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| Wow Now Meta Liberation Army has joined League of Villain and become "The Paranormal Liberation Front". This is a huge problem for Heroes of course. Idk how Deku and the rest of Yuei gonna be ready for what's coming. At least Bones did a good job on MVA for me Anime only. |
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| what a great arc! Before this Shgaraki was just another placeholder, a wall for the heroes to get over. I like how they fleshed him out. |
I think I don't know wtf I'm doing. Maybe. Probably. |
| the music at the last was sick af ngl, it gave me goosebumps |
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shane_nichols said: Well that was underwhelming. Honestly Shigaraki is just boring and I dont really care about any of the other villains. 4/10 Too bad they wasted so much time on him, everything could have been done in like 2 episodes, but sadly not. It just shows how badly written he is "i got ignored when I needed help so now I'm going to hurt innocent people", very good, very good. |
| Good episode. Finally this show has a good villain. Now we just need a good protagonist. |
| I guess we already know Re-Destro wouldn't stand a chance defeating Tomura since he looked weaker against him. It was a tough fight! Re-Destro looks very energetic despite being handicapped, which is a good sign X) At least that! Next week is the last episode, but I'm happy to know we will see Class 1-A before the closing this season TTwTT It's been a while! |
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| I like where the series is at a lot more now than before this arc. The League (now Paranormal Liberation Front) actually seems like a threat instead of a nuisense that always got away somehow. It never made a lot of sense for the 2 sides to be fighting each other anyway. |
What are you talking about, mate? >_> We haven't seen Deku in a while. |
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| I'm just wondering: I count 6 pairs of hands initially (his sister, dad, mom, 2 grandparents). I assume the other pairs are from those 2 thugs he killed? But he destroyed one while grabbing for it.. Anyone can clear this up? |
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| ok @MrBrawlz iss finally geddin betta 🙏🏻🙏🏻 |
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| this is why mha is good, it doesn't focus only on main casts but also on the villians too which builds the character's we know much better, also this was blessed episode, reason why |
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He is a complex character beacuse there are 2 sides to his inherit nature. His grandmas side that makes him want to help people and be a hero and his quirk side that urges him to destroy. Those 2 sides were at constant odds with each other and Shiggy had a hard time understanding what he actually feels and wants. This paired with his dads emotional abuse (it was more then just slapping, he was being punished for doing nothing wrong and kids understand when they are not in the wrong). Also when you are 5 years old you dont think about the consequences as your brain isnt developed yet, you only react to your surraunding and execute any idea you get without thinking ahead. So after his good side wasnt able to hold back his desteuctive urges and all went to shit, no one was there to guide him...other then AFO. Now AFO installed his ideology inside a 5 year olds brain and in case you didnt know kids at that age are easily influenced by the nature and ideas of their guardians. AFOs philosophy is that the point of living is fullfilling your own happiness and desires, which even tho twisted in Shiggys case is the correct mindset. However AFO made sure to kill the grandmas side of Shiggy which was preasent when Shiggy didnt want to kill his attackers at first. |
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did ya completely miss the part where Shuggy was throwing up, scarring his face with his own fingernails and suffucating with guilt ? It was AFO that taught Shiggy to only care about his quirk side which came to fruition this episode. Til now Shiggy was feeling guilt and supressing his quirk. |
DKDiabloLicht said: Pazuzu95 said: did ya completely miss the part where Shuggy was throwing up, scarring his face with his own fingernails and suffucating with guilt ? It was AFO that taught Shiggy to only care about his quirk side which came to fruition this episode. Til now Shiggy was feeling guilt and supressing his quirk. I saw that but I thought that was a powers thing, he also said he felt good about it and was glad he killed him. Yes he felt good when he killed his dad, but he still felt guilt after it. Its like feeling guilty after jerking off. What AFO did is teach Shiggy to not feel guilt over listening to his destructive urges. Whats tragic is that Shuggy did also have the urge to help people, him playing with lonely kids was amazing for a kid his age. Even now he stated that he would not destroy the things that his league members like which the Doctor answered that he is being too soft. Even now there is still some good thats only reserved for his friends, but AFO made sure to kill most of the good inside him. |
| In a vacuum, this was a good episode. But when taking into account the arc as a whole... what a disappointment. I feel bad for the staff, because they did put a lot of effort into this, but whatever suit is responsible for this season needs to be fired. This mess of an adaptation just makes me depressed. With MVA pretty much done, all I can say is: Yeah, just read the manga. What a letdown. |
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| What AFO did to Shigaraki was plain cruel but I think this ep highlighted that there was always something twisted about him - AFO just took it and molded into an evil that he could control. I feel like Shigaraki is like a version of Deku if he hadn't got help & support from the right place. It's not always obvious but the two are actually a lot alike. There were some cuts from this arc that definitely left it feeling a little lacking but tbh I actually thought My Villain Academia Arc was awesome. I did a damn good job with the Twice & Shigaraki development but wasn't great for Toga. |
