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Are throwback poms more durable than regular poms? I know throwbacks are larger, but not much else about what's the same and what's different care wise.

izuku's thoughts on his relationship to katsuki is that that they are childhood friends, specifically 幼馴染, aka Osananajimi, which is often used as a trope in romance anime because of the close connection it implies. And we know such a connection existed because izuku mentions that katsuki only started becoming mean after getting his quirk, and quirks are stated to usually manifest at around f0ur or f1ve years. We know that they had good memories together because in the light novels "school briefs, specifically the chapter: I am a rabbit, izuku mentions catching stray cats with katsuki and katsuki gets a nostalgic look on his face.

katsuki's nickname, "Kacchan". The "chan" honorific is pretty much something izuku and katsuki normally would have grown out of using, but neither do and that's important. Chan (ちゃん) expresses that the speaker finds a person endearing. In general, -chan is used for young children, close friends, babies, grandparents and sometimes female adolescents. It may also be used towards cute animals, lovers, or youthful women. Chan is never used for strangers or people one has just met. (Straight from wikipedia): Chan (ちゃん)Little or Dear - A term of endearment. Most frequently used for girls and small children, close friends, or lovers. Occasionally may be used to refer to a boy if that is his nickname.

However there is Bō (坊、ぼう), which also expresses endearment. Like -chan, it can be used for young children but exclusively for boys instead of girls. Izuku does not call katsuki by this.

Furthermore Katsuki never stops izuku from calling him this. He even calls himself by it when fighting afo, which shows how he acceots the nickname and even likes it. Chan, when used can cause others to perceive things called by it as "cute", and based on the dynamy comics by horikoshi, it is implied that katsuki wants to be viewed as being cute. Especially by izuku.

The implication with the keeping of "kacchan" as a nickname is that the two never truly went separate ways, and this can be seen in the very very subtle things early on. Such as the can that katsuki holds that has "lip service" on it when katsuki says "it's his fault for messing with me". Lip service is basically when someone says something they themselves don't believe.

Yoichi mentions izuku always looked for the best in people (the image for the panel is izuku and katsuki as kids), and the manga also mentions that Katsuki wasn't a bully before he got his quirk, so from this we can infer that Izuku was holding on to hope that he and katsuki could be friends again because izuku knew he wasn't always like that.

izuku's thoughts on his relationship to katsuki is that that they are childhood friends, specifically 幼馴染, aka Osananajimi, which is often used as a trope in romance anime because of the close connection it implies. And we know such a connection existed because izuku mentions that katsuki only started becoming mean after getting his quirk, and quirks are stated to usually manifest at around f0ur or f1ve years. We know that they had good memories together because in the light novels "school briefs, specifically the chapter: I am a rabbit, izuku mentions catching stray cats with katsuki and katsuki gets a nostalgic look on his face.

katsuki's nickname, "Kacchan". The "chan" honorific is pretty much something izuku and katsuki normally would have grown out of using, but neither do and that's important. Chan (ちゃん) expresses that the speaker finds a person endearing. In general, -chan is used for young children, close friends, babies, grandparents and sometimes female adolescents. It may also be used towards cute animals, lovers, or youthful women. Chan is never used for strangers or people one has just met. (Straight from wikipedia): Chan (ちゃん)Little or Dear - A term of endearment. Most frequently used for girls and small children, close friends, or lovers. Occasionally may be used to refer to a boy if that is his nickname.

However there is Bō (坊、ぼう), which also expresses endearment. Like -chan, it can be used for young children but exclusively for boys instead of girls. Izuku does not call katsuki by this.

Furthermore Katsuki never stops izuku from calling him this and even calls himself that in his fight with afo. When one uses the suffix chan It's use is also perceived as "cute" by others, and based on the dynamy comics by horikoshi, it is implied that katsuki wants to be viewed as being cute. Especially/specifically by izuku.

The implication with the keeping of "kacchan" as a nickname is that the two never truly went separate ways, and this can be seen in the very very subtle things early on. Such as the can that katsuki holds that has "lip service" on it when katsuki says "it's his fault for messing with me". Lip service basically means that one is saying something they themself don't believe.

Yoichi mentions izuku always looked for the best in people (the image for the panel is izuku and katsuki as kids), and the manga also mentions that Katsuki wasn't a bully before he got his quirk, so from this we can infer that Izuku was holding on to hope that he and katsuki could be friends again because izuku knew he wasn't always like that.

religion wasn't really all that explored in mha, however we know that at least christianity and buddhism exist due to class 1a having a christmas-themed party and todoroki's dead brother having a buddhist altar (butsudan) at todoroki's household. since those are two of japan's main three religions (buddhism & shinto make up for majority), it's safe to assume religion in the mha world is the same or similar as in ours.

