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Watched the first four or five episodes of this - got to Eraserhead doing his creepysmile at Deku post-broken finger. I have a heart of stone, but fiction has been killing me lately - I cried a little during The Force Awakens, and I found myself getting misty-eyed whenever the soaring soundtrack kicks in during My Hero Academia too. All Might is objectively the best character, if a really bad teacher, and his encourage of Deku strikes a weird chord in me that just makes me Feel Things. Part of it might be that I always expect these mentor characters to be more like Kakashi (who functionally is the same as Eraserhead), where, yeah, you know they care but getting them to show it is difficult at best. All Might is amazing because not only does he reverse his original statement to Midoriya ("You can be a hero!") but he seems to genuinely be a fan of his, as well. All Might likes Midoriya and is pretty blatant about this fact, which is refreshing and cool, especially when he does things like go out of his way to make sure Deku knows he didn't pull strings to get him into UA. Top three "No, there's an eyelash in my eye" moments watching MHA so far:
Some of it is just expert audience manipulation and making the narrative about achieving dreams that seem impossible, but it works because the show (mostly via All Might) only ever oscillates between two settings on the Hype Meter, which is 0 (Deku being a scrublord and literally tripping over his own two feet) and 11 (KOing the loving invincible boss robot). The surges in the visuals, the soundtrack, and the mood, plus the unbounded optimism of the message when the episodes peak like that, just makes for a very potent mix of emotion - like a shocking amount for what's basically a kid's cartoon. This is a good show.
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Jintor posted:plus loving ultra Alfalfa The Roach posted:All Might is so cool god drat Al-Saqr posted:All Might is loving Awesome. God drat. a kitten posted:I can't even believe how much All Might owns. I am super-resistant to liking characters that the author of a given work obviously wants you to like, usually - when most authors/illustrators go too far to put a character over, it just makes them feel obnoxious and ubiquitous All Might is exactly the loving opposite of that, he is the best character and I will never get tired of him, I would watch a show that was just All Might doing All Might things and Small Might doing Small Might things all the time, every day
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MattTheDoctor posted:I teared up at Plus Ultra. Incredible. it's the goddamn strings in the OST that kick in whenever All Might or Deku is about to do something amazingly heroic, on one level I know I should be wiser to this brand of playing the audience but on every other level I'm just hype as gently caress In most shounen series the outcomes are foregone conclusions so the fights are more about how competently they're drawn/animated or how inventive they can be either in terms of action or comedy, but in MHA I find myself consciously rooting for All Might/Deku in a way that reminds me of childhood, like I really wanted All Might to win It is embarrassing af but I can't help it
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it's less that I'm interested in apathy-chicken like you see online and more that I usually find it difficult to be fully engrossed in most stories, especially stories ostensibly not aimed at my demographic; I'm a grown-rear end American man, which firmly removes me from this show's likely intended audience, and while I don't possess any kind of academic qualifications and I don't ~blog~ about it, I like to try to form sophisticated opinions about the media I consume, which requires a degree of detachment even from things I enjoy I'm really bad at doing this with My Hero Academia a for-instance: I like JoJo - it's neat and intricate in a lot of ways and kinda aggravating in others, but overall I enjoy it quite a bit, and I Talk About It Online with my nerd friends, but I never found myself with like a sincere wish in my heart that Jotaro win a battle; it's kinda clinical, I guess? good art, interesting characters, weird powers, surreal goings-on, enjoyable stuff during the last episode of My Hero Academia, I was truly rooting for All Might to win - the kid in me completely overwrote my adult brain, which consciously probably would've stepped in with something like "well of course he's going to win, he's the mentor figure to the main character and this is the first major battle we've seen him in, blah blah blah" it's hard to parse or put into words, but it just hit a weird place in my feels, and it reminded me of good memories of childhood before I became an insufferable rear end in a top hat and I could still unironically just cheer for a hero
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