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class1akids · 1 year

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After bakugo apologized to deku he reassures deku that as OFA successor he didn't do anything wrong and all the paths deku choose were the right ones, what do you think bakugo meant when he said that?

Yeah, definitely. It wouldn't be much of an apology or the GEMGD chapter if he wasn't sincere.

If you read carefully what he says, it is quite nuanced: Deku trying to follow in All Might's footsteps and embracing his ideals is not wrong. And I'm sure he' means it, because he himself has always been chasing those ideals too - even if he misunderstood part of them.

But he also says that ideals alone sometimes aren't enough. Just like for Bakugou, sheer will or hard work isn't enough to match Deku's pace alone. But they can do it as a group.

Basically, Bakugou sees it that it's not about telling Deku to do less and rest, but for the rest of them to rise to his level. That's how they can change Deku - if unlike the generation of heroes cheering on All Might and letting him shoulder stuff alone, Class A (and the new gen) steps in and shows Deku that him taking a bath or sleeping a full night doesn't have mean losing someone who could have been saved.

Because even All Might couldn't do it alone. Shigaraki is the proof.

I think he knows Deku well enough that reminding him that they are all trying to follow in All Might's footsteps will get through to him. Deku is not alone and working together they can save more people - but it has to include everyone, even Deku himself. Just like Deku wants to save his friends and everyone - his friends want to save him and everyone. Together instead of a single pillar, they can create a real safety net where everyone can be reached.

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class1akids · 3 years

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The pacing was too weird. Tbh, it undermined the value of that moment for me - instead of being satisfied with the climax of one of the driving emotional points of the series, I was seriously underwhelmed. It felt awkwardly shoved in there to check mark a basic schematic script with no writing sentiment. I don't get the title, and I don't get why Uraraka seemed more important than Bakugo in this. It was so rushed and dry, and Deku's reaction was to think about the class. No reaction to Bakugo.

(continued) This was the only thing I had full confidence in Horikoshi to deliver, so now that I'm as severely disappointed as I am toward the only thing I was looking forward to that I thought was going to remain okay after months of mediocrity... Sigh. I didn't even have extreme expectations, I just thought it was going to have proper weight and be handled with care (like Todo fam plot, w entire chapters for it across several arcs). I guess it's back to irrelevance for Bakugo. I lost all trust

I'm sorry that you feel this way - I guess everyone had their ideas of how this would go down. To me it felt really good and in line with my expectations on where the apology should go and how it would fit into the main plot.

The art looks splendid, Bakugou's words are really heartfelt and impactful and connects very well into the overall message that the class was trying to get through to Deku - that they care about him as a person not as an OFA-holder, that OFA is not the source of his heroism, a heroism that now his classmates also share due to his influence and that regardless of power-gaps, they are in this together.

As for the title, at first I thought we'd get the backstory of the hero name, but instead, it circles back to the Endeavor agency arc. Bakugou went in with this question:

After he watched Endeavor in public, working as a very competent hero and in private, as a despised father who destroyed his family in the altar of his ambition, watched his talk to Natsuo about forgiveness and atonement

Bakugou came out on the other end with a hero name that he didn't say out loud yet, but he himself knew it already and started in earnest his atonement with helping Deku train and then backing him up during the raid.

I feel like the title also means that Bakugou may have proclaimed his hero name during the fight, after his sacrifice play (and maybe if he wasn't going to survive it, it would have been a message for Deku), but he earned it in this chapter with standing up, owning up to his past, apologizing and vowing publicly (well, in front of the people who matter most) what kind of hero he wants to be from here onwards and what standard he will hold himself to.

I doubt that this is the end of it. This feels like a GEMGD starting line chapter and no doubt Deku still needs to process the part that's about the two of them. The way this whole Deku-retrieval has been built, it makes sense to me that the part of Bakugou's apology that got to Deku was the message that heroism is not about power-levels and just as Kacchan was wrong to put Deku down when they were children, Deku was wrong to say that his classmates can't keep up and try to deny their true ideals and heart.

There are for example several "Red Riot" chapters, so it's possible that we'll get other GEMGD chapters too that delve into Bakugou's new understanding and ideals.

As for irrelevance - the story all this time until Bakugou was trying to get external proof that he's the greatest, was feeding his own ego by trying to put down others, was trying to mask his insecurities by lashing out denied him the kind of win that would satisfy him. He drove the main plot more with his failings than with his wins.

He had to let go of his obsessive need to stand above everyone else, and change his mindset to saving together with everyone, and doing his own part regardless of personal glory. But he did it not like the heroes who cheered on All Might in complacency. He's not let his ambition of surpassing All Might go, but it's now not about the coronation of Bakugou Katsuki as strongest, but about building a better system where heroes work together to reach even more people and protect and save everyone, including the OFA-holder.

Bakugou has humbled himself and I'm sure that now the narrative is ready to lift him up, to give him the satisfying win he deserves and I'm so ready for it!

As for the Ochako part - I personally didn't feel she was more important - the core of this chapter was absolutely Bakugou and his stance and his truth. He was the final voice to shock Deku out of the poisonous mindset AFO drove him into, and Deku seemed to recognize this and was ready to accept the class' help.

I think the last panels are rather setting up the next theme, which will tie into Uraraka's own arc about "who saves the heroes", and from the looks of it, the answer is not the "love interest", but instead everyone.

This whole arc we've seen the civilians bitching and moaning about heroes, kicking into them as soon as they showed any weakness or flaw, driving them into the ground with criticism but then complaining when they walked away. And I think Ochaco will take Present Mic's mic and tell people that heroes are here to protect them and save them, but heroes are people too. They are not something separate from the rest of society, not fighting robots, but people who feel pain and get tired and hurt, people who have families and friends worried about them and missing them when they die. And as heroes take care about society, society should be ready to support the heroes. Not only when they are shiny and selling an illusion of invincibility, but also when they are tired, exhausted, hurt and losing but not giving up.

One of the really shocking things for me in the aftermath was how nobody in the press seemed to talk about the hero students being on the frontline. I thought it would shock the civilians that literal children are getting hurt to protect them. Instead they are blocking the gate of the fortress the heroes built for them with pitchforks, trying to drive away a hurt, exhausted child, when the heroes try to protect one of their own.

Sure, maybe Uraraka's spurred into action to stand up because she cares about Deku deeply as a friend and as a crush, but I think it will be more about how all of hero society needs to change. Not only the heroes, but civilians too.

TL,DR: The title of the chapter referenced the Endeavor internship arc. Uraraka's part in the end is setting up the new theme.

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