Princess Izuku? Yep!

I'll just leave this here and walk away slowly while whistling a little tune ┌⁠(⁠・⁠。⁠・⁠)⁠┘⁠♪

I think that's what most of us wanted to see.

I will forever loathe the articles that keepsñ on saying Deku and Uraraka is confirmed because of Chapter 431 BUT IT'S NOT, IT IS JUST LEFT INTO INTERPRETATION! They just hold hands and says they want to talk more. It's not even Horikoshi's intended work.

There's nothing substantial there. I'm unsubscribing.

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I remember signing up for Tumblr just to look for amazing pictures and drawings, I didn't think I would end up getting addicted to all the content found here. It wasn't until recently that I started throwing my ideas around as well and finding other people with the same interests as me, Tumblr is a great site and I hope to continue for many more years!ʕ⁠´⁠•⁠ ⁠ᴥ⁠•̥⁠`⁠ʔ Happy first anniversary to me! (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

i think 431 is just fanfic for the author and the team, but the problem is that for the audience it's a big chunk of disappointment since there is nothing that generally interests us, outside of shipping. Like where is all might? Where's the parents? where's the kid from the previous chapter? How are Izuku's lectures going? How does the mech suit work in action? How are the agencies like?

We get nothing of this, which are infinitely more interesting things to talk about than Ochako's love life, and the little we get is just verbally stated instead of shown.

Well, i see what Hori said in the extra as permission to ignore it, so ignore it i will. lol

Like, honestly, if you like a particular ship then this bonus piece is for you. Other than that, it was... whatever.

I'm rather indifferent to it, but there are bits I did like such as seeing the class be together again and also suiting up to fight a villain. (And of course, Miruko. But why is she isn't higher in the rankings? I still feel she should be the highest ranked female Pro Hero, but I digress. She's #1 to me.)

And honestly, that's what I wished the epilogue would have been more of. Seeing the class together. I said it before, but I was imaginging 431 to be like showing us Midoriya's first day back as a Pro Hero and the rest being bonus trivia, extra information, that kind of stuff.

431 did feel like some fanfiction and something to cater to shipping and even I though I have my ships, I could care less about seeing them in canon. As in I have to see them or else I'll fall unconscious or something--- NO!

I would have liked to see where All Might was and see how Inko was doing. We gotten Present Mic being ranked in the rankings, but how about Eraser Head? Eri? How is Dai doing?

That's why 431, at least to me, felt out of place and not necessary. Because it really wasn't.

I'll give it some bit of grace that it takes place probably immediately after 430 did.

Because that chapter did give up some bits of how and/or where some of the other characters are doing and was left open-ended for the rest to be imagined (which I didn't mind, in fact, all for it)... I guess that is why 431 went the way it did.

Whoever worked on it, I guess felt that way.

Ahhh I meant to ask, if you do end up giving thoughts on the leaks, I would LOVE to know your thoughts and this epilogue’s endings for bakugou (obviously!) and ochako as well.. in detail pls hehe

Everyone and their dog apparently wants my thoughts on the chapter, and I have to say I just don't wanna give them in the detail people seem to crave. Look, the chapter is meh. It's just meh. There are some cute things that happen in it and it seems that's at the expense of consistency in the story. They clearly didn't think about the things they were implying hard enough. Oh, Izuku and Ochako just didn't fucking interact for 8 years after high school but NOW Izuku wants to talk more? What about Ochako's school program with children that seems RIGHT UP Izuku's alley? They're both practically pursuing the same thing but apparently never breathe each other's air. Despite not thinking about each other for literal years apparently they're still attracted to each other, which, why? What are they attracted to? They're entirely new people now, they're meeting as adults with quite a few years missing between them? Oh, here's the rankings but also we're gonna give a throwaway line about how they're volatile and useless bUT STILL WE'RE GONNA GIVE YOU THEM. THEY DON'T MEAN ANYTHING ACTUALLY BUT HERE THEY ARE. Okay let's just imply Himiko is going to be Ochako's voyeur for life.

But worst of all is the weird idea that this is somehow the logical conclusion of the story that came before it. A conclusion should cap off the themes of its story and MAYBE introduce a new question to ponder. The story should LOGICALLY lead to the conclusion. But this conclusion basically turns around and says "Things change when you're an adult. You'll be a totally different person and maybe have new dreams. Except also you may not. Life is normal and boring and dreams sometimes die." What? WHAT????? Where's the theme of service to others? Where's the theme of heroes inspiring the next generation? Why are we implying heroes who are too good at their job will force their job to become unnecessary and die out but then try to prove no wait heroes are still necessary because sometimes people get weird urges to steal cars? What? Whatttt??? So heroes just exist now to be the quirk police basically. This is what all those kids were growing up to be? That's a weird implication after a whole story where the entire adult generation showed a VERY DIFFERENT AND MORE ADMIRABLE BRAND OF HEROISM (except for those that didn't, which was far more interesting than whatever this is). So the future of heroes AND villains is banality? Petty useless shit?

