User:Nikolai the Second

Problems with My Hero Academia (up to episode 9)

 * 1) All MIght waited 5 years to find an heir while only being able to use 3 hours of quirk? Why? Fighting for 3 hours at a time for 5 years is far more inefficient than just finding somebody and giving your power to them sooner. Numerous people died because All Might wants to stay a half assed super hero instead of giving it to somebody sooner. Like 5 years sooner.
 * 2) By holding onto All MIght's leg, Deku (tree) causes one of the two, two liter slime ball filled cans to drop. What happened to the other one? When All Might checks his pockets we see that both bottles are gone.
 * 3) The bottles don't burst open when they fall from 3 + stories up. And they aren't special containment cansisters either because All Might was shopping for groceries when he saw the slime ball for the first time in the episode. And carrying around such a specific gadget and it being useful is highly unlikely. No All MIght emptied out one of his bottles of drink and somehow managed to put the slime guy into it.
 * 4) Then All Might is somehow about to put a man sized amount of slime into a two liter bottle with the opening the size of a quarter. Bullshit.
 * 5) Then the slime ends up taking control of Backugo and doesn't try to get inside of him. Its easy! You were the size of a bottle, just slip inside like you tried to do with Deku (tree)! As a matter of fact you are even smaller than when you tried to climb inside Deku tree! But instead of staying small and climbing inside of Backugo like you originally planned, you get larger and hold him hostage. WTF. You had an easy out. Just climb in Backugo and sneak away in plain sight. This is important because Deku tree's and Backugo's entire life's are changed by this one event and it shouldn't have even happened.
 * 6) Deku Tree cries way too much. It is hella annoying. I understand you don't have a father figure but man up. Nobody wants to see a boy or a young man cry. I cringed every time Deku Tree cried including the time with his mother. If I were in school I would bully Deku Tree if only to stop him from crying.
 * 7) Backugo was the most likeable guy up until the end of episode 2 where he comes off as insecure. When he joked about Deku Tree killing himself, i laughed out loud. It was an epic burn. That is how unlikable Deku Tree is.
 * 8) In Episode 4, Deku Tree isn't paying attention and gets left behind the rest of the contestants in the beginning. But we already established earlier in ep 1 that Deku Tree is very observant, like when he takes notes. So he should have been the first out of the gate, not the last.
 * 9) In Episode 5, Eraserhead uses a scarf like apparatus to high effectiveness. Except there is no way that he should be able to control that scarf. It just moves on its own like he has telekinesis. That is a plot hole.
 * 10) In episode 6, Backugo asks All Might how badly they can hurt their opponents and All MIght completely ignores him. That was relevant information that Backugo, of all people, should know. This even comes up later when Backugo tries to use his hand cannons and All Might bans their use. If Backugo had known this then he could have adjusted his strategy. We will learn soon that Backugo is one of the smartest characters.
 * 11) In episode 7, Ochaco throws a bunch of projectiles at Tenya even though there is no way that Ochaco could have touched all those objects while they were flying upwards at incredibly speeds. And then Tenya just stands there and lets Ochaco throw these things at him. Ochaco should not be able to control all of this debris. Also, we are lead to believe that she stopped the debris in mid air. But when things explode in zero gravity they still continue to move. The only thing that should have happened is the debris should have accelerated upwards faster, into the level above Tenya and Ochaco all the way up into space because Gravity has no effect on them. Ochaco should have never won that fight and the only reason the genius, Backugo, lost was because of bullshit physics and Tenya standing stock still while Ochaco touched 20 different bits of debris and then standing still while she threw them at him. Bullshit fight all around.
 * 12) Backugo could have been the coolest character but they butchered him by making him always feel the need to prove he is better than everyone else. As of episode 9 he quit UA because he didn't think he was good enough. But the only reason he lost to Deku tree is because All Might didn't allow him to use his second blast. He also should have aimed at Deku Tree's feet instead because that is how area of effect weapons work. I suppose I can forgive him because it is his first time using those hand cannons.
 * 13) Anyways, because All MIght handicapped him and wouldn't allow Backugo to fight the way he wanted to, he lost. And then Backugo blames himself and quits the academy because he lost a fight while he was handicapped by the rules. That is just stupid. Backugo knows he is good because he finished first in the entrance exam. And he is the smartest character because he designed a suit that amplifies his power, changes up his attack style at random to remove predictability, and set up an ambush for Deku Tree who fell right for it.
 * 14) What is this nonsense about "destroying the building only hurts your defensive position"? Building B is literally full of windows, any one of which can be used for infiltration by the police. Having one big ass whole in the wall won't make it any less defensible. The police could have come in from anywhere. Its just stupid logic to make Backugo think he is in the wrong when he was always in the right.
 * 15) I am not going to watch this series anymore. It is complete trash.
 * 16) (Many months after I watched those 9 episodes) In retrospect, I think the reason MHA failed was because it failed to provide a likeable aka competant protagonist. The audience isn't supposed to laugh when the rival tells the hero to go kill himself.. We are supposed to feel hurt and sympathize with the hero. And the audience isn't supposed to root for the rival against the heros. If you don't set up a likeable hero as soon as possible then this will be a reoccurring problem in your series. The audience will eventually get frustrated and wish bad things on your heros or wish the villians kill them or wish the villians win.