my anime thoughts

katsuki bakugo

(thursday 3, december 2020)

!!!season 1-4 spoilers 

ahh yes, i'm also a bakugo simp, but what can i say, i've always liked people with anger issues.

but, just like eren, this is not the only reason why i'm a bakuhoe, there are plenty of reasons, and none of them related to his appearance (i really couldn't give less of a fuck about how someone looks, i'm all over personality)

so let's start on why i love this angry pomeranian so much.

first of all, his character development throughout the four seasons it's just...incredible. we start boku no hero with this blonde bully who thinks he is the most talented and intelligent guy in the world who will also become the number one hero in no time and no one will stop him. but then he got into the UA, and he noticed that he was not the only talented and intelligent student. he noticed that he would have to fight people as strong or even stronger than him.

this situation happens a lot in real life, you can also see it in mckay from euphoria, when he realizes that there are a lot of other football players just as good as him. bakugo with time takes this in consideration and looks back at his past of complete superiority, and when he says "if all you ever do is look down on people, you won't be able to recognize your own weaknesses" he fully owns that he was an asshole and that his way of thinking blurred his way of seeing things.

also, let's not forget how he acts all confident and shit but in reality, he thinks he is the worst person in the world (well maybe not in the world but you get my point). when he fights with deku after his kidnapping he admits that he thinks he is the responsible of all might's retirement and that he can't stop thinking of how if he was stronger he could have prevented everything that happened that day. 

this is, obviously, not true. there was nothing bakugo could do to avoid the imminent retirement of all might. the situation just rushed it a little bit. but from bakugo's point of view, he is the responsible for everything and he failed his number one hero (let's not forget that bakugo was also a big fan of all might).

this brings us to this character who has both superiority and inferiority complex. most of the times he thinks and acts like he is the next number one hero, but in reality, he still thinks that he is the worst student from the UA.

other thing that not a lot of people take in consideration, is that he hates being lied to. we all know that bakugo's and deku's relationship is a really complicated and strange. they began with a friendship that later on turned in bullying and now they have a competitive but also kinda respectful friendship(?) its weird.

but bakugo values honesty a lot so when deku suddenly appeared with this unknown quirk that he did not have in the past, his first thought was that deku lied to him since they were 4. that he mocked him by making him think he was weak only to show afterwards that the weak one was him, not deku.

and even tho he can't complain about deku being a bad friend (because deku was always good with him besides all the bullying) he hated the idea of his long life friend lying to him. 

also, come on, he is an aries entj, this guy is the definition of rage. he has trouble expressing his emotions to the point that the only way he knows to express them is by screaming "SHINE" or giving his friends stupid names like "dunce face" or "shitty hair". and even tho he is a thinker, he doesn't think before doing something leading him to take irrational decisions or saying things he may later regret.

he likes getting things done, achieve his goals right away and will avoid anything that gets in his way. but with time and progress, he starts to learn that trusting others or opening up about how he feels it's not weakness or a obstacle in his path, but rather something good that he should embrace.

this is why if the kirishima traitor theory it's true he will collapse, because kiri is someone who has helped him a lot with trusting others. i don't exactly ship them but their relationship is something really beautiful if you analyse it and i really love it.

to end this i just want to say that he is a really complex character with his weaknesses and virtues. he is not perfect but this makes him real and in my eyes, one of the best characters of the hole show.

so yeah stan bakugo and have a good day <3

— carla