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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Finally, Shigaraki and the villains are getting their deserved screen time. Gigantomachia even makes an appearance! Got to see more of Shigaraki's past and it's not a pretty one. In general, I think it's a thrilling episode for showing what life has been like for the villains in this arc. And of course, Toga is still crazy lol |
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| IT'S ABOUT HIGH TIME we get the most hyped arc of Season 5: My Villain Academia! Even the OP gets a twist in the naming to reflect the new arc. Having lost All For One, Shigaraki and the League of Villains need a new face for themselves, and they MUST step up to the plate, having challenged by All For One's right-hand man Gigantomachia that's infused with remaining power, with help from aide Dr. Daruma Ujiko to breed Super Nomus called High End...but with one condition: to surpass All For One and claim his rightful place. Shigaraki's tainted history as child Shimura Tenko with All For One being his foster father figure with Dr. Ujiko, only to subject him to pure torture, but strangely all he can musteris calmness learnt from his master. All that Dr. Ujiko sensed from the current League of Villains is that they're weak, and need a stimuation like Gigantomachia to test their power and loyalty. All that's left is Shigaraki which STILL didn't measure up to All For One's standards while the others have already achieved just that. Toga is still the crazy yandere we all know (and secretly love). Re-Destro makes his timeshift comeback as the Meta Liberation Army's supreme leader, and poses a challenge for Shigaraki in an all-out war since Giran is held hostage at their HQ, and those "Fingers" being their plan thwartations. Let the challenge between teams begin to see who has the better League to wreak havoc, and save Giran! P.S. About the Creature Rejection Plan part, if the anime decides to snip it out, then it'll diminish some value of the MVA arc. Hopefully they'll keep it in for fans' enjoyment or risk being rushed. Either way, it's the producers' call, not yours. |
KANLen09Aug 21, 2021 3:11 AM
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| Damn shigaraki is looking menacing! Finally the season has started to take off what 20 episodes in, the wait wasn’t worth it yet but that could change! |
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| Looks like it's finally time that the show starts to pick up especially when this whole season has been completely bland. The league of villains is finally about to make their moves. Got to see a little bit of Tomura Shigaraki's past and how he met his master. Gigantomachia is gonna be a big problem for the heroes if Shigaraki actually gets a hold of him. But, for now, they have much more to handle as the Liberation Army has set its eyes on them. Decent episode. The next one tho will be pretty interesting to see how this all plays out. |
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| Shigaraki and the villains are ther also Gigantomachia so heavy strong xD. More of shigaraki past nice and now the next episode gets very nice hopefully. I just love Toga. |
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MadalinG said: Maybe they will show it as a flashback in later episodesThey cut the Creature Rejection Clan part and it seems MVA will truly be rushed... I love MHA, but I'm really disappointed by their choice... |
| The good arc is finally starting, there are only 5 episodes left, but I hope the wait will be worth it... The first part, honestly I didn't care much for it. But the second part has been quite interesting 110,000 people sure is a lot, and right now they're going after the villain league, although Shigaraki has a plan, something unpredictable is bound to happen 0.0 |
| Finally the 1st episode of My Villain Academia, pretty interesting with that tense situation and Tomura, hmm |
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| MVA is finally here, and things are already getting spicy from the jump. I have to go back and refresh my memory of this arc but it sounds like they already skipped something. Hopefully they're just rearranging things (like they have been for most of the season anyway lol) and it'll show up later, otherwise it would suck to see this arc get rushed. Although, it being rushed wouldn't surprise me considering how late they got this arc started. EDIT: All right from what someone else is saying it seems like whatever was skipped wasn't something of major value so maybe there's still a little hope for MVA. One more edit: So I went back and read from the first MVA chapter to where this episode stopped, and a lot of setup stuff seemed to be cut out. Idk if they plan to retroactively adapt that stuff as a type of explanation for some of the things we saw in this episode, but yeah this arc might be in danger. |
thebrentinator24Aug 21, 2021 6:39 AM
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
| Set aside your PLUS ULTRA bullshit kids, we're now going balls deep into a series within a series... Namely... MY VILLAIN ACADEMIA Finally, the time has come for Tomura Shigaraki and his League of Villains to SNATCH away the spotlight. This man despite being the villain he is is nothing short of the leader he is! With Gigantomachia upon his doorstep, it will all change the state that all of his subordinates. The crumbling pressure of not being able to support themselves will be prolonged no more, these guys have a chance to take what's theirs and beyond! [i]To be frank I despise how Bones chose to cut out the earlier introduction to Re-Destro and Destro's ambition along with the state of League of Villains before meeting Gigantomachia, I hate that, but I can only hope for the best here on out. I only hope that Bones faithfully adapt these last several eps properly as it will make or break the experience from here on out... |
