Yeah, I agree. In BNHA’s defense, it is a lighthearted series, but the fact that Endeavor and Bakugou are clearly foils really muddies the slapstick and I do understand why people are triggered by it, though it’s still pretty clear that she isn’t intended to be portrayed as abusive.
I don’t watch bnha but I came across a very interesting article. Thought you might like it if you haven’t seen it already: “How ‘My Hero Academia’ Made Me Reconsider Teenage Mental Health”
Oh thank you! It was super interesting to read. Here is the link! (can someone notice Shouto needs help)
Can we appreciate that Rei’s ice quirk became the dominant gene amongst her children instead of Endeavor’s powerful fire quirk? Except for Touya, who has been confirmed that he had a fire quirk, Shoto and I can imagine that Fuyumi and Natsuo have an ice quirk.
Even your genes are weak, Endeavor.
hey hamliet, do you know why people call mistuki backugou abusive? did something happen in the manga??
*sobs*
Nothing that didn’t happen in the anime.
It’s really the same reason some people call a character like Kirishima Touka abusive in Tokyo Ghoul: which is to say, it is a trope within media that is prevalent in Japanese media where a woman knocks around a guy. It is slapstick comedy, not intended to be viewed as abusive. But, if you read it sans context, and cultural context also plays a role in this, you can come away with ab abusive message even though that is almost certainly not what the author is intending to portray.
It can certainly be questioned whether or not this scene is framed appropriately given the subject of abuse in Todoroki’s arc and the fact that Bakugou is a bully. I don’t particularly like this trope at all and think that in this case it is indeed poorly framed given Bakugou’s personality and his own flaws (it’s intended to show Bakugou takes after his mother in terms of being willful and argumentative, but she displays humility Bakugou does not), plus the fact that he’d just been kidnapped. But given how the story has developed, I really think Mitsuki is not intended to be portrayed as abusive, though if it is personally triggering for people–and seeing a parent hit a child can be–I understand and think that people should be sensitive to it.
you said If a child were to die/be otherwise very injured, that’s pretty traumatic for a parent I thought about izukus mother being really worried when izuku was injured and refuseing izuku to go to ua because of thoese injures and whould the same be said with rei
Yeah. 😦 I do love that many of the parents in BNHA seem to be good parents even if we don’t see a lot of them (except Endeavor, but he’s noted to be an anomaly within universe).
Have you read Blue exorcist? I think you would love joke character turned conflicted Byronic hero-antagonist trope of Renzo. It also has spies falling in love with their mark, all good things, check it out I think you would love it.
ooh I haven’t! BUT that does sound right up my alley! I’m gonna check it out!
you said that touya played a role in reis breakdown what do you mean? come to think of it when endevoir thought to him when he said “life i cut short” with reis face do you really think thay meant something that the todorokis didn’t talk about
If a child were to die/be otherwise very injured, that’s pretty traumatic for a parent, so I was wondering if that might have played a role in Rei’s deteriorating mental state. Then again it is equally possible that Rei’s breakdown might have triggered Touya to try Endeavor’s technique that likely injured/potentially almost killed him, so it could have gone either way.
As for whether or not they talk about it, Natsuo is the only one present-day who mentions Touya and trails off both times, and Endeavor remembers him without a face (wonder if his face is no longer recognizable…) But it’s possible they discuss him but have not on panel yet.
speaking of borhter remeber ida and todoroki and how there brothers are mentioned? like with dabi and shoto and tensei and tenya i felt there was something about it that was going to be mentioned
Yep, I agree! @linkspooky wrote a great meta about their foiling in the latest chapter here.
why isn’t touya mentioned until later in the todoroki household could soemthing happen to him that made them scard to talk about?
Honestly, I think the likely answer is that they think he’s dead or institutionalized with burns, but I also feel like this wasn’t properly foreshadowed in the story. The incident devastating their family was portrayed to be Rei dumping scalding water on Shouto’s face. While I’m presuming whatever happened to Touya played a role in Rei breaking, it really should have been foreshadowed a bit earlier imo. But in all fairness, the loss of a child and the loss of a sibling can be so traumatic many grieving people might indeed prefer never to talk about it, so it’s not unrealistic.
hamliet please help I am really confused about the fourth prince’s power. Like wasn’t it supposed to punish those who lie to him? How did it become somekind of foresight/rewind ability?
first was a stratch then half of her face became wrecked and then it returned to just a stratch again. Theta’s face became like that coz she lied right and tuen itu returned to normal coz Tserriednich had a change of heart about women who lie
So those are two different abilities! The face punishment ability is his nen beast’s ability, not Tserriednich’s.
Tserriednich’s hatsu is to see into the future.
I also don’t think Tserriednich changed his mind about Theta exactly, not at all, despite his cheeky words. He reminds me of Chrollo and Hisoka in some ways (only way worse than either of them) in that he seems to enjoy seeing what people will do. It’s a way of objectifying them and of viewing himself separate and above them. If anything he just changed his mind over how much fun she’ll be imo.
Tserriednich’s tendency to see himself as above people and as others as objects to serve him has kind of been his calling card since his introduction. And he reinforces that here:
This actually is terrifying for Theta given the nen beast’s supposed power:
A fate worse than death has been promised to her, Tserriednich objectifies people and collects body parts like the scarlet eyes, I’m pretty sure we can figure out what this fate is and it’s terrifying.
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