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I actually never use it as a source of inspiration. It's just a way of measuring how unique or common a power is, which isn't even that important in the long run.

First, that's why its optional. And then, it depends on what they are. If the minor power is "walking on water," that was never a good option for a signature ability. However cloaking, enhancing, and more from Nen could be. Edit: JJK is also a great comparison. "physical enhancement" as a minor power works there because no character would ever have a signature move as basic as physical enhancement. But with Nen, physical enhancement is every enhancer's signature move, so giving it to everyone as well is now a problem for enhancers.

My brother from Koffee. What's going on man.

@@angax100 hey 🔥💯 I’m good you?

@dark_nightwing_xl2797 can't complain; I also agree w/ your take. Just saying hi 👋

I thought this guide was clear enough with examples. Plus, I can't create and hand out a good magic system for free.

@@YumesukeSutashika hhh good one

That’s what I’m saying. Yotsuba didn’t even have any screentime

You don't have to read from here this just some of my thoughts on your theme grading chart. I feel like your thematic chart may have some problems. First is the anti and pro theme quotes. In a visual media quotes are not always necessary. I understand quotes can be used to get a point across easily, but other visual media's like silent films from the past didn't have this ability to always use text. Some of the most influential films that defined common themes in their genres. Second thing is I feel this chart is somewhat limiting. When writing a story the author may not realize all the themes and messages they are inputting into the story. A author's personal beliefs and life experiences are second nature to them and will reflect in their writing. Top give a example is LOTR author Tolkien not realizing he was writing Catholic themes and imagery in this story. He only realized this when he was revising the story and then added onto those themes. If the author has trouble picking up on their subconscious themes in their writing, how could the average reader. The third thing is not all theme's end in action. Some themes are left open for the audience to decide. Some writers provide equal amount of justification for both the "anti" and "pro" theme and let people pick and choose which to support (This is common in lots of philosophy books). The last thing is since you're mostly grading anime and manga you should add a visual grading to the themes. Most manga and anime try to add visuals to support their themes. I'm not talking about just fights, they can use color, shading, shapes, and symbolism to add evidence for themes.

I applaud your effort. Just like how most people agree that there is an objective way to measure a character without asking the author directly, I believe there is an objective way to measure a theme without asking the author. My goal is to extract meaning from the story, not place my own interpretation on it. This is why quotes are so important. If quotes weren’t a necessity in my rubric, then anyone could place any theme they wanted on fights without having proof. I could say several Naruto fights are “Hard Work vs talent” or “Teamwork vs working alone” or “Being a good person vs Being a bad person.” It would work for a lot of fights, but because I made quotes necessary, I can’t impose my will onto the story. I have to actually look for proof in the text. Most of your examples don’t have quotes within the frame of the battle and rely on you trying to impose a theme onto the fight. Yuji vs Ko Guy is a respectable attempt, but Yuji doesn’t have a solid quote and it’s not like Yuji just tanked his attacks. He properly countered both of Ko Guy’s tricks. Both sides were using brains and brawn. An easy parallel (that might have a stronger case w/o quotes) would be me arguing that Shikamaru vs Temari is “brains vs brawn” despite there being no quotes to support that. Just because one side uses brains and the other uses brawns doesn’t mean that they’re clashing ideologically. I could say Sasuke vs Yoroi, Naruto vs Kiba, and Naruto vs Neji are “brains vs brawn.” Gojo vs the curses was a good attempt too, but it also doesn’t have strong enough quotes. You have a Yuji quote, but there is no anti theme quote. Furthermore, I think the point of his loss is not that “Gojo should’ve worked with others” but “The villains took advantage of Gojo having to work alone.” Chapter 84, pg 13-14. “Do you know when Gojo is in his element? It's when he’s alone. It doesn't matter who the sorcerer is. Anyone who fights alongside him just gets in the way. So let’s use the even more inferior non sorcerers to restrict his movement.” Gojo was just outsmarted. I don’t think there was anything thematic/ideological. As for Cthullu, “humanity is insignificant” is a way to live life, in context and out of context. If I believe this theme, I can justify murder out of context. Finally, I don’t think arguing that JJK doesn’t fit my system makes sense since my system extracted multiple themes from season 1. JJK just stopped executing themes.

