All It Takes Is/ It Was Not Just

All it takes is/ It was not just

One Bad Day

Bonus: Spinner’s just another day.

Why couldn’t Bela from Resident Evil Village be Bella? Then there would be the Belladonna ship! That would be the best name ever. I mean Belladonna can literally make you hallucinate, like Donna Beneviento.

Show someone these pictures and ask who the hero and the villain in bnha academia are:

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Dude Tomura Shigaraki is literally the most transparent character in BNHA, like there is not a single moment where what he’s saying is NOT exactly what he means. His situation is also very obvious and clear to the people around him but they literally just do not care. The amount of times that he’s said exactly what his issue with the world is and it being dismissed as mindless violence two seconds later by the other characters is ridiculous (also by people who are reading BNHA but that’s a different story 🙄). He’s not like Dabi who has created an entirely new identity for himself, and wore that for a decade— dissociating and hiding who he is and how he’s really feeling. He isn’t written to be cryptic and hard to figure out. He is one of the most straight forward characters I think I personally have ever read. 

His first introduction into the story was him spelling out his convictions to everyone in the room at UA and to his target (All Might). He can’t articulate it well and ends up not getting his point across to Stain, despite having the same type of issues Stain has with the world. He’s told by Stain that he has no conviction and is just killing pointlessly. THEN he’s told by the main character at their next encounter that his violence is pointless and “just for fun”, despite hearing everything he said at USJ.

All Might finds out he’s Nana’s grandson-starts to piece everything together, then quickly decides it’s not worth his time after Gran Tostito just reiterates the fact that Shigaraki is a criminal.

He spills his guts out in front of the LOV and the doctor, explaining why he’s so sick of everything and just wants to erase it all and start over, and the doctor continues referring to him as the “embodiment of destruction” and saying he “takes after AFO”. Completely disregarding the fact that there is a very deep desire in Shigaraki to see a better world.

Shigaraki is once again spilling his heart out in the middle of a war in front of the heroes who are actively trying to kill him, begging for SOMEONE to listen–and just gets dismissed again when Endeavor–once again–tries to fucking kill him.

Green Tomato KNOWS what happened with Nana, and put the pieces together probably figuring out why he ended up the way he did–and then accuses Shigaraki of trampling over Nana’s memory and hurting All Might just by existing. 

He spills his heart out to anyone in the vicinity, anyone who will listen, and it’s still never mattered.

Like how many times does he have to scream out WHAT he’s angry about straight to their faces? He has never tried to hide how he feels about anything.

Not only is it the heroes’ jobs to royally fuck up, but it’s also their job to just not listen at all and fail at critical thinking altogether. And because of all of this, from a reader’s perspective he’s one of the easiest characters to read and understand.

I think AFO being "the big bad" and Tomura being the end boss isn't mutually exclusive. I think it would be a perfect play together to have both.

AFO as you said goes against everyone's goals that aren't his own and has no interest in them, which makes him so punchable no matter who the reader roots for.

But Tomura stand for all of society’s issues and those are “the biggest bad” in the series because they created most of the villains, so he should be the end boss. Just one that isn’t there only to be an obstacle for the main protagonist and rather the end boss for society as it is and Deku’s job as a true hero would be to make sure that it changes. 

The obstacle in Tomura wouldn’t be to physically fight him, but to connect with him which is way harder than a user of the most powerful quirk in the universe just punching him.

So with the end supposedly approaching (relatively speaking), people have started giving some thought as to who the final threat is really going to be; Tomura Shigaraki or All For One. It’ll definitely be one of them, they’re the strongest and most established villains by a mile; but both have their own reasons for people to think they’ll be the “final boss” of the series. And far be it from me to keep my opinion to myself; I really think it’s going to be Tomura.

I’m not sure if that’s some level of controversial among the fans hoping for Shigaraki’s redemption, as I do believe the alternative’s gotten a lot of traction lately. Because understand that I’m still expecting his redemption too, and don’t expect his hypothetical final boss status to really prevent that. (Practically nothing can, it’s as much a guaranteed outcome at this point as Deku getting his sixth bonus quirk.) Realistically, the only difference would be if he & Deku then team up to fight the evil potato head, or to…just start fixing stuff I guess.

On that note, the eventual redemption is actually one of the reasons I think he’s the better choice. Almost every point of comparison between the two villain I can think of makes Tomura seem like the better choice, actually…with maybe one or two exceptions. So I wanted to go over all those points of comparison & everything they’ve got going for them as endgame villains and why the comperrisons overall seem to favour Tomura as the final boss.

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First of all: thank you.

Second: the translation is so wobbly to make the timeline clear at it. Which might be intentional to keep the mystery up, because what Fuyumi says is:

“It happend right around the time mother was admitted to the hospital.”

“Right around” is probably not the best translation for the japanese version (which I sadly can’t find any raw scans of) because time is expressed so differently from english grammer.

And even in english it could technically refear to a point before the hospitalisation, it’s not not how it would be commonly said in english.

So I’d still go with: the translation is the issue here, but thank you very much for answering.

Quick question, could you reference the "when Toya died" chapter difference? I remember well the recent chapters, when Rei said after Toya's death her mental heath became worse, but I can't remember the first time the timeline of Toya's death was mentioned. Do you have a chapter reference? I always thought it might have been a translational issue because of the fan translation/real translation difference, but I'd like to re-read myself.

If I recall, the first time he was confirmed to be dead as far as anyone knew was 249, when we first saw his shrine. Before that, the fandom was generally assuming he had run away.

We get more details in 250, where it’s mentioned that Natsuo blames Endeavor for Touya’s death & believes he killed him, and that it worsened Rei’s mental state in the hospital.

And then it was of course chapter 290 when we learned he was not dead and instead had become Dabi.