#My Hero Academia Season 6 review

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My Hero Academia Season 6: Paranormal Liberation War Arc Review

#MyHeroAcademiaSeason6 raised the stake so much higher with the first showdown of Shigaraki's All for One and Deku's One for All and it was interesting to see how the current wielders of the Quirks were in a race to see who masters theirs first. I crie

I’ve kept myself from watching the fifth and sixth season during its regular run because I had the feeling it would be hard to wait week after week for new episodes to come out. As it turns out, patience is a virtue as I get to enjoy uninterrupted episodes in one go. Synopsis: After the Metahuman Liberation Army joins with the League of Villains to form the Paranormal Liberation Army under…

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My Hero Academia Season 6 Episode 23

My Hero Academia Season 6 Episode 23 opens with Deku asking why his friends are here and Ochaco Uraraka (Uravity) responds “because we were worried about you.” Deku claims he’s find and tries to send them away. Katsuki Bakugo sarcastically congratulates him and asks if Deku “can still smile?” Deku begs his friends to understand that he left for their sake and he tries to leave using One For All.…

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My Favorite Season. My Hero Academia Season 6 Review

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My Hero Academia Season 6 Episode 137 was such a boring episode that in this review, I write about a rat's new construction project.

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Spring 2024 Anime Review

Kaiju No.8 - 12 Episodes I've been a long-time fan of the manga for this series and was so stoked to see it was finally being animated. I think they did a decent job keeping the original art style but some of the scenes fell flat for me. I still love the series, I feel like it gets straight to the point with no bs, you know what the goal is, you know where each of the characters came from and you're just here to enjoy the ride. I'm really looking forward to later episodes with certain characters (Gen). 8/10 - Very Good

Go! Go! Loser Ranger! - 12 Episodes I feel like this series deserves more recognition. The overall story is really great, the animations are solid and the op is a banger. I had a lot of fun with it and will likely check back in for a second season. 8/10 - Very Good

Wind Breaker - 12 Episodes This is what I wanted from Tokyo Revengers without all the time travel stuff. I think this series also has great character design and the story is interesting but quite honestly the pacing felt really slow. I felt like waiting for each episode made it worse. Likely much better if watched in one go. 7.5/10 - Good+ Keeping this to a shorter post this season as I didn't watch many of the B-tier shows (don't come at me). That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 - 12/24 Episodes Mushoku Tensei Season 2 Part 2 - 12 Episodes Lumping these two together. Both og isekai series that at this point, if you're watching them, you're committed to the story and the characters. Both were good but felt a little slow story wise. 7/10 - Good My Hero Academia Season 7 - 12/21 Episodes This is where I felt it really picked up in the manga, but with season 6 falling off so hard, I feel like the traction for the series just isn't there anymore except for long time fans. It's a little too bad because I really did enjoy this arc in the manga and it felt like we were headed somewhere near the peak of the series. 7/10 - Good Will cover Delicious in Dungeon in it's own post - link As well as Demon Slayer Season 4 - link

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Lav year in review:

Most importantly

Total written in 2023: 41,955 🎉

(sidenote; about a third of the way through this I was like "oh neat I did a lot of stuff I didn't realize! I should feel proud of myself for tha-" to quickly going "oh god what have I started, when will it end" so feel free to skip the end for anime)

Life events:

Visited my friend on the east coast for christmas and new years

Started and finished cross stitching my mob psycho III project

Started a crochet blanket

Started playing dc again after 10+ years, and started a new game (tfo)

Got all four wisdom teeth removed

Moved to a different county

Increased medication dosage

Got approved for SSI

Wrote (at least part of) 7 fics

Made a bunch of great friends

[Frustrating legal stuff and insurance stuff]

Worked on the four ornament cross stitch project (it was really difficult, this might take me years honestly)

Learned to weave (!!!)

Got a rigid heddle loom (!!!!!!!!!)

Got a bunch of helpful tools for cross stitch and the supplies for three projects

Gridded and hemmed aida for first of three projects and got started

More or less completed the game A Little to the Left, and played lots of slimerancher

watched SO MANY anime

Cross stitch projects:

Anime:

Mob Psycho (all three seasons)

One Punch Man (all seasons)

Bocchi the rock

blue lock

Tomo-chan wa onnanoko!

