#AOTD (November 19th, 2024)

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lost lion
meager glen
woeful rapids
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Wierd fandom

tribal barn
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Didn't think much of it at first if I'm being honest

lost lion
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I'll start this one off, I thought Bakugo and Shoto were the main antagonists

balmy mountain
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I thought Allmiggt was changed to a drug addict when he first transformed lol and I almost left the show within the pilot

woeful rapids
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I thought the fandom was wierd

tender sphinx
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mk not saying that against sorry 😁
idk what I thought lol

cursive belfry
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i havent started watching i aint watching no Mid hero acadamia when bleach exsist

tribal barn
lost lion
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I also thought All Might's skinny form was an whole different character and was an antagonist

tender sphinx
spring plume
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i hostestly didnt like it at first but i watched through the seasson to see and now im on s6

crimson owl
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I stayed away from the anime due to the fandom but I eventually got in because of bakugo||’s death|| FatGumDoubt

spring plume
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sameee

dense scroll
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i got into the fandom because of denki bc i thought he was pretty -- he's still pretty.

rancid basin
last turtle
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I thought Bakugo was a villain before watching

teal juniper
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First episode then after that, i stopped it and a year later, i watched the 2nd one and now i'm interested in it.

balmy pumice
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I kinda went into it completely blind

feral bone
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I went into it completely blind and thought it was stupid the first episode LOL

nimble girder
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Honestly i hated it watching the first episode then swore to never watch it again after 1 year or so gave it another chance

tropic pumice
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I thought that it might be weird, but really catchy xd

rotund juniper
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From the fanbase of course I assumed that I shouldn't touch MHA but the fanbase obviously doesn't do it justice because it's pretty cool nso_kangel_thumbs_up

light geyser
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Before I watch it, I thought it was a bit cliché the fact that everyone had "superpowers". Juste like in every fantasy book or movies, anything.

teal juniper
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interesting characters and power system

cursive belfry
limpid salmon
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nope, saw hawks and loved the show already.

nimble girder
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Weird fandom and that it was your average boring shoen slop

ocean ember
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One of my friends introduced me to MHA- first episode and I was addicted.

nova crown
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deku is cutie patootie (still agree with that statement, although now hes also a badass at the same time)

sand cairn
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I thought it was just some weird cartoon (yes, I thought it was a cartoon 💀 ) and I honestly just thought it would be weird. Not to mentioned I did think that it was just meant for older people due that all I ever caught was fanart and weird stuff from it. Same with other animess tbh

worn axle
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i thought it was just going to be specifically just about bakugo and deku

nocturne sorrel
rancid basin
nova crown
worn axle
nova crown
shadow violet
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I thought bakutoe was a toe

worn axle
oblique badger
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Went in wondering what God level character development did Bakugo go through that he said what he said to Izuku in episode 1 and still remain the most popular character in the fandom

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Cause I've seen fictional teenagers get crucified for less

cursive belfry
worldly python
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i always wanted to get into it but didn't wanna be seen as weird or cringe, then i just stopped caring

static geyser
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I thought the anime and manga would be shorter when I first got into it

obtuse bramble
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it was pretty cool

rancid basin
solid comet
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i thought it was weird and hated bakugo💀

silver sedge
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I listened to the dub first so I didn't like dekus va at first, I got used to it and have now watched it in both dub and sub so Im good now, also hated bakugou, like him more now

static geyser
static atlas
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Confusion since I first discovered the series whilst I was looking for reference images for the Deku Scrub Link from majora’s mask

rancid basin
nimble girder
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i just thought the fandom was weird and it wasn’t all that. then i watched and understood and forgot about my preconceived notions

open wren
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To be honest, I don't really remember. I started it years ago so all I can remember was thinking todoroki was going to be edgy the whole show

tardy sundial
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I thought it was pretty cool since I saw my brother first watching it and he told me all about it

upper bear
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I was not even a teenager when i first watched mha, i searched 'anime' on Google and it was one of the first that showed up so i watched it! I remember thinking it was so cool and i was totally obsessed hhaj_giggle

trail sierra
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nah I didn't even know it existed, just randomly found it on the anime website and thought I'd watch it

celest quiver
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I discovered MHA through the TikToks but I knew it was some weird fandom stuff so I didn't care, I just thought the idea of quirks was so cool. I watched MHA and I absolutely loved it! Everyone seemed so cool TodoLove Tbh if nobody said shit about MHA, then it would be more popular. But these days people rather stick with the hate comments. They don't even give the anime a chance!! They just follow other people's opinions and mention the horrible part of the fandom.

nimble girder
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i read the manga before watching the anime. before reading the manga i know nothing about the characters/story except for deku, uraraka, todoroki and maybe bakugo since i saw some fanarts of them before. i thought deku and izuku midoriya were different people lmao, and uraraka's name is hard to spell

celest quiver
oblique gate
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I thought at first deku had his own quirk till I actually started watching it 😭 like I remember I watched gacha videos about it before watching so that wasn't very smart....but it was also a while ago so but yeah I thought deku had his own quirk and then borrowed all mights or smth so there's that

nimble girder
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Before I ever watched it I thought Mitsuki and Inko were dating. Not realizing Mitsuki and Inko have husbands. I regret and hate myself for ever thinking it DekuSigh

subtle shell
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Nuh uh

rotund cipher
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thought it was a fun anime (I still think this), the more I watched it the more I saw it as motivational during my teen years

exotic condor
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i saw a poster in my brothers room-
i thought aizawa was the villain 💀

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and i saw todoroki and i was like "oooo hes the cutest on the poster!"

languid lichen
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Honestly don't know

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I wanted to see how "bad" the anime was

cursive belfry
languid lichen
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and ended up liking it

