#sound by Hory

[chandralia]

so much emphasis on the hand Deku briefly got to hold

and Katsuki wants to do it again so badly

[teapetal44]

All For One should have stayed on the sidelines as a character after Kamino. His evolvement in everything after that significantly weakens the story. Building up Tomura as his protégé, framing him as the next symbol of evil, and then pulling the rug under everyone’s feet, is the worst writing decision Hori has ever made. In concept, All For One failing at passing the torch to Tomura is good, because it directly  parallels All Might and his mentorship to Izuku. Unlike All For One, Toshinori was aware the younger generation needed to take up the mantle. All For One is a selfish and controlling person, it makes perfect sense for him to be unable to give up his power to someone else. But in execution it falls apart the moment All For One continues to force himself upon the narrative, continues to serve as the big bad. All For One’s inability to pass the torch and Tomura as a main antagonist can co-exist without weakening the themes of the story.  

Like, imagine how cool it would have been if All for One was destroyed by Tomura after he tried taking control over his body and mind. Tomura realizes his master is holding him back from achieving his full potential and his goal, the thing he literally lives and fights for. Triumph over his master would be Tomura’s final step to becoming the new symbol of evil and his self-liberation. Then, he would truly be free of everything holding him back. AFO, the puppeteer, the man always one step ahead of everyone else, would be conquered by the very same person he molded – he planted the seed, but at last, what grows is out of his control. In a sense, he would be punished by the story for failing at passing the torch and Tomura would be cemented as the final antagonist, and his journey would feel satisfying.

All though, I see why Horikoshi didn’t write it like that – cause that would require giving Tomura actual autonomy as a character. Something he actively avoids doing every chance he gets. It’s easier to have a character who is crafted to be evil by one powerful bad man before he was even born, than to portray an abused child failed by a fundamentally corrupt society that values consumerism over actually helping those in need, who ended up in the hands of the powerful bad man because the child slipped through the cracks of said society. MHA conveys to the viewer that there are no bad systems, only bad people within the established systems.

Tomura couldn’t own his conception, nor his heroic goals, not even his abuse. Nothing ever happened to him because of society as a whole or because life is cruel and merciless. It happened because Anime-Satan said so.

[mikeellee]

I'll always be salty that Izuku's hero name is Deku, and not Dekiru.

Like, Dekiru would have been perfect. It means "can"/"the ability to do something" and also sounds similar to Deku. He could have still been "reclaiming" Deku by using Dekiru. Saying/Hearing Deku makes me cringe

@sapphic-agent Hi, thanks for the question bc is something I loathed since day 1. I had people even weird out why in my fics I call Izu dekiru.

Anyway, I think we can take this in two ways.

Hori loathes his MC and while he can´t kill him for editorials reasons, can humiliate and diminish him as much he can

Hori is an unprofessional writer. Look, when we use the word unprofessional to any profession we kind tend to assume "Oh he was a perv" "Oh bet he didn´t pay his employees" "Ok what crimes he did" and as far I know...Hori never did any of that. But he is unprofessional bc he can´t do what is in his job. WRITE

I don´t like how the name Deku is attached to the character to the point hardly any fan calls him Izu or Midoriya, its deku. (BTW, villains stans love to call him deku and when I see a post of a villain stan calling him deku I KNOW it will be rancid. It´s funny bc only Shig never called him as such but his fans...do)

BK called him like that to mock him. Izu can´t be mad (a trait its still in place)

Ochako sees BK trying to kill him and calling deku with hate...and she is head empty and calls him deku...and then we see the first part of Hori wanting YOU, reader, to not pay attention to Izu´s pain, bc Izu blushes and is all happy a girl is talking to him...isn´t that pathetic? Hori thinks so and is pleased...bc thanks to this interaction Izu asks now to be called deku.

Look I think Nejire is 100X pretier than Ochako and if she had done the same...Izu should have said no.

Izu is the only one who doesn't act as an abused victim, yes, people act differently but...Izu seems to exist solely to be abused and nothing else. The same can be said for Shig...he is tortured 3 times and well...who cares, right?

[bluerosety-blog]

There's literally no arguing with bkdks antis at this point. They always bring this up, and even if we tell them Hori regrets having Kacchan saying it, they are like, "doesn't matter he drew it." 🤦‍♂️

Forget a hand hold, hug or even a kiss, I need a whole damn wedding. Maybe with that they can stfu. 😒🤷‍♂️

[tinyshinysylveon]

so basically, this whole chapter was mostly about AM and AFO rap battling trash talking to each other as they fight against each other 👀

[inkykeiji]