Sugar apple fairytale

Yamada-kun to lv999

Jigokuraku

Spy kyoushitsu

Mononogatari (season 1 and 2)

Dead mount death play (season 1 and half of season 2)

Jujutsu Kaisen (second half of season 1 and most of season 2)

Ayaka*

Mignon

Tsurune (season 2 and movie)

link click (both seasons)

MDZS (all three seasons)

got caught up with Boku no Hero Academia (watched seasons 5 and 6)

The case study of vanitas (all)

Caught up with Bungou Stray Dogs (season 5)

Sasaki and Miyano

Heaven's Official Blessing (half of season one finished, then most of season two)

re-watched Howl's Moving Castle

Undead girl murder farce

Deranged Detective

4 Cut Hero

Haikyuu (season 4 and 5, and rewatched up until the end of the 2nd season)

Tokyo Revengers

My New Boss is Goofy

Ojou to banken-kun (half of season 1)

OVERTAKE!

Sousou no Frieren

Started 16bit sensation

re-watched My Hero

Dakaichi

The dreaming boy is a realist

Golden kamuy (half of season one)

Onmyoji

Manga:

Akane-Banashi

Books:

The life changing magic of tidying up by Marie kondo

The god of Arepo (yes it's a real book now!! It's amazing, someone made a comic of it)

Read this if you want to take good photographs + other photography books

You're a mean one, Matthew Prince and Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky

(Part of) how to keep house while drowning

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (plus a re-read of other tlt books)

Basketry books

Origami books

Mary Oliver poems

Rockhounding books

Some of Trauma Stewardship, Unmasking autism, Laziness Doesn't Exist, and A Short History of the World According to Sheep

Archery books

Weaving books [including: weaving today - selecting and using a weaving loom, inventive weaving on a little loom, mastering weaving structures, pattern weaving, role of yarn tension in weaving, the Weaver's idea book, and weaving made easy]

Some of Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

Part of The Geek who Saved Christmas and probably many other mlm books I didn't think to keep track of (I read a lot of mlm before bed)

Movies:

Rewatched Going Postal and The Hogfather

Rewatched Klaus

(fndjsk is it obvious I like Christmas a lot?? I might be agnostic but it certainly helps to look forward to stuff in the winter months)

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something like a table of contents to make searching easier or a guide to my thoughts

see below as the list is quite long and I don't like long posts on my desktop

theory:

boku no hero academia:

traitor theory (polish)

about spoiler for 336 leaks (polish)

bnha 342 spoiler

bnha 334, this afo is a clone theory

ikamigami theory about overhaul (not mine)

is one for all is evil?

to the rescue of the villains of lov

about theory afo is a glowing baby

my anti dfo post:

anti dfo post 1

100 post, anti dfo post 2

bnha other:

dabi origin story

afo name

kamino afo supremacy

sometimes I get tired of Caleb and his team translating

who is gay in bnha poll

afo doesn't smoke

afo loves yoichi bnha 407

jujutsu kaisen:

about this special video about gojo in the prison realm

sugusato headcanon, husband au

complaining to people about their perception of maki

appreciate nanami kento

jujutsu kaisen theory:

theory and prediction

jjk 236

geto won't come back

Heroes:

loose thought regarding ep8 s1

season 1 and 2 opinion

season 3 live reaction (ep. 1-6)

season 3 live raction (ep.7-9)

season 3 live reaction (ep. 14 - 25)

yakusoku no neverland

review of The promised neverland

shameless advertising

moon knight:

Moon knight review

miraculous ladybug

my few thoughts about Zoe

darkwing duck

darkwing duck reciew

reblog:

my 2 cents about toga

I love ikamigami take on bnha

goncharov quiz

doctor loves afo

complaining to people about thei perception of maki part 2

lmk sun wukong character analysis (love this!)

about shadowpeach apology

petrelli brothers as a twin

great post about SWK defending

what effect could laughing gas have had on jeremiah

sylar plus Catholic symbolism

my fanfiction:

boku no hero academia:

sparklers

heroes:

soulmate is not always the one that fate has chosen for us

Last friday night

roadside assistance

another day, another tragedy , chap.4, chap.5

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20 questions for fic writers!

I was tagged by @firebatvillain :D!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

I have 148 works on AO3

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

I have 740,203 words in total. I added 59,061 words this year

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Supernatural (TV 2005) (32) Naruto (16) Doctor Who (12) Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022) (11) Black Clover - Tabata Yuki (Anime & Manga) (10) The Avengers (Marvel Movies) (8) Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies) (8) Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms (8) Tennis no Oujisama | Prince of Tennis (7) Banana Fish (Anime & Manga) (7) Sherlock (TV) (7) Teen Wolf (TV) (5) My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga) (5) Spider-Man (Movies - Raimi) (4) Hawaii Five-0 (2010) (3) Death Note (Anime & Manga) (3) X-Men (Movieverse) (3) xxxHoLic (2) Whitechapel (TV) (2) Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle (2) Star Trek (2) Captain America (Movies) (2) Hannibal (TV) (2) Pacific Rim (Movies) (2) One Piece (Anime & Manga) (1) CSI: NY (1) Spider-Man - All Media Types (1) The Venture Bros (1) Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (Anime & Manga) (1) Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits (Anime) (1) Suite Life on Deck (1) My Life in Film (TV) (1) Boruto: Naruto Next Generations (1) Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle (1) Daredevil (TV) (1) Gundam 00 (1) Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice (1) Star Trek: The Next Generation (1)

