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NEWS: My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Anime Casts Toshiyuki Morikawa

I feel like Morikawa is going to have a ton of fun with Captain Celebrity.

MFrontier wrote:

I feel like Morikawa is going to have a ton of fun with Captain Celebrity.

And this franchise's "interesting" view of America continues. Not an outright bad view, as more nationalistic works like Mahouka as well as early career Hideako Anno (comically antagonistic works like The Silent Service and Gate do not count) but not necessarily "good" either ... at best "more good than bad with plenty of bad." It is notable, though that most of the "good" seems to come from the American women and ALL of the "bad" comes from the American guys. And also that a lot of America's "good" comes from its being a place that allows and helps Japanese people like All Might, Koichi and America's current #1 hero (a woman of Japanese descent) to go there to excel. But as we saw with poor Stars and Stripes, Japan has no want or need of reciprocating. Native Son? Brutalized by Stain and killed in the final arc. (American heroes dying on behalf of Japan is good I guess?) And even with Rock Lock, they took pains to point out that he was Japanese-born (Tokushima) with a Japanese wife.

Anyways, him and Makoto Tsukauchi getting introduced this late has me thinking that this show is going to need at least 3 arcs. Wonder how long it will take and if the ratings/merchandise hold up that long. Despite all of the internet chatter over how much better Vigilantes (source material) is than the main series - though I would imagine that the vast majority of that chatter is from adult Americans and not Japanese in the target demo - shows about high schoolers are way more popular than those about college students, and this is the case for both shonen and seinen.

MFrontier wrote:

I feel like Morikawa is going to have a ton of fun with Captain Celebrity.

And this franchise's "interesting" view of America continues. Not an outright bad view, as more nationalistic works like Mahouka as well as early career Hideako Anno (comically antagonistic works like The Silent Service and Gate do not count) but not necessarily "good" either ... at best "more good than bad with plenty of bad." It is notable, though that most of the "good" seems to come from the American women and ALL of the "bad" comes from the American guys. And also that a lot of America's "good" comes from its being a place that allows and helps Japanese people like All Might, Koichi and America's current #1 hero (a woman of Japanese descent) to go there to excel. But as we saw with poor Stars and Stripes, Japan has no want or need of reciprocating. Native Son? Brutalized by Stain and killed in the final arc. (American heroes dying on behalf of Japan is good I guess?) And even with Rock Lock, they took pains to point out that he was Japanese-born (Tokushima) with a Japanese wife.

Anyways, him and Makoto Tsukauchi getting introduced this late has me thinking that this show is going to need at least 3 arcs. Wonder how long it will take and if the ratings/merchandise hold up that long. Despite all of the internet chatter over how much better Vigilantes (source material) is than the main series - though I would imagine that the vast majority of that chatter is from adult Americans and not Japanese in the target demo - shows about high schoolers are way more popular than those about college students, and this is the case for both shonen and seinen.

MFrontier wrote:

I feel like Morikawa is going to have a ton of fun with Captain Celebrity.

And this franchise's "interesting" view of America continues. Not an outright bad view, as more nationalistic works like Mahouka as well as early career Hideako Anno (comically antagonistic works like The Silent Service and Gate do not count) but not necessarily "good" either ... at best "more good than bad with plenty of bad." It is notable, though that most of the "good" seems to come from the American women and ALL of the "bad" comes from the American guys. And also that a lot of America's "good" comes from its being a place that allows and helps Japanese people like All Might, Koichi and America's current #1 hero (a woman of Japanese descent) to go there to excel. But as we saw with poor Stars and Stripes, Japan has no want or need of reciprocating. Native Son? Brutalized by Stain and killed in the final arc. (American heroes dying on behalf of Japan is good I guess?) And even with Rock Lock, they took pains to point out that he was Japanese-born (Tokushima) with a Japanese wife.