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Edjwald
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Season 01: My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (TV) Season 02: My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (TV 2) Main Series: My Hero Academia (TV) (discussed here) Source: Manga (completed @ 15 volumes, written by Hideyuki Furuhashi, illustrated by Betten Court) Demographic: Shounen Animation Studio: Bones Film Genres: action, comedy, drama, science fiction Themes: coming-of-age, fan service, idealism, superheroes, superpowers, supervillains Plot Summary: In a world where 80 percent of the population has superpowers, "Heroes" are chosen ones, celebrated and authorized to use their innate powers to serve society. But not everyone can earn or be given the title of Hero, and those who use their powers without society's approval to fight evil are known by another name - Vigilantes. Air Date & Platform: Season 01: April 07, 2025 (Monday) Available on: Crunchyroll Season 02: January 05, 2026 (Monday) Available on: Crunchyroll Episode Count / Runtime: Season 01: 13 episodes Season 02: 12 episodes Total: 25 episodes [EDIT: Fancy opener stuff edited. -TK] |
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smurky turkey
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Maybe I am a bit confused here but I remember hero academy helping students to make the most of their quirk whether it is to be a hero or to support them right? I also remember the main manga stating that many not directly useful quirks are used in creative ways to benefit society too.
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Edjwald
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I don't know anything about the manga, but I was a big fan of My Hero Academia during seasons 1-4, and I still plan to binge the entire series once the war with All For One is finally over. I just got tired of the tonal shift when the endless downward slide into dystopia began to dominate season after season.
If this series goes back to the time before that, and features Eraser as a supporting character (take a gander at my Avatar) as the trailers suggest, I'm in. |
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smurky turkey
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That was an exciting first episode. Tone wise it is not like the darker seasons of the main show but it is also not like the cheerful first four. The episode makes clear that while the heroes are catching plenty of villains a lot of incidents and criminals still fall through the cracks. Vigilantes seem like a logical solution to that problem but while I get that being a hero is more than having a strong quirk it does mean going up against stronger opponents than you.
Kouichi's quirk is the perfect example, I am sure that it will be useful with training but right now I am not seeing it. I do like the premiere thanks to the comic book look, the mc's being underdogs and the villain making drug being interesting. |
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Edjwald
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I think this is the fifth anime that I walked headfirst into an English dub on the very first day. I'm not excited or disappointed about that, just think it's curious.
Anyhow Eraser's my favorite character from MHA :::::::::::points at avatar to the left::::::::::::: so I'd watch next episode whether I liked the pilot or not. But I did like it. The world of this show might be showing a bit grimmer than the world through young Midoria's star filled eyes, but it's still a far cry form the dystopia that MHA has been descending into for the last few seasons. Which makes sense. If those undercurrents weren't there, the events of MHA never would have come into fruition in the first place. It is interesting trying to figure out how the MC - who desperately needs a better super hero name - will learn to use his power more effectively, especially since he doesn't seem to have access to tech accessories. If he's making surfaces frictionless instead of himself that has some possibilities. For example, if he made a person's body frictionless, would the person slip immediately? Or if there's some propulsion aspect to his power - he doesn't seem to be bicycling or ice skating or anything - that would also have a bit of potential. I'm also trying to figure out Knuckleduster's power. Is he kinetically charging those brass knuckles somehow? Or are they steel knuckles? The way he used those garbage bags to drop down makes it look like he doesn't have super strength, or not hella increased strength anyway. Fun stuff IMHO |
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DuskyPredator
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I have been kind of running up against elements of My Hero Acadenia for a good while, so I am curious if a vigilante spinoff might do anything.
I am more into American heroes, and those things where a hero would be more than being the strongest or just doing what the state says. Which is where MHA keeps itself with the heroes getting increased power levels and acting as law enforcement, going straight for the punch against unambiguous villains. The knuckleduster guy feels like an interesting gruff hero/vigilante, outside of thinking low of a man with toys. From a small bit I think that I like him more than All Might. |
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zfunk
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So it seems the Bakugo of this story is starting as a villain and that is different? Well technically, those that don't remember Bakugo started out as a total a-hole. So yeah not that different, Bakugo never committed any crimes, but in the beginning, he had no redeeming qualities.
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Edjwald
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I kind of like the idea of Knuckleduster being a low rent Batman. I briefly considered that possibility in episode 1 when he said he hated people who thought they couldn't be heroes without an impressive quirk, but he goes around routinely jumping off buildings into piles of trash (I also wondered if it was really Nice Guy's regular bagging of trash that caught his eye first). This episode he got smacked by a giant hand. flew at least 20-30 feet and shattered a a neon sign, then fell to the concrete, And got up again. And the dude is apparently middle aged, that time when you get sore just from driving a car too long.
