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Stark700
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Ah yes the superhero world.
I remember first reading the series awhile ago and didn't think too much of it until I read more into the characters. The pacing does feel sluggish and I wish it was a 2-cour adaptation from the beginning. But still, I think it was overall a very entertaining show and fairly consistent with the adaptation. |
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0Ninjaz0
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It's good to see a manga get perfectly adapted, so it was really refreshing. Pacing was on point when it came to adaptation, but sadly that meant the pacing had to suffer a bit overall due to being on-point would mean taking it slowly. Next to nothing was skipped, and not much was dragged out to make it slow either, like with long-running adaptations.
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chito895
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I didn't have any problems with the pacing at the beginning (maybe because I'm an anime only), but I felt the show was dragging a bit more than it should during the last part of the anime. spoiler[The fight against the League of Villains] felt very stretched out, as if it didn't needed another episode.
Other than that, MHA was a very nice surprise to me. I wasn't expecting anything as interesting and emotional when I first heard of this adaptation. The animation was on point when it had (spoiler[All Might vs Nomu was amazing]) to and I found every single character interesting and cheerful, albeit a little annoying (Minoru, for example). And maybe the music was my favorite part of the whole season. I'm really looking forward the next season. |
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Sir Daniel Fortesque
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It was so slow. The first two episodes was just the first chapter..
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Beansprout Midget
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IMO, I didn't mind the pacing. Maybe because I'm a manga reader, but it wasn't a big deal to me. I had a feeling once episode 2 was over that it would take a much slower pace, since the first arc happened and ended pretty quickly (if I recall) in the manga. And since this upcoming second season is covering the festival arc (I believe), then I think the pacing should end up being a little better.
Of course, that's just what I think. |
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FilthyCasual
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I really wish that MHA had had 26 episodes from the start, so that Bones wouldn't have needed to add flashbacks that weren't in the manga and overstretch the middle episodes all for the climactic end of the villains attacking the school.
It makes why they did so, but it's maddening nonetheless. As I've sad before, if you switched Twin Star Exorcist's and My Hero Academia's episode counts, both of their issues would be solved. |
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Greed1914
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With as big as it is, or at least as big as the companies involved want it to be, I'm surprised they didn't do that from the start. As a long-time fan of American superheroes, one thing that I find refreshing is the idea that having some kind of power is more common than not. Even characters with odd appearances don't seem to get a second glance. |
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H. Guderian
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For an example of the pacing just consider how long it takes Izuku to throw the damn ball, back during the early tests. I like the show, but the pacing is so bad I feel like it is talking down to me. The Director did great work on Build Fighters and less so on Build Fighters Try. I hope this isn't a case where a promising director sputters out early.
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Sahmbahdeh
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I completely agree with Nick on the pros and cons of the show, and the fact that a second season has already been greenlit makes me have more positive feelings towards the series than I otherwise would have. Here's hoping the second season is a two-cour, and properly paced.
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HaruhiToy
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I'll second this. Not having read the source material, the odd thing about this anime for me was how the characters were drawn so comically yet the roles they play are so serious. That's a combination that can easily go wrong but they made it work here. |
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pikabot
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Not having the second cour confirmed when production started sort of left BONES in a weird place pacing-wise, because they needed to have episode twelve/thirteen correspond to some sort of climax, but unless they paced it at the speed of light it would never make the next one after the end of the USJ arc. There's just no way. So they had to pace it to end with the end of USJ, which is fairly early in the series. Otherwise, the last episode would have ended on basically nothing.
If they'd known they'd have 26 episodes from the beginning, they would probbaly have made the show differently. |
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LightYapper
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After getting through the first episode, I knew that it chill down a bit and try to make the adaptation work at the end of USJ arc. That said, I wish I hadn't read the manga in this case, maybe because I knew what'd come up next, not just what Nick mentioned. MHA definitely worked as both a shonen adaptation and character piece otherwise.
And based on how Stain is introduced for the 2nd season, I bet that season would end at the point spoiler[where Stain gets beaten up by the leads and arrested after he made his final roar, and excited the lurking villains around.] |
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Tylerr
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i thought the pacing was fine.
maybe a little bit slow at beginning but imo its better than them skipping stuff just to rush through arcs. which is usually what companies do. though i'm reading the manga and was exited to see it adapted, so maybe that skewed my perception of it. |
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Thatguy3331
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The pacing was a bit of an annoyance for me, I don't think them having more episodes would have fixed the problem just made it worse but I was really hoping that it over all wouldn't have been a problem because since this was being done by Bones, it would shine as an animated adaption of this fun manga.
Needless to say that wasn't exactly the case. Not that it was ever butt ugly but I can count on a single hand the animation highlights, One of the run cycles in episode 2, All Might crushing a fridge was kinda cool, Midoriya's big punch in episode 4 and of course All Might vs Nomu. I get that in most productions you save your energy and resources for the biggest scenes and moments and while I was a tad sad the classroom in the very beginning didn't look like something out of space dandy, I was fine with waiting for those big moments. But I think once I saw how Bakugou's 'fight' with Midoriya was handled I think I realized just how much unnecessarily high I set my expectations, since it felt so... static, to me. Relying more on highlighting certain moments of Bakugou's attacks as apposed to the overall action of him using his explosions to maneuver himself. For as much visual energy as the manga has (to the point that I feel it screams "animate me!") none of the battles last quite long enough to have as satisfying of a "push and pull" to them as something like soul eater or darker than black, ESPECIALLY in the beginning. I knew this heading in as a manga reader but I figured someone on staff would still manage to make it worth it in the end and... well they did once but that's about it. (In the manga, all that happened was that All Might and Nomu pulled a bit from Jojo til All Might out punched, and then blows Nomu out of the USJ.) It's because of this that I feel slightly let down by the adaptation, in spite of the fact that it's still better than it's counterparts from Toei and Parriot. The Pacing is slow but it's not One Piece slow and the show visually looks pretty solid most of the time (though the backgrounds are pretty bland.) I'll be checking out season 2 when it comes out since I do really like the series and I do think there may be a chance for improvement on the animation front, but I'm not expecting much changes regarding the pacing (in spite of the fact that it'll HAVE to ramp up if it wants to do both the sports festival AND the stain arc in their entirety.) |
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Azmodeus
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^Well, that would still lead to some adaptation issues. For one, there wasn't that many places where they could extend the action beyond what they already did. The entrance exam? People felt it was drawn out as is, and it was never meant to be more then a taste of what Dekus modus operandi would be once inside. The bout against Bakugo? They already timed it so it took 1 whole episode while still staying true Deku's and Baku's respective skills and power levels, and that's about how much many are willing to draw out a minor fight (personally, i'm fine with 3 eps, depending on fight and show length). That's about it for places to highlight the animation, without going into filler territory.
And secound: Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't Bones in a worse place financially then when they made Soul eater and Darker then Black? That, coupled with the downsized anime industry as a whole, meant that doing MHA the same way they did FMA:B (proven existing fanbase) or DtB (original IP during a better economic situation) was pretty much both out of the question. By the new industry standards for new franchises, it seems like they where pretty much in a Kobayashi Maru situation: no room for fillers, so no extra action scenes. And without Madhouse's connections, Toeis stalling or Pierrots overall shittiness, this is pretty much the best one could hope for. Luckily, much of what i've heard about what's to come seems to naturally resolve this particular issue. |
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