What Happened to My Hero Academia?
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Today, we delve into the phenomenon that is My Hero Academia. From its meteoric rise to becoming a global sensation to the recent whispers of discontent within the anime community, we explore the paradoxical nature of its popularity. Drawing comparisons to juggernauts like One Piece, I dissect the elements that propelled My Hero Academia to stardom while examining where it may have stumbled. With insights into the evolution of animation quality, narrative depth, and fan reception, we uncover the enigma of why a series with soaring manga sales and unwavering acclaim seems to have lost its grip on the zeitgeist. Join us on this analytical journey as we ponder: What happened to My Hero Academia? And can it find its way back to the forefront of our collective imagination?
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To be fair I think making MHA more lighthearted is what kept it in top 10 best selling for almost a decade. Simply put looking at the modern shounen market : CSM,JJK,Hell´s Paradise are sharing the audience who prefers darker shounen, and DS and MHA share the audience who prefer more light-hearted shounen.
I personally would also prefer a bit more higher stakes in the show, and even the manga, but...I see why MHA being more lighthearted was probably the correct move for the mangaka and SJ. And why the less gritty appear is martketing wise what tells this anime apart from the rest...tho I do think BONES can still do much better within the realms of keeping it looking lighthearted.
Either way I am still really loving the manga and anime, even got my other 28+yo friends into it and they became obsessed. Weirdly I think this show is for kids and burnt out adults, no in-between, coz God knows after 9h of work I aint looking for any edgy nihilism...but when I was in high school and college I was the prime audience for shows like JJK.
The stakes aren’t high? Lmao
I agree tbh, it’s only just dark basically war, I remember it for being funny and lighthearted
Light hearted?
Season 7 has something to say about that.
@@apersonwhoexists3383 I can t say much without spoiling as a manga reader of both MHA and CSM, but I do stand by what i wrote. Which btw please note I never said MHA does not have dark parts, I said it is generally lighthearted - which the whole idea of MHA is - That we all as a society are responsible for change and each one of us have some skills necessary to make it happen - everyone is an MC..it is a very positive message. Then you could argue that the sub-message from the Todoroki and Bakugou plot is - People are able to change and grow from their mistakes. Another very positive message. As for JJK and CSM, can t say I can verbalize a positive message the shows are giving me, tho knowing Fujimoto he may turn CSM around intoa story about overcoming trauma, just like all of his other stories, buut as of right now - there is no such positive message....
I mean it’s arguably still top 3-5 hottest out whenever it drops a season or chapter
It’s currently number 1 right now on searched for streaming platforms
@@josephmaniganit’s number one cuz the new season just dropped and nothing is going rn. I’m sure demon slayer will be number one on Sunday or later too
Numbers do not mean “great quality “. At least in media, that’s a pretty stablished thing nowadays
@@danielz-v4083 And the quality of MHA is great.
@@Tsurugi-cm1vf clearly not that much since people have been pretty clear in complaining about the quality of the story (deservingly so) for the past 3 years. Hell, the overhaul arc in the anime and S5 were mostly garbage in terms of quality. S7 looking phenomenal tho and it does have great moments, so excited for that. But it’s far from being one of the goats and it ain’t really a debate
Nothing happened. Its in the 20 Manga who sold 100 million copies that fast
@@Barbaresantana cry🤓
@@Barbaresantana I agree there is some bad writing but still a lot of good moments. Reminds me of the buu arc.
@@BarbaresantanaComparisons will be made regardless of how you feel bud.
"it's popular, therefore it's good" ahh argument
@@Dr._Atom nothing that is pure garbage gets that popular
this video makes a anime fan who used to hate my hero rethink everything.
Also season 6 was peak
Just wait til season 7 picks up
I don’t think so
You man have been saying this since pre lockdown at this point …💀
Why?@@kirass384
It was my first anime
Would've been better if they had the characters stayed in school training for 3 school years then had them fight villains here and there and stuck with tournament arcs as they leveled up a school year because i think they rushed the whole all for one responsibility on deku n the studens early
But did you now season 7 come out
Thank you for covering MHA so positively, you are much kinder to this series than I would say most people are nowadays. Been reading for most of its serialisation and its gotta be one of my favourites, even though I know its not perfect I still love it, so its really unfortunate to see public opinion turn against MHA so harshly in recent years.
yep I agree
Huh? You know, when I first saw the video, I thought this would be another hate video nitpicking the series to oblivion, like, for example, Chibi Reviews, but no, that wasn’t the case. You actually gave a good analysis, and while there was stuff I didn’t agree with, this analysis was pretty good. But you also have to consider that one of the reasons people don’t discuss MHA is because discussing the series has grown more difficult over the years due to the haters who keep hating on the story and everything in it and keep pushing their opinions onto others while claiming that they’re criticizing when they’re not. Oh, and by the way, since season 7 of MHA is out, what do you think of it so far? Personally, I think Bones is doing the adaptation justice.
