That's the thing here. The show is wildly popular by a majority of the manga community, as well as, the "casual" crowd, but loathed by many anime "purists." We see it in daily in this community. It will be fun to see how it all plays out in that thread because it is such a lightning rod here already..
Pretentious? Nah..
I'm in it for the entertainment!
Kiritobread, what is this?
>:T
I can't be bothered with an true effortpost right now but here's a few points that immediately spring to mind.
- Pacing is bad. This one has been talked about a lot but to briefly summarise, the excessive flashbacks, fondness for repeating itself over and over, and tendency to draw out single manga panels into tedious stating the obvious is - while shonen cliche - rather irritating.
- Art is inconsistent and occasionally a mess. Environmental art is probably the worst offender here (characters often look like they're floating on the BG and never truly 'in' the location), but individual characters can look crappy at times, a lot of animation budget just doesn't seem to get put to use except in 'climactic scenes' and overall the art tends not to be able to have the same impact as a lot of the manga panels or, disregarding the manga comparisons, just doesn't have as much impact at all.
- Both leads, Deku and Bakugou, can be irritating to some viewers. Deku especially got hit by being hyped up too much imho by manga fans, but is kinda otherwise a fairly standard shonen hero (perhaps more on the cautious pragmatic side than bull-headed idiot); Bakugou on the other hand is unapologetically kinda a sociopath running this side of the good/evil divide, which can naturally piss people off.
- Most of the supporting cast wasn't introduced until about halfway through and had no real chance to shine until the beginning of the current arc.
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Bear in mind I like MHA a lot but this adaption has been middling with standout moments rather than what I truly hoped for. I'm hoping for more from S2.
the music and VA really elevate a lot of this series imho
I said many times before that me peronally, I would love to watch this if it weren't for the pacing of some of the episodes. I feel like it would be better preesnted if they showed more stuff instead of dragging things out. That's only one of a few issues I have.
The biggest issue I have is I can't stand both Deku and Bakgou right now. They both make me not want to watch this because like others have said, there's hardly any supporting cast getting fleshed out until way later. The only thing I ever liked about MHA was All Might, and that goes without saying. You can't fault All Might ever. I get what they're trying to do here with both of these characters, but they just feel so one-dimensional right now. First of all,
STOP CRYING!! It was fine showing his struggle in the beginning, but it just kept going and going and I just lost patience with him. Sometimes, I almost want someone to kick Deku in the Deku tree and then kick Bakugou down below and give him a concussion for being the worst heel ever shown, lol.
I almost feel like I want to skip the 1st season since this adaptation so far isn't really good in my eyes. I want it to do well, but I can't bring myself to like this with the way they did it. It's strange, I enjoyed the fuck out of OPM and dismissed the silly criticism of it, but here I find myself on the other side like, bro, come on, I'm a big hater now?
:T
