Heroes Rising - Blog Posts

“only if it’s you”

“ It’s fine if it’s you ”

I liked the way this came out.

I still need lots of more practice with watercolor.

A drawing I did (I'm not good at drawing hands so I'm happy the way they came out)

I really enjoyed the Heroes Rising ! The hand scene was one of my favorite parts ^-^

"Win to Save - Save to Win"

MHA fans shouldn't ignore how beautiful Nine is.

Have you seen how gorgeous this man looks?

He should be bring into conversations about the most pretty male character more often.

Especially when Horikoshi draws him.

I don't think this need more explanation, Nine is something else.

Fun trivia: In the character page for Nine in the Volume Rising, we can see in Horikoshi sketches that the palms of his hands were supposed to have the little holes that allow an AFO user to physically steal quirks.

Same holes All For One and Shigaraki have:

Yet, in the movie itself the holes are totally absent from Nine's hands despite his gloves are clearly designed with that specific function in mind.

I guess the production just totally missed that detail in the translation from Hori sketches?

Looking at the characters pages in the Volume Rising extras, I notice an interesting detail about Slice's background.

Now I'm aware this is a rough translation by google, but it's interesting that Horikoshi explicitly describes Slice as being used by "men".

Which could also connect with this panel from Nine's origin backstory, in which Slice is seen lying on the floor of a destroyed apartment looking totally defeated and helpless.

As far I know this is the only time a female character (and a villain for that mattter) in the series is written with an explicit background about being used and possible exploited by mens, implying a context of misoginia.

Which also makes me wish we had more context about Slice relationship with Nine and the rest of the crew.

How she pass from not trust anyone to be fully concerned about her team? (All being mens).

There's a lot of potential to developed their relationship there.

But an important note: I don't see Slice devotion to Nine and his ideals as romantic, not at all like much people like to interpret just because she's a woman. I feel that kinda goes against her characterization, considering Nine probably was the first man she ever trust but unlike others he wasn’t a lover or anything, but a savior and a true friend/family.

Horikoshi also says on Slice character page that Nine asked her about her quirk first and he values the name of it over actual names (which btw adds to Nine's own characterization considering he doesn't have a real name). I like to think it might be one of the reasons of why Slice trust so much on Nine's vision for the world, as he probably give a new meaning to her life other than being a pretty face and help her to value her own power.

This scene lives rent free in my head 🫣

Also I wonder why Nine is nude inside that tank but Shigaraki was using a swimsuit in the same situation:

Ujiko is such a naughty bastard lol.

AFO users under dramatic lighting 🤍

Lowkey is like from top to bottom they go from less deranged to most deranged.

My glorious king 🌩🤍

How they make him look so badass yet beautiful while walking?

Sketches of Nine's armor. This design goes hard.

I wish we could see more of him in the movie with just the full armor without the suit over it (though is still looks cool af).

Also notice how in the sketch there's seems to be a sticky substance under the armor plates, that detail is absent in the movie.

I maybe, only now, got around to watching Heroes: Rising.

Thoughts:

Much better than the first movie. Very enjoyable.

The class is adorable working together.

Bkdk. They're basically dating. Fight me.

Beautiful animation.

Love the Hawks crumbs.

What is with that song during the final final fight? Kinda a buzz kill.

Ending is a little dumb with Bakugo doesn't remember and Midoriya sorta just kept it, we don't know why. Meh. (Yes I know it was supposed to be the end of the whole thing and the. Wasn't, but you could've added a bit more explanation and I don't like the memory loss bit)

Favorite part:

Villain: you're still alive?

Bakugo: you should have hit me harder

(I adore him in a way words cannot describe)

dies at the sight of this image

Guess he’s a evil scientist