So Charlotte is actually a food montage, huh. I guess it works just as well as Shokugeki no Souma :v
So lets take a moment to appreciate how broken Yuu is.
He has the power to posses people, stealing abilities, flight, go invisible to one person at a time, move sonic fast, channel the dead, pyromancy, telekinesis, telepathy, taking pictures of people in their underwear, âcollapseâ, a currently unusable timeleap(That he COULD fix), the ability to go though walls, erase memories, hypnotize/force sleep, find power users, create ice, translate any language, ability to make illness worse, some sort of super sight, forcefield creation, healing, seeing the future, power to create explosions, a super jump, shooting lightning, disintegration of objects, turning things to gold, making spikes, a legit teleport, aaaand âcourageâ.
Confirmed existing powers that he is not known to have taken are shooting light out of your mouth.
Plus âtens of thousandsâ more unknown powers.
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He has thoughtography. He posses the dude to throw the picture of Nao to her. Also did he take the brotherhoodâs powers? We never saw him take them.
Oh yeah thatâs right.
EVERY POWER USER
Even if he didnât take them before going nuts, he would have forcibly taken them later.
Unless they were in Japan I guess.
They were literally right there when he was using his map to look at Courage-chan and they wernât blipping.
Theyâre plunderlooted.
Iâm a little confused about Yuuâs morals about hurting other people. He
clearly has a sister he cares deeply about at the start and although he
was poor as was mentioned, it did not appear to be any level of
traumatic life threatening poor. Thus brings up the question how he can
disregard other peoplesâ LIVES so easily when he doesnât appear to be a
sociopath. He was willing to possibly kill a stranger by making them
crash their truck so he could act as a white knight to end up dating a
rich and pretty girl from his school that he didnât care about that much
emotionally. (Playing with life/death isnât a laughing matter) But Yuu
isnât a complete scumbag at heart as he can make friends and show
empathy and help others.
In episode 7 when he goes on a depressed rampage, he still isnât able to
kill those he beats up despite wreaking havoc and coming close to
stabbing someoneâs eye. Although there was the security guy whom he
forced to jump over the balcony and that wasnât something like the 2nd
or 3rd floor, it most certainly looked like it was high enough to kill
someone fpr sure. Although it was also implied the guard had a cushioned
falling from the sound of trees and bushes. I chalk this up to his
stupidity+depression, but he probably didnât actually want to kill the
guard.
Iâd put that down to confidence. In his mind, there wasnât much of a risk of hurting people.
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Agreed with what Taka said; in the episode 1 example, he checked if the driver was still okay after having him crash into the post. In episode 7, he first checked if there was a tree down there to cushion his fall.
He definitely has no intent to murder these people, so I wouldnât call him a sociopath, but he definitely is willing to take the risk of harming others in order to achieve his goalsâŚ
Well, at least pre-episode 8 Yuu thought that way. Episode 13 Yuu also started to regress into that after he had lost the memories of his experiences with Ayumi and Kumagami
Otosaka Yuu starts off as an arrogant cheater who wants others to admire him. He isnât content with just being good-looking. He aims for the position of the smartest student of his grade and when it comes to girls, only the school madonna is good enough for him. He puts great effort into his preparations, abuses his supernatural ability to cheat his way through life, and even frivolously puts other people in danger for the sake of his schemes. He doesnât care much about other people.
His shenanigans end when he gets subjugated by Tomori Nao. She knows his true nature, sheâs smarter, driven, and always one step ahead of Yuu. Others in his position might have tried to break free from Naoâs control, but Yuu gives up rather quickly. He is weak. He lacks courage, determination, and a decent reason to oppose her. âI donât want toâ and âIt hurtsâ arenât good enough a reason.
Yuu is by no means hero material.
He gets forced into the position of a Heroâs sidekick.
As he reluctantly follows Nao around, helping her save people he doesnât care about, he starts getting used to his new situation and gets a little bit closer to his new colleagues, Nao included. Heâs not exactly the obedient type, but he ends up doing as heâs told anyway. His âambitious jerkâ personality only awakens when it comes to him or his precious little sister Ayumi. He has no qualms throwing his colleague Joujirou out of the window just to make sure he doesnât ruin Ayumiâs meeting with her favorite idol.
And yet he fails to save Ayumi. Grief-stricken, he runs away, taking out his agony on delinquents on the streets as he once again finds joy in dominating others - this time through violence. Despite âgoing wildâ like this, Yuu doesnât lose control completely. He doesnât kill anyone, nor does he leave his opponents with lifelong injuries.
Yuu is not villain material, either.
Admittedly, he is a skilled fighter.
