#afomura

[rain-coat-killer]

A paternal sandwich.

#Afo: Oh no. I've been manhandled. #all for one #afo #dad for one #dfo #izuku midoriya #tomura shigaraki #bnha #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #spoilers #technically speaking #my art #does afomura have a tag? #is that what we've decided to call him? #afomura

[buttercupshands]

Chapter 419 Analysis or "How to completely break Tenko Shimura" a manipulative guide from All For One (part 1)

This is mainly a character analysis of Shigaraki Tomura or Shimura Tenko, any other character present is there to help.

Chapter 419 was hard to comprehend even with just summaries right on April 4th. Some things need at least fan translation to fully make sense. Or just hurt more in that matter.

Warning of spoilers to the whole manga to the point of chapter 419! All of the warnings from the respective Tomura chapters are applicable.

So like... mentions of death, killing other people, manipulation, emotional abuse and many more!

This is Part 1 - See Part 2 for something less depressing

This is going to be long! So let's start, shall we?

First of all we'll need to take into understanding ALL the chapters that we'll need to remember/reread just make this chapter worse (skip if already familiar with them):

Chapter 222 - Tomura Shigaraki: Distortion

Chapter 234 - Destruction Sense

Chapter 235 - Tenko Shimura: Origins

Chapter 236 - Tenko Shimura Origins, Part 2

Chapter 237 - Tomura Shigaraki: Origins

This is your "Tenko and Tomura understanding" starter pack, basically. Without them it's harder to even start unpacking what just happened with Tomura's perspective in mind

Well then.

The chapter starts and we are immediately greeted by AFO semi-agreeing without wanting to, that Tomura was strong enough before Izuku started trying "saving" him in his own way and even succeeded making Tenko's will all the more fragile than it was when he returned using his hate to his advantage.

Even after Izuku holding Tenko's hands for the whole chapter he was still stubborn enough to continue even without that hate in his heart

And the thing that initial summaries missed was the fact that Tomura actually reacted to AFO reapperance.

Still not understanding why AFO was even saying that.

Tenko was literally taught by AFO to follow "what he wants" in ch 237 with Tenko making his first decision to kill someone himself. And never actually hiding that Tomura just needed to never forget that hatred and those bad emotions that Tomura never really understood. And it took Izuku seconds to decipher them.

With AFO reassuring Tomura that he has no need in following morals of society and just should follow whatever he wants - his want to destroy everything that hurts him. And only AFO would accept and help him. He was constantly reminded of that.

Even if Tenko was feeling sick from killing at first, even if hands that he wore were still making him sick 15 years later without him understanding anything. Decisions made while person is emotional are usually the ones that the person might regret the most and Tomura lived with those unstable emotions for years. Knowing that they hurt him and make him feel sick.

But Sensei said that it's okay to follow those emotions. That's it's actually great that he does it.

Everything was for his sake, everything was for Tomura Shigaraki and Tomura Shigaraki only. He was his Sensei's successor and no one should argue with it. He's the only one to be next ruler of the underground and the next king. And Tomura gladly accepted that as truth.

Since it was easier than facing his guilt.

Because AFO just needed Tomura to have enough willpower to get OFA when the plan is ready. To make Gigantomachia to follow him while Garaki was watching knowing full well how the plan is going. Both knowing full well that Tomura is still holding himself back.

In this chapter however we finally see how all of the things AFO told and taught Tenko were just to make him so sure that HE was in control and allowed to do whatever he wants to completely break his worldview in the end "after he gets OFA" which is an unreachable goal now since OFA is gone for good.

By just saying that Tenko never had any choice to begin with.

Tomura already knew that AFO manipulated him and he was just a pawn, needed only to get OFA and piss off All-Might he accepted and embraced it as something unimportant. It was his choice and he was free to do it and not feel bad about it. Since he's born to destroy.

Until suddenly it wasn't just his life after Decay that was manipulated.

But his whole life from birth. Just because AFO didn't get his hands on Hana sooner and she was happy while AFO needed someone hurt and broken. And Shimura's household wasn't as bad as he needed it to be at first with Kotaro loving his children, wife, in-laws and even his mother.

And AFO destroyed it by creating so much conflict and even going out of his way to make sure Tenko's father knew that he was playing heroes with some kids. And even saved them by putting his own quirkless life in danger.

