#bineta

So, for those of you who don't know, in the latest chapter of My Hero Academia, the character Mineta Minoru supposedly came out as bi

This purple piece of shit.

You may be wondering why i say "supposedly". That would be largely due to the fact that I've seen multiple people who speak Japanese claim this is a mistranslation, which I am inclined to believe.

In the panel above, Mineta is talking to the protagonist of the series, Midorya Izuku (a guy).

Now that we've got context out of the way, fuck this shit. And fuck people like this jackass:

Oh wait more context is needed. Why can the person who made the Tik Tok above get fucked? Because the message they were going with, or at least my interpretation of what they were saying, is that we should just accept any LGBTQIA+ rep we can get, with no regard for the quality. This is also what leads me to believe that they are not a part of the LGBT community, and therefore not qualified to tell us what good rep even looks like. I might be wrong, but i found no evidence to suggest i am.

But where *does* the queer rep lie in terms of quality? Well, let's go down the list.

According to the mfer who made the tik tok, there are 7 queer characters in MHA; 1 gay man, 3 bi people, and 3 trans people

The gay man im question?

One of Mineta and Izuku's classmates, Yuga Aoyama

In the TikTok they create immediately after the one linked above, OP claims that it would be extremely obvious that Aoyama is gay in any medium other than anime, and while they *are* right in that aspect, they then claim that this automatically means that Aoyama is canonically gay. That is incorrect, which means our Canon Queers tally is down to 6.

Now for the three bi people.

Up first is obviously Mineta, then Toga Himiko and finally Toshinori Yagi, AKA All Might (spoiler alert, All Might is not a canon bisexual)

Wether he actually is or not, Mineta is disgustingly bad bi representation in that he is a raging pervert who has sexually assaulted all but one of his female classmates on multiple occasions. For those who don't get it, Mineta being bi perpetuates the negative and incorrect stereotype that bi people are hypersexual pervs by virtue of their sexuality.

Now for Toga, who, despite also being terrible bi rep, is my favorite character. "But why is Toga bad rep?" I hear you asking. Well for one she's a villain, which right off the bat villainizes bi people. But don't worry, it gets worse! It gets worse in her reason for being a villain, that being that she gets off on killing people. Yeah this is a shitshow.

So far the two canonically bi characters we have are abnormal freaks that aren't entirely fit to interact with society. Going great.

As for All Might he has no canon sexuality, and while it *is* heavily implied he was in relationships with two male colleagues prior to the beginning of the series, this is far from canonization of anything.

Now for the trans characters (spoiler alert 2: electric boogaloo: only one is explicitly canon out of the two that are actual characters)

First up, Tiger of the Wild, Wild Pussycats. As can be seen in the second image, he is in fact canonically trans. Surprisingly, he isn't the explicitly canon one. How? Because the second image is pulled from a character encyclopedia separate from the actual series, and as far as I'm concerned, any time you have to find materials outside the actual series, that is not explicitly canon (that's not to say im denying that tiger's trans. He is.)

Now for the explicitly canon of the two actual trans characters, Magne. A villain. So, again, villifying a queer identity. Oh yeah, and the episode we find out she's trans is the same one in which she fucking dies. Specifically blown in half. It also doesn't look particularly good for Horikoshi that her quirk is based around gender.

And now for this dumbassery. This is a friend of Magne's, another trans woman. Or rather, an absolute caricature of one, who is barely even a character, as evidenced by the fact that she is unnamed and only appears once.

So, let's go back to our tally of Canon Queer Characters

Aoyama and All Might aren't canonically queer so that brings our count down to 5. Still not bad for an anime.

As for quality of queet rep, it's pathetic.

Two bi characters, both freaks

Two trans characters, one of whom you could watch the entire series and not know is trans, and the other is dead.

And, of course, one trans caricature.

There are the resigned fans, the ones that even though they wish for lgbtq+ representation and for their favorite gay ship to be canon, they know they're probably not gonna get it because they know that Japanese culture isn't as open to it as other cultures are.

There are the hopeful fans, who also are aware of the above but still hold hope for it to come true.

Then there are the entitled fans, the ones that just because they buy the books, watch the show in a legal site and buy the official merch they think they have some kind of ownership to it.

Let me tell you something, you really don't. This is Horikoshi's world, we're just being entertained by it. He's the god of this universe and you know what happens when you anger the gods? You get punish.

Karma is a bitch, ain't it? Guys, take Bineta and be glad it wasn't Endeavor confession to All Might or something as horrifying as that.

Keep sending Horikoshi death threats, I dare you. Man, that man is a savage.

So, this feels a lot like a hate anon coming into my asks, sending me shit for something I have no actual part of???? Look, I'm not entirely sure what the point of this was, but I know for a fact none of the people I follow or interact with would ever send Horikoshi a death threat over something like a ship. It's stupid, cruel, and immature. There's no point in it, and you know what, we're holding out on an lgbtq+ ship because we do have canon bi!Toga which is neat.

Another thing, Bineta was debunked by several Japanese fans on Twitter and is widely seen as a translation error on Viz's part. There are fan translations that have an accurate translation and have fewer edits. Viz is known for cutting out certain scenes to make the manga easier to stomach for western readers, this includes occasionally changing the dialogue.

I really don't know why you sent this to my inbox (except maybe my bineta is my villain origin story post?? which is a joke any way you look at it), but I'd appreciate it if in the future you chilled out, and just didn't. What this feels like to me is you having issues indirectly related to me and shoving your rage at me for something I didn't do/have nothing to do with.

me: tehehehe