Perhaps not coincidentally, Captain America is generally the Token Optimistic Character and/or Team Heart. Weirdly Thor...
Good post. Can’t wait for second season.
But I think it should be noted that a common tenet of action/adventure shonen manga (and therefore their anime...
Captain America is heroism->powers, right?
Well, one can certainly read messages about heroism into OPM. Throughout parts of the manga (what I’ve read up to,...
I’m definitely a “why not both” person where hero archetypes are concerned, but this characterization of shonen heroes...
It’s also interesting to consider the society/fiction divide. America is traditonally seen as conceptualizing itself as...
One of my favorite observations is that Western superhero stories consistently use the ordering “get powers, become...
Even American superhero comics don’t have that idealization of the world as worth protecting and will-power and luck...
No, no, I can buy that. An open secret is still sort of a secret, and if you tried to explain that the reason westerners...
It’s hidden behind the anime tiddies.