Soma 2015 - a Tedious & Mediocre gem

 Finished it today. Great movie, plenty creepy; but a mediocre "game".

The ending was abrupt & wet fizzle but fitting, because Simon spends a lot of the first few events of the game killing people to get an outcome he wants so the ending is just pure karma.

The characters are flat, tedious objectives, the enemies had good enough variety visually, some of them operate by sight, some by sound, some just don't like movements.

That variety is appreciated but they didn't lean hard enough into the inner ecosystem of WAU's kingdom & the diversity of said creatures, I was actually surprised at how basic the roster was for the enemies. But they are plenty creepy, what defeats that is how annoying they are.

Can't tell you how many times I ran into a few head first out of defiance cause I really REALLLY wanted to beat the snot out of those screaming, shrilling spazoids. Wasn't even scary anymore.

• Otherwise they are mostly the same chase bot, they are at their scariest just before you face them, like a brief glimpse of one through a window, or their silhouette. While isolated in an empty hallway, knowing you have to go in that room to get what you need, Cath is on sleep mode, and it's just you.

#That is the horror of SOMA at it's best, until you get used to it.

The fact that you aren't human but all you can do is run & hide was a horrible decision. Not taking advantage of the techno-organic angle, I'm not saying give us a damn plasma rifle but a taser, a gauntlet, 10 second cloak or limited resource means of defense would've added variety & tactics without becoming braindead.

I mean jfc, you are in a state of the art Lab facility. So you're telling me we can fist WAU a hundred times for HP but not get a buff? DO SOMETHING WITH THAT concept to enhance the player's experience!

The word is "monotonous"

* Vs a contrived sense of tension because you simply aren't allowed to resist enemies who at best just push you really hard, then walk away, which shiver me timbers-- really isn't that scary. Which is why I say they're scariest BEFORE you get to them.

It's tedious. Especially when some enemies literally teleport, which is just frustrating.

The setting is great for horror, the atmosphere is the #1 best part about it, not even close to Dead Space 2008 but it's still good atmosphere.

In fact if all you heard were monstrous voices in the walls, shadowy figures peeking around corners, the sounds of things being knocked over by something but you didn't see any enemies clearly but always anticipated one because of the acoustics, that might have-- MIGHT have been better slow burn horror.. serious mind games. Like Dead Space 2008.

* Another good part of the game is getting nuggets of what other people's lives were like & seldom seeing their fates, but that's not the same as getting invested in who these people were, it's just easter egg hunts of something more interesting than what we're currently doing.

The difference between that and what Dead Space did is we knew those crew were gone, but these people are on the ARK. And we get bare bones lore at best.

The story is otherwise bland & boring because we're just thrown into the mix without having a vantage point of legitimate motivations, and a lot of it has to do with the character we play.

Catherine should've been the MC, & we see flashbacks of WAU's takeover (not talking a highlight reel but just enough to give us context), life before, all throughout the game.

Visuals to give us something/ something better, more tangible to invest in.

Teamed with us getting more focus on someone who was directly involved in the establishment, vs some rando who time traveled technically & frankly has zero stake in anything, and isn't interesting in the slightest. We should've been Cath or Brandon.

Would've made for stronger characterizations & investment if we got Catherine at the helm instead, hear her various dialogues about seeing people she used to work with trying to kill her, the psychological horror of a familiar space becoming your tomb.

Now what we got wasn't all bad, her existential comments on being a disembodied voice were good moments, having her reality paused everytime she was "disconnected" was interesting, but that intrigue is what? Less than 3% of the total interactive experience? Cause most of it she blacks out while we're doing all the work.

There was absolutely nothing here to get truly invested in beyond "what could this be about" or just the superficial appeal of the environments atmosphere, then you get what the hype was about and it's just some typical superficial robo crap. The more it unfolded, my immediate thought was: "that's it?"

I can give it this much, it begins very very strong and it ends.......seldom satisfactory, again ,it fits. But the meat of the matter is just a nothing burger.

