#about bnha 306

[bnhaobservation]

The facts taking place during BNHA second year: April & May

So, in order to write my fic, I spend much time observing canon scenes, comparing the manga and the anime version, take note of details, translations and info in them as well as finding out how are some things called.

Since what I noticed/speculated/found out can be of use for other fic authors I thought to share as well.

OBSERVATIONS, SPECULATIONS AND ASSORTED INFO:

You might notice a special focus on the Todoroki family as all their birthdays and statuses are listed. That’s because this timeline was originally meant to focus solely on them and then I included info about the other characters.

LEGENDA:

BNHA: “Boku no Hero Academia” manga.

TIMELINE (JANUARY, FEBRUARY & MARCH)

DARK HERO ARC

APRIL (end of the first week): Spring break is over. [Usually this is the date in which it ends in Japanese schools]

APRIL’S SECOND WEEK: Todoroki Enji (46) is Number One Pro Hero of Japan. Todoroki Rei has been evacuated at U.A. high, along with Todoroki Fuyumi (23), who likely can’t work, and Todoroki Natsuo (19), who likely can’t study. Todoroki Shōto (16) is also at U.A. High but he’s being kept as a 1st course. Todoroki Tōya (24) is hiding with the rest of the League.

APRIL (THE DAY BEFORE MIDORIYA LEAVES U.A.): Imasuji Gōto/Muscular shows up in the south ward [BNHA Chap 307]

APRIL (SECOND WEEK): Midoriya Izuku leaves U.A. Academy. Shindō Yō/Grand and Nakagame Tatami/Turtle Neck try to persuade the people holed up in the Taguchi building to leave the place and take shelter at Ketsubutsu Academy High School without success and, when they leave the place, they're attacked by a jailbreaker, Imasuji Gōto/Muscular. Midoriya spots a huge Villain, likely talking about Muscolar and runs there just in time to save Shindō Yō and defeat Muscular. Makabe Shikku/Mr. Smith and Tōteki Itejirō/Boomerang Man run to help only to see Muscular having been defeated, Midoriya then handing him to the police and then joins Yagi Toshinori/All Might. Midoriya leaves as Todoroki Enji/Endeavor and Hakamada Tsunagu/Best Jeanist are defeating the huge Villain of chap 1 and Takami Keigo/Hawks is phoning to All Might. [BNHA Chap 306 to 309 Likely we're on the second week of April, as the scene is meant to match the one of the 1st chapter]

APRIL (A STORMY NIGHT): Civilians attack a giant heteromorph which Horikoshi simply calls ‘ordinary woman’ but Midoriya Izuku saves her and then entrusts her to All Might who gives him a Bentō. [BNHA Chap 310 This might be taking place on the same day as before… or not. We don't know]

APRIL (A STORMY DAY): Todoroki Enji/Endeavor captures more escaped convicts but the civilians chase him away. At night Tsutsumi Kaina/Lady Nagant attacks Midoriya Izuku but she’s defeated by him and when she considers helping him All for One causes her to explode. She still tells him she was supposed to bring him within two months to a mansion in Haibori woods. Chisaki Kai/Overhaul, who was with her, is captured. [BNHA Chap 311-316 This might be taking place on the same day as before. We don't know]

APRIL: Punching Hero: Death Arms quits on being a Hero [BNHA Chap 317 It's two days before the Heroes reunion]

APRIL: Midoriya Izuku and the Heroes go to the mansion in Haibori woods but only see a video of All for One before the house explodes. Midoriya still manages to save them all. [BNHA Chap 316]

APRIL: The Heroes have a little reunion in which they discuss what to do. Todoroki Shōto/Shōto phones to his father who however doesn't answer. As the Heroes have their reunion Midoriya Izuku runs into a second hired gun and easily defeats it then tells Yagi Toshinori/All Might to stop tailing him. Akaguro Chizome/Stain spots All Might. [BNHA Chap 317. It could be in the same day in which the Heroes went to the mansion in Haibori wood. We don't know.]