I used to be in the "let Dabi live" camp but my staying there required very specific circumstances which have long passed 🤣🤣 I only lead with this because the recent chapter spoilers have got me sooo displeased. It IS cruel. The entire family needs to let him go. I get him apologizing to Shoto (if that ends up being true? I wouldn't trust it until an official translation drops but I am also mostly avoiding spoilers atm haha) because he had always wanted to apologize to his family, but let him go. Please 😭

so from what i can tell from the fan translation + scans, it LOOKS to me like he apologized to an empty room. the ‘sorry’ bubble is being said when the family is outside the facility, it appears????? unless i’m being entirely fucking delusional LMAO

i like this a lot better than touya apologizing to shouto’s face because 1. it feels much more in character, and 2. i’d argue it makes that soba moment a helluva lot more impactful. it almost feels like the final nail in the coffin of realization for touya, like he’s going ‘damn, he is actually JUST LIKE ME, we could’ve been enjoying soba together and i didn’t realize he wasn’t dad’s puppet; i didn’t realize he was also a victim’. when touya first comes face to face with shouto (as dabi), he hasn’t seen him in several years, he has NO idea what the fuck was going on in that house or how shouto truly is as a person or how shouto feels towards their father and all of the abuse he endured at the hands of their father, and touya has created and clung to this narrative in his head of shouto being enji’s lil masterpiece, enji’s pride and joy. shouto subsequently shows him throughout their various fights that this is truly not the case. i think you could argue that now that touya’s on the brink of death with nothing to do but THINK in that godforsaken machine they’ve locked him in, he is finally truly reflecting on everything that happened and coming to some realizations before he dies. at least, that’s how i see it!!

other than that, i’m so so so upset with how everything is being handled. i’m SO glad touya calls them out and says he feels like a tourist attraction because YEAH. yeah. that’s what they’re doing to you, baby. they’re keeping you alive and prolonging your inevitable death so THEY can talk to you, for THEM, not for you. ugh honestly i could write you a whole essay on how disgusting and disrespectful this whole thing is, i’ve been rambling all damn day to my friends about it HAHAHA ._. it’s just so goddamn selfish!!!!!! the fact that enji just speaking had touya’s heart raising to DANGEROUS levels already says so much. like you’re really just going to prolong his fucking suffering so YOU can all absolve yourselves of your guilt??? you can’t give him the one thing he has wanted and planned for for several years (death)??? fuck right off

[rain-coat-killer]

Hori really thinks he's funny, huh.

[mettywiththenotes]

I was really not prepared to hear Touya sobbing with his head in his hands

[shima-draws]

Curious. Since you and I both like tododeku — do you think that we're delusional for falling for this ship? Is it true that there is absolutely no possibility that they could ever be a thing in canon? Horikoshi, in my opinion, is playing games with the fandom. I personally think that he doesnt even know what he wants when it comes to Ochako because hes seemed to have given up on that. Do you think that theres any slight chance that Hori might surprise us, or do we find ourselves in a delusional hole of hope?

Anon I mean this in the nicest way possible but WHAT are you talking about lmao. I ship a lot of things that I know for certain won’t ever be canon. That doesn’t make me “delusional”, that’s just me having fun and curating my own fandom experience. I don’t have to look at canon ships and agree with them. That’s part of why shipping is so fun—I get to decide how these characters interact. Who cares what Hori’s doing. I don’t. I make the rules in this house

Essentially

Just have fun with it bro

[youtubepoopmusicvideo]

gay bitches when the function got robot human yaoi

some bonus stuff under cut

[hopkei]

maybe a team effort?

[super-paper]

Briefly fascinated by the way MHA portrays the consumption of others through Toga/AFO--Consumption as an act of love vs. consumption as violation. Consumption as wanting to become a part of someone vs consumption as making someone a part of you. Toga being offered blood consensually & then yearning to give her blood in return, AFO’s own hunger never being sated no matter how much he takes from others. There is a nonzero chance that AFO ate Yoichi’s remains and I’ve been silently losing my mind over it for, like, a day--

[mommalosthermind]

bnha is over???????

It has reached its official conclusion! Leaks came out Thursday, I think.

Hori’s made mention of something on the fifth, so there might be a bit more, I guess we’ll see.

[wtfjuliyn]

dear god i wasnt expecting taizo horis voice to sound like.. that

[willowser]

This is the d-wording anon from earlier, I apologize for sounding so rude. I figured I'd pop by and explain why that kind of censoring bothers me so much. Feel free to ignore this if you just want to be done with all my silliness.

But I've never heard/seen anyone who wasn't either a minor, an influencer, or someone chronically online use that type of censoring. And knowing the origin of why people started doing it (wanting to avoid demonetization on influencer sites), I feel that it cheapens the human experience by sanitizing the rough bits of life that corporate overlords don't approve their brands being associated with (like dying and fucking). I'm extremely anticapitalistic/ antiauthoritarian and enjoy giving the middle finger to Brands.

Long story short, it's just a pet peave of mine and it didn't occur to me that it evolved into a fun linguistic thing for many people. I don't mean to police anyone's speech and again, sorry for not considering my earlier choice of words more carefully!

oh, i see your point, ty for clarifying !! in such an age like this, i totally agree with your frustrations/annoyances regarding influencers and monetization !! bc it really is everywhere nowadays 🥺 especially unfortunate when it comes creeping into our lil space here 🥺 i also am an avid fan of giving Brands the middle finger so i am standing by your side on that we are holding hands as we speak 😌🩷 and i honestly think that it's so so important to highlight the uglier bits of life because we are all human and experience human things and that is not always easy but it's good to know we're not alone 🥺 so that was in no way the place i was coming from !!

tone is so hard to read over text, as we know !! so tysm for clarifying and apologizing, i appreciate you !! 😌🩷✨️ we are all pals let's sit together and have a picnic and share yummy snacks and shit talk capitalism 😌💐