#bnha 105

[delawaredetroit]

It's a shame this is the only time they ever interacted outside of their hero-villain roles because these two had an interesting dynamic going on in this scene. Both Izuku and Toga are characters that spend an immense amount of time analyzing others (their habits/motives/strategies) and incorporating aspects of others into themselves. It's fun watching these two trying to pick each other apart to sate their own curiosity.

[delawaredetroit]

Despite the same face syndrome, somehow Izuku is plain but Shindo is a pretty boy?

“I thought real hard about it and came to the conclusion that the hairstyle is really all you need to make him look the part.”

I think I cracked the code as to what possessed Horikoshi to give Izuku his most recent haircut.

[delawaredetroit]

Toga was having the time of her life in this moment

But it's also hilarious because it's pretty much

Toga: We had a bonding moment. You cradled me in your arms.

Izuku: (too busy having angsty introspection) What are you even talking about?

[delawaredetroit]

This is the funniest thing Izuku has ever said

Anyway, you know a character is an nonentity when their most important scene in a series involves someone else pretending to be them.

Toga also raised a good point here. The provisional licensing exam was a good opportunity for infiltration. Too bad little to nothing comes of that because Toga did this on her own for personal reasons

[delawaredetroit]

Ah yes, the good old days when Izuku was allowed to have introspection.

Anyways, there is a running theme in Izuku's thought process here. He didn't switch to legs because he prefers to fight that way necessarily. He wanted to maintain the use of his arms because of the importance Izuku puts on reaching out a helping hand to others. He was solely focused on being able to run towards those in need to be able to reach them.

And this internal narrative says a lot about Izuku's troubled headspace at this point. Izuku was blaming himself for All Might's retirement. He believed that if he had just focused on his legs earlier, he might have been able to run from Muscular and catch Bakugou to prevent Kamino.

Is this perspective in any way realistic? No. If Izuku hadn't stopped Muscular, there would have been likely multiple deaths in the hero course. And many members of the League's Vanguard Squad were present when they were about to leave with Bakugou. Even if Izuku had usable arms to catch the Baku-marble, there was a good chance the League wouldn't have accepted leaving empty-handed and a brawl would have broken out that might have ended in the same result or worse anyway. All for One would have continued to scheme against All Might and the embers of One for All would have eventually died out regardless of whether Kamino happened or not

[delawaredetroit]

Izuku did not have romantic feelings for Ochako at this point. He recognized this wasn't her because of the faith he has in her skills as an upcoming hero.

Look, Izuocha is in a lot of ways a pretty basic, vanilla ship. But I can at least appreciate a relationship where there was mutual respect of each other's competency before any romantic feelings came into play for both parties. Which to be honest, is far better than your average Shounen Jump.

[belvm23]

So, I did something with my life. Heres a redraw of Izuku in the new chapter of bnha :V

[criimsiin]

I hope the current arc in Boku No Hero Academia speeds up a bit cause man was this new chapter a BIG disappointment! (tbh I just want the villains )