And as jaded as I was, it seemed like they were finally picking back up the thematic thrill line Stain left spiraled on the ground, and I liked Stain.
The only reason I returned to mha after the labyrinthine, drawn-out slog that was the Overhaul arc, was because a friend of mine in early 2021 showed me a picture of Deku when images of the Dark Hero Arc were leaked online. Season 5 was straight garbo I didn’t even consider because I never planned on watching the anime or touching the property ever again after season 4. I honestly couldn’t believe my ears when I heard the biggest English-speaking anime content creator, when asked by another major content creator if it was worth catching up to heroaca from episode 89, straight bold-faced said fucking “no.” Anime fans are probably more forgiving than they should be when it comes to art, but it becomes quickly apparent when they stop giving a fuck about something. If the material no longer resonates with its core audience due to recurrent weak seasons, then fandom passion will rapidly dwindle. Frankly, it exposes one of the key flaws in the “seasonal” model of anime production that’s become dubiously more popular over the last half decade. After a series of middling adaptations of arcs that were controversial even during their initial publication, it’s no wonder that My Hero Academia couldn’t retain its luster forever. And it isn’t hard to tell why if you’ve had eyes on the anime fandom as a whole over the last few mha releases.
Let alone before I became interested in anime which I thankfully never had to experience. However, among the anime fandom at large “acamania” has ostensibly waned substantially since I finished season 3 in the Summer of 2019. This, among anything else, speaks to mha’s continued resonance among audiences over the years. I’ve probably seen at least a dozen random civilians (mostly kids) wearing heroaca t-shirts out in the wild since the pandemic and I live in the fucking boonies. That isn’t to say My Hero Academia has lost its cultural weight entirely, as it continues to enjoy endless success in Japan with a cavalcade of spin-offs, financially successful filler movies, merchandise tie-ins, and 85 million copies sold to boot. Of course, this anime snob in my head turned out to be largely true. If you told me nearly seven years ago when My Hero Academia first aired that it would end up dropping into a secondary popularity tier among anime fans, below something like Attack on Titan or even Bleach, I would’ve told you to leave me the hell alone because I didn’t like anime and didn’t care at all about My Hero Academia.īut, if you told me the same thing four years ago when I first watched mha, I would’ve called you an overly cynical edgelord an embittered asshole desperately tearing down earnestly crafted pop media pieces as some pretentious measure to justify their supercilious ass taste.
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