I saw the opening again and I didn't have the audio on. It really is the song being mismatched that holds me back from fully liking the opening. I'm guessing the opening will change visuals and music when the camp is officially over? But my memory is hazy I don't recall there being many chapters between camp starting and then everything going wrong lol. So I can't guess where this season would take us.
My Hero Academia - Gomu Gomu no Gentle Fist
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I saw the opening again and I didn't have the audio on. It really is the song being mismatched that holds me back from fully liking the opening. I'm guessing the opening will change visuals and music when the camp is officially over? But my memory is hazy I don't recall there being many chapters between camp starting and then everything going wrong lol. So I can't guess where this season would take us.
Well, I think we are getting a new opening after mid-season, but I can see them updating some visuals of this one before it happens (even if it's for a single episode).
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Monoma needs to get his ass kicked already.
Also, I'm a little confused. Is her name La Brava or LoveLover?
I really like Monoma and his gags, but at this point I want to see more of the Monoma who put his palm out and easily sidestepped Bakugou, the Monoma who convinced most of the class to follow his plan during the tournament, the Monoma who's good friends with Tetsutetsu, with Pony chick, and brotherly/sisterly with Kendo.
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Agreed. Every time I see this pic (3rd light novel inside cover) I hope for a Class B filler episode.
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I just realized she's wearing custom high heels for her hooves….
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Finally saw the new opening. I really like the chorus. The rest . . . . is a little odd.
@MDL:
Given that these kids are only, what, 15? That's just wrong.
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Given that these kids are only, what, 15? That's just wrong.
All Might and Endeavor did trained Midoriya and Shoto.
Meanwhile Bakugo is…Bakugo.
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Wait, what's wrong about it?
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Yup. Unrealistic beauty standards for boys. Expecting them to shave all body hair and have nipples surgically removed.
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Great now I need to get that image of the 3 of them with body hair and nipples out of my head lol.
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Okay so, while I did like the most recent chapter, it further cements for me, that by this point I'm just straight-up hoping for the villains to win this one. As in, I'm actively rooting against Deku, and like him less as a hero for trying to get them arrested. Which, I mean, good on Horikoshi for writing such likeable characters in the first place, but I doubt this was what he intended.
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Wow, La Brava's ability sucks. Is that all there is to it? Looks more like something out of HxH.
She's like James from Bleach. The little guy that boosted Mask De Masculine with his cheering.
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They are Japanese teens, they be as clean as whitebeard's chest for their whole lives
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Okay so, while I did like the most recent chapter, it further cements for me, that by this point I'm just straight-up hoping for the villains to win this one. As in, I'm actively rooting against Deku, and like him less as a hero for trying to get them arrested. Which, I mean, good on Horikoshi for writing such likeable characters in the first place, but I doubt this was what he intended.
I'm in exactly the same boat.
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Wait, what's wrong about it?
The fact that they're only 15, so showing off their bodies is a little . . . . awkward.
Now when these boys graduate high school, I'm sure they will be even more attractive. Although now because of you people I'm imagining these kids with hair.
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Which, I mean, good on Horikoshi for writing such likeable characters in the first place, but I doubt this was what he intended.
I'm not sure about that! Well, he probably still wants us to like Izuku (…and is failing a little there), but it's hard to believe he'd write this duo this sympathetically by accident, with backstories and all (well, 1 so far). Plus, hammering the point about G+LB not liking violence and being against the League of Villains' methods.
The series as a whole is constantly examining character ideals/motivations and almost everyone so far is some shade of gray, with very few pure incarnations of evil (or good). It's the whole theme of Vigilantes, even! -
The fact that they're only 15, so showing off their bodies is a little . . . . awkward.
Now when these boys graduate high school, I'm sure they will be even more attractive. Although now because of you people I'm imagining these kids with hair.
I suppose? But they're just in shape. I wasn't even thinking it was like a sexy thing.
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I just realized she's wearing custom high heels for her hooves….
Horses in high heels. The final fetish.
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The fact that they're only 15, so showing off their bodies is a little . . . . awkward.
