I, personally, don't think the point me and Julie are trying to get across is that MHA's Japan is a fascist state, but a police state, where there a lack of safety nets for the population to deal with the psychological burden of having super powers and uses super powered individual to suppress those that refuse to fit in the society leading to their incarceration and not rehabilitation. The All Might era existed for around 30 years, any serious government should be able to look it inherent flaws and try to find ways to fix them and not let a single individual fix the crime problem, or treat the crime problem as "bad people wanting to do bad things because they enjoy that", certainly there cases of what I just said, but the gross of criminals are more like Gentle (minus streaming) and Twice pre league than they are Muscular, Rappa, Moon Fish, Shigaraki and Chisaki.
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Expecting mha world to have more gentles than chisakis imo doesn't make sense. It's basically trying t extrapolate from the real word I feel whereas mha seemed to potray a world chock full of nefarious over the top villains atleast when I first started reading it. Rememeber that shigaraki invaded the school with an entire army of villain goons.
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I, personally, don't think the point me and Julie are trying to get across is that MHA's Japan is a fascist state, but a police state, where there a lack of safety nets for the population to deal with the psychological burden of having super powers and uses super powered individual to suppress those that refuse to fit in the society leading to their incarceration and not rehabilitation. The All Might era existed for around 30 years, any serious government should be able to look it inherent flaws and try to find ways to fix them and not let a single individual fix the crime problem, or treat the crime problem as "bad people wanting to do bad things because they enjoy that", certainly there cases of what I just said, but the gross of criminals are more like Gentle (minus streaming) and Twice pre league than they are Muscular, Rappa, Moon Fish, Shigaraki and Chisaki.
Ok, I see your point more clearly now, I hope Hori eventually adresses those problems, otherwise it wouldn´t make sense for Twice or Toga to have those backstories that show society failing them.
I hope All Might eventually realizes that his way was not perfect, even if all he did was helping others to the point of self-destruction and try to be the personification of the "Great power comes with great responsability" thing.
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Expecting mha world to have more gentles than chisakis imo doesn't make sense. It's basically trying t extrapolate from the real word I feel whereas mha seemed to potray a world chock full of nefarious over the top villains atleast when I first started reading it. Rememeber that shigaraki invaded the school with an entire army of villain goons.
You expect every person with super power try to use it for personal gains through senseless violence is the same thing to expect every scientist and engineer with access to industrial class acids would use it to start a corpse destroying business for the mobs.
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You expect every person with super power try to use it for personal gains through senseless violence is the same thing to expect every scientist and engineer with access to industrial class acids would use it to start a corpse destroying business for the mobs.
Of all the criminals that attacked UA, the only one that were not blitzed by Aizawa or defeated by FIRST YEAR students where Shigi, Kurogiri and the Nomu. The rest were small fries.No I'm saying that's the world potrayed by mha is that villains in general aren't usually commiting petty crimes but are instead often more serious dangers to society. All those small fry invaded with the intention of killing kids.
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The main intention was to lure All Might, the kids would be colateral. And of course AFO would select harmless criminals to hang around his successor, he might strayed from the destructive path if that was the case.
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Ok, I see your point more clearly now, I hope Hori eventually adresses those problems, otherwise it wouldn´t make sense for Twice or Toga to have those backstories that show society failing them.
I hope All Might eventually realizes that his way was not perfect, even if all he did was helping others to the point of self-destruction and try to be the personification of the "Great power comes with great responsability" thing.
I sincerely feel the same and think that is what Hori is building towards. His buildup of the villains is markedly different from Oda's handling of his villains. While Oda often gives humble and sympathetic origins to his villains, he also makes sure to show that they chose the wrong path themselves when they could have chosen a different course of action, and they should be held to account for it. See Jinbe vis-a-vis Arlong, or Doffy and Roci. Two persons who underwent the same backstory but ended up markedly different. Hell, Jinbe used to be worse than Arlong but changed for the better, while Arlong reinforced his bad ideas form the same experiences. On the other hand, many villains in MHA are portrayed as results of a corrupt system who could have taken a better turn in life if society had helped them. Instead, the only ones who took them in were psycho killers intent on destroying society instead of peacefully helping to reform it.
