Blackleg-sanji1
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O todoroki is the best. Wonder if he'll use his other side
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My Hero Academia S2 |OT| This is Going to Stain my Hero Record. No Manga Spoilers!!!
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Deku takes awhile to get there but its worth the wait.
Dedication Through Light
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The fight seemed much more exciting in the manga, here it felt lifeless and too repetitive. Its also difficult to even want to cheer Ochako on since shes just in it for money. Bakugou, Todoroki, and others have so much more their fighter for thats not money which made me cheer even 200% more for Bakugou.
Also KamiBaku continuing to be signaled canon by the animators, notice how Bakugou always sits beside Kaminari. I love it.
Anime also makes Endeavor really good, though maybe its a lot to do with the eng voice for him. Still fire is amazing, and I like his faith in HIS Shouto.
Also KamiBaku continuing to be signaled canon by the animators, notice how Bakugou always sits beside Kaminari. I love it.
Anime also makes Endeavor really good, though maybe its a lot to do with the eng voice for him. Still fire is amazing, and I like his faith in HIS Shouto.
Chezzymann
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Kinda disappointed the whole season seems to be this tournament. I was hoping the plot would pick up a bit more. Would be cool to see them go through the years of school a bit faster and then see them all become pro heroes or something a couple seasons from now but they're still on year one
It's called My Hero Academia lol
Chezzymann
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Halo still has games even though they don't revolve around halos anymore (although that may be a bad example lol)
I dunno deku could still be a part time teacher there or something after becoming a pro hero
Blackleg-sanji1
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If it's the story of how he became the worlds greatest hero they won't be in school forever so I wouldn't worry too much that's a ways off tho most likely
lvl99 Pixel
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explosion kid might be the most obnoxious character in a shounen anime in a long time
like hes legitimately making it a chore to watch at times
like hes legitimately making it a chore to watch at times
#ExplosionKidDidNothingWrong
GoldCrusader
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#ExplosionKidIsTheBest
lvl99 Pixel
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there was also zero tension because hes a rival, and shes a girl in a shounen
gee I wonder who will win this
fuck explosion kid
Omega Kirby
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Raven boy is still the best
Aaronrules380
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Pretty sure we're getting a 25 episode season this time
Chezzymann
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Oh really? Sweet!
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
#truth
Chezzymann
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I gotta say I feel bad for the people with deformed quirks like the concrete guy and raven dude. They probably get bullied and have a hard time finding a girlfriend unless they get lucky and find someone into weird shit
well tournie arc semispoilers
deku's the protag so i guess no point watching the next match then
Omega Kirby
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Blackleg-sanji1
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Who can't use his powers I'd be absolutely more surprised if he actually wins.
Like seriously at some point I hope he can use one for all consistently like even 20% of his power or something
To be fair, his quirk is extremely versatile compared to basically everyone else in the tourney. Whereas hers... not so much. But at the same time, she just needed that one touch to disqualify him, so you already knew it wasn't gonna happen.
Regardless, you're not wrong for relying on tropes/cliches to determine who'd win this, but one of the reasons I liked this fight is that they let them fight to begin with. In these type of series, girls often manage to somehow end up fighting the few girl(s) on the other side, so I like seeing battles where the opposite gender fights. And while that in itself isn't (Or shouldn't be) really noteworthy, I appreciate that they subvert the whole shtick where the guy goes easy against the girl because of some misplaced code of chivalry. And it wasn't some pathetic fight either that does a disservice to her as a character, which I thought it would be considering how limited her powers are here.
She did good. The fight felt a bit more epic in the manga though, but then again, it's my 2nd time seeing it, so yea.
lvl99 Pixel
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protagonists sometimes lose so they can come back stronger ie. goku, naruto, luffy etc
but since thats a spoiler tag im guessing he just wins
Did exactly as expected. Dont really care that shes in that trope, but I was told MHA was a bit more subversive/unique so kind of want at least some kind of upset.
i mean when you consider that ura doesn't have an offensive power at all it's kind of amazing she managed to make bakugo basically play defence for the entire match
why wouldn't it be the same for rivals tho
MHA does do cliches, but it's not rooted to them i think
why wouldn't it be the same for rivals tho
MHA does do cliches, but it's not rooted to them i think
uraka would have tried to shove him out of bounds after that and hope that baku didn't have any practice at maneuvering in zero-g
lvl99 Pixel
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hes already used it to fly around, im not sure what they were implying with the strategy at all.
sounds like it might even be beneficial.
