READ: I talk about stuff read/watched recently =O


Yeah, I wanna do this properly, so, just gonna see how much I can write up in 25 minutes about stuff, sooooo, what's good/bad/scream-worthy in the world of fiction relevant to Jazz this week?


The Good!

-Shonen Jump this week heralded something rather wonderful for me to see in Hero Academy, Shonen Jump has been a little hit and miss for me of late, trying to find its feet now with Naruto gone and Bleach limping to a finish line, but Hero Academy has really picked up a lot of the slack, I guess particularly because of the hero Deku in it, and that is kind of the point of this weeks' events.

You see, if you're not already a fan, Deku is a rare freak in a world of people who have superpowers and he has none, the everyday 'quirks' of powers appear in everyone and superheroism is a major part of culture and everyday life, until he finds out the truth behind the most respected and popular hero 'All Might' who has a way of giving his power to Deku

And sadly, the effect doesn't work well with Deku's body, who finds out wielding such massive power is something his body can't handle, literally he breaks his own bones throwing devastating punches, it was certainly a little hard sometimes watching him wreck his own body to have to fight, but, it was handled in a great way that really broke the Jump mold and let them take a protagonist who starts weak and gradually strengthens himself up

After weeks of fights leading to Deku being in various casts and bandages, eventually the school's healer states she'll no longer heal his injuries, finding him self-destructive, and now, finally this week, he rushes into battle without a single backlash of his abilities against himself

It was awesome to see, and I feel a little envious mayhap that he can do it now while I still struggle to do a ton of stuff without having to worry about the consequences of even small things, but, yeah, it's kinda cathartic and kinda awesome as well

Basically for so long, Deku found he could only handle small percentages of the power inside him without it overflowing and just tearing him apart, so, he would concentrate the power into a single point, so, say, throwing a punch would only break a single finger

NOW however, he realised that the focusing is what's causing the damage, that if he just spread the power evenly across his body, stopping it from snapping back

So, yeah, looking forward to next week and seeing Deku kick some ass =B


The Bad!


NOT exactly bad, but just, somehing that reminded me of a previous bad and wanted to talk...

Magic the Gathering has always published a short story every single week to progress the story of their characters, often to varying degrees of success, sometimes good, sometimes bad... but recently a very large importance was placed on the characters stories as Magic Origins took over the world of Magic, themed around all the origin stories of all the planeswalkers and how they ignited the spark, where they journeyed to, how they became the characters they are today

Yet, as I read todays story, I thought back to the backstory of one of the characters Nissa


In basic timeline, Nissa joined the ranks of the Planeswalkers a while back in Zendikar, where she made herself leader of the elves of Zendikar, acting as their leader and believing in the supremacy of elves above all other races on the world, and how her actions ultimately lead to the unleashing of the elder Gods the Eldrazi across the multiverse once more in the hopes it would save her world

Then she vanished until last year she was brought back into the fold, with Magic no longer favoring Garruk to be the face of the Green cards in Magic, and Nissa was reintrocuded via a story of her wallowing in the destruction and misery she's caused, and after being rescued, her rescuers come under attack, and through their acts of sacrifice and banding together all the races against the Eldrazi, Nissa awakens her own new elemental abilities and uses the land itself to save them from the Eldrazi spawn that would have killed her saviors

So, thats where Nissa is today, a former species-ist elf now a redemptive character banding others behind her to try and save her world and I loved that angle, to show she could become better than she was and now...

Now?

Magic has retconned her story somewhat, to make her more kid friendly I guess?

All that elf supremacy stuff is gone, when people read up on her backstory notes before the actual story came out how she wound up on her first planeswalk meeting the elves of the plane of Lorwyn, a terrifying race of elves who believe in beauty alone, rank themselves in castes of their beauty and will kill what they deem unworthy of beauty and labelling them as 'eyeblights' that must be destroyed to rid the world of their ugliness

SUDDENLY it all made sense how Nissa could go so far, that her time with the elves could influence her to become the supremist she did, but now?

Now, the story is out, she gets to Lorwyn.... and none of that's there, instead, she gets there, sees the hunts on the eyeblights, is horrified and leaves just as a planewide event takes place

So, they completely avoided the situation, they completely ignored it and retconned it out it seems

And while I get Wizards trying to make her more appealing to new people unaware of her past, it seems somewhat of an insult, as horrible as she had once been, it felt rewarding to see her redeem herself and earn her place at the forefront of the new cast

I feel rather down still about the whole thing and seeing her just get blinked out of her own story, what next for Nissa? How will Wizards treat her from here on in? I guess it's much of a wait and see =x


The Feels

Steven Universe.

Speaks for itself, lol


Welp!

Time to end this here, already overshot by five minutes, sooooo, next time some more talk, just about how things are going here mayhap =B

See you next time!