APRIL (A FEW DAYS AFTER MIDORIYA LEFT U.A.): Class A talks about what to do in regard to Midoriya Uraraka Ochako/Uravity proposing to bring the matter to Nezu. [BNHA Chap 319]

APRIL: Todoroki Enji informs Midoriya the official dispatch dates for the foreign Heroes will be decided soon. Midoriya defeats more Villains. [BNHA Chap. 318]

APRIL (A FEW DAYS AFTER CLASS A'S APPEAL TO THE PRINCIPAL): Nezu summons Todoroki Enji/Endeavor at U.A. and let class 1 A face him. Ultimately he relents and gives them the means to locate Midoriya. [BNHA Chap 319]

APRIL (35 DAYS AFTER ALL FOR ONE'S PRISON BREAK): Midoriya faces Dictator, his classmates join him, helps him defeat Dictator and try to persuade him to go back to U.A. high. Hawks phones to Todoroki Enji asking if they should have Best Jeanist pull Midoriya out of that situation but the latter say to not interfere. Class A finally manages to persuade Midoriya to rely on them and come back to U.A. high. There however, the civilians doesn’t want to let him in but then, after Uraraka’s speech, they accept for him to stay. All Might leaves U.A. high and meets up with Stain who hands him the information he got from a Tartarus guard and then tells him to come for him as he’s the man who murdered 40 Heroes (since when he was arrested they were only 17, I guess he murdered more once he left prison). All Might hands the information to Tsukauchi Naomasa, patches things up with Midoriya Izuku and then joins again the police. The info says Shigaraki Tomura’s body will be ready in 38 days and not in 2 months as they believed it would. [BNHA Chap 318 to 327 Since they would still have 3 more days before Shigaraki would be ready, and it’s late in the evening, it means we’re at the end of the 35 days]

STAR AND STRIPE ARC

MAY (IT’S 36 DAYS AFTER THE TARTARUS PRISON BREAK AND ONE DAY AFTER MIDORIYA IS AT U.A.): While at a world conference they discuss All Might, Endeavor and Hawks plea for help,Cathleen Bate/Star and Stripe, U.S.A. Number 1 Hero, leaves for Japan without asking for permission. All for One discusses his plans with Iguchi Shūichi/Spinner, whom Chikazoku Tomoyasu/Skeptic is trying to promote as the new liberator. Toga Himiko and Todoroki Tōya/Dabi are outside the leagues’s hideout. On the way to Japan Star and Stripe

faces Shigaraki Tomura, who’s under All for One’s control. The two fight and while he manages to decay her and steal from her New Order, as her last order was for New Order to revolt against other Quirks, with the result it starts destroying the Quirks inside him. This forces him to pass New Order to Kashi Kashiko. At the same time, as the other nations learn about Star and Stripes defeat, they refuse to dispatch their own Heroes. [BNHA Chap 327-334]

U.A. TRAITOR ARC

MAY (THE DAY AFTER – TWO DAYS AFTER MIDORIYA RETURNED TO U.A.): All Might informs class A that Shigaraki should have obtained a perfect body the next day but now it would take him a week to recover. Toga Himiko and Todoroki Tōya/Dabi are back at the leagues’s hideout, where Shigaraki is painfully recovering. All for One shares with them how he has friends to spare. Todoroki Shōto is working on perfecting Phosphor. Hagakure Tōru and Midoriya Izuku overheard Aoyama Yūga’s parents talking with him and discover he was All for One’s mole in class A as All for One granted him a Quirk 10 years ago and so he and his parents are arrested. Midoriya Izuku and Īda Tenya ask Hatsume Mei for more support items. Once they’ve them they join the search team. In Kansai, Amajiki Tamaki/Suneater, Hadō Nejire/Nejire-chan, Toyomitsu Taishirō/BMI Hero: Fat Gum and Tatsuma Ryūko/Dragoon Hero: Ryukyu are also hunting convicts. All Might and the League of Villains/Paranormal Liberation Front counterforce discuss their plan while Central Hospital is checking if there are explosives in Aoyama. Once none is found Aizawa Shōta/Erasure Hero: Eraser Head talks to him and persuade him to fight. In the evening Toga Himiko visits her old house and, once she has left it, Todoroki Tōya/Dabi burns it down for her while Shigaraki Tomura is ‘conqueering the Quirk doomsday theory’. Chikazoku Tomoyasu/Skeptic pressures Iguchi Shūichi/Spinner to lead the Heteromorphs to revolt while All for One gives him one of the detatched hands Shigaraki Tomura used to have along with two extra Quirks. All Might informs the kids at the dorms of their battle strategy. Shinso is also added to their group as Mera, the acting HPSC president gave him special permission to act even if he doesn’t have a license. Takami Keigo/Hawks informs the Heroes of their battle strategy. Aizawa asks Monoma Neito/Phantom Thief’s cooperation, telling him to learn to copy Kurogiri’s Quirk. [BNHA Chap 334-342]

