I Got Too Sidetracked By School To Make You A Birthday Gift Art But I Can Give You Bakugo Being Sad About

It totally was not someone I know *COUGH* kaminari *COUGH*

— Atsuki

WHO THE FUCK LET @sobaeater4321 IN THE KITCHEN AGAIN

closer look at my cover art for zipper tits, the trans bakugou zine

I’m having a breakdown. So the back cover of volume 37 is out, and by now we’ve all heard the preliminary translations of Edgeshot’s spiel to Kacchan.

But we didn’t have the images! Now we do, and I have Observations. Please note that I have used a combo of Google image translate and Japanese language websites for this. I don’t read Japanese but I’m fascinated by language and can’t help analysing it.

Firstly, I just want to comment on how bloody romantic the last line is, “Connect yourself to your future where you dreamed of your ideal”, considering he does exactly that, and thinks only of Izuku.

Risō: Ideal

Yumemita: Dream

Mirai: Future

Jishin: Self-confidence, assurance

Tsunaide: Link or connect (as if tied together—nice)

Misero: Show

Gorgeous, beautiful, fantastic work Edgeshot! It also really reminded me of Jeanist’s line to him about his hero name being a representation of his ideal self. These Heroes care about him so much 😭😭😭.

BUT, but but but, the part I really want to talk about is “Omae ga matsu kare wa… Deku wa kanarazu kuru!”

Omae: very informal ‘you’. Edgeshot is literally inside him so I think he’s allowed to be casual.

Matsu: Wait or look forward to

Kare wa: ‘He is’ or ‘boyfriend is’ (bear with me)

Kanarazu: Without a doubt

Kuru: Come or arrive

The sentence is very deliberate in the way Edgeshot says “He is… Deku is definitely coming.” So, what’s interesting about that? I WILL TELL YOU.

In Japanese it’s unusual to use pronouns, which is why you hear Deku saying ‘Kacchan’ directly to Kacchan all the blinking time. If it’s obvious who you’re talking by about via the context, then they don’t say he/she/they/you if possible. Here, have some evidence from translation websites and Japanese speakers:

So we already know Edgeshot is being extremely casual from his use of ‘omae’, and ‘kare’ is a casual term for boyfriend. It is unusual for him to unnecessarily use a pronoun that could also be interpreted as a reference to Deku as his boyfriend, no? He could have very easily just said “Deku is definitely coming!” without adding that ambiguity, But He Did Not.

I just think it’s interesting. And I do believe I will be thinking about this for the rest of the manga.

Bakugo: Okay, so you know what to do when we get to the hideout?

Izuku:

Bakugo: Nerd.

Izuku: Huh, what?

Bakugo: Pay attention, damnit. What do you do when we get to the hideout?

Izuku: I don’t know.

Bakugo: You don’t-I just stood here and told you everything for five fu*king minutes?!

Izuku: Your hoodie strings are uneven, so I heard nothing of what’s been said.

Bakugo:

Izuku: Maybe don’t look like a mess and I’ll listen.

having thoughts

We know what hes waiting for…

Went to Chili's and colored the spiciest pepper I could think of 👌 🌶️

More BakuDeku Goodness

Late to the party but in desperate need to address this huge BakuDeku delight in the new chapter leaks of My Hero Academia: Team-Up Mission which is a spin-off manga by one of Horikoshi’s assistants, Yoco Akiyama.

DEー IZUKU, DRESSED UP AS KACCHAN. He looks so cute, he does his best trying to mimick Kacchan’s aggressive speech but omg he’s an actual sunshine.

Baby’s trying so hard hahahahaa. 

Then, enter Iida, who has to do the Izuku-impression but lol he looks nothing like him and Bakugou is the one to lecture him for it. LOSE THE GLASSES! NOT ENOUGH FRECKLES! STOP WITH THAT POSTURE!

He helps Iida and tadah, mimick success (the robot recognizes Iida as Midoriya Izuku). Bakugou looks like a triumphant winner, “AAAAaaa!”, and Deku goes: “Kacchan…” probably surprised (WHY ARE YOU SURPRISED BABY) that Bakugou is the one and only Midoriya Izuku expert. 

Can we all agree that Horikoshi’s team is so big part of bakudeku family I mean what the actualー 😍!!!!

4800 words of Bakugou being gay, let’s gooo

four times bakugou wasn’t even given the chance to come out

(and the one time he actually did)

Alternatively, Bakugou is the second last person to figure out that he's gay. Unfortunately, the very last person to figure it out is Midoriya, the object of his gay panic.