#bnha jp

[oshiawaseni]

Hori drew this sketch of Kacchan roughing up Izuku over Hori's cover art decision making in Volume 37 and I AM WEAK

Katsuki: "A scene like this never happened, right?" Izuku: "There were too many scenes he wanted to put on the cover, so it ended up being an illustration of what he imagined instead. (because he couldn't decide...)"

Kacchan knows this scene didn't happen in the manga, but he's not 100% sure because he was unconscious and he’s also really embarrassed by the drawing ^^; So out came his "Ya better tell ‘em that ya didn't actually do this!!” type attitude with Izuku HAHAHAH! He's too much! Tsundere Kacchan, my beloved! ❀• *₊°。ೋღ

[tinyshinysylveon]

i love that he also included his own version for deku and hawks so dynamy isn’t alone 🥺

[ratdesu]

i am about to become insufferable

[miammey]

Cringy comic time, I’ve been thinking about this for like a year now

[buttercupshands]

just played some Case Files with LoV part in it and just thought about a giant project like "every LoV filler ever in ANY media"

like games, manga (including those SMASH!! pages) or irl events (like ONE of LoV seyuu playing as LoV without any real footage of it) and most importantly - Ultra Impact events, but sadly I don't have ALL of them of at least I can't share jp server events that I know at least one happened before global started

I'm not that good with knowing what Ultra Rumble has as something special other than emotes, some phrases or outfits and I don't exactly play it

One's Justice 2 (the one Horikoshi named chapter with Hawks and Twice after) on the other hand has literally tons of interactions from just battle things and recruit talks that depend on your trust of something level to Arcade where defeat and a win give you a mini dialogue and LoV has levels with each other

the only problem with the latter is that I either did level them all up too much already and it would be a pain to lose progress or I'm not really interested in doing already hard to make screenshots one by one FOR EVERY SINGLE LOV FIGHT twice.

But since I've never found actual archive of those things aside from occasional video of Plus Ultra attacks or voicelines without any subtitles for jp vers or again Plus Ultra attacks only for the new characters... that's either worthless or it doesn't matter as much

Still! While 1-A class fillers and stories are so easy to find - literally in the novels or 90% of SMASH!! and Team-Up Missions (and I saw one thing that suspiciosly had LoV in there but still looking through it) while anything semi-canon or at least that can be considered such with LoV is either serves it's purpose in the final arc of the manga now or is actually hard to find since wiki doesn't actually keep up with the official games

maybe it's just an excuse to show little things that Ultra Impact keeps as it's canon for events like Tomura being good at poker and it first was in his "holiday story" and then it appeared in the event much later chronologically with MLA already working with LoV

Also if I remember correctly there are multiple vids with LoV somewhat main point of focus and there are still cool (like that one part of Peace Sign with villains suddenly being there for couple of seconds)

but meh... it's still just 1 am thoughts mostly

[theophagie]

The thing that you need to understand about AFO is that he is a hater not because Yoichi is gay but because of who he was gay for. Or rather. Because of who he was not gay for

[every-enji]

🔥 // Vol. 05 (US)

[soldmysoultobkdk]

I have the slight feelings Nana used 道半ば/michinakaba on that panel 👀

[inkykeiji]

good morning i spent $90 on tokrev volumes yesterday because i was on the hunt for this singular gorgeous image <333

i dragged my boyfriend to the bookstore on an obsessive, borderline deranged mission to find and subsequently own (in some capacity) this photo. and now i do!! plus two more omnibus’ i didn’t need (except i really did need them, because they’re so beautiful and i’m so glad to have them on my bookshelf now *。ヾ(｡>ｖ<｡)ﾉﾞ*。)

[oshiawaseni]

omfg first two pages and Shigaraki is yelling at Mirio with his inner child adding ~mon on the end of his sentences saying I HAVE FRIENDS and listing all these kids he used to know and even Mon-chan went on walks with him (his poor dog ig) I cant stop laughing 

and Mirio’s just like: M-My bad... LMFAO

[tinyshinysylveon]

for the new trailer on bnha: you’re next movie lmaoo he says his name is “dark might” 😭 how original asdfghjkl

what i’m looking forward to tho are the other class 1-a kids to shine again ;;;

and see deku on the big screen 💕 hope hori does really good on this movie since he’s involved

can’t wait for s7!

