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aakeysmash · 7 days
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Katsuki just needs you to lay your eyes on him to get hard.
You can be sleepy and looking up at him with your eyes half open and he gets a boner.
Roughed up in the morning, teeth still not brushed and you just peek at him from one eye before snuggling into his open arms? He’s getting a boner.
Maybe you’re moaning with his food in your mouth while complimenting how good of a cook he is with sparkling eyes, and his blood rushes straight to his dick.
And it’s not always because he wants to fuck you, even if he does have a super high sex drive and would bend you over 4 times a day if you’d let him.
Sometimes it’s just because his heart skips a beat while thinking about how softly only you know how to look at his soul, even behind all his rough exterior.
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luxaria-nocturne · 5 months
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I am absolutely ready to see Bakugo blow up a toddler for the greater good. I feel like this is truly his final form.
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mettywiththenotes · 4 months
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I think if Izuku ever did an impression of Tomura, he would either get it almost exactly right or make video game references the whole time
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crisp-art · 5 months
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sharing my corkboard bc I realized I've never shown it before (I think)
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rain-coat-killer · 2 years
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July 18th: Apocalypse
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"I hear a song."
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theophagie · 5 months
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He literally went "EAT SHIT ASSHOLES 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕" at half of the fanbase we love to see it
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haleigh-sloth · 2 years
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“A fake out would be cheap”
Y’all I love bnha with all my heart I adore it I’m obsessed with it I will not stop reading it until it’s done
But y’all need to admit that it’s a basic bitch manga with quite a lot of cheapness in it
It’s a wonderful manga. It’s amazing.
But it’s got its fair share of cheapness. Come on.
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formulaorange · 1 year
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Fall 2022 Anime Reviews/Ratings
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Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War It's been a good while since I've enjoyed and anime this much. Bleach was one of if not, the first anime I ever watched and I could not be more stoked to have been able to watch its continuation now, 10 years later. This was actually a bit of a surprise. The first half honestly felt like an artists serious depiction of a historical drama and the music absolutely set the tone throughout the whole half. The themes were on point, the art style was out of this world and it definitely hit hard. The second half has was much more classic bleach and easily brought up the mood but also had a solid balance of important story arcs that really filled in some pieces of the world that I didn't know I needed. I loved every second of this season and this is the kind of quality this show deserves. 10/10 - Masterpiece
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Chainsaw-man This was a manga that I personally didn't enjoy, just wasn't for me, but damn the anime is solid. While I still didn't feel too attached to the characters, I thoroughly enjoyed the way they did the story. The animations were god honest next level. I can't imagine anything past the quality we have in this series and man I wish MAPPA applied this much tlc to other series like JJK. (Maybe season 2 🤞) Overall a solid action, sci-fi? punk?? series. 9/10 - Great
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Blue Lock - (Still airing - 12/24) Another highly-anticipated series. I only recently picked up this manga and low-key it sucked that the english releases were so far behind. Volume 3 released after the anime already aired the same content. Besides that, this series is an absolutely amazing sports series. It hits all the checkboxes for a standard quirk-based sports show but also outdoes it with stellar animations. I love the style so much and I'm looking forward to what other series this studio picks up. (Same studio that did Tensura) 9/10 - Great My Hero Academia - Season 6 (Still airing - 13/25) This season is honestly what I've been waiting for. I feel that each season has it's peaks, but we're definitely hitting the climax of the story here and I'm loving it. The series has really come into it's own and has some serioulsly solid action and super-hero sequences. I genuinely enjoyed this season the most out of the series and high hopes for the future of this show. 9/10 - Great
