! Given the conclusion to this fight, in hindsight Horikoshi really could've at least found a way to spare Curious, the sole female villain of the group. It sticks out as a sore thumb that she's the only one to actually die, now we're back to just Toga lol
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Being wrong will actually make me really happy.
Seems like I'm in the minority that didn't like this arc and chapter so ill just sit back and not stir the flames.
I'll enjoy what I get.
See you in two years, maybe probably. I've been here for 10 years so eh what's another two.I wasn't a fan of this arc or the direction the manga has been going in for a while. So don't feel like you are alone.
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! Given the conclusion to this fight, in hindsight Horikoshi really could've at least found a way to spare Curious, the sole female villain of the group. It sticks out as a sore thumb that she's the only one to actually die, now we're back to just Toga lol
! Cue to her coming back after all is said and done, One Piece style.
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! Given the conclusion to this fight, in hindsight Horikoshi really could've at least found a way to spare Curious, the sole female villain of the group. It sticks out as a sore thumb that she's the only one to actually die, now we're back to just Toga lol
! You have a point, but do you really expect Toga to not go for the kill? It's really in-character for her to end someone like so.
! Also, isn't it kind of weird that in a series where people survive mass electrocution and explosions, that a large fall liquefied them? It's like real-world physics just appeared for one chapter. It looked sick, sure, but it's weird. -
I like the sentiment and events of the ending of this arc, but the taming of Gigantomachia should've been much more climactic. I really didn't like being told Shigaraki was now the harbinger of destruction and worthy of all command of everyone- I wanted to see it, and Horokoshi definitely failed to deliver in that department.
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I like the sentiment and events of the ending of this arc, but the taming of Gigantomachia should've been much more climactic. I really didn't like being told Shigaraki was now the harbinger of destruction and worthy of all command of everyone- I wanted to see it, and Horokoshi definitely failed to deliver in that department.
How was it told? We saw Shigaraki destroying a whole city in this chapter.
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! You have a point, but do you really expect Toga to not go for the kill? It's really in-character for her to end someone like so.
! Also, isn't it kind of weird that in a series where people survive mass electrocution and explosions, that a large fall liquefied them? It's like real-world physics just appeared for one chapter. It looked sick, sure, but it's weird.! Well that's why I said Horikoshi should've kept her alive, as he was able to for the others. I won't blame the character for her actions, as you say, it's in-character. But all the same time, this arc ended up being rather unconventional regarding its fights and ending, where everyone else didn't die after all and now works for Shiggy. So it just feels like an unnecessary waste of a rare female villain. I won't pretend I have great love for her or anything, but I just wanted to speak my mind on that is all.
! And yea, I recall many people complaining that she actually died from that. -
How was it told? We saw Shigaraki destroying a whole city in this chapter.
I wanted a double panel of Gigantomachia submitting or something. Maybe the next chapter will have that, so maybe I'm complaining for no reason.
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When Shigaraki buys his new Evil Lair with all that money, we need a League of Villains version of the chapter where everyone shows off their rooms.
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Gigantomachia's going to be the All For One equivalent of Deku's room, isn't it?
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Thia site is the only place where I havent seen mainly praise for this chapter…hmmm. Idk this was one of the best in the series for me, makes me care alot more about shigiraki and establishes him as a much greater threat
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My love for this chapter us tied only with the All for one vs one for all chapter. Absolutely brilliant arc.
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Female villains chat.
! Well there is mystery test tube woman at the Doctor's lab. So Toga isn't the last. Curious could technically still be alive. Jacked up but alive lol
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Thia site is the only place where I havent seen mainly praise for this chapter…hmmm. Idk this was one of the best in the series for me, makes me care alot more about shigiraki and establishes him as a much greater threat
I feel the opposite. It achieved the goal of finally making him genuinely intimidating, but at the same time his renewed goal of just wanting to destroy everything is completely uninteresting to me.
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Female villains chat.
! Well there is mystery test tube woman at the Doctor's lab. So Toga isn't the last. Curious could technically still be alive. Jacked up but alive lol
! That's a Nomu or whatever though. Hardly worth getting excited over given their general lack of a defining personality given their track record.
! As for Curious, they explicitly stated she died, even framing it as her giving her life to the cause. This isn't One Piece, and this all happened in a particularly gruesome arc as well, so there's no real reason to suspect she's still alive. -
I wanna know why you didn't like it. Can't speak for anyone else, but I don't want this being a thread where only popular opinions get tossed around. There's Reddit for that.
Actually r/manga has some comments and readers that dislike the direction too.
Anyway, it's a mixed bag of reason but its mostly because my dislike from how he handled the end of the previous arc is coupled with what he did with this.
In a sense, when you are writing shounen or handling power scales, it is very very dangerous to scale emotions/triggers to huge power ups.
Horikoshi hasn't been doing this only once but a couple of times.
It is apparent what he is going for with Shiragaki here.
The edgelord character that is throwing a nuisance, with panels showing how "cool" he is.
It's a technique utilized frequently to show off how cool the character is and you know, usually used to sell and is most of the time, terribly shallow.About the power ups, we have Twice, Tomura and Shiragaki sharing one common troupe for why they got such an insanely strong upgrade.
This common thread here is their emotional outbursts and how cliche it is. Backstory + power up, it's a been there done that many times thing and you would think people would notice it by now when it has been used so many times this arc.
So because they are villains somehow that is forgivable.
Also, "giving the villains an arc" doesn't equate to him being a genius or whoa what a creative way to write things!.Give it some perspective, this guy literally just crammed all the developments and powerups into one single arc and he needed to do that because he did not build up the villains like he did for the heroes.
If it's not obvious enough, he did not thought it through when he first created the Villain Alliance.
Please tell me how is it believable for Spinner to change sides.
Also this Re-Destro guy and his loyal followers is a freaking cult that held onto long term ideologies and belief but him throwing it all away and decided to follow a mentally unstable teenager is somehow good writing.
Dude has been planning for years but nope the fuck away because this guy is now his jesus, nope not the guy his own name was inspired by, but this angst kid that pulled a tantrum.Let me put this in One Piece context for you.
