#the jokes about Katsuki getting rejected are funny tho I'll give it that. Fucker died twice after this you /know/ he's getting wasted drunk

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God, how much salt can I have over a stupid manga ending and when does it end!?

(Or: I have finally processed that BNHA 431 exists and stopped laughing about it in favour of actual critical thinking)

(Or: or: A mid-ass manga ending that somehow pissed me off enough I can't stop thinking about it months after got more pages and none fo them amused me more at who knows O'Clock god I need a new hyperfixation)

"Turn off the cameras", "three endings", my ass, you just didn't want KT/IZ shippers breaking down on your doorstep.

Idk, I've laughed on the day because of how ridiculously worse it got (and maybe that was a cry for help because I don't want to be in the building anymore), but something really, really bitter in my mouth to hear the author said "nah this last chapter ain't mine, just an optional extra" after the ship wars over KT/IZ and HM/CK vs. IZ/CH makes me hit my head so much. Which isn't to say you shouldn't care about it, mourn it in disappointment, pop the bottles and celebrate, that's your right.

(Seriously, congratulations to IZ/CH fans, and for HM/CK fans, you deserved better.)

But I'm a little bit frustrated that the story could've chosen to do something for the villains, like bringing them closure, show they've been vindicated by the Saviour Trio, have something significant in the system change in their name... but apparently it was more compelling to make IZ/CH canon than actually do something about the LOV.

(because let's be honest entertaining 4-6yo children into playing with their Quirks for a month and dipping doesn't replace therapy or calling child services no matter how much Ochako wants to believe it somehow does.)

Idk, Himiko being used to reinforce a IZ/CH moment for the second time in a row (bury your gays for a F/M relationship), Touya getting one panel after getting his moment taken over by Endeavor in his last chapter ("Bad" Victim dies and dies painfully but who cares), Tomura's last words being used so Deku can get together with his highschool crush (how do I even qualify this one???), Spinner got an extra illustration of him sadly brainstorming a comic, Kurogiri, Mr. Compress and Twice got nothing... and AFO still gets to be right while none of the characters have a single cell of self-awareness the story has that this ending just doesn't connect to the rest of it all.

And I'm supposed to just. Care about whatever the fuck Deku's doing? Fine, here's my thoughts: I wished Katsuki and Kirishima crashed the car so I wouldn't see that empty shell of my former favourite character smiling at the end. Alas, my MC fully flatlined the second punching OFA to Tomura was a thing and I regret ignoring that sign. I tried to be nice before when I posted my thoughts for 430, hell, I held out hope for every epilogue chapter, but now, the hopeful superhero manga, you gave me this: REGRET FOR HAVING HOPES UNTIL THE END.

Like. I still prefer to ignore canon, especially after spending... What, May to August hoping the LoV would turn out to be miraculously alive, only to get that ripped to shreds and still be mad about it months after (and I've never been this fucking angry about a shitty finale). It's just irritating, these extra pages could've been a way to show the villains actually impacted the hero society.

And instead all we get is a job rejection treated like a breakup (seriously, why was it drawn like a rom-com shot?) and a push from the canonically bi character to the implied romantic F/M handshake that's gonna fuel the ship wars for the next month.

But I can at least say it was in character for 422-onwards Izuku. I mean, killing a guy and proceeding to never think about it is in character with making another one waste eight years for a dream that was never gonna happen.* I guess "not being the author's chapter" makes it alright for almost everyone else though. Whatever, at least Shoto got an actual good ending and is finally chilling in his life and Katsuki's getting an IRL statue since the manga wouldn't do it (I don't like the billboards existence, it literally caused half of everyone's problems in the story but if I'm supposed to care: Number 15, really man?) I guess.

*Seriously now, fandom's proving why a timeskip in BNHA was never a good idea: yes it's OOC Izuku would reject Katsuki like that... If he was the 16 year old Izuku who actually gave a fuck about saving people and being a hero no matter how. It picked realism over the themes, and this is the end result. It's not unnatural or anything, it's just what happens when you got a last-minute timeskip this huge: You miss on character development and it feels sudden, this is how we get the fandom in-fighting. In eight years he changed careers, if he doesn't want to be a full time hero, then he doesn't, and considering how the other option turned out for Tomura or Tenko or whatever you call him atp, I'm sorry but for me it's a relieved "thank fuck" which means the chances of another's guy getting killed by him are lower.

But hey. Who the fuck cares, Izuocha vs. Bakudeku is the most important part of this, right? I mean, I'd take it if the LoV was fine so I wouldn't feel rage at the main character, but again. Who cares?

... I swear I don't want to hate the ending but fuck's sake I just wanted it to mean something.

Whatever, the story's over, all of that is canon because unfortunately it's on the published paper for the entire audience to see, and yet, I still hate the ending, not gonna stop shipping the stuff I ship, and *grabbing Midoriya Izuku pre-412 by the neck* I've already drew the line at this. Life of denial where LoV is still alive, thriving and the beginning of a new era for a reformed hero society and they throw away the hero billboard concept as a whole and heroes are more akin to social workers and not the same celebrity cops from Chapter 1, instead of stopping at installing a one-month counseling program for kids and saying "FIXED". This chapter changes jackshit about it, if anything it reinforces that resolve.

With that said: "Story of how I become the world's greatest hero" Midoriya shut the fuck up and just pay up the money wasted by twenty people on that suit since you're not even gonna commit to it, you useless empty shell.