WHY CHAPTER 431 OF MY HERO ACADEMIA SCREAMS CENSORSHIP

First let's start by the "afterword", the note Horikoshi left after 430 and before the extras, chapter 431.

Original japanese for those who understand.

WHY CHAPTER 431 OF MY HERO ACADEMIA SCREAMS CENSORSHIP

The best traslation I found and most people are agreeing with.

Key sentences are:

1.The real final chapter is 429, 430 is more like a curtain call.

2. PS: For chapter 431, I turn off the cameras and free the characters from their dramas.

This note being left after 430 and before the extras is so important. . The clarification of "the real final chapter is 429" and 430 is the curtain call is screaming: the show has ended here. This is further stated by "i turn the cameras off" by the man who use to refer himself as the camera man, I leave you with an example.

(They're talking about Vol 37 cover)

And back to point number 2: "and free the characters from their dramas", which could perfectly be understood as "the characters are no longer tied to their previous plots and drama" no longer connected to the main story.

It may seem like a reach until here, we're just trying to convince ourselves that's not canon, right? They´re delusions, right?

The problem is how far away everything about 431 antagonizes the whole story, the characters doesn't feel like themselves, they even regress back all their development, the drawing style looks totally different and there are many irregularities that call for our attention.

Dabi, 431 and by Horikoshi

Toga and Ochaco in 431:

Toga and Ochaco by Horikoshi:

All Might's signature for Katsuki (Horikoshi would never mess this up):

Kirishima with 6 fingers lol, Horikoshi loves drawing hands, he would never.

Katsuki's odd teeth what the fuck. (His hand looks good to me)

Ochaco and Shoto just look, weird. It's clearly not Horikoshi's art style.

And this awful background (center) was the main giveaway.

Horikoshi's backgrounds are so professional:

At this point I'm getting tired since the difference is astounding, don't believe me, just check the manga.

I don't think Horikoshi would've allowed those mistakes had he have a role in the making, maybe he did, there's no saying about that, but clearly if he did his involvement was very low.

Character's development wise now.

Seriously? "Deku"? And Katsuki complaining for picking him up. He cried his eyes out when Izuku lost his quirk and now he's back at season 1?

Izuku would never in a million years turn down that offer. And if he did, it would never be like this, so devoid of emotion and empathy.

430 showed us an Izuku aiming for his dreams again and at 431 this Izuku ¿? It's okay with being a teacher? Ok. And if that's not the problem, why he outright rejects Katsuki out of nowhere? When their rivalry was one of the main points of the plots for 430 chapters and now just um over? Without justification? Ok.

Ok.

Now specifically about that ship canonization and bkdk.

Horikoshi has been doing this for 10 years. The choices he took the whole manga were incredibly intentional, all those romantic tropes given to bkdk, his interviews, all stand in direct opposition to what happened in this last chapter.

I, myself, don't know much about Jump but what I've heard is they end lot of shonens with the same heterosexual formula. I don't think all of this is a coincidence.

Something really important that needs to be adressed to is what happened back in June (I think), when suddenly MHA announced it was ending in 5 chapters could've something to do with this. The manga was suddenly rushed to its ends with unsatisfying resolutions and as if that was not enough, one month later (at most) the same happened to JJK and all of this came accompanied by a switch of one of the heads of Jump.

About 431 again though.

I was just thinking what would I do if I was pressured to write something that ruins the biggest project of my life and goes against everything I was hoping for? Refuse. Tell them to write it themselves. If I can't do anything to stop it and it'll be there, alright, but I WON'T DO IT.

And I think this could be Horikoshi's case.

I've never seen a shonen manga come so close to implying his male protagonist and his male deuteragonist are in love before. Yes, it was not EXPLICIT but it was so fucking clear if you knew how to read, all the way up to 430. All those cliches tropes he gave them, he knew, we know.

I thought I'll die trying to explaineverything that seems wrong with this with nothing to back me up but the fact that he added that note is clear for me. I'm surprised they allowed him to publish it, I thought we wouldn't even have that.

PS:

It's interesting this being posted the same day 431 comes out. Also "heroaca is pretty dark, huh?"

