My Hero Academia revives the ship between Deku and Uraraka

2024-11-30
My Hero Academia revives the ship between Deku and Uraraka

This article includes spoilers for "My Hero Academia." Discretion is advised to the reader.

Although its release is scheduled for early December, some pages of the final volume of the manga "My Hero Academia" have been leaked to the internet. Some of these have attracted attention because they show an apparent final scene of a reunion between Izuku Midoriya and Ochako Uraraka.

Leaks have secured a wide variety of details, including the fact that All Might has already signed Bakugo's trading card, that Deku and Bakugo had a final conversation, Shoto talks about his thoughts on Dabi and his family, Deku re-engages as a professional hero, Ochako reflects on Toga's final words and his future, and, eventually, he has his conversation with Deku.

Unfortunately it cannot yet be confirmed that these leaks are real, but this has been enough to cause a chain reaction on social networks, especially by those who were left with the desire that, somehow, the ship between Deku and Ochako would become canonical towards the end of the story.

My Hero Academia revives the ship between Deku and Uraraka
My Hero Academia revives the ship between Deku and Uraraka

And the latter has been demonstrated by the comments from the community:

  • "Definitely the fandom of My Hero Academia does not deserve any canonical ship."
  • "They didn't make a Naruto x Hinata as such, so I'm satisfied, as they leave it to the open interpretation that maybe something can arise between Deku and Uraraka later on. It's better that way, because it would mean that there would be development and not the nonsense that some fandom expect, where out of nowhere Deku likes Uraraka when in the whole work he didn't show a hint of it."
  • "One of the main points of the chapter is that Ochako and Deku continued to act for the good of others, even at the expense of themselves. Ochako also felt guilty for living the life she wanted, because Toga was never able to get what she wanted. That's why he continues to dream about it so often."
  • "Uraraka has to get over her stalker."
  • "This feels like they did it just to avoid criticism at the end, it feels very forced."
  • "They shake hands in a friendly way in the last panel, more like a gesture of camaraderie than a romantic intertwining. Those who defend other ships will say the same, but can't a man and a woman be just friends? Hahaha".
  • "I didn't read what you put because I want to wait for the volume to come out. But I leave a heart for the image and I keep it to come back later and see what things were true."
  • "Hopefully no ship will become canon and just give more development to what happened with Deku, such as his idea of becoming a teacher, instead of focusing on romantic relationships."
  • "I don't know if I'm happy or angry."
  • "We won! Like it if you always trusted Horikoshi and didn't criticize this beautiful work."
  • "I told them that, for everything he went through in Toga, he would make sure that future generations of heroes are formed correctly, so that they don't get swayed by villains and make wrong decisions."
  • "They are already 25 years old and they still don't know how to express their feelings."
  • "So far it's just a rumor, but I'm hopeful."
  • "Deku says he would have become a teacher even if he still had the OFA."
  • "I don't care if the image is canon or not, but Ochako looks beautiful."
  • "At the end, they talk after the meeting of colleagues and say that they will start communicating more often. They blush and shake hands. It can be understood that they will spend more time together, but it is not explicit that they are a couple. Although it is quite clear that they could become so, it is something open to the interpretation of each person".
  • "That already made up for Horikoshi's nonsense."
  • "But that handshake is more like a greeting from friends, haha."
  • "Incredible, they talked. They are nothing short of being happy together."
  • "You're going to hate me for this, but I feel like it's on the level of the ending of Star vs. the Forces of Evil and their miserable 'hello.'"
  • "People, a question: will all the extra panels and redesigns be animated for the 2025 season or will they only use the first ending?"
  • "Who else thought that Toga ended up in an isekai?"
  • "I was upset, but after further reflection, it's not so bad after all."
  • "It can't be, it literally became canon and no one went to visit it, hahaha."
  • "Technically, now they did leave the end open. I like that Uraraka is no longer so tormented by Toga and wants to live her life as she wants."
  • "Well, I'm going to wait to see if it's really canon."
  • "Wasn't this already dead? Why don't they let him rest in peace? What need to continue releasing more content?"

Source: Twitter

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