Shiozaki Ibara is the only recurring character who is known to be intensely religious, she is a devout Christian. The Eight Precepts of Death who appeared in the Overhaul arc are meant to be a perversion of the Eight Precepts of Buddhism, with one of its members Hekiji Tengai being a former Buddhist.

On a lesser note katsuki mentions there being a next life when he says the infamous swan dive comment so he possibly believes in reincarnation.

As for cults there are:

- humarize

- the creature rejection clan

religion wasn't really all that explored in mha, however we know that at least christianity and buddhism exist due to class 1a having a christmas-themed party and todoroki's dead brother having a buddhist altar (butsudan) at todoroki's household. since those are two of japan's main three religions (buddhism & shinto make up for majority), it's safe to assume religion in the mha world is the same or similar as in ours.

Shiozaki Ibara is the only recurring character who is known to be intensely religious, she is a devout Christian. The Eight Precepts of Death who appeared in the Overhaul arc are meant to be a perversion of the Eight Precepts of Buddhism, with one of its members Hekiji Tengai being a former Buddhist.

On a lesser note katsuki mentions there being a next life when he says the infamous swan dive comment so he possibly believes in reincarnation.

As for cults there are:

- humarize

- the creature rejection clan

Mha is a hyperfixation of mine, so i engage with all of the content and extra content etc. I tend to gravitate twords the ships in franchises that have the most depth, straight or otherwise. In mha's case, said ship is bkdk. Bkdk is basically gay silent voice only better because katsuki realizes he was wrong on his own and changes within a year. He isn't forced to change via "consequences", or, as tv tropes would call it, a "reason you suck" speech. 

Neither katsuki nor izuku is an idiot, and despite the popular belief on reddit that izuku was helpless snd never stood up for himself, we see directly that even in middle school, that wasn't true.

Examples of this are:

In the second year of middle school (seen in the heroes rising tie in manga) izuku and katsuki encounter a villain and katsuki goes after it first, but so does izuku, and he goes to make sure katsuki is ok. Izuku realizes how the villain works before katsuki does and katsuki acknowledges this.

izuku applying to UA in the first place despite his whole class laughing at him

Izuku pretty much not caring about the infamous "swan dive" comment beyond calling a koi fish stupid, going "man if i did that he'd get in trouble", and then giving himself a pep talk on the way home

Izuku getting his dreams crushed and once again giving himself a pep talk over having a breakdown

Then he runs in to save katsuki from the sludge villain and in a way he lowkey succeeds because it's an easy to miss moment, but when he throws his bag and the contents hit SV in the eye, when SV momentarily is stunned, his grip loosens a bit and katsuki's face is freed. The first thing katsuki does is take very deep breaths. We don't know how long katsuki had been being suffocated for but izuku estimates that it was for a long time. It is entirely possible that izuku's actions allowing katsuki even a few seconds of breath are why katsuki didn't die.

Then we have izuku directly telling katsuki that he's going to UA, whether katsuki likes it or not.

So yeah even in middle school izuku was in no way helpless nor was he spineless.

In UA, during the combat trial both of them beat each other's ass but notably izuku was not scared to absolutely body slam katsuki and he did so.

Then in the sports fest when katsuki lowkey seems to be trying to get onto izuku for giving uraraka a plan that requires self sacrifice, izuku interrupts him and informs him the plan was entirely uraraka's own.

In the season 2 vs teacher exams, katsuki punches izuku in the face but later in the episode izuku punches katsuki, you guessed it, in the face. 

Then after this season 3 starts and katsuki's development picks up speed so their antagonistic moments die down, but it is interesting to note that izuku pretty much never really needed "defending" as he was never as helpless as the fandom portrays him.

Now as for katsuki's bullying and why the story hints he's like that, i can go more in depth if you like and will probably make a post about it one day, but the thing that is easy to miss and that no one ever really brings up is that katsuki is actually a victim of bullying himself, as seen when izuku is watching him fight off older 4th graders who picked a fight with him

Furthermore:

canon izuku was never ever suicidal, the fandom made that up. (after katsuki tells him that he gets mad, calls katsuki + random koi fish stupid, and walks home while giving himself an internal pep talk. After AM told him he couldn't be a hero, he walked downstairs, out of the building, gave himself an internal talk about being realistic before running into the SV incident)  It is never stated anywhere that izuku EVER wanted to die (he in fact panics when his life is threatened such as when attacked by SV, Muscular, and in the movie where he's scared gulio will get him killed)after they bumped into each other