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My Hero Academia (Shonen Jump) move over pirates, ninjas, reapers, its Hero time
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There's something about Naruto art direction that I've come to truly loath.
It's hard to put my finger on, but I think it's how it tries to be as light on detail as possible. It's not bleach levels, but everything about that design. black suit, white blank armor, and indistinct vague ghost shapes... It's only worse compared to the vivid detail MHA puts in it's art.
Horikoshi is the hero we need.
It's hard to put my finger on, but I think it's how it tries to be as light on detail as possible. It's not bleach levels, but everything about that design. black suit, white blank armor, and indistinct vague ghost shapes... It's only worse compared to the vivid detail MHA puts in it's art.
Horikoshi is the hero we need.
FlowersisBritish
fleurs n'est pas britannique
Jesus you guys and your determination to not even give Naruto an inch. Did Kishimoto kill your dogs or something?
Side note: No joke, i know you guys like MHA to a bit of an extreme, but lets be real. It can never compare to the utter 10/10 masterpiece that is Bleach.
Side note: No joke, i know you guys like MHA to a bit of an extreme, but lets be real. It can never compare to the utter 10/10 masterpiece that is Bleach.
If by dogs, you mean Naruto the manga, yes, he did.
Horikoshi goes for distinctive designs, usually simple in design but drawn with a lot of detail, and relies on body language to convey character. (If you reread, check out how often people are gesturing with their hands. It's pretty cool.)
Naruto's art is detailed, but the detail is used for generic designs and generic poses, so it seems flat in comparison.
it reminds me of that Fullmetal Alchemist opening, where you see everybody from a high up view, but it's still obvious who's who. You could do that with My Hero Academia, but not Naruto.
Naruto's art is detailed, but the detail is used for generic designs and generic poses, so it seems flat in comparison.
it reminds me of that Fullmetal Alchemist opening, where you see everybody from a high up view, but it's still obvious who's who. You could do that with My Hero Academia, but not Naruto.
While this is all true, there is something distinctly....flat and unalive about that image.
I don't know. I'm a story guy, I don't really have the language to talk about images. But Naruto used to feel alive back in Part 1. I noticed how boxy and stiff the characters felt from part 2 on, and it's been a shift I haven't been able to get over.
Nah, Bleach isn't truly the worst, because at least you could laugh at it.
the worst manga is h2 because fuck i'm still angry
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like the snake guy just has two inverted V's stacked on each other for a pose
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I'd chalk that up to Kishimoto becoming shit with body language
like the snake guy just has two inverted V's stacked on each other for a pose
FlowersisBritish
fleurs n'est pas britannique
Bleach is a god damn master piece that never once failed to hit me on some kind of emotional level. And im not even talking about the soul society arc. Im talking about the time the stealth ninjas ultimate move was a nuke and she hated it. Im talking about the time a guys ultimate form was one of those birda that dips their head in water thanks to gravity. Im talking about that long multi month fight versus a giant hand MHA is good, but hand jobs hands are only normal sized hands and im more quality over quantity.
The ending of Bleach was something else. I don't think I've read something so insulting to the readers intelligence for so long. Naruto's ending was really bad as well but at least it had some sequences that were a long time coming and fun to finally see like Guy
finally popping the 8 gates.
Like, I can fully accept that Bleach and even other manga can be considered to be technically worse written. But I never really cared about Bleach that much. With Naruto, it was personal. Naruto was my gateway manga and one in which I fell in love with. In retrospect, even part 1 was flawed, sure, but in many ways it became the foundation for how I view stories. There is always going to be merit to that.
Watching Naruto slowly snowball into a worse and worse series was like watching a cancer eat it away from the inside. It was just fucking horrifying and hurtful. It is always going to be the worst for me.
Watching Naruto slowly snowball into a worse and worse series was like watching a cancer eat it away from the inside. It was just fucking horrifying and hurtful. It is always going to be the worst for me.
OniBarubary
Banned
I remember hanging out on /a/ back in the day when that shit happened.
Seeing people lose their fucking minds was probably my happiest memory of that place.
Imma be real, when I was younger I only read chapters with Halibel and then when they did her dirty during whatever arc I never touched it again.
I was in college, I have no pride yo.
You're giving me PTSD flashbacks.
We are not Bleach readers, we are Bleach survivors.
Dedication Through Light
Member
Fully expecting best boy kaminari in the top 10. Todoroki in the top 3. Kirishima also in the top 15 and best villain Shigaraki in the top 20.
FlowersisBritish
fleurs n'est pas britannique
Who is actually going to be new to the popularity polls? Any chance of a villain in them?
Toga.
OniBarubary
Banned
I mean, it's a Japanese popularity poll.
It's objectively garbage.
It's objectively garbage.
OniBarubary
Banned
Also objectively garbage, unless the characters I like are at the top, in which case it is objectively true.
GoldCrusader
Member
As long as Kirishima is in the top 10 I'll be happy. Voted for him in Viz's poll.
GoldCrusader
Member
Found some nice Fan arts and thought I would share.
Dedication Through Light
Member
In what place? Since everyone even the random bystander that yelled at midoriya will probably have received a vote. Shigaraki Tomurashould be top 20 at least.
Captain Rage Quit 69
Banned
I mean they don't even have to be characters, I'm pretty sure there's gonna be dudes who vote for shit like "the door to UA" and "Deku's shoes" again.
And then a vote for Katsura because why the fuck not.
And then a vote for Katsura because why the fuck not.
OniBarubary
Banned
To be fair, Deku's shoes are pretty sugoi
The thing about Bakugou's rivalry with Midoriya is that it largely seems onesided at this point.
Todoroki is by consensus the top of the class. Todoroki explicitly singled out Midoriya as his rival and Bakugou was pissed about being overlooked but who gives a shit? Todoroki gives so few fucks about Bakugou that he basically threw the final match of the sports festival after going all out (for the first time ever) on Midoriya.
No one even likes Bakugou. Kirishima is unique because he, like, tolerates him.
Todoroki is by consensus the top of the class. Todoroki explicitly singled out Midoriya as his rival and Bakugou was pissed about being overlooked but who gives a shit? Todoroki gives so few fucks about Bakugou that he basically threw the final match of the sports festival after going all out (for the first time ever) on Midoriya.
No one even likes Bakugou. Kirishima is unique because he, like, tolerates him.
That doesn't mean they have to like him!
But an interesting one, I think.
Frozenprince
Banned
Stain's design was that way for a reason. He's meant to evoke early 90's and Image comics.
Todd would love it.
Todd would love it.
That's a true sentiment of any well written story. The side characters are their own main characters.
A lot of designs and elements in MHA reflect various ages of comics.
Even the best stories get only one or two of those. Bakugou could not carry a narrative as a main character, for example.
Of a series that gets cancelled like one month in maybe.
Then again Ichigo was a thing that people liked? I guess? People have bad taste.
Of course he could. There is no such thing as a character who can't conceptually carry a narrative. There's only characters who the writing has failed.
Ichigo was a bad character because he had very little characterization. By the end of the series, he still had no overarching goal that he could chase, unlike most shonen protagonists. Bakugou has a very clear goal.
It'd be a darker series, if anything, since he has such a violent mindset and philosophy, but he's got all the narrative hallmarks of actual character.
The issue with Bleach was that as the manga went on, there was nothing going with Ichigo. He had no dreams or goals. Every action he did was reactive. That's a good trait for a hero don't get me wrong but there was nothing Ichigo aspired to. The beginning of Bleach up to the Soul Society arc was pretty damn good. Good art, great action and flow.
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