Analyzing the My Hero Academia manga (volumes 28-41)
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 not doing either one, apparently you’re not a strong person.
(I wouldn’t call Deku a pussy because he cries, he doesn’t have to Kenshiro. And yet, it’s not tears, it’s volume, he cries too damn much. Kenshiro has cried, when it meant something. AANG, Avatar Aang, the poster boy of how to Shonen *nice guy mc* the right way, has cried but only when it meant something----- Deku is not a pussy because he cries, he’s an emotional mockery because he cries too much)
which is exactly what he was before, a tear factory- except now he's deadpan here & there. Pure regression, KH lost his own plot.
The whole show (Move 4 “You’re Next” included) solved it’s problems with beating the shit out of the villain, let me repeat that:
MOVIE 4′s solution to Dark Might wasn’t an extended hand, it was the classic, stylistic violence with music in the background for victorious emotional cinematic guidance or manipulation to make you ignore the fact that that movie was set in the same exact realm as S7, Deku claims he wants to switch his formula and yet the movie shows the complete opposite. OOPS!?
And Star's treatment was hilarious, KH dumped all that exposition on her quirk, then those flashbacks, the 1st 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.
I’ve said it before during S5, said before it ended, said it before it was cool to “hate” on it, and I’ll keep saying it as someone who doesn’t hate My Hero, never did.
That’s why I didn’t “wait” so speak up, or one word reply the entirety of the show vs having reasons. 9+ years of wasted potential is worth more than just calling it “shit” and more complex than calling it a “masterpiece/golden standard/ new era/ end of an era/ an era at all/ cinema”, which it never was.
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- all better, give him the decision.
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 in plot and characters (Don’t believe me? There’s 300+ characters, why that many for one N*99a?), 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 the first 5-6 episodes actually were not that bad, Bakugou needed a punch in the mouth, and a better reason for that hatred but the show wasn’t bad.
But what I caught was Deku lost priority the minute the other characters started talking more around EP6-8, thats when the 1A clustermess began. Not them talking at all, but talking more & more.
Like June from ATLA talking at all didn’t take priority from the main trio in Book 1, but her getting a subplot all of a sudden about her family drama that takes up chunks out of the whole of the show? Yeah that’s bullshit.
Hell, Jet got better handling without hijacking anything.
MHA was the lovechild of a western culture fanboy (respect) who had talent for art and no plan (mistake). 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, not just him) and the talent to auto-correct the rough edges (ultimately Ehasz, which is why he was consistently “Head Writer” throughout the show, not sole writer), it’s not just one person that makes it.
Because even if one person can manage to do both art & story, they are definitely getting inspiration, encouragement, better ideas, discouragement, & evolution from other writer, other movies, shows, experiences, people people people are what makes creation from babies to art; no one person (especially now) is going solo on anything anymore.
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 however, is the complete opposite of why ATLA works still to this day. He had vision for concepts, art. But bro didn't know what he was doing or where to take his ideas.
Horikoshi needed help, his immediate fanbase on twitter or whatever platform he was active on- them complaining yet without giving him proper direction & thus influencing his changes and him doubling down (including the damn epilogue which is why we technically got two of them). That is not a team effort, because there is no team, that’s an amateur mob, that’s taking advice from the wrong people.
Mangaka need to stop carrying these loads by themselves, it’s not healthy and they unravel eventually anyway. That’s why these Shonen begin hype, end meh & people always always always pivot and about-face when post-nut clarity sinks in.
Horikoshi needed an Ehasz team, better advisors, head writers who respected what KH wanted, could disagree with him, and make better executions while staying true to what he was going for.
My Hero would’ve been a beast.
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