This one-shot to commemorate that we're now #5. I'm also over 100,000 words on AO3.
“What?” Nene glared murder out from under her blankets, only to find a panicked Isshiki standing in her room.
“Gah!” Isshiki exclaimed, horrified.
Certainly, that wasn’t Isshiki’s horrified scream about the current physical appearance of Nene, right? Because Isshiki should rue the day he decided it was a good idea to wake up Kinokuni Nene at eight in the morning. The next time he decided that it was a good idea, he better think twice, or Nene would bury his body in the middle of the forest.
“I have an emergency,” Isshiki says, turning his head and averting his eyes.
“What?” Nene repeats. Never let it be said that Nene was intelligible when it came to mornings.
Perhaps that had managed to snap Isshiki back to the matter at hand, who whispered.
“My mother is here.”
Isshiki’s mother decides to come to the Totsuki campus for a visit. For some reason, she is under the impression that her son is currently dating Kinokuni Nene.
Including: Boku no Hero Academia 4, Shokugeki no Souma 4, Nanatsu no Taizai: Kamigami no Gekirin, Fairy Gone 2, High Score Girl II and leftovers from last season.
(So many series this season! Lots of sequels too!)
Chapter 10 is delayed; I'm still writing it, so expect to see it in the next few days (I'm 2000 words in...maybe another 2000 more to go?). I caught a cold during the past few days, but I'm doing a lot better to get back to writing again. Also, it's taking a lot longer because I want this chapter to be perfect, so please be patient with me.
In the meantime, a snippet:
Satoshi collapses on the genkan when he opens the door. Nene’s fine. She has to be.
Was he in the wrong here, that had caused Nene to collapse? Kinokuni-san appeared to think so, from the way she had insinuated. He didn’t mean any of it; he should have kept his mouth shut.
Satoshi curls up in himself, trying to even out his breathing. He shouldn’t be so hasty to jump to his own conclusions. Nene’s at the hospital, she’ll get the care that she needed with all those doctors around her. She’ll get better.
But what if she didn’t? What if...it was serious?
What if that was the last thing Nene heard from Satoshi? What if that was all Nene took to her grave, thinking that Satoshi didn’t love her? All because he was a foolish man, hiding behind his flimsy carefree persona?
Nene’s fine. She has to be.
Because if she wasn’t, then Satoshi didn’t know what he was going to do.
I'm finally getting back into anime just as I mentioned and I'm starting with....Shoukungeki no souma (food wars)! And holy lord I forgot how good the first op was!
I am so fucking sick and tired of the MHA fandom treating Horikoshi like he’s Nobuhiro Watsuki, an actual convicted pedophile, just because he draws attractive women. Newsflash people, fanservice is bog standard in Shonen.
Even manga written by women have fanservice. Kazue Kato’s Blue Exorcist has Shura who walks around in tights jeans a bikini top, and Rumiko Takahashi, the best selling female manga of all time, has drawn a ton of fully exposed female breasts in her stories. That’s right, fully exposed, as in you can see the girls’ nipples in the manga. And her breakout manga, Urusei Yatsura, is about skirt chasing perv and a sexy alien girl who dresses in a tiger bikini and knee-high boots trying to marry him.
And honestly, compared to other Shonen manga MHA is pretty tame. You’ve got Food Wars (or Shokugeki no Soma for the purists) an Ecchi series which is published in a the same magazine as My Hero Academia. In Food Wars girls are constantly getting stripped naked in the manga/anime’s “foodgasm” scenes.
There’s also Fairy Tail where every significant female character who isn’t a child has gargantuan boobs and an hourglass figure. On top of the that, Hiro Mashima often inserts fanservice into scene where it makes not goddamn sense. There’s a couple scenes in the Grand Magic Games arc that really exemplify this, first is where the characters Mirajane and Jenny are supposed to fight, but instead they have a “model off” where the dress in skimpy swimsuits and pose in front of the crowd. If that was it then it would be fine, Mirajane and Jenny are actually both famous centerfolds for the in universe magazine Sorcerer Weekly, but then literally every other female character present changes into a bikini and walks into the arena to take part in the model off. Later there was the Naval Battle, a battle royal type event that took place in a giant floating sphere of water and they participants where hot women in bikinis.
Compared to some of his contemporaries, Horikoshi keeps MHA’s fanservice pretty tame even though he’s a self-admitted pervert (although aren’t we all perverts deep down.) But for some reason people act like the women of MHA exist only to be eye candy and that every time they're on screen their clothes are getting ripped off and we’re getting constant panty shots.
I’m not saying you should worship Hori and kiss the ground walks and think everything he does is perfect. Love it as I might, MHA is not a perfect manga and Hori is not a perfect person, no one is. All I want is for fans to treat him with some semblance of respect.
In conclusion, Horikoshi is not the devil for drawing attractive women and sprinkling a little fanservice here and there.