Current Events > My Hero Academia has become so bad that I'm starting to wonder...

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...if it was even ever good in the first place.

Yes, but mostly by accident.

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Only the ending is really bad

Was too successful for its own good. Hasn't been good since All Might lost his abilities in season 2 or something. It had moments in season 3 but season 4 on is just a chore to get through.

I don't even know if I got the seasons right but it was a steady decline from that particular point on and it never recovered as a whole, it was only momentarily interesting again for certain episodes.

The anime is arguably at its peak rn

The episode before the one that came out today might be the best episode in the entire series imo

It was always bad. There were parts that were good, I really liked Double, but it was never good itself.

I'd say it really started to decline after seven quirks. It just felt like the scope changed too much, and then there were a some pretty meh plotlines like edgy Deku. Then the final arc was just a clusterfuck.

the series was good when it was about a hero school

the yakuza arc is the best arc in the series IMO

but once deku got multiple quirks the series started to nose dive IMO but eh it was not the worst thing ever no where near as much of a drop off as naurto or anything

Here's something my friend and i happened to talk about last night: the first season feels really compelling when you think the cast will be constrained to 1-A and fleshing them out. The first tournament arc itself is good, but what you won't realize at the time is that the real purpose of the tournament arc is to show who in this class matters and who doesn't, and most of them don't matter at all including many of the likable characters. From there MHA bloats hard with too many characters introduced who only ever have very little to do leading to inevitable frustration.

Anyone excited for the new movie next week

People giving it too much expectations to be the next Naruto.

It was an ok Jump series.

I thought it was great, to cool to ok through most of it's earlier arcs (stain arc was my favorite). Never as great as shonen like one piece, bleach or naruto at their peaks, but I never thought it was awful either like how d.gray man experiences at it's worst lows. (D. gray-man is one of the mid 2000s shonen I legit really got into, but ever since the mangaka hurt her hand, went on that super long hiatus, and then came back in another shonen jump magazine releasing like 4 chapters in a year that series fell off a goddamn cliff imo).

When they did that fight where shiggy fought against america's greatest hero stars and stripes with her neat entrace to only for her to get bodied just as quickly the series kinda' lost me, lol.

I also thought it was boring how the mangaka never really did anything with the vast majority of the 1-A hero class with the small exception of what I am guessing is his personal favorites like red riot/kirishima and bird bro/fokoyami. Of course deku, bakugo and totoroki were the main characters but damn how is the mangaka going to introduce bro tenya ida like he was going to be the series' main friend character during the first like 2 or 3 arcs, give up on him since I'm guessing his popularity never popped up, and do nothing really with him like that lol.

Yeah yeah, him and the rest of 1-A got those small "yeah, we exist. Remember!" moments scattered throughout the manga here or there, but we all know most of them could have gotten cut and nothing truly would have really changed.

My favorite arcs in the series were all the ones actually focusing on them doing hero school stuff, so when the focus at the end shifted towards the all-or-nothing massive battle against these 2 idiots and their lackeys I just completely lost interest. To cap it all off the ending was just bleh imo, lol.

it felt like shit during that magician villain side quest, give random ass villains a single episode not waste time on them, they got all the good pieces, the cast, the setting, the villains but they seem to be reluctant to use them and instead add new pieces and waste time on them

People calling it bad the whole time is absolute cope. I could concede that it got too big for it's own britches, but to call it secretly bad the whole time even though it became a global success is just dumb.

Overhaul is still one of the best fights in shonen period.

The ending was meh.

I kind of dropped the anime somewhere around after Deku got a second quirk and the Trunks voice actor dude (the villains name escapes me) became more edgy.

Felt like the the series was trying too hard to change the tone to be more serious and more dark. Also not a fan of the villains motivation which seemed to be burn everything down because of daddy issues.

I feel like rushing to the ending so where it fell off

Deku learning his other quirks while rouge.

shiggy recovering after the fight with stars.

both of those should of taken at least another arc to finish.

gamepimp12 posted...

I feel like rushing to the ending so where it fell off

Deku learning his other quirks while rouge.

shiggy recovering after the fight with stars.

both of those should of taken at least another arc to finish.

the stuff with stars should have had a lasting impact on shiggy like legit did serious damage to his move pool and be a key factor in why he lost

make her brief appearance actually matter and all that hype arround her have payoff

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it was less than a year i think the entire series after deku gets his quirk is about maybe 10 months

I was legit done with the series after Stars. That shit just had me mad.

When they announced Mirio should've gotten OfA but didn't because he saw Deku first is when you started realizing Deku shouldn't have gotten it. If someone more capable had OfA this series would've been over. Instead they gave someone who was incapable an amazing power and gave him even more powers JUST TO KEEP UP. That's when you realized the story wasn't really well thought out. If your MC needs 2000 asspulls to win you've already lost.

Nukazie posted...

it felt like shit during that magician villain side quest

This is when I quit. I think it was on during the beginning of the pandemic and I thought I was delirious from quarantine or something. Could not believe the insane drop in quality from season 3 to season 4

Cemith posted...

People calling it bad the whole time is absolute cope. I could concede that it got too big for it's own britches, but to call it secretly bad the whole time even though it became a global success is just dumb.

Overhaul is still one of the best fights in shonen period.

