#doctor garaki

[hotpotatopotat]

"Too Much to Handle" (1/1)

Shigaraki steals Kacchan Arcanine from Izuku and brings it back to the Boss of Team League. All for One and Doctor Persian are...unimpressed.

mha pokemon continues I guess 😅

[liluchunnies]

The doomed yaoi and yuri goes hard gang

No because garaki's was a legit love confession what the flip and stain with all might?? A whole proposal

[poppy5991]

Dabi: I want to kill heroes.

Toga: I want to kill heroes.

Shigaraki: I want to kill heroes.

Garaki: I want to conduct unethical medical experiments on children.

Garaki: Oh what? This is suddenly not a safe space??

[call-me-copycat]

PSA To My Hero Academia fans on RedNote/ Xiaohongshu!

I've seen a lot of people going to Xiaohongshu! That's great! However I think this is something you should know (;´∀`)･･ｧﾊﾊﾊ･･

My Hero Academia is the only anime that is a major taboo! As a long term MHA fan it saddens me greatly - but it offends the Chinese people so don't post anything My Hero Academia related!

They're very lenient with foreigners fortunately, but there have been cases of death threats and harassment to a couple MHA posters. It's essentially banned/blacklisted (socially at least)

I've seen people asking, but so far it's an MHA only type thing - no other anime (to my knowledge) has this type of resentment.

It's not an"oh this anime is cringy" type hate. It's a deep seated resentment - because of Dr. Garaki.

So for those that don't know, way back in late 2019/early 2020, there was this whole catastrophe regarding Horikoshi-sensei's naming of him. His original name was "Maruta Shiga". Many saw this as an ode to the WWII experimentation on Chinese citizens by the imperialist Japanese army and unit 731, and seeing that he's a doctor who experiments on people (to make Nomu)... This wasn't taken well

The Chinese saw it as him pretty much spitting on their history, and saw it as a mockery of their patriotism. Therefore, My Hero Academia as a whole is extraordinarily offensive on any Chinese platform in general

However this was entirely a mistake on Horikoshi's side. As we all know, he likes to have fun with his names and names his characters by appearance, power, or behavior. "Maruta" was meant to portray the Doctor's roundness (as Horikoshi said, "he's a short, portly man"), but it was also the Japanese word for "log" - which many saw as a reference to Unit 731 (many many trigger warnings for those who look into that. It's horrific). "Shiga" was chosen simply because it was similar to Shigaraki's name. It was an unfortunate combination.

Horikoshi didn't intend for it to be such an insensitive reference and immediately changed the doctor's name to Garaki within a week on all digital copies. He's apologized as well, but still to this day My Hero is a big taboo (⁠｡⁠•́⁠︿⁠•̀⁠｡⁠)

I'm very sorry to my My Hero Academia friends! But I ask of you to keep it invisible on Chinese platforms like Xiaohongshu - just save it for other places like here, okay?

[zestirial]

Some people still say it's not the same person.

I'll give you some bleach to clear your eyesight you'll see....😮‍💨

I'm not even going to point out that "both" work in a hospital and have the same voice 🙄

[anime-as-textposts]

[fanofflames]

Went back through the manga and found these panels mentioning Chisaki’s quirk. It’s interesting that, the quirk, Overhaul is mentioned as the ability to dismantle and restore....

Seems highly plausible that AFO and Garaki used his quirk to make Shigaraki's Decay. If so, Garaki probably performed experiments on Chisaki in the same nature as the ones Chisaki subjected Eri to…

It could explain Chisaki's lack of empathy towards Eri, and his extensive knowledge on quirk research, to the point of being able to create quirk-erasing bullets from Eri’s Rewind.

[nyc3]

This scene lives rent free in my head 🫣

Also I wonder why Nine is nude inside that tank but Shigaraki was using a swimsuit in the same situation:

Ujiko is such a naughty bastard lol.