In some sense narrator-Tomura's words at the end of ch 236 still might hold true. AFO didn't just create his hate out of nowhere, to make it feel like even if Tenko remembers everything it's still he's doing not a villain appearing, not just some accident that it actually was.

Although AFO doesn't say anything about people who didn't help Tenko even though he he knew that it happened so he most probably was watching it happen until Tenko lost all hope entirely to finaly make him dependent on his help.

And he succeeded for the most part.

Tomura was making an assumption after he remembered everything that he "must've been yearning for that" and from that point onwards explains everything that happened as "I wanted it - I did it" and was clinging to it like a lifeline to explain everything.

He accepted that if Re-Destro is talking about his Decay quirk affecting him he exists only to destroy.

And now it seems he found a false motivation for himself that AFO created by cruely manipulating everything from his quirk to his family. Making him believe he had a hand in it. Breaking one of "safe" truths that Tomura never doubted. They only made his decisions feel right.

Which makes that a hopeless loop of broken memories being staged just to let Tenko become Tomura who hates and destroys everything believing that it's his choice. Only choice at that.

And if destroying is him only choice because of his quirk... then what can a quirkless person do while having so many people dead from his own hands? Hands that were literally cursed to have destruction quirk in them not because he was born to do it. But because his own Sensei wanted that.

And he's "unwavering heart" is now nothing but an illusion that was destroyed by both Izuku and AFO together.

There's no "Can I be a Hero?", because can he even be a Villain if most of the choices that were from Decay and the hatred in his heart weren't actually his own?

#bnha #shigaraki tomura #tenko shimura #all for one #bnha analysis #character analysis #character study #bnha manga spoilers #bnha spoilers #my hero academia #phew that's a lot of normal tags! #honestly I think it's a mess of a post (the first draft) #and this part 1 is depressing as hell #that's what you get when LoV is not here #thankfully part 2 exists #bnha 419 #rewrote most of the thing and it got even more depressing oh no #part 2 is still existing #somewhere #also I didn't add that but AFO is never talking about the people that didn't help Tenko again #like... they just rejected him and it's still true #he's still living with a 'did they reject me because I killed my family?' #the more I rewrite this the more depressing it becomes #I really like Tenko's arc so this chapter broke me for couple of days at least #and the more I was writing this more horrified I became with what exactly it all meant #we either need a whol OFA team again or at least Izuku returning into that hell that is AFOmura's mind #but once again I plan on a part 2 since even if Tomura's life is depressing LoV existed and some of them even are still alive #god this post is a nightmare of this blog

[saltytearsofjoy]

#I FUCKING LOVE THIS SCENE SO FUCKING MCUH #also I really like what they did with AFOmura’s voice #it’s very. spooky #BNHA s6 #shigaraki tomura #AFO

[shibaraki]

I MISS THIS RAGGEDY LITTLE GUY SO BAD

#buff afomura ur going in timeout. sick of you #BRING HIM BACK #m.tomura

[marunalu]

Hi. What do you think about new chapter?

Honestly? For the most part I was just bored. As much as I love that izuku got his arms back, you can see that the only reason why hori let him lose them in the first place was to shock the readers. This is the same bullcrap he did with bakugous fake death. To let him get "killed" just to let him get resurrected in the very next chapter.

It was clear izuku would get his arms back, but at least it should have lastet a few chapters to show readers how serious the whole situation is. There are no stakes in this "war". The good guys dont die and if they get injured a "wonder" happens so they will not die or end up terrible disabled for the rest of their lives. And just like I said after the latest chapter, deux ex machina eri is the one who saves the day of course.

Again, it was clear izuku would get his arms back and that it would be eris doing. Thats not my problem. My problem is that I dont like it when an author writes shocking scenes simply just for the shock value and to trend on twitter and not because its important for the story. Thats horrible and lazy writing and just screams "I want attention!"

An other problem I have is that eri can simply just "cut her horn off" it seems. By that logic there was never a reason for chisaki to abuse eri like he did. He could have simply waited till the horn was big enough and then cut it off and I dont think chisaki was to dumb to not realize that by himself. I dont know if it means that eri is kinda quirkless from now on, but knowing hori I wouldnt bet on it and I think the horn will just grow back. I also dont like how eri calls bakugou "kacchan." We never see them interacting in the manga or that they formed a relationship. As far as I know only in the light novels in which eri is scared of him they interact. I just dont think hori should put things that happen in other medias like the light novels or movies in the manga, because it could confuse people that only have read the manga and nothing else.