I'll not go into this anyways because it's kind of a reach but the conclusion is: I think it's a "soft" censorship and Horikoshi did his best to relay his message given what he had.

Thanks for reading!

This image makes me nostalgic (⁠〒⁠﹏⁠〒⁠)

To me it represents what could have been a beautiful brotherly relationship… if only Tomura hadn't died! (⁠ᗒ⁠ᗩ⁠ᗕ⁠)

Why? Why did Horikoshi decide on Tomura's death? That's another reason why I hate you Horikoshi! Why? (⁠ب⁠_⁠ب⁠)

Neither Tomura nor Himiko deserved that ending My sweet children (⁠╯⁠︵⁠╰⁠,⁠)

Tags

izuku midoriya tomura shiragaki Tomura and izuku Brotherhood tomudeku friendship tomura and izuku are brothers pain for what will never be Tomudeku family

59 notes View Post

katsudoncat

3 months ago

It was a fight against my impulses! (⁠╯⁠°⁠□⁠°⁠）⁠╯⁠︵⁠ ⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

I just wanted to take a few steps, get in there, stretch out my arms, grab those 4 and RUN WITH THEM STRAIGHT TO OUR NEW HOME! IT DIDN'T MATTER IF SECURITY WAS CHASING ME I WOULD HAVE LOST THEM ZIGZAGGING! BUAHHAHAHA!(⁠つ⁠✧⁠ω⁠✧⁠)⁠つ THEY ARE MY BABIES! MINE AND ONLY MINE! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!(@▽⁠@)

Tags

my babies tomudeku brotherhood i'm worse than afo because i wouldn't abandon one child to raise the other i would raise both

0 notes View Post

katsudoncat

5 months ago

HORIKOSHI YOU WRETCHED DOG YOU DID IT!

I was about to upload a review for chapter 431, of which there must be many by now, when I found this…

I know it's too long and only the postscript matters…

I think what the damn coolest cretin in history wanted to say with that postscript is that chapter 431 is technically not canonical since it's not part of the original story that for him was until 430, everything in 431 was left to the free will of its characters so they could do and undo whatever they wanted…

Let's say that Horikoshi the damn genius bastard did it and technically created 2 endings, one for each facto bitches!… we have the BKDK ending in 430 which I'll call canonical and the Izuocha ending in 431 which I'll call the alternative ending and everyone can decide which ending they want… see? Both would be canon endings if you want them that way, except that one is the official one and the other is separate, it's like if Horikoshi had to prepare a single cake for two people with different tastes, let's say vanilla and strawberry, then what does he do? A two-tier cake with one layer of one flavor for one and the other for the other person, so everyone eats their favorite flavor! A fucking genius who wanted to avoid the hate of ship wars!

For my part, I'm sticking with the canonical ending just because they held hands, and although we can't see it, to me, the way Katsuki offered it has all the weight placed on chivalry and romanticism…

and with that smile, Izuku obviously accepted.

As for the alternative ending, while it was seen that they held hands, I didn't see it as something romantic, we know that Izuku feels good holding hands like that (red flag, ladies and gentlemen, emotional codependent behavior)

besides it seemed to me like a kind of give me 5 or a way of saying "Hey, I'm here for whatever you need, 'little friend'",

so I took my advice.

Although in reality the only hands that I was interested in seeing were Izuku's AFO hands, instead of avoiding the ship wars, Horikoshi, should have explained to us why Izuku's hands shined like that...

and if he was AFO's son then why did he put it aside as an unsolved mystery and preferred the pairings! Where is my revelation of "Izuku… I am your father"? I just wanted him to confirm my Dad For One! (⁠っ⁠˘̩⁠╭⁠╮⁠˘̩⁠)⁠っ

Tags

bkdk dad for one izuocha avoiding ship wars where is my dad for one revelation

33 notes View Post

katsudoncat

7 months ago

Why Mechanical suit makes no sense in MHA ending? I will try to explain.

Many in fandom can't get over messed up ending of MHA. I got messages from people who are upset. And i can get their feeling. In this post i will try to explain why Mechanical suit given by All Might in the end doesn't make sense at all. Lets get started.

