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What is with the constant fetishisation of rape and SA on this app and in fan fiction?? I get people have their kinks n shit but rape??? Really???

Not only that but the amount of pedophilia and incest is insane😟

I try not to be judgemental but I don’t get why you would want to read about yourself or someone else being SA how does that not make you uncomfortable and normalising shit like that is so not okay. It is not romance. It is not dark romance. It’s abuse and it’s gross.

I get that people are into different things and that you can’t control what you like most of the time but the normalisation of this stuff is crazy and so damaging especially to minors and victims.

I get CNC like atleast there’s consent in that but straight up violent rape fiction is weird and scary.

Anyway thanks for reading my lil rant!! love you all, stay happy and safe MWAH 💋

Edit: I have a reblog answering a few questions 🫶

Gosh I hate grind culture. My little sister just started medical school and all of her orientation leaders are like “you absolutely cannot have a life WHATsoever you WILL have to give up EVERYTHING besides this program say GOODBYE to your hobbies and relationships” and now she’s calling me feeling guilty for running and going to the grocery store and that’s just WRONG! And that is exactly what I was told starting law school as well, and rejecting that mentality was the best thing I ever did but it was so hard not to buy into. Anyway if any of you are in an intense academic program PLEASE take time to sleep and eat and exercise and maintain your relationships and keep up your hobbies! you are not a robot who exists solely to study and I promise that living a life and staying physically and mentally healthy is not going to make you fail

UA has too much money and I want to burn it down

[ID: A screenshot of a racetrack that includes waterfalls, mountains with ziplines, several buildings, and a giant slide with a person wearing black standing in front of it. Subtitles say: Use your Quirks freely to reach the finish line! /End ID]

Decided to look up the race track for the recommendation exam (the nepo baby test) for a fic and just I hate how much money this school has.

[ID: A walled-off city with a large gate. There is a bus that is very small in comparison to the gate and dots near the bus represent people to show the scale of the city. /End ID]

This is ONE (one) of the full sized city models that UA has for students to wreck. There are even cars in these fake cities.

[ID: A broad complicated expanse of pipes that extends to the horizon. In the right corner is an observation deck. /End ID]

This is just one of the other sites that the school has for students to wreak for training.

[ID: A large expanse of forest that stretches to the horizon. There are at least two large rock formations in this forest. The forest is walled off and the wall contains a gate. Near the gate is a bus and several dots representing people to show the size of the forest. /End ID]

Another zone that UA has for students to destroy for exercises. That thing is the size of a nature preserve.

Those training grounds are labeled Beta (the city), Gamma (the pipes), and Omega (the forest). There are greek letters in between them and even more training grounds. The one that pisses me off the most that I couldn't find an aerial shot of is the fully furnished suburb. Just so many empty houses and cars, houses that likely have some amount of furniture inside if the city is any indication.

But that's not all!

[ID: A screenshot of a dirt field with white lines painted on it for different sports events. Next to the field is the corner of a large building with massive windows, greenery, and a smaller building with white walls. There are a number of dots on the field representing people that emphasize the size of the surrounding buildings. /End ID]

It also has regular big ass PE grounds and gym buildings. Yes buildings, multiple.

[ID: A sports stadium with rows of multicolored booths in front of and behind it. Around the stadium past the concrete circling it are large amounts of greenery with small buildings scattered about. /End ID]

Its got a fucking sports stadium!

[ID: A domed building against a blue slightly cloudy sky. An effect for audience convenience has the name of the building 'USJ' in gold in front of the building. /End ID]

It also has a disaster simulation building that has to be at least as large as the stadium. It also has all the simulations running simultaneously with no one actually in those simulations.

[ID: A wide expanse of concrete road with greenery on both sides. On the right side is a large multi story H shaped building with skyscraper like windows from the bottom to the top. On the left side are brown brick apartment buildings with white balconies that stretch into the horizon. /End ID]

The school later built dorm buildings for each class that attends the school on some of the campus land. The dorm buildings are all five stories tall and each room is for a single student and the size of a small apartment. Complete with mini-fridges and individual bathrooms and balconies.

Why does this school have as much money as the Japanese government and more land than god?

Just… did the mangaka ever think it through just how absurdly large this school is? UA has a bus system to get students to different parts of the campus and it's a fucking highschool.

Like just the money that this school has. Why does it have so much money? It doesn't need all that money. The other hero schools don't seem to have that much money.

And like just all that money but they only have one nurse, all the human employees have multiple full-time jobs, some of the human employees like don't have teaching licenses and are allowed to teach however the fuck they want to (like Aizawa expelling who classes and sleeping through the classes he is supposed to teach). (How the fuck are these kids being guaranteed to have a quality education here if the teachers can do whatever the fuck they want and don't need to even have fucking teaching credentials to teach here?) And all the damn robots doing basically as much as can be done to have fewer real people working at the school.

bnha/mha, my criticisms.

the order in which i put them does not imply I think some of these issues are worse or not as bad as others, it's just the order I think of them in.

1- bakugou katsuki. a bully who doesn't change, but gets worse. from suicide baiting, to attempted murder, and is consistently forgiven and encouraged by every character in the entire story and the fandom.