[autumnmobile12]

I’m suddenly very concerned about where Dr. Garaki’s notes and scientific journals are. He thought his Jaku City lab was well hidden, and went to great lengths to keep it hidden to the point even his own allies didn’t know where it was, so he probably kept his notes on all his experiments there.

So they were either confiscated by the heroes after the raid or completely destroyed after Shigaraki’s attack.

Personally, the latter is more likely to me because the alternative is they fell into the heroes' hands and I am not confident any government body would destroy ‘invaluable research’ on Quirks and the potential creation of super soldiers.

…

Pro Shouto: There’s been a rise in criminal activity lately and some of the Pros dispatched to deal with it are…wrong. Wrong in that there’s something off about them. I don’t know what it is, but they remind me of Nomu and I know that’s impossible because Garaki has been jailed for years. He can’t be behind this.

Dabi: *still imprisoned, still somehow alive* What happened to the good doctor’s notes, I wonder?

Pro Shouto: Confiscated. Destroyed.

Dabi: You sure? You burn them yourself?

Pro Shouto: …

Dabi: Why the silence, Shou? Is the society you fought for not to your liking?

Pro Shouto: I have to go.

Dabi: Come again soon. It’s fun to watch you squirm.

Pro Shouto: *to the attendant* My brother is ready to go back to sleep.

Dabi: Yes, back to dreaming with me. It’s nicer there, you know. So nice…

[blackberrylight1]

I think we all wonder about that, Dabi

[doodletheexpoodle]

Its just a shame some questions I have will probably go unanswered when My Hero Academia ends

"Why did you drop us something so surprising but nothing else on it??"

Whats up with Dr. Garaki being Deku's childhood doctor???

Did he somehow take Midoriya's quirk? Is he actually the kid above's grandpa? Why did he turn his own grandchild into a Nomu?? Gah it was killed off so quickly and easily thoooough

And don't get me started about the BS explanation why Midoriya doesn't have a quirk that always bugged me so bad lol thatd be hilarious if it was true though

[hotpotatopotat]

The moment AFO and the Doctor realize that their perfect plan, Tomura Shigaraki, is prone to temper tantrums... 😅

[absorbedpoem74]

Okay, let’s take a look at some of the STARWARS references that convince me that Afo and Izuku are related and most likely father and son.

Afo and Anakin(Darth Vader) before their injury say almost exactly the same thing.

The battle which left them injured by the teacher of the protagonist who plays their part later on in the story.

Musutafu is a reference to Mustafar, the place where the fight of Anakin and obi wan took place. Musutafu is also the place where all might fought afo for the third time, where the war is currently taking place since ua is in Musutafu and where Izuku’s apartment is. We still don’t know where all might’s and afo’s first battle took place but it’s a possibility it did there.

Their bodies were stolen, saved, and given their mask so they could breathe.

There's a picture of a padme flower in the apartment. Padme was Anakin's wife.

If we consider the Star Wars storyline the reveal is what follows. Afo better reach Deku.

[poppy5991]

Dabi: You should lose your medical license.

Garaki: Bold of you to assume I have one.

[huiiiooo]

It is interesting to think that Garaki had a family under the name Tsubasa, and that he served in Musutafu as Dr. Tsubasa Coincidentally, he was the one who diagnosed Izuku as Quirkless and to this day this is the only legitimate medical action that the manga has shown of him, which is strange, since he is All for One's personal doctor, it is strange that he diagnosed the Protagonist and this fact is of no importance, and the only direct mention of Hisashi Midoriya is coincidentally to him

and his family, his children and his grandchildren lived close to the Midoriyas and Inko presumably knew Tsubasa Kun's Mother

If their families knew each other it would make sense that Inko would have specifically gone to consult Izuku at Doctor Tsubasa, we don't know why someone like Garaki would be in this region, but he seems to be the type that everything he does is in one way or another focused on All for one , so who knows it wasn't All for one who ordered him and his family to be in that region specifically, both using false identities of Hisashi Midoriya and Dr. Tsubasa especially, a curious detail is that looking at Tsubasa Ku's age he became Nomu on a date not a long way from when AFO became potatoes

[opossum-prophet]

Soooo

I haven’t really seen anyone talk about this before, so here I go again…

What do yall think All for One was thinking when he awoke from being revived by Garaki after his fateful battle with All Might?

