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booty-on-ice · 6 years

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Why Midoriya Izuku is the Best Shounen Main Character

Alright so I’m pretty guilty right now. I have a lot of things to sort out and I still unanswered asks and oh boy do I got a lot of fanfic writing to do before summer ends and I’m opening requests soon but JESUS Y’ALL. Im a huge fan of this series and I’ll be damned if I miss writing something for this boy’s birthday. I already missed writing my Inko appreciation on her birthday but I won’t let her down!

So…HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MIDORIYA IZUKU AKA BEST SHOUNEN MC

Woah, broad statement to say huh? Well, my friends, I’ve read a lot of manga, particularly shounens since that’s my more favorite genre, and I have to say that Midoriya Izuku has been the best main character I’ve ever read and I only hope he continues to grow into his beautiful character.

I mean even from the beginning of the manga, the way he was written was so completely relatable and realistic. In the very beginning of the manga, he was written to be this lonely boy who suffered through bullying and suicide comments and continuously kept going because of his obsession with heroes. From the very beginning, Horikoshi gave us this character that wasn’t perfect (rather was filled with psychological issues) and really at the bottom of the totem pole. I know a lot of people have compared Izuku with Naruto but at least Naruto was born with an incredibly gifted ability from the start. Izuku was literally born with nothing. In a society where there are heroes running rampant and where Izuku dreams about being a hero, he was literally born with all odds against him in that regard. Yet, through all the loneliness, through all the bullying, Izuku still stayed strong through all of that and continued to dream on his goal, only truly wavering once when All Might told him he should find a new dream (and even then, he still got himself almost killed but I’ll get to that in a bit).

And to add on to his realistic demeanor, I know a lot of people call Izuku a cry baby and make fun of his constant amount of crying but honestly? Imagine this: you were born a black sheep in society, everyone looks down on you, you dream of being something great but you weren’t born with the skills for it, someone you consider to be a friend looks down on you and literally tells you to go jump off a building and destroys a piece of you that you hold memorable, then you almost get killed but someone saves you, then you finally get to meet your idol, the person keeping you alive essentially and they tell you straight up that you should give up on your dream, then you’re devastated but you see that friend in a life threatening position so you literally sacrifice yourself to go save them even though you can’t do anything, and then instead of praise, you get all the blame and beaten down again while your friend gets all the praise, but then you end that EMOTIONAL DAY (keep in mind it happened within a DAY) with your idol telling you that you can be that person and he will help you achieve your dream. I won’t even go onto the other times he’s cried but honestly? I know if I was in his position, I wouldn’t have even stomached half of what happened and I’m sure most of you reading this wouldn’t be able to have a DAY like that without crying. I’m sure with 99% of you, at least once tears will shed. Izuku during his time has been through emotionally exhausting feats and I think it’s absolutely INCREDIBLE that Horikoshi gives us this raw character with RAW emotions. Through Izuku being this emotional, not only does it help us relate to him much more but it helps shows that, hey you can still be strong AND be emotional too. Emotions doesn’t equal weakness and Horikoshi really shows that tremendously, especially when the audience are a group of young ones-adults that are taught daily showing emotions is weak and you have to be strong and not show weakness because apparently crying shows weakness. With Izuku, all of that is stomped on the ground and it’s truly inspiring.

And oh boy, my favorite part of Izuku! So most shounen protagonists I have seen and come across are usually born or given this great ability suddenly and yes, while they have to train, they normally get the hang of it pretty quickly and are pretty op with it (I’m looking at you Natsu). Most of the time nakama power is enough to win the battle even though the power difference is crazy different. Yet with Izuku, it’s not like that at all. We are 145 chapters in and Izuku can only still use a small portion of One for All still and he’s gotten to the point where, because of his continuous idiotic use of One for All, he has the major consequence that if he uses it too much at 100%, he could lose FUNCTION IN HIS ARMS. OH YEA, PRETTY BIG DEAL AND CONSEQUENCE FOR THAT.

From what I just wrote, this was my favorite thing that was said:

Yes, folks, he not only says that once, not twice, but multiple times throughout the series. I think the most recent time he said it was during Episode 27 when he was climbing the walls, though I’m sure he’s said it in the future arcs and I forgot about it. Due to this new given status he was given, Izuku acknowledges that he is completely far behind from everyone else, he understands that he is at the bottom of the totem pole and that he has to work 10x harder than everyone else since he lost about 10-11 years to get used to his quirk. And throughout the series, Horikoshi doesn’t pull back on that, in fact he really drives it in that, while Izuku does become the greatest hero of all time, it doesn’t happen overnight, it takes a lot of time, training and consequences to get to that point. Even from the beginning, we were given a small glimpse of his incredible training regime and that alone just shows how much effort he has to put in and even that wasn’t enough. I won’t lie, it feels so refreshing that the Main Character isn’t some overpowered person who always gets away with his ridiculous moves, rather it’s nice that he does have consequences and that he see him actually develop into that role while he is being surrounded by others who could take that title from him.