Maybe "bad" is a bit overselling, but from day 1 it's derivative, doesn't know where it's going, and lacks pathos (all ethos). Contrast this with something like Naruto, which has amazing world building and emotional characters from the start - even the side story that just got released has the feels.

Deku is a tad interesting at the start, presenting himself as a hard-worker-type. But he quickly becomes an everyman with a generic super-strength power. It's no wonder that the most interesting characters are routinely the villains and well-explored side-characters, in that order. Dabi, Toga, Stain, Overhaul, Double - all much more interesting than the hero school story, which very quickly gets destabilized to focus on regular shonen shit.

I called it out as a generic WSJ series from day 1 and it held that moniker til the end. The world is cool because it evokes the emotions of the readers, but the story does nothing with it. Anything interesting that happens, like the quirk discrimination, just gets sidelined to have boring monologue fights with a generic MC.

The only cool part about the final arc was All Might going full suitcase armor Tony Stark.

I will not tolerate the Season 4 slander I'm seeing in this topic when that same season also gave us The Big 3, Overhaul, Eri, and Gentle, to name a few.

Season 5 sucks though, My Villain Academia was the only thing that could have been interesting and they botched it in the anime.

ellis123 posted...

Yes, but mostly by accident.

ChocoboMogALT posted... more interesting than the hero school story, which very quickly gets destabilized to focus on regular shonen sh

I was just thinking about how stories seem to like trying to do a Harry Potter and have a bunch of characters at school, but then it just disappears. And in no story did it feel more pointless than Blue Exorcist. My god.

It's something ill watch to just turn my mind off and be mildly entertained, but theres no denying it's the definition of mid.

dancing_cactuar posted...

I will not tolerate the Season 4 slander I'm seeing in this topic when that same season also gave us The Big 3, Overhaul, Eri, and Gentle, to name a few.

Mirio was a boring Mary Sue, and I barely even remember the girl or the shy/depressed guy. Idk what Overhaul is. Eri was just a scared little girl, nothing special. Gentle felt like a filler arc and I was very surprised to learn that it wasn't

Honestly, Fat Gum was a better part of season 4 than whatever you mentioned lol

the last think I remember watching is basically after the overhaul arc there was some magician about to raid the school festival or something, I didnt finish the season yet, cant remember why I didnt. Does it get worse after that? The overhaul arc was great

Rika_Furude posted...

the last think I remember watching is basically after the overhaul arc there was some magician about to raid the school festival or something, I didnt finish the season yet, cant remember why I didnt. Does it get worse after that? The overhaul arc was great

I dont think anything could be worse than the school festival arc. Such cringe. Theres another boring school tournament thing where they break into teams and fight each other. After that though it gets better with an arc for the villians and then a raid. Thats where I last left off.

Im in the minority but I find the tournament arcs fun >.> so if theres more of those then I guess its not too bad and I should pick up the series again. But I heard it basically does away with Tomura becoming the next All For One to mirror Deku becoming the next bearer of One For All, and instead has All For One basically continue being the big bad forever which eh.

wanderingshade posted...

I was just thinking about how stories seem to like trying to do a Harry Potter and have a bunch of characters at school, but then it just disappears. And in no story did it feel more pointless than Blue Exorcist. My god.

Counterpoint, Soul Eater. Literally what is the point of DWMA when Maka is, in the pilot, about to take her 100th soul.

ChocoboMogALT posted...

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I actually absolutely agree that the villains are more interesting with some exceptions. Namely Kirishima and Bakugo are loads more interesting and entertaining than Deku.

They also do this RWBY thing where Deku forgets that he's a huge dweeb fanboy for heroes. Sure AM is his favorite, but like once per season they bring up the "muttering in excitement" thing before promptly forgetting it.

My favorite part of the show is when Deku went up against that mob boss and was only able to win because he was constantly being healed. And then immediately after fought some weirdo with a short stack gf and was all like "This was the hardest I've ever fought."

Ive rarely seen an anime with such a great first couple of seasons go downhill that badly.

But I have to give it to Attack on Titan for having the shittiest middle and end.

JJKs ending was so bad I've seen people go back and look at MHA's a bit more positively lol

I haven't read MHA but I've thought about starting it from time to time

Gwynevere posted...

JJKs ending was so bad I've seen people go back and look at MHA's a bit more positively lol

I haven't read MHA but I've thought about starting it from time to time

That makes me sad. I was about to start JJK lol

Turbam posted...

My favorite part of the show is when Deku went up against that mob boss and was only able to win because he was constantly being healed. And then immediately after fought some weirdo with a short stack gf and was all like "This was the hardest I've ever fought."

I mean It was his first fight using OFA without assistance or hurting himself going all out.

Irony posted...

I mean It was his first fight using OFA without assistance or hurting himself going all out.

It's just funny that that random weirdo with his GF was harder than the dude that can take away quirks.

The series kind of peaked in S2 and hasnt really been relevant until the ending that was terribad and spawned a crap ton of memes.

Turbam posted...

It's just funny that that random weirdo with his GF was harder than the dude that can take away quirks.

Wasn't the "hardest fight" part because he could relate to him and fighting him made him face the truth that most villains are just outcasts

Yeah that's cool Deku, now put the fries in the bag