#horikoshi is just

[a-na-dhil]

[!mha manga spoilers!]

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i was expecting everything from this chapter, but not this

horikoshi made all of us forget about this one, made sure we were busy talking about bakugou, and then brought back a completely useless villain's sidekick, just to prove that she is not useless at all.

[kelin-is-writing]

This man is ART.

[herbarimoon]

And all I ever do is soak through you

(Alex G - Soaker)

[chiquilines]

In honour of mha ending, have some old (and i mean OLD) miryumi scribbles i never got around to posting. They were the main characters in my heart

[kiisaes]

I'm literally ill

[just-a-lil-critter]

Head empty no thoughts just Kacchan blep

HE'S SO ADORABLE AND FOR WHAT

[solitairedeere]

i was never as optimistic about the ending of bnha as some villain stans were, but i never thought it'd end so badly it left me wondering why horikoshi ever bothered to humanize the villains or make them complex characters at all.

like-- i expected that at least 1-2 of the 3 villains who were heavily foreshadowed and outlined by the narrative as people to be saved would be, you know, actually saved. i didn't think that was a high bar. i've been let down before in fandoms where everyone was certain a character would live and then they didn't, so i tried to keep my hopes low. AND YET.

what happened to tomura was upsetting, but i wasn't that shocked after how disinterested the manga has seemed to be in him for like, the past 100 or so chapters. a bit surprised, because you'd think if anyone would succeed in the 'saving' mission it would be the MC, but whatever. dabi, well, they've spent a lot of time showing the way his quirk destroys his body even before this arc, so that also sucked but at least it didn't feel completely out of left field.

........but they're not even letting toga live???

i just-- what have we even been doing here? when zero out of the 3 characters that were marked out for saving were actually saved, you have to acknowledge that something has gone seriously fucking wrong with the storytelling. not even just from the perspective of a villain fan but from the perspective of someone who likes stories to be thematically consistent or satisfying in any way.

you can set up an expectation of these characters being saved and then subvert that and turn it into a tragedy- if done well that could even be worthwhile and interesting. but you can't turn it into a tragedy and then just... keep trucking along with the happy ending messaging and act like anything in the manga has been resolved and that the characters have somehow successfully completed their heroic origin stories.

like, maybe i shouldn't have expected this much from a shounen- at the end of the day it is still a shounen so i didn't expect to feel that it truly satisfactorily wrapped up all the themes it brought up around societal ills. but i expected it to at least resolve those things in a shounen-y way where they punch the problems and help these specific people and then you can feel good assuming that the state of things will continue to improve in the post-canon world of the manga.

instead we got... uh, none of that. the story refused to answer a single one of the larger questions it's been outlining for the past 400+ chapters. in the end, it was all flash and no substance, which again could've been fine, if it weren't for the way the story seemed to spend significant chunks of time trying to delude you into thinking it had substance.

truly makes me wonder what horikoshi thought he was doing the entire time. can it really all be blamed on burnout? the most that can be said for this ending is that it is, well, an ending. fuck dude, it is that.

and that's just... such a sad way to end a project that took up 10 years of your life.

[allmightluver]

I’m crying-

All Might’s a virgin ~ confirmed

[dynachan]

For the rest of our lives

[olldolldraws]

posing 101 by izuku midoriya

[moodyvoid]

I’m glad that he didn’t, but could you imagine if Horikoshi had written it to where Toga also had a crush on Shoto? How annoyed Dabi would be all the time at him being mentioned?

Toga: “Shoto is so cool.”

Dabi: “No he isn’t.”

Toga: “I wanna stab him.”

Dabi: “We can agree on that.”

[kelin-is-writing]

I am feeling extremely unwell this is sickening dammit…

[herbarimoon]

Childish dreams

[shootsmygoots]

this shit took me too long and it WAS NOT worth it 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[coyotecares]

soo ... wolf aizawa, huh ?

[merlinandlove]

To be honest I haven’t moved from this yet