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Our Soulmate Academia (BnHA (MHA)) - 355

Pain (Banana Fish (manga!verse)) - 280

Crush (SuperWolf (SPN/Teen Wolf (MTV))) - 256

A Gift (Avengers (MCU)/Daredevil (Netflix)) - 219

Best Laid Plans (Banana Fish (manga!verse)) - 203

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I always respond because it seems like the polite thing to do especially now that people don't leave as many comments as they used to back the 00's on ff.net

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

You Can't Stay Blind - (SuperWho (SPN/Doctor Who)) - the Eleventh Doctor runs into Crowley who's wearing a too familiar face

In the Pasture of a Vale (Supernatural) - Dean runs into Adam and Ben five years post-season 5 (written back in 2010)

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

 I think I always end up with a kind of mixed emotion ending like Best Laid Plans or Our Soulmate Academia, so it's difficult to remember the truly happy ones. The most recent happy ending would be The Mystery in the Fog (ACD!Holmes) where Holmes and Watson end up at the same secret wedding of an underground queer club they're both members of unbeknownst to each other and have some revelations

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Sometimes I do. The most infamous incident was the time I wrote a fic speculating on who Castiel's vessel might have been before I got to Jimmy's episode in my binge watch back in the day. The reviewer went into gruesome detail on how I was going to burn in Hell for my fic. It was unreal. I just deleted the fic and then went on to write several more SPN fics as you do.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I've written smut a handful of times for fics and more often than that for RP since that's part of the RP culture I fell into in university. Most of my smut fics have been orphaned now, but the one that remains is Swallow My Fang at Night Island (Interview with the Vampire (AMC)) I approach smut like I approach fight scenes so I can keep track of the flow of action. I keep my own personal kinks out of it and try to write a scene I think the audience would look for instead

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I've written 15 crossovers. I enjoy them tbh. In terms of plot, the craziest one I wrote was Distortion (BBC Sherlock/My Life in Film) where Jones was hired to play Moriarty and things get way too real. In terms of titles crossed over, the craziest one is probably The Hokage (Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle/Naruto)

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yes, ages ago. It's why I'm my own beta reader or Kitty Britpicks me because I can trust her

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I had some requests but I've never been alerted to the final products

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

My brother and I regularly cowrote fics together when I was in high school and he was in middle school. If you ever read a Trigun script-based crack fic in the 00's with the phrase "Love and peace! Doves and geese! Change the world!" or "Another carnival ride with cotton candy," that was us.

14. What’s your all time favourite ship?

I don't think I actually have one because I'm a multi-shipper and I have so many favorites. That said, it might be inuyasha/Kagome since I always had an Inuyasha fic in rotation (usually more than one though) from 2001 - 2007 or so. Unfortunately they've all been lost to time. According to my AO3 relationship toggle in the filters sidebar, it's Destiel (7) and Devil's Minion (7)

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I have a BnHA fic from before we learned what Hagukure's powers were where she sent Class-A and Aizawa back in time to Yagi's high school years to do a kind of Tenchi in Love (1996) type of plot where they had to stop a time traveler from murdering Yagi. I wrote quite a bit of it but it stalled on me when Midoriy and Nana interacted and I wasn't completely sure how to get that to work

16. What are your writing strengths?

The most consistent thing I get complimented on are my fight sequences, which is why it's sad I lost all my IY fics because I wrote so many fights for them

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

My memory is a sieve and some of the holes are too big

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I've done it before because I was a weeb and it was a trend in the 00's. Not sure I'd do it again now that I've matured past that.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Technically fairytales. I retold Cinderella when I was so little my mom had to write it down for me because I couldn't write yet. I drew pictures to go with the narration

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

The Land Across the Sea (Black Clover/Boruto) - Boruto ride a tsunami to Clover Kingdom and the knights have to take him back home, which is also Yami's homeland.

I got the idea for this fic when a friend and I were talking about what we'd want the Black Clover movie to be about when it was first announced. Then I took my idea of Yami getting to return to his homeland and made it a crossover because I like the idea of Yami and Naruto knowing each other from back in the day.

