#bnha out of context

[angryrantsofdomesticity]

BNHA season 6 out of context pt.2

I just realized I never posted this one so I am catapulting it out into the universe now.

[van-del]

Sometimes I think about Midoriya and how he ate All Might's hair dry,,,,,like no water or nothing to wash it down..just..raw swallowed that man's hair 😭😭😭

[amaranthdahlia]

some yoichis for da dead man enjoyers out there

[h1yac1nth]

sparring match

[mamashenanigans]

So, I’m revisiting something I’ve already discussed. I took a gander at the My Hero Academia Wiki’s All for One page and was quite surprised at the skewed view on his relationship with Yoichi, most notably when he killed him.

The wiki states that he killed Yoichi “without hesitation or remorse”, but leaves out the visual and narrative context of what’s happening. It also conveniently leaves out AFO’s thoughts on Yoichi before he blips out of existence.

I’m going to break it down since it’s quite apparent people either A.) have no reading comprehension concerning comics and/or B.) they so want AFO to be a “born evil” character and disregard the subtext and context of what’s occurring.

Here we have the last two panels of the chapter prior to the reveal of Yoichi’s death. AFO is focused on Kudo and Yoichi’s hands. His attack only leaves Yoichi’s hand, but that doesn’t appear to be what he was aiming for, especially when examining the first few pages of the following chapter.

In the first panel, AFO looks surprised at what he’s done. His mouth is slightly open and his eyes wide as Yoichi’s blood splatters onto his face. The next panel is AFO just standing there, hand still outstretched, almost like he’s trying to process what just happened. Given the look of surprise and how he freezes, allowing the one that stole his brother away to be able to flee, it’s clear that this was the result of a possessive rage and AFO only meant to attack their hands instead of obliterating Yoichi.

We also have the narrative subtext.

When we first see Yoichi being ripped apart, the narration tells us that AFO named his brother after the fact he was the first thing given to him in life. This hints that Yoichi is more substantial than other people. The word “precious” is used to describe Yoichi after AFO kills him. This narration juxtaposed to AFO killing Yoichi clearly suggests that AFO didn’t mean to kill Yoichi, but probably only maim him.

If he truly cared so little for Yoichi as to purposefully murder him, then he would have quickly moved on to killing Kudo and Bruce who are shown still in the water and trying to get away. Instead, he just stands there, frozen in his initial position, looking like his brain just glitched.

Furthermore, we have AFO keeping Yoichi’s hand, all that remains of him, and is even eating dinner with it as shown here…

If all he wanted to do was take back the Quirk and move on(before finding out that Yoichi still exists) then why even embalm the hand? Instead, he seems to be sitting there, with a glass of wine and a plate of food, just contemplating his brother’s hand. Once he concludes that Yoichi “still exists”, he goes on a huge conquest to get him back.

We also have prior flashbacks to work with here. The first one we got had AFO telling Yoichi he loves him and asks his bodyguard to go easy on him. Next, there’s the flashback in the vault and AFO’s monologue is to convince Yoichi to stand by his side. He calls him “dear little brother” earlier and then tells him while giving him the stockpiling Quirk that he matters to him/so dear to him. Once he finds Kudo, he also presumably (due to Kudo’s retort) asked where Yoichi was as he considers the Quirk to be his brother.

Now, don’t get me wrong. AFO’s “love” for Yoichi was very possessive. When his conquest to get back OFA is shown, AFO claims his tears were just “alligator tears” and that all he wants is to make Yoichi his.

However, the last thoughts about Yoichi that AFO has, and is conveniently left out of his wiki page, is that he needs Yoichi/without him everything is for nothing. This could definitely mean that AFO’s thoughts during his killing of the holders of OFA were of an unreliable narrator and more him trying to convince himself that the tears meant nothing.

This is such an important line. AFO finally admits that it was all about Yoichi and that nothing matters if he isn’t by his side. That refutes the idea that AFO didn’t care about Yoichi and only wanted to possess him. The original translation only has “Yoichi, I need you” and of course the official English translation has to say it differently, but that right there changes the entire perspective of what he was trying to achieve. It’s no longer a “I want to make you mine”, but a clear “I need you”. Which makes sense given that they only had each other growing up.

It’s also pertinent to remember that AFO often “talks” to Yoichi in his inner thoughts, particularly during battle. Following his admittance of needing Yoichi, he continues to “speak” to him about what he was trying to achieve.

With AFO blaming Kudo for everything, it’s pretty obvious that AFO can’t accept the fact that he messed up and accidentally killed his brother. It has to be Kudo’s fault for taking him in the first place.

So, in closing, the idea that Yoichi meant nothing to AFO and was just another toy or that he purposefully killed him doesn’t add up when taking into consideration all the context. Yoichi did mean something to AFO and that’s why he did everything.

He’s still a bastard, but my god, don’t leave out all this important stuff.

[delawaredetroit]

This is the funniest thing Izuku has ever said

Anyway, you know a character is an nonentity when their most important scene in a series involves someone else pretending to be them.

Toga also raised a good point here. The provisional licensing exam was a good opportunity for infiltration. Too bad little to nothing comes of that because Toga did this on her own for personal reasons

[autumnmobile12]

Out of context, this looks like Toga and Twice are posing for a photo and I find that adorably wholesome.

[possesseddog]

hey i made some memes

[red-sneakers]

[glitterhearth]

bakugou haters: the apology had no substance, he's an asshole, he's a dick, he gets too much attention for what little redemption he actually does, the whole death and revival thing was like so unnecessary

me, an intellectual: well, you have a point. but- have you considered that bakugou's an awesome character but horikoshi couldn't execute the redemption arc well and it's not bakugou's fault?

[angryrantsofdomesticity]

Bnha Season 6 out of context, pt 1.

[flutteringfable]

SHES SO CUTE AUGHHH. okay but like hear me out. she and tamaki should hang out methinks

[invinciblecrow]

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Watch out, Icarus. Don't fly too close to the sun or your feathers might just turn to ash."

[renirae]

drawing for chapter two of 'cause I'm still turning out :DDD

light version:

[delawaredetroit]

To Bakugou's credit, it seems like he made this comment because he was upset that he physically can't fight Tokoyami at his strongest, and he wasn't trying to say that he's better than Tokoyami.

It's more that he was saying that by nature of how their quirks interact it's impossible to tell who is objectively stronger. He can only win by technicality because his quirk gives off light, which goes against Bakugou's modus operandi of absolute victory against opponents who are giving it their all.

[smolthealmighty]