#see all them pretty ass panels the manga has been having with him lately really got to some of y'all haven't they? đ
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It's funny seeing people call baby Katsuki ugly when babies, newborn, fresh out the womb babies look like that.
Like... what do you expect an newborn to look like??? Have you ever actually seen a newborn?
Joke, I'm joking.
#maybe because i just think babies are cute regardless#and know that babies gain their fat around two months or so#hell i seen my pictures and i was like baby yoichi#tiny and fragile looking#I genuinely do think this is funny#'he's so ugly-#katsuki's been ugly I'm sorry HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THE DAMN FACES HE MAKES?! đ#see all them pretty ass panels the manga has been having with him lately really got to some of y'all haven't they? đ#you folks forgot katsuki's roots#he's been making ugly faces since day one#him as a baby is TAME#just kiya's thoughts#bnha#mha#boku no hero academia#my hero academia#bnha spoilers#bnha manga spoilers#bakugou katsuki#bnha 409
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BnHA 326: Whatâs up Kids, Itâs Me, Your Old Pal Stain
Previously on BnHA: Ochako shamed the U.A. Clown Mob into letting Deku go back inside his own fucking school by giving them an hour-long speech about how not to be humongous dickheads. Kouta and Gigantic Fox Lady saved the manga by being the only ones brave enough to give Deku a hug. Shouto was all âman, all this togetherness sure does remind me of that promise you made that we would handle Touya together which you immediately bailed on, doesnât it, Dad.â Aizawa was all, âfor the one and a half people out there who thought that my losing an eye and a leg might actually make me less sexy, Iâm very happy to prove you wrong.â All Might was all, â[standing outside the U.A. fortress alone in the rain talking to someone or something??].â Like seriously, what was up with that though.
Today on BnHA: All Might is all âhere I am in Kamino having a belated mid-life crisis because Deku abandoned me and Iâm a terrible mentor and everything sucks and I hate myself.â Stain is all, âdonât make me come over there and give you a ten page speech about why youâre still the goat while menacingly holding you at swordpoint the entire timeâ because idk if you knew this guys, but Stain is pretty crazy actually. Anyway so he does that, and then All Might gets all emotional, and then the lady from chapter 92 shows up and gives All Mightâs statue an encouraging pep talk, and then Horikoshi is all âand it even stopped raining lol can you believe this shit Iâm not even a little bit subtle,â and he really isnât. But I still got emotional anyway, because seeing people reassure All Might that everything heâs struggled for his entire life hasnât been in vain just got to me okay. Horikoshi knows I am weak to the All Might feels and he just goes for the jugular every time, that bastard.
lmao. âin the neverending downpour, All Might is...â yeah, thank you, glad weâre getting right to that then
âAll Might is driving 95 mph in his busted ass car in the pouring rain, is what heâs doing.â huh
so basically a day or two after his adopted child refused to accept the handmade bento that he packed with love, my man is out here acting like heâs got nothing to live for anymore. this sure bodes well for certain prophecies on which the clock is still ominously ticking down
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his fucking face though omg. is it weird that Iâm kind of hoping more people ambush him just because I think itâd be funny to see them get their asses kicked like the last bunch
(ETA: or maybe he will just stand there openly not giving a fuck and basically daring them to stab him!! get it together please All Might.)
side note, âanti-hero supportersâ is such a strange way of saying âpeople who hate heroesâ, which Iâm assuming is what they actually wanted to say?? this makes it sound like itâs a group that really loves antiheroes. âthese Hannibal stans have been a real menace lately. time to go deal with themâ
ha ha ha, fucking ouch
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are you really gonna do it Horikoshi you bastard. are you really going to let that be the final encounter between the two characters whose relationship you once described as the vertical axis of the entire fucking story. are you really gonna?? huh??
huh
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youâre telling me you were driving 112 mph and you still didnât get there in time. youâre losing your touch old man. lol Todoâs ice is almost fully melted already, how late were you
(ETA: so apparently this is taking place after the end of chapter 325, meaning he went to U.A., hung out for a bit, saw the kids come back with his bedraggled half-dead protĂ©gĂ© in tow, watched as they shamed the civilians into some long-overdue character development, and then was all âwelp, time to go argue with the hero-hating faction or something because Iâm feeling useless.â and Edge just let him go, just like that. though to be fair I have to imagine itâs pretty hard to say no to All Fucking Might.)
also belated lol at the fact that the kids were all âyeahhhhhhh we are definitely not gonna touch that thing, letâs just leave it here, he doesnât need it anyway.â probably the right call to make since they couldnât get a hazmat team on such short notice
fuck. ha ha ha fucking ouch part two
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All Might please put that thing down before you get gangrene. also yeah, you dropped the ball, good for you to acknowledge it. nobodyâs perfect and you did your best. but yeah you could have handled a lot of things completely differently. but I still love you
is Horikoshi really putting this flashback here. are you serious. what kind of fucking sadist
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look, I swear Iâm not one of those people that runs up and down the street shouting âDEATH FLAG!!â at every third panel lol. but this shit screamed Death Flag when we originally got it, and itâs screaming DEATH FLAG!!! even more now. like with the capital letters and exclamation marks and all. and thatâs just a fact. I donât like it but thatâs how it is
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âDID YOU READ THE SIGN??!â Horikoshi asks while zooming in maniacally because he thinks weâre blind or something. lol what
-- though actually, it only just occurred to me that this sign is actually written in English. I never really paid attention up until now and had been assuming it was written in Japanese and translated by the scanlators, but the writing here is clearly part of the original image. anyway so maybe thatâs why heâs zooming in?? just to make sure everybody pays attention lol
okay fuck this
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see, this is the whole problem right here. once again All Might is all on his own. Dekuâs self-destructive angst spiral was fortunately brought to a grinding halt because he actually has support from his friends and family and teachers and classmates. but All Might never had that same kind of support, and itâs made all the difference between the two of them, and not in a good way. Katsuki wasnât wrong when he said All Might and Deku were both cut from the same cloth. but now when itâs All Mightâs turn to go all âI WALK A LONELY ROAD~~â once again, thereâs nobody in sight
just, after forty plus years of him carrying this torch, I just wish someone would finally come along to let him know he doesnât have to. all those things that he wanted to say to Deku are also things that he needs and deserves to hear himself. Aizawa was making a little progress there, but now heâs got his sad zombie cloud boyfriend situation to deal with, and we canât expect him and his perfect hair to solve all our problems. someone else has gotta step up
oh my god
âyou rang?â never mind I take it all back sob
omg why am I laughing. shit
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this man truly has the best PR game in the series. we were truly convinced he was gonna suddenly become a good guy and defend All Might against the other villains or some nonsense. as if this wasnât the same man who decided on a whim that Iida Tensei deserved to be paralyzed, and that his fifteen-year-old brother deserved to die for daring to be upset about it
lol even All Might is all âI genuinely never saw this comingâ lmao
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just want to say, for the record, I have always harbored a very sensible hatred toward Stain. feeling very vindicated right now. good job Past Me
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STAIN: heard you talking shit old man
ME: smh thatâs what I thought youâd say you dumb fucking Stain
STAIN:Â how dare you talk about All Might that way
ME:Â gljfljgk
(ETA: in hindsight I have no idea how I didnât clue in sooner that he didnât recognize him -- or, well, ~didnât recognize~ him, to be more accurate lol. I think it was the whole âis that a slight against the heroes?â thing that threw me. Vizâs translation makes it much clearer that heâs offended on behalf of All Might specifically, not heroes in general. anyways.)
sob. so All Might is all âyeah I donât blame you for not recognizing me in this sweet leather jacketâ
good thing he still knows how to do this party trick
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A+ reflexes on Stainâs part presumably pulling the sword back a few inches to keep this dumbass from impaling himself with his whole pufferfish routine. can you imagine if that was the gruesome death Nighteye foresaw. and he was just too embarrassed to say anything
lol anyways guess I was wrong about Stain everyone
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way to fucking go, Past Me. you really biffed this one
oh wait
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Stain sure is one wacky rollercoaster ride
oh fuck me lol I forgot how much I did not miss this
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(ETA: âthis here is the sacred ground where All Might gave up the last of his power and turned into a shriveled old man!! please ignore the part where I admit to knowing all about that, and yet pretend not to recognize said man when heâs standing two feet in front of me.â)
Past Me, I know weâve had our ups and downs these past ninety seconds, but Iâm really starting to think you were on to something. this dude has always been kind of insufferable. always acting like his high horse is a fucking giraffe when itâs actually a Shetland pony
dammit now heâs got All Might going off on a depressed monologue
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oh my god my heart
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shit
why the fuck does that hit so hard. he became a hero because he couldnât bear to just sit back and let bad things happen to people who didnât deserve it. I mean thatâs basically the same as every hero ever, right? so why does it still hit so fucking hard every single time though. what is it about seeing someone so determined to stand up for other people and fight on their behalf. it just never loses its impact no matter how many times I see that determination mirrored in so many of my favorite characters
âI wanted to make the world a better place.â omg. but you did, though. like seriously, I feel like people are always dogging on him for not being 100% perfect, and fandom really doesnât give him enough credit for everything he still managed to accomplish. this man came of age at a time when Japan was by all accounts a total shitshow, and singlehandedly managed to bring about an era of peace that lasted for four fucking decades. can you imagine having peace for that long?? thatâs longer than Iâve been alive. shit
and he gave people hope. he inspired them and protected them and made them feel safe. and no, he couldnât save everyone, because heâs only one fucking dude (and also because the whole time AFO was also out there desperately working to undermine him so that he could keep preaching his narrative of âheroes are bad actuallyâ). but you know what he did do, is inspire multiple new generations of heroes who, if they can all manage to work together, will finally be able to accomplish everything he never could
so yeah. forty years of peace, and inspired the âthatâs how we all became the greatest heroesâ generation -- thatâs a fucking win in my book. talk about having a net positive impact on the world. lol anyways now Iâm all fired up and ready to fight anyone who tries to talk any shit about you, All Might
âbut what if I talk shit about myselfâ okay listen up All Might Iâm gonna need you to try just a little bit harder to work with me here okay. please calm down and stop blaming yourself for every single bad thing thatâs ever happened in the world. do you remember that time Bakugou was blaming himself for Kamino, and you gave him a hug and told him it wasnât his fault, and that he was only a boy, and that even though he was strong, even strong people can struggle with the burdens they place on themselves, and that you were sorry for not seeing that earlier? do you remember all of that? thatâs what I want someone to tell you too, dammit. anyway please stop breaking my heart please and thanks
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are you dead All Might
um
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I donât even have the slightest idea whatâs happening lol
oh snap did he grab him so they could hide??
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hold the fucking phone. donât tell me this person in the background with the umbrella is here to actually do something decent??
oh my godddd
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and here come the feels. oh boy. okay donât mind me, Iâm just gonna sit here sobbing over this fictional lady and her simple act of kindness in this weekly shounen manga that I care about way too much
FUCKING DAMMIT AND HEREâS A SECOND HELPING
DONâT MIND ME, IâM JUST GETTING DISPROPORTIONATELY EMOTIONAL OVER THIS WOMANâS DETERMINATION TO HONOR A MAN WHO SACRIFICED EVERYTHING TO SAVE HER AND COUNTLESS OTHERS. IâM JUST HAVING SOME FEELS OVER HERE ABOUT HER HEARTFELT, DOESNâT-EVEN-KNOW-ANYONE-ELSE-IS-WATCHING FEELINGS OF GRATITUDE THAT COMPELLED HER TO COME OUT HERE AND MAKE THIS SMALL BUT POWERFUL GESTURE. IâM JUST OUT HERE GETTING ALL PROFOUNDLY WORKED UP ABOUT STATUE MAINTENANCE AND THE HUMAN RACE. NEVER MIND. JUST IGNORE ME AND CARRY ON
holy shit. I was not even remotely prepared. you canât just do that to me. you canât just leave all these death flags on my lawn and then suddenly shift gears to show me the best of humanity in a chapter where I was expecting the worst. that fucks a person up lol
OH ARE WE STILL GOING
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my heart. you see that, All Might. your legacy is so much more powerful and meaningful than you think
...has. has Stain actually been giving All Might a pep talk this entire time
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I give up lol. this dude is a fucking enigma
YAYYY
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it may just be a metaphor panel, but Iâll take it lol. I missed them. nice to see the traffic light trio front and off-center. I know the whole âthis is the story of how we all became the greatest heroesâ thing had left some questioning whether certain characters would continue to play a central role in the narrative, and hopefully this will help to ease those concerns just a bit
anyway, so idk if itâs getting a bit chilly down there in hell, but damned if Stain didnât just give an actual decent fucking speech
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I have to say, earlier when I was whining about All Might not having a support squad, I really was not expecting Stain to be the one to come over and pat his head and reassure him that he made the world a better place
-- okay LISTEN
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YOU CANâT JUST COME INTO MY HOUSE AND HIT ME WITH THOSE ALL MIGHT TEARS AGAIN GODDAMMIT THIS ISNâT FAIR. my god. first 317 and now this
holy fucking shit
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âIâm just gonna pretend like I havenât been stalking him for two days and didnât see the entire Deku bentogate thing go down, and then Iâll give him the whole big speech that I rehearsed, and then Iâll turn around and be all âBUT IF YOUâRE A TRUE HEROâ, and then Iâll toss him the super-secret AFO wifi password that I stole from Tartarus. god Iâm such a badass. fucking give myself chillsâ
so basically what youâre telling me is that this whole time my âwhatâs up kidsâ characterization of Stain from this shitpost has actually been 100% accurate. just want to make sure Iâm understanding this right. okay then
âand then Iâll dramatically spin around and be all NOW COME KILL ME BITCHâ
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it must be so much fun to write Stain. drawing this coked-out maniac who talks like a chatbot that was trained to speak by reading Alan Moore monologues. that must be a trip
anyway so All Might is still crying, the awesome lady from chapter 92 is admiring her handiwork totally oblivious to the batshit insanity going on fifty meters to her right, and itâs finally stopped raining lol
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âTHE RAIN WAS A METAPHOR YOU SEEâ yes, yes, we got it lol. thanks for that Horikoshi. donât think we needed any help putting the pieces together on that one but I appreciate the effort
so thatâs the end! and as I mentioned in another post, I had the count off by one chapter, but next week should be cliffhanger week! so break out your U.A. Traitor bingo cards, friends and fiends. either that or something else happens that Iâm completely not expecting at all. which, based on my success rate with Stain predictions, Iâd say is more than likely lol
mmm but anyway, so now that the Hug Deku 2021 campaign has finally come to an end, whatâs it gonna take to get a hug for my struggling bento-preparing jacket-rocking world-weary death-flag-waving husband who is the worthiest man to ever live and deserves the fucking world, goddammit
#bnha 326#all might#yagi toshinori#stain (bnha)#bnha#boku no hero academia#bnha spoilers#mha spoilers#bnha manga spoilers#makeste reads bnha
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Once again, I am thinking about the dubious claim that people make from time to time that Renji would have gotten better character development in the TYBW arc if Byakuya had died. The thing is, though, that Renji did get excellent character development in this arc, particularly with respect to his relationship to Byakuya, it was just very subtle and I want to talk about it.
