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Lyendith Since: Mar, 2011
#25951: Nov 30th 2018 at 5:16:38 PM

Haven't all the fights been exactly two chapters long?

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#25952: Nov 30th 2018 at 5:17:59 PM

They've been around 2.5 to 3.5 long. This is the shortest fight so far.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#25953: Nov 30th 2018 at 5:18:47 PM

2.5 to 3.5 chapters long in an arc where the actual chapters have been noticeably shorter, too, which possibly exacerbates issues a bit.

OmegaRadiance Since: Jun, 2011
#25954: Nov 30th 2018 at 5:32:19 PM

And this one has two doublespreads so its got a decent length while the others were a tad shorter.

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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#25955: Nov 30th 2018 at 5:43:14 PM

And Deku's fight is more than likely going to be the longest one, and I can see that one lasting 5 chapters at most.

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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#25957: Nov 30th 2018 at 6:09:17 PM

This arc has been rather divisive huh >.<

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
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#25958: Nov 30th 2018 at 6:13:18 PM

I heard from some that opinions might gradually soften after it’s over like with the Yakuza arc.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#25959: Nov 30th 2018 at 6:13:47 PM

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.cool

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Lyendith Since: Mar, 2011
#25960: Nov 30th 2018 at 6:22:07 PM

[up][up][up] I started this arc really skeptical, then after one or two fights I kinda started to get into it, but now I'm back to "Eeh, okay, sure." Reading it in a compiled volume − which will probably have like a dozen chapters − will certainly help.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#25961: Nov 30th 2018 at 6:25:43 PM

I feel like the arc is trying to do several things, and while enjoyable for the most part, all the characters makes it hard to devote "enough" time to all of them.

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#25962: Nov 30th 2018 at 6:44:24 PM

I'm in the "It's alright" camp personally. I enjoyed a few moments here and there, but I would prefer to get it over with. At the very least, I don't think we needed to see every match.

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Lyendith Since: Mar, 2011
#25963: Nov 30th 2018 at 6:59:27 PM

One good thing about it is that lately we're seeing a more tactical side to MHA's fighting, away from of the "punch and if that doesn't work punch harder" type of fights that were a bit too predominant up until the Overhaul arc.

TrueShadow1 Since: Dec, 2012
#25964: Nov 30th 2018 at 7:05:45 PM

I like this arc better than Overhaul arc by virtue of actually focusing on characters I give a damn about. Mirio, Amajiki, Fat Gum, etc are all cool and all, but do you need to showcase them all at once by excluding nearly all of class A?

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
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#25965: Nov 30th 2018 at 7:08:45 PM

Well yeah sorta.

Lest you run the risk of a very bloated arc.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#25966: Nov 30th 2018 at 7:09:09 PM

On one hand I get that, but on the other hand, how do you expect to start giving a damn about them if they don't do anything?

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#25967: Nov 30th 2018 at 7:10:56 PM

Do we need to give a damn though? How many characters do we have to care about?

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#25968: Nov 30th 2018 at 7:11:41 PM

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

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#25969: Nov 30th 2018 at 7:13:00 PM

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

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#25970: Nov 30th 2018 at 7:13:17 PM

I've always liked Tsuyu myself. Though, for me, it's because I'm a sucker for the big round eyes. For the same reason Jigglypuff is one of my favorite Pokemon.

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
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#25971: Nov 30th 2018 at 7:14:52 PM

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.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#25972: Nov 30th 2018 at 7:17:59 PM

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.

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#25973: Nov 30th 2018 at 7:24:25 PM

[up][up][up][up] If nothing else, it shows how likable the supporting characters are that each of them feel like a main character in their own right.

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Lyendith Since: Mar, 2011
#25974: Nov 30th 2018 at 7:25:48 PM

[up][up] It helps that the series is cancel-proof enough that Horikoshi can afford to do that. In a less popular series that would be risky.

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#25975: Nov 30th 2018 at 7:30:56 PM

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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