It's like Blackbeard sailed up to Wano and destroyed half the island.
Made Kaidou bow down to him, submit his ideology to his because he awaken his devil fruit after he had a PTSD in the middle of the fight, Kaidou threw away whatsoever ambitions he has and follows Blackbeard because kewl powers.
Big Mom, who happenstance to be there, then cries tears of joy because Blackbeard reminds me of her former captain or something and follows him too.
But why? Why Blackbeard?
Why Shiragaki? Why not Re-destro?
Because the author said so and also because the edgey kid sells.This is a cheap move and I at least give him credit for at least attempting to establish his gallery of villains(although all he ever does is introduce new villain groups and have his poster villain boy curbstomp because hurr durr main bad guy).
But Christ, it's in no way good writing.Go look at Hunter x Hunter for power ups with consequences and what hard work really equates to and how to show it through writing.
I wasn't a fan of this arc or the direction the manga has been going in for a while. So don't feel like you are alone.
Thanks that's nice to know.
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I think it's cliché intentionally. Horikoshi just took the villains and made them into standard shonen protagonists. That's why you shouldn't compare Shigaraki to Blackbeard, but to Luffy. You know how Luffy's unshakeable ambition drives people to follow him? This is the same thing, except Shigaraki's dream is absolute destruction. A completely batshit insane dream, but you could say the same thing about the goals of your usual shonen protagonist.
I might be reading too much into it, but I think this is a deconstruction of all this tropes, to show how easily they become twisted when applied to bad guys. Toga just want to be herself(a serial killer). Twice would do anything for his friends (including mass slaughter). And so on. -
Female villains chat.
! Well there is mystery test tube woman at the Doctor's lab. So Toga isn't the last. Curious could technically still be alive. Jacked up but alive lol
! I'm hoping there's MLA female heroes we haven't seen yet. Ms. Joke would be interesting, it'd give her character something to do.
Actually r/manga has some comments and readers that dislike the direction too.
! Anyway, it's a mixed bag of reason but its mostly because my dislike from how he handled the end of the previous arc is coupled with what he did with this.
In a sense, when you are writing shounen or handling power scales, it is very very dangerous to scale emotions/triggers to huge power ups.
Horikoshi hasn't been doing this only once but a couple of times.
It is apparent what he is going for with Shiragaki here.
The edgelord character that is throwing a nuisance, with panels showing how "cool" he is.
It's a technique utilized frequently to show off how cool the character is and you know, usually used to sell and is most of the time, terribly shallow.
! About the power ups, we have Twice, Tomura and Shiragaki sharing one common troupe for why they got such an insanely strong upgrade.
This common thread here is their emotional outbursts and how cliche it is. Backstory + power up, it's a been there done that many times thing and you would think people would notice it by now when it has been used so many times this arc.
So because they are villains somehow that is forgivable.
Also, "giving the villains an arc" doesn't equate to him being a genius or whoa what a creative way to write things!.
! Give it some perspective, this guy literally just crammed all the developments and powerups into one single arc and he needed to do that because he did not build up the villains like he did for the heroes.
If it's not obvious enough, he did not thought it through when he first created the Villain Alliance.
Please tell me how is it believable for Spinner to change sides.
Also this Re-Destro guy and his loyal followers is a freaking cult that held onto long term ideologies and belief but him throwing it all away and decided to follow a mentally unstable teenager is somehow good writing.
Dude has been planning for years but nope the fuck away because this guy is now his jesus, nope not the guy his own name was inspired by, but this angst kid that pulled a tantrum.
! Let me put this in One Piece context for you.
It's like Blackbeard sailed up to Wano and destroyed half the island.
Made Kaidou bow down to him, submit his ideology to his because he awaken his devil fruit after he had a PTSD in the middle of the fight, Kaidou threw away whatsoever ambitions he has and follows Blackbeard because kewl powers.
Big Mom, who happenstance to be there, then cries tears of joy because Blackbeard reminds me of her former captain or something and follows him too.
But why? Why Blackbeard?
Why Shiragaki? Why not Re-destro?
Because the author said so and also because the edgey kid sells.
! This is a cheap move and I at least give him credit for at least attempting to establish his gallery of villains(although all he ever does is introduce new villain groups and have his poster villain boy curbstomp because hurr durr main bad guy).
But Christ, it's in no way good writing.
! Go look at Hunter x Hunter for power ups with consequences and what hard work really equates to and how to show it through writing.
! Thanks that's nice to know.Have you tried reading My Hero Vigilantes? It's way less focused on battles and more on the characters. It's a nice palate cleanser to the main series. Anyway…
[Horikoshi Apologist Mode Activated!]
! I'm willing to forgive Hori for the emotional power-up because quirks are more than a superpower, they're apart of you, and also because how each (in this arc, I'm not touching Deku VS Muscular, that confused me too at first) was handled. Toga's survival instincts unlocked the full capability of her quirk. Twice had a fear he was forced to face and his was less a power-up and more like using his quirk like he knew he could. Shigaraki I'm willing to forgive because we know his quirk was super-powered even as a child and Decay is most likely a mutation quirk like Eri. I'm sure it has a weakness but this was his moment to be a "badass" that comes with introducing something new a character can do.
! And, yeah, you can tell this arc was rushed. Things were happening very fast, but I don't know if it was Horikoshi or his editors egging him on to get back to Team Deku. Either way, for what it's worth I'm willing to give it a pass because I like the villains and wanted to learn more about them.
! As for Spinner, I think he has a follower personality. He latched on to Stain and now he's drinking the Shigaraki kool-aid. I don't think he's really thinking about the consequences of his actions, just that he hates the current society and wants it to change. He strikes me as a guy who's in way over his head.
! What saves Shigaraki as a character to me is his willingness to learn and adapt and him genuinely liking his comrades. Yeah, he's all about the destruction, but he's being smarter about it and will use his new resources to their fullest unlike in the Summer Camp Arc where he lost several allies.