I just honestly think shigaraki needed more development before becoming so overpowered/ some more villains and I also wish it wasn’t as serious. I like it as a lighthearted shone
Have a great weekend bro
u too bro
Totally agree that the night vibe would make last seasons fights feel more dangerous and high stakes
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As popular as it is, quality has fallen off a lot from Horikoshi’s health, to bad writing decisions to Higher ups at Jump exhausting the poor guy.
I haven't finished the video yet, but god I love the music choices you've employed.
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As someone who kept up since almost ten years ago, I can see a few things that lead us to here. Objectively the quality of seasons 1-3 is better than seasons 4-6. It’s much better to look at and fun to come back on. The show also has a bit of pacing issues, - they dwell on things like multiple training arcs that should be quick, and skim on the actual wars. World Heroes Mission should have been its own season, and Heroes Rising was not needed. Some people claim that it’s a filler issue, but I think it’s the opposite. The series actively trying to avoid fillers is why it feels weird.
In the end, though, I like it enough. A story’s most important thing is its takeaway, and MHA has that over a lot of other shows that I’m clearly not going to name here because I don’t care for internet keyboard wars that’s going to bring.
idk why nobody talks about why mha was the best new anime,we LOVED the school setting and the rivalries amongst classmates. however once the setting switched to the open world i lost all interest
I think part of the problem is also the way the animation quality is so unevenly distributed. There will be these long, long stretches of limited animation and dull cinematography, then a burst of sakuga for the main event fight scene, then back to the limited animation and dull cinematography. Part of why I love Jujutsu Kaisen S2 so much is that MAPPA really made an effort to not just dump all their animation efforts on the fight scenes, but on the character acting in the comedic and more dramatic scenes as well.
When an anime only decides to really pick its feet up for the action scenes, it gives this feeling of cheapness. Not to say HeroAca is a cheap series to make, but that's the inescapable feeling you get. Either that or the feeling that the fight scenes were all that was deemed important, not the character moments that form the emotional stakes of the fight scenes.
And honestly, I really hope BONES can turn it around for this last stretch of the story. It's got its ups and downs, but the high points of this final arc are my favorite in the story. The most emotionally and thematically satisfying, the most complex, and just the most visually interesting. The trailers and preview visuals we've gotten don't inspire much hope, but I'll try to hold out hope anyway.
There are speculations that the MHA movies hurt the anime animation quality-wise
My hero academia never fell off their manga literally outsells western super hero comic sales on the daily…
Just because it sells it doesn't it always good. people can rematch mha again and again, and notice the flaws in the show like any other show but the flaws are there.
@@angelmatiastorres Then why would it sell if it wasnt good? Nobody is saying its flawless.
@@fenrirtheashenwolf7627 people also still watch marvel movies, doesnt mean its good. Follow your own logic. Popularity does not mean good, it means its popular.
@dinolover While you have a point, I would also like to point out that being consistently popular after 10 years means that a lot of people find it good. If its not, it will be like Boruto where sales goes down for every volume released.
@@fenrirtheashenwolf7627 because halfway into the seasons is good, the other half... started to crumble. consequences are inrelevant now, deku lost his fucking arms during his battle but got it back mommenst later all the foreshadowing was useless, inconsistencies in the story, like the mutans discrimination was never mention or even adresst until the last arc
It's actually pretty simple. They started focusing all their attention on movies, and stopped caring about the actual show. You can see decline when it got to the My Villain Academia arc. The quality hasn't been as good ever since. The same thing is currently happening to Demon Slayer with them announcing the best arc as 3 movies. Jump is just getting really greedy, and it's starting to ruin their properties.
Idk what’s going on with jump but I agree with you 100% BRO, I mean to me it’s been not so good since season 4 (excluding some parts), but it’s legit because of the movies. Like idk what they’re thinking or why they’re doing it, but these movies which are supposedly not even canon (that’s what I heard idk if it’s true) are being given so much effort and time to look good. While the anime has to suffer. Hell, in every single my hero movie Yutaka Nakamura is legit one of the animators and yet we haven’t seen him in the Mha anime aside from the one part of deku vs lady nagant and that was even small. It’s sad brah, if the anime was how the movies are, Mha would be in a much better place for aure
A thing you didn’t touch on was its story, everything else about mha is fine but it was its story that faltered and hurt the series
Deku literally changed his entire fighting style because if he kept hurting his arms then he’ll lose his ability to use them permanently, but guess what? In his fight with shigarki. He is using 100 percent of one for all
Then suddenly, out of nowhere. His body just suddenly grown accustomed to his quirk and no he can just use one for all without any further issues making all of his pain, training and insecurities about what to do with near useless arms all for nothing as he just suddenly grows accustomed to it
And another thing is how the story chooses long lasting effects, it was good at the start, stains ideal being great and bringing new villains into the series and making you question heroes more then before and causing a ripple effect that is felt still
Though what made it bad was if it wasn’t worth to the story, like midnights death, you would have thought one of 1A’s more memorable teacher being killed right in front of her student would say, made them question being a hero and worry about their future and if it’s even worth being one or even breaking them as they haven’t seen anything this dark and evil that a bunch of young teenagers would have had a mental breakdown or issues afterwards but no
Iida slapping deku was apparently more impactful then a hero we knew since the beginning and a fairly interesting and fleshed out character would have caused more ruckus then Iida slapping deku
And afterwards then has been some bad moves, writing being off at times and characters being written bad to awful which made mha go from a 10/10 to a 5/10
I dropped MHA after season 4.
