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EP. REVIEW: My Hero Academia Season 7

zaenzcampbaesa1 wrote:

malvarez1 wrote: zaenzcampbaesa1 wrote: The level of bias of the reviewers on this website is something else. Last year these "journalists" tore apart JJK season 2, Bleach TYBW and Demon Slayer for every minimal thing they could, but this reviewer praises this fight of a character that not only is introduced to be killed in the same fight, but that actually has 0 repercutions later in the story. This woman was used as a plot device only to pseudo-nerf the villain, she lasted 2 episodes, didn't even meet the main cast, introduces an overpowerded ability which had to be taken from the story immediately with a really poor excuse. Ah but of course, My Hero Academia has favoritism on this website and is not measured with the same pole as other similar shonen series. The massive narrative problems can be overlooked in this series because the reviewer and the other crew members like it best. This only works if all these reviews were written by the same person. You'd think that these reviews here would be somewhat objective in nature and not just some opinions by regular fans of anime who overlook or exagerate problems in a show's narrative depending on how much they like said shows. These are supposedly to be professional review posts.

Hero Academia is not PLUTO nor Berserk nor HXH.

BUT, arguing its issues are in the same level of JJK S2, Bleach or KnY its not an objective view.

I can write a book about how not to phase a series with KnY, another one with how not to deal with a cast with JJK and another one on how not to write....whatever with Bleach.

That being said, objectivity doesn't exist, everybody its biased one way or another.

I can write a PHD thesis on how bad are the issues in My Hero Acadmia, how much it wastes its build up, how the author ruins every bit of tension he tries to create, how most of the main cast is completely wasted and how much worse its the payoff compared to all of these series which all have issues but only Kimetsu no Yaiba has such bad writting problems as My Hero Academia has.

However the minimum is that these people who are bieng paid to write these "reviews" measure series with the same pole, if not, anyone would be paid to listen how much they like their favorite series and how much they dislike others with little fairness.

This here is completely ridiculous, this fight is objectively badly put in the storyline since it can be taken out of it with little issue. Same harsh criticism of the Shibuya Incident reviews or the TYBW Bleach reviews should be applied here.

At a different point in the story, Aoyama's betrayal might have been met with anger but by now, Deku and the rest of the cast only have sympathy for their classmate

It wasn't a BAD reason, per say, but when you think about how long it took us to reach this reveal, I expected a bigger and more compelling story

MyMasterMatthew wrote:

It wasn't a BAD reason, per say, but when you think about how long it took us to reach this reveal, I expected a bigger and more compelling story

I wasn't a fan of the reveal, but I don't think there's any sort of 'bigger and more compelling story' that would have fixed it for me. The primary issue wasn't scale, it being unbelievable, being unsympathetic, or what-have-you; it's just that there was basically no setup for this, and dropping a sad backstory on the viewer all at once feels cheap and unearned. In 140ish episodes of content, they could and should have built up to this kind of reveal gradually, and in a way that would help us sympathize with spoiler[Aoyama's] motivations. Instead, we get a kind of characterization-by-info-dump.

I'm talking specifically about the character work behind the reveal, not whether intrigue was built over which characters it could possibly be. i.e., I was disappointed that motivations/backstory were pretty much completely dropped on viewers after the reveal, rather than building spoiler[Aoyama] up as a complex and sympathetic character organically over many episodes before the reveal.

The intrigue was decent, even if it seemed largely forgotten by the story for a long while. But the payoff is very limited given how little work was put into properly developing the character behind the betrayal.

I know melodrama is one of those thing MHA frequently engages in, but they have really laid it on thick in these last two episodes. Could they have not had at least one member of class say that, while they understand the circumstances, what he did can not easily be forgiven, nor can he be trusted again. Instead of every character tripping over themselves to instantly forgive him.

It might have worked better with another character, instead of the unlikeable comic relief character we hardly ever see. And if his reasons for obeying All For You, had been less selfish than, being scared that All For One might possibly kill him.