So good to see them repair this show. The world is kind of cool now, excited for Christmas Party.
Poor Bones with this shitty mangaka. This show got popular on its concept and character design and has fallen so flat executing it. Plus the original director left for the movies...if what I've read is true. It's good to see them get it back on track.
Seriously, how do you not characterize Todoroki? Like, I get that they're still sort of kids, but he's SO 2-dimensional. And Bakugo looks like he wants to hate fuck Midoriya. Poor Midoriya, he's going to take it and like it.
And I'm not talking about back stories, like Todo is still immensely generic. Who is he? What does he like? What are the details of his power? Been waiting since S2 for that to be explained. We don't know much about Bakugo's power, and he's still just the angry guy. And Midoriya is nice and mutters. Man, in S1, Midoriya DESERVES One-for-All, but by now you're kind of like, shit, give it to somebody else, I don't think he's ready.
And all-might is still lame. And the teachers haven't changed.
Y'know, you think, what is the difference between MHA's characters stagnating like this and something like Naruto? I feel like Kakashi is a person. Even Sasuke grows. Sakura grows. These characters haven't changed since S1.
As good a job as Bones could do, IMO, but man are we behind the eight ball in moving this story forward or developing this world. I've never seen a shounen jump series with so much potential implode like this. Imagine if the characters could just clash with each other and become their own people? Still at arms length, even with Tsuyu. Tsuyu is why I even started watching this show and I don't know anything about her.
And the mangaka is confused, backstory isn't characterization. Make them into people. Somehow this person can't do that. Kakashi feels like a guy you'd meet at a bus station and he'd give you directions, and you would remember everything about his mannerisms and what kind of guy he was, even without his Rin-filled backstory later.
Who is Mina Ashido, the pink haired girl? Anyone? She's just a generic plain-Jane hotty. If you met her at a bus station, would you remember her? Nope, you wouldn't. You would remember her body, but not what kind of person she was. And this lack of characterization is what kills the stakes in this story. We float along and nothing will ever change.
And what differentiates Mina from Uraraka (floaty girl, Midoriya's side piece)? They're the same damn person, they're all the same damn person.
Give me one character in this that isn't just...a nice person. All these characters melt together into one big blob.
I guess some people can write a story that sticks in your mind with characters you remember, and others can't. It's those little details that make a character come alive and seem like a real person. Naruto was a nice guy, but he had a past, he was incorrigible, he hid his pain with hijinks, he had sexy clone-jutsu, everyone knew Naruto, that he was sad but hopeful.
Midoriya writes notes. That's what he does, lots of notes. And his new-dad All-Might tells him off. That's about it.
Kids will like the colorful character design. But this story should've been much better. You could write whole chapters on any of these characters, but we never see it.
Eri is cute though and actually feels alive and warm here, so that's cool. What was her power again? Uh-oh. For such a big deal that took away a guy's power, these characters sure have sunk into the background. XD
I don't exist to poke holes in this series, I'm just frustrated at this mangaka. A real author could step in and do so much with this, there's so much ammo here. It's like he stares at his dick and doesn't know how to use it. God, it's so frustrating! S5 and it's still misshapen clay. I mean I'll keep watching for waifus and action and hoping it turns into something but gaaaaaaaawd. |