! I'm fine with Re-Destro following Shigaraki because I think he realized its his best bet to accomplish his ultimate goal. The only difference now is he's not in charge. It had to be a huge blow to his sense of self being built up as the guy to realize Destro's dream only for someone stronger who completely mastered their quirk without support gear to blow him out of the water. I think bowing down to Shiggy shows just how much of a fanatic he is, willing to work with him as long as he gets what he wants. Why not? The current society has to go for the MLA to get what they want. Now they have the power (Shigaraki, Twice (the others too, but mostly Twice) and Gigantomachia) to do it. It's a match made in Skypiea.
! Gigantomachia seeing AFO in Shigaraki really worked for me. That's pretty much all he wanted, was to follow someone worthy to be his successor. Plus, as powerful as Shigaraki became, no way he was winning against Giganto in a serious fight then and there.
! But, yeah, My Hero Academia isn't One Piece or Hunter X Hunter, and it shouldn't be. It should follow its own rules that world has introduced and play off its particular strengths. All that being said, bad writing can ruin any story but again I'm more forgiving because I love the villains I don't think Re-Destro submitting changes his core ideology. There more than one way to skin a society. -
I think it's cliché intentionally. Horikoshi just took the villains and made them into standard shonen protagonists. That's why you shouldn't compare Shigaraki to Blackbeard, but to Luffy. You know how Luffy's unshakeable ambition drives people to follow him? This is the same thing, except Shigaraki's dream is absolute destruction. A completely batshit insane dream, but you could say the same thing about the goals of your usual shonen protagonist.
I might be reading too much into it, but I think this is a deconstruction of all this tropes, to show how easily they become twisted when applied to bad guys. Toga just want to be herself(a serial killer). Twice would do anything for his friends (including mass slaughter). And so on.Basically, this.
It's totally a "why don't we get stronger the same way a shonen protag normally would?" tongue-in-cheek training arc for the villains.
I think it's mad scientist level brilliance. -
Actually r/manga has some comments and readers that dislike the direction too.
Anyway, it's a mixed bag of reason but its mostly because my dislike from how he handled the end of the previous arc is coupled with what he did with this.
In a sense, when you are writing shounen or handling power scales, it is very very dangerous to scale emotions/triggers to huge power ups.
Horikoshi hasn't been doing this only once but a couple of times.
It is apparent what he is going for with Shiragaki here.
The edgelord character that is throwing a nuisance, with panels showing how "cool" he is.
It's a technique utilized frequently to show off how cool the character is and you know, usually used to sell and is most of the time, terribly shallow.About the power ups, we have Twice, Tomura and Shiragaki sharing one common troupe for why they got such an insanely strong upgrade.
This common thread here is their emotional outbursts and how cliche it is. Backstory + power up, it's a been there done that many times thing and you would think people would notice it by now when it has been used so many times this arc.
So because they are villains somehow that is forgivable.
Also, "giving the villains an arc" doesn't equate to him being a genius or whoa what a creative way to write things!.Give it some perspective, this guy literally just crammed all the developments and powerups into one single arc and he needed to do that because he did not build up the villains like he did for the heroes.
If it's not obvious enough, he did not thought it through when he first created the Villain Alliance.
Please tell me how is it believable for Spinner to change sides.
Also this Re-Destro guy and his loyal followers is a freaking cult that held onto long term ideologies and belief but him throwing it all away and decided to follow a mentally unstable teenager is somehow good writing.
Dude has been planning for years but nope the fuck away because this guy is now his jesus, nope not the guy his own name was inspired by, but this angst kid that pulled a tantrum.Let me put this in One Piece context for you.
It's like Blackbeard sailed up to Wano and destroyed half the island.
Made Kaidou bow down to him, submit his ideology to his because he awaken his devil fruit after he had a PTSD in the middle of the fight, Kaidou threw away whatsoever ambitions he has and follows Blackbeard because kewl powers.
Big Mom, who happenstance to be there, then cries tears of joy because Blackbeard reminds me of her former captain or something and follows him too.
But why? Why Blackbeard?
Why Shiragaki? Why not Re-destro?
Because the author said so and also because the edgey kid sells.This is a cheap move and I at least give him credit for at least attempting to establish his gallery of villains(although all he ever does is introduce new villain groups and have his poster villain boy curbstomp because hurr durr main bad guy).
But Christ, it's in no way good writing.Go look at Hunter x Hunter for power ups with consequences and what hard work really equates to and how to show it through writing.
Thanks that's nice to know.
! A lot of this argument is hyperbolic, and I dunno if it's intentional. Re-Destro didn't really throw his resources and beliefs away. He just acknowledged that someone else was more appropriate to accomplish his objective, which he still wants to do. There's nothing particularly wrong with this writing. Plus, Twice and Tomura's upgrades are not exactly emotional outbursts. It's more about getting over their handicaps.
! Shonen Jump in general has a problem building up villains because very few authors risk focusing on other characters besides the protagonists at first, so ratings don't drop. No one really does this in the early years of a work (if not ever), and even having a arc starring villains is considered "taboo" as one Japanese company CEO put it on twitter. One needs to be a very established dude like Togashi to have the cloth over editors to pull this off.
! Also, I dunno what's the thing with Blackbeard. Are you saying Shigaraki should not be the main villain or something? Despite him being built up since Chapter 10-12?
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! Shigaraki I'm willing to forgive because we know his quirk was super-powered even as a child and Decay is most likely a mutation quirk like Eri. I'm sure it has a weakness but this was his moment to be a "badass" that comes with introducing something new a character can do.
I'm not sure I see it nails but I saw it suggested that parts of Shigaraki (his right arm, for instance) has started to decay as a result of his last but attack, so it seems there could be the limiter.
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It's been a while since I've commented on MHA. I don't really want to spend time commenting on something I don't enjoy very much.
My opinion regarding this manga hasn't changed with this arc: good ideas but bad execution (writing and art).
I gave up on this manga ever producing an arc that I would like to re-read multiple times.
The way action scenes are drawn doesn't appeal to me. I often find them confusing, lacking impact or weirdly choregraphed.
