God, the point about heroes being so oversaturated, yet areas still having little to no heroes is wild - Of course heroes would flock to bigger, more populated areas. That's some incredible but subtle worldbuilding. Both the real world, and MHA's world's systems facilitating crime is a harrowing thought. Great video Asa

And you just know that in the world of MHA that system is probably worse in the United States: especially since they were the ones that invented most of the systems other countries use for their own Hero or Villain processes going by how they labellled around 10% of the original vigilantes as heroes and the rest as villains, you also have examples of Heroes made to sell their public image there: Captain Celebrity had his license revoked and had to work abroad due to controversy after the public learned he cheated on his wife. And Katherine Bate, a woman who grew up idolizing All Might, was raised to be a walking billboard of US patriotism going by her outfit and name(Stars & Stripes).

My only problem is that redestro didn't submit just because shiggy was more powerful. It was because he was liberated. Redestro can never be truly liberated due to his quirk working under the stress of limitations, meanwhile shigaraki has nothing stopping him. He is what the MLA wants to create.

This is my favorite running theme in MHA. I do wish it was portrayed just slightly more explicitly.

I love the math done here. More heroes = Need for a market = Need for more villains Its a piece that fits perfectly into the popular "reoccuring villain" trope. Why actually help people and stop villains from being born and having a reason to do crime when you can make money out of it?

Engagement! Algorythmn! Numbers! Wohoo!

I always had a feeling that bnha had more commentary behind it than it seemed, one of the most obvious ones to me was when stain first appeared. It was clear (to me at least) that there was smth about celebrity worship going on in there, there was also some commentary about how the authorities meant to serve people more often than not are just doing it for either money or glory/status nowadays, and how the actually good and honest people like iida's big brother, get caught up in the mess and sadly end up paying the price for smth they didn't do

Does anyone think that if hero ranking never existed, Endeavor may have never tried to make a child to surpass All Might.

You bring up a good point about Mt. Lady’s success by the time of the billboard charts. Heroics aren’t judged equally by the general public - and heroes searching for popularity know this. Another facet to this point is the fact that it was said part of Mt. Lady’s skyrocketing success (along with Kamui Woods) is their involvements in Kamino. Despite their involvement not being a focus - they get acclaim by association; which shows that it’s not just about how heroes can pick their location of heroics, they can also pick the nature of heroics they do. Think back to All Might during USJ. He was late because he put effort into solving every misdeed along his way. Of course, a fair comparison can’t be made to Mt. Lady because of the immense attention All Might already gets - but in the eyes of an average hero looking for popularity: would you try and stop the petty criminals escaping through the alleys with a purse, or the big fight disturbing public transportation just a block over? Even if just to take part in ONE hit. It’s a common point of knowledge in visual studies that the camera is inherently biased; that what is and isn’t seen is controlled. Just like you allude to with the safety commission, it is these blind spots that are NECESSARY for systems like these to stand alone. What better life of a greedy hero to have their best qualities in the frame, leaving the boring or straight up bad qualities away from view? Great video!

The worldbuilding in MHA is easily my favorite part, and the main reason it’s always frustrating to hear people underestimate the story so much lol Great video 👍👍

Very good analysis, very perceptive. A system that focuses on suppression and punishment instead of prevention (helping those at risk) does not really save anyone in the long game, quirk counseling is hinted at in-series but it's effectiveness is clearly lacking+the seemingly complete lack of any other social help, the endgame of a villain uprising is the only outcome. With rumors of the series ending I really have no idea of how the heroes (few that even hint at wanting change) are going to make anything better and not just bring things right back to where they started, what do you think?

