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Yeah currently it's blown through a competition/tournament arc in probably a 1/5th of the time any other standard shounen would take.
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Jul 7, 2015 01:10
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And even that was twice as long as planned.
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tsob posted:Maybe I just haven't been reading the truly terrible shonen stuff, but most shonen stories start off with good pacing from my experience, and blow through 3 or 4 arcs in the first 50 issues or less before they start becoming longer and more involved and eventually end up taking 100+ issues per arc and start to lose the run of their story around this point. Not to say that My Hero Academia isn't really good so far, but I'd hold off on commenting on how great it's pacing especially is until it's gotten 100/150 or so chapters under it's belt and seeing how it paces arcs at that point. You could say pretty much the same stuff you just did about My Hero Academia about Naruto and Bleach for their first 50 or 100 chapters after all, maybe more (memory is lovely and I ain't checking). And they turned to poo poo after a while. I've never read Naruto, but the first five or so volumes of Bleach was Grade A stuff. It was only after they hit Soul Society that things began to fall apart. My Hero Academia is about where Bleach was in terms of plot progression and publication. As fun as it's been so far, the real test starts here.
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Dr_Amazing posted:What is her quirk again? Something with her eyes? Telescopic vision I think? It was something that wasn't useful for fighting.
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RatHat posted:Telescopic vision I think? It was something that wasn't useful for fighting. Mei's quirk is telescopic vision, yes, which works for both long-distance viewing and microscopic viewing, the latter of which is far more important in her work.
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Jul 7, 2015 01:20
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So what you're saying is she needs supervision.
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But she has supervision. Or do you think that there wouldn't be somebody in the U.A. labs/machine shops pretty much through out the school day and a bit after?
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Jul 7, 2015 03:32
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It is a pun.
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Jul 7, 2015 03:33
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Waffleman_ posted:It is a pun.
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Jul 7, 2015 04:08
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The pun or my badly done joke of a response?
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MHA also does a better job of handling a large cast than its predecessors in shonen. So far, each character is interesting and gets time, but it doesn't suffer from the problem that a lot of shonen have--that you would rather follow the story of anyone but the main character.
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Mr. Fowl posted:MHA also does a better job of handling a large cast than its predecessors in shonen. So far, each character is interesting and gets time, but it doesn't suffer from the problem that a lot of shonen have--that you would rather follow the story of anyone but the main character. It looks like the side characters are also going to be present for the rest of the story instead of the artist introducing new randoms with even more bizarre superpowers to make up for it. That's probably what's really going to set this apart.
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fadam posted:Some guy at my local comic store recommended this to me because it was "japan's take on superheroes." I'm only nine issues in so far, but it definitely seems to be more like the few episodes of Naruto I watched when I was a kid than any western superhero comic I'm familiar with. Does it ever get less shounen-y? Your guy was wrong, japan's take on superheroes is Tiger & Bunny.  VVVVVVV: We have a winner. MiddleOne fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Jul 7, 2015 |
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Xoidanor posted:Your guy was wrong, japan's take on superheroes is One-Punch Man.
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Just go watch Tiger & Bunny and also read One Punch Man, they're both incredible.
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MHA is great, but I'm still waiting on the part where they get to fight crime and take down bad guys who are trying to destroy the city!
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My Hero Academia is inspired by American superhero comics, and One-Punch Man owes a lot more to old Japanese superhero cartoons and super sentai series. MHA Is Like, Japanese American Superhero and OPM is Japanese Japanese Superhero
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Jul 7, 2015 15:29
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A new omake for My Hero Academia is up! It's just that one page.
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Jul 7, 2015 15:30
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:A new omake for My Hero Academia is up! Good opportunity to demonstrate the importance of commas in that omake.
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:A new omake for My Hero Academia is up! Hagakure isn't even wearing a swimsuit, how indecent!
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Jul 7, 2015 15:50
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:A new omake for My Hero Academia is up! I like the explosion in the background.
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:A new omake for My Hero Academia is up! No Invisible Girl. 3/10.
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JosephWongKS posted:No Invisible Girl. 3/10. Or is there?
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Mr. Fowl posted:Or is there? The explosion is Mineta's head after contemplating such a possibility.