All the good ideas and character design are generally wasted by some bad writing decisions (just my opinion).
I am enjoying it just enough to continue reading it weekly to check how the few characters I like are doing.
Also, Vigilantes is very enjoyable to me and it would feel weird only reading the spin-off.
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Got some Akira vibes with the destruction in this chapter. Obviously Otomo is in his own league when it comes to art but this felt a tad similar.
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Actually whats the general opinion of fight choreography in mha? Imo a lot of the recent fights have been very confusing or uninteresting to me action wise. I preferred the earlier fights such as deku versus bakugo or the tournament
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I could just be poor scan quality, but, while I'm not sure the choreography itself bad, Horikoshi's art sometimes makes it hard to tell what's going on.
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Basically, Horikoshi prioritizes cool paneling and epic, impactful shots over fluid action and thought-out choreography, and that can make them look like a succesion of paintings instead of something with movement.
It may be due to the obvious american comicbooks influence, since they also tend to work like that as far as I know.
I wouldn't say it's something new, though. Even some of the classics like Deku vs Todoroki have little to non-existent fight choreography, because character drama also gets priority over the action. -
That's why the anime, in my opinion, is the full MHA experience.
It's been consistently stellar, ESPECIALLY when it comes to giving the fights motion.
Deku VS Todoroki was bloody amazing, especially that flashy final clash.
Deku VS Bakugo part 2 was epic too.As someone who enjoyed the Overhaul arc for what it was,
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I have mixed feeling about this arc ending (the rest of the arc was pretty good for me), but not with its coreography. This arc had mostly cool scenes easy to follow, with some exceptions, but it can´t be compared to the fight against the High End or Sun Eater´s fight for example.
That said, even though Hori is pretty good at panelling and making detailed spreads that could come from a monthly series, it´s clear that one of his weak points art-wise is making fluid battle coreographies. Nakaba for example is pretty damn good at making fights easy to follow and enjoyable to read even without reading the text, on the other hand my favorite MHA´s battles are usually enjoyable because of my attachment to the characters themselves and the context of said fight (for example All Might vs Original Nomu was pretty straightfoward in the manga, but I enjoyed it anyway even before the anime made it a hella lot more dinamic and complex)
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Actually whats the general opinion of fight choreography in mha? Imo a lot of the recent fights have been very confusing or uninteresting to me action wise. I preferred the earlier fights such as deku versus bakugo or the tournament
It's very mediocre and difficult to grasp, I agree with that. When characters are standing still or whatever, he can make some really good panels. But when he's depicting motion through some fast-paced battle or something along those lines, I'm always left feeling cold.
Except for Deku vs. Gentle, that was really good.
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Horikoshi's incredible technical skill basically runs out when it comes time for fight choreography, it's really odd.
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! I'm hoping there's MLA female heroes we haven't seen yet. Ms. Joke would be interesting, it'd give her character something to do.
Have you tried reading My Hero Vigilantes? It's way less focused on battles and more on the characters. It's a nice palate cleanser to the main series. Anyway…
[Horikoshi Apologist Mode Activated!]
! I'm willing to forgive Hori for the emotional power-up because quirks are more than a superpower, they're apart of you, and also because how each (in this arc, I'm not touching Deku VS Muscular, that confused me too at first) was handled. Toga's survival instincts unlocked the full capability of her quirk. Twice had a fear he was forced to face and his was less a power-up and more like using his quirk like he knew he could. Shigaraki I'm willing to forgive because we know his quirk was super-powered even as a child and Decay is most likely a mutation quirk like Eri. I'm sure it has a weakness but this was his moment to be a "badass" that comes with introducing something new a character can do.
! And, yeah, you can tell this arc was rushed. Things were happening very fast, but I don't know if it was Horikoshi or his editors egging him on to get back to Team Deku. Either way, for what it's worth I'm willing to give it a pass because I like the villains and wanted to learn more about them.
! As for Spinner, I think he has a follower personality. He latched on to Stain and now he's drinking the Shigaraki kool-aid. I don't think he's really thinking about the consequences of his actions, just that he hates the current society and wants it to change. He strikes me as a guy who's in way over his head.
! What saves Shigaraki as a character to me is his willingness to learn and adapt and him genuinely liking his comrades. Yeah, he's all about the destruction, but he's being smarter about it and will use his new resources to their fullest unlike in the Summer Camp Arc where he lost several allies.
! I'm fine with Re-Destro following Shigaraki because I think he realized its his best bet to accomplish his ultimate goal. The only difference now is he's not in charge. It had to be a huge blow to his sense of self being built up as the guy to realize Destro's dream only for someone stronger who completely mastered their quirk without support gear to blow him out of the water. I think bowing down to Shiggy shows just how much of a fanatic he is, willing to work with him as long as he gets what he wants. Why not? The current society has to go for the MLA to get what they want. Now they have the power (Shigaraki, Twice (the others too, but mostly Twice) and Gigantomachia) to do it. It's a match made in Skypiea.
! Gigantomachia seeing AFO in Shigaraki really worked for me. That's pretty much all he wanted, was to follow someone worthy to be his successor. Plus, as powerful as Shigaraki became, no way he was winning against Giganto in a serious fight then and there.
! But, yeah, My Hero Academia isn't One Piece or Hunter X Hunter, and it shouldn't be. It should follow its own rules that world has introduced and play off its particular strengths. All that being said, bad writing can ruin any story but again I'm more forgiving because I love the villains I don't think Re-Destro submitting changes his core ideology. There more than one way to skin a society.Also someone on the reddit thread mentioned that shigaraki juxtaposes with re-destro as re-destro with his quirk being based in holding in and then releasing stress could not ever be as freed as shigaraki. He was charged with carrying out destros legacy but that charge also is its own chain of sorts.
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! Have you tried reading My Hero Vigilantes? It's way less focused on battles and more on the characters. It's a nice palate cleanser to the main series. Anyway…
I stopped somewhere when there was this link between the illegal steroids and the main story, thought I'll pick it up again someday and I guess now is a good time as any.