ShadowkillZAug 21, 2021 4:11 AM
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| Im satisfied with today's episode it was great |
| You are amazing 『Natsuki Subaru』 |
| Oh boy this wasn't great. Art and animation were good, that Dabi cut against Machia was dope. But holy crap they cut out so much stuff, pretty much the entirety of the introduction was skipped, making this whole episode feel off, Redestro, the MLA, Giran, all coming outta fucking nowhere. It almost feels like they skipped an entire episode (they did pretty much skip an entire chapter). Spinner's narration and entire character arc intro was brushed off, and that's just the start of the arc... Nope this is really shaping up to be the worst season, JT was awesomely adapted despite some pacing issues, butthe rearrangment of Endeavor Agency and MVA only caused problems that at this point are pretty much impossible to resolve. |
| Yeah, it feels a bit rushed as i feared and they already cut some scenes from the manga which i think is unacceptable since this season until now had extremely slow pacing most of the time (the todoroki house episode adapted only 1 chapter + the filler episode) and now it's the complete opposite. Well, anyway i hope the next few episodes don't feel like this, especially Shigaraki backstory, otherwise Bones will have officialy ruined this season completely. @Florent3571 Yep, 100% agree |
Fax001sAug 21, 2021 5:04 AM
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| Barely OK episode. This is the best MHA arc people were talking about? Expected much more honestly. Next episode preview doesn't seem great too. Shame on you Bones, shame on you. |
Rishun_97Aug 21, 2021 5:16 AM
bigbabytenko said: idk if its just me or its because I read the manga but the art style, animation, story is just off this season like all the other seasons were so good especially season 4 and then .... idk not many people talk about it, like is it jus me ?? 😭 It's not just you buddy, even for those who didn't read the manga everything seems a lot worse than previous seasons. |
| man, its weird to see shigaraki smiling genuinely |
 "Many people die with their music still in them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."  |
| now this episode was really cool |
| Let's go Boku no Villain Academia, they changed it in the OP Sequence. Damn Shigaraki Tomura killed all his family member, that was Dark. And here we go i have read Manga Reader complaining stuff, they really think the Anime has to be one to one Adaptation huh? Anything that they skip, might be shown as flashback later. How many years y'all watching Anime and still didn't get this? |
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| It's finally here, My Villian Arc. Love the twist in the opening. Shigaraki and the League of Villians finally met the Doctor who helped All for One. And he got a gift ready for them. Gigantomachia, a gigantic and unstoppable monster. If they manage to control him. He'll gain even greater powers. After a monht training, they get caught by the Meta Lebernation. Re-Destro appears on the screen and makes a demand. Ally up with them or get caught by the heroes. 5 episodes for the whole arc? Well, hopefully they'll manage it. |
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Dukino said: MadalinG said: They cut the Creature Rejection Clan part and it seems MVA will truly be rushed... I love MHA, but I'm really disappointed by their choice... Not being rushed at all. Literally nothing of value was lost by cutting that scene. It didn't connect to anything else Well... You're wrong. All the speech of Spinner (which is very important for his development) and the reason why LOV are in bad times is skipped, so we lost a lot of important things. |
| Finally, the arc that everyone has been hyping up to death has started and first off, I do love the twist in the OP animation with "My Villain Academia" being used instead of the usual title and the design itself looks menacing and cool. The Doctor's face does give me a slight reminiscence to a certain Dr. Eggman, but with the intimidation rating turned up to max. He'll be fully supporting Tomura if he and his group can take down Gigantomachia and, even after almost 2 months, the beast is still going strong against him. That's where another sinister group calls them up, the Meta Liberation, with a demand to meet with Tomura as they're tracking their group with their own personal satellite. It'll be interesting to see what'll happen when they do meet and see if Tomura wants to work with them or take them down. Overall, I think this episode was pretty good. Since I'm an anime-only, I'll take any word from the manga readers here with a grain of salt, regardless if their criticisms are spot on or grossly exaggerated. I just hope my enjoyment doesn't get ruined by them. =/ |
| Taming Gigantomachia is hard job. |
| "The future is always blank. Only your willpower can leave footsteps there." "Ruling over death means ruling over life. Death is the climax of life. To have the best death, you must honor life." |
| a lot of manga readers are saying this ep and overall has cut off a lot of things which is so disappointing. i could tell that this arc is something good, and maybe it would've been better if they didnt spend so much time on the a class vs b class training shitshow really glad the villains are getting more screentime im genuinely more interested in them than some of the "main" characters lol |
| That was a fucking great episode, but I am bummed about the cut content. It diminished the characterization and world building and all that a bit. Well, hope the show it as flashbacks later on. Glad they at least changed the op though, well just the title card. They could have updated the whole op to just the villains, but I guess it's fine. |
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| Villains side of the story and as you'd think it's pretty messed up. |
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