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I'M SORRY HORI-WHO? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? I DON'T KNOW ANYONE WITH THAT NAME…
Mmhh Boku no Hero Academia? Oh, are you referring to that manga that was cut short just before the end? Yes, it's a shame it wasn't finished!
ah wait you said it's finished? oh wow that's true… what things right? it seems that Hirikoshi kept his promise…
Izuku's father was revealed! what a surprise, is Toshinori, yes because a true father is the one who raises not the one who engenders as we say in Mexico, and Izuku and Kacchan finally held hands! and all the plot holes were covered. I'm so happy, Horikoshi is a great writer… applause
IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED I'M BEING FUCKING SARCASTIC!!! I'M SO PISSED OFF!!
First of ALL! In what world is this…
is that a fucking ember? I don't see an ember! To me that's a fucking burning flame!
And This?...
WHAT IS THIS THEN?! A FUCKING PRINTING ERROR?! I don't think so! Those are AFO hole lights! AFO IS IZUKU'S FATHER and no one will ever take that idea away from me!
Let's see what else? Ah, Toshinori like a Good Parent giving Izuku a new suit… let's hope it's not a Mecha-armor like the one he used against All For One…
although I guess there won't be a villain powerful enough to break the armor with Izuku inside....
Yeah, like a damn peanut. 😥
Oh ok I've already seen the last page, thank goodness it's a body armor and not a mecha type armor like All Might.
That's seriously a relief 😩
AND Last but not least… Izu-chan and Kacchan finally held hands!…
Come Deku!
But off-screen!!!! 🤬
Everyone knows that this has always been Deku's dream But in this case the order of the factors does alter the product!
We know from experience that if it is KACCHAN who asks Izuku for something, he will gladly do it! because this is what happens in his head…
And well, who can resist the charm of Bakugou Katsuki? Even I would take his hand 😍
But that's not what I meant, what I meant was that the order of the factors for me does alter the product, because it is Katsuki who must take Izuku's hand and not the other way around, what we expected or at least what I expected was for Izuku-chan to extend his hand towards a fallen Kacchan and for him to take it after hesitating a bit… You know, like the tsundere that he is…
Or rather, what I expected was something like:
They're in a fight with a group of random villains and one of them hits Katsuki's chest right over the scar on his heart, he stumbles out and falls on his back, Izuku sees him and after getting rid of his opponent with a punch to the stomach sending him flying several meters he runs towards Kacchan who is complaining a little while the villain he was fighting approaches mockingly, then Izuku knocks him out with a kick to the head and approaches Katsuki hesitating a little to reach out his hand (due to previous experiences)ias).
"Kacchan, does it hurt a lot? Are you..."
"Don't finish that sentence or I'll kill you, Nerd!"
"O-ok Kacchan"
"So, are you going to help me get up or what?!"
"Of course I do, Kacchan!"
Izuku then takes him by the hand with his bright smile and teary eyes quite happily, Katsuki responds by rolling his eyes with a…
"Tch, you're still a crybaby, nerd" as he stands up and they both walk.
"Ah Kacchan since you're standing you can let go of my hand"
"You're not telling me what to do you fucking nerd!… I'll let go of you whenever I want now hurry up and let's go back to the agency!"
But well, what else is left for us to do, Horikoshi is the creator of the manga and we can only conform and although DFO is not canon for me it is and will always be my headcanon.
Now for 'The more or less good things THAT I found':
The boys had an explosive graduation (thanks Kacchan) as did the Big 3 Mirio, Nejire and Amaijiki.
Izuku learned how to tie a tie properly and now wears formal shoes (bad luck for the quirkless red shoes theory supporters, I thought the same too 😩)
Izuku is a teacher at UA and from what was in his notebook it's possible that he's a Quirk Analysis/Physical Analysis teacher.
Shinsou grew his hair to emulate Aizawa-sensei.
Aizawa-sensei cut his hair and doesn't look like a homeless guy anymore but a 40 year old emo K-poper.
Gran Torino and Chiyo (RG) are still alive despite being very old now.
Kouta-kun goes to UA and still calls Izuku nii-chan.
The kid with the sewn mouth who escaped from the basement of his house is Kouta-kun's classmate and may become a future hero too.
Eri-chan's little horn grew back and she's now in junior high school, I hope that when her horn grew back her quirk also returned to normal (remember that her little horn was like a container for her quirk's power).
Aoyama is back and is also a hero now along with all the ex-1A's.
Izuku is still mumbling his quirk analyses and looking scary doing it.
He still has the heart of a hero and supports kids with weak quirks who are like him (with a hero's heart)
Kacchan continued his physical therapy and it seems that he has fully regained the mobility of his arm.
Kacchan worked hard and saved up for eight years to help fund Izuku's new mech suit and support items so they could be heroes together and follow each other for the rest of their lives! if that's not love then I don't know what is (BKDK CANON BECAUSE I SAY IT YEAH)
Oboro finally rests in peace unless it's Nemuri's grave that the Yama-zawas visit.
Izuku ended up becoming the first Quirkless Hero in history just like he wanted and that makes me happy even though he lost OFA 🥺...