About the whole kurogiri vs aizawa and mic interaction. The whole thing just startet so I guess we will see an other flashback so I cant say much about it yet. I just wished hori would stop skipping whole fights of other characters just because he likes to focus on bakugou instead by giving him TWO fights! Bakugou has enough spotlight, other characters deserve it more and not just flashback fights.

I liked though that it was mentioned that eri is learning from aizawa and thinks rational like him, so thats why she cut her horn just like he did cut his leg off. Its also cute how she mentioned that she wants to become a singer like jiro. The only other thing I liked was that afomura is starting to look more like the original afo now, because thats a thing I was wondering if it will happen. Him looking exactly like his original body and then fighting izuku would be great.

All in all the chapter was meeehhhh from what I have seen so far. Its funny because I hated the last chapter at first because the spoilers and translation were worded so bad but now I actually quite like it. For this chapter I dont feel much except maybe bored and annoyance over hori writing shock moments that dont mean anything but to shock his readers. I simply dont like it when authors do that.

#bnha #bnha spoiler

[secretgaygenttomura]

AFOmura, because I needed to draw *something*

#tomura shigaraki #all for one #fanart #mha fanart #league of villains

[figurativepieceoftrash]

#afo gets three options bc I'm biased 🥺 #simps assemble or whatever #bnha #poll tag

[huiiiooo]

in season six openig Tomura is saved by Deku after AFO explodes out of him. Maybe it's a foreshadow that AFO will merge with Tomura, and Izuku will save him later

Merge AFOmura by cpasdryna

#bnha all for one #bnha dad for one #mha afo #mha all for one #bnha Tomura

[20001541]

wish more people took advantage of the weird connection afo and yoichi got going on in fics.

afo canonically heard yoichi's voice in tartarus, yoichi sensed afo approaching and rewinding, yoichi claiming during the fight that "ofa and afo is resonating", that one brief moment where afomura was fighting deku he saw yoichi along with all the other vestiges; you see this would make some great fic material and it's a canon thing that's underutilized!

[rain-coat-killer]

Yeah.

#Afo: *Yeets Bakugo across the map like a skipping stone* #whoops #bnha #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #just to be safe #spoilers #Afomura #All for one #Afo #tomura shigaraki #my art #shit post #this is basically what happened in these latest chapters right

[gentrychild]

Hey Gentry i am not sure if i remember this right. But when afomura was thinking about breaking Izuku's spine... Danger sense didn't ring. Right? Which... Is very concerning...

DFO: "Hey, as long as I don't kill him and can heal him later, it's just tough love, right?"

Izuku, turning Danger Sense off then on: "I think that quirk is broken."

#bnha 367 #bnha asks #bnha manga spoilers

[saltytearsofjoy]

God all the Tartarus scenes look so cool

#and the AFOmura conversation!! #i was looking forward to that scene #although it hurts me to see tomura being physically pulled back in the vestige world #BNHA s6

[anti-katsuki-lounge]

While Bakugou's death and character doesn't seem as irrelevant, I think Midoriya's decision wouldn't be as affected as most of the fandom makes it out to be and focusing so much on this takes away Midoriya's autonomy as a character. Something to consider since the war arc and that was accentuated in his solo arc (even though much of the fandom believes that the power of friendship solves everything) is the way in which Midoriya sees himself , as readers we know that Izuku isn't taken into account, what's more his motivation during the manga goes from wanting to be a hero like All Might to wanting to be strong so that no one have to worry about him, this means that while Midoriya is willing to sacrifice himself for others the opposite isn't acceptable. During the war arc he saw mentors, friends, etc. get injured and almost die, that unleashed his anger and there came a point where he was blinded so that AfoMura had a blow that Bakugou receives, now what does AFO do after this? he mocks and says that the sacrifices made were useless, especially the last one (Bakugou), this is a trigger for Midoriya because AFO treats the lives and sacrifice of people as it means nothing and the most important thing Midoriya failed again, it wasn't the strong enough, fast enough and someone sacrificed themselves for him (it's no coincidence that minutes before he was telling himself not to be the same Deku who can't do anything).

Now and the reason why I developed the above, during the final moments of the war Midoriya manages to connect with Shigaraki within OFA and manages to see not only Tenko, but Tomura himself being used and his first instinct is to crawl and yell at AFO to leave him and these actions continue much later, now you will say, what is important about this? The important thing is that all these decisions were made by Midoriya even before he knew if Bakugou was alive or not, Midoriya put aside his anger because he saw someone in pain and this was repeated throughout the arc because even feeling a grudge he wanted to understand and save Tomura.