The more analyses I see about the good qualities of early MHA, the more I'm convinced that Horikoshi (ironically, due to the contents of this video) is getting fed up with the industry and toxic fanbase and just wants to be able to finish the main story regardless of how lacklusture the arcs and narratives are (AFO becoming the main villain in the manner that he does with the iffy explanation, the final war being rushed, the way he handles the riot at the hospital). It's almost as if he's pulling a south park and trying to finish/get cancelled

My biggest problem with bnha is we have all these amazing themes and we saw them at surface level mostly and we never truly explored them! Bnha goes so fucking fast we had no chance to truly show this fucked up bullshit of the society. And besides endeavor let us have truly scumbag heroes worse than villians. THAT would be an amazing arc if hirokoshi just didn't get bored with the series.

this was a really good video asa!! your point about heroes being oversaturated yet basically nonexistent in certain areas reminded me a lot about how osheon doesn't have pro heroes like japan because being a pro hero in that region meant little exposure to potential wealth and fame.

This is the perfect thing to watch to calm me down. Amazing. You are calmly demonstrating to anyone watching this, just what is inherently wrong in society, which is something that I cannot do accurately, myself. You are more intelligent than me. It almost feels like watching a documentary, or a nature show. Something I can just listen to, and it doesn't feel too pretentious. I like you.

this is the reason why toga’s questions about heros killing is important, with all this, if it becomes natural to kill anyone with a good quirk then things can het bad quickly

Amazing video as always.

MHA is a great piece of adultescent media a fun story that can be enjoyied by anyone but also puts some things to think about in our real world in a overexerted and more digestible way for younger audiences to understand wail still telling a solid standalone story something I respect about the show still even if I dont enjoy it as much anymore

This video is amazing. U did ur homework. Love it❤️❤️❤️

PERFECT GUNSHOT VOLUME WOOOOOOOOOO

This video is such a banger, MHA’s core world building is so damn interesting

I hate that every character who is against the established systems is declared a villain by the author. There is not a single hero who is fighting against the system. People can interprete this any way they like but it seems to me that the author actually supports the existing structures. Every attempt at "revolution" or fighting against the systemic problems is presented as sth only villains do. While the heros may hear the villains talk about injustice, they never acknowledge it and actively fight against not alongside them. The author chose to portray everyone who is against the system as plain evil and makes them murder others with no remorse. I was hoping that the author might start to flip the script and make the heros fight against the establishment but he has shown no signs of doing that.

A very interesting analysis,i honestly agree with most of your points.

Boku no Hero's big problem for me is that it shows this flawed system but cowards out on what it means. 95% of the Hero's we see are full on good guys, who risk their lives for the People and try their best to do good. Ida's Brother did not live up to the loony standards that Stain held up, but everything shown of him paints him as a fully good guy. Even Characters like MT. Lady that are obsessed with cash and fame on the outside, still fully live up to the Hero Ideals when push comes to shove. If Hori actully showed a larger amount of the Heroes and even the Students in a more selfish and selfserving light, it would have gone a long way of making this a far better situation for the reader. Heck, stuff like Quirk Racism is not even brought up ever, until we hit the Villian arc talking about it. It is too afraid to trully commit to the idea. Exept with Endevour, but the Todoroki Plot is simply the best of this manga, so pointing that out is kinda unneaded. PS: I already dreed the Spinner VS Shoji fight, because I fully expect a "Racism is bad, but being a Villian is worse! I also get treated racist (even though he has not been treated like this ever in the Manga) and still am a Hero!" nonsense. Oh and the stupid Toga Vs Ochaco stuff that is terrible in ways that would take me a lot of text to explain, so I will not even bother.

8:59 I think its more accurate to say that the Villains’ League in the show are more like Anarcho-Egoists. I’ve read the Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner.

I love My Hero Academia it’s something new and amazing I love the society of My Hero Academia

I actually find 9ish points of social commentary in the show, including the points mentioned in the videos. My experience with some of the things villains like Shigaraki and Toga have gone through helps me find these points of social commentary. The more I watch the show and learn about Shigaraki the more I understand him and relate to him, making him probably the most compelling character in the show, with Stain either tied with him or just behind.

