My Hero Academia - Plus Ultra

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Xarpho's Return said:
That was the problem with Class 1-B showing up, since already a third of 1-A had boring quirks, useless quirks, or one-dimensional gimmick characters. Tailman, Sugarman, Invisible Girl, and a few others were destined to be background characters from day one.
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I wish Horikoshi wouldn't pretend that wasn't their fate, though. The Joint Training arc was one of the most agonizing parts of the manga thanks to how it would humiliate characters we wanted to see succeed to big up background characters who never mattered before and would never matter again, or they'd just take their victory in stupid ways. Shoto being scolded for not wanting to burn his opponents to death, Bakugo "leading by example", and this ever-infamous line:
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Trollblade69 said:
I wish Horikoshi wouldn't pretend that wasn't their fate, though. The Joint Training arc was one of the most agonizing parts of the manga thanks to how it would humiliate characters we wanted to see succeed to big up background characters who never mattered before and would never matter again, or they'd just take their victory in stupid ways. Shoto being scolded for not wanting to burn his opponents to death, Bakugo "leading by example", and this ever-infamous line:
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I mean, they're allowed small victories. The guy that talked to animals was basically silent until commanding a bunch of insects to attack Present Mic in the "defeat the teachers!" arc and that was about it for him. You'd think the silent one would have some bigger play especially as he's one of the more mutant people in the class and all he got was that and an extremely stupid-looking costume.
 
Xarpho's Return said:
Koda. Shoji's Quirk was awesome but he never was more than Class 1-A's B team at best.
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Alright.
I was hoping Koda would turn out to be the traitor because communication with and control of ants and flies and birds and other small animals is a really useful power for espionage. But no, they had to ruin Aoyama's character instead.
 
Trollblade69 said:
Alright.
I was hoping Koda would turn out to be the traitor because communication with and control of ants and flies and birds and other small animals is a really useful power for espionage. But no, they had to ruin Aoyama's character instead.
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My money was on Invisble Girl.

The was what was fun about the whole Traitor thing. Most of Class 1-A’s background cast have skills that make it real easy to be spy. To saying nothing of any of the other characters at UA.
 
6MillionCoofs said:
My money was on Invisble Girl.

The was what was fun about the whole Traitor thing. Most of Class 1-A’s background cast have skills that make it real easy to be spy. To saying nothing of any of the other characters at UA.
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I thought the Kaminari theory would've been fun, it'd make it a character the shippers actually care about and make Jiro have more to her than "musician".
Mainly I just really really didn't want it to be Aoyama. Feels really cruel to have a character who could be used as a metaphor for birth defects only to go "no his quirk is only flawed because it's stolen". Also thought he could've become a way cooler hero by evolving to become a living laser.
 
6MillionCoofs said:
My money was on Invisble Girl.

The was what was fun about the whole Traitor thing. Most of Class 1-A’s background cast have skills that make it real easy to be spy. To saying nothing of any of the other characters at UA.
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A popular theory was that it was Vlad, the 1B teacher.

Having Aoyama be the traitor was so lame, because he was comic relief and the joke was that his Quirk wasn't actually as super-useful as it could be because he kept shitting himself when he tried to use it. Throughout the series, there were various people whose Quirks were either completely useless (in the first movie, the dad had the Quirkless daughter and tried to cheer her up because his Quirk was just that he could rotate his fingers a bit more) or an active detriment to those around him (in the Mentors arc, Deku related a story of All Might rescuing a kid who was drowning and it was difficult to rescue him because the kid's Quirk lowered the pH level of the water around him, meaning All Might had to dive into what effectively vinegar).

As for birth defects, part of the thing about X-Men was that the mutants had powers that could be seen as disabilities, like Cyclops, who had to wear glasses or use a visor because his eyes shot out powerful laser beams.
 
I don't read manga, but I've enjoyed the Anime more than not. What I'm seeing lately is similar to what I saw with Attack on Titan. Personally I think the ending of AoT, while not perfect, was no where near as bad as people made it out to be.

Since the Anime is still going I'll reserve my judgement of its ending until I see it but I'm kind of hoping it actually lives up to the rumblings this time.
 
Preacher ✝ said:
I don't read manga, but I've enjoyed the Anime more than not. What I'm seeing lately is similar to what I saw with Attack on Titan. Personally I think the ending of AoT, while not perfect, was no where near as bad as people made it out to be.

Since the Anime is still going I'll reserve my judgement of its ending until I see it but I'm kind of hoping it actually lives up to the rumblings this time.
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Personally, I think most people need to settle down a bit. Calm down their nerves and analyze any series ending with a cool head.
 
I want to dedicate this bit to make fun of MHA fans. Say what you will about Sukuna, but MHA fans really think having a long backstory can make a character the best villain ever

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Like its kinda funny how insecure and cooked this fanbase is. They need to point to backstories to make up for how dogshit their series' villain is from making dumbass decisions, and being hamfisted into the series worldbuilding along with being built up as a terrifying threat to not get a single kill on anyone that isn't a villain, not even on heroic background characters.