It is once again Nao who stops him from straying from the right path and helps him recover. As Yuu begins to come to terms with the tragedy, he loses some of his selfishness and develops a more understanding, a more caring side, going out of his way to help other people (in this case Naoâs brother) of his own accord for the first time.
Through a chain of events, Yuuâs position changes.
He finds out that he is the strongest ability user out there. He goes back in time and saves Ayumi. He regains memories from an alternative timeline and finds out that the world he lives in is far more cruel to ability users such as himself than he ever imagined. As if to drive this point home, Yuu is soon targeted by a foreign group of criminals. They kidnap Nao, who had done so much for him, to lure him out.
This is where Yuu is supposed to step up as a hero, but he still lacks the inner strength. Remember, he is not hero material.
Expecting a teenager to face armed and fully prepared thugs to save two lives is a tall order and Yuu almost breaks down when he is demanded to do just that. But he canât simply abandon Nao and eventually, he works up enough courage and determination to go save her after all.
However, he fails, as do his enemies. Nao survives the confrontation only thanks to Kumagamiâs sacrifice. Yuu loses time leap.
This is where Yuu grows the most as a person. He realizes his feelings for Nao and boldly confesses. He realizes what it is he wishes for: to make sure the people he loves wonât have to suffer. He overcomes his failures, decides to take things in his own hands and accepts the sheer impossible task of singlehandedly saving all ability users in the world, in order to end the conflict for good. Thanks to his friends, he also learns what it truly means to take away someoneâs ability.
He never lacked power or fighting prowess. But only now did he develop inner strength, courage and determination, for now he has something he wants to protect. Only now did he become capable of taking on the world.
Yuu was never meant to be a hero. He never wanted to be one. Yet he decided to become one on his own.
So his battle begins. He struggles, he stumbles, he gets weary, he comes close to losing heart. But he perseveres, even as he is losing himself and forgetting what it is he is fighting for.
And he succeeds.
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Iâve been meaning to ask this, and Iâve been curious as to whether it was because of bad scripting, or not remembering things, but.
In episode 13, if I remember correctly, people were trying to shoot Yuu, but Yuu was blocking it with a self-shield. If I remember correctly, he was sleeping for part of it while people were shooting at him, yet the shield was protecting him. Does that mean that the shield protects him whether heâs sleeping or awake ? Cause later in the episode, he gets shot using another weapon (sorry. Not a big fan of remembering weapons), by a man later on, and the shield doesnât protect him anymore. Was this just bad scripting, or was the shield only bulletproof ?
In episode 13, someone controlled him, maybe an inner thought or a dead person, and who could that have been ? I was always curious because that scene could have been a good starting for a second season if it was planned.
Yuu looses all his memories in the end. Does he still have his powers and abilities ? I doubt that powers just disappears when you loose your memories.
Is it possible that Yuu was possessed in episode 13 throughout the scenes, such as when he was dragging people in the desert and such ?
Is it possible that the Yuu we see at the ending is actually someone else whoâs possessing him if he still has his powers ? When he fell asleep, someone was possessing him and burnt the whole room. What are the laws when he passes out ? This could have been some kind-hearted soul (literally) who followed Yuu around and possessed him whenever he saw Yuu throw the note cards away or ruin it, so he would pick it back up.
Why didnât Yuu heal his eye ? He could have freaken time traveled and plunder that knife-chan little girl, sheesh.
This regards to Yuuâs powers, but isnât it possible to save dead people using his healing powers ?
The fact that he had the power of a âmediumâ brings up a lot of questions that Iâm curious about.
iirc this was one of the big character development moments. This was to show that he was no longer going to use his powers selfishly and instead do everything to finish the job and take all the powers.
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Just a hunch but maaaaybe at the time he was protecting courage-chan he was way too tired to use his powers as well as he could have earlier on.
âŚwhat?
What?
I will have to ask you for proof on this.
This is actually a pretty controversial topic, yes. Some would agree with you, but others might say that the powers are linked to the brain, and losing parts of your brain (as in, losing your memory) would also have you lose your powers. Unfortunately the series didnât even give us enough information to bother to speculate.
You misunderstand; the room burning incident is him slowly delving into madness due to having to take on all those powers at the same time; madness to the point that he no longer is consciously aware of his own actions.
Iâm sorry, but the fact that you ask this question means that you understood absolutely nothing about Charlotte.
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The for the person who was âcontrollingâ him is just a speculation, since he did have the powers of a Medium.
And lol. I donât think there was anyone who understood Charlotte.
If Yu were to possess someone, and someone shot the body that he was possessing, would Yu Otosaka, be dead?
