My Hero Academia

[Shradow]

[spoiler=Chapter 156]So Eri's quirk is some form of rewinding, that's really interesting. She accidentally rewinded her dad back to before he was born or something, and now has split Chisaki with the dude he merged with. Props to Mirio for finally giving her the courage to stand against Chisaki.

 

Does this mean that the quirk-erasing bullets that were developed from her power specifically reverse someone's quirk to before it manifested? Does that mean that Mirio's quirk could simply come back in a few years or so once it manifested again?

 

Even if that's not the case, I'm excited to see the implications of her quirk properly awakening. Maybe fix up Nighteye for starters, giving him is arm back and not having a stone spike piercing his abdomen would be pretty nice.

 

[Shradow]

[spoiler=Chapter 157]

 

I must say I did not see this development happening. This is like Luffy revealing Gear Fourth at the end of chapter 783 of One Piece levels of hype. Deku's entering ABSOLUTE MADMAN territory again.

 

All Might in his prime could've (according to him) defeated the USJ Nomu in 5 punches. That's the sort of power we're going to get a glimpse of Deku using all out. Chisaki already knows Deku was holding back from when he jumped up to 20% to fight him, but I don't think he'll be expecting this. Anyone else who'll be able to see the fight is in for a show, the only times people have seen him use 100% were in short bursts and never in Full Cowl. Chisaki's crazy good (and his art is so damn good) but I don't think he'll be able to stand a chance unless something with Eri's powers goes awry.

 

[Fusion X. Denver]

Unofficial movie announcement.

Not sure how I feel about that yet, need more details.

 

And the manga's been loaded with feels lately, it hurts so good.

[Shradow]

This past arc was a really good one, with the Kirishima development, badass fights, and the awesome yet brutal appearance by Shigaraki. And boy I was not expecting you-know-what. It's definitely a better read in one go, though, week by week didn't suit it.

[Darj]

Dropping by to say that I'm following the manga of this series, plus I watched the first anime season, and got a couple of thoughts on it:

 

I can see the series has plenty of fans, at the very least here in YCM and... I gave it a chance, but it's just not my favorite, to be honest. I mean, some users have stated they like it more than other shonens, but in m case I actually like, for example, Black Clover more than this. A strength I do see in the series is that it has really emotive moments but... so do the other shonens.

Anyway, I won't go in details but I can say the reason is that there are a bunch of characters that I didn't "click" with me, so to speak, while the few ones who did, mainly Tsuyu who got me into watching the anime in the first place, have not get enough spotlight/development to my tastes. I assume she will eventually have her moment, and that's one of the reasons I keep an eye on the manga.

[Fusion X. Denver]

Movie with original story confirmed 

It's not outright, but sounds like Horikoshi may have been involved a bit with it, which is always good.

 

MHA has fully won me over at this point to the extent where I went and bought all the available manga for it. I'm not sure if it should reach 700 chapters like Naruto or Bleach did, but I hope it sticks around for a while. I can see it becoming one of the all-time greats.

[Shradow]

There's just so many characters in this series, not everyone can get the same amount of development. I mean, look at the Sugar Rush guy (whose name I can't even remember), he's had pretty much nothing going for him over the course of the series, but I still loved his interactions this past chapter trying to make his friends feel better and literally shoving cake into Deku's mouth. Overall the dorm interactions this past chapter were all great, like the small bit between Kirishima and Mina, Kaminari calling Bakugou Kacchan (I forget if he'd been doing that before), the characters have good dynamics between each other. Plus you saw the students who were at the raid (Kirishima, Tsuyu, Uraraka, Deku) think back on it with those panels of them in bed (I especially liked Uraraka's change this chapter, where she stated she wanted to save people as opposed to before where she said she became a hero to make money) and I liked that they had a shared moment even when they weren't interacting with one another.

 

I saw a good post on reddit about something the series does well, and it's that it has a power ceiling. All Might's the best in the world and far and away stronger than any other hero. Deku will build upon that a bit because of OFA, of course, but this series won't be like other shonen where powers just keep increasing as more powerful villains appear in an endless back and forth. Power increase with quirks is natural, the same way one would work out their muscles. They can't just go past it willy-nilly or is sort of invalidates a lot about All Might and what he meant to the world as the Symbol of Peace.

 

But MHA is similar to a lot of shonens, it shares tropes and cliches and genre conventions, but it manages to use these well, and in ways that challenge our expectations due to experience from other shonens (for example, so many people thought Bakugo would be just another Sasuke), to make an interesting story. That combined with Horikoshi's awesome art and great characters, it's no wonder the series is so popular. In Japan this year it's the 10th highest earning media franchise and 4th highest selling manga series.

