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Soooo....Saitama had already begun to put 2&2 together about who actually 'took care' of the cadres before with King's 'Ultimate Move,' saw Garou tanking hits vs more monsters to step in and help defeat Evil Ocean Water with a Serious Punch, and then saw much of the direct evidence himself when Garou made a huge scene chopping the centipede...
Enough for Saitama to take initiative with enough personal interest in him to confront an idle Garou himself with the million dollar identity QUESTION:
Whether Saitama's suddenly arrived to sate his own curiosity is one thing (surprisingly leaving the other heroes to deal with the wave's aftermath on their own, might I add.) For example, to ask about Garou's mystery identity/'costume' and his unknown apparent strength, or perhaps Saitama just wants more general information to get to the bottom of what's going on. (Hopefully Saitama doesn't blame Garou for the whole Monster Association mess here however, as that would be....a little unfair.) But so far, Saitama has seen no other incriminating evidence towards Garou being bad here yet (unless he remembers the 'Hero Hunter' stuff and the dine & dash encounter Garou looks different enough that even wc Saitama didn't recognize him)...that heck, Saitama could just be frank and forthright praising Garou's strength/heroics for helping to take out the monsters. :P (Which would be interesting to see how Garou reacts to such unexpected honesty, heh.)
As long as Saitama's question isn't ignored, brushed off, or interrupted by something else happening, like the other heroes or Psykos showing up for example, then...depending on who/what actually instigates the strength-gauging friendly spar fight (if it's starting now or later after a good introductory talk) I hope to see certain callbacks come up in their confrontation.
1. For Saitama to discern, just like Bang did in Garou's dojo flashback, the inherent 'softness' and hesitancy in Garou's fists to commit to the monster act.
Because while Garou may have destroyed the baddest monsters in spectacular (violent) fashion, he still keeps a non-lethal level of restraint when he faces hero (human) opponents. He never crosses the line of actually killing people (even in his feral 'sleep,' he doesn't want to) like he does monsters, so this distinction in his fighting intent/hesitancy, depending on who he targets, becomes an examination of his convictions & seriousness when it comes to his choice to hurt (vs his truer feelings/instincts to save) people as a 'monster,' that I hope Saitama still notices this nature about his behavior as they exchange fists and calls him out for being particularly un-monster-like 'sweet/soft' towards him.
2. While Saitama figuring out what's up with Garou is a main point of interest, on Saitama's side of character importance, I also hope his heroism is called into question and critiqued by Garou as well, as a reexamination of THIS moment:
Primarily for the "you're strong, but so what?" dilemma most familiar and personal to Saitama, as Garou (similar to King here) questions his duty/ideals and the reason why Saitama is even a hero in the first place. Because Saitama may be the strongest insurmountable 'final boss' wall towards Garou, but as the greatest hero??? (Has Saitama even found the answer or thought about it any further beyond seeing heroism as just a hobby?) When after the tournament arc - originally he was interested in martial arts because of hearing about Garou!! how fatefully ironic now - Saitama felt the stagnation like he gained nothing special from the experience and thought he was losing sight of why he originally became a hero. So King's question, weighing Saitama's heroic ideals of helping others vs his self-interest/satisfaction (seeking to sate his boredom/loneliness while 'too strong'), is just as relevant now and aligns with what I hope Garou's confrontation makes Saitama think about and reconsider from another perspective again.
Because, to put things in blunt perspective, when manga Garou hasn't really done anything wrong here yet, if Saitama hypothetically instigates the fight for self-serving reasons (which Garou would notice as not very heroic) for example - fighting to satisfy his own level of boredom/curiosity with someone 'strong,' unjustly blaming Garou for the 'noise' and destroying Saitama's house that wasn't Garou's fault, or the escalating monster disaster he didn't cause Garou actually helped destroy the worst monster threats!, taunting Garou to fight 'better' by insulting him & calling him 'chicken', or if the fight is framed with Saitama as the aggressor - aka the schoolyard 'bully' beating on Garou for the 'fun' of a good fight (which IS a panel present in the webcomic!) then...any of that portrayed in the manga's context would actually look poorly on Saitama's character. :O (!!!!) If Saitama were to behave just like his webcomic counterpart would towards manga Garou right now, it would honestly look quite unpleasant;;; as someone who likes both characters - because it's never fun to see one uplifted or degraded/humiliated at the expense of another. Which goes both ways - their characters can be challenged as they reexamine their strongest values/ideals, but I'd rather not see either character 'look bad' to achieve the arc's goal either.
