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More old art

Body and arm thing inspired off pinterest

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YESSS YUMMY GORGEOUS IM GONNA COMBUST

Old art becuz i want to draw again someday

And thsi was supposed to be an art acc

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I haven’t watched the anime last season, what did they ruin for Todoroki Rising? I haven’t watched it since the ending of the manga disappointed me. What did they remove?

They removed the title, for one and mashed it together with the Mecha All Might reveal. The episode is called "I am here".

They cut Geten and Mr Compress, some of the backflashes (baby Touya and Natsuo), basically speedran the entire Todofam part, not slowing down in the emotional parts, cut out the Remedial kids relieved smiles, cut out international audience watching (the Thai cafe scen), didn't adapt some of the big key panels like Shouto arriving to the scene (I mean Shouto arriving is adapted but his big double page isn't).

The anime director is a huge Endeavor and Uraraka fan. So instead of Todoroki Shouto Rising, she gave us the "family came" episode and then also explained that SHE decided that TGCHK is ought to be the catharsis of S7, so that's why Shoto Rising was chopped to 10 minutes, while tgchk was dragged out 1.5 episodes with anime only inserts, slow scenes all drawn meticulously.

Tbf, the Shoto Rising episode does have some insane animation as all the big-name animators clearly wanted to work on it, including Nakamura adapting the piggyback ride. But the storyboard and pacing of the episode is lacking and the anime director lady did everything she could to diminish Shouto's role and victory.

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Do you think the comedic portray of Bakugo’s bully/abusive (especially the anime) actions actively drags down his redemption arc as well as being a major point of contention within the fandom?

I think Horikoshi's comedy often seems inappropriate and definitely an acquired taste (not my personal taste), not specific to Bakugou. (See Mineta's sexual assault used as comedy or how Endeavor from time to time portrayed as clumsy helicopter dad rather than the horrible abuser he is).

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Rant about Midoriya and Bakugo. I think their friendship is one of the worsts of MHA (yes, even worse than Uraraka and Tsuyu) because it sends an extremely dangerous message, especially to people who dealt with abusive friendships. The thing about them is that I don’t mind abusive friendships in fiction (in fact, I personally find them extremely important because there’s little to no representation of abusive friendships compared to other types of relational abuse, especially for people who dealt with abusive friendships), but the way Horikoshi handled both characters, especially Midoriya, sends a horrible message that your feelings hurt aren’t valid and that you have to forgive them no matter what (that’s how the apology scene felt in general, especially with the lack of Midoriya’s reaction). I don’t understand why he decided to make them reconcile in the first place especially when Midoriya has actually friends that look out for him instead of being reduced as a prop of his childhood friend. It doesn’t help that Midoriya fits into the perfect victim trope to the point where he doesn’t even have any reaction to his trauma.

I know BKDK are "childhood friends" (which basically just means two people who grew up together as children - and does not necessarily depict a friendship in the conventional sense), but I feel like this is not a Silent Voice kind of scenario focused on the bullying and the relationship development afterwards.

While bullying is part of their history, the BKDK dynamic primarily is not about friendship, but an exploration of the different facets of the All Might hero legacy. It is comparing what a child like Deku - who has no power or great prospects in hero society and who admires All Might for saving people - sees in All Might vs what a child like Bakugou - a talented golden child, with great power and future, but also ego problems - sees in him. It's pitting those two ideas against each other and showing that they are not diametrically opposed, but rather complimentary and that All Might was both of those things, and all of that is his legacy.

And I think it also shows how Deku and Bakugou mature into their own hero image, which is still different and rooted in their personality and values, but it's closer to each other by the end. They also have a closer relationship by the end because they manage to work through their differences, but I feel like the primary focus in their relationship is not the interpersonal, but both of their coming of age and formation of their hero persona, as well as a reflection of the changes in the wider hero society.