2- the sexism in the story and fandom. (I went on a whole rant about this but I don't want to write too much about it because it enrages me)

3- fanservice. and the fact that when a male character is used for fanservice it empowers them (male characters uniforms being broken, exposing muscular chests, while female character's exposure does not flaunt their strength, just beauty and sex appeal, even teenagers.)

4- THE FACT THAT THE ONLY TRANS CHARACTERS ARE EITHER A VILLAIN WHO DIED OR A SIDE CHARACTER.

5- character annihilation for the sake of the plot. fuck the plot. characters matter more.

6- eraserhead's shitty teaching and how the fandom sees him as a good teacher or even a father figure.

7- quirkless discrimination and how unadressed it was and how izuku just got over it after a bit in high school even with his lifelong abuser there.

8- 1-A abandonning izuku and before that forcing him to come with them to UA, endangering those sheltering there.

9- Eri being rescued from those who used her only to be used in a different way but it's fine because using a child for her quirk is moral if the heroes do it. 10- bad representation of teenagers and children.

11- HORRIBLE representation of people of colour. mirko is an angry and violent character who is blunt in her words. Rock Lock is also an angry character, and any very reasonable suggestions and remarks he has are ignored. it is a very common trope to have black characters always be angry, and while yes they can be, it speaks a lot about the writer that your only black characters fit the stereotype.

11- idolisation of america.

12- endeavours "redemption"

13- lack of quirkless characters (what happened to 20% of the population?)

14- mineta's entire existence

15- shit pacing

16- shit plot

17- shit characters

How a typical scenario with Bakugo and Class 1A would go in cannon

Note: I thought this scenario was kinda funny in my head because judging by how everyone acts with each and around Bakugo, something like this would happen in the main series. If Bakugo is going to constantly have toddler like tantrums and get physical with someone(Ex. Blowing up the dorm and a card game after getting a tie in a match with Deku/ Attacking Deku immediately after he congratulates Bakugo for getting his provisional license/ Throwing his sharp headgear at Deku causing him to bleed), then he would definitely do this. Anyway feel free to add your introspection. Normally Bakugo would have a hissy fit over something that is either petty, stupid or outrageous to fuel his inferiority complex so let’s say that he got mad for getting the second highest score on a test.

How this scene would play out is that class 1A would get their results of a test they took. Bakugo would get pissed because that he got the second highest score meanwhile Momo Yaoyorozu got the first highest. While Momo keeps her pride to herself, Bakugo would make a baseless claim the she is making fun of him. So Bakugo would proceed to attack Momo out of jealousy.

- Momo would be in a lot of pain from taking an explosion to the face

- Jiro, Kaminari, Mina, Sero, Tsuyu and Ida would get pissed and try to intervene but it probably won’t amount to anything

- Deku would probably try to intervene but Bakugo find an excuse to fight him

- Uraraka would direct her attention to Deku if he got attacked by Bakugo; ignoring Momo’s condition

- Mineta would make another perverted comment

- Todoroki wouldn’t do anything in this scenario(Good luck Todomomo fans)

- Sato and Tokoyami would just comment on how Bakugo’s attitude is ridiculous and not do anything else

- Kirishima would probably stand up against Bakugo while at the same time convince the others that his actions are reasonable

- Aoyama, Hagakure, Ojiro, Shouji and Koda would keep to themselves and not intervene

- Aizawa would harshly punish all of Class 1A and give Bakugo a light punishment

In layman’s terms, All hell would break loose.

Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

Modern huts in various parts of Africa. These eco-friendly dwellings have modern amenities while maintaining the aesthetic of the local countryside. This montage highlights the rural architecture of Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda.

For all the my hero academia fans who are disappointed for that ending i have three recommendations for yall!

-invincible: superhero comic/show that explores the superhero genre in a interesting and smart way, very good writting and good actions scenes

-Worm (parahumans): superhero web serial that you can read here for free, also a very good writer history that explores the genre in different aspects and with a large female cast!

- Witch Hat atelier: not superhero manga but still a very good written one! If you liked mha for the academy part and for the students you will love this! Children chart are written like Children the mc, coco shares some similarities with deku and her dynamic with agott (another student) has some similarities with deku and bakugo dynamic (but better!)

This are just some recommendations of things i been reading/watching and enjoying a lot while also thinking "damn i wish mha was more like this" so have fun! c:

So I've been meaning to comment on this for a long while, but I haven't for whatever reason. Does anyone else find the Bakugo and Todoroki friendship absolutely forced and fake? Because Bakugo is way too much like Endeavor, especiallyin the beginning. If anything, I find it way more likely that Todoroki would be triggered by someone like Bakugo since he acts and behaves so much like Endeavor. And please don't come at me with that whole "Bakugo has changed and grown" crap. That apology he gave in season 6 was manipulative at best! It was a bunch of excuses, and the fact that he ended it with that whole "this doesn't change anything" just made me hate him more, if anything. But yeah, I just find the whole Todoroki Bakugo friendship wrong. Especially since Todoroki is so close with Midoriya, and he grew up in an abusive home. He may have been sheltered, but I doubt he'd be able to ignore the red flags in Bakugo and Midoriya's relationship, especially after the sports festival.