So, provided the manga does its own thing that's consistent & respectable to both characters, as much as their fight originally leaned towards Garou's cathartic self-discovery and realizations before, I can only hope it brings something somewhat equally significant and enlightening towards Saitama's character as well. (As a possible continuation of what Saitama thought about and felt he didn't gain anything from last time following the manga's tournament arc.) A balance like that from ONE, appropriate to the manga's new context concerning and justifying why they'd fight, would be ideal to me.
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an ending not quite attainable
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The Un-Chosen One
I've talked again and again on the parallels between Yuji and Geto, so what about Megumi and Gojo? If Yuji and Geto are both deconstructions of "The Hero", ie: they both want to be the hero of the story, but the story doesn't let them play hero. Then Megumi and Gojo are both a deconstruction of the chosen one. They are characters who both demonstrate realistically, what having all that power thrust upon the shoulders of what is otherwise a normal teenager would do to that person.
1. Being the chosen one, sucks.
There's a lot of visual parallels [taken from this tweet.] between Megumi and Gojo, especially of them as children, because they were both born into a similar situation in life. Gojo as a child inherited both the six eyes, and the limitless, he didn't do anything special really, just by being born he was already the strongest and disrupted the balance of the world.
Megumi despite being an outsider to the Zenin clan, not only inherited their strongest technique, something that could defeat the limitless, he also is the son of the clan's black sheep Toji. It's nothing Megumi did specifically, it's just something he was born into.
Gojo as a teenager isn't shown being exactly Mr. Altruistic good guy, he's not really Luke Skywalker in that he's all that excited about being the magical chosen one of the force.
Both Gojo and Megumi fall into conflict with their best friend who is much more interested in using Jujutsu Sorcerer as an oppurtunity to play hero and save people.
However, their attitude makes sense if you consider that they were born into the Jujutsu World and it's controlled basically their whole lives. Toji was going to sell Megumi to the Zenin clan, and when Gojo showed up on his doorstep, it wasn't to save him, it was to recruit him as a JUjutsu Sorcerer on his side. Megumi is considered a prodigy, but, just like characters like Mechamaru no on ever really asked if he wanted to be one.
I mean, Gojo shows up on his doorstep looking like this and making grabby hands, Megumi knows to an extent that Gojo's motivations aren't entirely altruistic he's being used. He has the potential to be the strongest sorcerer, but it's not like he asked for that. The things that Megumi actually seems to want, a normal dad, the love of both parents, his sister's safety, are all taken away from him.
Which is where we get to the next parallel between them. Gojo and Megumi, despite being given the strongest technique, are surprisingly agenciless characters. Yuji always runs to save someone. Geto literlaly breaks free from the entire sorcery world to become it's enemy. However, that's not really an option for Gojo. Can Gojo even quit his job? Of course he could if he wanted to, but rhe sorcerery world would collapse without him.
Gojo has the weight of the world on his shoulders, and it's something that holds him back and limits his options, and it's not like he can shrug his shoulders either (get it atlas shrugged joke) because the world really would collapse. Gojo is, callous, but he's not irresponsible. Which is another thing he shares with Megumi, even if Megumi isn't interested in saving everyone, he still thinks hard about who he can save. While Yuji and Geto are off trying to save the whole world, Gojo and Megumi are characters who at least think long and hard about the people they can save. It's precisely because they are not interested in being heroes, that this is just a job to them, that they can do this.
While they can seem callous, and even selfish, they both are responsible and feel the weight of their responsibility. They try to carry that responsiblity to some extent. They also go through very similiar arcs. Gojo isn't the strongest at first, but he nearly gets beaten to death by Toi, and experiences an awakening when he's fored to fight all on his own, and when he wakes up he goes just a little bit crazy. Megumi does the same thing in Yasohachi bridge, after holding himself back for a long time, he nearly fights to the death one on one. The same way Gojo was defeated by Toji, Megumi was handed a defeat by Sukuna at the very start of the story. However, being pushed to the edge rather than dying both of them come back stronger.
