!!WARNING: SPOILERS FOR MHA SEASON 7 EPISODE 3, READ AHEAD AT YOUR OWN RISK!!
Sooooo....Been awhile, but I'm back. My wifi is -sorta- stable now, and I don't have to work rn so here we are!
Okay, I know I just started the episode but Uraraka's hair up with her jacket is so cute! Also, Iida's jacket.
WAIT I DIDN'T NOTICE THIS BEFORE- OR I DON'T THINK I DID- BUT
IS THIS HAGAKURE?! THOSE LOOK LIKE HER GLOVES! She's SO PRETTY WHOEVER SHE IS! WTH?!
"No need to worry, Other Me. We'll endure" STOP That's so off-putting. Like- He keeps referring to Shigaraki as 'we' as if they're the same person and I DON'T LIKE IT EW. I mean- I'm not supposed to, but STILL-
"-Because unlike you, Touya, I have many friends" AND THEN SHOWING HAGAKURE?! I- I ALMOST THINK THEY'RE BAITING ME BECAUSE NO WAY RIGHT?! Then again, I would say that about anyone else, right? Sato, Tokoyami, Aoyama, Tsuyu...It can't be anyone in Class-1A, right? It's not Nezu...Monoma? Nah, he's not that dumb...But like- still, is it really Hagakure? We don't know quite as much about her character... I almost think they'd have given her a bigger episode so that we'd get attached first, right? Maybe nothing huge, but something like the cheese episode with Aoyama. I dunno, maybe I'm overthinking it.
Does...Does Izuku's hair NOT look like a rotting head of broccoli rn? Am I trippin'? No, they definitely knew what they were doing lol. ALSO, "You do mean WE, don't you?" Iida, my dude, comin' in thinking what I was. Iida comes in CLUTCH so often. Btw, Hagakure and Aoyama are both missing from this scene. I wanted to see how they were improving. It'd be cool if they were on some stealth mission together or something!
"You have no choice, son." I KNEW THEY WERE BAITING ME WITH HAGAKURE! And it's one of the boys...And Hagakure and Aoyama were missing from the last scene....What was that I was saying about the traitor should've had an episode where we could get attached? Crap it even looks like his haiirrrrrr DON'T DO THIS TO MEEEEEE. I LOVE HIM PLEASE NOOOOOOO. AND WHAT'S HAGAKURE DOING THERE? Spying? Did she notice Aoyama leaving and decide to follow? She's standing further away, hidden, so she isn't another traitor, right?
"YOU KNOW IF WE DON'T FOLLOW ORDERS HE'LL MURDER THE THREE OF US!" Okay, so I'm lowkey hoping this'll be some 'Mommy/Daddy got mixed up in this thing/gang/gambled and now we owe someone dangerous, and you have to save us, child' thing because that's be so SICK, in both meanings of the word.
LOOK AT THIS POOR KID! HE DOES NOT WANT TO DO THIS! My hearttttttttt stoppppppppp
HE WAS QUIRKLESS?!?!?!!!! SLKSZKEJ ALL FOR ONE GAVE HIM A QUIRK?! HIS PARENTSSSSS PLEASSSEEEEE "We didn't want you to be excluded or feel different" LIKE I GET IT BUT ????? MAKING A DEAL WITH A CRIMINAL -WHOM I HAVE NO DOUBT YOU HAD TO GO THROUGH RATHER UNSAVORY MEANS TO FIND- WAS NOT A SMART DECISION! You practically sold your child's freedom to this phsyco? DUDE. THIS CHILD HAD NO SAY IN THIS AGREEMENT, ND EVEN IF HE DID HE WAS WHAT? FIVE? LSKJSZKJNDJK.
"When All For One was finally gone at Kamino, I thought maybe I would finally be free" AKSNZKJGDN AOYAMA HONEYYYYYY. I CAN'T EVEN BLAME THE KID, TO HIM HE'S STUCK! If he doesn't, his parents will die -misguided as they are, he loves them-
The silence here? Immaculate. No notes. This face? Same.
Don't- No- Their faces- stopppppp don't do this to meeeeeee THE LOOK OF BETRAYAL ON IZU'S FACE THE SAD GUILT ON AOYAMA'SSSS "Of course it's you that had to find out...My closest friend here" IF AOYAMA SAYS THAT I'M GONNA LOSE MY MIND I SWEAR-
"All because I was afraid of being different..." Gee. I wonder why. Definitely not generational trauma or anything. Your parents definitely didn't at least unintentionally raise you to be afraid of- "It's possible they were more concerned about me being different than I was. At least, at first." Oh wait.
Y'know that saying, "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions"? Yeahhhhh...I'm not saying Aoyama's parents MEANT anything malicious, they just wanted their kid to be happy and fit in (Which, let's be honest, probably also stems from toxicity/pressure in their childhoods.) But they definitely should NOT have made that deal on Aoyama's behalf. ALSO, Aoyama trying to push Izu away like "I'm a villain" , presumably in an attempt, so that they both no longer hurt, is so sad.
On the flip side, that does not excuse Aoyama's actions. Yes, he felt trapped. I can totally see why he did it, but also everyone in Class-1A has every right to feel betrayed. Hagakure is as just in her outburst as Aoyama is for feeling trapped and in fear.
They did so good on his expression hereeeee. I can FEEL all the differing emotions, without being told them. Also this scene is destroying me rn totally not crying or anything-
And AFO killed people in front of them...No doubt brutally...This poor kid, man... The dad trying to take the blame is nice tho, considering it really is their (The parents', that is) faults.
HE'S DOING IT AGAIN, SAYING HE'S A VILLAIN. "I'm rotten to the core" Yeah right hon. I'm not the only one seeing past this, right?
OH HECK YEAH IZU COMING IN! GOOD MAN, IZU! GIVE SOME SENSE TO THE KID!
OH?? IZU, YOU GOING WHERE I THINK YOU'RE GOING WITH THIS? HECK YEAH, PLEASE BE A DOUBLE AGENT! MAN that'd be SO SICK!
Okay, rollarcoaster of an episode! Also: I still hate how in the outro it's only Katsuki holding a card to the little Izuku and Kacchan. Because wth does that mean?
This episode was so so good and this post is way longer than the others- but there was so much!! I just had to ramble about this. UGH. Am I gonna cry all the episodes this season? This is insane.
Anyways, have a good day/night and drink some water!