[Fusion X. Denver]

There's just so many characters in this series, not everyone can get the same amount of development. I mean, look at the Sugar Rush guy (whose name I can't even remember), he's had pretty much nothing going for him over the course of the series, but I still loved his interactions this past chapter trying to make his friends feel better and literally shoving cake into Deku's mouth. Overall the dorm interactions this past chapter were all great, like the small bit between Kirishima and Mina, Kaminari calling Bakugou Kacchan (I forget if he'd been doing that before), the characters have good dynamics between each other. Plus you saw the students who were at the raid (Kirishima, Tsuyu, Uraraka, Deku) think back on it with those panels of them in bed (I especially liked Uraraka's change this chapter, where she stated she wanted to save people as opposed to before where she said she became a hero to make money) and I liked that they had a shared moment even when they weren't interacting with one another.

 

I saw a good post on reddit about something the series does well, and it's that it has a power ceiling. All Might's the best in the world and far and away stronger than any other hero. Deku will build upon that a bit because of OFA, of course, but this series won't be like other shonen where powers just keep increasing as more powerful villains appear in an endless back and forth. Power increase with quirks is natural, the same way one would work out their muscles. They can't just go past it willy-nilly or is sort of invalidates a lot about All Might and what he meant to the world as the Symbol of Peace.

 

But MHA is similar to a lot of shonens, it shares tropes and cliches and genre conventions, but it manages to use these well, and in ways that challenge our expectations due to experience from other shonens (for example, so many people thought Bakugo would be just another Sasuke), to make an interesting story. That combined with Horikoshi's awesome art and great characters, it's no wonder the series is so popular. In Japan this year it's the 10th highest earning media franchise and 4th highest selling manga series.

Gigguk made a good video on the subject:

It's a good video, but tl;dw, MHA immediately introduced its power ceiling with All Might. We have a clear idea of what the strength of the top heroes in this world is and a concrete goal for Deku and the others to work towards. Whereas with DBZ, the power ceiling would be established by the current Big Bad, only to keep increasing with each arc. HunterxHunter is another series that was smart about it, we're constantly shown more powerful characters with each arc to get the idea of the different levels of strength at play.

 

I'd say MHA is an example of near-perfect execution of existing shonen tropes.

[Fusion X. Denver]

Double post, but I love it when Horikoshi draws fanart of other properties:

[Shradow]

Not sure I'd call it fanart, since it's part of an official collab between Disney and Shueisha. For promotion's sake, I assume.

[Flame Dragon]

It is always really cool to see mangaka do their take on movie posters. I know the OPM artist did a promo cover for the MMPR movie a while back. Wonder if these are pretty common.

[Fusion X. Denver]

[spoiler=This recent chapter]

I really liked the one-shot focus on Aoyama here. I love it when a show will add some dimensions to the joke character, I'd be down for a series of one-off chapters like this where Deku bonds with one of the minor character classmates. Or if they sprinkle them here and there as breather chapters.

Good stuff. And I like how Deku and Todoroki being "cool" characters recently had to play with little kids, authors usually don't put characters of that archetype into situations like that.

 

[Shradow]

[spoiler=Chapter 172]I really liked this chapter. We got plenty of character interactions, which has always been one of this series' strong points, including Mineta being absolutely hilarious. But I really enjoyed the bit between Deku and All Might. I can't believe it never really occurred to me before (which made it perfectly believable that it hadn't occurred to Deku before either) that All Might wasn't always at 100%, I guess I just always equated his big muscle form to what OFA looks like at 100%. If you think about how no one could get near him when he was fighting Nomu because of the wind, and it's obvious that that's not happening all the time for him, he'd be a walking tornado if he were always 100%.

 

That frame of Deku looking at his scarred hand was very nice, it was like a look of shaky confidence. He can't mess up again or he risks permanent damage, but once he's mastered this he'll have passed another hurdle in using OFA. I can't wait to see his next serious fight, though I don't imagine it'll come up with Gentle.

 

And I also love how the story of Deku's development is also partly the story of All Might's development as well, as a teacher.

 

[Shradow]

S3 so funking hype! And I love UVERworld's music.

 

[Flame Dragon]

Have they said anything about how long it will be? I'm curious since doing up until the license test should be doable in 12 episodes, but the stuff after the license test would more or less take us to now and that will likely take 24 episodes.

[Shradow]

There's been no official statement yet on that, I believe, but apparently the timeslot and channel reserved for the show is usually for 2 cour shows. I'm hoping for 2 cours because that could go right up to [spoiler=chapter 120]with the resolution of Deku vs Bakugou 2 and Bakugo learning about OFA

to end the season at.

