#especially not iida

[pocketramblr]

What about an AU where Manual replaces Aizawa as the 1-A homeroom teacher?

Oh boy we can fit SO MUCH projection into this one

1- Manual only applied to UA because he was applying a bunch of hero schools, and he didn't think he'd get UA but why not try, at worst it's extra interview practice before he really tries at Ketsubutsu. And then he got only got a job at UA and no other school, somehow. And he can't technically complain because UA pays the best and it's a job he signed up for, but how???

2. He also didn't apply as a homeroom teacher, but they offered it to him anyway and he uh doesn't really say no. He figured he could change positions after a few years already if he wanted to, and planned on it, but then realized he liked this position much better and so kept it instead

3. Actually you know what sure all the projection. His third year he ended up being freshman homeroom team lead, which he's pretty sure isn't supposed to happen- Vlad had more experience but said he wanted a break this year from it and no one else applied so....

4. His third year is also when he gets our beloved class 1A! They do not get expulsion threats, and go to orientation. Then Manual tells them they have an essay due at the end of the week, about why they want to be heroes and what their current plan is, to be completed before any combat training. Several students pitch a fit about writing when they want to learn how to fight, but Manual points out that as part of their training, they'll have to do a lot of unpleasant things. Will they put effort into the record keeping they need to learn as pros if they aren't willing to write a paper? Will they be able to communicate in team exercises if they can't even put what they want as a hero into words? How patient can they be for slow moving cases? The class can see his point even if it's not exciting.

The second day of school, two students hand him papers. Bakugou asks if he can start fight training sooner now since he did the whole dumb essay. Midoriya asks him to look over the first draft if he doesn't mind, because he just had a lot of ideas where to take it and wants it to be really good.

By the start of homeroom the second day, these two are no longer sitting in desks right by each other.

5. On the fourth day of school, while Manual has his class looking over their costumes and getting peer feedback, he realizes that Vlad usually would be sending bragging pictures of his class in rescue training right about now, to see if Manual could get his kids to beat them next week when they went to USJ. He sends a message. It doesn't go through.

He thinks "huh, that's weird" right before robot sentry alarms go off about vines erupting from USJ's roof and throwing students out frantically. Manual grabs the closest non combat adult in the hall to watch his class and runs to help figure out what's going on.

[merry-the-cookie]

🥹 im okay 🥹

some more versions under the cut 🥹

[delawaredetroit]

Iida really said get back in the coma

"I am deeply concerned about your safety!" declares teen after decking coma patient in the face immediately after release from the hospital

[c00kiesart]

He’s really putting honor into the ingenium name and god am I so proud of him for it

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[everypaneloftenya]

Chapter 12 - Yeah, Just Do Your Best, Ida!

[annalyticall]

Getting a cubicle means I have more room to display my cringe collection at the workplace

[inamagicalhallucination]

fandom has a lot of bsd x mha fics just not that check all the boxes for me

im not big on beast esque bsd x mha so no pm dazai and atsushi (tho time line is also important)

and i also sometimes dont really like the way the mha characters r shown

like the thing is mha open society is very black and white but the mha guys are a little more complicated - and yes there thinking is also way more black and white but to set them in a little box for the sake of plot is ehh not for me

not inherently bad btw, just not for me personally

also im a sskk girlie it has to be there for me to like it most of the times im sorry - i ship other ships but sskk <33

[glitch-man]

My Hero Academia

I have a lot of problems with this Anime/Manga. I used to be a big fan of it back in like 2016-2017 when it was getting really popular and the anime was in its first two seasons. But now I have so many problems with it, and that's not to say that it's the worst anime/manga around or anything. I just have a lot of frustration with it that I need to vent I guess. There are going to a lot of Manga spoilers, so you might not want to read this if you aren't caught up or anime only.

A starting point is a little difficult to really come up with so I'm going to start with the main character Deku.