Spy x Family - Cour 2 I have been waiting for the tennis arc to be animated. My god, I love this show. It really just hits everything I need from a shonen series and makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. Never a moment without entertainment and I just love the characters so much. 9/10 - Great The Eminence in Shadow (Still airing - 12/20) I was genuinely surprised by this show. Its concept isn't anything crazy but I feel the writing is really well paced and is just generally very entertaining to watch. 8/10 - Very Good
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Bocchi The Rock This is definitely the slice of life of the season. I had a lot of fun with the characters in this show and low-key related to a lot of the awkwardness bocchi emanates. I felt it was just overall such a simple and wholesome series. A good one to watch for fun. 8/10 - Very Good Mob Psycho III I'm a huge fan of ONE's works. One punch is easily one of my top 5 series. While I really enjoyed the first two seasons of mob, I found I just wasn't as into this season. The first half was slow and really didn't feel special. The second half, while it was awesome to see and is definitely amazing, there was really just nothing of note to spark it. Like this all happened in one episode. In the end, the animations and story are still far better than many shows out there is definitely worth watching. 8/10 - Very Good I'm the Villainess, so I'm Taming the Last Boss I actually loved this one. It took a trope that's typically seen in fantasy novels and turned it into an anime. I really like the different stories and arcs that took place in the series and I ended up getting quite attached to all the characters. 8/10 - Very Good To Your Eternity Season 2 (Still airing - 10/20) I've heard a lot that this series really falls off the further you get into it. While I do agree that it's nowhere near as good as the first half of season 1, I still really enjoy the progression of time and Fushi's evolution. I think the story so far is interesting enough to continue watching but definitely less hook than the original concept. 7/10 - Good More than a Married Couple, but not Lovers This series was a lot of fun. I think it walked a really fine line between the right amount of ecchi/spice and wholesome. Again with this one, I really like the different scenarios the characters were put in and while I did enjoy the series, it still felt like it lacked something for me. Either way, definitely a fun little non-standard romance series. 7/10 - Good The Bibliophile Princess I didn't think that I was going to keep watching this show after the first few episodes tbh, but i'm glad I did. I felt that it was a really nice genuine romance that addressed a lot of things in their world. They just did the genre well and I enjoyed the series. 7/10 - Good
Reincarnated as a Sword I know the LN readers have been waiting for this one. I think what i've found recently is that I really enjoy the concept behind these kinds of isekais but I've been preferring to read them rather than watch it. The series kinda felt mid. I did like the characters and the stories but didn't feel like anything special. I'm sure the actual novel is probably more entertaining and worth a read. 6/10 - Fine
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bnha-fashion · 1 year
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if you were ever to Hate Quit bnha, what would have to be the thing to make you stop reading/watching it?
I'll probably only Hate Quit bnha if fucking interdenominational aliens from the moon show up like what happened Naruto Shippuden
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yanderenightmare · 3 months
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BAKUGOU KATSUKI MASTERLIST
Ranging from my top Bakugou post to posts with notes above 1k.
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Boss ! Bakugo going yandere for his helpful assistant:
WANTS & NEEDS ♡6.6k
Yandere captor ! Bakugou punishes darling for a crime she didn’t commit and then regrets it:
WRONGLY PUNISHED ♡5.8k
FOLLOW-UP ASK ♡2.2k
Darling uses sex as a coping mechanism:
DARLING INITIATING SEX ♡4.8k
Hero ! Bakugou x Villain ! Deku x childhood friend ! darling:
RENUNION ♡3.7k
Cock descriptions:
COCK ♡3.7k
What BNHA ! yandere is the scariest:
SCARY YANDERE ♡3.5k
Bully ! Bakugou creeps on his quirkless study partner:
STUDY-SESSIONS ♡3.3k
Bully ! Bakugo is scary and pushy and delusional:
BAD GUY ♡3k
Fuckfriend ! Bakugou turned yandere:
BORING ♡2.8k
Alpha ! Bakugou figures out why he bullies Omega reader:
LESSON ♡2.8k
HEAT ♡1.3k
Bully ! Bakugo series. He harasses the reader into a relationship:
SEVEN MINUTES IN HELL ♡2.7k
TRUST ME ♡2.1k
Boyfriend ! Bakugou headcanons:
BOYFRIEND ! KATSUKI ♡2.7k
Poly ! KiriBaku bullies cute darling:
BAD INFLUENCE ♡2.6k
Poly ! BakuDekuTodo x darling thirsts:
BAKUDEKUTODO X DARLING ♡2.6k
BAKUDEKUTODO X DARLING ♡1.3k
POLY ♡1.6k
Prince ! Bakugou x maid ! dalring:
PRINCE x MAID ♡2.6k
Imagines of what happens when the darling tries to deny the BNHA ! yanderes intimacy and sex:
BAKUGOU ♡2.4k
Bully ! Bakugo x poor ! darling:
IN CASE OF FIRE: PUSH ALARM ♡1.4k
IN THE TRAILER ♡2.3k
FOLLOW-UP ASK
Barbarian King ! Bakugo arranged marriage with princess ! darling:
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST ♡2.3k
Yandere captor ! Bakugou reacting to pregnant darling:
PREGNANT DARLINGS ♡2.3k
Overworked and touch-starved Prohero ! Bakugou x girlfriend ! darling:
ONE MORE TIME? ♡2.2k
Yandere captor ! Bakugou with a darling who enjoys being his darling:
DARLING ENJOYS BEING A DARLING ♡2k
Bakugou and darling's sexual role-play dynamic:
ROLE-PLAY DYNAMICS ♡1.9k
Yandere captor ! Bakugo x pet ! darling:
PET ! DARLING IN HEAT ♡1.8k
AFTERMATH OF PET ! DARLING IN HEAT ♡1.5k
BRATTY PET-DARLING ♡1.1k
Yandere captor ! Bakugou x darling with early Stockholm syndrome:
EARLY STOCKHOLM SYNDROME ♡1.7k
Yandere captor ! Bakugou wants captive darling to be willing:
WILLINGLY OR NOT ♡1.7k
Poly Proheroes ! BakuDeku blackmails criminal ! darling:
STREET SCUM ♡1.7k
Bully ! Bakugou redemption, being charming with darling and asking her out:
GIRLFRIEND ♡1.6k
Sheriff ! Bakugou harasses backpacking tourist:
HIS TOWN, HIS RULES ♡1.6k
Yandere captor ! Bakugou's need for intimacy:
INTIMATE ACTIVITIES ♡1.6k
Bakugou having a breeding kink for his crush:
BREEDING KINK ♡1.6k
Yandere captor ! Bakugou cleaning darling’s cuts after she tries killing herself:
CUTS & BANDAGES ♡1.6k
Childhood friend Bakugou and you have been stuck in a toxic relationship forever:
NO ONE ELSE ♡1.6k
Pro Hero ! Bakugou regrets not making you his before it was too late:
MISERABLE ♡1.5k
Bakugou's type:
SUBMISSIVE DARLING ♡1.5k
Alpha ! Bakugou mating his terrified Omega ! darling:
Five Steps for Alphas Mating Omegas ♡1.5k 
Prohero ! Bakugou going yandere for childhood friend ! spy ! darling:
EMPTY SHELLS ♡1.5k
Poly wolf-boys ! BakuDeku with a bunny ! darling in heat:
HEATED ♡1.5k
Daddy ! Bakugou punishes his darling for not following her strict schedule:
RULEBREAK ♡1.5k
Yandere captor ! Bakugou x clumsy ! darling:
CLUMSY DARLING ♡1.5k
How yandere captor ! Bakugou punishes his darling:
PUNISHMENTS ♡1.4k
Sadistic yandere Bakugou chases you down after you escape:
BEAR-TRAP ♡1.4k
Poly ! KiriBaku are a toxic duo for poor captive ! darling:
BAD COP/GOOD COP ♡1.4k
Alpha ! Bakugou finally finding his rebel ! Omega ! mate:
MUD ♡1.3k
Prohero ! Bakugou lusting over his equally successful childhood friend:
PROFESSIONAL ♡1.3k
Yandere captor Bakugou with a depressive darling:
MELANCHOLIA ♡1.2k
Incel ! Bakugou kidnaps reader to be his sex-puppet:
TOUCH ♡1.2k
Bakugou smut alphabet:
NSFW ABCs ♡1.2k
Bakugo frustrate with his affection over this clueless moron:
SCARY LOVE ♡1.1k
Bakugou's darling puts on his hero costume:
PLAYING DRESS-UP ♡1.1k
Yandere captor Bakugou's likes cooking with his darling:
HOBBIES ♡1.1k
Yandere captor Bakugou's sleeping habits:
SLEEPING HABITS ♡1.1k
Bully ! Bakugou being heartbroken and desperately in love with you:
HEARTBROKEN ♡1.1k
Yandere captor Bakugou spanking reader:
DADDY'S GIRL ♡1.1k
Yandere captor Bakugou with tiny darling:
PUFF ♡1.1k
How Bakugou became yandere for his darling:
YANDERE BEGINNINGS ♡1.1K
Hermit forest-dweller ! Bakugou takes lost hiker ! darling captive:
HERMIT ♡1k
BNHA genderbender:
FEM ♡1k
Bakugou teaches you how to cum:
STRUGGLE ♡1k
Bully Bakugou kidnaps you during the purge:
THE PURGE ♡1k
Parole officer Bakugou accepts your bride:
OUR LITTLE SECRET ♡1k
Yandere captor Bakugou infantilizes darling:
DADDY'S BABY ♡1k
Captive reader rebels against yandere captor Bakugou:
GONE WRONG ♡1k
The Torodoki family makes use of their quirkless daughter - with friends:
FAMILY FUN ♡1k
What type of hybrid he is:
HYBRID ♡1k
Sad and lonely stalker Bakugou:
DRIVEN MAD ♡1k
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coffehbeans · 4 months
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Okay but like, where's the men?
