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Flesnolk posted:For someone who's been plotting like he's speeding to the end, Horikoshi sure likes to drag this poo poo out When is the manga ending, anyway? I could have sworn it was supposed to be over about two years ago.
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Arist posted:Soon, presumably --Posts from fifty chapters ago
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Apr 2, 2024 23:00
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Reader/clickbait articles grossly misinterpretted what "the final act begins" meant
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jump's started cycling it out of promo images and stuff like the banner on their website so presumably its actually ending soon-soon not 'two years' soon
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It'll inexplicably continue after this arc with the next school year
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RatHat posted:It'll inexplicably continue after this arc with the next school year Tries to eat Ruri Dragon's lunch by becoming a slice-of-life superpower manga.
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Do you think any of these kids will be depressed that the peak of their hero careers was in high school?
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its like a high school sports anime where 90% of the cast doesnt go pro
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AFO was the source of all evil in the world, and all the heroes are going to be out of a job.
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Blueberry Pancakes posted:Do you think any of these kids will be depressed that the peak of their hero careers was in high school? Imagine saving the world only to grow old and become a side character in Boruto.
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Blueberry Pancakes posted:Do you think any of these kids will be depressed that the peak of their hero careers was in high school? "There I was, at our finest hour, being a human power generator for a floating fortress that failed at its primary mission and then crashed."
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idk if superhero world war three broke out in my freshman year of high school I think I'd be pretty happy that the years after that were chill
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How many of class A still hasn't done a thing this final arc? Tape and Sugar guy?
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Endorph posted:its like a high school sports anime where 90% of the cast doesnt go pro Haikyuu was good imo
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bobjr posted:How many of class A still hasn't done a thing this final arc? Tape and Sugar guy? Momo has been in a hole producing random chaff for the entirety of this arc e: from a synopsis she apparently made weapons for Mei to fight the Toga clones, but gently caress if I remember any of that and it's a pretty lame capstone for her character (which of course makes it perfect for Momo) Arist fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Apr 3, 2024 |
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The whole thing started with the Hero School/Class A premise, and very quickly became "those three cool kids and their role models, oh and some useless kids stick around too I guess". It's both hilarious and tragic how underused everyone else has become over time.
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itd be fine if everyone was just background characters if they hadnt spent so much time setting them up at the start
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Not to defend the dude's writing, but "introduce a broad cast of interesting but ultimately underutilized characters" seems to be a successful blueprint in the genre.
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sure but most of those characters served a purpose at some point in the narrative. bleach has an army of useless guys but most of them were just introduced as midbosses in the rukia rescue arc and then the series pivoted to shinigami society so they all just kind of hung around. yamcha and tien were main characters in the original dragon ball even if they barely did anything in z. naruto's ninja classmates were actually pretty well used in the pre-timeskip stuff as rivals and benchmarks for him, the people that were ostracizing him that he won around. you can understand why these characters exist. you could remove them from later material, but you couldnt excise them completely. the thing thats striking about mha's writing is that none of these characters ever do anything, its just all setup for the stuff they might do and then dont.
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MHA just never had its Chuunin exam arc. 
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SyntheticPolygon posted:MHA just never had its Chuunin exam arc. No, it's worse, it did have the Chuunin Exam and it still didn't utilize those characters! That was the Sports Festival!
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The whole story has felt like an outline we're going through, yeah. He apparently had all these plans for an extremely epic (length-wise) manga but had the simultaneous impulse to 1. move at a brisk pace instead of spending years on a single arc 2. realized he didn't want to spend 3 decades drawing this so tried to get to the ending while not sacrificing any of the major plot beats he thought were important.
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the issue is that i would rather read the version of this manga thats just school bullshit with occasional real villains than the version he apparently thinks is important
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Arist posted:No, it's worse, it did have the Chuunin Exam and it still didn't utilize those characters! That was the Sports Festival! Listen, I can only remember like 4 characters getting stuff in the tournament part of the festival and those were the members of the cast that mostly continued to get the ocassional moment. Nothing for the majority of the class.