The issue with this game is it's build up is top notch, but it builds up to a lot of mediocrity. The most interesting stuff in it, we hear about than seeing it, a lot of telling, not showing. The glitchy talking robots in the beginning, unless I missed something that element was dropped damn near instantly when we got to Catherine joining the party. I would've loved to hear her talk to more possessed bots.

I get a lot of the intention is the hollow isolation, atmospheric expression, vs upfront narratives, but you need a hook beyond atmosphere & being told everything in heavy handed exposition.

The faint hope the ARK represents is clear: but we're too disconnected from the people the ARK is the symbol of hope for-- WHY should I care?

If Simon was silent as an MC, then I wouldn't demand much, like Isaac Clarke 2008. But Simon talks, and he's really not interesting, a lot of times he's annoying, he likes to make things about himself a lot when talking to Cath.

A lot of the problem here overall is the game reads like it was trying to say something than be something. The puzzles & tasks were frankly stupid time wasters, there were many events where I find out I had to play keep away with an enemy just to do a frankly simple task, & it really made me just turn off the game. Cause it's just runtime padding, pure filler.

It's not like Scorn where the world itself is worth investment, you're told nothing but what you see alone is worth pages of context.

Soma? None of that. If we had more allies, even if they were just cortex chip personas, (because in the beginning , again, we got a lot of robots with diverse personality but as we go on we get less of that) hear their fears & opinions, maybe some of them sacrifice themselves & their place on the ARK for the ARK's exodus, that might've given waaaaay more story investment than what I just finished.

And then for me personally, the post credit scene was the one part of the game that I didn't want to end, all this hype & ARK talk, to the point where it got pretentious:

Finally I get to see the damn thing, & I genuinely wanted to see what they had waiting for them in that city, whether or not if the sim would even be compatible with the people living in it, would people revolt? Get bored? Destroy it? Regrets? Virtual kids? Like how advanced is this thing?

That was always in the back of my head throughout the game, I actually thought WAU would corrupt it in some subtle way, so when we launched it into space WAU technically would've won.

I thought since how heavy the ARK is emphasized, it would've gotten more time to cook with the player actually doing something with it, guess not. obviously not.

Whereas, the other 99% of the game I couldn't get through it fast enough, while trying to give it a chance & absorbing much lore.

The talking robots were interesting, not knowing they're robots but oddly enough, after we meet Catherine, that slowly waned away, which is unfortunate.

The one person I might've felt 'something' for in terms of hook, was Brandon, that dude is a unit for what he did in that situation. How he was handled was a degree better in characterization than the others. Mainly cause of that module sim we put him through, the lore in his room, his dynamic with Alice, and where he ended up. We were slightly more interactive with him, which provided more characterization, which is what I meant by that allies pitch. This game felt like it undercooked what it had at it's disposal on purpose to sell the isolation factor.

Overall Soma is a minimalist approach to a horror game, unfortunately, as good as it begins, it didn't execute that great throughout.

Tedious & Mediocre, glad I finished it, glad I tried it. Never playing it again.

"Kamen Rider Amazons: The Last Judgement" reddit /re 2024 *SPOILERS*

*note: i watched this movie more than 4 times, maybe 5 

 

 "I like the darker and gorier take on Kamen Rider in the first season of Amazons. And upon rewatching the second season I have a greater appreciation for it, despite being even more darker and gorier plus adding some teen angst between a five year old and a dead girl.

But what in the name of Dan Kuroto was Toei thinking with The Last Judgement? Aside from "we have to make it even more darker and messed up!"?

I understand now why The Last Judgement isn't on Amazon Prime here in the states."

S2 bugs me because of Chihiro's unfounded obsession with Iyu (the recycled crow sfx with Iyu driving me nuts), but everything else surrounding that, including Iyu's story linking to Haruka's and how Jin's actions led to her death. That was wild. Jin being a blind warrior, & how his fightstyle switched up to accommodate his blindness, eerie efficient warrior this man is.