That arc dragged one for far too long and tried to make me care about a character losing his quirk who was only just introduced.
Not to mention, they also introduced the child who can give him all his powers back, making me care even less than before.
Why introduce a character, take his power and tell you immediately he will get his powers back all in the same arc and expect me to care???
The writing dipped so poorly that I lost all interest. Eri essentially killed all the stakes in the series because she could revert everything if the author decided to.
One of the best vids I've come across on this channel. Keep up the good good work❤️
bro right?? acc’s editing has gotten crazy good
I believe it's also just a mix of the writing quality. Many people simply lost interest in the story with the constant switch between the school arcs and villain arcs. Big examples will be the School Festival and Joint Training arcs.
The fact that MHA has been running for almost 10 years now in the manga (8 for the anime), the hype is mild. It's no longer the new Shonen Jump series on the block, and other Jump series are finally being adapated.
Something that you didn't touch on is that the MHA anime has abysmal pacing, especially for a seasonal show.
The first episode of every season is almost always a filler episode reintroducing the cast of Class 1A. Every episode after that has to start by spending a few minutes reminding the audience about the existence of quirks and Deku's dream of becoming the "Namba wan hero".
The anime also stretches out each training/license exam arc with several filler battles just to hit that 25 episode mark. Last but not least, there's usually an anime original episode at some point in the season to tie-in to the filler movie that's premiering that year. There's absolutely no reason why a seasonal show should have that much filler.
oh absolutely true
W video man, totally agree
Any positive comment in the comment section: Exists
Random mf: "and I took that personally"
It's very simple. The manga is really good but since the middle of Season 4 it's been adapted poorly in anime.
ummmmm .... i think hes back
While I can acknowledge that MHA is good at, I was always more interested in the original concept. Personally, I could never get to the Sports Festival - though that could be because my childhood had the Chunin Exams and I ended up subconsciously comparing the two.
Anyway, from an animation perspective, Bones could've waited to build up hype and give their animators a marathon instead of a sprint to endure. In terms of the day battles, a sharp contrast with shadows and grey tones with a highlighting color could've done wonders to rack up the tension for certain scenes.
What was the original concept?
@@kameronbailey6939 Izuku remained quirkless and was actually a 30-something old adult business man trying to be a hero. He was still really into heroes, but also had a lot of gadgets and support items - at least from what I remember of the first iteration before it was changed from an adult to a high school student.
Yk it’s a shame. Haters like this shouldn’t be able to profit off of Horikoshi’s good name.
Should I make a video called “Why Kingdom Was Never Popular?” No b/c that would be a reach only a bozo like yourself would make.
Note: I love how at this point MHA haters before they get to shitting on it have to acknowledge it’s unquestioned success. Then they expose themselves, and say something dumb:
1. Horikoshi doesn’t owe Paul Feige or Marvel shit. He outsells comics in America 😂😂😂. MHA would sell 100m in the 90s, 00, 2020s, etc.
2. Let me make this abundantly clear. THERE WAS A PANDEMIC IN 2020. Manga sales were inflated during this two year 2020-21 run. Gotouge and Gege benefited the most from this.
3. You stating the same old tired anime takes makes me yawn. If anything you’re just proving how pretentious and fickle the anime community is. As if One Piece needed the animation improvement to be accepted into the community 😭😭😭. Do you really think Toei would continuously air a failing product for 800 episodes? It’s almost as if a lot of people were watching that “terrible product”.
