Anime:My Hero Academia

I'm pretty sure it was longer than that, and also not much to really organize. "Wait, someone's attack the students! All Might you go on ahead, and I'll gather available staff." Nothing particularly complicated about it.

I meant the actual takedown was two minutes, but fair enough.

That cause the students and Aizawa beat up most of them first.

Not that I'm saying that the heroes wouldn't have stomped them either, but most of their work was done for them when they got there.

I think there's a misunderstanding. I meant the rescue of Bakugo.

Yeah, what's up with that?

Oh, well in that case I'm still not sure what you mean. They had days to coordinate that operation with the police and top Heroes. Nedzu being a super genius didn't really seem to factor in much.

Oh that.

Yeah, they were on the ball with that. If All for One hadn't decided to pull a Big Damn Heroes moment (and it counts as that as opposed to Big Damn Villains even if he's literally a villain), they'd have been screwed.

Then again, he may have done that on purpose, both to further stoke Shiragaki's hate of All Might and further make the heroes look bad.

They do everything right, but still fail and the public only sees the latter.

I don't think so. I think All For One complained about the timing of the attack.

The League never expected such a quick counterattack.

I mean, he won by calculating the exact consequences of each strike of a wrecking ball. It's the sort of thing that definitely pushes his intelligence into superhuman levels, but since he had prep time and access to the necessary information to pull it off, I am okay with it.

Edited by JonnasN on Aug 6th 2018 at 1:54:19 PM

I was expecting a little more from this episode. I think that "High IQ" is a silly quirk, even though I think it's interesting it's tied to tea-drinking. I didn't enjoy the execution very much either; it seemed like she just knew exactly what would happen until she didn't. I can also see why some people are commenting her personality and plans seem to be at odds with each other given she's supposed to be smart.

I'll rant a little bit, if you allow me. Intelligence isn't some kind of unidimensional quantity that you'll either have or not. You wouldn't expect Terrence Tao to come up with a plan to take down terrorists that have seized a building or are in hiding, and you wouldn't expect late Stephen Hawking to come up with a plan to reduce unemployment and homelessness in Britain, and you wouldn't expect people who could perform those tasks to come up with a revolutionary Mathematical or Theoretical Physics theory. Furthermore, these aren't even all the ways "intelligence" could manifest, even if it's what might come to mind in traditional depictions of what "intelligence" is.

EDIT: A comment I've seen before, regarding other characters in other media, but which I think applies here, is that this was a smart character written in a dumb way.

Edited by Victin on Aug 10th 2018 at 8:47:16 AM

I mean, fiction getting "intelligence" wrong is hardly new. Real-world people have a hard time grasping that there are different kinds of intelligence.

Also, it was less that she was predicting exactly what they would do, and more she was just cutting off their options based on what their Quirks were. That seems fairly reasonable to me.

Edited by LSBK on Aug 10th 2018 at 10:51:00 AM

I think it's excusable in these situations given that it's explicitly a superpower. As in, something that's fictional and no-one in real life is able to do it.

Totally right, dude.

She didn't know exactly what would happen. Limiting their options so they would actually manage around a few options they'd be able to predict is actually a pretty good explanation.

The teamwork thing might've been cheesy, but that's about it.

As they say filler villains generally don’t have much thought put into them.

Compare her quirk to meatball guy who who actually is a canon character.

Notice how more distinct & creative his power is than hers.

Edited by slimcoder on Aug 11th 2018 at 12:37:27 PM

Why does power matter in this situation...?

Should she have been a fortune teller instead?

There's a thought, a high IQ and/or probability prediction quirk being changeless into fake(?) fortune telling

Edited by sgamer82 on Aug 11th 2018 at 8:08:31 AM

Ep 56

I knew the entire class 1-A would pass, but I didn't think half of them would all manage to do it within a single episode! Aoyama gets some much-needed character development and appealing traits this week too!

So what's Aoyama's deal? He seems to be secretly cowardly with feelings of inferiority, given this is the second or third time we've seen him off to the side on his own in the face of danger?

So that was pretty good. They got through it all fast, but I don't think it was really rushed (heh).

That doesn't sound particularly fair in this situation. Actually, I don't think it's particularly fair given the camp situation either.

Edited by LSBK on Aug 11th 2018 at 11:29:32 AM

Seems like it.

Edited by Eagal on Aug 11th 2018 at 9:26:29 AM

Aoyama's flashbacks, two of em, felt extremely brief. And they showed things we already kinda knew by now, making me wonder if the episodes needed them.

Perhaps cowardly is a bit too strong of a word.

What a coward he is, deciding not to fight three dangerous villains whilst carrying two unconscious girls.

SHAME!

Too late for that.