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Punchtoberfest continues! Feel free to take a look or contribute yourself :)

• Punchtoberfest continues! below is an accompanying meta i wrote about Garou & Blue Fire back in July. I don't have any other metas prepared, so i'll post the rest in batches.

I imagine if we ever get to see Garou join the Hero Association there'd be a lot of pushback, not all of it illegitimate. I imagine receiving Blue Fire's blessing would help stem a lot of it.

Apologizing to Blue Fire would also force Garou to face the fact that his stint as the Hero Hunter hurt real people who didn't deserve it, some of it will be carrying the scars of it for the rest of their lives. It might have him reckon with the fact that what he did was wrong and have him feel remorse, which so far we haven't really seen (as of writing 17th of July)

I imagine he'd also have some feelings on now having the system he's once screamed at the injustice of now back him. Now he's the one for whom the exceptions are made and whose past mistakes are swept under the rug. All in the name of justice. After all could Garou have received any of this preferential treatment if he hadn't been Bang's protégé?

>!As readers we don't have to ask, we know he wouldn't. Just look at Garou's fate!<in the webcomic.

Conversely i feel like such a moment would indicate a culmination of a mostly offscreen miniarc for Blue Fire. When we first meet him when Sitch gathers the Earth's criminals in a failed attempt to recruit them for his cause. While there Blue Fire states he'd rather just kill all the criminals they'd gathered in the name of "justice" (which ironically would have been an extrajudicial execution, but i digress) and he intends to make due on that when Garou steps out of line. Instead Garou cuts off his arm.

The next time we hear Blue Fire speak it's when Amai Mask turns monster. Interestingly Blue Fire does not immediately try to kill his former colleague, as one might have expected him to based on his prior stated convictions. Instead he holds the crowd back while trying to accurately assess the situation. Had he not done so, Beauto may well have fully monsterized, and even if he hadn't, it certainly would have put Saitama in hot water as he would have had to fight off Blue Fire to rescue Beauto with all the consequences that may have come from that.

Instead it happened as we read in the Manga. Perhaps because Blue Fire held some lingering kinship with Amai Mask, seeing him as a hero who practiced a similar code of justice. It's hard not to conclude that Blue Fire reevaluated his modus operandi since we last saw him. If you want to look at it uncharitably you can say Garou cutting off Blue Fire's arm chastened him, but either way Blue Fire is simply not as gung ho as he used to be.

Mind you: Blue Fire could have very easily taken the Amai Mask monsterization as yet another Hero Association cover-up. Like the secret gathering of criminals, which cost Blue Fire his arm, and the Psychic Sister affair (which among other things revealed to the rank and file heroes that the Hero Association was secretly holding demon level monsters in captivity). It would not have been all that strange for someone like Blue Fire to take out his legitimate grievances on the monster in front of him. The fact that he didn't and the idea to do so didn't even occur to him speaks to his character.

That's why i can imagine him putting his many grievances aside and giving Garou a second chance. It's also why i like to see Blue Fire meet Accel at some point.

King may have been talking shit. A good lesson for both.

Punchtoberfest continues and so does the gorgon!Tatsumaki saga.

Punchtoberfest 2026 Day 1: ~~Forced/~~Accidental Monsterization

Punchtoberfest is upon us! I have a bunch of submissions prepared (and i'm planning to make more). In the future i might share my fanart in batches so i don't spam the sub too much. We'll see :p I just figured i'd post this one immediately to remind everyone of the event. For those interested in participating: you can find the prompts here.

For those unaware. For the last few days Murata has publically been posting on the site formerly known as twitter about dragons and super ancient civilizations being real. His "evidence" mainly consisting of being various geographical features vaguely looking like dragons. Like shown below.

I wish he was joking

It's a textbook case of confirmation bias and i guess it's another example of how we're all susceptible to it. I can't help but see this episode as a result of, or at least related to Mangaka's infamous work schedule. I don't know, i hope Murata can get a vacation ASAP.

https://tonarinoyj.jp/episode/12207421984148777688