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My Hero Academia: Season 5 |OT| We Are Deku
- Thread starter Tace
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man, i think every episode of mha looks at least pretty good so seeing people dump on the animation makes me shook
this is what growing up on dbz and one piece does to you
anyway, watching Todoroki hype up Momo only for her team to lose is just as funny as it was in the manga. legit top tier comedy
this is what growing up on dbz and one piece does to you
anyway, watching Todoroki hype up Momo only for her team to lose is just as funny as it was in the manga. legit top tier comedy
Imo mha always has a good base but has some things that arent very good like backgroungs, tho I think it improved
but yeah it still is better than most anime. And this season has been better than season 4 too so far.
It's funny that I went into this series with low expectations after season 4 kinda fumbled and manga readers pointing out that this current arc wasn't all that interesting.
...yet I'm kinda digging it? a common issue with the expansive casts of these shonen series is how characters get left in the dust because you just can't give time to them all, but this here gives some shine to class A characters people may have latched onto way back at season 1/early manga, while class B gets to fill the role of seeing new quirks and how they'd be applied to a fight. While the lack of stakes does indeed basically make it "let's just see a bunch of dudes brawling with teamwork or whatever", it's neat that the show does keep in mind that the main cast are students and even when you get the big arcs, they're not afraid to reel it back in to the normality, well relatively speaking.
Anyway the right team won this weak, sorry beaky but at least they gave you some slick moments.
The oft compared to Demon Slayer feels especially like an outlier in this case as well, Ufotable just going all out is gonna be hard for most shonen to match I guess, good thing to because it's one of the main aspects of the anime that helps me endure that one character
...yet I'm kinda digging it? a common issue with the expansive casts of these shonen series is how characters get left in the dust because you just can't give time to them all, but this here gives some shine to class A characters people may have latched onto way back at season 1/early manga, while class B gets to fill the role of seeing new quirks and how they'd be applied to a fight. While the lack of stakes does indeed basically make it "let's just see a bunch of dudes brawling with teamwork or whatever", it's neat that the show does keep in mind that the main cast are students and even when you get the big arcs, they're not afraid to reel it back in to the normality, well relatively speaking.
Anyway the right team won this weak, sorry beaky but at least they gave you some slick moments.
I know right? while there's definitely been some spots in the last series where I really felt the lack of punchy animation (blame the movie I guess?), I'm still sitting here pretty pleased that there's a level of consisitency for a shonen adaptation that I could never have imagined following the years of weekly classic "Big Three" anime, where you could have like the worst animation followed by that one tasty morsel of killer animation for the entire season (so I'm basically remembering the infamous Guy vs Guy followed by Sasori of Naruto here, the whiplash!)
The oft compared to Demon Slayer feels especially like an outlier in this case as well, Ufotable just going all out is gonna be hard for most shonen to match I guess, good thing to because it's one of the main aspects of the anime that helps me endure that one character
this season has been far superior than season 4, yeah the pacing is a bit bad because of so many recaps, flashblacks and useless filler dialogue, but when it comes to the actual fights it has been doing a better job than season 4 did, and consider it is a much less important fight than the ones in season 4
Like it is hilarious how they made a better job of doing a phasing quirk with kuroiro than with Mirio
Plus making it seasonal means we don't have to suffer through god damn filler arcs...Christ nightmares of Bleach and Naruto.
I took a long break from MHA and came back to it a little bit ago and blew through season 4 and now I'm watching season 5 weekly. I remember the show being... better. Maybe not. I dunno. They sure do like to waste the viewer's time. I just want the characters to shut up and quit explaining everything to me. When I'm playing catchup, it's easier to stomach filler episodes, but waiting a week to watch another load of crap is pretty annoying. They tease us with interesting stuff and then they're like, "Nah, nevermind, here's another tournament. Fuck you."
I think the anime is making it better personally. The low page count per chapter during this arc in the manga was ROUGH.
Yeah, this is a much better pace than the manga had. Horikoshi was still ill at the time, page count was low, art was relatively shaky.
I actually really like this arc from an adaptation perspective tbh.
I actually really like this arc from an adaptation perspective tbh.
Actually he was moving, he was ill some days but I guess it was an effect of having to do a lot of things at once
They even adapted the start of 204 that i didnt expect.
Also nice that they expanded the Endeavor bit
I think this series still suffers from it, they introduced Class B already and then they introduced new heroes and the other schools.
Adding new characters and telling their back story is a lot easier than writing characters that have depth and then developing them (see: One Piece), especially for a weekly series.
It was the lowest point for manga readers too, this was really the one arc I wished they rushed yet they've to adapting 2 chapters per episode for the wrong arc, today's episode adapted 2 chapters that were 11 and 13 pages so you can can technically say this episode had one regular chapter worth of content
Honenuki english was impressively good
Pony was like I expected
Go go Lida! Cool episode, I find Endeavor to be a real interesting character and Bakugo and Dekus interaction was nice too.
Yeah waiting two weeks before watching is the move. So far it's been like two episodes per match, with the first one being the introduction/planning and then buildup and cliffhanger to the actual fight.
This episode was the least interested I've been in the show....even less than the school festival.
I did laugh pretty hard at the Uraraka/Ashido interaction. I will give the show the credit that surprisingly some jokes land really well for me and have me legitimately laugh out loud.
I chuckled another time in this episode but I can't remember.
This episode was the least interested I've been in the show....even less than the school festival.
I did laugh pretty hard at the Uraraka/Ashido interaction. I will give the show the credit that surprisingly some jokes land really well for me and have me legitimately laugh out loud.
I chuckled another time in this episode but I can't remember.
Probably the funniest thing about any UA event (sports festival, final exam, AvB). They constantly do things that would end with them in the hospital or even dead. UA would be utterly fucked without Recovery Girl.
If the villains really did want to destroy UA, just assassinate Recovery Girl.
Lida is a badass, kind of growing tired of this arc at this point though feels like it's taking up too much of this season.
What is the goal of this exercise? What do they win? What will this improve?
Just a lazy showcase for new moves and "character development" while allowing class B to job.
The only thing I like is seeing how make some of the dumb powers useful, though a lot of them feel like a stretch. What even is Ojiro's quirk again? A tail?
Just a lazy showcase for new moves and "character development" while allowing class B to job.
The only thing I like is seeing how make some of the dumb powers useful, though a lot of them feel like a stretch. What even is Ojiro's quirk again? A tail?
Training still should have a purpose. If the characters learned anything it was incidental to the exercise. It's pointless to find meaning because it's just a tournament arc.
I like that lida got the Sakuga moment, he was pretty cool this episode
My guess is Horikoshi wanted a arc to show off everyone's powers and give some underutilized characters some shine, it's more of a last hurrah for the students since the story does become less school focused after this arc
Big spoilers-
I'm almost positive this arc exists so Hori could do the quirk reveal without it being an asspull in a fight with actual stakes lol
Also Shinso and setting up new moves for the war arc but I digress
Also Shinso and setting up new moves for the war arc but I digress
Yep, this arc had like the lowest page count per chapter in series and a bunch of break weeks, it was the worst weekly experience which all lead to this being the most hated arc by the fanbase