Boku no Hero Academia Episode 4 Discussion

Bobby2Hands said:
Do they have to rebuild all those massive skyscrapers before the next set of students take the test?

ItsXolo said:
How do you guys actually manage to get emotional during all these episodes? It's so forced and overdone. Like at least 50% of the runtime in each episode is forced melodrama scenes revolving around an MC I don't even like enough to cry for in the first place. I get it, he's a wimpy underdog and sometimes he does heroic things. Just because the show shoves that down my throat constantly isn't going to somehow make me feel for him.

ItsXolo said:
How do you guys actually manage to get emotional during all these episodes? It's so forced and overdone. Like at least 50% of the runtime in each episode is forced melodrama scenes revolving around an MC I don't even like enough to cry for in the first place. I get it, he's a wimpy underdog and sometimes he does heroic things. Just because the show shoves that down my throat constantly isn't going to somehow make me feel for him.

Tokoya said:
Nah, The Sports Festival is when it really starts to change

Fai said:
The more I think about it the more it is obvious that so far the whole show has been repeating same pattern:

- Have something happen
- Have MC feel bad and wimp out crying
- Cue forced emotional scene.

I have no idea why this episode took a whole episode - it was already obvious he passed. There was no need for the scene him pathetically crying in his room and all that shit .

This show just feels like it is searching for reasons to have MC cry so somebody else can have an uplifting speech to him so the narrative can shallowly try to tug at viewer emotions with manufactured drama. Removing that saves time and removing all sobbing makes MC more bearable and lets the show get to the point without the forced fluff faster.

Fai said:
This continues to be by-the-book derivative shonen filled with cliches beyond even definition of cringe.

Literally not even single thing in the episode surprised me and most of the time it felt like I am watching early Nardo episodes...and thats not a good thing for a show that is supposedly second coming of jesus christ.

The MC is still unbearably whiny and annoying tryhard goodie two shoes with no redeeming qualities, the world is still poorly fleshed out and boringly black and white (superheroes and villains y'all!) and there's nothing to make this different from ten thousand shonen shows that already exist.

If this was in anyway good show, we could maybe deal with the idea of destruction that "superheroes" cause and how unrealistically taxing it is for the normal people and the world. We would get actual politics and social commentary about idea of superhero and how nothing is clearcut black and white and how foolish the idea itself is, but nope. Instead we have annoying whiny crybaby trying to git gud for four episodes already. There's nothng even resembling plot or meta-commentary or mystery. Cringe, cringe cringe.

So far this feels like I watched the same episode four times. And there's no real feel or hook that would make this feel like it's own thing. Its hard to drop the show halfway but if next episode does not do anything interesting, this is it for me.

This takes the superhero coat and puts it on generic shonen narrative. It would not be as insulting if shows like Tiger&Bunny, Concrete Revolutio or Samurai Flamenco did not exist, or if Bones was not doing conrevo's second season right now, but the fact at how by the book straightforward this is is just so annoying. Watching something as generic and boring as this just after pondering deep philosophical questions and meta narrative presented in Conrevo episode and just as you are waiting for show of the season, Re:Zero is the worst.

2/5 for the episode.

Fai said:
This continues to be by-the-book derivative shonen filled with cliches beyond even definition of cringe.

Literally not even single thing in the episode surprised me and most of the time it felt like I am watching early Nardo episodes...and thats not a good thing for a show that is supposedly second coming of jesus christ.

The MC is still unbearably whiny and annoying tryhard goodie two shoes with no redeeming qualities, the world is still poorly fleshed out and boringly black and white (superheroes and villains y'all!) and there's nothing to make this different from ten thousand shonen shows that already exist.

If this was in anyway good show, we could maybe deal with the idea of destruction that "superheroes" cause and how unrealistically taxing it is for the normal people and the world. We would get actual politics and social commentary about idea of superhero and how nothing is clearcut black and white and how foolish the idea itself is, but nope. Instead we have annoying whiny crybaby trying to git gud for four episodes already. There's nothng even resembling plot or meta-commentary or mystery. Cringe, cringe cringe.

So far this feels like I watched the same episode four times. And there's no real feel or hook that would make this feel like it's own thing. Its hard to drop the show halfway but if next episode does not do anything interesting, this is it for me.

This takes the superhero coat and puts it on generic shonen narrative. It would not be as insulting if shows like Tiger&Bunny, Concrete Revolutio or Samurai Flamenco did not exist, or if Bones was not doing conrevo's second season right now, but the fact at how by the book straightforward this is is just so annoying. Watching something as generic and boring as this just after pondering deep philosophical questions and meta narrative presented in Conrevo episode and just as you are waiting for show of the season, Re:Zero is the worst.