[Flame Dragon]

120 seems like a good stopping point. If that is how they end up wanting to do things that would mean we'd get 2 seasons worth since that is a comparable number to what season two did.

 

Season 1: Chapters 1-21. 13 episodes

Season 2: Chapter 22-70. 24 episodes. Week break after 13 (chapter 46).

 

My guess is they'll break after episode 13 again since that will after THAT fight finishes.

[Fusion X. Denver]

[spoiler=Regarding Season 3 content]

I'd actually prefer if they only did one cour for this season and cover the next training arc up until All Might's big showdown. And then the last episode can be spent on the home visits. I just don't want them to cover more ground than they need to and give more time for the manga to get ahead. That's not to say they can't do that with another two cour but I'm just wary of there becoming longer waits between seasons the less material there is to work with.

 

I think Season 4 would have a good starting point with all the student's dorm rooms. But if this is two cour, then this would serve as a mid season break then.

 

[Shradow]

[spoiler=I really just want the anime to get to this part.]

The upcoming arcs are where BakuGOAT really starts to shine as a character. Plus the stuff with Bakguo leading up to this point is very much related to what happened with All Might at Kamino, so it'd be weird to split those up to me.

 

[Flame Dragon]

[spoiler=Regarding Season 3 content]

I'd actually prefer if they only did one cour for this season and cover the next training arc up until All Might's big showdown. And then the last episode can be spent on the home visits. I just don't want them to cover more ground than they need to and give more time for the manga to get ahead. That's not to say they can't do that with another two cour but I'm just wary of there becoming longer waits between seasons the less material there is to work with.

 

I think Season 4 would have a good starting point with all the student's dorm rooms. But if this is two cour, then this would serve as a mid season break then.

 

They could totally do that in a single season. Part of the issue though is that when they get to the stuff with Eri it is going to need a full 2 seasons so having to do an extra 20 odd chapters will be cutting it close. It also feels better to give the stuff Eri its own season Imo. I can see the mid season break being the chapter RIGHT before the home visits. That chapter is a very good one to break at.

 

Also, I wouldn't worry that much about the anime catching up to the manga. If this season ends up covering around 50 chapters we'll have pretty sustainable loop of 1 double season a year since in that time frame we'll get another 50 odd chapters.

[Shradow]

S3 confirmed 25 episodes let's fuckin' go! https://twitter.com/FUNimation/status/970708901057441792

 

[Flame Dragon]

25 episodes. Yep, lines up pretty much exactly with what I was expecting. Going all the way to 120. Best guess is season 4 will cover 121-162. Should be enough material for for 24 episodes.

[Fusion X. Denver]

Huh, well I definitely will not turn down any more MHA. 

 

Also, I wouldn't worry that much about the anime catching up to the manga. If this season ends up covering around 50 chapters we'll have pretty sustainable loop of 1 double season a year since in that time frame we'll get another 50 odd chapters.

If they can manage that balance, I've got no objections! I'd just love to look back at the finished MHA anime by series' end and look at it like we do HunterxHunter being one of the best and most consistent shonen shows.

[Flame Dragon]

If they can manage that balance, I've got no objections! I'd just love to look back at the finished MHA anime by series' end and look at it like we do HunterxHunter being one of the best and most consistent shonen shows.

Agreed. I LOVE One Piece, but I stopped watching the anime because glaciers move faster. I know Black Clover has the same problem. I started reading and was curious where the anime was since it is almost run for 2 seasons worth. When I saw over 21 episodes it covered like 25 chapters I was just sad. Super thankful Food Wars and My Hero have escaped the curse of ALWAYS RUNNING FOR FOREVER that plagued a lot of older shonen series.

[Fusion X. Denver]

Agreed. I LOVE One Piece, but I stopped watching the anime because glaciers move faster. I know Black Clover has the same problem. I started reading and was curious where the anime was since it is almost run for 2 seasons worth. When I saw over 21 episodes it covered like 25 chapters I was just sad. Super thankful Food Wars and My Hero have escaped the curse of ALWAYS RUNNING FOR FOREVER that plagued a lot of older shonen series.

One Piece can really benefit with a One Piece Kai in another decade or so.

Or even better, just a remake. One Piece Brotherhood would be amazing.

 

It's ironic because the BC manga has the exact opposite situation, its pacing is lightning-fast. Studio Pierrot is behind the times, studios like Bones here or JC Staff are with the program.

 

The very minor, first-world setback with this approach is sites like MAL or Anime Planet become cluttered with sequels or second/third seasons of shows, but that's no biggie.