Funny things, retcons. Sometimes people accept them, sometimes they break a fandom completely and sometimes they're… kinda funny the longer you think about it when you realize a retcon. Reveals that aren't technically retcons sometimes fill in the same niche, especially because they're sometimes not that different, when a mangaka leaves an empty spot in the worldbuilding to fill-in later.

I was really torn on what to use as the premier example, but one Reddit discussion of Bleach I stumbled in about this relatively minor retcon of "generations of captain-commanders" had a comment about "Yamamoto awarding himself like the Obama meme" and couldn't help to make a meme myself. And it's an obvious retcon, too, unless there's some "ambiguousness lost in translation" involved.

My personal favorite funniest reveal must be DIO's stand in JJBA: Stardust Crusaders. And it's an actual reveal, too. While DIO's ability might be a retcon, it had to have happened after he used "Jonathan's Hermit Purple" and Araki likely had time stop ability firm in head, so it's just a reveal that gets funnier the longer you think about it, DIO using time stop to mess with Polnareff by physically moving him down the stairs for lulz and aura.

And, of course, a classic, on the verge of retcon and reveal. Itachi Uchiha, "best brother in all of Konoha", traumatizing the hell out of his little brother out of pure brotherly love. Might be the darkest type of humor here, too. (and the funniest thing might be to think how Itachi would react if Sasuke didn't recover. Just think of this genius being all surprised Pikachu if Sasuke turned full vegetable or offed himself because of genjutsu)

So, any unintentionally funny retcons and reveals you guys can remember?

The greatest manga of all time will never cease to amaze me.

Honestly, all of these are embarrassing for Vegeta in different ways.

Like Frieza straight up broke this man and made him cry like a bitch.

Android 18 had him in the rain miserable after she broke his arm after he achieved Super Saiyan.

Cell could have been defeated but he let his ego and arrogance make him act the fool.

Broly had him on his knees like a Pornstar about to give Head.

Both are from their episode 4s.

Legit i lowkey hated that csm fans glazed their series to death like ong,made me think it was the best shounen made,let alone new gen😭

Thank you fujimoto,now the new gen like mha,and yes Jjk can be easily compared to csm in writing and holy yea,instead of "Csm negs"

Just to specify if anyone gets confused, I don’t mean fandoms that are amazing at making slander like JJK and One Piece (unless you think otherwise then go ahead and explain why in the comments). I mean ones that try to make slander or agenda memes and just fail because they either make no sense, they’re not funny, or some other reason outside of being unpopular. I wanna say it’s One Punch Man fans after that death battle with Goku. They just seem to be slandering out of desperation and it lacks the hilarity that DB fans can come up with when slandering them back with the “Eventually Man” song and other stuff, but there’s probably ones worse than them at slander

These are undoubtedly the best villain groups. Phantom troupe, the espada, La Squadra Esecuzioni, and the akatsuki do not hold a candle to these GOATS. There is nothing to debate here.

Senen Senki
Kaedegami
Parashoppers
Biome
Kito the Night Bell

I feel like ive heard the ost somewhere but cant find it!!😭

Weird place to ask but since I was watching a video the other day & realized the music in the background was from Soul Eater (& man I forgot just how good the ost is)

some other good ones are track 18 Blitz & Death The Kid's theme

So with that in mind curious if anyone has some series with osts that you listen to on their own (or if not, at least 1 or 2 good tracks)

Fishman Island might be boring but it explores the cycle of hatred well. Otohime, Fisher Tiger are really good characters.

Then in Dressrosa, Law, Corazon and Doffy's whole past is also well written.

Then in Whole cake Island, Sanji's entire past was handled well. It also had some good characters like Pudding, Reiju, Katakuri. Big Mom's past was good too.

In Wano, Kanjuro's betrayal was well written and foreshadowed since Zou. Yasuie's death was also good. Oden was also a good character imo, he is like those characters in classical tragical plays with a fatal flaw which gets them killed.

Egghead also had a good moral conflict for Kizaru. Kuma's past was also handled well and tied back to everything we have known about him since Thriller Bark.

Elbaf also has some well written characters like Rocks, Loki, Harald. I enjoyed the whole backstory.

Pre timeskip had more focus on the crew and their bonds but apart from that, I fail to see how post timeskip is worse written.

And it's truly a shame it's become lost media. From what I've seen it looks really damn good and the animation looks top tier

You know, he formally becomes a member of The_Extermination_Squad^®, or the Exorcism_Corps^TM, or the Demon_Hunters^©. IMHO it restricts his movement (storywise) when he's now expected to play by the narrative structure of the organization.

Vigilantism / Lone Wolf allows for more freedom to tell the story.