with every episode of banana fish Goldzine reminds me more and more of those toxic parents that project themselves onto their children (kind of like nagisa’s mom from assasination classroom) and want them either to become a “perfect” version of themselves or a continuation, i honestly disagree when other’s said that dino doesn’t love ash, he does but in a very twisted, obsessive, possessive and deranged way, he sees the pontential in him and thinks on how it can benfit him, he’s selfish af

I’m gonna address this in two parts: Golzine as a character and Golzine’s “love” for Ash. Golzine is a fantastic villain. I hate him. I despise him and want him to go down, and I want him to suffer. But, he’s extremely well-written and is I think a great example of how to write a villain who is a complex character without being remotely sympathetic or morally gray. I think that trying to make him sympathetic would have been a horrific misstep; for him to work, he needs to be hated and despicable. His symbolism and role in the story is excellently done, and he needs to be monstrous for it to work. Not to spoil, but a character who is about to be introduced (whom many manga readers commonly comment is useless, imo is entirely not useless, because he represents an important part of Golzine). 

As for love… I think you summarize Golzine’s feelings towards Ash perfectly, but I would not use that word “love" because it can be triggering for people to associate something that should be associated with safety and respect with something so obviously opposite that. Golzine’s feelings for Ash are entirely twisted, obsessive, and possessive like you say. It’s comforting to say that that is not love, and I would be inclined not use that word because it’s clear Ash doesn’t consider it love, and I don’t think the narrative does in any sense either. Dino doesn’t see Ash as a person. He sees him as a thing, and therefore can only have the feeling one has for a trophy, not for an actual human being, because to love a human being (as we see in Ash and Eiji’s love for each other, and at the very end with with two others) means to see their flaws and their strengths, means to not try to control them. That’s pure, beautiful love. Love frees. It does not enslave. 

That being said, as an abuse victim who, having been through years of therapy and not around them for years now, does think my abuser loved me, to whatever extent they could (but it doesn’t excuse anything they did to me, and I recognize they will never, ever love me the way they should have loved me), I also recognize that it’s a very complex topic. Suffice to say, people should be extremely sensitive and let victims define their relationship with their abusers. Love or twisted love, not love, it’s up to a survivor to narrate their story. Love does not have one precise “this is love” definition. Many people prefer to keep that word sacred and safe, and that’s okay. But you’re not wrong in your interpretation either. 

Maybe it’s love. But it’s something that hurts, which means many will not want to call it love, and it certainly isn’t what anyone aspires to in love. If that makes sense! 

So I was thinking about Zeke recently, and how malicious he seems to be. He seemingly had no problem killing the Survey Corp and enjoyed it and backstabbed his former comrades. He really only seems to care about Eren, but then I question why he wanted Pieck and Porco out of the picture in Marley. Wouldn’t it have been the perfect opportunity to remove two Titan shifters entirely instead of just locking them away. Do you think Zeke actually cares about his former comrades?

Good question! I quite like Zeke as a character so I would be interested in seeing this explored but I’m not sure. It’s possible, but there are other factors at play as well: namely, if they had died without being eaten by another shifter they would be reborn in some innocent child. Maybe Zeke doesn’t like seeing innocent kids born w only thirteen years to live (I think he genuinely does understand the horror of this because of what his parents did to him, and so is in complete despair and wants to destroy everyone to destroy this), but also it’d be hard to track them down then. I think he just didn’t want Eren to have to fight too many people at once. My personal opinion is that Zeke has cut himself off from feeling for people in general, but he isn’t incapable of it. He just chooses not to.

Hi, I read quite a few theories of mikasa’s headaches being linked to paths / loop so, my question is do you think mikasa could maybe be the one who sent eren a warning of future events and could that be the reason for “see you later eren.” I’m so sorry if I’m not making any sense but hopefully you understand what I’m trying to ask. I’m struggling to put my thoughts into words.

I understand! I don’t really–I think her headaches are linked to trauma and the idea of losing her family/the fear thereof. We never know though! 

I also don’t really put as much stock in the paths theory as it seems a lot of people do. It’s not an aspect of the story I enjoy, so I don’t think very much on it, I’m sorry! Perhaps another person would be better to ask? 

What kind of role do you think the Warriors in AoT will play now? Pieck, Porco and somewhat Colt (if you want to count him) haven’t received much attention and Isayama specifically decided to keep Pieck and Porco around instead of having them both die in the battle.

