HORIKOSHI YOU ARE A DAMN GENIUS!!!

Fresh spring evening KatsuDeku

The only thing I like about 431 is that Katsuki knows that he must treat Princess Deku as if he were a jewel, transporting him on a comfortable cushion (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠)

Yes, I said princess, he is the adorable son of the Demon King after all...

Ha? How come Dad For One wasn't revealed? You know what? I don't care! If you have any complaints, talk to the hand (⁠-⁠_⁠-⁠ ⁠)⁠ﾉ

Yes, with Izuku's hand ಡ⁠ ͜⁠ ⁠ʖ⁠ ⁠ಡ

I'm sorry but I've been waiting for this for a long time.

perdón pero llevaba mucho tiempo esperando por esta continuación...

PIENSALO

(⁠つ⁠✧⁠ω⁠✧⁠)⁠つ Credit to the author: @Fajitas

@fajitas es su autor y yo solo quería compartir este trazo de alegría como muestra de apoyo o⁠(⁠(⁠*⁠^⁠▽⁠^⁠*⁠)⁠)⁠o

Me (BkDk) vs Izuochas

Do you know? I'm getting tired of opening YouTube to watch summaries of the manga and finding like 20 or 30 videos of Izuochas obsessed with believing that what will come out of Izuku's mouth in the next chapter of the manga is a declaration of love… Izuochas should understand that just because Izuku said Uraraka's name he's not going to confess that he loves her and it's not because I'm BkDk-Shipper. But first of all none of them! Neither Izuku nor Uraraka are prepared for this, they are both suffering. Why don't you see it?! Izuku still can't get over not being able to save Tenko/Tomura and Uraraka is grieving for Toga to the point of crying and vomiting! And do you really think that just because Izuku said her name that he's going to propose to Uraraka?… Grow up!

And yes, I know the bkdk may not be canon but let's be honest, Izuocha doesn't have enough material either and I can count Izuocha's scenes on one hand throughout the manga and Horikoshi has been giving us more fuel for the bkdk in these last few weeks than he gave you guys in the entire manga and even if Kacchan and Izuku ended up being good friends, I'd be happy for them! BUT-but if Izuku and Uraraka ended up being just friends, I'm sure you Izuochas would end up declaring war and wanting Horikoshi's blood!... and that's what sets us apart that while we BkDks know that it may not be real, you Izuochas are obsessed with defending your ship to the point of harassing, insulting and annoying those who do not think like you.

Grow up and stop fighting, what will be will be and there is no need to insult us damn it! It's just like fanservice to me! You believe what you want and we will fucking do the same!

💚🧡 they kiss btw

Ahhh I meant to ask, if you do end up giving thoughts on the leaks, I would LOVE to know your thoughts and this epilogue’s endings for bakugou (obviously!) and ochako as well.. in detail pls hehe

Everyone and their dog apparently wants my thoughts on the chapter, and I have to say I just don't wanna give them in the detail people seem to crave. Look, the chapter is meh. It's just meh. There are some cute things that happen in it and it seems that's at the expense of consistency in the story. They clearly didn't think about the things they were implying hard enough. Oh, Izuku and Ochako just didn't fucking interact for 8 years after high school but NOW Izuku wants to talk more? What about Ochako's school program with children that seems RIGHT UP Izuku's alley? They're both practically pursuing the same thing but apparently never breathe each other's air. Despite not thinking about each other for literal years apparently they're still attracted to each other, which, why? What are they attracted to? They're entirely new people now, they're meeting as adults with quite a few years missing between them? Oh, here's the rankings but also we're gonna give a throwaway line about how they're volatile and useless bUT STILL WE'RE GONNA GIVE YOU THEM. THEY DON'T MEAN ANYTHING ACTUALLY BUT HERE THEY ARE. Okay let's just imply Himiko is going to be Ochako's voyeur for life.

But worst of all is the weird idea that this is somehow the logical conclusion of the story that came before it. A conclusion should cap off the themes of its story and MAYBE introduce a new question to ponder. The story should LOGICALLY lead to the conclusion. But this conclusion basically turns around and says "Things change when you're an adult. You'll be a totally different person and maybe have new dreams. Except also you may not. Life is normal and boring and dreams sometimes die." What? WHAT????? Where's the theme of service to others? Where's the theme of heroes inspiring the next generation? Why are we implying heroes who are too good at their job will force their job to become unnecessary and die out but then try to prove no wait heroes are still necessary because sometimes people get weird urges to steal cars? What? Whatttt??? So heroes just exist now to be the quirk police basically. This is what all those kids were growing up to be? That's a weird implication after a whole story where the entire adult generation showed a VERY DIFFERENT AND MORE ADMIRABLE BRAND OF HEROISM (except for those that didn't, which was far more interesting than whatever this is). So the future of heroes AND villains is banality? Petty useless shit?