4. If you calculated half of the views from the cult of What happened to MHA videos on UA-cam it would make Oshi No Ko’s opening look like child’s play (Shout out to Tk for the lit new anime opening). So I guess your poor think piece is good for business
It's horikoshi's own fault for giving way for haters to profit from his lackluster and generic writing 😂
1:35 ans to that is Japanese audience
i feel like one piece's blowup is due to the lack of actual popping manga right now, one piece alone isn't really all that, its no berserk, no ghoul, its no jojo, i feel like its a hype thing
I miss it
My Hero peaked at All Might Vs All For One and it has slowly been deteriorating ever since, reaching its peak in the first War where the writing completely falls apart and we reach where we are now
8:35 I have to disagree, One piece have been very lackluster with the exception of some few episodes out of the 200 episodes of wano. The whole wano arc had some of the worst pacing, lore, fakeout deaths and retcons. The egghead arc have also been kinda boring and generic too, calling every week banger is being dishonest given how much the episodes suffer in pacing and art consistency and not to mention it uses far more 3d compared to in the past. It wouldn't suprise me if One piece gets a downfall video once it ends considering Oda have ruined so much established stuff and repeated the same arc formula for several hundred episodes, the only reason it has relevancy is due to sunken cost/nostalgia which MHA doesn't exactly have because its not weekly + it has superhero fatigue (not interesting and feels super generic).
1. Deku is very shallow even among Shonen Protagonists who are known to be shallow to begin with. Luffy is silly. Tanjiro is wholesome. Naruto cares about his friends. Denji is an actual horny teenager. Deku has none of those going for him.
2. They gave too much screentime to the villains. Villains are meant to have some sort of mysteriousness. But MHA gave a lot, too much backstory to the villains. This gave less time to Deku's progression which leads to my next point.
3. Deku's growth is so weird. He struggled for so long with mastering MHA and yet once he got the other quirks, he really learned those too quick.
It's just a really mid show and has no character.
He was able to learn them quickly because the Vestiges helped him on how to use it. The difference between them and All Might is that All Might made Deku figure it out instead of just telling him because he knew he was smart. I understand where u come from on that 3rd take. But saying that Deku is shallow and has nothing going for him just means you haven't payed attention to the show at all. Especially since they show what Deku's main goal(main schtick) is.
And for the villains, I personally think it was cool for them to give the Villains their own arc bcuz it shows their growth from small broke villain gang to a having a whole Army saying the show has no character is just wrong. BUT I respect your opinion,I'm just giving u mine
@@Ghozts2 It’s just that teenage high school boys aren’t like Deku. They have struggles, they have stress and depression, they are horny. Deku’s just too much of a good boy so I’m just not convinced by his character. Naruto had a lot of internal strggules because he had a lot
of time for his character development whereas Deku didn’t because of the villain arc. But yeah, MHA tried different things so I respect but I don’t think it worked out. Sorry, I don’t mean disrepsect but that’s my take.
@@goldman1996 it's a good take man, I understand where it coming from better now, and no disrespect taken. Just glad we were able to share our opinions without being toxic💯
@@goldman1996 honestly i think the show should have stuck with the school part more i want to see class 1 a go though most of the high school before the big conflict
nah, Luffy and Tanjiro is equally as shallow as Deku. those 3 shows appeals hardcore to children, which means the MC is very 2 dimensional in their personality and growth.
BONES needs to take time for make a better MHA anime, but they want money.. WHY THEY DO MOVIES? I don't talk about the difference in budget anymore but i'm talking about the animators. Did you all know that the big issue was because the team changed a lot from season 3 and 4? Movies takes a lot of the best ones. If BONES do the Mob Psycho 100 treatment i would become reallly happy (MP100 have 3 seasons in 6 years for example). Time and staff is what makes an anime better than the others
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And movies are bad in general.. they have just good animations obv
the biggest villains in my hero academia are the non-canon movies
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It was confirmed by the creator that the movies are canon. Even to so far as reference them in the Manga.
Then why does nothing that happens in them matter? You're such an easy mark@@CantRead1
The movies are canon but they weren't wrote from the same pen. It is more of a "marketing operation" because, I think, if they weren't canon.. Less people go to the cinema. Even if Horikoshi make them more "canon" on his manga.. the impact on the story isn't really that much
MHA would be a better anime if these movies didn't exist xD
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We won’t know what the future holds for MHA or it’s characters, but one thing is for sure. When season 7 drops, we will be there till the very end.
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This is a man love Letter to American comics. There is nothing wrong with this beautiful story.
MHA had its best directed episode in the last episode of Season 4 with Endeavour vs High End fight. It doesn’t even have that blue sky issue which most people complain about. I guess, MHA should have stuck with that atmosphere for most of the Season 5 6 and now 7 episodes….
One Piece manga way more consistent than the anime. I also felt MHA got forced going darker. When the story originally wasn't meant for that direction. This alone could turn some people off.
Tbh I love my hero even though I don’t like it like I used too but I think the biggest issue is Kohei Horikoshi didn’t reach his target audience with his story
its almost 5-6 season but deku is still weak :|
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I mean know
My Hero is trash and it’s a cringe fest.
Great video btw.
Y’all have a good weekend 💜
The anime lacks at times, but like the story is really compelling
Sorry man, I just lost it as a MHA fan, Manga is top tier quality but Anime is just so mid, it is going to be like Naruto all over again 😂
I knew MHA was trash since the first episode
I think season seven will be the turnaround we have be waiting for
This anime fell off, hard
Deku is understandable but unlikeable to be as a main - he's just dry; work hard, determined, overcome, cries, power of friendship he has no inner self-will than to be a good hero; what does that mean - morally for him what self-doubt is he overcoming other than becoming stronger to save people?
