#shiragiri

[bifronse]

The way Betten draws Kurogiri is so funny. Horikoshi goes out of his way to make him an unidentifiable blob of mist but Betten is just like “Kurogiri? You mean Shirakumo’s silhouette?”

[class1akids]

BNHA 423 - Thoughts (aka how to fumble your ending: a masterclass by Kohei Horikoshi)

I won't have time on Sunday, so I'll write up my chapter thoughts today. Probably the last time for this series (unless we get a Todo-family moment in the epilogue).

I've joined this fandom 6 years ago and written countless meta and analysis. I'm grieving today not that the story has come to an end, but the way it fumbled its landing.

Last chapter: Deku after a combo from everyone Rises to everyone shouting Ganbare and All Might Annointing him as HIS personal Jesus Greatest hero

This chapter:

Everyone's aggregate animosity (including 16 members of Class A - missing: Uraraka, Bakugou, Shoto and Aoyama) and the strength Deku added to OFA in 2 years kill AFO-in-Shigaraki's regen (even though he was engineered by Ujiko to be able to hold OFA).

Deku punches the body of that little crying boy he yapped about saving of the big bad and it starts to crumble. So AFO looks for a new host in Deku.

We get to the only good point in this chapter: as Aizawa is yelling for Midoriya, ShiraGiri worries about Tomura. The tragedy of how their lives went in separate ways. The only person on this battlefield who cares about Tomura is Kurogiri

WTF - I'm emotional. This must help bring Tomura back, right?

Let me see! what's happening on the vestige side?

Is Kurogiri dead? Why?

I NEED ANSWERS!!!

Or fuck that - let's get to Bakugou, because why not. Obviously, he's in desperate need of another highlight.

Let's even make sure he gets personally praised in case in the last 5 chapters he was not mentioned we forgot how he's the awesomest. Who cares about Kurogiri dying in the background? Who cares about Aizawa's or Mic's feelings? The most important question is how Bakugou got to the battlefield.

Oh, wait, here comes the twist. Remember that crappy little panel of Shoto in the last chapter? No? Don't worry. Neither does 99% of the fandom, except a few die-hard Shoto-fans.

Well, you see, that crappy panel was actually Shoto being hidden as he lifted up Deku at the end of that long combo to give him his last push. And the one above, is not a BKDK combo but an Origin Trio combo. It's just cropped the same way BKDK shippers always crop Shoto out of any Trio pictures.

Congratulations, Kohei Horikoshi-sensei! What an amazing twist. You managed to write Schroedinger's Origin Trio scene! It happened, but maybe it never did. Thanks for stringing me along all these years through the rollercoaster rides of Origins and Risings. I'll take that playground from you and give it to fanfic writers who actually care about maintaining it.

While Bakugou is yelling in the background, Deku is pulling a Mirio on AFO and calls him friendless. The worst thing that can happen to a Shonen boss.

There is some incomprehensible mumbo jumbo about OFA-magic - but don't worry peeps - it's all a set-up for Deku getting it back (in case you are one of the people who seems really to be worried about that)

And then AFO realizes - due to Deku transferring the last bit just so - that he was just a sad little human who loved his brother all along. Yoichi's lifelong efforts to make an impact on AFO didn't do anything. Only the Jesus-Punch-of-Magic did. Too bad.

Oh no, the whole fucking peanut gallery is back to nobody's surprise. (Actually All Might is missing, which may suggest Deku will only get the stockpile back). Even if Deku gets OFA back, please don't transfer these guys back. I'm so sick of them. They were a total waste of time and took Deku's precious real estate for introspection. Fuck that. I don't actually care. Deku has been damaged beyond repair.

GROUP FIST BUMP!!! Amazing Climax. Maybe a double spread, Sensei?

HK: Sorry, I used up my double spread quota on Bakugou!

I'm not one to criticize Horikoshi's artstyle, but boy, this panel is so underwhelming compared to the stuff he drew in this endgame. Is this your big AFO vs OFA clash????

