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Anime has had a history of how they portray female characters to say the least.

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What still shocks me is that they’re better written than Naruto….

Honest to god I stopped watching mha because the constant sexualisation of Momo annoyed me. Also Bakugo’s dialogue was corny.

Ok I'll be honest i hate mineta completely he's the reason i skip some episodes and the funny thing is that firstly we hate him cause his a pervert but we like the vilains for what reason? they're more interesting and secondly how the fuck wasn't toga mentioned cause like have you seen what happens after the drast of the blood ends it's just a wtf thing that i skip

i haven't been properly in the haikyuu fandom in YEARS ever since the boom of fans it had in 2020, but watching this video really makes me wanna get back into the show after so long! i thoroughly enjoyed the nuances you gave when it came to yachi and kiyoko's respective characterizations and how nicely you summed it all up. and i completely agreed with some of the takes you made when it came to kiyoko's slightly unfortunate earlier and later appearances. kiyoko and yachi were both some of the main reasons why i really loved/still love haikyuu due to just how well it handled them both, so i may have been a little biased going into this video however i still really appreciated how you calmly criticized certain aspects that haikyuu could've (and honestly should've) improved when it came to kiyoko! overall, i really enjoyed this video, so seriously thank you for this !!!

*Midnight dies in episode 120 Ladyineia: Wow, anyway.

cope and seethe westoid

All my friends who like Haikyuu are girls actually

As a male who likes boobs and butts, generally having boobs and butts aggressively *shoved* in my face as done in a lot of these shots is kind of annoying and uncomfortable

Eu ainda tenho esperança de uma nova temp e um filme...

Is this anime sexist? Yes

Gotta love how whenever male characters get scenes of fanservice, no one bats an eye, but when there's female fanservice, people start freaking out (why call it fanservice at that point), especially considering this is a show that's, in a way "fair game" with its fanservice, showing it for both the male and female characters. The whole female characters not being as developed technically applies to a lot of the male characters since this show's method is focus in this character in one arc, then those characters on another arc, essentially picking a character at random in each arc or episode and deciding to develop them there. A lot of this video feels like making a big deal out of nothing or at least nothing non-major

🌟 hahah

You love a show that in your mind contributes towards women being mistreated? A womens mind is always an interesting thing Also that "objectifying a character" is funny since they are already objects. Every character is an object. Again a womens mind is an interesting thing...

This video is the reason why we should gatekeep our anime community. Basically, Karen comes to the chocolate factory and demands that it produce bubbles.

>Male Gaze Well, the author is a man. What kind of gaze do you think he should have? A woman's? The whole video, it's just woke nonsense with buzz worlds. I don't see the slightest bit of constructive criticism about why liking sexuality in women is a bad thing.

like all of this! Kiyoko marrying Tanaka is, for me, really odd! I would love to see her with one of the 3rd year guys like Asahi. I think this would match a whole lot more in character and vibe. Tanaka is really not a fit for me for her!

You should put music in the background

27:35 You could’ve at least provided evidence that proves this. Not backing this claim up with some evidence kinda lessens the whole impact of this video’s point

When character development of a side character goes outside of the main character's story for their own personal growth:

at the part where you said after 3 years being in high school and Kiyoko hasn't talked to anyone or deeply connected with, the subject isn't something for you. I have been in high school for some time time and I've always been shy, finding a friend to fully connect with is like finding water in a desert. It's always been so hard because in the end I find myself distance, I've come to terms with it and I can see that in Kiyoko. I think what really pushed Kiyoko to become friends with Yachi is because Kiyoko is the one who needs to step up to teach her the ways to become the new manager, Yachi being very quirky and makes Kiyoko laugh probably eases her mind, but in the end it's still about their chemistry. Kiyoko found Yachi comfortable to be with is enough for them to be great friends and Kiyoko opening up. I get that in Kiyoko, I also only have one friend I truly connected with.

if you can animate the entire world heroes movie witch has sick as fuck animation you can animate chubby girls

“Is MHA sexist?” 100% without a doubt. I only ever see yaoi fanart of this goddamn show. Y’all women gotta pick up the pace fr

Kuroko no basket over the top? I'd like to see a female version of that too, where the swag level if off the charts, it'd be a good chance to show off some extreme personalities.