@@YumesukeSutashika I want to give my opinion on your thematic writing philosophy since it goes so hard against my own I'm not sure if I'm not living in a story right now. You said Gojo VS the curses doesn't have any themes since they're not explicitly stated, and therefore only being drawn by interpretation, in my opinion that's not only not a bad thing, but quite wonderful, you are taking a huge subjective element out of the story and replacing it by a rulebook metric that heavily restricts the way stories should be written, not every story needs some showman for a moral arguement and have them make their sides clear before every conflict to get a point acress, in Gojo VS the curses, it is stated that Gojo likes to fight alone because no matter who it is, will always get in the way of him, this one line not only characterizes Gojo's massive flaw, but also ties into a number of conflicts the story has subtly hinted at but not specified, like when he says to Megumi to not get left behind in the HI arc, and him stating to Ijichi in episode 6 that he wants to train reliable allies, there's definitely a story here, one which I'd rather not go into the details of for both of our times' sakes, but you are free to interpret if you want, and even if it's not being stated, an immersed viewer doesn't see something and think to himself what the author must've thought while writing this, they think what this could mean for the greater world as a whole, your method restricts not only the way themes are presented, but also plot and character development and everything related to them. Another thing about the Gojo fight, I don't think anyone seeing the curses working together and succeeding wouldn't have gotten the point of the benifits of teamwork for dealing with someone who's stronger than you, a story can potentially follow your theme structure and end in a single page with just being, two guys announce their ideals, throw two punches and one of them wins, the end, but another story can never quote their themes, tell a story where the characters stick to their characterization, tell a story and get multiple themes across, some of which maybe not even being intentional by the author, the latter in my opinon being a much more meaningful experience.

I also like Shibuya better than Gojo's Past. That doesn't change the fact that it has no themes.

Idk where you heard that, but you're reaching. Itsuki is not basic needs. Basic needs is food, water, and shelter. As the daughters of a rich man, none of them are in basic/physiological. Ichika isn't in safety. She WANTS to make money, but she doesn't need to. When they all start living alone, everyone tries to get a job, so if anything, they were all in that stage. Everyone can be argued to be in love and belonging. Yotsuba is def not in self actualization. If anything, she's in self esteem.

@@YumesukeSutashika long comment time so I can defend my points. First of all it was a theory I devised my self to solve the mystery of who would win before the movie came out because as someone who's isnt a big fan of rom coms and especially not harems and at the time the only one I liked was Love is war its what hooked me on the story, (and yes this is a mystery story or at least advertised that way). So now onto Itski this is the closest one id call to be a bit of a stretch because prior to the movie when I was theorizing neither Itski or Yotsuaba had major arc so it was a toss up untill I remembered Itski's gimmick is food and she was the one that basically got Usagi off the ground and got him through the basic needs because his family basically needed this job to survive. But then the movie/festival arc were every character completes/finalizes there character arc and im arguing because of how close each of the quiets represents one stage each one reaches self actualization and itsaki has the most stages to climb thus why she has such a foas in the movie determining her career path as a teacher (safety), encountering and confronting her biological father(love and belonging), confidence to despite everything being against her getting her score high enophe to go to collage(esteem), and her reaching slef-actualization by becoming a teacher. Now Ichka her entire charter represents safety needs her arc the summer festival was basically all about her trying to get her job as a actress she is the big sister of the quiets and is very protective and always looking out for the safety and wellbeing as well as when they move out being for awile until they all have jobs she is the one providing recourses and property of her and her sisters aswell after this she is the one to basically secure the job for Uasugi wail nino and and itski would still rebel a bit he was actually able to do his job and teach them, there is also in the final arc her choice to forgo school to become a full on actress and be her best self. Nino is even more obvious her tsundree personality her arc is largely focused on her feeling a sense of belonging among her sisters and wanting love from her adaptive father and when she finally admits her feelings to her self is the most outwardly affectionate towards Usugi this is also around the time Usugi starts to have a proper friend group outside of the quients and during the school festival her want to make the pancakes for her father and ultimately leading to her following her dream and opening a bakery with Miku. Then for Miku it couldn't be more obvious her entire charchter is her opening up about things like her love of history and wanting to work on her baking and be recognized for it all leading into the school trip arc being wail her sisters did assist alot she was able to have the confidence to do all those things with Usaugi and during the festival she was able to come to terms with her unrequited feelings and she ultimately gained enoph confidence in her baking ablity to do whats best for her and open the bakery with Nino. Then Yostuba wail prior to the festival she seems to be the most put together of he girls because she had found a sense of self in her athletic ability and being the first to break away from her sisters with her ribbon as shown through the story and primary in school festival she hasnt found her best self constantly spreading he self thin her arc in the festival is her finding her best self by being selfish going to a sports collage and accepting Usagugi' confession. Then finally there is Usaugi who after nearly ever arc focused on one of the girls he gets a arc testing if he had moved past that stage witch the anime in a vain attempt to make him a generic self insert harm mc changed or cut parts of these arcs but after the fireworks there's the practice exam where is job is put on the line (safety needs after the Ichka arc who represents that), hot springs arc were the goal is distinqwish the quints from each other and how to do it is strait out stated to be love also the sense of belonging and bond he forms with there grandfather(right after nino's arc who represents love and belonging needs), and the part were Usaugi has the confidence to go and have fun at the beach party without the quints as well as having the confidence to ask the girls to hang out at the water park (right after miku's arc who represents esteem needs), also id argue that the arcade trip with his sister and itski shows he got past basic needs because he has enoph money now that they arnt scraping by and can spend it on more trivial things. As well Usugi follows and trys to be his best self by proposing to Yotsuba and still going to the high end school were they would scarcely meet. As I said before the final arc is a bit rushed and more scenes of Yostuba and Usaugi could have gone a long way but to say its unsatisfying or it doesnt make sense goes against not only the hints you pointed out aswell as all that iv described.

