>You can't use your superpowers in public unless the government says soIf this series took place in any country other than Japan, the entire premise would fall apart, because no other country would agree to such a law. For example, Americans would throw the biggest riot all the time if they had superpowers but the government tried to make using them illegal.
Remember buying this when it released and never touching it again after he got superpowers. What a way to ruin your own premise
>>282522022What if my superpower was to create extremely sharp flying razor blades? Do you think the government would agree to let me walk down the city sidewalk and use my power as I see fit?
>>282522022imagine if groids had superpowers
>>282522736what the fuck is a groid
>>282522817shorthand for garloid
>>282522852what the fuck is that??
>>282522975Nta but have you been living under a rock or something? Picrel is a garloid
>>282523072what the fuck am i looking at???
>>282524050A garloid stupid, can you read?
>>282524050You must have grown up in a big city if you've never seen one. When I was a kid, I loved it when my parents took me to the garloid farm
>>282524050A garloid? Buy them or harvest them. Eat them or befriend them.It's a garloid.
>This thread
>>282522702As long as you're not attacking and harming people that would be fine otherwise you're gonna get put down like the dog you are.
>>282523072That one is being overfed. I get it, fat garloids are cute but this is clearly abuse.
Keep reading the mha manga, they have a whole arc dedicated to garloids. Deku even befriends one and ends up keeping it in his backpack.Thats why when it returns in the final battle people started shitposting about the backpack garloid, saying it was bullshit. Fucking speedreaders i swear.
Nobody cares.
>>282524467A homegrown one can be really expensive. So what a lot of people do is buy the baby ones you see at the supermarket and overfeed them for a few month before eating them. Most people don't know that, like crabs, these garloids are still alive, just frozen. Also most people who do this wait for them to die naturally since they end up getting attached.
>>282524710people eat these??
>>282522022It wouldn't make sense even in Japan.MHA, in general, has shitty world-building, because in a world where people can become demigods that nuke towns with a fart, it absolutely makes sense to have feudal society where weak people are under the wings of those who are strong. To illustrate, no matter how many weak people banded together, what the fuck could they do against AllMight? And if group action doesn't really matter, well, it speaks for itself. Re-Destro kind of had the right idea, even though they were still pussyfooting around too much with that plotline.
>>282524519The series starting going to shit after All Might vs AFO. What was thw point of having a whole class full of unique quirks if Deku was just going to get handed a garloid that does everything. It was fucking shit.
>>282525000Yeah. It tastes very good but apparently takes a while to boil and can smell really bad all throughout. So expect your house to smell like ass for the entire process
Stop eating garloids they give you terrible gut health and was proven to cause stomach and intestinal cancers.
>>282525139I read that soaking them in salt water for 5 mins eliminates the smell. Some Japs do this but I havent tested it out.
>>282525281Yeah apparently salt helps but it also stops them from expending during the boiling process. So it all comes down to whether you're willing to suffer for a bigger plate
>>282525040>because in a world where people can become demigods that nuke towns with a fart, it absolutely makes sense to have feudal society where weak people are under the wings of those who are strong.They aren't, society exists because the laws are so blanket-wide to be fair to everyone. Just like you said, when superpowers first emerged society broke down because people joyrided around with their powers. This lead to All For One taking control because he'd build a criminal empire through power trafficking, empowering his allies and stripping his enemies while bolstering his own personal power. It was only after All Might decided to become a real life superhero and beat his ass and broke up the empire that people began to rebuild, and created a society of superheroes in his image. Heroes are professionals that know how to get shit done properly, so only those few that have proven themselves rigorously trained and licensed are trusted to use their powers freely now. And in return heroes are worshipped and lauded as gods among men, with all the pros and cons that come with that.
>>282525267but they're so tasty
>>282525267Or because they are beloved pets you fucking savage.
>>282522702Think of the industrial applications. You would be used for industry (i.e. given a job) and that would be it up until you tried to hurt someone with the power.Think of how easy it is to get guns in the US. It’s not really all that different
>>282525352They aren't because the world building is shit. Laws mean fuckall if they can't be enforced and every childbirth is potentially a nation ruining event.Also AFO example confirms the shit world building, because even with all that happened with the advent of quirks, the final solution was just to have the same thing they had before + heroes. Frankly, story didn't even bother to properly illustrate why AFO was wrong in the first place other than some offhanded "he's, like, totally evil" sideslop.
>>282522022>If this series took place in any country other than Japan, the entire premise would fall apart, because no other country would agree to such a lawBoth the Avengers and Justice League have been operated by the government
I find it gay how all for one is behind everything especially with tenko because all that means is if someone reached out to tenko afo would've killed them or something.
