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SEASON 2

- i loved the first opening theme and this one is really good too!! todoroki doing yoga in a park took me out tho lol

- okay at the end of s1 they said that aizawa might lose the mobility of his eyeballs or sth and now they are completely ignoring that. like he's all bandaged up like a mummy but his eyes magically work. how convenient. not complaining though.

- i really did not remember deku winning the obstacle race but i love that he's smart. maybe im completely off with this, but i feel like the average shonnen protagonist of the 2000s was more like naruto: determined, loud, extroverted, a little dumb sometimes, but ultimately really noble. and izuku kind of breaks away from this stereotype in a way ?? like he's a really big nerd with a noble heart and that's why he wins in different fights, at least at the start. i feel like it was probably a breath of fresh air back when mha started.

- bakugo the feminist™ !!! (when he was asked why he didn't have mercy on a fragile girl [uraraka] he replied "what part of her was fragile?")

- it's really clear now to me that horikoshi loved tokoyami's character design and powers lmao. he won easily against everyone but bakugo. slay.

- something i like ab bnha too is that bakugo, who seems like a mindless bully at the start who only got blessed with amazing superpowers, is actually smart too. it's not just deku. it seems like hori cares a lot about making it clear that in order to be the best, you have to study your craft thoroughly. in his fight against kirishima and later with tokoyami, he figures out their weaknesses quickly and uses them against them to win. he's not just really powerful (although that obviously helps), he's also pretty observant.

- good on recovery girl for not indulging deku breaking his entire body all the time lmao. i had forgotten for how long the boy literally couldn't control his quirk. it was getting frustrating to watch.

- i had also forgotten that this is when deku got his hand scars (after fighting todoroki on the sports festival). good to know!

- STAIN ARC ??? ALREADY ??? idk why i remembered it the other way around, i thought bakugo got kidnapped and rescued and LATER they did the whole stain thing. whoa. this changes things.

- ngl pink ua girl had a point when she said BAKUGO KATSUKI IS NOT A MONSTERRRR SO STOP CHAINING HIM LIKE HE IS ONE like seriously you're a hero school and that's all you can come up with ?

- this is gonna sound really dumb but i just realized uravity is supposed to sound like the japanese pronunciation of gravity (which ofc is a play on words with uraraka's name, that much i already knew. like i said, i first watched bnha when i was 15, don't judge me.)

- lmao bakugo really chose the agency that would twinkify him

- gran torino is such an interesting character, i wish we got more of him

- iida (ab deku fighting stain): those moves... he's moving like... bakugo!

- ↑ idk why but i thought that was so sweet

- todoroki is so silly when he's not being angsty. like, i knew that, but this episode is when it starts showing for the first time methinks.

- IIDA RECEIVED NERVE DAMAGE IN HIS LEFT HAND??? why is that never brought up again (or maybe it was and i just didn't notice? unlikely).

- i never noticed before but the nomus are so much like the evas from evangelion !!

- in chapter 1 or 2 of the first season, it was said that all might got his stomach injuries by fighting a named villain (sth like "toxic man" or whatever), but now gran torino said it was AFO. either it's a plot hole or the story all might told izuku was fake, which is more likely.

- deku basing most of his new moves on bakugo's style is such a good way of reminding the audience of the fact that they're childhood friends and that deku has always looked up to bakugo. it's not just animosity between them but also deep admiration.

- all might: midoriya shonnen, i probably won't be by your side when you have to fight AFO

also all might: *lives at least another 10 years*

- ngl rewatching bnha is making me really sad about SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS the fact that deku ends up losing OFA. like, the thing is that it's a good ending, it makes sense for the show, but it's still such a huge process of grief for him. imagine wanting sth your whole entire life and facing that you'll never have it, then getting it, living one shitty year with it and losing it forever. i think a part of deku will die with OFA. but i liked that he ended up with hopes of becoming a hero again anyway, and i do love him as a teacher. the ending harry potter deserved.

- on the topic of other hero's journey stories, i was thinking about the OFA/AFO backstory that all might tells deku close to the end of this season. a lot of parallels can be drawn between bnha and naruto, but im glad that the story of the brothers isn't reflected here. in naruto, you have asura and indra, and naruto and sasuke reflect their souls perfectly, that's what fuels their fated, innate rivalry. here, in bnha, one might have assumed that deku and bakugo would echo the original OFA-user and AFO brothers respectively, with bakugo turning evil out of resentment and frustration but eventually getting saved by deku and coming back to the good side (like sasuke). im glad horikoshi didn't go that way. im glad their rivalry stems from their own relationship and that bakugo, despite being very flawed, deals with his own character development without straying away from his core beliefs. i think about naruto and lots of other shonnen animes and hero-stories when watching bnha because i feel like it's very meta in the way it deals with a 'hero-society', so idk. i thought that was good writing from horikoshi.