My hero! The most irrelevant iconic series
MHA is ass n it always was now ppl r finally realizing it. Is no where near One Peakkkk.
One piece sucks
I just know u a One Piece bandwagon but there's nothing wrong with that
Nothing. Disliking and unsubbing for hater video when literally nothing wrong has happened.
Don't like it? Don't watch or read. It's simple.
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This is literally one of the least harshest videos that still acknowledges MHA’s successes. As a fan of the series, I appreciate having a more fair take on its current status.
That's a shame. He actually had a very positive outlook on the series. You really shouldn't jump to conclusions like that.
I hope you are only larping as a braindead consoomer.
Do you even watch the anime? Lmao vid doesn’t make sense
It lost its grip on the zeitgeist? Really, it’s one of the most popular anime of all time, like even for season 7 we had a metro boomin tweet hyping it up in the middle of Kendrick and drake beef. It still does insane numbers on social media to this day with even celebrities still bringing it up for it’s influence
The franchise has a die hard fanbase that will consume just about anything MHA related regardless of its quality especially since the manga and anime are reaching their endgame soon. That speaks nothing of the series' quality which has been dipping drastically for years now. The series may still be popular and relevant now, but if the series winds up getting a terrible rushed ending, which is looking to be the case, don't expect people to look back on this show fondly 10 years or so after its conclusion.
@@m.a.k.dynasty4504I agree to be honest, im just glad that mha IS getting an ending. It’s nowhere near what I would’ve wanted but im glad it isnt getting any indefinite delays. The anime isn’t doing the worst job, only horrible thing is the cc and sky. The rest is good. Just wish they’d keep the intro level of quality and shading, cuz with that it would be demon slayer levels of atmosphere with a way better story. Also hope they fix the issues with pacing and the end of the manga
The thing is MHA isn’t a case of “it’s among the best things we have rn”, like One Piece currently is
More accurate, it’s feeling like the “CoD/Fifa of anime” in the sense that, yes, it’s popular and kinda talked about frequently, but very undeniably, there is something off about it. If there wasn’t, we wouldn’t have seen as much consistent “”””hate””” and valid complaints for almost 2-4 years in a row as we do.
It might have to do with the protagonist being the least interesting and memorable protag in like the top 20 anime
uh i didnt see alot hype but okay...
Lol how's that ending treating you fanboy?
I think once season 7 gets to the atmosphere horikoshi setup after a certain scene early on in the final arc, that things can improve for the anime simpily from the tone as you stated. we'll see though, hopefully things go well
MHA is the best new gen animanga when you dont have someone in your ear telling you how mid it is 😂 People who arent chronically online love the show. Says a lot about the doomposters
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WAIT THIS IS SO REAL
its mid
im a huge fan of this anime!
I can't get behind this take. I'm a casual anime fan but this is the only anime I care about. And I say that because anime sucks at relating to a western audience but My Hero Academia does a great job using a western genre. The dubs are amazing and vibrant. I think the color pallette take was not good. There is a reason why the DCEU movies have tanked in the last years, because a dark color pallette is not universally good for a genre that is best when it is sunken deep into hope and idealism. This is why Zack Snyder movies have flopped and Marvel movies during their peak soared because superheroes are meant to represent the bright parts of humanity. If you follow recent superhero news James Gunn released the latest picture of their Superman. The first thing people did was take the darkly colored picture and increase the brightness and color saturation. People are craving optimism in the superhero genre and with optimism comes the colors that epitomizes it. I feel like you missed season 6. This season was amazing and I would rank it in the top 3 seasons of the series. If no one is talking about it as much because the novelty that spurns conversation has largely worn off, but you don't get great sales and views if people are not enjoying it. Basic rule of capitalism numbers always tell the story. So if numbers (100 million) are high product is enjoyed of numbers are low people are not enjoying or that enjoyment is more niche. So every metric shows this series is widely enjoyed.
MHA dubs feel natural and not forced.
I rewatched mha over the last couple weeks and I was blown away. The characters and conflicts were so much better fleshed out than I remembered and the show managed to keep me on the edge of my seat for 5 seasons straight. I’m glad I revisited it
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@@mlgquickscoper8122 sorry for enjoying myself
@@mlgquickscoper8122 how?
1:05 and that's the issue right there, trying to use social media hype as any measure of success of a show that ive seen so many content creators do.
Why are people still asking "what happened to MHA" The series is fine, the volume sales are consistent with a 7th anime season starting. Alot of people dont understand that social media curates content it shows you based on your interests. If you're not searching for mha content.
Anyway, I think people need to realize that social media hype needs to stop being used as a measure of how popular an anime is.
