@baezetsu submitted: was saving this for a meta, but damn am I tired of ppl arguing this so pls… (Both are Viz translation, by CC, for both school briefs and chapter 31)
THANK YOU for your service ✊😔
this line is so jarring to me because if shigaraki really is gone... where are his friends waiting?
up until now we always took their survival for granted, no matter the situation they ended up in. toga's blood loss. dabi's quirk awakening at the brink of death.
but calling back on shiggy's line "even if [...] i turned into an empty shell, i'd still need to become a hero to those guys"
suddenly has me worried about the fate of toga and dabi.
they're waiting for him.
I have a lot of thoughts about why Dabi pretended not to see Aoyama here. It's implied he knows Aoyama is the traitor, but even so Dabi chooses not to mention Aoyama's interference to All for One. And to some extent, it's likely because Touya doesn't trust All for One and he knows they have different end goals in mind. He might have some embers of sympathy considering that like Aoyama, All for One attempted to use Touya because of the downstream effects of his parents' bad life decisions. But then there's also this
The terrified position Aoyama is taking here is something Touya would be more than familiar with as well...
It’s interesting that Hk chose a women to directly criticize the heroes’ attempts at easing the public.
Despite having multiple men in the audience, Hk uses a female reporter to question Endeavor’s atonement and integrity. She brings up valid concerns, but she’s portrayed as emotional and almost irrational, which is in contrast not only to the heroes, but also her male colleagues (who are shown behind her, obviously uneasy with her outburst).
Once again, although the men in the story are primarily at fault for the current disaster, Hk created a woman to represent the sector that are working against heroes and their attempt to save society. This wouldn’t be an issue if it was an isolated event, but it’s disappointing considering Horikoshi’s tendency to use women to portray toxic and regressive mindsets while refusing to give his female characters actual development.