It’s not that fans don’t want LGBTQ+ representation, it’s that they don’t want this character to be it. While the meaning of the line of dialogue is still up for debate - one person pointed out that it’s possible there isn’t romantic intent there - even the possibility for Mineta to be the series’ first canonical LBGTQ+ representation was enough to spark an absolute tidal wave of commentary online. In the throes of battle, he remembers Deku and says, “I fell for you.When you were scared and sweating buckets.” To many, it appeared that Mineta was confessing his love to Deku, making him the first canonically LGBTQ+ character in the series.
In chapter 321, a giant battle roars up and Mineta flails around during a fight.
For this reason, Mineta is a largely unpopular character in the fandom - it’s so normal to hate him that fans even made a trend out of removing him from their posters.įans were all but okay with tolerating his presence, until the latest chapter of the manga. He’s constantly drooling over his female counterparts, staring at their boobs, and trying to see them naked. One of his classmates there is Minoru Mineta, a short boy with purple hair styled into four round buns. The story follows Izuku “Deku” Midoriya, an earnest boy who goes to an ultra-elite academy for the city’s most promising young heroes called U.A.
Written by Kohei Horikoshi, My Hero Academia is an ongoing action anime and manga series where everyday people have superpowers called quirks, enabling a thriving culture of formally trained superheroes. That's neither good nor bad, in my opinion, a balance of both, because I think the culture at large would be better served by honest and open expressions over interpretations, and the hints we allow the Media to get by with.The popular manga series My Hero Academia just got an unwelcome twist: its creepiest character might have come out as bisexual.
that is definitely not allowed either, and what we end up with is people looking for gay expression in every subtle place, and stories of brotherly love and platonic love become the realm of LGBTQ possibility. I mean if they want to be closeted themselves by choice in the story, thats one thing, they can show and not tell, then but live their truths in the story as well. Be it for monetary or cultural issues to cater to various bases, they always couch or diminish a LGBTQ character's personhood and freedom by not letting them live their lives and having to hint at everything. But I think that after all the strides that LGBTQ people have made over time, the one place that keeps them in one form of closet or another is the Media at large.
I think it would be great if Mineta was gay, it would signify some form of character development possibly being on the way. In the general sense (and i really really mean it, lol not in this internet age, this is old fashioned as fuck.) it's not a modern usage by the popular media numbers, but one can "fall for" a person generally in a friendship sense. To fall for someone can sometimes mean in the context of 'falling in love', or it could be a belief that leads to strong admiration (or love in other words, but not necessarily eros, platonic and philia love are also possibilities.)