Time to shit on Bakugou

I've seen so many takes of "oh Endeavor is meant to be a parallel showing what Bakugou could have become if he never improved"

Where once again the actions show he has not fucking changed.

Also, why wouldn't he want to be like Endeavor? The guy by the end of the series retired as the number 1 hero, is fucking rich, tons of support, including the now HPSC president Hawks, Deku indirectly calls Natsuo unkind for not forgiving him, Rei is seen pushing his electric wheelchair even with three young able-bodied heroes right fucking there. Everyone who criticizes either of them is always casted as wrong end of story

Shoto is for some reason his friend, just like Deku and the Bakusquad, despite the fact that he treats all of them like shit. And the only punishments he ever get is either shared despite the other person not doing shit to deserve it (He forced Deku to fight him, and Shoto was literally being attacked by Isasa), or oh he's not the number one hero because he's just that mean to the press

The narrative never lined up with Bakugo, in that nobody ever responded to him naturally as their characters should have.

How they should have responded based on their own personalities and beliefs.

Stain, Dabi, Aizawa, kirishima, Mina, Iida, Shoto or even ochako.

All of them should have had big issues throughout the series with Bakugo for many reasons.

And even if one ignores all of this and focuses strictly on Bakugo, the delivery on his personal "growth" never really culminated in much real change either.

Because the final chapter shows he's still in the same place as he was during the provisional license exam, his attitude not being great with the civilians he's saving/protecting.

He was failed in the exam for this attitude and skated by through the make-up test.

(By being able to calmly talk to a single kid once I guess?)

Then nearly a decade later, he's still doing the same thing! 😆

It's kind of ridiculous when you look at all of it, like: "Where were we going with this??"

Do you think UA is really the so called best school for heroes or they just surf on the fame of their big name former students like am and endy (and others)?

UA is a school written by an author who didn't have much interest in the academia of MHA. MHA is a story about escalation and it puts the story beats of where the author is headed above organic storytelling. Example: UA doesn't like Izuku's habit of hurting himself. Aizawa has seen this multiple times now. -The entrance exam. -The quirk aptitude test. -The battle trials. -The USJ where he saved All Might's life. All of these resulted in the guy breaking something and needing to see Recovery Girl. Organic Storytelling: The teachers don't like this, so they address the problem head on: If Izuku breaks bones in the sports festival he really wants to do well in, he's out. So, he won't break his bones. But, this would go against the author's goal to show Izuku competing and hurting himself. So despite the fact that these people have his education and career in their hands and can dictate any command to him and he has to follow if he wants to remain a student there, they just complain after he does something.

As far as UA being the best school? Let's say...yes. The others aren't relevant. They do nothing. Shiketsu is allegedly as good as UA is and is its rival, but Shiketsu is only a handful of names characters. Where was Shiketsu and it's army of graduates when hero society fell? We saw what UA was doing: saving the country/the world. Shiketsu? They sent some guys to help during the final war arc. So by default, since the rest of the schools are non entities or do nothing, UA is the best. Is UA good? No. UA is a comical failure as an educational institution. It's a school where despite having the alleged best educators around and experts in their fields, the student's growth and development is entirely attributed to themselves. Aizawa repeatedly deflects any credit for his student's growth. He's a hands off teacher. He provides them exercises and training methods and the burden of doing the work and improving is on the students themselves. While this makes the class look more bad ass in the eyes of the audience, it asks the question: what are they here for? I think the principals behind UA's methods are very interesting. WHY do they do this? The answers are fun. So, you know how we get Aizawa and Shinso saying how unfair the entrance exam is and how it favors a certain type of quirk? My take is that this is 100% intentional and this mentality informs most of UA's methodology. They only teach students how to hit harder. Technical quirks or abilities that require effort to master can't easily translate into MORE POWER, so they prioritize people who will be top level heroes. Anyone who has a quirk like Endeavor's could be a top hero. The goal is to find as many people like him as possible, teach them to become stronger and hit harder. And teach them restraint and non lethal capture via sparring matches with their classmates. The constant fighting with their peers shows them how to hold back so they only use the exact amount of force needed in the field. As a factory to produce a very specific kind of hero, UA does a very good job. The school is just calibrated to creating a hero who succeeds in All Might's era of hero society. A self reliant hero who is used to doing things by themselves mirroring the solo and highly competitive nature of heroics. By definition, this strategy will exclude a lot of good eggs. So, we have the back paths: -Rescue points, enabling people who can't beat robots to score enough points to get in. Since the teachers are the ones who score this and they assign the points, Nezu could ensure anyone he finds interesting passes the entrance exam. -The Sports Festival, where those who do well and impress the teachers have a chance to move up to the hero course. This is designed to market those powerful hero students and get their names known even before their debuts. It doesn't matter for powerful heroes if people know their weaknesses and how they fight, because they're so strong that they simply obliterate all obstacles and opposition. Is this the intended reading of UA? That Nezu designed the entire curriculum to cater to people like Bakugo and Shoto and ensure they succeed because people like them are the most reliable and viable heroes you can create? Probably not. The author likely was just focused on escalation and making cool scenes. But when you look at it, this all makes sense. I wouldn't call this "good" but it's crafty and it speaks to the world it exists in. It's a fascinating system that's immensely cynical. A microcosm of the MHA world itself.