Yeah ive noticed that too!
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The ONLY good take on this video (including the video)
For years I’ve boiled down these things to “just because it makes money, it doesn’t mean it’s good”. I’m not saying it’s never the case, because quality obviously does bring interesting/success. But it’s undeniable there are “blockbuster franchises “ in entertainment media that are just not really that good or unique but bring in the money.
-COD/Fifa on video games
-F&F on movies
-MHA on manga.
There are cool things and the art is spectacular, yeah. But it just doesn’t feel like “that iconic great thing that defines a generation of fans”.
I don’t think Midoriya will EVER be a memorable or fan favorite MC other than for the weird fanboy of the series. Hell, even then, I don’t think THE PROTAGONIST has scores #1 on the most popular charts in years now, has he?
@@danielz-v4083 We'll see as time goes on. MHA is still very current so of course its not gonna feel like that big thing because its still running. Same with demon slayer, jujutsu kaisen etc
Mha didn't flop bc of the animation, it's the writing and pacing which brought it down, it's so evident it's practiacally undiscutable.
The Midoriya vs lady nagant fight probably has my favourite colour palaette in the series. The muted colours, rain and use of shadows with good lighting gave a good batman feel. Those set of episodes up until the UA vs midoriya struggle were my fave asethetic for the series.....
enough with the mha slander , what's y'all problem ?
Mha, that's our problem
I've been watching MHA since 2018 and I recently watched the first episode of season 7. Honestly I don't want to get into all the hate or even the fandom talk but really it's a great show I have faith for it and even if it doesn't turn out the way we all want it to I still think it's a nice watch you know but they still have a chance with season 7 to bring back the great stuff they had a while ago and I have hope they will
It really is a good show 😄
Really enjoyed the video, loved the editing style - you must be a very big monogatari fan based on the edit style and music choice!
Btw what is the song at 10:38 ? it seems its not on the ost list when i listened through all the tracks unless im mistaken.
Subbed! will be watching the rest of the vids waiting for the next one!
owarimonogatari OST 444 goushitsu :)
Still going and still amazing
My main issue with MHA is the cringe vocal side of the fanbase. Beyond that, I agree that Bones working on the movies and tv show at the same time definitely hurt the later. They should've managed it to where they could have worked one at a time.
Mha was the thing that got me into anime, before i read the first twenty volumes, i thought that anime was just horrible. Now I want to make my own manga. It is very important to me.
Mha is good 👍. No need for people to express hate for it, they should simply stop reading or watching it, at least that's what I think
That’s what I’m saying. I genuinely don’t understand why people read a story they don’t like and still complain about it. If you're going to force yourself to read something you don’t like, then at least stop complaining about it.
@@Tsurugi-cm1vfcause in hope it gets better to at least the quality it used to have
@@Tsurugi-cm1vfit’s called critiquing it which is necessary for being a good consumer. If no one criticized anything then the quality of things will go down.
@@GlizzySan Uh huh. So hating on something in the comments sections of videos that neither the author nor the studio probably watch is supposed to make it better? But let me elaborate on what I meant. You see, I’m talking about the haters who are hating and attention-seeking honesty; either that or they’re just too afraid to say they like the series or both. Now I will admit there is some valid criticism, but the majority are people who contradict themselves when they "criticize" and even annoy people who think differently than them. A lot of MHA fans can’t enjoy the series in peace because of the constant hate, which is another reason why people don’t talk about it often. It’s because they don’t want to deal with the annoying haters. The best option is to either drop the series if you don’t like it or just stop complaining and bothering people. This way the people who don’t like it can watch something they genuinely like and people who enjoy it can enjoy it and express their love for the series without being constantly attacked by spoiled brats who get way too intense when the story doesn’t go the way they want and don’t respect other peoples opinions or the author of the series because some of those people insult Horikoshi now Like I said before, there are criticisms I consider valid, but most people I come across do what I just told you, so I’m saying that those people drop the series or stop complaining. Do you understand what I’m talking about?
@Tsurugi-cm1vf I agree with u completely. I don't go around intensely analyzing what is or what isn't a good story, I am simply trying to pass the time with something that looks and sounds cool
I like how people always write comments based on video they just love or hate it because of other opinion just noticed how people hate or love on others opinion not there own
Shit got mid after season 3, too much anime that are far greater and being made for mha to be this boring. Season 6 is killing me I'd be dammed If I'm a hero and gotta explain why I need to sleep at my own school lol
Nothing happened bro it's peak
Fuck all the nonsense about fandom I mean why is it even a factor
Recently binged mha
It was incredible
The slow points aren't even that bad
I actually really like this video, great job
Season 4 was not bad, it didn't became better then it's previous season, but it was still good. The bad part of the anime, is the second half of season 5. Streching the second intership arc and cut short the Villain academia arc was a terrible decision. But now My Hero Academia is the most hated series of all time, so there is no chance for it's come back, like One Piece.
