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I think you could easily invert your argument on wealth and nepotism in MHA. Todoroki and Yao can reinforce it. They seem to be the only ones that this really applies to. The rest of the class seems to be from middle class families or lower and you made a video on ppl whose quirks don’t really seem to warrant a place in the esteemed class. It more telling that Todoroki & Yao still have to go thru school and not buy or influence themselves into a pro hero job. All might is told several times to set aside his feelings for Deku and be impartial. He should be the last person that could be criticized if the system were so nepotistic
Why did you have to make it so much about race and politics And REALY IN A WORLD FOOL 9F FREAKS YOU THINK RACISM WOULD BE A THING?!? There's a kid who is BLACK not like race but BLACK like void in the school ;-; And the cops are post to deal with small time crimes On top of that tbey talk about the real problem they like FLASHY and stong quarks more then boring looking ones example tesu tesu he has the Harding quark but didnt make it becuse turning into a spiky manster man is cooler
You should have also talked about how their society classify some quirks as being “more suitable for a villain “ eg; shinsou’s mind control quirk and how this can lead to great discrimination and potentially self conflict. It is rumoured that this is how a cheerful high schooler like Toga became a villain- because her quirk ( the ability to transform into someone by ingesting their blood ) was seen as villainous, and she eventually turned to the dark side because of this faulted society
Ereaser Foot well there is a news reporter who cutt of one of his horns bc it disrupted with the electricity or something, however they said that he is known for hating quirks and discriminating them....
@@Barwcon23 the problem is we don't know why she's fucked in the head yet. She could easily be like twice. A dark and unfortunate accident which created a villain
Just like how in today’s society if you’re a tall black man with some physical capabilities you’re automatically assumed that you want to be a basketball player (or any other sport) rather than your other attributes like your intellect
When stain gave his speech about hero society, i can admit that the whole time i was nodding along, agreeing with him whole heartedly. He was just another case of good plan but bad execution.
"Things in this society are wrong, I must change the way things are. What should I do? Become a politician? Become active in the community? Nah, ill just stab people, that oughta do the trick."
To be fair his execution wasn’t bad. He set out to teach the hero’s that saving people only for money isn’t right and you should save them because that is what a hero does! And if it is your life on line instead of a random civilian then maybe you understand the same fear they feel. The same hopelessness that they endure simply because they can’t be hero’s. In his on way he brought the same feeling of needing a true hero to the hero’s as the civilians feel.
Unpopular opinion alert. I think a big problem for the hero society is (or rather was) the presence of All Might. I know, I know, "But he's the #1 Hero, the "Symbol of Peace", how could he be/have been a problem? What about all the good he's done/did?" Well, the thing is, All Might was just too good. He was too strong, he shined too bright. Everyone thought that he was unbeatable, invincible, that he would always be around to save the day. Those thoughts and feelings, even though they put the people at ease like All Might wanted, had an unforeseen side effect. It caused the people to become over reliant on a single person (himself) and caused the heroes to become complacent and didn't think to get stronger and further improve themselves. Season 3, Episode 7, after Bakugo is kidnapped, Midnight said "Besides, All Might put an end to most organized crime. We're all rusty." After that, Present Mic agreed by saying, "We've definitely gotten complacent during peaceful times without realizing it. I guess deep down, all of us thought we'd be riding the sweet life for good." This shows that, because of All Might's presence, heroes had been getting lazy and took things less seriously than they should have. When All Might retired, crime skyrocketed to new heights, the heroes are unable to deal with their new problems, and the public is in haywire, scrabbling to find a new "symbol" to rely on, to pin all their hopes on. The thing is what's needed is strong heroes who take their work seriously, not celebrity darlings, and not a "symbol of peace". Yes, All Might did an immeasurable amount of good, had a positive impact on the people around him, but on the flip side, he's actually hindered the current generation of heroes, just by being what he set out to become all those years ago: The Symbol of Peace. Sorry for the huge comment and like i said, unpopular opinion alert. This video earned a like and subscriber.
I wholeheartedly agree. This is something that I see a lot, not only within this fandom. Often, when we find heroes that we can depend on, we do so in excess. Instead of inspiring us to be like or better than them, they make us slack off, thinking that someone else will take care of it. I recall in one episode of MHA ™ that a couple heard Deku training in an alley, but one of them pulled the other away, saying, "Let's not get involved." This was a poignant moment, all humor aside.
Yeah to be honest, I like All Might as a hero and person, but the people were just too dependent on him. Not all of them are fans of All Might, so they'd rather have other heroes get recognition. I agree with your opinion, since I feel like they made All Might's presence the norm. Not everyone would appreciate a bulky and abnormally positive personality. It's why I personally like Nightwing more than Superman or Batman. He's not as muscular as these two famous pillars, but he does get the job done, and even is considered the most sexualized superhero.
I find that the problem would mostly fall on the other heroes than All Might, for not stepping up and trying to be like him. All Might wanted to be a symbol of Peace, someone for others to rally behind, but instead of them trying to stand side by side with him, they all just followed in his shadow, benefitting off of the momentary peace he brought. I can see with Izuku it will be different. Izuku has already made his class rally behind him, each of them striving to be like him. He inspires others to give their all. He's going to succeed where All Might failed. He will make all other heroes rise up with him.
To quote A Conversation with a Cryptid, "And I wanted to live a normal life. But this is what happens when people are arrested for being born wrong instead of them doing wrong."
I was going to mention that fanfic, it literally hits all the same beats as this video and goes into SO MUCH FUCKING DEPTH I WANT TO WRITE A PAPER IN IT.
U.A. must be publicly funded or have a generous scholarship programs. Uraraka has mentioned multiple times how her family is quite poor and that one of her prime motivations for becoming a hero is to ease the financial burden on her family. Also, on the issue of powerful quirks gathering near the top of society, while that's certainly a possibility, it has been mentioned in the manga that quirks have been getting more and more powerful each generation. Another critique made by multiple times throughout the series is that heroes are often picky about who and how they save people. Twice only ended up as a villain because of the mental illness caused by his quirk, whereas hero society rejected him, the villains accept him for who he is. MANGA SPOILERS . . . . . . . Gentle is also another example of villain who exist because he was entirely unfairly shunned by society. He messed up one time for trying to help someone with his quirk and was made a villain because of it. Rather than being condemned, Gentle should've had a bright future as a hero after a training.
I've noticed people from the USA have problems grasping the concept of good public schools. People asked JK Rowling the tuition of Hogwarts even though it's clearly free; I once saw a video speculation the cost of Orange High School from Dragon Ball assuming it must be private even though it looks exactly like any other public school in anime
Well regarding Uraraka I'd say yes a scholarship can help, I mean probably most of 1A can classify for a scholarship since they're supposed to be the best of the best, but also Uraraka's family being poorer than the others kind of makes sense if the school costs a lot, doesn't it? I mean yes once she gets her degree she can help ease that burden but it's normal for families and students to rack up debt WHILE they're studying...her going to UA might contribute to said financial trouble for now...
@@davidbodor1762 if Uraraka had an scholarship it would come up. Have you not watched anime set in private schools? It comes up, also by the way Bakugo and Deku live I don't think their families can afford private education. There's no reason to assume a good school in Japan must be private
@@MakiPcr Why would it have come up? Students don't generally talk about those in public a lot, and it's not crucial to the plot either...Bakugo and Midoriya are both in 1A THE prestige star class school and they're both in the top half of it too, they probs have a scholarship too, or student loans...you know, a lot of students have those... And yeah it's not necessarilly private however in Japan, High School isn't mandatory, many are government funded BUT still cost a lot of money. I think this is addressed in the video when he mentions the cost of a school in Japan. But like also, in a lot of places around the world, just because a school isn't private, doesn't mean it's free.
X-Men is about as close as we have and I think it's interesting to look at the differences there! Some of these points actually make more sense if you also consider that universe
I know it takes place in Japan. My statement surrounded that all the examples given in the videos were American policies and problems. This video would have been more interesting if they looked into Japanese laws and policies.
I was expecting to hear something about heroes not having a secret identity. Since the villains are so focused on class 1A, they should just go after they're families. Considering that every student, and pro hero's identity is known, it seems unbelievable that this issue hasn't come up more often.
Why don’t they just do this. If your in danger and there’s no one to help you, you are able to use your quirk. But if you’re not in danger and are using it then you would get in trouble.
What if people have passive quirks or quirks that harm no one when used but are still beneficial. Should someone who can glow not illuminate themselves to navigate safer in the dark? we should make a distinction between weaponizable quirks and benign quirks and then make unique rules for each
And you should be able to use your Quirk to help helpless people. It's like Todoroki said, Native was paralysed by Stain's Quirk and could have easily been killed if Ida didn't arrive.
One issue I'm surprised doesn't seem to exist in Hero Society (or at least hasn't hasn't been spotlighted yet) is body shaming. Quirks created a society with greater physical diversity where some people have pink or pitch black skin, some people have vines or sticky balls for hair, some look like humanoid animals, some people look like rock monsters and some the heads of animals.
At the point of the show, the first quirk baby was born multiple generations ago. I guess at some point people get used to the fact that some people just look really fucked up. Also I think racism is probably gone down in that universe, simply because its hard to justify hating black people for looking diffrent when your head is a cactus. Though Im sure there are some forms of body shaming, as aforementioned cactus head probably would have difficulty in finding someone willing to kiss him.
Riesenfriese I mean, I’m not saying that a lot of people still didn’t get used to the fact that some people have more melanin in their skin, but a lot of people still didn’t get used to the fact that some people have more melanin in their skin.
@@cas2762 Yeah sorry, but body shaming due to having a mutation quirk isn't going to be much of a thing due to how people with quirks are treated in society. The quirkless on the other hand...
For the whole thing about Hagakure using her quirk at all times, I think that is why the quirks are classified into three categories, Emitter, Mutant and Transformer. Mutant type quirks would be Hagakure, Ojiro, Shoji, and others. They might be exempt from this law under technicality since their quirk is literally part of them. Though if Hagakure were able to not be invisible at will then her being invisible 24/7 could be considered against the law. Or that one guy in the Vigilantes manga who was literally a giant blob of slime. That’s his quirk and he can’t not use it. Ojiro’s tail and Shoji’s could just be considered another limb, if I had an extra functioning arm it would still be just that, my arm. If you think of the law being interpreted this way then the law is prejudice against those who have Emitter and Transformation quirks. I just love this show and how much it makes you think!
