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pikahlua · 5 months

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OK, I'm someone who's been gunning for the "Katsuki's villain foil is All For One" probably longer than anyone, been theorising this for over a year, and I have dozens of drafts abt it (I just turned on anon, my MHA account isn't my main anyway so...) and I never posted because it was getting too long. I think I had these since Bakugo died? If I had posted them with me saying "Bakugo will fight AFO at the end of this!", y'all would've called me crazy. Y'all could've called me a madlad, but noooo, it happened LOL

I think a few people have already noticed parallels, as there are some parallels in Yoichi and AFO's interactions Bakudeku in Ch 193. I noticed them too, and there were a few posts going around abt it, never realising the implications (since it would mean that AFO is the villain foil as he's the only one who had such similarities to Bakugo).

I mean chapter kept putting Yoichi and Midoriya together, obviously connecting the two. But where does that put AFO?

Bakudeku can be considered "siblings" since they knew each other for as long as they can remember. One was gifted and strong, while the other was quirkless. The gifted one telling the other that since they're quirkless, they can't achieve their dreams (Compare Ch 1 Bakugo to AFO's statement about Yoichi).

Yes, people are saying that AFO is terrible and Bakugo shouldn't be compared. But I think that's exactly what makes them foils. Horikoshi described Bakugo as the "light that would never surrenders to the dark", and AFO is the complete opposite, someone I would describe as "the darkness that never comes to the light".

They're the ultimate representation of "good vs evil", and that's why Horikoshi had pitted them against each other.

And AFO being Bakugo's foil makes sense as it goes in line with something Best Jeanist has said in the past. "What makes the difference between Heroes and Villains?" The villain foil theme actually started with Bakugo.

What makes AFO and Bakugo mirror each other? Look at how AFO looks down on the weak, calling them all "extras", the way he called Bakugo a "pebble in his path" the same way Bakugo did.

Rather than motivations and origins, it's through their behaviour especially towards others. AFO is more extreme, but he calls and views others that are "weaker" as "extras", he looked down on the person "closest" to him for his weakness. He once believed that "might makes right" and acts upon it. He view himself as "God". (Remember how Bakugo's hero name has "God" in it??? Hehe..)

And I feel that there would be more parallels between them once we get to see more of how AFO views Kudou, because he seems to be angered or even "threatened" by him in a similar sense to how Bakugo was to Midoriya. He is the extreme representation of Bakugo's past.

Katsuki means "victory over the self". Of course, the best way to finish your character arc is to beat up a character that represents your past LMAO

All through his arc, he had to see his weakness, and even through foils like Endeavor to face his mistakes. All For One is the final step.

Of course, for Bakugo to fight unwaveringly, he had to get his "rising" moment and also apologize to Midoriya. So that he can truly become the light that opposes the dark. To truly distinguish himself from the villain, like what Best Jeanist told him.

(Sorry if I got anything wrong, I was inactive around MHA for a while, so I could be misremembering, but hell yeahhh, this is what I've been waiting for lets gooooo!!!!)

I think you've got a lot of good stuff here, and yet... My apologies, anon, normally I wouldn't lead with this point I'm about to address, but I must address it first or else no one will read past this point and instead run to dogpile me in my askbox.

While I understand where you're coming from, it's just not tenable to argue the relationship between Izuku and Katsuki is akin to that of siblings.

Some people would make this argument from what may seem like a shipping standpoint, but I'm going to make it from a cultural one. At no point in the manga are Izuku and Katsuki ever referred to as nor behave as nor speak like they're family. There are important hierarchical and social expectations present in Japan for siblings that are different from what's expected of friends (note that even twins are still distinguished as the older and younger brother). Izuku and Katsuki treat each other as peers, social equals, NOT as a big brother-little brother dynamic. Their dynamic is best described as that of childhood friends. Childhood friends is an important trope in Japan, and one can't just gloss over it and pretend like siblings and childhood friends are equivalent or that they work the same as with western story dynamics. They're not and they don't.

