Boku no Hero Academia 2nd Season Episode 9 Discussion

Noctur said:
I felt this episode was pretty cliche, especially with the Uraraka vs Bakugo fight. Nice characterization for her though.

j0x said:
can quirks evolved? i want to see Uraraka's quirk to evolve to a gravity manipulator quirk that will make her more powerful than just float things around

Animayham said:
So i'm still loss as to why Bakugo didn't just blast the girl once and send her out the ring rather than play games with her

millo said:
damnnn i was rooting sooooo hard for uraraka!!! Best fight so far too bad uraraka lose :'( :'( :'(

I hate that Bakugo is clearly the author's favorite and he will win this and has the character development that will make people think he's cooler and cooler and vulnerable and everything, fucking bullshit if the author likes him that much why didnt he just make Bakugo the main character, cocky guy like him annoys me so bad, Todoroki is cooler than him in every way.

*sorry for the rant lol im still emotional over uraraka's lost while typing that hahaha*

Yasuhito said:
Seriously, what's with the crappy animation in every fight scene? the brightness fades to black and makes it frustrating to watch. Also is it just me or is the pacing very slow? 21 episodes covering just over 33 chapters..

enginesofdemise said:
Does being a female in this series just automatically mean you lose any fight in the most humiliating way possible? lol
I guess thats just a shounen thing in general, makes sense given the target audience

Animayham said:
So i'm still loss as to why Bakugo didn't just blast the girl once and send her out the ring rather than play games with her

yhunata said:
Oh damn, it's the cringe match next week.

ttcchen said:
i dont see how this episode is cliche. If u r talking about her loss, then that's to be expected because the difference between their quirks is just too great, but she did put up a great fight despite facing the demon villain-like rival of the mc who also scored second highest in the entrance exam and even the mc has a difficult time fighting when faced with him. If u r talking about the matchup, then its not cliche at all. How many animes have you seen the mc's rival face off with the main girl? Never! Sasuke vs sakura?? Never!
This anime is a cliche breaker. It will break many shounen tropes and blow ur mind.

lieznerf said:

Troll post spotted

Noctur said:
It's understandable that she loses and the matchup against Bakugo has no relevance to this at all, but it's the way the fight is handled which is what is cliche to me. Uraraka running at Bakugo for seemingly no reason but then having a master-plan, the audience yelling at Bakugo for going too hard on him but then he's actually being respectful is something I'm sure any shounen watcher has seen before (Naruto vs Konohamaru), She still tries to fight even though she's passed her limits (This one isn't as bad but you see the same thing from Lee vs Gaara lmao, or HxH in the volleyball match). That's what I'm talking about in terms of cliche. How was it a great fight? Wasn't even close and it just showed us Uraraka's backstory again and that she shouldn't be underestimated. There were other aspects in the episode which were cliche, mainly relating to script but I'll keep that for later. Am looking forward to it being better though :)

Li0n said:
BnHA becoming a great anime. Great episode. How far behind the manga are they?

Noctur said:
It's understandable that she loses and the matchup against Bakugo has no relevance to this at all, but it's the way the fight is handled which is what is cliche to me. Uraraka running at Bakugo for seemingly no reason but then having a master-plan, the audience yelling at Bakugo for going too hard on him but then he's actually being respectful is something I'm sure any shounen watcher has seen before (Naruto vs Konohamaru), She still tries to fight even though she's passed her limits (This one isn't as bad but you see the same thing from Lee vs Gaara lmao, or HxH in the volleyball match). That's what I'm talking about in terms of cliche. How was it a great fight? Wasn't even close and it just showed us Uraraka's backstory again and that she shouldn't be underestimated. There were other aspects in the episode which were cliche, mainly relating to script but I'll keep that for later. Am looking forward to it being better though :)

Yasuhito said:
Seriously, what's with the crappy animation in every fight scene? the brightness fades to black and makes it frustrating to watch. Also is it just me or is the pacing very slow? 21 episodes covering just over 33 chapters..

enginesofdemise said:
Does being a female in this series just automatically mean you lose any fight in the most humiliating way possible? lol
I guess thats just a shounen thing in general, makes sense given the target audience

GoldenDevilGamer said:
So far the anime adapted 37 chapters, and there's 139 chapters out.