So, the first thing I want to point out is that the captain-lieutenant relationships is one of the major themes of the TYBW. A lot of this is sort of weird and awkward, but this is perfect, actually, because captain-lieutenant relationships are, for the most part, weird and clunky and awkward. Take for example, the part that I always make fun of, where the captains are told not to go to bankai, and Hitsugaya, Komamura, Byakuya and Soi Fon immediately go to bankai-- but they all do this on the assumption that they are luring their opponent into a trap to see how this works, and that their lieutenant will somehow ??defeat them anyway?? (well, except Soi Fon who seems to think she can one-shot her Quincy). Thereâs Sasakibeâs funeral, where we find out that Yamamoto cared far more for him than we ever imagined. Kyouraku returns Nanaoâs zanpakutou to her and stands behind her as she defeats an opponent he can't. Iba carries Komamuraâs body off of the battlefield as he loses the last of his humanity. Isane struggles to keep her head above her grief because thatâs the burden Unohana left her with. Rose avenging Kira. Hitsugaya and Matsumoto fighting and (sort of) dying together. The Zaraki-Yachiru thing. The Mayuri-Nemu thing. Momo and Shinji actually got to have a relatively normal one, which they each deserved, but at least they got to have normal one together. Anyway, that could be an entire essay, but as usual, I only want to talk about Renji and Byakuya.
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Renjiâs introduction as a character happens in stages. Initially, he sort of appears to be Byakuyaâs sidekick-- he's here to do the dirty work during Rukiaâs arrest, while Byakuya stands by and calls the shots, but even early on, itâs clear that Renjiâs a little hung up on Byakuya. Heâs trying to impress him, and gets more embarrassed and self-conscious as things go progressively pear-shaped. When Byakuya finally enters the action, Renjiâs thought bubbles reveal that heâs watched Byakuya for a long time, that he knows all his moves. When we get the Renji backstory reveal a few issues later, we learn that Renjiâs goal is to defeat Byakuya, which he seems to feel is necessary to seeing Rukia again, even though there has never been any sort of causal link revealed between these two things. Donât get me wrong, if Young Academy Renji had tried to continue to be friends with Rukia, I think Byakuya would have kicked him out on his ass, but itâs clear that a lot of Renjiâs hang-ups are internal-- he doesnât want to face Rukia again until he can stand against Byakuya. I think the origin of this is that he simply wants whatâs best for Rukia, and he canât stomach the idea of asking her to leave her rich, noble family for him, unless, of course, heâs somehow better than Byakuya in some dimension, and the only thing Renjiâs ever considered himself good at is fighting.
Even more interesting is that heâs chosen to go about this by... studying the manâs every move and becoming his lieutenant. But for as much energy as Renji has put into learning Byakuyaâs favorite combat moves, he doesnât actually know anything about him as a person. Heâs shocked when Rukia predicts that Byakuya wonât lift a finger to help her, and then horrified when this actually comes to pass. A few chapters later, as heâs running Hinamori through, Aizen comments that âAdoration is the state furthest from understanding.â I would probably classify Renjiâs feelings towards Byakuya more as admiration or idolization, rather than adoration, but I think this statement is also very true of Renji and Byakuyaâs relationship. Unlike poor Momo, Renji gets a little more time and opportunity to do something with this information. With a little Ichigo-forced soul searching, he realizes that heâs not going to come out the hero of this story no matter what, but if he doesnât do something, Rukiaâs not going to come out of this story at all, and even if heâs not really ready, heâs spent 40 years trying to figure out how to beat Kuchiki Byakuya, letâs hope all that was good for something.
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The Byakuya-Renji fight has no direct impact on the events of the Soul Society Arc. It makes Byakuya show up to Rukiaâs execution 5 minutes late and without his scarf. Renji gets healed, so it really doesnât matter all that much to him, either. You could argue that they both wasted a bunch of energy (that they could have used to fight Aizen later) but itâs primarily a character-driven moment of them both drawing lines in the sand about where they stand, vis a vis Rukia. Byakuya wins this fight, and he wins it handily, but heâs wrong, as he comes to realize a few issues later, when Ichigo kicks his ass and tells him heâs a bad brother, a lesson that Byakuya will take to heart for the rest of the manga. Byakuya claims that the difference between Renji and himself is class, but the real difference between is the heart, and in the long run, Renji is the real victor of this fight.
The hospital scene is an interesting footnote to this. Byakuya defeated Renji, but Byakuya was the asshole and everyone knows it. Thereâs an expectation that perhaps Renji will quit or perhaps Renji will give him an earful and perhaps even Rukia will choose to leave the family, either to go to the Living World or to be with Renji (and Byakuya would deserve this), but instead, both Renji and Rukia give Byakuya another chance, which is not, I think, a place Renji ever expected to be.
Rukia and Byakuya building up a sibling relationship after this is fairly straightforward (although Iâm sure it had its weird moments), but Byakuya and Renji now have this profoundly awkward relationship where Byakuya is obviously in charge, but he sort of depends on Renji as a personal compass because heâs shit at dealing with people and he doesnât want to screw stuff up with Rukia again. Take for example, the part of the Hueco Mundo arc where Orihime is kidnapped and Rukia and Renji desert their posts to come help rescue her. Kubo takes to the panel-space to tell us that Byakuya has tacitly approved this. As a clan head and a captain, a person who is entrenched in the hierarchy of Soul Society, Byakuya couldnât possibly go to Hueco Mundo-- but he can turn a blind eye while his sister and lieutenant scurry out through the Kuchiki family senkaimon. Renji, for his part, tried to go to Hueco Mundo through official channels and got shot down. We donât know what Renji would have done if Byakuya had explicitly forbidden him from going, but it doesnât matter-- Byakuya enabled Renji to follow his heart here, because Byakuya canât. Rukia would have gone to Hueco Mundo regardless. She cares about Byakuya, but she doesnât depend on him for validation the way Renji does.
I said this was going to be about the TYBW, so letâs get to that. Early in the arc, weâre shown several scenes where itâs clear that Byakuya respects and values Renji as a lieutenant, but heâs also pretty damn patronizing to him. Renji is the first one to engage As Nodt, and when Byakuya shows up, he acts surprised that Renji hasnât taken him out yet, but then proceeds to take over the fight (real, âstand back, fives, an eleven has arrivedâ energy). After Byakuya then loses his bankai like a doofus, Renji wants to take point so that Byakuya can figure out As Nodtâs attack and Byakuya wonât let him... and then proceeds to get thrashed.
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This has to be one of the most emotionally charged fights in Bleach. Byakuya is losing, and Renji jumps in, absolutely incensed that As Nodt would use Senbonzakura against Byakuya. Renji isnât doing great, but heâs not doing terrible when Byakuya gets up and tries to help Renji, even though heâs a big bloody mess. As Nodt reacts by shredding Byakuya into chunks, and Renji just loses it, and if Mask de Masculine hadnât shown up and kicked him halfway across the Seireitei, I daresay Renji would have killed himself trying to take down As Nodt.
This is where I usually make the point that if Byakuya had died to here, it would have broken Renji into little pieces, but thatâs not todayâs essay. Instead, everyone goes to the Royal Realm, and by virtue of the fact that Byakuya is injured worse than everyone else, Renji has to go forward without him or his approval.
In typical Renji fashion, the thing that motivates Renji here is not glory or heroism, but the desire to accompany Ichigo, the need to be with his friends in their times of trial. In fact his companionship here is absolutely essential-- at Hikifuneâs, Ichigo expresses deep doubts that heâs doing the right thing, and Renji reminds himself that if he wants to protect others, he has to take care of himself first.
At Nimaiyaâs however, Renji and Ichigo are split up because they must follow their own paths. The other extremely interesting thing that happens here is that Renjiâs sword is reforged. Byakuya shattered one of Hihio Zabimaruâs joints the very first time Renji used them in combat. Renji brushed it off at the time, saying that he could get by without it. Even though Byakuya has long been his motivating force and his mentor, heâs also been held back by his connection to him. And at this point, itâs gone.
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I really wish we got to see where Renji and Rukia meet up again, but we donât. Unlike with Ichigo, though, Rukia doesnât seem to need anything from Renji. They travel together, fight together as equals, wear matching outfits, like you do. Oh. Wait. After all this time, in the 493 chapters between Needless Emotions and Blue Stripes, Renji can finally see himself as an equal to Rukia. They get. bankai. Together.
I want to emphasize that itâs not really anything about Rukia herself that allowed Renji to make bankai, itâs the fact that heâs finally managed to move past the feeling that heâs not enough. Defeating Byakuya would not actually have solved this problem, and having Byakuya dying in front of him wouldnât have either. Renji gets criticized for losing a lot of his fights, but thatâs such a key to his character. Heâs not always the strongest, he doesnât always win, but he keeps fighting for what he cares about. He struggles with his need for approval, for external validation, but Renji is at his best when he doesnât have time to think about that, when heâs just fighting by his friendsâ sides against impossible odds, doing what he knows in his heart is right.
I think people tend to make a little more than is strictly necessary of the line where he tells Mask that heâs âa villainâ, I think heâs most just making fun of Maskâs own self-aggrandizement. On another level, though, this is just Renji being at ease with himself. Byakuya typically enters a fight bloviating about the honor of Soul Society and âhow dare you raise your sword against me, the 28th Head of the Kuchikiâ and even Ikkaku had the whole deal about telling people your name before you kill them, but Renji is more like âyou beat up my friends, so Iâm gonna break your face,â like thereâs no ego in it, just youâre there, and heâs there, and then youâre lying on the ground and heâs taking a nap somewhere. This is so different than the insecure, posturing young man he was at the start of this series and I love this growth for him.
Even after he eventually meets up with Byakuya again, something has changed about their dynamic. The group gets split up and rejoined two or three times, and Renji and Rukia always stay together while Byakuya ends up fighting alongside others, Hisagi and later Hitsugaya and Zaraki. This is cemented in their last scene together, where Rukia and Renji try to stay with Byakuya and he sends them off to fight with Ichigo by saying âyour help is not needed here.â In some ways, itâs an echo of Byakuya sending them off to Hueco Mundo, but in other ways, itâs acknowledging that they are their own people, not just an extension of him.
Hitsugaya follows it up with this:
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Thereâs more here than meets the eye, though-- Byakuya and Renji have maintained a pretty strict superior-subordinate relationship, because thatâs the easiest way for them to make sense of the world, but the fact is, they do care about each other and are important to one another.
I know there would be a certain narrative satisfaction in seeing Renji make captain at the end-- heâs one of the hardest working people in Bleach, and it frankly seems weird to see Iba get the haori when he doesnât. But Renji has never wanted to be a captain. Renji becoming captain would, in some ways, be a failure. He spends years pre-canon chasing rank and prestige because thatâs what he thinks will make him worthy, and it didnât. Instead, he found worth in being himself, in loving his friends and being there for them, in learning things from Byakuya and teaching him things in return. Renji doesnât need to be Byakuyaâs lieutenant anymore, he just does it because he likes it. It makes him happy. What better character development is there than that?
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#renji abarai#byakuya kuchiki#tybwa#god i love to get up on a saturday and write essays about renji's character development#tldr: renji checks off all the gotei career milestones *except* making captain and then proceeds to lean in to his true calling: malewife#we stan legends only
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Witch Hat Atelier impressions
Boy I didn't even know I missed fantasy as much as I apparently did. I've been consuming a lot of manga/anime set in modernish time and honestly it was so nice to just read a nice pure fantasy for once.
Anyway, Witch Hat is great
To get the obvious out of the way the art is spectacular
I love every single thing about art in Witch Hat, I love the detailed witch rooms that feel as lived in as they feel magical, I love the creative paneling, I love the fantasy species, I love the clothes, I just love everything.
But more than art the story is also amazing. It's one of those stories that is pretty tightly packed so after every chapter you keep saying 'just another chapter more'. But despite being a very fast read it also utilizes its characters in a great way so you never feel like their characterization and growth is suffering because we are chasing the plot, their growth kind of is the plot and if you are a character oriented person like I am, this one does a v good job. I haven't really found a single character I dislike yet (not counting the villains cuz we don't know a lot about them yet), like there are characters who have harsh edges and I've been making 'Qifrey is crazy' jokes all day but each character feels understandable and lovable so it's never boring no matter who the story focuses on.
Also the world building my god the world building. I fuckin love love love when I just get to sit and read about how another world works in its smallest details. This was one of the things I really loved in Beastars and it's really great here too. I love that we get to learn how magic is used in mundane ass ways such as washing clothes. I love how we are allowed to live through it and learn with the girls, I especially love how there's this whole ass on going narrative about disability which I so rarely see explored in any kind of magical setting like it's just so interesting!!
I just!! Love the detail and the thought put into everything in this story and this universe, it just feels like such a welled love setting. Like this person has thought about everything from chores to disability and weaves it into the story so skillfully it really feels like you are fully submerged into the world.
The conflict of morality over the magic is great, god it's so damn complicated like you get what the witch society was trying to do and that they were trying their best to protect the world from what already happened but also both the reader and the characters notice all these little holes all these little injustices and as different characters move against the current in different ways it's just very fascinating to watch where they'll end up in their effort to reshape their world in a way they wish it was. Like witch society is so fuckin rooted in victim blaming you can barely even save someone without becoming a criminal, they had to send a child out to wander aimlessly because he was a VICTIM of an outlawed practice but he would have been punished anyway because the magic was preformed on him. I love it, I love these kinds of fucked up societies where it's obvious why the strict rules exist as much as it's obvious they need to change.