It seems like the law would be prejudiced against Emitter and Transformation types, but realistically Mutant types are the ones most likely to get noticed by the police. Some mutants are more like mutant-hybrids, like Shouji with his ability to grow new limbs on the ends of his arms, and Hagakure’s ability to flash light through her invisible body, so the police could always claim that the Mutant type they arrested is actually a hybrid who was using their quirk at will.
Wait. So does that mean Bakugou is a villain and doesn't realize it? Remember, he was openly using his quirk against Deku throughout their childhood, seriously hurting Deku simply because he hated that Deku didn't accept defeat and praise him for his quirk. Pretty sure Deku's mum took him at least to the local Doctors multiple times for severe burns and other injuries caused solely by Bakugou and it wouldn't take a genius to figure out why Deku was getting injured. Or was he always excused because he wasn't out of school yet?
The laws are probably different on (especially younger) kids since they can't control their quirks well. Also they probably have some sort of age for criminal responsibility (I think in Japan it is 14)
@@cceru708 true, but Bakugou clearly had a good grasp on his quirk and Deku was definitely badly injured in the flashback where it ended with him lying on the ground, motionless. And it's clear Bakugou never stopped as they got older. Hell, before they went to UA he shouldn't at least been put in juvenile detention for at least a small amount of time. Sure, when he was a little kid he could get away with it, but middle school? Hell no. But he wasn't. And the fact during his fight with Uraraka his thought wasn't "she's still conscious" but instead was "she's not dead yet" does not help in swaying my feelings towards that sweaty asshole
Autum Breeze the thing about Bakugo is that he was a big thing in a school full of basically nobodys. A fanfic I read put it down really well. It’s a lot like the “He has a future” argument used to protect rich white boys when they rape someone. No one stopped him because they didn’t want to ruin his shot at being a hero. Also, he was bullying someone who is basically a second class citizen, a complete nobody, lower in the quirk social hierarchy than Bakugo’s mum and her glycerin sweat. Why would anyone want to ruin the chances of a rising star with so much potential, just because of a second class citizen who is worse than nobody?
We don't actually have any indication that UA is a private school, and even if it was it would be in the systems interest to put poor students with strong quirks through it for free or at least at a highly reduced cost to maximize the number of powerful heroes and minimize dangerous villains. Other than that though the analysis is pretty solid.
Ochaco is poor, yet she studies there. Deku is pretty clearly lower middle class (or middle class). Just like Sato (complaining about sweets being expensive, pretty normal looking room) and almost every other person that isn't Momo, Todoroki, or Lida. There is only one other school on a similar level to UA. UA is like Harvard of MHA Japan. And yet, none of the characters complain about the cost of the school. None of the parents do either. Single mother can afford to send her kid to Top 1 school in the country. Parents with a failing construction company (clearly very low on money for a long time, since Ururaka as a kid wanted to help her parents with her quirk).
Um, I think you're forgetting where he assumed those with stronger quirks would become police officers even though it's illegal from them to use their quirks- even more so than ordinary citizens. I feel like there were some other things that could have used a bit better research or just... um... logic... or something. Point is there's at least a few more flaws than the one you mentioned.
I will admit, that thumbnail is pretty damn accurate. Stain not only has a good ideal (though his morals on how to Express them have much to be desired), but Endeavour? He has several times made it clear he wants to beat All Might and become the number 1 hero and uses his son to try and achieve that. Now, does that actually sound like something a hero would do, use their child to further themselves with no care as to said child's own feelings on the matter? Then there's the Nomu incident in Hosu City. He was only there because he was trying to get Totaroki to learn from him, but when a couple bystanders asked what he was doing there he said "because I'm a hero" as if he'd gone there solely to save everyone, when we know damn well that ain't the case. He only said that because he knew it would boast his image. And that's even before getting into the physical and emotional damage he did to Totaroki's mother. Yeah, All Might is indeed a hero and fully deserves the number 1 spot. Endeavour, however, not only doesn't deserve to be the number 2 hero, he doesn't even have the right to call himself a hero at all.
I actually really like the idea of OFA and all might and deku's stories. They were both quirkless individuals who were given power yes, however that isn't to say they did not earn such power. Their ideals even as quirkless people were so much more heroic than many heroes and to even use OFA you need to train like crazy just to use a bit of its power correctly. So while other heroes were born with extraordinary power all might and deku effectively earned theirs technically speaking.
I understand the concept of a registry. That's honestly fairly reasonable. Like a gun or weapon registry but to make it equitable just have everyone sign up that had a quirk. But the rules about usage are what definitely don't sit well with me. I love My Hero Academia but it is very concerning that civilians have no right to use their abilities in public, even if the situation calls for it. Say an emergency where an ability like Ochaco Urahara's could save lives by lifting debris. Or a mundane and harmless quirk like Mrs. Midoria's being used to catch something on reflex, maybe a fragile vase or something at a store. If either of these events happened in public, both would be labeled villains under the current system which makes NO SENSE. There are no guidelines for a scale of offense. There are no set categories of exceptions. It's a zero tolerance policy and we KNOW those are used disproportionately against minorities and the poor. One big question I have regarding the world is what about people who are disabled and have quirks. What are their rights and social protections? Are they barred from becoming heroes outright because they're disabled? Are people with cognitive disabilities sequestered away from society for "safety"? Are disabled people allowed to use their quirk in public if it acts as a mobility or communication aid? Say a mute person utilizing an emoji generating quirk or a physically disabled person using prehensile hair for movement. This system is far too binary for a modern world IMO. I get that in Japan disability is still somewhat taboo but in the USA disabled people are active members of society like everyone else.
I think a Combination of "A Certain Magical Index" and "My Hero Academia". In laws and Rules would work well. :) In Academy City which is in "A Certain Magical Index", they have 3 Police like Forces. 1) Droids and other automated Things. 2) Judgment: people acting as Heroes. people with Powers. 3) Anti-Skill. A Police Force that also Specialize in Counter measures and anti-Supernatural/SuperPowers/Magic/Monsters/Creatures. Also All schools evaluate Powers/Quirks and their Growth/Change, each year for all Students. Like a Fitness Or mental exam. And People can use their Powers when ever or any where. So long as they don't Break Established rules/laws while using them.. Like a no smoking sign would be a Rule. While Braking Property would be Braking the law.
Not really, the quirk laws in MHA aren’t enforced the same way you think they are. In general because of how broad and how many quirks there are it’s impossible to completely regulate it. Quirks like “attraction of small things” wouldn’t be punished (unless used for a crime) because of how mundane it is, it really isn’t a crime to use your quirk if it doesn’t harm anyone else or cause potential harm to someone else. There’s also another exception to the law in that using your quirk to protect yourself or other people in a crisis. (Similar to self defense laws) And on the topic of someone using their quirk to help with a disability I don’t see how it would violate the law. If your blind and have a echolocation quirk it wouldn’t be noticeable enough to be called for. Or if someone is paralyzed from the waist down and can use a levitation quirk to get around it probably won’t be punished unless it becomes a safety hazard.
So its only illegal to use your quirk for crime? crimes are already illegal. Or is stealing a watch using dekus moms quirk more illegal than just grabbing the watch to steal it? Either the law forbids all public quirk use or its a redundant and pointless law. Thats like saying computers are illegal, but its ok if you arent a hacker.
jared clemens yeah, that whole "hate crime" business is dumb too though. If someone kills his cheating wife, a crime clearly commited out of hate, thats not a hate crime, but if the random dude someone just robbed happened to look different thats a hate crime? Like how would you prove that someone hates other races?
Props for the actuallly great video-essay, I thought this channel would mostly stick to mainstream anime discourse. Though a big part of this argument stands in the assumption that it would be a private school to handle Hero training, not accounting for the facts that there are other schools and that UA clearly followed a national standardized test, meaning it's even possible that it could be a free scholarship. But yeah, Hero society is a gross place run by mutant horses.
To add to the profiling example, its not just the cops who do this, its everyone. Shinsou gets comments on the regular for his brainwashing quirk because it seems like a "villains quirk". He was born with it, its not like he has a choice. And no wonder people do this to people like Shinsou when there is a ranking for heroes who look most like villains. Its fucked up. Its mentioned time after time that people are judged for their quirks, which is probably why many villains end up as villains, because it was a preconceived ideal pressed upon them
Kind of sad when you think about it. Sometimes villainy isn't something created from greed, arrogance, or even choice. Sometimes we end up creating our own monsters without even realizing it
Nah, not really. We can see the motivation behind lots of villian in the series and most of it has to do with how heroes are in it for the money and not much to do with how society treats villians.
@@thebashfulturtle9987 in the upcoming season 4 arc, you'll meet villains who had quirks that were seen as villainous, and they work under their boss because he saw them as "humans" rather then villainous trash
+MyLittleGreenHairedMermaid "And no wonder people do this to people like Shinsou when there is a ranking for heroes who look most like villains." That's one of the things that always bugged me about MHA's pro heroes, the fact that the vast majority of them look more like villains than actual superheroes. For God's sake, one of 'em, "Fourth Kind" I believe, looks like a stereotypical mob boss! How is it that the teenage newbies look more heroic than the actual professional adults?
Looking at the comments, yeah the money thing is a false assumption because Ochaco is apparently more poor than a family that just had their child go to the emergency room and payed all of the bills in one go. But otherwise it seems pretty legit. Also "you Might begin to think that Stain guy had a point." Well I believed he did before I even watched this because well.. ya know. Endeavor is a jerky son of a *bleeeeeeep*
Stain had some truth in what he said, and the characters recognise it too, but a) he was way too simplistic with his ideals and b) he took a really bad approach. Ochako wants to be a hero to make money to support her poor family. In Stain’s eyes, this isn’t a noble enough motive and she should be dead. Iida Tensei was a kind, compassionate hero, who had a lot of saves to show and mentored a bunch of sidekicks to help them grow into better heroes. Yet because he went into hero work out of family tradition, he’s deemed unworthy and is paralysed from the waist down. On the All Might to Endeavor scale, most heroes fall somewhere in the middle, and those people who are in the middle don’t deserve to die. Yet in Stain’s world, if you’re not an All Might, you’re an Endeavor.
Ever heard of student loans? Or scholarships? She seems to be a top student of THE top class, I am fairly sure it's free for her to attend but not for a lot of other ppl.
@@cas2762 "Really bad approach" is a major understatement lol. I like stain a lot as a villain and he definitely has a point however killing pro heroes who don't fit his standards is pretty evil. Iida's brother, for example, was a genuine hero and as we saw in vigilantes was extremely kind and an efficient man. But stain took him down simply because he was focused on the business side of being a hero, but neglected the fact that he was a genuine person who did want to help others.