They have the strongest Jujutsu techniques in the story bar none, but even when they start to live up to the role of the chosen one, they're uncomfortable in the role, it chafes them. That's why they adopt a selfish attitude to protect themselves. Gojo can't save everyone because he's too busy being the world's support system. Megumi is literally a kid with no parents, and no support system, raised by the Jujutsu World, he's not really interested in being a savior because he was roped into all of this because who his dad was.
Megumi takes a very self involved attitude with these things, something he even admits to. He's only trying to be the hero for a few people. It's funny because Megumi pressents himself as the opposite of Gojo, Gojo is loud, noisy, constantly attention seeking boisterous and confrontational, Megumi is quiet, subdued, and avoidant.
However, it's Sukuna who takes an interest in Megumi's potential. Yuji bores him. They are opposites in their behavior, but they are both self involved in the sense that they place their goals and their ideals as more important than altruistic ideas of good and evil. Wielding that much power, they don't really feel like they are the good guys even. For Gojo, Geto was the good one, the responsible one, the one with ideals, not him. Gojo saw himself as someone willing to massacre the crowd and who probably wouldn't feel it, and he asked Geto what to do. Megumi always puts other people on pedestals of being the good one, Tsumiki is good, Yuji is good, Megumi never considers himself a good person either. It's because they look at themselves that way, Megumi is much more willing to make sacrifices unlike Yuji.
However, Megumi is also self-centered in the fact that much like Gojo he tends to be apathetic. When the leadership of the Zenin clan gets handed to him, he for the most part doesn't really care. It's interesting because it's all Maki would ever want, but Megumi doesn't want it, because it was just handed to him.
Megumi cares about, helping the people who are closest to him. The same way Gojo cares about helping his students. They both do their jobs, but they don't go out of their way to play politics or play nice with the elders, because they are for the most part uninvolved. They have to be, the crushing weight of responsibility and everything, if they weren't just a little bit selfish it would be too much for them.
It's why Sukuna is such a clever foil to both of them. Megumi and Gojo both have the potential to have the strongest techniques, but they're also not as selfish as Sukuna is the strongest sorcerer ever because there is something holding them back. Gojo is responsible to the sorcerer world, Megumi is responsible towards his friends and his sister. They're selfish, but they can't be all the way selfish either. By Sukuna's logic they would be the strongest if they were all on their own. Sukuna's quote is "He alone an the honored one, all he sees is his pleasure and his displeasure."
Megumi and Gojo are characters who occasionally toy with that attitude. They can get close to acting like all that exists is their pleasure and displeasure. Sukuna maybe, believes he can make Megumi become more like that. Gojo believes Megumi's true potential will come out when he learns to be more selfish, instead of acting like he has to take sacrifice bunts. There are times when Megumi does act this way and only think about himself not the consequences of his actions, such as him summoning his ultimate monster in Shibuya.
However in the end Megumi and Gojo are also not as alone as they think they are. They are human and being human they actually do want to be closer to other people. They can't be all the way selfish like Sukuna, or go full monster and care only about power. Even when Gojo tries to be a sorcerer all the time, Gojo is tricked by his human connection to Geto, and Megumi tries to summon Mahoraga and go out in a suicide attack all alone, but the story doesn't let him. The two of them are not alone, even when they want to be. Megumi has within him the potential to become all powerful like Gojo, the chosen one of the Jujutsu World.
However, I don't think that Megumi even wants that. While him and Gojo both share the role of the chosen one, Megumi has the potential to surpass Gojo by learning to work with others rather than being a one man show. Instead of carrying the weight of the responsibility of the whole world on his shoulder, Megumi can learn to share that responsibility - and therefore ultimately subvert his role of the chosen one.
Despite every moment of life being indescribably precious and a wondrous mystery, I will spend it caring about dividends and how many rental properties I have.
the day when I stop blaming my parent for having a bad childhood and trust issue etc. is when I realize that they're human too and they do make mistakes, a lot of them for sure and as I will stop having those mistake stop me from being a much better ME
Its time to grow up and move on
This time not for them but for ME.
this chapter made my heart go THUMP THUMP.....
There's no turning back on this....
How can I read or watch latest updat of one piece now 😭😭😭😭
Im blaming tumblr for this...
Now that I discovered it
Cant just ignore it or atleast pretend to
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I just found out there's zosan fandom after being a one piece fan for 7 years 😲😲
MHA Chapter 322 spoilers translations: What Katsuki needs to say
There are better, more robust and complete translations out there now, but I know some of y’all like having access to the kanji and kana and like to reference the literal translations I do, so here’s what I’ve got of the new panels depicting that scene.