On the topic of g/t media can I talk about another, more niche thing I wish we saw more of? Giant men. Hear me out.
Giantess enjoyers eat SO well, specially in anime. Like, what the heck? Aashush I guess it's because it's more common to like female giants than the reverse but, I'll explain. In the latest games I've been following I've gotten two examples of giant women, back to back, Phantylia from Honkai Star Rail and Izanami from Onmyoji.
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Both are bosses from their respective games and I mean, Look at this!!! You guys are eating so good!
Not to mention the other countless examples of giant women in media like Susan from MVA, the entirety of Steven Universe, Diane from Nanatsu, that superhero I forgot the name of from BNHA, even Gigantic, the canceled movie, would have a girl as the giant character.
There's so much content of female giants in media and there's so few male giants in comparison. What examples can we give aside from kids' cartoons? Sho? Gulliver? The giant from Jack and The Beanstalk? And that's it, I think.
When we do get male giants, they're mostly beast-like. Give me elegant male giants, give me princely, ikemen type of giants. Make them nice to look at! I want more healthy masculinity portrayed in media that has g/t, compared to the countless examples of healthy feminity we get.
Just pointing out the discrepancy in content and, I mean, we can guess the reason for that, right? But I really wish we could see more g/t content in media involving men lmao Mostly because I find it cooler, as well as more appealing.
Back to HSR, there's a future villain that is the god of destruction that Might deliver what I'm looking for but it's a big question mark at the moment. But if he does, maybe I'll finally get a bit of what I want to see more of? I sure hope so cause look at this guy-
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makeste · 4 months
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Do you actually believe the DFO theory? What do you think supports it? (Genuine question)
I do think Deku and AFO have a yet-to-be-revealed connection, and back in my early BnHA fandom days I did think Dad For One was a possibility. nowadays though, I'm convinced there's a different explanation for the link between them -- namely, that OFA and AFO are actually the same quirk, and Deku is effectively a horcrux of AFO. I have a post here which explains this theory more in-depth, but basically the gist of it is that OFA was never a separate quirk at all. Yoichi really was quirkless, and when AFO attempted to force a quirk on his brother, he accidentally gave him a piece of his own quirk in the process. just broke off a lil section of it, like a Kit-Kat bar.
I will say that regardless of which theory turns out to be true, there's definitely something going on between AFO and Deku. chapter 217 in particular is practically overflowing with hints that the two are linked. Katsuki sees it right from the start, and even theorizes that AFO might have something to do with the SIXQUIRKS activating. and rather than disagree, All Might simply says "I didn't want to raise that point," meaning he made the connection as well. and then they just freaking drop the entire subject never to mention it again. and Horikoshi lays this panel on us as a parting gift.
