Happy Birthday, Enji

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.

Enji, Toya, and the little bird guy

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

So much contempt for someone so young

Nothing stands in your way when you're a boy.

my little brother’s gonna be a doctor!

More or less how I feel about the situation as well. I feel that so many people complain about the realism of the story and forget that this is just a shounen manga at the end of the day. Yes, MHA does explore realistic topics and what not, but I don't think its focus is realism. I mean if it was would Hori have even entertained the idea of Tenko being saved?? Obviously they should probably get a divorce but if that was where the story was heading I feel that Hori would've at the very least brought up the topic but he hasn't. If they do stay together (and I think they will) it would be nice to see the fam's dynamic.

Do u think Enji and Rei will divorce? (I know it's stigmatized or something in Japan) Despite everything I really don't think they will tho, idk if that makes me crazy or what.

Honestly I don't think so.

As usual this is my opinion and I don't know how things will go in the end but, from how I see things BNHA is meant to be a story with a happy ending and divorce in Japan wouldn't definitely be considered like a happy ending for the Todofam.

Probably in Japan even Enji's death would feel happier than his divorce... and, before someone will ask, I don't think Enji's death would be considered a happy ending either so it's unlikely it'll happen.

The most Enji and Rei might do, and I still consider unlikely they will do it, might be take a break from each other in which Enji will try to regain the trust of his family.

I sincerely doubt Horikoshi will go for the 'hey, divorce is a possible and sometimes good solution' approach.

The end goal of the hellish Todoroki family was likely always to prove they could rebuild itself if they were to accept instead than reject all its member.

Enji is likely meant to do what Kotarou couldn't, what Himiko's parents weren't interested in doing, make up with Touya (and the rest of his family which he has also abused... I single out Touya specifically because he's the hardest to make up with as he's filled with negative feelings at the moment... no one else in the family is set on murder Enji and die, after all) and create a happy family by understanding his mistakes and fixing them so as to give the hopeful message that there are parents out there that might have messed up a lot, that might have done terrible things but that will one day realize their mistakes and make up with you...

...which in real life is sadly extremely unlikely, but overall BNHA to me feels more like a fairytale where a young girl earnest words can persuade a crowd to welcome a tired boy among them even if it can be dangerous and they're all scared, not a story about the likely most realistic scenario... so as to give a message of hope.

Undoubtedly in the west the story would work even if Enji and Rei were to accept they didn't love each other and the best they could do for each other is go separate ways but still be there for their kids... but I don't think Japan is ready for this sort of message.

What's more Horikoshi often uses the microcosm of the Todoroki family to represent the macrocosm of society. Enji and Rei deciding their differences can't be reconciled would end up on representing how society, which in BNHA is currently split, can't reconcile.

I think it would get in the way of the message of peace and happiness Horikoshi is trying to pass. So yeah, I don't think there's a single chance for the Todoroki to divorce.

As usual, I might be wrong. I'm not Horikoshi after all, I don't really know how the story is going to end. We can only wait and see.

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

highschool days but it's mic and enji

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

The typos 💀 I just know Rei offered to respond for him and he insisted he could do it himself 😭

Happy Father's Day