#the faces of the rest of the rescue squad are hard to read; especially Shouto and Kirishima
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Iida really said get back in the coma
"I am deeply concerned about your safety!" declares teen after decking coma patient in the face immediately after release from the hospital
#bnha reread#bnha 84#bnha#iida tenya#midoriya izuku#his impulsivity is an underexplored trait of his and it stands out bc it contradicts Iida's hall monitor self image#the faces of the rest of the rescue squad are hard to read; especially Shouto and Kirishima#seems like mostly shock/confusion that hasn't quite moved to anger yet
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I was glad to see you enjoyed my Top 10 ask. You did mention you had a ranking for the arcs - would you do a ranking for them? Like, worst to best? (My guess (of the arcs you've finished): Internship arc, Hero Killer Arc, License Exam, USJ, Intro Arc, Culture Fest, Battle Trial, Pro-Hero arc, Final Exams, Sports Fest, Camino Ward, DvKp2; since you haven't liveblogged Joint Training Arc yet, no clue.) Just curious.
good morning evening everyone, and welcome to another Wednesday episode of āmakeste tries to answer asks from two months ago while on the bus.ā this one is a bit of an interesting challenge since it involves ranking and that always takes me a long time, but as you said, I did have an ongoing ranking of the arcs in my head, so weāll see. at the very least the ones at the beginning and end shouldnāt be too hard, and you can probably guess them already. (in fact, you actually did.)
(ETA: yeah this took me two sittings to do, so I ended up posting it on the ride home lol. I just like BnHA you guys. almost as much as I like talking about how much I like it!)
okay so here goes.
14. Basement arc - yeah so letās just go ahead and get this over with. this is the one and only BnHA arc that I actually dislike. fortunately itās an outlier and suffered from a bunch of one-time issues, most of which stem from the fact that Horikoshi was apparently trying to write a longer and darker arc than usual. well he succeeded! and thankfully learned his lesson. and at least this arc gave us Eri and Mirio and some good Kirishima flashbacks and Chekovās Quirk-Be-Gone bullets and the Highway to Hell. hopefully the anime can improve on the rest.
13. Provisional License arc - okay, so it might surprise a few people that this arc is all the way down here. let me explain. this is a perfectly fine arc, and I like it well enough, but itās a bit longer than it needs to be, and not that much happens in it aside from our introduction to best boy Yoarashi Inasa, and the Great Toga Conspiracy (which is admittedly excellent). there are some great moments (Aoyama doing his best impression of āTHE BEACONS ARE LITā from RotK comes to mind), but overall itās fairly forgettable, and it suffers from being placed directly in between my two absolute favorite arcs, which means I have a tendency to overlook it, which isnāt really the arcās fault.
12. Hero Killer arc - this one is interesting because I really lost patience with it during my first read-through, but strangely enough when I watched it in the anime I actually really enjoyed it. it was also much shorter than I remembered. Iāve belatedly realized that reading it while doing commentary really slowed me down, because for the parts that I wasnāt feeling, doing the commentary took a long time and also left me dwelling on a lot of the things I didnāt like. but in actuality, Stainās Annoying Rants aside, this is a pretty enjoyable arc full of Big Hero 6 flashbacks, hot revenge-driven Iida, Gran Torinoās introduction, Deku learning full cowl, Bakugouās Best Jeanist internship, and Todoroki saving Deku and Iidaās lives by being glued to his phone when he really should have been paying attention to his own internship. get off that social media already Shouto.
11. USJ arc - this is a great arc, but it just feels small compared to everything that happens afterward. but itās fun to look back on because there are lots of little hints for future developments to come. the traitor theory, for instance. and this is also our introduction to the League and to Tomura and the Noumu. and that final fight between All Might and the Noumu is still one of my favorite scenes in the whole series, especially in the anime. itās so fucking good you guys. shit.
10. Intro arc - just FYI, I lump everything from the first chapter up until USJ into one arc since itās easier. anyways, so this is roughly on the same level as USJ, but gets a slight edge because there are some iconic moments here. namely, the first chapter (which is still one of the best shounen intro chapters Iāve ever read, if not the best); Kacchan VS Deku 1; the entrance exam; and our introduction to the rest of class 1-A, particularly Ochako and Iida. oh, and Aizawa! gotta love how he starts out all ready to expel some bitches only to wind up falling in love with the whole class. fatherhood agrees with him.
