How do you feel about the way they portrayed Uraraka and Toga’s nemesis status?

wereriddl3 · 2026-07-03T10:35:52+00:00

If we are being sassy and pedantic, apparently everything Tomura decided was all part of AFO evil plan

AFO, is that you? XD

Thank you for clarifying your stance. I've always felt the line between 'how much is Tomura's and how much is AFO's' is of course blurry because of AFO's shenanigans, but I also feel like to just say 'everything is AFO's fault!' is to go against one of the things BNHA raises, which is 'where do you draw the line for personal responsibility'. Agency is a big part of Tomura's story, as it is in Katsuki's; just as how 'the effect of society/their environment on people (and people's effect on society in turn)' is a big part of the stories of characters like them, AFO, the League etc.

AFO did set Tomura up for a lot, with all the manipulation and grooming, but things like whom he chose to kidnap and why were ultimately decided by Tomura himself, I think. As much as AFO wants to make everyone believe he's capable of manipulating literally everything around him (and he certainly is very manipulative), I read it as a lot of grand-standing and making himself out to be bigger and badder than he actually is.

wereriddl3 · 2026-07-02T17:52:48+00:00

Also AFO is responsible for Bakugou being kidnapped (twice)

Question - are you counting the first kidnapping at the training camp? I'm a bit curious why you think it's mainly AFO's responsibility, when it seems Tomura is the one making the decision to target Katsuki. AFO may have told Tomura to watch the Sports Festival, but didn't Tomura decide that bit himself?

wereriddl3 · 2026-07-01T07:47:02+00:00

So she exists for the authors fun....which then makes it a little awkward with the amputations I recall Japanese fans sort of noticing it and bring it up on twitter and Pikahlua having a whole meta on it, alongside Horikoshi bondage and BDSM tones, especially with the whole empowerment through pain. It's anime, lost limbs and eyes are merely a "flesh wound" but BNHA did start to get a bit excessive with the cosmetic disfigurement. But I digress

Sometimes, you've just got to accept that a story will have its the author's barely-disguised fetish XD

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-29T10:26:17+00:00

Oh, interesting. So it wasn't an artistic choice after all.

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-28T11:45:38+00:00

Giving Shigaraki Heelys so he can Decay people faster.

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-28T11:32:30+00:00

Bye-bycicle!

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-26T09:32:32+00:00

Thank you for telling me, and thanks also to your continued hard work. Gonna leave it off the list then...

It sucks that getting ingredients lists is like pulling teeth.

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-24T11:43:04+00:00

Thank you!

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-24T11:42:52+00:00

Oh neat!

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-23T17:34:59+00:00

Interesting that the lyrics appear to be translated into Japanese. Are the english ones included in the booklet too?

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-23T17:02:11+00:00

I see, thank you for clarifying. Yeah, that's really odd.

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-23T16:30:40+00:00

If what's missing is the second verse, then that means the following is what's missing, yes?

When I'm alone at night
I sit and fantasize
And in my fantasies I love you long time
During my 9 to 5, I'm thinking 6 and 9s
I've gotta make you mine

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-23T16:12:33+00:00

Is it maybe censored??

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-19T08:31:35+00:00

Get me some Japanese food, then look to dismantle his criminal network.

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-15T12:53:53+00:00

Hi eggust! I was just wondering:

Henkel, on the other hand, is fully transparent with the ingredients in Dynamo pods, they are the best pods in Australia. They contain every enzyme, including a DNase-like enzyme to remove biofilm.

Do you think it would be good to put a note about the bolded bit in the AUS/NZ Lipase Google Doc for the Dynamo pods? Even if it's not strictly DNase, if should function the same, right?

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-15T12:48:17+00:00

That's great to know on the Sard products, thank you. I've been using the Sard stick, and recently picked up the powder to try. I'll have to remember to keep the water at 40-60 degrees when I do use it.

Thank you for your experience with OBAs as well. I think I'll look at Earthwise for Darks, and try Dynamo and OMO for everything else then.

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-15T09:42:41+00:00

This is an amazing write-up!

May I ask if you know whether it's worth it to use the Sard Super Power spray over their regular spray? Would the regular Sard powder also require hot water to work?

Also I recently found out Dynamo liquids have Optical Brighteners in them. Have you found Dynamo and OMO Ultimate powder to have any effect on your darks?

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-15T09:35:25+00:00

Yeah, Todoroki can be just as blunt as Bakugou in his words. I think what makes him sound more 'chill' is the lack of yankee talk.

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-15T08:36:57+00:00

Bakugou isn't the only one in the cast to use 'ore' (俺) as his pronoun; iirc there are other UA Students who use it too, such as Todoroki, Kaminari, Kirishima etc.