The movie? It was Directed too much like a Tv exclusive, not cinematic enough. A "filler" episode as Beaverjuk stated.

*Otherwise a decent second ending to the story, Season 2 being the first ending.* 

Narratively, enough was wrapped up for it to be a definitive ending, it just didn't feel like one at first. I watched the film last night (as of 2024), watched it multiple times actually, it's a solid ending.

  

But in reality it reads like a Kamen Rider Black episode, precisely beat for beat, an Amazon farm cult overtone and everything, pure KRB writing. 

Which is not an L. KRB had it's ham, but that shit was good tv. 

If they remade Kamen Rider Black faithfully but with Amazons or Black Sun's budget & gore tone, ***my god.*** 

Haruka & Jin compromised themselves with Haruka 'eating ' & Jin killing a "human", so both of them were incriminated ***& at the end of the line.***  

As Kurosaki stated: it wouldn't end unless the Omega & Alpha were disposed of. 

Jin was spiritually exhausted & clearly wanted Haruka to end him "Only one of us can survive...will it be me?", and stating that if he lives, more Amazons will be born. 

Suggesting that Haruka do what needs to be done. Haruka got the message, doesn't mean jin gave the w to the kid. Nah.

(notice how Haruka somewhat gently places Chihiro on the ground vs Jin downright merging Haruka with the molecules of the floor lmfao)

Jin at this point was just a zombie, before attacking those kids you can see the pain in his eyes over what he feels he has to do, even while talking to the Nanaha illusion he was cracking, stating those kids were like his own children. 

Haruka was the only person he could leave the world to, the only one he'd allow to kill him if Haruka survived him, and he did.

  And it's a testament to his power that he tanked all that damage from Neo Alpha AFTER being chained up for 2 years & living off only blood and then immediately fights Haruka.

# Alpha. One of the grittiest Riders ever- to this day.

 

The herbivore children are now with Mizuki; Who no longer has a place with 4C. 

Reika is in charge, meaning by proxy Mizuki's situation is in good hands. The Chairman is still technically in charge but he's no real active threat to the Mizusawa's, he's insane but he has a method of how he see's the world. Survival of the fittest, plain and simple. Reika will succeed him eventually anyway. Tachibana's dethroned. Mido's dead.

Haruka is now going the Kamen Rider Black route and just roaming about on his bike, helping those who need it. 

Though technically this Amazon thing isn't over because he's still alive, which begs the question "How the hell did Mido imprison Jin to begin with?" Which is a gaping hole in the plot that bugs me.

The Extermination group didn't really have any arcs, they just took up some screentime but it was good to see them back up Haruka one last time and they go about their way, possibly to team up with him on other occasions. 

For they were a significant part of his life growing up (let's not forget he's only 9 years old and the span of the story is 7 years, so we got to see a good 80-90% of Haruka's entire life)

Jin can finally rest, with his remaining Amazon kids not being psychopathic monsters which he himself acknowledged, and with him gone, no more original bred Amazons can be created (that is if his corpse isn't farmed for samples by black markets, which is unlikely because that village is out in the middle of nowhere & the only person who would know he's out there & have the power to farm his body is Tachibana but he's not in charge anywhere).

Though because Jin's genes were unique- it's not confirmed if one could make more Amazons from Haruka the same way. 

  

But since he's eaten of another person, and beaten the Alpha- he's not the same Haruka anymore, dude is only going to get stronger. The one limit he had, is gone. The one person who could match him is dead. Though I wish their final 1v1 was extended with some more finishers in there. But what we got fit the narrative that they were both wounded animals fighting for keeps.

  

Haruka's the third new type of Amazon & the last of the strongest, the last rider. Omega meaning "End", riding off on a lone road, the spirit of the Masked Rider. Even Shin Kamen Rider tapped into that in it's ending.

About as definitive an ending as it can get.

