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The thing abt mha is a lot of the main hero characters are really charming but I am unable to put my whole heart into loving them bc horikoshi is a shit writer and makes them genuinely unlikable with some of the things they believe in and support
I hate how much hori turned Izuku to an uninspiring character at the end and took away any agency he could have had in his own story. At the end, it feels like everything is just handed to him without him putting any effort in his own life.
Like, I still can't believe he made him give up and not doing anything for 8 years to be a hero and wait for OTHERS to decide that for him... and just hand him a billion dollar suit with their own money and hardwork. Like Izuku himself had zero contribution to sth that has always been his dream. And the worst part is that characters who lost limbs or had severe injuries still worked hard to be a hero but not Izuku...if disabled ppl could use support gears to be a hero, then quirkless Izuku should too. He didn't have to be at ofa level, the guy just wanted to save lives. Unless if the story is pretending being quirkless is worse than being chronically disabled, which would be very insensitive.
I personally would respect it more if he rejected the suit because that would show his agency: "I would have been a hero myself if I wanted to, I just chose not to because I find being a teacher more valuable. This is my decision."
Then there's his teaching career. He quickly became a teacher after graduation with a high school diploma, without getting any specific education or training. (being a teacher to teenagers with high ego and strong quirks is a delicate matter, it does need more education. Ua only prepare them to be pro heros, so yeah extra measures were necessary). Another career that is just handed to him. And aizawa who isn't really a strict teacher himself (and that caused some problems) says Izuku isn't strict with his students... Which says it all at how unprepared he is for being a teacher in such a special school.
And ofc after he gets the suit it's like an UNDO button. He suddenly is at peak ofa level and the story doesn't consider that he doesn't have 8 years of experience his peers gained all these years, suddenly he's on their level by a handed suit, once again not putting any effort. And then the ranking that shouldn't even exist anymore, becomes important to the narrative to the point hori drops a whole chapter to just say he's #4 (thanks to the suit others have created for him).
Even his relationships too, him not putting much effort anymore but he has all ppl being devoted to him and constantly being worried about him.
I just really hate what hori did with his ending. I know this is how shonen and mcs are but it should have some limits.
cosmic princess kaguya was a pretty fun movie
this is how cosmic princess kaguya went right
If it was just this dialogue about trampling on Shimura’s memory, it would be hard to blame Gran Torino too much. At least Gran Torino is criticizing Shigaraki for his actions here. (Even though on some level, Gran Torino had to be aware that Shigaraki was manipulated by All for One to some degree.) Given that Shigaraki recently regained his memories, in another world this could have been the start of a good conversation. Shigaraki obviously recognized that family name and knew his grandmother was a hero.
But this is where Gran Torino was out of line. Blaming Shigaraki for his own existence was absurd. Shigaraki (or anyone else) is not responsible for his own existence. To say Shigaraki’s actions brought suffering to others would simply be a statement of fact. To claim Shigaraki’s existence brought suffering is to say Shigaraki was inherently an irredeemable villain.
All trappings of a potential mutual conversation disappeared, and this turned into a one-sided rant from Gran Torino. Unlike Shimura Nana, Shigaraki had no idea who Toshinori was. They could talk about the morality of his actions, but there was nothing to say if his existence itself was the problem.
On another note, Gran Torino’s generation of heroes had a particularly narrow definition of “everyone” that appears to only include heroes and some civilians. The heroes had to plan a massive operation because Shigaraki had so many allies at this point. This wouldn’t have been necessary if it were true that Shigaraki only brought suffering to everyone else.
The fact that he survived and Deku wore his cape from then on, to honor him...
There were no standards for heroes in this story.
If you're a hero, the narrative itself and everyone in it will bend over backwards to accommodate you, no matter what you do or how wrong you are.
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The good plot twists aren't the ones that are wild left turns out of nowhere, they're the ones that make all the other little things that didn't quite add up before suddenly click
While the fate of the League is of course incredibly messed up, unfair, and infuriating; something that really grinds my gears is all the reactions to the League stans calling this unfairness out by going "well they had to die and deserved to, and they would have gone to prison otherwise anyway, it's not like there was any happy ending available for these horrible criminals," when, like...yes there was. They totally could have Vegeta'd it up in here; MHA is not a realistic series.
Like, Edgeshot survived using his own body to sew a guy's heart up by living as an eyeball with hair on a string.
Endeavor, the known horrible domestic abuser and outright rapist, is retiring publicly shamed (to an extent) but still to great wealth, recognition as a great hero, and with his entire free family having at least a positive opinion of the man.
And of course this latest chapter 429 implied that all those societal failings caused by the horrible MHA civilians neglecting or attacking people including children, the failings that created the League, the failings the League put their lives on the line to fix and utterly failed to fix because they all died completely ignored...got fixed anyway because Deku was so 'zomg inspirational' that suddenly the MHA civilians aren't horrible anymore. (Read in the tone of this video.)
