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This is a perfect example of framing done right in writing.
We are first shown that Shoto got abused, but not enough to see the full picture. For all we know at the beginning Endevour seemed to just have trained with Shoto too much, but because Shoto does want to become a hero it doesn’t show as horrible as the actuality of it is.
Then we see him noticing his bad behaviour and wanting to better himself. We see through Natsuo that there is more to it, than just overtraining Shoto, but again we don’t get a clear picture of what that means.
We see him after that in a light of a man who is trying to better himself and does want to be worthy of the title of Hero No. 1. And then we get the real hit of the Toya backstory. Dabi was heavily forshaddowed to be Toya and so was Endevour being more abusive than we already knew.
But we couldn’t fanthom how bad it would be, because we saw his victims starting to cope with it in a going forward and forgiving manner, especially Fuyumi. And since Shoto so far doesn’t even notice himself that he is a victim of abuse we didn’t see how bad Endevour really was.
And then we get this.
If we got this at the beginning we would have just straight up hated Endevour with no nuiance whatsoever, he wouldn’t be seen as a layered character and just as a horrible abuser (which he was to all of his family) and the focus would just be on this one family, instead of the overall picture that the No. 2 Hero can just get away with this.
Because of this excellent done framing we get to see that bigger picture while simultaniously getting important backstory for multiple characters and seeing Endevour just as what he is: an abuser who still hasn’t learned that he can’t seem to grasp that not everything is about him.
Watch me! They have been watching for years and it was a very different picture than what the public and the readers saw and now we finally get the full story.
bnha manga: *tries to make us feel sympathy for enji*
also bnha manga:
