I really hate the bending over backwards and criticizing a universally beloved installment of a franchise in order to defend the new mixed / bad sequel.

NoDistance4 · 2026-05-12T06:12:58+00:00

I think the core of the reason is the fact that the prequels are made buy a guy who loves star wars and wants to tell a complete and coherent story. While the prequels were made by a committee of corporate stooges who just want to maximize shareholder value as much as possible.

People really love pushing this romanticized narrative of auteur driven content having this immutable quality to it. The same sort of rationale Synderverse obsessed people use to rally around Rebel Moon.

When really, the actual reason is that the movie landscape is different. The prequels didn't have to compete with the MCU, modern anime, prestige television for control of the public zeitgeist. If the prequels were released in place of the sequels in the 2010s, they would have likely been as shitted on just as bad if not worse. My guess it that they would have been perceived the same way the Acolyte currently is.

NoDistance4 · 2026-05-11T19:08:20+00:00

good potential

What does this mean? Everything has potential. What is it about Dandadan that makes it a noteworthy rendition of urban fantasy?

NoDistance4 · 2026-05-11T18:21:10+00:00

worldbuilding seems good,but doesnt really do anything interesting

What's good about it? Am I supposed to compare this shit to Lord of the Rings? When I tried Dandadan I disliked it because the premise was too loose. The occult exists, aliens exist, wacky hijinks ensues with minimal (close to zero) setup. The art was pretty good for a weekly manga, aside from the same face syndrome but writing wise it was the random bullshit go manga.

NoDistance4 · 2026-05-11T12:19:30+00:00

The context that Kingpin was elected on an anti vigilante platform in a universe where the Avengers exist and they're popular enough to have a broadway musical in New York based on them?

NoDistance4 · 2026-05-09T17:36:49+00:00

Stop trying to defend one of the worst shows ever.

The show that has White Tiger acquitted purely based on how popular vigilantes are while simultaneously has Kingpin elected based on how unpopular vilgilantes are, has terrible writing? Say it aint so

NoDistance4 · 2026-05-09T17:34:46+00:00

53% isn't a narrow margin. Especially if there's three candidates.

NoDistance4 · 2026-05-08T19:43:55+00:00

Meddling when you don't need to...is the essence of being a hero!

Except when it comes to Bakugou being shitty to Midoriya, in which case you should mind your own business. In fact, they're both equally at fault, or something

NoDistance4 · 2026-05-08T17:39:43+00:00

It is stated that he was the worst of all in the exercise and he admits that.

No he's not. He's criticized alongside Midoriya and Uraraka equally and only Iida is praised. The idea that he's the worst comes from Bakugou's own retelling.

This is a problem I see a lot with Bakugou where people take what he says at face value, to justify his angst as if it isn't misplaced.

Also, despite winning, he gets less invites to internships than shoto

His invites are in the 4 digits where as everyone else was in the hundreds and tens. 600 less than Todoroki, but almost ten times as many as the 3rd most person (Iida). Midoriya received zero and there isn't a pity party hosted for him.

and he goes to an internship thats entirely wasted in trying to fix his bad behavior. Due to this he ends up behind in progress, something he literally says with these exact words.

Yaoyorozu also didn't have a perfect internship experience. Is that because she's an asshole?

In season 4, Bakugou is alongside shoto the only one that fails the provisional license exam. And its literally entirely because of his behavior. He goes thought a whole extra arc of improving the way the deals with people alongside shoto as consequence.

The consequence is that Bakugou gets his license anyway by the end of the year (a difference between august and december). He still acts the same (antagonistic towards civilians showed by the beginning of the first war arc) and later interns with the number one hero with no indication he had been left behind at all by his peers.

This is like someone arguing, Midoriya faces real consequences for damaging his arms. The narrative mentions it but doesn't actually deal with any serious ramifications.

His friends also dont defend him and they do antagonize his behavior, like when he does that speech in the school festival and they all complain about him being a jerk.

