The show was predictable and that was probably it's biggest sin. The moment it was revealed that One for All killed people with quirks I told my friends who were obsessed with the show that Izuku would give up the quirk to beat the big bad.
That series wound up having the biggest last laugh in the end for the sheer fact that all its contemporaries wound up dropping the ball in their respective ends (Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man) and the people who hated it being associated with those obsessed with cuckporn due to all the McDonald's meme spam which made people actually saw they were full of shit and re-evaluate it.
For me the biggest sin was that I either didn't particularly like or outright disliked the vast majority of the cast, especially the "hero" characters. And I hated the setting as well. The story being cookie cutter was a secondary concern for me.
I fucking hated Bakugo and all his fujoshis fans couldn't understand why, when the man is introduced bullying his supposed best friend, tells him to kill himself and threatens to beat the shit out of him regularly
Let's not pretend that Deku isn't a little pussybitch faggot who didn't deserve it. Which is the reason I hate Deku. When I say the entire cast I mean most of the entire cast.
Oh no I agree. One of the biggest sins for the show that I have always had was that the author didn't let Izuku and Katsuki actually settle their issues properly.
Which is something that the fanbase copes over, they'll seethe over how he he protrayed an abuser as sympathetic but ignore the fact that the guy who told the MC to off himself in the first chapter and bullied as kids doesn't suffer any repercussions for his actions whatsoever just because he's popular.
One of the biggest issues that I have with MHA is that it's trying really hard to emulate classic western superhero comics but it's made by a guy who doesn't really seem to understand them very well. Deku is probably the prime example of that along with the setting.
I think he wanted Izuku to be like Peter Parker while ignoring or not understanding what makes Peter and Spider-Man so compelling.
The other thing is that Marvel and to a lesser extent DC have already done the whole "Supers need to be regulated and licensed for the good of society" thing. It was called Marvel: Civil War, and it also serves as one of the key ideological debates underpinning the entire X-Men franchise of personal privacy and liberty vs authoritarian security measures.
The first episode was pretty good
I watched the movie, have it on 4k disc. I liked it. I know that every version is a little different. This one is apparently pretty close to the manga. It looks Kino. The colors are very bright, straight out of the late 80s when the manga started.
I don't even think any of the cast really ended up changing the world beyond "well there are some things to maybe stop kids from becoming villains," right? So basically the world is worse off because there's no big symbol now to represent the best of the hero community and there are still villains? The whole "heroes do this as a job regardless of how noble they are" always took me the wrong way since vigilantes are frowned upon even if they're doing the right thing. There's a reason Marvel gave up on super hero registration lol.
I swear one of the earlier chapters had one of the "normal" heroes show up and go "you guys know this is illegal right" and fight them and I just thought that the "normal" heroes we see are actually stuck up as hell if they're not willing to go "well you did the right thing but we'll keep an eye on you since you're not registered." Again, really seems like the whole "heroism as a job" idea is a problem, they don't take the actual heroism seriously enough to disregard whether some outsider helping is more beneficial than ragging on them for not being registered. But I did like the whole secret identity part of the story, it almost made me feel like I was reading actual comics before I remembered what world this is set in.
Which is the part where you remember this was written by a Jap and the guys doing the right thing without being licensed are still considered to be as bad as the villains.
All For One was dying but Shigaraki was still fighting Izuku and wasn't dying at all. Nana says that to beat him Izuku needs to completely destroy Tomuras body, Izuku being an idealistic faggot refuses cus he wants to make Tomura see the error of his ways, queue Metaphysical bullshit since quirks hold the spirit of their weilders or whatever.
Not helping my accusation that MHA is actually a low rent magical girl series in disguise.