When he gained consciousness, he would have realized he no longer had eyes or a nose; choking from the tracheotomy tube, feeling the immeasurable pain regardless of how much medication his doctor was feeding him.

After awaking from death, would he have called out to Yoichi? The only person that matters to him in any shape or form? Garaki immensely confused at the yelling of “first gift”?

Here’s what was supposed to be a drabble, but ended up being 1400 words. Enjoy.

———

Darkness.

Pitch black, all encompassing.

One minute there was nothing and now…

Still nothing, but he was aware.

Aware of how stifling it was. Specks of memories brought back flickering images of alleyways and the hunts at dusk. He was never alone then.

He was alone now.

Was he walking? He wasn’t sure. Too hard to know if he was moving or stagnant in this void.

Then he heard it.

First, barely audible, almost like a hum. But the sound increased steadily until he realized exactly where he had heard such a melody before.

Yoichi.

It was his giggles from so long ago. A short blip in time during their youth when his little brother could still find magic and awe all around their bleak existence. Sometimes it was a colorful butterfly that had fluttered into their alleyway, finding the pile of various flowers his small twin would pick when they dared to venture closer to the woods outside the dilapidated city.

He never had time to stop and enjoy the scenery as his brother did. His eyes were always in motion, checking for danger around every corner, wondering if one of the mean men in uniforms would come for them because they were different.

Yoichi knew this too, but it didn’t seem to bother him as much as it did his brother. He would happily present his scavenged flowers to his older twin and ask which one he liked. None ever caught his eye. There weren’t many flowers in his favorite color: green.

Like Yoichi’s eyes.

”Yoichi?” He whispered into the dark.

No acknowledgement. Only continued giggles.

“Yoichi! Where are you?! Why aren’t you answering me? I demand you answer me now!” He yelled now. Somehow, there was an echo. It bounced around, joining the mirthful laughter.

There.

Almost imperceptible and far from where he was standing, if he even was at all, there was a green flicker dancing in the distance.

He suddenly felt the hard, dank pavement under his bare feet as he ran. He outstretched his hand towards the light. The only light. The only thing in this terrible place.

Always the only thing in any terrible place.

”Yoichi!”

He almost faltered at the sound of his voice. Immature and frightened. That’s when he noticed his hand, no longer large and calloused, but the size of a small child’s.

As he got closer, the light coalesced into the shape of his precious gift. His Yoichi. He was small (he’s always been small compared to him) and it became clearer as he gained ground that Yoichi was young too. The age when he would bring a bouquet to his brother, those large, green eyes looking up at him without fear or disgust.

“Yoichi! Come here!” He was screaming now. If it wasn’t for the oppressive blackness around him, he would have scoffed at his pitch, but Yoichi was the only light here.

Soon, he was almost on top of his brother, able to make out that Yoichi was facing away, his back turned towards him, but the sweet sound of his innocent laughter continued.

“Look at me! I demand you look at me! Turn around! LOOK AT ME!”

He was almost there. He would grab Yoichi and turn him if he had to! His little brother was his!

(God, how he missed him.)

Then it happened. His little brother’s head moved to look behind him, his hair swishing with the motion, just barely blocking his eyes—

“Yoichi!”

Pain.

Unbelievable pain.

A cacophony of beeps and alarms sounded all around him. Hard plastic dug into the skin around his mouth. He went to open his eyes, but there was nothing, not even the feel of his eyelids trying to make the motion. Then he tried to breathe through his nose, but no air flowed into his nostrils.

