My Hero Academia Final Season (S8), Episode 11: Commentary on the ending cards in the credits

The ending cards during the credits in MHA S8E11 made me so emotional. Is the art anime-original? I didn't expect it at all.

I ended up translating each ending card below, because Netflix subtitles have limited space and some small details or nuances got omitted and I wanted to geek out a little bit. Or, well, geek out a lot. I have translation notes, as well as my personal commentary.

This thing is long, photo-heavy, and has spoilers for MHA Season 8 Episode 11 (Chapter 430), and MHA manga Chapter 431. 

Disclaimer on the translations: I'm not a professional translator by any means; I barely scraped by with an N2. I included the Japanese transcript in case a more experienced translator wants to take a stab at it, lol.

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My journal's images got yeeted

I was supposed to go to sleep because I need to wake up to go to the supermarket in like, 4 hours, but I found out the image hosting site I was using deleted my account. Everything in my journal broke and it looked downright horrible. I had to spend almost an hour fixing everything while panicking 😭

Images are now hosted within DW, but I haven't even been using this account for a month and all of my pictures so far eat up 38 MB out of 500 MB (7.6%). I know hotlinking isn't ideal, but DW's image hosting system doesn't make things easy, either... And now I have trust issues given what happened to my pictures earlier.

After uploading a bunch of pictures on DW's native image hosting page, I realized the DW image link contains my current username. Which means I can't change my username anymore unless I wanna go around cleaning up links again. Not like I plan to do that anytime soon (can't afford it), but it does make me antsy knowing I've screwed myself over in yet another way.

I was using freeimagehost, by the way. I think they saw all the MHA screencaps I was uploading and decided to delete my account over those (copyright issues, maybe?) Does anyone have any recommendations? I think icon makers use imgbb, and they don't seem to be strict, but I can't help but worry... Do they ever remove accounts over something as silly as uploading anime screencaps?

Or do you guys think I should just tough out DW's image hosting instead?

Why did no one tell me the MHA stage play was a thing? /j

I spent the afternoon watching highlight clips of the MHA: The Ultra Stage stage play adaptation, and... wow.

There's a lot to love here, if being a fan of the show and its characters is not enough. The costumes, the gags, the dances and backflips, the show of creativity defined by the limits of a stage play... it was a treat to watch. Makes me wish I could see it live one day...!

Me: I have no fear
MHA Ultra Stage, probably: We're releasing a 5th installment :) Tickets go on sale
Me, jobless and not in Japan: I have 1 fear

I made a post about it on bnha_fans, though it's members-only due to the nature of the linked video playlist. Now, excuse me while I gnaw at the bars of my enclosure over the actors.