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My Review of My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999

Humor me. Who else thought this was going to be a sequel to Ore Monogatari (My Love Story) where Takeo and Yamada go all the way? I can’t be the only one with that sick thought. Okay completely unrelated anime, let’s see what you got.

Akane Kinoshita is out with her boyfriend Takuma…and she gets dumped. Yep, not even 30 seconds into the first episode and she gets dumped. He’s leaving Akane for a girl he met in an online game that he and Akane were playing together. After the breakup, Akane went on the game she got into because of her ex and went on a killing-spree of monsters. Just then, she meets another player named Yamada who looks like Saitama if he had a weird afro on. It takes him two minutes just for a simple reply. Akane gets annoyed and basically tells him off. After some time from the breakup, Akane decides to go to this on-site event for the game she was playing. Never mind getting freebies for the game, she’s going merely for the fact her ex might be there and wants to flaunt the goods to make him regret leaving her.

Things did not go according to plan. Akane trips and falls down on her way to stalk her ex. The person she bumped into is a handsome young man of few words. Akane realized that this mysterious boy is that Yamada she met in her game prior to this event. Well, Akane is face-to-face with her ex. What does she do? Lies and says Yamada is her boyfriend and even bribes him to keep up the farce. Yamada is quite aloof and can be blunt with the things he says…if he says anything. But what Akane doesn’t know is that Yamada is a pro-gamer.

While the boyfriend lie is merely for whenever Akane’s ex is around, Akane has a nice friendship with not only Yamada, but his inner circle as well.

BETWEEN THE SUB AND THE DUB: Even though this was a Crunchyroll exclusive (in association with Aniplex of America), this didn’t see a dub until a good six months after the series had started. Normally, I’d be concerned. But this did happen during the actor’s strike, so I’ll think no more on the matter. And that’s all I’ve got here. Here’s what you might recognize these folks from.

JAPANESE CAST: *Akane is played by Inori Minase (known for Rem on Re:Zero, Prushka on Made in Abyss, Makinohara on Bunny Girl Senpai, Ruruka on Danganronpa 3, and Hidomi on FLCL: Progressive)

*Yamada is played by Kouki Uchiyama (known for Soul on Soul Eater, Yurio on Yuri on Ice, Rui on Demon Slayer, Shigaraki on My Hero Academia, Ikuya on Free!, Ichijou on Nisekoi, and Yuuki on Shiki)

ENGLISH CAST: *Akane is played by Abby Trott (known for Nezuko on Demon Slayer, Shizuka on Zom 100, Machi on Hunter x Hunter, Veronica on Seven Deadly Sins, Inui on Aggretsuko, and Fou on Fate/Grand Order)

*Yamada is played by Stephen Fu (known for Weather Report on Jojo’s Pt. 6, Naofumi on Shield Hero [season 2+], Douma on Demon Slayer, Henry on Black Clover, Kaname on Darwin’s Game, and Pax on Mushoku Tensei)

DISLIKED CHARACTER: No, it’s not Runa. As much as I love to dunk on those little girls who latch onto the hot character and glare at the obvious main attraction, I actually hate jerky ex-boyfriends who quickly dump their girlfriends over trivial shit more. Yeah, Akane’s ex can kick rocks for all I care. While we only see him two times in the whole show, his breakup with Akane really messed her up.

SHIPPING: Yamada is oblivious when it comes to females. He didn’t even know a girl was confessing to him in the second episode. There’s no way in hell he’s going to fall for Akane. Never mind, dragging her drunk ass to his home in the first episode. As it turns out, Akane and Yamada had quite the cute friendship for the greater majority of this season. And as the series progressed, several of their friends were all for them getting together (even if the two characters aren’t going to do so). But we have to remember that Yamada is going to do what Yamada does. He can be blunt and slow to respond. Yet he somehow acts differently when it comes to Akane. The blunt and slow responses are still there, but he almost acts on a weird impulse at times with her.

Elsewhere, Yamada is quite the favorite around school and elsewhere. There are so many girls at his school that think he’s cute. And then there’s Runa! A lot of insecurities to unpack with this little one. But the fact that she at first wanted to keep Yamada all to herself and push Akane on some rando guy really speaks volumes. That action of Runa’s almost landed her on my dislike category. But I left her off because I grew to like her throughout the rest of the series. She even became a Akane x Yamada shipper. I thought it was adorable when she tried to have Akane bump into Yamada while eating a piece of toast.

But what about Yamada’s silent classmate, Yukari? And what of the girl from Yamada’s past that liked him? The girl from Yamada’s past is someone we’ll never see again. Yukari on the other hand…well, that’s a topic for the ending.