Also, not only is he an intelligent and incredibly hard worker like holy hell, but can we talk about his personality as well? See, here is another perk about Izuku, we weren’t given some either suave person or an annoying character that makes you want to rip out your hair because they’re either too happy or too sad or too emo cringey mess. Rather, Horikoshi gave him a realist personality who thinks through, is incredibly modest and respectful, and holy fuck the most selfless character in the entire show.

I mean, we already know his intelligence and craftiness as he analyzes heroes and their moves as seen through the constant muttering he does as he watches them and his writings in his notebook

Which might I add right now that I’m really happy Horikoshi gave him this type of analytic behavior as it makes his earlier actions have a bit more sense involved in them, like due to his constant observation he was able to use moves in combat that at least got him by in the beginning

To also tie in with that, can I say that it is so refreshing to have a main character be a complete DORK about girls and such like that?? Like for someone who was lonely and only had much of the internet to interact with, it makes complete sense that in the beginning he’s really nervous around females or even touching them or talking to them.

Like look at how he talks to Ochako

Or even how he reacted when Tsuyu said to put her down

Or even how he reacted towards Mei when she had her chest all up in his grill.

Not only does having this personality trait make him a total dork and cutie but it really shows that we won’t see anything super perverted on Deku’s side. Like if he’s too nervous to talk or even touch a girl in a different manner, than it really shows how respectful he is and how modest he is and how we won’t see any pervy side of Deku anytime soon, which is refreshing for an MC to be that way since most MCs have to either touch or acknowledge their love interest’s chest before they can be established as a good character.

Though, I will say that even though those are amazing points of our birthday boy, the one personality trait of his that truly makes him a much more fitting hero than Bakugou or even Todoroki or even my baby Ochako is how incredibly SELFLESS he is. Ok ok I know that’s a common personality trait but Izuku really takes it to the max throughout the manga.

Like when right after he was told to jump by Bakugou, his initial thoughts were based on Kacchan not wanting to get severely punished by the law

Or when he risks his life to save Bakugou from the sludge monster even though he has no quirk

Or when he risks his life once again to save Ochako even though he can’t control his quirk

Or when he risks his life AGAIN to save All Might

Or when he attempts to help Ochako before her fight with Bakugou

Or when he puts his spot in the tournament on the line to help Todoroki reconcile his fire side

Or when he helps Iida with the Stain fight and notifies the entire class to come and help

Or when he even goes well over his power limit to save Kota and show him that heroes are good people that can hold on their own

Or when, even though he could lose function in his GOD DAMN ARMS, he still helps the others get Bakugou back from the villains

And note guys, I didn’t even list everything. I just listed the things I could remember but there is so much more that I could have listed as well. And legit, the things I mentioned, there was no benefit in him doing that, like during the time he did them, all there were were cons for him, there was nothing positive in any of those situations for him. And yet? He still did it. He still put himself and his wishes behind to help those around him and make sure they were successful or safe, even if it meant his own life on the line. I’ve never seen other shounen protagonists push themselves this much in only 145 chapters and I think that’s absolutely incredible.

Alright so this post is reaching to be about 2k and while I can say more about this wonderful boy, I also want to make sure that I not only post this on time but that I don’t find myself repeating the same thing over and over again. While Izuku is not my favorite character of all time, I am so happy and blessed that he is the main character of this amazing manga series. He’s grown so much since the first chapter and Horikoshi is only setting up the series more to have him grow much more and I’m excited to see how much more he grows as the series progresses. He is such a good character that is well balanced and realistic and such and I know for myself personally that I really relate to him in a lot of ways. Truth be told, it makes me actually really incredibly sad when people dismiss his reasoning for being a hero or when people just write him off as a cry baby because there’s so much more to him than just that. His reasoning to be a hero is realistic and deep enough, his emotions are realistic, his psychological issues that he faced with in the beginning shows his strength tremendously.

Izuku is one of the best main characters and I’m so happy all of us were blessed with him on this wonderful day! Yay!!! Happy Birthday Deku!!!

Tldr; Izuku’s face appears when you look up the definition of what a friend and a hero is.

#boku no hero academia #bnha #midoriya izuku #best boy for real

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booty-on-ice · 7 years

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Amazing meta! I wouldn’t have thought about the possibility of Mutsuki’s violent behaviour being “revived” by Haise’s abandonment. Important: I can see an important parallel between Mutsuki and Juuzou! Mutsuki commonly refers to himself as a man, just referencing being a “"woman”“ when he’s reminded of his trauma, or explaining his period (Lots I trans guys have explained it that way, even if it’s not correct) Juuzou, for the other side, reverts back to his original state when reminded of trauma. He starts thinking about good boy points, being Rei, etc. He used to kill animals too… I think the fandom has forgotten that. The fact that Juuzou used to do almost the same things as Mutsuki, but he’s not seen as a “psycho” or “insane” by the fandom. Juuzou may not show his “killer” behaviour anymore, but he’s still scarred. Imo Juuzou was in some way saved by Shinohara. He helped Juuzou overcome the trauma of being used as a toy by ghouls, being constantly tortured, and many more things because I was in some way, his parent. Now let’s look at Mutsuki. He was mentally unstable, abused by his own parents, possibly raped… And then adopted bt the CCG. His brain completely erased the memories of him killing his parents, of killing cats, etc. He never got to have a parent figure. Ever. He was weak, and he was bullied, and and was alone. (And possibly still treated as a girl) We can see him finally becoming the Mutsuki we met, a cute, harmless, scared little boy. But he has not healed. Not a bit. His problematic behaviour I never addressed, not is he given any parent figure. (At least before Haise) And then, of course, he’s abandoned. By his one and only Haise Sasaski. In his point of view Haise helped the ghouls, killed Arima and maybe even doesn’t care anymore about him! In fact, this idea may may reinforced when Kaneki denies the request for coming back home. Maybe Mutsuki sees this as violence, maybe he’s reminded of his parents… And that leads to him becoming a “murderer” JUST like how he killed his parents. We’re not actually seeing a “crazy”, badly written fake transgender, just a terribly untreated case of life-long trauma. (Feel free to add on, I’d love to see your thoughts )