So does that mean dekus mom had to take out a loan to get deku into UA?, I doubt it, I think UA is a free school, it's just that stronger quirk families or rich families children get in on recommendation
Actually in Japan High School is not mandatory. Because of this high school costs money to attend but part of it is covered by the government so its cheaper than University. Private schools are also more rare in Japan. Though in Japan, in the stead of private schools, there are specialized high schools such as for Buisness, Agriculture and Heroing in MHA
I feel like if you pass the entrance exams are you get a scholarship but if you dont then you'll have to pay which will probally be way to much but still possible
@@Jtzkb it is probably only illegal using destructive quirks or quirks that could hassle others or in really crowded places, you see the crawler only getting a talking to by the strict cop and the crawler called him stiff afterwards this suggests that as long as your not inconveniencing people and the place your using your quirk is not bustling with people cops will over look some minor/convenient quirk usage.If anything the people with smaller less destructive quirks could get away with using there quirks more in public than lets say someone like Bakugo who literally could blow up and entire road.Quirk marriages are most likely extremely rare and shunned because lets have some faith in humanity and and only 3 of the 20 people in class 1 a come from a hero family thats 15 percent and if we look at bakugo we see his quirk is very different to each of his parents who have "unhero worthy quirks" and he is one of the best in 1a
Her family has a business. You can't be "poor af" and afford a business. Especially a unsuccessful one. Not for long. And she's going to UA. Not by recommendation. So her family's business can't be doing all that bad.
This business may not being doing bad persay, but they don't have extra money to be throwing around. They probably live pay check to pay check. Owning your own business is hard work, and a lot of the time, not profitable. She would have definitely needed financial aid to enroll in UA.
@@breeze5926 Also Ochako kind of answers his second point about it only beig illegal to use "destructive quirks" or only in a public space. Ochako could save her family money by making their construction matrials float, and I remember hearing that for the first time and thinking "Wait, why do you need a HERO licence to use your quirk for a construction job?" I thought the hero school was just for saving people. But nope, in this world you need to learn to be a hero to be allowed to use your quirk AT ALL.
I wish there was a storyline of a Quirkless young kid, who was also bullied for being so. But instead of crying and feeling sorry for himself, he got up trained in martial arts and essentially gaining a reputation of a BNHA version of Batman. Let's see if anyone laugh at his face
This is pretty much the most in-depth and interesting analysis of the ethics of Hero Aca I've ever seen and I love it. I was expecting some awful Game Theory overthinking and speculation. Instead this video dives into the real prospects of paying and legislating people according to their genetics. Awesome stuff, GITR.
I always felt like Ilda (idk if I spelled it right) should’ve been the only one that got in trouble during the Stain incident because Todoroki and Midoriya were only trying to protect Ilda and themselves. We’re they supposed to sit there and watch as Stain was killing Ilda? Ilda fought Stain out of revenge while Todoroki and Midoriya did out of defense.
Student loans? Lots of people take it, but also - scholarships. She's supposed to be in class 1A the most prestigious star class in the school, I am sure most of that class has scholarships of some kind.
Because quirks in this world are supposed to be on all the planet, and no, Uraraka can simply get in via scholarship or student loans...it's not a stretch at all. She is in the top class of the entire school, 1A and she's not a low scoring student either, so it seems plausible that she'd have a scholarship offered to her.
Those who got into UA based on recommendation did so because of their high aptitude, and the fact they scored very highly on a previous entrance test. In other words, it's like seeding in sports. Shoto & Momo just happened to be rich. As a matter of fact, besides those two, no one else who got in on recommendation were mentioned to be wealthy. Inasa Yoarashi also got into UA on recommendation but chose Shiketsu High School instead, and there is no mention of him being wealthy.
" 3:22 " For me, mutants have a different application for that law. It would be more like using your quirk effectively to achieve some goal in their case, and a good example would be Hagakure's Shining tecnique or Tsuyu using her tongue. They would have to make some use of their quirk that isn't the usual "quirk-using" that they do every day. Hope that helps!
Hey! I'm working on a tabletop role-playing game for my friends based on the concepts and general ideas of MHA, and your videos helping explain things about the world and going into detail about how things are, really are helping me sort different details. Keep up the good work man!
Meme Gameplay .......yes.... but unlike USA where you can get out of a felony due to wealth Japan has a 99% conviction rate. As cool as that is is Momo did that and was caught she will go to jail
@@SpiralsAreAlive Not to mention she has explicitly stated that she shouldn't use her powers in a way that affects the economy. So legally she could straight up produce diamonds and gold to sell, she was raised and taught not to do that. But she could and it would probably be legal as long as she didn't do it in public.
Dogmatic Hermit yeah, that a real easy morality to have a a super rich kid. If Momo's family were struggling to put food on the table, Momo wouldnt give a damn about the economy.
Great analysis! Quirks really have a deep influence influence on MHA's world. I tried to make a self-insert OC one time and wanted him to mirror in details myself and life, but them i saw that i couldn't chose any quirk for him because the choices would impact directly on him, so i had to chose carefully
That's a question that always nagged me about hero's. There is obvious corruption in most societies...so when they are fighting to preserve the norm, which is highly oppressive, why are they fight to save innocents from say magneto, but not the government that would also uphold oppressive standards? #idtotallyjointhebrotherhoodifiwereamutant
One interesting thing I think the author could have done with my hero academia is show deku slowly get more mean and cynical and at the end he when he becomes the number one hero he tells a speech about how he will eventually die and everyone should not get to dependant on him and addresses all the things wrong with hero society like bullying people with weak, villainous,and no quirks
Damn it man I'm just trying have fun, brainlessly watching a cartoon. Now you make me feel all morally wrong and stuff. Except when you think about it midorya and all might are kinda responses to the messed up system. They were quirkless and wouldn't have been given a chance otherwise and all they wanna do is make the world better for everyone.
UA isn't a private school, but even if it were, UA is FAR from the only hero school in japan. shiketsu, ketsubusu and a half-dozen others pop up, and there's even the unnamed public hero course gentle was trying to apply to in his backstory. hero courses are like post-secondary education, you could go to your local college, or you could go to harvard.
After watching a few videos from this channel, I gotta say I love the commentary filled with a balance of information and humor. Awesome videos, guys, keep it up! ☺💕
Sure the hero system has its flaws, but could you imagine the chaos if there was no system. Better to have trained heroes than a bunch of untrained vigilantes.
I hope that Horikoshi creates a character that was abused by his parents to become a hero, but that he had other goals in life. For this we can say that his parents have practically useless kosei, but the kosei of his son turns out to be very powerful.
"We live in a police state" DAMN I smashed that like button so hard after Yedoye said that with a big sad smile on his face. Edit: this video is EVERYTHING and you all should be very proud. "Eugenics. It's what's for horses." HOLY
Here is a way to kinda fix alot of problems in one shot: have a kind of license so you can use your quirk in public that anyone can get at a certain age, and of course the provisional license and the hero license so you can fight villains. Of course someone might say something about villain being technically legal, but there are other laws they would have to break to get the villain status. And vigilantes are still kind of illegal, but in the way that they cant fight villains. They would be able to use they're quirk to like save a cat from a tree, though.
@@stevenporter7065 "America is a police state is often said by people that have never actually lived in a police state." And then they vote for people that want to criminal free speech, different options, the ability to defend yourself, etc..... I unsubbed. I don't need commentary this badly.
As for the wealth disparity of UA, I think it’s probably more likened to be a magnet high school. It’s probably publicly funded and a major investment for the government considering that they were able to build dorms super quickly. It’s in the public’s interest to have a well funded hero academy too. So maybe there wouldn’t be tuition but there’s definitely a wealth disparity since some quirks could easily make money. Maybe there’s some sort of civil contract where you have to work as a hero after graduating
You’d think the MHA world would have some type of group to basically serve as a way for people like Gentle (those who want to become heroes but end up flunking out of Hero School) to still help people. We’ve never heard of any type of Hero GED or anything, but I’m sure something like that would exist to avoid pushing Quirk users into villainy.
This is actually pretty helpful,especially since I made two MHA OCs,one with a quirk similar to Present Mic's(only without the off switch),and the other is made of lava.In the case of the former,she was actually sent to jail because she used her quirk,all because a fight between a hero and a villain broke out,ended up in her school,she screamed and considering the damage,she was thrown in the slammer.With the other,his mother died in a cave related accident,and obviously no heroes were there to actually help,so...yeah. Point is that the world of MHA has a lot of corruption involved...
Can Toru see herself? If so, i wonder how she would describe how she looks. Also, how did her mom know where to put the shirt and stuff on Toru as a child? Unless Toru's mother is invisible too and they can see each other, but what about her father? Surely he didnt have invisibility so what was his quirk? Did Toru inherit another quirk and never realise it? Or does she only have her mothers quirk? Maybe her mother and father have a completely different quirk than Toru, but how would she have gotten invisibility? What if one of Torus parents can turn stuff invisible by touching them and accedentialy touched Toru bc she was quirkless and told her, her quirk was invisibility?
Just one thing: being born to a family with strong quirks doesn’t necessarily mean your quirk will be strong (look at Shouto’s siblings for example. Touya had a quirk incompatible with his body that might’ve been strong but physically harmed him every time he used it, and Natsuo and Fuyumi seem to have pretty weak quirks considering Endeavor never bothered training them the way he did Touya and Shouto), and on the flip side, you can get a strong quirk from two seemingly useless quirks (for example, the Bakugo family. Katsuki’s mother sweats glycerin, and his father has oxidising sweat. Two pretty useless quirks that created Kacchan’s absurdly powerful quirk). And that’s without covering the rare but possible quirk mutations.
I think with the public usage it probably depends on the quirk and the situation, like Mrs Midoriya using her quirk to pick up her keys that she dropped is maybe going to get her a telling off if a cop happens to be walking by, but nobody is going to be actually phoning the police on her. OTOH if Bakugo was rocketing down the street, he’ll probably be in a good bit of trouble due to the recklessness of his actions. Always on quirks would be treated kind of similarly, provided you aren’t a danger to others it’s not reasonable for any action to be taken.
About the Eugenics part; Todoroki was his parents’ fourth try. However, Bakugou’s parents hooked up for love and got a powerful child in their first try. And he shows another contrast since his parents’ quirks were low level.
Imagine izuku was born with a quirk where he can control people with his mind, enhanced version of his mother’s quirk and then breathe fire at them? He could grab em and then cook the person
At first I thought that the whole discussion was kind of cringey for an anime video, but once you got to the part ab the lower class not being able to show off their quirks bc it was illegal to use them outside of heroism. It all started to make sense.
