Is My Hero Academia Sexist? Yes
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- What is My Hero Academia's biggest flaw? It's the way the series treats its female characters. I explore the sexualization and characterization of the women of MHA, like Ochako Uraraka and Momo Yaoyorozu in comparison to characters like Deku, Bakugou, and Todoroki.
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00:00 - Introduction
04:16 - Part One: The Male Gaze
05:20 - "Fanservice," Huh?
08:30 - Mt. Lady, Her Butt, and the Story
11:02 - Bubble Girl Why
14:12 - I Don't Care for Midnight
16:13 - Meaningful "Realism" (CW for sexual assault and rape)
18:35 - Oh, sweet Momo
22:09 - The Worst Character in MHA
28:35 - Part Two: Underdevelopment
28:49 - Uraraka Deserves Better (And I Can't Pronounce Her Name, I Know and I'm Sorry)
31:21 - Mina Deserves Better
31:53 - NEIJIRE DESERVES BETTER
33:04 - Anime Only Issues
33:51 - Too Plotty for the Ladies
36:15 - Conclusion
37:56 - Chit Chat
39:04 - Secret Meme Ending
Reading on the male gaze:
- Laura Mulvey's 1975 essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," which introduced the idea of male gaze in film: www.asu.edu/courses/fms504/to....
- I highly recommend all of John Berger's BBC documentary series Ways of Seeing, but especially episode 2 on the female nude: • John Berger / Ways of ... . I also recommend the book version of Ways of Seeing, also by Berger.
- Judith Mayne's 1981 essay "The Woman at the Keyhole: Women's Cinema and Feminist Criticism": www.jstor.org/stable/487935.
- bell hooks' "The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators" from her book Black Looks: Race and Representation:
pages.ucsd.edu/~bgoldfarb/cog....
- Tania Modleski's book The Women who Knew Too Much about Hitchcock's films. I don't have a link for the whole book, but you can read a preview on Google Books: www.google.com/books/edition/.... - Zábava
"So uh.. Eraserhead, right? What did you say your power was again?"
"The male gaze."
This is so fucking funny
May you tell me what Eraserhead did "wrong" that my man deserves it? ):
yo can I steal this joke for a skit?
@@LGC14 nothing at all lol
it's just cause his power is vision based, aka "gaze" based, so it fit well
also I really just wrote out the joke that happens around 4:25 in the vid, so it ain't even my idea
@@imannami just wrote out the joke op made visually at around 4:25 so better ask them lol
Momo's power is honestly funnier if her costume opened from the back instead of the chest. Like she just randomly reaches behind her back and pulls out something that was definitely not behind her back
That sounds like it would be hilarious, why didn't they go for that? (easy answer, TiTtIeS)
It’d be like a really cool backpack!
Yeah like what if she had like a stage magician aesthetic with how she creates things out of thin air
Proceeds to pull the Glock from her back
She just pulls out a comically long string of sausages
my biggest issue with uraraka’s sidelining is that she and iida were first shown with deku as the main trio but then both were sidelined for bakugo and todoroki with deku
They are just more popular and easier to use, cant really blame the author.
how are they easier to use like i can see the popularity but at the same time if iida and uraraka had remained apart of the main trio they mightve been more popular
@@MyNameIsNotSteve their powers are more flashy,that's mostly it, how cool are explosions and ice and fire compared to what they got? If you wanna create hype its easier to use the ones that actually have something to use for hype.
@@andrewacacia9851 i see ur point but Iida can easily generate hype too cause his is also pretty flashy (not as flashy as bakugo or todoroki): giant flames coming out his legs and while uraraka doesnt have something visually flashy her quirk allows for more unique combat rather then what todoroki or bakugo offer on another note just because a character is more popular or “easier to use” (which is a dumb way to put it uraraka and iida arent difficult to use but i understand what ur saying) doesnt mean that the main trio should be switched up in aot Levi is super popular but he isnt part of the main trio neither is gojo in jujustu kaisen or kakashi in naruto they remain close to the group but they dont take over as a member of the main trio
Well I really like that bakugo is in there he has history with the MC so it makes sense.
There is one Mineta joke that made me genuinely laugh: during the school festival, he realizes he can't play the guitar and he blames it on his character design being too short. It's funny because it's a 4th wall break.
.....and then it's ruined immediately by Ashido comforting him by saying she'll give him a harem. What the hell was up with that
Well, i think Ashido means she will let everyone ( girls maybe) to dance around him, make him the center of attention, showed in that music show video( i think, i don't remember). Also sorry for bad english.
The only thing with Mineta that makes me laugh is that Aizawa gets on his knees just to talk with him eye-to-eye
I just like when other characters hurt him, like when he grabbed Tsu’s boob and she drowned him
what's up with that is that she's extremely based
@@chefgreasypaw7816 oof, but real
What is more baffling about Momo's ability (reinforcing that it is all "fan service") is that while she is producing sometimes extremely large objects like cannons, her breast NEVER SHRINK. If she is converting the "lipids"/fat cells in her body to make other things.... well.... she should lose "fat" mass in the areas where she uses those transformations.
Take Fat Gum for example. He also manipulates fat though in a different way and when he burns through that in his energy conversion, he becomes skinny and needs to eat it back up. Funny isnt it, how Momo or any part of her does not shrink... ever.... even a little
especially since she dosn't appear to have any other fat resevers. I haven't watched MHA, so i don't know if there is any in-universe explaniation, but if she creates stuff from her body fat, it would also have made sense to make her fat
@@normalaboutpathologic
Well, she basically eats a lot, and theres no time to the lipids accumulate to form fat because she uses them to form stuff, thats why.
Maybe it’s because the quirk relies more on stomach fat than breast fat
To be fair, MHA is not scientific. Neither does it pretend to be. It's a fan-service-y shounen. There are characters who are constantly on fire yet their skin isn't melting as they scream in pain.
You have to take some liberties when it comes to this stuff. It doesn't really do any good to criticize the story for something like this.
@@habama1077oh boy do I have news for you about Dabi-
There is absolutely nothing that can be said to justify Mineta sexualizing a SIX YEAR OLD
Wasn't that shit mistranslated, It was never supposed to be sexualization. It was a statement that was mistranslated and sounded even worse coming outta Mineta's mouth because.... well... he's Mineta
Mineta is a bad person that's his whole purpose the school pervert.
@@CantHandleThis6
People don't understand that Mineta is seen as awful.
@@elongatedmanforever1252 Yeah he is awful but that doesn't change the fact that he's pretty well written and is also one of the most competent member of the class as the only person with a 5/5 intelligence stat only beaten by momo with her 6/5. His Hype moments are also really good, People just tend to hate him for his pervertedness and ignore the rest of his character. He's a coward but can get stuff done when he needs to
which is why i love him (Wish he would dial back his depraved side tho, act more like kaminari in a sense)
I also find it ironic that male authors treat their female characters this way but get puzzled when fans start shipping two male characters that actually had development together (I’m looking at you naruto)
I see this with fans too. They hate the people who ship the main gay ship (aka the only two characters with any kind of personality) but when you ask them why they ship the canon het ship it always boils down to “because it’s canon”. These female characters aren’t love interests, they’re accessories.
Maybe they ship the canon ship because. Its just canon its the way it is so to speak. Also i dont think a lot of shonen watchers really care about romance. I know i sure dont care about it
I mean Naruto literally kissed Sasuke. If you're denying that Naruto has some bi energy going on I don't know what to say to you. 😂
boy x girl in anime: worst romance
boy x boy: masterpiece bromance
no. nothing to do with it. people will always force gay relationships with no hinting towards it just for the fun of it
It’s not even the gender itself, it’s the fact that their minors💀
@Elliott-__- You have to realize that the age of consent isn’t 18 all over the world. In fact, it’s only 18 in some parts of the U.S.
The only reason it’s 18 to begin with is because that’s when most BOYS stop developing.
Girls stop developing physically much sooner. At around 15-16 more or less.
If we’re talking mental maturity, then it _should_ be 25 to 26. Maybe early twenties it you want to stretch it.
If this is the case, then even 18 isn’t a suitable age.
There is just no number that the world can agree with. Quite frankly, you would be better off just treating them as fictional characters and not thinking about it.
can i be honest? as a person who complains a lot abt that stuff going on with fictional characters, i realized that as soon as at happens with a guy (like spongbob for a example,) nobody seems to care. ppl in japan are basically just doing the same thing we do in the west, but with girls. and honestly, im not saying either is okay but just the way we normalize certain things.
I think mb the reason why we get angry when girls are fanserviced in anime in comparision to guys is mostly cuz one, girls are sexualized a lot in our society, and two, cuz its realistic unlike in other cartoons.
@@moistfist1054 1. i can kind of see where your coming from. and i feel like if a show is gonna have fanservice, it at least has to be equal. cause honestly if its just girls being fanserviced it feels like its not even meant to be funny but meant for sexual purposes, which is why ppl tend to get angry.
2. if you genuinely simp for a fictional character that looks like a little kid, your a pedophile in my opinion. why? bc its a fictional depiction of a kid, so that implies that the person likes kids irl.
3. kinda related to the last one, if a mangaka is gonna have fanservice it depends on their intent. if their doing it cause they genuinely like kids irl, then thats really weird. but if their doing it to be funny ig its fine, bc its not real anyways
@Elliott-__- Idk what this person said but theyre dumb. Justifying sexualizing kids with the age of consent is stupid. It means they would go lower if the law allowed it. Theyre still in schools so they shouldnt be sexualized thats universal logic.
Also, just to inform you, age of consent in japan cannot go lower than 14 according to state but each prefecture puts it at 18. So age of consent is 18 in japan.
@@battery_eater I wasn’t justifying why the age of consent should go lower. In fact, I said that it could be changed to the *mid-twenties* and would make more sense.
I don’t know why my comment got deleted.
This is why I LOVE Katara in Avatar The Last Airbender. A lot of the time in colder climates she's shown in clunky snow clothes, and the moments when she is shown as more of an attractive character is when Aang is realizing he likes her. And it's still practical outfits. It was like she was wearing a sports bra. AND she doesn't get sidelined. She has amazing development throughout the show. (As a plus, when Sokka is being sexist in the very first episode, it's addressed as wrong. And he improves.)
Edit: I also forgot about our girl Toph. She's amazing too!
This is also why I love women from attack on Titan. I bet you have heard many people say the same and it might be annoying to hear. But seriously, tell me a woman that’s so badly written because they’re not oversexualized? It proves a lot of points that a female character in anime doesn’t need to be sexualized, have huge boobs, big ass, big thighs, revealing clothes to be a good female character
@@yourbiologicalmom7608 Exactly! I like you :)
YES OMG!!
I absolutely LOVE Katara! She is such a badass and the writers did an amazing job with her! They never ONCE Sexualized her in anyway, and the moments when Aang was like going lovey dovey were done well! For example, She was in her normal outfit and she put on the necklace Aang made for her! That part was really well done!
And yes the beginning! I love how they addressed that the way Sokka was acting was kinda btchy, but he improved!
AVATAR STAYS ON TOPPPP ❤️❤️❤️
@@himaxx_x EXACTLYYYY
Mikasa @@yourbiologicalmom7608
Honestly, the fact that Shonen is aimed at young boys makes it even more important to present well rounded Women characters. Young boys are bombarded with poor portrayals of women and every chance to fight that is valuable.
Couldn’t put it any better!
Agree to disagree I feel like Shonen should imbrace proper representation but there not babysitting. Side note I feel like most people in MHA is sideline because of power difference. Example Overhaul arc was dealing with heavy hitters that likely won't push the female(student) cast without either easily defeating or relying on help.
i dont think shonen is really aimed at young boys just saying that like One Piece, Naruto and Dragon Ball arent that good either or any other shonen i know
i got an update for you Shonen isnt aimed for young boys its aimed for younger male people meaning teenager and young adults too so if its aimed for male people zthey dont need to do it for the youngest one they can do it for teenagers if they want to so your argument isnt really good
@@milkyjuice646 if people like you wouldnt give anime the fault for sexism you could see the actual reasons for sexism
One thing I hate is how the girls react to Mineta harassing them and touching them. They just get embarrassed and annoyed and then brush it off.
They don't think about it afterwards, they don't feel uncomfortable going to class, they don't have nightmares or flashbacks, they just forget about it.
That happens in other shows as well, not just MHA and it is so harmful for male viewers and invalidating for female viewers.
What I wouldn't give to see Momo just snap one day and beat the ever-loving shit out of that little creep
YES OMG THAT IS SO IMPORTANT!!!!!THESE WERE ALWAYS MY THOUGHTS AND THAT THIS WOULD ALSO SAY SOMETHIBG TO MEN AND BOYS. and i was right most boys really think its nothing that serious you think aboit every second you encounter a male. They toll me myself, and that actually just makes me scared more....