Mutsuki’s behavior

I’d like to talk about Mutsuki reaction in this chapter.

Let’s start with His childhood. I don’t know if it’s because of the way his father treated him or if it was since the beginning but Mutsuki never really feel like a woman, he was already uneasy about his gender when he was a kid. He was also the victim of physical abuse by his father, but not only physical it’s obvious that Mutsuki has been raped. An action that was described as « show me your love ». It is HORRIBLE.

Then when Mutsuki get out of this hell (by murdering his family) and found some peace at the CCG’s academic, he was bullied by the other kids, and so his bad behavior stayed.

Mutsuki always has had hard time with men, violence and abuse. It was a sort of hurting relation, you hurt me so I hurt you. You take from me, I take it back. In order to save him, his own brain erased those memories, like Kaneki when Arima said that everyone in anteiku was dead. That’s why he knew nothing about his family murder. It’s because his brain has shut those memories down.

I don’t think that we can blame those other kids. Because from their point of view Mutsuki was horrible and disgusting (there it is, Ishida’s wonderful writing). Will you become friend with someone that murder cats and is suspected to have murdered his family ? Not me tho, but those kids didn’t knew Mutsuki’s past and they have their own buisness to take care, welp nevermind…

When Mutsuki got nominated as a Quinx, Haise happen to be his superior and they all lived under the same roof. Haise has been the first man to accept Mutsuki and to take care of him but more important Haise is litteraly a flower in the garden of The Grim reaper itself !

And all of sudden a sweet boy like Haise comes in and start taking care of you like his own child, and give again and again without asking anything in return expect respect and mutual understanding. I’m sure that thanks to Haise sweet behavior, Mutsuki stopped feeling the need to hurt others back, and was finally able to get some peace of mind. And then Mutsuki slowly began to Fall in love for him (who wouldn’t ?!)

But due to circumstances, Kaneki has return and Haise is no more (I’m still crying over Haise T-T). Kaneki ask to be discharged of the quinx and start his own investigation about Takatsuki and Aogiri. He leaves the quinx, leaves Mutsuki. Which probably hurt him more than we can think.

And happen Torso’s kidnapping, and abuse. He had to act like a girl, to be forcefully nice and gentle to him. Which led Mutsuki to remember his past, to remember everything that he loathed, to remember this twisted relation with men. And so Mutsuki’s bad behavior comes back. I kind of see that the loss of Haise hurt him so hard that he couldn’t help but to hurt others. Passing the pain can help.

And now, after all this time, after all of those repressed feelings and emotions, Haise reappeared in front of Mutsuki. Can you imagine the fucking stab in the chest ?!! Seeing your dear loved one in front of you after he completly vanished ? Mutsuki’s brain probably stop fonctionning correctly right there. And the heart and feelings overcome the mind.

Being able to touch and be with the one he carved attention from led Mutsuki to act the way he did. He referred to himself as a « female » and during all his life as a female he was manhandled and abuse. Remember his father’s « show me how much I’m the best dad ? », welp, it came back. And since Mutsuki always been told that a woman and a male have no choice but to love each other.

Here’s Torso’s reaction when Mutsuki rejected his compliments

Mutsuki probably feels the need to show his love to Haise that way. But All he knew was litteraly violence which explain the stab in the throat and « sexual affection » (I really dislike this term but it’s the truth). This all he can do now because he doesn’t know how to deal with his feeling any other way, because he’s hurt really deep inside him. The trauma from his past is still present. Please consider this.

This is just my thought, you have the right to not be in accord with me, and to discuss over it ! I’d just like to show that Mutsuki is not a horrible kid who’s hurting people for pleasure. There is a real trauma behind it and a reason. I’m not saying his right, I’m saying that he can’t know how to do right if all he’s experienced is wrong. Mutsuki needs someone to guide him and to be there for him. I’m thinking about Urie right now, sadly Urie’s love will never get return (at least I don’t think so).

Thank you for reading so far, I hope that I wasn’t to boring aha ! I’m still new to this so I might be unclear sometimes sorry.

#tg:re #tg meta #tooru mutsuki #tg:re spoilers #sorry if this is badly written my head is a mess th

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