The joke of funimation's tweet is that they're in shape and they're about to swim, which is similar to the anime Free!
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I suppose? But they're just in shape. I wasn't even thinking it was like a sexy thing.
Maybe I've been corrupted.
@MDL:
The joke of funimation's tweet is that they're in shape and they're about to swim, which is similar to the anime Free!
I don't really see anything awkward about that. It's just a very simple similarity that makes normal platonic sense on first look.I get that. I think it's just the way that the picture was framed. Deku was the only one who looked like he was about to swim.
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I get that. I think it's just the way that the picture was framed. Deku was the only one who looked like he was about to swim.
Because Deku was the only one who was gonna swim, Bakugou and Todoroki were just gonna fly with their powers
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I'd been really hoping for Iida to just run across the pool but he hasn't gone through summer training yet. Sigh
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All Might's English voice is so weird to me.
Also I feel like most of the evidence that guy is using is just visual gags or flair to indicate when One for All is in use. I will say I don't mind the theory of All Might not actually being quirkless.
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Quirks can be sneaky. I'm sure if Eraserhead hadn't had some incident where he discovered his quirk he'd never realize he had one.
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Omg. Can you imagine giving birth to an invisible baby!? That would be so confusing difficult lol. Did she even show up on sonograms?
I kinda want a filler arc just dedicated to the kids and their parents recounting what it was like growing up.
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Omg. Can you imagine giving birth to an invisible baby!? That would be so confusing difficult lol. Did she even show up on sonograms?
I kinda want a filler arc just dedicated to the kids and their parents recounting what it was like growing up.
Didn't
All for One'sDeku's doctor say that Quirks show up by the age of four rather than right from birth in Chapter 1? Then again, one of the very first pages in Chapter 1 talks about how the very first documented Quirk was a baby that was born with a bioluminescent Quirk. But the maturation of Quirk factors might have adapted since then.Also, a Hagakure flashback can easily be very tragic. Especially if it delves into self-identity issues.
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Aoyama and Present Mic also had their quirks at birth, so it's established that some people are born with it and it's not that rare.
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Omg. Can you imagine giving birth to an invisible baby!? That would be so confusing difficult lol. Did she even show up on sonograms?
Well, considering ultrasounds use sound to create an image, then…yes?
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@Count:
Also, a Hagakure flashback can easily be very tragic. Especially if it delves into self-identity issues.
Poor Hagakure has gotten very little screen-time. I'm just worried she'll turn out to be a mole or something.
Maybe if she can master her quirk better she can learn to turn her invisibility off.
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Omg. Can you imagine giving birth to an invisible baby!?
Fables ran into that exact problem actually. Even worse when you have multiple kids at once and only one of them is invisible….
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Wasn't one of the obvious indicators of someone being quirkless is the presence or absence of an extra bone in the feet?
I'm having a hard time with Mat Pat, when he does a theory on something that I don't know or care I enjoy it, but then he goes on about the Elrics not knowing how to transmutate a person being the cause of the components of the body, but handwaves when Ed transmutes himself from a place to another place without ill effect, or how the metroid animals are the original carriers of the X parasite, but fails to account why if they can perfectly mimic the animals, didn't mimic people as they would have been more effective as sleeper agents or trojan horses.
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Wasn't one of the obvious indicators of someone being quirkless is the presence or absence of an extra bone in the feet?
I'm having a hard time with Mat Pat, when he does a theory on something that I don't know or care I enjoy it, but then he goes on about the Elrics not knowing how to transmutate a person being the cause of the components of the body, but handwaves when Ed transmutes himself from a place to another place without ill effect, or how the metroid animals are the original carriers of the X parasite, but fails to account why if they can perfectly mimic the animals, didn't mimic people as they would have been more effective as sleeper agents or trojan horses.
The only things that really grabbed my attention in this regard in the MHA video is that MatPat seemed to take one million percent at face value (which, given it doesn't really affect the overall theory and it needs horikoshi himself to clear up in a volume, I'm not inclined to ding him for) and not mentioning All Might's explaination for the muscle form, extreme gut-sucking (possibly a quirk in itself)
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I can't see the video right now, the theory is that All Might's quirk is transforming between the two states? Young All Might was beefing up as you'd expect, with the youngest that we have seen him being bigger than Mirio is right now, all until his decline starting after the All for One battle.