Literally exactly my thoughts while watching the show
God now I wanna see a Shounen where they introduce a character who seems like he'll be the resident pervert and catalyst of fanservice, but there's an arc dedicated to how his actions harm the girls around him and how they band together to get him booted. Consequences! Of! His! Actions!! Maybe there could even be reflections from the other guys about how they hadn't really questioned how complicit they were, and how they'll strive to be more thoughtful in the future
Yeah I get that it’s for humor and fanservice, everyone knows him as the class pervert so he’s whatever and that’s his usual actions but even that can be harmful to people’s minds making then think it’s okay to harass people.
Imagine little kids imitating the main character of their favorite movie after they watch that movie.
I loved uraraka when I watched mha back when it was popular in 2020-2021. She was really sweet, and even though so many people hated her because she only wanted to be a hero for the money (she had good intentions for that, plus she apologized if it sounded greedy, she never had any selfish intentions for wanting to be a hero) and because she liked deku. It’s disappointing how she isn’t highlighted in the show anymore like in the first few seasons.
How did people not like her for doing it for the money? That made me like her more. It sort of made her more human in a way.
lots of people didn't like her because she "got in the way" of their fetishized shoto x deku and bakugo x deku ships.
AS A TRANS MLM PERSON, WE ARE NOT YOUR TOYS TO BE PLAYED WITH AND OGLED AT.
It's sad but in the manga she is involved in a major fight.
I only ever disliked like her since I felt like a major personality was just her crush on deku, which was just annoying. And made her highly unlikeable when a major or even part of a character personality around there crush. I didn't dislike her for the fact she was being a hero for money. But... Her crush on deku was just annoying and I felt it was honestly over focused within the anime
It's criminal that she's a rival to Toga and not to Spinner. Hell, I don't think Uraraka has even seen Spinner in the entirety of the show. Spinner's whole deal is that he's a Stain supporter, and Uraraka's motive is literally the one thing Stain hates the most. It practically writes itself: "Person who hates heroes that work for money VS a hero that works for money." It would be perfect for progressing Spinner's character, while also giving Uraraka some more fight scenes of her own.
Instead she fights Toga... because they both crush on Deku? Good job authors. Make their fights about Deku, great idea.
Funfact: Hagakure is only a female because the author thought it was "funnier" for a female to be naked and invisible.
That's not fun just sad
horikoshi's such a degenerate
Where’s your resource? I’ve never heard of that.
@@seafairyellagachalife6689 even if there's no resource, knowing who the author is it already sounds true
Imagine kneeling to get something on ground and you accidentally get a whiff of the Hagakussy. Yep, the author was cooking
“Lust” from Fullmetal Alchemist is the perfect example of a sexy female character done right. She’s in full control of her sexuality and knows when to use it to her advantage AND she’s dangerous. She’s not some submissive shy girl who was given revealing clothes for the male gaze.
Big fan of Lust, and big fan of Fullmetal Alchemist. All the women in that series *chef's kiss*
Same for Esdeath from Akame Ga Kill
You know that's how female villains are right?
Helps that FMA was written by a woman.
@@ObaREX A woman and a proffesional writer. A little of fresh air in a industry made by young mysoginistic men
mineta being portrayed as a hero while being able to get away with sexually harassing and groping girls says a lot on its own.
While yes he is extremely perverted and I do agree with you. He is pretty well written and actually pretty competent with a intelligence of 5/5 (I think) only to be beaten by Momo with a 6/5. (Also in my opinion I think his hype moments were pretty good.) Overall I agree with you, he is extremely perverted and a coward, but I do want to say Mineta is a pretty well written character.
On Facebook so much creepy roae anime hentai Facebook groups and I rmeber some guy said if minetta was a bad guy all the girls would be r4ped and pregnant by now like wtfff
@@meapyboy12345 that’s not really the point of what they said though.
You can have a well written character but it’s still harmful if you portray sexual assault or constant objectification of women as a good thing. I would argue a good characterisation would actually critique that part of the character.
@@HiBuddyyyyyy okay
@@HiBuddyyyyyy Nobody displayed it as a good thing. As a matter of fact quite the opposite. People in universe fucking hate Mineta for good reason and he was literally tortured into giving up his perverted ways. So no, it's never portrayed as a good thing.
I remember a scene where Midnight or Mt. Lady explained that the reason they're outfits look sexy is because they need their body to be free and be able to move around. I asked myself "Wouldn't it be better for a binder to be implemented into your costume? Not for it to be skin tight"
I also fail to see how a BDSM themed outfit goes with sleeping. Whips and handcuffs sound like more crap to carry around when you need your hands free to use your quirk.
As far as Mt. Lady, hers is probably special just like permeation guy, I can't remember his name. Since she can grow so much it's unlikely they could make armor or anything like that to grow with her.
@isdrakon9802 I wanna know why we all accept that a naked fourteen year old girl as a character to begin with?
@@trparnell87 what do you mean
@isdrakon9802 I just question why everyone just accepts an underaged girl being naked as often as she is. Zero armor. None. And yet we expect her to go toe to toe with supervillians.
Just. Why isn't anyone questioning it?
I think that they should have made momo a little more fat because it would have made sense her quirk uses her fat stores to create stuff so naturally you would think she would want to gain weight because if she is skinny to the point to where she can’t use her quirk that would be bad especially if it happened in the middle of a fight
I don't get why they wouldn't do it like fat gum who like sheds the fat as he uses his powers
Eeee she’s using her fat to make stuff, so when she makes stuff her fat is getting used = her fat disappears
@@Hahahawahah So? Show her getting chubbier as she eats to gain the fat then back to a lesser weight when producing. She's shown EVERY scene to just be the same weight constantly. Fat doesn't work like that, especially if it's fluctuating a lot. Hell, she should realistically have stretch marks.
That doesn't really work well. She has to actually fight with whatever it is she makes from her fat stores. Fatgum gets away with it because he's effectively quirkless without accumulated fat. That reasoning doesn't work for her, because being overweight doesn't help her during a fight other than letting her make more things before running out of fat cells, but that comes with the massive downside that she'd be dramatically less effective at actually using any of the items she made to try to fight with. Fighting is one of the most physically exhausting activities a person can do, you don't want to be carrying around any more weight than is strictly necessary when you're doing that.
@@danielhounshell2526 I'd like to remind you the way quirks work don't actually make sense either. It's fictional. But if we were to say it mattered and it wasn't just people being scared of chubby girls - because we're not saying make her obese. These are two different concepts and concerns. The weight she's at now? Shouldn't produce anything. She doesn't have a lot of body fat to begin with and when you're doing physical work outs - ESPECIALLY work outs to look like her and not the ones that don't look like strong men (they have weight on them btw) then she's dehydrated to hell and it'd be more dangerous for her to produce anything as opposed to just showing her getting a belly and it receding when she produces. I'm skinny and I'd keel over if I had that quirk.
The thing that drives me crazy about the “it’s necessary for their powers” argument for Momo and Midnight is Mirio. We have a whole scene explaining that when he uses his power he ends up butt naked. BUT lucky for him they somehow made a usable fabric out of his HAIR so that that doesn’t have to happen. If they can use crazy logic to keep Mirio clothed, the could have for the girls. But you know, Mirio is a guy.
exactly i've been saying for ages now that self healing polymers are a thing in real life so why couldn't momo and midnight make their skinsuit things out of that and maybe some small metal claws to cut it for use before it seals back up, add on to that momo's magician work study teacher she could lean into the magician angle with the long flowy cloak and sleeves giving her creations a kind of slight of hand vibe, and midnight could maybe use a small body armor with gas compressors or whatever built in so she can do a similar thing to bakugos gauntlets but full body like there are ways to make this work
What annoys me is that they didn’t need even need to go to those lengths. Unlike Mirio, Momo and Midnight’s quirks fall under the “produce something” category. Almost everyone with quirks in the “produce something” category do the producing through their hands. We even have a one-off character Mustard whose quirk is
virtually _identical_ to Midnight’s (the gas is even the same color!) who manages to be fully clothed, gloved, and even has a damn gas mask on.
@@WhitePaintbrush excellent point I'd honestly blanked on mustard existing entirely, however I will say with momo's love for cannons and large objects in general, an option for her abdomen or something might be good just for surface area I would suggest her back but I feel like that'd be a little awkward to maneuver what she creates into place
Mirio's entire body is able to phase, so it makes sense that using part of his body's DNA, his hair, in his suit can allow it to phase with him. It wouldn't make sense with Momo, because she doesn't phase anything, she creates objects with her fat. That being said, in Midnight's case I'm sure Hatsume or someone could make a fabric that allows her quirk to seep through but well it's her personality to be femme fatale like Catwoman or Black Cat
Actually Midnight's is just that she's a freak, and Momo can only create things from her actual body, hair is dead cells and if it were cut off and sewn into a fabric it wouldn't make a difference
a mom who is not abusive, neglectful or dead. that *cannot* be where the bar is
The bar is that they are alive and at least making sure their kid is alive and mostly healthy
anime dads are also the same lilbrah
The thing about anime or storytelling in general, is that everything needs to have a thematic porpurse. Thats why most parents in anime sucks or are dead, because it serves some porpuse in the story. And if dont, the characters simply dont have parents
It makes me genuinely uncomfortable that the only trans character who hasent medically transitioned was killed on screen in a really graphic way
it makes me comfortable
so who wins?
@@OctavianAsix your a fuckin weirdo
@@OctavianAsixHow does killing one of the only two transgender characters in a very graphic way make you comfortable?
@@CherieStaar bc many characters get kylt all the time
but your phobia of normal ppl ,makes you think tansformers are special or unique in some way
death is part of most storytelling
more dedtr4ns representation
Who was the character?
The "they need to be half naked for their powers to work" excuse falls apart in MHA when you like at Mirio. His quirk allows him to phase his body through solid objects, but not whatever he's wearing. And while this is used for some comedic relief when he's first introduced, when we get to the serious part of the arc, it's shown he has a specially made costume that incorporates his hair, allowing him to use his powers freely while staying fully clothed. If you can have a work around like that, why is half the female cast be half naked?
Edit: The point I'm making is less "use hair suits for momo and toru" it's "the mangaka has shown that they're willing and able to make work arounds for male characters to keep them clothed, but not female characters." If Horikoshi really cared about practicality, he could invent a reason why they could stay clothed enough, because mha is a sci-fi series that takes place 80 years in the future. That's how writing and world building works. It's shameless fanservice Horikoshi is hiding behind a flimsy excuse. And the flimsy excuse annoys more more than the fanservice itself.
Edit 2: How to make invisible clothing from invisible hair: Use washable dye on hair, cut hair, weave strands into suit, wash out dye. Boom! Invisible suit and that's not accounting for any sci-fi tech or quirks that would make the process easier.
I hadn’t thought of that as a counter example from within the show but you’re so right!! Like why not use Momo’s hair in her costume so she can pass objects through her clothes and therefore have a more armored outfit like??? Very frustrating lol.
@@LadyIneia Or make a hair suit for Invisible Girl so she’s not literally naked at all times! I know we can’t see it, but that can’t be comfortable or practical!
@@teapartypenguin1353 if Toru wore DNA hair shoes back in the first training Shoto would've been so confused
@@teapartypenguin1353 She was even stated to be freezing in the winter towards the end of the anime. It made no sense for her and the other girls not to develop their costumes more.
@@LadyIneia in Momo case you will need to skin her as all her items creation comes from the skin. So she will need a literal skin body suit
Part of the reason Iida is one of my favorite characters is cause he felt disgusted and appalled by Mineta trying to spy on the girls cause he genuinely respects the fact that the girls shouldn’t be objectified. Iida is a good boy and I like that.
Iida is my fav character overall
Finally, someone had to say it.
@leo Yeah, it's easy to see that Horikoshi empathizes with Mineta's POV, but I appreciated Iida's reaction being emphatically against doing anything to make his female classmates feel embarrassed or objectified since he said it and meant it. Cause in a lot of other anime/manga they have a person says they aren't in favor of objectifying their female friends but show that they're just as lusty and want to. I was proud of Iida for being too respectful to even consider violating any of his friends' privacy.
@@Nightman221k but the sad thing is, what you just described is just the bare minimum. it feels almost dystopian to see people actually *relieved* or prideful when a character they like respects/empathises with women or is repulsed by perverted actions, but it's the sad truth even in this day and age. :(
@@aithusae7489 Exactly, I wish it was the norm not the exception.
MHA is actually a really great cross-section of almost every major aspect of sexism in media, because it’s soooo overt about it.
Like, the show has an incel’s understanding of the way women are pushed towards objectifying themselves in order to commodify their image and their body to achieve professional and financial success. Momo’s internship was basically just an intro to a sexist industry that attractive women can be successful within - and the point of the story was that Momo was attractive enough to succeed within that industry.
If you want a crash course on sexism in media, this show is a great place to start.
It does a good job of making potential fans turn away from it due to its sexist tendencies. I know I'm not the only example.
@@concept5631 Youre not, im one of the people who would never watch it.
Good then this anime is not for you people. Kindly fuk off 😂😂
Damn what a dogshit opinion.