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which to me is confirmation that we'll be revisiting this at some point. simply because you do not lay the symbolism on that thick without some kind of game plan for the future. this isn't merely setting up OFA and AFO as foils; this is deliberately (and ominously) drawing attention to the numerous "coincidental" similarities between their two quirks. such as the fact that OFA is the only other quirk capable of holding multiple quirks within itself. and the only other quirk capable of being passed down to another user.
not to mention there's also the as-yet-unexplained link between Deku and AFO. the fact that Yoichi can "hear" his brother, and vice-versa. back in Jakku, the pre-Danger Sense Deku somehow knew that Tomura was awake before anything had actually happened. and when Deku first activated SIXQUIRKS, AFO was somehow aware, even miles away locked up in Tartarus. and we're just supposed to pretend this is all perfectly normal and makes total sense, lol.
so yeah there is definitely some sort of reveal coming up before this all ends. but I think DFO is more likely to be a red herring at this point. Horikoshi definitely knows about the theories, and that's probably why he still hasn't revealed anything about Dekupapa. he's the Hagakure in this scenario. distract me us with speculation about her, when in reality Aoyama was the culprit all along. it's the same tactic here. convince all the fans that AFO is Deku's father, when in reality the truth is even more insidious. he's not Deku's dad -- he's Deku's quirk. and the final final boss, secretly lurking not within Tomura, but within Deku himself.
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tell me that's not the perfect final showdown setup. you know it's true. you know it's coming. or at least I hope it is lol.
incidentally, during the process of typing this all up, it occurred to me that if AFO is capable of creating horcrux!quirks (which we know for a fact he is regardless of how this theory pans out, since that's essentially how TomurAFO was created)... then why not Deku as well? which immediately led me down a whole new different theory rabbit hole. that's going to have to be its own separate post, though. my mind is now going a mile a minute, holy shit. this is going to be a busy weekend.
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oshiawaseni · 8 months
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Trails of Love Hori's been paving down in the build up for the series' ending
Part II: Decoding the love story being told through other characters
Part One | II. KamiJirou | Part Three ->
.•° ✿ 5. "I̥̰̟͈̣̮͑̑͐̓̌z̴͉̙̲̋͗͌u̶̫̝̒̊̐Ocha" ೋღ
Oh look, time to defeat the raid boss of BNHA: IzuOcha. (I wrote this meta in March, and after reading it now, I didn't feel I needed to change anything, but I added a small bonus section at the end. Hope you enjoy!)
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I have a lot of things to say about why Ochaco was never meant to be the one... but I'll try to stay concise and on topic with regards to this meta. Ochaco appears set up as Izuku's love interest from the get-go, but is that really what Hori wanted to do? I'll be taking a dive into their themes and in part three of this meta, I'll be explaining why the answer to that question has been a resounding: NO!
When I compared the feedback Ochaco got from Aoyama, Toga and Mina about her having a crush on Izuku for wanting to be like him, to Izuku, who didn’t get any feedback for all the times he did the exact same thing and copied Kacchan, it felt very unfair.
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See what I mean? It is completely unfair. And this was such a hard topic for me to navigate and answer for the anon at that time. But then I did some thinking.
Compress, Gentle/La Brava, Kamijirou and finally Kirimina (which came as a pleasant surprise, and for me, cemented Hori's intentions with all of this)... all of these characters have been written to highlight various things about BkDk's relationship.
Then, there is Ochaco's admiration of Izuku and she always gets told it's a crush, and it's so weird of a plot to begin with. This very one-sided "crush" also felt out of place with the rest of the themes going on. I eventually realised maybe we had been looking too closely at the admiration issue all along. By attempting to explain the meaning of the tree and why it's different from this other tree, we didn't see the forest it's connected to and that there was actually something bigger going on that Hori had been crafting.
Scale it back and you’ll see: It’s not that Izuku didn’t get his own feedback about his feelings for Kacchan in the various ways he shows he wanted to be like him, but Ochaco’s conversations with Aoyama and Mina and Toga were his feedback!! It was one of the biggest AHHHHHHHHHHH SO THAT'S WHY pin drop moments I've ever had.
No one was calling him out, because they didn't need to! Calling out Ochaco for that behaviour was all Izuku's same behaviour needed!
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Chapter 15 is the first time Izuku displays this behaviour of wanting to be like Kacchan. In Chapter 48 Izuku trains his movement after thinking of "Kacchan and the others". His movement mimicking Katsuki's is first noticed by Iida in Chapter 52.
We spent so much time worrying what the difference is between Izuku and Ochaco’s admiration, but we tackled the problem all wrong! In fact, we didn’t need to tackle it at all.
Because not only did Ochaco’s crush sideplot serve as a red herring to veil the real love story going on from the average reader, it was also used as another tool to highlight it.