In the show the explicitly say that the only restrictions on using your quirk in public is using it to directly harm someone without a permit. At least that's how it is where/when the show takes place.
Yeah, some only do it for money and fame. Like Uraraka she’s only doing for money for her family. And Bakugo wanna to be better then All Might. He doesn’t want to save people. He just wants to be the strongest. And Shoto I don’t know. He doesn’t seem like he’d want to a be hero hero. He doesn’t seem to like people. But Deku doesn’t care about the money. He wants to be like All Might sacar people. And be the best super hero or 1 hero. If you know anything about Shoto. Like why he wants to be a hero tell me I wanna know.
Dude don’t. He was making quick jokes and using laws of one nation and applying it to laws of a fiction Japan. Also, for as bad as we call our own police look up police of other countries. The results are shocking for how little they care.
I was afraid of watching this video, but after watching it, the material helped me a LOT with a fanfic story that I’m developing. So, thank you! I’m surprised you didn’t talk about individuals with “Meta” Quirk types, like Spinner, Tokoyami, Tsuyu, Mina Ashido, and Hagakure. Those people have Quirks that can’t be turned off. They’re an intrinsic part of who they are; they were (assumed) born that way, so their following super-strict Quirk laws would be extremely difficult. Tsu can’t stop being a frog. Hagakure can’t stop being invisible. And Spinner can’t stop looking like a Ninja Turtle reject (sorry!). Aside from Invisible Girl, Meta types can have additional quirks that can/do fall under the Quirk Use Laws (Mina’s acid and Tokoyami’s Dark Shadow), but for the others, there has to be some sort of Meta type carve-out in the HeroAca world that legally allows for their existence. (Even if “Hero Society” probably still discriminates against them.) Also, Horikoshi-Sensei had once talked about an NPC that appears once or twice onscreen - he’s a news reporter, a guy with one large horn and one horn stump that we see sometimes in the newscasts. Apparently there’s still some Meta-type discrimination that happens in Hero society, so in order to make his audience comfortable, he cut off one of his horns. But apparently that made some people unhappy, especially some Meta-types. Lots of side commentary with that little story. I’m assuming that Japanese Quirk Laws are more strict in different ways than U.S. Quirk Laws. And since this is set about 200 years into the future, after Hero Society (sort of) stabilized, I’m wondering how the U.S. handled the upheaval of Quirk evolution overall? I’ll need to dig deeper into the Vigilantes manga. Great video!
I think the bad mouth on cops was a little uncalled for because they're good cops and bad cops and Trust Me growing up in Detroit cops have let me slide and some misdemeanors
You know how the rest of the 'bad apples' saying goes? It's 'bad apples spoil the bunch'. A couple of them are enough for the entire thing to become rotten.
It's pretty obvious as well that with the rise of quirks, people just stopped caring about mental illness. If you look at the league of villains, almost every single one of them has some sort of mental issue, the worst of which being Twice. But it appears that due to their quirks, no one really cares. This is also a big deal, as quirks have also been the cause for rising mental issues, as we can see with Twice and One For All, as Twice's quirk drove him into a state of constant insecurity, and possible split personality problems, all because of his quirk- or more importantly, how he has a lack of understanding of it. Schools like UA would be perfect for people with self-harming quirks, who would need to properly practice and learn their quirks to safely control them. But due to UA's outrageous entrance exam, many people with dangerous quirks that could potentially lead to horrible mental issues are simply ignored if they can't destroy enough robots. And from what we see the police do to people like One For All, they obviously don't offer mental help to villains with quirks that have made them the way they are. If they did, One For All would be receiving constant mental checkups, brain analysis, etc. to try to find out why he thinks this way, and how obviously his quirk has something to do with this thought process. But instead, he is kept under lock, gun, and key. Instead of looking at his psyche, and finding his superiority complex, and other mental issues, the only mental monitoring they do is just to make sure he doesn't activate his quirk. Honestly, this new world is really cruel towards people with mental illness, and honestly, it doesn't make sense why they are surprised why there are so many villains with mental illness.
Honestly really nice video and all it just your argument feels like a derailment to talk about U.S. politics instead of the class disperratity, questionable laws, and discrimantion based on phiscal appearances the show is subtly exploring. Plus MHA is set in Japan not the U.S. which means the author(who also lives in japan) will be using his cultural experiences and intrests(which does include American comics so there is a possibility for some bleed over) to build and develop his work.
A lot of people think that Deku might actually have a recessive or difficult to notice quark. Going with this idea, I think it wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility that Deku has a quark like "Inspiration". A passive quark that always subtly effects himself and those around him to be the best version of themselves. Its a common sort of ability in anime/manga, take Naruto for example who is often called out as being someone you just want to root for.
Well, tuition never came up when talking about the 3 Hero Academies mentioned in the 4th season so it could be government sponsored or, more likely, privately funded. The Principal mentions that he paid for alot of the new security measures implemented after All For Ones escape so it's not impossible to theorize that the schools in Japan has financial backers. Probably the Safty Committee puts alot of donations as well so they can study the students abilities, backgrounds, and personalities in hopes of recruiting new "Behind the scenes wetwork operatives like Hawks and Gunmaidan. In Amarica? Maybe? I got the impression that laws governing Quirks were internationally cornnated by the U.N. so Hero Academies mayalso fall under U.N. control too, and thus be privately funded. I have no proof or sources to back that up so IDK
How are vigilantes undocumented immigrants? I don't want to get into a fight, I just want an answer nothing more nothing less, I'm not trying to say this in any antagonistic tone.
@@UltraVioletKnight the government considers them criminals because they came here illegally. Is it wrong for the government to automatically call them criminals even if they have done no crimes, ABSOLOTELY!
@@xSchattenfluchx The difference here is pretty vital in that its judicial work. It's the same as saying "Oh this area needs cops, so vigilantes will do", which historically is a very bad idea. If it was to do with simple physical labour, then I'd agree, but physically fighting other people without the law on your side and having objective "power" over people (same way cops have power over civilians) without any sort of training is a very, very different matter. Honestly the more I think about this the more the idea that you can even relate vigilantes to illegal immigrants becomes even stupider, since there are MUCH better comparisons.
It’d be awesome to have a quirk…as long as it was a _good_ quirk.
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I think you could easily invert your argument on wealth and nepotism in MHA. Todoroki and Yao can reinforce it.
They seem to be the only ones that this really applies to. The rest of the class seems to be from middle class families or lower and you made a video on ppl whose quirks don’t really seem to warrant a place in the esteemed class.
It more telling that Todoroki & Yao still have to go thru school and not buy or influence themselves into a pro hero job. All might is told several times to set aside his feelings for Deku and be impartial. He should be the last person that could be criticized if the system were so nepotistic
Menuki 100% agreed my guy 👍
If you ever feel like reading a manga that focuses a bit more on this, unordinary(webtoon) def explores quirks/powers resulting in power/class.
crazygerman345 Don’t know if it was for me, but thanks for the suggestion. =)
Why did you have to make it so much about race and politics
And REALY IN A WORLD FOOL 9F FREAKS YOU THINK RACISM WOULD BE A THING?!?
There's a kid who is BLACK not like race but BLACK like void in the school ;-;
And the cops are post to deal with small time crimes
On top of that tbey talk about the real problem they like FLASHY and stong quarks more then boring looking ones example tesu tesu he has the Harding quark but didnt make it becuse turning into a spiky manster man is cooler
You should have also talked about how their society classify some quirks as being “more suitable for a villain “ eg; shinsou’s mind control quirk and how this can lead to great discrimination and potentially self conflict. It is rumoured that this is how a cheerful high schooler like Toga became a villain- because her quirk ( the ability to transform into someone by ingesting their blood ) was seen as villainous, and she eventually turned to the dark side because of this faulted society
No...toga's just quite literally fucked up in the head.
Ereaser Foot well there is a news reporter who cutt of one of his horns bc it disrupted with the electricity or something, however they said that he is known for hating quirks and discriminating them....
@@Barwcon23 the problem is we don't know why she's fucked in the head yet. She could easily be like twice. A dark and unfortunate accident which created a villain
Just like how in today’s society if you’re a tall black man with some physical capabilities you’re automatically assumed that you want to be a basketball player (or any other sport) rather than your other attributes like your intellect
Self forfilling profecy, stereotype one enough, mistreat them and they will dtart acting like that stereotype
When stain gave his speech about hero society, i can admit that the whole time i was nodding along, agreeing with him whole heartedly. He was just another case of good plan but bad execution.
"Things in this society are wrong, I must change the way things are. What should I do? Become a politician? Become active in the community? Nah, ill just stab people, that oughta do the trick."
@@2MeterLP heck yeah, sounds like a plan my guy
He must've lost a bet.
@@animationdude9 yeah, but now we got the league of villians. Which is essentially the mass shooting epidemic to Stain's Columbine.
To be fair his execution wasn’t bad. He set out to teach the hero’s that saving people only for money isn’t right and you should save them because that is what a hero does! And if it is your life on line instead of a random civilian then maybe you understand the same fear they feel. The same hopelessness that they endure simply because they can’t be hero’s. In his on way he brought the same feeling of needing a true hero to the hero’s as the civilians feel.
Unpopular opinion alert.
I think a big problem for the hero society is (or rather was) the presence of All Might. I know, I know, "But he's the #1 Hero, the "Symbol of Peace", how could he be/have been a problem? What about all the good he's done/did?"
Well, the thing is, All Might was just too good. He was too strong, he shined too bright. Everyone thought that he was unbeatable, invincible, that he would always be around to save the day. Those thoughts and feelings, even though they put the people at ease like All Might wanted, had an unforeseen side effect. It caused the people to become over reliant on a single person (himself) and caused the heroes to become complacent and didn't think to get stronger and further improve themselves. Season 3, Episode 7, after Bakugo is kidnapped, Midnight said "Besides, All Might put an end to most organized crime. We're all rusty." After that, Present Mic agreed by saying, "We've definitely gotten complacent during peaceful times without realizing it. I guess deep down, all of us thought we'd be riding the sweet life for good." This shows that, because of All Might's presence, heroes had been getting lazy and took things less seriously than they should have. When All Might retired, crime skyrocketed to new heights, the heroes are unable to deal with their new problems, and the public is in haywire, scrabbling to find a new "symbol" to rely on, to pin all their hopes on. The thing is what's needed is strong heroes who take their work seriously, not celebrity darlings, and not a "symbol of peace". Yes, All Might did an immeasurable amount of good, had a positive impact on the people around him, but on the flip side, he's actually hindered the current generation of heroes, just by being what he set out to become all those years ago: The Symbol of Peace.
