Chapter 9 Highlights

Can you into more on Kirishima's character and why you think he has the mentality of "If I'm not the one being bullied, then it's fine."? You mentioned this in one of your posts and I want to know more about it, even better if you can apply this to class 1-a as a whole while providing scenarios of it

Hi @jarierei

First off, I don't have panels of the scenes anymore. I saved on my phone, post here and then delete it. But I will explain the best I can.

So Kiri, in his background, is a kid who suffered bullying for his weak quirk and he wanted to be a hero (I have people pointed out how Kiri could be considered a less version of Izu as the bullying, while bad, seems tamer if compared to what Izu endured and we don't know for how long that begins. Was a temporary thing or not? Bc Izu was abused since he was 4 years old. No pain Olympic here) and admired Mina Ashido who, in his own words, is a great hero in the make (she face a less giant Macchia)

We see he doesn't like bullying...bc he endured bulling. We see how he change his hair color and applied to UA. We never saw if he bullies give him a hard time or not, he never seem affected by it as fanon loves to say ...and even menage to strike a friendship with BK (somehow)

Bk...who tried to kill Izu in broad daylight. Who calls him useless (way before Izu claimed the name, I hate this and I hate ochako for that too.) and tried to kill Izu again (to be fair, on that part Kiri was a bit shaken by that but it's only that and he still hangs out with BK)

"he thought they were rivals" it's so fucked up and lazy...feels an excuse to justify hanging out with a shitty person. "Yes, Bob beat up Mary but Mary cheat on him so he is justified in beat her up"

But don't forget.....BK assault and rob Kami- treated as a gag- and Kiri didn't react at all. He took the money and has no questions. He has no questions regarding BK.

"bad writing on Hori's part" I agree, it's bad writing bc he is cuddling his beloved and by this ended up sacrificing everyone and everything. Kiri was supposed to be anti bullying...but he is hanging out with the biggest bully/abuser and ...nothing changes.

You wanna a scenario ? Ok

We have canon.

Kirishima has lend some money to BK, who is rich, and for some reason is asking for the money now. He needs for something and BK, is a rich boy, decides that to pay Kiri back....he will rob Kami's money and...Kiri is fine with that. He got the money.

Now....

If it was the opposite.

Bk needs to pay someone back and BK stole his money? Then Kiri would have something to say. "No more bullying"

Kirishima became bk's cheerleader and it's sad to see.

hey! I came across your post about how horikoshi pretty much vindicated/validated the way different factions of the bnha fandom sexualize the teen characters, but I'm not sure if it'd be okay for me to rb. I ship characters from this manga because I like to explore the potential duos and relationship dynamics we could have gotten -my fav being a non-canon mlm pairing, but my blog is sfw. I do not ship bkdk or tgchk, either. So yeah, just making sure if you'd be okay with me interacting, given the disclaimer you wrote at the beginning of that post.

Awee yay my second ask, and now suddenly I feel famous lol!

Thanks for reaching out and acknowledging by boundaries. To answer your question you’re free to reblog my post regardless of who you ship. You don’t seem to violate any of my personal boundaries afterall. Don’t let me dictate who you can or cannot ship especially if it makes you happy and you seem self aware.

If you were a bkdk fan in particular I don’t think I’d have an issue with it, just as long as you A. acknowledge the ship itself is inherently toxic, B. not a proshipper, C. you’re okay with ppl disliking it (does not count if they’re attacking you directly and you’re innocent), and D. you condemn the toxic shippers.

That’s rare to come across, and to anyone else who’s reading this…particularly bkdk stans, if you do not tick all the requirements then that means the shoe fits and I want nothing to do with yall.

Fyi I’m not really a shipper in general, just someone who prefers written analysis of plots, arcs and sometimes pre-established couples that actually work. Once in a while there are one or two ships I’d obsess over, but even then I’m a tunnel vision type of fan so you won’t see me glazing every fancontent of them, I’m just here picking and choosing before going back to my small curated cave.

I hope I don’t come across as snobby or this stuck up “I’m better than you lust driven obsessed shipers” type of fan. I’m sorry if I do, sometimes my wording can come across as blunt or odd….But on the other hand I don’t find myself gravitating to shippers because the census create unnecessary discourses from their rose tinted glasses and they’re just not someone I’d turn to have a proper discussion with. They’re often delusional and feed of breadcrumbs, and its even worse when they’re a fujoshi shipper who ship (pale skinned) men but I’m getting too ahead of myself.

