holy shit this BNHA drama might be one of the funniest things to happen in the history of manga I am YELLING
for people who haven't been tracking this, the official translation for chapter 321 of the BNHA dropped today and it includes this page:
this is Mineta, one of the franchises' many side characters, describing how he "fell for" the main character, Deku. Now while there has been some debate over if this translation is accurate, fan translators have dug into the original text and found that the verb he's using here in Japanese is almost always used to mean "fell in love with" so while this may not pan out in the long run, this appears to be Mineta coming out as either gay or bi.
to put into context how funny this is, BNHA has a massive shipping community (mostly centered around various combinations of the male leads) who have been begging for gay representation in the series for YEARS. There are people who have gone to Johnlock levels of trutherism for some of these ships like it's that insane.
But Mineta is NOT one of those characters that people like shipping with the other boys. In fact, Mineta is, by far, the most hated character in the whole series. Mineta is nearly universally regarded as being annoying, unfunny, and awful. His entire personality is that he's a lecherous pervert who will take every opportunity he can get to peep on or sexually harass the girls. People fucking DISPISE this guy. There are well populated tags on AO3 for him being either dead, absent from the story, or replaced by another character. Also he looks like this:
like I'm sorry but I cannot stop laughing at this it's such a monkey's paw ass turn of events like "oh what's that BNHA fandom, you want a canon gay character? here you go! [finger curls]"
and look, before anyone decides to come for me on this, yes, I am aware this will probably get cleared up later and it'll turn out this was just a bad translation but like... let me have this moment. let me wring every drop of joy I can out of this one, beautiful, chaotic moment. This one instant of a fanbase that has produced some of the worst discourse on the internet, one of the most inhospitable twitter environments out there, some of the CRINGIEST tiktoks I've ever seen.
Let me just laugh at their pain if only just for today
cause you know what, I hope this is canon. I hope Mineta IS in love with Deku.
I hope Deku is in love with him
And I hope we die
I hope we both die
Didn't see anyone that posted it, so here you go. Credit to revuexfgemini on Twitter:
