Tbh, I started MHA because I thought it would be inspirational and shit. There is this powerless guy who gets powers from his idol and wants to save everyone. I thought since he knew how cruel society could be, since he experienced it himself, we'd get some great plot twists and conversations with villains. Especially after we got their backstories. But then, for Izuku, the supposed hero of all and everyone, to just go "Nvm, we need to kill them all," was quite shocking to me.
Even more when nothing happened after Endeavor was exposed and after the Lady Nagant thing. Or so much more, he is so close to these villains and their living reality from time to time that it really makes me question how he can still be in support of the heroes and the agencies as much as he is. Like he knows the truth about Tenko but stays quiet, nobody will ever truly know how much of a victim he was.
I expected at least something from Izuku, who is the hero of all. But I should have seen all this bullshit coming when the Eri arc with the festival happened. Like yeah, sure, one dance and a smile helped a girl get over the years of experimentation and drama instantly.
I used to roll my eyes at the "Eri will rewind Tomura to kill him and get Tenko back to save everyone" theory but now I feel like it would have been 10 times better than the actual ending we got. I am just very disappointed at the Manga, especially the conclusion and how rushed the ending felt. I also hate it how tmsome parts of the community treated the villain and the MVA arc, like please stop acting like bratty toddlers who have never heard of empathy and can only hate for once.
"But Dabi wanted to kill Shoto as a kid. He was soo selfish and cruel. He is a sociopath!" He was a fucking kid, kids a petty and need to learn their emotional intelligence from their parents. And since Enji has the emotional intelligence of a brick or course something messed up happened. Toya just wanted his father's attention and the man to be proud of him. And sociopathy is taught and is just another proof of the fact that Endeavor is a horrible person.
"But...but he changed! He is a good father now! He wants to fix his family!" Fix the family by killing the one that exposed him? Fix the family by being an overbearing father to Shoto? Fix the family by literally convincing them that Toya is the only problem and that they need to gang up to kill him? And even if he changed he needs to pay for his fucking crimes.
"But Dabi is evil!" Dabi is literally the product of his father's abusive and neglecting behavior toward his family. Of course, the child of an abuser is messed up in the head! Oh look, the sky is blue. Oh, what a fucking discovery.
And that is just Dabi and Endeavor. I don't even want to start with Tomura and AFO. That is the peak abuser and victim thing where the victim gets not acknowledged and is literally told "Your abuser was bad and all, but you ARE his victim. So why didn't you fight back when you were 5? You should have known better," like please. People!
I love Mha and it has truly great villains and a good idea. It could have been the most awesome story about changing society and stopping the stigmatization of minorities and victims of abuse and villains. It could have been an inspiration on how to better the world. Izuku could have been a goat for redeeming the villains and opening the people's eyes. He could have started a revolution. It could have been wonderful.
But looks like his legs are not stable enough, and now I can't even take him or Hori seriously.
Random 14 year-olds write better endings to MHA than Horikoshi himself. How do you fuck up your "dream series where all my wishes come true" so badly.
Also, sorry for all this yapping, I need to put my anger and disappointment somewhere.
I don't mean everything is shit after this, but things looking back started getting (steadily) worse starting with. Check bottom for more indept view on each option
A) at first I wasn't going to include this one as it happened before most of what I considered shit started happening, but with how much it blatantly favours this lazy-ass child abuser, how could I not include it. And of course, it shows so much evidence that he hasn't changed at all, like only even offering to teach Midoriya and Bakugo to manipulate his favourite victim Shoto
B) when it first happened I was devastated but expected this to lead to greater change to the hero system and society. But no, just a meaningless footnote to the heroes epic battle
C) literally no one questions how a top hero was just so eager to kill someone, or buy a wife, breed her, abuse & neglect his kids to the point one of them was believed dead. Only citizens whining about how Dabi is bad for them
D) here's this apparently big shot hero from the States we've never heard of before and immediately dies. If they wanted to keep Shigaraki from having too many powers they could of just chalked it up to the heroes interupting the process
E) the Todoroki family all blames themselves, this isn't to go into the complexity of abusive households, but to absolve Endeavor's responsibility and guilt. Despite the fact that as the one who created and was in control of this situation, he should be held accountable for theirs as well. The only backlash for his shit is framed as ohh poor Endeavor, he didn't mean for the child he threw away to create consequences, and now people are being mean to them
F) what was the point of this arc? Deku barely asks a villain three questions before giving up. He learns the HPSC had Lady Nagant acting as a secret assassin against any undesireables for them, covered up her arrest and got a replacement assassin (Hawks who has at least one confirmed extra jurdical murder under his belt). Witnesses an innocent woman get attacked for her appearance and was turned away from multiple shelters for said appearance. Deku: Hero Society is the Best, Nothing needs to change, because not every single apple in this basket is rotten to the core! Looking back he just looks worse for this
G) so this child, who due to his parents mistake was blackmailed under great threat & risk, into giving information to the blackmailer, deserves to be chained up and forced to take further risk by the heroes. Remember Endeavor never faces any consequences, nor does Hawks, but this child, Yuga, gets treated like this.
