Popsucklez

popsucklez

jkjk I love big ^_^🥳

flustered

why not?

maybe

if only

they accidentally killed that man on purpose

drew some girls from Deku and Kirishima's school + Mina's friends

For all the video game analogies Shigaraki uses, we’ve never actually seen him play a video game in the manga or anime. Even before he steps into All For One’s role, every time we see him at the bar - chilling, planning, whatever he’s doing - he doesn’t have a console. In the anime, in episode 40, when he is playing a ‘game’, it’s stacking a house of cards.

Instead, Shigaraki’s more likely to be reading the newspaper. In his first ever appearance, manga and anime, he’s reading about how All Might is a teacher. 

Then after the Hosu chaos, he’s reading all about Stain, as well as watching the news.

This doesn’t seem like just him doing some causal skimming either. In his room, he’s got newspaper clippings taped all over the walls, everywhere.

Most of them seem to be about Heroes - we’ve got what looks like All Might in the top left corner. There’s also a world map in front of him, and a map of Japan at his left. His shelves has quite a bit of books has well. 

Basically, what I’m getting at is that, sure, he probably likes video games a lot, but unlike the fanon view of him as childishly obsessed with video games, playing them whenever he can, Shigaraki apparently spends quite a lot of time reading and watching the news, keeping up to date with current events, analyzing and filing information away. As expected of a budding criminal mastermind. 

No doubt this is All For One’s teaching: He’s got Shigaraki watching the UA Sports Festival, and he apparently taught Shigaraki about the rest of the underworld so that Shigaraki recognizes Overhaul as a Yakuza boss on sight.

Makes me wonder what All For One’s educating was like. Before he was shipped off to Tartarus, All For One was still trying to get Shigaraki to learn and mature. Of course Shigaraki calls him ‘Teacher’. 

Shigaraki Tomura at the beginning of the series is a bit of a spoiled brat, indulged by his Master, but the lessons stuck. He is observant, analytical, and honestly smart, even before he found his motivation after Stain. I just really wanted to emphasize this, cuz I feel like a lot of the fandom overlooks it. Which is easy to do since a lot of his plans fail and fail again, but I think that’s inexperience and now he’s improving fast. And also because the heroes gotta win. 

Also: MHA’s got modern-slightly-futurish technology, yet Shigaraki’s still reading newspaper. We also never see him use a phone. My heacanon is that it’s habit - when he was still learning to control his quirk, it was just more practical to give him cheap paper instead of an expensive electronic and so that’s his prefer mode of reading.