Sorry for the huge comment and like i said, unpopular opinion alert. This video earned a like and subscriber.
I don't think that's so much of an unpopular opinion as it's confirmed in the text
Lex luthor has the same opinion about super man. Luckily Superman is like immortal so no retiring.
I wholeheartedly agree. This is something that I see a lot, not only within this fandom. Often, when we find heroes that we can depend on, we do so in excess. Instead of inspiring us to be like or better than them, they make us slack off, thinking that someone else will take care of it.
I recall in one episode of MHA ™ that a couple heard Deku training in an alley, but one of them pulled the other away, saying, "Let's not get involved."
This was a poignant moment, all humor aside.
Yeah to be honest, I like All Might as a hero and person, but the people were just too dependent on him. Not all of them are fans of All Might, so they'd rather have other heroes get recognition. I agree with your opinion, since I feel like they made All Might's presence the norm. Not everyone would appreciate a bulky and abnormally positive personality. It's why I personally like Nightwing more than Superman or Batman. He's not as muscular as these two famous pillars, but he does get the job done, and even is considered the most sexualized superhero.
I find that the problem would mostly fall on the other heroes than All Might, for not stepping up and trying to be like him. All Might wanted to be a symbol of Peace, someone for others to rally behind, but instead of them trying to stand side by side with him, they all just followed in his shadow, benefitting off of the momentary peace he brought. I can see with Izuku it will be different. Izuku has already made his class rally behind him, each of them striving to be like him. He inspires others to give their all. He's going to succeed where All Might failed. He will make all other heroes rise up with him.
To quote A Conversation with a Cryptid,
"And I wanted to live a normal life. But this is what happens when people are arrested for being born wrong instead of them doing wrong."
I was going to mention that fanfic, it literally hits all the same beats as this video and goes into SO MUCH FUCKING DEPTH I WANT TO WRITE A PAPER IN IT.
@@ninjaeris131 May I know what is the name of the fanfic? Sounds really interesting
@@carolinaalvarenga7032 Its called A Conversation with a Cryptid, by AHowlInTheNight! It's a part of a series and is fucking excellent! It's on AO3!
@@ninjaeris131 Eh. The first story is good, less so those after.
That reminds me *WAY* too much of Elfen Lied.
U.A. must be publicly funded or have a generous scholarship programs. Uraraka has mentioned multiple times how her family is quite poor and that one of her prime motivations for becoming a hero is to ease the financial burden on her family.
Also, on the issue of powerful quirks gathering near the top of society, while that's certainly a possibility, it has been mentioned in the manga that quirks have been getting more and more powerful each generation.
Another critique made by multiple times throughout the series is that heroes are often picky about who and how they save people. Twice only ended up as a villain because of the mental illness caused by his quirk, whereas hero society rejected him, the villains accept him for who he is.
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Gentle is also another example of villain who exist because he was entirely unfairly shunned by society. He messed up one time for trying to help someone with his quirk and was made a villain because of it. Rather than being condemned, Gentle should've had a bright future as a hero after a training.
Word From The North wanted to see if anyone thought the same thing.
I've noticed people from the USA have problems grasping the concept of good public schools. People asked JK Rowling the tuition of Hogwarts even though it's clearly free; I once saw a video speculation the cost of Orange High School from Dragon Ball assuming it must be private even though it looks exactly like any other public school in anime
Well regarding Uraraka I'd say yes a scholarship can help, I mean probably most of 1A can classify for a scholarship since they're supposed to be the best of the best, but also Uraraka's family being poorer than the others kind of makes sense if the school costs a lot, doesn't it? I mean yes once she gets her degree she can help ease that burden but it's normal for families and students to rack up debt WHILE they're studying...her going to UA might contribute to said financial trouble for now...
@@davidbodor1762 if Uraraka had an scholarship it would come up. Have you not watched anime set in private schools? It comes up, also by the way Bakugo and Deku live I don't think their families can afford private education. There's no reason to assume a good school in Japan must be private
@@MakiPcr Why would it have come up? Students don't generally talk about those in public a lot, and it's not crucial to the plot either...Bakugo and Midoriya are both in 1A THE prestige star class school and they're both in the top half of it too, they probs have a scholarship too, or student loans...you know, a lot of students have those...
And yeah it's not necessarilly private however in Japan, High School isn't mandatory, many are government funded BUT still cost a lot of money. I think this is addressed in the video when he mentions the cost of a school in Japan. But like also, in a lot of places around the world, just because a school isn't private, doesn't mean it's free.
I would be interested in reading/watching a version of My Hero Academia through through the perspective of America.
X-Men is about as close as we have and I think it's interesting to look at the differences there! Some of these points actually make more sense if you also consider that universe
Even though it takes place in Japan.
I know it takes place in Japan. My statement surrounded that all the examples given in the videos were American policies and problems. This video would have been more interesting if they looked into Japanese laws and policies.
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I was expecting to hear something about heroes not having a secret identity. Since the villains are so focused on class 1A, they should just go after they're families. Considering that every student, and pro hero's identity is known, it seems unbelievable that this issue hasn't come up more often.
@@10tailedbijuu But the Yakuza do go for their families. As in IRL Japan. So even in Japan criminals do go for their families.
@@vibunja3602 Not in this series, they don't.
@@1992holycrap Yes, because they aren't real villains or the dumbest villains ever known to mankind.
@@vibunja3602 Obviously.
Why don’t they just do this. If your in danger and there’s no one to help you, you are able to use your quirk. But if you’re not in danger and are using it then you would get in trouble.
I think that's a thing in mha, you were able to use your quirk in self defense
What if people have passive quirks or quirks that harm no one when used but are still beneficial. Should someone who can glow not illuminate themselves to navigate safer in the dark? we should make a distinction between weaponizable quirks and benign quirks and then make unique rules for each
And you should be able to use your Quirk to help helpless people. It's like Todoroki said, Native was paralysed by Stain's Quirk and could have easily been killed if Ida didn't arrive.
@@valkiria9473 Except for when the 1A studenta were going to be punished for defending themselves against Stain
I thought of that, it's kinda like the gun sistem it's for self defense.
One issue I'm surprised doesn't seem to exist in Hero Society (or at least hasn't hasn't been spotlighted yet) is body shaming. Quirks created a society with greater physical diversity where some people have pink or pitch black skin, some people have vines or sticky balls for hair, some look like humanoid animals, some people look like rock monsters and some the heads of animals.
At the point of the show, the first quirk baby was born multiple generations ago. I guess at some point people get used to the fact that some people just look really fucked up. Also I think racism is probably gone down in that universe, simply because its hard to justify hating black people for looking diffrent when your head is a cactus.
Though Im sure there are some forms of body shaming, as aforementioned cactus head probably would have difficulty in finding someone willing to kiss him.
Riesenfriese I mean, I’m not saying that a lot of people still didn’t get used to the fact that some people have more melanin in their skin, but a lot of people still didn’t get used to the fact that some people have more melanin in their skin.
@@cas2762 Yeah sorry, but body shaming due to having a mutation quirk isn't going to be much of a thing due to how people with quirks are treated in society.
The quirkless on the other hand...
@@DemonicMonkey88 yeah its later reaveled that in more rural areas mutants are treated harshly even beaten
For the whole thing about Hagakure using her quirk at all times, I think that is why the quirks are classified into three categories, Emitter, Mutant and Transformer.
Mutant type quirks would be Hagakure, Ojiro, Shoji, and others. They might be exempt from this law under technicality since their quirk is literally part of them. Though if Hagakure were able to not be invisible at will then her being invisible 24/7 could be considered against the law. Or that one guy in the Vigilantes manga who was literally a giant blob of slime. That’s his quirk and he can’t not use it. Ojiro’s tail and Shoji’s could just be considered another limb, if I had an extra functioning arm it would still be just that, my arm.
If you think of the law being interpreted this way then the law is prejudice against those who have Emitter and Transformation quirks.
I just love this show and how much it makes you think!
Diana Flores, Hagakure probably would get a violation if she did her inverted flash technique without cause, though.
Wait a minute how is that law prejudiced against emitter and transformation types?
It seems like the law would be prejudiced against Emitter and Transformation types, but realistically Mutant types are the ones most likely to get noticed by the police. Some mutants are more like mutant-hybrids, like Shouji with his ability to grow new limbs on the ends of his arms, and Hagakure’s ability to flash light through her invisible body, so the police could always claim that the Mutant type they arrested is actually a hybrid who was using their quirk at will.
Animation Dude because the more monstrous you look the more you look like a villain
Wait. So does that mean Bakugou is a villain and doesn't realize it?
Remember, he was openly using his quirk against Deku throughout their childhood, seriously hurting Deku simply because he hated that Deku didn't accept defeat and praise him for his quirk.
Pretty sure Deku's mum took him at least to the local Doctors multiple times for severe burns and other injuries caused solely by Bakugou and it wouldn't take a genius to figure out why Deku was getting injured.
Or was he always excused because he wasn't out of school yet?
@Jay Foli-Archer
Most likely
The laws are probably different on (especially younger) kids since they can't control their quirks well. Also they probably have some sort of age for criminal responsibility (I think in Japan it is 14)
@@cceru708 true, but Bakugou clearly had a good grasp on his quirk and Deku was definitely badly injured in the flashback where it ended with him lying on the ground, motionless.
And it's clear Bakugou never stopped as they got older. Hell, before they went to UA he shouldn't at least been put in juvenile detention for at least a small amount of time.
Sure, when he was a little kid he could get away with it, but middle school?
Hell no. But he wasn't. And the fact during his fight with Uraraka his thought wasn't "she's still conscious" but instead was "she's not dead yet" does not help in swaying my feelings towards that sweaty asshole
Autum Breeze the thing about Bakugo is that he was a big thing in a school full of basically nobodys. A fanfic I read put it down really well. It’s a lot like the “He has a future” argument used to protect rich white boys when they rape someone. No one stopped him because they didn’t want to ruin his shot at being a hero. Also, he was bullying someone who is basically a second class citizen, a complete nobody, lower in the quirk social hierarchy than Bakugo’s mum and her glycerin sweat. Why would anyone want to ruin the chances of a rising star with so much potential, just because of a second class citizen who is worse than nobody?
The teacher used his quirk to stop Deku talking to himself. The use of quirks is not as much of a problem as they make it out to be.
One of the reasons Stain is so terrifying is that he had a legitimate argument.
Cept he was still a murderer.
DemonicMonkey88 i... i mean, yeah.
