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It’s a bit more convoluted on the face, but it at the same time:
It also fits in with AFO’s modus operandi, not as a chess master but as someone who sees people not as people but specimens and puppets. His entire empire was building an underground genetic experimentation system to augment his personal quirk retinue while being able to take, warp and grant quirks to his underlings to accomplish his goals. Creating the grandson of one of his rivals into not simply a lab rat, but to serve as his new vessel fits well within that as a crowning triumph of his narcissistic and sociopathic ideology.
It also again works well to highlight thematic mirroring between AFO the person and the bearers of OFA, as I mentioned before: the bearers of One For All all seek out a worthy successor who will carry their will onward into the future, at cost to themselves (as the act of passing it on deprives them of it and thus weakens them), while AFO selfishly seeks out ways to steal from others to empower himself, culminating now in not simply hijacking a kid’s life to steal as his new self but to go so far as to deliberately engineer that child’s existence for the sole purpose of being harvested as a vessel. One for All is thematically about empowering others, while All for One is about stealing from them to empower oneself.
Shigaraki vanquishing AFO through his rage, hate and spite can work on as a character beat, but thematically it’s horrifying. That entire moment if it stands says all that hate and pain destructive impulses are a source of power and strength.
But by doing it this way, what Horikoshi communicates is that, sure, maybe you can get by with that in the short term. But it doesn’t solve the problem, doesn’t make them go away. Shigaraki pushes AFO down into the depths of his soul, but don’t forget that is where he was just some days before. And now the thing holding him up is this fragile, self-destructive impulse that can’t help but eventually burn out and hollow himself out with it.
Hence, when something is done to shatter it before it can burn itself out, AFO can resume control again. Which means you need something stronger, more self-sustaining, to solve him and everything that he represents. All the pain, all the manipulation, all the rage and hate and selfishness.
And, because it’s a Shonen manga the answer is going to be the bonds of companionship between people, pulling each other up and pushing back against something together.
The answer isn’t a rage that is so strong it would destroy the world itself. It’s finding a way to let the rage and pain go, to stop it from literally holding you in its grasp (hand symbolism!) and receive the help and support of others.
Well, I think Red does a good job explaining the problem personally, but here's the point - we had a resolution to this plot get unresolved, and there seems to be no real rhyme or reason for it.
oh my
your first time with the eclipse?
Yep, totally blind.
I'm not the only one looking at that bit of unhinged lunacy, right? Because Jesus.
First, it would show that in the end, his path was ultimately self-destructive. In the prior arc, AfO's petard-hoisting comes from the fact that he sees people as pawns and specimens, and that results in his plans collapsing, because his inability to trust others engenders a lack of trust in others, and that lack of trust thwarts him an a number of ways, leading to his ultimate defeat.
Second, not only do his plans backfire, they give birth to an even worse villain, as the nihilistic Shigaraki seeks only to destroy - as opposed to AfO, who seeks to rule. This also amplifies the choice that Midorya makes - to take the hard road and choose to try to save him, to save what spark of good left in him exists, rather than just destroy him. This also works with the Greatest Hero concept as well, because the Greatest Hero makes the hard choices, at great cost to themselves.
Personally, I think those are more interesting arcs than what this change represents, as this is an arc we've seen so many times before.
Those old earthnoids who have forgotten their dreams, who don’t realize that the word can’t be looked at through the lens of “common sense”!
Well it did benefit the teachers because online learning prevents students who were younger and more resilient to the pandemic from spreading it to teachers who were older and more vulnerable.
At a cost that was mostly borne by students and parents. Though it obviously also protected parents and families of students from any pathogens that classmates might spread.
Absolutely the right call imho though.
MWO: Adamski
Seriously, Hedgie - what were you thinking there? You damn well know the origin of that phrase.
And every adaptation of what came after has all been a dumpster fire, I gather?
I don't think people forgot,
There’s only been the one, anime-wise:
The preceding adaptation was another adaptation of the Golden Age, and outside of those three the rest are, like, video games.
A NI ME JA NA I!
Which yeah you could do that, but it wouldn’t be the story that MHA is trying to tell, and would bring it into contradiction with the thematic resonance of One For All. It’s not a story where hatred and pain are things that make you strong, and Shigaraki’s whole deal has been how that hate has been so destructive to him and others. As much as he talks in recent chapters about wanting to be a “hero for the villains,” nothing he did has helped them, and the thing fueling him is, has been pointed out, driving him to destroy everything. It doesn’t make sense then for that anger and hate to be a thing that is actually empowering, but is stronger thematically if it’s illusory.
ANIME JA NAI
HONTOU NO KOTO SA
Berserk '97.
It's also just plain not directed as well, like the assassination scene in the TV series is barely animated and yet it looks waaaay better than the movie's version:
uhh spoiling for guts murderin' a kid preview image
ohhhh yeah that tracks lol
it ends at the basically darkest point of the whole grimdark series
(Fuck Hazamada, though)
Golden Wind has an entirely different system of anime friendship