What happens when Ghost Fist collides with Real blood? Of course, it will transfer all that sweet Ghost-DNA!!!

Aka - Horikoshi is saying - Don't worry, Deku won't be quirkless.

OK. Well. Let's move on.

Here is another line from Horikoshi's outline. Did you want to see a heart-warming scene between Nana and Tenko? Too bad for you. You get Bakugou, you voted for him.

(Btw, Shoto is not the only one who doesn't seem to be allowed to have a proper scene with his mom, I guess Tenko cannot even get an emotional afterlife scene. If you are an abuse-victim in story, Horikoshi says - fuck you! Take a swan dive and hope to be reborn as a bully in your next life).

Well, at least Tomura noticed that Kurogiri mysteriously died after Horikoshi couldn't think up an actual proper endgame for him.

OK, onto the MAIN ANTAGONIST's final monologue. It will be deep after being built for 400 chapters, right?

Shigaraki: Well, I didn't even manage to destroy your hand. I amount to just a crying boy.

Deku: Well, I still hate you for stabbing Kacchan and the others. (forget the others, I never cared about the others). I killed you because I was sick of your moping it's the International Board of Therapist's recommended therapy for victims of abuse and grooming.

Shigaraki: Well, what do I say to that. That's so fucking stupid.

Shigaraki: And to my gay little boyfriend, I leave my treasured Nintendo controller.

Deku: Yeah, whatever. I don't really have any thoughts. I've stopped introspection in Act 2. Your life sucked. You need to fuck off now and stop spreading the sadness, I have a victory punch to perform.

Deku: This is the story of how I became the greatest hero by punching the fuck out of this crying, abused little boy and then bathing myself in his nasty pixie dust. killing 2 main villains for the price of 1 in under 7 pages and changed the weather for the dudebros on Twitter can cry about the blue sky in the anime again. I also eradicated sadness with punching it hard enough.

Also - I probably still have a quirk. Tune in to find out in two weeks.

Sensei, with all due respect - this chapter was ass. Visually, thematically, from a storytelling point of view. Even the good ideas were executed badly or were crammed in with terrible ideas. What a fucking let-down.

Will Shigaraki go and be the hero of the villains?

I can see him reconstruct with Overhaul and magic, or I can see that we will get a reveal where Deku had the Lion Turtle solution all along and he has punched Shigaraki just at the angle to magically manifest 5-year old crying Tenko and save him and he was cold and aloof because he already "saved the boy".

I can see a BS solution incoming. But it will not fix this chapter for sure, nor the broader writing issues with Deku's character and with the Deku - Tomura dynamic.

[zukadiary]

Takarazuka Roundup 2025.4.11

It's my blog's 12th birthday :D And check out these 111th class photos.

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Status: on break ahead of rehearsal for Castlevania

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Status: Rehearsing Hana no Narihira and Twinkle Moon

News:

Shiragiri Tsubaki retired effective March 31

First Guys and Dolls visual:

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Status: Performing Robin the Hero/Overture! in the Grand Theater until 4/13

News: Cast splits for American in Paris, Step By Me, and Yumeshiro Aya's music salon

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Status: Rehearsing Ashura/Esperanto!

News: Kizaki Reo will take over as fukukumichou on August 11

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Status: Performing 110 Years of Takarazuka Love Songs / Razzle Dazzle in Tokyo until 4/27

[haleigh-sloth]

Toga is a liar

Let's talk about Toga this chapter, and also Toga during MVA. Because once again her words do not align with the pictures on the page. Horikoshi has not stopped making Toga unreliable--yet.

Cannot use the official page for this one point because of Caleb's trash translation, but the point to be made here is that Toga outright admits that she has been lying to herself this whole time:

She tried to pretend everything was fine. In MVA you see what is clearly unreliable narrating. "I'm not miserable! Not me!" on top of pictures of her clearly being haunted by her past.

Curious forced her to face her demons.

However, martyrdom is not how you relay a message, so Curious ultimately lost the physical battle. But she clearly understood Toga's pain and hit the nail on the head.