And the social distance between Izuku and Katsuki is VITAL to the way their characters and relationship work. Izuku has to be unrelated to Katsuki--a "pebble in his path," some random extra--for Izuku's heart to shake Katsuki so badly, for the "meddling where you don't need to" theme to apply to Izuku rescuing Katsuki, for Izuku reaching out to be so offensive to Katsuki. So for reference, you can accurately describe this relationship parallel with Yoichi and AFO as "they knew each other since childhood," "they don't remember ever not knowing each other," "they have always been a part of each other's lives," etc. But I must stress the trope you're invoking here is childhood friends. It's okay, you don't NEED BakuDeku to be "like siblings" to make these parallels work. They grew up together, and that's sufficient.

Sorry to nitpick on that.

Anyways, I do think that there is something intentional on Horikoshi's part about Katsuki "Self-Victory" Bakugou facing off against All For One as if AFO is implied to be one of Katsuki's "selves" for him to defeat, particularly his old self he's already basically defeated in every sense except somehow fighting it out physically.

Can I tell you a secret though?

I'm not convinced MHA ends after Katsuki vs AFO and Izuku vs Tomura.

No, I don't mean like a falling action epilogue. I just mean...

Heroes Rising didn't end when Izuku and Katsuki sucker-punched Nine. It didn't end when Nine had been bested in fair combat. It ended after Nine employed a desperate gambit to win no matter the cost and became a giant purple butterfly rage monster.

What I'm saying is...I kinda think AFO will successfully transplant his quirk into Tomura or something.

#ask pika #anon ask #my hero academia manga spoilers #final arc spoilers #katsuki bakugou #all for one #sorry to use you as an opportunity to belabor the point anon #i needed to get this message out there for quite some time #<3 #my hero academia heroes rising

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mhabirthdays · 2 months

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Happy Birthday

Katsuma Shimano – March 6th

#my hero academia: heroes: rising #my hero academia heroes rising #my hero academia #mha #mha heroes rising #mha katsuma #mha shimano #mha katsuma shimano #mha shimano katsuma #mha birthday #katsuma shimano #shimano katsuma #march #march 6th

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derpymidnight · 1 year

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*Izuku transfering OFA to Katsuki*

OFA Users: oh hell nah

#as soon as the battle was over they LEAPT back into izuku #bnha #mha #my hero academia heroes rising #izuku midoriya #deku #one for all #katsuki bakugou #dynamight #anime #manga #kohei horikoshi #boku no hero academia #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #derpymidnight

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sukislady · 1 year

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just got done rewatching MHA Heroes Rising and omg omg omg i need to talk about my favorites so i can relax my nerves so sorry if this gets kinda long lmao

if you do end up reading til the end plz tell me whatd you think about it if you’ve seen it!! let’s talk !!

cw: ⚠️SPOILERS⚠️

i just wanna point out that i still get butterflies in my tummy and get all excited when i watch it as if i’m watching it for the first time 🥹

Bakugo and Deku? love them so much they’re my comfort characters

katsuma makes my uterus wanna harbor a kid (i don’t want one if they’re not as cute as he is)

can we just give props to iida who kept a calm and respective leadership role when they were informed??

like they were all worried then here’s iida breaking down shit and getting his teams together cause he’s amazing

i will never get over the fight scenes in any of the movies

the animators put some kinda drug in it cause that shit is always so immersive !!!!

round of applause for shoto!! he made endeavor’s flashfire fist into HIS OWN WITH HIS ICE !we love to see it

SERO! SERO! SERO!

MOMO! MOMO! MOMO! i love her so much if that wasn’t obvious (btw we share the same birthday)

i feel like the hero society has fucked these kids up because they’re literally putting their lives on the line to fight villains and they’re still freshmen 🧍🏽‍♀️ get your shit together hero society

can we also talk about shoji towards the end? they way he went to protect those kids without even thinking??? omg i love him too

OJIRO AND JIRO !!!

