In Case It Wasn't Obvious... Stand With Animation, No Ai, And Unionize! Figured I'd Come Out And Say

In case it wasn't obvious... stand with animation, no ai, and unionize! Figured I'd come out and say it all finally, with this fun trend going around.

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THEY DID NOOOOO

Still love him tho

I don't think I'm mentally prepared for this face reveal to get animated chat

if studio bones fucks this up ifstg

having feelings about shoji's mask again, specifically after seeing that he chose to go back to wearing the mask in the epilogue. like. smth smth idk the choice has so many dimensions To Me but it also may not be that complicated. he's emulating old school heroes. he's gonna be cool just like them. he's covering his scars so no one thinks he's operating from a place of revenge. he's masking both literally and figuratively. but then he chooses to take off the physical mask for his classmates, and explains what happened to him (the figurative mask). and then in the battle, the choice to unmask is taken from him in a way. but like. the fact that he's been hurt too seems to be instrumental in turning the tide of that battle. the fact that he owns his face, his professed 'ugliness' and says 'yeah this is who i am,' is such an instrumental part of that battle and of his character arc.

but now post battle we see him back in the mask and it's like. is he hiding his face again? is he putting up another (figurative) mask? or is it just that he doesn't owe anyone his face? is it a sign of trouble or a fashion choice? is it not that deep? i think a lot of it is up to individual interpretation but i do think that having him unmasked in the class portrait and masked in most panels we've seen is a definite narrative choice.

i think shoji, more than a lot of the other characters, operates very similarly to all might. he's actively trying to become a symbol, and actively hiding his scars and past traumas, ostensibly so that they don't disrupt the myth of 'coolest hero' he hopes to construct. i wonder, post battle, if he still wants to become that symbol. i also wonder if all might recognizes their similarities, and, knowing what he knows now about his own life, and especially after the successes and failures of mentoring izuku to take up his helm as the symbol of peace--would all might ever sit down with shoji and talk about what it really means to live your life as a symbol? i think it would be a valuable talk.

Anyone else notice how similar Shoji and Stain's hair is now?

This is such a little detail, but I think it's so important, especially with what Spinner told him

Knowing how Stain was a symbol for people who felt rejected by society for their quirks and or appearance, this was definitely intentional on his part to try to also become a symbol of acceptance but in a less violent way (which he's doing great at)

I'm staying in denial until I see a body Horikoshi.