I just found myself explaining to my kid why this was such a big deal, and now I feel a bit emo thinking about how brave and fuckin ballsy (pun intended) Hori was for showing his MC so joyfully and confidently wearing a female hero’s costume in a way that is NOT a joke. 🙌🙌🙌
Um, so for anyone wondering why we keep saying Katsuki’s whole arc feels romance-coded, just take a look and see if these feel familiar.
NOBODY else doing it like him. 😌
Love shows through the way you say someone’s name. With devotion, like a prayer. Like your favourite word, always at the tip of your tongue, ready to fall off. Like a habit, your first thought in the morning and the last thing you taste at night.
Horikoshi says one thing to pay attention to from the My Hero Academia "You're Next" movie is the relationship between Giulio and Anna and how it connects with Deku and the others' goals.
He writes:
"The relationship between Giulio and Anna is a part of the goal point where
Bkdk nsfw—‘Everything About Him’
The boys play a game of Truth or Dare that reveals that maybe they don’t know *everything* about each other.
Post-war (no major angst) - getting together - all of the firsts - first, second, third base and home runs 😅
#MHA430
#mhaspoilers
Turns out Kacchan didn’t even need to hear Izuku’s feelings, he knew he’d “say he was fine” so he fucking went ahead and made it happen anyway. GIVE THE BOY WHAT HE NEEDS.
#mha413
Before the ‘official’ translation changes the conversation…
Kudou is 100% teasing Deku here. The extended “Ahhh” before “here’s one that’s easy for you to understand…” then “That childhood friend” essentially in italics?! (Bouten are used for emphasis or mocking). 👀
Throwback to that time Deku started talking about eating ass, apropos of nothing.
“Mm mochi is nice.” “Foreign food is cool too.”
Deku: “Hold my beer…”
Lemme get this straight.
Nobuhiko came up with and drafted an original BL manga about osananajimi (one is bullied (UZUKI), the other (blond) who has a hero complex) who fall apart then get kidnapped in some kind of fuck or die thing?!
“This is a work of pure love.” OKAY? 🥲🧡💚
Oh my.
One thing that stuck out in the jp fandom reaction to
#mha423
: Katsuki’s actions as a demonstration of love—these all used the kanji 愛 (ai), the most intense and ‘real’ form of the word. 🥺
Time for an angsty idea that I’ll never write!
Newly presented A!Bkg who claim bites QL!O!Deku in middle scl as a bullying tactic (so he’ll never find a mate), not realising it’s because he’s madly in love with him. The claim bond turns out to be so strong they physically —
Together in every universe because they choose to be, because their unfinished business is loving each other until love runs out. Because fate has no business meddling in matters of the soul and they tied their own strings. All it takes is a tug.
The description says they paid special attention to make ‘a simple and easy to wear style’… y’know, perfect for wearing under your pro-hero costume. Taking notes from fanfic again wbk
I’ve literally never seen these two take photos of the manga before. They know it’s special. 🥹 Nobu talked about how it was sold out everywhere, Daiki doesn’t even read the manga and he still wanted this cover as a memento!
Again… WHAT DO THEY KNOW 👀
Omfg I just realised we thought it was Deku who would fulfil this role but it’s not. It’s our blasty brat. 😵 Talk about development. Hori you sneaky menace!!
I don’t think things you do as a dare count,” he lied.
Katsuki looked right at him, his deep red eyes piercing Izuku’s defences.
“Yeah?”
[stopping here for the evening to sleep! See you tomorrow when things get interesting hehe]
Mini thread cos I’m pining.
Beta!Izuku who’s always been single, seeing alphas and omegas pairing up around him, thinking that he’ll never have a connection like that, he’s just too plain. Nobody will ever be so overcome with want for him they can’t control their urges, he’ll —
“So, Kacchan, remember how much we both enjoyed wearing that collar at Halloween?”
“… What’s in the box, Deku?”
——
“Ta-da!! I found a new hobby for us!”
“The FUCK. We don’t even have—”
Thinking about the fact that Kacchan belligerently caring for Izuku is canon and every bit of content we get from now on in the anime and manga depicts that reality. 🥲 (Credit to @/shibuyasmash for the drama cd translations)
That time multiple ppl tried to tell me Deku was holding roses, not carnations as they were threatened by the scawy queer flowers, then this official merch came out 🤭
I just saw someone saying Inko wasn’t a ‘present’ parent and I have to disagree with goddamn receipts because this woman does nothing but support her baby boy even when she’s terrified because she knows it’s what he loves. Does this look like she’s not supporting him?
I was reading an article about the characteristics of real love (as opposed to infatuation) and suddenly it was 2 hrs later and I’d done this.
Pls enjoy bkdk exemplifying true love (1/8)
LRT one of Hori’s ex-assistants saying they “loved the way sensei portrayed love [愛 ai] that was not simple.”
That’s exactly it, and I think that’s why some don’t get it: Love isn’t simple, sometimes it takes years to be understood, sometimes it changes, it’s messy and ‘weird’.