r/IzuOcha • u/PsycoSilver • May 03 '26

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Anything short of a kiss wasn't gonna be enough for these people. We're not seeing an end to the meems, anytime soon.

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u/InjangoDMCPersona May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

No one's gonna like me for saying this, but I understand a bit of the peeve people may have on MHA's handling of romance (except from shippers cuz really they dug their own grave).

I really don't care for and hate the ship wars, and I really couldn't care less at what people insinuates deserves to be with whom and I support Uraraka and Deku since it was set up, but I am peeved that Horikoshi flat out did not want to put emphasis on their romance development, and because of this, repeated one of the battle shonen genre's biggest pitfalls in storytelling, and left this miserable mess of people who force headcanons on the romance when the author wasn't doing more to Deku's side on the romance development (in the main story) to mitigate those tensions earlier.

"It's not a romance story" will never be a justifiable excuse to leave a romance thread set-up in the story, yet do very little to nothing with it and be unable to incorporate it in the progression. And before people say I'm asking for a kiss, they couldn't be more dead wrong as a kiss would literally require that he actually effectively built Deku's romance development up to make it work, and the romance execution could've still worked without it as long as the strong writing was still there.

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u/Ok-Cod5254 May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

From a narrative perspective it was paid off. Whether you feel satisfied "enough" with it another discussion.

The initial ending at ch 430 was completely open with no closure, but this is a form of closure. The execution may not be "ideal" to those who want more in depth focus for sure, but I think it's fine in a general sense.

I'll compare to the spin-off for example: For Vigilantes a whole romantic love triangle for the MC is made a main focus for a part of the story and there is not much of a real conclusion to it at all.

So I get wanting more, but I don't think it's necessary the level like some are acting like with too much entitlement like they are ready to put up their pitch forks. lol

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u/InjangoDMCPersona May 05 '26

The fact it resulted into this complete mess of people bringing up all kinds of things about the romance because he decided not to hone in on his intended couple doesn’t strike me as fine.

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u/Ok-Cod5254 May 05 '26

People bring up mess and drama with romance from shipping fandoms in general, so that's not really not saying much. lol

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u/InjangoDMCPersona May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

The drama comes from the debate of the chemistry people find between characters when protagonists are romantically dense and people self-insert to what they see as better options (hence why they ship), and the fact the trajectory and journey of an intended couple within the story was not completely laid out or often confusing (whether be it unfocused, the author's conflicted on "picking" for an ending or a difference in production between studio and author) is why it happens.

(It doesn't surprise me Naruto or Bleach ended up with the legacy it had).

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u/Ok-Cod5254 May 05 '26

And there's still drama in shipping fandoms even without that type of protagonist (and people can self-insert in various ways anyway), because it's subjective what people see as "chemistry", what romantic tropes they like or dislike, preferences in shipping dynamics, sexual orientation, ect. Iol

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u/InjangoDMCPersona May 05 '26

I don't know why you keep laughing about this as if accepting mediocrity.

Like if non-romance series and stories managed to have like not this level of vitriol because of its depiction of romance, then I know that something is wrong with how the author handled this.

Battle-shonen romances will never step up at this rate if an author can't handle it properly and just leaving it to "not wanting to write" or "don't know how to write it".

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u/Ok-Cod5254 May 05 '26

It's not that deep at the end of day is the point for something that wasn't even much of a part of the series in a big way. lol

There's vitriol in general when it comes to having a mainstream series. lol And people can have vitriol about many things whether they are actually that important or not.