I used to read the MHA manga a while back and ended up dropping it because of everything u pointed out here, its not just one infraction here or there, the mangaka’s weird sexist fantasies seep into every aspect of the manga, and it just became insufferable. Fast forward a few years to the release of the anime, and i was literally dumbfounded that they managed to take away the one piece of credit i had given the author: realistic body types. Its something i usually just overlook in anime because its a problem in most of them, but the fact that the animation studio looked at the author’s work and went “hmm these underage girls aren’t sexy enough, give em all mannequin dimensions” is absolutely ridiculous. How much can someone oversexualize fictional underage characters before people finally start questioning why they love the idea of little girls strutting around half naked so much?
And the “oh but its a drawing shes not real” people are just as bad. Sure, you lusting over a drawing of a child isnt gonna break any laws, but how long until youve convinced your brain that children in general should be lusted over, and next thing u know ur nickname is EDP2.0
@@5001Fergies Slippery slope fallacy. I agree with the overall argument, but still
@@5001Fergies right- like regardless if they're fictional, it's still WEIRD!! They may not be real but their ages are.
Mineta is just sexual harassment personified. The sad part is that there are probably tons of creepy guys who treat him like a self-insert.
Um, NO lol? If you think the "annoying comedic midget pervert" stereotype is the favorite of creeps known for larger than average egos, idk what world you live in
Horikoshi himself said mineta was a self insert
@@whade62000have you HEARD the boys on this, they're extremely vocal (or used to be) about loving their "literally them" charavter
Self insert? Meaning?
No fking one will be proud of being like mineta LMAO
Thoughts:
• Even as a straight guy, I get a little tired of the gratuitous sexiness.
• Mineta's terribleness might not be infuriating if he were actually punished. Sure, he gets bopped on the head, or forcibly restrained a few times, but it's always played off as a harmless joke. He can't keep getting away with it!
• The Bubble-Girl predicament is mega weird and I wish it didn't exist.
Gotta agree here, I feel like this appeals less to straight-malss and more to just weird people in general.
I'd be fine with the bubble girl thing if they tied up everyone to a tickle machine, I think I'd be funnier that way.
Midnight weirded me out at times, like having some sort of sexual thoughts towards her students working together. I'd feel like if the genders were reversed, the double standards would come in. 😒
It also makes it hard to watch with other people.
I dont think anyone likes mineta in general
@@randomslayer9018
"Weird people". This is the definition of Japanese people. Trust me, they don't look like it when you don't know them but once you do, they truly are... Not everyone ofc but lots of them.
I will never forget there was this woman who was talking about her Momo figure and said this “She can dress however the FRICK she wants because she is a grown woman” and it’s like- yeah okay but she’s a minor who was drawn and created by A GROWN MAN
Males are so awful
I have never understood that argument. She and every other male-authored female character can’t dress however they want because they’re not real.
She only ever dresses how her author, a man, wants her to. And we can call out the blatant objectification when we see it.
Also she's not a grown woman, she is 15/16. How much of a degenerate do you have to be to call a literal teenage child a "grown woman" so you can excuse sexualizing her???
I agree with that but I sometimes let stuff like that slide if the character acts like how they would dress, some girl always looking for attention dressing like that would make perfect sense and I’d understand if an adult man created that
But Momo is most definitely not that type of character that wants to be looked at in that way, the design really did take away from her character, she even had one of my favorite powers and character developments
Was reading a fanfiction, I'm pretty sure it was by a women if I'm remembering correctly. Unlike most fanfictions that go "hey that design is shit and dangerous for you" they decide to have an authors note going on a tangent about how they don't like how people change the costumes because it's the choice the character made. I dropped it
What’s hilarious about the fanservice in mha is most straight men I know don’t even like it, myself included. So not only is it devaluing towards the women of the show but it doesn’t even do what it set out to accomplish
u are obviously the minority. like so much the minority, this almost feels strange to read. but ofc u mean no harm, and u are right plenty of dudes, myself included, hate this shit. i just think the video made i a bit more clear that the conversation is also about the consumers and how they are affected and how they tick to like that shit. and in that case, it really doesn't matter whether u or me likes it, the horrible part is people enjoy it and defend it and encourage it
@@elijahnageli3202 "u are obviously the minority."
Prove it or stop assuming. Making half of the human population to some kind of monotheistic blob that always thinks the same is usually what incels do.
@@LegioXXImost guys just don’t care about the objectification of women and women don’t care about the objectification of men. Most people do not care and even when some people in these anime and manga communities speak out against oversexualization they only critique it for being too much.
You are in the minority and will always be. This is a minority opinion and most men just do not care at all.
doubtful
hardly anyone ACTUALLY likes it tbh, the only people who would like it are just complete perverts or just teenagers tbh, and even then they'd grow out of it (hopefully)
The fact that Mineta is a self-insert really wraps everything all up together.
Its more concerning really.
It’s not a self insert it’s a dramatic exaggeration of his teen years
@@Zank069 that doesnt make it any better. if its just an exaggeration, why does mineta still not have any repercussions for his actions? it makes it seem like this type of behavior is acceptable when its literally not.
@@Zank069 Aka a self insert. Sorta like how Snape from Harry potter was made to represent JK Rowling's science teacher and Hermione being the self insert.
@@hornetfromhallownest
Same thing about Bakugou: irl people would snap back at him and no one would want to have anything to do with this prick but it seems that MHA's characters are just like the Carebears... 🤦♀️
The fan-made costumes for Momo make her seem like a badass warrior queen! She actually looks like a hero, instead of fanservice.
I'm not sure if she needs to be a warrior when she can rely on her quirk and create weapons from that, although learning fighting skills like aizawa wouldn't hurt.
Her costume is fine to me, but I'd think a sports bra would work better.
@@projekttaku1 She definitely needs specific training to use the weapons she creates. Sure she can make a whole military arsenal, but she has no proper training to use any of it.
With the clothes she wears, she definitely cant use melee weapons effectively. Her footwork would be inconvenienced by her weird pantsless skirt, her top limits her torso movement and really serves no purpose other than showing off her assets, and she has no protection at all.
@@projekttaku1 I absolutely despise the actual costume, it doesn't seem practical at all.
time stamp?
@@futurestrongestman honestly feel a bit ridiculous to have such a strong reaction for her design when almost all their costume don't make sense when you think about it. look at bakugo, the guy literally has bricks as a collar, he shouldn't even be able to turn his head. kirishima has wheels around his shoulders, can't even imagine moving with that. iida wears a fucking armor, why would he wear something that makes him slower when his speciality is speed. and mineta's.. pants ? diaper ? don't even know what that is.
Me personally, I don’t think the my hero academia girls should be thicker. I think they should be more muscular to reflect on the jobs they’re doing, because of course as a hero you’re going to need fit and muscular.
Some of them are in the manga, but not in the show
Yeah, but people can be overweight and fit too.
I completely disagree with that since I like thicc woman. 🙄😒.
@@the_demon149Nah.
@@SandwichQueen100Exactly.
This video makes such good points , but of course the comment section would be filled with incels who are weebs (the worst type of incel), who can't handle a woman talking about things that made her uncomfortable or upset
Haha I called someone names so I don't have to listen to their points. Why do you hate people so much that you shut off their points and close your minds to your own opinions? Imagine living in a world like yours.
@@ifirespondiamstupid7750 because literally 90% of the "counterpoints" that people are making are literally things like: bashing the person behind the video for being a woman and saying her opinion doesn't matter because of her gender, comments like "this video is bad/trash" without explaining why. So it simply feels like a bunch of incels got mad at a woman for finding something bad and having a opinion
@@a_naotenhonome780so basically she's a misandrist
@@nestormelendez9005 no your just an idiot
Fanservice can and often is annoying if it´s too much. But in the case of MHA, the faservice is pretty mild and it is part of anime. I think this video is just a case of western sesitivities that became unbareably overmoralistic with made up problems like male-gaze or objectification of female characters - which now every western moralists will parrot .The female characters in MHA were not reduced to their bodies, they are characterized just as well or poorly as the male characters so there should be no problem with them being also sexual - it is a part of what makes as humans.... There are many tropes in amime I wish would disapear (like perverted charaters like Mineta or 1000 year old lolis) or be more subtle, but I will rather suffer those tropes than watch anime being destroyed by western sensibilities like the western entertainment was. This is the reason western comics is in crisis. People like her and you should support western comics and cartoons, because western comics became the thing you want anime to become
I hate how most girls in *Class A* (except Jirou) (and some in B) are bubbly, cheerful, and optimistic. I just wanna see a high school girl who is competitive, sarcastic, hot-headed, and has big ego or pride. But is well-written, not the Tsundere or Mary Sue-type
Edit: Some replied suggesting that I don't like girls being happy. No, I don't.
I'm just stating that most girls' *base* personalities are almost identical (Yeah I forgot Froppy is pretty chill).
Compared to boys where we have the hot-headed, prideful, cold, brash/loud, calculated, and others.
Like, come-on. Wouldn't a *high school girl who has base personality similar to Bakugo* , is actually interesting to look at?
I don't mind them being bubbly and optimistic but I understand where you are coming from.
I see what you mean. Though, Jirou's pretty sarcastic?
@@ghostjam5984 Yeah pretty much she's the only girl in Class A who's "chill"
I get it, the guys all have different personalities from the smart and serious, the quiet and kinda dark, the stubborn and short tempered, the cheerful, the chill, the shy...etc the girls mostly all are the same. Even when it comes to the adult female heroes and villains they are all mostly the same.
Okay, idk I like how they put it. Jirou’s kinda like what you described. She acts competitive too. Jirou is best girl. MINA GIRLBOSS
You know what sucks especially about Momo's hero costume? The original concept sketch that the mangaka came up with really wasn't that bad. Like, it was actually a sports bra that completely covered her chest up past the neck, leaving the back open. And then a high-wasted bikini-type bottom w/ s normal belt and knee-length boots. It was the editors(?) that told him to change into something more "appealing."
Wait what- that's so fucked up.
Do you have a link or something to the original designs, I wanna see.
i once saw a redesign of momo which changed her outfit to a more proper dress/bodysuit type thing that was just covered in zippers on her arms and legs and back that she could open to reveal some skin for her power (probably not doing the description justice since im going off memory) but im so sad that's not the actual design cuz it was so cool
I actually like her costume looks cool it's the same like how I like Wonder woman.
@@Monochrome2004Im pretty sure I saw that too, I think the Artist is LavenderTowne. Her art is amazing!
momos costume is no way even practical in any sense. velcro, buttons, zippers, they all exist. and that dumb belt thing?? it doesn’t look good, it doenst add anything, i don’t get it. and why does she have a weird book thing on her butt??? again: NOT PRACTICAL. she could’ve gotten a smart watch or an eye thing or smart-glasses that have info on them. the heels ofc are a bad thing. the whole outfit is bad. and i haven’t seen anyone talk about this before but has anyone noticed the weird and diffrent way they draw girl charcaters running opposed to boy characters running??? even when the girl character is way stronger or faster or older than the boy character??? and ofc there’s ALWAYS heels. can people stop putting girls in heels when they’re supposed to run jump and do stuff that requires a lot of footwork???
Something I don't forgive is that during Endavor's arc, it exposed his past as an abuser (Which, by the way, everyone forgave him very easily because "he does his job well"), the wife is completely put in the background, never exposing her perspective or her recovery, and just using her as a "victim forgiving her abuser" very conveniently at the end...
Honestly, I don't really like this author because he likes to deal with issues of discrimination in a superficial way, like the fact that he basically blames the victim with Bakugo bullying Midoriya...
They could also have explored how society expects heroines to be idols or sell their bodies for publicity, but nope, everyone was fine with it, how convenient...
MHA feels like a complete waste of possibilities and potential...
stop it w the virtue signal abt women selling this or that for publicity
in our universe they do it for $4.99 🤣🤣🤣🤣
of for free on the street
and let us not act like you anything you typed is original
in fact, Stain whole point was basically this
he was opposed to heros for profit
also, there's scenes of momo and the orange hair girl having to film ads as part of their internship
also endeavor didn't burn his child, unlike the unstable mother
it's just so sick that women want to be victims SO MUCH that you'd ignore EVERYTHING the author actually went out of his way to portray and give color to
@@OctavianAsix You yourself have answered my point unconsciously, things like the sexualization and commercialization of women (especially minors) is common today, and that the author doesn´t stop making political comments about heroes selling themselves as brands and losing their morals but not saying anything about things that the author himself doesn´t hesitate to use for fanservice to gain a few horny readers, it only shows hypocrisy.
And if you have bothered to read my comment or watch this video, you would have realized that we also defend men, unlike you and the author, we don´t choose a side and play the victim.
For example, you haven't mentioned that while Endeavor character is deepened and given an arc of redemption, the mother remains behind the stage, whether it is her actually relationship with Endeavor or with her children, even though, as you have said, she too is partially responsible for the abuse of the children, but she simply shows up to "forgive" Endeavor and that's it, we don't know why she came to that decision or how she improved her relationship with her children or if she even apologized to them or if she is still abusive in other measures, and the reason is because the author isn´t interested in her opinion and point of view, and that's it, he only wanted to leave her as a supreme victim, and that by forgiving her abuser, she owed the air of martyrdom and redemption to Endevour, nothing more and nothing less..
