#heroaca figure

[dailyfigures]

Uraraka Ochako ; My Hero Academia ☆ Proof

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Izuku Midoriya : Deku ver [My Hero Academia] 1/7 scale from Proof coming July 2024.

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i need them

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HeroAca Cultural Festival Ichibankuji figures

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some bnha worldbuilding musing:

irl Japan right now, the death penalty exists, and execution is only carried out through hanging.

HeroAca takes place in a universe with superpowers set in the future, some 100 years from our times, but mostly everything from technology to sensibilities to attitudes and cultural practices and norms is very based on current modern Japan.

HeroAca explicitly states that there is the death penalty in its Japan. Moonfish was a prisoner on death row. Toga fears being captured and being tossed into a cage on death row.

I wonder if the execution method in HeroAca Japan is also hanging. But given how quirks have altered things, I wonder if they've changed their execution methods too? Do they keep death by hanging for like, people that would work on? So they would hang Toga? But utilize other methods for people who couldn't be killed so easily? If someone is hard to kill by usual methods, does the government have to find and design a specific way to kill them?

Imagine being the poor legal (medical?) assistant assigned to learn about the inmate and figure out how they can be killed and writing that report to submit to a committee or whatever. :/ Well, maybe they can find someone who thinks that's interesting to do.

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Cai, Bedwyr and company

So pretty much ever since this post about the original folkloric magical-warrior Arthur, I've been doodling designs for other characters surrounding him (and that real good art I rb'd yesterday kicked my ass into wanting to upload them finally).

Of the companions of the Welsh version of Arthur, Cai (or Cei/Kei) has to top the list. Most magical guy in the world. Per Culhwch & Olwen dude has heat and cold powers, he can grow giant, he can survive underwater for nine days. He fought a giant cat once. (It's actually kind of interesting that he later was adapted into the boorish, incompetent Sir Kay because of how amazing he originally was; it's the classic anime rival bit where you can show how cool your new OC, Lancelot or whoever, is by having him be better than the existing best guy)

I was already leaning into the "slutty magical anime boys" aesthetic and, with characters like this who only appear once the legendary Welsh versions of the 9th century on get into full swing, I felt more license to go further with that (whereas my Arthur and Trwyth look slightly more down-to-earth because they appears even earlier as small-scale local figures).

So my concept for Cai is that since he can generate heat from his skin so intense no rain can touch him without evaporating, by anime girl character design logic obviously he has to leave his back and shoulders and thighs uncovered since that's where I'm having his wings of magical flame project from.

The hair gave me a little trouble--I briefly thought I could give him two-coloured hair to reflect his heat/cold thing, but then I remembered one of the popular HeroAca guys is a two-colour-hair fire-ice-powers guy so I hard-swerved away from treading on those toes. In the end I settled on the MILFy ponytail at the bottom since it'd keep his hair clear of his back, since again, it's very logical and strategically important for the skin there to be bare.

The gloves and metal bands, meanwhile, are meant to be like a shadow the hedgehog power-limiter kinda deal, where he can take them off to unleash his full elemental power. That works with gloves but not really the boots, but I didn't want to lose the symmetry, but then! A piece of medieval Welsh poetry gave me inspiration for another function, and a way to make the design hornier I guess.

One of the Triads of Britain refers to the Three Fettered Men of the Isle of Britain: "Because horses could not be obtained that were suited to them, owing to their size; so they put fetters of gold around the small of their legs, on the cruppers of their horses, behind their backs".

Cai isn't one of the three, but in addition to his main epithet "Cai Wyn" ("worthy Cai", or "Cai the Fair", so it's important he's hot you see), he's also known as "Cai Hir" ("Cai the Tall"), which may be a reference to his ability to grow giant, and fits the 'reasoning' in the Triad. So the bands on his legs became fetters of gold, and my idea is he releases his power by breaking the chain to do his Ultraman rise.

A "crupper", meanwhile, seems to be like, an ass-harness? Sure, that fits the vibe we've ended up at. I figured that can be what he slings his sword from, and then spent...a while trying to figure out the logistics of that. So y'know I had to draw his hips and ass a bunch. For science.

As you can see, there's a couple of attempts to render the leotard as chainmail; one story, Rhonabwy's Dream, describes Cai as wearing mail of pure white rings with pure red rivets, which sounds gorgeous but I dunno how to draw white chainmail so I mostly gave up. He can wear one over the other, I guess?

In Culhwch, Cai (who is the best sword-maker in the world, naturally) forges a sword for the giant Wrnach Gawr, then kills him with it and takes it, so I figured that'd be a cool weapon to give him. Cai asks if he'd like it to be white-bladed or dark-blue-bladed, and Wrnach answers "whichever way you prefer"; we never find out what that is, so I thought an asymmetrical design incorporating both would be fun.