>>282526957anon those are outliers, not a fundamental changing of humanity. Marvel as a whole has a gigantic narrative problem with their quirk equivalents. DC is a bit better since it has a much smaller scale "mutant" problem and the people aren't generally as unreasonable as marvel so they never really bother with the problems of governing such a society outside of glow orgs going rogue
>>282526957MHA is what happens when people with superpowers outnumber people who don't.Y'know, the whole reason mutants like the X-Men are feared. In MHA, it's the other way around, people without superpowers are discriminated against.
>>282527107The whole Mutant problem really got blown way out of proportion as the years went on. You had extremists like Trask and Stryker but they were exemptions. The old Sentinel stories even explored the whole irony of wanting to hunt mutants when humans are mutants but beyond them the X-men spent a good portion of time fighting aliens or monsters or other mutants. Maybe you'd see someone say something rude but it was a lot more scaled back. Then in the mid late 2000s or so every story had to be about mutant hate and the more they tried to fight it they only justified it. It's really hard to read the X-men's side when they spit out the same ideology as their enemies and then form an ethno state armed with living nukes. >>282527189>people without superpowers are discriminated against.Are they though? I feel like this could have been more interesting a hook then they really dove into.
>>282527189>people without superpowers are discriminated againstThe only example of that in BnHA is Kachan riding Deku at the start. I doubt, that there are a lot of quirks out there that help with being paper-pusher, so everyone still gets to have a place in society.
>>282527300Yeah but it's not really handled or brought up much. I'm surprised that they don't treat quirkless people like the retarded kid in class or a wheelchair bound person where they're trying to be nice but demean them by thinking they're unable to do the simplest of tasks.
>>282527428I mean they say it's a world full of powers but from what we've seen a lot of powers end up being pretty crap. I don't think Deku's mom is gonna be much help if Ultron or Brainiac starts getting antsy >>282527440Honestly the whole idea just feels like it was fishing for pity points. Society operates too much like ours, or rather modern day Japan anyways. You'd think an age of supers would usher in a new kind of fast future and technological prowess.
I like the bonus chapter where some kid accidentally injures a person because he can't control his Quirk, so OUR HEROES apprehend him and get him thrown in jail despite it not being his fault, and then it ends with them hoping someone will file a petition to get him an early release like they can't literally do that themselves.
>>282527765Remember Deku is supposed to be based on Spider-Man btw
>>282527611Yeah, but their posthuman society functions the same way ours currently does. So while Deku's mom isn't going to save the day any time soon, she still have role to fulfill, job that she can do. Even people with strong quirks still work regular jobs. There are less pro heroes than policemen & on average there are 500 people per each cop.
>>282527863>Yeah, but their posthuman society functions the same way ours currently does.Right but my point is it shouldn't. You have people who can do incredible things that regular humans can't dream of. One worker can do the work of an entire team of contractors. Where are the impossible feats of architecture? People can push the laws and discoveries of science to their absolute limit. Where are the break troughs in any given field? Someone will have the power to move cities and then they get a job filing form 1071 -f. The most ambition you see out of anyone is YEAH I'M GONNA BE NUMBER 1 but that's so meaningless. Is this just some kind of Japanese thing I'm too westoid to get?
>>282527107DC's makes more sense because the metagene is just a fact of life for people and not an excuse to crucify little Timmy down the block when he grows another toe. Heroes are also just all around treated better there than in Marvel. Or at least, it used to be that way. Maybe not so much these days.
>>282527978NTA but yeah this is very reliant on jap culture and conventions with a heavy flavor of shortsightedness. Take a character like Eri for example. She and her quirk applications are a literal human panacea. Immortality or agelessness, fix for any injury, cure for many diseases, eraser of negative genetic traits, etc. are all on the table with her. She is what mankind has dreamed of since ancient kings but who cares lol because fuck quirks and nobody else has any kind of ambition or imagination except the doctor who simply didn't have enough time to figure out how to fine tune it in AfO's case
>>282528231God, who do I have to suck to get them to reprint this. They already did the stupid VS and Amalgam crossover.
>>282528329what appalling cynicism
>>282525040The rest of the world can't help, because they just can't
>>282527829Maybe very vaguely. Deku is a part of the archetype of wimps and nerds with amazing hidden super powers that's very distinctly japanese.
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>>282528686Anon, Horikoshi himself said this that's why Deku mostly focuses on jumping around and has black whip and danger sense and that's why muscular is basically a mix of venom and carnage personality and gimmick wise of being able to handle the protagonist's moves at first.
>>282528755In terms of character. Not specific super powers. Based on Spiderman's relationship progression alone, deku doesn't really fit into western superhero archetypes well.
>>282528820Oh I agree, I think horikoshi kneecaps himself when it comes to writing his characters at times Deku especially and quite a few other characters.
