Topic: Anime & Manga (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

That is true, in the first season especially the show went really hard. It has just never gone that hard since, which is weird because you think the budgets would only grow season by season with how big MHA is, but I'd say there has been a pretty steady decline in quality. Even stuff like the final battle against Overhaul, visually amazing, but it went all like weird and abstract for that final showdown which I thought was spectacular, but it isn't the same as like some of the detailed, fluid, set pieces of earlier seasons. Like it just feels like they decided to get weird with it because it saved them having to do any intricate or complex animation and it is hard not feel like it is cheap looking, even if it is interesting.

Then it just feels like there is way more blandness in between. Like Deku versus Muscle, then just a mostly forgettable mush, then Deku versus Overhaul and then Endeavour versus Nomu and everything around it I basically do not remember at all.

And you are right, shows like Haikyuu!! (until the animation style change), Demon Slayer. Jujutsu Kaisen and Fire Force showed you could be a pretty generic shounen, but elevate yourself with artistic, stylish and well directed animation. MHA's visual language is much more akin to the more generic, older school of shounen anime products rather than the more experimental offerings of the more seasonal shounen offerings. It isn't bad, but definitely less interesting (to me).

My big issue for me is more that I've found MHA increasingly underwhelming from more of a writing/character/story basis as its gone on (and season 5 from what I've heard, is even more underwhelming!). Especially in season 4 where the entire goal of half the season was to save a sad child that we're supposed to care about because...child in danger. Instead of y'know, focusing on characters I care about at all or knowing how to make me care at all (which is a shame since I loved the ending of the arc, but it was not worth 11 episodes of underwhelming).

Yeah it is weird, MHA almost feels like it has no story. Like you have thread throughs of things, but so much of it just feels like these random events created through procedural generation. Like one of those robot scripts where you feed like a thousand hours of something into a generated and see what is spat back out again.

I also think MHA's pacing is just plain bad at times, like with the Eri thing, there are actually a bunch of major events through MHAs story that I would argue have almost no context for the audience whatsoever. They may have consequences for the world of MHA or the characters in that scene, but no emotional bridge has been built to the audience themselves for them to really care.

Part of that might be due to the fact that there are so many damn characters, but I feel like there are other shounen shows with big casts that just manage those casts much better. Maybe some of that is nostalgia, I dunno.

Hey everyone, I've had this scene from a show that I cannot for the life of me find online so I was hoping you could help me: what's the anime where in one of the beginning scenes, a girl gets hit by a truck and dies? I'm pretty sure it's an isekai but I don't want to look up 'girl dies to a truck anime' for obvious reasons (I've been got once before, I'm not letting it happen again. Curse you jump!). Thanks for the help!

@Fizza Tentacle love is a very well established anime trope, along with underage girl bewbs and causing children to have seizures. If you want to be a real anime fan then you better get used to tentacle romance as the other anime fans wont respect you!

In any case you're probably thinking of "Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life".

I am still going through Revengers. I am now at a point in the show where it is focusing more on action and this is very much more my tastes than all the other parts of this show. Like I know the point of this show isn't slightly larger than life teenagers fighting in gangs, but this is by far the most interesting part for me. I've looked around for other shows that focus just on this aspect and it seems like nothing else really exists. I have read the Crows manga, along with OUT and the Crows sequel or prequel (I can't remember) when I was a lot younger.

I finished Idaten too as it was only short. Again, along with all the rape in this show it also throws in some casual paedophilia towards the end. It is extremely rough and I genuinely have no idea how this aired. You could argue it isn't gratuitous, but it is far more than just implied subtext and yeah, real nasty. Had I known the show was going to take this turn, I wouldn't have ever finished it and probably should have known better when the gratuitous rape scene happened at the end of the first episode. Spoiler tags for censorship purposes.

With that vile sack of bilge out of the way, I went back to try and finish the more wholesome fanservice of Harukana Receive, with it's surprisingly beautiful animation and surprising abundance of heart, for something that could have just been a shallow collection of shots of cute girls in bikinis. It ain't no Haikyuu!!, but I feel like I'll probably be chasing those highs for the rest of my life and I feel like if I need to make do, you can do way worse than this show.

@jump These names feel like they're chosen out of a hat.

@Fizza It having a stupid name just proves it's an anime, still it's not as bad as "The Legend of the Legendary Heroes", "Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon", "And You Thought There Is Never A Girl Online" or "I Want You To Make a Disgusted Face and Show Me Your Underwear".

Tell me again why I have to take anime seriously? ;p

@DomGC Literally, I've only seen it from memes but it's just always stuck in my mind ever since. I think they come back as a zombie? Not 100% sure though.

@jump 'I've actually heard of that second one you mentioned there, I've seen snippets of it here and there and it is.... interesting. Just... interesting.

@jump That actually looks interesting, I'll see if I can give that a watch at some point.

Although, as I was watching it, I actually remembered what show I was thinking of. It was this one called 'Zombieland Saga', this was the clip I was thinking of:

@Fizza Sounds like Zombie land saga. If thats not it you can just look up truck kun because that thing has killed so many people on the road (I'm not joking, you might find what your looking for if you look up truck kun)

@Snatcher IT HAS A NICKNAME?!

I'm not going to give a final thought on MHA till the manga ends, but if I could say one thing.

Its that, this last arc is, a little all over the place? like idk maybe its just me, but it just doesn't feel like it can stay in one spot for to long before it starts moving again, not to mention I didn't like how they showed a bunch of cool one off characters, and kinda didn't do anything with them?

But its a manga and for all I know it can take a Left turn just like that. so till its finished, I will not judge. My score of the manga (And the anime) thus far is a good 7/10, arc wise, as a whole the show is a easy 9 in the early seasons I think.

@Fizza Yes it does my friend, yes it does. In fact my reaction was the same as yours when I found out LOL.

Though it does make Zombieland Saga more novel now that I think about. In that the girl was not sent to another world.

I'm dying to know if there's going to be a season 3 to Zombieland Saga, since it ends with one of the most thoroughly bizarre twists I've ever seen.

I want to watch this show now. I've seen clips, and there's one dude who feels like he's from an abridged version of the show, when he's not at all abridged. It's amazing.

considering what day that episode aired, it might've been entirely a joke that will never be referenced again. Which tbh would make the joke funnier.

@kkslider5552000 I'm half expecting that myself, considering it came out of absolutely nowhere.

Season 2 was weird anyway, though, considering it layered on so much complex lore to the story.