JIRO! JIRO! JIRO!!!

whenever i see jiro my heart skips a beat

bro tokoyami and dark shadow will forever have a place in my heart

remember how tokoyami couldn’t really control dark shadow in the darkness in the beginning during the training arc? now look at him !!!

he had dark shadow under control until that bitch hit mina— also props to those two for protecting her from the rubble

ill never understand why the villains wanna take over the world to “rebuild” it after causing massive destruction like excuse, killing people and destroying their shit isn’t gonna make them wanna follow you or believe in you

i also realized something

stories i see regarding momo always paints her to be a stuck up spoilt brat but she’s anything but and i wish she got more love

ALSO PETITION TO PUT SOME MORE CLOTHES ON HER THANKS IN ADVANCE

ALSO ALSO THROW SOME CLOTHES ON HAGAKURA TOO PLZ

have you noticed when kiri goes unbreakable his eyes harden too? like wouldn’t that be uncomfortable?

imagine how that must’ve been when he was first learning out to use it ouch

KIRI LOVES HIS “BIG BRO” AMAJIKI and i love their relationship 🥹 kiri respects him so much

i only bring tamaki up because of that beast kiri, tsu, shoto and iida were fighting

his quirk was like tamaki’s mixed with the nine tails cause his roar looked awfully like kurama’s beast bomb

i was also wondering why doesn’t class 1a have a student with a healing quirk? do they know how useful that would be???

like an on-field medic cause gods know that fucking class needs it

mahoro’s quirk is so useful too???

like she can distract enemies (maybe once she’s older and has better control) AND she can use it to signal for help !!

realistically speaking (ik ik it’s an anime but still) if she hadn’t made the derpy deku then bakugo wouldn’t have found them in time and deku plus mahoro and katsuma wouldve been killed

we love watching katsuki save his bestie rival 🫶🏽

and katsu encouraging deku to get stronger in a round about way? i live for the kinda nice bakugo

idc what anyone says— bakugo is one of the best characters that has amazing character development

as someone who can relate to having a god complex and thinking everyone’s below them (not anymore with the help of therapy) it’s hard to acknowledge someone else being better than or stronger than you

that shit takes a lot out of you but katsuki bakugo has grown, learnt his mistakes and is now trying to right his wrongs

character development at its finest 👏🏽

omg i can’t wait til the fucking manga chapters are animated

my eyes will be so swollen 💔

wait til we get hit with these two

watching heroes rising just brought me back to a place where their relationship changed forever

deku trusted him enough to hand over OFA

but it’s the fact that katsuki trusted deku enough to take his hand !!!

in the beginning he wouldn’t have done that he’d let deku be or try to out do him

he was even worried about what would happen if deku isn’t able to use OFA and become quirkless again omg

omg i’m sorry i feel like this is getting way off track 💀

if you made it to the end of this and wanna hear more about my love and thoughts for these idiots i will gladly do it !!

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binding-with-briars · 3 months

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*Shaking the entire concept of Heroes Rising violently with stuffing flying everywhere*

#no fr I'm foaming at the mouth #the bkdk #shoto literally using the inverse of his father's move as an ice attack #SHOTO KILLED A GUY?#Probably not but wouldnt that be wack #OFA???#also izuku's talk with All Might made me cry #I'm screaming #my hero academia #my hero academia heroes rising #MHA heroes rising

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kaths-art · 1 year

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Been thinking about My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising and had to draw my favorites

#mha #my hero academia #my hero academia heroes rising #katsuki bakugou #bakugou #katsuki #kacchan #deku #midoriya izuku #izuku #mahoro shimano #mahoro #katsuma shimano #katsuma #bakugo and midoriya being parents 😌👌

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vultureboi · 1 year

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YOOOO!! I just rewatched My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising and realized Nine said he couldn’t take Izuku’s quirk because there were too many!! This was before black whip!!! So before they knew there was more than one quirk inside of One For All. HE FREAKIN GOT IT BEFORE ANYONE ELSE!!!