Deku is not the best protagonist. Personality wise I think he's fine at least, heck I'd even say I like him personality wise. It's just that he is not well utilized by the story. His arc in the manga just seems to be gaining confidence and getting better with his powers. That's not a terrible arc in it of itself, but I don't think MHA does a particularly great job of it. In the whole of it it feels like the only real reason he isn't confident at the start of the story is because he doesn't have a quirk. And once he gets One for All the main reason he isn't confident is because he can't use it properly. This again really isn't a bad thing in it of itself. Yet, when put together it makes him feel way flatter than he should be. It makes it feel like his only real flaw is that he can't use his power properly. He doesn't have any other problems in regards to his attitude or personality. The immediate impulse for a lot of people would to make him darker/edgier, but he doesn't really need to be morally grey to be interesting he needs a flaw that is meaningfully shown. For example he feels like he isn't enough and in spite of having one of the most powerful quirks and the mentorship of his idol he still feels insecure and not enough or a flaw that is sort of shown he has, but it isn't meaningfully expanded upon until the Dark Hero Arc (and even then the quality of it there is arguable) he's overly self sacrificing to the point of pushing people away and hurting himself and others due to it. These aren't amazing suggestions honestly, they are just some examples of ideas of flaws that could be used to give him a greater level of depth. But also it mildly implies that being quirkless is his main problem and that is not great honestly.

And quirklessness in the context of MHA is not handled well. There are 3 types of discrimination in the world of MHA. The first that is shown is being quirkless, the second is having a villainous quirk, and the last is having some amount of inhuman appearance. The way these are shown in the narrative all have their own problems, but let's start with quirklessness. This is set up extensively in the first chapter, it is the initial conflict of the series. And it factors into the plot so little. There are three characters in the manga that were born quirkless, and all of these characters in some way get a quirk. There are characters that lose their quirk, but most of those are characters in spinoff material or literally just lost their quirk like with the last 20 chapters. Ragdoll being the only character that lost their quirk and has had a genuine emotional reaction to it (Also Mirio, but he got his power back). She is obviously upset because she essentially has become disabled, being unable to do something she was previously able to do losing her job and passion in the process. Which is upsetting in context, but being quirkless is only really shown in the narrative as a bad thing that people want to avoid and is tragic when it happens. In the world of MHA it is around 10 to 20 percent of the global population, for reference 10 percent of the real world population is left handed.

Why is all of this a problem? The story spends so much of the first few chapters on Deku being quirkless, and it is in effect a large bit of wordbuilding that goes unused for most of the story and the affect on the story is minimal. There is no scene in the manga where quirkless characters are discriminated against other than Deku. Deku doesn't see someone discriminated against for being quirkless and get mad about it. There is also theme that hero society is corrupted and flawed and quirklessness is never highlighted in regards to its flaws. Either for how they get treated or how the destruction of hero society would effect quirkless people. This doesn't have to be the biggest deal because this is a superhero story that has superhero main characters, it wouldn't be great if was just ignored all together, but the fact that two other forms of discrimination are highlighted as a bad thing and a core reason as to why 'hero society' is flawed. Yet is so unimportant in the grand scheme of things. And you can look at it as a superhero version of a disability and it cares so little about that. And I am not trying to say that MHA is problematic because of it and the people that created it and enjoy it are bad people. I'm just pointing out a problem I noticed.

But more about 'Hero Society' and the main antagonist Shigaraki. I don't really like Shigaraki all that much. He has some good things about him, like his power is interesting and his backstory is really good, but as a character in the narrative he doesn't really feel like he does anything. Shigaraki has very little agency in the narrative IMO. He mostly gets directed to go do things by other people or he does stuff that doesn't really feel motivated by anything in specific. This problem comes to a comedic crescendo when (spoiler) All for One implants a part of his consciousness into Shigaraki and effectively takes over his mind and body literally taking all of Shigaraki's agency away. Part of the reason Shigaraki's actions don't really feel motivated is because his stated motive is "the end of hero society" and like that is such a vague goal. The reason it is so vague is because MHA does a terrible job of showing all the corruption and problems inherent to it. He is being presented as being correct about the flaws, but misguided in his methods. But outside of backstory the only time before the final saga, which starts around 300 chapters in, the only meaningful time we are shown any of the problems that affect people are Deku being discriminated against for being quirkless (which as I said before doesn't really matter) and Shinso being disliked for his Villainous quirk. All of the other times are backstory (Which FYI is mostly just Shigaraki's backstory) and lip service that we are told instead of being shown. The only morally corrupt we get shown is Endeavor, who gets a lot of his absolute worst traits retconned a once he starts getting developed and also he gets a redemption arc. And then we are shown it so much more once we get into the final arc and at that point it feels hollow. This overall makes me not really like Shigaraki, he feels directionless and like he just kinda does things for the sake of it. Also he just feels overpowered at this point in the manga to a negative degree. And the whole "All for One takes over Shigaraki's mind" thing is terrible, confusing, and I hate it. All for One is a weaker antagonist, he has more agency but his motive is far more boring.