MHA Wild AF for calling this man a villain when really he was just activating for basic human rights

proshippers saying “you’re downplaying pedophilia and incest” will never not make me laugh.

“I treat rape, pedophilia, and incest like it’s a sexy, romantic thing and I try to justify it by using the excuse that it’s fiction. wait… YOU DON’T LIKE ME DOING THAT?! YOU THINK I SHOULD STOP?!? YOU’RE WATERING DOWN PEDOPHILIA AND INCEST!!!”

Hey, wanna know something kinda sad I realized? Every relationship Endeavor has is based around utility.

I mean of course there’s his family: He only married his wife for her to give him his perfect heir, and up until the present he only ever showed affection to the one most capable of being that heir; emotionally neglecting the rest completely, as we can tell from Touya’s treatment and Natsuo’s recounting of his own childhood. And even now, with his “redemption arc”, it feels like with his realizing his rank won’t satisfy him and the things he did to get it not worth it, that he’s only trying to make up for things for a new purpose; convincing himself he’s a good person who loves his family. (Especially given how much he mopes about his family not liking him.) Not once has it felt, to me anyway, like he’s done something for any of them that wasn’t self-motivated; with his kindest actions being the ones that were only partially self-motivated.

And now, he’s on the opposite side of that with the rest of the family; where it seems they only really interact with him for what he can do for them or their other family members. From the start, Shoto’s only ever professionally worked with him for what such a high ranking hero could do for his own career, and seemed to only really be open to giving him a chance because Rei and Fuyumi seemed open. But they were only really open for his and each other’s sake; which is also why Natsuo humours the idea at all, he was just more open about that fact. And now with recent events; they have put genuine trust in him, but only for Touya’s sake. To his family, who have each only every (at best) been a means to an end for him, he is only ever (at best) a means to an end for them.

And of course this is true for his professional life too, the core of his being for so many years of his life. Of course he has no friends in that professional life; just employees and coworkers who work for/with him out of mutual convenience. And of course, even his long obsessed-over rank is based more on how useful he is to the public than anything else (numerous sources have shown he hardly owns much of it to plain popularity, though even what popularity he does have serves a purpose now). Heck a lot of fans, many of his own defenders even, have theorized that he owes his utility to not being in jail after Dabi revealed all his crimes. The No. 1 hero is too useful in these trying times for the other heroes to arrest him; justice be damned.

And meanwhile everyone who doesn’t have use for him, be they villains actively fighting him or civilians deciding they just don’t need heroes, well they all seem to hate him. In fact I find it interesting that Dabi, the only other Todoroki more concerned with his own feelings and well being than any of his family members, is the only character in the series intentionally trying to hold him accountable for all the things he did.

The man has no one he genuinely unconditionally loves or that unconditionally loves him. Everyone he interacts with, their relationship is directly proportional to how useful they are to him and/or how useful he is to them.

What a sad existence, if one very fitting for his character.

My thoughts on Shinsou

So about Shinsou: The first thing we see Shinsou do is talk down to 1-A and talking about how he wants to be in the hero course. I was expecting him to therefore be someone who tries really hard despite everything to be a hero.

Unfortunately as seen in his fight with Midoriya he is nothing like that. Shinsou talks shit to Midoriya about quirks and discrimination but when Midoriya breaks free of the mind control, he wins easily. Someone who wants to be a hero should definitely be able to throw a punch or dodge. Instead he instantly loses. This scene proves to me that he isn't hero material at all. Not to mention the fact that he was talking to Midoriya of all people about being looked down upon because of his quirk.

Midoriya is someone who has faced far more quirk based adversity than Shinsou and this scene felt like it was setting up for a moment between the two boys (or at least some kind of comparison or parallel).

One of Shouji's main things is that people find him scary so he wears a mask. He has clearly been seen as a villain but he's not an asshole like Shinsou is.

At this point Shinsou seems like a perfect rival for Midoriya. They both have quirk related issues, they both want to be heroes, and they both have reasons to interact. Midoriya because he wants to help Shinsou like he did Todoroki and Shinsou because he clearly likes to tell people he wants to beat them.

Shinsou very clearly could have, and should have been everything Bakugou is. And unlike Bakugou he doesn't have 12 years of abusive history to slow him down. Instead Horikoshi rarely brings him up and fans fawn over him despite the fact he's just a loser jerk.

Canon Shinsou has nothing redeeming about him and hasn't improved one bit. Aizawa favours him and gives him special treatment and never seems to berate him for verbally abusing both Midoriya and Ojiro (who he called a monkey). At least in the lightnovels we see him feel remorse for what he said to Ojiro (but not for Midoriya).

At the very least his hero motivation could be to uplift those with so called villain quirks but even his hero motivation seems to be non-existent. All in all Shinsou had so much opportunity to be an interesting character but instead his lack of character development paints him as nothing but a jerk and a bully, proving once again that Horikoshi hates all character development.

Maybe he would have had the time to improve his character if a certain someone (Bakugou) didn't take up most of the character time.

You might have answered this or this ask was a long time coming, but what do you think of Bakugo?

He's an author's pet and fandom darling who makes lots and lots of money, so any "development" he gets is entirely Sisyphean. His redemption arc could have been GREAT.

