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bibibbon · 3 months

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Characters with wasted potential : kaminari Denki

I have never seen a series treat it's own electric/thunder user so badly like MHA does with denki kaminari.

Here is the thing kaminari is a pretty cool character; I like his character design and I think his character arc is alright but can use a lot of change.

In all honesty when it comes to kaminari I feel like his arc is literally supposed to be the same as mineta. Both of their arcs focusing on how they treat woman, them being cowards but growing out of it and learning how to be proper heros. However, when it comes to developments kaminari has his speed runned or just has him instantly change.

1) This is controversial but I personally would use have him be contrasted/foiled to mineta just to make his development more impactful.

2) I would have him show more of his cowardice and how he only really wanted to be a hero because its a cool thing to do or to follow in the footsteps of his mother (I would have pro hero Electra or just a simple electrician be his mother)

3) I would build up his friendship with jirou from the beginning and have both of them develop into better people/heroes with that friendship. (Maybe they can become a ship considering I do ship kamijirou 🤷‍♀️)

4) Emphasise the struggle kaminari has with his quirk (how quick he is to go overboard due to the lack of control) and how he tries to work to overcome it in his own unique way. I would have it so that his mum already helped him a bit by teaching him how to use his quirk in little amounts and big amounts but he struggles to get it into a medium range. I would also have him just experiment with it overall and maybe he could build a little friendship with Izuku or even mei who could introduce ideas like denki being able to act as a circuit, use tasers or even charge phones.

5) As kaminari gets to understand and become a better friend with jirou his views on mineta start to change and his whole views of "I have to go easy one girls" or " it's mean to fight girls like that" (something he said to bakugo during the sports festival) start to change as he grows respectful and becomes more appreciative to woman.

6) this is a 50/50 but I saw this one fic that said it would be cool if kaminari just started using flirting as a fighting tactic to fluster villains and easily take them down. That's something I kind of like and would be interesting to have incorporated into kaminari's character. You could have him work with midnight to build up a skill like that (would make midnight's death more impactful)

7) I feel like as it comes to the war arc his cowardice should logically still be there but the desire to help protect his friends and reunite with them should be stronger and we would still get the whole epic scene he had in the first war arc

8) have him canonically have ADHD it makes sense. I mean this is a universe just like ours the only thing different is superpowers and idk if I read his character wrong but to me kaminari has always given me the whole idea that he has ADHD or that his character is 'ADHD coded'. In my opinion it would be interesting for him to not really know why he struggles at doing something that everyone can find easy to do so when it comes to his grades he struggles in that aspect and has conflict because of that however, he can go through an arc realising that he has ADHD and find ways to both accept that and adapt to it (I don't know if that sounds rude, Iam sorry if it does)

9) I really like denki and jirou bonding over music and him actually respecting and liking her passion. I feel like we should get more of denki making music and exploring his more of his own passions. Like we know denki likes music and manga so why don't we have characters casually talking about that or doing that with him. I also like the idea of denki simplifying everything (like the UA security system) and making it seem like something that would come out of manga so he can understand it better

I feel like that kaminari could of been an interesting character with flawed views that end up developing. Ultimately, I feel like the reason I prefer him to mineta (even though they both act in a very disgusting Mannar towards woman) is that he shows chances of change and his character isn't just being a weird, disgusting pervert like mineta's is. To me kaminari could of been a coward kid who found it difficult to really fit in and do the things that everyone does but ultimately ends up overcoming that struggle while expanding his views and becoming a more respectful person.

#mha critical #bnha critical #hori is a bad writer #horikoshi critical #mha #bhna critical #denki kaminari #mha kaminari #bnha kaminari #kaminari x jirou

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gateau-chocolat · 5 years

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Some thoughts about Tsurune through episode 10, kinda negative (nothing really bad tho lol) so I’m putting it behind a cut. :)

3 big disclaimers to begin with: 1. I have generally enjoyed Tsurune and I’m glad that I’ve been watching it! 2. Obviously I haven’t seen the last 2 episodes of the series yet so maybe this has already been rendered inaccurate. 3. I’m not...the MOST into sports club anime in general, so maybe some of this is just because it’s not really my thing lol.

...But anyway, it feels to me like this show has a kind of weird sense of timing when it comes to dispatching its various plot developments, and the result is that I’m just not THAT invested in it, even as I get near the end? Basically, a bunch of stuff either wraps up way too quickly and/or isn’t introduced until weirdly late in the show?

The beginning where Minato wasn’t in the club yet actually really did pique my interest because having a sports anime where the main character is like...strongly resistant to joining a sports club, and his primary sports relationship is with a mentor outside of the club is kind of different, I think? But in the end both Minato and Masaki joined the club pretty quickly so.....ok, I guess. 🤷‍♀️

The absolute BIGGEST one for me: The Seiya-Minato-Shu triangle, plus Seiya and Minato’s kind of codependent relationship is actually really compelling to me, but they didn’t really lay it all out there until Shu’s conversation with Seiya at the end of episode 8? And it seems like it’s been more or less resolved by the end of episode 10?? Couldn’t they have introduced it earlier and dragged it out way more?

The whole Kirisaki crew is decently interesting, I guess, but again they don’t really interact with the main characters until episode 7? (This is especially a pity because Nanao and Kaito’s respective ways of responding to the Kirisaki guys made them way more interesting to me than they were until that point, because they hadn’t had a ton to do before then.)

Similarly, while Masaki’s insecurities have kinda been implied for a while before his conversation with Morioka-sensei at the end of episode 10, that’s interesting stuff! Why couldn’t we have gotten a lot more of that?

What was going on in the first half of the series that was more important than all of this stuff lol.

I honestly don’t really have any ideas for how to fix these issues (bc i’m like...really not that invested tbh lol) but I’d maybe start by bumping the preliminaries WAY up, like, to episode 4 or so, or by having some kind of other plot device that forces the main guys to interact with the Kirisaki team (or at least Shu) much earlier.

Tbh I actually admire how Tsurune is kind of....lowkey(??) and doesn’t go way overboard with fanservice or ridiculous levels of drama or whatever, but the downside of that is that I think a higher level of writing is required to make that kind of lowkey narrative pop, and I’m not sure if we’re quite at that level yet. Looking forward to seeing if the last 2 episodes can change my mind, though!

Edit: I forgot one more thing! This is more character-related than plot-related, but I feel like it’s the same kind of issue: When the girls were introduced, I was like “oh, that’s interesting and different! a sports anime with a coed sports team!” but then like....the girls have never really gotten that fleshed out, and they’ve never really contributed to the plot or provided a perspective on events that the boys don’t have or ANYTHING? Like, even if the boys and girls didn’t really mix that much, it would still be possible to have the girls be interesting characters but we totally haven’t gotten that so far. :( Like, I’m always all in favor of having more female characters in things but honestly if they only wanted to do a story about a group of boys, they should have just stuck with the group of boys, and then maybe like....the fraction of screentime that the girls get could have been used to develop the boys a little more? idk 🤷‍♀️

#i promise i don't hate this show im just nitpicky and i like thinking about plot mechanics!!#tsurune

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