A lot of AFO backstory and motivations seem to be an after thought to be honest.
Hell I firmly believe he and Yoichi being twins is a retcon. Because these two clearly were originally written to be oldest and little sibling, AFO clearly looking way more old than Yoichi in terms of overall look and aptitude.
Beside is funny how based on his look at the moment of his death Yoichi must have been a middle age man, because AFO looks like his middle age self in the flashbacks. But Yoichi clearly look, sound and acts like a young man in his 20s or something. A lot of thing doesn't make sense if you put the twins idea in context.
And yes, KudoIchi and Kudo in general are just bait for the bkdk shippers. Notice how the character has nothing outside that ship content.
Which is ironic because out of all the vestiges which are plain and boring af, Kudo at least had an interesting base for a character but he ended with zero personality and being a dick to other characters no named Yoichi for no reason. And his fans only like him for being discount Bakugou.
At least got me laughing with that omake of Nine and Cider.
Also Shoto and Giyuu don't share VA, in japanese Shoto shares VA with Sabito aka Giyuu's best friend.
But fun trivia: Giyuu and Nine got the same dub VA in english.
Canon possum is a joke but one thing I never forget is how decay IS powerful, sure a powerful quirk with an idiot is not a good thing in many fronts but...
Cinder (I'm loving him already) has to know a guy who can decay stuff with one touch even if he is an idiot.
Would cinder be worried about the quirk ?
Again, shig is an idiot and a bad leader and all that but one thing we can't deny is he knows how to fight.
So I think cinder would make a point to avoid him like the plague.
In canon Cider is the kind of person who knows he shouldn't bite off more than he can chew, since after all his plan during his debut was to steal during a very specific moment in which heroes aren't present, so is more reward without having to fight and less risk.
It was just a coincidence that A.M was there with Bakugou and Todoroki.
I guess his mentality also applies to fight dangerous villains, and the lov had some big names attached them. Their reputation probably was enough for Cider to not have his gang involved with such group of psychos.
But... I disagree on Shigaraki being a good fighter.
Maybe before all the bs power ups given by the doctor he at least knew how do surprise attacks and such, but Decay being such a one-dimensional quirk also means the user doesn't require a lot of skill to put it in use. It is basically just run towards the enemy and touch for instakill.
Which became even more braindead post awakening. Like even Overhaul has more room to be creative and need skill to put in use.
Decay is just a broken and boring quirk that requieres nothing to be effective. Crusty asshole somehow manages to be more plain than he already was at first, is like he evolves in reverse.
Biggest hear me out of MHA...
Goto Imasuji
Idk he's just so savage but like a sexy beast.
Also how little bit of stubble can make a man look so much better?
The contrast between s3 Goto and s6 Goto is insane
(Probably also helps he ditched the silly fake eye)
Anyway, he's such a beast and I love him.
Fellas, it is weird to find collarbones to be extremely attractive?
Cause I do like them...
I wish I have more collarbone pics of Nine...
And not from MHA but Eren certainly has some sexy looking collarbones:
My mind goes crazy right now.
Kinda ironic and poetic to think despite being one his favorite quirks, AFO probably has no idea about spearlike bones being his mother's quirk.
I mean realistically he doesn't have any way to know it, but I think he has an unconscious sentimental connection with his mom quirk as corny it sounds.
His favoritism even seem made him collect quirks that resemble spearlike bones in look and functionality, such as Rivet Stab and one unknown "drills" quirk. Both used at the same time during his last battle with All Might btw.
Also how we can forget the fact spearlike bones is also the last quirk he ever used? (On his original body at least)
Horikoshi definitely knew what he was doing here. I can't help but think it's brillaint despite the whole story is far from perfect.
Tenko tried to copy that beautiful shot of Nine's hair dramatically blowing at the wind.
But it didn't work.
Sorry Tenko but your hair looks like the mop that nobody replaced in more than five years.
You could never compare to Nine's ethereal beauty π€π©
AFO users under dramatic lighting π€
Lowkey is like from top to bottom they go from less deranged to most deranged.
This is such a fun scene when you think about the context, cause is supposed to be from Chrono's perspective.
Chrono really think he can fool us and make us think Chisaki, a person with severe misophonia, would voluntarily enter in a cage fight shirtless AND without gloves?
Especially considering we have another flashback of the same or a similar situation from Rappa's perspective and we clearly see Chisaki doesn't take off his clothes for "fight".
Is Chrono so thirsty for Kai that he unconsciously imagines him shirtless?
Well I can't blame you at all Hari... I do the same thing all the time.
This guy got the most sick design among the nomus, despite he's technically a low tier soldier and doesn't come back ever again.
Chapter 81: Roaring Upheaval
Love the fact the anime made the three AFO users share the same (or almost the same) shield quirk:
Nine.
Shigaraki.
All For One.
Which is funny and notice I said the anime, because in the manga neither Shigaraki or All For One are using (or have) shield quirks.
They likely use air cannon or some blast quirk in those scenes ->
But Bones specifically changed that into quirks that resemble Nine's Air Wall quirk.
I like to think it's a tribute to my king π€
However the shield quirks of the other two seem to be much weaker that Air Wall.
AFO shield quirk in particular is probably the worst, as it only covers a very small radious and it was destroyed by one Jet Burn from Endeavor.
Meanwhile Nine's version of the quirk can cover a gigantic radious if he user wants:
Also Air Wall can stack multiple shields into one and it was powerful enough to stop a charge from Deku going full 100%
All this makes me think Air Wall is such a boosted quirk in general.
No wonder why Nine stole that one. Smart boy.
I just want them to get back together in some way or another
His hair blowing by the wind...
Nine is too gorgeous.