The sound of his choking joined the unceasing onslaught of what he realized was medical machinery. There was something jutting into his neck, he could feel that much, and his body was trying to adjust to whatever was providing him oxygen.

Pin pricks on his arms indicated IV lines, but he didn’t care. He attempted to lift his hands to check what had changed with his head, but found that his wrists were tied to metal.

As embarrassing as it was for a man like him, the Symbol of Fear, he felt his own terror start to overtake him. A knee jerk reaction from the primitive part of his brain desperate to escape.

“My lord! Please, calm down. It is I, Dr. Garaki! I need you to calm down!”

Garaki. His personal doctor and most loyal of his subordinates.

He tried to answer, but choked once more, his voice caught in a confusion brought on by whatever was anchored to his neck. A tracheotomy. That had to be it.

“Don’t over exert yourself, All for One! You have…have been brought back. I brought you back! Settle down and you will find it easier to talk. I apologize for the straps, my lord, but they were necessary for when you awoke, as I’m sure you can understand. Here. I’ll remove them now that you’re awake.”

The great All for One, reduced to a fidgeting mess. In pain and unable to even open his eyes.

“Wha…what is…going on?” He barely got out.

“Your fight with All Might, sir. You did give him quite the blow, but he…hit your head with one of his signature ‘smashes’. You…died. But it was I that brought you back to the living! I used every last resource, my knowledge, and the technology I’ve produced to rebuild your head! As you’ve stated, the Demon Lord is forever and I made that a reality!”

Perhaps his doctor was expecting a heartfelt thank you. Maybe even more questions. Did he still have eyes? A nose? How bad was it really?

Instead, he…

”Yoichi?”

”Um, sir?”

”Where…where is…”

He lifted his hand, stretching his arm out in front of him, reaching…

”Yoichi. He was…there.”

”I, uh, sir? A first gift? I’m sorry. I don’t understand…” Garaki’s confusion was palpable and he knew his own words were irrational. There was no way…his mind. Lord, the headache he was now acutely aware of. Memories danced around him, voices and smells, he couldn’t think straight!

”Bring me his hand. My bedroom. Nightstand. Next to…”

”Hand? Sir?” Garaki had to know what he was talking about. There definitely were a few instances when the doctor had walked into his office, the hand held dearly near his lord’s face as he traced the creases and felt the fingerprints with his finger. Sometimes, he would open his little brother’s hand enough that he could place it on his face, pretending that Yoichi was actually there, touching him.

Loving him.

Like he did when they were little. When his twin still looked at him with that sparkle in his eyes. That sparkle had dimmed then finally extinguished after he killed The Glowing Baby.

“Wait. Yes, I recall you mentioning something about a hand years ago! It was after All Might found your base in Kanto. You were quite irate. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you so angry before.”

The base. Running. His beloved coat. Lost. In its pocket…

“Yoichi,” he whispered now. He dropped his arm back down to the bed and his thoughts finally connected like a thousand piece puzzle finally done.

All Might.

His plan.

The vessel scheme had been put in motion 15 years ago when he had located Nana’s discarded son. A plan he had been concocting at least a decade before Tenko Shimura’s birth, but the choice in who would be his new body cemented after All Might caused him to lose the only physical thing that remained of his twin.

The hand had been an anchor. A tangible piece of Yoichi that reminded him why he continued his obsession with One for All. When he held it with reverence, he could clearly see his little brother’s face in his mind’s eye. He always worried about forgetting it.

Once he had lost that hand, his memories started to deteriorate. The most important visage started to blur, like someone had smeared the freshly brushed paint of a priceless portrait.

If Yoichi had turned towards him, in that dark place, would…

Would he have seen his face?

Or would it have been only his eyes? Those green eyes.

Or…would he have disappeared? That light that illuminated the darkness, his first gift. Snuffed out. Destroyed.

Just like the hand.