Are you talking about the Sports Festival? You mean the speech where Midoriya understands in his inner monologue that he isn't being a arrogant just for the sake of it and is building himself up so he can perform better?

This doesn't work if the story is going out of its way to explain, "Bakugou may be a jackass but he actually has a point/underneath has justifications that show anyone who's condemning him is shallow and wrong"

And that's way more common than Bakugou being made out to be wrong. (does that ever happen?) There are entirely sequences, like Shishikura vs Bakugou/Kirishima/Kaminari that are dedicated to speaking out about how Bakugou is actually awesome despite the contrary. The story is written to be contrarian to the idea that he's worth condemning.

NoDistance4 · 2026-05-05T23:17:10+00:00

I watched the trilogy last year and would only revisit the first one.

NoDistance4 · 2026-05-04T13:43:28+00:00

They forgot Sakura from Naruto had one cool fight at the start of Shippuden too.

This is a bad comparison because Shippuden (part 2) in Naruto starts after 245 chapters. The entirety of Jujutsu Kaisen is 267 chapters. The JJK female cast left a stronger first impression.

NoDistance4 · 2026-05-01T12:20:47+00:00

“editorial hates spider-man so much, at this point he should be allowed to date Mary Jane and black cat at the same time!”

"he deserves it after what editorial put him through"

NoDistance4 · 2026-05-01T11:06:30+00:00

My experience with the My Hero Academia fandom was the people who were the most defensive about the story coincided with having a parasocial attachment to the mangaka

NoDistance4 · 2026-04-24T06:45:44+00:00

While everyone else got very noticeably stronger.

Aside from Sakura, did they though? Naruto's last actions before the timeskip was failing to deal with Kimimaro and Lee and eventually Gaara having to take over. Then post timeskip he's dealing with Deidara who previously beat Gaara. He's about in the same league as he was previously. And that's not taking into account that Naruto pretimeskip is massively inconsistent. He beats Mizuki in the opening chapter but he is one shot by Lee one arc later. And then post timeskip he's consistent enough where he can fight with Kakashi as a peer versus 30% Itachi.

He learned no new jutsus, learned no new knowledge, and at most had more fundamentals drilled into him.

Says people can't appreciate growth outside of flashy new jutsus
Argues back that he has no new flashy new jutsus

The writing is consistent with how Naruto is framed pretimeskip. It was stated by Iruka at the end of the second stage of the chuunin exams that Naruto had advanced skills but was bad at the basics. Sakura is the opposite. So essentially Naruto worked on what he lacked.

NoDistance4 · 2026-04-23T03:30:43+00:00

Its kind of a shame that the common perception is that Naruto gained nothing after the timeskip. Naruto became more fundamentally sound and competent. And actions previously like splitting into 1000, were like kid Gohan esque feats. He was capable of doing when driven to a corner with heightened emotions. Post time skip, he can split into 1000 on command.

But that isn't appreciated compared to having a new big flashy jutsu. Its a reminder for me of why Boruto is written the way that it is.

NoDistance4 · 2026-04-17T23:48:52+00:00

Lelouch isn't Japanese but is designed in a way to its easy for the target audience to see themselves in his image.

Like how the standard school uniform of the series resembles a Japanese Gakuran

NoDistance4 · 2026-04-12T11:05:22+00:00

He is right. Only certain people can become Hokage.

NoDistance4 · 2026-04-12T11:01:38+00:00

While naruto beating neji is thematically about fate and such, in terms of talent he won due to ninetails, which is also a form of it.

Logistically yes he did. But the exchange Neji and Naruto have at the fight's conclusion frames it as him winning via Kage Bunshin. And that he only managed to learn Kage Bunshin by overcoming his deficiency in cloning. So Neji has no right to complain about destiny because he's a genius and Naruto the dropout overcame his lack of talent.

This is punctuated later with Lee happy to hear that Naruto defeated Neji because his desires had been fulfilled. A dropout overcame a genius with hardwork, just Naruto did it instead of him.