Your comment has only shown that this video is right, thank you.
@@Aural4444 much text
I trust somewhere in there you explain why you side w the mom who burned her 5-6yo child and left ireparable scar on his face
and if it's only bc she's a she
that would make you the exact thing you rail abt
why do you portay her as the supreme victim, why do YOU rob her of agency?
why should she be a hero?
isn't that what the story is a bt, heroes?
why do we need to follow her or her arc?
bc she's a woman?
btw, what is a woman???
This is so true..
This is why Avatar: The Last Airbender is my favorite show. While MHA is a genuinely incredible show, ATLA does a lot of what MHA does but slightly better, and it has great female characters like Toph and Katara that don't fall victim to any of the subjects you talked about in this video
Tf you mean slightly better?? ATLA was one of the most popular cartoon shows EVER. MHA can't compare, not in terms of world building, characters, significance, philosophy, or writing.
@@seaurchinwithahat7559 yeah you're totally right lol
@@powerfulcat72gaming56 HAH sorry for being aggressive. You just needed some sense put back into you. Keep your head up 😭
And they address sexist characters and they give those character arcs to not be sexist
Don't forget Azula! A really good female character that is the villain and was made for female gaze.
I love Atla because it knows how to write good female characters, Katara, Toph and Azula are my favorite characters
“Momo’s skin needs to be exposed for her quirk to work” **proceeds to show a shot of her making something from her back, a non-exposed part of her body**
Edit: I just thought it was a funny montage sequence. Now for the people bringing up the good point that is that after that scene Momo’s costume was ripped, I don’t think it’s that big of a deal; Deku rips his costume 24/7. It’s just bad design
ye but she ripped her clothes, you dont want that every time you use your quirk
Resulting in her shirt literally exploding off her.
@@willfanofmanyii3751 wow, that's some cloth. Never had the exploding kind, myself. 😑
Well Superhero suits aren't cheap after all so you don't want to have to buy replacements all the time... Then again when you can make whatever the hell you want out of practically nothing, cost shouldn't be an issue
If anything it highlights how impractical the suit is, she'd rather rip off her back costume than use her tit window. Its such a weird fit.
For me, the worst part of Mineta's character is that Hirokoshi has said that Mineta was created to be a self insert character. Absolutely *disgusting*
woahhhh there what the fuck i don’t watch mha so this is all news to me. seriously… what the fuck
@@mikudayo_biggest_fan3939 yeah... I'm sorry that this is how you had to find out, but yeah...
I've never understood the hate for Mineta, as far as perv characters go there's worse (master roshi) and he gets shit on in universe regularly
@@thevoid5732 Just because "there are worse" doesn't mean Mineta isn't a terrible and disgusting character, and what consequences does he ever face that aren't just a metaphorical slap on the wrist?
@@amyleah08 the reason I bring up there being worse examples is that no one reacts to those the same way they do w mineta from what I've seen. Meliodas is leaps and bounds worse and so is roshi. And the consequences isn't what I'm referring to when I say he gets shit on but that's fair
The only problem I have with anime is Japans gross obsession with sexualizing under age characters
I do agree with you, however, this is also a problem in cartoons in general (TV-14 and TV-MA).
Tbh sexualizing any age character like it's extremely annoying
No, it's not, They just characters.
@@user-sonosada tf. Chrildern should not be sexualzied under any circumstance
The way Stars and Stripes was quickly discarded also says a lot about how precious he holds male characters, because Night Eye was introduced and killed in the same arc but allowed to grow and have bonds with characters in the story throughout his run, Star was killed in the fight she was introduced in to win the characters an arbitrary amount of time.
Yeah she deserved way more than a couple of episodes she had so much potential
Another thing is that we actually get a moment at the start of the series where the female costumes are pointed out, when Uraraka mentions that the costume makers made hers too tight and gave her heels for literally no reason. And then it's just brushed off like it didn't happen, none of the girls change their costumes and the fan-service and objectification continues.
And her costume designer is revealed to be a woman, but I am not excusing that because Uraraka's costume still looks like ass shit aside her equipment (wrists and ear pieces). What was Uraraka's original costume idea??
@@adrielleakuryo I think her canon og costume was supposed to be like a pink bubbly astronaut suit, she has a space vibe going on
@@GhostbyTv Her original hero design would've looked adorable. Why would her designer make her suit skin tight and give her heels? From what I heard from one of the comments of this video, the skin tight suit would make the nausea worse and doesn't Uraraka need ankle mobility for her feet? And what the hell was the point of the belt??
this is why thirteen's costume is one of the only good female hero costumes. shounen writers need to learn that you don't have to be able to see every part of a woman/girl's body, even if their outfit is supposed to be "practical for combat".
At this point, I just think Horikoshi is just weird and sexist.
my question is why, when all the male classmates are absolutely ripped, the girls, who are supposed to be EQUALLY AS STRONG, dont have even a sliver if muscle definition
I KNOW its so dumb
Yeah, high school boys are usually not as ripped as the UA boys.
@@Palepetal Some are if they are active. I went to school with a lot of boys who played football and basketball. I was curious as to how they got that way when all I saw them eat were potato chips lol. The coaches would fill them up at the cafeteria and train them.
@@Palepetal some boy characters could have less muscle mass too while some girls could have more, there were some fit individuals in my class personally
because that take is false. read the manga. read the manga.
As an animator, more chubby/round bodies are absolutely 100% NOT “more difficult” to animate. Think about big round characters (fatgum, who’s a whole thing himself, and baymax even though he’s 3d), and how the simplicity of the design really matters over everything else when it comes to difficulty. They are literally just ovals/circles, and that is the MOST EXAGGERATED examples I could come up with. Animating different body types isn’t hard if you know how anatomy works!!! Pretty much all of our skeletons look the same, it’s just the amount of fat and muscle on top of it that changes the body type (not including height) fat and muscle is literally just clothes for our skeletons.
There’s nothing so different or difficult about animating them that going out of your way to do so would, like, cost more time and money. When it comes to difficulty with animating, it’s details, complex gradients, higher frame rate, or a dynamic scene you’ve never tried before that matter. Sure, some designs are easier to animate than others, but that is due to DETAIL. MHA characters’ designs, esp for the girls, don’t seem overly complex at all. The only girl design I can think of that would be difficult or take more time is the,, steampunk engineer girl with her bits and bobs on the goggles.
If anything, the male characters have some designs I would absolutely perish trying to replicate animation with. Endeavor in particular. If I use their technique, with how they show the fire, it’d look AWFUL. I’d have to draw all the flames for every scene frame by frame just to make it look decent. Even deku has a pretty crazy design later on. Bakugos grenade looking GAUNTLETS… I could go on.
Anyway, just had to say something about that since I thought whoever was using that as a take is completely bogus and doesn’t know how animation works
Preach 😭 It's like when people say that Black characters are harder to draw. Like no they're not you're just racist and only want to draw white characters.
@imthebossmermaid3648 I'd honestly rather prefer for people who refuse to learn how to properly draw black/poc characters to just... not draw them. this doesn't mean NEVER, and obviously it's not the ideal outcome, but at least we won't get so many offensive depictions from people who refuse to learn.
@@taro-taro-P mm-hmm *nods in agreement*
@@imthebossmermaid3648fr black characters aren’t harder to draw ppl who say that just never draw poc characters and have no skill in that area.
@@Rosa-kd2cl THIS!!!! 👆🏿 If you can't draw Black people in the Year of Our Lord 2024 then you are just lazy!
Mineta would be a lot less frustrating if he wasn't...right?? By the show anyway. He's called a little creep, but then the camera and circumstances CONTINUOUSLY show they're on the exact same page.
As a straight male, I can say with almost 100% certainty that practically nobody likes too much fan service. And don’t even get me started on Mineta. He is the worst fictional character probably ever, and I think everybody can agree on that
I totally agree
-a male
That shit is what turned me off from Fairy Tail.
Fax I couldn’t Finnish fire force which hurt me cause it was really cool but if they weren’t fighting
(hell sometimes when they were fighting)
It’s just straight up titty and ass on screen 💀
Same, it's so annoying at a certain point
Same. Also I’m a gay man so you can imagine how aggravating it is to watch an anime that seems clean (as clean as you can get with violence lol) only for it to show panty or booby shots. Of characters meant to be minors, no less!!
In Bakugou vs Ochaco fight, Bakugou & Aizawa were the only two people taking her seriously. Every other character shamed Bakugou for being harsh with Ochaco because Ochaco is a girl. Ochaco herself said she wanted people to take her seriously & was happy when Bakugou did. Bakugou himself said she wasn't weak that's why he put up a good fight.
It shocks me how there are a lot of female heros in mha but when Bakugou fights Ochaco seriously, they all started calling him abusive ☠as a girl, I would rather lose fairly in a fight then someone piting me & going easy on me.
And then the show starts treating the girls like that unironically lmfao
If i was to fight anyone, girl or boy, i would fight the same, serious with both.
i liked that coming from bakugo. He is still an ahole for bullying deku but he does show heroic qualities.
He doesn't distinguish genders, he hates everything and everyone equally 😂
@@averageduckenjoyerthefinalk
The 'I want to see how you look in 10 years' is actually a mistranslation the original line in the manga translates to 'I hope you look up to me in 10 years' (not defending him just wish to clear that one up)
Which is still horrible. Who read that script and thought it was okay?
@@dim4757 I have no idea. I think the intention was to make Mineta want to be a role model (original line)? I have no idea why they had to change the line into something so weird though.
I remember stumbling across a crossover fanfiction between MHA and Pokémon and being so surprised that the author actually tried to fix the flaws and write many of the things you've talked about in a better way, they even fixed Mineta and had other characters snap at him about how wrong his behavior was and tried to characterize the ladies more.
And to this day, I'm still surprised (in a pleasant way), to see that while the fandom has a pretty big toxic side, there are still good people making good things about it, even if it's something like a funny story with Pokémons that it's currently being rewritten and it's leaving my poor heart waiting for more😂
I’ve read ALOT of Naruto fanfics and what I appreciate is that they actually try something different from canon and gives at least some of the women more to do other than fangirl over a boy over and over again. Like actually touching on Hinata’s home life and now her clan operates with the Cursed Bird Seal. Wouldn’t believe how annoyed I was when the manga and anime just completely forgot about that even though it was treated as a big deal early on with Neji’s character alone.
I was so mad when I realized they were basically abandoning Uraraka’s plot because I really fell in love with her character during her fight with bakugo
I loved her tenacity but was really wondering what her plan was if she managed to touch him. She kept reaching for him, but Bakugo had already demonstrated his ability to zoom through the air like a mini jet.
@@prosepeony I don’t remember exactly but I think it was more of a distraction to keep him focused on her so she could create the meteor shower at the end to try and take him out, if she managed to touch him that was probably just a nice addition yk. Making him float would mean he wouldn’t be able to use his power without also blasting him out of the ring.
@@KazzathanOh, it does make sense that she was trying to make him float inside the cluster of rocks since that would limit his options. He definitely defies physics with his explosions though.
@@prosepeony oh totally. Even if he wasn’t floating using his explosions should make him fly away with the kickback but that’s just anime logic lol. I’m not complaining tho MHA does more than most anime’s to try and give an in universe explanation for their abilities
@@Kazzathan Yeah, I’m not complaining either. If I were told he holds himself in place through sheer anger I would say that tracks, lol.
It's kinda sad how Momo is treated like a store in the final battle. What a wasted character, she could be literally a walking arsenal.
she could just show up with a gun she just made maybe an artillery gun full of knockout gas the possibilities are endless
Momo is one of those characters who can be insanely broken but is nerfed because of it.
momo is weak. she is slow af she has no physical power and has, guns are joke in mha too so. no. no her ability is not broken enough.
@@leviackergoat8979 bro super resiliance on the level where a gun won't do the job are pretty rare plus "if a gun doesn't work use bigger gun"
@@delpoxi2958 if im not misaken, mom is at ua? so fighting Shigaraki is just way out of her league also bc she has a limit to how much she can create
So I was in a Victoria's Secret and I saw what I at first thought was like...a Momo costume. It was red and had the weird cut out and all that.
Turns out it was just lingerie. Found one that looked like Midnight's Vigilante's costume too.
So...that happened
Oh, they absolutely are lingerie inspired though. But men are either gonna try to rationalize ot, or be too young and naive about it
@@magical571 no they just won't care tbh, no one should care that much
@OnlySayori they were obviously made for a reason- it's not just clothes, it's "sexy clothes" made to appeal
Something that really bugs me about momo's design in particular is that her particular design exposes multiple extremely important, squishy organs. hero work is by default a dangerous task, and we see characters get into serious trouble multiple times.
so.... why... in the world... would you want a costume that exposes your vital organs? we know theres hero killers. shes fucked the minute a villain doesnt play nice.
