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WELP: this has been Tokyo Revengers. In the end Takemichi died as he lived. The End. Here's to you, 2000 years from now.

shadowbio42

Yeah…

I unfortunately know a terrible truth, but as far as Toonami’s concerned, it’s over. And I think it might be for the best. So now we can move on to… whatever is coming up.

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mrawkweird

Takemichi, I'mma need you to remember that bullet in your leg and think nothing of it when you crack this man's skull in the past. Then again, you learned nothing from getting stabbed. You're like the anti-50 Cent.

I swear this guy has the build of a one-off character that usually gets killed off in the first 5-8 minutes of a series to set up what sort of world we're living in that somehow stumbled into the main focus.

shadowbio42

The Anti-50 Cent. I think that about works.

To answer I question I saw on Reddit, “why do people hate Takemichi?” I think you’ve summed it up nicely.

He starts off cowardly, always running away and turning tail when things go bad. But then he starts taking some steps that make it seem like he’s learning, he’s becoming brave in the face of adversity, and like he’s having major character growth…

Then he steps back. It’s like after every bit of growth, he kind of resets. He gets stabbed, takes on a guy all on his own, saves Draken, even has Hina in his corner, believing in the guy she knows he can be… yet he himself can’t be that guy. Like any bit of growth he has gets thrown out the window and we’re back to square one.

To the argument I saw of him and Midoriya in MHA being cut from the same cloth, you’re half right. They both start off as unlikely underdogs who aren’t all that strong, maybe run or avoid conflict, and they want to be better versions of themselves… Midoriya at least learns from his mistakes, takes whatever experience he gets, even steps up when the hero he’s admired has to step down… Point is, they both sort of start from the same place, but while one seems to grow as a character and be a more ideal version of themselves, one doesn’t. In fact, he keeps going one step forward, two steps back.

And I think that from most of the talk I’ve seen, I was probably one of the most forgiving. To some extent, I can understand being afraid. I can understand feeling like the world is crumbling all around, you just want to crumple and cry because you feel so helpless… but then when you’ve demonstrated that, when in the face of adversity, YOU CAN be brave and you can pull off amazing things… It’s like you’ve proven yourself time and time again that you’re braver and stronger than you think, yet it doesn’t stick.

And for anybody’s who looked at my thoughts from the start, you know I was all on board. Erased was probably one of my favorite series in the last decade and had a similar premise. So it was something I could get behind… But then, yeah… I can only overlook so much before I stop and ask myself “okay, what’s even going on anymore?” And now we kind of have to leave things on one hell of a nasty cliffhanger, since apparently Disney funded the rest of the anime, with season 2-4 under their belt, each with 13 episodes (I think? I still need to do research).

So I guess for as far as the shows run on this block, it’s kind of the end here. I doubt Disney is going to play ball and let Toonami have the rights to air the rest of the series… unless I’m wrong? Until then, yeah, it seems like that’s it on here.

I’m still not thrilled with some streaming services, but because morbid curiosity can get the best of me and because I just really want to see him save Hinata, there’s a good chance I might eventually give in, but maybe only once I know it’s over. From what I’ve seen based on (mostly non-spoiler comments), it seems he hasn’t saved Hinata yet. But it sounds like the story is in its “endgame” phase, based on a spoiler I read that I won’t say.

All in all, there was a lot of potential here with a lot of memorable characters and moments, but I think I understand why people hate on Takemichi. And I think after sitting down and giving season 1 a full watch, I can see their logic and reasoning. For now, though, I’ll hold off on trying to watch the Disney-funded seasons. Just to hopefully give them enough time to maybe finish things off (if they already haven’t, I didn’t want to spoil too much for myself so I tried to avoid getting too deep). I’ll have to have enough time to dedicate to it and give it a fair shot like I did for season 1.

Until then, those are my (overly long and expanded) final thoughts I teased last week.

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