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Arist posted:Momo has been in a hole producing random chaff for the entirety of this arc I'm honestly hilarious. I thought for sure they'd give her some kind of big moment in the final arc to finally prove her worth as a leader, and maybe they'll squeeze it in at the last second, but it's looking increasingly likely that Momo's big accomplishment of the manga is going to be her technically being responsible for taking down Gigantomachia the first time. That accomplishment is pretty lessened by the fact that Gigantomachia still managed to wreak havoc all across Japan and ensure that the rest of the villains would escape and the fact that he was taken down way easier the second time around without Momo's help. The only conclusion I can come to from all this is that all of the characters were just wrong when they said Momo had to potential to be a great leader someday.
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Endorph posted:the issue is that i would rather read the version of this manga thats just school bullshit with occasional real villains than the version he apparently thinks is important To that point, I would've really enjoyed reading a story about the cursed Todoroki family. I really enjoyed that whole run, with the singular exception of Dabi. Even Touya was better than Dabi. fake edit: Actually, Dabi washing out his hair dye and revealing he was Touya all along owned. So there's that, at least
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Listen, I can only remember like 4 characters getting stuff in the tournament part of the festival and those were the members of the cast that mostly continued to get the ocassional moment. Nothing for the majority of the class. I meant it didn't do anything in that arc either with them, to be clear
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SKULL.GIF posted:To that point, I would've really enjoyed reading a story about the cursed Todoroki family. I really enjoyed that whole run, with the singular exception of Dabi. Even Touya was better than Dabi. I dunno, I kind of like Dabi being a horrible piece of poo poo with no redeeming qualities? Like, he doesn't deserve what Endeavor did to him, but man is this kid a shithead.
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Rhonne posted:I dunno, I kind of like Dabi being a horrible piece of poo poo with no redeeming qualities? Like, he doesn't deserve what Endeavor did to him, but man is this kid a shithead. No, I agree with that, I just didn't really find the execution/delivery on Dabi to be compelling. Everything else about the Todoroki curse? Fantastic. The chapter where we get to watch Enji becoming increasingly deranged while Rei struggles to produce a "worthy" heir for him and Touya becomes increasingly desperate, and Shoto is finally born? And everyone reacts to that as the finale? Fantastic.
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You gotta love both AfO and Shiggy doing the DBZ style "oh you thought you had me? Watch me unleash EVEN MORE POWER that I hid before for some reason!" Like at this point might as well have Deku killed and then wished (Eri'd) back but also while he was dead he trained for twenty years or some poo poo. Just go whole hog. Also Sugarman was always on shakey ground of "this is Class A material?" but now you gotta question why the gently caress he was never just sent home like goddamn lol
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Anime needs to stop setting up schools and implying multiple years will be spent there just to have the series end in the first year.
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Endorph posted:itd be fine if everyone was just background characters if they hadnt spent so much time setting them up at the start People make fun of Sugarman for being a useless background character, but it's actually totally okay that he's a useless background character because the story didn't really spend a whole lot of time pretending he wasn't like it has done with so many other characters who are narratively nearly as useless but have a lot more screen time.
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Arist posted:Momo has been in a hole producing random chaff for the entirety of this arc No, she made weapons for herself, too. Just going full out with some miniguns to take down villains. So, she got to be really effective offscreen. Just like Sukuna!
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Kanos posted:People make fun of Sugarman for being a useless background character, but it's actually totally okay that he's a useless background character because the story didn't really spend a whole lot of time pretending he wasn't like it has done with so many other characters who are narratively nearly as useless but have a lot more screen time. meanwhile theres characters like momo who got 25x the setup and like 0.25x the payoff
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Kild posted:Anime needs to stop setting up schools and implying multiple years will be spent there just to have the series end in the first year. Honestly that's the part of the story I feel most let down by, as an anime only watcher. I make no guarantee I'll love all the manga stuff I don't know about, but knowing we won't actually see Deku and friends go through all those years at UA is disappointing. As I noted when I was finishing S6 of the anime, I thought MHA did a great job of balancing fun times at super-school with a more conventional story about stopping bad guys. It's a formula that clearly works in both MHA and elsewhere. But it looks like all the fun times are over and it's just fight fight fight from here on out. S6 was great but several seasons like S6 would wear thin. But I guess I'll find out in a month. I am excited.
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I don't think there is a character out there that got as many chances to shine as Momo did and then just...didn't.
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Electric Phantasm posted:I don't think there is a character out there that got as many chances to shine as Momo did and then just...didn't. Which would be less insulting if she wasn't the dedicated cheesecake character.
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