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birthday-hell · 7 months

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Chimera (Chojuro Kon)

Happy Birthday

October 4

#birthday #my hero academia #my hero academia heroes rising #villain #october 2023

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iamgodsoopsie · 2 years

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I'm on to you Horikoshi

Bakugou has now had like 3 motherfuckers control his body. Is this a kink or something Horikoshi? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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highflyartist · 2 years

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Oh yeah

Did I mention I'm gonna voice Tsuyu Asui in a MHA Heroes Rising Abridged Movie?

This will mark as the first movie I've worked on.

#mha #my hero academia #my hero academia heroes rising #heroes rising #movie #abridged #voice acting #tsuyu asui

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quirkkeen · 2 years

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I just watched heroes rising and

Holy shit.

I've watched the movie before it (two heroes) and I did enjoy it, but being able to get into this fresh with no expectations did wonders

I love the visuals, especially when bakugo and midoriya are fighting nine. When they use their full power and the colors pop to show the magnitude of each blow is just *chef's kiss*

I really like nine's design and how calm and methodical he is (he gave me the chills when I saw him for the first time holy smokes)

I enjoyed seeing what they were up to and just seeing them do little hero jobs was nice

And hoo boy let's not forget about the last fight because without going into too many spoilers (for anyone that's super late to this movie like I am) that plot twist was the last thing I was expecting. They both snapped together and immediately knew what to do for the greater good.

Just heroes rising man so good

#my hero academia #boku no hero academia #my hero academia heroes rising #bnha heroes rising #also it's been a good while since i got emotional during a movie #but the serene music during the fight man #it made me feel so many things its great #i would absolutely recommend going in on this movie blind #and just movies in general tbh #its nice to get blasted away from sheer great chinematopraphy

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pikahlua · 1 year

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hi! Would you be willing to expand on you getting ‘hero’s rising’ vibes? What are some of your early predictions? I’m just curious to see what you’re thinking when things are just ramping up 😅

The timing on all of this is hilarious given our sparkly rainbow explosions in the most recent anime episode harking back to the movie, too. But yeah, the bit I was referring to was this:

Firenado! World-ending weather! Callbacks to chapter 1 when All Might punched the sky so hard it rained! That kind of ominous foreshadowing.

#my hero academia manga spoilers #final showdown spoilers #my hero academia heroes rising #ask pika #anon ask #prince of parallels kohei horikoshi

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mhabirthdays · 5 months

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Happy Birthday

Mahoro Shimano – December 6th

#my hero academia: heroes: rising #my hero academia heroes rising #my hero academia #mha heroes rising #mha mahoro #mha shimano #mha mahoro shimano #mha shimano mahoro #mha birthday #mahoro shimano #shimano mahoro #december #december 6th

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sylvanfreckles · 18 days

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Tenya's earliest memories are of running

A work study turns into a nightmare when villains attack peaceful Nabu Island. With no pros to back them up, the students of class 1-A finds themselves facing off against foes with unimaginable power.

In a final, desperate bid to stall the villains long enough for help to arrive, Asui, Iida, Kirishima, and Todoroki take on the monstrous Chimera.

(Expanded scene from MHA: Heroes Rising)

(@whumpril day 10: adrenaline)

#whumpril2024 #whumprilday10 #adrenaline #my hero academia #my hero academia heroes rising #fic

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gesu-ko · 1 year

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Pick it all up

#bkdk #bnha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #mha #bakudeku #bakugo katsuki #midoriya izuku #deku #kacchan #katsudeku #i dont remember how to use tumblr tags #bakugo rising sure was something #loved that his explosions are now rainbow really embracing his gay motivations

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power-house-fan12 · 2 years

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youtube

#bnha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #mha #my hero academia two heroes #my hero academia heroes rising #my hero academia world heroes mission #Youtube

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