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latest bnha episode adapted chapter 313 to 316 1/2. so let’s say they’re continuing like that (just as an ex.) for every episode it’s adapting around 4 to 4 1/2 chaps (sometimes they do 3).
i have a feeling the episode will end (episode 22) or start (episode 23) up to here
then episode 23 ends around here (or could be further than this!)
this is just a guesstimate BUT Y’ALL WE’RE SO CLOSE TO THIS SCENE IM SO HYPED!
#bnha#bnha spoilers#bakudeku#and i just realized im working on this day#when i usually dont work on fridays at night bc of school#we'll see ;;;#I REALLY WANT TO SEE THIS EPISODE THO
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BNHA used A LOT of inner child image, including the last chapter. And like your last long anon ask, I pondered myself on why Hawks' narrative hits harder for me and I found myself hooked with him than any other child image, and I think I found the reason why. When other characters showed their inner child, Hori's narrative hammered us on "that's why they need help". Those images are the goodness that's left in character and, in a way, someone is obligated to preserve them. When Toga cried, I thought "what will Ochako do to fix it"? When Tenko showed up, I thought "Izuku must do something about it". When little Touya entered Enji's mind, I thought "Ah, that's Enji, and then the family's, burden to bear and eventually save". Even when little Bakugo and little Izuku show up, those were used to show how hopeless they are in their situations and how they desperately need help, forgiveness, friendship/companionship, etc.
But Hawks? Interestingly, I noted every time we're shown little Hawks story, narrative hammered us on "WHY HE HELPED". At first little Hawks HPSC scouting backstories appeared to show why he took the double agent job despite the danger and dirtiness, complete with his personal goal to make the world where heroes have spare time. Then little Hawks appeared to show how he was ready to sacrifice everything, even his name, to help people. The peak of Hawks' backstory on chapter 299 ended with "that's why he helped Endeavor". Little Hawks is last shown on chapter 316 and THAT'S even to help Nagant. I was like omg, when Hawks' pain was shown, that means someone will get helped instead of getting burdened by the weight of need for it to be fixed. And while I thought that's amazing, shows us how utterly STRONG Hawks is, how independent he is, how his pain is the fuel to help people instead of the reason why he needed help, I wanna scream HE NEEDS HELP! Please someone see his inner child too and help him! But no one realized because his inner child is never existed as cry for help, but his self-determined promise to always help people. And that's just too... amazing for me and I wish eventually someone appreciate it too and give him the help he needs but never asked.
I never noticed this but you're so correct, Nonnie! Hawks own child image is used to show the hardship he endured, yes, but also the inner strength he possesses and has always possessed since he was but a small child who needed that help the most.
It's not used to make people want to save him, it's used to save others and that's why it's impact is stronger on me than those used by the other characters (which feels more like a way to excuse them than to address their issues and make the adult realise they need to change).
I think that's why with other characters I want people to acknowledge the adult over the child inside, with Hawks I want people to notice that child but not at the cost of forgoing his adult-self and his strength.
I don't know if my reply makes sense or not but I definitely enjoyed your observation.
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With Sparkling Crystals Souls Aglow
with sparkling crystals souls aglow
by Yumiko bnha
Izuku isn't immune to envy.
Words: 316, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Series: Part 3 of hawaii part ii
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Midoriya Izuku
Additional Tags: Quirkless Midoriya Izuku, Implied/Referenced Quirkless Discrimination, Referenced Analytical Midoriya Izuku, Angst, Non-Romantic Longing, bc aros should get to stare out of windows, fogged with condensation and sigh at their horrible plight too!, Midoriya Izuku Needs A Hug, he really does, he is L + friendless, + can't fulfill his, lifelong dream due to the circumstances of his birth
Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45442009
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Freckles
Freckles
by hannybun
“Min, where are your freckles?”
It was a normal walk; snow crunching under foot and heavy, foggy breath and frost-kissed noses and ears with a light snow fall landing in their hair and on their coats when Hitoshi had looked a little closer to his girlfriend's face and realized one very important detail was missing.
“What?”
“Where did your freckles go?” He asks again completely serious.
...
Or this incorrect quote:
A: where did your freckles go?
