If the most critical part of a hero's job is to fight against villains, then it makes perfect sense to have a fighting tournament. A pure support character can just try to gain the agencies' attention elsewhere. I'm sure there are opportunities if there's demand for support types. Nevertheless it would be reassuring for the fighting heroes if the support can defend themselves at least a little bit.
I meant it as a criticism towards the poor setup/writing. It makes no sense for such an established organization to have such glaring flaws, that for some reason, only a few recognize. Moreover, those who do speak as if its not a well-known fact when in fact it should've been changed ages ago.Originally Posted by Ryllharu
Then again, the U.S. has the electoral college, so yeah, maybe it does make sense in that humans are dumb everywhere.
I didn't say to remove the tournament. I said do a 2vs2 format, which allows both support and independent power types to shine, which according to Ryll, is the main goal of most in the tournament (to appeal). I mean, why the hell not? Even in 2vs2, you still have to defend yourself, so it's not like it eliminates the value individual skill completely.
Peace.
Oh yeah! That's DEFINITELY not a thing that happens in real life...
Oh man, you spoiled my sarcasm...
Episode 22
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It was a foregone conclusion Nice Person would lose, so it was only a question of how good a show she would give the audience before losing. I'd say quite a good one. Better than I expected. I didn't foresee that meteor shower trick, although I was thinking it would have to be something related to the platform and the loose rocks since there was nothing else available. But yeah, she wasn't exactly a frail girl. Not to mention these matches are difficult for Bakugo because his power kills and maims living targets so easily, so he has no choice but to use it extremely ineffectively to avoid getting disqualified.
Killing Ochaco wasn't an issue that held him back since Bakugo was trying not to touch her anyway. If he could touch her then he could explore the idea of grabbing someone's hand then blowing it apart. But that's not very hero-like.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
He doesn't need to touch anybody to kill or seriously wound them. With how much loose rock there was on the platform, Ochaco should have gone to buy a lotto ticket after the match. She was so super lucky not to have been hit by a single shrapnel seriously. She likely did accumulate some pure pressure damage considering the manner of her defeat.
Did you guys miss the part where logic doesn't apply to this show? They just follow rules they set whenever they want for the sake of drama. This battle made utterly no sense, and Bakugo's power is the most illogical and inconsistent of the bunch.
I've completely given up on the details of the fights. I just watch this for the characters and drama. The plot is as bare as a skeleton, after all (hooray tournament...).
Peace.
Ochaco has a very nice pair of plots. Not bare as a skeleton at all.
Lol. Ochako is so low-tier. Frog-girl is where itīs at!
Episode was good, but damn, these tournament episodes feel sooo short :/
"She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court
I did, since literally the only thing she could use her powers on besides Bakugo is the ring.
I seriously love how much my opinion of Bakugo has changes. To go from abusive bully character to comically agro dude is a turn I've not had with a character since Jamie Lannister.
I would have made the pieces of tiles light, then pegged them at Bakugo. I don't know if lightening up things also removes their momentum though, or just gravity's effect on them.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Ochako's power would be nice if she could also change direction / speed of the objects some time after she touched them. Even if "pre-programmed"
In her fight with bakugo, instead of having the rocks just fall, she could have had them coming from many different angles/directions even from behing and low trajectory.
From bakugo's perspective, that rock fall was a nice setup to show his incredible firepower.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
She can't use angles with her power. It's just turning gravity on and off. So it either goes up...or down.
I don't think her power would be very effective on Bakugo if he could already control flight via explosions anyway, but good shounen try nonetheless. I like that he finally used her name once she joined the teamwork, friendship, and victory club. Also good humor for Eraserhead to call out some rando hero in the audience that happened to complain about Bakugo using too much power.
Deku earned a not very veiled threat from the No. 2 hero to lead into the next battle. Hype!
Getting Bakugo weightless would have been effective. He has never experienced such a state and the arena is not large for a flying person. Every time he had attacked, he would have also needed to compensate in the opposite direction, perfectly, lest he would have found himself floating in some direction or even spinning. If Ochako had then managed to take the fight near the arena boundary, it would have been quite possible indeed to manage to get Bakugo over the border.
But to be realistic, the poor girl had at most a 1 in 10 chance to beat a dude like that. Her power isn't really the perfect one for solo fights.
What?!
Being weightless would have only made Bakugo stronger. Then heīd only have to use his ability for direction corrections, instead of using enough power to get his whole body up in the air. He probably couldnīt feel luckier than being weightless.
"She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court
You seem to assume he has been spending a lot of time on some space station in zero gravity to acquire such a skill. You wouldn't talk like that if you had ever played a space simulator with realistic physics. It's a pain in the ass to try to move sensibly without using computer aided stabilisation. He would be spending most of his brain processing time on that, leaving more openings for Nice Person to exploit.
This.
This is what some people don't seem to get. We've bitched about how the entrance exam and sports festival are both extremely unfair and biased towards students like Bakugou, Todoroki, and even Deku.
Or is it?
Deku passed the exam by defending Ochako. He acted like a hero, even if he sucked at defeating grunt enemies. Ochako was totally outclassed. But what did she actually do? She held off an overwhelming superior foe for well beyond what anyone would expect her to, in a scenario where she had zero advantages. That's plenty of time for non-combatants to evacuate, or backup to arrive.
And what did Bakugou do? He fought an extremely tenacious enemy, who was determined to take him down, and showed restraint with powers that most would never believe could be used without killing his opponents. He exhausted and subdued her in a controlled manner, very unlike Todoroki's angry outburst that even froze some of the audience.
This was actually a win for both of them.
Stop looking at this series like it is traditional shonen, Naruto, Bleach, or Hunter x Hunter style. There's some really subtle subversion constantly throughout this series so far. From Deku finding out that he is worthy (always was when you look back), Bakugou grappling with destructive power and wanting to be heroic with it, Ochako and Mount Lady only in it for the money, and challenging the definition of what actually defines a hero in a world where everyone is special?
This is Boku no Hero Academia. Bakugo wouldnīt even spend a second "figuring it out". Itīd be second nature from the go.
@Ryll: I couldnīt disagree more. Thereīs NOTHING subversive about this anime. Ochako is in it for the money? Yes, because she wants to help her parents. Thatīīs no more subversive than Leorio being in it for the money ... so he can become a doctor to save peoplesī lives. And if you want to make blanket fanboy statements, leave out HXH from your lists. Thereīs no more subversive, non-standard shonen-series out there. Which is because itīs actually seinen, no matter what MAL might say.
"She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court
Or the very first time he makes an explosion while weightless it sends him rocketing out of bounds.
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