Daiakutou Shonen - Ch. 9 - The Once-Again-Lone Great Villain
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Ah, plushie-mode Villain Goat.
Feels like things are about to collide in a very public way.
Feels like things are about to collide in a very public way.
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Man, kinda what I expected, but it sucks that this is yet another superhero organization that'll just omit bad things heroes do to avoid bad publicity - made worse by the heroes going "Well, what can ya do? shrug"
I suppose I'll keep my expectations for the narrative low
I suppose I'll keep my expectations for the narrative low
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Man I really liking Villain Goat. I think that he gonna be gone in one of those final chapters, tho.
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It would be fun to find more superhero organizations instead, with different modus operandi
To be fair, even the hero org doesn't know what Mary Goose's motive was, nor do they know who killed them. Plus, Mary Goose was extremely popular. Imagine them just going, "The Mary Goose sisters were all mysteriously killed yesterday. However, don't worry, they were actually all evil people. Source? Trust us."
That just screams "cover-up." Conspiracy theorists would be all over that. Throwing that out there without more information or evidence to substantiate it would probably backfire.
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I like that Goat is the author's way of telling us how much (will sound rude) how much of a loser "Villain goat"/Ehta is and that we shouldn't be like him. I'm guessing as he ages (he dies at the beginning so he seemingly won't live TOO too long. Likely under 5 years) he changes and grows as a person, and maybe gets a girlfriend with the idol girl; she seems a lot like the love interest.
Ehta is literally schizophrenic.I like that Goat is the author's way of telling us how much (will sound rude) how much of a loser "Villain goat"/Ehta is and that we shouldn't be like him. I'm guessing as he ages (he dies at the beginning so he seemingly won't live TOO too long. Likely under 5 years) he changes and grows as a person, and maybe gets a girlfriend with the idol girl; she seems a lot like the love interest.
Dude I was just thinking about this manga the other day.
All in all pretty rough couple days for Ehta. He just saw 5 women get killed and then his closest friend GOAT disappeared. Isn't he in middle school?
Also in page 12 where is he eating? Is it like the apartment complex's cafeteria? I vaguely remember him eating somewhere like this before but I thought it was a restaurant.
All in all pretty rough couple days for Ehta. He just saw 5 women get killed and then his closest friend GOAT disappeared. Isn't he in middle school?
Also in page 12 where is he eating? Is it like the apartment complex's cafeteria? I vaguely remember him eating somewhere like this before but I thought it was a restaurant.
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He's in an orphanage no? it'd make sense they have a cafeteria/dining room area.
I didn't consider that he's dead in that two page opening; kind of implies that everyone or almost everyone involved is dead even, heroes or villains. I hope you're wrong; that could be a poetic ending but it would be sad for a kid to die like that.I like that Goat is the author's way of telling us how much (will sound rude) how much of a loser "Villain goat"/Ehta is and that we shouldn't be like him. I'm guessing as he ages (he dies at the beginning so he seemingly won't live TOO too long. Likely under 5 years) he changes and grows as a person, and maybe gets a girlfriend with the idol girl; she seems a lot like the love interest.
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I haven't reread the first chapters but isn't the girl the ehta likes (I think?) the same one at the beginning?
Possibly but it's so hard to tell; they do seem to maybe have blonde (or maybe like a blonde pink?) hair
I also wonder if this is some degree of a fake out but it's hard to tell this early on; like he definitely is getting scapegoated (ha punny) right now and that could lead to an ending like this.
I also wonder if this is some degree of a fake out but it's hard to tell this early on; like he definitely is getting scapegoated (ha punny) right now and that could lead to an ending like this.
I wonder if that isn't a flash forward to the future but Ehta's daydream just because of how odd that sounds; like it sounds more like what he would want than what someone would actually say at a memorial. A few pages afterwards he refutes his teacher saying that villains also have allies with
Which aligns with the narrative of the "lone and mighty evil". From what we have seen so far, we know that the villains in this story virtually always have allies, and in fact we usually see heroes fight against villains alone throughout the story, in many cases multiple at once, even if they later receive backup. Ehta has a warped perception of what a villain should be that aligns with his loner personality. He still is an ostracized kid, a kid living in an orphanage, a kid who wants to be praised and loved. This is a far more dangerous version of a child causing problems to get attention. When it comes down to it, unless people somehow never find out about the good Ehta has done (which they theoretically should have in this opening) I don't think the opening makes sense as something other than his delusion. We can pretty clearly see how he's more of a misguided antihero when it comes to the actual story.
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