ENDING: Does Akane like Yamada for real? That’s a pretty big question for her as she kinda sees him in a new light after Yamada took care of her when she was sick. There is one big thing that seems to be holding her down and that’s the way things were left off between Akane and her ex. As most people do when they’re dumped, they go through a myriad of thoughts to narrow down what they did wrong. However, she still wants to tell Yamada how she feels. It’s just that the timing never seemed right with the two of them.

Meanwhile, let’s move onto Yamada’s silent classmate, Yukari. We see her a few episodes towards the end of the season. She’s on speaking terms with Yamada in class. And she recently joined the FOS guild that Akane, Eita, and Yamada are in. Her reasons for joining the video game guild were to of course get closer to Yamada. And in the second to last episode, Yukari let it slip out to Yamada that she likes him. Oooooh, right before Akane got the chance to. I sure hope the hint Eita dropped about Yamada about to get confessed to will make a dent. I think it did!

Yamada meets up with Yukari after the confession. Yukari spills everything out and admits how long she’s liked him and every reason in the world she likes him. And Yamada still rejects her! It wasn’t like those airhead replies he gave to the other girls that used to confess to him. This was genuine as he even says that there’s another. Yukari knows it’s Akane and he confirms. Called it!

The guild met up for a dinner with special food and drinks. Eita thought it’d be perfect for Akane and Yamada to have some alone time during the dinner. Things didn’t go according to plan. Yamada was late to arrive. And by the time he showed up, Akane was drunk. Déjà vu from the first episode. Yamada drags her to her home and that’s when Akane asks if he likes her. Yamada says yes. And to make sure that this is real, he promises to remind her when she sobers up that this is true.

Yamada x Akane is official!

This was a cute story despite how things started. It’s not like we haven’t seen similar things happen in other animes. Akane wasn’t even trying to become Yamada’s girlfriend after that time in front of her ex. It was just a sweet friendship that eventually blossomed into a relationship in the end. I always respect a story like that. One has to wonder if the anime will continue with a second season or if it will stay as is with the happy ending given in the 12th episode. By the looks of things, the manga is still on-going with at least 100+ chapters at the moment. I honestly think that the anime will stay with just this season. Well, if you’re looking for a cute slice of life, romcom, maybe check this out. It’s a short series.

Crunchyroll has every episode for streaming.

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Short Reflection: My Hero Academia Season 6

I try not to be too smug when talking about anime. Discussing media always works best when you keep an open mind to all perspectives, so if someone has an opinion I disagree with, I do my best to disagree politely and present my side of the argument fairly. I’m not always successful, but I always make the attempt. Today, though? I feel justified in being a bit of a smarmy jackass. So allow me to present a couple of quotes from my review of My Hero Academia’s fifth season, back when everyone was calling it the worst show in the world because it made a couple arcs 50% less bloody.

“All this is to say, don’t be surprised when My Hero Academia once again becomes the most beloved shonen on the planet heading into its final stretch. Because this show has far from run its course yet.”

“Season 5 may be a low point in its history, but the fact that its low point is still so damn high is a testament to why this show deserved to conquer the world in the first place. My Hero Academia is still good, and I’ll be happy to say “I told you so” when the final seasons blow everyone’s socks off and make them fall in love with it all over again.”

Ladies, gentlemen, and everyone in between, allow me to state, on record, that I fucking called it.

God, do you know how long I’ve been waiting to get that off my chest? I’ve suffered through years of mediocre actioners being worshipped as the new best thing ever, watched as bottom-of-the-barrel crap like Tokyo Revengers and Fire Force tricked everyone into liking them, listened to a flighty, tasteless fandom turn their backs on one of the modern era’s greatest shonen because their lizard brains couldn’t concentrate without a thousand particle effects popping off every second. But no more. No more do I have to carry the torch solo as I have for far too long. Because at long last, after two subpar seasons that still blow most of its contemporaries out of the water, the second anime I ever watched has clawed its way back to the front of the pack and forced everyone to remember why My Hero Academia remains one of anime’s greatest modern standard bearers. The king is back on top, and I look forward to apologies from everyone who ever doubted it deserved the crown.

Okay, maybe that’s a little harsh. It’s not like My Hero Academia has ever been a perfect show, despite its self-evident excellence. Even in this fantastic return to form, plenty of its old issues still carry over. There’s the stupid unnecessary title cards all the characters get every episode, like the show thinks we’re so stupid we’ll forget everyone’s name in the week’s time between episodes. There’s the comedy that never quite clicks as well as it needs to, often disrupting otherwise fantastic scenes. The cast has grown overstuffed enough to officially qualify as a problem, with some characters frustratingly underutilized and some given way too much attention (seriously, who thought Best Jeanist was interesting enough to take over the tertiary protagonist role this season?). And it has a bad habit of stopping at huge moments and pausing the action for unnecessary flashbacks that we didn’t need to understand how the characters got where they were. If you’re the kind of shonen-head who just wants to turn your brain off and enjoy a bunch of flashy fights, it’s no wonder you’d be seduced by the sakuga-laden likes of Demon Slayer and JJK, despite their far more glaring issues in the story department.

