Also as a side note, shonen fans make me laugh because they will have serious power scaling discussions as if shonen writers don't just give their favourite characters ridiculous asspull power ups and rig fights in their favour all of the time.
Female characters are often used as jobbers/ are made to intentionally lose fights for the development of male characters, or to make other characters look stronger.
I need a female character in a shonen to be given an unbelievable asspull and only then will I believe that gender equality has been achieved in the genre.
This may be a broken take, but take the fuckign Shibuya arc.
Itadori- is getting his ass beat by Choso when choso has some spaghetti flashback.
Megumi- Is getting his ass kicked by Toji but then Toji takes possession of his body and offs himself. Megumi summons Mahoraga and then Sukuna shows up to kill Mahoraga so Megumi doesn't die. Also Megumi has hand to hand combat training but fundamentally he is a summoner, so his CT is actually not that useful in direct one on one hand to hand combat and he gets his ass kicked a lot by the likes of Toudou and a lot of other characters.
Meanwhile:
Nobara- Yeah she has the shit fight against Haruto but Nobara Is doing well against Mahito's clone, Mahito calls her his natural born predator and she has some good strategic moments before dying in the most low down dirty disrespectful way possible when actually it would have been interesting if her CT was his demise and Gege should have let the whole "natural born enemy" thing play out so Nobara had a serious W.
As a side note, many people say she wouldn't have survived the culling games.
JUST GIVE HER AN ASSPULL-- like every other shonen character gets. The whole genre is built off of asspulls. Black flashes in JJK effectively exist as a plot convenience-- I am tired of us having serious conversations about a genre that basically just is hype moments and aura farming.
Just recalled that some people working in health care in Norway, when dealing with a patient who's on deathbed, they'll say the patient is on LSD, because it also works as an acronym for: livets siste dager, which directly translates as life's last days.
the year is 2025
scientists are still scrambling to figure out what “zigazig ahh” is so that they can give the spice girls what they really really want
the spice girls are getting impatient
war is upon us
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Also I REALLY hate that the writers decided to use the most lazy trope possible, the trope I hate with my whole heart
When we have a big war between two sides that was becoming worse and worse for so many years
And instead of actually resolving it, the writers just add another, BIG ONE enemy to unite those two sides
And now they don't need to think about how to resolve SUCH COMPLICATED conflict that was lasting for decades. No, now they suddenly have a peace bc "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". THAT'S SO FUCKING LAZY
I wanted to see how Zaun and Piltover resolve their conflict so bad and all I've seen was a fight against Ambessa and Viktor?? Seriously?? That's a such disappointment
Also the same thing happened in spop and I really hoped Arcane isn't gonna do it...and they did...
Like imagine if in ATLA instead of Aang stopping the fire nation, all 4 nations just united against spirits
That's actually insane
My personal favourite
I know satoru had flashbacks all the time
I've said this before and I'll say it again: it's more important to know and understand fully why something is harmful than it is to drop everything deemed problematic. It's performative and does nothing. People wonder why nobody has critical thinking skills and this is part of it because no one knows how to simousltansly critique and consume media. You need to use discernment.
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