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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!

It was a fight against my impulses! (⁠╯⁠°⁠□⁠°⁠）⁠╯⁠︵⁠ ⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

I just wanted to take a few steps, get in there, stretch out my arms, grab those 4 and RUN WITH THEM STRAIGHT TO OUR NEW HOME! IT DIDN'T MATTER IF SECURITY WAS CHASING ME I WOULD HAVE LOST THEM ZIGZAGGING! BUAHHAHAHA!(⁠つ⁠✧⁠ω⁠✧⁠)⁠つ THEY ARE MY BABIES! MINE AND ONLY MINE! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!(@▽⁠@)

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

Que hay de Jii-chan?!

Ahora me dirijo al canon de MK.

Estaba pensando, que pasa con Jii? Acaso él sabía también que Toichi está vivo o es otra víctima de la traición por quien fuera su maestro y de quien fue asistente tanto en su carrera de mago como en sus noches de atracos como KID, recordemos que Kaito se preocupa por el anciano y de alguna manera creo que lo ve como una especie de abuelo o tío además de su asistente.

Recuerdo que en el anime Jii dijo que Toichi le había hecho prometer que nunca le diría a Kaito sobre su trabajo como KID. Pero entonces por qué razón Toichi pondría la entrada a su "Cueva KID" dónde no solo guardaba su disfraz sino que también le dejó grabaciones con consejos tanto personales como de trucos de magia en la habitación de Kaito programada para que esta se abriera al llegar Kaito a cierta edad? Y por qué Jii esperó tanto tiempo para hacerse pasar por Kaitou KID si no fuera para llamar la atención de Kaito sobre él, ¿Acaso fue porque Toichi se lo pidió? Hasta donde llega la crueldad de Toichi Kuroba y de Gosho Aoyama para quitarle todo a Kaito, para arrebatarle a su familia a las únicas personas en las que se supone que puede y debe confiar?! Es que hay muchas cosas que me hacen creer que Konosuke Jii sabía también sobre la falsa muerte de su maestro, pero a la vez quiero creer que no, tengo esa duda por que si Jii lo sabe entonces que le queda a Kaito? 🥺

Que mierda tienes en la cabeza Gosho Aoyama? dices que Kaito es tu creación favorita y le diste tu fecha de nacimiento por cumpleaños y aún así lo haces sufrir!!!!

I just know that this…

Solo se que esto...

reminded me of this…

Me recordó a esto...

Last night, almost falling asleep, this crossed my mind…

Who would win between Eraserhead vs a Weeping Angel?

Remembering that Weeping Angels are considered difficult to destroy when they are frozen and Eraserhead can only remain without blinking for a certain amount of time. What do you think?

i think 431 is just fanfic for the author and the team, but the problem is that for the audience it's a big chunk of disappointment since there is nothing that generally interests us, outside of shipping. Like where is all might? Where's the parents? where's the kid from the previous chapter? How are Izuku's lectures going? How does the mech suit work in action? How are the agencies like?

We get nothing of this, which are infinitely more interesting things to talk about than Ochako's love life, and the little we get is just verbally stated instead of shown.

Well, i see what Hori said in the extra as permission to ignore it, so ignore it i will. lol

Like, honestly, if you like a particular ship then this bonus piece is for you. Other than that, it was... whatever.

I'm rather indifferent to it, but there are bits I did like such as seeing the class be together again and also suiting up to fight a villain. (And of course, Miruko. But why is she isn't higher in the rankings? I still feel she should be the highest ranked female Pro Hero, but I digress. She's #1 to me.)

And honestly, that's what I wished the epilogue would have been more of. Seeing the class together. I said it before, but I was imaginging 431 to be like showing us Midoriya's first day back as a Pro Hero and the rest being bonus trivia, extra information, that kind of stuff.

431 did feel like some fanfiction and something to cater to shipping and even I though I have my ships, I could care less about seeing them in canon. As in I have to see them or else I'll fall unconscious or something--- NO!

I would have liked to see where All Might was and see how Inko was doing. We gotten Present Mic being ranked in the rankings, but how about Eraser Head? Eri? How is Dai doing?

That's why 431, at least to me, felt out of place and not necessary. Because it really wasn't.

I'll give it some bit of grace that it takes place probably immediately after 430 did.

Because that chapter did give up some bits of how and/or where some of the other characters are doing and was left open-ended for the rest to be imagined (which I didn't mind, in fact, all for it)... I guess that is why 431 went the way it did.

Whoever worked on it, I guess felt that way.

recently have seen people on tiktok be disgusted at people saying they still ship kaishin even after the revealing of them being cousins... Idk about you guys but if I enjoyed a ship for 20 years them being related wouldn't stop me at all

Had to join the TikTok trend. Gave me the excuse to draw Bakugo’s sleeveless hero fit and teacher Deku again😂🙏

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 🥰