As it is, it stagnated terribly because the author liked Bakugo when he'd get angry and yell at people. Which is precisely what his supposed development should have him NOT doing. Every single lesson he supposedly learns is just a performance for that moment: he doesn't actually learn that lesson because he's just going to backslide after that. The author refuses to commit. Think about how the series ends: the guy still gets mad and yells at the press, and his hero rankings are actively getting worse. The guy claims he wants to be the best. That he wants to be the number 1 hero. But he does absolutely nothing to reach that goal besides train and improve his battle power. The same as usual. He CERTAINLY has the power to do so, given all the boosts the author gave him! Mirio can't do shit to him. In terms of power, Bakugo absolutely should be on top. The entire series hyping this dude to eventually be number 1 and then the ending portraying him as a loser who failed at his one major ambition because his time at UA and all the previous lessons we supposedly saw him learn didn't stick...is baffling. It reeks of the author's fear of fan backlash. He knew a portion of the fanbase didn't like Bakugo, so he has Tin Tin become the number 1 hero instead. Making you honestly question what was the point of all of this? Bakugo is VERY privileged. We've got characters in this series who get basically ZERO character work, have no personality traits or backstory (Sato!) and then here's Bakugo who gets loads of screentime, a whole slew of power ups, gets to come back from the dead and then laugh off his injuries. Mirko lost multiple limbs, Kyoka lost an ear, Endeavor lost an arm and apparently the use of his legs. But the narrative said maybe Bakugo might lose an arm, but he's Bakugo so of course he doesn't. The author loves Bakugo too much, which is why everything is so easy for him: -Everyone loves him despite his anti social and quite frankly utterly unacceptable behavior. His continued bad actions being tolerated looks like blatant favoritism because of his strong quirk.

-He has the easiest lay-up redemption arc ever. NO ONE knows the extent of how horrible he was in the past except for his victim, who has already forgiven him. There was zero push back for him becoming a better person. He doesn't have a "Dabi" or any real opposition. It's entirely about him learning not to self sabotage.

-Even when he got kidnapped by the villains, they treated him with kid gloves. No torture, no beatings, he didn't have his quirk taken from him. He wasn't subjected to any sort of brainwashing. They didn't have to rescue Bakugo as he was in the process of being turned into a Nomu. The villains didn't take his mom and dad hostage to force him to be a villain. The guy is able to attack them the second they set him free, and then the plot bails him out when he's about to get his ass kicked. Let's explore a "What If?" We'll make Bakugo's redemption arc pop more while also giving Shigaraki the last laugh here. Okay, so Kamino happens and Shigaraki is mega pissed. It's revealed that actually, he believes Bakugo would have been a good villain because he had AFO's "friends" go look into his history, and he got ahold of lots of social media and classroom footage of Bakugo's bullying. Bakugo escaped before Shigaraki could show him all this and further make his point about why Bakugo was 100% villain material. So, he puts all of this unedited stuff together in a truth bomb and AFO's contacts, who he has access through via Kurogiri, ensure this gets to every news station in Japan. There's years worth of material of cell phone footage and social media posts, by his classmates, of Bakugo's asshole behavior. People recorded him bullying, yelling, breaking rules, belittling people. Izuku in particular. But the killshot is the stolen classroom security footage where he told Izuku to kill himself. Instantly, Bakugo's life is significantly harder. The new friends he made at UA see him completely differently. The teachers look like clowns for defending this guy on live TV. All Might is dumbstruck that Katsuki was really that bad before and is appalled.

Bakugo then has to fight an uphill battle where it's seriously questioned if he'll get to stay at UA. Having all of his past actions thrown in his face when he thought he was in the clear makes him take a good hard look at how he acted and still acted. He has a very tough discussion with his parents, Aizawa and Nezu where Nezu points out the pattern of behavior he's personally seen from Bakugo during his time at UA. The excessive force used in the battle trials, his behavior during the sports festival, him ignoring orders to go fight at the summer camp instead of using his quirk to fly away to safety, how he failed the provisional license exam for conduct issues, and then his later fight with Midoriya(Deku vs Kacchan 2,) which they now identified is not a "rivals" relationship, but instead a bullying dynamic. Nezu entered into that conversation fully prepared to expel Bakugo and wipe his hands clean of what he saw as a liability to his school. However, Bakugo's genuine remorse for his actions and willingness to do whatever it takes to make this right causes him to change his mind. He's instead put on probation and takes anger management. If he dips a toe out of line from then on, he's done.

Bakugo has to re-earn his friendships, and deal with major negative PR from what he did in the past. Everyone looks at him differently now and he fights an uphill battle to be a hero. He went from the top all the way to the bottom.

We've accomplished multiple things here. -Shigaraki is significantly less impotent than before and he actually inflicted some lasting damage to hero society, and Bakugo in particular. -We organically furthered Bakugo's redemption arc and made him have to confront his dark past just as it seemed like he reached a turning point. -We gave Bakugo an issue to solve that he's forced to either grow from or kiss his hero dreams goodbye. This isn't something that can be defeated with violence. You could even have Midoriya continue to be Green Jesus in this scenario. He forgave Bakugo ages ago. We just have the other characters react to Bakugo not being who they thought he was. Social consequences hurt way worse than physical ones. Bakugo could laugh off a beating, but how's he react when his friends don't want him sitting next to them at lunch anymore? How's he feel when Mineta's the only guy who wants to be seen with him, since his reputation is already in the gutter?

