"Fall in line with society or your children may get targeted next"
Truly a touching message
Hori's themes have always fell flat for me from the start of the series because they have no real conviction or message behind them. They are just window dressing to make the series seem deeper and darker than just kids with superpowers. Whereas the series imo was best when it just focused on superheros and supervillains. But I guess a simple series would not have sold nearly as well
That's not the cover page I expected for endgame boss battle.
Maybe Deoxyshiggy will shift to speed form now after that shin shoryuken
This was probably the least inspired chapter of mha. Anime filler padding for time type writing. Also terrible costume/design this chapter, which may seem nitpicky but really took away from the emotion it was meant to convey
STOP STOP STOP
This has become exhausting
Please just stop it people.
If you like the original comic
Please just keep reading it.
Accept the redrawn version is different.
If you can't then please just stop reading it.
It's fucking pathetic how in every page of this thread. Someone has to whine about how different this is
Just STOP!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry I meant it as a response to TLCs question and the general conversation that started from that. I should've quoted him, sorry.
The comparison to webcomic comes naturally because despite being different they are similar and tell the underlying same story. The comparisons only came in for this arc not only because there are more changes but because the changed version is (subjectively) worse. I think even without any webcomic, people would call out Super Saiyan Centipede and Evil Ocean Water. Or Metal Bat cameo. Or Orochi v5 now with extra psykos.
Garou in this version has completely been stripped off motivation or danger in favour of God. Garou reached the climax of his character arc without much external interactions to drive him to change or the same lows (psychologically) in this version
It was AFO all along. Even when you thought it wasn't, it was actually AFO. AFO and doctor is always there, watching and waiting for any major disaster to happen. Or if AFO is in a good mood, he decides to fuck with random people too. No one ever did anything bad or has any legitimate reason to actually ever do anything bad, it's just AFO's negative influence on them. AFO probably stole Izuku's quirk too that bastard! And I bet it's AFO's fault that Izukus father is never at home.
No but seriously, from the way his skin is disintegrating, I get the feeling it really was AFO/doctor. Hope not though
Tbh this could have been handled way worse from last chapter, although there's plenty of room for that still depending on the further clarifications on Nika and his newfound powers.
There's no way Nika was planned before Wano, probably not even before Who's Who. There were many places he could have tried to foreshadow this otherwise - Fishman Island with Fisher Tiger who's symbol is a sun, Hancock, Doflamingo fight/Katakuri fight where awakening of re-hinted as the next powerup for luffy. Even the many flashbacks about Joyboy/laugh tale, or when the gorosei are explicitly talking about luffy. Or even from Blackbeard who has an usual level of knowledge about legends.
Also yes Luffy was shown to be sort of "destined" but there was always a level of seperation from literal destiny, although the destiny beats did get strengthened over time. Luffy was chosen in the sense that no one else had the same way of seeing the world, sense of determination and incredible luck. This is another massive leap and also diminishing the value of his effort.
I'm thinking that the idea was to somehow tie awakening into luffy beating Kaido (would make sense since breadcrumbs for this was dropped since Punk Hazard and impel down) but Oda couldn't find an interesting or satisfying way to tie that to luffy's current fruit and the situation. Luffy with the ability to make things vaguely have the properties of rubber (inflatable, stretchy, bouncy) is more interesting to play with than luffy having the ability to turn things literally into rubber. Also gives him a massive powerup physically for good measure.
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