#bnha 45

[clownmoontoon]

SOMETHING SOMETHING PARALLEL IS THIS BAKUGO ANNOUNCING HIS HERO NAME TO THE WORLD BC IF SO IM GONNA GNAW THE DRYWALL

[delawaredetroit]

Iida and Tensei's situation is interesting because while there are multiple characters that take a name/part of a name from an older hero, Iida is the only one asked to inherit a hero name.

And initially, Iida refused the name Ingenium because he felt he was not worthy of it. And he was not wrong. Iida hadn't really figured out what it means to be a hero yet. He started out as one of the hero students with the least affinity for saving (the only one known to be worse was Bakugou) and it didn't take much for Iida to lose focus of everything else that wasn't revenge and killing Stain.

[2toplibrary]

Chapter 45: “Our two top” 

(aka where Aizawa gives them their ship name)

👉Official reference

👉Main hall

[delawaredetroit]

The obvious foreshadowing is very obvious. Aoyama literally can't stop his laser because it's not suited to his body. Because it was a quirk given to him. Unlike every other student, Aoyama holds his hero name as far away from himself as possible. He doesn't see himself as a hero at all. Even the lines in this panel are distressing. If you ignore the fake smile that doesn't reach his eyes, Aoyama clearly looks stressed out here. This panel is a cry for help that goes unheard.

[delawaredetroit]

As much as Kirishima and Izuku get compared to each other for their cheery demeanors and middle school depression, here is a clear distinction between them.

Because it's Kirishima and Bakugou who chose names that directly put their futures in the shadow of the older heroes they aspire to be like. Izuku on the other hand chose a name representing his own path based on his own origin. And then there's Shouto, who continues to reclaim his personhood by refusing to make any distinction between himself as a hero and Shouto as a person.

[delawaredetroit]

It makes sense that Uraraka was the only one happy here because she was the one whose main goal it was to use the sports festival to advance her career prospects. Iida was too revenge brained to see straight even if he would have otherwise been proud. Quite frankly, Iida was most likely planning to intern with Tensei until Stain attacked him and didn't want to think about any of this at all here.

Shouto and Izuku didn't particularly care. Shouto was aware that not all of those numbers were the result of his own effort and his goals have changed since the beginning of the sports festival. Momo congratulated Shouto because she felt insecure about the large gap between them. She and Shouto were both recommendation students and started out at the same starting line as far as she was concerned. Quite frankly, her academics and quirk assessment scores were higher than Shouto's scores. But when it counted most, she flubbed it at the sports festival and the gap between them became enormous.

To the extent that Izuku cared, it's most likely because the lack of internship offers was a confirmation that he failed to meet the expectations he believed All Might had of him. Other than that, I don't think Izuku cared if other hero agencies noticed him or not.

[delawaredetroit]

I swear Horikoshi has the subtlety of a neon sign sometimes. Once again Aizawa is acting as the author's mouthpiece. This time he's here to say "pay attention to the names! Everything the characters say this chapter is foreshadowing."

[delawaredetroit]

So there are at least 4,123 hero agencies in Japan and could be up to 8,762 (adding the additional 40 agencies who would take anyone). The number could be less or more considering there are agencies who drafted more than one student (like Hawks tried to draft Shouto and Tokoyami) but on the other hand there may be agencies who only drafted students from Class 1-B or don't take interns at all.

For the sake of argument, let's say hero society Japan has a similar enough population to current Japan. The population of Japan when this was drawn around 2015-2016 was approximately 127 million.

So I did some math and it comes down to:

One hero agency per 30,803 people if the lower number of agencies is accurate.

One hero agency per 14,495 people if the higher number is more accurate.

If the lower number is closer to accurate, it's no wonder their society is so over reliant on All Might. Because most hero agencies likely don't have the resources of Endeavor or Idaten and don't have the ability to protect 30,803 people on their own. Maybe this is just really underselling the number of hero agencies and several just don't take interns now or ever. Because these numbers kind of undermine the idea that their society is oversaturated with heroes...unless the amount of people they are actually interested in protecting is far lower than that.