Boku no Hero Academia 3rd Season Episode 1 Discussion

Glenfinnan said:
I don't mind recaps or fillers. I can even forgive that they opted to kick off a season with one.

But what I can't bear is that they decided to go the blatant, unnecessary fanservice way (seriously, a pool episode? and in the FIRST episode? couldn't that be more obvious??). I thought BnHA could be a show free of these stupid decisions, guess I was wrong. Another good show ruined by this.

Also as said before the op and ed were pretty meh.

Glenfinnan said:
I don't mind recaps or fillers. I can even forgive that they opted to kick off a season with one.

But what I can't bear is that they decided to go the blatant, unnecessary fanservice way (seriously, a pool episode? and in the FIRST episode? couldn't that be more obvious??). I thought BnHA could be a show free of these stupid decisions, guess I was wrong. Another good show ruined by this.

Also as said before the op and ed were pretty meh.

Old_School_Akira said:

Well the original creator (the mangaka) draws the girls in skippy outfits all the time.

Daniel_Naumov said:

In this recap there were retrospectives and insights into the state of characters, which is by no means, anyhow "useless", like some seem co claim.

HyperL said:
Wow. The filler hate boner is strong as ever I see.

Siince before the Naruto days people were slowly brainwashed with the idea of [filler = ALWAYS bad], and the results are devastating.

EyeOpeningArc said:


It's not that filler is in itself bad. When there is no reason for it and nothing happens (and it's also mixed in with redundant recap) is when there's a problem. Especially for a first episode. Why would I want to keep watching after this?

HyperL said:


"When there is no reason for it and nothing happens". You just described what a filler is. Does every chapter need to progress the plot? This episode was fun and also a good way for the viewers to "recalibrate" after staying a whole year without BNHA.

"redundant recap". It's not like this show was made just for us watching the seasons back to back and remembering every detail of the story.

"Especially for a first episode". I don't get this. If there's any episode where a recap WOULD be welcomed, it's the first episode of a whole new season, you know, where it actually makes sense to do it. Any other episode and I would be complaining too.

"Why would I want to keep watching after this?". Because you like (I assume) the series as a whole and a single recap episode wont't do anything to it? Way to blow things out of proportion.

EyeOpeningArc said:


The second season had an episode 0 recap and that was great. Recap if you need it, if you don't you can skip it. Why not do that again?

Also things can happen in a filler episode. Getting to know characters and their relationships. There is none of that in this episode. Here, we see electric guy and mineta(?) go to deku's house and ask if he wants to go to the pool. Then we see them asking if they can use the pool. Then we see them talking about going to the pool. Then they go to the pool. It's boring and redundant. We could have just seen them ask deku to come to the pool, then see them at the pool, nothing would have been lost. They mention I think after getting permission that they might not have gotten it if Deku wasn't there, then they say the same exact thing at the pool. Redundant. It's just a bad version of a pool episode combined with a recap episode.

The point of a first episode is to hook people. This was the complete opposite of that. Watching boring filler and endless exposition scenes (explaining the quirks) will not hook me. It's been 6(?) months since season 2 ended and instead of an episode to get us excited for the new season we get this. It's a huge let-down.

Old_School_Akira said:


1. The 1st episode of FMA Brotherhood was all filler, had a filler bad guy and is #1 on MAL yet nobody cared.

2.And this is not episode 1 it's episode 39 on crunchyroll

3. it was announced before the season started that is would be anime original content. You could have skipped the episode just as someone would skip a naruto filler.

EyeOpeningArc said:


Yes, everyone uses crunchyroll. Crunchyroll is god. It's not like it's been 6 months since the last episode. It's not like it's labeled season 3 everywhere. Also, I haven't seen brotherhood and am not making any judgments on its quality.

Old_School_Akira said:

It says episode 39 on the anime's official website too.
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KotuMF said:
I found the inconsistency of Aizawa's power to be really dumb since he can only erase one quirk at a time, yet he was able to do it on all three at once.

Linkmstr said:

It's not hard for him to look at them one by one in quick succession to immediately erase their quirks. We see all three already using/readying their quirks, so when they jumped, Aizawa most likely easily just looked at all three of them in quick succession and so the three fell into the pool.

EyeOpeningArc said:


The second season had an episode 0 recap and that was great. Recap if you need it, if you don't you can skip it. Why not do that again?

Also things can happen in a filler episode. Getting to know characters and their relationships. There is none of that in this episode. Here, we see electric guy and mineta(?) go to deku's house and ask if he wants to go to the pool. Then we see them asking if they can use the pool. Then we see them talking about going to the pool. Then they go to the pool. It's boring and redundant. We could have just seen them ask deku to come to the pool, then see them at the pool, nothing would have been lost. They mention I think after getting permission that they might not have gotten it if Deku wasn't there, then they say the same exact thing at the pool. Redundant. It's just a bad version of a pool episode combined with a recap episode.

The point of a first episode is to hook people. This was the complete opposite of that. Watching boring filler and endless exposition scenes (explaining the quirks) will not hook me. It's been 6(?) months since season 2 ended and instead of an episode to get us excited for the new season we get this. It's a huge let-down.

Daniel_Naumov said:

Wrong, pretentious lies. This episode elaborated on the current state of main kids after all the events, and how they solidified their beliefs in becoming true heroes, together. It is an insight on their character. No idea how can a not-blind person miss it. Or, if blind, Japanese understanding can not miss it either. In theory. Locals are known for violating them all the times, of course.
The episode also prepared the ground for action from the get-go next episode, as well as foreshadowed (more like threw into the face) the possible traitor/mole between the Academy's higher-ups. It was not, anyhow, a mere recap. Statements of yours defy the reality of the context.
As I keep saying, in futility: Critique is fine, constructive critique is welcome, but there is that thin line when it starts to be obvious you just want to hate on the series, because there is something wrong with you, not the series.

Daniel_Naumov said:

Completely wrong. He can erase all quirks he sees in his field of view, meaning if you are behind him you are in a safe-zone. Exactly what happened during the Academy assault in the first season - he erased all the quirks of villains he saw, before getting ambushed. That is not inconsistency, that is lack of knowledge.

Linkmstr said:

No, he can't erase multiple quirks he sees in one go within his field of vision. He has to look at one target to erase their quirk. If his quirk was that powerful to erase multiple quirks in one go, then it wouldn't be as troublesome to use. He also uses goggles so that if he's fighting against a group of villains, he can hide his eyes from them so the group can't work together very well as they don't know who he'll be erasing their quirks or when he'll blink. Remember, he's a very skilled pro hero who knows his own weaknesses and tries to do everything he can while working around them.

When he erases a quirk, obviously the target would feel something wrong and so they would get confused and leave a slight opening because of it. With that opening, Aizawa can easily look at other villains and erase a few more quirks before beating the ones who he erased their quirks earlier in quick succession because of their confusion and opening they made. That's exactly what Aizawa did on Todoroki, Bakugou, and Midoriya. He can easily just look at the three of them one by one in quick succession, causing all three to get confused from their quirks not activating and fall into the water after jumping while almost looking like they all got the quirks erased at the exact same time.