Either way, I just want to point out how this series is at least capable of generating such a healthy debate in a One Piece forum. It's indeed a mark of its quality, I'd say!
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Well sure there might be a lot of minor villains that commit petty crimes at best like Gentle. But those villains are clearly not the focus of the manga and they aren't really given much attention or strongly alluded to. I only really remember gentle and I guess those gang of people I think bakugou and deku beat up recently who were planning on going on a mass robbing spree.
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this is so dumb mha's japan isn't oppressive and 95% of the villans are psychopaths
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Not to mention, the series is pushing dangerously positive State/police propaganda. It's as pro-authoritarian and bootlicking as possible. We should be teaching our children to fight against fascism, not lick its boots.
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I do agree with the idea that this is series is trying to show that people like Toga and Twice are products of their environment and became villains because of how society treated them, and even in Shiggy's backstory it was stated how he might have turned out differently if someone, anyone in the city had reached out to him before AFO finally did.
That being said, I think there is an issue with how Horikoshi tends to paint the sides characters are on in simple terms of good and evil, with villains doing bad things for bad reasons and heroes doing good things for good reasons. While the villains can be sympathetic and understandable, they are clearly shown to be wrong in wanting to hurt and kill others, and the heroes right for the opposing that. We never have a character opposing the system and pointing out its flaws in a reasonable way, or going against the heroes for a good cause.
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wdym with positive state propaganda, do you mean the state the characters live in or the concept of the state in general
because the state is good so i don't see why that's a problem.Kids are literally trained to be soldiers of the State as a form of enforcement and indoctrination. The policing and military power is outrageously dangerous and well-funded.
The series tells kids to listen to the State and that people who do not fit into the State's rigid definitions of good are bad. The thing is, the State is flawed and not perfect, and antagonist characters become its victims and are then treated as evil for their actions. This is similar to how minorities in the real world are continuously criminalized because of their circumstances and a lack of social programs to rehabilitate.
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Kids are literally trained to be soldiers of the State as a form of enforcement and indoctrination. The policing and military power is outrageously dangerous and well-funded.
The series tells kids to listen to the State and that people who do not fit into the State's rigid definitions of good are bad. The thing is, the State is flawed and not perfect, and antagonist characters become its victims and are then treated as evil for their actions. This is similar to how minorities in the real world are continuously criminalized because of their circumstances and a lack of social programs to rehabilitate.
I mean… isn't that how all systems work? Kids are raised in the system in order to function within it. No state is perfect, thus the rise of deviants and criminals that threaten the structure of social order. I hesitate to conflate deviants here with minorities, since that's not really the focus of the "villains," but will admit that there are some overtones, intentional or otherwise.
Also, the kids aren't being indoctrinated to be soldiers/heroes, rather they apply for the role out for personal/social interests. It just so happens that heroes in this world are an idealized profession.
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I mean… isn't that how all systems work? Kids are raised in the system in order to function within it. No state is perfect, thus the rise of deviants and criminals that threaten the structure of social order. I hesitate to conflate deviants here with minorities, since that's not really the focus of the "villains," but will admit that there are some overtones, intentional or otherwise.
The is a literal Mutant type quirk hating society, so at least that can be associate with minorities and on exemple of social injustice is the TV anchor with horns that had to cut one down to to obstruct the background images, image living in a society where 80% of the population has some degree of body alteration and there societal pressure for you "mutilate" our body in order to be better at your career.
Also, the kids aren't being indoctrinated to be soldiers/heroes, rather they apply for the role out for personal/social interests. It just so happens that heroes in this world are an idealized profession.
Hawks had no choice, and Dabi knowing his real name means that he was not the only child soldier of the Hero Commission, only the one with most accomplishments under the belt.
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The is a literal Mutant type quirk hating society, so at least that can be associate with minorities and on exemple of social injustice is the TV anchor with horns that had to cut one down to to obstruct the background images, image living in a society where 80% of the population has some degree of body alteration and there societal pressure for you "mutilate" our body in order to be better at your career.