And that's not even saying anything special about the characters, we gotten so many good stories and so many more hinted at or at the start of their journey. Qifrey is quickly gaining at my favorite mentor position and we don't even know the full deal with him, he's great. And all the kids ;-; my god the kids it's such a joy to watch them slowly learn and develop and build on knowledge they've gained in earlier chapters. It's always great to see an old basic spell make a return and be used in a new way so you really get the feeling that they are building on their fundamentals and not just pulling out random magic when they need it. That's nothing to say about their personal arcs god this story is so good about learning and growing and having fun while doing so.
It's gotten pretty damn late so Idk know comprehensible this is, but this just might make it as one of my favorite stories of all time.
Tl;dr: 10/10 gold star recommend
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TOP 5 FAVE W O M A N MOMENTS
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I gotcha, anon. Sorry this is so late! I took forever trying to gather these panels and despite my efforts, they are mostly potato quality. Thanks for your ask, though! â€ïž
In no particular order:
1. Fubuki putting the fear of God into Do-S
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Itâs not often we get to see Fubuki tear shit up, and I think this is the one of only few times weâve seen her use her signature move in the manga (not counting that one omake where she fucks up all those little spiders). It was up until this point that I thought of her to be super... weak? Like, I thought this whole time she was just using her status as Tatsumakiâs little sister to wrangle up a bunch of hooligans as her underlings but Iâve found that to be a fat fucking lie. Sheâs super badass in her own right. She even resisted Do-Sâ love magic whip thingy because her will is just that strong.
Fubuki doesnât need to be Tatsumakiâs little sister to be feared, she just needs to be pissed off.
Personally, we donât give Fubuki enough credit in terms of strength and raw âfuck âem upâ power. I know she didnât win this fight (technically), but Do-S is a demon threat monster and even some of the S-Class have a hard time with demon threats (cough cough, Zombieman and Pureblood). And, not to mention, Fubuki was also fending off her entire crewâwho were taken under the influence of Do-Sâ super BDSM love spell magicâthis entire fight!
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Darkness Blade was also involved somewhere but this ainât about him. Moving on:
2: Do-S wouldâve straight up merked Amai Maskâs crackheaded ass had he not been an actual freak of nature
(Sorry for the microwave quality pictures but weâve all read the manga right? Just use your imagination.)
So, prior to Murata reworking the entire âAmai Mask commits homicide via his own damn handsâ segment with Do-S, we had Do-S basically surrendering herself to Amai at the sight of him dicing up her love slaves at the speed of light (the merc squad). I did not like this AT ALL. I thought Do-S was a kickass character and for her to have this stupid death scene was really disappointing.
Thankfully, Murata thought the same thing. She still fucking died, of course, but she gets a little more... er, dignity? Idk, sheâs just badass.
Amai Mask pretty much slams her skull into the wall, gives her like 13 concussions, and when he thinks heâs in the clearâBAM! Elastigirl powers, bitch! Do-S wraps herself around Amai and utilizes her freaky ass Alien-esque snake tongue to drill into his eyeball as her last stand before death. And this is why I think itâs valid that Fubuki had such a hard time dealing with her, because if it were any other S/A-Class hero (besides Zombieman, Superalloy, Genos... and maybe even Metal Bat) that got their brains drilled into via snake tongue, they wouldâve died. If it were Child Emperor, Puri Puri, or even Atomic Samurai at the other end of her attack, they wouldâve been FADED, man! Itâs only because Amai has those bullshit monster invulnerability powers that he survived.
In conclusion: Do-S got done dirty the first time around, but Murata has since redeemed himself by giving her some wicked elastic powers and nearly dealing the final blow to Amai before dying. Sheâs also rlly sexy uwu
3. It is written somewhere in the Geneva Conventions that using Captain Mizukiâs thighs as a means of destruction is considered a war crime
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First of all: holy fuck Iâm horny.
Second of all: UUUH??????? This is 100% just Murataâs death by snu-snu fetish in action but Iâm not complaining. Mizuki is super badass. Iâm not a fan of this trope that women in male-dominated media have to give up their femininity in order to be taken seriously, so I was expecting at least one female character in OPM to be a mirror reflection of this shitty trend (judging by ONEâs track record of being allergic to women). However, OPM is all about taking tropes and putting them in a meat grinder. Mizuki is super feminine, bubbly, and positive! And that doesnât make her any less of a fearsome opponent to these monsters, which is something I can really appreciate.
Overall, OPM has very few female characters (which is bad), but the treatment of the few we have is very good when compared to other media of the same medium. Iâve said before how I enjoy the fact that both sexes are treated as equal opportunity fanservicing, and I think itâs fitting to reverberate that here.
Mizuki is hot as hell, but sheâs also strong, fun, and a ray of fucking sunshine. Her and Mumen would be great friends, now that I think of it!
4. Shadow Ring said SIKE
UNDERAPPRECIATED QUEEN RIGHT HERE ^^^^^^^
Sheâs so badass in the entirety of the surface strike sequence we get before the heroes enter the Monster Association base (take a shot every time I say badass. Try it, youâll die).
I was super impressed by how strong she is?? And the whole time Iâm reading this fight sequence Iâm just like.... why arenât we seeing more of her. She should have just as much screen time as Stinger! She was even noticed by Ninja Extraordinaire, Flash Flash; and she played a pretty big part in getting the S-Class to open their eyes to the combat prowess of the lower classes. If it werenât for her, I fully believe the strike team wouldâve had a much harder time penetrating the monstersâ defenses.
Also sheâs cute as hell. All of the other female characters in OPM are over the top supermodel sexy (again, not complaining), so itâs refreshing to get someone that goes against the status quo (which as Iâve said before, OPM is kinda all about). Whenever we see her unmasked in those little volume extras Murata makes, I just want to squeeze her cheeks like an annoying aunt.
I forgot to mention this in the Mizuki section, but I think it also applies here: her teammates never point out the fact that sheâs a woman. Thereâs no commentary on it, no snide âoh hurr hurr youâre a girl under the mask?â comments, just women kicking ass and male counterparts kicking ass alongside them, which is another thing I appreciate. Itâs not often we get women in manga just.... existing. It seems thereâs always gotta be a good reason for writers to insert female characters into their stories (WHY), but not here. Shadow Ringâs sole purpose in the story is to kill monsters and look cool while doing it. She gets the same treatment as all the other himbos around her.
I am completely aware that my say on the subject of gender equality in media could be completely invalid because Iâm a cis dude but those are just my THOTS
5. Lily being 14 and always ready to murder
Lily stole my wallet and kicked my ass :(
#asks#ask game#Fubuki#do s#OPM#one punch man#captain Mizuki#metal bat#child emperor#zombieman#shadow ring#flashy flash#atomic samurai#Amai mask#Tatsumaki
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Hellsing Liveblog Ch. 7-10
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This is the âDead Zoneâ arc, featuring Luke and Jan Valentine.
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This arc is set around... uh, September 3rd-ish, I think.  By now, Hellsing has had time to investigate this recent uptick in vampire incidents, and she calls a meeting of the âConvention of Twelveâ to discuss her findings.  This group represents the heads of various important agencies, political leaders, and noblemen, and the manga states that they âessentiallyâ run the British Empire.   Iâm not sure how to read that, exactly. Kouta Hirano appears to be establishing one of two things:
1) Parliament Shmarliament, everything is really controlled by this secret group of oligarchs sitting at a table.
or
2) This is a collection of all the big wheels in British society, so they might as well be calling the shots even if they arenât a true governing body.Â
Iâm not terribly concerned about which one it is, since we left real-world Great Britain behind a long time ago.   The Hellsing U.K. seems to put a lot more power in the monarchy, for example.   Also thereâs frigginâ draulas runninâ around everwhere.Â
Anyway, Integra reveals that the vampires theyâve been killing lately all have microchips installed in their bodies. She says the chips âdefine the vampireâs status, behavior, intent, and aggression.â  I donât know if that means outright control or a more subtle manipulation.   It might exaplain why the couple in Chapter 3 werenât exactly being subtle.
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Moreover, these vampires havenât been following the conventional rules laid down back in Chapter 1.  Vampire bites can turn a person into another vampire, but only if the victim is a virgin.  Otherwise, they turn into ghouls.  Destroying the head vampire will destroy all the ghouls heâs created.   But that hasnât been happening.   The couple in Chapter 3 killed a lot of children, but they all became ghouls.  And in Badrick, Anderson killed the vampire, but the ghouls remained active long enough for Alucard and Seras to fight them. Â
At least, thatâs what Integra is saying.  We never actually saw any ghouls in Chapter 3, and Anderson killed the vampire in Badrick off-panel, so we donât know the exact timing.   But Iâll take Integraâs word for it.  Â
Something that got lost along the way was the matter of what happens to Seras if someone managed to kill Alucard.  According to Chapter 1, sheâd die immediately, but we never actually see that play out, and Seras is the only vampire created by another vampire in this story.  We never see ghouls die en masse, either, because thereâs never a situation where their master dies first, and the ghouls we see from here on out are these rule-breaking microchippy kind anyway.   Â
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Never mind that shit, here comes the Seras part.  Walter has replaced her bed with a coffin.   Apparently she had a bed in this dank-ass dungeon, and then one day Integra got a wild hair and decided âOh, yeah, she should be sleeping in a vampire bed.â   Sheâs been a vampire for like two months now.   I feel bad for Walter, having to lug that big-ass bed down here, only to have to take the damn thing right back out.  He must have known it was going to end this way.  Youâd think he would have said something before. Â
Seras hates this idea, but Walter relays a second order, one from Alucard: Seras has to sleep in the coffin.  Well, that seems kind of redundant, but I guess Seras might have tried to sleep on the floor or something instead.   The main thing I find interesting about this is that Seras is mostly irritated by Integra ordering the coffin, but she takes it much more seriously when Alucard is mentioned. Â
According to Walter, since Seras hasnât drunk any blood, her powers will weaken... unless she sleeps in a coffin lined with soil from her birthplace.  So maybe itâs an either/or deal.  Integra was fine with Seras using a big girl bed because she assumed Seras would be drinking blood. But without it, she has to use a coffin, or sheâll be no good to the team.  And after two months, itâs become clear that Seras has no intention of drinking blood, even bags of donated blood, like the one Alucard snacked on in Badrick.
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Even Seras doesnât know exactly why she wonât do it, which Alucard finds baffling.   If this was a dealbreaker for her, she should have just died as a human in Cheddar. Â
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But Al isnât entirely unsympathetic either.   His words are harsh, but theyâre the truth: Seras is a vampire now, and thereâs no going back. She keeps trying to resist this, but itâs already happened.  Denial will only make this more painful for her.  I think thatâs part of the reason he offered his own blood to her in Badrick.  I mean, there werenât a lot of other options, but from an ethical standpoint, drinking Alucardâs blood seems reasonable, since it wonât kill him.   The unspoken sentiment here is: Listen, I know this is difficult for you, and Iâll try to make this as easy as possible, but you need to do this and thereâs no way around it.   But even that doesnât seem to work, and Alucardâs in no particular hurry, so heâs willing to table the matter.  Which I suppose is how the coffin thing came about in the first place.
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Walter also takes this moment to give the vampires their new guns.   Alucard wanted something special for the next time he tangles with Alexander Anderson.   Recall that Al already has a special cosmogun with an infinite supply of magic bullets, and he shot Anderson in the face and it didnât stop him.   So Walter builds him âThe Jackalâ, which is basically the same as his first gun, only even bigger and with a black finish.  It also says ïżœïżœïżœJesus Christ is in Heaven Nowâ, which drives me nuts because I donât know if thatâs like a message to Anderson, or just some random thing.   Kouta Hirano puts these nonsense religious slogans all over Hellsing, and Iâm pretty sure heâs just doing it for effect, and not particularly concerned over whether thereâs any religious significance to the words.  Â
As for Seras, she gets a giant bazooka-looking think called the Harkonnen, named after a Dune character.  One of these days I want to sit down and read Dune.  I kind of feel guilty that I havenât already, because then I could be writing this and get all excited for this moment.  âHOLY SHIT!! IS THAT MOTHERFUCKING DUNE REFERENCE?!â Instead Iâm like, ho-hum, yes it is.
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Letâs move on.   This arc is about the Valentine Brothers, two vampires who take the fight to Hellsing instead.  They have a small army of ghouls, and their plan is to just drive up in a tour bus and storm the gate.  Ghouls are mindless, zombie-like monsters, but apparently they can work a gun well enough, and Hellsing never imagined an enemy would try such a thing.
As soon as Integra finds out about this, she tries to evacuate the Twelve, but their helicopter gets destroyed, cutting off any chance of escape.  Then Jan (pronounced âYonâ by the way), calls her on the comm system and threatens to kill them all. Â
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So Integra calls Walter, who already knows whatâs happening.  Um, how?  I feel like the anime explained this better.  Maybe Janâs profanity-laden threats were on a public-address system instead of just for the conference room.  But it sure looks like Walterâs just chilling out in a windowless, underground room.  But he already knows thereâs no hope of reinforcements arriving to save them.  He proposes himself and Seras using the ventilation shafts to get to the coference room, where they can defend the twelve, while Alucard can go on the offensive.
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Alucard is amused to hear that Walter is going back into action, and calls him âAngel of Deathâ.   Weâll come back to that.
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So Walterâs pretty much on top of things here.   No one ever considered anything like this happening before.   Hellsing is supposed to be a secret organization, so a vampire shouldnât know to come here in the first place.   Moreover, no one dreamed that a vampire would plan it out so well, using ghouls in a military fashion.    But heâs optimistic about their chances for survival, because...
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Walter has super powers.   Specifically, he has these magic wires he can use to bind and slice up his enemies, and this makes short work of the Valentinesâ ghouls.  He then repeats Janâs taunts back at him.  Okay, so I guess Walter did hear Janâs message from earlier.Â
The problem I always had with this development was that it seemed awfully convenient for Walter to have super powers.   But then, it took me a while to catch on to Anderson having super powers, and he took a bullet to the face.   I think the conceit of the Hellsing world is that these âanti-freakâ organizations have to have super-powered operatives, so they use secret techniques and alchemy or whatever to empower men like Walter and Anderson.  Itâs really not that hard to swallow.
Except that the first vampire-hunter we meet in Hellsing is Alucard, who is himself a vampire. So it seemed like the whole point was that he was the best suited for the job because he had the raw power to do it.  Integra doesnât seem to have any powers, and neither do any of the rank-and-file Hellsing operatives who get mowed down by the Valentinesâ ghouls.  So it always confused me for Walter to just go âWassup, I have powers too.â  But it only makes sense for Hellsing to have more than one card to play.   Clearly, Walter used to hunt vampires on the regular before he retired to become a butler.
