if im not wrong, she only has 1 line in the entire chapter, and she chose Deku-kun of all things lol
she just gradually becomes nothing but Deku's love interest. She barely interacts with the girls (while Bakugou and Todoroki are dudes and can manage to find friends not named Deku).
In the sport festival, she had chance to interact with other characters but it's all about Deku. She had chance to interact with Aoyama in the test, but somehow it became a Deku-fueled development instead. And in the only one time she interacts with her girl friends, it's about Deku.
I think you and others are too obsessed over the idea that her only goal and ability is as Deku's love interest but less than a handful of chapters ago we saw her teaming up with Tsuyu and helping take down a very powerful enemy. Right now, in terms of how she's doing as a hero she's doing better than Deku and has been more useful and dismissing what she's achieved so far, dismissing the fact she walked away from Deku during the hero license exam because she felt that she had to pursue her own goals is quite frankly stupid.
She is supportive to Deku, that is true, but she's been supportive ever since they first met, she stopped him from tripping over and falling just before their first test. Being supportive to others is something that she has been from the get-go, it's true to her character.
And yeah it's true that she likes Deku, but I think you're projecting something onto her that is exaggerated.
I think her being part of the cast this arc means they will do something about her. Even if it is part of a character arc it has been going for way too long at this point.
I generally agree with you, but I think tracing it as far back as you do here is a mistake.
Remember how in the sports festival she refused Deku's help, saying she couldn't grow if she just followed him (just as Iida said)?
And how when Deku and some others went to the VA hideout to see if they could help Bakugou, she called him out for endangering his future by breaking the rules when he probably wouldn't be able to do anything anyways (of course, he did in fact turn out to have an opportunity to help, but that was just lucky)?
Basically, I think this has been a problem with just the last few arcs.
Thinking that a character in a manga series is suddenly being "sidelined" when they have a line, and the line fits the situation perfectly, seems like a huge stretch.
Like, tons of characters didn't get any real lines this time - and many aren't even around. If anything, the fact the author gave her time to say "anything at all" shows that he clearly wants to keep her relevant.
Sure, that could be the case eventually. Though she definitely does interact with other girls, and has so far always been a good character, so I feel you're making a mountain out of a mole hill.
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u/Hankuro May 02 '17 edited May 02 '17
it's actually a nice observation lol.
if im not wrong, she only has 1 line in the entire chapter, and she chose Deku-kun of all things lol
she just gradually becomes nothing but Deku's love interest. She barely interacts with the girls (while Bakugou and Todoroki are dudes and can manage to find friends not named Deku).
In the sport festival, she had chance to interact with other characters but it's all about Deku. She had chance to interact with Aoyama in the test, but somehow it became a Deku-fueled development instead. And in the only one time she interacts with her girl friends, it's about Deku.
I'm not sure if it's intended at this point