Now we get to the current chapter where once again, literally nothing Toga says aligns with what is on the page.

Toga says that the LOV will create a world that is easy for her to live in, and yet, despite that being all she's wanted, she's supposedly ready to leave the world behind in order to save Ochacko. So what does this mean?

It means Toga knows the truth. She knows the world that's coming is not the world she wants. Sure, maybe it'll be a world where she can do what she wants, but it's not the world she wants. What makes this particularly obvious is how disconnected her recent memory of the League is from reality. Twice is dead. She believes Touya is dead. Tomura is out of commission as far as she's concerned (also his hand being over his face is an interesting detail I need to think more on). Toga says "that's a world I can live in", and then says "I'm going to leave this world behind, despite what I've been wanting coming soon."

Toga doesn't believe what she wants can actually happen. It's not coming, she knows it. The acceptance she had from the LOV sustained her and made it easier for her to live for the time being, but ultimately it isn't the world she wanted. Because the world Toga wants doesn't involve everyone she loves and cares about dying. It doesn't involve all of the people who accept her dying. And so far, that's all she's gotten.

Toga being ready to die shows just how little faith she has in the possibility of her living how she wants in a world she WANTS. A world where she's free, loving and living how she wants, and isn't losing people she loves.

Really, her words here indicate that now she got what she wanted, but it came too late. The presence of "IF" and “MAYBE” is a big tell of this mindset.

Even with this break through, the entire time Toga never really had faith she could live how she wanted. The LOV promised a world easy to live in--a world where she does what she wants, and watches her friends and people who accept her die. That's the world that was promised, and that's the world being delivered to her right now, which is not what she wants.

So she rejects that world and saves something important to her, and plans to die in the process because she doesn't see a world where she can really live. Hence "IF" in her words, IF she had found love sooner. The next step is the big picture showing Toga that it's ready to accept her. Which is more of an effort involving showing Gentle and La Brava, Lady Nagant, the Todorokis with Touya, Izuku with Tomura, Aizawa with Shiragiri, Shoji with Spinner (maybe lol still unclear where that’s going), etc. Just showing the effects of saving on others and that it’s possible to keep going.

[anartisicandautisticstararcher]

MHA x 'Splosion Man Crossover AU

A Nomu!Mic AU with a twist.

Kayaku, also known as The 'Sploding Hero: DJ 'Splosion, isn't your typical Pro Hero.

He was a specialized nomu designed to be a living explosive for the League of Villians, hence his name. However, Dr. Garaki made a slight miscalculation when designing Kayaku. Unlike his other nomu creations, Kayaku was more independent and aware of what was going on.

As much as he could be, at least.

But the experiment and the instability of his new quirk left his mind worse for wear, as Kayaku hardly remembers anything before he was kidnapped.

He does know that he was friends with Kurogiri though, and broke him out of the facility.

Which leads us here.

Kayaku/DJ 'Splosion

Hehehehe! 'Splode!

Modified Quirk: Combustible

Base Quirk: Voice

Smells like coal and amber

Was experimented on for years before he escaped.

He is a bit of a Cloud Cuckoolander because of the experimentation he went through and his unstable new quirk.

Despite his unstable mind, Kayaku is smarter than his looks.

Wired with an instinct to create chaos wherever he goes.

Unlike his canon counterpart, Kayaku doesn't hold back and will create problems on purpose.

He got his hero name from Kuroboro, who said that Kayaku reminded him of this video game character he liked.

Speaks in gibberish most of the time. Kuroboro often has to translate for him.

Has a weird obsession with cake and meat. Shouta has to hide any cakes he has outside of his and Kayaku's apartment.

Kayaku also tends to eat any power sources, such as batteries and uranium. He says it tastes like citrus candy.

Doesn't mix well with water. Luckily, his quirk allows him to self-clean by disintegrating any dirt or bacteria, so he doesn't need to bathe.

His hero costume allows him to release any excess energy into the leather. Each part of his hero costume has a different element infused into the leather, causing it to release a different color glow as a result.

