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EP. REVIEW: My Hero Academia

If you want to know what mainstream shows look like, you have One Piece. You can say that in-world female characters dress the way they want to; but similar to Fairy Tail, the original author clearly has a tendency to draw all female characters in the same way, and all of it looks extremely sexist and some characters are even insulting.

True, this one off gag does rely on the trope of female characters tricked by two other male just to see them in a sort of embarassing situation, and it was clearly aimed for fanservice. However, eventually none of the girls keep with the cheer leading act if they don't want to, they're just pissed that Mineta tricked Yaoyorozu (which is actually IN character of her to be naive and trusting) and got up into that situation.

I do criticize the idea slightly, but I hardly find it insulting like I do sometimes in One Piece or Fairy Tail.

It's been a while since I read this arc in the comic, but I am pretty sure that it was implied that Toru (the invisible girl) was very enthusiastic about the prospect of cheering, and was using Minoru's "deception" as an excuse to get the other girls to cheer with her?

I never got into One Piece or Fairy Tail so I can't compare specifically to those but I've watched a lot of shonen shows. Most of the time, stuff like this gets removed unless it's tied to a specific plot point.

I'm hoping we actually get to see other Class A-1 fights that weren't in the manga.

Like what examples exactly? Usually if something gets removed it's more because the original content was considered too suggestive and had to be toned down for TV viewing.

The latter is saying it's ok to shame females for male pleasure. While MHA had some of the former (Mount lady comes to mind), this is the first time they've really done anything with the latter. Several of the girls were clearly uncomfortable and the boys were rubbing it in. I didn't see anywhere where they would have been able to change so it's not like they had much of a choice on whether to stick with the cheerleading act

BodaciousSpacePirate wrote:

It's been a while since I read this arc in the comic, but I am pretty sure that it was implied that Toru (the invisible girl) was very enthusiastic about the prospect of cheering, and was using Minoru's "deception" as an excuse to get the other girls to cheer with her?

If this was in the manga, they cut it out from the anime. It was just Minoru and another boy saying that Aizawa told them about a cheer event.

^^Yep, happy to see MHA not slow down too much as the story is kept expanding. However, this episode seemed a little slow to me and spent a lot of time on Midoriya slowly walking with internal dialog on all sides rather than on action. The team mate's reaction to Shinsou made up for some of that I think. My theory on the newest reveal is that One for All spoiler[passes on the soul (or a part thereof) of the previous owner to the next, which I think may explain why All Might looks like a ghoul as one person observed early on. He is meant to portray a "dead man walking" and I predict toward season end he will die.]

this episode bothered me a bit mostly the thing with teh "previous oen for all users" as I don't remember the manga being like that, so I wonder if the spirits are anime original.

Manga spoilers ahead spoiler[ because in the manga, it was clearly mentioned that all might's "teacher" or rather the user directly previus to all might is the one where one for all originated with, so deku should be only the third user and there should have been only two souls]