It sucks because I really thought the series was going to use female characters well early on, even as the series started to focus on its main three Also, lmao at the One Piece "stick with boobs" bit, so true

a) i absolutely adore the women in this show b) i would love to get more depth to any of these girls, and just a suggestion, maybe in the future a side manga can be written about the second year, more of a romance story, about tanaka and kyoko, while nishinoya gets the world travel idea and where it comes from, seeing tadashi gets nominated to be the next captain for the third year, maybe even have a game where he has to get in as a sub captain during the 2nd year (wouldn't that be an AMAZING match???), in this story we could see washijo and hinata meet again after the nationals for the first time, the admiration of washijo showing <3 <3 <3 there is a lot to work with here. c) yachi could get way more light regarding her father and where is he, her mother, her future romantic partner. d) i demand a resolution to sayaka love life, who would she end up with? isn't the fact that she gets to meet all these wondeful adults who support the karasuno team could be a potential partner? i was sure it would go that way, i imagined she would end up with glasses dude, the guy who teaches tadashi

Finding the trailer after knowing that the movie got cancelled years ago and then searching to find your video about the trailer to see more YOI videos 🥺🖤

I know it has nothing to do with the video but could you talk about mushoko tensei (now if it's a bad anime...I'll leave that as a surprise for you)

OMG you put Touya and Yukito there as well 🥹🙌🏽🖤 Cardcaptor Sakura has been my favourite anime since childhood and I never thought a 12-episode sports miniseries would come along and challenge the throne of Touya+Yuki 🤌🏾

I’m gonna say this as a fan of both shows….MHA kinda has the same problems as Naruto does with its female characters. Minus the constant sexualizing and making up dumb excuses just to justify the overly sexualized outfit for Naruto. And because I love Naruto and the female characters: I’m NOT above pointing out the shit ton of wasted potential with the female characters. MHA would be pretty much treated the same way. There’s kinda reason FMA female characters stood out as being so damn good. They weren’t overly sexual, they were diverse in personalities, and were shown to be just as capable as the men were even if it wasn’t on the battlefield (like with Winry). I attribute that to the fact that both MHA and Naruto were created by men and FMA was created by a woman. If that’s not proof we need more women running the show behind anime I don’t what does.

I think as a cis heterosexual male that mineta’s whole character is designed to be hated. Not to be funny or anything. The show makes it clear that mineta is a bad person and that he is clearly a perverted person. It is just one of the many flaws in hero society according to stain. Stain says that to be a hero it is not enough to do heroic things but to also think heroically and to do heroic things for the right reasons. Hero society just cares on the practicality of people. But mineta is always criticized, although not enough sometimes, and people only put up with hime because he can be of help (a few times). I sincerely think he should be in prison and what he said to Eri was straight up illegal. It was like if one of the boys deepest and darkest jokes when they are drunk is said seriously. I think that there is some male gaze but it is not as evident as in other shows. For me personally I think that female characters are a bit underdeveloped but because they are not the center of attention, they are not the protagonists. But some of them like Jiro or Uraraka are given the same development as for example IIda or Tokoyami. The thing with Uraraka is that she is reduced mostly to Deku’s love interest. I think that trope is really bad and in this case it is a bit better handled because it is used her love for Deku as an inspiration for the kind of hero she wants to be. Me personally I see every character as such. Also I just think that if it is fiction, we can right and make our characters to look like we would like to be. Like most men are represented as fit and lean and all of that because every man would like to be like that. I don’t think that any woman would aspire to be ugly or anything. When they are pretty that’s when the minds of the degenerates start going and sexualizing the characters (r34 is disgusting). The sexualization of women is bad but there is a justification and there is also implied it is bad, let it be.

