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6/24/2025, 11:45:52 AM
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>Horikoshi does further talk about whether or not Deku and Ochako's scene in Chapter 431 is supposed to be viewed as romantic or not. He answers it with a question lmao.
>Here is the question and his answer. I am translating this as literally and as close as possible to the Japanese original text so that you can read and think about it for yourself.
>Question: Chapter 431 focuses on Deku and Ochako. In My Hero Academia, there wasn't much focus on romance, was there any reason for that?
>Horikoshi: Instead of wanting to portray romance in the story, I just wanted to show the contrast between Ochako and Toga with their views on love. Since romance is a very strong stimulus, as soon as you include it into the story, that's all anyone is going to talk about, so I deliberately avoided adding it to the story.
>However, since the setting of the series is at school after all, it would be rather dishonest to completely ignore romance, so it was pretty hard to think of a balance.
>Thankfully, since Deku was always doing other things, he was unaware of any romantic feelings, and it turned out to be a good thing for me [since Horikoshi didn't want to include romance in the main plot].
>However, when Chapter 394 came around, the topics [discussed by Toga and Ochako] did touch upon that stimulus called love, so I knew that it would be strange to not follow up on that point later in the story, which is why I chose to write about it.
>I never thought that romance would go well with the theme of the story of My Hero Academia, which is "to save and be saved," nor would it make sense to include it in "the story of how we all became Heroes." So that's why I decided to touch upon it in an epilogue, like a postscript of sorts.
>However, rather than depicting romance itself, I wanted to depict love in a form as part of something even greater, but I wonder how it turned out?
True.
>Horikoshi does further talk about whether or not Deku and Ochako's scene in Chapter 431 is supposed to be viewed as romantic or not. He answers it with a question lmao.
>Here is the question and his answer. I am translating this as literally and as close as possible to the Japanese original text so that you can read and think about it for yourself.
>Question: Chapter 431 focuses on Deku and Ochako. In My Hero Academia, there wasn't much focus on romance, was there any reason for that?
>Horikoshi: Instead of wanting to portray romance in the story, I just wanted to show the contrast between Ochako and Toga with their views on love. Since romance is a very strong stimulus, as soon as you include it into the story, that's all anyone is going to talk about, so I deliberately avoided adding it to the story.
>However, since the setting of the series is at school after all, it would be rather dishonest to completely ignore romance, so it was pretty hard to think of a balance.
>Thankfully, since Deku was always doing other things, he was unaware of any romantic feelings, and it turned out to be a good thing for me [since Horikoshi didn't want to include romance in the main plot].
>However, when Chapter 394 came around, the topics [discussed by Toga and Ochako] did touch upon that stimulus called love, so I knew that it would be strange to not follow up on that point later in the story, which is why I chose to write about it.
>I never thought that romance would go well with the theme of the story of My Hero Academia, which is "to save and be saved," nor would it make sense to include it in "the story of how we all became Heroes." So that's why I decided to touch upon it in an epilogue, like a postscript of sorts.
>However, rather than depicting romance itself, I wanted to depict love in a form as part of something even greater, but I wonder how it turned out?
True.
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