So, why was Eri bandaged in the first place? We know that Overhaul could use his Quirk to fix any injury, and I can't think of a practical reason for him to not do so. He makes it clear he doesn't care about her experiencing pain or discomfort at all so that's not a reason he wouldn't do it.
Edited by LSBK on Nov 11th 2019 at 11:44:27 AM
Ghost limb syndrome probably? She likely remembers the pain of being dissembled even though her limbs are still there. The bandages might just be a placebo to try to make her feel better or more cooperative. Kids at that age love bandaids if they get hurt.
The other alternative I can think of is she wears the bandages herself to remind herself that her limbs are still there.
Edited by Wispy on Nov 11th 2019 at 9:48:57 AM
I can't remember if it was text or paratext(or Fan Wank), but I recall that Overhaul only reconstituted Eri when she was getting too weak to continue. It wasn't something he did every time.
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.Yea, Overhaul mentions that he would harvest Eri over and over until she could no longer continue, and then he uses Overhaul to reset her. So the bandages are (presumably) for situations inbetween.
Besides, is anyone genuinely surprised that Rei's power is Ice Creation and not manipulation? Shoto made it pretty clear his Ice Side is essentially his mom's power, and his fire side clearly works like his dad's.
Edited by devak on Nov 11th 2019 at 8:58:49 PM
I think that's because a lot of people think of Quirk's and Quirk inheritance as themes without considering the actual biological mechanisms that are supposed to exist.
For example, a lot of people assume that if Izuku inherited a Quirk from his parents it would be manipulating fire because his Dad's Quirk involves fire, and his Mom's moving things, even though his Dad's Quirk is specifically breathing fire, and his Mom can only move things directly toward herself.
I could see a Quirk that let's Izuku inhale and exhale flames, but people basically tend to talk like he'd be fiery-version of Geten, and I don't think that makes sense for how Quirk inheritance has been shown to work.
So, for a lot of people, they seem to think that theme of Rei's Quirk was "ice" but that doesn't mean it had to manifest itself the same. Even though as you said it should have been obvious looking at Shoto that making ice is exactly what she did.
The same thing sort of happened before we saw Geten's face with people guessing he was Natsuo because "This guy has an ice Quirk, and Natsuo has white hair so he must have an ice Quirk!" despite all the fairly obvious issues with that, people were still trying to make it fit though, and now that we've seen Geten's face, they're still trying to make them have some connection to the Todorokis.
Edited by LSBK on Nov 12th 2019 at 1:10:35 PM
I am interested in Endeavor's role in Toya's "death". Because if he was directly responsible, I doubt forgiving him would even be on the table, but Natsuo and Endeavor himself both clearly blame him for it. Dabi, assuming this is going where we all think it is, probably blames him for it too.
So it's probably something he's indirectly responsible for, like how his abuse of Rei is directly responsible for her mental breakdown and scalding of Shoto. But how does that translate to Toya "dying" (and in reality likely "just" being severely disfigured and fucking off from the whole family)?
Edited by LSBK on Nov 12th 2019 at 6:13:13 AM
The very common fandom/fanfic interpretation I have seen is that Touya was Endavour's proto project, his very first attempt before Shouto came along. Touya being young and the first got it just as bad as Shouto if not worse but obviously Touya also had the extra issue that his body couldn't handle his quirk.
The common idea is that Touya, in a desperate bid to try to make his dad happy, tried to do something big with his quirk that sadly spiraled out of his control and he burnt himself out literally. Another possibility is Touya got sick partly from all the exhausting exercises and his weak constitution, his quirk lacks control when he is sick, and he burnt himself out that way.
Honestly, no matter which way I can think about it it's very likely Endavour had something to do with Touya's death. For extra angst, I generally see people run with the idea that Touya tried to protect Shouto as long as he could until the incident happened and he became Dabi. Albeit, that particular headcanon would not explain why Dabi doesn't care about hurting Shouto (although you can probably argue that Dabi is seeing too much of dear old dad in Shouto after so many years and uses that to justify it).
Edited by Wispy on Nov 12th 2019 at 4:27:42 AM
So in sales news, volume 21 made it to #3 made on The New York Times Graphic Books and Manga list.
Apparently it’s being sold through Scholastic thus increasing its reach to a larger audience.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."I'm curious how the people will react to all the Endeavor stuff when the anime gets to it.
It's funny, you have Western fans complaining about even the possibility of his family forgiving Endeavor, but I've seen Japanese fans dislike Natsuo for being unable to let things go.
Edited by LSBK on Nov 12th 2019 at 10:57:03 AM
Maybe Toya dislikes Shoto because Endy dumped him after a more perfect child was born. That could also be the reason why he might have tried to do something dangerous.
And he might have hated him even more after seeing him refuse to use his fire. We know what Dabi thinks of people without ambition.
Think of it like this: Shoto had to through Training from Hell and Fuyumi/Natsuo were neglected. Toya probably suffered both.
Edited by WashTheLaundryHero on Nov 13th 2019 at 12:13:55 PM
All I want from the anime is for then to expand on the girl's battle. I have a lot of mixed feelings about this arc, but their handling of the girls is the one thing that's firmly in the negative, an anime original expansion like they did for some if the fights in the sports festival would put me a bit at ease.
I absolutely cannot help but adore handsome 2D boysI mean, the way it works, it's really hard to expand. It's not like it was really offcscreened, it was just quick. We saw basically everything important that happened. Having a bunch of scenes of Nejire shooting beams at the guy while he absorbs would just feel pretty shallow without the character exploration that the others fight had and stand out like a sore thumb anyway. It's basically like Dabi vs Geten. It's simply not a focal point of the arc. But we're probably gonna get Dabi-focus sooner rather than later.
All I can hope is that Nejire gets her moment eventually.

Nothing like that has been hinted and I wouldn't like it if it were. It doesn't seem to match anything with the character.
Not everyone has to be connected to everything else.