#he's waiting like 'hehe i'm gonna give another callback to this plot from earlier its gonna be so good hehe >:3'

[mettywiththenotes]

Okay okay but AFO’s explanation of his plans

Is literally what Horikoshi does

Hori introduces a lot of plot lines then seemingly never uses them until the time comes. He plans stuff but it’s the when and where of it, like when will he use it and where will he put it in the story, which is why his reveals and plot twists come across as messy and out of nowhere sometimes (like he’s trying to plan ahead and then realizes oh shit if i go with this route then where can i reveal this here?? that means i gotta add it in now/pretty soon or else this detail from earlier won’t make any sense!). Hori has also said things like “We have something coming up for this character so we will find a way to introduce that” in interviews, implying there’s no fixed instruction on when to introduce it, but it’s something to put in place when he feels the time is right

Ultimately, the plot lines are routes that inevitably lead to the end of the story, but most of them are dependent on “when the times comes”, which makes for weird pacing. One minute Hori is sat around like AFO in Tartarus then the next he’s breaking out and causing chaos and going here there and everywhere trying to use the available routes to the potential he wanted. Then he’s sat around some more, like AFO in the cave now, but then he’s gonna get up and do this that and the other within a minimum of 5 or less chapters

(tho Hori is no evil villain lmao, if anything he’s evil in the fact that his story tugs on my heart strings)

This isn’t to say that it’s bad for a writer to introduce plot lines for a future use they only have a vague idea on. I just think that he adds so many, along with a lot of characters, that he has to keep track of everything and things spin a bit out of control because of that

But like. I feel like this is what Hori does, and it makes sense looking back at everything

#this is not to say hori is 'sat around' #he's hard at work actually #but i mean 'sat around' as in he's waiting on when to bring a plot line back - tie the knot in the thread so to speak #he's waiting like 'hehe i'm gonna give another callback to this plot from earlier its gonna be so good hehe >:3' #but then he messes up on timing or something and he's suddenly sat up like 'oH SHIT WAIT A SECOND WAIT UHHHH FUCK' #also btw he doesn't mess up all the time #its just on the parts that he DOES #like for example s&s and afo's dislike of her being introduced/hinted at too late into the story and so on #bnha #boku no hero academia #bnha spoilers #bnha 335 #bnha manga spoilers #horikoshi kohei #ALSO THE EDITOR GETS IN THE WAY SOMETIMES #but i'm not sure about which parts are their ideas and which part is hori's so #yeah #mettys posts #metty posts