we all know why

I do believe it's the abbreviation for social networking service.

But he felt bad about it, that made the thousands of casualties and billions in property damage okay.

I spent every chapter after that series ended hoping he would make a cameo or something in this series just because generally most of the characters in that spin-off were stronger than the main series counterparts, and the closest we get is a reference to teleport dudes past. They even had a whole part where they were bringing in the American heroes and they didn't bring in koichi or the flying dude who are both in America at the end of that series it's just disappointment on top of disappointment with this series man.

I would believe choi Han is supposed to be a teenager, because outside of matters of combat he does kind of seem like he's a bit naive to the world, and I imagine kale only doesn't seem like a teenager because he acts like the grown ass man he used to be before he got reincarnated. Tho I will admit going off of looks they could be anywhere from 17 to 28 and I would just believe you.

All fair points, I mostly just appreciate a shounen that's at least trying to avoid things like power creep and ass-pulls and have more complex morality sometimes, that and it has two good arcs, York new city and the Chimera Ant arc, that make me wanna disregard the glaring problems the series has.

Oh no that arc is truly bad you'd think the stupid parts would be fun but the problem is before that Arc that series was genuinely really good like thought-provoking and unique and then mans gets to Modern times, and then suddenly it's about hanging out with a bunch of kids and they're just going to school and suddenly these expressly genocidal villains are supposed to be sympathetic and you're supposed to feel bad about killing them even though they literally came from the afterlife to kill all life like their goal is literally to send everyone back to the afterlife where they came from Death literally means nothing to them, and this centuries-old main character suddenly gets a love interest that is a literal 12-year-old girl, and despite having multiple arcs where he reckoned with life and death and the passage of time and love and loss previously -they just have him do it again this arc but worse, (my man turned into a turtle -Who was somehow already pregnant- to give birth and that's how he understood what love is despite him already knowing what it is by getting a family in a previous arc). MHA went from good shounen To mediocre shounen, that series went from a potential All-timer great to absolute dog s***, and on top of that lengthwise that ark was like a hundred chapters the previous entire series was like 116 so effectively that Arc made half the series actively bad, and the cherry on top is it had a good ending before that ark it literally could have just ended with him going outside and seeing the modern peaceful world he created and it would have been f****** beautiful, instead we got that ark. To explain the emotional crater that Arc was it would be like if berserk came back with a new arc where they left the fairy Island a thousand years passed guts is just hanging out with a bunch of children now there's maybe one interesting fight across the entire Arc and the whole Arc is all the children convincing him that "Griffith and the god hand are just misunderstood, we can all get along, you just don't understand things man you're immature" all while giving him a new 12 year old love interest that is a yandere.

As an aside I don't hate that boat Arc of Hunter x Hunter as much as a lot of people do I will admit that it is just incredibly wordy, like just walls of text but there are at least some interesting concepts and characters. I'd honestly say I dislike greed Island more.

I take this Arc and raise you the Modern Japan Arc from To Your Eternity, at least this Arc had a couple mediocre arcs beforehand so I could see this coming, that s*** was such an abrupt drop in quality that I stopped to Google if the author had died and maybe been replaced.

"No friends no bitches no powers no victory no homies no brothers no family no mother, off to the Afterlife with you"

It's either exhaustion with this whole Arc. tiresomeness at the whole thing ending with the power friendship. disappointment that the final villain fight was ended in literally a conversation and like three punches. or perhaps a subtle ennui as you look back upon the way this series started, maybe the recommendations you got for it as "a Japanese take on Western comic themes" , you see all the potential that this had in the shine of your eyes and you sit here and see that potential was not reached - that this ruined orgasm of an ending is what you got and it leaves you feeling.... Empty somehow, like watching a well beloved pet deteriorate day by day, year by year until you can't even look upon the fond memories anymore as they've been corrupted by the present, they no longer remind you of what was, they're no longer nostalgic, they are misery... they are deep black sadness, all you see when you look back is what is, you can no longer see what was.