I love the main character though.[Horikoshi Apologist Mode Activated!]
! I'm willing to forgive Hori for the emotional power-up because quirks are more than a superpower, they're apart of you, and also because how each (in this arc, I'm not touching Deku VS Muscular, that confused me too at first) was handled. Toga's survival instincts unlocked the full capability of her quirk. Twice had a fear he was forced to face and his was less a power-up and more like using his quirk like he knew he could. Shigaraki I'm willing to forgive because we know his quirk was super-powered even as a child and Decay is most likely a mutation quirk like Eri. I'm sure it has a weakness but this was his moment to be a "badass" that comes with introducing something new a character can do.
! And, yeah, you can tell this arc was rushed. Things were happening very fast, but I don't know if it was Horikoshi or his editors egging him on to get back to Team Deku. Either way, for what it's worth I'm willing to give it a pass because I like the villains and wanted to learn more about them.
! As for Spinner, I think he has a follower personality. He latched on to Stain and now he's drinking the Shigaraki kool-aid. I don't think he's really thinking about the consequences of his actions, just that he hates the current society and wants it to change. He strikes me as a guy who's in way over his head.
! What saves Shigaraki as a character to me is his willingness to learn and adapt and him genuinely liking his comrades. Yeah, he's all about the destruction, but he's being smarter about it and will use his new resources to their fullest unlike in the Summer Camp Arc where he lost several allies.
! I'm fine with Re-Destro following Shigaraki because I think he realized its his best bet to accomplish his ultimate goal. The only difference now is he's not in charge. It had to be a huge blow to his sense of self being built up as the guy to realize Destro's dream only for someone stronger who completely mastered their quirk without support gear to blow him out of the water. I think bowing down to Shiggy shows just how much of a fanatic he is, willing to work with him as long as he gets what he wants. Why not? The current society has to go for the MLA to get what they want. Now they have the power (Shigaraki, Twice (the others too, but mostly Twice) and Gigantomachia) to do it. It's a match made in Skypiea.
! Gigantomachia seeing AFO in Shigaraki really worked for me. That's pretty much all he wanted, was to follow someone worthy to be his successor. Plus, as powerful as Shigaraki became, no way he was winning against Giganto in a serious fight then and there.
! But, yeah, My Hero Academia isn't One Piece or Hunter X Hunter, and it shouldn't be. It should follow its own rules that world has introduced and play off its particular strengths. All that being said, bad writing can ruin any story but again I'm more forgiving because I love the villains I don't think Re-Destro submitting changes his core ideology. There more than one way to skin a society.Good points really. Thanks for laying out the internal logic(for the powers) in the BnHa world for me.
Nothing much to say about Spinner and Gigan.
Both of them following Shiragaki feels natural to me after your explanation but not Re-destro.
And considering their loyalty was probably firmly established after his fight with Re-destro, it's probably plot threads he intended to tie up from the start at the end of this arc.It's just annoying to me because this was never how he handled stuff, especially with the heroes. Even Deku crushing Overhaul was made possible because he wrote in Eri a dozen of chapters before.
Every time he power ups, there were serious consequences(Muscular). Bakugo, with his explosive style, even fights logically to overcome his opponents(or to upgrade his arsenal). See the tag team fight he had with Kaminari.
None of the fights in this arc felt like it was well thought out instead the fights were just flashy and shallow. Sure, they had emotional triggers and you can explain that it is because emotional growth. But do you really want that to be a constant in a manga that was supposedly smart about the way it handled fights and growth?
Re-Destro, the supposed CEO and head of a cult(which speaks of his intelligence) chooses to ham-fist his powers and brute force all the way through, turning into a giant tank for no purpose except for flashiness to get destroyed subsequently.We've all been there and witnessed how this usually leads to full blown dragon ball kind of fights and they all started off with the fans being awed at first.
About re-destro, I seriously doubt that's how leadership works. I don't think Shiragaki cares about his ideals and he knows that very well but still choose to submit his entire cult to him.
This chapter didn't give me any impression of cooperation as much as full obedience.! A lot of this argument is hyperbolic, and I dunno if it's intentional. Re-Destro didn't really throw his resources and beliefs away. He just acknowledged that someone else was more appropriate to accomplish his objective, which he still wants to do. There's nothing particularly wrong with this writing. Plus, Twice and Tomura's upgrades are not exactly emotional outbursts. It's more about getting over their handicaps.
! Shonen Jump in general has a problem building up villains because very few authors risk focusing on other characters besides the protagonists at first, so ratings don't drop. No one really does this in the early years of a work (if not ever), and even having a arc starring villains is considered "taboo" as one Japanese company CEO put it on twitter. One needs to be a very established dude like Togashi to have the cloth over editors to pull this off.
! Also, I dunno what's the thing with Blackbeard. Are you saying Shigaraki should not be the main villain or something? Despite him being built up since Chapter 10-12?
! What exactly is this direction you wanted things to go?It's hyperbolic because I'm of the opinion that we are at the early stages of a trainwreck and whatever I say can be perfectly countered with because this ship doesn't have enough holes yet.
I'm not sure what's the correct definition of emotional outburst is for you but I'm pretty sure he PTSD into a flashback and came back with an insane power in the middle of that fight.
I'm reiterating but I don't have an issue with not having villain arcs in the past or having a villain arc now. My issue is how it was handled.
I hope people are not kidding themselves because this entire arc is a huge shortcut and it is inevitable for him to do the same for our protagonist sooner than later.
If you don't get the shortcut, the shortcut is that there's no need to scale power levels or show stages of training or pace growth anymore.
Now the metre is not linear but a giant curve and if that's fine with you, okay then.No, I'm using Blackbeard as an analogy because it is somewhat established in the fanbase that he is the main villain and Shiragaki is his parallel.
BB started out as a lower rogue in WB's crew, built up his experience and preparation before going out into the world.
All the way back from Mock Town, we follow through the protagonist journey and see their growth and experience but we also see parts of Blackbeard executing his plans towards becoming a Yonkou(and eventually aim for PK).