It just shows how modern anime/manga fans feel like sports teams that have to defend everything about their "team"
 
The way I'm hearing about this ending it's making me just think if they really wanted deku to be quirkless atthe end they could have just fucking doen something actually cool and made it lead into the initial one shot manga that was just titled "my hero" IIRC where he's like a normal dude but has shit he made for himself to compensate for it. He was older in that one they could have fucking done it and people would probably be a lot less averse to the end.

Also talk of the "dip in writing quality and character assassination/skinwalkerization during the last parts" is just giving me homestuck flashbacks.


Kurohige said:
Nah. Didn't Deku just hitch a ride on All Might's Superman jump, and get told "No, you quirkless dipshit. You can't be a hero. Fuck off," before AM has a come to nostalgia moment when he sees Deku rush for Bakugo suffocating in that slime monster, and then claims the dork as his successor?

...At the end of the day, it's all just the Make-A-Wish Foundation, but capesuit.
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Before the extra powers that all might never fucking used being tacked on it was a cool idea that "oh when you use the ability your bones break and you're in agony literally the only reason all might is buff is because of a combo of goofy cartoon muscle flexing shit to hide the fact he's taken on enough injuries from either using his power or getting hit hard from criminals". Like they were going somewhere with that mechanic kinda for a bit and trying to like work out a way he'd manage it by focusing in on specific digits or limbs insteadof going all in.
 
When I first encountered MHA I found Izuku (and some of the others) so emotionally unstable in a whiny and woe-is-me way that I chalked it down to representing the modern teenage boy, and thought maybe the author would make him grow up over the course of the show to be a MAN like All Might.

I then ignored it. For it to turn out that Izuku's life ended up basically as pointless as he was worried about in the first place is quite funny. And sad.
 
I''ve read the last few paged and loled. Expecting a good ending in a capeshit pastiche was somewhat weird to start with. Because, you know, capeshit. The mainstream of the genre had been misery porn soap opera for the last 30 years or so. I mean, I've dropped it completely more than a decade ago, but as far as I can see from reviews, shit did not get any better. MCU in its later installments, where the absolute best ending a hero can expect was dying before writers get to fucking over his life was merely going down the road well-trodden by comics.

But it got really funny when people started blaming this on Japs and their culture. You should be thankful to them for at least giving you Vigilantes with its upbeat ending (or so people say, haven't finished it yet).
 
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Cassius Crayfish said:
When I first encountered MHA I found Izuku (and some of the others) so emotionally unstable in a whiny and woe-is-me way that I chalked it down to representing the modern teenage boy, and thought maybe the author would make him grow up over the course of the show to be a MAN like All Might.
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That's one reason why a lot of people are pissed, it was framed from basically day one that "how I grew to be the greatest hero" or something that would imply he would gain his Quirk and work his way up until he was basically unbeatable.

FatR said:
MCU in its later installments, where the absolute best ending a hero can expect was dying before writers get to fucking over his life was merely going down the road well-trodden by comics.
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Comics got weird because by the 1990s they were throwing anything at the wall to make stick, so you had a bunch of reboots, trying to unify those reboots by having them all be alternate universes, trying to merge those universes, and then making ever-increasing gimmicks, including "serious" themes.

For a Japanese pastiche of superheroes, One Punch Man was better at it. A hero who had really no idea how he became practically invincible overnight, the main superhero agency is full of amoral glory seekers, cities just getting flat-out destroyed, and so forth. The problem with OPM was one of those "flame burns the brightest burns the shortest" and by the second season it's a much of a traditional heroes/villains type story, much to its detriment.
 
Oh man, the cope is funny.

All the top YouTubers covering MHA are moreorless shiting on the ending hard and practically every top comment is saying how ‘the ending is good’ only to get shat on in the replies. Lol.
 
Yeah and MHA fans are shitting on other series like Boruto, JJK, Black Clover, and the like as if their shit is any better.

MHA is honestly the worst of the new shōnen because it is up its own ass with the social commentary that is garbage.

The part where it sucked itself off for not killing All Might in the Iron Might fight is what really killed it for me, since like the entire situation did not need to happen, but it did because Hori loves MCU Iron Man (that was his actual reason afaik).

The ending (and epilogue) itself is worse for trying to be "Realistic" with Deku and his class separating when MHA throughout the entire series is overly built on idealism from All Might having a quirk that gives Deku the ability to be a professional hero to Bakugo being revived with string, bubbles, and sweat.
 
So some people have speculated that the reason we got the ending we did and how no one really changed was because there is 6 more movies to do.

In short by the time movie 10 comes out people are speculating the ending may be way different.
 
The post anime Naruto film was pretty kino, but it worked by focusing on the Naruto and Hinata sides that fans hyped up for a decade, with the action just boiling to fanservice.

Does MHA have a main pairing that normal viewers care about? Are there at least dangling plot threads that deserve their own film?
 
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