Tag: My Hero Academia

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This is shallow and unimportant, and not really worth talking about, but I’m doing it anyway because I’m a salty manga fan. As someone who finds MHA very overrated, I quite appreciate your perspective on it. I find that, in the way you described and in many more ways beyond that, it could have been unique but ends up playing into the tropes in a way that’s not inherently bad, but is just very standard, average, and kind of forgettable.

Yeah, that’s about how I feel about it. It’s not bad, for what it’s trying to be, but after the first couple episodes it’s not really trying to be anything particularly… special.

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My thoughts on BnHA are the exact same as yours. There is such a set up for something different and then it IMMEDIATELY plunges into generic shonen the first chance it gets. Sure, it deals well with character development, but that is only new TO SHONENS and people who mostly watch/read shonen. I REALLY tried to give it more chances though, but it just kept solving stuff without foreshadowing and there IS one “people who believe me give me power”-win that REALLY pisses me the fuck off. Dropped.

Yeah…

I don’t really want to come across as too harsh on the series. It’s decent for what it is, kept me binging for a little over a season, but it’s a bit disappointing after what the opening episodes seemed to be building up.

Apparently the original plan was to have Deku remain powerless and become a gadget hero, but the author couldn’t get it sold like that. A shame, honestly, I think the author would’ve been able to execute that very well.

“If you want a similar story about a powerless hero who stays powerless” you might also try Iris Zero, as long as we’re still talking about manga.

Noted! 🙂

I’m pretty sure there are already tons of stories with powerless heroes in a world where superpowers are a thing, or just heroes with very shitty powers who find ways to use them creatively (I recommend the book “Playing for Keeps” by Mur Lafferty if you like stories about shitty powers being used creatively). I’m not saying MHA is super original (though Loreweaver makes good points and I’ll be keeping an eye out for those themes) but “becoming a hero even though you’re powerless” isn’t either.

That is fair. I do think it’s a little more interesting, though.

And hey, guess what? Worm is arguably one of those stories about “heroes with very shitty powers who find ways to use them creatively”, at least borderline. In terms of raw power, bug control isn’t very strong (though it’s getting stronger) against most of Taylor’s enemies, but combining it with Taylor’s ingenuity and tactical skills (I’ve compared her to the leader of an army with good reason) makes it capable of taking down enemies like half-dragon Lung and Mannequin nonetheless.

She’s not the only one doing it, either. Skidmark, for instance, was fairly clever about how he applied his boost pads – a highlight being when he put it on his cape and used it defensively.

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loreweaver-universe: I was asked my thoughts on this by @krixwell-liveblogs, and it got long enough that I decided to just make a post about it. It’s a fair criticism, but I find the story is more about Midoriya’s spirit, the qualities that made All Might CHOOSE him.  It shows All Might’s priorities in choosing a […]

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Yeah, I’d say Opal>Menja>Mt Lady>Ginormica. Opal has extra powers and limbs as well as experience, Menja is experienced, can shift her size and has extra protection from her power, Mt Lady can size shift and has training as a hero. Ginormica is clearly at a disadvantage here, she has less options tactically since she’s stuck in giant form and she’s basically a civilian with barely any combat experience.

Yeah, this sounds about right.

It’s also worth noting that Menja’s size shifting is more versatile than Mt. Lady’s, since according to the MHA wiki, Mt. Lady only has two sizes she can be: 1.62 m or 20.62 m. Menja can adjust her size gradually, which might come in handy. On the other hand, maybe this means Mt. Lady’s growth/shrinking is much faster, which could be used to hide and then suddenly grow to catch the enemy off-guard.

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Menja, Ginormica, Mt. Lady and Opal. Giant woman free-for-all battle. Who would win?

I think my money is on Opal, since she has a bunch of other powers and a seriously powerful bow, with Menja in second (a.k.a. the winner if the extra powers disqualify Opal) because her power also reduces the effective size of incoming attacks, making her even more defended than your average giant woman.

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How much of my hero academia have you watched?

I’ve watched up to episode 3 of season 2. I should probably get back to that someday.

Honestly, though… my favorite part of season 1 was before the Great Deku Tree actually got into the academy. MHA has a fantastic beginning and some neat characters, but I’m not quite as hyped about the later bits. They’re still good, it’s just… they don’t quite follow up on what got me liking the series to begin with.

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Mr. Pitter knocked on the door, waited.  It was almost a minute before it opened.

Trickster stood in the doorway, unmasked.  His skin tone was darker in a way that left his ethnicity ambiguous, to the point where the boy could have been a darker skinned Caucasian, biracial, Middle Eastern or Eastern Indian.

Hi there.

His dark hair was long, hanging to his shoulders, and a hook nose coupled with a widow’s peak gave him something of a severe appearance.  His eyes, normally sharp, were bleary with sleep.

I should watch more My Hero Academia.