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I can't see the video right now, the theory is that All Might's quirk is transforming between the two states? Young All Might was beefing up as you'd expect, with the youngest that we have seen him being bigger than Mirio is right now, all until his decline starting after the All for One battle.
Basically. It's noted the muscle form acts separately from One For All since Deku has never displayed it and he can still use it, however momentarily, after completely losing OFA.
He addresses the big sticking point, that All Might himself said he was once quirkless, by suggesting he either straight up lied to inspire Deku or pulled a "From a Certain Point of View", as one idea presented in the video is that All Might himself was sincerely ignorant of his own quirk until AFTER getting One For All.
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Poor Hagakure has gotten very little screen-time. I'm just worried she'll turn out to be a mole or something.
Maybe if she can master her quirk better she can learn to turn her invisibility off.
Cant wait for the save Hagakure Robin Arc despite her selling them out
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@Long:
Cant wait for the save Hagakure Robin Arc despite her selling them out
I'm really hoping we avoid that, especially after Bakugo's rescue arc, but I can totally see it.
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@Count:
Didn't
All for One'sDeku's doctor say that Quirks show up by the age of four rather than right from birth in Chapter 1? Then again, one of the very first pages in Chapter 1 talks about how the very first documented Quirk was a baby that was born with a bioluminescent Quirk. But the maturation of Quirk factors might have adapted since then.Also, a Hagakure flashback can easily be very tragic. Especially if it delves into self-identity issues.
I assume mutant type ones don't suddenly mutate into a different form. You're 4 and then you suddenly wake up with a bird head or multiple limbs I think would cause all sorts of insanity.
I do wonder what all the kids are classified as. Are Mineta, Tokoyami and Sero a mutant? Is there actually some overlap classification?
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It's definitely a gray area. I'm sure those like Tokoyami, Ashido, and Koda are all classified as part mutant because their physical form isn't standard human and presumably wouldn't be cancelled by Aizawa's quirk. But at the same time, they all have abilities that should be cancelled by it. Meanwhile, someone like Gang Orca is also a mutant but probably wouldn't be inhibited much by Aizawa.
I think the best guess is that passive features exist from birth but powers or rudimentary control over it comes later. So, say, Sero probably had his unusual elbows from near birth but couldn't shoot tape out of them until 3 or 4. The alternative is that those more obvious physical traits grow in over time while the quirk manifestation appears suddenly. In other words, did Uraraka always have her finger pads and they just didn't work as a baby? Did they appear over night? Or did they start emerging a little prior to her power manifesting?
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Anybody have an update on when the next Vigilante? Usually is bi-weekly, but it’s not on the Viz site.
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@Count:
I'm really hoping we avoid that, especially after Bakugo's rescue arc, but I can totally see it.
Well it'll bee one deku is leading or would presumably take over so with that there I feel like itd be different enough in concept and horikoshi could make a lot of different changes so its more dressrosa to alabasta comparison
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@Long:
Well it'll bee one deku is leading or would presumably take over so with that there I feel like itd be different enough in concept and horikoshi could make a lot of different changes so its more dressrosa to alabasta comparison
It's not that I don't think it can be different from Bakugo's rescue. I've just already had enough of my fill on rescue arcs in the shonen genre. For once, I want a main character betrayal that sticks and the main cast doesn't treat them like a victim. The betrayer is actually held accountable for their misdeeds. And if they DO return to the good side, they do it out of their own free will rather than needing the heroes to risk their lives for someone in denial. I hope that makes sense.
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My Hero Academia Volume 18 poster shows colored Eri:
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@Count:
It's not that I don't think it can be different from Bakugo's rescue. I've just already had enough of my fill on rescue arcs in the shonen genre. For once, I want a main character betrayal that sticks and the main cast doesn't treat them like a victim. The betrayer is actually held accountable for their misdeeds. And if they DO return to the good side, they do it out of their own free will rather than needing the heroes to risk their lives for someone in denial. I hope that makes sense.
