So I Made This Into A Whole Analysis That Also Gets Into The Paralell With Hawks, Thanks For The Inspiration!

So I made this into a whole analysis that also gets into the paralell with Hawks, thanks for the inspiration! And while it doesn’t go so much into quirk discrimination, it’s a bit more detailed about Tokoyami’s name and inspiration. Link is tagged if that’s something that interests you =)

I wanted to answer to your addition to my post, but for some reason, it's not working (tumblr is acting up again and a ton of things aren't working, not just with different blogs, it's a mess, so I don't know if it's because of your privacy settings [that would be fine]or because of tumblr [that would not be fine]). So here's a bit about Tokoyami: From what I know crows and ravens have a very positive background in japanese mythology. The so called Yatagarasu (eight-span-crow) s a very positive mythological creature and crows are quiet positivly regarded because they kill rodents. They are seen as cleaners after death, a sign of rebirth and heavenly.

Which is in stark contrast to a lot of western versions where crows are seen rather as a sign of death itself and not what comes after.

Considering bnha plays in Japan Tokoyami would be regarded more positivly in contrast to a western view.

And if you look at general background of the name Tokoyami, the similiarity between Marvel/DC comic characters that HK loves to draw inspiration from, you can see DarkShaddow in a non-satanic light. Venom and Raven are heroic characters with similar problems to Tokoyami and if you look into japanese Folklore and the Enerna and Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto, it seem more like a general "night Crow" interpretation.

All in all Tokoyami seems a lot more threatening by a western view than a japanese view.

I still think that Tokoyami suffered from some quirk discrimination while growing up, but because crows have a positive meaning in Japan it would be a lot less than Shoji, Gang Orca or Spinner.

@sethmacenzie Thanks a lot for your reply, that's really interesting to know. Japanese culture is really interesting and complex, it's good to know corvids in general are so positively viewed there (I like these birds a lot too). I do admit that, as a westerner, that's also how I was judging his character, where corvids are popular, but have more negative connotations. It's also true, that it looks like Horikoshi took inspiration from both Raven's and Venom's characters to create Tokoyami (we're not entirely sure of that, but it's a possibility), because their powers are kinda similar (Idk much about Raven, but some people keep comparing Tokoyami, or rather, his quirk Dark Shadow, to her powers, so I guess it must be true). As you said, it's more than probable, that Horikoshi didn't have any real villainous or negative ideas in mind for Tokoyami's character, during his conception, he just wanted a cool, edgy and powerful character, with a bird head, and that's what he did (and again, Tokos head isn't even a corvid, in one of the light novels it's described as a mynah bird). But something I'm still sure of, and it's a headcanon that no one can change my mind about, is that Tokoyami did definitely face some discrimination as a child. Not as much as Shouji and Gang Orca (because it's been canonically confirmed that these 2 were and probably still are, bullied), but Tokoyami must have gone through it too. He looks different his quirk is highly unstable, and reliant on his emotions, which just makes it even more dangerous. I realize, I made a mistake by describing it as "Satanic", because that's definitely not what Hori had in mind while creating him. Thanks for all the cool info anyways, that was really nice to know!

I have the urge to punch a few adults

(and hug all the kids).

bnha chapter 338 - a summary

I thought this was supposed to be the incorrect bnha villains

Toga: Apparently your social filter is controlled by your frontal lobe and that deteriorates as you get older.

Toga, looking at Dabi: You’re going to be a NIGHTMARE

Slight addition: spousal abuse is illegal in Japan.

I made a whole long af post about what the current (stand April 2021, in contrast to the article from 2019) legal system is based on Japan. (It was an answer to a post, but the links are in there.)

But as stated it absolulty is true, that it doesn’t work. Japan has an insanely high amount of abuse within families that the gouvernment has finally  acknowledged, but so far failed to actually make a system that effectivly protects the victims.

Basically the gouvernment said: yes there is abuse, “yes we now have laws against it” but they never got around to change anything that would actually help the victims.

So spousal abuse and child abuse are illegal, but the Japanese legal system is terrible and people don’t get convicte unless they confess and the police activly psychologically torture people to get confessions, something that would never happen to Enji.

i aint been reading bnha or vigs for the last like ten months what did naomasa do?

muzzle a crying child and say that the child's "crimes" (you know, of being coerced and threatened into complying into being a spy by AFO) constitutes villainy.

with vigs he outright told his own sister to shut up because he was going to call heroes in to deal with PopStep, who had been posessed, as villain, which means siccing Endeavor on a fucking minor. By the way, Enji, of course, lost such control of himself that arc that he technically burnt a bystander alive.

Feels like a good time to reblog this from nearly 2 years ago.

BNHA 266

Well spoilers duh!

Here is a theory:

with Toga being able to replicate Quirks now alswell and Twice dying a very heroic and happy (for him at least) death, I would love to see a version of sad mans parade by Toga: Happy Girls Parade.

Because Jin would want her happy!

Where she uses her Qurik to become him and then uses his Quirk endlessly.

I think that would a) be awesome to see b) be a very fitting character progeression for Toga c) be extremly dangerous, because the villains are gonna be numberd down after this by a lot and I don’t think that the story just ends there, with all the side plots still going on d) be something Jin would have loved. Also this was an absolut heroic death for a character who is a villain. He was selfless, standing up for his friends, kept going until he couldn’t anymore and well it makes sense Jin isn’t a villain in the sense that he wants to do evil things, he just wants to make it right for his friends (who happen to be villains).

I hate to see him die but I loved the way he died. (Still in denial and hoping that he might have survived somehow.)

@owlsinathens Greyjoy family crib!

Hand-Carved Tentacle Crib by Artist Garrick Andrus