This is why 430 was such a good ending chapter. It DID showcase heroism in a mundane setting that actually had meaning and impact and inspiration. It made Izuku's adult life look like a fulfillment of his dream just in a new way.

In 431, Katsuki Bakugo is the only major character that shows a connection to the story that came before. He's the only one that still dreams of heroism and unity and inspiration, and he still thinks about who Izuku is deep down and resolves to save him from his stupidity AND SUCCESSFULLY DOES IT. He's the only one that resembles the heroic ideal that All Might supposedly instilled in everyone's hearts. MAYBE Ochako does too, but it's for a brief flash and then suddenly we're back on the mundane train (pun not intended) in a bad way.

And Shouto. Shouto can stay because he's the only character who PROPERLY introduces the question of "more to a hero than heroism" in the ending as a conclusion that introduces a new question, but it just...doesn't lead anywhere. I could see a potential path for that to have led the chapter somewhere meaningful, but it didn't.

So I maintain Katsuki is standing there watching on as the only character thinking about how the fuck to inspire people to be heroes again.

In summary, if I consider this the actual conclusion to the whole story, it's ass. I don't want it. It's useless and almost condescending. It's like the chapter is shaming me. How dare I enjoy the 430 chapters that came before, how dare I dream and feel inspired, how dare I expect anything of the concept of "hero" introduced by All Might and then the next one introduced by Izuku? But if I consider it an extra DLC bonus omake what-if didn't-think-too-hard-about-this-I'm-just-spitballing-and-having-fun-or-whatever side comic, fine, whatever, the mundane banality it wants to be succeeds, because I'm bored and I'm ignoring it. I'll have fun with it in fanfic maybe if I feel like it, but I ain't tying this shit into the themes of the actual MHA story. It doesn't belong there.

If that all sounds like more than you bargained for with your ask, it's because I received 30 other asks all wanting me to expand on these points, and so I decided to consolidate them all here. It's just too many asks for me to respond to individually. If I don't answer your ask, random anon reading this, it's because I consider your ask answered well enough.

Continuing with my theory of 'Izuku has an Energy/AFO Quirk'

It's exactly like you said Pizrad: Attraction + subtraction + energy storage… but if it didn't only have the aspect of subtraction of AFO but also had the element of transfer of it?…

Thinking ahead, let's say if Izuku continued for a while storing small amounts of energy from various people (either unwittingly at first and then asking permission to do so from people with trouble handling their overly powerful quirks) until he had enough and needed to draw out the excess from his reserves and then had the ability to transfer this excess quirk energy to others, how do you think that would work? For example, if he gave his mother a small quirk boost, remember 'attraction of small objects', then she wouldn't need so many hand movements to attract said objects or she could now attract not only one but several or even larger objects. Do you think it would be like a simple momentary caffeine rush, or would it be something long-lasting? And if it was long-lasting, would that allow people with "weak quirks" (let's take for example some of Izuku's former classmates from Aldera Junior High School)

Well, other young people like these could enter the UA hero course as long as they show Izuku that they deserve to become heroes, right?

That and Izuku's ability to analyze quirks would make him a kind of mentor like All Might or better (like Gran Torino that old man taught Izuku more in a few days than Yagi in months) to help train one or even several future heroes!

That would be my vision for the future if my theory was true and if not, then at least I gave you enough material for fanfics, right?

BUT I STILL BELIEVE IN DAD FOR ONE!

DAD FOR ONE FOREVER!

Gosho diciendo: son primos 🤪... Shunsuke Kazama (voz original de Kaito y Shinichi) diciendo: ajá sí 😉 mientras hacía esto...

Gracias a qué esto existe nosotros seguiremos también con el Kaishin 🥰

piensalo

For me, those eyes are the same.

Come on, if Izuku isn't Yoichi's nephew, I'll eat expired yogurt! 🥛🥄 And I'm lactose intolerant! 🤢