We don't actually have any indication that UA is a private school, and even if it was it would be in the systems interest to put poor students with strong quirks through it for free or at least at a highly reduced cost to maximize the number of powerful heroes and minimize dangerous villains.
Other than that though the analysis is pretty solid.
Ochaco is poor, yet she studies there. Deku is pretty clearly lower middle class (or middle class). Just like Sato (complaining about sweets being expensive, pretty normal looking room) and almost every other person that isn't Momo, Todoroki, or Lida.
There is only one other school on a similar level to UA. UA is like Harvard of MHA Japan. And yet, none of the characters complain about the cost of the school. None of the parents do either. Single mother can afford to send her kid to Top 1 school in the country. Parents with a failing construction company (clearly very low on money for a long time, since Ururaka as a kid wanted to help her parents with her quirk).
that is true but the same could be said for college in real life
I've always been under the impression that UA was state funded
Um, I think you're forgetting where he assumed those with stronger quirks would become police officers even though it's illegal from them to use their quirks- even more so than ordinary citizens. I feel like there were some other things that could have used a bit better research or just... um... logic... or something. Point is there's at least a few more flaws than the one you mentioned.
@@plzletmebefrank has it been stated that pro heroes cant join the police. after I could all kinds of valid license and be on the police force.
I will admit, that thumbnail is pretty damn accurate.
Stain not only has a good ideal (though his morals on how to Express them have much to be desired), but Endeavour?
He has several times made it clear he wants to beat All Might and become the number 1 hero and uses his son to try and achieve that.
Now, does that actually sound like something a hero would do, use their child to further themselves with no care as to said child's own feelings on the matter?
Then there's the Nomu incident in Hosu City. He was only there because he was trying to get Totaroki to learn from him, but when a couple bystanders asked what he was doing there he said "because I'm a hero" as if he'd gone there solely to save everyone, when we know damn well that ain't the case. He only said that because he knew it would boast his image.
And that's even before getting into the physical and emotional damage he did to Totaroki's mother.
Yeah, All Might is indeed a hero and fully deserves the number 1 spot.
Endeavour, however, not only doesn't deserve to be the number 2 hero, he doesn't even have the right to call himself a hero at all.
I actually really like the idea of OFA and all might and deku's stories. They were both quirkless individuals who were given power yes, however that isn't to say they did not earn such power. Their ideals even as quirkless people were so much more heroic than many heroes and to even use OFA you need to train like crazy just to use a bit of its power correctly.
So while other heroes were born with extraordinary power all might and deku effectively earned theirs technically speaking.
Usually those who arent in the spotlight can see the flaws behind it
I understand the concept of a registry. That's honestly fairly reasonable. Like a gun or weapon registry but to make it equitable just have everyone sign up that had a quirk.
But the rules about usage are what definitely don't sit well with me. I love My Hero Academia but it is very concerning that civilians have no right to use their abilities in public, even if the situation calls for it. Say an emergency where an ability like Ochaco Urahara's could save lives by lifting debris. Or a mundane and harmless quirk like Mrs. Midoria's being used to catch something on reflex, maybe a fragile vase or something at a store. If either of these events happened in public, both would be labeled villains under the current system which makes NO SENSE. There are no guidelines for a scale of offense. There are no set categories of exceptions. It's a zero tolerance policy and we KNOW those are used disproportionately against minorities and the poor.
One big question I have regarding the world is what about people who are disabled and have quirks. What are their rights and social protections? Are they barred from becoming heroes outright because they're disabled? Are people with cognitive disabilities sequestered away from society for "safety"? Are disabled people allowed to use their quirk in public if it acts as a mobility or communication aid? Say a mute person utilizing an emoji generating quirk or a physically disabled person using prehensile hair for movement.
This system is far too binary for a modern world IMO. I get that in Japan disability is still somewhat taboo but in the USA disabled people are active members of society like everyone else.
I think a Combination of "A Certain Magical Index" and "My Hero Academia". In laws and Rules would work well. :) In Academy City which is in "A Certain Magical Index", they have 3 Police like Forces. 1) Droids and other automated Things. 2) Judgment: people acting as Heroes. people with Powers. 3) Anti-Skill. A Police Force that also Specialize in Counter measures and anti-Supernatural/SuperPowers/Magic/Monsters/Creatures. Also All schools evaluate Powers/Quirks and their Growth/Change, each year for all Students. Like a Fitness Or mental exam. And People can use their Powers when ever or any where. So long as they don't Break Established rules/laws while using them.. Like a no smoking sign would be a Rule. While Braking Property would be Braking the law.
That makes a lot of sense what you said. That's why I like Stain as a character, because he questions what it means to be a hero.
Not really, the quirk laws in MHA aren’t enforced the same way you think they are. In general because of how broad and how many quirks there are it’s impossible to completely regulate it. Quirks like “attraction of small things” wouldn’t be punished (unless used for a crime) because of how mundane it is, it really isn’t a crime to use your quirk if it doesn’t harm anyone else or cause potential harm to someone else.
There’s also another exception to the law in that using your quirk to protect yourself or other people in a crisis. (Similar to self defense laws)
And on the topic of someone using their quirk to help with a disability I don’t see how it would violate the law. If your blind and have a echolocation quirk it wouldn’t be noticeable enough to be called for. Or if someone is paralyzed from the waist down and can use a levitation quirk to get around it probably won’t be punished unless it becomes a safety hazard.
That's the point
Ivan Mejia welp, gentle got in trouble for saving a hero from falling down....
GUYS I HAVE A THEORY
WHAT IF YAOYOROZU’S FAMILY IS ONLY RICH BECAUSE ONE OF HER PARENTS USED THEIR QUIRK TO FORGE MONEY
THIS IS THE REAL TEAAAAA
Amirah Hanna ARREST THAT WOMAN
You won’t be labeled as a villain but depending on the severity of the crime, you will get jail time or labeled as a villain.
you can be framed as a bad guy too
So its only illegal to use your quirk for crime? crimes are already illegal. Or is stealing a watch using dekus moms quirk more illegal than just grabbing the watch to steal it?
Either the law forbids all public quirk use or its a redundant and pointless law. Thats like saying computers are illegal, but its ok if you arent a hacker.
@@2MeterLP I assume it would work a bit might hate crime statues
jared clemens yeah, that whole "hate crime" business is dumb too though. If someone kills his cheating wife, a crime clearly commited out of hate, thats not a hate crime, but if the random dude someone just robbed happened to look different thats a hate crime? Like how would you prove that someone hates other races?
Props for the actuallly great video-essay, I thought this channel would mostly stick to mainstream anime discourse.
Though a big part of this argument stands in the assumption that it would be a private school to handle Hero training, not accounting for the facts that there are other schools and that UA clearly followed a national standardized test, meaning it's even possible that it could be a free scholarship.
But yeah, Hero society is a gross place run by mutant horses.
Private schools have to follow national standardized tests, otherwise the education isnt oficially accepted and isnt worth anything.
To add to the profiling example, its not just the cops who do this, its everyone. Shinsou gets comments on the regular for his brainwashing quirk because it seems like a "villains quirk". He was born with it, its not like he has a choice. And no wonder people do this to people like Shinsou when there is a ranking for heroes who look most like villains. Its fucked up. Its mentioned time after time that people are judged for their quirks, which is probably why many villains end up as villains, because it was a preconceived ideal pressed upon them
Kind of sad when you think about it. Sometimes villainy isn't something created from greed, arrogance, or even choice. Sometimes we end up creating our own monsters without even realizing it
Nah, not really. We can see the motivation behind lots of villian in the series and most of it has to do with how heroes are in it for the money and not much to do with how society treats villians.
@@thebashfulturtle9987 It has to do with how hero society treats people and casts certain people aside because of prejudice
@@thebashfulturtle9987 in the upcoming season 4 arc, you'll meet villains who had quirks that were seen as villainous, and they work under their boss because he saw them as "humans" rather then villainous trash
+MyLittleGreenHairedMermaid
"And no wonder people do this to people like Shinsou when there is a ranking for heroes who look most like villains."
That's one of the things that always bugged me about MHA's pro heroes, the fact that the vast majority of them look more like villains than actual superheroes. For God's sake, one of 'em, "Fourth Kind" I believe, looks like a stereotypical mob boss!
How is it that the teenage newbies look more heroic than the actual professional adults?
Looking at the comments, yeah the money thing is a false assumption because Ochaco is apparently more poor than a family that just had their child go to the emergency room and payed all of the bills in one go. But otherwise it seems pretty legit. Also "you Might begin to think that Stain guy had a point." Well I believed he did before I even watched this because well.. ya know. Endeavor is a jerky son of a *bleeeeeeep*
Stain had some truth in what he said, and the characters recognise it too, but a) he was way too simplistic with his ideals and b) he took a really bad approach.
Ochako wants to be a hero to make money to support her poor family. In Stain’s eyes, this isn’t a noble enough motive and she should be dead.
Iida Tensei was a kind, compassionate hero, who had a lot of saves to show and mentored a bunch of sidekicks to help them grow into better heroes. Yet because he went into hero work out of family tradition, he’s deemed unworthy and is paralysed from the waist down.
On the All Might to Endeavor scale, most heroes fall somewhere in the middle, and those people who are in the middle don’t deserve to die. Yet in Stain’s world, if you’re not an All Might, you’re an Endeavor.
Ever heard of student loans? Or scholarships? She seems to be a top student of THE top class, I am fairly sure it's free for her to attend but not for a lot of other ppl.
@@cas2762 "Really bad approach" is a major understatement lol. I like stain a lot as a villain and he definitely has a point however killing pro heroes who don't fit his standards is pretty evil. Iida's brother, for example, was a genuine hero and as we saw in vigilantes was extremely kind and an efficient man. But stain took him down simply because he was focused on the business side of being a hero, but neglected the fact that he was a genuine person who did want to help others.
So does that mean dekus mom had to take out a loan to get deku into UA?, I doubt it, I think UA is a free school, it's just that stronger quirk families or rich families children get in on recommendation
Actually in Japan High School is not mandatory. Because of this high school costs money to attend but part of it is covered by the government so its cheaper than University. Private schools are also more rare in Japan. Though in Japan, in the stead of private schools, there are specialized high schools such as for Buisness, Agriculture and Heroing in MHA
I believe Dekus earned a scholarship of some kind, and then had to still pass certain tests in order to attend.