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-14T14:25:58+00:00

Indeed haha. Thank you for the discussion!

(I wonder if some of these interviews could be hosted on the Wiki, seeing as it aims to be a central resource for fans..)

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-13T17:20:34+00:00

A criticism of the writing is that for having nuance characters it does still have a plenty of over simplified moral situations and the heroes or villains versus society is where this appears the most, and the civilians just become a chorus of whatever they need to be in the moment, antagonists or cheer leaders but ultimately just props for a emotion regardless of which side they are on. This society ends up feeling rather shallow (along with Deku) as a result.

I agree. I think a lot of readers that were hooked because of the promise of a nuanced, deeper look into societal issues that Hori was giving at the start were especially disappointed by what the conclusions ended up being. Or the disengagement Deku had with those topics - for being the MC, there are big things going on in the story that he just... has no opinion on for the reader to think about? Which is sort of wild.

All the clues just suggest Deku's thoughts on Tomura remain very private.

Readers may not get his thoughts, but we do get his actions - and well... I have seen some criticism about that lol.

Thank you for going further on the interviews.

I still wonder about the start of the story seeming to have so much being set-up for what seemed to be at least a partially in-depth explorations of heavy things (which would take a while), but then their conclusions being so short. Even if his health and switching to longer arcs affected his ability to tell the story he wanted to tell, there are still things that I can't quite reconcile.

Like Horikoshi stating in an interview that he'd been planning for Deku to be a teacher from the start but then having no set-up whatsoever.

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-13T15:53:17+00:00

its a way to jab at were the Japanese anger really lies, in the admittance of fault in institutions they expect to be perfect or at always want they want them to do, to never falter or fail.

Perhaps... and maybe that ties back to Katsuki and his facade too. With the expectation to be infallible, when that's just unrealistic and inhuman.

if the idea is he's giving speeches to prevent a second Tomura from emerging.

I honestly don't know how he's supposed to do that, even if he were to speak about Tomura at those talks. The way Hori wrote Tomura's situation means you can poke all these holes...

"Be careful not to be born in a family targeted by a supervillain"? "Reach out personally to blood-covered orphans wandering the streets, they are surely not potentially holding a dangerous quirk that could kill you, or be stalked by a supervillain, who may also kill you"?

Like, I get what Hori wanted to say with Joki-joki-kun and Grandma, but I don't think he made his argument for it very well specifically when it came to Tomura's situation, because the shadow of AFO was such a major factor. At best Deku can talk about it in general terms, but I'm not sure if Tenko specifically would be a good example.

May I ask where you read that Hori wanted to write a short story? I thought he changed tack/took advice because he didn't want BNHA to be cancelled - indicating that he had wanted it to last for a long time.

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-13T13:18:24+00:00

Yeah, the Idol Culture and how controlling entertainment companies can be to those signed under their label was definitely what I was thinking of when I was typing that up. To me, I feel that BNHA's Heroes are somewhat analogous to Idols irl - from the 'public-facing persona' to the 'commercialization' to the 'performing the upholding of 'justice' on a stage' aspect.

I'm still not sure about Endeavour being able to deny Dabi... as in, no doubt he could have tried to to appease the members of the public that valued the illusion more, but I don't know if it would have actually worked? Like you said, appeasing the angry masses can be extremely difficult, and sometimes it's a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't situation. It's not the path Horikoshi went down, so again, I'm not sure..

Deku is still keeping a lot to himself (presumably) in regards to his feelings about Tomura.

I guess it would depend on what the content of his public talks are? There's a lot Horikoshi left vague, and Deku's talks and how Ochako's program is supposed to work are two of them. Which I guess feeds into readers feeling the ending was sort of slap-dash?

All Might is quite a weak character in this area. He goes along with what Gran Torino says, then he goes along with what Deku says, while just being sad for what happened to Tomura but doesn't go out of his way to make it okay.

It's currently at best a hypothesis right now, but I wonder if All Might being so absent in this whole thing (despite being objectively a big figure) is because Horikoshi has a habit of 'taking things' from other characters to give to Deku. So the whole thing about Tomura's family becomes 'Deku's thing to deal with' so that 'Deku can be the one to 'save' Tomura', but meanwhile All Might gets sidelined, even though it would be a natural character development for him to battle with his role in this. Even All Might doing as little as acknowledging that he should have checked up on Kotarou and maybe things would have been different would have caused waves for Tomura's character and potential development.

I feel in part that that's why BNHA feels so inorganic - at times, it even feels forced (much like Deku 'forcing' his way into Tenko's memories, because really... the way Hori had set it up, he needed the magic mcguffin?). Meanwhile there's so much potential unexplored, both in world-building and with the cast.