Having said that, I do agree that Horikoshi didn't explore Deku's side of the story well, and generally seems to have a hard time reconciling that someone can be a victim and a hero at the same time. This is unfortunate, because he spends a lot of time dissecting how villains can be victims at the same time. It leads to kind of a lopsided representation, where it almost feels like a binary path: either a person overcomes their trauma on their own (Deku, Shoto), suffer in silence and become heroes, or they get stuck in their trauma and spiral into villainy (Tomura, Toga, Toya, Jin, etc). And that comes across an awful lot like stigmatizing victims (which I don't think the message Hori wanted to send, but I don't think he really thought through what the message was).

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FR

Yeah, I agree with with your post about shoto’s prior screentime. It also made me sad when shoto was stuck outside like deku was until a teacher had to get him but it was barely acknowledged

Shoto’s writing was weird but not in a character changing way if that makes sense

Yeah.

The problem was that ever since Dabi's dance, I think Shoto needed an emotional resolution moment, similar to what BKDK got in 424 or Uraraka got in 428-29.

Shoto got nothing of the sort. The closest we came was 386, but even there, he was holding back tears. For not a single moment was he allowed to show his pain or what he was truly going through. He had to put on a brave face, to hide all his feelings and just soldier on.

If anyone, he was the character who went through some of the worst stuff from start to finish of the story, without really ever getting a good break down.

It doesn't ruin the character, but leave fans with a lack of emotional resolution. And it's annoying because these breakdowns were given both to Endeavor and Dabi, and also to all the other main hero kids.

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—she’s so pretty omg

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NO FR STOP BULLYING MY POOKIE

I keep seeing ppl say they miss his baby face and I’m like do you guys understand that when you’re a growing adult your face is going to change?

Also forgot to mention that I’ve seen ppl say he’s starting to look like endeavor (from what I’ve seen) and that part really pissed me off. Please don’t compare him to his own dad like damn. Some ppl are fr upset that shouto looks like his dad which I can understand for the only reason that his dads a dick. I really don’t think he looks that much like his dad tbh. Maybe like natsu but hell I really don’t think he looks that much like his dad ;-;

i keep seeing everyone hate on adult shoto saying he's ugly and what not, and it makes me SOOO ANGRY like look at him HE'S SUCH A CUTIE AND HIS HAIR I LOVE IT?? imo he got more attractive.

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I won’t lie theyre silly omg <3

warm-hug hugs

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IM GONNA IMPLODE

im sick of my parents trying to reconcile

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Post-canon post-recover au transfem touya wowow

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This is not meant as hate, but I am genuinely curious - you like tddk, tdbk, and tdbkdk, but not just bkdk?

In the past, I used to read a lot of different ships, including bkdk and even krbk.

But around the PLF War arc, Shouto started to be treated really badly in the canon story with leaving a lot of gaps in his story and a lot of emotional situations unexplored. Also, he barely got any kind of pay-off for his set-ups.

So I started to gravitate towards Shouto-centric stories to fill the hole the story left me with.

Nowadays, I read pretty much exclusively stuff with good Shouto-centric character exploration - Gen fics, todofam fics, tdbk, tddk, tdbkdk, tdbkkrdk, rareships, etc.

I kind of lost interest in bkdk as a ship after the apology - it felt increasingly claustrophobic to me how Bakugou was portrayed with very little communication coming back from Deku and the dynamic became stale. I still like certain portrayals of their relationship in fanfic (mostly the poly I read) but it's not something I seek out per se.

Also during/after PLF War arc, the BKDK spaces have become increasingly hostile to Shouto fans, so I simply separated myself from that part of the fandom.

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NOOOOOOOOOOO

FUCKING WHY?!!!

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Your tweet on Inasa 😭 so real! Honestly, so many characters on the hero side fell into the typical glaze Endeavor BS and he was one of those to fall into that category, the fact that he held such a grudge for not getting a autograph and for Shouto not wanting to be his friend and yet had no care for the abuse was mind blowing. The lack of reaction from a past Endeavor hater was such a HUGE miss on Horikoshi’s part, because it could have been such introspection of Inasa’s past and present thoughts! Like the fact that he could of looked back on his past thoughts on Shouto and past behaviour towards Shouto of comparing him to his abuser and realise how maybe he shouldn’t judge someone based on first encounters because you do not know what they are going through, and dare I say it maybe realise that his pain/anger was incomparable to Shouto’s pain and anger(like not saying his anger was invalid but still). Like we could have had those thoughts and seen why he comes to the conclusion to show support, instead of glaze from the get go!