Then don't watch , no one is forcing to you ☺️
@@YouAreATrash90 you can like something while being critical of it in some aspects, just because there's one thing in a show you don't like, doesn't mean you should just stop enjoying it, use your brain
@@icandoanythiing you should use your brain , if something bothering you that much then you should not watch that thing 🤷
They managed to make Mirio a costume using his dna so that his clothes can phase through things with him, so couldn’t they do something similar for Momo?
edit: how did I manage to cause an argument and get 2k likes? makes no sense. anyways, please stop arguing
I don't think it could work this way. I think the she can only create stuff if there is fat directly underneath it
i think it might work because the quirk is a part of the person so if you use said persons dna to make the costume it should work with their quirk
@@shotaaizawa341 I don't think it would work like that.
@@nintendogamer1926 maybe it would, maybe it wouldn’t, we may never know
this really irks me concerning the invisible girl too, how is it that their society is so advanced that they can make suits with someones dna so that it adapts to their quirk but they couldnt make a suit for her so she could turn invisible with it on? it’s ridiculous and so gross that it is stated upfront she is naked on the job and nobody batted an eye, it feels like some perverse fantasy. its so disappointing and another example of one of these high school aged girls with so much potential regarding their quirks/character arcs being reduced to vessels for unrelenting fanservice 😕
As a girl I got interested in this show BECAUSE of the female character but since they didn’t do anything with the female characters except to sexually harass them, I lost interest.
Same. At least I think that's the reason,, one of the main ones
i only watched up to season 2 , dropped it because of that annoying perv guy with balls for hair
action was great , just annoying ass characters
ur cappin. u never watched mha, the female charachters are always getting their own big scenes all the time.
Watch shoujo anime. Even then it's questionable if you can get good female characters.
I mean…plenty of people still enjoy mha…..so dats cool I guess
One thing I want to say. If you want to establish off the the bat that this girl character is admired for her beauty and she’s very beautiful something like that.
Umm instead of a boob or butt shot.
Why not do a sparkly close up of her eyes. It establishes her to be a beauty without going right to her boob or butt
No Frl
Adding my two cents as a trans woman: The trans rep is simply terrible. It really speaks to how the author views trans people that the fully passing trans man who is said to of "had a trip to thailand" is the Hero, who gets to keep having appearances, (and you would only know is trans due to an extra page in the manga) and the non-passing obvious trans woman is a murderer and Villain, who they kill off before they begin to humanize the League. The obvious implication behind these decisions is made more clear by the fact the only other presumably trans char we get, that friend she visits, is yet another big bulky bearded person in a dress, showing this is just what the author thinks trans women are.
Change back
@@Lifelsfullofsurprisesand what do you mean by that?
@@goansichishig5292 to be normal and have a longer lifespan
As a hetero male, the tickle scene with bubble girl actually felt very uncomfortable and unnecessary. It was too wierd.
Yep. It's a pity that feminist media analysis settled on "the male gaze" as a term for this phenomenon.
Men are frequently uncomfortable with this sort of material just showing up out of nowhere for no good reason, but the male gender role means we're supposed to shut up about it and be grateful for any sexual shit thrown in our direction. And because we're punished socially if we do complain about it, we don't speak up. It isn't that we don't speak up because we actually enjoy this garbage. It's because we're put in danger when we do speak up, and we learn that we are in danger from a very young age.
But feminist analysis has long lagged behind on understanding the pressures that those subject to the male gender role suffer under, and continue to make the mistake of assuming we are universally benefited just because women are harmed. It isn't universal, but it's way too common.
@@YouthRightsRadical real shit, it really needs to change for the sake of men and women cause I know a great portion of men really don't fuck with shit like this and live within a culture who abuses you if you don't agree. Hopefully we'll get there better at some point.
Stay strong Dudes and Stay strong Dudettes c:
@@YouthRightsRadicalwell, it's called the male gaze because men are expected to be purely sexual "creatures". You and others like you may not be comfortable with such overt fetish fuel and fanservice, but the expectation is that you, as a man, will. Sexism impacts everyone, and unfortunately men were the ones to impose those standards onto themselves way back when and now; women of those times took a less active role in that sexism, teaching misogyny/brutal gendered expectations to their children.
The video uploader clearly didn't say all men were this way, with her repeated stating of "assumed straight male audience". Aside from queer men, there's obviously a huge group of straight men that are disturbed by the sexualization of characters and irritated by the expectation that they'll enjoy it.
While I agree with you that men shouldn't be framed as hypersexual ""creatures"" and such, I disagree that feminist media or perspectives are the problem. I don't know what your relation to feminism is, but all I can say as someone who's learned a whole lot is that feminism is not what you think it is by the name. Yes, at first it was intended to show women were as competent as men, but over time that goal changed to "showing every gender as equals". Feminism isn't putting women above men (despite many who say so and the few women that do this in the name of unironic girlboss feminism), or saying men have to be "feminine", or anything else of the sort. At it's most basic level, it's the refusal of tired old gender stereotypes that hurt women and men, such as women being weak or men being strong. Men have emotions too, and should be allowed to express them without shame or mockery. Women can dress however they want without being shamed for it. Men can have close and intimate relationships with their fathers and male friends without it being seen as inherently gay. So on, so forth.
Sorry for the ramble, but I hope I can show a new perspective on feminism. It's so often bastardized and lied about that I understand your initial thoughts, but please know it's not how you think it is at all. On a more serious note, there are people who care for you and won't let some stupid gender get in the way of you being human. But again, your issue with the patriarchy's framing of men is completely understandable and justified.
Even if it's fiction, even if you gave the benefit of the doubt that people weren't that gullible, even if it's framed as harmless jokes, sexism in media affects us all.
@@Vesperad0 I didn't say feminism is responsible for this. This sort of messaging predates organized feminism by a considerable margin. What I said was that feminist analysis lags behind in terms of recognizing the harms that the male gender role inflicts on men relative to its understanding of the harms the female gender role inflicts on women.
I will say you're making a hell of an assumption when you claim that "men" were the ones who made up gender roles whole cloth at some past point. Nothing about what we know of sociology says that "men" were ever some unified, omnipotent cabal who were actively and consciously deciding how to structure society in a way to actively exclude women. And decided that all men should forever be barred from major parts of the human experience.
Fortunately, academic feminist literature may have a ways to go in terms of coming to grips with the issues those of us subjected to the male gender role struggle with, but they are far more nuanced than this bizarre conspiracy theory that anti-feminists propagate that "patriarchy" refers to some ancient conspiracy of all men against all women. Much of it is still bad at understanding that "patriarchy" hurts men without the qualification that it's not just "backfiring" from an intent to hurt women, but because it is harmful to men in and of itself. But very little will talk about what "men" imposed back in ye olden days as if there was ever a time when "men" were able to, or interested in, conspiring against themselves and against their own loved ones.
Everyone needs to remember that "the patriarchy" is not the same thing as "men".
Excessive tickling is also a literal form of torture because it causes your muscles to continuously spasm and becomes incredibly painful after a bit. So that might've also contributed to your discomfort.
Ok ok but can we also talk about the way Horikoshi writes YOUNG girls? As in chiildren too? Aside from the gross Eri thing, the way he writes other scenes involving little girls is also very... errr to put it lightly.
During the Remedial Course Arc, you can tell a clear difference between how the little boys behaved and how the little girls behaved. The little boys acted more like how you'd expect from misbehaving, superpowered children: they were rowdy, wild, fun, and a bit immature (as you'd expect from a kid their age), meanwhile the girls spent most of the episode gossiping, being judgmental and were overall weirdly mean and unfun? They did not have much of the personality you'd think a child that age would have, ESPECIALLY supposedly naughty and superpowered children who are hard to control by their very own teacher. At least in my experience growing up, young girls acted more like the boys in that scene, and I can assure you they'd be setting buildings on fire too if they had a quirk that let them do so for the sheer chaos of it, and wouldn't be caring or judging some teen girl they just got introduced. And the way they treat Camie was also very gross: having a little boy "blushing" and falling into her chest (elementary boy) and a shot of a little girl gripping her butt after in anger?? It's just so gross and weird.
Another example happens in the third MHA movie: When Rowdy talks to Deku about his little siblings, he talks about how his little brother is going to grow up to be "so smart" while his little sister was going to be "so pretty/beautiful." Basically, emphasizing his brothers mind/personality, and boiling his little sister down to her looks.
This just shows an overall pattern in lots of the issues with Hori's writing when it comes to (a majority) of the girls of all ages (apparently): they are either only looks or play into stereotypes or somewhat of a mix of both
The thing most people doesn't seem to mention is how tf does momo's breasts are so big? I mean, her power supposedly uses her fat to create stuff so, by following this rule, it will not accumulate fat in her body. Breasts are mostly made up of fat, so the bigger the boobs, more fat is accumulated in that area... How?! The sexualization on this anime don't even play by it's own universe's rules 💀
Yyyeeeeah no
@@nestormelendez9005 tf you mean?
@@GuaxiLux yyyeeeeah no
Let’s not forget boys and girls that most of these characters being sexualized in the show are around 15 years of age, very cool.
I know it doesn’t make it better, but this could be set in a hero college where everyone is in their 20s and a lot of the icky feelings would go away. NOT ALL, but a lot.
@@ForsakenBacon89no, it’s Highschool it’s canonical.
@@TheOCgammaray I know. But if everyone was older and in college it wouldn’t be people thirsting over minors anymore. You can make the same argument for Euphoria.
@@ForsakenBacon89 Ah, I see now what you’re saying and yeah but sadly it’s not the reality
exactly, that's the reason why I stopped watching aha
Oh my god, you're so right about Mina. She was my favorite character when I started reading the manga, it was so cool how she dealt with that trenchcoat dude, and... that's pretty much it. The author has a bad habit of making cool characters, giving them a cool moment, and then benching them. It feels to me like he's sincerely trying to include female characters but his desire to tell a story about manly men keeps taking over.
Mina deserves so much better… such a cool quirk and interesting set up to explore her character but ultimately… not much. Also, I totally agree re: introduction -> cool moment -> sidelines, it seems to be Horikoshi’s pattern with his female characters. It’s super frustrating!!
yes I agree fs, its just you can't write 28 characters in one story or at the same time so its like taking turns and I wish it was like that
bc the story is meant to focus on the main character?
@@LadyIneia it's sexist in a nice way cause of the modern times the author made sure the cast was overly likeable so the series gets away with it...the sexism is still there....the writing barley cares about them or uses them....otherwise omg...20 years ago they would be less nice and 10 years ago people would rage about it more so ...cause no one cared back in 2000 but then internet forums post sharing social media became a thing...now people care more....so you have to tiptoe around that and make everyone have nice characterization...good you still noticed it.....if your going to be sexist at least write an interesting narrative and my hero can't even do that right saldy so the sexism sticks out more...otherwise we can forgive it and get distracted talking about other things we like...I don't even care about sexism much but it's so blatant in my hero that the author hates writing females with depth....it's a shame cause it's fans promote it like it's different and it appeals to people who care about that stuff...if only it did not have a fanbase like that we could look past it
@@razkable this is why Marvel and DC are better I love anime with all my heart but the main issue I have with it is that so many shonen have terrible female characters this is why Western comics do female characters Justice comic books are failing while manga is winning but to this day I still stand with the comic book industry cuz have been creating female Heroes for decades
I dropped the series because i felt extremely uncomfortable from the sexualization of high schoolers, i didnt really care about the adults because, duh. But minors should be off the table
should minors be allowed to transition?
Then you shouldn't watch anime at all.
I've got another question : How come the guys in MHA can fight the League of Villains and the literal Yakuza, but they become completely useless when Mineta is sexually harassing the girls? Like in the hot spring scene, they're just sitting there and being like "No Mineta stoppp 😢😢"
its a school, i bet the second one of them bash on mineta with more then just words, they'd be in suspension or somethin lol
@@OnlySayori so the school will let them beat villains, even petty villains, but they don't care if girls are being sexually harassed? 💀💀 It's actually kinda sad how real that sounds
Because this isn't a realistic show
@@Anne_loves4055 lol its realistic atleast
The author openly admitted that uruaka was supposed to have a flashy and cool quirk… not just float then he realizesd, “it was too much for a main heroine.” WTF
I'm pretty sure she was supposed to have Mt lady's quirk but then horikoshi changed it to the zero gravity quirk because "it would've shadowed the main boys" or smth like that.
Wow, a wonder why a irrelevant character wouldn't have a stronger ability than the main character, hmmmmmmm
@@dentonmccray8691 Deku's character is literally about putting in the hard work and time to succeed even if you're at a disadvantage compared to your peers, why would her having a flashier quirk be a problem??
@@kyaraha8053 🤡
@@100organicfreshmemes5when did I say it was a problem? I'm just saying, doesn't make all to much sense for a character that pretty much has nothing to do with the main story to be stronger than the mc
I just realized, while the students have a "better" balance of girls to boys ratio, the same can't be said for the adults. It's mostly male heroes as major characters, what women there are all are side characters. A staggering amount of whom end up dead or de-powered.
