#ch.323

[usagi-best-boy]

This panel is, of course, a work of art. Chapter 323

Berserk

[every-monkey-d-luffy]

[every-chopper]

[akutagawa-daily]

Akutagawa daily 323/★

[aashi-heartfilia]

Like Ik Manga and anime are two different ways of conveying the same story but shouldn't the anime have much more feels since it adds motion and sound?

Like this ep was fine, the voice acting was one of the most impressive ones that I've ever heard....but it felt very underwhelming.

Especially, when you compare it to it's manga counterpart.

[sunflowercider]

there is something so satisfying about lloyd using his aura for the first time on his shovel lol

[beaulesbian]

One Piece Live action season 1 + hints or similarities to future One Piece moments (specifically after East Blue saga) - part 1: episodes 1-3

This wasn't meant to be a comparison between the live action and the animanga, but more so seeing these added/modified scenes that differ from the manga, yet with some of the acting/writing includes clues and hints to different and future canon material, or even characterization that necessary doesn't fit East Blue yet, but fits well enough into later arcs.

Luffy not knowing his world directions both in Opla (ep 1) /// Skypiea arc, in anime ep 168. But it could be for honestly any other arc (Funny thing is, in Opla he rang the bell that unfortunately alerted Alvida's crew, and only when I was rewatching that scene it made me connect it with the great Luffy moment at the end of Skypiea.)

The matches that Zoro has on the Island of Sixis in Opla ep 1, possibly manufactured on Baldimore (?), with a name Beast of Baldimore. /// After Sabaody Archipelago Franky was sent to Baldimore by Kuma, finding Vegapunk's homeland and laboratory, and also developing more of his science projects, as well as causing funny incidents, such as the Burning Beast. (It has probably nothing to do with the matches, except for the 'tiger on fire' motif and the name of Baldimore, but the details of Opla are just so fun!)

Zoro's first meeting with Luffy in Opla episode 1 is really different but fun nonetheless, especially with wording of the line that he doesn't want to 'play pirates' with Luffy. It's such a great setup line for his development to truly be one of the very first to understand how much Luffy means everything he's doing /// Zoro in ep. 323 Post Enies Lobby arc, making sure both his crew and the audience know how seriously he takes being part of Luffy's crew and what it means for future arcs.

Opla ep 2, Luffy mentioning Shanks' way of thinking about fighting (or not fighting someone who's not worth it) /// ep. 146 Jaya arc, Luffy saying to Zoro not to fight Bellamy's crew, which was direct influence from Shanks not fighting the Mountain bandits in the first chapters of the manga. It's interesting that for both of these scenes both Zoro and Nami are there to hear this.

This is just a fun bit, but seeing Nami excited about having a bath was cute. Opla ep 3 /// anime ep. 326, just after they get Sunny and everyone was finding out what space there is for them.

Garp and Koby playing the game of Go, Opla ep 3 /// CP0 agents playing Go while discussing the outcome of Strawhats & Oden's crew's raid on Onigashima against Kaido. It seems like a game that maybe Marines play more/enjoy (?) & above, up to CP ranks.

Usopp 'retelling' a story about eating a dragon, Opla ep 3 /// Punk Hazard ep 580, Zoro killing the dragon and planning with Luffy what's the best way to cook and eat it. Lol. In next chapters Luffy was carrying a big chunk of it, seemingly ate a bit part of the dragon already.

This one is self explanatory. Zoro is so gone for Luffy in Opla it's insane. Every time I remember that I get emo. ep 3. /// One of the first really fond smiles that Zoro keeps smiling at Luffy, a mixture of proud and understanding how Luffy works. ep 63, but it's just so much better in the manga, just look at it. Smitten™ (ch. 104)

[teriri-sayes]

Reactions to The Incomprehensible's Chapters 323-324

Brief summary: Cale can use Instant up to 10 minutes. Neo keeps attacking Cale's allies. Bloody Cale reaches his limit, and Neo is about to explode. DHB sacrifices himself as Neo explodes.

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We got a double chapter today, and it was so tense like last time. B-B-BUT!!!! THAT CLIFFHANGER!!! 😰😰😰 WHYYYYYYYY!!!! DHB!!!!! 😨😨😨 NOOOOOOO!!!! PLEASE, AUTHOR-NIM!!! DON'T KILL HIM!!! 😭😭😭

Poor Raon... He kept screaming in despair, seeing his human all bloody and getting hurt because Cale kept protecting him from Neo's attacks. And then, he had to see DHB sacrificing himself to protect him too. 😭😭😭

Cale's Instant grew to the point that it could now last 10 minutes. And in its full power, Instant could make time slower than what Neo could do. But the ancient powers were screaming at Cale to stop. Because Cale kept using all his ancient powers along with Instant when fighting Neo. And that was putting a huge strain in his plate. Vitality of the Heart was shouting to Cale that he had already reached the limit, but Cale ignored it! 😭😭😭

Neo was scum. He purposely kept attacking Cale's allies, such as CH, Raon, and Eruhaben, knowing they were Cale's weakness. And when he realized he was about to die, he tore out his own heart to hasten the explosion.