If his hero costume is glowing brightly, that's your only warning that he's going to explode.

Despite how many times he has exploded, Kayaku is surprisingly still alive.

Kayaku tries to remember his past, but he never was successful.

He can't even remember his own name.

Why can't he remember?

It started with an 'H', right?

Why couldn't he remember?

Why why why why why why why why why why why why why-?

What was he thinking about? Oh yeah! Cake!

Aizawa Shouta/Eraserhead

As if you weren't loud enough before.

He was the one who found both Kayaku and Kuroboro after they escaped from the facility they were held captive in.

Shouta helped Kayaku get well-adjusted and even let him stay at his apartment.

Over time, Shouta realized that he still had feelings for Kayaku despite the fact that he was no longer Hizashi.

He's honestly hesitant to call Kayaku by his old name, worried that it might trigger some bad memories.

Shouta often has to use his quirk on Kayaku so he doesn't cause problems.

Shouta once came home to find Kayaku stuffing a whole 3-tier cake in his mouth. He barely slept that night.

He likes to cuddle up with Kayaku sometimes when he's cold.

Shouta feels guilty for how Kayaku ended up like this.

Why?

The last time he saw Hizashi Kayaku was during their high school graduation.

And he had used his quirk to silence Hizashi Kayaku before leaving him alone.

Shiragiri Kuroboro/Thunder Cloud

Cool! You're like a video game character!

Kuroboro is high school best friends with Kayaku and Shouta.

Kuroboro isn't a full nomu like Kayaku due to the latter interrupting the nomufication process.

He kept most of his memories but is still a bit fuzzy here and there.

He's the only one who can understand Kayaku's gibberish due to being part nomu.

Kuroboro often feels conflicted about his identity, hence why he combined his human name and nomu name.

He tried to get Kayaku to remember his past, but it didn't end well as Kayaku became distressed...and exploded.

The first time Kayaku exploded, Kuroboro thought he was dead.

He took care of Kayaku while they were still on the streets.

Kuroboro was relieved when he finally found Shouta and begged for his help.

After getting reinstated as a hero, Kuroboro became UA's gym teacher and biology teacher.

[bluecryptic]

I didn't expect for that many people to like my Kuroboro/Shiragiri concept and the positive reception makes me want to draw more so...

I want to name him, should I call him Kuroboro or Shiragiri?

Or maybe something else entirely?

[n1ght-shift]

My little skrunkles..

[midgardianqueenreturns]

I really hope Shirakumo regaining his memories won’t mean he’ll forget his time as Kurogiri.

[lemongogo]

i really hope they end up animating the vigilantes aizawa and mic backstory bc i feel like the tartarus scene w kurogiri is really lacking without the context of the depth of their relationship w oboro you know? just a couple panels showing they knew this guy doesn’t do a great job at showing how hard this hits them and how much their lives were impacted by his death.

i agree! even though its an unrelated situation, i felt the same about the compress reveal. we only ever heard about ouji once (with extremely minimal information at that), making the “reveal” pretty lackluster SFKJHSDF 

i’m not saying it’s the same as kurogiris since i feel like his has the inclination to be more relevant and actually Has a vigs storyline but. i do wish some of these plots were more involved in the story as well. thats something i feel like bnha suffers with a bit,, especially when considering the pace of these high profile arcs

but yeah !! back to the mic / aizawa / kurogiri thing. im right there with you. i think vigilantes, from the little i’ve read, does a really good job in providing aizawa the proper characterization for his motivations. like, the essence of the tartarus reveal aside for a second, i think the shirakumo incident does a rly good job of explaining his teaching style, his caution, hesitance with the hpsc, etc. his experiences as a student alone are so pivotal to who he is Now that it just feels incomplete w/o that inclusion. but YEAH, its even more important for the shirakumo/kurogiri reveal bc otherwise like?? anybody who hasnt read vigs isn’t going to care or feel like they should care,, aside from that v v v brief comment mic made in joint training, he’s just some guy the two knew of and thats abt it. theres nothing that rly compels you to sympathize w kurogiri or understand the scope of the situation. plus, not to mention the impact extends to afo and ujiko as well? and shigaraki? and a larger part of the cast than just aizawa and mic alone (shinsou, for another ex)? , so its like... yeah . i hope they end up including parts of vigs in the upcoming season(s) too

[class1akids]

BNHA Chapter 425 - Thoughts

So I guess Hori did decide to just skip the end of the battle, my hospital academia and go straight to UA graduation?

