

But whatever, Dark Shadow seems to be planning to devour All for One, so we get a speech about how the dark clouds and the flames having shrunk, as well as Tokoyami buring himself under earth, allowed him to build up his power. Then, again, Tokoyami reminds us that All for One can’t steal Endeavor’s power by grasping his flames, which was told to us pages ago, so that’s why he was chosen to support Hawks and Endeavor, since All for One can’t steal Tokoyami’s Quirk by touching Dark Shadow.

Then Dark Shadow seems to swallow All for One but, I guess, this can be his end or it’ll be a total left down if he gets knocked down in this way. But whatever, he’s on a Villan Decay path so it might be?

Still I don’t think this will be the case, they’ll probably will need to join forces with the LOV, it’s too early to defeat All for One.

Meanwhile we get an introspection bit saying

‘If I was able to connect to you even a little bit then I’m glad I was born with these filthy wings’

or

‘If I was able to pay it forward to you, even a little, then dirtying these wings was well worth it.’

It depends if you’re reading the fan translation or the official one.

The general speculation is that it’s Hawks’ inner monologue referred to Tokoyami.

Fan translation and official translation differ as in the fan translation Hawks is born with filthy wings, while in the official one he dirtied them. I prefer the fan translation because it would make sense Hawks would loathe his wings, which connect him to his father, a Villain, and call them filthy but also see them as what pushed him to connect with Tokoyami.

The official translation instead seems to imply Hawks is glad for the crimes he has committed because, although they dirtied his wings, they also allowed him to connect with Tokoyami.

I prefer to think Hawks isn’t glad for dirtying his wings but maybe that’s just me.

The chapter ends and as you can see I had next to nothing to say that’s positive about it.

It feels like nothing was accomplished, too much time was wasted on explanation and All for One felt even less threatening, which isn’t good.

Horikoshi had to previously take a break because he wasn’t well so the previous chapter and, especially, this one, might be under standards due to this. We’ll see.

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Wait wait wait. People in England can just drive to France???

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Bnha if Present Mic introduced everyone who comes onscreen:

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I know I've said it before but I just really love the interpretation of Hamlet as ace in an allonormative society

He's dealing with a literal family death and everyone's first thought is that he's upset that his gf is withholding her love. Polonius is so focused on splitting them up, then getting them together, and insists to the king and queen he's mad for Ophelia's love.

All of Hamlet's speeches condemning Claudius place equal (if not more) attention on his sexual actions than the fact he committed cold-blooded murder.

The one scene where Hamlet possibly gets violent on Ophelia, where one could expect some type of sexual request/harassment given the situation, is highlighted by Hamlet insisting she never have sex: get thee to a nunnery

"Man delights not me – nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so"

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Hello I am losing my mind at the implications of Mob using his powers in this past episode

He uses them to the point of exhaustion, just for fun! Just for his friends! Just like if it were any other characteristic!

He uses them to reach out and connect with others! The whole episode was full of hands reaching out and friends connecting, but he specifically uses his notoriously dangerous powers as a form of communication and connection!

He views them as a gift!!! When thinking of a gift to give he literally decided on his powers! This thing he used to view as a curse and a burden and he's talked about not wanting them anymore! And now he calls them a gift!!!

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[stillness-in-green]

i’m very curious if death penalty by hanging is still a thing in my hero japan. and if it has the same support as current japan. maybe not bc of tartarus so hm.

Well, we certainly know the death penalty itself still exists, as Moonfish was identified as an escapee from death row.  Likewise, that rando Tartarus guard yelling at AFO back in Chapter 94 presumably wouldn’t have said, “You’d be getting off easy if they gave you the death penalty!  This place is where your kind of scum gets locked up!” if the death penalty wasn’t an option.  Between him and the text description opening Chapter 297, Tartarus seems like it exists and is as awful as it is only partly as a security measure (see again: there is no such thing as “quick-canceling cuffs” in this setting), while the other part of it is a really grim punitive measure not only for people who are so dangerous they “can’t” be kept in lighter conditions, but for people who had the temerity to threaten the status quo in a major way.(1)

Every part of that is, of course, horse shit, but I assume you didn’t send me this ask just to hear me complain about Tartarus.

(Hit the jump for considerably more discussion of real-life capital punishment and some supposition about why the prevailing attitudes are, I feel, unlikely to have changed much in Japan as it exists in My Hero Academia.)