Lion-sama said:


Thank you. After this season finishes, how many chapters do you think will be covered? Looking forward to picking up the manga in a few weeks.

ttcchen said:

Isn't she running towards him to make him think that she aims to touch him to activate her quirk, so he'll blast her away and make all those debris, and also to use the smokescreen and his focus on her to levitate and keep those debris in the air? As for Bakugo being respectful, it's because it's Bakugo that makes it overwhelming. Because he's shown as a violent guy who shows no mercy to anyone, so everyone thinks he's just playing with her, but showing him actually taking her seriously and is being cautious is showing us a in-depth understanding of him. it's a reasonable development; it's not cliche. Then trying to fight even after passing her limit may be used by many animes, it is a reasonable cliche. It shows the character as being so determined and unwilling to give up, it shows their will of fire. And what's the three element of a shounen series? Friendship. Determination. and Success (Bakuman). So you really can't complain about seeing determination in a shounen series, because that's to be expected and you're just asking for it when watching a shounen series. Can't help it.

It's a great fight because Uraraka didn't just give up or lose after one or two hits, like many audience believes, and her classmates (Jirou, Kaminari, Tsuyu...etc) thinking she has no chance. And the anime watchers too! But instead, she showed all of you how much of a badass she is by standing back up again and again after getting hit with explosions right in the face and pulling a neat trick and almost getting Bakugo (him saying that was a close one and we see a close up shot of his arm shaking). If she has greater limit to the amount of weight her quirk can hold, then she might actually end up winning (don't say it's impossible, if she has more weight limit, she can hold the debris at different heights, and make the first bunch fall, and right after bakugo blast them away, let the second bunch fall...and etc. Continue doing that until he's exhausted, and then use a debris she's hiding near the ground (since bakugo's attention is in the sky now) and control it to hit the back of his head. So it's definitely possible for Uraraka to defeat Bakugo with her quirk. In bnha, what determines the result of a fight isn't a person's gender, but his or her quirk. Therefore uraraka's fight is definitely a great fight, and I enjoy it much more than I did for kaminari vs ibara for example. Just because she lost in the end doesn't mean it's not a great fight.

nick_el_son said:

Totally agree.

However, why expect to be otherwise? - Every shounen anime is more or less full of cliches, especially regarding fights. I'm not talking about fight techniques itself but, as you have already mentioned, how fights are handled in overall, motivations, fight "spirits", etc. These elements are countlessly repeating in all shounens.

That's why it hell hard to create a unique show.

Noctur said:
Right you're mixing it up a little. Of course her actions in the fight are justified and reasonable(i.e trying to activate her quirk and whatnot) but it's the fact that there have been so many similar situations in other shounens which is what makes it 'cliche' as I mentioned. It's the same thing with Bakugo- presented as the villain but actually respects his opponents. I'm not too concerned with why everything happens in the show because most of it is understandable, however it doesn't excuse the fact that a lot of it is cookie cutter stuff from other shounen. "It's a reasonable development; it's not cliche" Reasonable? Yes? Cliche? Yes - so many other shounens present this idea lmao and in such a similar fashion (Refer to previous comment for example). The way determination is shown/used is a little bit of a pet peeve, and it is to be expected. But in anime such as HxH and FMAB they don't utilize this in such a way and are the best shounens in existence (of course that's my opinion but I'm sure many will agree). Specifically having Uraraka try to fight whilst going past her limits is something I felt that I'd seen so many times before - therefore calling it cliche.
It’s not that I misunderstand why everything happens, it’s because I’ve seen similar things many times before.
In regards to the fight I, myself knew that it’d be something like this. They hyped it up and made it seem like she had no chance which was a dead giveaway. Also just because she proved the characters wrong doesn’t mean she proved everyone wrong (i.e anime watchers) Bakugo still blew her out of the water. Sure she showed how badass she was and how motivated she was to help her family- which is why I said there was some nice characterisation. But the fight for the most part was one sided with a small chance of Bakugo messing up and losing. It’s exactly because the fights are determined by quriks which is what annoys me – better quirk means a clear victor, as you say. When you compare it to fights like that, of course this fight is great, but do you think it’ll be anywhere near as good as Deku vs Todoroki? Doubt it.

nurBAW said:
speechless, really awesome matched between bakugo and uraraka...

btw, anyone shipping these two? I thought they would look cute together