On the topic of Shigaraki getting his mind taken over let's talk about Star and Stripe real quick. She feels like such a utilitarian character to me. She exists to weaken Shigaraki and explain why the other countries of the world aren't helping Japan. I like her design, her power, her personality, but regardless she feels like she exists for a very utilitarian purpose.

Next up let's talk about Ida and Uraraka. They feel way underutilized as characters. Both get a decent amount of focus early on, and then drop off in terms of importance after the Hero Killer Stain arc. Ida only really gets focus in all of the various exam/training/mock battle arcs which IMO are too plentiful in the story and make the pace drag more than it should and take focus away from other parts of the story. Uraraka is similar, but she also got to fight Toga in the current arc. Both just get set up as really important characters before all of their focus and importance going to other characters, like Todoroki, Bakugo, Endeavor, and Hawks. Obviously both still get focus and are highlighted in arcs, but most of he big moments and narrative tension go to other characters. Honestly I like both of them, but it is a little annoying that they feel like they have been pushed to the background. Uraraka gets it worse because she just gets demoted to Deku's love interest for most of the story before her weirdly, I guess romantic is the word I'd use, fight with Toga. They get underdeveloped and underdelivered.

Toga is a character that is also underdeveloped and then she has all of her backstory dropped on you in a strange sympathy play. I don't hate the idea of her backstory as a way, but again it's just kind of dropped on you at a bad time. Plus her morality of being a literal murderer makes it kind of less sympathetic. The intensity of it all compared to the relative mundane nature of it makes it just not hit properly. It feels like her backstory of people not liking her because of her quirk and such is fine, but it is dropped at a bad point in the story and isn't properly presented.

This is similar to Spinner's backstory just getting dropped on us along with the discrimination of people with non-human appearances being poorly shown. We are told this is a problem, we are not shown it. The one exception being the one time the character 'Ordinary Woman' is discriminated against. She doesn't even have a full name.

Todoroki is overall one of the better executed characters in the story, but I am not the biggest fan of how the story centralizes on his family drama to the disservice of other aspects of the story.

Yuga is in theory a character I really like. But the execution on him is kind of bad. He is mostly a joke character with some moments of depth and bravery. But he is suddenly revealed to be a traitor with like one scene of build up like 100 chapters earlier. The traitor subplot being ignored and barely acknowledged for hundreds of chapters and then it is suddenly brought back up and ends almost as quickly. He needed more development before the reveal and more focus on the traitor subplot.

And then we have Bakugo. I don't really like him either. Not because he bullied Midroiya, but he just doesn't do anything all that interesting in the narrative. He does have some good hidden depths, him being uncorruptible and inspired by All-Might like Deku, he's far smarter than he seems, and he seems to respect Uraraka due to her performance in the tournament arc (at least as much as he can). And I will admit I am probably forgetting a lot of things about him to. But, I do think that overall he just doesn't do enough in the narrative to make me really like him as a character. He's like Shigaraki, there is a lot to him that is good, but the sum of those aspects doesn't feel greater than the whole.

There are obviously other things, the female cast is not the best written, Mineta, the fan service-y design of some of the characters, The terrible, terrible pacing of the last 100 chapters of the manga. At the least the pacing in the Final War arc. There are so many little problems that don't feel like they are that bad on their own and show up early on, but then they get worse and more problems show up later and suddenly all of these problems mix together and it just is frustrating.