I'll end this by discussing how this series robbed Bakugo of his humanity. Anger is a secondary emotion. When you feel anger, it first begins as something else. Shame, guilt, fear, weakness, helplessness. Anger is just an easy and motivating emotion to feel that can mask what you actually experience inside. So, we get Bakugo's "apology" where he explains how he didn't like Izuku. But why? The series doesn't dig deeper into what he isn't saying. Was it because he saw a kid with no quirk who was heroic and had people who liked him, but Bakugo only felt valued because of his powerful quirk? Did he ask himself, subconsciously, if anyone would care about Katsuki if he didn't have his power, and in his heart, he said no? The guy is unable to truly accept compliments, but he's an egotist who needs attention and to be acknowledged. Why? What's eating him inside that he needs this constant validation, both internally and externally? If the underlying reasons behind why you get angry are addressed, then you stop feeling angry. If it's based on insecurities and those get fixed, you just feel better. You've learned new coping strategies. Even at the end of the series, the anger is still present. He gets mad because people want to talk to their famous hero who killed the quirk devil? Because people give him the praise he's rightfully entitled to for being objectively one of the strongest people on the planet who uses their powers to help people? So he ends the series....not the number 1 hero. He doesn't have much of a relationship with Izuku anymore. And he's dissatisfied. And his anger problem still hasn't been fixed since the issues behind it never got addressed. Well, I guess Shoto is the only real winner among the important hero kids.

Anyone else thinks it's funny how everyone agrees the ending sucks ass but it's when they didn't get something they want? Like it took certain fans seeing that MHA was ASS was with Tomura's death. But now people don't like MHA's ending because Midoriya didn't want to join Bakugo's agency and Bakugo kind of looked sad about it. Like oh my Loooord. I swear people do not pay attention unless it's something like.

This is often the case for a lot of works. People, (and I'm including myself in this), tend to not realise when something is bad as it happens, only when it ends.

Of course, this isn't the case for everyone. A lot of people noticed how incompetent the storytelling and writing was, but a large portion of the audience didn't have any issues until the ending.

This is both because the final war saga was full of flaws, whereas the flaws previously were more spaced out, AND because the main demographic is young boys. Not just that, but MHA soon became the introductory anime to many.

Because MHA is so closely based upon western tropes and action, being mainly inspired by Marvel and DC, it was the anime to ease new watchers into the anime medium. People who have no idea what other anime are capable of telling watch MHA, and it's great! It's flashy, everyone has superpowers, it's funny, it has dark content, it's not afraid to kill people off...

But, well, when all you've seen is MHA, all you can compare other anime to is MHA.

Young kids who aren't concerned with and don't know how to look out for all those flaws, and people new to the scene who don't know how other anime compare.

Horikoshi spent a long time giving the villains a sympathetic backstory, explaining exactly how they ended up where they are, and he offers no solutions.

There was certainly a level of lip-service paid towards it. But nothing actually put into play.

The HPSC is shown to be corrupt, raising child soldiers and driving Nagant off the deep-end, but nothing is done or even planned to abolish this corruption. Instead, Hawks becomes president over the very company that abused and groomed him.

Quirk Marraiges were made illegal far before canon, but Endeavour proves that they're still an actual thing. What is done to circumvent this? Nothing. Not even an activist group.

Endeavour, in general. He abused his kids, neglected them, abused Rei and drove her insane. Everything is brought to light. But nothing changes. People don't come to the realisation that heroics is a job, not a state of mind. They just forgive Endeavour because 'hE cHaNgEs'.

Mutant discrimination. What is done to help mutants become more accepted? Nothing. Shouji just yells at them that violence isn't the answer, but there's nothing actually put into play to help mutants.

Quirk discrimination in general. People with weak or 'villainous' quirks are treated like shit, (apparently). What is done to help them? ... Oh, yeah, NOTHING!

There were many early signs that MHA was going to bad. I mean, the QAT is even more biassed than the entrance exam, but Aizawa is painted as being a fair teacher. At least the entrance exam placed value on having heroic spirit with rescue points - Aizawa's QAT favoured anyone with a physical quirk.

The second heroics lessons was a simulated battle in an enclosed environment, rather than, oh, you know, learning how to fight. Bakugou nearly kills Izuku, and Aizawa just tells him to grow up.

People ignored the signs, and I did too for while, because of that hope that it would improve over time. Because the world was interesting, and it seemed to be developed.

It was not, but the minor level of lip-service made it seem like it was.

People flipped out when Izuku rejected Bakugou's offer to be his sidekick, as if that would have been a satisfying ending. People flipped out over IzuOcha being confirmed, despite it being heavily implied since the beginning.

People have turned on MHA because it didn't give them the ending they wanted. That's not to say that the ending wasn't bad - it absolutely was. But not for the reasons people brought up.

The world has barely changed from where it started, Izuku isn't even allowed to work his way into heroics, hero rankings are still a thing for some reason, the HPSC hasn't changed, and it just felt like a wasted journey.

