It's Going Grape

Why do you like Mineta? 

I love his design and the dissonance between his small cute appearance and his dirty mind. To an extent, I find it funny when he gets his comeuppance for his perverted thoughts and actions. However, I agree with many fans who think Horikoshi and the anime staff went too far with these jokes. I also wanted to see him grow into being a better hero and person. While Horikoshi did not exactly live up to my expectations on that front, this is an issue with the development of multiple characters and not just the grape boy. 

I made this blog themed after him partly because back in the day I RP’ed as him and met one of my closest friends through that. He’s an important character to me, as controversial as he may be. 

Do you ship Mineta with anyone? 

Yes, quite a number of characters! 

For the boys, my favourites are: 

Kaminari, his best bro and fellow pervert

Sero, as a friend who keeps him in check

Shouji, for the visual contrast along with their contrasting personalities and Mineta calling him “sexy” that one time

Deku, because Mineta “fell” for him after all

For the girls, I am more tentative about shipping due how Mineta treats them, even though he’s obviously very attracted to women. But I would say I like him with: 

Tsuyu, but I’ll admit that a lot of the time I see her as a lesbian and prefer that her and Mineta are friends. 

Hagakure, since they’re both characters with attention-seeking tendencies due to their appearances (though I prefer her with Aoyama) 

Ibara from 1-B, for the “grapevine” joke and the fact she and Mineta are basically opposites

What other characters and ships do you like? 

A lot! Jirou, Tsuyu, Kaminari, Todoroki, Deku, Aoyama, Monoma…… 

For ships, some of my other favourites include Hagakure/Aoyama (Tooruyama?), MomoJirou, Kamisero, TodoIida……

What characters and ships do you NOT like? 

For characters, there are definitely ones I dislike but none that make me so uncomfortable that I’d their names to be tagged or would outright refuse to talk about them. 

For ships, I’m not into the typical “problematic” dynamics like large age gaps, incest, etc. I’m not here to argue about ships, I just mean that I don’t want people to talk to me about shipping Mineta with Midnight or something. There’s also more specific ships that I just don’t care for even though they’re not “problematic”. But I won’t really talk about these unless they’re brought up to me directly. 

How do you feel about OC/canon ships? What about self-shipping? 

I’m not really into either of these types of ships but do whatever makes you happy! 

How long have you been into BNHA? 

I was originally into the series from 2016-2017 and then fell out of the fandom due to feeling like the manga was going downhill, being busy with life, and getting into other things. I dropped it after the culture festival arc and only got back into it in late 2025. It’s so crazy for me to see how the fandom has exploded. Things have really changed since I originally liked BNHA! Back when I first read the manga, there were only a few hundred fics on AO3! 

Do you write fanfiction or draw fanart? 

I write fanfics! I have an AO3 account where I posted a few fanfics back in 2016 and I will be posting BNHA fics again soon. I’m not sure whether I will post Mineta fics on my main AO3 account, post them anonymously, or just make a new account for that. 

I used to draw fanart but I’m super rusty so don’t count on me posting it here.