Even now beyond Horikoshi's cheap way of giving prominence to Bakugou with "you are the person closest to Midoriya", funny that when this happens the only one close is Bakugou because the reaction would be the same with Todoroki, Uraraka, Iida or any of his friends. Again he does AFO here, he tells Midoriya to make excuses, to blame anyone but him, mocking and Midoriya falls into anger again because he sees all the injured heroes, Mirio, Tamaki , Mirko (almost without limbs and leaning on a tree), a corpse and again it's his fault because he let himself be separated from the group that corresponded to him, because again someone else pays for his mistakes and even so Mirio manages to calm him down and Midoriya asks specifically about Tomura . What's more, the central point of Midoriya's character is the way of seeing injured people and wanting to help them, whether they're heroes, villains or civilians. It's what differentiates him from Bakugou who doesn't understand Midoriya's behavior and who tried to save him even without deserving it in the first chapter just because "it looks like you needed to be saved", it's the reason why he begged both Gentle and Tomura not to get up because he didn't want to fight anymore, the reason why he gave his hand to Lady Nagant and Aoyama. Midoriya is going to save the people around him but this salvation doesn't mean redemption but the simple fact that in his eyes everyone deserves to be saved.

All of this. At the end of the day Izuku is a character that will aim to save everyone because he feels everyone deserves a second chance or not. Whether this is a positive or negative trait doesn’t matter, it’s part of Izuku’s character.

[pikahlua]

I'm worried about Kacchan. What is your prognosis? I'm already afraid to guess what Afomura's plans are for him. Especially when we remember that Kacchan might have become Nomu and was put on a skewer not so long ago 🥺

Prognosis: Deuteragony

(chapter 359 spoilers (the fan translation) under the cut)

TomurAFO takes special care to toss Katsuki away before he takes out Jeanist, Mirko, and Edgeshot all in one blow.

Aizawa’s pleas are falling on deaf ears as he realizes there’s no one around to protect Katsuki. That’s why the Big Three have to step in at the end.

Aizawa’s wish here for Katsuki to live on to graduate someday is shown by the imagery to be bleak and naive. The school is destroyed. Their classroom (probably) is in shambles. Amajiki laments that he wants to have a graduation ceremony immediately after this imagery, implying that it’s now an impossibility. The future is decaying.

TomurAFO only reveals this when all the other players have been removed from the field.

In other words: TomurAFO deliberately wants Katsuki alive.

You say they may have wanted to turn Katsuki into a noumu. I grant you that’s possible.

No one ever explicitly said noumu, though. All Tomura says is he doesn’t have time to “convince” Katsuki to join them.

Many possibilities for the meaning behind their vague plans are still on the table. I just know that when AFO says his plans out loud, they usually don’t turn out well. AFO hasn’t voiced these plans yet, so...

I have my concerns.

#psychomurderz #ask pika #mha spoilers #mha manga spoilers #my hero academia spoilers #my hero academia manga spoilers #katsuki bakugou #is in so much fucking danger dear god #however he's also something of a spitfire so #you know #it'll be big

[marunalu]

great, Horikoshi is making the latest BNHA update about bakubrat, again.

Might as well just give up on BNHA, since Horikoshi is making the story all about the blonde bomb brat.

Yeah same for me. Its really hard to enjoy mha, when hori has to push bakugou into everything!!! It was clear bakugou would survive and have one or two more moments, but I hate the fact that hori had to push izuku into the shadows for bakugou to shine again. For gods sake hori didnt even show us the izuku vs tomura fight!!! The whole fight happend OFFSCREEN!!! But the bakugou vs afomura fight THAT one he could show us! Not the mcs fight against the main villain NO the most annoying side characters fight against the main villain!

And lets not start how stupid bakugous "death" and even more his "resurrection" with best jeanist and edgeshot giving him an HEART SURGERY in the middle of a battlefield, with them turning his heart into a nin-jeart and despite all the blood lose, the big ass hole in his chest and the fact that he should be brain dead at this point without any oxygen (him not breathing for several minutes) was to begin with!

#bnha #bnha spoiler #anti bakugou #anti katsuki bakugou

[secretgaygenttomura]

A little AFOmura to test out Rebelle 5

#tomura shigaraki #my hero academia #my hero academia manga spoilers #digital art #fanart