#I have an essay and I am trying SO HARD to make it fma related y’all got no clue

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You ever realize you are literally going to art college just to draw Fullmetal Alchemist doodles over and over again in your off time or is it just me

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i don't understand why mineta exists. his whole personality is: pervert. how is that okay? what's the appeal to fans? why does horikoshi want to have fans like that? does he actually want fans to relate to mineta? is horikoshi actually that gross and perverted himself that he thinks it's NOT weird? don't even get me STARTED on momo's character design! her quirk is so powerful! as a reader, i'm interested by her faltering self worth, but seriously? i can't NOT look at her boobs. am i just niaïve?

Hey there. I’ve had this ask for a while, thinking about how to answer it. I usually try to keep negativity off this blog. These are my opinions too of course. I don’t make excuses for any of these problems. I don’t agree with them. But idk I just don’t post about them a lot? I try not to let the negatives keep me from enjoying everything else that is really great. Because there are negatives literally everywhere, and it is too exhausting for me to think about them continuously. But I’ll go ahead and use this ask to let my word out lolol

I completely, totally agree that mineta is a huge rotten perverted scumbag, and I greatly await the day that he learns his fucking lesson. Like major repercussions, not just funny quips from various characters to temporarily put him in his place. How is it okay for a person like this to be a hero? When his actions and comments would make literally over half the population very uncomfortable? I would literally rather be crushed to death in the hands of a villain than for a pro hero mineta to lay his hands on me. I want Aizawa to lay into him man, I want to see it so bad.

I’m not sure where horikoshi is going with him tbh? Based on some of his comments i’ve seen, he seems like a but of a perv himself tbh. He probably is putting his own hidden humor within mineta. As well as that, Mineta unfortunately DOES represent a specific type of 15 year old boy. If you have a class of newly pubescent teen boys, there are at least a few that are just as bad as him, unfortunately :/ However, I don’t think the fans are suppose to relate to him? And least the majority of them. It is a thing meant for comic relief, which is disgusting bc perverseness is in no way ok or laughable. But to look at mineta in the most optimistic way i can think of: maybe we are supposed to find more humor/relatableness in the way other characters react to him? Since we all know ppl like him, maybe its a feel good thing like what I wouldn’t give to slap some pervs the way tsuyu does smh. This doesn’t seem realistic tho. hhh. 

On Momo, she is probably my favorite girl tbh. I love her quirk. I love her strengths and her weaknesses. There’s a lot I can identify with within her character. I love all of her character except the character design itself. And I don’t think it’s naive of you, since they are RIGHT THERE it could be a little hard not to? I think her costume design wouldn’t be that bad if she wasn’t a LITERAL CHILD. Like as an adult, who consents to it and understands what it would mean, with her quirk it would make sense to have the chest within easy access. Boobs are just giant stores of fat basically, and they would probably logically provide a lot of use to her quirk. (Functionally would make A LOT more sense to at least have a fucking bra and maybe a zipper too goddamn) But this is definitely not an excuse for this sort of design to be used on a 15 year old girl. Not at all. And being ‘logical’ doesn’t come first in this situation when it is clear that the design is obviously sexualizing her as well.

Momo herself doesn’t seem to think twice about it though. This contrasts to how Ochako was really self-conscious when she first got her hero suit and saw how tight it was. Shes young and sheltered enough that maybe she wouldn’t yet realize the implications? Or find them annoying enough not to be bothered. I dunno. This still definitely is not an excuse though, and kind of insulting to Momo to assume she would be that ignorant to society. imo, it should be like, a school rule, that the hero suits cant be provocative in anyway until they are graduated/are an adult smh. 

(It’s also problematic how Hagakure is literally fucking naked just for the oh no! someone accidentally touched my boob! jokes. i wish quirks weren’t used as an excuse to sexualize)

all in all, sexualization of girls and general perverted jokes are a HUGE problem in anime/manga tbh. I can’t think of a single shonen anime that isn’t bad with this. except maybe fma but I’m sure there’s SOMEthing but tbh, looking from a distance, bnha isn’t AS bad as most shows are, as far as I can tell? The physical designs are bad in a few cases, but the perverted comments are at least contained within the one character -.- that’s why i typically just ignore it and focus on the better parts. I love bnha; it doesn’t stop me from seeing the negativities, but I also don’t let them ruin the show for me. This turned into the length of a small essay but i don’t care, I’ve never posted my thoughts about this before now.