- the way i have absolutely ZERO recollection of the exams before the camping trip ??? LIKE GENUINELY ZERO ???

- aizawa trapping todoroki by hanging him and putting shurikens below him (to which todoroki says, "is he a ninja?") just HAS to be an homage to kakashi and his genin exam :')

- i like that, while all might wants deku to be his successor, AFO wants shigaraki to be his "new me". it's another parallel between OFA and AFO, while OFA is a cumulative power that's passed on from generation to generation, AFO is exclusive to one, even when it's passed down to someone else, it's solely to keep the original user going.

that is all for now! i'll eventually post sth for s3!

things im noticing as i rewatch bnha, an ongoing thread:

SEASON 1

- deku really was such a nerd lmao he's just like me fr (like i KNEW but i didn't remember how much i could relate to it. oops.)

- it's also interesting that he always fights back against bakugo and calls him an idiot a lot. idk why (probably because of fandom characterization) i remembered early-seasons deku as a lot more innocent and scared of bakugo. like, here's the thing, deku is scared of pretty much everything at the start because he's shy/anxious. he gets nervous talking to most of his classmates (especially, but not only, girls) when he first meets them and starts trembling when he gets elected as class president before handing the role to iida. so basically, his anxiety isn't reserved to bakugo like i remembered – if anything, he seems to get over his fear of getting bullied by him pretty quickly once he realizes he can fight back.

- kaminari tried to ask uraraka out in their first or second day of school and she was like "uhhh i like to eat... uhh... WAIT DEKU CAME BACK FROM THE NURSE'S OFFICE" lol i really didn't remember that

- bakugo's insecurity was always there. as you're reading this you might be thinking i first watched mha with my eyes closed or sth, and you're not very far from the truth. here's the thing, i first watched it when i was like 14-15, so all i knew back then was that bakugo was insufferable and i didn't think further than that. of course, he ended up becoming one of my favorite bnha characters after reading all of the manga, but it's cool to realize his character arc was foreshadowed from the beginning and didn't just magically start around season 3.

- but yeah, anyway, bakugo's insecurity and his envy over deku's natural noble nature was always there, since season 1. also, deku's real admiration over bakugo was also there. like, going back to my other point, deku wasn't just Not Overly Scared of bakugo, he actually looked up to him despite knowing he was deeply flawed. tbh they were always a bit crazy about each other.

- uraraka is so funny i love her.

- all of class 1A was so chaotic good coded

- like they collectively made fun of bakugo on the bus to USJ for being rude lol. they really bonded over their shared dislike for the guy.

- bakugo gets fucking HUMBLED all of s1. i would also be irrationally angry ngl.

- the dialogues in the first season sometimes are so unnatural for the sake of exposition, like all might telling recovery girl: "do you mind not talking so loudly ab OFA? only you, a close friend, the principal, and midoriya know about OFA. but most professors and some pro heroes also know about my condition and not being able to fight for more than 3 hours a day" like WHO TALKS LIKE THAT ??!1?1?

- deku had to go to recovery girl's office a total of 4 times (if i counted correctly) for broken limbs of fingers in HIS FIRST WEEK of school. which is funnier considering no one else from class 1A had to go even once.

- damn shigaraki was a skinny legend before he got OP

- aizawa did not react at all when he first saw kurogiri (about the shirakumo thing). that was surprising.

- also. AIZAWA IS SO BADASS?? like yes i knew he was badass from the later seasons, but i genuinely didn't remember his first fighting sequence at USJ where he single-handedly fights like at least 20 villains.

- i had also forgotten that shigaraki calls eraserhead "really cool" so early on in the anime, i thought it was a later-seasons thing.

- this is really obvious but i had forgotten the all might theme's resemblance to superman's theme. it's such a cool little detail tho!

- uraraka and deku definitely were crushing on each other when they first met, but i think it's nice that they ended up developing a really strong friendship instead of getting together after hori didn't consistently develop them romantically. it also makes a lot more sense narratively, like why would we care who deku ends up with at the end of his first year of UA when the story actually ends 8 years after that, and it's very unlikely that you marry the same person you started dating when you were 15. idk, i liked that. i like that you can have two characters who maybe have a crush on each other but can't focus on that due to Circumstances and eventually move on and become good friends. it's a win for the platonic department!

- the animation was kinda bad in the first season 😭 but it's understandable and i had fun watching it regardless.

okay im done with s1 tune in for s2 !!