This is why 430 was such a good ending chapter. It DID showcase heroism in a mundane setting that actually had meaning and impact and inspiration. It made Izuku's adult life look like a fulfillment of his dream just in a new way.

In 431, Katsuki Bakugo is the only major character that shows a connection to the story that came before. He's the only one that still dreams of heroism and unity and inspiration, and he still thinks about who Izuku is deep down and resolves to save him from his stupidity AND SUCCESSFULLY DOES IT. He's the only one that resembles the heroic ideal that All Might supposedly instilled in everyone's hearts. MAYBE Ochako does too, but it's for a brief flash and then suddenly we're back on the mundane train (pun not intended) in a bad way.

And Shouto. Shouto can stay because he's the only character who PROPERLY introduces the question of "more to a hero than heroism" in the ending as a conclusion that introduces a new question, but it just...doesn't lead anywhere. I could see a potential path for that to have led the chapter somewhere meaningful, but it didn't.

So I maintain Katsuki is standing there watching on as the only character thinking about how the fuck to inspire people to be heroes again.

In summary, if I consider this the actual conclusion to the whole story, it's ass. I don't want it. It's useless and almost condescending. It's like the chapter is shaming me. How dare I enjoy the 430 chapters that came before, how dare I dream and feel inspired, how dare I expect anything of the concept of "hero" introduced by All Might and then the next one introduced by Izuku? But if I consider it an extra DLC bonus omake what-if didn't-think-too-hard-about-this-I'm-just-spitballing-and-having-fun-or-whatever side comic, fine, whatever, the mundane banality it wants to be succeeds, because I'm bored and I'm ignoring it. I'll have fun with it in fanfic maybe if I feel like it, but I ain't tying this shit into the themes of the actual MHA story. It doesn't belong there.

If that all sounds like more than you bargained for with your ask, it's because I received 30 other asks all wanting me to expand on these points, and so I decided to consolidate them all here. It's just too many asks for me to respond to individually. If I don't answer your ask, random anon reading this, it's because I consider your ask answered well enough.

HORIKOSHI YOU WRETCHED DOG YOU DID IT!

I was about to upload a review for chapter 431, of which there must be many by now, when I found this…

I know it's too long and only the postscript matters…

I think what the damn coolest cretin in history wanted to say with that postscript is that chapter 431 is technically not canonical since it's not part of the original story that for him was until 430, everything in 431 was left to the free will of its characters so they could do and undo whatever they wanted…

Let's say that Horikoshi the damn genius bastard did it and technically created 2 endings, one for each facto bitches!… we have the BKDK ending in 430 which I'll call canonical and the Izuocha ending in 431 which I'll call the alternative ending and everyone can decide which ending they want… see? Both would be canon endings if you want them that way, except that one is the official one and the other is separate, it's like if Horikoshi had to prepare a single cake for two people with different tastes, let's say vanilla and strawberry, then what does he do? A two-tier cake with one layer of one flavor for one and the other for the other person, so everyone eats their favorite flavor! A fucking genius who wanted to avoid the hate of ship wars!

For my part, I'm sticking with the canonical ending just because they held hands, and although we can't see it, to me, the way Katsuki offered it has all the weight placed on chivalry and romanticism…

and with that smile, Izuku obviously accepted.

As for the alternative ending, while it was seen that they held hands, I didn't see it as something romantic, we know that Izuku feels good holding hands like that (red flag, ladies and gentlemen, emotional codependent behavior)

besides it seemed to me like a kind of give me 5 or a way of saying "Hey, I'm here for whatever you need, 'little friend'",

so I took my advice.

Although in reality the only hands that I was interested in seeing were Izuku's AFO hands, instead of avoiding the ship wars, Horikoshi, should have explained to us why Izuku's hands shined like that...

and if he was AFO's son then why did he put it aside as an unsolved mystery and preferred the pairings! Where is my revelation of "Izuku… I am your father"? I just wanted him to confirm my Dad For One! (⁠っ⁠˘̩⁠╭⁠╮⁠˘̩⁠)⁠っ

I still don't like the ending Horikoshi gave Izuku!!

Come on, the guy practically told him again that without a quirk he is completely USELESS as a hero, unless he has enough money to build himself a super mega expensive mechanical suit that emulates all the quirks he lost, as if that skinny 14 year old quirkless boy who started his training on Dagobah beach hadn't lifted a 255 kg All Might on his back or dragged a huge refrigerator along the coast with said 255 kg man on top!

If a quirk is a tool then why would he need an exorbitantly priced multi-quirk emulator armor to be a hero?! Well I'm just say that: "You don't need a super power or a fancy and expensive mechanical suit, If you have the strength, the intelligence, the cunning and the heart to do it Then YOU CAN BE A HERO TOO!"

Oh? Please, Madam

What Izuku rejects is the opportunity to be Katsuki's SIDEKICK. He doesn't reject being a hero or competing with Katsuki. He rejects working FOR/UNDER Katsuki. Which is hilarious because Katsuki accepts (apparently multiple times) showing up as a guest lecturer to help out Izuku's class. Katsuki tells Izuku that "If everyone is special, no one is special," which has the potential for SO MUCH DOUBLE MEANING. But what there is no ambiguity about to me is he's basically telling Izuku "Hey, notice this. I'm treating you special. You're special to me. NOTICE."