We don’t, I suppose, have much way of knowing exactly how the death penalty in HeroAca!Japan is administered, but I don’t see a significant reason for it to have changed; Japan’s been doing it that way for almost 150 years, after all.(2)

There are, of course, many quirks in the world that would normally make hanging their bearers difficult to impossible, so assuming they’re not willing to hang drugged people, and also given all those deterrent guns pointing at inmates in Tartarus, one might suppose that the number of available methods has been expanded somewhat, depending on the specifics of any given sentencee.

As to whether the death sentence still has public support?  I have to imagine so.  I don’t think “what would be most realistic” is necessarily going to be accurate to a series targeted at teenage boys, of course, especially where the minutiae of its legal processes are concerned, but it’s always seemed logical to me that, in a country that already has an incredibly harsh view of criminals, writing overheated appeals to morality like “Hero” and “Villain” into its actual legal code is going to exacerbate said country’s views considerably.  This supposition is largely borne out by BNHA’s explorations of Hero Society’s bias against “villain quirks” and its enduring issues with heteromorphobia.

At most, you could say that this is not intended to be read as being worse than the current real-life state of affairs, but rather as representing them through an allegorical lens.  Given that real life Japan sure as shit doesn’t have a Tartarus analogue, though,(3) I think we’re well beyond allegory.

One of the reasons the death penalty endures in Japan—indeed, it’s even included in the official sentencing guidelines—is appeals towards “the sentiments of the bereaved.”  The state can and does use the anger of victims as a justification for putting criminals to death—and as we see in Endeavor’s press conference, the victims are as angry as they ever were.(4)  I imagine, then, that the practice of prosecutors trotting out victims to weep in front of a court in hopes of getting a death sentence is as intact as ever.

Frankly, I suspect the main difference between the treatment of defendants in real life Japan and in HeroAca!Japan is twofold: firstly, that Villains are probably much less likely to be allowed their constitutional right to be present at their own trials because of the danger that quirks represent; secondly, that either much more lengthy and dragged out trial proceedings or much more brutally swift ones have become common as a result of the court systems getting clogged up with the skyrocketing crime rate after the advent of quirks.  Hence Tartarus, the indefinite detention torture prison, combination government dumping ground and release valve for Hero Society’s vengeful anger at the villains left to rot there.

But yes, for people the government can’t justify dumping in Tartarus,(5) it seems the death penalty is still in use.  In fact, if anything, I wonder if isn’t being used more.  Given the way Japanese deployments of it increased in response to e.g. a spike in street crime in the early 90s and the sarin gas attacks of 1995, it’s all too easy to imagine a similar rise coming in the wake of the sharp increase in crime brought on by the rise of quirks.  That’s especially the case when you consider factors within the story like Kamui Woods calling a purse-snatcher pure evil, the apparent ease and rapidity with which political parties can be summarily disbanded, the enthusiastic acceptance and commercialization of the violence used by Heroes against Villains, and the dazzling variety of breaches of the rule of law carried out in secret by the HPSC.  All of that points in the direction of a society that holds less respect for the lives of its criminals than ever before.

To wind this down, a quote that stuck with me, read while researching this response: A single life weighs more than the entire earth.  This was written in a Japanese Supreme Court decision in 1948 upholding the constitutionality of the death penalty, but suggesting that it should only be used in the most extreme of cases, and with the most extreme caution and deliberation.  But Japan’s process for administering capital punishment doesn’t even live up to that call for caution in real life.(6)  Far less so does the Japan we see in My Hero Academia, in which its heroes and heroic institutions don’t even wait for the trial to start pronouncing death sentences.

Thanks for the ask, anon, somewhat grim though the material be.

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1:  See, for example, the case of Moonfish himself.  He was only in a regular ol’ prison’s death row back when he was just a cannibalistic serial killer; it’s only after his escape and subsequent association with the League of Villains that he secured his spot in Tartarus.

2:  That’s a number with some caveats; I chose it based on revisions to Japan’s Penal Code made in 1873 to declare beheading or hanging the only legal methods of capital punishment; today, it’s solely hanging.  If you wanted to be strictly accurate, the last confirmed legal use of decapitation as capital punishment was in 1881, and an exception in which people in the Japanese Army and Navy could choose firing squad as an execution method seems to have been abolished in 1908.  So perhaps closer to 115 years.