Yes, I know this is because One Piece is a longass journey so Oda had the time to develop BB while throwing in villains here and there whereas Shiragaki is…the only dude known to be a real threat in a world full of heroes.
So to make him more of a threat to the big guys(instead of just Deku), this arc was created.
Except for the timing.
Horikoshi is rushing and do not have the foresight nor patience which is precisely the reason why this arc and his bagful of powerups was created.
Unless you seriously believe the Nomus with no personality traits are going to bring in ratings.
But why Shiragaki? Why not introduce another villain group and make them equally threatening?
There lies my problem with this arc and Horikoshi's villains as a whole.
He can't do that or that he doesn't want to do that(because it is risky since he has invested so much on Shiragaki) so his pacing is all over the place."What am I going to do with this strong heroes that I introduced to the reader?"
"I can't just let them keep fighting stupid birds"Don't get me wrong, there's no reason that just because you skyrocket a bad guy to a new level of threat means anything bad because it has been done masterfully a number of times before.
It's just that in this case, when Shiragaki grows this exponentially threatening, our main cast will do the same and there lies the problem that will undermine things.
This, coupled with Deku's latest power up, is carving a path for where this manga is going.Look, typing this was exhausting to me.
I'm doing this because I feel like if someone is going to reply to me in full, it's courtesy to do the same in full.
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Horikoshi is rushing and do not have the foresight nor patience which is precisely the reason why this arc and his bagful of powerups was created.
Unless you seriously believe the Nomus with no personality traits are going to bring in ratings.
But why Shiragaki? Why not introduce another villain group and make them equally threatening?
There lies my problem with this arc and Horikoshi's villains as a whole.
He can't do that or that he doesn't want to do that(because it is risky since he has invested so much on Shiragaki) so his pacing is all over the place."What am I going to do with this strong heroes that I introduced to the reader?"
"I can't just let them keep fighting stupid birds"The above quoted section is part of my problem with the direction the manga has been taking as well. In addition i feel that he has been trying to expand the world with societal problems and quirk singularities, i like that he tried to expand the world, but it has been done very poorly in my opinion.
These are professional heroes. No villain should ever be anywhere near their skill. The more you practice the better you get, no villain can ever practice enough to be better than pro heroes.
This brings us to Shigaraki and the High End's. A High End almost beat the number 1 hero. How can that be possible? Endeavor is much much much much much stronger than all the kids at UA. Why are we focusing on 15 year old kids if trained professional heroes with 20 years of experience are barely capable of doing the job?
Now Hori has gone and made Shigiraki even more of a threat and pushed him up to Endeavor's level so what the hell can these 15 year old kids do? Why are they even in the story anymore?
Maybe Hori is going for a full societal breakdown and has a time skip and we come back to an older Deku who starts fighting back to save the country. I really dont like that thought though.
Or maybe all of the top heroes die defeating Shigiraki and the country becomes lawless, like gotham city, and Deku grows up and tries to save the city?
My point is the story used to be about a world with powers that was similar to our own and we were watching the rise and growth of a young hero. Now not even 1 full year into high school and hes supposed to tangle with the strongest people in the world who not even trained pros can handle? It has become too unrealistic in my opinion.
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Horikoshi's set the groundwork for Deku and the others to be that relatively capable, though. Obviously they have a long way to go, but Hawks is a top 3 hero just a few years out of high school and Lemillion was considered to be about on Endeavor's level, with the other Big Three kids being high-quality hero grade too. It's hardly a leap to see Deku, with his emerging army of quirks, to be on that level as well, and only a small leap to see some others in Class 1-A being able to hold their own on that stage too.
The national scope might feel a bit weird, but the powerscaling seems fine to me. It also feels heavily foreshadowed that Horikoshi will be having the kids team up to take some of these villains out.
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We probably will get a time skip sometime in their 2nd year, hell maybe even after graduation. But I kinda feel like people are jumping the gun a bit. Yeah he upped Shiggy and other villains. But that doesn't mean Shiggy has to act immediately. Now that LoV doesn't have to scavenge for food and shelter they can plan again properly. There probably will be an upheaval of society and we'll get a less bureaucratic hero scape and more of a Marvel/DC world. More heroes going rogue, etc. More team ups rather than one guy trying to solo everything.
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It's been a while since I've commented on MHA. I don't really want to spend time commenting on something I don't enjoy very much.
My opinion regarding this manga hasn't changed with this arc: good ideas but bad execution (writing and art).
I gave up on this manga ever producing an arc that I would like to re-read multiple times.
The way action scenes are drawn doesn't appeal to me. I often find them confusing, lacking impact or weirdly choregraphed.
All the good ideas and character design are generally wasted by some bad writing decisions (just my opinion).
I am enjoying it just enough to continue reading it weekly to check how the few characters I like are doing.
Also, Vigilantes is very enjoyable to me and it would feel weird only reading the spin-off.
Yep, this is me. I very rarely stop reading series weekly, since it's such a small investment of time, and I don't foresee myself not reading MHA in the future, but I'm not really enjoying it, and haven't been excited to read it in a long, long time. Probably since the Overhaul stuff. I don't dislike the writing like you seem to, but the art is absolutely a problem. For me, this manga has the worst art of anything I read in Shonen Jump. It's just often more flashy than original, interesting, or engaging. This arc has probably been the worst for those problems, compounded by the fact that I didn't care about any of the characters and he hasn't succeeded in making me care. Even if I haven't been really loving everything since Overhaul, it hadn't felt like a chore to read. Maybe the chaotic nature of the art was on purpose, but it didn't work for me (brother).
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Actually whats the general opinion of fight choreography in mha? Imo a lot of the recent fights have been very confusing or uninteresting to me action wise. I preferred the earlier fights such as deku versus bakugo or the tournament
I thought the fight against Gentle had pretty decent art, but nothing awe-inspiring. Even One Piece's flash fights tend to have pretty cool and memorable moments. Wano has had a ton of cool mini fights so far.
