Cherry picking very specific pieces of dialogue and panels is like trying to weave through the fucking raindrops; to ignore the mounting evidence since Yamato’s introduction is to read a formulaic, paint-by-numbers comic and expect it to suddenly fly in the face of 50 years of shonen manga history by only drawing a line for one specific character for a variety of imagined reasons more than a thousand chapters into the story. No wonder this blowback consistently comes straight from the dumbest, snottiest members of our community, they’re the only ones who refuse to admit their perception of reality is wrong or isn’t the only way to see things