@@imkluu Everyone who attends high school in Japan has to do tests, that is unless they go to a private school that does middle and high school
socially inept spider-man I mean they do have a system to pick who is enrolled
I feel like if you pass the entrance exams are you get a scholarship but if you dont then you'll have to pay which will probally be way to much but still possible
When he mentioned the price of private school in Japan I literally thought, "wow that's awesome, so much more affordable than the US"
7:52 no wtf no . ochako is poor AF heroes are a government branch so school must be funded by government or taxes therefore its either cheap or free
@@Jtzkb it is probably only illegal using destructive quirks or quirks that could hassle others or in really crowded places, you see the crawler only getting a talking to by the strict cop and the crawler called him stiff afterwards this suggests that as long as your not inconveniencing people and the place your using your quirk is not bustling with people cops will over look some minor/convenient quirk usage.If anything the people with smaller less destructive quirks could get away with using there quirks more in public than lets say someone like Bakugo who literally could blow up and entire road.Quirk marriages are most likely extremely rare and shunned because lets have some faith in humanity and and only 3 of the 20 people in class 1 a come from a hero family thats 15 percent and if we look at bakugo we see his quirk is very different to each of his parents who have "unhero worthy quirks" and he is one of the best in 1a
Her family has a business. You can't be "poor af" and afford a business. Especially a unsuccessful one. Not for long. And she's going to UA. Not by recommendation. So her family's business can't be doing all that bad.
This business may not being doing bad persay, but they don't have extra money to be throwing around. They probably live pay check to pay check. Owning your own business is hard work, and a lot of the time, not profitable. She would have definitely needed financial aid to enroll in UA.
@@the_gratefulgamer breezie gets it
@@breeze5926 Also Ochako kind of answers his second point about it only beig illegal to use "destructive quirks" or only in a public space. Ochako could save her family money by making their construction matrials float, and I remember hearing that for the first time and thinking "Wait, why do you need a HERO licence to use your quirk for a construction job?" I thought the hero school was just for saving people. But nope, in this world you need to learn to be a hero to be allowed to use your quirk AT ALL.
I wish there was a storyline of a Quirkless young kid, who was also bullied for being so. But instead of crying and feeling sorry for himself, he got up trained in martial arts and essentially gaining a reputation of a BNHA version of Batman.
Let's see if anyone laugh at his face
I already loved the video and then he ends it with “legacy scholarships are affirmative action for the rich” THANK YOU I LOVE THIS
AYE A BNHA: VIGILANTES BASED EPISODE THIS IS AMAZING
it's our second time talking about it! we love it!
"mandating who can marry who would be morally sticky too", India is going to blow your mind my friend :D
This is pretty much the most in-depth and interesting analysis of the ethics of Hero Aca I've ever seen and I love it. I was expecting some awful Game Theory overthinking and speculation. Instead this video dives into the real prospects of paying and legislating people according to their genetics. Awesome stuff, GITR.
I always felt like Ilda (idk if I spelled it right) should’ve been the only one that got in trouble during the Stain incident because Todoroki and Midoriya were only trying to protect Ilda and themselves. We’re they supposed to sit there and watch as Stain was killing Ilda? Ilda fought Stain out of revenge while Todoroki and Midoriya did out of defense.
They should explore these vigilantes more in the show
I should animate this!!
That would be awesome!
good idea bro
Lemme know if you wanna start a collab on that
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If the school cost that much how did Ochaco Uraraka get it she’s poor remember
Student loans? Lots of people take it, but also - scholarships. She's supposed to be in class 1A the most prestigious star class in the school, I am sure most of that class has scholarships of some kind.
She probably let every other student applicant float away, never to be seen again.
She told Nezu that if he doesn't let her attend the school, she'll make him float off the face of the earth.
she’s not actually that poor i think she’s middle class
WHAT IF I TOLD YOU DEKU'S QUIRK IS ACTUALLY CHICK MAGNET
the worst thing is that kinda makes sense
I would believe you
I would've thought that his quirk was to shoot litres of water out of his eyes.
Actually if you wanted to combine the parent quirks properly, it's a hot (fire) people magnet
He can also emit countless amounts of tears.
you totally ignored uraraka.. also why did you equate this to the US?
Because quirks in this world are supposed to be on all the planet, and no, Uraraka can simply get in via scholarship or student loans...it's not a stretch at all. She is in the top class of the entire school, 1A and she's not a low scoring student either, so it seems plausible that she'd have a scholarship offered to her.
Those who got into UA based on recommendation did so because of their high aptitude, and the fact they scored very highly on a previous entrance test. In other words, it's like seeding in sports. Shoto & Momo just happened to be rich. As a matter of fact, besides those two, no one else who got in on recommendation were mentioned to be wealthy. Inasa Yoarashi also got into UA on recommendation but chose Shiketsu High School instead, and there is no mention of him being wealthy.
Legacy scholarships are affirmative action for the rich. Simply amazing. Keep up the great videos !
So affirmative actions is only immoral if it doesn’t benefit minorities or lower income?
You need to make more of these types of videos. There's so many questions and things to analyze about the world of My Hero Academia.
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For me, mutants have a different application for that law. It would be more like using your quirk effectively to achieve some goal in their case, and a good example would be Hagakure's Shining tecnique or Tsuyu using her tongue. They would have to make some use of their quirk that isn't the usual "quirk-using" that they do every day.
Hope that helps!
Hey! I'm working on a tabletop role-playing game for my friends based on the concepts and general ideas of MHA, and your videos helping explain things about the world and going into detail about how things are, really are helping me sort different details. Keep up the good work man!
Couldn’t momo just make her own cash
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.......yes.... but unlike USA where you can get out of a felony due to wealth Japan has a 99% conviction rate. As cool as that is is Momo did that and was caught she will go to jail
@@SpiralsAreAlive Not to mention she has explicitly stated that she shouldn't use her powers in a way that affects the economy. So legally she could straight up produce diamonds and gold to sell, she was raised and taught not to do that.
But she could and it would probably be legal as long as she didn't do it in public.
@@dogmatichermit7534 the black market is probably booming because of Momo's
Dogmatic Hermit yeah, that a real easy morality to have a a super rich kid. If Momo's family were struggling to put food on the table, Momo wouldnt give a damn about the economy.
How to start an inflation 101
Great analysis! Quirks really have a deep influence influence on MHA's world. I tried to make a self-insert OC one time and wanted him to mirror in details myself and life, but them i saw that i couldn't chose any quirk for him because the choices would impact directly on him, so i had to chose carefully
i KNEW i saw Yedoye in a commercial. damn who woulda think you'd also be getting into the robot
:D
I hadn't even realized that was him in that commercial.
The way you broke this down is very concise and supported by irrefutable evidence. I never thought about it this way. Thank you for opening my eyes.
That's a question that always nagged me about hero's. There is obvious corruption in most societies...so when they are fighting to preserve the norm, which is highly oppressive, why are they fight to save innocents from say magneto, but not the government that would also uphold oppressive standards? #idtotallyjointhebrotherhoodifiwereamutant
This video is absolute gold. Thank you so much for every single word and argument you've brought today. Its disturbing and so packed with truth.
One interesting thing I think the author could have done with my hero academia is show deku slowly get more mean and cynical and at the end he when he becomes the number one hero he tells a speech about how he will eventually die and everyone should not get to dependant on him and addresses all the things wrong with hero society like bullying people with weak, villainous,and no quirks
Damn it man I'm just trying have fun, brainlessly watching a cartoon. Now you make me feel all morally wrong and stuff.
Except when you think about it midorya and all might are kinda responses to the messed up system. They were quirkless and wouldn't have been given a chance otherwise and all they wanna do is make the world better for everyone.
I love Yedoye's personality so much! His sense of humor and honesty is lovely ♡
mans out here serving the tea and throwing the receipts at us.
Loved this! Totally awesome understanding on the shows dynamic
that luggage commercial has been EVERYWHERE in my subs. one video had it 4 times!
I once pulled up one of our vids to show a friend and had to hide my phone when my face came up in the ad before
UA isn't a private school, but even if it were, UA is FAR from the only hero school in japan. shiketsu, ketsubusu and a half-dozen others pop up, and there's even the unnamed public hero course gentle was trying to apply to in his backstory. hero courses are like post-secondary education, you could go to your local college, or you could go to harvard.
After watching a few videos from this channel, I gotta say I love the commentary filled with a balance of information and humor. Awesome videos, guys, keep it up! ☺💕
Sure the hero system has its flaws, but could you imagine the chaos if there was no system. Better to have trained heroes than a bunch of untrained vigilantes.
I hope that Horikoshi creates a character that was abused by his parents to become a hero, but that he had other goals in life.
For this we can say that his parents have practically useless kosei, but the kosei of his son turns out to be very powerful.
"We live in a police state" DAMN I smashed that like button so hard after Yedoye said that with a big sad smile on his face.
Edit: this video is EVERYTHING and you all should be very proud. "Eugenics. It's what's for horses." HOLY
Lol I love my job
Here is a way to kinda fix alot of problems in one shot: have a kind of license so you can use your quirk in public that anyone can get at a certain age, and of course the provisional license and the hero license so you can fight villains. Of course someone might say something about villain being technically legal, but there are other laws they would have to break to get the villain status. And vigilantes are still kind of illegal, but in the way that they cant fight villains. They would be able to use they're quirk to like save a cat from a tree, though.
You got a little of Boku no hero academia on your social comentary
Yeah, I thought this was a my hero video not liberal agenda
@@stevenporter7065 "America is a police state is often said by people that have never actually lived in a police state." And then they vote for people that want to criminal free speech, different options, the ability to defend yourself, etc..... I unsubbed. I don't need commentary this badly.
@@roysmith770 Well think about this, and I need you to hear me out on this one, *No one cares if you unsubbed*
@@BlizzWaveEdits You did. I'm touched by your concern and reply.
@@Xenos369 SJW's contaminate everything they touch.
As for the wealth disparity of UA, I think it’s probably more likened to be a magnet high school. It’s probably publicly funded and a major investment for the government considering that they were able to build dorms super quickly. It’s in the public’s interest to have a well funded hero academy too. So maybe there wouldn’t be tuition but there’s definitely a wealth disparity since some quirks could easily make money. Maybe there’s some sort of civil contract where you have to work as a hero after graduating
Yedoyes Voice and the music are so calming and relaxing love it!
You’d think the MHA world would have some type of group to basically serve as a way for people like Gentle (those who want to become heroes but end up flunking out of Hero School) to still help people. We’ve never heard of any type of Hero GED or anything, but I’m sure something like that would exist to avoid pushing Quirk users into villainy.
really wished y’all would have talked about Hawks. I mean the dude already has such an interesting backstory
This is actually pretty helpful,especially since I made two MHA OCs,one with a quirk similar to Present Mic's(only without the off switch),and the other is made of lava.In the case of the former,she was actually sent to jail because she used her quirk,all because a fight between a hero and a villain broke out,ended up in her school,she screamed and considering the damage,she was thrown in the slammer.With the other,his mother died in a cave related accident,and obviously no heroes were there to actually help,so...yeah.
