#mha 400 speculation

[greenhappyseed]

I’m not convinced MHA 400 will be a special hype chapter just because it’s #400. For 100, Horikoshi ended the chapter with Mei’s boobs in Izuku’s face. For 200, we got Momo vs Kendo in the joint training exercise. And for 300, we got Rei showing up in Enji’s hospital room (but any conversation she had with Shoto, Fuyumi, and Natsuo was off-screened). All three of these “big number” chapters were most notable as transitions between hype moments.

[italeteller]

So... uh... how we feeling with how MHA's been going recently?

Long story short, we feelin' BAD

Short story long... I don't feel anything about the series except annoyance anymore, and it sucks

I used to love that series, I was that annoying weeb that would rec it to all my other weeb friends. I binged the first two seasons in like two days with my roommates. It was so good. That's what genuinely infuriates me whenever I see someone going "oh yeah mha was never good and people are finally catching up" no, fuck off, mha was great. It was still a shonen, but it was a great shonen and then it fell off and never recovered

God, this is like Naruto all over again. The Sasuke vs Deidara/Shie Hassaikai arcs were the canary in the coal mine, the Pain/1A vs 1B arcs were the beginning of the fall and the 5 kage/war arc were the point of no return

It's all because Hori didn't put enough time into the world, y'know? Most of what he wrote could have been done well with more time put into the setup and development of the characters and the world. Most. Some stuff would never have landed, I think

There are rumors the magazine pushed him into taking the manga on a direction he didn't want to. There is speculation that the change of editors after the Kamino arc helped fuck up the series. I don't know for sure, I probably won't ever know, but I can tell you that Kamino was the peak of the series, the school festival was the last good arc and everything after has been a slow decline into where we are now. Just hoping it will end soon and that we won't have a Borizuku: my hero academia next generations kinda situation

It's also sad because this might be the last long shonen we get for a while. Mha is at chapter 423, and I'll be very surprised if it has more than 10 chapters left. Black Clover will likely end before the 400s. And after that it's all manga in the 200s which I don't think will last much longer. I hope Undead Unluck goes the distance, but realistically I think it'll wrap up at around chapter 350 tops

So this is the last long, epic battle shonen we get. Going down with a whimper and a bunch of undeveloped, undercooked ideas

Feels fucking bad man