I agree with you Count, having read a fair share of shonen this kind of mc denial is kind of annoying by now. I think what you say could have worked wonders for Sasuke in Naruto, but rabbit-goddess forbids Kishimoto to not wank over the Uchihas.
My Hero Academia Volume 18 poster shows colored Eri:
Colored Eri is from the back of volume 17. I think I posted already how both her and Shigi have white hair red eyes, been a hint that they are both quirk anomalies.
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I agree with you Count, having read a fair share of shonen this kind of mc denial is kind of annoying by now. I think what you say could have worked wonders for Sasuke in Naruto, but rabbit-goddess forbids Kishimoto to not wank over the Uchihas.
Colored Eri is from the back of volume 17. I think I posted already how both her and Shigi have white hair red eyes, been a hint that they are both quirk anomalies.
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Lots of things could have worked wonders in Naruto if Kishimoto actually planned ahead and did not focus so much on pink eye mental illness and making its protagonist a naive messiah with no practical solutions in mind.
Sorry, I never saw that.
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I feel like a lot of the cast has red eyes.
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Anybody have an update on when the next Vigilante? Usually is bi-weekly, but it’s not on the Viz site.
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@Count:
Lots of things could have worked wonders in Naruto if Kishimoto actually planned ahead and did not focus so much on pink eye mental illness and making its protagonist a naive messiah with no practical solutions in mind.
It's been years but to this day I am convinced Kishimoto was about ready to wrap the series up around where the timeskip happened. Choji and Neji both had fantastic death scenes and everything was leading up to a final showdown between Naruto, Sasuke, and Orochimaru. There was bigger nastier stuff out there, but the actual narrative and momentum of the story being told could have easily wrapped in another year or two from that point.
But the series was a super huge hit so the character deaths were undone, Naruto loses to Sasuke, we fully introduced a dozen different big bads to be taken down one by one and got a timeskip that didn't actually power the characters up all that much. (And the anime went into a solid two years of filler.) And that's the point where the series seemed to have no real direction or idea of what it was doing. (It had started slogging in Rescue Sasuke but it was pretty solid up until that point.)
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It's been years but to this day I am convinced Kishimoto was about ready to wrap the series up around where the timeskip happened. Choji and Neji both had fantastic death scenes and everything was leading up to a final showdown between Naruto, Sasuke, and Orochimaru. There was bigger nastier stuff out there, but the actual narrative and momentum of the story being told could have easily wrapped in another year or two from that point.
But the series was a super huge hit so the character deaths were undone, Naruto loses to Sasuke, we fully introduced a dozen different big bads to be taken down one by one and got a timeskip that didn't actually power the characters up all that much. (And the anime went into a solid two years of filler.) And that's the point where the series seemed to have no real direction or idea of what it was doing. (It had started slogging in Rescue Sasuke but it was pretty solid up until that point.)
I want to say that the series couldn't have ended that soon without Naruto becoming the strongest person ever in typical shonen protagonist fashion and how he's still years away from being a viable Hokage candidate (not that the series ever bothered to explore how that process works besides vague hints of strength, wisdom, and nepotism), but considering how the actual manga itself ends without ever showing how and why Naruto becomes Hokage… Maybe you're right. I can only see Naruto winning the fight against Sasuke being too predictable though, even by shonen standards. I don't really know where the series would go with Sasuke's character if he was forced to stay in the village after making a clear decision to change allegiances.
Although I still don't like the idea of Orochimaru being the final antagonist. I know he was one of the only good villains in Naruto, but he lacks any sort of relationship with Naruto aside from constant underestimation to make me feel satisfied with him being Naruto's final opponent. There is nothing interesting or truly satisfying to me about Naruto beating Orochimaru other than freeing Sasuke, and I also wouldn't really like that since Sasuke gets treated as a victim for consciously betraying his allies (but hey, Part II already sort of did that anyways so nothing much changes lol). But of course, I would still take him over last minute alien rabbit goddess mastermind.
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When did All Migt say he was born quirkless. I just assume he had a useless or close to useless one.