Which is your favourite book series?

My favorite manga, novel, or book series specifically? 

Manga: HxH and Monster by Urasawa.

Novel: Dostoyevsky’s Demons and/or Crime and Punishment

Series specifically: honorary shout out to Mistborn, but Harry Potter is my favorite series. It’s such a magical series for me. I was banned from reading it as a child because fundamentalist religion, but read it right after finishing college (in the month before I moved to India where I worked at a boarding school, so the context was super appropriate lol). Since then I’ve reread the entire series every December, because I associate it with Christmas as a result. I love it and it met me at a point in my life where I really needed a series with its themes. I even love Cursed Child (which came out a couple years later) though I know it’s not like, flawless. The movies are okay, but I love the books so much. They’re not perfect and there are issues specifically with representation, but I still love them so much and they are perfect for me. 

I have a major pet peeve: I can’t stand characters who put their hands in their pockets and pretend to be cool or intimidating, it absolutely ruins moments for me. HxH is one of those anime, from the Shadow Beasts to Killua, hands in pockets are everywhere. Gon and Morel’s standoff was so good, so cathartic, and then Killua enters the scene with his hand in his pocket and, just, I literally told my screen to fuck off.

🤣 🤣🤣 we all have our pet peeves! I have heard it harkens back to days when ppl could be keeping knives or guns hidden in their pockets but idk!

what if dabi is hit by eris quirk so he is turned into a kid again with no memories so he has a chance to grow up the right way and endeavor actually be a parent to dabi who had been the one to grow up to hate him the most. and this is the only way I think dabi can avoid prison

Hm. I see where you’re coming from, but I don’t personally like the idea. I think it’d be better to learn to cope with endeavor as an adult for Touya if he’s Dabi, and I think avoiding prison is not something we have to worry about. Prison doesn’t really work in fiction because it stagnates characters growth just as much as death does: that’s why it’s often the end for villains who survive. If Dabi earns a redemption and lives through it (and he should as it currently stands), prison just doesn’t work from a narrative standpoint. Real world doesn’t apply to a series about people who seek to do better than they did in the past as I think That’s bnha’s main theme.

I started rewatching Hunter x Hunter and it amazes me. Because I every time I rewatch it I think to myself “I came here for a combat shounen not to get heartbroken and ask myself what’s right and wrong or if those things(concept of good and bad) are even real or can be measured”. And I don’t regret it really but it just amazes me how HxH being a shounen now seems more of a seinen.

Hahaha! It’s a really good story, isn’t it? It’s literary in many ways and makes you think about shonen, the characters, and yourself in new ways.

Could you explain the ending of Assasination Classroom? Why did Koro-sensei have to die and why were, in previous chapters, Karma and some others so insistent on killing him? It was kind of explained directly but I still couldn’t get it fully.

Sure! TBH, I’ll admit that I wasn’t the hugest fan of the ending–I think it fits thematically but I wanted him to live, but he didn’t and it wasn’t poorly written. I was just sad. Lol.

Korosensei had to die because the world refused to allow him to live. The entire last arc was people trying to make it so that he could live, but the world refused to let him. It was wrong, and i do think the narrative was clear that it should not have to happen, but people had hardened their hearts. Korosensei’s dilemma was kind of a metaphor for how the students were treated the entire story. They were kids, they fact that they acted out didn’t doom them but society was writing them off anyways, relegating them to legitimately a separate classroom in the woods. Korosensei had a very very very small chance of destroying the world–it was incredibly unlikely, but fear of what might happen drove the people outside to want him dead. Of course it’s understandable since the risk, while small, was really consequential should it happen. 

But the message is that society essentially writes people off before they should be. Yet at the same time, Korosensei’s last year was spent dismantling that, and his whole existence was a dismantling of that. He lived as if people had worth no matter what they had to offer the world, and that their usefulness did not determine their worth. So in the end, even though Korosensei had to die, when we see Nagisa growing up to be a teacher himself and presumably carrying on Korosensei’s legacy, we know that Korosensei’s death did not continue the system that killed him but in fact helped give the kids the beliefs and strengths they would need to slowly change things. Because all it takes is one person to convince someone they matter just because they exist, and that belief–that’s enough to change a life. 

Nen and Characters: Kachou and Fugetsu

aspoonofsugar:

This analysys will be different from the usual ones because Kachou and Fugetsu’s story isn’t over yet and so I can’t draw a definitive conclusion on them and on what they are supposed to represent within the narrative.

So, this meta will contain several speculations and thoughts in reguards to these two characters.

First of all let’s consider this:

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Both Kachou and Fugetsu’s abilities are mutual cooperation type powers and they both need the other twin in order to be activated.

The fact that Kachou and Fugetsu complement each other has been hinted through their names since Kachofugetsu is a Japanese saying which means “beauties of nature”. So the words kachou and fugetsu are meant to come together to form one single concept.

This obviously symbolizes the strong bond the two sisters have, but I think this bond might be a double edged sword.

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Manga rec. Have you read Pandora Hearts? There are murder children, both grown and actual child. There is some cool other dimensions/planes of existence stuff. Kind of has that Twisted Fairytale, Goth-y aesthetic. Also a female antagonist who gets actual character development. There’s a reason Charlotte ends up being one of my favorite characters. Also it’s completed, so no worrying about waiting for updates. BUT. On the downside, it’s fairly long, which is kind of daunting to start reading.

I have not but so many of my friends have it as a favorite manga that I really want to try it!! Everyone I know has high praise for it