honestly ive been thinking that editorial is a lot to blame for bnha not workin for me in the long term since i first saw horikoshi’s character drafts for izuku, bakugo and ochako like wayyyy back before deku vs bakugo part 2 happened 

like i still think those beta character designs were much more capable to carry the main themes that we thought bnha would get into by chapter 100 the way the versions we got were meant to

but thats kinda my problem too like im already over bnha ngl cuz i got sooo tired of reading the manga for the story it had the “potential” to be instead of the story it was... 

like bakugo not being relevant to the later plots at all is so... hilarious to me cuz he’s barely relevant to the early ones either except an obstacle that couldve been anyone n much better written for it, so if anything its just like lmfao so that really WAS a waste of time exactly as i was thinking this whole time  

cuz honestly even if bakugo’s terrible writing had a lot more to do w horikoshi being forced to give a very popular character more screentime... he really could have just ... wrote him a lil better. 

like i got thru soooo much of bnha expectin horikoshi to turn it around n then deku vs bakgo pt2 happened n i realsied he was just lettin a poorly written character THAT WAS NOT EVEN THE PROTAGONIST [cuz i can get into how izuku’s writing flops in fact most of the characters r all cool concept n terrible execution but bkgo is literally like??? what even is the concept] take up soooo much space that could have gone to any of these other popular characters or even if he managed to use bakugo as a jumping off point for another more interesting side character to get shine.