"What was the point of THE DESCENT PART II? So they changed the ending and still made a flop out of a hit movie." - I agree

 

*originally typed AUG 2024

Just finished it. It was filibuster to reach the exact same conclusion as the first, just a worse movie you have ta sit through to get to it.

Unnecessary sequel, granted it was nice to see Juno being a beast as usual and her & Sarah getting some kind of closure but thats the only thing that was accomplished.

 a lot of contrivances (like the amnesia angle being the writers forced reason to get Sarah back in the cave somehow) , worse effects, we know what the crawlers shit pit looks like, we still see the crawlers taking turns killing instead hunting as group, we only see ONE female crawler, no kids, no babies, no elderly, no nest, the crawlers look worse than before.

 The direction was worse, the use of light took the threat level away from the crawlers and the fact that they keep getting bodied. And how its shot looks cheap. bad Cgi = points taken.

But again, Juno dead, Sarah dead. Same exact result as the first, which was presumed anyway. Realistically.

Juno vs all those crawlers, dead.

Sarah resigns herself to her fate with the illusion of Jessica in her final moments giving her some peace as death closed in.

The first movie ended perfectly.

No we didnt get the closure, but the lack of closure was part of the point of the "descent" into chaos, division, anarchy, primality.

Juno was cool, I personally liked her the most. While it was full circle she finally apologize, she did not deserve closure, she was a snake.

The sequel wasnt worth that one moment. Rios being denied because Ed psychically knew where she was going to be or he knew there was only w exits but then how did he know WHEN to be there, or why he presumes the crawlers wont kill them all outside Sarah being a fluke.  Bullshit.

Stupid. Stupid contrivance.

I watched it for more Crawler lore, and I learned they do indeed have a toilet, which I figured as much. Waste of time. Im confused why we only get one female type per movie. Where do they keep the children?

The best part about it was Ed hyping up the dread of the caves being a descent to hell, his gramps not surviving the trip. Chills.

The buildup to the caves were the best bit.

Writing was ass, story was ass, Juno & Sarah carried to a moot end, lore was painfully ass compared to the first.

Ed is protecting/preserving the crawlers, we dont know why or how his Granddads death relates to it or if the crawlers even see him as a benefactor.

What he gets out of it, and now more people are missing, including Law Enforcement personnel = more search party-

A loose end that was avoided with the first because nobody knew where the women were.

We gained absolutely nothing.

How and why did My Hero Academia fall off so fast? (quora) *2021-2024

Vision, talent, timing and Horikoshi’s lack of experience.

To keep this short (lol), Horikoshi’s talent as an artist only got better.

But his writing was & is garbage, I still watch this show every now and then, mainly season 1 & maybe 2. I even checked out some of Season 5. Garbage. My peer whom I watch the show with (a woman) she herself can’t stand the writing decisions, namely Deku’s overly-emotional nature.

KH was just on the par of average when the plot was small scale, the kinks in the craft were minute, less noticeable.

The plot was exactly what it was supposed to be, not some elaborate war drama, but a story about kids in school who want to be Gov. Sponsored Military Police Agents uhhh I mean “Heroes”.

The moment he started trying to writing above his means then things got dumber

and dumber

and dumber

and dumber

and dumber

and dumber

and dumber

and dumber

Aaron Ehasz is a decent writer who is likely NOT as good an artist as Horikoshi, and Kohei Horikoshi is not as good an writer as Aaron Ehasz or even Joe Kelly or Donny Cates.

Just because you are the author, doesn’t mean you know what the fuck you’re doing.

Just because the “theme” was this, because Author-sensei said so, doesn’t mean it’s good. If the vision is true to his vision, but his vision was garbage, then the vision was garbage.

Just because a book, a show is popular doesn’t mean it’s good. It means it’s digestible. Easy to process, it has good iconography which My Hero Academia absolutely DOMINATED in. This franchise had an excellent aesthetic.