I never expected someone would use maslows hierarchy thoery to explain this anime but how youre telling things I feel like for uesugi fuutarou uses each of them to fulfil his needs step by step, as you can see fuutarou who was a poor guy wanted to earn money by working hard accpets the job of tutoring quintuplets to fulfil his first need which is bascis needs, then even though he struggels so much he finnaly able to earn money to pay off their family taxes which fulfils their safety needs, for the third step hee took some time to realize but he was aware of his love for every quintuplets, through this journey with the quintuples so far he was needed to estimate his values which he does by becoming third nationally at the national exam, for self actulization he took those three days where he has to decide his true feelings and do the hard task for deciding his wife. So just because Ituski loves to eat food doesnt make her basic needs, ichika wants to secure their bond beetwen quintupls by doing something as a older sister doesnt make her sefety needs, nino loving everyone of the sisters and loves to secure thier bonds doesnt make her love and belongings, miku wanting to actualize and estimate her goals for live doesnt make her self esteem and youtsuba being able to actualize first their mother's words to keeping their bonds or being able to forget about past and finnaly able to move forward in life diesnt make her self actualization

I read 3 books and watched several videos

​@@YumesukeSutashikaah ok thats what im doing to learn how to write stories too ✍🏿

No.

@@StevenUnigod47-qx1rs it’s a joke bro

​@@A-TrainN.1Ok good cause I was about to go off😂

So funny

I'm just being objective. If you look at my season 1 video, there are a lot of themes.

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​@@YumesukeSutashika I litteraly explained what " I am you" means. It is all the message of Shibuya and also the theme of Gojo vs Geto. Geto like Yuji always acted by pure reason and logic. In the end, Geto became crazy because of this. It is only when Yuji accepted his actions haven't need a reason than he can fight even if he doesn't know if he deserves to live.

@@ConstantinDOSSOU-vy1zo And I literally explained it in the video that I mentioned at that timestamp. I also explained how its a character arc, but not a theme.

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If you want to turn your brain off, do it by yourself. Don't drag people into your media illiteracy.

@@YumesukeSutashika lol, you use big words to look smarter, but that's not what I said

@@memeiacvibe Media literacy/illiteracy is not a big word. Do you not know what "media" and "illiterate" mean? Do you not know what "literature" means?

@@YumesukeSutashika I do but you can also just say I can't read or take in media the way you do. also you are straying away from the original point by trying to make me look stupid. You do you I guess

Also that's big talk for someone who does not know what I said :3

Not a good argument

Not a good argument