And that's what MHA is, in the end. A wasted journey.

something that rubbed be the wrong way in that arc is how they used rock lock, one of the only black characters, facing the mutants when they were angry about facing prejudice and saying he would never understand. i thought it was in really poor taste

Yeah, it was widely criticised too.

Given Hori’s previous scandal that got MHA banned in China, I’m not surprised though. He clearly needed an editor being able to guide him with sensitivity but I guess it was more important to pair him with someone who just cheers him no matter what.

Kaminari and Tsuyu’s underutilisation really grinds my gears because they had SUCH potential to be really interesting characters who would have fleshed out areas of the story that were otherwise lacking. Like just off the top of my head:

Kaminari has a pretty high social intelligence. He’s generally pretty good at diffusing stressful situations, handling difficult people, and connecting with others regardless of their origins. All of which are skills it would have been REALLY useful for Deku to develop if the end goal was for him to save villains. Additionally Kaminari’s struggle to control and utilise his very destructive quirk, which effectively damages him if he uses it too much, could have acted as a more open, smaller and closer to home comparison to Dabi’s situation, providing the main cast with a starting point for understanding some of what he went through.

Tsuyu is really the person who should have been given the mutant plot line. Unlike Shoji, she was a character we’d actually spent time with, and even if the plot line was last minute, Tsuyu had in text things that could be built off, like her difficulty making friends due to her appearance, and the fact she’s shown to be hesitant of using certain powers (like regurgitation) because she feels they’re gross. Additionally, Tsuyu internship seemed to be setting her up to be a sea based hero, an environment that people often (famously) need to be saved from, but also an environment where heroes will always be needed even if their jobs lack the glamour of villains to fight.

Yeah, I agree.

Tsuyu was an early favorite of mine, so I was really sad to see her fade into a really lame storyline where she could add nothing.

I think both Tsuyu and Shoji could have been used in the mutant plotline (and Tokoyami + Kouda), but it also should have been built much earlier - showing microaggressions, slowly weaving in the type of discrimination that heteromorphs face. And it should have been resolved better than telling heteromorphs to be "good victims" and solving it by giving Shoji an award.

And yes, Tsuyu absolutely should have been a sea-side water-based rescue hero and not continue to exist to be Ochako's emotional trashcan in a wildly imbalanced "friendship" well into her late 20s.

Kaminari to me actually had some nice highlights in that he was one of the only students ever showing emotions like fear in battle situations (like he did in the PLF War). What I really wanted is a pay-off for his friendship with Bakugou. I think it would have been awesome to see him defend Bakugou's body when the Twice clones swarmed Floating UA and restart his heart in the end, instead of the self-exploding sweat nonsense.

the twitter link. What does it say in the image?

Hello, I have a question regarding Bakugo, more precisely how his character is generally seen in Japan because to put it simply he’s one of the most controversial characters of My Hero Academia especially in Western fandom. I’m kinda curious how his character and overall writing is seen in Japan since I checked the link of the most unpopular characters and I notice that he’s one of the top three?

He’s a polarising character in Japan as well, just like in the West.

Obviously he’s loved by many and he’s been voted as No 1 in all popularity polls (except first), in the statue vote, etc. His fans also spend a lot of money on merch.

His fans tend to think that he’s the real classic hero of the story in a Naruto sense and tend to paint him as a victim with how 431 concluded.

But he also has critics - along the same line as Western fandom:

- those who think the story never really dealt properly with the bullying

- that he’s a bit of an author’s pet

If you want to read up on it, check out the replies / qrt for this post for example. It gives you a bit of sense as to the arguments

Y'all still like him now?

me n you r both bakugon haters but ive been in a mood to give some of his fics a try- specifically, do you know of any fics where he properly apologizes to midoriya and has a realistic “recovery” period, or at least the start or one?

i honestly don't dudndidjd BUT, if anyone else does, can you please leave a comment/ask with any links so i can get them to nonnie pleaseeeee? ♡

I know I’m really going hard with the Bakugo bashing today, but I’m not gonna lie, he has the energy of that one white kid at school who listened to Eminem, or gangsta rap in general once and thinks he’s had a hard life, getting upset at facing actual consequences for his actions, meanwhile he’s the most spoiled/privileged kid in the class. We all went to school with that kid don’t pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about.

The Bakugou Experence(TM)

Bakugou: *punches Izuku*

Izuku, starry eyed: "Woow, Bakugou, that was so cool!"

Kirashima: "What a manly punch!"

Eraserhead: *grumbles, but is secretly impressed by how good a punch it was, even though he wants to improve his form a bit*

Shigaraki: *nods* "I can see why you're the one closest to Deku."