It's also implied that Izuku sees Katsuki more regularly than he sees most others from their class, which is emphasized by the previous chapter when Aizawa complains to him about Katsuki's behavior in public affecting his ranking. Katsuki basically tells Izuku he needs to start thinking about himself more, and he also ends their final interaction with a "See ya [later]." Katsuki is NOT talking about Ochako, but Izuku takes some of his advice as the impetus for going to talk to Ochako (specifically they just wanna talk more after the dinner since the dinner is now over and they didn't get to talk). So what was Katsuki thinking of? I personally read his "See ya later" as "You'll figure it out, just go handle what you gotta right now and you can catch up to me later."

Hilariously, Izuku calls Katsuki out for being the one to say "If you don't start thinking a little more highly of yourself, you won't notice the things you should." Izuku's response is basically, "Look who's talking." Again, the potential for double meaning here is painfully obvious. He could be referring to SO MANY THINGS and we're meant to infer what that is. WE GET TO GUESS. Izuku could be saying "You did stuff just as bad as what you're saying," or "You're STILL not noticing something, Kacchan."

And Izuku taking inspiration from Katsuki's words to go talk to Ochako is meaningful in another way--IT MEANS IZUKU LISTENED TO HIM. Katsuki is having an influence on Izuku in a way to improve who he is just like Izuku did for him in high school. Izuku takes Katsuki's advice seriously. NO ONE HAS EVER GOTTEN HIM TO UNDERSTAND THIS LESSON BEFORE NOW. It ends with Izuku and Ochako deciding to talk more, but what it shows us is the beginning of Izuku considering himself more. If Izuku follows Katsuki's advice long enough, he'll end up back in the competition with Katsuki just like Katsuki expects him to. That is just as easy of a conclusion to make from the theme of "inevitability" that Shouto gives us (and that Izuku also takes to heart).

This ending implies that inevitably Izuku's gonna catch up again, basically. Things will continue to change. So yeah, we get a beginning where he and Ochako meet up to talk, but it's just a beginning. It's one night of chatting. They're seeing if something's there now (which kind of implies that there wasn't much there before), but it's left open-ended. And I think it's left open-ended what happens with Ochako on purpose because anyone can read how that ends up however they like. You just have to decide as a reader what's "inevitable" for Izuku Midoriya from this point on. Me? I've decided Izuku is taking Katsuki's advice to treat people who mean more to him better. Ochako is just the beginning. Izuku has other people in his life he needs to show love to as well (because that's what this is, Izuku is learning to show people that they're important to him, that he loves them, because saving people doesn't do that--he saves EVERYONE). And then maybe he'll start to see how the people who love him treat him special too, like guest SPECIAL (same kanji) LECTURER KATSUKI BAKUGOU.

tl;dr there is a lot left open to interpretation and it's probably on purpose, read the chapter however you like, just like we did with the last chapter.

...and my interpretation which is the correct one is that Katsuki tells Izuku, "Here let me show you how to love people, damnit!" to give him the character development everyone has been begging for him to have for years, to realize that saving people doesn't mean they're special to him if he's known for saving everyone ever, so like, maybe go show them you care in OTHER ways, Izuku, and also I'll be waiting right here for you to come show you love me you jackass (and he does, he does come show him that)

Que hay de Jii-chan?!

Ahora me dirijo al canon de MK.

Estaba pensando, que pasa con Jii? Acaso él sabía también que Toichi está vivo o es otra víctima de la traición por quien fuera su maestro y de quien fue asistente tanto en su carrera de mago como en sus noches de atracos como KID, recordemos que Kaito se preocupa por el anciano y de alguna manera creo que lo ve como una especie de abuelo o tío además de su asistente.

Recuerdo que en el anime Jii dijo que Toichi le había hecho prometer que nunca le diría a Kaito sobre su trabajo como KID. Pero entonces por qué razón Toichi pondría la entrada a su "Cueva KID" dónde no solo guardaba su disfraz sino que también le dejó grabaciones con consejos tanto personales como de trucos de magia en la habitación de Kaito programada para que esta se abriera al llegar Kaito a cierta edad? Y por qué Jii esperó tanto tiempo para hacerse pasar por Kaitou KID si no fuera para llamar la atención de Kaito sobre él, ¿Acaso fue porque Toichi se lo pidió? Hasta donde llega la crueldad de Toichi Kuroba y de Gosho Aoyama para quitarle todo a Kaito, para arrebatarle a su familia a las únicas personas en las que se supone que puede y debe confiar?! Es que hay muchas cosas que me hacen creer que Konosuke Jii sabía también sobre la falsa muerte de su maestro, pero a la vez quiero creer que no, tengo esa duda por que si Jii lo sabe entonces que le queda a Kaito? 🥺

Que mierda tienes en la cabeza Gosho Aoyama? dices que Kaito es tu creación favorita y le diste tu fecha de nacimiento por cumpleaños y aún así lo haces sufrir!!!!