MAY (THE FOLLOWING DAY): As the school principal announces All for One is going to make a big move in 4 days Midoriya Izuku leaves U.A. with Class A and transfer in the fortress Troy. Once there he talks with Usasaka Ochako about their feelings toward Tomura Shigaraki and Toga Himiko. Todoroki Shōto spends the evening with Bakugō Katsuki and Īda Tenya. All for One talks with Aoyama Yūga’s parents and decides to attack the day after. [BNHA Chap 342]

FINAL WAR ARC

MAY (THE DAY AFTER): The Final battle starts. The Villains are split in various locations. All for One ends in Gunga Mountains Villa ruins to face Endeavor and Hawks. Shigaraki Tomura ends in U.A., Sky-High Tomb, to face Best Jeanist, Edgeshot, Suneater, Nejire-chan, Dynamight, Eraser Head, Phantom Thief, Lemillion. Deku should have also ended here but Toga Himiko, who ends on Okuto island to face Uravity, Froppy and Gang Orca, manages to drag him with herself. Dabi ends up in Kamino Ward, to face Shōto, Ingenium and Endeavor’s sidekicks while Spinner was near Central Hospital to try to free Kurogiri and some other Villains were already as Jaku ruins trying to free Gigantomachia. Deku manages to leave Okuto island, trying to go back to where Shigaraki is. Shōto apparently defeats Dabi with his new move but he’ll be up again short later and capable to use Shōto’s new move, Endeavor gets seriously wounded and loses his right arm but then manages to burn All for One seriously enough to force him to use a rewind bullet. Dynamight’s heart gets fatally wounded but Edgeshots works to revive him. Deku reaches Shigaraki and the two start fighting. Toga Himiko uses Twice’s blood to create doubles. Although Tentacole’s words stop the Heteromorph revolt near Central Hospital, Spinner reaches and free Kurogiri who brings Dabi to his father and spreads Toga Himiko’s clones. Uravity and Froppy manages to tail her though. Gentle Criminal will save U.A. from dropping from the sky and La Brava will override Skeptic’s control on U.A. computers while Skeptic will be arrested. Endeavor leads Dabi away from the battle ground, only to discover his body will explode soon. Unable to stop him he tries to have him explode in the sky, planning to die with him. His family joins and try to freeze Dabi, but they’ll succeed only when Shōto will join them. His family and Dabi though will be seriously burned. Uravity will try to stop Toga Himiko and gets stabbed but finally she’ll manage to calm her down. As the effect of Twice’s blood ends Toga Himiko, in order to save Uravity, gives her all her blood and dies. All Might will fight All for One, causing him to further rewind and will be saved by a revived Dynamight who’ll manage to trigger All for One’s final rewind. Deku will fight against Shigaraki, he’ll manage to reach out to Tenko only for All for One to take control of Shigaraki. Eventually though, through the combined efforts of Deku, the Heroes, the previous owners of One for All and even Shigaraki All for One will be defeated, Shigaraki’s body disintegrating, even though Kurogiri tried to protect it, which will lead also to Kurogiri’s death. [BNHA Chap 343-423]

