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My Hero Academia: School Briefs, Vol. 2: Training Camp by Yoshi Anri

Genre: Light novel

Summary from Goodreads.com: Midoriya inherits the superpower of the world’s greatest hero, but greatness won’t come easy.

Prose short stories featuring the everyday school lives of My Hero Academia’s fan-favorite characters.

At U.A. High School, it’s tradition for students to attend a training camp in the woods. Though the kids are mostly there to improve their Quirks, it’s also an opportunity for the ever-chatty class A, and class B as well, to cut loose in a way they can’t during regular classes.

My view on this book: This light novel is a continued of the first light novel and align with the story line of manga. This is during the time before their examination and during the summer camping training. I like this story better compare with the before light novel, except the Mineta’s part. Sorry for Mineta’s fan, but a pervert is a big no. Although, it is normal for a pervert.

The first part was about the preparation of the examination. As the manga reader and anime watcher known, Yaorozou, or as her friends call Yaomomo, invited her friends to study together. Ashido, Jirou, Kaminari and Ojiro were very shocked about Yaomomo’s house. They know Yaomomo is rich, but this is beyond crazy. Yaomomo’s mother is very sweet woman. She treats her daughter’s friends with love. I love her mother. Even though she kind of overboard with the preparation of hospitality to them. The very nutrient cookies send them awake in no time. Jirou, who wear a very stylish attire was very insecure with gaze she received from Yaomomo’s mother. She thought her attire was impressive as she also was fascinated with that kind of attire, even though she thought she was not suitable for that. I totally love Yaomama! There is also a part of story about Bakugou. I admitted that Bakugou was my bias. I love everything about him. However, the more I read the manga, my admiration become lesser from day to day. He also reacts quite harsh toward his old friends when they commented about Midoriya’s during sport day. Karashima is the only one who can tolerate Bakugo’s action. So, the conclusion, don’t bully anyone. Don’t act like you are superior with someone who is at the same level as you.

As for the second part, the class went for the school camp trip, the trip that they work hard in examination to join. Aizawa cannot hold back the class’s excitement and just let them be. The problem is when Aoyama was getting car sick due to watching his reflection on the rear mirror. Typical Aoyama! So, the class try to cheer him up and distract him. Mineta’s story is gross. However, Aoyama just cured himself by looking back at his reflection after the ride stop. During the trip, Todoroki being so sweet and let Aoyama take his chair as well to let Aoyama rest. Todoroki just care for his friend.

The 3rd part is about Mineta trying to peep the girl. The part of story is the worst. It is so much better if the author doesn’t focus about him peeping the girls. It is great that he finally got the punishment with Tiger, the member of Wild Wild Pussycats.

The next part is about the slumber party! This part of novel is refreshing and adorable. First, we have the interaction with the girls from Class A and Class B. They don’t really care about the rivalry for Class A and Class B like the boys. Having the sleepover and talking about love and everything is something that the girls will do. I like this moment since it explore more about the girls of Class B since the girls were making their rare appearance, especially in the manga and reader. Even though they are heroes, they civilizing normally, not like the boys. They can fight for their life just because for some meat and pork for nikujaga. And Momona is not helping at all! He really created all the tension in Bakugo for that. And all of them paid with the double training for tomorrow, since they have so much energy during their pillow fight. Turn out, they are busted since Vlad become suspicious with Monoma’s break time to toilet become more frequent during his time from redemption class.

Finally, the finale part with our favourite class representative, Ida. Ida missing glasses made him explored his friends’ sleeping style. The funniest style was Kaminari, as his head was hide by the pile of pillows with face-down and propped up on his knee. Also, Todoroki curse his father on his sleep on hope he choke on kuzumochi. When he finally found his glasses and want to return to his sleep, he heard the odd clicking sound. He found his teachers together with Mandalay and Pixie-Bob playing Mahjong. Ida finally realized the reason for tomorrow’s plan and how Aizawa has a faith in his students. Also, I like how Vlad is really care about his students and believed his students will win for the pillow fight. Talking about the doting teacher!This light novel is heart-warming. Except I wish that the author doesn't really focus about Mineta’s part. Reader know he is a pervert, but we don't need to know the detail.   

How good this book?: 4/5

It is worth to read/buy?: Yes, if you enjoy the manga.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42686609-my-hero-academia

Disclaimer: All the opinion about this book is based on my personal view!

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Hello, Laurence! I am writing a novel and I need your help. I am writing a character with autism, and I most definitely want to portray him as accurately as possible, seeing that I don't have it myself. The story is told through his best friend, Zyah, and I was wondering how to portray his autism through his friends without butchering it. You do not have to answer this question if you don't want to, but it would certainly be helpful so I can his autism as accurately and real as possible!

Hello Anon! I can’t answer very well in just one ask, but I can vaguely give some tips on stuff some people tend to slip up on/not think of! I really don’t mind this so don’t worry, I’m happy to educate people! If you would like something more in-depth or accurate to what you’d like to know, feel totally free to come off anon asks and message me, or you can send more asks like this. It’s up to you. c:

Don’t try too hard to shove it in there. To be honest, a lot of people just think I’m a little bit weird if they don’t know, all they see is a guy who gets a bit excited sometimes and is a picky eater and other very small details like that. Unless your character is severely autistic, remember that he’s still just like any other person too.

On the other hand, I still stim in public and touch things a lot if I think they’d feel good, so there’s no shame in him showing it either. It depends. I also sometimes get overly excited in public and my mother says I raise my voice or talk very fast, and once I calm down and look back on it I notice it too. Excitement and stimming are hard to stop even in public! So are negative sensory experiences, but I’ll get to that.

