I have mixed feelings about this story. It's certainly entertaining with a lot of good comedy and is pretty light-hearted, overall, which makes sense, given the rather silly premise. However, there are two things that just bug me every time the author brings them up:
1. Starting from the tail end of the Sports Festival, there's been a plot thread of some of the teachers at U.A. trying to get Endeavor punished for how he's treated his family over the years. The problem with that is that, from a meta perspective, the author tries to justify it by making him an Adaptational Jerkass and explicitly making his treatment of them worse than what it was in the source material. Not only that, but the teachers involved in this keep insisting that they have Endeavor over a barrel, but there's no actual evidence that can be used against him, and the reason for why we're supposed to believe they have him on the ropes never goes any further than the author just saying they do. I understand that Endeavor's a divisive character, and I understand that he's done a lot of terrible things, but the problem is that this situation is only justified by them making Endeavor worse than he should be and by simply saying that he's in trouble without actually taking the time to make it work.
2. During the Sports Festival, Todoroki gets hit with Midoriya's Quirk and is turned biologically female. Sometimes, the author is actually good at depicting them as a Transgender individual and all the problems that could be associated with that, but other times, they're just really bad at handling it. The story explicitly refers to Todoroki with female pronouns, even though they're only biologically female, and the author repeatedly forces them to take on overtly feminine characteristics, despite making it clear that they aren't comfortable with that. They grow their hair down to their waist largely because it's a stereotypical hairstyle for women, and they also force them to wear the female uniform, despite the same chapter where that happens making a point about Todoroki doesn't need to wear clothes they aren't comfortable with. The uniform thing is especially bad because the author keeps bending over backwards to justify it, even though it would make more sense for it to be okay for people to dress however they feel comfortable, given everything we know about the setting. It honestly feels like the author just really wants Todoroki to have to wear a skirt six days a week, and that'd be fine if Todoroki being turned into a girl was played for laughs, but the story tries to treat it seriously, so it just comes off as a problematic issue the author refuses to budge on.
This story is highly flawed. There's some good humor now and again, but that's not enough to make up for the contrivances of how Endeavor is being dealt with and the downright problematic way the author tackles gender.
Fanfic A Quirky Story Overshadowed by its Flaws
I have mixed feelings about this story. It's certainly entertaining with a lot of good comedy and is pretty light-hearted, overall, which makes sense, given the rather silly premise. However, there are two things that just bug me every time the author brings them up:
1. Starting from the tail end of the Sports Festival, there's been a plot thread of some of the teachers at U.A. trying to get Endeavor punished for how he's treated his family over the years. The problem with that is that, from a meta perspective, the author tries to justify it by making him an Adaptational Jerkass and explicitly making his treatment of them worse than what it was in the source material. Not only that, but the teachers involved in this keep insisting that they have Endeavor over a barrel, but there's no actual evidence that can be used against him, and the reason for why we're supposed to believe they have him on the ropes never goes any further than the author just saying they do. I understand that Endeavor's a divisive character, and I understand that he's done a lot of terrible things, but the problem is that this situation is only justified by them making Endeavor worse than he should be and by simply saying that he's in trouble without actually taking the time to make it work.
2. During the Sports Festival, Todoroki gets hit with Midoriya's Quirk and is turned biologically female. Sometimes, the author is actually good at depicting them as a Transgender individual and all the problems that could be associated with that, but other times, they're just really bad at handling it. The story explicitly refers to Todoroki with female pronouns, even though they're only biologically female, and the author repeatedly forces them to take on overtly feminine characteristics, despite making it clear that they aren't comfortable with that. They grow their hair down to their waist largely because it's a stereotypical hairstyle for women, and they also force them to wear the female uniform, despite the same chapter where that happens making a point about Todoroki doesn't need to wear clothes they aren't comfortable with. The uniform thing is especially bad because the author keeps bending over backwards to justify it, even though it would make more sense for it to be okay for people to dress however they feel comfortable, given everything we know about the setting. It honestly feels like the author just really wants Todoroki to have to wear a skirt six days a week, and that'd be fine if Todoroki being turned into a girl was played for laughs, but the story tries to treat it seriously, so it just comes off as a problematic issue the author refuses to budge on.
This story is highly flawed. There's some good humor now and again, but that's not enough to make up for the contrivances of how Endeavor is being dealt with and the downright problematic way the author tackles gender.