But hey, this is based on a manga, which is apparent from the drawn sound effects (which I love BTW). I enjoyed seeing a younger Eraser, and I liked it when Pop-step chewed Crueller/Crawler out when his modesty started getting obnoxious. I kind of wish she had a counterpart character in From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman. That said, Crueller/Crawler is nowhere near as irritating as the young, apt to break into tears at any given moment Midoria was for the first season of My Hero Academia. Liking it. |
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smurky turkey
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It is easy to forget because of the later seasons going nuts with all powerful quirks/abilities but the main series had several heroes who were skilled due to their combat skills rather than their quirks. Knuckleduster is way too quickly to resort to violence but he can think clearly during fights and is pretty darn bulky. The second episode also showed just how utterly chaotic their world is. Given how people are and most of them having quirks of some sort... utter anarchy.
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smurky turkey
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I was and still am not very enthusiastic about the newest two seasons or so of My Hero, I am even in doubt as to whether to watch the final season or not. Vigilantes and in particular episode 3 make me remember why I used to love the main show. There is something to be said for the lower stakes with room for some humor and a group of unlikely heroes working/living together with all the chaos that comes with it (they have great chemistry).
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Edjwald
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I hear you, Smurky, and if I hadn't already talked about my own stance on MHA I'd respond to that part of your post in more detail.
I think Vigilantes found it's stride in episode 3. Not that I didn't like episodes 1 and 2 - because I did - but the introductions are done and I'm re-acclimated to an MHA world that I too have missed. I have to say, watching them use a shack as their super-headquarters reminded me of the Tick, where the Tick kept trying to treat Arthur's apartment like a high tech fortress. |
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DuskyPredator
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I have no idea if it is intentional, but the Bee girl kind of just proved a point that heroes suck. The heroes saw a bunch of people with out-of-control quirks, and the first instinct was to beat them up. No de-escalation, they just saw people that looked like "villains" and so used their quirks to beat them into submission.
I can never pick if the creators of the series are aware of how actually messed up the setting they are in. It is such that you have people get labelled as villains for whatever reason (justified or not), and it gives the green light for government sanctioned peacekeepers to go in and start throwing punches before talking. I know that it is fiction and "villains" just come with the territory of a shounen/her story. But could you imagine if real life there is someone having what looks like a mental health episode and the police just came in and before trying to ask questions they start punching into unconsciousness? I really don't think it is something this spin-off specific, rather also a part of the main series. Sure it plays a bit of tragic characters, but most of the heroism the "good guy" beating up the "bad guy". It says sometimes that the society has its problems and fails some people, but never actually feels like it takes thinks how to fix anything, just saying the villains go too far or something. I will also admit again don't know if it is aware, as we saw in this episode that a detective got shamed for pointing out that they gain "hero-level quirks", because I guess that it points a problem of unfairness and it is more important to preserve social order. I think social order is pretty stupid in the face of injustice. But regarding this franchise, MHA made it a really big deal of social order failing when things became complete anarchy. |
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smurky turkey
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@DuskyPredator I agree with most of your points but you also gotta remember that quirks can be insanely deadly. A person having a mental health crisis wielding a knife is dangerous but the risk can be taken to talk them down. When said person can shoot acid from his hands or slice through people with his teeth taking a risk could get dozens of people killed. If you think about it in that way then the world of MHA is insanely dangerous because even a petty argument can turn into a disaster.
Episode 4 was an interesting episode in that we got to see hero Ingenium in action with his crew. He acted as a mentor of sorts to Koichi in changing his mindset and using his quirk better. It would be satisfying if Koichi keeps on slowly growing with a quirk originally deemed useless. The Trigger created villains are getting pretty strong. |
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zfunk
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Well one scene I look at differently because I read the manga and knows what happened. The bee girl meeting up with that guy, and it is implied that they are going to have some "fun" if you know what I mean. Bad enough a teenage girl and a grown up man having a relationship is bad enough.
spoiler[That is not the villain's real body. Using a innocent teenage girl body for her own pleasure that is messed up. ] |
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Edjwald
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Still liking the show a lot. Knuckleduster is starting to remind me of an old DC comics hero called Wildcat, who was basically a world championship heavyweight boxer, and that was it.
It was a bit odd seeing Ingenium in action and realizing he's not a bad guy and also knowing how he's going to wind up. In fact, I never did understand why Stain thought Ingenium was a fake hero in MHA. Not that Stain being a judgmental dillhole who gets things wrong sometimes would be any real surprise all things considered, I just never understood his rationale for declaring Ingenium a poser. And speaking of Stain, the preview for next week talked about a new vigilante and showed blood dripping off of a blade.... |
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