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:It looks like the side characters are also going to be present for the rest of the story instead of the artist introducing new randoms with even more bizarre superpowers to make up for it. That's probably what's really going to set this apart. Again, I wouldn't be too hasty to judge this, because again, shonen titles in my experience tend to be good at building and using side-characters during the establishing rush of chapters. It's presumably at least partially because when your hero is weaker and still getting their bearings other characters need to fill in for them, and also because when each arc is only a few chapters long it's easier to not forget the importance or existence of side characters as well as find simple ways to include them in short, self-contained stories. When your last arc was 80 chapters and your next one is 120 chapters and you're trying to ensure it moves the story forward and gently caress deadlines are coming and fans say they love this girl and hate that guy and where's my smokes, it's probably easier to lose track of what you were planning. Bleach is a great example here because there were a lot of short and quick stories in the first run of chapters and while the story wasn't setting up nearly as many characters as My Hero Academia, each of the ones who were there seemed to have some importance and to have a role they could fill. And then Soul Society happened and we basically got an entirely new supporting cast and even the few who remained started to fade and Ichigo bled out whatever character he had so that he could become a pawn of the struggle between Urahara and big bad of arc in question. Naruto was much the same. A big cast of awesome supporting characters, a fun main character who had to struggle and had some personality, a rush of short but connected stories that then shat the bed. Shonen stories don't have a problem starting strong, they have a problem keeping that steam. I don't mean for a minute to suggest that My Hero Academia won't keep it, but I will say that there was no sign in the early chapters of Bleach or Naruto of just how bad they would become so it's entirely possible it could happen. Especially given that this is the author's first long running series and he'll probably start to feel some pressure from at the very least editors after a while given it's success. The mark of a great shonen writer isn't starting a great story, it's finishing one. ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:A new omake for My Hero Academia is up! I do love Yaoyorozu's bored pose and Frogirls 1920's style bathing suit. tsob fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Jul 7, 2015 |
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Haha oh my god I realized why all his girls are so thick. He's drawing boys but adding tits and a bit of rear end (though not always) on them. That's amazing.
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No he isn't?
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Nah, he definitely draws them with female proportions from the get go. You can't just "draw boy, then add hips" cause that would look messed. He just draws them built like athletes and then inflates the boob size to appropriate anime levels.
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Eej posted:Nah, he definitely draws them with female proportions from the get go. You can't just "draw boy, then add hips" cause that would look messed. He just draws them built like athletes and then inflates the boob size to appropriate anime levels. I think Midnight sort of suffers from that though. I'm not expecting thunder thighs or bubblebutt but she's got this man sized set of shoulders, some tits tacked on, and then narrow hips. I actually thought she might have been a drag queen for the longest time because of it. It's not something that's bad or I take huge issues with, I legit enjoy how he draws ladies. Midoriya's mom (in her current form) is probably the best way he's drawn a lady in the entire series though, hands down.
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:I think Midnight sort of suffers from that though. I'm not expecting thunder thighs or bubblebutt but she's got this man sized set of shoulders, some tits tacked on, and then narrow hips. I actually thought she might have been a drag queen for the longest time because of it. I've seen woman built like midnight, All of the woman in MHA are pretty drat reasonable.
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:I think Midnight sort of suffers from that though. I'm not expecting thunder thighs or bubblebutt but she's got this man sized set of shoulders, some tits tacked on, and then narrow hips. I actually thought she might have been a drag queen for the longest time because of it. This is a bad post.
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:I think Midnight sort of suffers from that though. I'm not expecting thunder thighs or bubblebutt but she's got this man sized set of shoulders, some tits tacked on, and then narrow hips. I actually thought she might have been a drag queen for the longest time because of it. Guess what?You work out? You get Swole. "Man sized shoulder" is just your perception of someone with thick shoulder muscles. Like, you know, a super-hero that's expected to grab a 100 kilo dude while getting him to safety, WHILE fighting a bunch of jerks.
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 I know you're like a superhero and strong and all, but you don't gotta look so manly about it, god!
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Horikoshi doesn't seem to go for exaggerated proportions on people who look mostly human. That's about it really.
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It's refreshing to see a popular series that has an author that payed attention in anatomy classes though.
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Dunno, for all their faults most of the popular manga artists are fairly good at the anatomy thing (anime stylization/exaggeration aside)
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:A new omake for My Hero Academia is up! Kind of disappointed that Mina's costume isn't some hideous Eighties fashion travesty. C'mon, girl, you've got a style to maintain.
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