Popularity means its talked about, what were people talking about? Writing quality or how it made them feel? How cool it was ? Or it’s nothing like they’ve ever seen before? (lies)

It means it happened,

It means what he wanted to do he did, it doesn’t mean what he/she did— worked or meant anything worth a damn.

Horikoshi needed help, he needed time, and he needed a plan. And a better one.

• My Hero Academia is a failed storytelling venture (which I called yeeeeeeeeeeears before it ended) that succeeded in numbers. Which means nothing if no one will regard it in 5–10 years, and people started doom posting not long after the manga ended.
• It made money now, to be forgotten, dropped, taken for granted.
• Popularity is a measure of how many people will spend to digest garbage/product, it’s not a measure of how good a product is. ie. IRL Fast Food but it’s a visual medium.
• Which is why everyone tried their best to push back on me & the other few people whenever we pointed out the same exact shit fanboys are complaining about now but only AFTER it ended & now everyone all of a sudden is a critic dropping videos about how My Hero failed. Bunch of no agency having drones.

Because the doomposting now, wasn’t anything close to what ThatAnimeSnob called out.

Sheer incompetence to prioritize characters over plot, he often disrespects his characters as shonen authors tend to do:

(2026) He wouldn’t have done that if she was a male character, and if that’s to be expected because “shonen”, the genre is obsolete. Fix it. Cause that’s a problem. Not “problematic”, fuck that, it’s a PROBLEM, if Avatar The Last Airbender didn’t need to do that in only 3 season. Why does this need to do with 300+ chapters, 4movies, 8 ova, 8 seasons+++ just quantity over quality.

Garbage.

(April 2024) This joker was really pretending like Horikoshi and BONES gave a single shit about the character of Momo for 10 years, you’re asking or hoping they STOP doing what they & the fandom has been doing which is relegating her to a piece of meat- and actually give her something to do?

Hence why the picture THEY chose was a shot of her provocatively posing with her chest being the center focus of the goddamn visual. But you’re asking Horikoshi to do better when you’re EMULATING how many fucks he himself has to give.

They themselves are subconsciously playing into exactly what the problem is lmfao, but at the same time hoping the author does better.

You can’t make this shit up

2023: Japan raises the Age of consent after 100 years because of an influx of sex assault cases again women and children in a society with mega-industry that is carried by dehumanizing women & children.

The biggest resources of anime & manga’s creative process being : Sexualized women & children through predatory lens.

Gee, must be a coincidence.

POV then: people that defended PDF coded anime culture: “You can’t judge it, because that’s their culture”

Now: I- i never said that.

And so, when the author doesn’t give a damn & treats them like meat, zero respect to his own craft. Thus the fandom doesn’t respect them either. Hence the excuses, can’t even blame them entirely when the author doesn’t give a damn either.

• Like children copying a toxic parent.
• Plot driven storytelling is often susceptible to more plot contrivances & laziness which is final arc in a nutshell.
• My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising is just the prototype to Final War Arc, been said this for years.

Horikoshi is, and always will be a better artist than a writer.

Mangaka need to start teaming up with better more qualified people who will give them push back and stop working themselves to death. It’s not even worth vomiting out a mid story with robbed characters just to meet a deadline.

We can make the “comic continuity” memes all day, about how different people clash with canon of other authors on the same character. But those people don’t work themselves to an early grave. Why? Because they have editorial infrastructure, the person drawing isn’t always the person writing it.

That means less burnout, and more jobs for other people.

Do better Japan. Because if one person wrote a shite Superman story ala Horikoshi, a rotation means the next Superman story won’t be written by the same Horikoshi but instead a Joe Kelly.

I watched S1-S2 on a whim back when it first popped off, dropped it, and binged S5 backwards to S1 in 2023, saw the problems then. Painfully clear.

Read up to 355 in 2023, dropped it again after that Jiro “Made my friends cry” bullshit & discovered LEGO Monkie Kid (effortlessly better show, formulaic but a better Shonen.)