Stimming can be anything really, but we do it a lot and it’s most commonly flapping our hands (”Happy flaps”), making small noises (Clicking, tapping, rubbing clothing fabric together), touching or adjusting our clothing, touching something we like (A keychain, shirt, rock, etc), rocking on our feet, bouncing, swaying… You can be creative! I wave/shake/jiggle my hands in front of myself and my mom calls them “Jazz hands”, and I sometimes do them with a fist instead. A little bit off track but my mom finds it really funny and laughs and waves her hands too because she knows it means I’m happy about something. Even if he won’t do it in public, most of us will do it with our friends and around others we feel safe with. 

Bad sensory can be anything too, so be creative. Though it’s most commonly food, clothing, lights, sounds, or showers. Some of us may not like a certain fabric or shirt cut. Some of us may HATE crunchy foods. Some people hate certain noises. When faced directly with the bad feeling, as a child I would literally find something sharp like a pen and stab myself with it or rip my flesh out in chunks just to focus on any other feeling. I got angry and screamed and cried. Some of us gag, some of us get violent, some of us just cry in a ball… I’d rather have my finger chopped off than eat a hamburger, to be honest. I won’t go into detail but I hate the texture and flavor and it makes me sick for DAYS just thinking about it. Sick as in like… HURK– BLEEEEGGHHH. Now’a’days I can hold it together kinda but if I wear a fucking sock I’m gonna bawl my eyes out and find something to destroy as violently as possible even if it’s just an empty cereal box. That shit does NOT feel okay. Your main character may have to help his friend with this a lot, so be prepared to think of what calms your autistic character down. Pressure stimming (Hugs or heavy blankets), soft talking, etc?

Onto a lighter note! Let’s talk about special interests and obsessions. An autistic person can have more than one, contrary to popular belief. Usually though they’ll have one BIG one, a favorite thing, and one or two other smaller things. For me, my big thing is Armin and my smaller things are taking care of animals (I particularly love fishkeeping and dogs though) and cooking. They can also change! When I was a child, my special interest was Pokemon! I would memorize all the names and numbers and Pokedex entries in English AND Japanese and look up every bit of information possible and buy ANYTHING Pokemon I saw regardless of WHAT it was and I would never shut up about it and I’d talk about it until my mouth got dry and my spit foamy. Special interests can be ANYTHING. I know of a boy who’s interest was trains. I know another who’s into dinosaurs. I recently talked to one guy who was into Lush products. Literally. ANYTHING. A person, an animal, a hobby, an item, a machine… Anything can be a special interest. What are your character’s special interest(s)? How do they react when they see it or talk about it?

How about childishness? This can be controversial. Some autistic people are mentally younger than their physical age, while others aren’t affected. It depends on severity of the disability, and what symptoms they have. For example, I have an adopted cousin in his mid-20′s but he’ll always be an 8 year old boy mentally. Meanwhile there are people like me. Some people even temporarily regress in age. Autistic people being cutesy-wootsy babies is a very harmful and popular stereotype, though it’s true for some. Just not NEARLY as many of us as you may think. I myself have a LOT of childish habits, to be honest. I can ignore it and fess up but I feel like most of us do temporarily or partially regress at least SOMETIMES. This does not discredit us from being functioning human beings though, and it does not make us actual children if we aren’t literal kids. I can like my stuffies and blanket and being babytalked and still get my taxes done, and so can other autistic people. Is your character mature? Are they mentally stuck at one age? Do they act small and young and vulnerable when they’re upset or after calming down from excitement? Do they secretly or even openly carry stuffed animals around, watch kid’s shows, etc? Does this affect them in any way?

F O O D. Most of us will practically jump off a bridge for food, or at least certain ones. Maybe it’s the texture, or flavor, or smell, or the fact that they stim with their mouth, but food is a Godsend. I like to feel things with my mouth but I know better than to do that because of germs or choking hazards. So when I eat, I LOVE EATING!!!!!!!!!!!!! CRUNCHY FOODS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALSO GRAINY FOODS!!! We will eat anything we like, it seems. Sand is one of my favorite things in the world, and as a kid I used to go to the beach hungry on purpose so I could eat as much sand as possible. To this day I still drool thinking about the texture, it’s so GOOD in your mouth. It is not pretty, no, but it is funny in a gross way and I joke about it a LOT. I had to be curbed off literally eating sand and rocks, and now I cope by putting way too many bread crumbs on my mac ‘n’ cheese (My mom says my personal mac ‘n’ cheese bake is like eating on the beach on a windy day, haha!) or eating grits, or crunching hard candies into that texture. I also now have to portion my food very carefully and with rules because I would over-eat SOOOOO badly. A ton of us over-eat because we love eating SO much. What foods does your character like? Do they eat non-food items, or want to? Is this an endearing trait of theirs, or a weakness/gross one? Do they find it funny, or is it embarrassing? Does it make them chubby?

Last but not least, read through the first thing I said again. People tend to try too hard when writing autistic characters, which only pushes them to seem like the fake stereotype. Write a person, not an illness - We’re just people with interesting quirks and like I said most people don’t even KNOW I’m autistic, they just think I’m a tiny bit eccentric. There are definitely challenges or noticeable things when you have an autistic friend or loved one, but all in all we’re just people. 

Good luck, and feel free to message me or something if you need more or I didn’t answer how you needed.