EPILOGUE

MAY (ONE WEEK AFTER): The other countries show up to help Japan’s reconstruction. Bakugō Katsuki’s armi s declared permanently damaged and prescribed bed rest for a while. All Might and Midoriya are also still in hospital, but Midoriya now only has One for All’s embers which will eventually die out like they did with All Might. Bakugō, who has just gone to him, cries as he hears about him and All Might told them they are his greatest Heroes. [BNHA Chap 424]

MAY: Midoriya is enough healed he can go back to school and attend to the graduation ceremony of Togata, Amajiki and Hadō, which had been postponed till now. Aoyama drops by to say bye to his class as he’s going to leave U.A. while Shinsō instead will join class A. The whole Todoroki family go to visit Tōya who’s held prisoner in a contraption and slowly dying. They tell him they want to talk with him as long as he’s alive. Before they leave Shōto asks him which is his favorite food and learns it’s soba, same as him. Once alone, thinking back at this, Tōya cries and apologizes to Shōto. As the Todoroki are outside Natsuo informs them he doesn’t plan to see his father ever again and that he has decided to marry his girlfriend. Endeavor’s sidekicks and Hawks, who’s the new HPSC president, offer Endeavor their support, Lady Nagant let Hawks know she prefers to stay in jail while La Brava and Gentle Criminal reunite. [BNHA Chap 424-426]

MAY (THE DAY AFTER): Midoriya visits Spinner to bring him Shigaraki’s last words. Spinner tells him he’ll write a book about Shigaraki to let the world know who he was. As for Chisaki Kai he meets the Shie Hassakai boss. Meanwhile a boy has left the basement of his own house and is wandering through the city. The new students start their first day chasing after Bakugō and Todoroki Shōto. Class A helps in the reconstruction of the city and the new students join. People also support them. In the evening Class A discovers Uraraka isn’t there as she claimed she wanted to go back home. She’s instead on a cliff thinking back at how Toga Himiko died to save her life. Midoriya reaches her and the two of them talk. Class A joins them. [BNHA Chap 426-429 I would have thought Midoriya meeting Spinner would take place in another day but Midoriya commented that was the same day in which the new first years would join so...]

MAY: Aoyama’s farewell party. All Might and Hawks talk about broadening the scope of the billboard chart. Meanwhile the unnamed boy continues to wander through the city in desperate need for help until the old lady who didn’t help Shigaraki when he was a child volunteers to help him, Uraraka and Midoriya seeing the scene. [BNHA Chap 429]

JULY 1: Todoroki Natsuo turns 20.

AUGUST 8: Todoroki Enji/Endeavor turns 47.

DECEMBER 6: Todoroki Fuyumi turns 24.

[codenamesazanka]

There's not as much level of hate in JP spaces because they read the original dialogues in the way as intended by the author and not the shitty localised version by a biased translator. Idk if you are on twitter but the translator has ruined the last 2-3 chapter translations. And also when Tomura escaped AFO's control and when Hawks lost the quirk. And that's why JP fans understand the themes better than the English fans.

Not gonna say Caleb Cook has never gotten anything wrong, but I generally think he gets it right more often than not. I've seen when fans try to correct the translations, and sometimes the nuance is captured, sometimes not at all. And as if fans can't be biased as well.

I distinctly remember when English-speaking fans tried to claim that Dabi in chapter 306 was saying something along the lines of 'the exposure of Endeavor's abuse was not enough for people to care'. That was completely wrong. Caleb's translation of Dabi saying 'he didn't go far enough/Endeavor needs more bullying' was the correct one. I know this because I took a look at it myself. However, my translation could be flawed too. So I look to the Japanese tweets that quoted that sentence saying things like “Dabi-kun, are you taking lessons from demons (in sadism)?" or "You've tortured your family enough... stop it," or cheered him on, wanting to know what horrible moves Dabi will think of next. What the author intended here was to show Dabi wants to completely break Endeavor's spirit and soul, but English-speaking fans point blank said 'no, that's not how I want it'.