I was outside, read that panel, and dropped it. And that same day, I found LG:MK

AFO was being made into a joke, if Jiro could survive him, then the story failed the villain. Zero stakes. I saw it coming from a lightyear away.

I didn’t have to “wait” until the story “was finished” to see a pattern. If garbage is the standard, if garbage is the fandom, then garbage will be the legacy.

Meeting the deadlines at the expense of the best possible story, It wasn’t worth it.

Horikoshi had deadlines to meet than a vision to bring to life.

Or? Likely: He didn’t have a vision or a plan or didnt know what the hell he was doing even if he did have a plan.

It fell off partly because it strayed too far from the “Academia” in My Hero Academia, and sticking too close to it would’ve been boring as shit.

It fell off because the concept wasn’t built to last this last long and stay true to itself.

And when he teased interesting ideas outside the school, he backtracked right back to that school.

He gets bored with School activities, doesn’t know how to keep it interesting in the school itself, then he turns it edgy, fight happens, back to school, then more edgy villain shit.

• Reads like a formula to keep himself engaged, than tell a good story to the audience.
• I’m not some platinum writing master, I’m not media literate or whateverthefuck, all I did was pay attention than just consume.

He didn’t know what he wanted to do. He didn’t have the restraint to manage his characters with respect, the female characters were pieces of meat to him and so they’re nothing but pieces of meat to the fandom as a whole. Especially the underage girls.

His plot aka mess, he betrayed his premise in the first three chapters, Deku would’ve accomplished nothing without Quirks and he didn’t get anything done before his miraculous chance meeting All Might. Deku was a golden boy nepo-baby from beginning to end.

“You earned this power, fair and square-” That I’m yet again handing to you.

“You earned this power, fair and square-” as I hand this super suit to you because you’re a special boy.

He didn’t train for months then was surprised with the opportunity for the power, he was promised it as a reward. He was promised the keys to success.

edit: (AUG-5 2024) Finally ended.

why “finally”? Because he, Horikoshi can finally rest.

It’s easy to sit back and say “You’re doing your story wrong sir.”

If you’ve ever tried making continuity; You’ll know making a story+ art+history+lore = is not a cakewalk

There’s no one way to do it, but there’s things you don’t do if you want it to age worth a shit, or mean anything beyond the surface level aesthetic which is all people care about when it has the new car smell.

I can’t tell you how many fucking debates I’ve had with people, including homies, criticizing this story, and they just dont get it until I get serious and start mapping out exactly how Horikoshi-isms work.

Between watching, reading, and editing that requires looking at ALL the footage & episodes, OVA included, discovering all kinds of things of the show good and bad: I’m not a MHA fan, but an unintentional My Hero Scholar at this point, not a brag, trust me, the story ain’t even all that.

I see it as I see it because I’ve seen A LOT of it. More than I wanted to tbh.

Not a fan, but this isnt a story worth hate, its actually a tragedy.

My Hero had semi-decent world building, horrible prioritization, colorful but weaklyy written characters (TOO MANY characters, too soon & at once), awesome artstyle/ I love how much he made this reminiscent of an actual comic book.

The problem is it’s infected with a terminal case of chronic bad writing & SHONEN-titis and chronic Anime-tisms.

That’s how it fell off, Japanese Mangaka had a hand in it & Shonen Jump was the overlord. Garbage writing that was always there since the beginning.

When did it happen? CHP2.

The “fall” specifically? The Moment AFO lost that fight in the Kamino Arc.

No villain could measure up since, including AFO himself.

The stakes dropped. Everything felt sterilized, ya’ll don’t realize how built-up AFO’s arrival was, even the 1st movie was gassing this man up: And he lost. Maybe you cats need to watch Season 2 again.

It’s not like he was pulling strings from behind bars or we got to see him running the prison in luxury or transfer his consciousness to a Nomu or something, or maybe because in reality: He had ties in the Gov. running the Hero Ind. which would be a “holy fuck” moment.

All Might was working for All For One this whole time?

Crowd: “WHAT THE FUCK!?