That extra page mentions that the reaction to that guy cutting his horn was a negative one though, since it was considered him denying his own quirk. Taking that in consideration, it seems he did it without outside pressurre, but out of his own will and most likely knowing it would have negative reactions. Considering some quirks can get in the way of living in a comfortable way, someone modifing his own body for more comfort when is not possible to accomadate or accomodation is not enough is not weird and judging them for doing it when every quirk is a different experience seems like messing with people autonomies over their bodies. You know, their bodies, their choices.
If it was a case of someone like Spinner trying to change his current body for a more regular human looking one, because of discrimination, then things would be a different matter.
On the other hand, talking about this makes me wonder if Eri could erase the quirks of people with quirks that are more disabilities than gifts, like the Overhaul goon that was always hungry. Also, makes me wish to have slice of life spin-off with the daily lifes of peoples with different quirks that don´t want to be heroes, but that will never happen. At most we will get a Boruto´s kind of thing…
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Yeah, I know the anchor did it by his own will, but it's a extreme bizarre act in a society with so much body variance, it's like "I think my horn is blocking the telespectador view, better cut it off". Even if it was by is will it still demonstrates that are some forms of body shaming in a world with out an standard body type, I guess a quirkless person would be the standard body type but they have and extra joint in the pinky toe, so I guess emission types are the standard human and it leads back to the Mutant Type hating group hating anyone with body abnormalities.
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! Death Flags on the rise. A finally a little visible character progress for Bakugo.
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! Eraserhead OP, but all it takes is for something to block his line of sight and all hell breaks lose.
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! Gran Torino is really one of the most helpful characters in this manga, the guy is always saving someone´s butt, it would hurt if he end dying this arc. Now, for Shiggy, seeing how rough that landing was I am guessing he is still getting used to his new powers, even if AFO personally chose simple and easy to use ones. Because of that and Aizawa, I think the heroes still has a chance against a Shiggy with only phisical strenght (even if Doc made him stronger), at least until Machia arrives.
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! Eraserhead OP, but all it takes is for something to block his line of sight and all hell breaks lose.
! Remember though, the "line of sight" thing was retconned to give the quirk a buff.
In the Overhaul arc Eraserhead moved along with the others after de-quirking the three thugs who were with Suneater,
and the effects lasted for a bit even after he left the room, presumably until he blinked.
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! Remember though, the "line of sight" thing was retconned to give the quirk a buff.
In the Overhaul arc Eraserhead moved along with the others after de-quirking the three thugs who were with Suneater,
and the effects lasted for a bit even after he left the room, presumably until he blinked.
! https://i.gyazo.com/94b9223362f29425791d64828c027279.pngA bit strange since we had a moment in this very arc where a Nomu figures out that she can avoid Erasure by going behind an object.
I'm assuming Aizawa really did just stay looking back for some reason (the hallway they entered did give a view to the wall the three flunkies were being held).
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I though the female Noumu simply got away from Aizawa view and then he was forced to blink, but maybe Hori forgot about how erasure worked back in the yakuza arc or like MDL said, Eraser was simply looking back in that arc. On the other hand, he forgot that Twice had already cloned Toga, so maybe that´s the case here.
I also always thought that once he nullifies the quirks of some guys, he can´t nullify anything else without blinking again, but until he closes his eyes erasure would still be effective even if one of the guys gets away from Eraser´s eyes..
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Also, this shows that Aizawa can choose whether to erase a Quirk or not if he's looking at several people at once. He could cancel the yakuza's Quirk but left Tamaki's active.
Which is great otherwise he would be terrible for teamwork.
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! Oh…I really hope Ryuko isn't dead. It's unclear how far the damage on her goes, but she's at the very least lost a chunk of her arm.
Aizawa managed to erase Tomura in time.
That's why Tomura knows it was Aizawa's doing at the end.
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I'm not liking Eraserhead being there. He's the one hero Shiggy will absolutely want dead as soon as possible.
Up until Shigaraki caught up with them I really thought Deku and Bakugo had a chance of holding their own for at least a bit. I wasn't too invested in the Deku (and Bakugo?) leaving Japan theory, but I think it's gonna happen.
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The only way to fight Shigaraki at this point is with ranged attacks and the ability to never touch the ground unless you have Eraserhead. You're still dealing with All For One's multiple quirks including regeneration so good luck.