It was teased back in Ch 360, so yeah it needed to happen and it seems like drawing Neijire is a special happy place for Hori (also the sketch he couldn't even wait until Sunday to drop, lol)

Mic DJ-ing right after ShiraGiri's death is sort of odd, but on top of the gags, there are some more serious moments.

What stood out to me was Mirio's comment about how the heroes' fight "is always for the sake of returning the negatives to zero on the whole." It reminded me of Ch 341 - The Story of how We All Became Heroes Minus ① which featured Touya, Toga, Spinner and of course Tomura suffering the transformation. So I can't help but feel it's related to the LoV's fate.

The class is together 😭 crying like a proud parent (whose tumblr handle just became obsolete).... and Aizawa is staying. Yay. After 400+ chapters they made it to second year!!!

Bakugou omg, out of the hospital in a tie which he somehow tied with one hand, being calm... (it's still odd to the others? - but I guess his apology happened like 3 weeks ago in-verse). It seems like he might end up with a scar, just like Izuku (and it's a bit like Kudou's, of course).

Aoyama leaving - I talked about this in one of the asks, but for me it's ok that it's his choice being respected and that the class clearly would be happy to have him stay. Though I wonder if his parents are just suddenly given amnesty for being "AFO's victims" and what that may mean for other villains.

Shinsou joins Class A long at last. Yay! Is he going to get Aoyama's room or join the 5th floor boys? I do wonder if the kids are still in the dorms even.

The Fuwa-stans are getting fed. But Class 2-A (can't get used to this...) will take a year long field trip around Japan. Reminds me of the 100 million tour newpaper sketches.

I liked Shoto mentioning AFO - how he was born in an era of turmoil (which I read as him saying that preventing the rise of such villains is now). It also seems to contradict what All Might said last chapter about Deku already being the greatest hero to everyone.

But also Shouto speaks. Normal speech bubbles. Has a normal voice! Yay! (still don't get it why he didn't speak in Ch 422 though)

Izuku looks troubled. Either because of what Shouto said or because of Fuwa senpai's comments about needing to experience a sudden death to understand why you'd want to be a hero. He certainly is not ready to run celebratory circles.

Watch them all walk together (TDBK covered by Iida's speech bubble, but I recognize them from Shouto's messenger bag and Katsuki's loose pants)

OMG, these guys are a total disaster. I don't know what Deku wanted to say, but Ochako obviously shut him down (and thought it was about her "let him rest" speech which apparently the class keeps teasing her for). Also Hori is using her to explain Deku's haircut.

And here, she looks weirdly happy compared to last time, but it could be just a front...

poor Deku though... he thinks she hates his haircut

No idea who the new guy is, but looks like someone escaped / let loose from a medical facility. Could be regenerated Tenko I guess or someone similar to him who can be saved by Deku this time. I prefer it to be the real Tenko because I want to see Tenko Rising. I think he looks too young to be Deku's dad tbh.

TDDK scene !!! Yay!!! (I wonder if Deku tries to talk both to Ochako and Shouto because of his feelings about Tenko... I really badly want a saviour squad scene)

Todoroki looks hopeful but not sure if it's genuine (it could be putting on a front to stop Izuku from worrying). But his foot is like when he went to see his mom the first time, so I tend to read that right now as a good sign.

"っし" (?????) - there is definitely a shift of emotion.

Endeavor is sitting in front of a giant tank / or secure room window. (?) (Probably the same window Shouto was looking in last chapter.

From the context and framing it's clear that it's Touya. For now alive. Endeavor is finally keeping his promise and is watching.