But if you’re someone who actually appreciates a good story as a backbone to all those fisticuffs? Then you already know why MHA stands head and shoulders above its competition. And after five seasons watching this pressure cooker of a society boil hotter and hotter, it’s finally time for the lid to pop.

Season 6 is an explosion, plain and simple. It’s over a hundred episodes of peeling back the layers of hero society finally coming to a head and bringing the whole damn house of cards crashing down. The season’s first half is entirely taken up by a massive heroes vs villains war, a war in which everyone is pushed past their breaking point and forced to make climactic decisions about who they are and who they want to be. Characters die, self-actualize, rise to their ideas and shatter beneath them, on all sides of the conflict and sometimes all at the same time. If the All Might vs All For One battle back in season 3 was the end of My Hero Academia’s first act, then this barn-burner brawl is the climax to its second act. It’s the destruction of the status quo, an inflection point for all its characters, and as definitive a no-going-back mic drop as you can imagine. This is the end of the world as we know it, all the mistakes and hypocrisies of heroes past finally coming home to roost as Shigaraki puts his master plan into motion and the foundations of the earth itself tremble in response.

And once the rubble has finally settled, the season’s second half turns to tackle the aftermath. What happens when the world falls apart? What happens when everything people believed in turns out to be a lie? The heroes they put their trust in failed to protect them, and many revealed themselves to be little better than the villains they were supposed to be fighting. Fear and hatred compound, safety nets fails one after the other, and this society that once seemed so perfect reveals itself for the sham it always was. And Deku and his friends are caught right in the middle of the chaos, thrust far too soon into the role of the world’s hope for the future. They always wanted to be heroes: now, it’s time for them to come to terms with what that really means.

There’s a level of moral complexity to these developments that I don’t think any of us could have predicted. My Hero Academia started out as one of the most outwardly inspirational, optimistic stories on the market, but it’s proven itself more than capable of deconstructing its own premise. Heroism in MHA isn’t a static state of affairs; it’s a question that must be asked, re-asked, and asked again through the contradictions and imperfections of the real world. What does it mean to protect? To save? Where does the responsibility lie when we fall short? Is it ever too late to fix your mistakes and start over again? A lesser show might shy away from those questions, but MHA relishes in teasing out their intricacies. And it makes this season- especially the second half- some of the most captivating drama we’ve ever gotten from this genre. Watching the world come undone, and watching the heroes struggle to face the new task before them, results in not just some of MHA’s best moments, but some of the most hard-hitting resolutions in all of shonen history. The Deku/Shigaraki parallels! The return of You Say Run! Uraraka’s climactic speech re-cementing her as one of the all-time great shonen love interests! Payoff for not one, but two of the best goddamn redemption arcs this side of Zuko (and with Shigaraki, that number may climb to 3...)! Twice! Hawks! Lady Nagant! Season 6 is a portrait of a world falling apart, but it’s also a portrait of what rises from the ashes it left behind. As Deku himself says at one point, the world is far more complex than simple black and white, but that only makes it even more important to stand up for what really matters when the chips are down.

I’ve been watching My Hero Academia for a while. I started it back when there were just two seasons out and everyone was still riding high on the hype train. I’ve experienced its highs, its lows, its brilliance and its stupidity (Mineta has done nothing pervy this season and I am SO HAPPY YOU GUYS). I’ve been with this show for a long ass time. But no matter how its perception has shifted over the years, no matter how much anime I’ve consumed since then, I keep returning to the simple fact that MHA is really goddamn good. I don’t just like it because it was one of my firsts, or because of sunk cost fallacy, or anything like that; this genuinely is one of the smartest, richest, most emotionally resonant works of shonen storytelling to ever appear in Jump’s pages. And watching so many of its threads come to a head in season 6 has only confirmed that it’s going to stand the test of time. I can’t count how many episodes left me weepy, how often I was left astonished at the courage and intelligence of Horikoshi’s writing. This isn’t one of those stories that squanders its potential along the way and leaves you indifferent by the end: this is a story that’s going to fulfil every last promise it made, pay off every last idea it set up, and bring it all together in a complete package that makes the entire show better in hindsight.

