My Hero Academia

Well, they might want to shock the audience by combining the perspective flip and the new opening. I really hope they go for a fully (or at least, mostly) villain-themed opening for the second half.

Edited by Cozzer on Jun 10th 2021 at 1:56:56 PM

Hmm, I suppose that makes things flow better.

I want them to replace the title of the opening with one saying "My Villain Academia" just like that one volume.

Are they omitting Re-Destro's introduction completely or just moving it somewhere else?

My money is currently on moving it.

Edited by sgamer82 on Jun 10th 2021 at 7:32:20 AM

I mean, we can't know for a fact but you can't really have MVA without introducing Re-Destro first. They're probably just moving it a couple episodes forward so they can jump directly from it to the conflict with the LOV.

You can do the redestro introduction fairly shortly if you want to, but you could also just move it so MVA is a single whole.

What do you think of the possibility of Izuku being able to pass on the quirks from One for All separately, as opposed to everything all at once?

Edited by SalFishFin on Jun 10th 2021 at 10:28:51 AM

I think that it would be interesting, but would probably result in multiple strains of OFA as they would likely have the base version that enables passing down the power in the first palce.

Which would probably make the quirk even more dangerous for a single person, especially if they wind up passing it to people that already have their own quirks (like say Ochako or Todoroki) and put their quirks and their spirits into the mix and remerging into a single host.

Would be something I can see happening at the endgame, when Izuku finally learns the Central Theme of his arc and, but it's gonna have some interesting consequences going forward if that is the direction the story is going.

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Jun 10th 2021 at 10:19:27 AM

Strikes me as fairly pointless.

Quirk swap

Oy, anybody here know Moon Runes?

Edit: Also, anybody know where that meme came from?

Edited by fredhot16 on Jun 10th 2021 at 2:59:42 AM

Hmm. I think it's a somewhat offensive one, actually. Probably avoid using it much.

...I had suspicions.

Yeah using a nickname for an entire language that implies its to be "other" (the "moon" part implying an alien aspect) makes that nickname disrespectful to the Japanese language and the namesake culture.

I'm assuming the term originated in 4chan because most the 2000s memes and lingo originate there and also because they always strike me as harboring the kind of people that like the pop culture and not the actual culture that created it.

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Jun 10th 2021 at 3:16:32 AM

Basically, Endeavor, Hawks and Mirko faced Villain with Quirk that shuffles Quirks of other people. Hawks and Mirko had trouble to use their Quirks(Hellflame and Strong Wings respectively). Unfortunately for the Villain... Endeavor didn't had trouble with his Quirk(Rabbit).

Edited by jouXIII on Jun 10th 2021 at 1:26:40 PM

Bundeavor!

Hawks in the second panel feels like he's going "ooooooooh so THAT's how Touya felt then, only a thousand times worse ?"

Edited by Yumil on Jun 10th 2021 at 1:25:59 PM

NVM.

Edited by LSBK on Jun 10th 2021 at 6:37:50 AM

Actually my understanding is that it originated as a translation gag in one of the SNES / Famicom era Final Fantasy games. In the original Japanese one of the puzzles was based on a specific kanji reading but the protagonist, being something of a Book Dumb Idiot Hero had very poor kanji skills and needed to get assistance which I believe lead into a mandatory party member recruitment quest.

When it was translated into English the localisers couldn't actually remove or change the kanji because it was hard coded as part of the envrionmental background art rather than a sprite that could be interacted with. So when that part of the dilogue was being translated it was changed from the protagonist being unable to read kanji to being unable to read "moon runes."

How one chooses to interpret the slang use for kanji, either as a sarcastic throwback to how old translations and localisations tried to hide the Japanese origins of the source material or as self-referential disconnect for the majority of Anglophone fans who's ability to read the original language is limited at best is kind of variable depending on who's using it.

Vigilante is out.

Man I keep half forgetting where those chapters end sometimes. Super regeneration is so hilariously broken. Though I think Six doesn't have it exactly? Anyway, it needs a drawback sometimes.

How differently do you think the story would've gone if Izuku had resented Katsuki for his treatment?

Assuming that Izuku still saves Katsuki from the Sludge Villain.

I dunno, resented how?

That assumes he didn't resent him to begin with, which we know is not true.