Cale was really panicking today. His condition was really bad. It was worse than the chapter when he first used Instant. It was worse than the time he killed WS. Cale really pushed himself to the limits today. He kept cursing at Neo, angry at the latter for constantly targeting Raon and his allies.

His vision was blurry because of the blood. His hearing was faint because his ears were also bleeding. He could not tell if his body was feeling hot (overuse of Instant) or cold (because he was sweating so much). His clothes were torn here and there, and wounds appeared all over his body. And his internal injuries filled his mouth with blood.

Worst of all, his allies could see his bloody state but were all helpless to help him. Raon was crying when he saw his human like that. Eruhaben and CH were shocked and scared upon seeing all the blood.

DHB... 😭😭😭 His bones finally broke, and his soul flew out of his skeleton body. He turned to a brilliant light in the shape of a dragon. And at the speed of light, he grabbed Neo who was about to attack Raon, and flew up into the sky, away from everyone. And when time flowed again, Neo reached his end and exploded. And Cale saw the platinum light distorting in that explosion. 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Author-nim, how could you do this?!!! DHB had yet to hear the name Cale would give him! Please let him live!!! 😭😭😭

Ending Remarks Today was so tense, and it ended with such a cliffhanger. 😨 Next chapter would be aftermath of the explosion, and hopefully, please, author-nim, DHB would still be alive in some way.

[doubleragnarok]

ch 323

[misaqtx]

ch 323 spoilers

she know she devoured

love zebubura she kinda reminds me of power(kinda)

[tinyshinysylveon]

y’all.. we have 1 more episode left of bnha right after this if i’m not mistaken ;; since last episode (episode 23) adapted ch. 320 - 322 and assuming that it adapts the same way for the next episode (ch. 323 - 325), then most likely it’ll end right up around here 

then the very last episode could adapt these chapters: ch. 326 - 328 and end up to here where they’re introducing star and stripe (this is actually a good place to end if they do!) 

i also just want to take a moment that in the last episode, we’ll be getting these boys take a bath with deku  _(:3」∠) and i honestly can’t wait 

plus katsuki trying to be a better/changed person ;;; 

[every-monkey-d-luffy]

[every-chopper]

[ghelgheli]

The Stuff I Read in June/July 2023

Stuff I Extra Liked is Bold

I forgot to do it last month so you get a double feature

Books

Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee

Heteropessimism (Essay Cluster)

The Biological Mind, Justin Garson (2015) Ch. 5-7

Sacred and Terrible Air, Robert Kurvitz

Wage Labour and Capital, Karl Marx

Short Fiction

Beware the Bite of the Were-Lesbian (zine), H. C. Guinevere

Childhood Homes (and why we hate them) by qrowscant (itch.io)

piele by slugzuki (itch.io)

بچه‌ای که شکل گربه میکشید، لافکادیو هرن

بچه های که یخ نزدند، ماکسیم گورکی

پسرکی در تعقیب تبهکار، ویلیام آیریش

Küçük Kara Balık, Samed Behrengi

Phil Mind

The Hornswoggle Problem, Patricia Churchland,  Journal of Consciousness Studies 3.5-6 (1996): 402-408

What is it Like to be a Bat? Thomas Nagel, (https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674594623.c15)

Epiphenomenal Qualia, Frank Jackson, Consciousness and emotion in cognitive science. Routledge, 1998. 197-206

Why You Can’t Make a Computer that Feels Pain, Daniel Dennett, Synthese, vol. 38, no. 3, 1978, pp. 415–56

Where Am I? Daniel Dennett

Can Machines Think? Daniel Dennett

Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons, Derek Parfit (https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118922590.ch8)

The Extended Mind, Andy Clark & David Chalmers, Analysis 58, no. 1 (1998): 7–19

Uploading: A Philosophical Analysis, David Chalmers (https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118736302.ch6)

If You Upload, Will You Survive? Joseph Corabi & Susan Schneider (https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118736302.ch8)

If You Can’t Make One, You Don’t Know How It Works, Fred Dretske (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4975.1994.tb00299.x)

Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing

Minds, Brains, and Programs, John Searle (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00005756)

What is it Like to Have a Gender Identity? Florence Ashley (https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzac071)

Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data, Emily M. Bender & Alexander Koller (10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.463)

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 Emily M. Bender et al. (https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922)

The Great White Robot God, David Golumbia

Superintelligence: The Idea that Eats Smart People, Maciej Ceglowski

Misc. Articles

Ebb and Flow of Azeri and Persian in Iran: A Longitudinal Study in the City of Zanjan, Hamed Zandi (https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110694277-007)

WTF is Happening? An Overview – Watching the World Go Bye, Eliot Jacobson

Using loophole, Seward County seizes millions from motorists without convicting them of crimes, Natalia Alamdari

Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens, Cathy J. Cohen, Feminist Theory Reader. Routledge, 2020. 311-323

Is the Rectum a Grave? Leo Bersani (https://doi.org/10.2307/3397574)

Why Petroleum Did Not Save the Whales, Richard York (https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023117739217)

‘Spider-Verse’ Animation: Four Artists on Making the Sequel, Chris Lee

Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution, David T. Ho (https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00953-x)

Fights, beatings and a birth: Videos smuggled out of L.A. jails reveal violence, neglect, Keri Blakinger

Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek, Gabriel Rockhill

The Tyranny of Structurelessness, Jo Freeman

Domenico Losurdo interviewed about Friedrich Nietzsche

Keeping Some of the Lights On: Redefining Energy Security, Kris De Decker

Gays, Crossdressers, and Emos: Nonormative Masculinities in Militarized Iraq, Achim Rohde

On the Concept of History, Walter Benjamin

Our Technology, Zeyad el Nabolsy

Towards a Historiography of Gundam’s One Year War, Ian Gregory

Imperialism and the Transformation of Values into Prices, Torkil Lauesen & Zak Cope

[aashi-heartfilia]

Bakugo will become the Ultimate Hero just like Deku

Seeing the hate that the Overhaul arc and vigilante Deku arc gets for some reason, always triggers me. Both of these arcs are important for Deku's growth as a person and also highlights the main theme of the story.

The Overhaul arc was about saving a little girl, and making her smile. It was about how everyone's beliefs and wishes could change the future, and that's the reason why AM wouldn't die like Nighteye predicted.

Because just like everyone's energy came together and channelled in Izuku to defeat Overhaul, I think Bakugo will be the one to get everyone's energy and defeat AFO, in turns saving AM, the hero whose downfall solely weighs on Bakugo's shoulders.

Bakugo will share OFA!!!

It has been foreshadowed so many times!!!

JUST LIKE IN THE HEROES RISING, BKDK WILL DEFEAT THE MAIN VILLAIN, i.e. AFO and Shigaraki, because there are 2 villains and OFA is nothing but "The crystallization of people's hearts joining together as one" in Hawks terms.

Which brings me to my next point...

The Dark Deku arc or how people like to call it "The vigilante Deku arc" was literally about normal civilians who perceive heroes as their knight in shining armor.

About connection and taking a single step for mankind that will lead to big changes. How the first step is always hard but if a person manages to take that single step, the Ultimate hero will rise.

And time and time again, I have said that Uravity will be an Ultimate hero, but it won't be just Uravity. Just like the story in the beginning was about "How I became the greatest Hero" referred to as "How Deku became the Ultimate Hero" changed to "The story of how we all became Ultimate Heroes".

It's a story of how anyone and everyone becomes a Hero.

About how "AM connected to Deku", "Deku connected to his classmates" and "Uravity connected Deku to people"....AM has been saving people his entire life, just like how Deku was taking on villains one after the other even if he himself was battered and bruised and tired.

And these people deemed him as a villain.

But Uravity presented him as a person also in need of saving, as just a regular high schooler who still has so much to learn. Special powers didn't make him special.

Which is why just like Uravity connected people to heroes, and I think Bakugo will carry on her legacy.

There is a reason why Bakugo saw her rise in ch 323, along with her parents and Present Mic (I still don't get why anime removed that scene?) Plus, Bakugo also thought back to this scene in ch 358....

And this will be the part that Horikoshi was referring to, when he said "He has a scene planned, that both Bakugo haters and Bakugo lovers will enjoy". Haters enjoyed it when Bakugo died, but Bakugo lovers will enjoy it when he rises from his ashes to save AM and becomes the Ultimate hero that the story was always pointing towards!!

Cheers! Sunshine

[zealctry]

" If they can kill me, I couldn't be happier. Although… . . . I don't think they can. " — ch. 323 ( to Kakuzu )