Osamu is a painfully realistic character, which has been obvious throughout the manga, but one of my favorite instances of this is all the way back in volume one when the Marmods attacked his school.
This moment was Osamu’s first brush with death—sure, before this he did briefly face off against a Bamster, but that was taken care of by Yuma almost immediately. Osamu hadn’t faced any personal danger in his life until this moment. Even during the first large scale invasion that rattled so many, Osamu lived someplace else and was a bystander rather than participant/victim. And because of all this, he didn’t ACTUALLY think he was going to die or fully reckon with the fact that it was a very real possibility when going to fight the Marmod.
From the start, Yuma knew clearly what kind of danger Osamu would face and told him so bluntly.
But Osamu didn’t give any actual attention to his warnings until Yuma repeated it much more seriously.
Osamu’s first reaction was to ignore Yuma’s words because he wanted to protect the other students. His selflessness and tendency to put others before himself showed in full force here, but either way the desperation of the situation left him antsy and he only paused when Yuma’s tone shifted. It’s not just his good nature and adrenaline influencing him, but his death just isn’t something he’s seriously considered. Not in a he’s a fool and never even thought it a possibility kind of way, Osamu is a smart character and right after this he did logically think that Yuma was probably right.
However, thinking and logically knowing that something is a possibility and technically could happen doesn’t mean you actually comprehend the fact that it can and will happen. People often have a hard time fully realizing that bad things WILL happen to them, like back in Covid when a lot of people didn’t think that they’d actually end up sick or those who say, leave their doors unlocked all the time because they don’t think they’d get robbed.
The “I know this thing happens to other people but it probably won’t me” feeling is pretty common, especially in younger people, and it’s not really naivety per se, it can just be difficult to fully realize even though you know it logically when you or someone your close with don’t have personal experience with it or similar things.
(Naturally this doesn’t apply to everyone)
I don’t know if this sort of bias has a name, but I think it’s shown well throughout Osamu’s fight.
At first, though he doesn’t think he’ll win, he still has the overconfidence his youth and lack of experience grants him. He’s fully thinking that he’ll protect everyone until other border agents arrive, intending to fight until they do. He believes that it’s something he can do, without the caution Yuma’s warning should’ve given him. If it was later Osamu, he’d probably try to use the environment to his advantage to stall until Arashiyama squad gets there, avoiding direct combat?
Anyways, he’s overconfident and isn’t really thinking about the possibility of him dying.
Pretty much immediately, he’s shown he’s outmatched.
Even after this, Osamu acts recklessly while overestimating his ability. He charges forward(in the anime, looks like he’s doing the same here but it’s harder to tell)aiming for direct combat. Still not really thinking about the consequences.
And look what happens. Aside from the slight horror of having an arm cut off and the effects that could have on trigger users mentally, his expression here really shows a lot.
Osamu is genuinely shocked. He freezes. He’s looking at his arm flying off and for a moment just doesn’t believe it. And then it clicks into place, and Yuma’s words echo in his mind. I think this moment is when Osamu realizes without a doubt or any bias that he will die. Or at least that the possibility is real and becoming realer by the second.
And here he knows. It’s not like before where he thought that Yuma was probably right but still didn’t completely comprehend it. He had to face the reality that he was about to die because he was overconfident.
His lack of experience with combat and dangerous situations in general was prominent in this fight, and it’s pretty crazy to see how he’s grown.
I 100% do not believe that without the overconfidence or sense of unrealism about death and danger he wouldn’t of rushed in, he’d absolutely go help those students either way. That’s just his personality. It’s just these aspects of him that make him so real, and he learned from this experience as well.
During the afto invasion arc, he similarly put himself in harms way. But he didn’t freeze or get extremely shocked, he wasn’t overconfident, he was just doing what he felt he should with an actual plan in mind and knowledge of the danger🙂↕️ still reckless tho
Basically, while nearly dying, this experience was good for him. Had it been later, it’d probably be too late to save him. I wonder if that’s why Yuma came in at the perfect time? He might’ve been waiting and watching so Osamu could learn. He wouldn’t let him die ofc but direct experience is necessary, especially with how Osamu charged in without much consideration—accurate consideration anyways.
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