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just kacchan laying his arm on deku ( ⁎ᵕᴗᵕ⁎ ）
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helicopters, drones, planes and thousands of firemen are currently trying to control fires in 10 different locations in southern Turkey. so far, three people have died, hundreds of animals have perished and several settlements are being evacuated.
A WHOLE country is on fire please that is not something you can underestimate.
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An Analysis of the Nature of Izuku and Katsuki’s Relationship
Recently, I caught up to Boku no Hero Academia. I know nothing of the BNHA fandom, but I will say this: I’m disappointed by the fact that the relationship between Katsuki and Izuku isn’t generally considered to be the most profound. When I say profound, there are no positive connotations. Izuku and Katsuki are, as of now, not friends. When I say profound, I simply mean that I have a heck-ton of content to discuss. So yeah, this relationship is definitely the most complex in the series, albeit a flawed one.
Fortunately, this relationship is undergoing a transformation. By the end of the manga, it will have evolved into something that is complex, mutually supportive, and beautiful. In this post, I aim to examine and accentuate its intricacies. If you aren’t exactly a fan of Izuku and Katsuki’s relationship, I hope this post brings you to appreciate it as much as I do. (Please ignore any typos, by the way. I didn’t look over what I wrote.)
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if chickens were big enough to eat us do you think they would
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Saw a tweet some time ago that was basically saying how if you think about it,,, Bakugou really isn’t anybody special and that’s honestly one of my favorite things about him.
And then I watched the team matches again so I started thinking.
I thought about how it’s implied that Bakugou worked on his everything all on his own. And then thought about how strong he was even just entering UA. Thought about how he’s up in ranks with kids who were born in high society and hero families with home training and similar quirks. Thought about how he’s acknowledged as one of, if not the strongest after the mc. Thought about how he’s really just a kid with big dreams who’s working for them. So we got this little number. I wrote it a while go, just now posting it here but I might complete it one day, who knows.
We’ll call this one:
Perfect Victory
It’s his fight now.
Everyone’s watching.
They always are.
No matter their opinions, if they love him, if they loathe him, the one thing they cannot do, the one thing they can never do, is ignore him.
He looks at the team surrounding him, a conglomerate of blunt edges and mismatched abilities, and sees pieces slot into place, he already knows which buttons to press, he already has the combination moves in mind, he doesn’t need a cheat code. He looks at them and he thinks strong. He looks at them and he thinks, perfect.
He grins, heart already matching the pace of his mind, fast, unyielding, unrelenting. He can already hear the roar in his ears and he can feel the untamed energy reflecting in his eyes.
He’s excited.
And is it beautiful? Is it tragic? Is it poetic? That he is in a place where he has no right to be. That he had gotten a taste of the clouds, wet and heavy and heady like sin, and refused to let himself be dragged down. He has desire on his tongue, want in his lungs and he. refuses. to. let. go.
He’s a boy with an explosion quirk, yet he taught himself how to fly.
Icarus boy, crafting his wings with the nitroglycerin in his palms. Icarus, always reaching too high.
Among old names and legacies and inheritance he has the audacity to be reaching for the best.
Others are reaching (for good, to provide, to prove themselves, help their friends, their families) but he, he has the insolence to want to be on top.
And what is he, who is he to aim for the top?
Katsuki isn’t special.
No one entrusted their legacy to him.
He’s not born out tyrannical parental ambitions.
He’s not from old names and ancient money.
(He didn’t receive guiding hands, or solemn advice or cheerful instructions. No one gave him a fucking cheet sheet. He is no one’s successor. And he’s okay with that. His wings aren’t made of wax.)
Katsuki isn’t special.
But that means nothing. He won’t allow it to.
He’s on his way to be the best. He’s always been willing to put in the work for it.
(That may be the only thing that hurts. When they see that he works and he works and he works to become faster, stronger, better, and they act as if they expected him to stumble and not get up. When they see his power and underestimate him because they don’t expect, they don’t want him to get better. He had never thought that hard meant impossible. He was always willing to work for what he wanted. He didn’t need a mentor to do that.
How many people think controlling explosions is something that comes easily?
His dreams aren’t unattainable)
What do you call boys with wild eyes and even wilder hearts?
(A yell)
The fight starts.
Icarus was never meant to reach too low either.
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