I’m baffled by people’s criticisms of this character and this fight, and I think they are some of the dumbest I’ve read on the internet and that’s saying something. But I guess there’s no limit to the stupidity one might encounter on a One Piece forum lol.
The truth is that this was one of the best ways for Horikoshi to give Shigaraki a powerup (or a nerf if that actually happens). The criticism that Horikoshi is making Shigaraki too powerful is obviously invalid since nobody knows what is actually going to happen in the future, and thus people cannot say with certainty what it even means for someone to be “too powerful” lol.
People also need to stop viewing Tomura as a villain for Deku to defeat. We all know Deku is going to “save him” in the end, and so Hori is free to make Tomura as powerful as he wants since Deku becoming stronger than him is not required and never has been.
People also need to stop viewing Tomura as a typical series antagonist like Blackbeard or Pein, ever since the My Villain Academia Saga, Shigaraki might be a villain in the MHA world, but from a writing perspective he is almost like a secondary protagonist who we have been following just like Deku. Like the Sasuke to Deku’s Naruto almost. Or like the Suzaku to Deku’s Lelouch.
As for killing Star, as much as I’ve enjoyed her character, this was a great writing decision. Literally no one is safe from being killed by Horikoshi at this point which significantly adds to the tension of future conflicts and makes all conflicts feel like they have serious weight and consequences. This isn’t One Piece where tension doesn’t exist and Oda will literally behead characters on screen and have them show up fine chapters later with no explanation, this is a series actually trying to create real conflict and tension as anybody’s favorite character could die at this point. My only complaint is that I wish Horikoshi would kill a Class 1A member to fully sell the idea of nobody being safe but I doubt he will.
But yeah lol. Let this chapter be a testament to the fact that people on the internet will pull invalid criticisms from their ass holes regardless of what decisions a writer makes.
The truth is that this was one of the best ways for Horikoshi to give Shigaraki a powerup (or a nerf if that actually happens). The criticism that Horikoshi is making Shigaraki too powerful is obviously invalid since nobody knows what is actually going to happen in the future, and thus people cannot say with certainty what it even means for someone to be “too powerful” lol.
People also need to stop viewing Tomura as a villain for Deku to defeat. We all know Deku is going to “save him” in the end, and so Hori is free to make Tomura as powerful as he wants since Deku becoming stronger than him is not required and never has been.
People also need to stop viewing Tomura as a typical series antagonist like Blackbeard or Pein, ever since the My Villain Academia Saga, Shigaraki might be a villain in the MHA world, but from a writing perspective he is almost like a secondary protagonist who we have been following just like Deku. Like the Sasuke to Deku’s Naruto almost. Or like the Suzaku to Deku’s Lelouch.
As for killing Star, as much as I’ve enjoyed her character, this was a great writing decision. Literally no one is safe from being killed by Horikoshi at this point which significantly adds to the tension of future conflicts and makes all conflicts feel like they have serious weight and consequences. This isn’t One Piece where tension doesn’t exist and Oda will literally behead characters on screen and have them show up fine chapters later with no explanation, this is a series actually trying to create real conflict and tension as anybody’s favorite character could die at this point. My only complaint is that I wish Horikoshi would kill a Class 1A member to fully sell the idea of nobody being safe but I doubt he will.
But yeah lol. Let this chapter be a testament to the fact that people on the internet will pull invalid criticisms from their ass holes regardless of what decisions a writer makes.
But other than that, I think the fight was incredibly well done.
Star dying was not something I anticipated Hori to have the balls to pull off. I'm hoping that going forward he doesn't hesitate killing characters in emotional impactful ways(though of course, they would need to be spaced out). Midnight was a little bit of a dud for me because it was literally off panelled and hasn't been heavily focused on in a while(though that doesn't mean Hori won't put focus on it again). Deaths like what happened in this chapter and what happened with Twice are hopefully what we get for the characters Hori decides to kill off in the future.
I'm hopeful that he actually does kill off a Class 1A member down the line, but again, that is incredibly unlikely.