>>282528755See I think that's sort of where they diverse. There's certainly some overlap but the characters are fundamentally different in some major ways. In many they feel like same kind of power fantasy but Spidey has that extra element of tragedy. Tragedy that was his own making no less. And this is really what separates the characters. I won't pretend Deku never had hardship but he never had tragedy. He wanted to be a hero. Spidey wanted to help his family and get back at life a bit and it bit him in the ass. There's a moral there. A deeply humanistic element that anyone should be able to understand. And I feel like that's the part a lot of characters like Deku don't quite get. They get the meek nerd power fantasy element but in a way that feels like it's serving the readers existing ego.
>>282529051>diversediverge
>>282522022>because no other country would agree to such a law.Would work in Germany even more than Japan
>>282522022The premise is pretty whack in general outside of Japan. America is one thing but imagine the billion people in Africa or South America given superpowers.
>>282529051you could summarize this by saying Peter is a lot more human than Deku, really most characters in capeshit in general until they started copying his elements, and that gives him a lot of appeal as he struggles through his situations. He falls right into regular old human trappings he has to rise above which can lead to suffering or sometimes even good things though they lean super hard on suffering nowadays
>>282529281It's a difficult balancing act and a lot of writers really seem to struggle with it
Deku dick riding bakugo shouldve been addressed way earlier and I feel like someone should've realized bakugo used to bully deku. To be honest it's surprising kirishima didn't realize it considering he seemed to have been bullied in his flashback.
>>282527978>Where are the impossible feats of architecture?UA doesn't count? The island where David and Melissa live is semi-canon too.>Where are the break troughs in any given field?Engineering, robotics and medicine are at sci-fi levels as of the beginning of the story. As the last chapter emphasizes, scientific progress is getting more focus from the new generation now that crime isn't rampant and there's less of a need for pro heroes.>One worker can do the work of an entire team of contractors.Sure, but that doesn't drive progress on its own. Uraraka could use her quirk to speed up construction, but she can only be in one place at a time. Or take Recovery Girl, her power is extremely useful but when she dies, it'll die with her. It might be possible to replicate her quirk through unethical experiments like the doctor and Overhaul did, but politicians are in no position to mandate people with useful quirks get experimented on when random members of the populace could nuke them with their mind.
>>282527428Aoyama's parents paid All For One to give him a quirk so that he wouldn't be bullied or discriminated againstOnly difference between Deku and Aoyama is that Aoyama is from a rich family
Storytime when?
>>282530020We had one last year right around when it ended, though that one didn't include the bonus chapters that have come out since.
>>282529171I imagine much of the third world in MHA is back at preindustrial population levels after incredibly brutal wars and famines. Between foreign aid being cut off due to worldwide chaos and adding superpowers to their already dysfunctional societies it can't have been a fun experience.
>>282529779>UA doesn't count?It's one place out of what should be a fantastical metropolis >Sure, but that doesn't drive progress on its ownEven if they can only be one place at one time one person with the right power can do a lot during the time. And they're not the only people with quirks. The whole world does is the important part.
>>282522022americans can't even say "that guy deserved to die" without written permission from the government
what the fuck is this thread
>>282530234statistically, All For One should have been a black muslim warlord
>>282531135The average quirk is still close to useless as of Deku's generation. One of the usual complaints about the story is how weak some of the quirks at the top hero schools are, but that's because even when every social factor was pushing kids with strong powers into heroism you could barely fill a classroom with them. Then there's the issue of interest. Just because someone's skilled in a certain area doesn't mean they want to work there. One of the novels mentions that Kaminari could earn easy money by generating electricity for the private sector, but he decided to go into the far more competitive hero industry. Same with Eri and her musical ambitions.
>>282522022They do this in OPM man too. I guess Japan prefers government officials being competent to vigilantes executing justice on their own
>>282529171Imagine how chaotic Chicago or Oakland would be with street gangsters having quirks and guns.
>>282532757I've been long discovering that Asia is, and seemingly always has been, ASTOUNDINGLY bureaucratic.
>>282533003it really would make an amazing settings. Street niggas literally lift weights and do cardio just to be bigger menaces. Imagine tossing quirks into that. MHA almost works because it's set in Japan, but it would be a complete shitshow in America
>>282528231>CapI first thought he was saying the stuff on the big screen were lies. Zoomers have mindbroken me.
>>282525040>no matter how many weak people banded together, what the fuck could they do against AllMight?There is always a way. Nerve gas and incendiaries spring to mind as an example, since the fucker clearly has to breathe.There is also the option of overwhelming kinetic force as well, if punching him real hard is enough to make him bleed then he is almost certainly vulnerable to shaped charges and EFPs>but he's so fastnot as fast as a hypersonic jet of molten copper