[thyandrawrites]

Hello! Hope you are having an amazing day!

I just wanted to ask since flowers have different meanings based on culture what do rei's flowers she had in the hospital represent?

Hi! I’m doing okay, thank you.

I can’t really answer about the cultural aspect because I’m not japanese and I’d never heard about this flower before bnha. I’m also no expert on plants or flower language, but I didn’t want to answer this with a simple “I don’t know” so I did a quick google search. 

take all of what follows with a grain of salt because I’m basing it off a single (if thorough) article in japanese, which I inputted in a machine translator (DeepL, which is at least a much better tool than google). Sorry about that too btw but I didn’t have the spoons to approach such a huge text with my current skill level. I double-checked the relevant bits with a dictionary, at least! 

So, here are some highlights: 

-it’s apparently called Gentian in English. Also known as Autumn Bellflower. It blooms between September and November and as such it’s associated with the arrival of fall. It also seems to grow wild,

which aligns with what we’ve seen in the flashbacks. Rei comes across a bush of wild rindou and stops to watch them, and Enji notices 

-It seems to me that Hori chose this flower in particular for fairly straightforward reasons. Quoting from the abovementioned source:  “Although it is tolerant of cold, it does not fare well in hot weather.” Which is almost word by word canon text from this scene: 

This feeling is further emphasized by the fact that when Enji narrates his first meeting with Rei, the flowers appear again exactly when he’s saying this about her temperament: 

The thematic point here is less the flowers themselves imho, and more the dichotomy between ice and fire as metaphors of opposite dispositions. Throughout the story, fire is repeatedly associated with hotheadedness, with passion, with strong and overflowing, irrational feelings. Think of Shouto summoning his flames for the first time in years when he’s in emotional turmoil during the sports festival. Think of Touya going out in a blazing tornado when he can’t stop crying. And then compare it to Shouto’s aloof, ice-prince persona, to his emotional repression back when he only used his ice side. Fire is thematically attached to impulsiveness, to the strong pull of emotions. Ice, instead, is typically associated with self-restraint, willpower and cool-headed principles.

Enji compares Rei to ice because she’s able to go along with the arranged marriage despite knowing it was a contract to bear Enji’s children. In other words, she’s ice because she’s able to remove her emotions from her choice, and thus face it with her head held high. She’s rational, calm and collected about it. 

But, and here’s where the flowers come in, ice is strong in winter but brittle in the heat. Rei’s disposition makes her strong, yes, but also all the more susceptible to her husband’s opposite nature. 

I think that’s all there is to it, really. Horikoshi doesn’t strike me as the kind of author who goes above and beyond to add complex and cryptic symbolism to his writing. His style is generally pretty transparent, when he adds any symbolism at all. See the gripping hands as a metaphor for abuse, the hands reaching out as a metaphor for help, and the eating around a dinner table together as a way to hint towards an eventual family reconnection. Hori isn’t particularly subtle imho, so that’s why I never really bothered delving deep into hanakotoba. 

However, if you wanted to give it a shot anyway, here’s what the same article says about it: 

“The language of gentian flowers includes "victory," "sense of justice," "stand by you in your sorrow," and "lonely love. “Victory" and "a sense of justice" are derived from the fact that gentian has been used as a medicinal herb since ancient times and is associated with the image of "overcoming illness”. The words "to be close to your sorrow" and "lonely love" seem to be derived from the fact that it grows wild by itself without growing in clusters. In addition, the words "full confidence" and "chastity" are given to the purple and white gentian, respectively.” [Source]  

I personally consider this part a bit more of a stretch, but if we wanted to take the hanakotoba approach, maybe Horikoshi also chose this flower to show Rei’s progress towards recovery. After all, she is holding it while she faces Enji in that hospital room:

She’s no longer dwelling on her sadness, on her sorrows, but overcoming it. At this point, she's no longer an inpatient in a mental hospital, but she's facing her fears head on. There's a determined glint in her eyes now, and she's no longer afraid of saying what she always wanted to say. "Our children are suffering, and our pain comes second to soothing theirs because we are their parents." And now she's no longer melting away (like ice) or wilting (like flowers) when facing that heat.