9. Band AU arc - I actually love this arc. I just love all of the ones above it on the list a bit more, and I canāt really justify it being any higher than this. but it has The Band and the Babysitting Squad and Mirio being the best big brother in the world and Eri being just ridiculously, astonishingly cute. Gentle and La Brava are also great villains, if not quite my favorites. there are a few questionable plot holes in the arc, and it lacks any sort of big impact on the rest of the series, but itās basically a canon filler arc and itās so much fun and I canāt wait to see it animated.
8. Fanfic Lodge arc - you guys this arc started out so fucking cute and ended up so fucking tense. and this was our intro to the League of Villains proper, including Spinner, Twice, Tuxedo Mask, the prodigal Todoroki son, and my best girl Toga. Deku VS Muscular is still hard for me to read (his liiiiiiiimbs) but itās one of Dekuās best moments regardless. and the angst at the end of the arc is almost unparalleled. god I love it.
7. Final Exam arc - a.k.a. the one where all the kids team up with each other to shoot their teachers in the fucking face. this arc has it all: Momo character development, Bakugou character development, TodoMomo, BakuDeku, and Aizawa being a total badass. (and All Might too, but heās kind of overkill tbh. which is its own kind of awesome though.) thereās so much good stuff in this arc that this description is a bit vague because if I got any more specific weād be here all day. itās just a lot of good stuff that I like.
6. Joint Training arc - dudes I love this arc so much. class B and their array of ridiculously awesome quirks! class A and their impeccable teamwork! Bakugou joining the OFA Scooby Squad and showing off his new WIN AND RESCUE COMBO! Monoma! Shinsou!! SIXQUIRKS!!! god thereās so much great content.
5. Endeavorhawks arc - this arc would be even higher except that itās a bit short (though itās perfectly paced, so that might actually be a plus) and it doesnāt feature as many of my faves. but Hawksās intro + our intro to The Great Noumu Conspiracy + Todoroki Family Drama + some of the best character development Iāve seen in a shounen manga (god I still canāt get over what a ballsy move it is to try and redeem Endeavor) = solid gold. and itās so well done. and caps off with one of the best plot twists in the series to date, which sets up what promises to be one hell of an interesting arc later down the line. just. itās so good. possibly the best-written arc to date, even if it doesnāt quite top my list.
4. My Villain Academia arc - and this isnāt even done yet!! and itās still already this high!! Tomura flashbacks! Toga flashbacks! TOUYA FLASHBACKS???! (weāll see??) creepy cults! my new favorite character One-Handed Giran, the biggest badass in the whole fucking series! worldbuilding for days! Dr. Robotnik! more Noumu shit! etc. etc. this arc has been non-stop goodness and I almost feel spoiled at this point.
3. Sports Festival arc - the most fun of all the arcs. I have rewatched the cavalry battle in the anime like a bazillion times. there used to be this show on Nickelodeon called Wild & Crazy Kids where kids teamed up for all these zany competitions (water balloons were usually involved), and I fucking loved that show, and parts of this arc kinda have that same kind of spirit. itās just fun. and then to top it all off we have our Shouto character development, as well as Bakugouās little character arc that he also has which is excellent. not to mention what is probably Ochakoās most badass moment to date. love it.
2. Kamino arc - guyyyys where do I even start? this arc is perfection. good VS evil. All Might taking a stand even when heās got nothing left in the tank, because the world needs him and he wonāt let them down. the sheer visceral terror of AFOās introduction. my favorite character getting fucking kidnapped and being brave AF and his friends rallying to save him yesssss. and the reveal of All Mightās secret, which is arguably the most powerful scene in the series. I get chills every time. āmy heart is still the heart of the symbol of peace.ā if All Might had announced at that moment that he was starting a new religion I would have been like āyeah okay.ā I would follow him to the ends of the earth. how can one man be that selfless and brave. anyways this arc is absolutely incredible and objectively one of the best in all of shounen.
1. Deku VS Kacchan Part 2 - nothing to see here, just two boys whoāve known each other since they were in diapers, whoāve done everything together and have always been together but have never actually understood each other until now. just the two of them finally opening up to each other, because the one who always tried to act so tough actually isnāt that tough, in truth, and in spite of everything, he trusts the other enough to let his guard down around him this one time. just two rivals, sorting out their shit and figuring out what it all really means. and their dad, helping to facilitate the whole thing because he knows that one day, somewhere down the road, this bond between them will mean absolutely everything. is this really even an arc?? itās only like six chapters, and only one event actually takes place. but do I care?? yeah, no. Deku and Kacchanās relationship is the series to me, so yeah. to me it counts as an arc. and not just any arc, but the best arc.
so there you have it! I hope I havenāt accidentally left something out lol. but this should hopefully be a pretty definitive list, at least for now. looking back at all of this really makes it sink in just how good of a story this is, though. damn.
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