40 minute yap session

before even watching this, i just wanna say i like that the title has the guts to answer its own question instead of just ending at the "?"

Tbh i didn't even know there was trans characters in MHA even though i watched mha

In my head Kiyoko marries Yachi and Tanaka marries Kanoka the end

This is where Avatar: The Last Airbender succeeds where My Hero Academia fails. The way these two shows portray their female characters are for the most part completely opposite. The girls from class 1A and the main ATLA cast are pretty close in age. And yet one show manages to dignify their women, not just with their character designs but also with how truly impactful they were to the story. And yeah, sexist characters in ATLA do exist, mainly Sokka and Pakku, but unlike the men characters in MHA that degrade women, these characters have development and change their views on how they should view and treat women. Not that ATLA was perfect with this, it does sexualize Ty Lee (a 15 year old) in a weird way in one or two episodes, and I wont excuse that. However that is more of an exception than the rule. You could show me a scene sexualizing Ty Lee and I show you 1000 that sexualize the 15 year old girls in MHA. Its not like the female characters in MHA are Mary Sues either. They have flaws and weaknesses, but they dont let those things define who they are. If anything, these flaws tend to *enhance* their character rather than make them worse.

I started watching MHA *MANY* years ago when I was around middle school, but I lost interest in it fairly quickly. Now idk if I should've tried continuing or if I did something good by stopping early on. (I think the last episode of it that I remember watching was Deku not getting hurt for the first time when using his quirk)

As soon as I watched the first episode and saw Mt. Lady twerk at the camera and say something like "Happy to make your Ass-quantance 😏" thats when I knew this show was going to largely treat its female cast like little more than objects or plot pieces. Sidenote, if Mineta's character never existed I wouldve enjoyed the show a little bit more. The dude is useless, has a weak quirk, and his entire personality is sexualizing the women in the show on a constant basis. And rarely does anyone put him in check outside of like a bonk on the head. Even the other male students rarely step in, like I would at least expect guys like Iida, Deku or especially Kirishima to be like dude wth? Whats worse is that his comments are meant to be taken as jokes. Im not even a woman and I find his lines to be disgusting more than anything else.

So I have an issue with BONES studio, the way the manga for mha was gave all the girls rolls and in the anime ruined that

Unpopular opinion but as an old as hetalia fan (was into it 2009-2011) the nonsensical way the episodes ran where each episode had a ton of short parts of each story was a nice nod to the original way the manga was released considering it was all little comics all posted in a similar way. Just bits and pieces here and there

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6:00 this stuff happening in anime isnt really the patriarchy........its just mainly that sex sells and thats a priority, to sell ur product

It is possible to write female characters that are both deliberately sexy and very empowered, but it's kind of disappointing that Bayonetta is the go-to example of this when that game franchise is over a decade old. Also, I loved the Jaws-style warning of the oncoming Mineta section... 😆There's enough people in the world that someone, somewhere has probably laughed at one of his scenes, but I've never met one of them. Maybe there's an edit that just excises him from the show? ✨

"the inherent horniness you're going to have with a large group of teenage boys" - in that age it's NOT okay to be like that; and the fact that they're boys is not an excuse at all. They are almost adults, and they should control themselves. Women chest shouldn't be objectivated in the first place!

One of the the things that I’ll say as a cis straight woman is that I at least appreciate the diversity in body shapes between the girls. As you mentioned, this can and should more often than not just be a trait we recognize visually but that has no exuberant amount of attention drawn to it. But yeah. I appreciate that Jiro is more slender and has a smaller chest. Uraraka is a bit curvier and smaller in stature. Momo is very curvy and has a large chest. Mina has a sorta large chest but more subtle curves. Tsu has a more average sized chest and a more athletic looking body.

No shot the last video of yours i saw was prince of stride lol

can we get some #ihatemineta in the chat?