"most hated series of all time"? Bro speaking from his *ss.
im sorry but my hero academia clearly not the most hated .Or I dont think you see how demon slayer and Tokyo revengers or even boruto got pershap for exemple my hero academia hit the 100 millions mangas a while ago and its still in the 5-6 on most buy mangas in 2023-2024 the sales even increased through the years .Just most people hate the fandom or the anime because its like a trend or a jokes for some .Its really rare that I meet someone hating it with actuals reasons
then bakugou fucking died lmao
They need to get Nakamura on payroll again
4th movie coming soon my dude not 3rd. Good vid tho
i put the text on the screen saying “*4th” when i mention that cuz i knew someone would call me out on it 😭😭
What happened to decent UA-cam videos?
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Unlike the others, it was season 5 that made MHA med, to me. More pacifically, My Villain Academia. I read the Manga before hand and it was amazing! The art, the story, the lore, the style, the fights, everything was perfect! Then the adaptation came and it was...not bad, but not good either...just...ok. It had 22 chapters and the anime had to remove, censer and skim through the entire chapters in only 5 episodes, with a pretty med animation. Not to mention, being told in unchronological order. WHILE they were all in the middle doing the third movie too. IT WAS A MESS! My Villain Academia didn't get the right adaptation that it deserved. To be fair, the show did redeem itself after season 6. Yes, it still had a few mishaps here and there, but overall, the season did win me over and hype for season 7. Although, I should be cautious. Season 6 turned out well because there was no movie in the way. Season 7 and a 4th movie is being made so.....yeah, I know they're going to put all those budgets into the film obviously. But I hope that doesn't distract them from adapting the Manga correctly. Am I happy about ANOTHER MHA film? I guess. But I rather they focus more on the source material. THAT is my biggest issue with the MHA adaptions. They are either censored, removed, skimmed through and givin a half ass animation at times just so they can focus more on the films. But who knows? Maybe and HOPEFULLY, My Hero will rise again. The Manga is still doing good though at least.
MHA peak at season 2 for me.
I can agree that MHA is being slept on, I myself have slept through many of its episodes.
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I love my hero academia
I'm at season 4
Idk what you did but your thumbnail looks 3D 🔥
🙏😈 gotta thank my thumbnail editor for that
I have a very similar outlook on MHA. It was one of the first anime I watched seasonally (beginning with season 2) and I liked it so much at the time. But like you said, the more time passed and the more I watched different anime, my opinion began to shift a little from "This anime is so great" to "it's pretty good" (if that makes sense), especially after the disappointment that was season 4 and the travesty of season 5. And when it got back to being really good at season 6, the hype was not there and many defaults remained (mainly as you said, censorship, less detailed scenes and characters, occasional fluid animation, "blue sky"...). That said, I still enjoy it enough to wait for the new season, which I hope will be great. Thanks for your video.
i hope it’ll be real great too 🤞🤞
Great video
the main problem for me is the plot, the is good from the beginning, but after season 4, it became so mid, because of the story and plot itself, ridiculous plot armors, and the flawed moral that it wants to achieved lost me
Nothing about this anime is really exciting or worth watching
I seen the chapter they make more confused in each new chapter to every situation
I remember how pumped I was to see Deku vs Shigaraki in season 6. In manga that fight was just awesome. I was visible there, that Deku is using his full power and reader just felt the power and struggle. When I was watching that it was like... meeh. Only One or two moments kicked more (float moment because of music and "thats what this power is for") but rest was just medium. Animation was mediocre, music was ok but not awesome. I think we just would like to have that show done better, because source material is great.
Imo my hero as a series was severely outcompeted. It came out at a time where it was relatively unchallenged and people hyped it up. Then once competition came in, it quickly showed just how behind it was. The fights? Barely engaging outside of the occasional emotional moment. The story telling? Initially promising but that promise was never fully delivered on except at a few points. The art? Admittedly amazing in the manga but the anime’s production is notoriously pretty bland. In the beginning I was with the show, believed in its hype and promise, but as time goes on the story feels increasingly like literary junk food, especially when you have powerhouses like CSM or JJK as your competitors.
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i have to disagree, imo, mha outclasses jjk by MILES in story telling. i would say jjk has a better anime adaptation, but i feel like to call the story junk food when jjk keeps spitting out the same cycle of introducing and killing off characters with no real impact is kinda crazy…
@@itsjustsuna Admittedly literary junk food is probably a bit harsh. However, I do stand by that mha was simply outclasses in all the ways that matter. Even if we look side by side with jjk, firstly the fights in jjk are just flatly better, from choreography to power systems even if you remove any emotional impact jjk’s have the fights are almost always premium stuff while MHA’s fights are bland on average. But even story wise, while jjk has its faults it’s also managed to create a story with interesting characters, fun dynamics, believable flaws, and a lot of tension. Mha has more or less stilted characters, dynamics that feel like archetypes talking, nonexistent side characters, nonexistent tension, and conflicts that are just.. not enough. It feels like Horikoshi forgot why certain characters worked and went on autopilot through a lot of the story which is also paced glacially and rushed simultaneously. Where Gege is often a bit too eager to pull one over on the audience, Horikoshi seems deathly allergic to make the audience feel anything. I mean Deku’s dark arc is literally just him doing hero work by himself and overworking himself. There’s just a consistent refusal to commit to real tension or change within the story outside of the obligatory mentor dies/stops being all that useful.