Anyway, here's another friend: Bedwyr! Precursor to Sir Bedivere, Bedwyr is Cai's constant companion, who "never feared a quest that Cai went on". Do Not separate them. He's the Fast Guy; though he has one hand, he can draw blood three times faster than anyone can with two; by the time you notice he's stabbed you once, he's stabbed you another seven times, etc. He's also noted as the most beautiful man in all the land (except Arthur, and one other guy whose name never comes up anywhere else).

I had kinda wanted to give Cai lots of hair volume but was thwarted by the bare-back thing so I made that Bedwyr's thing, and he's gotta be a spear guy given the above (another fun thing is his spearhead can fly off and stab guys on its own then come back to him). Another Triad calls Cai one of the "Three Diademed Battle-Leaders of the Isle of Britain", but adds after giving the three that "And one was diademed above the three of them: that was Bedwyr son of Bedrawc." So that's why they both have little tiaras, and while I flip back and forth on the look I settled on making Bedwyr's a little fancier and Cai's simpler to conform with the poem.

So that's how we arrive at what I consider my final designs for these two lovebirds (one poet tells us Bedwyr's death left Cai "heartbroken"); in the end I prefer the sword-harness just looking like a simple belt from the front, and I added some boots? Thigh-socks? Something?? to Bedwyr to break up the design a bit. The asymmetry of them to conform with his tunic's skirt is inspired by Marin from Saint Seiya, who really rocks the asymmetrical leggings.

And on the right is an initial go at Gwenhwyfar, precursor to Guinivere (and I try to respect the Welsh spellings and pronounciations generally, but I may sometimes refer to her as just "Gwen" in this case). I was inspired by a fragmentary dialogue between her and an antagonistic warrior Melwas (who spends half the dialogue trying to fight Cai actually), where he calls her "Gwenhwyfar of the deer's glance", which brought a vision of a spooky lanky cryptid lady with all-black too-long eyes to mind.

The battle of Camlann was said to be brought about by conflict between Gwenhwyfar and her sister Gwenhwyfach, and a blow struck by the latter to the former, but they might also be like...reflections of the same person's good and bad sides or something?? It's all very murky. In any case, I couldn't stop thinking of Gwen as someone who punches dudes, and the main other instance of that in Welsh legends are their versions of "witches", who wear armour and kill with iron claws. Gwen's mother is a member of the Roman nobility, so I thought fuck it, let's get real wacky and ahistorical and dress her like a cestus-wielding gladiator. Roman influence, iron claws, punching dudes, it all comes together.

Oh, and her father is a giant, so I drew a little Arthur to scale at the bottom to show she's inherited some of that too. I wanna draw her more and refine this, make her spookier (one Triad presents her as being three people? Or Arthur just had three wives with the same name? It might just be a pun? Unclear???) But for now, here's one final page of assorted stuff, presented a couple ways up for clarity:

So there's another Bedwyr; below him, the Cath Palug, the giant cat Cai fights in the poem Pa Gur, which I do intend to do a big funky monster design for, but much like Trwyth in the first post, I had fun doing a human one too. What, am I not gonna draw a catgirl when I can draw a catgirl?

From the other angle, there's Melwas, foe of Cai and Gwen mentioned above. He describes himself as young, and Gwen calls him a "lad of black and yellow", so I made him a twink with dyed hair, but I'll do a more full design later. Probably not before doing Cai's fight with the Cath Palug though.

Caledfwlch, the pre-Excalibur, I drew before, but I did a more ostentatious version here based on its description in Rhonabwy's Dream, where drawing it is like flames leaping forth from the jaws of the serpents whose designs were on it, so blinding no-one could look at it. I like to imagine it having the more humble look until the critical moment when it reveals its true form.

Aaaaand then there's Arthur on a motorbike. (You may have noticed there's one of these way further up in this post in one of the Cai pages) This is just me continuing to think about that idea from the last post about him popping back up in the modern day. Mostly what I orbit around is that he'd defeat whatever evil wizard he was summoned to deal with and then people would be like "so your job is done?" and he'd be like "what? no, the world is clearly in grave peril" and start running around destroying fossil fuel infrastructure. In fact I have a real hankering to make that a comic, but I'd need to be like, an actual artist for that.

So anyway the idea is he gets the spirit of his horse (Llamrei) to inhabit the bike, enabling it to do sick physics-defying stunts. Here's another for the road in fact:

(Wow, Cat, do you like Kamen Rider or something?)