Blackleg-sanji1
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Realistically what is deku supposed to do here? Dodge the entire time while trying to get a punch in? Or do the finger flick thing which he now has what 8 fingers left?
baku's not used to weightlessness. he can propel himself but he probably has rarely or never done it while in zero-g, so ura was probably banking that he would blast himself out of bounds.
speaking of out of bounds it's pretty funny how the size of the square tends to vary based on drama lol. baku's massive explosion didn't punt ura out of bounds, but tori was able to toss momo out in like three strikes
btw, it just occured to me this tournament format must really suck if your opponent can fly
speaking of out of bounds it's pretty funny how the size of the square tends to vary based on drama lol. baku's massive explosion didn't punt ura out of bounds, but tori was able to toss momo out in like three strikes
btw, it just occured to me this tournament format must really suck if your opponent can fly
He'll do stuff.
I shouldn't have said she'd beat him with just one touch, had to refresh my memory. But if she can disrupt his balance with her powers, it would have given more options at the very least. Hell, with how destructive his quirk is, maybe he'd be dumb enough to "missile" his way out of bounds lol
Ah ya beat me to it lol
Blackleg-sanji1
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I'll have faith in you lotus
lvl99 Pixel
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thats why pre-everyoneissuperman Dragonball was interesting and flying using energy beams to rocket jump back to the arena was cool.
GoldCrusader
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No one can fly tho no? I mean Bakugo can propel himself, but he doesn't fly. Remember the cavalry battle when he went after Deku in the sky. If Sero did not catch him when he fell he was going to hit the ground.
He found a work around for mind control.
Was able to beat Bakugo in S1 since he read him like a book. Might not be viable option in a straight fight opposed to an objective based goal. Also that fight left him crippled which he can't do here since it's not even the final round lol.
They have recovery girl for that to be fair tough he has to limit it
Poodlestrike
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Uraraka's nowhere NEAR most token Shonen girls. Even with this loss. Just having like... an actual motivation not centered around the protag puts her ahead of most of the pack, and losing to one of the two strongest people in the class isn't a serious knock. Especially considering how close she came to seriously fucking him up.
You'd also have to kind of undermine part of what makes Bakugou a unique rival to give her the win- he's a fairly despicable person, but he's very nearly as good as he thinks he is regardless. Usually, early characters with his level of dickery get taken out by the protag in like the very very very opening chapters as a showing of initial growth. I get not liking him (again, terrible human being), but he's a subversion in his own right as well.
He can totally fly, just... not very well
Yup, might not being saying much, but for me this episode/chapter made her permanently better than say, Sakura from Naruto.
Ah true. He had a scene either her right after the Shinzo fight. He had a bandage on his still so I forgot and thought it was still messed up lol
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
That's a low bar she was already better
Once deku loses(he's totally losing my boy not losing to this chump) all might plz train the boy some more give me 10% 50% something I'll take 2% of full control
Yeah that's true. It's not like she had any other options anyway. But since the show puts quite a bit of emphasis on just how good Bakugo's instincts are I'm not sure even that would have been enough.
yeah but it's within a quirk's ability to fly surely. although actually we haven't seen many if any fliers huh? I don't recall any off the top of my head.
Even all might is a traditional superman (leaps tall buildings in a single bound)
Sakura had potential but that beautiful sharingans doe
Dedication Through Light
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What? He just gave Ochako one of the best fights and a chance. He wasnt even yelling and screaming or anything this episode.
Bakugou is simply misunderstood and well meaning and respectable. He puts friends first. Hes not a meanie.