Its makes sence since herous are based on real life millitaries
ok but can we talk about midnights costumes? you can already tell that hirokoshi does NOT know how boobs work. especially with the chain thingy that separates her boobs. just looking at the contraction makes me physically cringe. that looks like a medieval torture weapon, not a costume made for fighting villains.
RIGHT!!!! It makes me so upset that all the female heros are hypersexualized because i legitimately really like them
@@meow_XII Lady Nagant,Recovery Girl,Nana Shimura all mights literal mentor and Stars and Stripes.
@@chronopheonix589 Other than Nana they all get poultry time compared to other people, like hawks, best jeanist, and endeavor
if you want an example of a female character with big breasts that doesn't sexualize her, Love is Hard for an Otaku has one. the secondary female character is stacked but it was so subtle with the framing i didn't even notice until her female coworker had a thought about it. she also spends a lot of the series crossplaying as men with a bound chest, and when she is the framing and characters talk about how attractive she is.
oh yeah and mami from madoka magica. ume aoki ( the character designer for madoka magica) made mami's breasts large to show her older sister personality
that’s actually one of the reasons why I dropped MHA there are so many things that could have been done with the plots but I only feel like it’s making Todoroki Deku Bakugo and sometimes Kirishima more OP in each season
First episode: Women sometimes have to use their bodies to get popular because reality is harsh.
The rest of the show: It's cool when adults groom kids to use their bodies for attention as long as as those kids are female.
First episode: Anyone can be a hero if they try hard enough even if they're abilities suck.
The rest of the show: Unless they're female. Then their abilities don't matter.
Todoroki’s mom
Did you also forget about the time control child?
And the giant woman
Plus the washing machine hero is also female… oh shit
@@netflix223 Todoroki's mom is mainly hospital bound traumatized and is only active as a fighter in the final act, and her whole character and backstory is written based on how the men (her eldest and youngest son and her husband) reacted to her trauma rather than her perspective on her trauma, and the giant woman is more fetish gear for giantess fetishizers than a character.
The fact that you had to describe all the female characters you listed as "male character's mom", "child," "woman", and "washing machine female hero" instead of their names just shows how irrelevant the mass majority of the female characters are in MHA LOL.
As a character designer, I also hate how most of the female characters have much more low-effort designs. Like, so many of the men have creative accommodations and costumes that tell you something about their character, but it feels like so much less thought was put into the women’s. Momo is by far the worst example but even Uraraka has this problem. She’s just kinda a bodysuit with shapes on it? Why isn’t her costume baggy, especially since tight clothing makes nausea worse and an astronaut theme would have given her design some interest? Why are her wrist thingies with the wire in them just shaped like bubbles? Why does she have *half a helmet* in some iterations? Why is she wearing shoes with no ankle mobility? What the hell is her belt??
It just seems like so little thought was put into it compared to all the male characters. Sexualization so clearly comes first.
what's the point of deku having a mask if he's never gonna wear it ? why does he have little bags around his belt, ever seen him using it ? why does bakugo have a brick collar with no neck mobility ? why does kirishima have fucking wheels around his shoulder ? what the hell is mineta's diaper ? why would iida wears an armor when his ability is speed ?
if you're a character designer why do you only notice the problems from female characters ?
@@kinoo4496
Pockets are always useful, I don't think having the ability to carry small things with you needs a deep justification. Deku's mask has little to no functional use, but it's something his nerdy self designed after All Might. It's mentioned several times. It's relevant to his character, not at all a random bit of visual clutter that was tacked on without any thought.
Iida wearing armor makes perfect sense (even ignoring the fact that armor is useful for most combatants.) Iida's quirk is _just_ speed. Apart from the partially metal enginges in his legs, his quirk doesn't come with any built-in physical reinforcement anywhere on his body. He's not naturally any sturdier than anyone else. His attack style consists of using the engines for devastating kicks or to launch himself at things at incredible speeds. Crashing into things at breakneck speeds is very likely to result in, well, a broken neck, and many other serious injuries. Iida's armour lets him use his quirk to its fullest potential by bracing him from the impact _and_ giving him a solid surface so that his kicks land harder.
Apart from that, Bakugou's neck brace might be to protect his spine from the force of his explosions but that may be a stretch. Mineta's diaper is because he's just a comic relief side character and not someone we need to believe is actually capable. His design is supposed to be a joke as much as his character is, and the diaper look plays into him being A) gross and B) the size of a toddler. I got nothing on Kirishima's arm wheels, they're pretty weird. But I don't think they would be as actively detrimental as Uraraka's ridiculous boots (absolutely no one could walk, let alone fight in those) or the extremely bulky armbands when her quirk relies on touching things with her hands.
@@WhitePaintbrush i'm just using the same logic as the original post. juste like the OP, some of my questions aren't legitimate and some of them make sense : like iida. him wearing a helmet and leg protections would be perfectly fine, but a full body armor is just killing his own speed. deku is faster than iida and yet he's not wearing an armor.
it's crazy how hypocritical you're being right now, you're ready to make the biggest stretch ever to explain bakugo's collar, you're minimizing how dumb kirishima's wheels are while emphasizing so much on uraraka's accessories.
if anything these bricks around bakugo's neck is more of a danger than a protection, imagine having a collision against a wall while having this at your neck, it might kill him not fucking protect him. and kirishima's wheels, it's not just unpractical, it looks straight up painful for you armpit area. not dangerous but painful. why are you even even arguing about which one is 1% dumber ? it's totally pointless.
@@kinoo4496 “Some of my questions weren’t serious and some of them were” doesn’t work when there is 0 difference in phrasing between the two, it just kinda makes you look like you were scrambling for examples when there weren’t actually that many and backtracking when someone points it out.
I don’t think Iida’s armor slows him down much. Deku can only keep up with him when he’s not at his top speed. His costume also makes sense from a visual standpoint as it’s supposed to make him resemble a car. Whereas I think some of the choices made with Uraraka’s costume (mainly it being a skintight bodysuit) detract from the visual goal which is for her to look like an astronaut.
I don’t see how smashing into a wall with a neck brace is more likely to kill you than smashing into a wall without one. But regardless, what Bakugou mainly has to worry about is recoil from his own explosions which could cause his head to snap back. This is what a neck brace could be helpful for.
I stated upfront that the neck brace was a stretch, there’s no need to repeat my own words back to me. The only reason I mentioned it at all was because I wanted to acknowledge all of your examples for the sake of a fair argument. Same with Kirishima, like I said, the wheels are dumb. No need to be all dramatic and spin it into me being “crazy hypocritical” when actually I was just engaging candidly with every one of your examples and making a point in your favour.
Why? Well, because you asked. And also mainly because I enjoy hyperanalyzing details and chracter design is an interesting topic that I like talking about. You brought specific characters and examples into the conversation so I wanted to explore those.
@@WhitePaintbrush yeah lmao i added the same amount of bullshit exemples as the original post has because quantity is important. if OP tried to call my bullshit out i would have done the same. i'm not gonna defend sacrifice exemples right ? i completely agree with what you said about them.
it's not a matter of what you think, an armor would slow him down if it was realistic. just like uraraka boots, if i said i don't think she has trouble walking with these, you would just tell me to try walking with something like that on my feet, so i'm telling you what happens when someone wears an armor in real life. i don't know why you all are making this astronaut argument, who said they tried to make her look like one ? to me it obviously looks like a suit a sf character would wear inside a spaceship.
the brick collar could collide with his spine, making him tetraplegic or simply killing him. if i type neck brace on google, and don't think i'll find anything that looks similar to bricks.
(you said "may be" that's why i repeated it and took that part out) i do like a bit of spice when arguing, it was not my intention to be rude or to insult you, i apologize if i offended you. i'll be careful.
even if you're admitting my points, you're putting them on a different level with the way you're phrasing it :
bakugo and kirishima "may be a strech" "pretty weird" => uraraka "ridiculous" "absolutely" "extremely" surely you can notice the difference
even if i admitted uraraka design is dumber, the difference wouldn't be significative enough for you to act so differently if you were being fair.
ye that's perfectly fine i enjoy it too that's not what i'm talking about. if we both agree on calling these few design accessories stupid, then why comparing them when they are more or less equally bad ? if one was good and the other was bad then we could make a conclusion and say female characters costumes don't have as much effort put into them compared to male's. if you want to do a male female comparison i believe you need more exemples.
After watching this video, my biggest pet peeve with mha now is: HOW is it that only the guys in the Big 3 got character development and character exploration (mirio and tamaki) but nejire as far as the anime at least goes gets NOTHING 💀 she has her appearances and is involved in arcs but not once do I remember a big fight that was relevant involving her as a major role. Also SPOILER: Midnight’s death was just… there. I was so sad but in the story it wasn’t acknowledged much. Those are some of my personal biggest problems with the treatment of the female cast in mha. I agree with those video completely
You can only develop so many characters. MHA biggest problem was probably having too many characters. I mean the villains themselves got an entire arc to develop them.
I don't see any issue with female characters getting sidelined, especially when shounen anime are specifically designed for a male audience.
Because the author doesn't want to do that.
What blows my mind is one thing that never gets talked about when it comes to Momo’s outfit- THERE ARE WORKAROUNDS.
Remember how they did a bit with Mirio where he used his quirk and phased through the floor, and all his clothes fell off because he becomes completely intangible? That was a funny little thing. Sure.
Later in the series, he gets a new hero outfit. This hero outfit notably does not fall off of him every time he uses his quirk, and is said to be made out of his own hair. That’s the reason why it functions differently.
…okay. So. Why can’t Momo have a less revealing outfit made out of HER hair that still lets her properly use her powers? Hell it can still be revealing if they wanted it to, it just feels like a very unnecessary double standard, especially when one is EXPLICITLY explained on screen.
Excellent video by the way, you have a nice voice to listen to for long periods of time ^^ I def wanna check out more future content on this channel!
Same for Toru.
It can't be made out of her hair because the fat comes her skin but I do agree that her costume should be less revealing.
@@jrsergiomuwowo5177 Oh right. True.
It's especially bad because she's one of the smartest people in the class and has repeatedly shown the ability to analyze a situation and understand the true meaning behind things. She should be the first one to realize how impractical her costume is and fix it. It's even worse because she has to keep spending calories on remaking her outfit whenever she breaks it to make something big. This is something that has a direct, tangible effect on her capacity as a hero, yet she does nothing to change it over a whole year?
And if not her, the support class and teachers who explicitly are paid or trained to make costumes to keep heroes alive should realize it. It's not like they can't spontaneously make stuff for heroes without their input, Hatsume made stuff for Deku and Iida that they didn't even explicitly ask for, yet no one thinks to make something better for her? They throw building-sized robots at students for the entrance exam and have an entire fake city for them to have sparing matches, but they can't spare the resources to make a halter top that opens up with the press of a button?
@@jw-py9nw Because she's written by a man. Her intelligence can never get in the way of fulfilling the one goal that every female character in MHA who is neither a tomboy nor having their gender concealed must fill: providing fanservice for the male viewers.
One of the worst things the story has done to Uraraka was that her original motive of supporting her family ends up taking a backseat to her newfound desire of trying to be like Deku.
Out of all of the characters, Uraraka's motivation felt the most realistic and relatable. Even Deku points out that her goal is more grounded than anyone else's, and that she's not trying to live out some "hero fantasy" like the rest of them. She just wants to support her family, like many people in real life who get jobs purely with that goal in mind.
But for whatever reason, after the Sports Festival arc, it became less and less about supporting her family, and more and more about being like "dream boy protagonist". This is not helped by the fact that she and Ida take a major backseat as Todoroki and Bakugo are pushed more and more into the spotlight.
Plus, I think its deeply depressing that Uraraka's most defining moment as a character, without any help from anyone else, was her losing to Bakugo. It's not the fact that she lost that bothers me, but it's the fact that she's never had a moment like that again. A moment where she goes all out, by herself, against an extremely strong opponent.
To be fair ida moment in the show was him losing to stain
Wut, Ochako literally can't do anything about her family situation until after she's already become a pro. She isn't getting any money as a student.
Being the best hero she can be until she makes it her profession, thats the goal, her admiring Deku and taking after him will only make her better and does not erase her long term dream.
You're confusing a character respecting and admiring another with them completely revolving around that said character. That is not the case with Uraraka cuz she respects deku alot but she also focuses on her goals and still has great development.
She’s not trying to be like Deku: more like she’s taking inspiration from him. There’s a big difference and it’s not only her I mean look at the provisional exam when Momo and the others were in the building; when Momo couldn’t decide what to do she remembered what Deku said and changed her focus on helping her classmates pass. Uraraka is not trying to be like Deku that’s why in the sports festival she denied his help because she wants to be independent and use her own mind.
Also you make it sound like the only reason why she became a hero is to help her parents. Yes in the long run she’s going to work for her parents but Uraraka likes to help others too.