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In chapter 58, Izuku showed off his new movement style and everybody, even Katsuki, noticed it was copying the way Katsuki moves. The fact we get another Ochaco shot of her watching Izuku mimic Katsuki really does add credence to the theory that she noticed Izuku's feelings because he's also copying the person he loves. And if their logic was true for her, then why couldn't it be true for Izuku too? Izuku's mimicry being such a non-issue for 1-A was surely done on purpose for us to see this hypocrisy one day: That her mimicry gets called out as love by everyone, but everyone sleeps on Izuku's own mimicry simply because it's between two boys.
Our take away was never meant to be “what’s the difference between their admiration/love”, but simply that Izuku was both wanting to become like and inadvertently becomes like Kacchan because he loves him so much and a way to keep Kacchan close to him was incorporating both his attitude and movement style into his own.
Hori was linking the two concepts of mimicry and romance together with commentary from Mina/Aoyama/Toga while having Izuku do this EXACT THING they were talking about, with Katsuki, right in front of our damn salad!
Because what other characters noted about Ochaco's behaviour... Izuku was also expressing towards Kacchan. (Hori even brought it up again in DvK2 just to remind *everyone* that Izuku is very conscious of doing the exact same thing as Ochaco)
Even if Ochaco later reveals their logic to not be true FOR HER (which I wholeheartedly believe in. BkDk+TogaChaco end game LETS GO), we know for sure this logic has absolutely been true for Izuku. And the feedback Ochaco got also fits Hori’s framework of;
Bkdk -> are the actions
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Other characters -> are the words for their feelings and actions.
Ochaco never was a raid boss to begin with... she only had the appearance of one. All to get BkDK through to the finish line.
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Ochaco talking about "putting the All Might doll away" here used the same verb as "shutting her feelings away" and her scene instantly jumps to Izuku looking at his black whip - a quirk he has also "put away" behind a locked door that represents OFA. Black whip is a quirk which emerged from the feelings he has for Katsuki, that Izuku has also had to "put away" because what happened to him was so traumatic. I think Hori wanted us to see their two stories of "locking something away" were actually the same in essence, and it wasn't just black whip itself that Izuku had to lock away, but also his feelings for Katsuki... because we lost Izuku's POV towards Katsuki after the "I'm too blessed." scene. Most likely to hide the romantic love Izuku feels towards him from the reader.
I realised the same logic of the other couples also applied to Ochaco too a few months ago, while I was putting together this meta about all the ways Hori has indirectly shown readers what Izuku’s feelings for Kacchan are. Hori couldn’t say it outright because of his demographic and the current expectations society has that BL should stay in it's own category and far removed from shounen.
So Hori gave bkdk their moments without a whole lot of context and developed the idea of them simultaneously in another language, by getting other various characters to do the talking. And he used these characters to indirectly spell out bkdk’s love story in conjunction with bkdk’s own behaviour, all for the sake of his big bkdk reveal in the series' finale.
And to think he’s been doing this almost since the beginning blows my mind. (Chapter 15! Chapter 15 was the start of WWKD: What Would Kacchan Do) The man is a genius. A lot of this feels like he had needed to release his feelings about bkdk, so he left these trails of code throughout the manga... and we’ve finally cracked the damn thing.
We did it. We realised Hori’s 2nd language and roundabout method of telling one of the greatest love stories in shounen history. And I’m sure there’s even more examples of it to discover, that all our fandom's talented, keen-eyed bkdks find every day.
If Horikoshi Kohei-Sensei wrote this story because he wanted to cement his mark in jump history, he has deservedly done just that!
Part B - The real ship of dreams
(It felt too good to be true, yet I was quietly hoping...) .•° ✿ 5. TogaChako ೋღ
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Circling back to the first part of this meta, "The Shape of an Eternal Bond" ... Do you remember when I talked about how BkDk couldn't imagine a world without each other, and the sense of an eternity they both exude together? Something that has always been, something that will always be. It seems more themes and feelings we get from bkdk's relationship have now been thrown into the Togachaco fight.
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Ochaco gave Toga what is essentially a marriage proposal to a vampire, and then her wires made the shape of the infinity symbol. Toga expresses to her "I can't stand the thought of you not being in this world anymore." This is 1. so touching 2. bkdk as HELL, and I am certain that Katsuki and Izuku will confess their desires to be together forever before this manga ends.