B: they disappear in the winter
A, punching the snow: give. them. back. their. freckles. you. dumb. jerk
Words: 316, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: F/M, Gen
Characters: Ashido Mina, Shinsou Hitoshi
Relationships: Ashido Mina/Shinsou Hitoshi
Additional Tags: Winter, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Snow, Aged-Up Character(s), Aged-Up Shinsou Hitoshi, Aged-Up Ashido Mina, rarepairs, Bnha rarepairs, Cute
Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43872471
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Freckles
Freckles
by hannybun
“Min, where are your freckles?”
It was a normal walk; snow crunching under foot and heavy, foggy breath and frost-kissed noses and ears with a light snow fall landing in their hair and on their coats when Hitoshi had looked a little closer to his girlfriend's face and realized one very important detail was missing.
“What?”
“Where did your freckles go?” He asks again completely serious.
...
Or this incorrect quote:
A: where did your freckles go?
B: they disappear in the winter
A, punching the snow: give. them. back. their. freckles. you. dumb. jerk
Words: 316, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: F/M, Gen
Characters: Ashido Mina, Shinsou Hitoshi
Relationships: Ashido Mina/Shinsou Hitoshi
Additional Tags: Winter, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Snow, Aged-Up Character(s), Aged-Up Shinsou Hitoshi, Aged-Up Ashido Mina, rarepairs, Bnha rarepairs, Cute
Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43872471
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he looks like he’s on the breaking point of becoming numb 😕
I wish sb would come in and tell him it’s okay to not be able to handle everything on his own
#anime#bnha#mha#deku#izuku midoriya#my hero academic#manga#manga leaks#manga spoiler#mha 316#bnha 316#mha chapter 316#bnha chapter 316#mha 316 leaks#numbdeku
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Cuz he’s petty like that 😞
#bnha afo#mha afo#afo villain#all for one#bnha chapter 316#mha chapter 316#bnha 316#mha 316#bnha ch 316#mha ch 316#bnha manga spoilers#mha manga spoilers#bnha 316 spoilers#mha 316 spoilers#bnha memes#mha memes#mine
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Chapter 316: BBQ is capable of critiquing BNHA and… Oh boy.
Let's start this off properly, Horikoshi's typical quality of writing has been diminishing in recent chapters, but this week it was so different that it didn't even feel like Horikoshi was the one who wrote it.
To be clear, I'm not blaming Horikoshi for the issues I'm about to bring up. The man is criminally overworked, usually doesn't even get the final say in what makes it in the final drafts, and even in his other rough patches he's still produced decent chapters that hold up amongst the grand scheme of things. This feels like something else is going on behind the scenes, and while I have my suspicions on who/what might be the culprit behind it, I choose not to share it at this time because if I name names some people might go off on a crusade, and that's not what I want.
I just want to be clear that I'm not blindly firing off shots in the dark, but despite my frustrations I want to wait to see if this gets resolved down the line, and while I do I can complain about the specific reasons this chapter left such a bitter taste in my mouth.
Buckle up, buttercups, because we got a lot of points to cover.
Where's the Gun?
Not a literal gun, but I mean Chekhov's Gun. It has always been a staple of Horikoshi's writing and the reason so many of his long-standing plot lines have paid off so well.
Chekhov's Gun is a writing principal that if you see a gun on the table in the first act of a play, it will be used in the murder that happens in act 2. Basically, the author should include details that are relevant to the story and not betray the audience by leading them in one direction and at the last minute pull the rug out from underneath them to go in another direction.
Horikoshi has done this to phenomenal success in the past. Just as one example, he dropped hints about Nomu being human experiments early in the series but held off explicitly stating it for a while. He hinted at the loss of Shirakumo in the main narrative and that he was important to Aizawa and Mic as well as approved it for Vigilantes so when it was revealed that Kurogiri was Shirakumo's body, not only did it narratively make sense but it also pulled in Eraserhead and Present Mic's emotional stakes into the battle with the Doctor, and then when Ujiko reveals he was after Aizawa's quirk the whole time it made the payoff for Mic punching him in the face all that much better and brings the weight of his crimes and the impact they have on the victims full circle.
That's 3 different guns paying off in the long run: the Nomu, Shirakumo, and both Mic and Eraserheads' personal arcs past the loss of their childhood friend and that they could finally finish processing their grief and avenge him in full righteous fury instead of chalking it all up to cruel chance.
