Hargrimm posted:

I appreciate the mangaka getting burned out naming all the class b mooks around Metal Body Boy and just going with Irony McIronface

a kitten posted:

No don't.

LightningKimba posted:

She made a match into a commercial, then fucks off dramatically.

Mei kinda owns???

Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:

Bakugou kind of suffers the most as a character from horikoshis lack of writing experience in the early part of MHA, as early in the series he goes well past being some kind of Gary Oak - esque Cocky Rival into acting like some kind of nascent school shooter, and it takes a while for horikoshi to really find the balance.

Fabricated posted:

I'm glad they didn't short-sell how abusive Endeavor was. He's an absolute fucker.

Martytoof posted:

At last some more plot. I thought we would be stuck in this neverending god forsaken sports festival for the next twenty episodes.

C-SPAN Caller posted:

My guess is nobody wins because they just introduced a new villain and the tournament gets interrupted.

EmmyOk posted:

I like that Ida is basically the same but now with sparkles.

Please tell me I'm not the only person who just noticed that Jiro's hair shine is always drawn as sound waves

Cheston posted:

So, how did Deku know to text Todoroki? Or was that a group message he sent out? (I liked the bit on the train where Deku skimmed through his texts to Iida, since those kinds of asides usually ground the setting/characters in a nice way, but until Todoroki showed up I kind of assumed he wasn't staying in touch with any of the other students.)


Out of curiosity, what's the pacing of the manga like at this point? It def. feels like the anime is going fast (not that I mind).

Dragonatrix posted:

Not... really...? It seems pretty obvious that he's saying to not get blinded by a desire for vengeance over, y'know, being a hero.

EmmyOk posted:

"Look properly" is a phrase for telling someone to check something again or to observe closely. It's obvious what meaning they intend but the choice of wording is awkward and poorly selected.

SyntheticPolygon posted:

Stain's a crazy serial killer who thinks Shigaraki deserved to live more than a lot of seemingly decent folk including children.

He's utterly terrible and a huge goddamn hypocrite, but he does have conviction. And he does value All Might as like the ideal hero, and much like every character in the series Midoriya reminds him of All Might.

Anyway Stain sucks.

SyntheticPolygon posted:

He talks about how he's interested in seeing Shigaraki's conviction, that he wants to see how he'll grow and develop a creed. Then he'll decide whether to kill him afterwards based on that. It has nothing to do with Shigaraki being useful to his goals (Shiggy's the one who wants to use Stain until he decides he hates him too much), he mentions how although they both want to trash society they're complete opposites and the type of person he hates more than anyone. But even so Stain values Shigaraki's half-formed creed, and lets him live based on that.

Anyway, it seems that to Stain if your philosophy as a hero meets his standards he won't kill you but it doesn't seem Stain actually researches the people he attacks or try to understand what they value or believe in. Because from everything we've seen of Tensei he's a sincerely good person. He's basically to Iida what All Might is to Deku, and a great role model to him. Stain has his convictions and his creed but he just judges people based on his own warped perceptions. He's insane.

Kanos posted:

And that's why I think Stain's entire philosophy is pretty much total garbage. If I'm going to get stabbed by a junkie in an alleyway and a hero swings in and saves my life, I'm not really concerned about if they're motivated by the desire for big endorsement dollars or if they're a really big jerk. If a hero saves a bus load of people from careening off a bridge, I don't give a poo poo if they're thinking about the modeling deal they had to skip to do it. They're a hero because they willingly put themselves in danger to save lives, even if they're gaining something from it or aren't doing it for ideologically pure reasons. In real life, police or firemen who put themselves in serious or mortal danger to rescue other people are often hailed as heroes despite that literally being their career, and they deserve the accolades.

Kanos posted:

Endeavor's abuse looks to be emotional, rather than physical, so it's pretty hard for outsiders to know about it. The hospital staff at the place where Shoto's mom was placed were probably told "she had a breakdown and poured boiling water on our son while screaming about hating him", for example.

I don't imagine the general public is aware of Endeavor's family stuff on any level, or else he would be substantially less popular than he is. Deku, who is a huge hero otaku who makes it his business to study and take notes on every hero he can, had absolutely no idea about any of it until Shoto infodumped him. Hell, I don't think that other pro heroes are aware of what he did; All Might doesn't seem to know.

Slime posted:

What I mean is, would that sentiment actually survive when the chips are down and All Might is standing there telling him he's an awful, terrible, horrible person?

Fabricated posted:

I really kinda wonder how she's going to fight as a pro. I guess just slide around and kungfu people because uh, burning people into submission with acid seems really unheroic

Moltrey posted:

The locker scene with Mineta is probably the worst for me as Jiro is sad and embarrassed that she was the only girl Mineta wasn't trying to perv on, implying she would've felt better if she DID get creeped on, ending the scene with the notion that Perving On Women Is Good Because At Least It Makes Them Feel Attractive which hooooooly poo poo what. like it's the the intent probably but yeah that's probably been the worst for me

Kaminari is mostly fine, like the cheerleader outfit thing is weird but also he actually talks to the girls and they're just not interested cause he's a goober.

Begemot posted:

Gotta say, I prefer the costumes from Horikoshi's twitter sketch



Especially Deku's.

Somberbrero posted:

while funko do suck, they suck because collectibles in general suck. for $10.99 they're not terrible trashcan garbage, i just don't get what people do with them. where do you put them? i hate having that kind of junk in my home.

PMush Perfect posted:

Somberbrero posted:

i get art. i have a bunch of cartoon art on one wall. i really don't get statuettes either? i like dragon ball z and company, but do i want a $150 6" trunks on my mantle? no. god no.

funko take up a lot of space. stocking them is nightmare enough, i can't imagine inviting that vampire into my home.