everyone conversing in a circle while Dabi is in time-out in the corner đź’€
no but srsly what are we hoping for here. like, okay, so we assume the villains don’t die and get “saved,” but aoyama, who: 1. was blackmailed into helping afo, 2. literally did not kill anyone, and 3. immediately and sincerely regretted his actions, still gets locked up and told to repay his debt to society, literally WHAT are we hoping will happen to people who willingly joined the villain cause and killed people for their own deeply-held values. at this point i hope they die i hope everyone dies!!
I read through the manga for the first time recently (at least what's release in the US bc I prefer physical books to trying to read manga on a screen) and Spinraki kinda grabbed me by the balls ngl. The manga version of mva really sells me on Spinner's growing devotion to Shigaraki at a time where he seemed to be having doubts since it had drifted so far from Stain's ideology. Also gamer bfs playing LoL together and being dorks is just a really sweet thought. đź’•
I totally agree with preferring physical copies of the manga over reading digital, it drives my brother crazy lol.
Spinneraki is such a good ship, I love it so much!
I was listening to music while I was drawing this and bunch of sad love songs started playing and looking back it definitely had an impact without me even realizing it until I got too far. It had a very different vibe when I started lmao
Oh well... enjoy some super soft Spinneraki on the house
There was a story behind this image but I'll just leave it up to you guys to come up with your own.
The trifecta of “this looks sick as fuck, but I’m a little worried about you, sweetie”
i knew i wasnt gonna like this fight very much lol shouto barely reacts to the shit that happened to touya and is instead is like "u shouldnt be dragging other ppl into this!!" like?? if i found out literally any of that happened to my siblings (or even just people i know??) i would react very badly and i dont even get along with my siblings!! idk this has like no emotional weight to me for some reason idgi
i've been getting the feeling that bnha is written in a way to primarily impart lessons (*but only on people who are not related to law enforcement). that's why we keep getting bludgeoned over the head with how aoyama is still responsible for endangering his classmates or how dabi still made his own choices to kill unrelated people; while true, the story seems to prioritize making sure those lessons are learned first, while what is perceived as excess sympathy is excised so it never comes across as ""condoning"" the person who did wrong.
which is probably why a lot of these scenes feel like they have no emotional weight. often the only person sympathizing with characters like dabi or aoyama is the reader, and there is no outlet for the reader's feelings because characters aren't allowed to sympathize overmuch with the villains. for us there's no emotional payoff because we'll read something like dabi's backstory, but the reveal just gets followed up with a lecture, which is obviously... not emotionally impactful at all. the scenes don't read like a moving or memorable moment so much as the heroes engaging in debate class.
Dabi-obviously-not-touya-todoroki, a villain that wants to follow stains will in destroying fake heroes and their place in hero society-
-while listening to every "fXck you dad" song on his way to the hairdresser for all the essentials, because everyone wants to look great on their special day.
Toga Himiko, the evolutionary endpoint of all love obsessed schoolgirls and cosplayers-
-her greatest deception in convincing others that she's just that, instead of a girl driven to madness by her own power and society's rejection.
Also due to the fact that she’s mostly only able to communicate through romantic one-liners.
Together they'll confront the heroes and the heroes will face them, all trying to reconcile their world views while beating the shXt out of each other.
Though Deku spends most of the final War in a Beach Day episode.
And Shigaraki spends it posing like he's a dragon ball z villain.
But taking hits like he's Krillin.
Then the Todoroki brothers face off in a battle of hot vs hot/cold/extras.
Before the whole family gets involved in the fight like it's a reality TV show.
That'll be one awkward family dinner.
And finally, toga vs Ochako takes the series into full Shojo territory, complete with dramatic proclamations and the resulting stabbings-
-resolving in heartfelt confessions and floating light bubbles.
Are there romantic implications when the villain says that blood is her romance, and the hero replies that she'll give her own blood to them for the rest of her life?
Hmmmmm???
So strap in, for a story about conflicting ideals and standards of living, in a world ruled by power and oppression.
Where all of that will fly clear over a lot of people's heads, because the setting doesn't look like a futuristic dystopian landscape ruled by an uncaring well-dressed government that has its children fight for the benefit and entertainment of their society...
Even though it actually kind of does.
Well as long as none of the kids ever get killed, it's not really-
Oh...
Starring:
Memories spoken; no bones left unbroken!Â
Every-time we touch, you get to crumbling!
Sans the skeleton
We're halfway there!
The red means I love you!
And Utena RizzakoÂ
Too cool for hero school
(Left out the closing line, does anyone have any ideas?)
heyyyy i know we’re all annoyed about mva but can people stop blaming the japanese fandom for it bc they supposedly dont like the villains?? its getting racist. japanese people are not a monolith. please stop acting like they’re a hivemind who all hate villains when we know the western fandom also hates villains. i’m seeing shit like “fuck the japanese” and my guy do you not realize what you sound like? just stop. be annoyed at the studio all you want but stop blaming japan as a whole.