1) yes agree with you Urarakas character had been reduced to "Deku love interest/fangirl". Not to say that's all she is now, definitely not, shes still one if the nest best female if the shield and anime in general bc she is her own person, complex, likeable etc... BUT most of here relevance and motivation has become increasingly Deku centred and I *HATE* IT! its actually is the main reason why i cant ship Izuku and her, because its literally degenerating her character
2) and dont worry Urarakas next big moment (that has NOTHING) to with Izuko is coming soon, and many soon after. Which us why i maintain that she is still a great main character, but it also should notve taken this long, also aloy of her growth is covered in the manga only and even there it's just a sideways 'just by the way' kind if thing. So she will and has grown bc of that fight but it's not the focus if her or the story and it does irk me
What makes the part with Minetta & Eri even more disgusting is that she had just been freed from a place where she was trapped by a huge group of men for a long time & no one knew the details of what happened there except that she was tormented & traumatized in nonspecific ways, yet that was the first thing he said when seeing her & no one had a problem with that even though the whole premise of her being at the school was to help her feel safe & normal. He should've been expelled & put on a list without question or hesitation.
Damn 400 likes and no one corrected you that it was a mistranslation
@@olaz5131 ????
@@olaz5131 That still doesn’t make it any better
@@TheMightyGlizzy it does. Cause mineta never said that shit to eri
@@LeeBee287 it's a confirmed
mistranslation, in the manga he says "i look for to seeing you in ten years". Basically telling her she'll be a great hero of she's in U.A already. Some other translations say he making a joke about his height and is saying look me up and I'll be taller in ten years. It 100% wasn't sexual cause mineta wasn't drooling or blushing anytime mineta does his shit asui or someone jump his ass, yet no one is even phased by what he said. Sub and dub just made him look worse.
When you see Horikoshi's special pannels that come in the manga chapters, specifically the one about Toru Hagakure in her hero uniform and her quirk turned off... You're gonna lose it. Assuming you didn't, yet.
But if there was a way to "save" Horikoshi from the drawing naked minors ark, those pannels sealed his fate. To be remembered as a perv.
This is mostly why mineta and the whole hero society and their education ticks me off a lot, firstly with Mineta being shown as a "good hero" especially during Midnight's exam, his whole motivation is having a girl bruh what the hell? And it gets more annoying when recovery girl justifies that, and clearly says that maybe that's not a bad motivation at all...Let's start with that, wanting a girlfriend is not a bad motivation, i agree with that, becuase we all want love, we want to be loved by someone and that's more than okay, but me and y'all know WHY mineta wants a girl, basically to harass her but camuflage it as having a relationship, any other reason is bullsh*t, he wants to touch her.
You know what else upsets me about Mineta? That Midoriya doesn't say or do anything. This kid, the most heroic, protective person in the world currently, never has anything to say about Mineta's behavior. He's a guy who can't see a real difference between Stain and Shigaraki while everyone else can because they're both killers, but he has nothing to say about a dude who constantly makes his friends uncomfortable? He never once tells him to stop doing these disgusting things to them, but he's supposed to be the ultimate champion of justice and doing the right thing simply because it's right?
The implication that Deku of all people is just okay with this throws off his characterization so much, and I'm not saying a protagonist can't have conflicting traits, but not when you're going so all-in on him being good. He should have at least said something when Mineta hit on the six-year-old he spent the whole last arc trying to save from an abusive person.
@@jw-py9nw Exactly my point, nobody has nothing to say about it becuase the show, the writers, they take it as a joke, "oh let's put mineta harrasing girls, it's so funny right?" None of the characters do anything about it becuase they put it in the show as a 10 second joke and then completly forget he has touched the girls breasts without their permission.
Harrasment is punished as a serious thing in school, in mine for example, they suspended a boy next class becuase he touched the girls' butts, and he was doing it as a joke, the girls didn't even get mad, and it was only one time, never again, but he was still suspended for 3 days, now imagine mineta doing it CONSTANTLY, touching the girls, trying to see them NAKED, talking dirty on their bodies, and all of this in a HERO SCHOOL, what kind of "heroes" are they if they don't punish harrasment?
My poor school in the remotest country of latin america with pipes that literally explode in the bathrooms and no soup handles harrasment better than a literal rich, gigantic hero school
@@sixteendreamer It really does speak volumes about Horikoshi as a writer and how shallow his supposed defiance of shonen tropes towards women really is. It'd be way more fitting for the heroic setting and the characters themselves to legitimately rally for Mineta to be expelled and for the teachers and administration to support it since he's committing straight-up crimes, but they don't because the author has nothing to say about it and doesn't think it's a problem, even when folks in real life do actually see this and then think it's okay to do similar stuff. It's just cheap gags that should have gone to the wayside years ago, and it leaves the whole show all the worse for it.
I think LavenderTowne redesigned Momo’s custom as like a ballerina inspired two piece cloth that lifts when she spins to give her bare skin to create objects. I absolutely loved that design as it gave more to her elegant and wealthy background rather than just man-service.
YUS LAVENDERTOWNE!!! I also watched that video and loved that design!
Edit: Wait, I have 100 likes?? I know people get, like, 2K a lot but to everyone who liked this, this means a lot, thank you!
She’s going to get nauseous real fast though
@@couldntthinkofaname360 Oh yeah XD
Man-service. Oh yes. Because only men are attracted to stuff like that. Get outta here with that nonsense.
@@rattersworld1016 exactly why I prefer basically everything from the zipper design (but not the arms, there’s no reason to have two differencing styles unless it’s easier to zip one off while the other one is for more practicality or something)
A year late but:
The most frustrating thing about Momo's design: The excuse for it is kinda bullshit
Bakugou creates explosions from his sweat, which is secreted through his skin, and yet gloves don't hamper his abilities at all? Tokoyami has a spirit who, presumably, cannot go through solid space. (We know Dark Shadow is a solid object because we've seen him interact with the physical world countless times) The spirit comes from his body, and yet this spirit has no problem getting through his clothing?
The only time this whole "they need to show skin for their quirk" has ever been applied is for female characters and Kirishima. It's not even a solid excuse if the logic of it is being pushed aside for her male counterparts
Technically 2 years late since this video is from 2021.
Also I’m assuming Tokoyami and Bakugo have what Mirio had where they have specially made clothes and that’s why.
@@grantslater861 kirishima tho
The frustrating thing is that it's totally fine and easy to have female characters with skimpy outfits, no justification needed. Just make them dress themselves like that on purpose, just say it's their style. There doesn't need to be some ridiculous lore explanation.
@@LimeyLassen But they do though???
As someone who enjoys fanservice and likes the way women look, I agree with quite a bit here. I don't like when women are treated merely sex objects. If they're going to be sexy, they should have a rich characterization and a role in the plot as their first priority. And I am also tired of the "groping=funny" trope. It's gotta be one of the worst of the common tropes. It's possible to have a perverted character without him constantly trying (or succeeding) to commit assault. Like, can a male writer not see how weird it would be if some random stranger came up and grabbed their balls?
No. This is made with people who enjoy the female body in mind, and not necessarily need each character to be deep.
The hero outfits could work if there was commentary in universe on how messed up it is that the standard for female hero outfits is expected to be like that. Like it would lend more credence to the "hero society is messed up" angle the story gives lip service to. Honestly my greatest frustration with the story is its seeming unwillingness to have a legit criticism of the society and devalues these criticisms as just nonsense put out by an uber evil dude who is only supporting these criticisms to just make his own messed up society.
I mean to be fair. As an only anime watcher, there are already some legitimate points about the hero society that aren't undermined. Lady Nagant and Hawks showcasing the bad sides of the government, Shigaraki's backstory showing how people leave everything up to heroes, Shinso not being able to pass because the entrance exam because it was combat based, the whole Liberation front stuff, Stain's ideology... Toga's backstory...
Yes, a lot of these have to do with villains, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are wrong or treated as wrong. That would be like saying that Dabi calling out Endeavor isn't valid because Dabi is a villain who is using it as a justification for his villainy.
12:21 What I hate about this scene is not only the unnecessary sexualization of Bubble Girl, but also the fact that it characterizes Nighteye as a pervert who enforces his tickling fetish onto his subordinate. The scene harms both characters that take part in it, and serves no relevance to the plot. It's just uncomfortable and pointless.
This scene is actually what caused me completely hate his character from the get-go! It was just so perverted and it left a bad taste in my mouth, so when he died I didn't feel a thing
Sorry but no? Isn´t like a big part of Nighteye´s character that he thinks a hero who always smile makes for a better society? a "tickling fetish" was never stablished onto Nighteye´s character and i feel like you misunderstood that scene really hard to elaborate such a conclusion
@@simon3662 oh right. Because I, a women, see a man forcefully binding a woman and tickling her (which IS very much a fetish, welcome to the internet) and think, "awww he's so noble and sweet trying to get her to smile ☺" 💀
@@theoperaticone5663 you don't have to be a man to see that there was no sexual implication from Nighteye, it's just a "laugh torture" thing (because again, the smile is a recurrent and main theme of the character), not a fetish. The fact that you thought this was a way to represent a fetish instead of thinking it was just an exaggerated way to show how much he cares about his coworkers smiling all the time seems like a you problem
@@theoperaticone5663 Listen... If every action made from man is always or most of time seen by you as a pervert/fetish... There's high chance that you are a problem, or should I say. Your way of thinking is a problem... 💀💀💀
Something that also annoys me is whenever the girls are involved, they are always told to help with rescuing or support. I know Uraraka and maybe some others want to be rescue heroes, but theres no way that all of them want to! And whenever they do get to fight they do like zero damage and get knocked out immediately
Meh, support or not, they are still heroes. That's all that matters.
The only female hero that was actually very strong and pro-active in fighting in that sense was Mirko in 6th season and I’m still so pissed about that. She was so fucking strong she could be fighting along the top heroes and be extremely helpful, but they won’t give any female characters actual significant development and participation
@@lkm630y79 uh momo and ochako were definitely active in the war.
Yeah there are very few female heroes given quirks suited to straight on fighting, like some are super powerful but more suited to more strategic and support kinda stuff like Momo and Uraraka, just let the girls be strong!! That's why Mirko was such a breath of fresh air for me, she's just destroying Nomu's left and right and took out like half of that lab that took multiple other powerful heroes including Endeavor to clean up the rest of it, I really hope she gets more screentime later on.
Testosterone is a thing
I once read a fic where the entire plot was Bakugo and Todoroki going on a quest to make mineta pay for how he treats his female classmates and it ends up with mineta expelled from UA. it was truly an amazing piece of literature
YO that sounds sick asf drop the name 🔥🔥
@@soapp2day sorry mate I xant remember. The writing wasn't great so I never saved it
@@HoodwinkFalls relatable
On one hand, the fact that there's a dysphoric character who *didn't* transition and doesn't have much hope of passing as female is nice.
On the other, you *cannot* convince me there aren't people in that world offering a service to use some weird quirk to turn you 100% male or female in an instant.
Maybe it's stupidly expensive idk.
THIS APPLIES TO HARRY POTTER TOO. YOU CANNOT CHANGE MY MIND
Ochaco’s power is SO BROKEN and I’m upset they haven’t given her a training arc. Think about how deadly it would be if she gave deku a single rock she made weightless. Think about how fast she could move if she learned to use it on herself. Think about if she learned to turn it on and off during combat. She’d be UNSTOPPABLE and it’d make sense that she’d want to train to keep up with deku to protect him. AAAAAAAHHHHHH
She used it on herself and it basically does nothing lol
@@sawyerfan5056 it makes her weightless. If she uses it and pushes off of anything at all she’s going flying at Mach 10. If she threw a car she made weightless and released right before impact, she threw a car at Mach 10. Plus those only get faster as she trains her body to get stronger
@@jalengoode3266 What, when did she throw things at mach 10?
@@thej-ster8826dude is going crazy with head canon and forgot about wind resistance.
@@Katsunai I don't understand how she has a "Broken power" When the comment literally says she needs Dekus strength for the rock attack to work, but I think whether or not the rock is weightless it will do the same damage, Idk just a thought. I also don't know why that person thought that pushing yourself off and going Mach 10 into the sky is beneficial, and I'm not talking about the car.
I hate Mineta with every single fibre of my being.
He is disgusting. Being a girl myself, I hate this.
Mineta really needs some serious help. I love Iida because he is so respectful, and when Mineta spys on the girls he actually DOES SOMETHING.
We need more men like Iida, Shoji, Shoto and the rest of the boys that turned there back when Momo makes things.
God what was they thinking when making this character? His behavior is horrible, his power is one of the worse, hell EVEN HIS COSTUME IS STUPID! When making a character (especially a "good guy") your supposed to give them at least *ONE* thing to like about them. WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?!?
@@liamdalemon1525 my lil bro describes his costume as, "A grape in a bowl." He sucks.
@@liamdalemon1525 I think his power is fine, just not Class 1-A-worthy. His costume is weird but if that's what he wants then ok, I guess. lol But yeah, he's a piece of 💩.
For some reason, Aizawa isn't really doing anything about Mineta's behavior. He's their homeroom teacher. Do something, man.
@@Shythalia wait no actually tho. how has Mineta not been expelled from the school yet? or at the very least, suspended? and how has he not been reported yet? its not like he is subtle with his harassment. like get him out of there???