Could you imagine if AFO was that calculated but no, he was just doing shit.

Think about it:

This guy took on prime all migt & handicapped him. How did he kill no one of note during all this?

in a meta sense all might walked away broken because he fought alone vs everyone actually beating AFO because they fought together- it works as a theme, not as a story because AFO is too strong to lose and not even kill at least 20 people of notice.

If AFO was so old he was senile and actually wanted to lose but lose on a grand stage, thats different it'd be lame but it'd make sense that he wouldn’t literally want to be the villain but he wanted to emulate the attention a super villain gets from being a menace:

• thus being noticed by everyone & fulfilling that villain role, the role of pushing complete strangers to be their strongest because he was in reality the strongest.

If that was his goal as a narcissist since day 1 vs being a “demon lord” whatever that means, and everyone coming together in the end vs him was his dream, that'd make leagues more sense as to him allowing himself to lose so pathetically as opposed to him actually losing like that because he was that incompetent.

After making him LOOK cooler than he actually was, why would you write a villain as pathetic as the heroes?

I won’t sit here & pretend I saw it coming since Season 2 or something, nah, I was a casual then fell off for a minute.

I didn’t start following this series really until 2023, watched it backwards from Season 5, then read the manga & Chapter 355 was what broke me. I had to stop again.

It was Kamino arc that showed AFO’s belly (keep in mind, Jeanist survived him after getting a hole in his stomach and he couldn’t even kill some random woman in the debris, didn’t kill a nerfed All Might)

Nothing matters.

It fell off years ago, most people only now decide to catch up and smell the shit-soup because they got bored and only when they get bored & their hormone thrill trip fizzles will they finally see reason, or they choose to admit when they think it’s safe to be honest. Which doesn’t work because then it’s not about honesty, you’re likely not going to give the show it’s credit it’s due because you went from one extreme to the next.

This is why being a “fan” isn’t what it used to be.

• The story fell off regardless if people realized it or not.
• The people who knew what we were talking about didn’t need your permission for My Hero to be confirmed to be trash, it was always trash regardless of any of us.

Because Horikoshi didn’t have the maturity, nor presumably the life experience (Stan Lee projecting life experience and not FETISHES is why Spider-Man is a staple icon across the globe/ Spiegel and Shuster with Superman) nor the writing experience to make this shit even 2% of what Avatar The Last Airbender was.

Or Teen Titans 2003, the superior My Hero.

Horikoshi created more work for himself when he kept jamming excessive characters (300+), juvenile antics, and an ever escalating plot that did not have to be that elaborate.

He worked against his own best interest, & more importantly as consequence: he worked against the best interest of My Hero Academia. If he kept the main cast to Deku, Iida, Ochako, Bakugou & Todoroki.

• He would’ve had more time, more panels, more authorship resources to cook to the best version of My Hero and AFTER the work was done fleshing out those five, then in season 2 the others can get more to do
• Or? Since the manga had Omake’s & the series had like Eight OVA’s, I repeat approximately over 7 Original Video Animations, use that to explore the other students on a deeper level or wait until Season 2 or 3.
• That’s just common sense. Twenty students? Not one is transferred, or dies & their death brings the class even closer together like a family, no nothing. It’s just everyone CRAMMED into the frame.

It was logistically moronic from the get go.

And now that it’s wrapped up (multiple times) we’ll see who the “fans” are when it gathers dust, and people are already 180-ing, frauds.

Now we’ll see who really gives shit. I a “hater” is still reading, still using early volume artwork as reference, still watching some episodes of that garbage anime.

Why? Because it had potential. I swear my homie (who hates MHA) sometimes asks me “Why?” in the tone of “Why watch that trash.” even if it’s just one episode every 5 months.

Because it could’ve been great, that’s why.

Because it’s not even 1 year old post-end (2024), and already people are switching sides.

When all we had to do was be honest to begin with and stop fighting the people who are fan enough to know the story could have long been better.