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Between Walterâs wires and Serasâ giant gun, they manage to subdue Jan easily enough, but he reveals he has a partner, Luke, whose job is to tackle the second half of their mission: to destroy Alucard.  Letâs check in on him...
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Yeah.   I was thinking about doing a blow-by-blow of this fight, but itâs kind of pointless.   Luke talks a big game, and seems confident that heâs on a higher level than the vampires Alucard has been fighting recently, and for a hot minute, even Alucard believes that he might be a worthy adversary, âabove even a âCategory Aâ vampire,â so he releases his âcontrol art restriction,â to âLevel 1âł. Â
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I guess I should back up and explain this.   Alucard, like all overpowered anime characters, can hold back his full power and reveal it in stages.  For some reason he has to announce that heâs doing this, like Windows 10 describing itâs own updating.  Presumably, thereâs a Level 4 where he usually operates, and that was enough for him to fight Luke evenly.   But here, we see him jump all the way to Level 1, which allows him to turn into some shadowy form with lots of eyes and two dog heads. Â
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Also, centipedes. The point is, this is all stuff Luke canât do.  Heâs more of a âsuper speed gun-shootingâ kind of vampire, so heâs immediately outclassed.   Alucardâs dog form eats Luke and thatâs the end of him.... OR IS IT?Â
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Meanwhile, Janâs ghoul army is beaten, but he still has reinforcements in the form of all the Hellsing soldiers they killed earlier.  These men rise up as new ghouls and chase down Seras while Jan makes a break for the conference room where the Twelve are holed up.   Walter tries to catch Jan, but only manages to rip off one of his arms.  He makes it to the door, only to find...
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Integra and the others all have guns, and they shoot him down. Â
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All Jan has left now is his second wave of ghouls, except Seras manages to overwhelm them.  At first, she was panicking, but then she freaks out and goes feral on them, to the point where Integra has to jump in and order her to stop.  When she does, she seems to have no idea what just happened.   This is mostly overshadowed by the sheer horror of Hellsingâs soldiers being reduced to the undead. Â
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All thatâs left is Jan, who refuses to talk.   He has the same microchip implants as the previous vampires, and the people who sent him are monitoring him in real-time, which means they know he failed, and they can make him self-destruct before he can tell Hellsing anything. As he dies, Jan flips them all off and gives them one word of information: âMillennium.â
After that, Integra tasks Walter with destroying the remaining Hellsing ghouls, until Sir Irons, one of the Twelve reminds Integra that this is the duty of a commander.  As Hellsingâs C.O., itâs her responsibility, so she agrees and starts shooting the ghouls in the head.  Â
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Meanwhile, Janâs mysterious overseers talk amongst themselves, and their leader calls for them to resume their âresearchâ.  As devastating as this attack on Hellsing was, for Millennium, this was merely a test.  Â
#2021hellsingliveblog#hellsing#alucard#seras victoria#walter c dornez#sir integra hellsing#luke valentine#jan valentine#i guess i should have said more about the valentine brothers as characters#they're all right but they don't stick around long enough to make much of an impression#i mean everyone loves jan because of his foul mouth but what else can i add to that?
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Do you think Choso will die? I saw a post saying that all characters who faced away in a certain panel have died until now. And Choso was one of them looking away :(
Sorry for my late ass response to this, anon! With that said, I'm going to be upfront with you; I really don't know.
On one hand, Choso has a ton of potential for growth as a character. Especially with his familial link to the Kamo clan, his knowledge about the original Noritoshi Kamo, and his delusions that Yuji is his brother. There is a metric fuckton Gege could do with that story wise.
On the other hand, Gege is very similar to Isayama in regards to the fact that they aren't afraid to sideline or outright kill off their characters, potential be damned. I mean, just look at what happened to Jogo, Nanami, and Mahito. Hell, they even brought Toji back just to kill him off again lol.
Because of this, it makes trying to guage Gege's intentions with characters extremely hard to do. At least with snk, Yams started killing off major characters pretty much immediately and I've been reading the manga long enough to know Yams writing patterns to an extent. That's not the case with jjk. Gege just started fully offing multiple main characters in this arc and literally narrowed the main villain pool down from nine to three within it which is fucking intense.
All I'll say is maybe prepare yourself for the worst while hoping for the best. I love Choso a lot as a character too, and I'm really hoping to see him develop further, but Gege seems out to hurt us with this arc.
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since tpn s2 denied us of yuugo and all his interactions with emma i re-watched deca-dence over the weekend because all the moments between natsume & kaburagi were the next closest thing i could think of. i tried the dub this time and i fell in love with natsume all over again. sheâs so great and was reminded how nice the soundtrack is but iâm sure the series probably wonât get another season. the first ended well enough where there isnât much to expand on but iâd love to see more of how the world works now after the time skip. they canât just show me my girl all grown up and pretty, tease her reunion with kabu and just end it there, but they did and itâs so mean. iâm sad. though i really canât be since black lagoon released a new chapter the other day too and god knows those roll out at a snail pace. waiting two to three months in between chapters is such a pain but hey, at least the manga isnât on hiatus anymore. so thereâs that positive, though wasnât lucky enough to get a decent panel of revy, so isabella might stick around a bit longer than intended. also didnât realize the tpn dub started this weekend either so that was a treat, but i low-key hate how easy it was for it to suck me back into watching that train wreck of a season. like not even full minute in and it gave me emma mocking ray and i was like âdamn it!â iâm such a fool for thinking i might be able to ignore it this time, ha. rayâs apology and promise was so soft too, i felt proud of him all over again. i have no idea who they have for mujika or sonjuâs voice actors though, not that he spoke yet but i couldnât figure out her voice either. weâll see. going off on a tangent, not that it matters because iâm just talking to myself here and i canât sleep, but i am SO close to finishing an edit that has literally been an idea stuck inside my head since december 16th but thankfully itâs going well. of course i waited until the tpn exhibition chapter was fully released to start it and i have to think of a couple more panels that could work better but yeah. honestly, trying to figure out which panels to use and then cleaning them up to see if they might or might not work out decently enough is more time consuming than actually putting the video together but itâs getting done.. slowly, after work whenever iâm not tired, distracted or getting my ass kicked by anxiety. wonât deny that i slacked a bit this weekend with it, but i needed to relax. and so i did, by indulging in fandoms that i know will make me happy. look at me going full circle with this late night nonsense. huzzah.
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Com-Myu-nity Survey
Been working on this with Takaa and now I get to answer the questions! Iâll tag @kosmosinusa and @vampiru-chan! Also anyone feel free to do this anyway XD.
1. What is your hobby?
Well mostly YouTube and social media, so technically this is my hobby XD.
2. What is your special skill?
I guess audio editing?? Atm Iâm making a Nogizaka46 karaoke but I had to shorten it first so I guess thatâs a skill? XD.
3. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
Strengths: I donât like complimenting myself omg I guess I donât let things get to me?? Like ânasty comments with Zakuroâ that started on my first hate comment and we all know how I just laughed at that XD.
Weaknesses: I have SERIOUS anger issues. Like, when I say I have impulsive anger people think Iâm just playing it up, no honestly I am known to throw things, break things, slam things, do not let me hold anything expensive when Iâm frustrated cos it will break. I get it from my Dad but I legit think Iâm worse than him XD. Oh also fyi Iâve done this before if Iâm being harsh to you about seemingly nothing PLEASE TELL ME cos I donât know Iâm doing it oops.
4. What is your favoUrite coloUr?
Turquoise, teal, anything in the bluey-greeny spectrum really and black. Also red (anger YEET).
5. What is your favoUrite animal?
PENGUINS THEYâRE SO FUCKING ADORABLE I LOVE THEM.
6. Which food are you into lately?
Iâm unhealthy as fuck, chocolate cake XD.
7. What is the thing you never lose to from anyone?
Sass war?
8. What is your most treasured item?
I would be typical and say my Myu merch, but itâs my Yoshi cuddly I got from Camelot Theme Park about 10 years ago. I truly am a Baby Spice at heart XD.
9. What is your cooking specialty?
I do boss ass scrambled eggs. And Iâm also great at roast potatoes, I can get them crispy but not hard but soft on the inside. I roast them in a small cake tin it works AMAZINGLY.
10. What is the thing you want the most at the moment?
NOGIMYU 2019 VISUALS. And a girlfriend XD. It doesnât look good for me that I put that second does it?
11. What is the thing you are most scared of?
Iâm pretty tough ngl, but if thereâs a spider in my vicinity I will kindly ask someone to dispose of it. Thanks Dad ;).
12. What is the thing you were happy about this year?
I guess NogiMyu 2019 announcement?? Finishing college?
13. What is the thing you were sad about this year?
ALL THE NOGIZAKA46 GRADUATIONS SERIOUSLY MISA KARIN AND REIKA WHAT IS GOING ON.
14. What is the thing you regretted this year?
Aforementioned anger issues that keep upsetting people I need to sort that out.
15. What is the thing you were angry about this year?
LETâS NOT GO THERE Iâll just say Tories again? XD. But thatâs the same every year XD.
16. What is the job that gave you a sense of fulfilment this year?
Omg Iâm technically unemployed atm cos I finished college a couple of months ago XD. So none?
17. What has changed about you since you entered com-myu-nity?
Iâm a nicer person XD. In high school when I started YouTube I was HORRIBLE and I didnât even know I was XD.
18. Which character would you play in Sera Myu?
Iâd love to do Neptune but fuck knows Iâd be bad at that so maybe Venus?? OO OR MAYBE MISTRESS 9.
19. If you were to form a collab now, who would it be with?
Omg itâd be so cool to do a cover of all the Make Up Kumikyoku songs with my NogiMyu friends XD.
20. What do you love about Sera Myu nowadays?
After 2017 I really like how theyâre trying different things rather than sticking to conventional normal cast musicals. Like NogiMyu is so experimental and has a Nogi cast, the Super Live is a dance show, I hope Kaguya-hime no Koibito will be similar to this pattern XD.
21. Which cast member catches your attention the most at the moment?
Well itâs ALWAYS Nao, but yâall know how much Iâm loving Hinachima atm.
22. Which cast member would you want as your significant other?
NAOOOOOOOOO or Hinachima XD.
23. If you were to marry a cast member, who would it be?
Obvs Nao AGAIN.
24. If you would go to a deserted island, which cast member would you like to go with you?
I might be able to survive on my own so emotional support would be great XD. So... Hinachima XD.
25. If you would be born again, which cast member would you want to be?
Yuuka Asami or Ayumi Murata.
26. Which Sera Myu production would you want to be a part of?
I would have loved to have been in any Bandai musical cos it looked SO fun T_T.
27. If you would create your own kingdom, what kind of country would you want it to be?
NOT RUN BY TORIES everyone has human rights (common sense?) and Sera Myu, 9Muses and Nogizaka46 will be easily available in all hmv shops.
28. What is an interesting book or manga you read recently?
I was reading The Price of Salt before my exams started (thanks to my English teacher recommending it to me AHA) so I need to get back into reading that.
29. What is an interesting movie you watched recently?
DESCENDANTS 3 IT WAS SO GOOD.
30. What is your favoUrite Sera Myu song at the moment?
Itâs always been Everlasting Moonlight, but I also love the Make Up Kumikyoku songs. OH and Watashi-tachi Sailor Guardians.
31. What is your favoUrite Sera Myu song choreography at the moment?
I still love the 2003 Everlasting Moonlight choreo.
32. What is your favoUrite Sera Myu costume at the moment?
I really love Reiâs costume from NogiMyu when theyâre at that club.
33. What is your favoUrite Myu at the moment?
NOW AND FOREVER LAST DRACUL JOKYOKU.
34. What is your favoUrite Myu cast?
Iâd actually say Kaguya Shima Densetsu Kaiteiban. All my favourite outers in one <3.
35. Is there something you say a lot recently?
"Do you mindâ or âcan you notâ... all to inanimate objects.
36. What would you do if you could plan a Fan Kansha?
OMG IâD LOVE A NOGIMYU FAN KANSHA WHERE THEY SING EACH OTHERâS KUMIKYOKU SONG. Imagine Hinachima doing Marsâ XD.
37. What do you hope to see Sera Myu doing in the future?
Just more accessible stuff XD. Super Live is an atrocity in terms of recordings and releases so... release your stuff please XD.
38. What kind of person do you want to be in 5 years?
I really wanna get into stand up and I know I need to get myself out there so in 5 years hopefully that wonât just be a dream XD. FUCK THAT WAS CHEESY.
39. What has been a memorable concert or event this year?
Of this year Mrs Brownâs Boys DâMusical, but of a year from today Nightwish in December 2018 XD.
40. What do you want to do in your private life this year?
Pass my driving test XD. Still learning theory but I am determined to do it this year XD.
41. What kind of job would you like to do in the future?
STAND UP COMEDIAN legit if I can get on just one panel show my life goal will be complete.
42. Do you have a hairstyle you would like to try in the future?
I keep meaning to dye my hair purple temporarily cos I have the dye but I just seem to never get round to it XD.
43. What Sera Myu merchandise would you love to have?
Hinachima card.
44. Where would you want Sera Myu to come to?
If I could just get a CINEMA SCREENING of a Myu in the UK Iâd count it as a win.
45. If you could have a holiday with any cast member, what do you want to do?
For some reason I wanna say Ayumi Murata cos I feel like sheâd be so fun to be with XD.
46. Please say something to your favourite cast member.
Omg this is gonna get cheesy but Nao I love you I miss you keep being you do what you need I just want you to be happy XD.
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Hey! What do you think of OPM season 2? I still love it & am looking forward to next weeks new episode but i just wish Saitama had more screen time ;-(
hey nonny~!Â
apologies for the late reply, its a combo of not getting notifications (tumblr u useless trashbucket) and being on surgery rotation (i miss sleeping so much)Â
firstly, i am truly glad you still love it and look forward to the new episodes!!! đđđplease dont let anything i say from this point on dissuade you from that enjoymentÂ
THAT BEING SAIDÂ
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ive only watched up to the second episode, and i am having Such Difficulties convincing myself to keep watching. i know my rxns to ep 1 were overall pretty positive and I stand by it but the more i watch the more the Cringe/Hypercritique starts take over.Â
Turns out, the art style had a bigger impact than i thought on the length of which i enjoy shows. personally, i just really like when anime/shows have a happy marriage between writing and artwork. and when show directors know how to interpret writing, how to set up a scene (the angle, the music, the pacing), and then communicate with artists who have the skills to bring that idea to life using the medium theyâre given -- thatâs when writing becomes storytelling. OPMâs writing is still fantastic since theyâre going off ONE (whereas GoT has the opposite problem where the production value is 4K and the writing is early 2000s livejournal/fanfiction lol god why is everyone dropping the ball in 2019??)