I think Porco and Reiner have the most roles to play going forward. Porco has Ymir’s memories which would have a huge effect on Historia (I can’t link to it because Tumblr is being dumb but I wrote a meta on this once the news of the pregnancy broke), and Reiner should haver role in helping Gabi and Falco. As for specifics I don’t really know, but I do think Pieck and possibly Colt too will die. 

Hello! This has been bothering me for a while, do you think Historia will give birth soon or will Isayama drag it out till the end of the manga? She looked to be about 7-8 months pregnant in chapter 107 so she should be delivering soon or maybe she’s already given birth. We haven’t seen her since chapter 107 so I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s holding a baby the net time we see her.

Oh, end of the manga, definitely. I mean, you never know, but I really don’t think the child will be born before the conflict is over–it’s symbolic (new life arising after a conflict ends). I also don’t think that much time has passed in canon since we saw her last–Nicolo started giving the wine the very next chapter, so it’s honestly probably only been a few days. 

I wouldn’t put too much stock into the size of her belly. Isayama’s art has noted weaknesses, and even if it was always accurate, it’s simply not a science. XD 

For her character arc as well, I think it makes more sense for Historia (who is currently paralleling her mother in terms of not wanting the child, judging by her evident misery) to get some development before the child is born to break away from this parallel, so that she can truly love her child (and I do believe she will!) 

Dabi is the only one I’m looking forward to this volume not endeavor the cover made me upset seeing him what I really want to see is dabi just dabi

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I do like the symbolism of the cover, even if Endeavor is triggering. Hawks and Endeavor share wings, like how Hawks helped Endeavor out. Endeavor’s left eye is covered by flames, symbolizing his scar but also how his focus on his quirk and pushing himself and pushing his quirk in his children has left him half blind. Hawks has his back turned, and in front of Hawks are blue-ish flames and darkness, which seems to be again symbolic of the panel in which Hawks walked towards the darkness, perhaps foreshadowing a future fall to villainy and of course, representing the deal we know he’s struck with Dabi. 

For Dabi it’s hard to say since we’ve only seen a fragment of it, but. His eye color and Endeavor’s are both prominent, even though Endeavor’s is like tiny. I can still clearly make out that it’s the same color.

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i just don’t get why people hate the current arc sure slow due the page numbers but i got some really good info about toya todoroki i feel like were getting closer to knowing what happened to toya todoroki also we might know more about the all for one quirk in izukus battle also arent you excited about katsuki i just really hope he relies on his team in order to win

unsightedjoker:

hamliet:

Hate is a strong word, but I will admit this is by far my least favorite arc, mostly because it does seem to be filler. But yes, I’m hopeful for Bakugou’s fight, and for Shinsou + the vestiges later on, and I am glad we learned a bit more about Touya! 

The reason why people “hate” this arc is because of the pacing, mainly because a good part of the audience is not used to it being this slow (with the exception of the yakuza arc). All the arcs in BNHA have been short or at least in my perspective they were short and fast, although that just may be my perspective. The same opinion appeared on the Yakuza arc as there were people who commented that it was getting “too long” or that it was “too slow”, even when the Yakuza arc is one of the best ones in the series by far in my opinion.

While the pacing is what people most complain about I believe that the problem is not the pacing itself but what this arc it’s bringing to the story. As @hamliet said it certainly feels a lot like filler because what it brings is almost nothing relevant to the story besides the vestiges, Shinsou joining the hero course and some development for Todoroki, also some “subtle hints” about what happened to Touya.

From Horikoshi’s perspective this arc is more about showing the progress of both class A and class B than working on the story which from a certain perspective is good but you can almost take away 90% of this arc and the story would continue like normal.

So more than anything this arc is to enjoy your fave characters form Class A and B in combat since Horikoshi can’t include the entire cast of both classes in the arcs.

Yeah, I couldn’t agree more. I very much like the Touya hints, the Shinsou development, and hopefully I am anticipating vestiges, but honestly the characters aren’t developing. We learned nothing new about Momo or Todoroki or Denki or Asui or honestly even Shinsou so far. I hope this changes with Bakugou but yeah. It’s a fun fanservice arc, but it’s just not plot, theme, or character development relevant so far, and especially coming after the highly long-running plot/theme/character development focused Pro-Hero Arc, it just feels meh. That being said, this sounds harsher than I actually feel.