[itsnothingofinterest]

I know we’re in the middle of something (namely AFO getting wreaked while clinging desperately to his terrifying villain image), but if I may share, I hope the upcoming HeroAca chapter can touch on Kurogiri. I really want to know where he went with Aizawa and Mic, since a) I’m very invested in him and his story, and b) I still figure he’s the only guy who can maybe turn the tables on this war and finally raise the stakes.

Or alternatively, maybe we can head to Jaku and see Mina & Kirishima’s fight to keep Machia contained. That one could turn interesting, especially if he breaks out like Kurogiri did. And I’m not sure what impact he could even have on the war as a whole, but y’know, it could be a non-zero amount.

I’m just kinda bored of AFO pretending he’s not totally outmatched to be honest. I mean it gets him beat up by teenagers, and that is very fun, but I don’t think it can carry another chapter in a row.

[mhacentral]

The family was destroyed by Endeavor from the very beginning. Shoto, the youngest kid, could never fix that..... it shouldn't be his responsibility and that's cruel to put that on him. To add to this further, I think Shoto got a fairly good ending, he got to be free from his families burdens and gets to be a kid. The look on his face as he is leaving, makes him look so young and childlike, though he is older and been through a war.

With that said, I do agree Shoto needed to talk more and Enji needed to shut up lol. And as for Touya.... if he did live..... would he ever have been satisfied and happy with his life..... I kinda figure he would never as it was too late. I think thats a big theme in heroaca, its a heroes job to fight the unfairness, but that doesn't always mean a clean victory. This new generation of heroes, needs to take the lessons of All Might but all work together instead of by themselves. They cannot change the past but can change the future so horrible events don't repeat themselves

Oh man this chapter is heartbreaking. But i loved seeing Touya acknowledging Shoto, telling him his fave food and saying he's sorry. I know some people feel uneasy with this chapter, but it frankly was never foing to be a fully happy ending for this family. Im hopeful with the last few chapters, like with Hawks in this chapter, Horikoshi can show change is slowly progressing. Who knows... maybe we will get an MHA Shippuden or Boruto kinda sequel

The Touya - Shouto scene was almost the only worthwhile thing in this chapter tbh. And that seems like such a small pay-off, but I’m just relieved that we got that because I couldn’t stand anymore the takes praising Ochako and Deku for saving their villains’ hearts and dissing Shouto’s efforts and Touya as irredeemable.

I agree with @linkspooky that Touya living even if in prison would have been better than this slowly die in a fish tank nonsense, which is designed to give the impression that Endeavor is fulfilling his promise but lets him off the hook as soon as Touya is dead.

In the end, the family ended up being framed as “destroyed by Endeavor” rather than “saved by Shouto”. In fact, not a single person even bothers to mention everything he did (at least Touya remembers it).

I despise Hori that in his eagerness to further elaborate on Enji’s redemption, he basically wrote a cruel, sad ending for Shouto. He doesn’t deserve his grim dark shit, when Bakugou who has so much baggage got a happy ending with his biggest problem being Deku losing his quirk (probably won’t). It feels like Shouto is being punished by the narrative for existing and doesn’t get any reward no matter how hard he tries. It’s tragic.

Shouto’s feelings are all offscreened, his relationships neglected. I’m pretty pissed off that Hori didn’t bother to give him any kind of comfort from the family and Rei is more concerned with Enji than with any of her children.

The ingredients were there but it was cooked all wrong.

The Hawks stuff was straight up ass.

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Izuku Midoriya ; My Hero Academia ☆ Proof

[remzarci]

Whelp time for me to sign off

I guess one more Heroaca...

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and I...don't...know what else aside from One Piece and Nardo...

Which...seems to be getting close to the end of it's run here on toonami...

and it's a little concerning because we have no idea what new shows are comin'!

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I'm...I'm sure they got somethin' figured out...you'll...you'll see

ha ha...haaaaaaa...

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well...Like always I'll see you all next week and remember:

Stay Gold!

only toonami

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New Shigaraki Figure!!

This took me... FOUR HOURS...

I can't tell you how many times I messed up... But, look at him! He's transparent! Yippee!

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The first two times I majorly messed up:

First I accidentally erased his hair, then I accidentally painted red around it instead of erasing the background.

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I obtained the original, non-transparent image from Color_Division on Twitter:

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Nejire Hado : Hero Suit ver - My Hero Academia

Release: June 2023

Manufacturer: Bell Fine

Size: 1/8 scale, 8.2in

Available from Solaris Japan

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can we see.... the ochako figurine...

yes!! i'm still out rn, but i'm gonna post some photos once i get her set up. this is the figure i got though. she's the pop up parade: hero costume version