#bnha 262

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bakugou will be fine, horikoshi doesn't have the balls to kill him, but with that being said I'm finding the fandom reaction hysterical and deeply amusing, I'm having way too much fun with this lmao

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Boku no Hero Academia Chapter 262

Based off this iconic post

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BNHA 262 SPOILERS!

She literally had her arm ripped off and she used her own hair as a tourniquet and kept kicking ass. Miruko is badass.

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Something I Noticed: Horikoshi Made Miruko’s Fighting Style Badass Without Devolving into Tasteless Fanservice

So I’ve read the most recent chapters of My Hero Academia, 261 and 262, which put an emphasis on our pro rabbit hero, Miruko.

Now usually when an MHA chapters gets me fired up, I’d possible do a review. But considering how I had work when the translations for when the chapters dropped and the fact that they are primarily action scenes, I don’t think I could’ve added much to conversation beyond, “Miruko looks cool while she kicks ass.”

But as I sat back to read it and joked about with my mutuals how “Hori must’ve had fun this week drawing Miruko’s legs,” something dawned on me. Obviously that jest is made in stimulus that an artist in a shounen series highlighting and accentuation exposed legs tends to be drawn titillating. You’ve seen it before with things like battle bikinis or battle suits that look practically painted on. You would definitely be used to this if you read stuff like One Piece, Fairy Tail, Seven Deadly Sins etc.

But going through this, there is no scene involving a highlighting of Miruko’s legs in this chapter that I would say is drawn with the intention of titillation. Which shouldn’t sound like it should be surprising, but in a medium aimed at adolescent/teenage boys with a set up as “an attractive female hero has a fighting style based around using her legs,” it never is presented in a shameless way that is prevalent in mainstream shounen.

Don’t get me wrong, I know a lot of people who found this attractive. A powerful woman capable of killing monsters with a level of curvature and thickness is something that a lot would find attractive.

But there’s never a panel that I think seems like you’re intentional suppose to be aroused by this. Most of Miruko’s movements are focal points that draw the eye, but they’re primarily in the mid ground as to show off the effect of her movement and her poses instead of being in the fore ground where there can be close ups of her legs.

The closest I could think is this panel.

Yes, the angle of the frame accentuates Miruko’s butt as she captures the high end in her thighs. But then you take a larger look at the context of the whole page.

This panel does have what I would consider a fanservice shot of Miruko’s bum, but that panel is pushed up near the top of the page while the largest panel that is suppose to draw the readers eye is her bending back and spinning to gain momentum for her special move “Lunar Tijera.”

Now I’m of the opinion that fanserive in shounen manga is not inherently bad. Its just a facet of the medium. Sure you can make a series without it, but having does not automatically make thee series bad or make the female characters into sex objects.

What does draw that ire is how that fanservice is presented. We’re quick to call out when, say, there’s an important exposition dump and the author takes this opportunity to frame a female characters ass in the foreground in a position that the author didn’t need to snapshot, but wanted to with the intent of titillating the audience.

But here it’s different in that layout is there is more emphasis on the action rather than the body.

I don’t doubt someone will go back through this chapter and stop on this page specifically just to thirst at Miruko’s noticeable thighs. But as it’s presented, Horikoshi was drawing this with the intent of highlighting the power of her legs rather than the eroticism of character’s design.

This comes down to intent. I think Horikoshi does get a bit of flack for certain character designs for female characters. And while there is a discussion to be had on characters like Momo and Mina who have designs where intent and shounen medium that might not be able to excuse it for some readers, but in this scenario, its clear that Horikoshi is not drawing Miruko with the intent of showing off her body.

Hell he goes out of his way to damage and injure her body in ways that aren’t attractive. (Including one of the dirtiest removals of an arm I’ve seen in a while. That was no blade cleaning cutting off that arm, that was a Pernida Parnkgjas crushing and breaking off of the limb!)

I bring this up because its refreshing to say the least. That you can have a character who looks conventionally attractive yet still make them look cool without making it about how attractive the character is.

And there will still be people who find this attractive. I’ve already seen to posts on how they wish they were the Nomu being crushed by her thighs. Or that watching this was making them fall for her.

But what the refreshing thing is, is actually the author/artist intent. Hori could’ve had battle damage the resulted in the legging portion of Miruko’s costume to tear so the leg is more exposed or or he could’ve angled it as that there was more ass shots every time she kicked, but he didn’t.

He found what I would consider the perfect balance. Something that can be seen as erotic if you’re looking for that, but is framed more for the effect of conveying power and skill. Wanting to make the female character look cool without feeling like because it’s an action scene, the author is using it as an excuse to give the audience jollies in a scene were suppose to take seriously.

And its something I look forward to the next time Horikoshi has a badass action lady.

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People really be out here getting mad at Hawks for doing his job?

Like I'm a villain stan, but Hawks was raised by the Hero Commission. It's all he knows. It was obvious he was a spy from the beginning. He's just doing his job.

The villains have done bad things. They're called villains for a reason. Their bad pasts and trauma doesn't erase the fact that they've done bad things.

I'm just surprised people are so mad at Hawks for "betraying" the League when it was obvious from the very beginning that that's what he was doing. What did you think was going to happen?

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Fucjshsidi MIRUKO

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Look at how she go

She split

She spin

She crush your skull in