That drawing always makes people react so much… 🫠
Let’s answer one last time over it 👀
(Sorry I'm answering with your repost, it's not againts you, it's just for anyone that have been discussing it 😆)
Okay, so I’ve known for the illustrations, and even as the last one came from smash, all their body morpholgy is globally respected, it’s a « joke » because they’re all swaped in their behavior and gear…. But they haven’t swaped bodies.
But okay, let’s look at Horikoshi’s evolution with Aizawa :
I think Horikoshi realized at some point that with Aizawa’s fight style, he couldn’t be all skinny for exactly what I said up there and what I’m gonna say again down below.
When relaxed, muscles are all squishy and wiggly. To make it looks like the smash illustration, it take time to make it work, it need exercices to make it looks all buff.
He doesn't look like he's a body builder (because he isn't), but he's not all slime either.
(and if you refer to my drawing aaaall the way up there, the one with the white shirt that is quite loose on the top left corner, that's pretty much how he looks with his loose clothes 🤷🏻♀️)
Now back at the logic and canon ground ✨
First : his fighting style.
He works ALONE, he can only count on himself when he’s against any villain. All his strategy stays on SURPRISE : his hero gear is loose and really basic. Because he needs his opponent to underestimate him, he needs to let them think he’s no one, just some kind of homeless guy that won’t be able to stop anyone. This way, his first move automatically stuns his ennemy and it leaves him time to knock them out.
That guy looses someone he loved because he was too weak. That entire character is based on the fear of losing. He seems to have no friends at first, he’s bold, he’s crude : he push people away. Because if he let no one in his heart, he can’t lose them. He hides behind a wall of stoicism, he prides himself in being cold hearted and logical. But it’s all bullshit, that guy would throw himself head first in any battle to protect anyone because he knows what it feels like to lose someone and he can’t let anyone feel this way.
All of this and : He trained like a madman to become stronger, to not loose anyone anymore. He trained himself so much it said in vigilent that he spend ALL his free time at the gym to train.
So, he can’t have the morphology of a stick. Now, we’re all free to decide how build he really is… but nobody cares, artist draw their favorite character the way they like. And even if Horikoshi himself came here to tell all of us that we’ve been all wrong, I don’t think Even half of us would care that much lmao 🫠
Anyway, thanks if you had the courage to read of all this, and thank your for your interest 😆
Now I shall go back in my cave and reappear when I'd have a fanart to share ✨✨
