Tbh it started going downhill for me when Midnight was killed. I really liked her, especially after reading Vigilante. It just, was so cheerful when it started and now turned into a Dystopian Sci Fi series which would fit the Trope crapsack world. The Academia, the school setting is also basically non existent now.
Completely agree! Midnights and Majestics deaths pissed me off so much, along with Star and Stripe too. Sure it added consequences, tension and such but they were so poorly written, Star barely got to shine as a character, given shes All Mights freaking protege an the top 1 Hero of the USA too FFS!
Not to mention Hori abandoning the whole foreign heroes and thus other countries getting involved and helping too lol.
Vigilantes was really nice for seeing the backstories of characters like her, Miruko and especially Aizawa and Shirakumo too.
Thats exactly it too, its become so edgy, so dour, so dystopian as you said. Reminds me of the issues I had with the 4th Ninja War in Naruto and TYBW which to be fair, they were
wars ofc but it just got so miserable to read over such a long time too. Kubo even wanted Bleach to go for another 10 years at least! God...Hori wanted MHA to be as vast and long as OP IIRC too.
Yeah thats another thing, I really wanted to see the students actually progress through the years, having 2nd and 3rd years, like how the Genin became Chuunins in Naruto and eventually Jounin and such and thus the MHA students becoming Pro Heroes gradually, but this is such a letdown beyond words.
I really enjoyed UA as a school, even though I HATE school stories and settings, I was really looking forward to the teachers getting various roles and storylines, going all out and fighting! To this day Vlad King has DONE NOTHING LMAO! Such a massive let down there too. I really wanted to see more 1-B too as I really like them, but god this is so lackluster, especially when so much of 1-A are being wasted too or at least underutilised....
Don't even get me started on the abandonment of the whole Red Riot mystery/storyline which should have just been who Machia was somehow, at least we would have got an explanation and would have made Kirishima vs Machia even more personal by far!
Bakugo has been so fucking wasted too and he's been dead for a year or so now too, WTF is Hori even doing with him?!
I can't even remember what happened to Nejire, Mirio, Tamaki, I remember Mirio getting his powers back and then the rest is just a blur lmao. Nejire got fucked by Dabi IIRC but I cant remember anything else after that?
I'm finding MHA so hard to follow and its not even a complex series, its just the lack of interest, like I struggled with it in the past and dropping it a few times due to that. I wish Hori would just it over with but he was saying he wanted to end it last year or by this year and it feels like it's not gonna end till late next year at least? Especially if he keeps needing breaks and having to do shorter chapters too?
I just feel so burnt out, so checked out, so done with MHA at this point. I just found out the other days there's a battle royale type game for it now too lmao, ffs.