#power systems

The most infuriating thing with magical shōnen & superhero power systems is when women are largely weaker than men. Like come on! It's magic.

Always view bullshit life circumstances through the lens of anime esque power inhibitors. Recognize the unchecked primordial force within you and understand that the fates saw fit to nerf you because they knew how ungovernable you would become if you realized the truth about yourself. It makes it so much easier to detach from the situation. It can even be fun. This isn't a test, it isn't your fault and it's not even going to matter by the end of the season. These unwanted situations are just plot devices to make your inevitable victory more satisfying.

Willpower. The intrinsic energy that every living being could produce. Usually, only one trained in Magic could take advantage of such a power in any meaningful way. But Summoners are unborn Mages. They are people who could’ve been Mages, but for any reason weren’t trained, so their immense Will leaks out in the form of Summonings.

An underrated aspect of JKK that i feel more people should acknowledge is that there's a clear through line between the power system and the morality of its users. So many other power systems will have a good and evil aspect to their powers and firmly apply the powers based on that. Like MHA, all the good guys get heroic powers like super strength and anti gravity (plus the neutral ones like tail and invisible), but all the villains get inherently evil quirks like blood manipulation and disintegration and fire but scarier, Definitely not like the good guy who uses fire. Or their powers will be inherently evil BUT when the good guy uses it they're the exception. Like all demons in Black Clover suck, no exceptions, except the one that lives in Asta. He's the ONE good one, so we can still kill every demon without remorse but Asta still gets all the benefits of demon powers. Or in Naruto, all the nijas are hired mercenaries who kill people for money, EXCEPT Naruto, who's a good guy who never kills except when he does, but it's for a moral reason so he's always in the right. But in JJK, the powers are all coming explicitly from fear and hatred and misery, and as a result, sorcerers are all at least a little bit assholes. Like all of them. Todo will kill random people if he doesn't get a satisfactory answer to his intro question, Megumi will release a walking nuke into a crowded city, Meimei. Just all of Meimei. None of them are inherently noble just because they do an ostensibly noble job. And as the Zenin clan proved, if anything, they're bigger assholes than normal, but they can wave it way because their shittiness doesn't make more curses. The only objectively nice sorcerers are the ones with barely any powers like Miwa and Panda, and Nanami who gets life advice from random convenience store workers

Necromancy in Locked Tomb is like alchemy in Fullmetal Alchemist but without the geometry. Or the restraint.