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    Perhaps not coincidentally, Captain America is generally the Token Optimistic Character and/or Team Heart. Weirdly Thor...
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    Good post. Can’t wait for second season.
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    But I think it should be noted that a common tenet of action/adventure shonen manga (and therefore their anime...
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    Captain America is heroism->powers, right?
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    Well, one can certainly read messages about heroism into OPM. Throughout parts of the manga (what I’ve read up to,...
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    I’m definitely a “why not both” person where hero archetypes are concerned, but this characterization of shonen heroes...
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    It’s also interesting to consider the society/fiction divide. America is traditonally seen as conceptualizing itself as...
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    One of my favorite observations is that Western superhero stories consistently use the ordering “get powers, become...
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    Even American superhero comics don’t have that idealization of the world as worth protecting and will-power and luck...
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    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...
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    It’s hidden behind the anime tiddies.
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