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Shigaraki is going to be the final villain of the manga. Deku doesn't have to be at his level until then. That's why Horikoshi has given him an army, so the kids can fight defeatable minions instead of the endgame villains. He won't succeed in destroying the world or society either. Because that would mean that he wins. Heros exist to save. If Shigaraki wrecks everything and then Deku goes and beat the shit out of him, who exactly would he be saving?
I doubt we're leaving the school, too. You don't just ditch the premise and the setting of the story like that. I can't wait for people to be shocked once again when we switch to the final exams of the second term or whatever next chapter and that is given exactly the same weight and focus as all this.
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no villain can ever practice enough to be better than pro heroes.
Who the heck decided that?
Practice is practice.Just like how the kids at UA have been growing exponentially due to constantly fighting villain attacks,
and how pro heroes are very tough and experienced in their own rights,
Shigaraki's group are experienced killers (well, most of them), and they've spent the last month and a half desperately fighting against the relentless assault of Gigantomachia.
It's no surprise that all of this non-stop fighting has toughened them up and helped them grow/evolve.There's a difference between going through hero school and then facing a tough villain every week or so,
and fighting one strong villain for 44 hours at a time over the course of a MONTH AND A HALF.
Not spread across a total of x number of years. Fighting for that long CONSECUTIVELY.
The level of stress and burden just can't be compared, so naturally their growth was accelerated. Makes perfect sense to me.It's like how Haki usually needs to be trained/developed in terms of decades on the high seas,
but Luffy submerged himself on an island full of hundreds of creatures stronger than him.
Through constant fighting for survival after Rayleigh taught him the basics, he rapidly accelerated his growth to rise above the threats.Same thing happened to the villains in MHA. They've been stuck in a constant loop of fighting for their lives for a long time,
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Just some random thoughts and general responses.
Looking forward to seeing how Japan reacts to the League destroying a city, especially the Police Commissioner General. Whatever plans he got for improving the police force will probably happen now.
I heard a theory on a podcast about Hatsume interning at Detnerat. That'd be fun to see.
Re-Destro is smart but he's still a fanatic. It's all about accomplishing Destro's dream and since he's a descendant he was taught he was the one to usher in the free quirk range. I don't think anything else matters. I'm sure he knows Shiggy doesn't care about his ideals but both want the current society destroyed. And, I'm sure Shiggy won't mind seeing the chaos people using their quirks in a lawless world will create. In the end, Re-Destro needs Shigaraki's (and the League's) raw power as much as Shigaraki needs the MLA's resources.
The High-Ends being ridiculously overpowered is their function. Like what someone else said, it's hinted a good number of future fights will be team-ups so I'm not bothered by their strength. I do find them having intelligence interesting. Makes me wonder if Uijiko cracked the mind break code or could he always have made them smart. I got a theory No. 6's obsession with Knuckleduster in Vigilantes was the reason Uijiko made the Nomu so mindless. But, that would conflict with my other theory Nine from the upcoming movie is the last human model creature Uijiko made.
We probably will get a time skip sometime in their 2nd year, hell maybe even after graduation. But I kinda feel like people are jumping the gun a bit. Yeah he upped Shiggy and other villains. But that doesn't mean Shiggy has to act immediately. Now that LoV doesn't have to scavenge for food and shelter they can plan again properly. There probably will be an upheaval of society and we'll get a less bureaucratic hero scape and more of a Marvel/DC world. More heroes going rogue, etc. More team ups rather than one guy trying to solo everything.
Oh! I didn't think about how the hero community would react to all this. Yeah, I can see more hero teams forming because of it. Endeavor himself may create a team to put the public at ease. And then there's the heroes secretly working for the MLA, well, the League now. That's gonna be a hard pill to swallow when that gets revealed.
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The above quoted section is part of my problem with the direction the manga has been taking as well. In addition i feel that he has been trying to expand the world with societal problems and quirk singularities, i like that he tried to expand the world, but it has been done very poorly in my opinion.
These are professional heroes. No villain should ever be anywhere near their skill. The more you practice the better you get, no villain can ever practice enough to be better than pro heroes.
This brings us to Shigaraki and the High End's. A High End almost beat the number 1 hero. How can that be possible? Endeavor is much much much much much stronger than all the kids at UA. Why are we focusing on 15 year old kids if trained professional heroes with 20 years of experience are barely capable of doing the job?
Now Hori has gone and made Shigiraki even more of a threat and pushed him up to Endeavor's level so what the hell can these 15 year old kids do? Why are they even in the story anymore?
Maybe Hori is going for a full societal breakdown and has a time skip and we come back to an older Deku who starts fighting back to save the country. I really dont like that thought though.
Or maybe all of the top heroes die defeating Shigiraki and the country becomes lawless, like gotham city, and Deku grows up and tries to save the city?
My point is the story used to be about a world with powers that was similar to our own and we were watching the rise and growth of a young hero. Now not even 1 full year into high school and hes supposed to tangle with the strongest people in the world who not even trained pros can handle? It has become too unrealistic in my opinion.
I'm… not understanding the problem with the High Ends. They're big, mindless, science monsters who are built to rival the strongest heroes in the setting. They don't need to practice. In fact, the only people who are not threatened by the average Nomu are the stronger Heroes like Endeavor or Gran Torino.
The story focuses on 15 years olds because they're the future of heroism. It's a very obvious "next generation" premise. Like you said, the story is about the rise and growth of a young hero.
Also, they actually explained that Deika City was a secret practice ground for MLA members, so villains DO have access to practice. They just really need backers.
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The practice complaints against the villains kinda crack me up. Cause they're the ones besides heroes who would be actually using their quirks without restrictions or restraint when they feel like it, cause fork the law. Normal civilians are the ones who couldn't protect themselves in most scenarios.
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I'm… not understanding the problem with the High Ends. They're big, mindless, science monsters who are built to rival the strongest heroes in the setting. They don't need to practice. In fact, the only people who are not threatened by the average Nomu are the stronger Heroes like Endeavor or Gran Torino.
My problem with the High Ends are that one of them severely injured/crippled and almost killed the #1 hero. If the LoV had provided High End with even a little bit of backup/support they could have killed the #1 hero, like they tried to do to All Might at USJ. Now the LoV is even stronger. So what is stopping them from rolling over the entire country?