1. Ruined message of all manga. During all manga narration show us that hero could be everybody and id doesn't matter what quirk you have or your status. All you need is ure hard and hardworking. 430 chapter totally ruined that. Telling us that unless you have strong quirk or millionare friends you will be a loser with no friends and job where you unhappy (remember how in 430 chapter Izuku still have sad face and look unhappy). More interesting is that Izuku doesn't do anything to be a hero without a quirk ( Hello spinoff with a better plot). He just walks with sad face with no friends no goal in life. Until SUDDENLY All Might appears and give him a suit out of nowhere. Do you get what i am trying to say? OFA Izuku earned and it was shown in manga. Mechanical suit Izuku doesn't earn at all. He doesn't even try to be a hero without quirk.

Also, Izuku looks like a big hypocrite to that boy Dai(i forgot his name). He just tells Dai he can be a hero with a weak quirk in order to get a millionare suit, immediately abandon his job neing teacher and join his friends....Wow. Izuku...you hate your job so much? Dai, sweetie, i am sorry for all that. You could be a hero, if Horikoshi has a better writing skills or better and strong editor.

2. Horikoshi makes all looks like his favorite comics DC and Marvel and doesn't aknowledge the writing background.

So many people see that Izuku become new Iron man of MHA. Horikoshi several times stated that he loves Marvel Spiderman and Tony Stark. He wants to make MHA just like Marvel and DC and thats the major problem. He doesn't want to analyze writing background his favorite characters has in Marvel. He just copied and added without questions.

The same thing with Mechanical suit. Horikoshi just thinks that it would be a good thing to make Izuku new Tony Stark. Now let me explain why it doesn't work. What writing background Tony Stark has

1. Tony Stark is a billionaire with high Intelligence. No Fairy GodMother appear out of nowhere and give him suit. Tony Stark literally make his first suit out of trash by his own hands!!!! He literally make himself a hero by using his brain. It works in narrative.

Izuku on the other hand as i mentioned above, just has a Fairly Godmother aka All Might who give him suit.

2. Tony Stark has a several breaking points. I saw in fandom that many people were craving for Izuku has a breakdown moment. Izuku doesn't have that. He just walks with sad face, pretending to be happy. But nothing....

Tony Stark was fighting with alcoholism!!! Because of stress being Iron Man and his inner demons!!

3. Most Important detail. Mechanical suit given by Izuku was inventing by 8 f%%$ years! One suit!!! Do you see a problem here?

Lets imagine that Izuku faces villain who can control technology. What could he do in that moment? Or lets imagine that Izuku faces villain like AFO (with strong quirk i mean) and his suit is crushed. What he is gonna do next? Walking with gloomy face again waiting for another 8 years for All Might to appear? Do you see problem? Mechanical suit doesn't make sense. Even All Might example proves that..because his Mechanical suit handle 1 fight!!! 1 fight Carl. And was total crushed!!!

Add to this Izukus self-destructive behavior and you will understand that this Mechanical suit will have a very short life. These billions dollars could be given to poor ill children instead it would be more heroic than this

Tony Stark on the other hand has 100500 suit that were crashed!!! Yes! Tony Stark has several versions of suits. Many were crushed! But as i mentioned before Tony Stark is highly intelligent character by himself he is independent and him wearing suit is a logical thing. Unlike Izuku...

To summarize, i am very disappointed by ending and by Izuku getting that damn suit. Horikoshi is a terrible writer. But smth tells me that he planned totally different ending but Jump forbidded and he was forced to make a different ending. Because 430 chapter so wrong written, whith ZERO edition, with no sense at all. That i feel it was written in one week literally or one day. But original ending was thrown out of windows. Thank to Jump.

49 notes View Post

katsudoncat

5 months ago

COME ON, NOT AGAIN!