Because even in its slowest moments, this show was so much more than a mindless punch-em-up. This is a story all about the nature of heroism itself, and what it truly means to be a hero in a seemingly perfect world that actually has more cracks in its foundation than a log cabin built atop the San Andreas fault. This is a story about what happens when golden ideals run up against reality, how good intentions go awry and send an entire society down a path to ruin. This is a story about what drives villains to be villains in the first place, and why they deserve our understanding even in spite of their crimes. And it’s a story about how to rediscover and reforge hope, learning all over again what it means to make the world a better place. Unlike so many of its contemporaries, My Hero Academia actually has things to say about our modern world, ideas it wants to convey that run deeper than “just believe in yourself!” Demon Slayer can lavish as many pretty lights and spinning cameras as it wants atop its cardboard world and stick figure characters, but that momentary flash is nothing compared to this slow-burning tale of what it takes to rediscover heroism in a world that’s forgotten its true form.

Season 6 of My Hero Academia is phenomenal. It’s a lightning-bolt payoff to a story years in the making, sending it hurtling into its final act in as staggeringly brilliant fashion as I ever could have dreamed. It’s not just a new high water mark for this show, finally surpassing the bar set by season 3; it’s cemented this show’s status as one of anime’s all-time classics. When we look back on this period, it won’t be the vapid flashiness of Demon Slayer or the agonizing stupidity of Tokyo Revengers that stand the test of time. It’ll be the story of how a crybaby with green hair became the greatest hero... and how the entire world became the greatest hero right alongside him. And for that, I’m more than happy to give it a score of:

9.5/10

We’re almost at the end now. Bring it home, Horikoshi. I believe in you.

[retro-watching]

Welcome to Retro Watching

What is retro watching?

I have a problem where I start to binge watch a new show, get a panic attack part way in, and then never touch it again.

I put this down to pressure to binge watch everything. So to counteract that I'm going to be watching tv shows the old fashioned way I did in the 90s and 2000s. An episode a week. The shows may not be retro but the way I watch it is.

Current Schedule: (I will keep this up to date)

Monday: Star Trek TOS Season 1 & Charmed Season 1

Tuesday: La Brea & seaQuest (the inspiration for this idea)

Wednesday: Good Omens Season 1

Thursday: Doctor Who Season 11

Friday: Twin Peaks Season 1

Saturday: My Hero Academia Season 6

Sunday: The Owl House Season 1

I then got autistic about it and made a spread sheet and decided to rate each episode based on 8 criteria:

Story

Acting/Voice Acting

[Unique Point of Interest]*

Enjoyment

Effects/Animation (depending on the show)

Charm

Cringe (note: This is if it makes me physically cringe)

Aged Like Milk

*Since I will be watching different shows of different genres this category will be different depending on the type of show. Most of the shows will have Cheese but it will vary for others. For instance Good Omens will have Gay as a rating.

1-6 are rated on a scale of 1-10

7 and 8 are rated on a scale of -10-0

They are then sorted on a Tier list depending on the numerical value per episode.

I will also write a short review per episode and post it here

tags will be the shows, episode name and number, and #retro watching

I will also reblog these to my main blog @ineffectualdemon

This is just so I can keep this project organised.

This is how I have fun btw

Screenshots of the spreadsheets under the cut:

Updated screenshots

So I have my weekly schedule:

Followed by my actual watch calendar which updates automatically with the name of the episode watched and the grade it earned:

And then the sheets per show which the calendar one pulls the data from

I am having a lot of fun :)

[originaljiraiyan]

My Hero Academia Season 7 Episode 6: "Division"

[l1l1l1l1]

My Hero Academia season 6 review *spoliers*

Was not expecting so many things to happen this season wow. From Eraserhead cutting off his leg to freaking LEMILLION coming back. That almost brought tears cause it's been too long. Him getting his powers back is so well deserved. The destruction from Shigaraki is crazy. I did not expect that level of atrocity to happen. Loved seeing Hawks and Best Jeanist shine this season as well. I loved that All Might always made food for Izuku. His scene with Stain was actually so well done. And finally, loved that class 1A has Izuku's back. Actually cannot wait for the next season!

[doublesama]

Deku can finally use all the quirks of the past One for All users. But, we still don't actually know what all those quirks are.

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, November 30

Buffy: I mean I can't believe you got into Oxford! Willow: It's pretty exciting. Oz: That's some deep academia there. Buffy: That's where they make Gileses.