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The My Hero Academia universe is so unique

I find this interesting because this is sort of the inverse of how the Yakuza came to be in the Edo period. They were originally just gamblers, but eventually became an organized group of people who wanted to have the same power as the Shogunate. And eventually, both came to an unspoken understanding. Both agree to stay out of each others affairs and gain the benefits of both, lest they suffer the consequences of losing stability. Both honored this agreement, and created an state of stability that no other country in the world had experienced. But with the rise of heros society, the Yakuza lost their power and was eventually replaced with more conventional villains. As a result, the Japanese underworld had no one to maintain stability. And the result of the Paranormal Liberation War arc showed what that created.

The biggest takeaway I got from this is you should really do a book review series covering Thomas Sowell's books that go into economics. Poverty is expensive, because the more crime that happens the more government justifies excessive spending on programs that do not address crime. These programs typically always tying directly into the pockets of the politicians, or direct family members of the politician as benefactors. Crime is directly encouraged by the state, because the worse things get, the richer the politicians do. Such is the nature of socialist economics, that inevitably births fascism. The state and the corporations inevitably fuse into one political entity to control the masses for their own profits.

It does seem that Hero’s are mass produced in the modern age of my hero

I wonder what would have happened if UA had taken in Shigeraki, Toga, Dabi, Twice, Mr. Compress, Muscular, Spinner, Lady Nagant, or even Stain. Would they become heroes instead of villains if they had proper help and training. Especially considering 2 of the members are connected to pro heroes and 2 even went to UA in the past or in Lady Nagant's case was once a hero. Also others could have been trained by the pro heroes for example Toga if she got accepted to UA could maybe get help from Vlad King stuff like that.

Y’know when you put it like that it kinda sounds like the boys

This is MHA not The Boys. My hero isn’t a cynical take on super heroes. The hero society isn’t perfect but that’s the point. That’s the excuse for the villains ideology. The commercialization of hero’s isn’t even portrayed in a negative light in the show. It’s just a way for them to make money like anything else.

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I love MHA

Best anime ever

Should probably be noted that the HPSC isn't actually the government, just some glorified police, so they can't really do anything about villains falling through the cracks.

MHA is trying to say things it does not have the tools to convey. and it's a lot of things. and because of that, we have to fill in for it, making it unfair to the medium and to us (the audience), when it's Hori ( I think that's the mangaka's name) who should have workshopped the themes and ideas into something cohesive.

Hey uhh can you put manga spoilers before the video starts? I don't wanna be spoiled xD

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Imagine idolizing All Might the ultimate Failure that allows Bakugo to nearly kill Izuku in their training exercise dude cares more about being everyones friend then being a good teacher

greed is bad? Mha is really kicking things up a notch.

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Soooo, you're saying that bnha is just anime The Boys without an unpowered vigilante group?🤔

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You want to talk to commoditizing heroes, watch Tiger & Bunny. They wear logos on their uniforms like racecar drivers.

This show is like the boys but less obvious

You can’t make a perfect society they’ll always be people who fall through the cracks and the mha world it doesn’t seem to be a big problem with only a handful of exceptions and even though you might feel bad about them that doesn’t justify their actions since that’s what makes a villian the world hurts them so they try to hurt it back while a hero tries to make sure it doesn’t happen to anyone else and it also comes down to choices.

Love the world building of MHA. The underbelly of this world that has become over saturated by Heroes is disgusting. But it's disgusting in the ways that make me love the series more.

I don’t like how the social commentary is handled simply because some of the toughest ones were handled horribly. The one that is obviously based on a race literally has the trope of oh, if you riot you push down all of our progress by blank amount of years that’s bad simply because 99.9% of the time the only time change ever occurs is when the people in charge are forced to change and when it comes to twice and Himiko, the fact that one of them in spoilers is dead and the other one is very likely dead. Just makes me go you dumb screwed up with the social commentary. also as a person who is disabled partially paralyzed with low sensation on the right side of my body. I don’t like that the obvious standing for a disabled person the protagonist just gets magically, made, not disabled or at least that’s what it feels like would’ve been better in my opinion, if he learned how to be a hero with out a Quirk but all of this is just my personal opinion, and not objective facts

Every commentary MHA does is shallow

Amazing video as always.

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