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karnalesbian · 6 months ago

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honestly I can't tell if my final opinion is respect or disappointment when it comes to kohei horikoshi and gege akutami

both of them somehow managed to make frankly iconic and compelling characters that are far more interesting than anyone else in their respective stories but then both of them also managed to have strong starts to their series and hit genuinely sick climactic moments in early arcs..... and then just completely lose the plot from there, to the point where said iconic characters became like the only bright spots left. Like is it more impressive that they managed to hit home runs like that in the first place, or that they still found a way to fuck it up?

genuinely torn on this. dilemma for the ages

#was thinking abt it because hero academia is finally ending and i was like oh thank god it's over #and then i was like wow it's wild that i used to genuinely enjoy this series and now that's my reaction to it #like damn was it secretly always garbage from day 1 and i overlooked it or something?#went back and watched some scenes from early in the series and realized no like i still legit go ape shit for All Might. it WAS good #it just fell off unbelievably hard #likewise with jujutsu kaisen and what passes for 'writing' now #nope some of the early arcs are still great! gojo was a genuinely excellent character! gege just went off the rails with some shitty habits #the editor that got replaced after shibuya needed to be paid like 5x as much cause its obvious they were reining gege in HARD

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