Review: "BNHA, Volume 2"
Feb. 6th, 2023 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
x_los- A huge portion of this series’ appeal lies in what we start to see here: the mangaka’s facility with creative, bold character design, and the attention he can pay to the consequences of his decisions.This writer takes a ‘yes, and!’ sort of approach. Practicality doesn’t really constrain him, but once he’s landed on a wild idea for a quirk, he follows through with his conceit in a game, thorough-going, sometimes surprising and sometimes thoughtful manner.
- This is our first time hanging out with wonderful Tsu!
- It is also, unfortunately, our first time hanging out with the odious Mineta, a refugee from a 90s/aughties anime. The last thing on this earth I will ever wish to know about is Mineta’s bowel health, and yet here we are. Speaking of dumb ecchi shit, I don’t think Momo (age 15) is particularly sexy? Why are the notes trying to weigh in on that point? Shhhh. Staying silent is free.
- Enter also the main villains. They are consistently the least successfully characterised, least interesting and weakest parts of a strong series. How bored I am of them now, several seasons in! How tired I am of the show’s recent too-little-too-late efforts to characterise them and retroactively make their dumb goals cogent or in any way sympathetic. I simply cannot care. They are just Redditor fuckbois (and one fuckgirl (and one now-dead fucktransgirl, who almost had a point: congratulations on having one of the nearest things to A Point in the whole League of Villains)).
- This is our first time hanging out with wonderful Tsu!
- It is also, unfortunately, our first time hanging out with the odious Mineta, a refugee from a 90s/aughties anime. The last thing on this earth I will ever wish to know about is Mineta’s bowel health, and yet here we are. Speaking of dumb ecchi shit, I don’t think Momo (age 15) is particularly sexy? Why are the notes trying to weigh in on that point? Shhhh. Staying silent is free.
- Enter also the main villains. They are consistently the least successfully characterised, least interesting and weakest parts of a strong series. How bored I am of them now, several seasons in! How tired I am of the show’s recent too-little-too-late efforts to characterise them and retroactively make their dumb goals cogent or in any way sympathetic. I simply cannot care. They are just Redditor fuckbois (and one fuckgirl (and one now-dead fucktransgirl, who almost had a point: congratulations on having one of the nearest things to A Point in the whole League of Villains)).