3:  Per some research before answering this ask, it seems even death row inmates are sometimes, albeit rarely, allowed visits from family or loved ones, and are allowed a couple of books, per a Wikipedia citation to a no-longer-online article written in 2006.  Even after some attempts at reform, it’s still a pretty horrifying state of affairs, prolonged solitary confinement and the much-discussed “culture of silence” and all.  It’s still not Tartarus, though.

4:  As well they might be, since certainly e.g. Gigantomachia’s rampage far outstrips any real life equivalents.  Dabi alone has killed more people than any Wikipedia-listed Japanese serial killer, with the sole exceptions of a pair of midwives/baby farmers tried and executed for repeat infanticides.

5:  It is, of course, difficult to imagine who such people could possibly be, given everything about Overhaul’s situation.  Perhaps it would be more accurate to say, “People the government doesn’t want to dump in Tartarus.”

6:  That claim is based on this paper, The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan; it also contains the quote I mentioned in the above paragraph.  It’s a very good if heavy read, going into some detail on the flaws and falsities of the system, as well as some comparison to the United States’ own retention of the death sentence, comparing and contrasting the two countries’ justifications, failures, and approaches to the state-sanctioned taking of a life.

[semi-imaginary-place]

bnha ch 290: yup i remember all the way back when the mountain training camp arc released and people called it then. i was just about to say something about reaping and sowing ha.

297: surprised this max security prison for super dangerous quirk users doesn't have quirk suppressants and body armor for everyone.

298: now that i think about it. eraser head knew about eri's progress. he choose to amputate himself because at that moment they couldn't afford a second, though shigaraki managed to break contact anyways and im not sure his leg could have been salvaged. also surprised the hospital isn't overloading rooms given the major disaster that happened. bakugou's room has a lot of empty space.

303: i dislike the framing here that toya a child of 13 and younger was the one in the wrong here. horikoshi is framing toya's actions as out of line and sure burning himself wasn't the healthiest coping mechanism but he was not the main problem. also i've love to say 12 year old fuyumi blaming herself for her family's problems was insightful commentary on how eldest daughters get treated as 3rd parents instead of the children they are but thats giving horikoshi-sensei a little too much credit.

314: im sensing a double standard here for who gets assassinated and who gets imprisoned. like they imprisoned all for one and gigantomachia but these smups are the ones the public safety commission is killing? see my lack of knowledge on how the japanese government works means im only vaguely guessing what all these organizations do.

midoriya dark bunny era. take a bath! bruh you need a nap. 90s edgy protag! thats what i was thinking of!

320: midoriya cannot continue as he is but wasnt the whole point to keep him away from ua. i dislike when plans are changed halfway through they either should have committed to fortifying ua or kept up support of his feral rabbit lifestyle. in terms of wellness he's gone too far in neglecting himself I'm just wondering if what they did was actually a good plan.

the diper rat confession! stain pep talk! we're getting everything this arc

historically speaking, american foreign involvement is.. iffy. if the cia are involved things are probably going to get worse im looking at like a good chunk of latin america and the banana wars. arguably some of the more publicized stuff helped like taiwan, south korea, germany, and japan are doing pretty well for themselves, and the financial/logistics backing for europe and now ukraine (well the ww2 stuff was pure war profiteering). and then there's inherent abuses of the us industrial military complex, tax payer money to line the pockets of weapons manufacturers and defense contractors, preying on the poor with funding from tax dollars, the rampant abuse and all the crimes that get covered, the lack of regulation in general so you have human rights abuses environmental damage military bases usually poison the surrounding areas.

332: hmm we're too early in this fight. i think some of the pilots will die.

335: holy shit if those hagakure is the spy than the conspiracy theorists got it right. i remember there was this old fan theory circa 2017? 2018? which posited hagakure was the spy because how else did someone so weak get into ua like she can turn invisible and that's it. and how narratively she hadn't done anything while everyone else how a few pages at least. at the time i thought it was a cool idea for an otherwise boring character but the lack of evidence stopped me from going all in on it. in the early arc its said? implied? that there's a spy in UA and people were able to logic and reason it down to probably being a student (i dont remember how they ruled teachers out). hagakure was suspect number 1 but there were a couple other 1 A put up.

336: oh yeah the secret forest training camp. and yeah aoyama was the other one speculated to be a spy. the other conspiracy theoriests got it right!

[tekuo]

horikoshi: *introduces a new female villain*

the fandom, without a single sign of what her personality could be like:

[betchyoubetter]

This arc is something else

[remcadll]

This has been sitting as a WIP doing nothing for like. 7 months 😔 I just have to accept it’s never going to be 100% finished rip