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Summary: Curse of Sano family, Dark impulses, how Takemichi is able to break the curse, what is Takemichi to Mikey and why.

What is Dark Impulse exactly? It's the curse that was given to Sano family by previous timeleaper, who was killed by Shinichiro then. Old man's curse wasn't only affecting Shinichiro but the whole Sano family--especially Mikey.

Shinichiro got his karma, but "Dark Impulses" aim wasn't to ruin Shinichiro only, but also his siblings, everyone Shinichiro held dear to his heart.

Dark Impulses are called Dark Impulses because Mikey introduced them as that, since the curse was violent and pushed its owner to the embrace of evil and wickedness.

The most interesting thing about it is that Dark Impulses are also introduced as another Mikey, ANOTHER HUMAN and living being. Just in one body. (I thought it was DID reference ngl)

I just think that it's interesting way to introduce a curse because it's usually introduced as someTHING and not as someONE ("there's SOMETHING inside of me that I cannot control" for example) but I think this shows how Mikey thought that Dark Impulses were HIM, that it was Inseparable from him and it was part of who he was. Which makes sense because he has had it since he was very young and learned to live with it. Mikey has been struggling to keep his darkness away but that just caused it to bottle up and get harder and harder to control.

His Dark Impulses got so much worse because of the loss of his loved ones, since his mentality got so much weaker to the point that he wasn't able to fight back dark impulses and Kisaki's manipulation, he has fallen victim of them. He managed to appear calm about it and pretend that everything was alright but there's a limit to how much one can take.

Many people thought that Takemichi was stupid for this and I've even seen the comments saying that they didn't get this part at all. But Takemichi, in fact, was the ONLY ONE who could break the curse and it's because Shinichiro transferred his powers to Takemichi, but not his curse. Let's note one thing that Shinichiro died few days after giving his power to Takemichi, which could be interfered as that he was alive (after his time leaping) because of his powers. Which means that the power to timeleap can and will break the curse of previous timeleaper. In order for Takemichi to do that, Mikey had to completely give in his Dark Impulses and placed his trust in Takemichi to break the curse.

Which is why Takemichi actually was Mikey's hero, because he was the only one who could break the curse that he has been suffering with for a good while. Takemichi is indeed a hero. Mikey's hero.

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think senju bears the same responsibility mikey does for permanently disfiguring sanzu? or is sanzu's disfigurement solely on mikey and mikey alone?

I dont think Senju should bear any responsibility for Mikeys actions.

Sure, she shouldn't have lied about breaking the plane but that's just something that kids do. They lie when they don't want to get into trouble.

Mikey's reaction to the lie? That is not a normal thing kids do. That is some deep mental illness and/or plain malice and cruelty. (Or fucking Dark Impulse or whatever the fuck they say it is).

I have never understood the sentiment of trying to compare Senju and Mikey in this situation.

Senju: tells a childlike lie to avoid trouble. You know, like a child.

Mikey: mutilates and disfigures sanzu for LIFE. You know. Like a psychopath.

HOW is there a debate on whose fault it is??

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Kazutora dark impulses ??!

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I have a deep and firmly held belief that the “dark impulses” Mikey suffers from were a childs/teens best way of describing what was very likely an undiagnosed mental illness.

Stay with me here:

In a timeline where Mikey did not enter a vegetative state and become wheelchair bound, he was still a kid with a very blended family who lost his parents and was raised by his grandfather and, by extension, his older brother. Say what you want about his parents, we don’t ever truly get a deeper explanation for him and Emma having the same dad but different mothers, but regardless, he still went through something traumatic by losing them at a young age.

Additional to this, the “curse” of the dark impulses is said to have also affected Kazutora via his proximity to Mikey (I believe?). Either way, that doesn’t entirely make sense because why then did his dark impulses not spread to Baji, Draken, Mitsuya, etc., who were closer to him for longer than Kazutora was. Beyond this, we all know what Kazutora went through at home through the duration of his adolescent years, and he surely did not receive ideal treatment as a delinquent in juvie after killing Shinichiro.

Next, we have the fact that in most cases, each of the Toman founders have either absent or completely uninvolved parents. Baji’s mom is probably the only mother who’s ever really mentioned besides Kazutora’s parents in more than a passing manner. She was involved enough in her son’s life to be emotional over his bad grades, and he cared enough to not want to make her cry again, but in every other backstory, the parental involvement is a fleeting concept at best.

With Mikey being raised by Shin and his grandpa, and a clear lack of any form of therapeutic outlet outside of beating the shit out of other kids in the same age range, it’s likely that poor mental health, angry outbursts and barely controllable urges to hurt others (ie basically curb stomping Sanzu) would feel like a curse to Mikey. Breaking down so thoroughly after taking someone’s life that you endure a post-traumatic response that makes you feel like you need to then kill your victim's brother would feel like a curse to Kazutora.

Draken never attracted the “curse” because despite his less than ideal upbringing, he seemed to carry the weight of his trauma a lot better, and had friends in the girls he grew up with in the brothel, which he probably was able to confide in, as well as finding purpose in being the voice of reason to the other founders, and especially to Mikey. Mitsuya had a family to focus on, and even said he wanted to become a delinquent who still cared for his sisters. Per the spin-off, we see that Baji had a mom who gave a shit, and while he was wild and impulsive externally, he had a critical and calculating mind that likely aided in sifting through a lot of the trauma he endured after Shinichiro’s death.

This is life through the eyes of fifteen year old kids whose parents (if they even had any) never looked close enough at their own kids to see they might need professional help. They didn’t have the language nor knowledge to explain what was going on inside. Being "cursed" with dark and uncontrollable impulses to hurt others probably felt like the most accurate description to Mikey, and maybe even to Shinichiro who lacked the very same support and knowledge that his younger brother did.

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Ok Forget what I said before.

I think Hanma is the old homeless man, because Hanma plays an important role to the story, and there’s a reason why mikey let him in the gang, either Hanma told Sanzu and Mikey that he can time leap, and maybe Mikey was time leaping back, trying to save Shinichiro.