As for the art, since opm switched to jc staff and shingo natsume & co. left for other projects ( ;;_____;; im emo ), its inevitable we would see a drop in animation quality and i find myself constantly getting distracted by things i never used to get concerned about in the first season (bc of the high bar of expectations set by s1 artists/directors, like theres just no way jc staff would match up it to all of that and i feel bad for them, theyâre trying their best but that doesnât mean theyre immune to critique on the artistic liberties that theyâve taken that i feel as a viewer, may not have been the best choice?)Â
the shading: no, just, unnecessary and distracting and why is it the center of saitamas face, im by far no expert in lighting but a bish can tell something doesnt look right???Â
the shading pt II: color choices. just gonna say i was not expecting saiâs âhair shirtâ in ep 1 to be bright-ass neon green, it was a little jarring at first and i miss him in red ;-; i get hes supposed to have poor fashion choices but i dont see him as the type to pick something that stands out so much in the crowd, like he likes to be left alone. NEON doesnt really relay âhi dont mind me im just barely existing here lolâÂ
the shading pt III: genos arms/neck. okaY so the bby looks good in screenshots. like heâs shiny and nice to look at when nothings moving. bUTÂ this is animation?? movement of objections is different from still life manga so making every single scene almost 99% like murataâs panels translates a little awkwardly to the screen (like staff is lucky bc murataâs a force of nature with his panels playing out like a movie for ref). but when genos moves, the arms are just distracting bc everything around him is drawn simply without shadows so they stand out by themselves and i (visually) forget about the rest of him haha.Â
the pacing: it feels scripted, person A says this so weâll show person A in the shot, then person B is saying something so we have to cut to person B, etc etc like keeping pretty steady to manga lines to the point where i was starting to get bored bc i knew what was coming. it was really intervaled? like someone had to be saying something at a certain effect and i think s1 had more dramatic pauses (lol) but thats how you can place emphasis on scenes to have an emotional impact if the character doesnt say anything and just let the soundtrack do some talking and the cadence of the script will change too (im 10000% talking about the sunset scene in s1 god bless. like it was slow, there was MOOD there wasnât any rush and really gave the viewer time to think about the relationship between the two characters and what that moment meant to each of them) i feel like there were several scenes that could have been more like in the scene where sai protected fubuki, could have been a little more dramatically emphasized (aka just a pause) so the viewer could get a chance to understand that he purprosefully shielded her or when genos says that strong heroes are drawn to saitama--bUT nope its the same pace, like c l o c k w o r k just like my t eARS--
the fight scenes: how do i even start. the one scene that got me INTO opm (like watching the anime, reading the manga, drawing fanart, writing fanfic, reading fanfics etc) was kickstarted by the fight scene between genos and saitama in s1 that was circulating on tumblr a while back. i thought the characters were interesting and the fight was badass and it just looked SO COOL. (also the forehead flick at the end just kinda sealed my fate). going from that to s2 fight scenes where its mostly cut scenes and freeze scenes?? where theres a cut out behind the characters back?? during a fight scene????? this isnât a calling card or an anime opening??? i dont understand. when they dont do cut scenes, its interesting but my initial impression is just underwhelmed. i can find good parts but it feels like i have to replay the scene to notice it? theres also an overwhelming amount of graphics/cgi manipulation that overpowers the actual art sometimes. its lacking some of the fluidity that comes from hand drawn fight scenes from first season. OTL
the sound directing: so i thought that the mood just felt off for certain scenes and the sound didnât seem to support the scene as well (unless it was like the characterâs theme or smtg) and i looked it up and the sound director was also replaced (Yoshikazu Iwanami replacing Shoji Hata). i have no idea if the sound director is also in charge of character lines but there were parts were fubuki was monologuing and i had no idea she was inner monologuing, i thought she was talking out loud and that just took extra effort on my part to re-orient myself (im nitpitcking i know but its just how i watch shows lol)Â
there are still some parts i like about the animation:
fubuki looks bangin and i love herđđ
all of this just made me realize how insanely lucky we were to have an amazing s1 and just have it exist and how i really could not care less if they had just waited forever to make s2 as long as we had the same crew come back. but anime is still a business and the quicker they dish out merch/seasons, the more money they can bring in. which they do in the short run but they would bring in more if they spent a little more on quality in the long run and it becomes one of those classics that ppl will rewatch and keep recommending to ppl who want to get into anime and oh my god weâre never gonna have that now, are we. if im gonna rec it to a friend its gonna be âread the manga!â or âjust watch s1!â uGH. its just an unfortunate situation, its not one personâs fault either, so many factors go into what made opm s1 so spectacular and seeing s2 just made me appreciate s1 more. i guess im happy to have a s2 regardless?Â
iâll still watch to support (and bc i like suiryuu and wanna see sai in a karate gi and wig lol). maybe i just have to get used to the new style.Â
so in summary,
#this got outta hand real quicc#sorry nonny u really didnt ask for thisđ
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#i just have paragraphs of emotions#my inbox is open hit me w discourse if u disagree lol#this is just imho#Anonymous
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BnHA Chapter 278: MOMO IN CHARGE
Previously on BnHA: Deku and Kacchan were all âSIR, THATâS OUR EMOTIONAL SUPPORT SENSEIâ and got really ferocious and made a very passionate attempt to blow Tomura up and it was great. It basically did nothing, but it was still great. AFO was all âCOME HERE LIL BROâ, and Tomura was all âsilly Sensei, you canât just take over my mind and body just like thatâ, and he was very confident of this despite there really being no evidence to back it up, but okay! Gran was all âtime to make the fandom mad at meâ and grabbed Tomura by the collar and yelled at him about Nana a bit, and then Bakugou and Endeavor made an even MORE passionate attempt to blow up Tomura, which may or may not have done some actual damage. The chapter ended with Gigantomachia battling Mt. Lady, just kinda out of the blue, which is FINE, but she had better be all right, though!
Today on BnHA: Everyone is all âWAUGHH ITâS GIGANTOMACHIAâ and running around freaking out about it. The U.A. alums all kick some ass, and pretty much everyone else not from U.A. does jack fucking shit. Mt. Lady, who I plan on naming all of my future children after, does her best to stop Machia but he keeps flinging her aside. Kamui Woods is all âhere I come with Midnight to put Gigantomachia to sleep!â and is PROMPTLY FUCKING MURDERED!? by Dabi because heâs a flammable tree man, and so Midnight falls all the way to the ground and is badly injured. So then sheâs all âwell I better call the most competent person I can think of to fix this messâ and dials up YAOYOROZU FUCKING MOMO, who proceeds to take charge LIKE THE BOSS SHE IS, and mobilizes the rest of the kids. And honestly I have more faith in them than in any of the adults at this point, so yeah, you know what? Letâs do this.
so I am possibly a bit spoiled on this chapter because I did a âtop five predictionsâ post earlier this week, and someone replied to that yesterday on Thursday saying that they were mostly correct. I donât know exactly how close to the mark I was though, and in any case most of the predictions were just âso-and-so shows up, probablyâ, so itâs not too bad. weâll see how it goes!
OH THANK GOD MY BABIES ARE SAFE
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I mean, CLEARLY theyâre all about to be in horrible danger, seeing as Jirou is about to inform them of the whole âTHE BIG GUY EVERYONE WAS AFRAID ABOUT WAKING UP WOKE UPâ thing, but in the meantime at least Kami and Toadette and Honenuki made it back to the group safely
also Kaminariâs use of âJirou-Jackâ here is fucking inspired and I want him to teach a class on nicknames. isnât he the one who coined âYaomomoâ as well? this boy has a gift and it needs to be appreciated
so Jirou is all âSOMETHING REALLY BIG IS COMINGâ, and actually she says âINSANELY HUGEâ, which if anything is still an understatement, hard as it is to believe
WOW
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âA BAD GUY IS HEADING THIS WAY?? SOUNDS LIKE ITâS TIME TO ABANDON THE CHILDREN IN THE WOODSâ kjlfakh okay you know what?? fine!! you werenât even going to do anything anyway so letâs not pretend!!
holy shit itâs like Mt. Lady isnât even there
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look at those speed lines!! goddamn. I just felt this huge rush of empathy for Mt. Lady though. like can you imagine growing up with this super-destructive quirk, and managing to become a hero with it against all odds, and having to put up with the manga making fun of you all the time just because sometimes you have a tendency to DESTROY A LOT OF STUFF, but itâs not like you can help it!! but the upside has always been that when your quirk is on, you are fucking UNSTOPPABLE though. so even though itâs been a hell of a rough ride for you, itâs worth it because youâre a complete badass and the number of people who can beat you out in terms of sheer physical strength is probably in the single digits. and youâre working really hard too, and lately youâve been moving up through the ranks and actually becoming a damn fine hero if I do say so myself (and I do), and itâs like, about time though?? like finally, finally it is all starting to come together for you. and then this snarling trashrock person suddenly comes stampeding along and you put your all into trying to stop him, and it doesnât even do a damn thing. like, holy shit. thatâs just not fucking fair and YOU DESERVE BETTER, MT. LADY
anyway so sheâs still hanging in there for now though so letâs check in with our villain squad riding on his back
lmaooo theyâre all âI donât even understand what is going on hereâ
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YOU GUYS, THIS IMPLIES THAT THEY WERE ALL PLUCKED OFF THE GROUND BY THE SCRUFFS OF THEIR NECKS AND THEY HAD ABSOLUTELY NO SAY IN THE MATTER OMG. like Iâm picturing Spinner being held by his cape pinched in between Machiaâs thumb and forefinger, and awkwardly trying to lecture him like a mom with his hands on his hips all, âBAD GIGANTOMACHIA! NO! NOOOUAGH -- !â and cutting off with a yelp as heâs dropped onto his back
and I am glad they got Toga some clothes! I like to think Gigantomachia grabbed those for her as well. so thoughtful
wow Skeptic actually wants to go back to Re-Destro??
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color me legit impressed. I underestimated your loyalty my dude. and let me also just take this moment to extend my gratitude toward Horikoshi for leaving the rest of the MLA out of it because good fucking riddance to them, goodbye forever hopefully!!
I guess theyâll be needing Skepticâs quirk down the line for some reason? maybe he is meant to be like a new, less out-of-control Twice. smdh yâall out here trying to replace your dead buddy like a pet goldfish
who is this âtheyâ Dabi is referring to
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do you mean the heroes? lol yeah I guess theyâre pretty distracted by the literal fucking kaijuu youâre currently piggybacking on
SIGH
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âthe Jakku team mustâve made a mistakeâ BOY, IâLL SAY. you know what, donât even talk to me about that yet. itâs still too fresh. suffice it to say that your suspicions are correct and things in Jakku are not very daijobu right about now
anyway hereâs a closeup of this bubble person just cuz
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they are everything and I want them to be my friend. also thereâs a squid person a few paces behind them who can probably do anything a squid can do. or they might actually be a shark person, actually. I donât know. either way I love them
GETEN PLEASE GO AWAY
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WE ARE PHASING OUT THE MLA!! MOVING FORWARD ITâS ORIGINAL LOV ONLY!! IâM SORRY BUT YOU DIDNâT MAKE THE CUT. we already have an ice character so shoo
OH DAMN MY MAN CEMENTOSS HAS HAD ENOUGH OF HIS NONSENSE TOO AHHHH YESS
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1) hey so Cementoss is legit terrifying whoâdâve thought
and 2), did Cementoss always have a mouthful of gigantic perfect teeth each the size of a slice of bread, or is this just something Iâm only noticing now because Iâm behind the curve. either way, let me just say sincerely, DKJDLKFJLSKJG
RE-DESTRO YOU GO AWAY TOO!!
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@waywardfacegardenâ you asked the other day which are the characters I actually dislike, and this is one of them lol. heâs just a big olâ prick, and on top of that has the audacity to not even be interesting in any way so as to balance it out. anyway so apologies to any Re-Destro stans out there but I basically spend every panel heâs in hoping that someone will punch him in the face hard enough to finally make him shut up
anyway so my man Edgeshot is here though, finally!! but of all the people for him to fight! this is a real predicament for me. the most soothing character in the series contrasted with the character who grates my nerves the most. Edgeshotâs sexy ASMR voice is gonna be drowned out by all of RDâs punching and self-important ranting in the anime and Iâm lowkey devastated but Iâm gonna pull myself together and read on
SPEAKING OF SELF-IMPORTANT RANTING
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Edge, if you can liberate us from having to put up with his insufferable ass once and for all I will be so grateful to you. can you do this. please. for me
and it looks like some other boring MLA villains are following along behind Machia so Iâm gonna need someone to kick their asses as well. please
-- YESSSSSS
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okay so now I see what that comment on my prediction post was referring to lol. I did indeed have my fingers crossed that these two would show up again, and sure enough! THE GANGâS ALL HERE YAY
and Mt. Lady is being sumoed aside!
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anyone want tonightâs lotto numbers. during this brief fleeting moment of having my predictions be actually credible, I would just like to say that Hagakure is the U.A. traitor. thank you and goodnight
OH NO KAMUI IS WORRIED
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HE LOOKS SO PANICKED?? OUT OF THE BLUE I SHIP IT SO MUCH?? I keep forgetting theyâre on the same team and stuff and wow, I need to calm down
LOL MIDNIGHT IS ALL âNO TIME FOR SHIPS!!â
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I wonder if her quirk will actually be enough to take him down? this is something Iâve been itching to see for a long time, actually. just how powerful is she? we know her quirk is more effective on males than females, but is anyone actually capable of resisting it? imagine if she really did just knock Gigantomachia out after all of this buildup. that would be some god-tier shit omg, DO IT
(ETA: I am just going to assume that since Horikoshi had to go to elaborate lengths to take her out of the fight, this means that her quirk really was capable of knocking them all out. another tragic case of Too Badass For The Plot. yâall better respect Midnight.)
YESSSSSSSS
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is she stripping. you know what -- donât think about it. I wonât let you ruin this for me Horikoshi. Midnightâs gonna be a badass because the ladies are fucking ruling this arc and thatâs all there is to it
NOOOOOO
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DABI GET BACK HERE I JUST WANT TO TALK!!
oh thank god, sheâs all right. BUT KAMUI ISNâT THOUGH DLKJSFLKSJDG??!