Granted, jjk is elevated very highly by its adaptation and mha is done dirty by bones, but at the end of the day even if they had adaptations of equal quality, I’d still wager mha would be in a tricky spot because of its storytelling. To put it like this, jjk for all its flaws often can make me care or get invested in a character in a shockingly short amount of time, while mha will struggle to get close to that for a character actively involved in 2 seasons worth of manga content. Gege, for all his flaws, knows how to create compelling human drama and ground characters in a way that very efficiently gets you to care and be interested. Mha will create surface level motivations and some backstory but won’t take that final step to fully humanize the character.
@@thecod2345 JJK fucking blows. There's a reason it's become such a joke of a series. Gege cannot write.
@@Luna-pk7gz Jjk has had better days buts it’s far from a joke. Go bait somewhere else.
I’ll also mention that the studio also switched up the arcs. I don’t know the reasoning as to why, but I think was also a factor as to why season 6 had a lot of complaints. I don’t read the manga so I’m unsure about what everyone was hyping up about the “Villain Academia” arc, but I’m starting to get a bit of FOMO (fear of missing out) so I’ll start reading to see what the excitement was about.
[Bit of spoilers for S6]
I also think Izuku’s arc in season 6 could have him suffer a bit more. Cruel, I know, but having it be longer, having him face each of AFO’s mini bosses that was sent his way like Lady Nagant, make new connections and perhaps lose those new connections somehow due to wanting to save him when he was at his weakest. Anything like DC’s Gotham City basically. Perhaps he loses contact with the pros after a battle early on and for the rest of it he’s considered missing. I don’t know, I just feel like horikoshi could have given us more to chew on and think about, especially since all of Deku’s development and experience were kind of thrown out the window the moment he returned to UA.
I’ll disagree only on the idea Deku’s development went on permanent pause, Deku’s development shifts from the idealistic dreamer, to a realist revolutionist after this arc and perhaps spoilers for the manga moving forward, Deku has made very passionate declarations of realizations of what he thinks the world truly is, how it degraded itself and why those left in the dark seem so monstrous, Deku has changed from the 14 year old boy who saw heroes as the pinnacle and unfallible in every sense of the word, to seeing the inner conflicts and workings along the way not only from the Pro’s but from the Villains, this causes Deku to declare he wants to tear the old world down and create a new one which treats everyone fairly, the world which broke many people and caused them to do horrendous things both outwardly onto innocents or in secret behind closed doors, Deku is the one who doesn’t promise security like All Might did which the people wanted, but promises something better, something that allows as minimal amount of people to suffer, and save whoever he can.
Season 4 was Deku’s biggest personal victory: Defeating Overhaul and saving Eri. They also introduced an amazing song, “Hero Too”. I don’t think the series has lost its edge or appeal for me. The characters are all greatly written, their pacing is natural and the relationships are beautiful. No one gets ignored or lose importance/screen time for bull reasons. I think it’s a way more believable story and universe than what has become of One Piece. Everything since Gear 5 has sound like Oda has been just pulling out random gobbledygook than make logical sense. It’s gone on for so long that I’d rather watch shorter series.
As for the “big impressive moments” of Gear 5 Luffy vs. Kaido didn’t get me invested I watching because I was fixated on where Izuku’s story was going. He’s been the best Shonen protagonist for me and I just love him too much to lose interest. Meanwhile, One Piece took too long getting to the Kaido story while constantly having Luffy botch up more than with Crocodile. The timeskip arcs also feel way too long and dragged out with the episodes. I also question why, after all that, Carrot DIDN’T join the crew or question what kept Yamato from joining despite all the buildup. But I never once lost that vibe with MHA or its reality. It has LOADS of potential for a sequel or side stories. They didn’t even rely on filler episodes.
It was always kind of mid. I dropped it because Deku's progression felt glacial, and I realized that I didn't care for the majority of the characters, so why watch?
this is an absolutely absurd take 💀
There are many characters with developement lmao
It was NEVER mid, Mha is a top tier superhero story but at the same time it’s not a masterpiece, most characters have really good development, maybe the series is just not for you.
Horrible take
I’m glad it’s not a matter of you unfairly pushing your standards on a show, just the simple fact that you just couldn’t get invested any further.