I Honestly Forgot Just How Much I Loved That Little Guy As A Kid

I honestly forgot just how much I loved that little guy as a kid 🤣

Hi

I think ochako is one of the most under utilised and underrated characters. I'm not a fan of her character (no, i DONT hate her). She had so much of potential amd her fight with BK just proved she's more than a pretty face. I'm fully aware of the fact that this show is oversaturated with characters. But let's not forget that she is the main female lead of the show. My biggest issue with her is that she didn't get to do a god damn thing in the Stain arc. She joined the academy with the sole intention of making money, and that's exactly what Stain hates about the hero society. Their monetary outlook. She could have been a part of the arc, the build up was there. She could have shown Stain that yes, while there are heroes who are there solely for the financial gains, that doesn't make them bad people. She all she wanted was to help her family get out of the poor financial situation they were in. Instead, she gets the typical shonen lead heroine treatment- being the love interest and whose sole purpose in life is to be a satellite character to the male lead of the show.

All her effort in the UA sports festival to do her best against Bk, all the desires to make good income as a hero to help her family financially, devolved into a girl who becomes a blushing mess infront of her love interest.

They did her so dirty. She was one of the few female shonen characters who felt like she could be someone in life without having anything to do with matters of the heart.

Also, notice how it's other characters around her who enforce her this whole Deku crush on her. Mina, toga and Aoyama to name a few. These are the characters who constantly remind her of her feelings for deku, thus pushing her further and further away from the plot relevancy.

I find this very annoying and makes me sick to think that a girl with tremendous potential is now relegated to the role of a girl hopelessly in love.

One last question: So many people think she's a terrible person for wanting to make money. I'm like, what? Are you serious? (If you want me to give further explanations I will) but it's the most human and realistic thing to do when you're stuck in a financial rut.

Please let me know and thanks for reading my extremely long post

Cheers

Ooooooooooo Lordy.

(Cracks hands and neck)

First and foremost, I still love Ochako. But I can’t ignore what’s happened to her throughout the series.

Honestly, it’s been ages since I’ve had that exact thought about Ochako and Stain situation! While he had a valid point (that wasn’t further explored, HORIKOSHI) about there being heroes that didn’t have the EXACT same mentality as All Might, her duality of wanting to provide enough money to support her family all the while having the desire to save others for the sake of saving others would be honestly a culture shock to Stain. (Or he may go further into denial, it’s actually hard to say. Guy had a few screws loose.)

But it HONESTLY would have been interesting seeing these two interact! And not to replace anyone the Hosu trio! It honestly would have been cool seeing her trying to use her new Gunhead Martial Arts (though she probably would have been focused on saving Iida as Izuku and Shoto took on the role of the main fighters, but Stain could have also tried to go after them and Uraraka would attempt to hold her own against him.) And we would have had MOST of the Dekusquad there! (Asui had her own internship.) Hiw great would it have been seeing the Dekusquad fighting together! And Ochako going feral protecting Iida!

Yeah, she happened to be more focused only about her crush with Izuku as time went on, which made a lot of her early traits and accomplishments kinda fade away and be forgotten. But for the record, and I still stand by this. A girl having a crush on someone DOESN’T cheapen her in my opinion. It’s something that happens to many teenagers. And some of their interactions I think are handled well, like them talking about wanting to save their respective villains. But other times, yeah, it felt a bit excessive that Horikoshi had to stop and say, “Hey! Hey! Do you remember Ochako has a crush on Izuku?!?” I honestly was looking forward to seeing how she acted after she vowed to put her feelings aside during the provisional license exam. But…Hori just continued to drill it into our faces.

As for the biggest perpetrator of making Ochako only about Izuku, I lay on Toga’s feet. Mina, yeah, she brings up the crush as well, but it’s done more in good fun I feel. And I think Aoyama has done that once. (Now that I think about it, it’s kind of random how he suddenly knew about her crush. He never does it again.)

But Toga? Horikoshi could have used her for something else to make her relevant, but the ONLY thing she had connected to Ochako is their shared crush on Izuku. Others say theirs other themes between them, but I’m sorry. I don’t see it, or believe that it was handled effectively. Ochako had more than just a crush. Like you mentioned, her want to provide for her family. Her fighting spirit and prowess that she showed against Bakugou. She had things that could have been fleshed out more.