All Might: "What good friends they are!"

ain't bakudeku a proship? lmao

honestly yes, and it’s romanticized WAY too much by the fandom.

satoruspookie and that dekacchan weirdo or whatever the fuck her name is on twitter, are probably the two most embarrassing and cringiest bkdk shippers I've ever seen in my life

their extremely high levels of copium and the amount of mental gymnastics they have been doing over the past few weeks have been nothing else but incredibly amusing to see (filming themselves crying over bkdk not getting canon, blocking Horikoshi on Twitter, claiming chapter 431 is not canon and is actually AI-generated, as well as spreading around all sorts of misinformation etc.)—and for what exactly? for holding onto that tiniest sliver of hope that their toxic, garbage ship would get canon instead of Izuocha?

in famous words of Michael Jordan:

They call it "enemies to lovers" when it's really "abuser x victim"

LALISA MANOBAL ↴ THE WHITE LOTUS 3.05 — «Full Moon Party»

Thinking about Endeavor and how he could’ve been great for exploring the corruption within the Hero system, how some Heroes are just full of shit. All they know to do is punch Villain and let camera go click flash and fans go aaaa omg Hero do hero thing that’s so cool I love him yay yippee

Imagining a world where Endeavor was introduced as a Hero who was just as widely beloved as All Might, and he carried himself similarly to him and everything. A facade where his whole reputation relies on practically being a clone of the no.1’s personality, just with a twist of competitiveness and maybe a sprinkle of awkwardness or quirkiness. So when we’re introduced to Shoto, we start out confused as to why he hates his father so much. We think of him as just another rebellious teenager, doesn’t want anything to do with his dad yada yada yada. Maybe we even roll our eyes at him at first. But then we learn, oh wait Shoto isn’t just some other rebellious teen. His father actually legitimately sucks. Overtime we slowly learn of Endeavor’s true nature, how abusive he is, and not only that, but how the Hero system has failed Shoto and his family because it did nothing to stop Endeavor from doing what he did to them. Endeavor gets away with so much simply because he’s at the top of the charts. Shoto has to live with and rely on a selfish abusive man who’s beloved by the mass public, who pretends to be this heroic caring guy just doing what he does for the sake of peace, when in reality it’s all for the money, fame, and power. And nobody believes Shoto when he opens up about his trauma. Nobody except Midoriya. Because they’ve been convinced that because Endeavor is a Hero that it must mean there’s a reason behind why he’s supposedly treating his family so badly, or that Shoto is being overdramatic that he’s wording himself poorly on purpose just to make his father look bad, because he’s the rebel kid who hates him and therefore surely that means he’s trying to drag others into his rebellion and hatred so he can avoid any kind of self reflection.

And what if All Might bought into the act. Instead of being directly rivals, they’re both good friends in the public eye. NightEye never trusts Endeavor for jackshit, and it could’ve been one of the things him and All Might argued over. All Might having so much faith in humanity that he trusts Endeavor with his life, going as far as to say he’s one of his best friends. Meanwhile Endeavor’s just happy that he has a “friend” who’s popular and rich. Since high school they had always been rivals, and Endeavor still viewed him that way, only now he was more discreet about it, wording himself in ways that made his jabs at All Might sound like it’s just bros being bros. All Might slowly opening up to the possibility that his “close friend” is just some guy who takes his speeches and tweaks them just enough so to seem like he knows what he’s talking about. Endeavor just regurgitates whatever All Might says but worded differently, and the public eat it up without a second thought.

Hero Killer Stain could be the starting point of really unraveling Endeavor and his true colors. Shoto being placed in this strange intense situation where he knows his father won’t back down and change just because Stain is targeting him, so on one hand the thought of his father dying—as cruel as it may seem—is honestly relieving, but on the other hand the same thought leaves him dreadful and guilty because he wants to be a Hero. He wants to be a Hero better than Endeavor. He wants to be a true Hero. Knowing that his father’s attitude towards the situation is only going to get him killed, what kind of Hero would that make Shoto if he just allowed that to happen without a fight? He had to at least try to save his father, even if he had hurt him so much. Not because of any way he felt towards Endeavor, but because of his own dream and to make his mother and siblings proud.

And HAWKS. OH THE ANGST POTENTIAL WITH HAWKS. Hawks learning that his idol is a piece of shit and him struggling to come to terms with the fact that he let this man influence him to become a Hero. He let Endeavor influence him so much on a personal level. Wanting to give him the benefit of the doubt, but the more time he spends with Endeavor and then learning about Dabi and his whole deal, eventually he can’t continue trying to defend this guy. He’s gotta distance himself somehow but his collaboration with Endeavor has already gone on for a long while now. Even if Endeavor’s reputation has been starting to decline due to Stain and All Might needing to retire early, Hawks can’t just back away now. Not when the Noumus are attacking the city and Endeavor is struggling to keep up with them on his own. And Endeavor’s reputation is only going to tank more from there too as he ends up showing that he’s incapable of handling being the no.1 Hero like he always wanted to be, no longer having anyone to copy speeches and motivational quotes off of and Hawks’s personality being too laidback for him to fuel his already cracking facade. To the point where Hawks has to do a lot of the heavy lifting. Endeavor is pushed to the point of desperation, trying so hard to cling onto the reputation he has left, and it affects their teamwork by a lot. Hawks keeps getting his feathers burned in battle because Endeavor keeps recklessly throwing himself into the fights only thinking about himself, practically neglecting Hawks altogether. It gets to the point where in private, Endeavor ends up hurting him. Hawks gets hurt by his own idol, and he’s left stunned. He’s not sure whether to distance himself or to keep attempting to look on the bright side of everything, to tell himself maybe I’m the one doing something wrong not him.

…whatever that means lol

Not gonna lie i feel like some people forget that bakugou is like a character and not the guy who used to call their mother gay in middle school