Analyzing the My Hero Academia manga (volumes 28-41)
Deku's character development deadass was learning it's okay to be an emotionally indulgent crybaby, the strength in crying and smiling. Because if you’re doing either one, apparently you’re not a strong person.
which is exactly what he was before, a tear factiory- except now he's deadpan here & there. Pure regression.
And Star's treatment was hilarious, KH dumped all that exposition on her quirk, then those flashbacks, the movie even went so far as to show her as a kid, and she died right there anyway; then trying to show her as cool for poisoning AFO in a way & affecting him later, while meaning nothing to any of the characters, thus she means nothing to us.
Even Yagi's reaction was next to nothing.
Not having star mentor deku or give him refuge overseas so he lies low from japans villains, all of that was a miss. Just waste after waste after waste.
Those kids dragging him back to that school was symbolic of his character being kept in a box, and it's fitting that the school at the time looked like a prison, because for Deku thats what it is.
If Deku beat 1A & came back on his own terms, leagues better. If he came back without the mob melodrama & ochako speech which just repeated Iida's moment in Season 1, so she didn't do anything unique
If he came back & made it clear he's not staying but simply cooperating with the heroes; Just that simple clarification would make Deku independent and his own man. Instant agency.
Horikoshi kept putting more food on his plate, not knowing what to do with the entree's he didn't finish already. And he did it to himself, repeatedly, for years and for no reason.
What i noticed watching Season 1 is Deku lost priority the minute the other characters started talking more around EP6-8, thats when the 1A clustermess began
MHA was the lovechild of a western culture fanboy who had talent for art and no plan. The man needed a legit team, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Avatar the last Airbender contrary to popular belief, as much as Ehasz carried, he wasn't the only reason why that show slammed. It wouldn't have been what it was if it wasn't for the fact that it was a collab effort of people with vision (Bryke), people with a writing plan (Ehasz' team) and the talent auto-correct the rough edges (ultimately Ehasz).
Good writing is just an aimless potential without a provocative idea, that's where Bryke came in. Korra was dogshit because Bryke had good ideas just like before & no one to buff the edges or course correct the concepts with good writing.
Horikoshi howver, is the complete opposite of why ATLA works still to this day. He had vision for concepts, art. But bro didn't know whatt he was doing or where to take his ideas.
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