But it still bothers me! SO if a QUIRKLESS wants to be a hero he has to be a billionaire like Batman and Ironman to get a super suit! that was what Horikoshi gave us to understand, QUIRKLESS are still USELESS if they don't use an advanced technology suit! And I know that Izuku will be happy to be able to be a hero again, BUT this is stupid, FUCK YOU HORIKOSI! and it was more than obvious that if the boy keeps training and exercising even without a quirk it's possible that he can lift a car full of people on his head, after all, a Quirk is nothing more than a simple tool, right? If Izuku had continued training his strength and intelligence he would have been unbeatable despite not having a Quirk! If even being a weakling of 14 years without a Quirk he was able to drag a refrigerator with an All Might weighing more than 250 kg on top at the beginning of his training on Dagoba beach.
And I'm also still VERY upset with Horikoshi because I have no idea who Izuku's biological father is (not the adoptive one, I already know it's Toshinori) because he neither confirmed nor denied anything and now I have to imagine everything he left out! And because I didn't see the Baku-Deku holding hands on screen! 😡 SO FOR ME! MY THEORY IS THE TRUE ENDING AND THAT'S IT!
Yeah I know it's been 10 years, the guy must be exhausted and his brain completely fried after all this work, but I'm still upset! and sad! BECAUSE IT'S NOT FAIR! It's not fair what Hirikoshi did to Izuku, the kid didn't need a fucking armor, just a support item maybe, I'm sure if Horikoshi had stayed with Akatani Mikumo 'Yamikumo' the story would have been different and it's possible that he would have been the first quirkless hero with only a support tool…
I wanted to wait for the official release but I saw the spoilers and I couldn't stand it anymore, I'm sorry but I'm not sorry, I had to say I thought about the last chapter of the manga and well this wouldn't be the first time that a mangaka disappoints me (Gosho Aoyama I'm looking at you 😡) And it won't be the last either I guess, and it hurts and I'm torn apart and I just want to have Horikoshi in front of me and punch him or just yell in his face but there's nothing to do but… CREATE TONS OF FANFICTIONS AND SHOW THAT BASTARD HORIKOSHI HOW TO WRITE A TRUE ENDING!!!!!!! but it doesn't matter, as I said, I'm sticking to my own canon 😒 and dedicate myself to writing This critic to vent 😔
no
No because why are you upset?
While yes it is hard to believe and a little disappointing that Deku sort of drifted away with like you know talking to his friends and stuff, he still met with them in the end
And thinking about it, no matter what happened, that was what happened for me with my high school friends, we sort of drifted away (minus the fact that I did not save the world 💀)
And honestly like being a hero looks like a really fuckin hard and time consuming job ya'll really think they have that much extra time on they're hands??
Like ya'll- Deku's still a hero
Did we forget Bakugou started like creating an epic hero suit that would HELP with that???
LIKE STOP COMPLAINING
I'll say this once and I'll say it again
What Horikoshi was trying to say with My Hero Academia is that heros are just ordinary people. Like the term 'hero' is different for everyone. And personally, My Hero Academia is the reason I'm alive rn, and I'm grateful for that because otherwise I wouldn't have met my niece, whom I am very close to. (That child will grow up to do great things and I will do everything I can to support her) and so for this reason, Horikoshi is MY hero because he created this silly show about a kid like me who became a hero in many people's eyes.
Remember the League of Villains? Shigaraki was their hero, wasn't he?
Remember Stain? To a lot of people, he was their hero.
There are so many cases where I personally think that Horikoshi made to say that the term hero means something different for different people, and that hero's are just ordinary people in real life, not people with super strength or super speed, but regular normal people.
Anyway, thank you for your time.
bro can we PLEASE talk about how fucking SHITTY my hero ending was…
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.
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!
Hi chat, bnha chapter 431 wasnt fake and leakers are saying that we should respect horikoshi-sensei for 431 while they are the ones who put them on Twitter when it wasnt even published💀 What a fckn irony.
Note: yeah we should respect horikoshi sensei for creating this story btw but I thought he was someone who thought about his characters well. He always tried to make his art and story better in each chapter, thats why I felt so bad while seeing the chapter 431. I expected something better than this (its not about ship btw dont try to make this into a ship war).
This is Horikoshi's note, Im gonna continue from chapter 429.
Also I need to ask someone who knows english better than me, what does he mean by "I turn off the cameras and free..." sentence?
Crumbs?
That there is a slice of toast!
Hori literally serving up so many hard drawings after BNHA ending, like did we only get crumbs this whole time 😭😭
I kinda want to write a letter to Horikoshi ꜀(^. .^꜀ )꜆੭
(NO stickers though, he has a phobia of stickers I've learned)
Seriously look at him (╥﹏╥)
New Illustration by Horikoshi for Jump Fest 2024
Nobuhiko (Kacchan’s Japanese voice actor) received a birthday sketch, from Horikoshi, of Kacchan !
I made a clean version ＼(＾▽＾)／
Volume 39 Cover
I will never shut up about this :)
Chapter 403 of MHA is out