Please, stop! No more!… you know what? I'm going to pass the canon through the armpits of a donkey because if not I'll end up writing a Bakudekuocha fanfic and although it's seriously something I'm thinking about I don't want to have to do it because I know I'll end up taking Ochako out of the equation, please we're talking about the girl who called Izuku a 'Plain-looking boy'

and Himiko the 'Cutest girl in the whole world' (⁠┛⁠ಸ⁠_⁠ಸ⁠)⁠┛⁠彡⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

I don't see anything 'Plain' about Izu-kun's appearance (⁠ʃ⁠ƪ⁠＾⁠3⁠＾⁠）

Stop talking about who the canon couple is, I'm not interested, for me the ending has already happened and although it wasn't very good, let's say I'm staying with Izuku holding Katsuki's hand and both walking together hand in hand towards the sunset

♡⁠(⁠>⁠ ⁠ਊ⁠ ⁠<⁠)⁠♡ that was the real ending! the rest is just to shut up the mouths and get rid of the bkdk haters and Izuocha-fans, that's all my opinion, KatsudonCat out, PEACE! (⁠｡⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧

Damn! I already wanted to write that fanfic… should I? hehe (⁠^⁠～⁠^⁠;⁠)⁠ゞ

Tags

tired of being bombarded by izuochas on the internet again ochako and himiko the prettiest girl should have been a couple nothing about midoriya izuku is simple he is the most handsome boy in the entire universe... after katsuki of course horikoshi should have stopped publishing Bnha after the terrible ending in 430 should I dedicate myself to writing BkDk/Ochk?... maybe I'll try it someday

2 notes View Post

katsudoncat

5 months ago

Ever wondered how Bakugo and Deku's original prototypes are literally a mix of what they look like right now?

Like Bakugo(Gogo) was supposed to have GREEN eyes and Izuku was supposed to have RED eyes. But not just that, their personalities were literally supposed to be the opposite too.

Originally, Deku would have been more introverted and more edgy, broody than he is right now, who didn't really smile much and was definitely not the optimistic, friendly and cute version that we know right now. Even his freaking personality was similar to how Bakugo is right now, even the way he puts his hands in his pockets

Ever Wondered How Bakugo And Deku's Original Prototypes Are Literally A Mix Of What They Look Like Right

Meanwhile Bakugo was supposed to be the friendly, outgoing one who is too innocent for his own good, talks without thinking and doesn't realize he's accidentally hurting the people around him cause he's too socially clueless to pick up on other's emotions and social cues, while also having a secret "sadistic" side that comes out during battle.

So if we think about it, it's not that their original prototypes switched, it's that they literally merged.

Bakugo is still pretty bad at social cues and he is honest to the point of being an ass to others, except it's not cause he's cluelessly innocent, he just somehow ended up with Deku prototype's original design...aka grumpy looking boy who barely ever smiles and also hates social interaction. Plus the red eyes.

And Deku is the one that looks like a ball of sunshine now, who's innocently optimistic and overly friendly, but still having that edge of badassery that his prototype did. And he got Gogo's green eyes now.

On top of that, Bakugo's prototype was supposed to have the nickname Yamikumo for Deku that symbolized his personality(because he's always so reckless), just like how Deku now calls Bakugo Kacchan, which is also symbolic to his personality (many people have pointed out that it can also be translated to Victory-chan).

So, basically, Hori had this idea first to have all these characters and make Uraraka Deku's love interest and have Bakugo have his own character development arc. And then he decided to change things up and throw away the Uraraka being the love interest thing, and make Izuku and Bakugo's storyline tied together instead. And the fact that their current characters are literally a mix of their original prototypes just proves how much Horikoshi meant their characters being tied together.

Their current designs are a mix of their original designs, the current Deku is both the original Deku AND the original Bakugo, and the current Bakugo is both the original Gogo AND the original Deku. Isn't this what soulmates are?One wouldn't exist without the other, they say. Well, I'm pretty sure this redesign was intentional on Hori's part.

70 notes View Post

katsudoncat

9 months ago

If I don't get my long-awaited BKDK ending, I at least need my much-desired Dad For One ending to be real! Horikoshi-sensei PLEASE!

Or at least that this becomes reality...

I NEED them to at least hold hands before this is all over!

Tags

bnha bkdk dad for one theory To be real

7 notes View Post

katsudoncat

7 months ago

Last night, almost falling asleep, this crossed my mind…

Who would win between Eraserhead vs a Weeping Angel?

Remembering that Weeping Angels are considered difficult to destroy when they are frozen and Eraserhead can only remain without blinking for a certain amount of time. What do you think?