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- 25 de Abr, 2023
To double post but kind of cover why I dislike MHA. The show started off with a pretty decent premise like Oddjob here said. It was a low stakes slice of life action shonen about a powerless but selfless kid being gifted incredible power and the chance to become the number 1 hero.
The characters were alright, nothing revolutionary but fun, and the setting was interesting. The problem was the author couldn't figure out if he wanted to stick to the school setting or not and then convinced himself or was convinced by his editors that the plot needed bigger stakes each arch.
You go from dealing with normal school shit and prepping for tournaments and work studies to dealing with a serial killer and the league of villains which is fine.
Then you move up to the Yakuza, who's leader wants to erase super powers, okay cool.
Then you deal with AFO and the league again but take AFO out of the picture? Again that's fine. But they then start trying to escalate further by introducing ReDestro and then have AFO and Tomura try and mostly succeed at destroying Japan.
This all happens within Izuku's first year at U.A
The manga would have benefited greatly from a time skip. Have the manga progress until AFO is arrested, the league of villains goes to ground and is on the run and the heroes think it's only a matter of time before they capture them, so the students can rest easy and actually train. Time Skip to their final year at UA and that's when you then introduce the final war arc.
It's not perfect but it's better than expecting me to believe all this happened in the span of a year.
The other issue I had is with the characters, they all pretty much stay somewhat the same, there is some development, like Izuku growing in his confidence and so on but the overall characterization of every student at U.A is pretty much the same from when the Manga started.
I think it also just suffers from cast bloat. Class 1 A has 20 students in it, and we follow a lot of them throughout the story. We also follow teachers and some other characters as well.
Class 1A is arguably the main cast of the manga though and realistically only five of them should have been treated that way, those five being Izuku, Katsuki, Ochako, Tenya and Shoto.