Point is that the world of MHA has a lot of corruption involved...
Always in the mood for more Yedoye, love it
Yedoye Travis, you're my favorite host in "get in the robot". Cheers here from Brazil! Great job with this video!
This was surprisingly and unnecessarily political. Wow
This is quickly becoming my new favorite anime UA-cam channel
Can Toru see herself? If so, i wonder how she would describe how she looks. Also, how did her mom know where to put the shirt and stuff on Toru as a child? Unless Toru's mother is invisible too and they can see each other, but what about her father? Surely he didnt have invisibility so what was his quirk? Did Toru inherit another quirk and never realise it? Or does she only have her mothers quirk? Maybe her mother and father have a completely different quirk than Toru, but how would she have gotten invisibility? What if one of Torus parents can turn stuff invisible by touching them and accedentialy touched Toru bc she was quirkless and told her, her quirk was invisibility?
Just one thing: being born to a family with strong quirks doesn’t necessarily mean your quirk will be strong (look at Shouto’s siblings for example. Touya had a quirk incompatible with his body that might’ve been strong but physically harmed him every time he used it, and Natsuo and Fuyumi seem to have pretty weak quirks considering Endeavor never bothered training them the way he did Touya and Shouto), and on the flip side, you can get a strong quirk from two seemingly useless quirks (for example, the Bakugo family. Katsuki’s mother sweats glycerin, and his father has oxidising sweat. Two pretty useless quirks that created Kacchan’s absurdly powerful quirk). And that’s without covering the rare but possible quirk mutations.
Gotta be that civil rights activist even at UA, I'm all for it.
Please make more my hero academia videos, i know your channel is full of them but they're just so damn good!
What really bothers me is the lack of any "Stand Your Ground" law
I think with the public usage it probably depends on the quirk and the situation, like Mrs Midoriya using her quirk to pick up her keys that she dropped is maybe going to get her a telling off if a cop happens to be walking by, but nobody is going to be actually phoning the police on her. OTOH if Bakugo was rocketing down the street, he’ll probably be in a good bit of trouble due to the recklessness of his actions. Always on quirks would be treated kind of similarly, provided you aren’t a danger to others it’s not reasonable for any action to be taken.
I’m black and I went to a private school
Count your blessings, a lot of people aren't that fortunate.
About the Eugenics part; Todoroki was his parents’ fourth try. However, Bakugou’s parents hooked up for love and got a powerful child in their first try. And he shows another contrast since his parents’ quirks were low level.
But all of Endevwhore's chidlren was an attempt to suprass All Might. Shoto was just his magnum opus.
This is one of the best socio political deconstructions of an anime I've ever seen. Well researched and well written. 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽 ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
What's really interesting is that this topic is a theme in the meta liberation army arc
Yo that got dark real quick at the end lol
Imagine izuku was born with a quirk where he can control people with his mind, enhanced version of his mother’s quirk and then breathe fire at them? He could grab em and then cook the person
Bruh this opened my eyes on how willfully ignorant I was about this show changed my whole perspective 😂
At first I thought that the whole discussion was kind of cringey for an anime video, but once you got to the part ab the lower class not being able to show off their quirks bc it was illegal to use them outside of heroism. It all started to make sense.
I think you really nailed some big issues both in Hero society as well as American. Great video.
Your voice is so soothing, I love it!
Please do more videos like this, I love when your break anime down
In the show the explicitly say that the only restrictions on using your quirk in public is using it to directly harm someone without a permit. At least that's how it is where/when the show takes place.
Yeah, some only do it for money and fame. Like Uraraka she’s only doing for money for her family. And Bakugo wanna to be better then All Might. He doesn’t want to save people. He just wants to be the strongest. And Shoto I don’t know. He doesn’t seem like he’d want to a be hero hero. He doesn’t seem to like people. But Deku doesn’t care about the money. He wants to be like All Might sacar people. And be the best super hero or 1 hero.
If you know anything about Shoto. Like why he wants to be a hero tell me I wanna know.
What a great video! Really goes in depth and i never thought about some these topics in this way before. Very nice!
but...I was a cop...I love this show...and guns...and my brother is of a different race...why do I feel bad?
You shouldn't.
Dude don’t. He was making quick jokes and using laws of one nation and applying it to laws of a fiction Japan.
Also, for as bad as we call our own police look up police of other countries. The results are shocking for how little they care.
I was afraid of watching this video, but after watching it, the material helped me a LOT with a fanfic story that I’m developing. So, thank you!
I’m surprised you didn’t talk about individuals with “Meta” Quirk types, like Spinner, Tokoyami, Tsuyu, Mina Ashido, and Hagakure. Those people have Quirks that can’t be turned off. They’re an intrinsic part of who they are; they were (assumed) born that way, so their following super-strict Quirk laws would be extremely difficult. Tsu can’t stop being a frog. Hagakure can’t stop being invisible. And Spinner can’t stop looking like a Ninja Turtle reject (sorry!). Aside from Invisible Girl, Meta types can have additional quirks that can/do fall under the Quirk Use Laws (Mina’s acid and Tokoyami’s Dark Shadow), but for the others, there has to be some sort of Meta type carve-out in the HeroAca world that legally allows for their existence. (Even if “Hero Society” probably still discriminates against them.)
Also, Horikoshi-Sensei had once talked about an NPC that appears once or twice onscreen - he’s a news reporter, a guy with one large horn and one horn stump that we see sometimes in the newscasts. Apparently there’s still some Meta-type discrimination that happens in Hero society, so in order to make his audience comfortable, he cut off one of his horns. But apparently that made some people unhappy, especially some Meta-types. Lots of side commentary with that little story.
I’m assuming that Japanese Quirk Laws are more strict in different ways than U.S. Quirk Laws. And since this is set about 200 years into the future, after Hero Society (sort of) stabilized, I’m wondering how the U.S. handled the upheaval of Quirk evolution overall? I’ll need to dig deeper into the Vigilantes manga.
Great video!
I think the bad mouth on cops was a little uncalled for because they're good cops and bad cops and Trust Me growing up in Detroit cops have let me slide and some misdemeanors
He's just never left big cities
@@nickcampbell5626 I don't know what you mean I grew up in the city now live in the suburbs so I don't know what you're getting at?
Duh ur white
You know how the rest of the 'bad apples' saying goes? It's 'bad apples spoil the bunch'. A couple of them are enough for the entire thing to become rotten.
It's pretty obvious as well that with the rise of quirks, people just stopped caring about mental illness. If you look at the league of villains, almost every single one of them has some sort of mental issue, the worst of which being Twice. But it appears that due to their quirks, no one really cares. This is also a big deal, as quirks have also been the cause for rising mental issues, as we can see with Twice and One For All, as Twice's quirk drove him into a state of constant insecurity, and possible split personality problems, all because of his quirk- or more importantly, how he has a lack of understanding of it. Schools like UA would be perfect for people with self-harming quirks, who would need to properly practice and learn their quirks to safely control them. But due to UA's outrageous entrance exam, many people with dangerous quirks that could potentially lead to horrible mental issues are simply ignored if they can't destroy enough robots. And from what we see the police do to people like One For All, they obviously don't offer mental help to villains with quirks that have made them the way they are. If they did, One For All would be receiving constant mental checkups, brain analysis, etc. to try to find out why he thinks this way, and how obviously his quirk has something to do with this thought process. But instead, he is kept under lock, gun, and key. Instead of looking at his psyche, and finding his superiority complex, and other mental issues, the only mental monitoring they do is just to make sure he doesn't activate his quirk. Honestly, this new world is really cruel towards people with mental illness, and honestly, it doesn't make sense why they are surprised why there are so many villains with mental illness.
Honestly really nice video and all it just your argument feels like a derailment to talk about U.S. politics instead of the class disperratity, questionable laws, and discrimantion based on phiscal appearances the show is subtly exploring. Plus MHA is set in Japan not the U.S. which means the author(who also lives in japan) will be using his cultural experiences and intrests(which does include American comics so there is a possibility for some bleed over) to build and develop his work.
A lot of people think that Deku might actually have a recessive or difficult to notice quark. Going with this idea, I think it wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility that Deku has a quark like "Inspiration". A passive quark that always subtly effects himself and those around him to be the best version of themselves. Its a common sort of ability in anime/manga, take Naruto for example who is often called out as being someone you just want to root for.
love it, stories with flipsides always get me. There's a reason I write stories like this
In the movie, two heroes, a bunch of villains have guns and fight with those rather than their quirks
I don't like how he kept bringing real world politics in this
Well, tuition never came up when talking about the 3 Hero Academies mentioned in the 4th season so it could be government sponsored or, more likely, privately funded. The Principal mentions that he paid for alot of the new security measures implemented after All For Ones escape so it's not impossible to theorize that the schools in Japan has financial backers. Probably the Safty Committee puts alot of donations as well so they can study the students abilities, backgrounds, and personalities in hopes of recruiting new "Behind the scenes wetwork operatives like Hawks and Gunmaidan.
In Amarica? Maybe? I got the impression that laws governing Quirks were internationally cornnated by the U.N. so Hero Academies mayalso fall under U.N. control too, and thus be privately funded. I have no proof or sources to back that up so IDK
How are vigilantes undocumented immigrants? I don't want to get into a fight, I just want an answer nothing more nothing less, I'm not trying to say this in any antagonistic tone.
Because the government has arbitrarily declared them criminals despite them doing good work.
@@UltraVioletKnight Yep!
@@UltraVioletKnight the government considers them criminals because they came here illegally. Is it wrong for the government to automatically call them criminals even if they have done no crimes, ABSOLOTELY!
Can anyone find the manga with all chapters free on an online website? I can find BHA online, but not vigilantes.
@@xSchattenfluchx The difference here is pretty vital in that its judicial work. It's the same as saying "Oh this area needs cops, so vigilantes will do", which historically is a very bad idea.
If it was to do with simple physical labour, then I'd agree, but physically fighting other people without the law on your side and having objective "power" over people (same way cops have power over civilians) without any sort of training is a very, very different matter.
Honestly the more I think about this the more the idea that you can even relate vigilantes to illegal immigrants becomes even stupider, since there are MUCH better comparisons.
Suddenly joining all for one doesn't sound so bad.