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Oh man, serious death flags for Eraser. Guess we'll see where this goes.
Really feel like a timeskip is coming though. At the very least a change of venue. If Deku's a specific target he can't stay where he is.
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Shigaraki's reaching for a bullet so Horikoshi might have worked out a way to no longer deal with Aizawa's Quirk but also keep him around as a mentor.
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So he was carrying a bullet and gun in his pocket the whole time? That seems a bit outlandish to me.
My first thought was that he'd just get back out the phone or whatever it was he used to talk to Machia and tell him to kill Aizawa. Pretty sure Aizawa can't erase much from Machia.
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So he was carrying a bullet and gun in his pocket the whole time? That seems a bit outlandish to me.
My first thought was that he'd just get back out the phone or whatever it was he used to talk to Machia and tell him to kill Aizawa. Pretty sure Aizawa can't erase much from Machia.
What do you mean the whole time? He picked those from a container after he woke up and killed X-Less.
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Well I misremembered thinking they had shown stuff destroyed 2 chapters ago but even if he had found some Endeavor probably destroyed them when he practically melted Shigaraki. But apparently they made a point of showing him grabbing the stuff after he started regenerating.
He still has to negate Eraser's quirk, close the distance, and land a shot on Eraser all while being hounded by every other hero that can fight against him. I still think he will at least call Machia for some help because it would make the most sense for countering Aizawa.
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I'm forgetful. Can Aizawa negate all of Shiggy's quirks right now, or only one at a time for him/multi-quirkers? (In this case, negating Decay, but nothing else)?
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Eraser's quirk nullifies one quirk factor, but for new Shigi I don't think that it will be enough, his hardware was not update by a simple doctor after all.
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I really hope after this arc ends the rest of Deku´s other friends finally get more screentime, I know lots of people that would cry tears of joy if Iida or Uraraka actually return to the main character group. I like both Bakugo and Todoroki to a certain point, but both of them really steal too much screentime. And it also would be nine if Iida and Uraraka got screentime without Deku too, but a big part of me misses them being together without Uraraka always crushing on him and the three just being silly together.
Those three friendship was really one of my favorite parts at the start of the manga, they had great chemistry.
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He still has to negate Eraser's quirk, close the distance, and land a shot on Eraser all while being hounded by every other hero that can fight against him. I still think he will at least call Machia for some help because it would make the most sense for countering Aizawa.
Considering how contrived the sequence of events that led to Mirio getting shot was, I'm not sure what to expect here. And also, it's possible good doctor increased his base stats. Which could mean he's faster, stronger and has better reflexes and accuracy regardless of his quirks.
And as for Machia, don't think he even needs to be called now that he has picked up on Shigi's scent.
Just read every chapter once and didn't really make a mental map. Anyone has any idea on their location now, in regards to hospital and villain base?
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If we're assuming Eraser's stuck only erasing one of Shiggy's quirks (Decay), it shouldn't be too contrived how he manages to keep fighting back and eventually bullet Eraser/others.
Of course, that brought me around to wondering how the bullets would work on Shiggy now. Might be a convenient way to deal with the biggest problem if a bullet gets snatched and used on Shiggy and it only destroys Decay. It's not like cures aren't gonna be invented for this eventually, so he'd just get the power back later, once Deku's had more time to develop.
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Decay and search are the big issues right now, a walking disaster and scan-aga for 100 targets combined with any combat quirk is just too much for anyone, I wonder if chapter 1 all might could beat him with this setup.
Gruesome detail that the debris is carrying the “decay”
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I wonder if chapter 1 all might could beat him with this setup.
Rip his head off quickly. Although that's more prime might than the weaken one we had in chapter 1.
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If Aizawa loses his quirk I guess Eri would have extra motivation to learn to use her power, for him and Mirio´s sake. Now that I think about it, at the start I wanted the series to end with adult Deku telling some kid "You can become a hero", but it would be nice if ended with Eri being a hero or someone that heals people using her quirk.
On the other hand, I wonder if some of the original members of the league will get new quirks or change the ones they have, since getting more than one can literally fry your brain. Poor Spinner could really use a power up, I think that most of class-a can beat his ass.
