#Iirc it wasn't like “100% canon” since I think it wasn't in the manga. But it's in the 2011 anime so I'll take it

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Uvo's tramp stamp gets me everytime man

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oh man YES like. the whole argument about Izuku not getting taught about not breaking his bones? he took the test at end of February (canon date was the 26th iirc), started new school just over a month later, fought the nomu a week after that, sports festival (and internships) two weeks after THAT... the timeline put so much in it that Yagi KNEW he wasn't the best teacher super fast. what do they expect of him, having two days of one on one time when he was teaching AT LEAST 1B as well. which is assuming he wasn't also aiding in second and third year heroics classes. Yagi and Izuku worked SO HARD in such a short time to get control over it all. Yagi was learning and working how to be a better teacher from the outset, and he's grown so far in that

it's just... really annoying when the series timeline has been so compressed (manga current is at "it's been 10 months since Kamino Ward") and they're complaining that everything hasn't been happening fast enough for them?

Jesus, it's only been ten months since Kamino Ward??? That's... insane. Japan society really did just collapse in a couple months. Wild.

But honestly, I can't even say anything because you're 100% right. Yagi essentially had less than two months to help train Izuku with a quirk neither knew how to work properly - well, closer to one month really, because it doesn't seem that Izuku used OFA during that period between the exam and starting UA, iirc. Considering how bad he was of a teacher at the start, you're totally right to say that Yagi has come so far as a teacher and a mentor to Izuku. Blaming him for Izuku's self destruction, ehhhhh. It doesn't feel right to me.

Izuku's core character is self-destructive, especially without Yagi's interference. Yagi cannot stop Izuku from doing something when he puts his mind to it and really, no one can either. We see this time and time again, from rescuing Bakugo, to the sports festival, to the Vigilante Arc (and yes I will never stop talking about that arc). And I'm not victim blaming Izuku. Heroics and Japan society is inherently bias, we live in a society, yadda yadda yadda. But imo, it's ridiculous to blame Yagi for one of Izuku's defining traits. (Especially when people who bash him for it tend to ignore that every other teacher in UA didn't do jackshit either, and they were experienced teachers.)

And even in his bad teaching moments, let's not forget Yagi genuinely wants best for Izuku. Hell, during the battle trial in s1, he doesn't stop Izuku and Bakugo because he knew Izuku wanted to prove himself. Was it a bad call? Maybe. But was it done from a good place? Of course. And remember, at this point he's been a teacher for two (2) whole days. King's bound to make a few mistakes.

With your last point, I think people complaining abt the timeline, or how fast the series is happening right now, are completely overlooking one thing. This is a shonen anime/manga. A semi battle-centric one, nonetheless. The only asspulls are for power-ups, not character development.

In reality, overlooking the progress Yagi and Izuku have made together completely undermines their journey. When people complain that Yagi isn't being a good enough teacher, it's just... yeah nah. Try teach someone a subject that neither you nor them know in a couple months, because that's what Yagi is effectively doing.

Fuck, it's 1am and I'm ranting too much LMAO. I hope this is coherent.

tl;dr - puppet is spitting facts right here.