Class 1a Is Like Well We Were Only First Years Lol We’re Still Learning I Guess We Will Learn From

I'm very fond of the way Yoco Akiyama (Hori's assistant and the mangaka of Team Up) draws Hawks, especially the painterly style (she seems to really like drawing him). Her Keigo comes off as smaller, more compact, very much seems like he'd be a student if not for the facial hair. He's got a cherubic face, more so than Hori's and there's a cute slyness to it. Horikoshi's Hawks's eyes are a bit over the place with the shape changing but she tends to accentuate them being angular (triangles more than anything) and likes elongating them to be narrower. Manga-wise, he also has lashes when she draws him though they blend into his eyemarks and look like an extra point. Her drawing of him "japanese-style" (as Japanese twitter users pointed out) with a ho-oh is really beautiful too. He just comes off both youthful and mischievous when she draws him.

She really likes drawing his feathers too.

Though there are others that are a bit more pensive and somber, though, again, framed by his wings.

You can find her twitter and all her gorgeous promos for the show here.

uhhh something something a disaster ruins society uhhh excuse for hawks to have a cool survival outfit

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ホークス 〈乱れ羽〉

Ah, yes. I remember now. The mind kidnapping obsession.

It strikes again!

Those seeking fluff, fair warning. There be none.

do you ever think about how Hawks had the biggest failure in the manga? Like if the core theme is that people who are left of society need others to reach out to them and that if people genuinely try to understand others there can be a connection, essentially the character and narrative who completely failed this theme is Keigo and Jin. Keigo failed Jin. Like, Keigo's even been the mouthpiece for this theme of connectedness in the manga and bringing people together (his comments when Deku was brought in), several times over, and I keep thinking of how it will look when Shigaraki is saved and reached out to by Deku, how this will look when Touya is finally home with his family, when Himiko gets to have a normal night with Ochako and just be a normal girl. Keigo's just going to have to live with the very apparent realization that the kids succeeded where he failed and that Jin's blood is on his hands needlessly. He'll look at the kids and the villains they saved and look around himself and realize he could have had that, too, if only he'd tried to connect. Hawks has always been a really tragic character, and I know from the start we were into this idea of a boy thrown into tragic circumstances with no freedom out of them, but I think there's something to be said that the biggest failure in this manga, and likely of his life, was due to his own actions and buying into his own narrative of never having another choice.

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idk man something about kid keigo clinging to his endeavor plushie for comfort and the fish listening to their brother's songs felt very similar

missed the actual date but happy second anniversary of being obsessed with the bird man lets go!!!!!

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