my hero academia remains the most tolerable shounen i’ve seen since it minimizes the bullshit like this, if they scream it’s generally a situation that calls for screaming (and implied to be way shorter than what’s shown) and if they shout the name of a move it’s because they’ve got fuckin tape elbows or whatever and they’re proud of coming up with a way to make use of that to stop people from dying.
I really like the way power ups were handled in Demon Slayer, it felt much more ‘earned’ and it was nice to see the consequences of ‘powering up’ requiring the characters to go through major recovery each time
making a character suffer in order to get a power up is really such a trivially simple and reliable way to make things feel earned and it’s kinda baffling it’s not used more/better
it’s like the hero’s journey and other writing tools, it’s predictable but nonetheless it just fucking works.
my hero academia remains the most tolerable shounen i’ve seen since it minimizes the bullshit like this, if they scream it’s generally a situation that calls for screaming (and implied to be way shorter than what’s shown) and if they shout the name of a move it’s because they’ve got fuckin tape elbows or whatever and they’re proud of coming up with a way to make use of that to stop people from dying.
I really like the way power ups were handled in Demon Slayer, it felt much more ‘earned’ and it was nice to see the consequences of ‘powering up’ requiring the characters to go through major recovery each time
making a character suffer in order to get a power up is really such a trivially simple and reliable way to make things feel earned and it’s kinda baffling it’s not used more/better
it’s like the hero’s journey and other writing tools, it’s predictable but nonetheless it just fucking works.