Things like this and behaviour of some male fans is what pushed me from the anime in the first place. And it hurts a lot when it happens to something you care about a lot.
Oof, yeah, male anime fans are so dismissive when it comes to female complaints about sexism. Just you try arguing with them about lolicon porn.
Shhhh, your sexism is showing. :)@@imthebossmermaid3648
That's good. The less woke snowflakes filling anime fandom, the better.
@@imthebossmermaid3648Well, because this complains is just blatant "MaLe BaD" sexism.
And lolicon is based.
27:20 And the worst part about it is how easy it is to relieve the weird tension as an author. Like Horikoshi could've added a tiny panel in the manga of Kaminari saying "Dude. What the heck is wrong with you?" but he deliberately chose not to. Like if Mineta saying that about a child could get away as a funny joke. Like- there's so many levels to this it's insane how it got through his head HORIKOSHI HAS A TEAM!! And EDITORS!! Who revise this!! oml
And speaking of in-character tellings-off, why doesn't Deku say anything? This kid is the most selfless, heroic person in the world aside from maybe All Might; he's the epitome of what a hero should be, defending the innocent at the cost of his own safety and making sure that everyone feels safe while doing it. Yet, he never calls out a guy he sees every day, both in class and in the building he lives in, on behavior that constantly makes his classmates and friends uncomfortable? He never has a talking to with this weird, purple kid, and even goes on to be cordial toward him? The peak of heroism and protecting others never says a thing on screen?
You can't even make the argument that he's shy because the whole first season is about him getting the confidence to stand up to his lifelong bully and the second is mostly him learning how best to beat up people who have it coming, so telling off this guy should be no problem for him.
Wild.
I am SO tired of the CONSTANT sexualization. Like I’m a woman, attracted to women. I don’t enjoy that “fan service” at ALL. It’s weird, uncomfortable and theyre like what? 15/16??? Hell nah!
And it’s always so forced and unnecessary and just to put down the female characters for no apparent reasona
Totally, I'm bi (asexual too, which probably factors into me not liking the fanservice, but still) and it just makes me uncomfortable. They're so young and it's just...weird.
then dont watch it honestly the show is just not for you I do enjoy fan service smh people need to learn not everything is made for them when something is not made for me I just ignore it
@@admiralkaede I can only guess how many hours of hentai you have consumed just by your comment.
Eugh.
@@admiralkaede thanks! this applies to 90% of media! guess 50% of the population is no longer allowed to enjoy shows!
@@cin7943 then fucking cope. or make your own damn show.
Something a lot of people don't really bring up about Minetta is that in that training fight with Mina, she tries to report him after the fact and she is laughed at. It not only makes a mockery of assault, but mocks a character who tries to take action, when speaking up is hard. She was told she should be grateful and go with it, and the narrative never addressed it again.
EDIT: I would like to make a slight alteration to what I stated. She was not directly laughed at by the classmates. However, it was brushed aside as if it was no big deal.
Holy shit
she wasnt laughed at, she said Minetta deserves to be locked up and Mineta yelled and said "But i saved you" and the next we see of them is Mina subjecting him to Clockwork Orange punishment, after which his pervertedness ended. Not even exaggerating, that was his last act as a pervy characters he's just been that small guy with a funny design and power for about 4 and a half years now thats the majority of the story
@@essdeebass2411 If you watch it again, she definitely was laughed at. It was treated as a joke.
if you read the manga she isnt laughed at. look at the source material not the adaptation that constantly changes shit @@midnightbird3580
Wait, what?!
26K DISLIKE??? AH HELL NAH ALPHA MALES KIDS FOUND THIS VIDEO
In the comments too 😭😭
Women and girls can just never win or say their opinions, pretty much do anything
@@T_E_G Not all women whine when they see an attractive and sexy girl in an anime. The dislikes are well deserved.
I just found your channel and this video definitely vocalizes a lot of things I've felt about MHA and put light on new things to look on when watching the series. This is such a great video! Thank you for making it!
The most annoying thing is that Mirio has this whole smart costume made from his own hair so he doesn't end up naked but both Toga AND Momo both end up naked in basically every fight
Toga doesn't have the resources and a DNA costume just shouldn't work for momo because of how her quirk works
@@JonasRosado But a more practical outfit that exposes her back and stomach would work better than an outfit that, besides a ridiculous opening on the front, actually makes her far more covered than she should be. I think when people bring up Mirio, is not to say that all other characters should have the same type of engineering he had done for his outfit, but that more thought should've been put into their costumes. Toga you can get away with but characters like Momo and Hagakure (and in my opinion also Midnight) are absolute failures. Which is worse given that they're from the main class of the show (sidelining aside).
@@RobotScarlet I'd be lying if I said that momo's costume is flawed to begin with but it just makes sense for her breasts to be exposed at least a bit because really they're just one big source of fat that she can use and how is midnight costume a failure? Only problem with it is that it covers her skin. Also, yes hagakure should have an outfit like mirio but it's possible that because it's her 1st year and first outfit that she either can't get one made, she didn't think of that and it's probably next to impossible to get a blood sample from one of her veins for the dna
@@JonasRosado Except when zippers are a thing. She doesn't need an open boob window, she can have a velcro or zipper opening in the front to use whenever she needs. And in case of emergency, well, we literally see her first extreme use of her power is her ripping the back of her suit completely despite her front being exposed, so it wouldn't be much if an issue, especially since she doesn't seem to mind being exposed if it's for something serious. The outfit just doesn't make sense except there needed to be some titties out.
Midnight's outfit is a failure to me. I know many people don't agree but based on her powers, based on her personality and the whole dominatrix thing she has going on it's terrible and looks ugly. A dominatrix goes all out with her look and she's not only tame, the wildest thing she's got going for her is her titties being out. She's meant to be attractive and the show points it out constantly but she looks like a trainwreck.
And Hagaruke, that's an explanation of the character but is a failing of the author because really, all he wanted was to make jokes about her being naked all the time. How can you conceive of an invisibility power and not do an outfit that goes invisible WITH them? All she has are literal gloves and shoes. They (sort of) thought out an outfit for Uraraka but couldn't do the same to Hagakure? There's many ways to get DNA that doesn't require syringes or veins. I just think he didn't think these character through because they weren't really meant to be as thought out besides the basics (and Hagakure's case... nothing).
Alright, I'm not defending this shit, and yes, the Mirio=Momo argument, I understand and fully agree with. But how the hell would it work for Toga. Mirio phases his body through stuff, Momo creates things and it pops out of her skin. Considering these are all just molecular of her own lipids, I feel it makes sense for her suit to allow the objects to phase through. But Toga is a bit of a different case. I mean, her entire body morphs using someone else's DNA. Her entire quirk is based off of adding foreign DNA to her system. Even if a suit could somehow be feasible for Toga that accounts for this impossibly random variable, I don't think it would fall in the same ballpark as Mirio or the theoretical Momo suit, logistically or technologically.... I'm now noticing this reply is long enough to be its own comment. So that's what I'll do.
I love MHA, but I gotta admit, you hit the nail dead on the head. The fact that bakugo can wear gloves and mirio can wear a full bodysuit, but toru has to be buck naked says it all.
Dude her quirk is literally being invisible wearing anything else will expose her stealth quirk☠️☠️☠️
Mirio phases through things, even normal clothes. To prevent him from being naked all the time, his costume is actually made of his own hair fibers so it phases with him. By this logic, Toru’s hair can be fashioned into a costume, she can be clothed, and still maintain her stealth. In fact it would actually improve her stealth since her current outfit (gloves and boots) are visible. Think next time you try to rationalize an underage character being naked.
@meowtastic___meowtastic___6115 she wears gloves and boots so that her classmates and (more importantly) the readers/audience can see her at all, everytime she actually goes into combat she takes them off/uses them as a trap for opponents, even if someone could somehow make clothes for her (that would be invisible) she would look and function identically, plus how is she even meant to find it anytime she takes it off 💀
You have excellent points! My response is that she could where a hybrid suit, one where she has clothes that are invisible, but gloves and boots that can be seen. However, it has been stated that toru can see herself, so one could infer that she could clothing made out of her hair.
@@asfplanx5004u just want naked under 18 yr olds
absolutely adore your channel and content. i’ve been wanting to make content like this for a long time as a fellow anime enjoyer who always has A LOT to say. you did this beautifully in a way that simply explains and is still very entertaining/humorous. for sure feeling inspired by this !!
while i’m here can we also talk about the fact that Mirio’s loophole for avoiding having to be naked in his hero costume would work EXACTLY the same for Toru?? Mirio makes his costume out of his hair so that the rules of his quirk still apply to the clothing and won’t fall off… her hair is invisible, too. so why can’t she also do that? instead he made a decision… to FREQUENTLY show a 15 year old girl COMPLETELY naked… but she’s ✨invisible✨so we can’t ACTUALLY see her naked.
Toru is one of my favorite characters, not because she’s well written- she barely is written at all. but i absolutely love her concept: a cheerful, bubbly girl with an invisibility quirk. i love Toru because i mourn what she could have been in the hands of a non-objectifying writer, and I also feel the need to love the character who is the LARGEST victim of both the male gaze issue AND the sidelined issue.
Yes. I agree with you. I feel the same way about Nejire Hado.
I'm a dude even I have limits on how much I can keep watching shows. THIS IS one of the big reasons why I stop watching. because of the sexist and sexualized stuff that's in it. the other is a leak of "smarts" to some characters. and the hero system is one of the dumbest systems and one punch man's hero system is no different. I stopped at the start of S3 and I don't want to hear "it's getting better". if you have characters like Mineta that one doesn't have character development, doesn't help 90% of the time, used as a bad gag and was never removed out of the show? if we got a dev that's belittles females so had to the point on sexualizing a 6 year old. is not called a fan serves anymore. this is just letting your own fantasy out of the world without shying away. without realizing you going to far and what others would think about that fantasy.
we REALLY need a female writer shows how women ACTUALLY work. emotions, what do they think about there bodies. you know all the stuff that anime loves to over look when it comes to women. I know not all of them don't abuse the little/weak people, don't always wear short skirts, can be just as smart as men with no bad edges, not helpless all the time, not beating down easily all the time and all this other good stuff. you get what I'm saying. WITHOUT the empower bullshit in the damn story. the gender war thing is just to damn childish and it's super rare when we actually have a good show that doesn't do all this bullshit for everyone to enjoy. not talking about just anime ether.
the fact that all three animes you mentioned where they portray sexual assault well and provide meaningful realism were written by women says a lot about how sexist most male manga authors are.
Lmao
*japanese*
Well actually the FMA one wasn’t from the manga, so a guy could have came up with that one
@@DaDualityofMan sure but FMA is still worth to bring up. Its one of the only shounen thats actually super tactful about female characters. And of course its a shounen written by a woman.
@@JustScrapHD True
Mineta is the most disgusting character I have seen. This is because I myself relate to the clip where you showed Mineta sexualizing a 6 year old. I was sexualized in a similar manner when I was very young in the community that I was born in by boys who were early to late teens. It was horrifying because as I child I didn't understand the jokes or intentions and I was taken advantage because of it. It is scary, traumatizing and very dangerous if not put a stop to.
I'm sorry you had to go through that. :( (hug)
Blame the translators of that episode.
I mean, he's still not as disgusting as Zenitsu, I'll give him that
@@tienluong9648 how? zenitsu doesn’t touch girls inappropriately without their consent, and he isn’t constantly thinking about their bodies in a s3xuaI way either.
Dang how people still don’t get that shit was a translation error?If you want to hate him that’s fine,but don’t go on Unfairly demonizing him like that lol.
The amount of times I muttered "ugh", "call the police", or "go to jail" looong before that little grapist even showed up... -.-
If I wanted to see a sleezy pervert with almost nothing good going on for him, I'd just watch footage of Glenn Quagmire.
Anyway, well done on this analysis. I loved every minute of it, and what you had to say about the show, and the industry.
This, and the slow paced storylines were why I stopped watching this show
Not saying I hated the female character writing, but I hated how my favorite girls were treated (Momo, Neijire, Mina). I moreover was just bored by season three, the stories and episodes were so drawn out for so long that I was just kind of bored with everything
HARD agree. I love this show but the oversexualization of the female cast bothers me greatly. Bubble-Girl was a perfect example, I was instantly made uncomfortable by her costume and the tickling scene was downright obscene. Additionally, poor Momo, smart girl, power that relies on research and intelligence, then made her costume more revealing than most lingerie. In universe it makes no sense that a school would allow a student to dress like that, it's gratuitous.
Glad you agree!! Yeah, Bubble Girl and Momo feel just very gratuitous and ridiculous with their costumes. It’s a real shame considering how strong the rest of the show is. Thank you for watching!
Kirishim wears even less clothes than Momo. lol
@🦪 is 🧂 why not just let the audience enjoy a cute 16 year old girl?
momo was 15 in her first appearance.
@@grinko1222 boys and girls body are diffenrtr