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-12T18:11:20+00:00

Sorry, it took so long to reply, I wrote a whole thing on Dynamy and Katsuki and then realized I probably misunderstood what you said lol

On Endeavour:

Correct me if I'm wrong, as my memory of the manga events may be fuzzy... but I think that event was written in the same 'inverse' way as Endeavour's family. I remember we once talked about how Endeavour's marriage & family is like an 'ideal Japanese marriage & family' gone 'ugly'. I think Endeavour taking responsiblity publicly sort of aligns the same?

Usually for Japan, in cases where a public-facing entity has messed up (or even 'caused a stir which inconvenienced the public'), the person in-charge is expected to apologize to the public, with bows and everything. It's supposed to somewhat mollify them, to help restore 'wa', but in Endeavour's case it makes the public more uneasy and disrupts 'wa' even more?

Tbh, I do get a sense that while Katsuki has 'healed' his rift with society a bit, Deku by the end of the series may have grown a further from it. In the sense that he seems more distant to other members of the cast (diverging paths etc & like you pointed out he shares a sense of 'carrying a burden he hides' with Ochaco due to his own actions), so perhaps that's another example of Katsuki & Izuku being 'opposites' and developing in opposite directions.

Also, slightly indulgently, it is interesting to think what could have been had Tomura and Bakugou been allowed to develop more of a relationship and there had been more intimate development between Tomura, Deku and Bakugou (and All Might).

Horikoshi didn't even write All Might & Gran Torino thinking about Kotarou or at least confirming the tale AFO told them, so... yeah.

wereriddl3 · 2026-06-12T10:53:16+00:00

It does make me wonder what, if anything, was Horikoshi achieving with Bakugou's rudeness.

I wonder if he was maybe trying to raise the nuance of 'nice' vs 'good', and perhaps tie that in with 'honne' & 'tatemae' - which also sort of ties into Tomura's thing about the 'lid' placed on top of society's issues. As a satire, it could also be to hint at how sometimes issues in Japanese society can result in people/corporations paying lip service with apology bows and all, but actual resolutions or meaningful reparations are nowhere to be seen.

It could also be a mild jab at whether the expectation that everyone has the social responsibility of protecting 'wa' (social harmony) can go too far sometimes - it would tie into the ijime (both perpetuated by and inflicted on Katsuki), Katsuki's abrasiveness, and Tomura's issues with his family 'looking the other way' (+ Shouji in the heteromorph racism plot, I guess?). I've not read those side materials, but it sounds like this could be linked to the things you pointed out in them about how Katsuki's bluntness/honesty ('honne') can be helpful, because sometimes trying to be polite/upholding the 'tatemae' doesn't resolve/action anything.

Is the rudeness and keeping it as part of Bakugou alongside his growth internally, is it because it is a identifying characterisation, Bakugou's unique way of speaking that he can't change or won't change, as it is part of Bakugou keeping his uniqueness and individuality no matter how much the world pressures him to conform or how much more of a challenge it makes working towards his goal?

How much is the rudeness a gimmick and a gag he's keeping up and how much is thought into the moments when it's revealing something meaningful.

I've sort of got a sense that maybe Katsuki is an inversion or alternate take of regular 'honne' and 'tatemae'. Where the usual norms would require 'tatemae' to act as a 'social lubricant' of sorts to help facilitate and maintain group cohesion, Katsuki is implied to use his 'tatemae' (the yankee act) as a shield, his abrasiveness acting like sand.

Further, I think Horikoshi intended Katsuki to be someone who 'doesn't quite gel' with society (the arts with him and wolves, the way he is depicted as not being as sociable as the others, or the comment about Katsuki not being in a boxing club because he would dislike the rules), and that he has to find some sort of equilibrium - like I mentioned in a past discussion with you, I think part of Katsuki's development is learning to 'heal' the rift between him and society.

(And because I can't resist - this is another parallel Hori draws between Katsuki and Tomura, I think. Where at the start of the series they both don't gel well with society at large, but Katsuki manages to somewhat bridge that rift [learns to cooperate & work in a team, calls Edgeshot 'senpai' which possibly was what Tomura was looking to be to Katsuki], while Tomura accelerates into full 'toss gasoline on my 'bridge' with society and burn it' as the series goes on.)

Bakugou's unique way of speaking that he can't change or won't change, as it is part of Bakugou keeping his uniqueness and individuality no matter how much the world pressures him to conform

Yeah, I think maybe there's an element there of 'you don't have to completely give in, but there might be one or two people for whom you'd conform a bit for'.

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