I mean, this just goes to show you how us bkdks and Hori are literally on the same neural link, and we've been right about his methods of storytelling and how he's leaving trails of love inside these other couples to express concepts that are present in bkdk's own (soon to be) very romantic relationship.
It's a fun thought exercise to look at Togachaco's fight and predict what certain themes of theirs Hori will install into bkdk's talk/feelings they will express to each other... but there is a certain one, other than "forever", I feel very strongly about and will focus on here...
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And that is Izuku's smile.
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Something Katsuki once detested became the thing he most advocated for and longed to protect. His thumbs pointing to himself while talking about smiles... no wonder this had an air of Katsuki, himself, being the biggest reason Izuku smiles. "How could you leave me and choose this for us - a life of no smiling like that?"
At the start of the series, Katsuki couldn't stand Izuku's face or the smile he made at him. Whenever he saw it, he could only think of it as somebody laughing at him, looking down on him... but then DvK2 reframed Izuku's wide smiles at him and turned them into something pure, and genuine, and I think that's when Katsuki started to realise how much he was being loved the whole time.
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And how could Katsuki possibly not reciprocate those earnest feelings from his special person who helped him find his heroic heart?
And this seems to be something Ochaco has noticed about Izuku? Ochaco, somebody who loves when people smile, noticed how big Izuku smiles when he talks about heroes... but especially the besotted faces he makes whenever he's with Katsuki... Of course she did.
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On the Weekly Shounen Jump cover that featured bnha chapter 394, most of the characters on it are happy and smiling. Izuku isn't, however. That's because he's lost the ability to smile because Katsuki is still dead in the manga... Hori used this jump issue to build on this theme in the manga - that if you take Katsuki away, then away goes Izuku's smile, too.
Because Katsuki's very existence gives Izuku his happiness.
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These two panels were supposed to be compared to each other - "Blood" and "Smiles" are two concepts mirroring each other in Togachaco's story. It's their different love languages. Toga felt like she couldn't ask Saito-kun for blood because he'd never accept her, Ochaco felt like she couldn't ask Izuku for his smile... because he'd also never accept her... she knew this was because Izuku already had somebody who gave him his sweetest smile... the same person who knew him more than anyone.
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Chapter 395's title, 'shiawase no ue ni' was an interesting one that feels nuanced with Ochaco's feelings towards Izuku. It can be read as "Above (my) happiness..." I think this title is describing the concept of prioritising something else BEFORE one's own happiness. It's the perfect concept title for self-sacrifice, like Toga putting Ochaco's life above her own, but could ALSO be referencing Ochaco placing Izuku's happiness with Katsuki before her own feelings for him!!
Ochaco's story, at present, appears to be about putting aside unrequited love for a person she didn't quite understand, and instead placing her efforts into an attainable goal - rescuing somebody's heart from despair, and in doing so, becoming each other's important person. And then neither have to journey through life alone anymore. Ochaco knew this is something Izuku and Katsuki found in each other. In the image above, the girls are looking at Izuku and Saito, who won't turn their way, because they are both looking at a blonde boy next to them. Their "Sometimes Saturday." Katsuki.
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The hidden face as Ochaco says she "came to like" Izuku Midoriya is quite suspicious. It belies what she's saying and she seems to either be hiding something negative or she’s not being truly forthcoming about her situation and feelings for Izuku. There are also themes of envy that finally showed up in Togachaco's dialogue which may be foundation Hori has laid down for the reveal of Ochaco's feelings later, as well. Envy about the attention Izuku received from others as a hero. Envy towards Izuku's innate passion for heroes, and the adoring faces he makes for Katsuki, perhaps.
So this smile that Katsuki has always misunderstood as something negative aimed towards him ended up turning into something... very lovely and important to him, as shown in Izuku's panel and how Ochaco described Toga's smile right afterwards.
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And honestly... if we get little snapshots of the many smiles Izuku has made for Katsuki, while Katsuki is thinking about how adorable Izuku looks just for him when they're talking, I don't think I'll make it out of this bkdk reveal alive. Hori is going to obliterate us with whatever he's got cooking for them.