Sure the heroes could team up but the league could attack the top heroes when they are home alone. Based on how the story has played out most of the power in the country is wielded by the top 10 or so heroes. When I say power i mean physical combat ability. Once these top heroes are gone it seems like this society would break down.
The story focuses on 15 years olds because they're the future of heroism. It's a very obvious "next generation" premise. Like you said, the story is about the rise and growth of a young hero.
So when the #1 hero can barely survive against the LoV what hope do a bunch of first year high school students have? Hori took his story to a national level and these kids are a million years to early to compete on that level. So why are they in the story or why did he expand the scope so large this early?
Also, they actually explained that Deika City was a secret practice ground for MLA members, so villains DO have access to practice. They just really need backers.
This proves my point. Without a billionaire cult leader backing you villains should really be a non threat. Yet even with all that backing somehow LoV walked all over the MLA.
Maybe Hori ties it all together beautifully but i seriously have my doubts. It frustrates me because i used to be very excited for the new chapter every week, plenty of times i was more exited to read MHA over OP. Now i look forward to MHA-Vigilantes more.
I usually agree with your opinions KC, but not on this occasion.
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As I said before, the LoV have been fighting for a long long time.
They've also just come out of a whole month and a half of consecutive desperate struggle to survive against an absolutely brutal monster.
That's more effective quirk training than most heroes would get in literally years on the job, due to how specifically long and particularly taxing/stressing their situation was.
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I think the idea of one month of fighting makes you the best breaks the logic of this world and that the power creeping started in the fight between class A and B. It makes the whole school and lifelong training be ridiculous. But that's my personal opinion.
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I am pretty sure it was stated that Noumus cannot be mass produced as people think they are. And it might take a decade to make an army of High Ends to the point that Dabi had to retrieve what lasted from the first one.
And lets no forget there was a whole abyss of a difference between Endeavor to All Might in power levels. That's why All Might's retirement is such a big deal because the next best hero isn't even close to what the best hero was. Heck! Endeavor's goal was to make his youngest son surpass All Might in the first place.
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I think the idea of one month of fighting makes you the best breaks the logic of this world.
I'm not saying it made them the best, it just gave them enough of a boost to stand in the ring.
It was a very exceptional circumstance, and it's been established within the story that quirks develop through being pushed and strained.
That's why they were having the kids torture themselves through extensive quirk use at the training camp in the woods.
The LoV did the equivalent of that stress training for over a CONSECUTIVE month and a half. That's going to DO something.It's not like the LoV curbstomped the alliance either. They got pretty fucked up and had to put everything they had into winning,
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LoV didn't necessarily walk all over MLA. They took a beating too. Spinner and Compress are the only ones not damaged by their fights. Shiggy is burned up and missing fingers. Dabi has even more charred body. Twice got pretty beat up. Toga is dying.
I mean…I think it's also the point in making the villains stronger. We were eventually gonna hit a point in the story where the kids can't overcome the villains. Stories like this usually have that segment in the story where everything feels hopeless for the heroes. The villains overpowering the current heroes seems plausible. The hero system is flawed and something huge has to upset the balance. More than just losing All Might.
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My problem with the High Ends are that one of them severely injured/crippled and almost killed the #1 hero. If the LoV had provided High End with even a little bit of backup/support they could have killed the #1 hero, like they tried to do to All Might at USJ. Now the LoV is even stronger. So what is stopping them from rolling over the entire country?
Sure the heroes could team up but the league could attack the top heroes when they are home alone. Based on how the story has played out most of the power in the country is wielded by the top 10 or so heroes. When I say power i mean physical combat ability. Once these top heroes are gone it seems like this society would break down.
So when the #1 hero can barely survive against the LoV what hope do a bunch of first year high school students have? Hori took his story to a national level and these kids are a million years to early to compete on that level. So why are they in the story or why did he expand the scope so large this early?
This proves my point. Without a billionaire cult leader backing you villains should really be a non threat. Yet even with all that backing somehow LoV walked all over the MLA.
It was established that new generations are stronger than old ones, so the likes of Endeavor will be surpassed in the long run.
Hell, you could argue Shouto is close to surpassing Endeavor, if not already did so. He just doesn't have the same experience, but in raw power, they're comparable.
Then you have Inasa (whirlwind), Shindo (earthquakes), Tamaki and Nejire of the Big 3… I would argue Heroes had it stacked for them for quite a time.
And, Shigaraki and Gigantomachia aside, none of the villains of the LoV are that horribly strong. The High End threat is still not a reality since they haven't finished development. Things are not that bleak yet.
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LoV walked over the MLA?
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I think the idea of one month of fighting makes you the best breaks the logic of this world and that the power creeping started in the fight between class A and B. It makes the whole school and lifelong training be ridiculous. But that's my personal opinion.
Ch. 213 definitely marked a turning point for sure…
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Where is this idea that fighting Gigantomachya made their quirks stronger even coming from? That might have increased their base stats but the reason Shigaraki can level cities now is because he overcame a mental blockade. Same deal with Twice. Toga just found out a new ability of her quirk. The others are the same.
And I guess there's also this new 'quirk evolution' concept, but that has nothing to do with Gigantomachya either.
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So with a few exceptions, MHA generally alternates between "school arcs" and "serious/villain arcs." So we're probably getting another school arc next, but I'm not really sure what's left to cover. So far we've had:
-Class A vs. Class A (Prologue arc)
-Class A vs. the rest of the school (Sports Festival)
-Class A vs. Teachers (Mid-term arc [At least I think that's what it was])
-Class A vs. other schools (License exam)
-Mini-arc with Todoroki and Bakugo retaking their exam
-Culture festival arc with a low level minor villain
-Class A vs. Class B arcThe only ideas left that I can think of are a more high level Class A vs. Class A arc, or a more focused Class A vs. Other Schools arc. I guess there's finally moving onto Year 2, but I'm not really sure how you can turn that into an arc.