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I really hope after this arc ends the rest of Deku´s other friends finally get more screentime, I know lots of people that would cry tears of joy if Iida or Uraraka actually return to the main character group. I like both Bakugo and Todoroki to a certain point, but both of them really steal too much screentime. And it also would be nine if Iida and Uraraka got screentime without Deku too, but a big part of me misses them being together without Uraraka always crushing on him and the three just being silly together.
Sorry, its a shonen manga. Only the two most popular characters are allowed screentime. Everyone else becomes less and less important as things go on. If the secondaries are lucky they'll get a two chapter fight before the series is over. If they're super popular they might even get two.
if MHA was going to actually buck that trend it would have already been better about keeping focus on the secondaries and at the very least Ochako would have been more prominent than she has been.. As is Class A is down to only about 10 students at this point for all intents and purposes anyway. The other 10 are pretty much just decoration.
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On the other hand, I wonder if some of the original members of the league will get new quirks or change the ones they have, since getting more than one can literally fry your brain. Poor Spinner could really use a power up, I think that most of class-a can beat his ass.
If Dabi VS Todoroki is destined to happen Dabi needs an ice quirk too or he doesn't stand a chance.
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Sorry, its a shonen manga. Only the two most popular characters are allowed screentime. Everyone else becomes less and less important as things go on. If the secondaries are lucky they'll get a two chapter fight before the series is over. If they're super popular they might even get two.
if MHA was going to actually buck that trend it would have already been better about keeping focus on the secondaries and at the very least Ochako would have been more prominent than she has been.. As is Class A is down to only about 10 students at this point for all intents and purposes anyway. The other 10 are pretty much just decoration.
Then explain why Bakugou and Todoroki sat on a bench for nearly three years up to this point? Explain why arcs like School Festival, Joint Training and MVA exists? Explain on the focus on the extended cast throughout this arc? But yes this manga is very much popularity=screentime hence why this is the most Bakugou has done in years and why Todoroki is in the background.
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JUMP editors force creators to write their plots based on which character is popular to extend its run-length as much as possible. The longer a comic goes on the harder it is for the original creator(s) to actually tell the story they want because they get trained to think about what will sell, not what will creatively satisfy.
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JUMP editors force creators to write their plots based on which character is popular to extend its run-length as much as possible. The longer a comic goes on the harder it is for the original creator(s) to actually tell the story they want because they get trained to think about what will sell, not what will creatively satisfy.
So where is Bakugou's solo arc? Why did the editorial department have Hori make an arc solely focused on the villains who weren't popular before that arc?
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So where is Bakugou's solo arc? Why did the editorial department have Hori make an arc solely focused on the villains who weren't popular before that arc?
Bakugo is mostly important to the story because he's important to Deku. It's not likely he'd get a full solo arc, but now that he's the only other kid that knows about AFO and OFA he's really only likely to just share spotlight with Deku.
Although this chapter his inner thoughts are what make me concerned for the power creep in this series. Deku is at 30% power, 45% on impact and it's only still the 1st year. And Deku still has a few more quirks to unlock. I'm curious how the other kids are going to be used. Most of the kids don't really have ways of upping their quirks.
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Bakugo is mostly important to the story because he's important to Deku. It's not likely he'd get a full solo arc, but now that he's the only other kid that knows about AFO and OFA he's really only likely to just share spotlight with Deku.
Although this chapter his inner thoughts are what make me concerned for the power creep in this series. Deku is at 30% power, 45% on impact and it's only still the 1st year. And Deku still has a few more quirks to unlock. I'm curious how the other kids are going to be used. Most of the kids don't really have ways of upping their quirks.
I really wish Hori would have delved upon things a bit since it's too soon to cry powercreep but at that same time we're not given much to work with. Yeah Deku at his current level can be beaten but then how exactly can he implement those other quirks in battle so at least it doesn't make the other characters redundant? Iida is currently faster than him and Todoroki is stronger but what about everyone else?
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I really wish Hori would have delved upon things a bit since it's too soon to cry powercreep but at that same time we're not given much to work with. Yeah Deku at his current level can be beaten but then how exactly can he implement those other quirks in battle so at least it doesn't make the other characters redundant? Iida is currently faster than him and Todoroki is stronger but what about everyone else?