Meanwhile, English-speaking fans are very eager about Caleb's translation of Yoichi saying Shigaraki was groomed to be full of hatred, or Shigaraki telling AFO that he knows AFO groomed him. The original japanese is actually "that was how he was raised/brought up," and "that was how you raised me/brought me up". With context, yeah, Yoichi and Shigaraki is saying that AFO raised him up in a negative way, he was raised in malicious conditions - 'groomed' is indeed one possible translation, but I personally think that word is loaded with connotations that makes it more charged than the original japanese. I would've gone with 'brought up', maybe 'trained'.

I'm not defending Caleb here, exactly. I think he did a disservice when he translated Toga's line about Saito thinking she's not human as 'Saito will think I'm a freak'. The gist is the same - Saito will be repulsed by her - but for me, 'not human' better fits the context of Toga's life's journey to be seen as normal, as a regular human being. I have no idea what he was thinking when he translated Spinner's 'Shigaraki-tachi' (Shigaraki and the others/Shigaraki's group) as only 'Shigaraki' when Spinner woke up Kurogiri.

For the most part, Caleb's just trying to capture the feel of things, then make sure it's convey in a natural sounding manner. Lots of potential for disagreement in the process. As someone once puts it, you are guarantee to fail when translating, so what you're doing is deciding how to fail. And failure also means different things to different people.

Caleb gets things right, and gets things wrong. From my observations, English-speaking fans think Caleb gets things right when the translations fits into their pre-existing conceptualizations and never question it; and English-speaking fans think Caleb is so terrible he should be fired when translations don't fit their pre-existing conceptualizations. Where does the bias come from? Trick question, it's in everyone.

So is the hate because Caleb's translation isn't accurate and people misunderstood bnha's themes? I gotta say, not really. Is the hate because people have a vision of what bnha should be like in their head, and get angry when canon goes a different path? I think this is more likely. I don't think it's the whole reason. But its contribution is there.

Whether or not this is the reason why Japanese fandom spaces seems - to me - to have less hate than English speaking fandom spaces, I don't know. Like I said, maybe the hate levels are the same because I'm just looking at the nice things that floats at the top as I wade through Japanese fandom, but haven't dive down into the deep sea hate, while I enter a submersible to be crushed by the high pressure hate every time I return to the English speaking fandom.

Thanks for the ask!

[whymustmyfavalwaysdie]

Okay so :

ORIGINAL STORIES

Projects im working on this year :

Untitled : Female Knight x Bounty Hunter (former SK OC AU)

Untitled : "Little Ghosts" project

For the future :

Tales of the Scarlet Kaida (SK)

The Red Falling Star

Untitled : sapphic romantasy (former SK OC AU again lol)

Ft. one id forgotten

"The colour of her eyes"

OC AUs

Hunter & Renegades, one hell of a crossroad : a spn inspired SK AU written with @plantwithoutplot

Many other AUs tbh but couldn't tell anything about them bc theyre too old and dont have enough notes 😂

MY HERO ACADEMIA

BNHA wip (inspired by chapter 306 onwards)

BNHA/BKDK royal AU

HAIKYUU

Untitled WIP (high school years)

Voltron (oh damn those are old...)

Of Tails and Fins (the only one i remembered anything at all about)

Scarlet Kaida (now an OG project)

3 others WIP notes that I wouldn't be able to say anything about : "Don't trust the government, trust pasta boi" ; "Rain" ; "Cinderella AU"

Wip tag game

I was tagged by the lovely @newbieineverything with whom I love sharing one piece theories & headcanons

(*´ ˘ `*)💕

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPS.

One Piece

Speak Up, Boys!

Die laughing and sail close to the wind

Navigation, Stars, and First Travels

My Hero Academia

BNHA fic (??)

