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Is that actually taken from the vid? Because that's not how the character's name is spelled, there's no "u" on the end.
First, IT'S SHONEN! That means it's literally aimed at a male audience and almost 100% always has a male cast! Bleach, Naruto, MHA, Dragonball, etc. Go watch Inuyasha or some other Shojo manga/anime if you want a female cast!
Second, this literally describes several characters in MHA, they just happen to not be any of the 1-A classmates, and it's because the characters are actually written to be more than a one dimensional, bitchy girlboss type or something else.
Mirko the Number 5 Hero, and top female one, as well as Midnight who is one of the main teachers at the school.
The difference between those two and the main class cast being the class is made of up ~15 year olds who are neurotic as all hell most of the time and being stereotypical teenagers are angsty as fuck, while the aforementioned are adults!
Another big difference relates to what powers those two have compared to the class.
Mirko's power is essentially "human sized rabbit", although she's still only 5' 2". This means a lot of jumping around and kicking things, so a very upfront brawler type of character with a lot of smack talk, something she gets shown to have even when younger and before becoming an actual Pro-Hero in the Vigilantes "prequel" spinoff.
Midnight has "date rape, the power" where she exudes a gas that mesmerizes men so being an shounen this obviously gets played for laughs at time. Midnight uses this to incapacitate attacks then close in to arrest them. So both are fighters who get in close.
None of the female classmates can be considered a brawler/melee role, they're all either support or ranged which lends to a far more critical personality type rather than one who repeatedly shoots their mouth off, which various brawlers in the manga/anime do, men and women included: Bakugo, Deku, Todoroki, Idi, hell even Koichi from the Vigilantes spinoff is sometimes like this despite having a significant ranged toolkit.
Ashido: creates and throws acid
Asui: human frog/reptile/amphibian powers, brawler-lite but still a ~15 y/o girl therefore neurotic and lacking confidence [yet]
Uraraka: can nullify gravity in things she touches, originally wanted to be a hero to help her family's construction business because being able to make things weightless helps a fuckton when needing to move extremely heavy equipment
Jiro: has two speaker like earring/earlobes which can detect and emit various sounds
Hagakure: invisiblity
Yaoyorozu: can convert her own body matter into other things
None of those are powers that work up close because none of them can mitigate incoming attacks, with the sole exception of Asui because she can at least leap like a frog to GTFO!
There are several 1-B female classmates this can apply to but I don't expect the vblogger who did this piece to have actually made it past the first season.
Now compare that to the actual characters who fit the description:
Bakugo: everyone, and I do mean literally everyone, considers him to be a complete asshole because he's that competitive, sarcastic, hot-headed, and egotistic. So much so multiple groups, good and bad, think he's going to turn evil.
Todoroki: until Deku uses talk-no-jutsu to snap Todoroki out of his lone-wolf phase the character is distant, unwelcoming, and yet still the single most powerful character in the class at the start of the story through sheer raw power. For reasons later explained also on a potential path to becoming a villain.
So to quickly sum up, this blogger wants someone who can easily be mistaken for a villain, that nobody likes, but is OP and forces their way on others. Ironically that sums up several new Marvel and DC characters like Riri Williams, Shuri, and more, which isn't surprising at this point because modern comic writers are shit and have no actual ability to write anything with nuance which is why manga and anima repeatedly stomp them and dominate the market.
Also why Wokesters want to infiltrate said market.
tl;dr Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, normies!
Mmm, delicious rant. Been a while since I've read one so on point.
Somewhat related, are you going to finish your Bishop War College reviews with parts 4 and 5 being out?
No because issues 4 and 5, which came out while I took a month break from this site due to Imp related retardness, [ironically this happened like days before he received yet another 24 day ban], were unsurprisingly shit and the whole thing only lasted 5 issues which seems to be standard these days for shit spinoffs that get cancelled due to being predictably shit.
Understandable considering that 5 issues then cancelled format sums up the three attempts by Tina Howard to tell her awful Betsy Braddock/Captain Britain story with repeated attempts to degrade Brits throughout.
To be fair, that's a valid way to Romanize the character's name to indicate the long vowel. It's just not the official one.
Inuyasha technically is Shounen. It was published in Weekly Shounen Sunday alongside Detective Conan.
I'd argue that there are Shounen manga and anime like Inuyasha that are aimed at women as a secondary demographic that they would enjoy (e.g. Toilet-bound Hanako-kun) that they should be checking out instead of making these demands.
But a lot of girls and women are obsessed with MHA, particularly shipping the male characters together for their yaoi fanfics and art, and lack the self-awareness required to realize they aren't the primary audience and accept the story for what it is.
Gonna press X to doubt on that one.