He has left details, some particularly innocuously, in plot lines like the Touya Todoroki reveal, Hawks' backstory, Shigaraki's blood connection to Nana Shimura, even with Mr. Compress's backstory, and more. When re-read, these details become more obvious and usually leaves us with a greater sense of satisfaction in the plot knowing that twists and turns were not only planned, but built up to and hinted at for us to find so the payoff is that much better and it feels purposeful instead of just shock factor.
None of that happened this chapter.
Lady Nagant has zero business being in this plotline. She was never hinted about before this arc, and her existence does nothing to tell us about the plot moving forward or the world that they're trying to change. Nothing her existence provides actually has any bearing on the universe or tells us anything we don't already know. But that's not how she was presented.
In the beginning we're given a glimpse of her helping Overhaul escape from Tartarus. The focus on her was odd enough to begin with as a new character, and the fact that she didn't look like she fit the profile of someone who belonged in Tartarus was like a flashing neon sign saying, "Pay attention! This new character is important!!!" She then shows up later with Overhaul in hand to attack Deku out of the blue. We get her talking about how she thought Overhaul might be useful and her disillusions with Hero Society. We catch her mannerisms with eery similarity to Hawks only to find out immediately after she was a senior colleague in the HPSC. Never once to my knowledge has Hawks referred to any of his senior colleagues as a "senpai" - not even his fellow heroes - and when he catches her in midair, he uses the words, "Don't die on me, senpai!" as if she's near and dear to his heart.
The entire character arc is set up for her to have known about Hawks and grapple with her desire to help people and her fear of re-creating what she hated, and this also set up Hawks to be the successor who succeeded where she failed and helped bring her to a place where she could be a hero without guilt again. What actually happened?
They're strangers.
They have never actually met before, and while he seems to know a lot about her, she doesn't even seem to have any idea of who he was - at least as far as being another hero under the thumb of the HPSC. So ALLLL that setup, all that gesturing, and all of the potential themes that would be right at home in an arc like this goes completely out the window.
Her story doesn't tell us anything new. The HPSC bad. We knew that. They're not above throwing innocents under the bus to achieve that goal. We knew that. They preyed upon young hopefuls with powerful quirks with the intent to maintain the status quo. We knew that even if the fact that Hawks isn't the only one now makes more questions than answers. We know that these young heroes can never say no under threat of steep, life-shattering consequences. We knew that already.
So what does Lady Nagant even bring to the table?! The entire "you're just a puppet doing what you've been told" angle is a little tired and out of place in this point and time with actual anarchy in the streets (not to mention hypocritical considering she was a blind puppet following orders and offers zero actual solutions that supposedly fall in line with her heroic nature), and it could have been left to any number of other villain characters who could have executed on the theme better - you know, like Shigaraki who's justification this entire time has been, "hero society doesn't make people safe, it just makes them feel safe" from the moment of his inception.
So from that angle she's unnecessary.
Her presence messes with the continuity of the series as well. If Hawks is supposed to explicitly replace her, that would mean that he wasn't just a fluke find on the commission's part and grabbed to mold into their own special superweapon; and that also would mean that her killing of the former president was before he was discovered which should put her at least in her forties. If this isn't the case, and he was meant to simply replace her in a "special agent" case, that still begs the question of how many more gifted children the commission preyed upon and are still out there.
And maybe the worst kicker for me is that something stinks. The way the art in this chapter is presented, if you completely blanked out the speech bubbles, is the same setup I had before - Hawks reaches out to his former mentor and pulls her from the brink of despair with a moving message about why he never gave up hope in being a hero who could actually make a difference.
Again, this is not what we got. He claims he knows her, and it's implied to have been a deep, personal character witness; but at best he only knows about her from secondhand sources. Even his reasoning as to how he never lost hope doesn't vibe with his character.
We have gotten so many cool one-liners for Hawks, but there has always been a consistent tone and imagery with them.
"Those who can fly, should."
"I don't belong in a cage."
"I'm free of my shackles."
"Can I be a shining light, just like him?"
What we got was, "I'm an optimist to a fault" which was the wording the official release went with and was by far the best iteration I have seen, but even this falls short of being truly in character for him and answering her question properly.
@mikeana made an edit of the titular panels for us Hawks stans this week with dialogue we and a few other friends felt was more fitting not only with the imagery of the chapter itself but internally consistent with the specific expressions Hawks uses in his heartfelt, personal dialogue. I just tweaked it a little bit more to fit what I was going for in our original conversation.