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did Kamui Woods just... die
(ETA: okay but for real, is there an actual curse in effect on the Billboard Top Ten right now, though?? did one of them accidentally disturb the tomb of some ancient king??)
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oH MY GOD!?!
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NOOOOOOO WHY ARE YOU SO QUICK TO SLEEP ON MAJESTIC, LETâS SEE IF THEY CAN DO IT!! GIVE US MAJESTIC GOD DAMMIT
(ETA: Horikoshi is seriously just yanking our chain at this point. when Majestic finally does show up, he or she better have the coolest fucking quirk of all time, thatâs all Iâm saying.)
okay how badly injured is Midnight here, though?? she just fell all that way?? DO I NEED TO BE REALLY MAD. I CAN WORK MY WAY UP TO IT PRETTY QUICKLY, JUST SAY THE WORD. IâM ALREADY HALFWAY THERE HONESTLY. WHEREâS KAMUI WOODS
!!!!!!!!!!!
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AND JUST LIKE THAT MY ANGER EVAPORATES INTO THE NIGHT, YESSSSSSSSS!! MOMOOOOO
holy shit. âa quirk that can stop that thing,â she says. and goes and calls YAOYOROZU FUCKING MOMOÂ yâall I am barely holding myself back from SCREAMING right now I...
you guys
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you guys. if Midnight and Yaomomo team up to take down Gigantofuckingmachia using some sort of MOMO MADE A MACHINE TO SPREAD MIDNIGHTâS QUIRK strategy, or whatnot?? I will fucking die on the spot. you can end the manga right there. Kacchan you can keep your quirk I donât even care
âIT MIGHT BE AGAINST THE LAWâ lmaooooo insert John Mulaney âWEâRE WELL PAST THATâ gif here. holy shit. listen, that is fine. if anything itâs even better
WHAT THE FUCK
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DO I NEED TO START GETTING REALLY MAD AGAIN!?!?! FUCKING WHIPLASH, IS WHAT THIS IS, BUT YOU JUST TELL ME WHAT SORT OF OVER-THE-TOP REACTION IS NEEDED HERE AND IâLL GO FOR IT
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[GRABS HORIKOSHI BY THE COLLAR] listen, you. if you only just now, for the first time ever, gave us a lady hero actually mentoring another lady hero, which we have somehow NEVER HAD BEFORE in almost three hundred chapters, only for you to then KILL OFF THE MENTOR IN THE MIDDLE OF HER GODDAMN SPEECH TO THE MENTOREE, I will... thereâs... Iâll... okay, listen. DONâT. THERE WILL BE A RECKONING. CAPSLOCK SUCH AS THIS WORLD HAS NEVER WITNESSED!!
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I DONâT EVEN KNOW HOW TO REACT TO ANYTHING IN THIS CHAPTER AND IâM LOSING MY MIND OVER IT
so the other kids are all âwhat the fuckâ and âso Momoâs in charge??â which, YES!!! ITâS THE ONE GOOD PART ABOUT ALL THIS SO DONâT YOU DARE QUESTION IT
MOMO NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO BE CRIPPLED BY YOUR ANXIETY, YOU CAN DO THIS GIRL I BELIEVE IN YOU
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hell, itâs not even just an âI believe in youâ thing, because itâs not just belief, itâs fact. you motherfucking can do this, you are the most capable and brilliant student in 1-A, you just gotta have faith and let yourself shine!!
so now there are some more panels of Machia running and the villains and heroes fighting, blah blah blah. and Momo screwing up her face as she makes her decision...
YESSSSSSSSS
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my baby girl is all grown up and TAKING THESE MOTHERFUCKIN REINS and MOMO I WILL LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU JUST SAY THE WORD!!
lol sheâs all âJirou use your ears and scientifically calculate how long itâll take him to get hereâ, and Jirou is all âI can literally fucking see him, heâs gonna be on top of us in like two secondsâ WELL OKAY THEN
thank god there are no adult pros left to fuck this up. is that weird that this is a real and honest and completely sincere thought that just ran through my head? like, at this point if any of the adults were around Iâd just be afraid of them dying honestly. but with the kids I actually feel real hope that theyâre somehow gonna do this. of course it helps that unlike the adults theyâre pretty safe from being killed off
also! way to represent the entirety of class 1-B there Honenuki lulz. sorry, The Rest of Class 1-B
OH MY GOD
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MT. LADY I WILL LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU AS WELL!! YOU HAVE MY LOVE AND FEALTY!!
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IâM STANNING HER SO HARD IâM GONNA EXPLODE SOMEBODY HELP!?!
JIROU SAYS THAT MACHIA HAS SLOWED DOWN!! YOU GUYS IâM ABOUT TO GET âMT. LADY FOR PRESIDENTâ TATTOOED ACROSS MY FOREHEAD
lmao at Shouji using his power of âputting some extra eyeballs on my armsâ to inform everyone that Gigantomachia is Right Over There and Very Big
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good job Shouji
oh my glob I have so much love for Momo right now that it canât even fucking be contained. brb wildly flailing my hands around a little to try and release some of this excess excitement
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maybe Momo can be president instead and Mt. Lady can be the vice president
NO THE CHAPTER IS ENDING IâM NOT READY
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AND JUMP IS ON BREAK AGAIN NEXT WEEK TOO, FML!!
okay!!
Kaminari is so fucking brave right now I just want to crush him in a hug?! we know heâs still scared!! look at his eyes!! and he was freaking the hell out earlier too, and now the situation is much worse! but he doesnât give a fuck because his friends need him! he is ready to be a hero, my little baby boy is all grown up and Iâm so proud??
Minetaâs face in the bottom right corner is everything. I know, I know, boooo Mineta, but thatâs still the best face anyone has made in the entirety of this manga
Tetsutetsuâs out here all âI humbly request to also represent class 1-Bâ and Momo is all âokay fine I guess we can have two of you guysâ
can we all just stop for a moment to appreciate how KamiJirouMomo is alive and well. like, we had interactions between all three of them in this chapter, in all possible permutations? do you know how happy this makes me?? I am vibrating with joy??!
I really canât stress this enough -- I have no clue at all what these little soda can things are (anesthetic, I guess??? you know, like how you sometimes buy cans of anesthetic at the supermarket?? what do you mean you donât do that??), or what theyâre gonna do with them. I have like negative clues. but DAMNED IF I GIVE ONE SINGLE FUCK. the next chapter can be them all fucking hurling them at his face for all I care. THE DETAILS OF HOW SHE KICKS HIS ASS DO NOT MATTER!! GOOD MORNING TO YAOMOMO AND YAOMOMO ONLY!! MY MOMO ACADEMIA
#bnha 278#yaoyorozu momo#midnight (bnha)#mt. lady#kamui woods#gigantomachia#cementoss#edgeshot#kaminari denki#bnha#boku no hero academia#bnha spoilers#mha spoilers#bnha manga spoilers#makeste reads bnha#by the way midnight is going to be fine#I have serious concerns about kamui though ngl#dabi's out here battling all the guys who are weak to fire in this arc and having the time of his life#who do you think will attack him next#turpentine man?? dryer lint lad??#the pros should maybe rethink their strategy here a bit
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Hey all, Dani here.
Greetings! I usually like to do these monthly wrap-ups on the first of the month, but I had a couple post office delays with the delivery of my OwlCrate and a Book Loft package, so I decided I would wait one more day since the shipment tracking said I would get them both today. Thankfully they arrived a few hours ago, so I was able to put the finishing touches on the post.
April was actually a really good month on the being in home and watching shows, reading books, blogging, and playing Animal Crossing. Granted, it was also a lot more stressful in terms of going into work, and I have a feeling that itâs only going to get worse on that, as more and more people are deciding that they are tired of the restrictions of social distancing and now with mandatory wearing of masks, so they are taking their unpaid leave and just not dealing with it. Unfortunately it means those of us who are left have to work even harder, which is physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting. Iâm now actually finding myself wishing that the factory would just close for a week or two until the manpower struggles lessen a bit, but I donât think that will happen. Itâs immensely frustrating. I donât want to be there with everything going on, but I canât afford to take two weeks without pay.
But todayâs supposed to be a pretty nice day, so I think Damian and I are maybe going to go to a state park that has some pretty nice and wide hiking trails, so we can get outside and walk around a bit. Weâre obviously taking our masks with us too. I bought some of Etsy, getting him a Slytherin mask and me a Ravenclaw one. I ordered a couple others but those havenât shipped yet.
As usual with my monthly wrap-up, letâs start off by checking in on my overall goals for the year.
Reading: I read 30 books in the month of April, 10 of which were manga volumes, two were re-reads, and three were novella length. Overall that takes me to 101 books read already in 2020. Still, Iâd say that is a pretty good month of reading. I should probably count up how many pages that is. Okay, I did the calculations, and only counting finished books I read 8,707 pages in AprilâŠbut really Iâve probably read a few hundred more if you include unfinished reads. Overall though Iâm super happy with that. I successfully completed my requirements for the OWLs Magical Readathon, so all I have to do is pass the NEWTs in a couple months and Iâll be a Trader of Magical Tomes. I also participated in Deweyâs 24 Hour Readathon, and that was a whole lot of fun. Plus, I am currently in the middle of the Calendar Girls Springtime Whirl, going until May 11th, so Iâm hoping to read a few more books at least for itâI havenât achieved a bingo yet, but Iâm really just having a good time trying to read to fulfill random prompts.
Blogging: It was the best month on my blog so far this year, and pretty close to being my best month in the history of Mousai Books, in terms of stats anyway. In terms of number of blog posts, this was definitely the best month overallâŠbut Iâm going to dial it back a little bit, because thereâs no way I can keep doing like 10+ posts a week. Itâs not sustainable for me right now. But I do still feel pretty good about continuing to have posts up pretty much every day. I wrote up 46 blog posts in the month of April, which is impressive, but it was also a whole lot of work. I did really enjoy the content though. I had a lot of books to talk about, and I especially enjoyed my National Library Week posts.
Writing: Well, I wrote a lot of blog posts, though that doesnât count on the creative writing front. I was all excited about jumping into writing my book and then the world went to crap and I canât get in a good mind set to write, so Iâve focused my attention on reading, and more study of the craft of writing. So itâs progress, but it isnât progress in a trackable form such as increasing word count.
Conventions: Right now we are waiting to see whatâs going to happen with Gen Con in late July/early August. It is a massive convention, so weâre expecting there to at least be a ton of restrictions. Lexington Comic and Toy Con ended up being postponed again, this time to June 18-21, and then it was just announced like yesterday that the 2020 convention is being canceled. But we both really want to work with Colorworld Books again, so weâre hoping that Cincinnati Comic Expo in September will still be good to go. My friends at Colorworld Books are trying to continue with their business as a digital affair, but 99% of the profits were made from attending conventions, so this has been a struggle for them. If you want to go check out their online store, that would be great. They have metal art prints and bookmarks, geeky t-shirts, and books. Oh, and you can use ConLife30 for 30% off of all metal, or CORONACON for 10% off any shirts. Oh, and they have actually started doing Colorworld LIVE convention style events just about every week. They gather up three or four awesome voice actors, hold a livestream panel, then a VIP panel for anyone who buys some signed merch, and of course you can get shirts, metal art prints, and more with characters these actors have portrayed. Itâs pretty cool.
Okay, I guess I should start with wrapping up my time with the OWLs Magical Readathon. I was going for the Trader of Magical Tomes career path, which required me to read 4 books. I ended up changing one of the books from my TBR out because it was taking me so long and I worried I wouldnât finish it in time. But, other than that, I was successful in reading all four books, so Iâm ready to continue my Magical Tome training in the NEWTs later this year.
Iâm also in the middle of the Calendar Girls Springtime Whirl, which is a bingo inspired reading challenge running from April 13-May 11. Once the reading challenge is over Iâll share a post with an updated bingo board covering all the categories I completed.
All right, letâs run through everything I read in the month of April. If I have a review up, Iâll also include the link back to that post.
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare â 4.5 stars
Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie â 5 stars
The Winter Duke by Claire Eliza Bartlett â 4.5 stars
Manga Classics: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Po Tse â 4 stars
The Queen of Raiders by Sarah Kozloff â 5 stars
Mr. Penumbraâs 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloane â 5 stars
Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren â 4 stars
You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle â 3.5 stars
The Library Book by Susan Orlean â 5 stars
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron â 5 stars
Hickville Crossroads by Mary Karlik â 4 stars
An Affair of Poisons by Addie Thorley â 4.5 stars
Fruits Basket Collectorâs Edition Volume 4 by Natsuki Takaya â 4 stars
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman â 4 stars
Steering the Craft by Ursula K Le Guin â 4 stars
Witches of Ash and Ruin by E. Latimer â 4.5 stars
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone â 5 stars
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey â 5 stars
Fairy Tail Volume 8 by Hiro Mashima â 5 stars
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin â 4 stars
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer â 4.5 stars
Fairy Tail Volume 9 by Hiro Mashima â 5 stars (review coming May 4, 2020)
Fairy Tail Volume 10 by Hiro Mashima â 5 stars (review coming May 18, 2020)
Fairy Tail Volume 11 by Hiro Mashima â 5 stars (review coming June 1, 2020)
Fairy Tail Volume 12 by Hiro Mashima â 5 stars (review coming June 15, 2020)
Fairy Tail Volume 13 by Hiro Mashima â 5 stars (review coming June 29, 2020)
Fairy Tail Volume 14 by Hiro Mashima â 5 stars (review coming July 13, 2020)
Fairy Tail Volume 15 by Hiro Mashima â 5 stars (review coming July 27, 2020)
The Last Smile in Sunder City by Luke Arnold â 3.5 stars
The Honey Donât List by Christina Lauren â 4.5 stars
Whew, that was quite the list of reads for the month. Seriously I had a lot of fun reading this month and definitely found some books that are contenders for my Top Ten Reads of 2020 from April to June, so thatâs great. Unless something bad happens, I have a feeling that this will be my best year of reading in a long time.
All right, next itâs time for the book haul portion of things, starting with the OwlCrate unboxing.
I think Iâm really going to enjoy putting together the Moony puzzle, and the book sounds rather interesting. Clearly I enjoy having another notebook, as those are handy to have around. Same with the tote bag. And Damian really likes the wooden phases of the moon banner, so I gave that to him to add to the decorations in his man cave. I actually do like the OwlCrate version of this cover better than the original. The people are a bit closer and bigger, and the cover has this wonderfully eerie glow to it, almost as if it is bathed in moonlight, which is great. Plus those sprayed edges.