I don't feel Todoroki is stronger than Deku even now. He hasn't shown that he can really fight outside of just making fire better. His ice rarely stops anyone that either has speed or can blast it away with force. Deku has way more control now and doesn't break anything to create his wind strikes.
I am curious how Float with actually work cause his black whip overwrites Sero. Float may make Ochako even more irrelevant.
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You know, since OfA doesn't require the previous owner to die for it to be inherited and it can accumulate the quirks or its past owners… couldn't Deku simply start of chain of quick successions through the heroes so the final owner (it could even cycle back to Deku again) have all the current heroes quirks?
edit: although I suppose the current owner would lose their own quirk along with OfA once it was passed down, so not a good idea.
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Sorry, its a shonen manga. Only the two most popular characters are allowed screentime. Everyone else becomes less and less important as things go on. If the secondaries are lucky they'll get a two chapter fight before the series is over. If they're super popular they might even get two.
if MHA was going to actually buck that trend it would have already been better about keeping focus on the secondaries and at the very least Ochako would have been more prominent than she has been.. As is Class A is down to only about 10 students at this point for all intents and purposes anyway. The other 10 are pretty much just decoration.
That explains why Deku and Bakugo are the only ones to ever get some screentime. What it doesn't explain is why, in almost 300 chapters, Horikoshi spends more time on random one off characters than his supposed actual main cast including Deku. Horikoshi has a very bad case of prioritizing characters, choosing to spend time on randos like Lemillion, Miroko or Hawks. Characters with superficial depth that don't amount to much other than window dressing. Yet he chooses to have these one off characters drive the story instead of characters who could possibly grow and develop.
I like Miroko and think she's cool but we knew absolutely nothing about her prior to this arc yet we spent weeks on her life and death battle against the Nomu like we should be emotionally invested in who she is. The shame being that a little bit of proper set up and character depth would have gone a long way in making us invested.
Lemillion had this big, epic tragic battle where he lost his powers and his mentor and how he's vowed to not let it stop him from pursuing his dreams…and then Horikoshi got bored with him and never had his character do anything ever again.
And don't get me started on obnoxiously super cool Hawks, whose whole character is nothing more than one big trope based on the conflicted, double agent cool guy. So much time spent on this character's double agent storyline yet we don't know a single thing about him.
And that's not getting into the massive amount of time and big moments wasted on characters like President Mic, Fatgum, Suneater, Shinso, Ragdoll, Gentle, Best Jeanist, Tetsutetsu and of course our lord and savior, Crust. All these characters who've had far more screentime and/or story contribution than freakin' Ururaka.
It's fine to have window dressing to make a world more vibrant and alive, One Piece has tons of characters like that, it had a whole war arc between them but at the end of the day, that arc still felt like it was driven by Luffy (even when the whole point of that arc was how worthless he would be in that conflict). There's a big difference between showing off some cool characters and do cool things for a few pages and having them hijack weeks of focus without explaining a thing about their characters. Like imagine if in Marineford, we spent 3 chapters of Vista fighting Mihawk instead of the 2 pages of clashing they got? But we didn't get that because Oda has a good eye on what is and isn't important and knows how to properly pace a story. Meanwhile I feel Horikoshi gets so lost in the coolness of his character designs that he wastes chapters giving them focus while failing to give their characters any actual depth because he thinks their designs and personality quirks suffice.
It feels like I'm reading a manga full of fighting game characters which isn't necessarily bad by itself of the story were more simple (read Kengan Ashura to get a manga that does that sort of thing right) but when you're trying to write a world scale shonen battle series with evil conspiracies and massive, multi-faction conflicts, it's just...boring.
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Then explain why Bakugou and Todoroki sat on a bench for nearly three years up to this point?
Bakugo hasn't been benched at all? Bakugo got a major focus arc when he was kidnapped, was one of the main focuses of the "play with kids" bit, carried his team during his match of the "Class A vs Class B." and is the only one that knows Deku's secret and is fighting with him even now. And then you look at stuff like the movies?
Todoroki's stuff is all going into his father getting development right now. He's on hold until whatever happens with Endeavor happens, and we discover one of the villains has actually been his brother all along.