With all the major bkdk-alike couples now finished, the next post of this meta series will be: Part III, and the conclusion of this meta series ->
Back to Part One
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codenamesazanka · 9 months
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Remembering your origins is a recurring theme in BnHA. Originating from Nana, it’s a rally to keep fighting, it’s motivation to keep moving when it all seems bleak, it’s about reigniting your dream—recalling the reason you started your journey in the first place. It’s used for Heroes and Villains both, to go Plus Ultra to truly reach your goals.
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Spinner experiences this too in the heteromorph mini-arc, but he first went through several false starts. 
In Chapter 371, confronted by Shoji about giving a reason for trying to invade the hospital, Spinner can’t give an answer, mostly because his brain is overheating so he can’t even form a coherent sentence. He does remember receiving quirks from AFO that gives him the overwhelming power to force his way through the Heroes’ defense -
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but that’s the how, and didn’t really matter as much as the why.
It’s when he thinks back to Shigaraki (and note, only Shigaraki) that he gains a burst of strength to attack, because Shigaraki is the why.
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Spinner wants to help achieve Shigaraki’s dream of ‘destroy everything’, and so he’s willing to take quirks from AFO, and use them to lead the heteromorph riot even though he feels unsuited for the role.
That’s not enough to succeed in his mission, though. Spinner gets knocked around by Shoji, who then asks him again to give a reason, this time a broader one - why is he rioting, why he decides this is the path (one of violence despite the violence Heroes also wield to achieve peace) he wants to take.
Here, Spinner regained a bit more clarity, recalling a motivation from further back in his life, before he joined the League; the reason he joined the League in the first place.
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This time, he’s remembering the source of his discontent - heteromorphic discrimination. Living in a society that treats him less than human because of his quirk, living among people who would and had sprayed him with pesticide for daring to venture outside his house. Spinner took up his blades because he didn’t want to be that powerless hikikomori anymore. He wanted revenge, and he wanted change. Anything else than his previous life, where he was nothing - forced by his surroundings to be nothing- a nobody who wouldn’t achieve anything.
With that, Spinner gets stronger, enough to finally break into the hospital.
But again, it’s not enough to succeed in his mission. In fact, this time it’s an even greater failure. His followers have abandoned him, Present Mic manages to hit Spinner with a sonic attack that throws Spinner off balance, causing him to lose and break the tape recorder that was going to wake Kurogiri up, and then Spinner’s out of all juices - extra-quirk wise, physically, nearly mentally too. 
In the moments before he loses consciousness, Spinner reflects. 
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Why is he fighting, why is he doing all this? When and what had he found something that finally filled his empty heart—because that would be his true beginning, the true place from where his life starts?
It’s not his grudges; it’s not Stain.
It’s, of course, Shigaraki again. Spinner’s doing this for his leader, all he wanted was to follow Shigaraki.
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Though it’s a little different this time.
See, his final memory before he completely blanks out, it’s not a flashback of Shigaraki the leader he’s following, or Shigaraki the boss he’s supporting. In fact, when he’s thinking of those moments (him asking AFO who he is, him putting the hand on Shigaraki, him seeing Shigaraki writhe on the ground in pain), it’s as the things leading up to his current predicament of being separated from Shigaraki.
Instead, what ends up being the thing that he truly wants to fight for, enough that it pushes him past all his limits—
is the friendship he cultivated with Shigaraki as equals.
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Just two nerds bonding over video games. It’s a panel of the two of them. That’s the memory he recalls to propel him to finally succeed.  
Spinner’s origin is the moment he became friends with Shigaraki.
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tinyshinysylveon · 5 months
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BNHA 405: FINAL BOSS
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for those who needed the summary! anyway THIS CHAPTER WAS SO GOOD! BKG SMILING WAS SOMETHING I NEEDED ;;
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epickiya722 · 5 months
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Bakugo's "I'm your final boss" has the same energy as "I'm not trapped here with you. You are trapped here with me".
It really does!!
Also, that line just reminded me of just how much video games are referenced in BNHA.
You got gamers, characters dropping lines you would hear come from a video game, using video game logic to explain something, video game references (such as Mario & Street Fighter, which can be seen in Vigilantes, before anyone ask)...
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