And, before I get into the rest of the books for my monthly haul, I want to talk about some other purchases Iâve made lately.
The stickers I bought off of Redbubble and they are from a dozen different artists. A few of the stickers are for Damian (and he already put them up in his man cave) and the rest are going on my art wall collage. The metal art prints are from my friends at Colorworld Books, and I love the metal art, but it is not easy to capture their beauty in a photo because of the reflection of light. Maybe Iâll think of doing a little video of them in my Instagram stories or something. I might pick up some more art this weekend. Weâll see.
As part of the bookhaul portion of todayâs post, I need to do a shout out to The Book Loft of German Village in Columbus, OH. After some requests on social media, they complied and decided to offer a Malamarkus Mystery Box. You pay a single price for the box, tell them in your order comments what genres you would like, and then they fill the box with items such as books, a tote bag, bookish pins or stickers, etc for you. I have purchased two of these boxes, and itâs really fun to get a package where you have no idea what books they will select for you. The first box I ordered I gave them the genres of Epic Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, and Manga, with a couple examples of authors/series for each. I loved the selections so much that I picked up a second box, asking this time for fiction that makes me feel like Iâm playing Dungeons & Dragons.
Whatâs really fun about both of these boxes is that they ended up having books for both Damian and myself. In the first box he got Dr. Stone because he watches the anime and wanted to try the manga, and The Starless Sea because I already owned a copy. In the second box I gave Damian The Last Wish, Heart & Shadow, and The Shadow of What Was Lost, again because I owned all of them already. What is really funny is that I had just bought and received that last one from my Barnes & Noble order a few days ago. Oh, and Damian also got the tote bag because I already have oneâin that exact same color.
Okay, now for the standard bookhaul segment of the post.
Along with picking up the two books in her Dasreach Council series that I didnât have, I also was able to buy that lovely Beauty and the Beast stained glass cloth mask from author Josette Reuel as well. We are now required to wear masks while at work, and I wanted to have a selection of cloth masks instead of relying on the disposable paper ones they are going to hand out at work. Though Iâm still trying to figure out a good/easy way to be able to get a drink while also working on the factory floor, because the masks make you overheat even faster and that means you dehydrate even more.
Finally I guess itâs time to talk May TBR. I am sort of participating in Moody May, hosted by Kathy from Books and Munches and Destiny from Howling Libraries, and the whole point of Moody May is to read whatever you are in the mood for, which is perfect for mood readers who donât like TBRs. But Iâm sort of a mixed reader, because I enjoy having a somewhat planned TBR and then picking up mood reads to supplement my reading. So, I have made a rather ambitious TBR, which will probably be supplemented by shorter mood reads.
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See what I mean? This stack of books is massive. Why am I doing this to myself? Honestly itâs because I seem to pick up thick fantasy reads as the weather gets warmer. I donât even know how many pages are in these 10 books. So, yeah, I was curious and checked and those ten books are 6,276 pages.
Now that doesnât include the fact that Iâm in the middle of three or four other books that are also around 500 pages each. What can I say? I do love a good lengthy read, especially right now when my weekends are not filled with running around or playing D&D for hours and hours.
April Wrap Up and May TBR Hey all, Dani here. Greetings! I usually like to do these monthly wrap-ups on the first of the month, but I had a couple post office delays with the delivery of my OwlCrate and a Book Loft package, so I decided I would wait one more day since the shipment tracking said I would get them both today.
#Anime#ARC#Book Releases#Books!#Conventions#Gen Con#Manga#manga review#Movies#National Library Week#Reading#Reading Challenge#Tabletop Games#Video Game#Young Adult
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Rant-y Ship Feels.
Aaaaallright now yâall~â Iâm about to break down for you just exactly why Shimada 8-dan and Akari would be the PERFECT MATCH!! (Iâm so invested in this ship please Umino-sensei let this be Akariâs endgame please.)
So first off, letâs take a look at what Kiriyamaâs standards for Akariâs life partners are:
Kiriyama hasnât filled out the chart for Shimada yet, but we can do a little measuring ourselves based on what weâve seen so far in the manga!
(warning: long post. More under the cut!)
Starting at the top: KindnessÂ
Even though you canât really hate anyone in the series, (with ONE GLARING EXCEPTION but thatâs spoilers so I wonât talk about it here) Shimada really has a soft spot in my heart. Here you have this guy who comes from a small town, suffers from chronic neurogenic stomach pain, has been described by his peers as âplainâ and ânothing special,â and challenges titles multiple times to no avail. Yet he persists with a quiet fortitude, dragging the shattered pieces of himself together to rise again even stronger than before.Â
For all his suffering, Shimada manages to be kind and thoughtful of those around him, and gracious to those who support him. Heâs unerringly kind to Nikaidou, even though initially they were just apprentices of the same Shogi master. He takes Kiriyama under his wing, despite being under no obligation to do so (as they are competitors), and develops a close bond with him as well.Â
Future prospects:
In this category Shimadaâs poor health can count against him a little, since shogi players require a lot of stamina. Even so, for a profession like shogi where more experience is beneficial in future matches, itâs not unfair to say that Shimadaâs stock would rise as a shogi player the older he gets.
Income:
Heâs a relatively successful shogi player, so you know heâs well-off. He has his own house, which isnât exactly small.Â
Now, Iâm not super familiar with pro shogi playersâ incomes, but Kiriyama does give us an idea based on his own income - as a fifth-year pro, ranked B-2, heâd made an income of 7.8 million yen. Now we know Shimadaâs in his late thirties, in the A rank, and challenges the title holders on a relatively regular basis. Heâd likely make more than Kiriyama, maybe around 10 million a year? Either way, not a shabby sum - especially if Akariâs reaction to Kiriyamaâs income is anything to go by.Â
Health:
Shimadaâs recurring health issues have been made abundantly clear throughout the series (basically every time he appears thereâs been some reference to it).Â
HOWEVER.
(and hereâs the interesting part aka my shipper ho ass being unbearably gleeful about hints)
When Shimada happens upon the Kawamoto stand at the festival, he buys some of their sweets. LOOK AT HIS REACTIONNNN
HIS CHRONIC PAIN IS EASED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME.
Like itâs not definitive proof or anything (further analysis of this scene will be pursued in a different post) but right before this panel is his first interaction with Akari and itâs so cute I die.Â
ANYWAY he eats something sheâs made and his stomach pain lets up a bit.
COINCIDENCE?? I THINK NOT.
Besides, we know that Akari has this almost unconscious compulsion to helping others - just look at the strays sheâs taken in (Kiri included lmao). Â
( ͥ° ÍÊ ÍĄÂ°)
Decisiveness:
The manâs a professional shogi player. âNuf said.
(but like actually professional shogi doesnât seem like the kind of world youâd survive in if you didnât have some amount of faith in your decision-making abilities.)
Domestic skills:
Thereâs not much mention of Shimadaâs domestic skills, but from what we see when Kiriyama goes to his house for the study groups, Shimada runs a pretty tidy ship.
All his books are in order and he even has a cactus for godâs sake LOOK AT THIS ADORABLE MAN. Unlike Mr. eats-cup-noodles-and-only-unpacks-a-futon Kiriyama, Shimada is a Real Adultâą who keeps his house clean and orderly.Â
Smoking and Alcohol:
Shimada has been shown to drink on occasion, but he isnât shown to have terrible drunk tendencies (unlike that one dude who got divorced early in the series). Also letâs be real here - with those stomach problems, Shimada isnât going to be looking to burn any more holes in his body with cigarettes.
Gambling:
Not for this straight-laced shogi pro nah bruh. Unless maybe if you count gambling with his health every time he plays a match....?
Reliability:
Kiriyama discounts Hayashida sensei partly because he âlacks the qualities of being a reliable man,â and he âlacks a manâs capaciousness.â Iâd say that Shimada does have those qualities. He has a serious personality and a âslow and steady wins the raceâ approach to shogi. In his hometown, he managed to pull the entire community together single-handedly by creating a shogi club, where the elderly residents could get together and bond, and provide them with transportation and groceries.Â
Plus he totally saves Akari from falling over when they meet - howâs that for reliable?! (Okay Hayashida sensei is there too but lbr his presence is more of a âoh look thereâs a rivalâ sort of thing.)Â
Looks:
Shimada may not be a looker like SĆya Meijin or Gakuto, but he has his own appeal! Heâs tall, though thin from his illness (which may appeal to Akari in a different sense...loll). Most of his coworkersâ jabs against his looks are based around how sickly he is, or how much older he looks than SĆya Meijin despite the two of them being the same age lmao.Â
Fortitude:
I talked a little about this earlier but Shimada honestly has one of the strongest characters - heâs in constant, almost debilitating pain, he hasnât held a title despite numerous matches, and he gave up a ânormal lifeâ in the countryside to pursue professional shogi.Â
LOOK AT HIS FACE.
IF THATâS NOT A BURNING FIGHTING SPIRIT FUELED BY SHEER STUBBORNNESS AND SPITE THEN I DONâT KNOW WHAT IS.Â
This dude is off the charts when it comes to fortitude (or stubbornness either works I guess) and Kiriyama has been witness to this first-hand. So... no problems in this category either.
Overall Rating:Â âââââ 10/10 would ship with Akari
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Iâm gonna stop there cause this post has become WAY longer than Iâd anticipated oops..
If youâve made it to the bottom of this post, congratulations!! Thanks for sticking with my rambling self for so long hehe~ Hopefully yâall can see the beauty that is Shikari and why I am head over heels for this ship even though Kiri and Umino-sensei have considered other possibilities for Akari (although Kiri, youâre too optimistic... ((SĆya Meijin....?? boi.)))
#sangatsu no lion#march comes in like a lion#ïŒæăźă©ă€ăȘăł#Kai Shimada#Akari Kawamoto#shut up rea
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thesplendidangharadd replied to your post âThat's why I didn't understand your logic. While you admitted that...â
I know you hate it when I kinda " hijack" your post but seriously I couldn't stop myself on this one . Kubo did "show" us several times ichigo had latent feelings for Orihime . The lust arc ? The grimmjow fight ? The way he reacted when she was taken to hueco Mundo ? All of this happened around chapter 200 /300 it's not the end of the story . The fandom went out of its way to prove those moments meant nothing and IT DID . The thing is that
all those ichiruki moments you think Kubo "showed" can be interpreted as a strong platonic friendship . Ichigo's showing his feelings for orihime though ? Can only be interpreted as romantic . It's the peak of mauvaise foi for you to show us yoruichi telling ichigo to say something nice to orihime and not show those like 6 panels of him blushing out of his mind just because orihime wore a revealing outfit which was the " show" part of " show don't tell"
Kubo did not separate ichigo and rukia in order to push for ichihime . He separated them because from a story telling point of view their relationship reached its narrative end at the end of the fullbring arc . Ichigo doubted rukia was still his nakama because she did not come to see him while he was powerless but when she came back to gave him his powers he understood the bond he had with her was unbreakable which made him understand the bond he had with his other frien
friends ( who were under tsukishima influence at the time ) was also unbreakable . Showing scenes of them together had no point because the readers knew where they stood , their bond didn't need further developemment . Ichihime did and renruki though and that's why there is more of it in the last arc . Bleach was not a victim of ichiruki chemistry but of the ichiruki fandom who had a frienship who could be interpreted as love for the first 100 chapters and clung to it
for the other 580 chapters of the manga blindly refuting what was irrefutable proof that the manga was going in the ichihime direction
*sigh* You do realize that the reply feature is meant to be used for short messages? Save your interlocutor the trouble and hit âreblogâ pls?
(putting this under a cut because I care about my fellow man and their dash)
I know you hate it when I kinda " hijack" your post but seriously I couldn't stop myself on this one
Er... When have I ever said that...? Iâm not even sure what you mean by âhijackâ? Replying to/reblogging a post is not hijacking.  I can ignore your rebuttal if I so wish and if I didnât want people to react to this post I wouldnât have made it (though Iâd blame the requester for the impetus, I was just replying to an ask).  Sâall good đÂ
Iâll tell you what I do dislike, though, since weâre on the subject (hate is a pretty strong word): people who reply to a post in underhanded ways.  Liiiike, say (and this is completely off the top of my head, totes random example) taking screenshots of a post (not even in its entirety), then uploading them to their blog and going off on a rant the OP will receive no notification for and thus cannot respond to unless they stumble upon it by chance. Which of course allows them to be as unpleasant as they like before their audience of sycophants and call the OP names without fear of them actually weighing in. Â
Wouldnât happen to be familiar with a class act like that, would you? :) Just curious!
And yeah, I bet you couldnât help yourself.  Itâs, like, so harrrrd to stay out of the tag of your NOTP.  Itâs not like you want to stir up trouble, no siree, not you, not ever.
The thing is that all those ichiruki moments you think Kubo "showed" can be interpreted as a strong platonic friendship . Ichigo's showing his feelings for orihime though ? Can only be interpreted as romantic
[...] Showing scenes of [Ichigo and Rukia] together had no point because the readers knew where they stood , their bond didn't need further developemment . Ichihime did and renruki though and that's why there is more of it in the last arc .
Iâm confused.  If the only way to interpret all of Ichigoâs interactions with Orihime is under a romantic light, then why did IH and RR need further development? Werenât the endgame pairs perfectly clear?
Also, both those points are in my original post.  I do mention the platonic aspect of IchiRuki and I do say that IH and RR needed a lot more development.
It's the peak of mauvaise foi for you to show us yoruichi telling ichigo to say something nice to orihime and not show those like 6 panels of him blushing out of his mind
Mauvaise foi??? Are we talking about the intent to deceive here, or Sartrean existentialism?????? Because either way, how on earth does it apply? Did I maliciously neglect to show some sort of huge moment in IH development? Because let me tell ya, Ichigo blushing at the sight of Rukiaâs ass doesnât really rank high in a list of top IR moments, either. Iâd be surprised if it even makes the top 20.  Itâs little more than icing, because the rest of the cake is already there.
Ichigo blushing at the sight of Orihimeâs outfit isnât exactly the best pro-IH argument, because this isnât the first time heâs blushed at the sight of a pretty girl/woman showing some skin:
If blushing is meant to be interpreted as a surefire sign of actual affection and not the result of being a 17-year-old boy in the presence of sexiness, get ready for IchiRukiRanYoruHime, yâall. And they say Harem Anime is unrealistic.