2/5 for the episode.

tsudecimo said:
Amazing OST and animation. But they really are doing this way too slow, this could have happened in half of an episode.

Doesn't this mean I won't see


Because that sucks.


It won't get better. Just drop it.

tsudecimo said:
Amazing OST and animation. But they really are doing this way too slow, this could have happened in half of an episode.

Doesn't this mean I won't see


Because that sucks.

Xenocrisi said:

Who knows it? Do you? Because I don't.

GhostofSide6 said:
Waaaaait a sec...

So a character who is prominently green and is also often ridiculed for being powerless is trained by a charismatic teacher with a fearless smile who admires him for his perseverance, hard work, and courage, and acquires that teacher's signature ability, which grants him a huge power boost that severely hurts his own body. He only ever uses this ability for the sake of other people.

I now realize why i'm enjoying this series so much!
It's Rock Lee: The Anime! Holy shit!

_Rodrigo said:
The episode was nice! Can anyone tell me if at some point the Anime gets darker, with deaths and things like that.

fatalystic said:
Well, most people would consider it one of the most cliche developments ever so I just skipped over it to find the next best one.

Fai said:
This takes the superhero coat and puts it on generic shonen narrative. It would not be as insulting if shows like Tiger&Bunny, Concrete Revolutio or Samurai Flamenco did not exist, or if Bones was not doing conrevo's second season right now, but the fact at how by the book straightforward this is is just so annoying. Watching something as generic and boring as this just after pondering deep philosophical questions and meta narrative presented in Conrevo episode and just as you are waiting for show of the season, Re:Zero is the worst.

Janeel said:
just a thought..will he die on the spot if he happens to use any muscle from his chest or any other muscle closer to any of his vital organs like what happened to his arm and legs...??

G_Spark233 said:

It might be possible but I don't see a reason why Midoriya would be thrusting his chest at people.

ItsXolo said:
MC continues to be incredibly unlikable.

Honestly the show is getting difficult just to sit through.

I really don't understand what the author was thinking when he decided "Yeah I'll make the MC of my battle shounen be a constant crying, nervous, shaky mess in literally every scene that he has. That'll make people like him!"

I mean I guess he was hoping that we would sympathize with him and want to see him succeed, but all it's done for me is make it so I can't stand it any time he's on screen, which almost the whole show.

The production values are great and all, but it's really wasted on this source material.

ItsXolo said:
How do you guys actually manage to get emotional during all these episodes? It's so forced and overdone. Like at least 50% of the runtime in each episode is forced melodrama scenes revolving around an MC I don't even like enough to cry for in the first place. I get it, he's a wimpy underdog and sometimes he does heroic things. Just because the show shoves that down my throat constantly isn't going to somehow make me feel for him.

ItsXolo said:
How do you guys actually manage to get emotional during all these episodes? It's so forced and overdone. Like at least 50% of the runtime in each episode is forced melodrama scenes revolving around an MC I don't even like enough to cry for in the first place. I get it, he's a wimpy underdog and sometimes he does heroic things. Just because the show shoves that down my throat constantly isn't going to somehow make me feel for him.

mrkm said:
People keep saying this as if they don't expect some kid with no superpowers that wants to be a hero growing up in a world filled with them to develop a massive inferiority complex. .

OmniKaiser said:


We do understand why he is like this.
But understanding = / = not annoying.

I understand why mosquitoes bite us, but that's still annoying as f*ck.

keragamming said:
Alright episode. Kinda hope this underdog phase dies out soon with the main character acting all wimpy and gloomy with his over exaggerated face. If it moves away from this boring drama phase then I can see this getting better. But for now this is average.

ttcchen said:
huh?

mrkm said:
If Midoriya were to not be a wimp you do realize that would require a major re-structuring of the plot, right? It would turn out way different. Without his cowardice there is no wall to overcome, and overall it would just remove the human element from Midoriya that makes it easier to empathize with him. It's because he's a coward that can't confidently overcome any obstacle that myself and a lot of people like him and it naturally makes people want to root for him. It would end up being a lot less emotionally impactful. A confident protagonist would certainly be less annoying for some, but personally I'd find it equally more boring at the same time.

Like, I'd rather watch an underdog struggle and angst (maybe, depends on writing) than a naturally, incredibly talented person steamroll others, though that form of writing does have its own appeal. Souma does the steamrolling thing in an entertaining fashion that I can get behind, whereas shit like SAO just annoys the fuck out of me infinitely more than the "wimpy protagonists" cliche.