Saw this fanart you reblogged about copium AU (voxofthevoid-furious/811592532690632705) and I am just waiting waiting waiting for the Nobara being alive reveal to happen because I have so much pent up "I TOLD YOU SO!!!" in me at all the people telling me it was copium me believing she was alive when it was so obvious to me that she was. As a manga reader I'm really trying so hard to keep my gloating to myself with anime onlys and I think I deserve a reward for that 😩😔😂
Fair 🤣
Though in this case, I wouldn't blame anyone for coming to believe that Nobara really did die. On the one hand, the Shibuya scene of her "death" and Yuuji's conversation with Megumi later both went out of their way to not confirm her death, leaving it ambiguous in a way that guarantees a resurrection as per shonen logic. On the other hand, Gege left it that way for far too long and then mucked up the timing of her waking, in terms of both in-universe logic and the overall narrative timing. I don't really see how any anime changes can fix this angle either. It's not a lack of foreshadowing—that's there aplenty. It's the timing of bringing her back in the eleventh hour of the final arc to give Yuuji an assist that's the issue—the assist itself is thematically consistent, and it would have been emotionally resonant if it didn't feel as contrived as the "Girl Power" scene in the final battle of Avengers: Endgame, to use an example we're both familiar with.
Of course, plenty of manga readers were happy with that, and I'm sure a lot of the current anime-onlies will be too. But plenty, including me, didn't find her resurrection to be satisfying or have any emotional payoff. By the time she came back to life, I'd not only given up hope but actively wanted her to stay dead. I'm expecting that kind of polarization among the anime-onlies too.