But you know what?  The Orihime moment is unique in a very obvious way: Ichigo didnât even notice Orihimeâs outfit until Chad brought it to his attention, which is precisely the point.
Youâll notice I didnât use the panel of Ichigo looking at Rukiaâs ass and juxtapose the two in my original post, because that wouldâve been pointless.  There is a reason I chose that panel of Yoruichi and itâs two-fold: 1) the post you read was the third response in a series of asks I got about Ichigo being teased about Orihime, and 2) the Yoruichi incident, just like the Chad incident before it, is an example of âtelling.â
Ichigoâs friends need to constantly draw his attention to Orihime because heâs not doing it on his own.  If he was in love with Orihime, he should have been paying attention to her without anyone having to pester him into it. Up until the final arc, Ichigo is completely oblivious to her and her feelings unless theyâre the only two people in a room or sheâs directly talking to him (the scene where she heals him in SS and tears up comes to mind, or the one directly post the Aizen fight before he collapses). Â
And it shouldnât be this way for a guy whoâs in love with a girl, even if he doesnât yet realize it (since you mentioned âlatentâ feelings). She should be the first person he notices in a group, the person he singles out.  That would be showing.  The only time this ever happens is after they meet up with Ishida and Ichigo notices Orihime crying.  And itâs too little too late by that point for someone who, as you claim, has liked her for a while now.  If you want to argue that Ichigo has only just started falling for Orihime around chapter 661, that I can understand and get behind, even though Iâm not a fan of the ship.Â
I never claimed all those moments you talk about in the Lust arc are meaningless.  I canât speak for the bulk of the fandom, but Iâve always believed Ichigo cares deeply about Orihime.  That much is undeniable.  But the reason I never thought of this affection as romantic is because itâs not followed through in the story until the very end.  Ichigo would die for every single one of his friends; his rushing to HM to save Orihime has no romantic connotations (just like the act of his rushing to SS to save Rukia is not romantic when examined in a vacuum).  But every time Ichigo and Orihime had a moment in the series, it wasnât ever shown to change his feelings.
I mean, hell, when he carries Orihime in the HM arc, her ass is literally next to his face and there isnât a blush in sight.
Have fun trying to picture Ishida in the exact same scenario, guys. Â I know I did
Orihime, who actually, canonically likes Ichigo, is blushing like no-oneâs business, while Ichigo is all:Â âBruh, this is the quickest way.â He just casually picks her up like itâs no big deal, when before he rescued Rukia in SS, the frigginâ dork just stood there with the flames of the SĆkyoku blazing behind him, grinning at her like an idiot and trying to look cool. Which is exactly the kind of crap teenage boys pull to impress the girls they like.
Even after that moment in the Lust arc of Ichigo being brought back by Orihimeâs voice (which I know is very big with IH shippers) nothing changes in the way Ichigo sees her.  When he activates his Fullbring, Rukia is still the person he singles out, even after he literally rose from the dead to save Orihime.
This is what I mean by âShow, donât tell.â In a properly developed romance, the climax of the Ulquiorra fight shouldâve been the start of Ichigo at the very least starting to pay more attention to Orihime.
We get all this panel time of Orihime thinking about Ichigo, talking about her feelings for Ichigo, but nothing on his side.  Heâs the frigginâ protagonist.  He shouldâve spent at least some time thinking about Orihime without anyone having to push him into it.  It wouldnât even have to be explicitly romantic like it was with Orihime, all Kubo needed to do to show his changing feelings was to occasionally show Ichigo thinking about her.  The only time I can ever recall him specifically doing so was to point out that her powers had grown and that was always after either talking to her or watching her in action.
You said it yourself: IH and RR needed more development. Â And thatâs the problem right there. Â Ichigo and Rukia couldâve jumped straight into a romance almost immediately post Yhwach fight and even people who donât like the pairing couldnât have claimed they needed more development. Â Even in the RR novel, Ichigo and Orihime donât get together until 3 years post war. Â
I can picture Ichigo and Orihime growing closer and Ichigo falling in love with her at some point after 684.  What I donât see and never have is evidence of that romance from his side in the manga. The fact that they got married isnât in itself proof of Ichigo having been in love with her from the start, itâs proof that heâs in love with her now and has been since whenever it was they started dating.Â
Kubo did not separate ichigo and rukia in order to push for ichihime . He separated them because from a story telling point of view their relationship reached its narrative end at the end of the fullbring arc .
Oh, that is complete bullcrap and you know it.  Setting aside pairings for a moment, can you honestly tell me that when you thought of the final showdown in Bleach you pictured Ichigo, Aizen and Renji with a dash of last-minute Ishida thrown in?
Iâve seen posts from IH fans rejoicing in âKubo trolling the IR fandomâ and talking about how he deliberately kept Ichigo and Rukia apart, or made certain choices just to spite the fandom.  You canât have it both ways, claiming that Kubo merely followed the narrative one day, then saying he did it on purpose the next one. Itâs one or the other, canât be both.
Kubo himself called Rukia the protagonist of the Shinigami side and she wasnât there for any of the confrontations against Yhwach.  Orihime, at least, fought alongside Ichigo in the first one, but Rukia was completely sidelined.  âFrom a story telling point of view,â she deserved to be there instead of Renji, but since Kubo was pressed for time, he had Renji join Ichigo on his own so they could have a talk on the way there and cement RR.  Renji literally did nothing in the final battle, unlike Aizen and Ishida.  It couldâve been anyone but Ishida in his place and the result wouldâve been exactly the same. There was no reason for him to be there on his own other than to talk about his reconciliation with Rukia.  Which was a lovely moment, but it couldâve happened at literally any other time.  Orihime wouldnât have been left alone, either, if Rukia had joined them: the Fullbringers were all there to stay with her.
Kubo didnât have the time to do a full-on nakama fight, so he gave Orihime her moment earlier on; shat all over Chad; shoehorned Ishida in because this was kinda his arc after all, oopsie; used Renji as canon fodder, and devoted a full chapter on Aizen swinging his dick KyĆka Suigetsu around.  But no Rukia. Â
Because you know, just as well as I do, that if she had been there for the end, fighting alongside Ichigo (since a group fight wasnât feasible), the negative reaction to the ending wouldâve been ten times as bad. Â Â
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my hero academia chapter 125 post
i haven't made a chapter post in a while, but the chapters have been quite good lately. i especially enjoy new characters such as noclip mickey mouse and snake boy who faces the wall. iida tenya has been the ura-star of the last few chapters too, bless him
at the end of the last chapter in particular, there were a FEW things i could comment on, so let's go back in time really quick:
all might's former sidekick, Sir, in his plainclothes outfit, looks like he should be some kind of Best ____ist. either that or the seme of an extremely generic yaoi manga (the kind with yaoi hands)
oh yeah, i remember this recently introduced villain, it's the lead singer of Plague Doctor and the Plague Doctors
tomura's outfit change signifies that he has exited the "also shops at pac sun" phase of hot topic shoppers and graduated to the "probably also shops at online bondage retailers" phase of hot topic shoppers.
and i thought "tomura, why are you smiling, what do you have to smile about after getting your ass kicked so thoroughly last time we saw you?" but i must concede that his smile does look significantly less cocky. as far as i can tell with that hand in the way.
anyway, chapter 125
(beginning of the first page) hmm i see the villains have moved their base out of the most populous city in the entire world. probably a good move
(beginning of the second page) looks like they're sorely missing their old array of barstools, though. also tomura is standing all chill against the wall there as if he's hiding from view that one pair of supernumerary hands that specifically clutches his bosom, like he wants to save that reveal for a dramatic moment later on
actually, ok, i've read the rest of the chapter without comment, and i've also noticed that the two scanlation groups that both work on heroaca (without collaborating, in a way that some might call redundant) have both released their versions on the same day this week...!!! the first version i read was the f*llen angels (which i'll abbreviate as FA) translation, and now i'm reading the mang*stream (which i'll abbreviate as MS) version. because that's what you do when there's two scanlations available. so let's compare~
color page: MS wins. their fonts, and the color effects thereof, are amazing compared to the cheesy comic book font choices made by the other version. both translations are fine, though i guess i'd give FA at least a bonus point for avoiding a line break by using "thrives" instead of "prospers."
first page: MS wins this one too, because FA did the "emphasize certain words with bold or italics" thing (which always messes with my head and is generally unnecessary and annoying) to get the punchline across, but MS totally nailed it with twice's "no worries. the folks inside are especially sick." and although i haven't seen the raws, it seems more likely that plague mask here would be speaking politely (as in the MS tl) than mouthing off (as in the FA tl).
second page: looks like MS got the better scan on this one, at least, but we're gonna have to go by panel here. first panel: i'm not sure which translation is more accurate, so i'm gonna ignore that first sentence in the first speech bubble, but i have to give it to FA for the second sentence. it's just better. second panel: MS wins. third panel: we've got "the so-called yakuza, the young leader of the eight precepts of death" versus "they call him a gangster. the capo of the 'eightfold cleansers.'" now, i'm 98% sure that "eightfold/eight precepts" part is some buddhist phrase, but i gotta say, "eightfold cleansers" works better with plague doctor's apparent fear of contagion. and i'm also 98% sure it literally says "capo" transliterated into katakana, so i'd prefer that version. HOWEVER. i can't give the full victory to FA, because although they say "they call him a gangster" in this panel, they proceed to translate it as "yakuza" for the rest of the chapter. they should've just used "yakuza" to begin with.
third page: MS earns no bonus points for translating the SFX in the first panel, but they win for the translation overall. it's just much better than FA's. however, both versions tanked the last line on the page.Â
fourth page: this one is really a mixed bag. i'd give panels 1, 4, and 5 to MS, but panels 3 and 6 go to FA because the word "kingpin" is quite good.
fuck i'm getting carried away. the fifth page, all i can do is offer an alternate script cobbled together from both, like "and so the question is... who will be the next kingpin?" "You ask that despite claiming to know who my sensei is... Do you mean to provoke me?" "The next kingpin / will be me." and then MS gets the rest of that page.
sixth page: there's a huge discrepancy in tone between the two versions (with MS having both tomura and plague doctor speak more eloquently, while FA gives them the jabbing, mouthy banter of american comic books) and i honestly can't know which is more accurate without reading the raws. but i will say that "pipe dream" is better than "delusion," "glee killer" is better than "hedonistic murderer," and "twice... next time, confirm their intentions before bringing anyone here" is better than "twice... next time you bring someone, make sure you have your head straight first." (that last one especially, i love the slightly exasperated but somehow forgiving tone of that tomura line)
seventh page: again i can't tell whether jaunty or serious is the actual tone of this guy, but forget all that and forget all your troubles as you stare into the gleaming gaze of bright eyes here. dude's inspired. bright eyes it is
eighth page: FA unequivocally wins this one for their translation that just feels way better. although i think MS got it right that the "shy and timid" in the last panel is referring to the girl and not to magne.
ninth page: i think FA did a better job with the first line, but MS did a better job linking the first line to the second line. third line goes to FA, fourth line goes to MS. and for the record, the sound effect for bright eyes interacting with magne's arm is "kari" = "scratch"
tenth page: did magic man change his mask? and it seems himiko is the last one to realize what has happened...
eleventh page: bright eyesâs sound effects as he complains about the filth: drip drip, wipe wipe wipe
twelfth page: both translations are fine. the real question is, is that a projectile in the second panel? oh, did one of bright eyes's allies send that flying in from the shadows to keep compress from compressing him? and then, in the fifth panel, the sound effects "bua" = "freaking out" (approximately) Â and "putsu putsu putsu" = "bubbling up" seem to indicate that bright eyes is breaking out in hives from pure panic.
thirteenth page: there's a pretty big difference between "AAAAHHHHH!?!" and "M-M-MY ARMM!!" does he say "ude ga" or not? anyway i love all the tomuras on this page. sprightly dash
fourteenth page: there's a pretty big difference between "things would have been clearer if you just did that from the start" and "it was fairly simple to foresee you'd do this from the start." my money's on the former tbh. and i'm pretty sure when bright eyes says something like "you were slow" in the penultimate panel, that ought to be translated as "you're late."Â
fifteenth page: MS misused the word "casualty," which does not mean "fatality" but rather refers to deaths OR injuries, such that the villain alliance team actually has one more casualty than team plague doctor. thus, the FA version wins that line for the sake of accuracy in translating it as "we each have one dead." as for the rest of the page... tomura-kun is looking awfully fucking wrinkly as all hell, isn't he. and bright eyes is tossing away his business card in that panel, not opening the door, so MS got that sfx translation wrong.
sixteenth page: thank god we got an unadulterated shot of pure tomura ankle in this chapter. bright eyes is like ":* call me" he can't help going easy on a fellow smizer***
seventeenth page: nap room... all might was the one napping? at first i thought both boys had settled down for a good nap before consulting all might. i like having deku stand next to someone with a properly tied tie so that you're forced to realize that no, it's not some abnormally small tie he's wearing, it's just a normal tie that's been wrapped around one too many times during the tying process.
well this post turned into a bit of a wreck, but it's... something...? i know itâs gonna be near-meaningless to someone who doesnât have both translations in front of them, but so it goes
***smizer, noun, âone who smizes.â for more on smizing, consult tyra banks
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Actually, nah, it is really funny to see "baby Katsuki is so ugly" because THAT BOY BEEN MAKING UGLY ASS FACES.
No, no, don't act brand new because y'all know damn well 80% of the time he straight be making up weird faces. Baby Katsuki, he can't help that. Newborns do look like that.
But teen Katsuki? Oh, no, that boy is a straight up gremlin with some of the faces he be pulling off. Like... come on, now.
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It's funny seeing people call baby Katsuki ugly when babies, newborn, fresh out the womb babies look like that.
Like... what do you expect an newborn to look like??? Have you ever actually seen a newborn?
Joke, I'm joking.
#maybe because i just think babies are cute regardless#and know that babies gain their fat around two months or so#hell i seen my pictures and i was like baby yoichi#tiny and fragile looking#I genuinely do think this is funny#'he's so ugly-#katsuki's been ugly I'm sorry HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THE DAMN FACES HE MAKES?! đ#see all them pretty ass panels the manga has been having with him lately really got to some of y'all haven't they? đ#you folks forgot katsuki's roots#he's been making ugly faces since day one#him as a baby is TAME#just kiya's thoughts#bnha#mha#boku no hero academia#my hero academia#bnha spoilers#bnha manga spoilers#bakugou katsuki#bnha 409
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