YO YO YO TODOROKI-KUN!! GRUMPY AGAIN TODAY??

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Enji, Toya, and the little bird guy

BNHA 356 - Thoughts

First the leaks confused me, so I thought I'd wait for the scanlation. Then the scanlation confused me, so I waited for the official. But tbh, I'm still confused a bit with the central part of the chapter - Young Enji's appearance and what it all means.

It was a visually pleasing chapter, and I get why many people like it, but to me, it still feels a bit meh' because of how messy that middle part feels.

Tokoyami getting a big smash looked cool. And that's all it did. I wish this fight would bring back my immense love for the Hawks & Tokoyami content that I adored during the war arc, but so far, it just feels like an echo of the hype I felt then.

AFO eating the vestige. OK? I guess. AFO vestige stuff is so non-sensical at this point, that there is no point to comment.

Hawks is growing on me again. Him moving from wanting to score a killing blow to shielding the kids - this little featherless chicken certainly is pulling his weight in this fight. His expression as he turns to look back at Endeavor really got me.

He's not even surprised, because he knew that Endeavor would get back up, but also it's sad seeing Endeavor's sacrificing his arm.

4. I'm glad Endeavor is back up and trying to protect the kids who stepped in when he faltered.

5. On the one hand, his young self doesn't say anything shocking, but on the other, it reveals a deep self-hatred, that ties somehow to the loss of his own father, who died trying and failing to save a girl. We don't know much else. Whether he was a hero or a civilian. Whether he had the same quirk. Whether he was a good dad or another abusive asshole. Whether Enji watched it happen helplessly or learnt it later. It's all left open.

But what it gives us is a reason for Enji's endless thirst for power and strength, his obsession with All Might and how he turned to power to try to shield his heart.

It is tragic and sad and ironic how young Enji's loss of his family because of weakness leads to Endeavor's obsession with strength, which then leads to the destruction of his family at the first sign of his son's weakness. It gives context, but not an excuse. It doesn't lessen Endeavor's responsibility towards his family.

As the resident weakness expert said - there is more to strength than a strong quirk. Endeavor should have listened more.

I have to admit, Endeavor growing a flaming arm is a pretty cool visual - even if this is not the moment I'm waiting for. There ought to be a more emotionally resonating closure - something where it really feels like Endeavor is letting his "ugly heart" to be fully exposed and vulnerable, and fall to pieces, and where he lets himself grieve and accept and embrace both his own father's memory and his family who suffered so much on account of his "ugly heart".

The fight obviously continues, so maybe it will all makes sense in a few days. Until then, I keep believing that the story won't let Endeavor punch himself into redemption, because clearly his weakness has nothing to do with his quirk and everything to do with his heart.

(I this context also see Shouto's Phosphor coming from the center of his heart, and Touya's mystery glowing, which is also in the center of his chest.)

if you want my quirk you have to defeat my 8 insane successors

oldest child

Happy Father's Day

I'm still so obsessed with this horikoshi sketch.

not because it's endeavor, I don't particularly care, but because. like. like.

this is exactly like horikoshi's sketches of his muscular girlies, who he clearly likes a lot. and it's so funny to me.

exhibit a and B :

miruko's upside down but like you see it anyways

and horikoshi doesn't like. draw his other male characters like that?

even aizawa, who's pretty muscular (when he's not wearing his magic jumpsuit that makes him look skinny old and sickly, probably a rational deception /j) isn't drawn like that. which might be related to horikoshi originally wanting to make aizawa all of his own flaws/things he didn't like about himself (long messy hair is the only one that comes to me rn I swear I'm not making this up) but still, aizawa definitely deserves a hot sketch of his muscly arms too. even more than enji even

BUT the endeavor sketch does look like the same style as (on top of the nana and miruko sketches, sketches of pretty muscular women) horikoshi's cute girl sketches :

like. go back to the endeavor sketch I don't have any pictures allowed left but. everything on this sketch looks like horikoshi tried to make him look hot very deliberatly. the tank top. the half lidded eyes. the shading. the pose. why the fuck is he fixing his hair. whats going on. it looks so incredibly seemilar to the nana sketch to me - also the miruko one but again. shes upside down.

anyways im not sure what my point is. horikoshi likes muscely men maybe. horikoshi is an enji simp and thats why he hasn't killed him off yet /j. idk.

Listen I am in love with your little comics with baby Fuyumi. She deserves the world I need to see more of the Todosibs

Baby Fuyumi is precious and does indeed deserve the whole world!

The good news is that I have a few dozen drafts of the tinytodos that I just need to finish inking.

Enji won't stand for this slander, Fuyumi! He worked hard on his eugenics project!

A rare moment when Endeavor recognizes he does in fact have more than one child. He immediately regrets it.

HELP 😭😭