Or maybe the ending was just kind of middling and that left you not really feeling anything emotional because a lot of these characters didn't really have good, meaningful arcs and this last Arc had no tension to it due to the constant bouncing between various plot lines and loooooooong stretch.

No this was absolutely going for that Naruto style redemption, where they make you feel real bad about the villain right as they die so that the heroes' good heart can remember them as someone that could have been good and in the villains last moments he makes peace with his grievances accepting his faults and acknowledging that the the heroes were right the whole time, maybe they even look back on them with a smile on their face, and they're redeemed in that way. It's just below "redeeming yourself by sacrificing yourself when you absolutely don't need to" in terms of lazy redemption arcs but it absolutely still counts.

Edit:Like it's redemption but only in that kind of half-assed "penance in the face of judgement" way like a man going to The gallows announcing his conversion to Catholicism. It's some real "it's the thought that counts" type shit.

If it's any consolation the spin-off vigilante is actually pretty good and has an actual decent ending and stakes, and keeps things at a reasonable scale and it doesn't ever have the 'power of friendship' do anything, and all the characters have actual arcs instead of....whatever these people had. And best of all they don't drag it out until it dies of its injuries in the street like this thing did. And they keep the cast to a reasonable and manageable size, and the villains are both sympathetic and interesting while still doing things that make it clear there's no talking it out.

The funny thing is that power dispersal is literally what Black clover did and I'm having a much more enjoyable time with Black clover and it's final Arc, because while that series is generally kind of a generic shounen, it knows what it is and has fun with it and doesn't pretend like it's going to be something better or different before just defaulting back to the genre tropes.
And man it is wild how Vigilantes is so much better than this series, how often is it that the spin-off just craters the main series in terms of quality.
It's also wild how this series has managed to either ruin or waste every single villain they've had, say what you will about Naruto's talk no jutsu but some people just caught those hands, no ass pulls no wasted potential just ass beatings. But no this series going out of its way to have even the literal most fucked guy that has killed hundreds- perhaps thousands for decades get hit with the "he only did it cuz he was lonely😭" this felt like if the OG Freiza fight ended with Goku giving him energy, him saying "help me up, you know I only committed genocide because my brother didn't love me enough" and then them flying off on a ship while he dies from his wounds redeemed in his last moments. Why can't a piece of shit just be a piece of shit sometimes bro. hell Demon Slayer was the king of "let's hit you with a sad backstory so you feel bad about these demons becoming these monsters" and even they were like "nah Muzan is just scum"

it's like if the great ninja War Arc Decided to follow EVERY named character all at once, and the madara fight was just a flashback, a conversation, and Two punches.

yeah you get the general vibe, but without the spin-off backstory it's bizarre how they just recognize him as this former classmate without ANY mention of who this classmate is, how well they knew him and why he died or even when really beforehand, like they're paying off a setup you don't get to see. It would be like if Obito's Backstory in naruto was only revealed in that rock lee spinoff but then abruptly kakashi just knows who this villain is, like It's not something that needs a reveal or really matters without the backstory.

Someone Reread this last Arc all in one go so we can find out if it's as bad in one lump as it was week by week, Because I think if you would read it all at once you'd be significantly less bothered by how drawn out it is, and how erratic the pacing is and how much it jumps around because you can at least experience it all in one go. Nothing fixing the lack of stakes and... to say it in a word.... strange character arcs, or just bizarre things like "suddenly, racism exists" or "oh no it's the super great American hero they're so goo-they're dead", or the emo deku ark, or the fact that by far the best part of this Arc( Mecha allmight versus all for one) doesn't involve the current main villain or main character and instead involves the previous generations one. Or the suddenly "it was me Barry" followed by him getting near immediately defeated. On second thought remembering this Arc is kind of pissing me off.

If you told them one year ago that yuji would have ANY major input in the final fight, they'd clown about him not really being the main character.

The only way he can fuckup the victory lap would be if he had all for one get reincarnated or something like Majin Buu.

In hindsight it is weird that the teleporting dude is kind of as important as he is in this Arc and they only offered his backstory in the spin-off, like if you didn't read that you don't really have a clear view for why it is that boom mic and eraser head care about him so much, just vague hints