#ch 157

[sobamilk]

Dabi and Toga

[booty-uprooter]

did they edit out a cigarette and replace it with a pocky stick

[onepieceanimals]

He...

Gremlin...

[denjhenge]

Ohhhhh Asa...

our poor cringe fail girl freak.

[every-god-usopp]

[every-monkey-d-luffy]

[helloworldjj]

rui has zero thoughts in his head fr

[every-ace]

[every-chopper]

[every-nami]

[yazzydream]

I really like that Yuuji was a well adjusted and popular kid. He's highly athletic with good social skills, high EQ, perceptive, and has an overall good personality. His physical prowess doesn't dictate how he acts or treats others in his daily life.

But then he got in way over his head.

What an unusual shonen hero! He's by far the most normal shonen protagonist I've ever seen. He's not maladjusted, a weirdo, eccentric, gloomy, an idiot, a genius. He doesn't have some grand ideal or dream. He's just. A decent guy.

He's likable and brave and kind. He's not a pushover. He can get annoyed and mad like anyone else, but it's not exaggerated or overblown.

But then life shits on him constantly.

The most "heroic" characteristic you can say of Yuuji is his determination— that he's constantly pushing forward. And even that wasn't especially excessive.

At first, it was because of his positivity; his naivete that let him get past desperate situation after situation. Until it got to the point where even he couldn't ignore the unrelenting traumatic horror his life's become. Then, it's because this is life. This is it. What else is there to do but live? (The alternative is to stop. And it's not like that option wasn't constantly hovering over him anyway.)

Resigned? Kind of. Acceptance... may be closer. He went from optimist to realist. His realization that he's a cog in the machine... it's based on the fact he was that normal guy.

He already was a normie cog, even if he hadn't consciously thought of it. Then he got exposed to this idea that he was part of this grand destiny; that there was something only he could do.

(And he kind of was. Kind of wasn't. *hand wavy* Because it was all deliberated by Kenjaku. Not that Yuuji's entirely aware of that yet.)

But he was disillusioned, those thoughts bitterly crushed.

So, he pushes forward, step by step now, as part of this... existence. This world.

It's really entertaining.

[sobamilk]

[s4no]

hello there 👀

[onepieceanimals]

Somebody help him (actually don't, he's so cute)

(Sanji ruins it)

[class1akids]

Breakdown of the EP 157 preview shots - or I hope studio bones rots in hell if they took Shoto Rising from us...

These shots come from all over the place. I have no idea what kind of unholy mess Studio Bones is cooking, but it looks like they made a disaster out of the Todofam ending so they can sell fucking ironmight merch as soon as possible.

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I think it's fair to say that all drawing budget went into AFO and All Might and they didn't treat the epic Shoto Rising panels with the care they deserved. They do not promote it as a Todoroki family episode. They don't even mention it. They broke the promises of "Origins" and "Risings".

I'm furious.

[every-god-usopp]