Inasa is a particularly painful Endeavor glazer for me. He is not Burnin' - Endeavor's employee. He's not Hawks - someone whose major psychological anchor is Endeavor.

Inasa was a character introduced through Shouto. It was a very controversial decision at the time to fail Shouto at the licensing arc. A lot of Shouto-fans felt it was unjustified (unlike Bakugou's humbling) and that Inasa was fully in the wrong to provoke Shouto.

Also, up until that point, Shouto's arc was about emancipation from Endeavor, focusing on his mom and opening up to his friends. With Endeavor getting his moment of change at Kamino, suddenly Shouto's arc pivoting to having to face his feelings about his father made a lot of fans uneasy and I know that a lot of Shouto-fans (and tddk fans) left the manga at around this time.

For me, the Remedial arc felt like a nice pay-off for all this and was waiting for a good payoff for the remedial squad to do something together.

Instead, Hori brought Inasa back not to help Shouto or do a combo with him, but to glaze Endeavor - without even reflecting for a second about why Shouto would have been so cold when they had first met. He just assumes based on the fact that he witnessed Endeavor approach Shouto that they both want to patch things up and he better root for them.

Considering Inasa is a bit of a "proto-Touya" (hating Shouto mainly because of how he himself was treated by Endeavor) makes it even worse that Inasa's comeback is about Endeavor and not Shouto who made the effort to connect with Inasa despite his initial distaste for the guy.

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What does “Now I have time to spare in my heart” mean?

It's a quote from the classic manga "Parasyte".

Parasyte official translated it as "bored" but if you read it in context, I think that doesn't quite reflect the full meaning.

In Parasyte, it rather refers to the ability of humans to feel compassion, grief and mourn things that an alien (one of the protegonists of Parasyte) would see as useless.

Specifically, this is highlighted by how the protagonist - who is merged with an alien becomes colder and less able to feel grief. So when he comes upon a critically injured dog, after playing with it briefly, when it dies, he throws the body to the trash heap. Only at the end of the manga is it revealed that he actually went back and buried the dog. And this is the context for the quote - his alien parasyte remarks how it is wonderful about humans that they can have time to spare in their hearts for such seemingly useless things as mourning a random roadkill.

I think Shouto quoting from Parasyte is a reference that he's still reading manga, but also a manga specifically about loss, human emotions and connections.

I feel like it's a bit of a shorthand reference to Shouto's grief about Touya - about how even a brief encounter can be transformative, about the realness of grief, etc.

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I lost interest in MHA around the Star and Stripe storyline so it's fascinating to come back to the manga now and catch up with everything. it's funny how much the final act seems to have changed people's opinions on the handling of a lot of characters. i remember when people used to complain bakugou never got big winning moments and always lived in deku's shadow now he's gotten too much and overshadowed deku apparently. shame shouto still got the shortest end of the stick.

I don't think Shouto got the "shortest end of the stick"

There were some frustrating parts, but overall in the final war + epilogue Shouto got:

a good and logical quirk upgrade that fit his development

an emotional 1 on 1 fight with Touya

good scene with All Might

a great combo with Iida

a big save that highlighted how he reached his goal of being a reassuring hero both for his family and the public

he actually saved (temporarily) his villain

got an emotional breakthrough with Toya in the epilogue

and even reached his goal of stepping out of Endeavor's shadow and become a beloved and successful hero who made peace with the past and is shown to expand as a person through new hobbies

He got shortchanged in the anime - although his "Rising" episode despite the sabotage by the anime director is one of the highest rated episodes of the entire series and had a lot of big name animators working on it.

But I think overall, Shouto is a character whose development was delivered pretty well until the end and who managed to successfully represent what true heroism is - with both compassion, justice, power of friendship and just pure, well-earned power progression.

In that sense, he's a rare, successful character whose writing stands up even in the unholy mess of Act 3. He could have gotten more of course, and as a Shouto fan I wish he had more focus, but seeing how other characters fared, I still feel quite content with Shouto's endgame.