Which brings me to another concern.
2. What's the point?
There was no use for Nagant in the series as she's been presented so far. But more than that, Hawks has no business in this fight to begin with. He literally did nothing to earn this emotional moment, and this should have been Deku's moment.
We were teased in an interview with Horikoshi that Hawks was going to get a special moment as an important end-game character as a "shining light" of hope for others to follow as well as promises for Ochako to have another moment in the spotlight to make a difference.
If this was Hawks' shining light moment, it wasn't necessary, and it does nothing to move the plot forward or develop characters in any true or believable way. It just happened because plot. This should have been Deku's victory through and through, and even he is the reason BOTH Hawks and Nagant made it out alive instead of painting the street below them.
Deku's victory was stolen from him, too. It sours the other promises made to us about other characters moving forward, as well, if this really was Hawks' "Shining Light" moment.
By the way, did you forget about Overhaul? Me too!!! What was the point of getting our hopes up about reintroducing this beloved character with the implications this was a major arc setup to have him scream about pops and then get detained with no clues about what's going to happen to him besides, "Say you're sorry to Eri, and you get to see pops"?!
All this posturing and clumsy narrative flailing only actually succeeded in getting Deku in front of AFO again for plot when we already know Mr. Potato Head could summon, show himself to, or find Deku at any time he wanted. But instead we get this time skip with a bunch of heroes completely mended walking into a big, spooky mansion for AFO to evil monologue at Deku for… *counts*
FOUR PAGES!!!
Only to then give him the "I want YOU!" point over a pre-recorded message and the final nail in the coffin to me that something is off.
3. Ex-pu-LOOOO-SHUN!
It's become almost a game among friends to count how many explosions have happened since the end of the war arc - and specifically fake-out explosions. In the end of 311 we get All Might's car attacked via explosion and Deku cornered by Nagant only for All Might to be fine in the next chapter. In 315 Lady Nagant herself explodes in a blaze of glory to once again not be dead.
Gee! I wOnDeR if aLl the heroes were AcTuAlLy cornered and KiLlEd in that explosion in the mansion!
None of us do. They're fine. We're going to see it first thing next week. The shock has worn off, and it's repetitive and annoying at this point. There is no cliffhanger despite how the framing might try to tell you otherwise.
It's BAD WRITING.
The writing has been moving far too quickly and clumsily with no explanation in sight, and even character interactions are being cut short to the point of them being meaningless and empty.
This doesn't even feel like Horikoshi's bad writing. It feels like someone else is trying to call the shots and rushing him through these final bits of the series, and he's run out of things he's previously set up for months and months to reappear so someone is trying to get Dabi-reveal levels of attention with arcs and storylines that don't have the build-up to result in a satisfactory payoff.
4. At least it can get better... I hope.
Maybe those who share my suspicions or know what particular suspicions I have are with me in believing that this is a temporary disappointment and we haven't seen the last of the writing that's captivated me for years. I don't blame Horikoshi for these glaring faults that all came to a head in this chapter.
It CAN get better later, and I think it WILL- we just probably are going to have to wait for it. Until then, I'm going to enjoy the Hawks panels we got, maybe edit the last few chapters to be more in line with something more like the BNHA I know in a "fix it fic" fashion so I don't groan in anticipation of how long it might take us to get there.
See you all next week, hopefully on a much brighter note.
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i adore you mr. mosquito wings sir
#bnha hawks#bnha manga#bnha chapter 316#keigo takami#my hero academia#the fact that he just jumped to her#oh i forgot my quirk got carbonized for a hot sec#lady nagant
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bnha 316 spoilers!
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i have decided to be that person
but can we all talk about deku's hair in ch 316 coz oh my god
im currently simping and thinking it looks a bit too much like AFO's hairstyle when he had hair lmao
#bnha manga spoilers#mha manga spoilers#bnha chapter 316#bnha 316#dad for one#wet haired deku always looked similar to AFO and its sus#character design choice to have tenko and yoichi match#so the same must be true for deku and AFO#still let me hope ya know
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THIS CHAPTER
#chapter 316#chap 316#bnha chap 316#bnha chapter 316#deku#my wife was epic#overhaul you suck still#deku is breaking#its eren all over again#all mights face though#i need to make a edit of this chapter
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-- 鷹見 啓悟 --
#bnha#bnha 316#bnha chapter 316#keigo takami#鷹見啓悟#hawks#bnha hawks#mha hawks#bnha manga#mha manga#anime 2021#amnga screencap#i forgot some bits whoops#my hero academia#boku no hero academia
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AND HE'S FUCKING RIGHTT!!!!!!!!!
