There are moments in one’s life that one will be overwhelmed with emotions and will displace those emotions towards a source. These emotions can manifest into feelings of aggression, which is “physical or verbal behavior intended to cause harm” (Myers, 2013, p. 354). There are two distinct types of aggression: hostile aggression and instrumental aggression. Hostile aggression is when the verbal or physical act is provoked by emotion; instrumental aggression is when the verbal or physical act is done with another goal in mind. In the anime, My Hero Academia, Katsuki Bakugou, displays an immense amount of aggression towards the main character Izuku Midoriya. Katsuki and Izuku are childhood friends who drifted apart once Katsuki’s quirk began to show and Izuku was labeled “quirkless” in kindergarten. The main idea behind the anime is that Izuku and Katsuki are living in a world full of people with “quirks”, or superpowers. Seeing that Katsuki got an amazingly, strong quirk and Izuku no quirk, Katsuki and the other children begin to bully Izuku up into high school. …show more content…
Kacchan, the characters are in a battle simulator where one team are the villians and the other team are the heroes; Izuku and Katsuki are on opposite teams. This scene takes place the day after Katsuki finds out that Izuku has a quirk and is filled with rage because he thinks that Izuku has been hiding his quirk this whole time. His rage only grows throughout the fight because Izuku refuses to use his quirk, and thus feels that Izuku is looking down on him. Katsuki is displaying hostile aggression because he is being provoked by emotions of anger at Izuku. He says to Izuku during battle, “Have you been underestimating me like that since then, you bastard?!” (Horikoshi, 2016). However, since Katsuki is also trying to provoke Izuku into using his quirk, it is also instrumental