Toga was a wha-wha girl that embraced being a remorseless villain and happened to be crushing on the same guy Ochako was crushing on. That’s it. There’s nothing else really about Toga. And she became to Ochako what Bakugou became to Izuku: a detriment to her character and preventing her from becoming something MORE. (Sorry but not really if I sound cynical about Toga. I just got REALLY tired being demanded to care about her. Like some OTHER blonde.)

Speaking of which, your last question? I also never understood this. I get it for a quick joke and stuff like that. Hahaha. But when people were SERIOUS about holding that over Ochako’s head? I was like, “Did you not hear her entire motivation?!?” I was dumbfounded how people could possibly come to that conclusion.

I find it ESPECIALLY interesting NO ONE brings up that BAKUGOU also had the desire to be a hero for money,JUST TO BE RICH AND FAMOUS! But no, shit on Ochako for wanting to take care of her family! Filthy hypocrites. I honestly wish Horikoshi did a better job balancing both her looking out for heroes as well as wanting to have a good paying job for her family. I think both are completely character of her.

Anyways, you gave me a long post, I gave a long response. 😜 But honestly, thanks! I don’t honestly get these and I hope my answers or thoughts are interesting or understandable! Have a good one and thanks again!

@theuntamedangel

Honestly wish that were me. (Sighs)

You don't have to apologize!

I guess I could, seeing as how much they piss me off 😂. I did do one where in the middle of light novel 1 during the Parents Day thing, Izuku manifests Black Whip, and the whole thing is immediately stopped due to Izuku accidentally hurting himself.

I need to find that again! I enjoy reading your stuff!

Also, I believe you wanted to write a chapter where Tokoyami was going to help Izuku get a better hold of Black Whip. Have you begun on it yet? Because funny enough, I wanted to take a shot at that myself, but I didn’t want to step on toes!

My mind is completely blanking on it, but I have an overall idea of how the chapter will unfold: Izuku is trying to mimick a move Tokoyami is doing (the thing I'm blanking on), the two of them stop for a break, and All Might, Tokoyami, and Izuku have a nice talk where Tokoyami calls Izuku "a fellow denzion of darkness" and Dark Shadow is just a sweetheart

That sounds awesome! And hopefully, this isn’t coming off as, “DAMN YOU FOOL! MAKE THAT CHAPTER! NOW! NOW! (Tasmanian Devil noises)”

I just remembered you commenting one of your stories about that and simply curious! 😄

It probably isn’t surprising, but I am of the mindset that, from a storytelling perspective, Todoroki would be the best at serving the deuteragonist for BNHA because he and Midoriya could be a better example of “Save to Win, Win to Save” or something similar.

For that to happen, I think we need to have him lower his walls around people a lot more gradually and for his relationship with Midoriya to build up slower over time. Go from hardly considering Midoriya at all, to, near the end of the story, view him as one of his best friends. I believe what hurt him to grow as a character in canon is that he suddenly became more empathetic and more of a team player IMMEDIATELY after the Sports Festival, and when he went to help save Iida from Stain. He seemed to be static after that, imo.

I think if it was more drawn out, where he gradually tried to be less practical and aloof with people and more conscious of others, he could learn how it works out for him, sometimes it backfires on him, which could lead him to sometimes having disagreements and arguments with Midoriya and others as he is trying to figure out what is morally right and what is logical. Then he can slowly learn to become his own kind of hero.

As for Iida and Uraraka (because like HELL am I not gonna make sure these babies get the attention they are due), these two are more involved with Midoriya and are his guardian angels in a sense and help Midoriya question and grow from his ideals sometimes. They don’t need to be glued to him on every corner to be their own characters (unlike some explosive loser I will not name). But they will certainly make an impact in each other’s lives as there will be times they will be in certain situations where they would think, “What would Izuku/Tenya/Ochako do?”

Anyway, that’s my idea on how I would have approached this.

Feel free to give your reasoning in the replies or reblogs if you want🙂