User blog:No9ah10/(SPOILERS FOR FUTURE TITLES) Horikoshi's Chapter Naming Scheme

So I recently had an epiphany moment relating to how Horikoshi names some of his manga chapters and in some cases, side chapters and the movie. Once understanding this it creates so many implications for the future of the story. (Or I'm just overthinking this) But before I lose you dear reader I'm going to explain.

I'm sure most of you if not all of you are aware of the format Horikoshi tends to use when delving into the backstory of a character for a moment in a chapter/episode. The Origin Suffix.

Examples:

 * Chapter 1: Izuku Midoriya: Origin


 * Chapter 39: Shoto Todoroki: Origin


 * Chapter 62: Katsuki Bakugo: Origin


 * (Spoiler) Chapter 235/236: Tenko Shimura: Origin (Parts 1 and 2)
 * (Spoiler) Chapter 237: Tomura Shigaraki: Origin

At first glance this seems just like a cool way to signify that a character will have flashbacks to their past and have a big moment in the present either because of it or provide context to us as readers as to whats going on. But then I realized something, there exists a second suffix that has been here the whole time. The Rising Suffix.

Examples:

 * Chapter 63: Yaoyorozu Rising
 * Volume Origin One Shot: All Might Rising
 * Movie 2: Heroes: Rising

It was from here I realized this wasn't much of a coincidence or cool theme, it was potentially a pattern that Horikoshi was implementing discreetly.

The implications that come with this being a pattern is not only the possibility of future Origin and Rising suffix chapters in the story, but the possibility that there's a suffix for all 5 elements of a basic plot pyramid. Of course I'm referring to the Beginning, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Conclusion. Getting past the English Class PTSD, Is it possible there will be suffixes like ": Climax, : Falling and : End"?

As a side note, I tried figuring out where (spoiler for title) Chapter 222: Tomura Shigaraki: Distortion fit into this but I could not for the life of me figure it out, as Distortion is the big suffix used for this chapter, I felt as though if I didn't mention it here someone would inevitably scream at me for missing it lol. If you have any thoughts on this I would appreciate it if you brought it up with me in the discord or in the comments, I might even add it right after this sentence and add you to the credits :P.

Edit: I just thought up the idea of a future chapter being called "Izuku Midoriya: Clarity" to parallel Chapter 222, but that's just a theory for now.

I mean think about the possibilities, we get to a point near the final fight then we get something like "Heroes: Climax". Or maybe we find out who the traitor is and we get something like "Placeholder Name: Falling". Or my particularly evil idea, that a chapter leads up to something bad happening to All Might, then the next chapter is called "Yagi Toshinori: End".

Of course I could just be completely out of my mind and overthinking this, but I genuinely think we're on to something here.

Feel free to share your thought in the comments or tell me something I missed; I'd greatly appreciate it.

Credits:
Also, I don't care if a credits section is cheesy, fight me.
 * Discord User "Clavier" for pointing out Yaoyorozu Rising and All Might Rising fit in, because I was originally only going in with Heroes: Rising lol
 * Discord User: "jus" because it was in talking to them that I experienced my epiphany lol.
 * Everyone active in Series Discussion on the official discord, honestly, I feel like you guys don't understand how amazing it is to be able to talk about and discuss this series with you, even if we do sometimes stumble upon a DFO here and there.
 * Last but not least Horikoshi, I feel like I don't even have to explain.