I know it random but at the end of the claw arc I felt kinda bad for Touichirou, deep down he just wanted to see his wife again and apologize

Oh, I love Touichirou and its all BONES’s fault, honestly.

I don’t recall him having much of an impact on me in the manga, perhaps because the way things were presented it didn’t feel like Touichirou had issues that much deeper than just delusion (with all due respect if others interpreted it differently! This is just how he came off to me). And while that delusion very obviously distanced him from the people around him, coworkers and family alike, it didn’t feel like something that had that great an emotional impact on him, y’know? It was just something he hadn’t realized and which helped in his rehabilitation, but which didn’t impact him heavily.

And then BONES came and said “yes, well, Line, I bet we can make you change your mind there” and I absolutely DID.

I’d spent two episodes wondering if they’d just decided to cut out the background info on the Suzuki family (I was very invested in the general confirmation that artificial espers weren’t a thing and the further context of Shou not being tortured as a kid, as that was a point of conflicting interpretation I had with some friends and I thought BONES’s adaptation just might be the best to clear it up), and I’d just about given up on it when BAM, right when I least expected it, framed in a way I didn’t anticipate, we get a peek into Touichirou’s past.

The blue-tinted scenes with his family legitimately made me cry (but I cry very easily so take that as you will), and it made me expand my perception of World Domination from “The Arc where Mob saves the world after a very long nap” to also include “Touichirou’s Arc. And DANG, did they set that up masterfully in the background to sneak the climax on you!

There’s still no doubt Touichirou’s story is about the extremization of self entitlement, but BONES’ adaptation added an angle I hadn’t expected, hinting at how what made Touichirou special made him lonely, and showing us how that spiraled to the point it destroyed what little happiness he’d managed to attain for himself.

It made Touichirou go from “this character’s ok” to being my fifth favorite character in MP100 (cuz sorry, no one can dethrone Mob, Teru, Reigen, and Ristu). 10/10, hope we get a S3 to see him again.