H) once again what was the point? How does Edgeshot know he can do this? How does he know how to do this? Why is he a top hero who has never interacted with Bakugo before this, sacrifices his appearing to be unharmed self, for a random hero student in the middle of a war? Oh and Edgeshot is revealed to be alive at the end of the manga, because Heroes have no consequences and live in magical fairytail land. Again what was the fucking point!
I) This was originally going to be two points, Oh poor Endeavor, victim blaming part 2 and the hospital battle. But I ran out of options and Endeavor doesn't need another personal option. So we got the whole Todofam blaming Dabi/Touya this time, and Endeavor being a whiney responsibility dodging coward again. Then we see the heroes knew that the villains were going to go after Kurogiri, kept him in a hospital. We see that the people aren't going after doctors or patients just trying to get to Kurogiri, get demonized for it. We have victim blamer/ pick-me Tentacole say that their kids will be attacked for this (already happening), and that it's up to them/ him to inspire the violent quirkests to not constantly attack, assualt, and otherwise discriminate against them, no need for the quirkists to be given any responsibility or consequences for their own actions. Oh and Spinner has major brain damage because how else was Tentacole supposed to win this arguement. Bonus points for Hawks calling for Toga to be murdered, doubling right back down on his previous murder
J) in this already overcrowded 3rd act lets make sure all these background characters get a scene! And despite the fact it took years for Deku to get a powersuit in the epilogue, All Might just randomly gets one, no build up or anything. AFO's backstory is left in the past so no one has to consider anything
K) I had hope going into this, but at every turn they kept on making it worse. Deku only tries punching and attacking, rather than make any attempts to actually talk unlike what Shigaraki has been doing since his introduction. Is randomly able to enter Shigaraki's head, doesn't have to see just how fucked Hero Society is as it gets cut short by moral scapegoat AFO coming in and revealing he orcastrated everything! Oh and he flat out kills Shigaraki. Living up to his name and not his goal. Deku that could my ass
Sorry if this comes off as super negative but I've been wondering this for a while, and well I'm pissed at the ending. Here's some people I want to hear the opinions of:
@moodyvoid @nagitosstolenhand @codenamesazanka @shortstrawberryshake @darkonekrisrewrite @nothingofinterest @itsnothingofinterest @villainsandvictimsalliance
Feel free to @ more people
Either Bio Hazard or Warning: Nuclear waste
The League is eating ice cream like after Tomura was stuffed into that tube for his Nomu upgrade. His nerves and brain are still not entirely okay.
Tomura: *blowing on the ice*
Dabi: What the FUK are you doing?
Tomura: I don't know....my brain...food...
Dabi just straight up laughs at him until he gets a brain freeze from eating his too fast. And he complains about it and is basically just creating his own drama show.
Tomura: There there... *shoulder pats with half hand half machine hand*
Dabi: motherfucking ice cream *offended on a personal level*
The fact that this would mean their world is so insane that some highschoolers probably wrote the fanfic as well on like Ao4U. I mean this is the equivalent of like writing romantic fic between like Jack The Ripper×Female reader or any serial killer.
Anyway I like thay idea a lot actually, it is so batshit insane when you have to just make some assumptions about the world. May I use it as like a prompt for writing?
anyway
tomura finds out that dabi has a crush when he accidentally sees him reading "Shigaraki Tomura x Male Reader" erotic fanfic on tumblr
My first self-made Shigadabi meme
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People are shy with their feedback. Sometimes it’s because they’re simply shy. Other times it’s because they assume you already know how great and talented you are. Could be both.
My point is, even if you barely have any likes or reblogs, don’t get discouraged. You have a lot of silent fans, but they are still your fans. Keep on creating. Because there is always someone out there who will love what you have made.
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