In short, MHA is full of ridiculousness, injustice, and contrivance when Horikoshi wants a happier ending to occur.
But the League had to die because...because MHA is a deeply flawed story with bad writing and at best inconsistent morals. (And it kind of feels good to say that.) It wants at times to be realistic and even tragic, but it also wants to be optimistic and comic book-y to reward the heroes, and here at the end those elements do not mesh at all. It wrecks the whole thing to reveal that Hori might be kind of a hack.
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One of my mutuals has been reblogging Togachaco or Togaraka or whatever you wanna call it, and some of the posts gave me Opinions. For instance, I don't think a roleswap AU really works with them. Ochaco can be turned into a villain, but Toga can't be a hero.
Toga's whole thing is that she has a creepy Quirk. Drinking blood is gross, turning into your friend is creepy. So she's forced to suppress her Quirk, which she can't do forever, which leads to her being ostracized, which leads to her becoming a villain.
There are two possible Himiko Togas. (Himikos Toga?) One is what we see in canon—an outcast, ready to be recruited by any group or cause that'll accept her. The other is a Toga who successfully conforms to societal expectations, who masks and acts Normal and gets a Good Job.
There are two reasons the second Toga can't be a hero like Ochaco. One is that Ochaco is too honest. She's not a rebel, but she's not a hidebound rule-follower or an aloof ice queen. Conformist Toga could take the role of Iida or maybe Todoroki, but not Ochaco's.
However, the bigger reason is that Conformist Toga is predicated on not using her Quirk. Her character only works if her Quirk is socially unacceptable; even if those norms are lifted for a superhero (even if her Quirk has no obvious combat applications), Toga would never have had a chance to practice using her Quirk before becoming a superhero.
I can imagine an AU where Conformist Toga is, I dunno, a secretary for some superhero, or a civil servant somewhere in the justice system, or someone else hero-adjacent who encounters Villain Ochaco, who convinces Toga to take off her mask and discover who she really is.
But a superhero? A Toga who was allowed to be a hero can't be Toga.
As someone who comes from a country where insecurity is a big problem (to the point where people can’t transit from one place to another without being victimized in some ways), I will explain why I found the portrayal of the villains’ actions as whitewashing, specifically the LOV. One of my biggest issues is the lack of focus on their impact of their actions, specifically on the civilians. Their victims and by extension, their family members’ victims are either downplayed narratively speaking or portrayed in a unflattering light. The key example would be Kaito. He’s only used as a mere prop for Toga’s backstory. Another issue is the lack of focus on the impact of their actions, particularly in the civilians daily life. We don’t see civilians having issues with living in a city without being victimized (robbery, murder, etc), especially during Act 3, and when it does, the focus is extremely little. There’s little focus on people having genuine fear in living in the city and dealing with curfews, usually imposed by criminal groups. Unfortunately, this is sometimes reflected in how LOV is generally discussed. I have seen people downplaying their actions or even justifying them.
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What an awful message to preach about.
Short of actually destroying everything, most of what the league of villains did was justified.
Because what else were they going to do??
The heroes and the government they serve are the absolute power and influence of MHA's world.
And it's a world that's been tailor made to see anyone that's different, threatening or just hard to deal with as a monster or a nuisance to cast out.
From the higher ups, pro heroes, (most of) the hero students and all the random civilians we see throughout the series -
- Once they see you as a villain, without even knowing why you are a villain, all of them want you gone.
So no, there were no "other paths" most of the Lov could have taken.
Especially since most of the Lov were branded villains and left without any real help before they even left their late teenage years.
Depending on your situation, the only thing that enduring or being the "perfect victim" is going to do is get you killed.
That's the real reason why the status quo of society always tends to push that message so much in hero stories that are tied to the government/social powers.
Because it's far more convenient for them to deal with the less fortunate and outcasts when those people refuse to fight back.
Far too many stories and other fiction works have been spreading that message and it's not good.
You're not honoring yourself or people like you by suffering in silence or with "dignity".
You're only helping the people who already didn't care about you or your suffering and wanted you to disappear quietly for their benefit.
Praising a sentiment like that is the last thing a hero should do.
He's literally telling the victims of every demographic the Lov covers to behave and pray for rescue when you're still a child or get fucked.
But of course this standard doesn't apply to the mass murdering government assassin (Lady Nagant), because as long as all of it can be swept under the rug and society doesn't know any better, it's fine, right??
Horikoshi had no real concept or understanding of anything he was writing about and just preached some "take the high ground" bullshit that doesn't even make sense in the setting that he established.
And he called it a heroic, hopeful and optimistic story.
What a complete asshole.
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