Explain why arcs like School Festival, Joint Training and MVA exists?
That falls into the "if they're lucky they'll get two chapters" category. Showcasing them as a mass montage isn't the same as actually spending time on them.
The School Festival Arc… which spent a little bit of time on setup with Earphone girl, and then spent 95% of its focus on Deku and Gentle Criminal and like 1 chapter on the actual festival? She basically got two chapters of screen time. And probably nothing else after for the remainder of the series.
And joint training... where it was broken up into teams in such a way that... Deku, Bakugo, and Todoroki could carry their personal matches and get all the focus? It didn't put all the heavy hitters into one group and then let everyone else shine, it just... spread out the mains. As I recall, Bakugo overwhelmingly carried his team singlehandedly, and Deku's match the entire focus was on his powers going haywire. Was there actually anything memorable out of that entire event, anything that grew the characters or was actually interesting? That arc went for months and all I remember from it is Class B had an overpowered mushroom girl. It wasn't even a tournament arc that gave you 1 on 1s to really explore the characters and their limits with, just which team had a more broken power to abuse and take out 3 other characters simultaneously. Pretty much everyone was happy after that arc ended and the focus switched to the villains for a few months.
When does tail boy get an arc? Electric doofus? Acid girl? Bellybutton boy? Talks to animals? Tape arms? Extra arms? Sugar Rush? Invisible girl? Pervert boy? Has Class Rep done anything since his brother got hospitalized? And how many of those characters can you actually name the character and their hero name without looking it up?
Ochako, Kirishima, Tokoyami, and Totoroki and Yayorazu are the ones getting focus as secondaries, (and Tsuya in the anime because her design memed her into popularity, but she hasn't gotten focus since they decorated their rooms.) All of them well behind Deku and Bakugo.
MVA is a spinoff. That's like asking why anime filler uses other characters. Because its free to, and using secondaries doesn't contradict the main plot as much as using the primaries.
Explain on the focus on the extended cast throughout this arc?
The extended cast that are new designs with no personalities, and who are being maimed and killed en-masse to show the villains are serious now?
In another year or two sheer power creep is going to make it so only Deku and Bakugo can handle any situation and the rest of the class just holds them back, its already rapidly approaching that point. Just like Goku and Vegeta, Naruto and Sasuke, Yuusuke and Hiei, Ichigo and himself, and any other shonen you want to bring up. Hell, Hunter X Hunter has 2 of its 4 leads missing for a decade, and is now on track to do the same to its other 2 leads. The background cast will fall further and further behind. If they're LUCKY, they're strong enough to get a fight and jobber to show how tough the villain is, like Gohan and Piccollo in Dragonball, and if they're not they become utter fodder like Krillin, Tien and Yamcha… and if they're really minor they get forgotten entirely like Launch.
(I'm not even a "fights are the only important thing" guy, but in terms of giving a character screentime in a battle series its what it often boils down to.)
Look at Rock Lee, easily the greatest character in Naruto. He got BOTH of the best fights pre-timeskip, the best character development, the best goal, and his own spinoff series, and he did literally nothing in the last 10 years of the series. Sakura was one of the three main characters from the very start and she... yeah.
Even in One Piece where Oda is juggling a hundred characters per arc now, fails to do any real focus on the main cast for lengthy periods. When was Chopper's last chance to truly shine? Usopp hasn't had a moment since Dresserossa. When was the last time Robin did anything? Her last solo fight was on Skypeia 18 years ago!
It's just what happens in Shonen. The way the narratives go with powering up the leads, and also needing to how showcase fights fairly regularly, makes it impossible to balance a large cast in a weekly battle manga. If you give everyone a moment it stretches an arc for months, and if you give everyone a fight, it can stretch a single arc for years. The author starts with a big crazy world full of characters and then slowly whittles away the less interesting less popular ones, and then ultimately settles into just a couple characters carrying everything, generally the ones with the most clashing personalities and the highest fanbase. There's no way to avoid it without having a second title with a second creative team carrying a few of the characters.
Happens in American comics too. Just look at how often the X-Men change up their roster and work to keep the cast at about 7-8 leads at a time... you just can't devote time to a cast of 20 regularly. Let alone a massive extended cast.