And the editorial blurb also suggests we may get Hellish Todoroki Family 3 after the two weeks break. I'm very worried, but also since we are strapping in for a longer epilogue it seems, I don't expect things to go smoothly for them just yet.

[wolfcrunch]

Chapter 254 - More than anyone you should be a hero / should have been a hero

Aizawa Flashback

The three of them discuss starting a hero agency together. But then the incident happened right after that.

Shirakumo: I think we can do anything as long as we're together. Mic: No arguing about money okay guys!

They all look at Kurogiri

Mic: We were called the three idiots of Class A, I don't get why this happened! 

Gran Torino: I assume his body was taken befor being cremated and he became this crazed toy they call Nomu... there's no meaning to it, DJ.

Tsukauchi comments how the Nomu that Endeavor fought in Kyushu had a human personality.

He tells the two of them he wants them to try and awaken Shirakumo again, and Aizawa and Mic are lead to where they are monitored but can speak with Kurogiri alone.

Kurogiri is curious about Shigaraki.

Kurogiri: My mission is to take care of him.

Mic: What do you mean it's your mission to look after that brat

Kurogiri: I don't mind it, I can't leave people like that alone.

Aizawa remembers how Shirakumo picked up a stray cat and lent him his goggles to protect his eyes.

While removing his goggles Aizawa then says, "Shirakumo, if you're still in there then let's do it... let's be heroes! The three of us!"

[haleigh-sloth]

Your thoughts on Kurogiri/Shirakumo?

How I feel: I think he has so much potential to deliver a very emotional story and conclusion to us for Tomura and Aizawa both. He’s so important for both of them. He connects them both and yet Tomura likes Aizawa on his own too. I feel like ShiraGiri is a key component to a lot of things in the end game. Aizawa is a key component for the League getting happy endings, and ShiraGiri is the key to Aizawa.

Romantic ships: none

Non-romantic ships: Reconnect and stay with Aizawa, pls. And along with that keep Tomura there too. I want them to do it together.

Unpopular opinion: idk what’s unpopular. I guess my current take that—it was obvious Kurogiri was going to prioritize the LOV because Shirakumo can’t just come out of nowhere (esp without Aizawa being the trigger for that) but I still view everything he (and Spinner) did as irony. Kurogiri wants to protect Tomura but much like Spinner, his actions help and benefit AFO first and foremost, no matter the intention. I think Kurogiri’s salvation will result in him leaning over more toward Shirakumo—and I personally have no issue with that. I think a popular idea is him remaining Kurogiri for Tomura’s sake, but Aizawa matters too and Shirakumo is the part of him that wants safety for both. So yeah, Shirakumo come back may not be popular I guess but I’m all for it. And I think it’s happening.

One thing I wish could/would happen: No complaints. I just hope to see Aizawa being him out more and bring him over to the hero side. But before that I want to see evidence of conflict between Kurogiri (AFO’s creation) and Shirakumo (his core who cares for others). But ultimately I want to see his bond with Aizawa and Tomura both be upheld in the end in a way that works happily for all three of them.

[enigmatic-bumble]

I knew his face seemed familiar

[boncorner]

and I'm regretting having memories

of my friends who they used to be

beside me before they left me to die.

(x)

[my-hero-bizzare-adventure]

This is more fanart than my story but:

For who could you count on more than on Shira-

v v v

Present Mic from HatStealerAU (@cesi-scribbles ♡ )

[guardianspirits13]

Questions about Shirakumo

- Can his consciousness exist seperately from Kurogiri? Like if they found a way to seperate sentient nomu from their hosts/core, could they revive him? If not, imagine they try to rescue him and end up killing him a second time i'm sorry

- If they managed to revive him, would he have all of Kurogiri's memories, or would he only remember up the time he was killed?

- Bringing me to my main point: did he age at all, and if not could he possibly end up back at UA, restarting his second year with classes 2-A and 2-B

- Oh my gosh you guys what if he came back and took Shinso under his wing I would die

Thoughts?