You know, I'd get a laugh if this arc somehow ends with Monoma slowly losing his grudge against Class A, while the rest of Class B become more determined to beat them, thereby flipping everyone's position with regards to A.
All for the sake of keeping him as that one guy who's always in opposition to his own class.
I do wonder how things will go with this last fight in regards to him. The reaction of his fellow classmates to being paired with him makes me wonder what Horokishi has planned...probably something wacky.
Well, caring at all is subjective. Like, I don't feel nearly as invested in say, Tsuyu, as a lot of other people are.
And it's not like she's a bad character or anything, just not one that really does it for me.
Likewise, I don't expect most people to share my fondness for Aoyama or Koda.
Edited by LSBK on Nov 30th 2018 at 9:15:04 AM
The treatment of the side characters by fandom is a little funny, because only Deku and a flavor of the month set of students get to be involved in major villain arcs at a time after the UA invasion. This causes fans to assume that any student who gets additional screentime during said arcs is now one of the main students, as we saw with Red Riot, even if that student isn't really less of a side character than they were before they were focused on.
Edited by VeryMelon on Nov 30th 2018 at 10:13:11 AM
Kirishima's in the spotlight a bit more than most, so I do think it makes sense that some would think of him as a main character. I'd place him in the higher tier of secondary characters, personally.
Oh God! Natural light!Anyway, I feel like one of the major points is to show off Class B all at once, just in case he ever wants to use any of them (not even the entire class) for whatever random arc happens to be going on.
I can understand that, though I don't think it's strictly "necessary", and least not like this. But that's fine; things don't have to be necessary to be entertaining.
I think the main issue is that you can only develop so many characters before the focus is spread too thin. Like, in theory I don't mind class B getting more development, but I'd prefer that that time go towards established characters who have been sidelined. Specifically characters like Uraraka and Iida who were fairly important initially but haven't done much since despite ostensibly being Deku's good friends. You only have so much "screen time" to go around, and there comes a point where you have to start being picky about who gets it.
As far as the pacing of this arc goes, yeah, I think it's felt a bit sloggy thus far, but reading it in a collection will be much less frustrating because it's the fact that it's been spread out over months in shorter chapters that makes it annoying. The main issue is that each match is largely self-contained, so the whole thing is very episodic, without much of a sense of progression or overarching plotline. It's starting to feel like going down a checklist "okay, let's make sure everybody puts in an appearance."
It isn't that the fights haven't been fun so far, or that there haven't been some good character moments, but I do think that at least tying it into the overarching plotline more would've helped.
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Haven't all the fights been exactly two chapters long?