Once again you’re free to ship whoever you like if it makes you happy, I can’t stop you and you shouldn’t let me stop you. But I’m thankful you’ve reached out for clarification!

every time a proshitter smugly proclaims "You'd never survive 2015 tumblr" or something similar to a person who expresses very valid disgust towards a pedophilic/incestual or other gross ship I get reminded of those "anti-woke" old men complaining about modern media and how people today are "just so sensitive!" while bragging about how dark and "complex" the media they grew up with was when in reality it was just filled to the brim with any and all bigotry, including the vile shit proshitters like to romanticize.

Both groups also like to claim that arguments against their problematic comfort media are somehow an attack against the poor, innocent proshipper masses by the "sensitive snowflakes" who, in their eyes, are somehow weak sensitive worms while simultaneously controlling every single facet of the entertainment/media industry and being cartoonishly evil

so uh. something to think about

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Kokushibo holding up Muichiro: this is my descendant!

Muzan: This is an uppermoon meeting, not bring your great grandson to work day

I 'liked' Endeavor's character when he was supposed to be hated, toxic family members are everywhere and I thought this was a sign the series was going to call guys like him out, people who use tradition to enable/ justify abuse. Instead, it became dedicated to kissing his ass. There's also zero self-awareness in this and how pathetic that manchild is

One question I'm still trying to figure out is how the fuck does he change?

He's still throwing himself a pity party, but because he can no longer whine about the number one spot (which is literally common knowledge to be more about image than action, and Endeavor has never put any effort into that), it's now "oh no I ruined my relationship with my family with my constant abuse and neglect, did I mention one of my kids literally died a decade ago, from this,"

Now only focusing on what he does after this realization, how does he try to fix this? He doesn't spend time with the one kid (Fuyumi) who for some fucking reason wants a relationship with him. Instead, he harasses her into giving him his masterpiece's phone number. Which he then uses to call him in the middle of class, this was in regular school hours, not some bonus class or club, literally standard school hours. His employees are seen wondering what he is doing calling Shoto in the middle of class.

He openly admits he only offered the work study to Shoto's friends so he would come (so manipulating his son), and that he's only going to focus on that kid. Him understanding Deku's word vomit isn't Endeavor being smart, it's Deku being shit at explaining anything, and someone barely managing to get it.

Oh and he totally respects Natsuo's feelings when he freezes when his middle child is in immediate danger due to their relation, only to immediately hug him after dumping that excuse on him, with zero consent from Natsuo. So life in danger, consent & feelings suddenly matter to him, life not in danger anymore, but still in a highly traumatic moment, consent & feelings no longer mean shit, way to go Endeavor 10/10

Endeavor is also 45-46 Dabi is 23-24. 45-23= Endeavor was 22 when Touya was born. Reminder he sought out the Himura's after he gave up at beating All Might, Touya's fire didn't inspire him, he didn't get the idea after marrying Rei, this successor plan came first. Pregnancy takes an average of 40 weeks (you can even cut a bit to make Touya a premie), even if Endeavor somehow managed to find an ice quirk based family the day he gave up on beating All Might, married Rei, and got her pregnant all in the same day (like a fucking sim), that would still mean he gave up at 21! This man gave up at 21, at the latest! How is that anything but pathetic!

He shouldn't be a role model he should be mocked.

shipping renkaza fucking sucks because you either get people who hate real enemies to lovers and call it toxic or pr*ship because they actually are enemies who want to kill each other instead of friends who bicker sometimes (these people are the weakest link and will not survive the winter)

or you get people who do ship it but only in the gooner dumbing-it-down-to-hardcore-porn way where they romanticize and get off to abuse and r*pe (these people are just gross sick individuals and i hope they go extinct)

and the few people who do see the emotional depth in the homoerotic minutes renkaza spent together and the potential in that for top tier doomed yaoi are few and far in between and i rarely find good fics that aren't just insanely ooc porn

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.

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.

I also need yall to know that Tetsutetsu canonically accompanies his female classmates when they go out at night, even if they're only traveling a short distance. Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu the #1 protector of women, god fuckin bless.