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Relink is just grinding and then cooling down with a screenshot session

Siegfried soon...

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☀️ relaxing ☀️

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And they were besties

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Is it me or is the T&B fandom a bit dead after S2 came out

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FInished it!

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thinking abt the narrative foils of thomas and barnaby….

was abt to write a whole thing (rewatching season 2 for yet another time) but I am thinking……. how the company image of thomas is “a guy from the rich family” while irl he’s been poor and from an orphanage with a sister whom he does everything for.

and barnaby was similar, but the difference between them is that barnaby had people in his life he could trust. he knows what trust is, and I think thomas is what barnaby would’ve turned out like if maverick didnt decide to adopt barnaby.

and how barnaby sees himself in him, and thinks “yeah okay I used to be like that too but kotetsu changed me, thomas needs to be shown that he can trust us with the support we give him”

The thing is, the similarities between thomas and barnaby are superficial. it seems like the anime goes for “hot headed rivals, this is how tiger and bunny used to be at the beginning”, even barnaby says “this is how I used to be”

But I think the thing Mattia says “I didn’t know that you seemed like you had your stuff together and you were brave as a hero” is also crucial here. I think the anime does a great job of showing “heroes have two lives, their secret lives and the hero ones”, even barnaby brooks jr who goes by his name is different in his private life than he is as a hero. But people think they know him just because he’s a celeb with a known sad history.

I think the way we’re shown the backstories is interesting. because of the time constraints and many more characters in s2, there’s not a lot of time to hint at thomas’s tragic backstory, nor there is space or anyone he himself can tell that to. (unlike that evening barnaby and kotetsu shared when they took care of the baby and so just before kotetsu saved barnaby’s life so there is indeed space for them to get into that). In thomas’s case, the history is relayed by the manager of the company to his coworkers. this is why thomas doesnt vibe with the “oh what you learned about my past, you think you know me now?” and I think it’s great how this time it doesn’t work. (also I think it’s interesting that subaru is at the rooftop that they had their heart to hearts in season 1, I just think details like that are amazing). So it’s similar to how ppl learned of barnaby’s reason to become a hero (had no say in that, relayed to by the company director for business purposes). I think this is why Thomas continues to work for himself until the rest of cour 1 of season 2. there’s the backstory bit but there’s no trust, no saving each other’s lives that would prompt him to share his reason for becoming a hero/his actions in episode 8 in the first place.

Anyway this post isn’t going anywhere, I just had some feelings i needed to write down lol.

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The point of Tiger & Bunny is that the world will always be messed up because of Big Corp and capitalism, the heroes can't fight that because it's bigger than them, they're ingrained within and oppressed by the system to varying degrees. The story is not an utopian one where everyone has powers, but a critique of society

The heroes all carry their problems along and have limited control over what other people do with it or how they're viewed because of who they are as per the consumers lens (Kotetsu losing aninomity, Barnaby's past made public, Blue Rose being cast as a domineering sexy type without her input, etc).

The show really is about consumerism, the heroes are 'products', but we viewers have been granted special insight into their human stories. Let's not forget that Maverick, who is an evil CEO, started the hero business. To him they were pawns. Their hero selfs are for entertainment and profit first and foremost.

It's not utopian, but the hopeful message is with the heroes themselves, especially shown through Kotetsu. The world is pretty shitty, but the people will still do good

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Yeah hello I’m emotional.

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T&B2: EP13. Barnaby Brooks Jr. 🐰

Bonus :3

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I enjoyed S2 but after rewatching S1 it clearly suffers from not having set up any character conflict for either Kotetsu or Barnaby vs their inner conflicts/the world/anything else as a story trueline and it really shows tbh

S1 did that a whole lot better by putting that on the forefront throughout the entire show by actually treating them as MC's/viewpoint characters. Right now they're hardly the focus, and when they are, it's more fanservice to us than actual interesting conflict imo. No 'I might lose my job', 'media/big Corp being a menace', etc. Particularly when Barnaby was in coma for 2 weeks and the only way to know it took so long is because people calculated the dates. It didn't have any real plot significance. Part of me likes the buddy system dynamics, but I'm watching for Kotetsu and Barnaby in the end

It's hard to properly word but I'm just a bit annoyed/sad at S2 for feeling a bit inconsequential so far =n=

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Tiger & Bunny S2 ending be like:

And there was only one tent

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Here’s a subtitled version of the first ending, AIDA by ano! Credits go to Anon for translation and Smile Edgeworth on Twitter for editing!

And as a fun bit of trivia, the title AIDA is a play on words. 間 and 愛だ can both be read as “aida”, where 間 can mean the space between two things, and 愛(ai - kanji for romantic love)だ(da) can be read as “it’s love”.