#is okay to like boku no hero

[just-an-enby-lemon]

I think I would actually like My Hero Academia if Deku had never got powers and instead proved that he could be a hero anyway. This way he would be a good metaphor and role model for disabled kids (specially the japonese ones).

Instead he getting the greatest better powers accidentaly ends up only confirming the bases of an already capacistist and honestly eugenist society. And that sucks.

And look I have no problem with disabled characthers that get enhancements. I like Cyborg (though his enhancements aren't problematic because he was never presented as a disabled characther, his robot parts are about identity, trust and mental health) and I do think Edward Elric is actually a good portray of disability (yes he had a badass prostetic but it breaks, it needs climate adaptability, it needs regular check ups, he has phatom pains and he doesn't recover his limbs by the end and this is still sawn as a happy end because the end goal was to help Alphonse, his disability was never saw as something stopping him or making him less). Now as someone who doesn't have phisical disability and can mask pretty well I won't pretend to be a specialist on the subject. So maybe this two ARE bad depictions.

That being said the fact Izuku's case still is upsetting for me should saw something about how obvious it is.

P.S: I'm not saying the show is bad or that people shouldn't watch the show. To be honest I don't even think the author considered the ableist implications. He was just having fun.

I know disabled people who like it. And I used to like it. And it's okay. Is a fun show (Mineta apart). I'm only saying that because I think talking about problematic aspects of media can help people who write stories to not repeat them. Also other people probably expressed that WAAAY better than me.

[poofbark]

how can you look at me like that

[ahaha-ahahaha]

yesss absolute win for momo

she got the costume she deserves

[herbarimoon]

Some very self-indulgent Ochako breakdown doodles

[modjisan]

toxic yuri whatever day it is

[hellohellowelcome]

Standard shonen endings have rotted some people's brains. I've seen so many dudebros disappointed that Izuku didn't at the very least "bag his girl" as some sort of reparation for losing his quirk. And so much Ochako slander for "ghosting" Izuku for 8 years for being quirkless (not true btw, leak mistranlastion) because she wasn't explicitly Izuku's endgame love interest in typical shonen fashion. I even saw a tweet doing crazy numbers (70k+ likes) suggesting that Izuku should've gotten with Hatsume because at least she spent 8 years working on his suit....? Ask yourself why you feel like Izuku needed a canon love interest post-time skip to be happy. And then ask yourself why you hate women and view them as the MC's "much-deserved" reward for saving the day.

[mishiami]

save me fem dabihawks

[neo--queen--serenity]

Iida just never stops being funny to me. In episode 123, when asked why he was tagging along with the heroes running to support in the fight against Shigaraki, despite not having a flying quirk, he legitimately responds with, “two of those students in the fight are my treasured, cherished friends. The other one is Bakugou”

[sugawara--san]

i'm sorry but izuku watching katsuki and shouto and everyone else be heroes without him makes me actually violently ill IDC IDC

[hraeesvelgr]

so.. costume epsilon, huh?

[kelin-is-writing]

I AM ACTUALLY FROTHING TO THE MOUTH—

[gillotto]

[newtscamandersbf]

those my hero academia fans mad that the shounen hero manga is about shounen heroes and not romance (they use izuku as a self-insert) (theyre losers) (they lack media literacy and think that a girl having a freshman year crush means they have to get together by the end)

[chandralia]

this is everything I’ve ever wanted from the stage play,,!, the lighting, the hand in Deku’s hair, the smoke, the drama of it all!!!!!!

[narwhalsarefalling]

this may be a hot take but i liked the ending!

its kinda hard to rush an ending like this in three chapters, so its not the best. and i feel like theres some character choices here that could be different. but thats okay!

the narrative foil of deku completing one for all and then it fading away after its goal was complete, i understand that. the strive to look forward and how change in society starts on a community level is really the most important message, i think. you can't depend on figureheads for everything, and change and equality in society is something that needs to be constantly worked on. its not something that happens over night. you can't just expect one punch to the villain to defeat it, and the world goes back to normal or even gets better. no, after stuff like this, you need to have a giant reconstruction period. this i understand!

again, kind of hard to portray it in three chapters, but the seeds for it are there. this will be a lot of fun to play with in fanfic, i think

the ending in particular really reminds me of the japanese poem Be not Defeated by the Rain that Horikoshi-sensei said that Deku's character is based off of. I can appreciate that!

[blargberries]

bakugou parkour 💥