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hmmm that look.. reminds me of smtn....
hmmm idk i cant remember...
HMMMMMMMMM I WONDER WHAT ITS REMINDING ME OF
#hot take i know#sryy but like. he's been looking like his concept art for the past few chapters and damn if it isnt a scary thought for some reason#looks dope tho so i cant say i dont love it#mha#my hero academia#bnha#boku no hero academia#deku#midoriya izuku#bnha spoilers#bnha 316#bnha manga spoilers#dipshitposts
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How Hawks Keeps His “Glimmer of Hope”
This week, Lady Nagant posed Hawks an interesting question. As I pointed out before, the difference between Hawks and Lady Nagant is that Hawks still manages to cling onto his hope that a better society can be brought about - but, how does he do that?
To be honest, I was slightly disappointed in Hawks’ answer when I first read the leaks - not because it was out of character or anything (him attributing it to 🧸is exactly what I would expect of Mr. My-Back-Isn’t-Broad-Enough, who can’t see how incredible he actually is), but because it doesn’t do much to really answer Nagant’s question, or at the very least, show her a way so that she can regain her glimmer in her eye.
(Note: I do like the official translations of this scene)
So... what was Hori’s message here? Rather than showing how Hawks refused to let civilians die when he 100% had permission to so if it meant he might get in with the League, or how when he had orders to kill Jeanist, he decided to enact an absolutely crazy risky scheme to keep him alive, or how when he confronted Twice, he tried to give him an alternate way out and only killed him as a last resort (a trained, brainwashed assassin would have killed him when he first cornered him).... Horikoshi flashes back once more to the Endeavor plush.
I think the answer to Lady Nagant’s question, of how to hold on to hope when all hope seems lost, goes back to this series’ theme of remembering your origins.
When All Might is pushed to his limit fighting All For One, he remembers Nana Shimura’s words, flashing back to when he first started on his path towards being a hero.
And the same goes with Deku whenever he’s pushed into a corner. When Sir Nighteye won’t first accept him as All Might’s successor and a suitable holder for One For All, Deku keeps in mind what All Might told him...
(There are so many incidents of him flashing back to that moment... this was just the one I re-read most recently.)
My point is that, after having just killed someone he wanted to save, having just had his wings burnt off and nearly dying, having just been slandered on every television across the nation, having just discovered that his mother sold him out for a second time... Hawks is at the lowest point of his life. He has nothing left, but also nothing keeping him as a hero anymore. No one would stop him if he decided to walk away. And, what does Hawks do when he’s at the bottom of the pit?
He remembers his origins.
To Hawks, an important part of his “origin” was getting that Endeavor plushie. If he didn’t have something to hold onto in that terrible, terrible household, it’s possible he would have broken and lost faith long before his father’s arrest. And, when he realized that heroes did actually exist? His hope for the future increased ten-fold. Hawks is an optimist (and arguably to a fault - how many people at the HPSC died while he was trying to convince Twice to back down?), but only because he had something as simple as a plushie to hold onto. That Endeavor plushie is a symbol for all of Hawks’ hopes that keep him moving forward.
(Also, because I see this line of thinking a lot in some fans - Endeavor the plushie does NOT equal Endeavor the human in Hawks’ mind! Though he does act to support the real Endeavor on his path towards atonement (just like he would have helped Twice), he’s shown multiple times (asking Endeavor if he caused Shouto’s scar, the whole stunt at the Billboard Charts which only worked because he knew Endeavor’s flaws, etc.) that he can be critical of him, and does not support his past actions.)
So, what should Lady Nagant do? Remember her origins, just as Hawks and Deku have done. That is the key to holding onto hope when all hope seems lost. That is the key keeping the heroic glimmer in their eyes. And, that is what I believe Horikoshi’s message in this scene is.
#bnha manga spoilers#bnha 316#bnha hawks#hawks#keigo takami#lady nagant#I absolutely love how genuine and true to himself hawks is in this chapter
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