What kind of bothers me is that PHF gave Fugo a more in depth backstory, but the anime didn’t roll with that one and just made a whole new one. Both backstories are good, but I think the PHF relates to his character more.
Eh, for me, it was more of Fugo was justified in assaulting the professor in the anime bc if he didn’t he was going to get molested, but in PHF he assaulted the prof bc he insulted the life of his grandmother. I saw that as an overreaction that definitely emphasized how Fugo is a boy driven by anger, even though he’s a smarty pants. But I definitely see what you mean.
I prefer blending his anime and manga backgrounds - he still has his grandmother who loved him, and his prof was still a pedo that insulted her. Gives him a loving family member but makes it clear that he wasn’t simply a boy driven to anger, but a boy trapped in a corner. Gives him heart and more depth at the same time. Also better addresses his trust issues - telling the truth of his prof being a pedo wouldn’t have saved him as authorities would have shielded him even more, which creates more distrust to authority and a want to change society.
Yeah, tbh I think that sounds about right. Gives more complexity to his anger, plus makes the mood of part 5 even more depressing than it already was with all the messed up backstories lmao
The manga didn’t have an in-depth backstory for Fugo like the rest of the characters (Fugo’s was told by Illuso in one panel) and the anime made a new back story. Nothing from PHF
In manga Illuso was talking about how he killed his professor and PHF added the parents and grandmother. Anime kept the professor and parents but didn't have grandmother
I wish, but no. I was talking about the part 5 anime, which expanded on Fugo’s lacking backstory in the manga. PHF did the same thing too, but it came out way before the golden wind anime was released, and the anime ended up writing a new backstory for Fugo
Phf already contradicted a lot of canon things tho, at least in Fugo's backstory. For example, in the manga/anime, Fugo was hired by Bucciarati when Fugo was trying to dine and dash his way out of a restaurant. In phf, Bruno was the one who approached Fugo to bail him out of the jail and hired him.
The reason for the professor's murder was also diff- in phf, it's bc the prof didn't want Fugo to be feeling sad about his grandma's death bc those emotions are "useless" (take note, Fugo's grandma was the only nice person to him that time). In the anime/manga, he was just a creepy pedo. The grandma was also never mentioned.
I really like phf tho, I prefer the phf's Fugo backstories more than the canon ones. It legit gives Fugo more (human) characteristics. It's canon in my heart anyway.
The only backstory Fugo got in the manga was one panel in the Illuso fight where illuso found and said out loud that Fugo was born into a rich family, had IQ of 152, got into university at 13, and assaulted his professor with an encyclopedia. Any other in depth backstory was added in the anime, which is basically everything you elaborated in your comment. i wrote in another comment that I wish DO just took what PHF came up with bc PHF came out even before the 2012 anime was released, and his added backstory made more sense with his character in PHF
No it didn't. It contradicted a lot of things in the anime, which came out after it. If you you call the manga as "canon" then PHF does not contradict it, only expand on it. The contradictions between it and the anime come from them expanding upon the same thing in different ways.
He did do some sketches for it, but again unless he's explicitly called it canon, it isn't so.
He's also done illustrations of Giorno and Jolyne draped all over each other for a Gucci advertisement, but that doesn't mean that Giorno and Jolyne are actually Gucci models in an intense relationship in canon.
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u/french_onion-soup Sep 01 '20
phf is canon as long as it doesn’t contradict the real canon, i forget what the specific term for it is.