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Plstce said: queenhinata said: Good fight. The inpactful part of the episode for me is how no one helped Shiggy when he was a child, alone walking the streets. The bystander effect. Imagine how things could've turned out if someone NOT all for one raised him. Sorry for the bother but do you know the artist of that keaya picture in the post😳its beautiful the artist is shei on pixiv |
| The paranormal liberation front it’s a good name to adapt since Shigaraki controls the whole liberation army and the new osts were also good |
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| Quirk awakening, an army, followers, money, fucking Machia AND the new Nomus? Damn, what a way to hit the jackpot, huh? Entertaining arc overall. Not as impressive as many manga readers were claiming it to be but hey, it was refreshing to see more of the villain side. Now this said, Shigaraki still looks like a clown to me but hopefully, the fact of him becoming a full lunatic will also give him some brains. As contradictory as that may sound. |
| Besides episode 23 definitely the best episode in this season. We got even more background of Shigaraki and what happened after what he did to his family. AFO really created a monster. Who knows what had happened if a hero found Shigaraki. Maybe the situation would be different, but that's just speculation. The awakening moment was pretty nice. Shigaraki went bat shit crazy against Re-Destro who just lost both his foots in all of that. But now we got the needed explanation why the liberation army works together why the villains. And with that Shigaraki has every needed resource. Gigantomachia accepted him as the successor, he got money, a giant army and the most important part, the doctor will grant him even more power. I might repeat myself but if nothing "BIG" happened for the heroes they're fucked. It's looking bad. Not sure about the name "The Paranormal Liberation Front" but like the doctor said at least it sounds better than "League of villains". Btw Toga with eye patch looks pretty sexy. Only 1 remaining episode. Can't wait to see the reaction of our heroes if they hear about the current situation and what else will happen. |
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| All for One is already intimidating enough, but imagine if they showed his eyes... I probably wouldn't be able to sleep |
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| Wow re-destro was a total joke in the end. |
| "The future is always blank. Only your willpower can leave footsteps there." "Ruling over death means ruling over life. Death is the climax of life. To have the best death, you must honor life." |
| The Paranormal Liberation Front... Things took an unexpected turn... |
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| these 2 episodes showed a lot about tomura and i had a ton of fun watching it but.............. the moment Toga wakes up, she just steals the show in 5 seconds LOL not to mention, that pose at 23.50 was kinda sexy ;O |
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| Ah yes the Kaneki Marie Antoinette syndrome transformation. |
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| "I feel like I'll be forgiven no matter what I do" PLEASE DON'T DO THIS Horikoshi... |
| errrr...okayish episode i think? many saying that this is becoming garbage... i don't think so...maybe we need to enter a different arc... 3/5. |
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| This is the summit of evolution for the new king of utter destruction, introducing a man with simple ambitions, yet ones that would irrefutably be rejected by society's wishes. Tomura Shigaraki himself! Let's lay out all the positives in this ep, the main one being the powerful OST that played during Shigaraki's flashback with AFO, that bone-chilling terror soundtrack still to this day always brought out the goosebumps as they cower with fear upon hearing this wonderfully evil tune. Now, with Shigaraki's ascendance to the throne as the new leader of the Paranormal Liberation Front, he too got his very own hopefully iconic theme song. It's a twist of an already existing OST but it's made to really enhance that dominating feeling of superiority, suited for the new king himself. Now aside from OSTs alone, the animation has its great scenes here and there, but ofc nothing too outstanding. If I were an anime-only I might be impressed witnessing the sheer destructive nature of Shigaraki's decay as he obliterates an entire city in 1 single move. But having read the manga, it's honestly quite underwhelming which brought me to the negatives... There were several panels cut from the end of this arc, most notably the words exchanged between Shigaraki and Rikiya. I'm glad that SHigaraki's continuation of his backstory is adapted nicely, but I also dislike the fact that they cut off AFO's first words spoken to Shigaraki, how he pities his state and how it's the hero-saturated-society that brought this fate upon helpless little Shigaraki. It would've made the connection between AFO and Shigaraki more natural as opposed to just a simple crop and cut that we got in this ep. Speaking of crop and cut, I was hoping that the Paranormal Liberation Front's title intro would have some cool showcase of the lieutenants along with Shigaraki himself, but it's just a still frame as it was in the manga. Not bad, but not good either, especially for the anime. Also a little pet peeve, I hate how the Endevour's Hero Agency's arc that should come up next after this arc, has switched to before this arc. Overall there were so many improvements to be made that I'm sure BONES would have no problem executing as their animation team is talented, if only they weren't so hellbent on producing both this 5th season and the 3rd movie at the same time! I still love this ep for the atmosphere though, but if this was just any other ep. I would've fucking cried in agony. |
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