~~Choices~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

I Want To Do Something For Humanity (Kennedy, NR) by LudditeRobot

Who can you trust? (Andrew, NR) by Distant_Echo_of_The_Past

A Game to be Played (Giles/Spike, M) by pushkin666

Shards of Magic (Willow/Tara, T) by buffycat100

Feral Ways (Willow/Oz, T) by Supernatural_Artefact (Rosa_Inglese)

Still Loving You (Buffy/Spike, K) by Zenzi

Walking Vision (Buffy/Spike, PG) by honeygirl51885

[Chaptered Fiction]

Forgiveness Doesn't Come Easy, Chapter 8 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Slaymesoftly

Buffy's Bad Endings, Chapter 4 (Multi, E) by Wet_Blofeld

Tillow Oneshots (BtVS), Chapter 1 (Willow/Tara, M) by femcelsunited

Christmas Cheer on the Hellmouth, Chapter 2 (Crossover with Bring It On, T) by QuillBard

The Prophecy Child, Chapter 11 (Buffy/Spike, T) by Yosoy Panqueques

Cherry on Top, Chapter 9 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Maxineeden

Crash and Burn, Chapter 25 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by NautiBitz

Home Sweet Home, Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, PG) by Desicat

Like A Feather, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by Willow25

Wraith, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, R) by simmony

Scoobies in Neptune, Chapter 27 (Crossover with Veronica Mars, FR7) by Buffyworldbuilder

Cross Purposes 4, Chapter 41 (Multiple crossings, FR13) by DianeCastle

What the Drabble?, Chapter 48 (Buffy/Spike, R) by VeroNyxK84

[Images, Audio & Video]

Artwork:Buffy Calendar 2024 by leecapasso

Meme:Anya meme by snowblind2022

Artwork:smorch. by spikedru

Artwork:[Giles/Jenny costuming + meta] by jennycalendar

Artwork:[Buffy Summers] by crowinahole

Comic: The Hero of Three Faces by paulgadzikowski

Manip:Happy anniversary to my ultimate comfort episode! by l0veisntbrains

Gifset:DRUSILLA IN INNOCENCE by detectivedawnsummers

Gifset:One of these days I'm just gonna put you two in a room and let you wrestle it out. by slayerbuffy

Gifset:WILLOW ROSENBERG | 5.11 – Triangle by charmedslayer

Video: Spike & Buffy | Rush by Rachie Edits

Video: buffy & angel | work song by lostlcve

Video: Something new : Legendary Buffy the vampire slayer by PlayDGame

[Reviews & Recaps]

Magic in Buffy Season 6 is Better Than You Think by Five by Five Takes

We do some trolling | Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5x11 "Triangle" | The Normies Group Reaction! by The Normies

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 6X17 REACTION | First Time Watching by EvilQK

Buffy the Vampire Slayer | S2E11 | Ted | John Ritter makes a great psycho by Wacky Uncle Reacts

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1x3 REACTION "Witch" Season 1 Episode 3 REVIEW by Geeked Out Brian

"Never Kill a Boy on the First Date" | Buffy S01E05 Review | The Re-Watcher's Council #5 | LGRN by LGRN - Entertainment

Into the Buffyverse: Prophecy Girl by Biffs Werewolf World

Podcast: Regency Era Metrosexual - Angel S05E07 - Lineage by Pop Culture Role Call

[In Search Of]

Looking for a lost Spangel fic by Complex-Swan-1820

[Community Announcements]

Site Downtime Update by West of the Storm

[Fandom Discussions]

Rambling About Spuffy by Nichya

[Buffy and Drusilla are the same] by raisedbythetv89

[Buffy's S6 money problems are the point] by coraniaid

OK, so still in shock about the order of episodes in the Buffyverse by juanabaloo

[Spike's suit in Restless & Tabula Rasa] by jenny-from-the-box

[Larry should have survived] by sspoike and abadbadbrujah

[Buffy's journey isn't about men] by bluestarsandclouds

Seth Green leaving , was it dodging a bullet storywise [cont.] by multiple authors

Actor Cordelia by multiple authors

Are Vampires stronger than other Demons? by multiple authors

Why doesnt Angel lose his soul? by multiple authors

Slayer Names by multiple authors

What do youll think would happen if angelus and ripper Giles meet? by multiple authors

do you feel like the scoobies by the end of the show were genuine friends who enjoyed each other companies by multiple authors

All these bare chests by multiple authors

Why in the world did the first need to wait for the line to get screwed up in order to enact it's plan? by multiple authors

Buffys Freudian slip! by multiple authors

What parts of the show that were actually planned? by multiple authors

Did people actually talk like that? by multiple authors

What monsters were missing? by multiple authors

Instead of a Buffy reboot by multiple authors

Spike VS Angel ... again by multiple authors

Cordelia in Season 4 (MAJOR SPOILERS INSIDE) by multiple authors

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