[ocdhuacheng]

Eveything I hear about the mha ending makes me want to throw up literally what the fuck is this dogshit lmao

[gale--dekarios]

rewatching bnha when i have the time i miss it so bad

[damatris]

Sometimes I just really, really want to bitch about [redacted] but can't say anything to anyone because I'm highly aware how mean it'd sound despite me not meaning it that way.

[saturnsorbits]

Man I can totally relate to everything you said about deku, like it’s not weird for the mc not to be everyone’s fave character but I think that deku is a disappointment for an mc the same as mha is a disappointment for a social critic

The story makes a lot of effort of adding dimension to its villains but I am still waiting for them to actually address that the the mha society has created its villain, that all these villains were just push down one too many times for not fitting in and deku has to come to that realisation in full text bc he’s the mc. Uraraka is closer to that with toga but the mc has to drive that message for it to work.

And yeah deku doesn’t want to kill shigaraki but it’s like you said, he’s just been to one dimensional for him to arrive at the real reason why he shouldn’t kill him or any other villain.

I think the main issue is AFO, like he’s just ~evil~, he’s boring, he has no real motivation, no sauce, no spice. He just wants to destroy society and become the ultimate boss but like… why????

Yes! This!

Deku is... Stale, for lack of a better term. It feels as though he's been stripped of everything personal, which makes him a husk for a badly constructed plot and, as you pointed out, often awkward and underdeveloped social commentary.

(Side Note: That would have worked really well, having him have to lose his identity in order to become the new symbol of peace, but he didn't really have an identity to lose? So, that would have been lost on him too).

The plot tries it's hardest with its villains, I think. But, you're so right when you say they seem to refuse to take that extra step and actually examine them under the light of their context in the world. Dabi is a spectacular character, but he's wasted - and I'll agree wholeheartedly that AFO is just a bit... Meh.

Idk, the whole thing leaves a lot to be desired; which is kind of disappointing - and that's still not even touching the female characters and their mismanagement, the plot threads that are left loose and the dancing around the harsher realities it's so fond of doing.

I love MHA, I do. It's given me Bakugo, Kaminari, Sero and Kirishima - of course, I love it; but it's because I love it that I wish it would try a little harder sometimes.

[bronzetomatoes]

Deku neeeeeeds to start bodily picking up his friends when he gives them hugs

[zincbotted]

(puts clown nose on) iida should have placed higher in the sports festival obstacle race

[miyamoratsumuu]

i could totally make the tenya req angsty omg

ELLE DON'T PLAY WITH MY HEART LIKE THIS AGAIN </3

[midnightblues444]

Nerd boy who follows a very popular you everywhere, like a puppy

He watches your cheer practices, and always likes your posts first.

Youd find it weird if he wasnt so fucking cute, the way he can barely keep eye contact, the way he stammers when you ask him for homework, the way the bulge in his jeans grow while he explains the homework when your bent over his desk.

Honestly you knew exactly what you were doing inviting him to your place for a study session. The nervous gulp he let out when you answered the door in your skimpy house shorts and crop top, winking and telling him your parents weren't home.

He sits across the dining room table from you, (he'd probably overheat if you got any closer)

His gaze locked to the floor while his clammy hands bunch in a fist, you're leaning over the table pointing at a question in one of the many text books scattered across the table.

"do I make you nervous" you ask randomly

He stutters over himself, looking everywhere but your gaze

"Look at me when your talking" you command, watching the blush overwhelm his cheeks

You dont really know why, but his nerves turn you on. You find yourself crawling over the table to him, making him face to face with your chest.

It's funny the way his eyes widened as you slip the straps off your top down your shoulders. You take his hand and kiss it before placing it on your chest.

Having the class geek sucking tf outta your tits was not part of your study plan.

Especially when his fingers slip under the band of your shorts too.

:))

MIDORIYA, iida, Choso, Chifuyu ,

Edit: all characters are aged up to be 18+