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My Hero Academia |OT4| Still Just a Damned Nerd
- Thread starter bunkitz
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It was posted back then but reposting because maybe you missed it
https://observer.com/2020/07/most-watched-popular-tv-shows-pandemic-quarantine/
It's clear that having the JT and EA arc back to back has killed most of the hype for the season, the anime viewers were already struggling with the first half being a dragged out training arc, they were promised by manga readers that would be followed up with a exciting unique arc with action and story progression but what got was another training meant to set up a better arc but without the context of the villain arc it's completely neutered, it's no wonder why people are losing interest when Bones adapted the worst arc in manga and followed that up by making the EA arc the worst arc in the anime
I just think this is a US centric pov.
MHA had one of its best rating in japanese TV when JT was airing, even beating OP that has wano
That is not even a good way since is taking social media to do it, like its not even hard numbers
better than anedoctes at least
I could also post tv ratings
MHA is consistently in the top 10 for the first time in 5 seasons
Just that unless we have hard numbers (even those are from last year anyway so they don't work with Season 5) saying that people aren't getting annoyed now is kinda false
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I mean, people aren't enthusiastic on MyAnimeList or Reddit either. 5th season so far is the lowest rated season to date.
Also, since we're listing anecdotals, I have spoken with multiple people who are just gonna wait til this season is over with to binge it instead of continuing weekly.
Also, since we're listing anecdotals, I have spoken with multiple people who are just gonna wait til this season is over with to binge it instead of continuing weekly.
Funny enough most people i have seen not liking is from the english speaking fandom, in the brazilian one most people is being ok with the anime
I am just showing that there are reports about this stuff, if a future report shows that mha isnt as high it would be more proof than anedoctes
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No offense, but I feel you get really defensive when someone criticizes anything related to MHA
Edit: all right i will drop it
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Offense taken because this will just derail the thread again
You can just DM me if you have a problem, I want to talk about the issue at the hand that is the anime losing popularity or not. If you disagree with what I am arguing I will gladly disscuss it here
Again with this? Guys, if you cannot stand the other person's opinions, use the ignore function. That's what it's there for.
That I can agree with, but now that the decision is made I just accepted and moved on. If I think about how things could be I wont be able to wacth anymore because everything will be made worse in my mind
I was willing to give it a chance, but at this point it's clear they really just did it to advertise the movie and not in any attempt to make improvements to the story. It's a shame the EA arc had to get sacrificed because it's still a very important one. Hopefully they can do the last part of it justice at least.
i think a good thing about this episode being one chapter is that the next one will be 3 meaning there is absolutely 0 sense the pacing will be spoiled by flashbacks.....
right?
JT arc gets better treatment than the actual good arcs of the season lol
I will wait before saying that MVA has worse treatment but yeah EA definitely suffered a lot from this change. It is a very emotional arc in the manga, also while providing a bit of breathing between 2 heavy arcs.
The emotional aspect is still there, but part of it is gone because the impending danger of the army is diminished and instead of serving of a breathing moment it becomes more of a more of the same arc because it is adapted just after another low stakes training arc.
The emotional aspect is still there, but part of it is gone because the impending danger of the army is diminished and instead of serving of a breathing moment it becomes more of a more of the same arc because it is adapted just after another low stakes training arc.
It wasn't an inherently bad idea. It certainly wasn't an inherently good idea either, but if it were thought through and structured properly, it would be a good way to build suspense and mystery throughout the season and let it all end on a big explosive climax.
Unfortunately, it seems like their thought process wasn't "What's the best way to adapt the series in seasonal anime form?" but rather "MOVIE, MOVIE, MOVIE! BIG BUCKS, BIG BUCKS!"
I gave up on that optimistic idea when they showed the league and shigaraki working with the army and showing too much of redestro face
Honestly I will say it was a bad idea straight up because the JT arc is just way too boring of an arc to follow it up with another low-key arc, even with your idea of trying to structure it better. Nothing about the MVA arc's conclusion needs a mystery angle to it at all.
My big gripes with it aside, MVA was an exciting, action-packed follow up that no one was expecting following a training arc.
We're on same minds here
I was always that MVA wouldn't make for a good mystery when the conclusion is basically League is big now
How because league beat up another villain group
Like ok
And fairness to Hori he didn't write it for a mystery in mind
Doesn't matter since they showed that important members are alive
Because anedoctes aren't proof of anything, I just wanted to be clear.
I'm curious how it does in theaters. Surely it won't be Demon Slayer tier in Japan.
And how will it be overseas? Heroes Rising did decently but uh this is a different world now. I wonder if it even comes out over here this year.
Ending does kinda feel like a filler villain lol, everyone reads this arc for the Todorki drama and Endeavor's talk with Natsuo
This was another thing that made me super skeptical when all this started happening. There's a flow to how stories pace their arcs and some arcs are more serious than the low key arcs like JT and EA. Putting them together just kills the intended pace entirely.
The drop is significant for week 1 sales compared to the volumes immediately prior, but it makes up for it with higher than average week 2 sales. I have no idea what this means.
Also that EA is a part of that too and that shit is getting milked for all it's worth in the anime rn. It's clear this change is just for the movie.
I mean I can't give a hard number on this, but MHA is in the top 3 most popular shows on Crunchyroll with One Piece and Boruto pretty much all the time when it's airing a new season. MHA S5 leads off Toonami which is basically the only anime block on US television. While US Nielsen ratings aren't the most useful metric in 2021 you can find a list of them here https://toonamifaithful.com/category/ratings/ spoilers MHA is the most popular show on the Toonami block.
Also lets be real here, shows like One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach had god awful pacing for years and that never stopped them from being incredibly popular through their runs. Heck you don't even need to have good animation or pacing if people are hooked on the story and characters.
Also lets be real here, shows like One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach had god awful pacing for years and that never stopped them from being incredibly popular through their runs. Heck you don't even need to have good animation or pacing if people are hooked on the story and characters.
Meanwhile, those shows were/are weekly and MHA is seasonal with a poorly paced season. The former have an excuse, the latter doesn't.
That's not a accurate assessment when the majority of Vol 23 is the JT arc, even the volume cover is JT