Original Works

Eterna Storia

The Starpocalypse

TRB1 (Trashy Romance Book 1)

TIMELOOP SCRIPT

TRB2 (Trashy Romance Book 2)

Government Group Chat

I mostly forgot a few because I'm stupid and get too many ideas so you got to deal with this now 🤺

Tagging: @whymustmyfavalwaysdie and anyone else who wants to play! (because this is my side blog and do not follow enough people ahah)

E D I T : Crossing out (and adding links to) what has been asked as it goes 👀

[thatonedudeinthecorner]

Me: *having a pretty good day*

Bnha chapter 306:

Me:

[aloeveraspeaks]

I can't look at best jeanist without seeing him

[traitordenki]

I love vigilante deku but I hate vigilante deku does that make sense

[shouldprobablybereading]

[kaleidoscopic-quiddity]

deku did not run into save bakugou from the sludge villain, fuck up those villains at the USJ, fight stain in an alleyway, go to rescue bakugou at kamino, and fight gentle criminal in the streets for ya’ll to say hes only now become a vigilante, since day 1 his strategy has been ‘oh someone needs saving? guess i’ll fuck around and find out!’ even before he had a quirk

[kokopcrabs]

Deku VS. Kacchan, Part 3

If-

Their first fight was both of them angry and miscommunicating.

Their second fight was Izuku accepting Katsuki's feelings and almost fully communicating.

Then their third fight will be Katsuki accepting Izuku's feelings and finally fully communicating.

Izuku's frustrations is the need to protect the others, but thinks he has to distance himself to do so. He thinks he has to do this himself, the last holder of OFA, that the others won't understand him for wanting to save Tenko.

Katsuki wants to atone, apologize, and keep Izuku's selflessness in check by being by his side. He's reaching for Izuku's hand that's always been there, but now Izuku is closing himself off. He's retracting his hand. He wants Katsuki to leave him alone so he can shoulder this burden alone.

He refuses.

Doing this alone will only repeat All Mights tragedy.

It's what Afo wants to happen, he knows there's power in unity.

Because One for All, the one thing he wants, is a unity between wills.

And he's terrified of it.

[izusun]

thinking about how bakugou wanted to see midoriya in the hospital but wasn’t permitted to do so because of his wounds. then he just never sees midoriya again

[izukukuzi]

this is just because I'm such a butthurt izuku stan, but that "izuku abandoned ________" tweet that's going around on twitter (and here, too, i guess) is really pissing me off :/

[caprissuns]

Okay it took me a while to gather my thoughts, but I want to talk about the artistic (and narrative) parallels between Izuku and Nana Shimura. manga spoilers after this point

In chapter 304, Nana is drawn in a specific way that's sort of.. dead. Literally. The light in her eyes are gone, and it's been pointed out multiple times. Midoriya is now drawn in the same way.

Now we could go into it, but I want to point out that Midoriya's eyes are only drawn like this after he runs away. In the previous chapter, the light in is eyes are still there.

This is a long winded way of saying that Nana's eyes are also only drawn in this way after she finds out that the sacrifices she made were useless. Even after she gave up her son, she was able to rest easy in the belief that he was safe.

Izuku doesnt have this luxury anymore. While him leaving is still the best course of action, there is no guarentee that his sacrifice of leaving will not prevent his classmates and their families from being targeted. Even on his own, he cant rest easy in the belief that what he did will guarentee his friends safety, because he now knows that even if he dies, All for One might still come for his friends and loved ones.

Izuku has to learn from Nana in quite possible the worst way, and literally all he can do is prepare himself to be subjected to something similar to what Nana is going through currently.

Both of these characters were put into a place where they had to seperate themselves from those they love for their sake, and the fact that even then there is no guarentee their loved ones will be safe even after they leave is tragic. The worst part might just be the fact that their loved ones are put into danger just for knowing them.

And that is one of the saddest places this series couldve gone to.

[faytears]

“You saw what happened! Deku chose OFA, okay, not me! Deku doesn’t want me! ...not like I want him.”

[whatifitoldyou]

[jaded-ghoster]

Okay but there’s something about Bakugo not being able to see Deku after he wakes up from his coma and not being able to apologize to him after having so many revelations about their relationship that makes me so happy.

Like, he had Deku chasing after him his whole life and the second he slows down Deku is legit gone.

I’m smiling like an idiot right now this is so satisfying

[queerenteen]

WHO LET A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD CROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN BY HIMSELF THREE DAYS AFTER BEING DISCHARGED FROM THE HOSPITAL