I hope that makes sense!

[chaoflaka]

Yup I’m dead inside.

[chocolate-biscuit]

Got an Italian copy of volume 28 and looking briefly at it. Some translating choices are funny.

"Think about it, my dear little roasted chickens" (Pensateci, miei cari polletti arrosto). Our little roasted chickens, Dabi!

"Black Fallen Angel" (Angelo nero caduto) was translated, which is kinda corny to hear - read, in this case. Especially since "Hero/es" and "Villain/s" are never translated, not once, not even in the other volumes.

"... Toko..." Had a weird translation into "... Dogo...". I'm not sure of the reason, but I thought of the dodo. Haha!

Scrolled through the pages and Shigaraki looks beautiful, as always!

Horikoshi improved his style since the chapters featured in the volume came out, but it's stunning nonetheless.

I'm sure there are some other funky translating choices, but I focused my attention on the scenes I wanted to read. Not to say the translation is bad! Sometimes it's closer to the Japanese text, which I appreciate.

ex. in volume 31, Keigo's "I also... feel the same way" was translated into "I also... want to be like this" (anch'io... vorrei essere così)

[Note: unsure if "vorrei" is better translated into "would want/would like", but for fluidity I'm choosing "want", which, literally translated, is better as "voglio".

I think the translators wanted to connote a "wish", something that is not definitive but conditional ("vorrei" is the conditional form of the verb "volere").]

It's nice to compare translations. If you're interested, I have the volumes from no. 14 to no. 33, excluding 22, 23, 26 and 29.

l'll buy them... eventually. :"

[theophagie]

You wouldn't rig a manga popularity poll

[lady-delamort]

DAY 7: FATHER

Day 6 ------- Day 8 Bonus Day!

PLAYLIST

Taylor Swift - Love Story

2:09 ────⊙─────── 4:11

↻      ◁  ɪɪ  ▷     ↺

Romeo save me, they're trying to tell me how to feel

This love is difficult, but it's real

Don't be afraid, we'll make it out of this mess

It's a love story, baby, just say yes

I got tired of waiting

Wondering if you were ever coming around

My faith in you was fading

When I met you on the outskirts of town

And I said, Romeo, save me, I've been feeling so alone

I listened to this song and my heart could only cry because of how Huwumi sounded, it moved me to the soul to imagine our ship.

I could imagine our Keigo fighting for our Fuyumi's love and attention, like Fuyumi's tone of being so lonely, how she seals her feelings for her and how much she appreciates our cute little chick. It broke my heart and filled it with tenderness, especially with the ending.

In addition, the scene of the father refusing the love between his daughter and his colleague sounded so Enji to me. HA.Becoming at some point a turning point for the relationship, because if they could overcome the terrifying Endeavor that wreaked so much havoc on Fuyumi and Keigo's memory, then they could consider having taken a big step.

Although the context moves a bit to the Victorian era where several romantic stories of the bourgeoisie are located, the truth is that I saw it at first as a scene at a hero party, where Fuyumi had accompanied a party like the Hero Billboard Chart JP and Hawks had approached her casually, until they both got closer when they realize that they really appreciate each other.

As it mentions that they were very young before, they may well have met before Hawks became number two, when they were just starting out at those parties, when things weren't that complicated for Hawks because of his high-ranking position. Or fully when he was number two.

I like to think that at first Fuyumi was the safe one, as if she had all the emotional control of the situation, when in reality she is so afraid and Keigo realizes that, and tries to solve it, trying to make her feel safe.

To Fuyumi, that carefree hero with a huge cracked heart, she began to become an anchor, and to Keigo, that pretty teacher was more than just a casual visit that took the load off his shoulders, she felt more like a company that he wanted to spend all his life. But due to their very different statuses and the consequences that their relationship would bring, many times they have to separate.

And Fuyumi thinks that he's actually going to leave her, when Keigo is trying to fix things so he doesn't burden her anymore until the big ending of the song.

@huwumi-events