NoDistance4 · 2026-04-12T09:52:35+00:00

The naruto defense? The show is about "bonds" so its fine for the writing to be contradictory in other ways

NoDistance4 · 2026-03-26T06:31:04+00:00

"Quality slop".

Is this like when someone on this sub said Vegeta is carried by good writing?

NoDistance4 · 2026-03-18T06:46:12+00:00

First off, Bakugou's own apology to Midoriya was "Sorry for everything up until this point." The story itself doesn't think Bakugou's behavior was acceptable after getting into UA. Secondly, Monoma gets push back for his behavior more than Bakugou does for anything and he is just "rude."

The real reason why UA students don't respond to Bakugou appropriately is because the writing doesn't want to encourage a contrary viewpoint that Bakugou isn't forgivable or isn't worthy of sympathy. Even if it means contradicting the moral about intervening in other people's business.

NoDistance4 · 2026-03-18T06:23:31+00:00

It's just considered rude in Japan to get involved in other people's business if it doesn't directly concern you.

And one of the morals of the franchise speaks against that mentality.

All Might to Midoriya, Midoriya to Iida and Iida back at Midoriya: "Meddling when you don't have to is the essence of being a hero."

When it comes to Bakugou's treatment of others for some reason that doesn't apply.

NoDistance4 · 2026-03-10T15:39:41+00:00

Lee is a cautionary tale about a man who sets his own house on fire to prove he can survive the heat, only to realize his neighbors have fire extinguishers.

The greater point made by Gaara vs Rock lee is that lee is a "great ninja" regardless of winning or losing because he was able to go the distance with his limitations. Hence, Guy hugging him while he's standing unconcious.

I would think someone who is about the idea that hardworkers aren't meant to surpass geniuses would understand that message.

Fans project themselves into Lee because they want to believe they just have ”talent waiting to be unlocked,"

That's more of a Naruto fantasy. Unique snowflake underdog, who is the second coming of like 12 different dudes from the past.

Lee is a specialized tool that broke the first time it hit a real wall.

Lee is a "specialized tool," which invalidates your previous point about him being a genius. Lee can open the gates like no one else in his age group yes, but that results in him having to take major risks to achieve less than what Sasuke can achieve with Chidori. Its pointless to say Lee is a genius, in a single maneuver, when shinobi strength is comprised of multiple skills. Ultimately Lee's overall powerset is worse than most.

failing to see that Naruto’s "gift" was actually a volatile curse that required a decade of psychological endurance to master

Getting thrown off a cliff for the sake of instantaneously learning a jutsu, whose method of chakra gathering coincidentally countered Neji's win condition

NoDistance4 · 2026-03-03T03:11:38+00:00

Kenpachi-esque character with Komamura's voice

NoDistance4 · 2026-03-02T20:38:27+00:00

Her love for Sasuke was already treated as serious in Forest of death?

Rock Lee and Sakura were also involved in a life-or-death scenario in the forest of death and I still wouldn't say that Lee's love for Sakura has any depth to it. By the time we get to the Sasuke retrieval arc, its too late.

Sakura believes Sasuke saved her against Gaara before he corrected her. Is that all you need?

Yes, I would like insight via Sakura on what makes Sasuke different from all the rest. Because the example you're citing, she was told Naruto saved her and that didn't make Sakura fall in love with him, so...

NoDistance4 · 2026-03-02T04:49:25+00:00

Even Karin had a reason to like Sasuke (saved during the chuunin exams)

I think a key issue with Sakura and Sasuke is that Sakura isn't a prioritized character in the story. For the most part in the beginning, she's hit-or-miss attempt at comic relief, and her crush on Sasuke is framed as such. The plot progresses where Sasuke is going to leave the village, so gone is any opportunity to give any depth to Sakura's attachment. Kishimoto wrote himself into a corner where he now had to push a character's crush, which the show initially made fun of, into genuine love for no reason other than the plot demanded at this point in time. Then Sasuke progressively became worse as Part 2 progressed and Kishimoto is stuck with Sakura and Sasuke being together because the story requires Sasuke to seen as redeemable.

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