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it's just the fandom

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😭

austere thicket
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at first i absolutely hated mha and anime cuz i heard bad things about it, but then my brother told me to watch it so i did, and ended up loving it and anime

violet tundra
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"ooh cool"
But didn't think I'd get so obsessed with mha

austere thicket
cursive belfry
simple echo
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I thought at first that Mt Lady was Bakugo because the way my friend described Bakugo made it seem like him and Mt Lady was the same person

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But the anime felt werid to me at first

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Its OK now because it's has significantly gotten better over the years

stray abyss
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Honestly, I thought it was like every other stupid action anime, with all the screaming and monologuing and overdramatic garbage at every turn, topped with endless talking and oversexualization of every female character in sight. It still is all of those things, but the story itself, all the details in the world building and quirks and characters, makes up for all that I hate about it enough to mostly enjoy watching it.

eager kayak
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lowk thought its the cringiest anime ever before i gave it a chance and didnt really like the first episode (found it weird) but gave it another chance and binged the entire show in 2 months FatgumHands (unemployment final boss)

brazen hull
vague spoke
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I thought the exact same thing everyone else thought about it in 2020 until i watched it

restive creek
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O thought all 1A were actually js characters from other classes that were friends w the main character and that ochako iida bakubro and shoto were the only in the same class as deku

blazing ruin
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Its been about 7 years since i first watched it and i lowkey dont remember anything that i thought specifically about the characters, i watched the show because it won an award so i expected it to be the best show in human history so i guess that was my misconception lol

graceful fossil
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Weird fandom

agile onyx
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When I first saw it, I didn't think I'd like it. I hated Bakuguo and how he treated Deku :[
Oh and Also Mineta, I thought he was really creepy. Also some of the fandom scared me so I hesitated a lot lol. I Also mistook Endeavor for a villain awkward

grave chasm
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I only knew who Bakugo was and I didn't like him

flint birch
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I always thought that Bakugo would always stay like an arrogant jerk, until a few seasons later, he would actually slowly change for the better, and finally apologise to Izuku for everything he’s done to him in the past.

exotic condor
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i had never heard of mha until my brother told me, he also told me to stay FAR away from the fandom.... with the stuff ive seen i understand why he told me that

exotic condor
steady wind
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Before I started watching I didn’t like it bc the fandom is ehm yea… weird… so I kinda judged it but I gave it a try anyway and I love it!

flint birch
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I genuinely feel bad for the minority of the MHA fandom that genuinely want to enjoy the show as normal.

exotic condor
flint birch
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Can’t blame him… 🤣😅

stark spear
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i thought dekus mom was pregnant

elfin karma
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Tbh i can't remember jack of that time period. Can't have been a terrible impression if I picked it up though

ancient kelp
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I thought it was a cartoon tbh.

granite plank
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I was first introduced to Toga when I was listening to The Red Means I LOVe You and I thought she was like the main character or something idk. Also, I was so confused when I saw All Might in it for the first time, I actually thought he was just like a comic book character or an action figure lmao

faint pecan
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started s1e1 in like 2017 and dropped it because i hated dekus voice, picked it back up a few years later after i saw a clip of mineta climbing the wall and thought thats a cool superpower

hallow marsh
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I honestly loved it from the second I started watching I also went in completely blind and was like 11 when I started watching it 😭

vale remnant
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I was really only familiar with Asui's design and that she was tied to the series (didn't know her name, though); I also didn't think too much of the show aside from just being another anime.

safe portal
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I thought the character designs and the concept of the show (a world of superpowers) were cool.
The fandom seemed to act weird but I got used to it

prisma wave
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Okay not gonna lie when it came out I thought it was good but I hated so many characters so I stopped watching it also because of the community was just going nuts but once it died down and I sat down to watch it I thought half the characters I hated were really good so now I’m all caught up and I love it now

safe portal
surreal fossil
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i thought deku's mom was his grandma after she ate a lot

flat briar
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I thought Deku was an interesting MC

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But now I guess he's unique but in a negative way

faint pecan
flat briar
rustic tulip
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When I first thought of my hero was like I thought of any anime before fully watching it cringe then I watch the first episode, and then the first one became season five

earnest viper
muted forum
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dude i started watching it when i was like eight because i thought todoroki was hot 💀

flat briar
# earnest viper Can I ask why? I've only watched the show a couple of times so it's possible tha...

Naruto - Shunned by village, wants to be a hokage, people tried to be in his way, he kept going for it no matter what. He had to earn Kurama's trust and respect to gain access and full control over his power

Luffy - Pirate King. Started out weak with a seemingly useless fruit. Trained to make that fruit really good. Despite people trying to stop him, he kept moving forward

Deku - Wants to be a hero, gets punched really hard once in a playground, immediately starts only doing the bare minimum(writing notes) instead of literally anything. Does not even train until he was promised a hand out

valid lotus
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I thought Momo was weird because of her outfit... Had no clue she was best girl

rare ravine
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I thought it looked cool

grizzled cairn
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i thought it was going to be mid bc deku kept crying at the beginning, but then i gave it a chance and watched the rest of it one time in dorms of my college campus until 8am

earnest viper
cerulean trout
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I saw Bakugo first and I thought he was like a Spicy Dorito mascot

carmine karma
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I was expecting craziness from what I heard about the fandom but it was fine

ocean kestrel
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I thought ‘My Hero Academia sounds like some sort of dark anime that is really popular something like demon slayer maybe’

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I was soooooo wrong

frigid copper
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I discovered it from gacha and I was like "ew animes weird"

vague sentinel
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I thought All-Might was a student 😭

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I never thought the show would be so good tho

prisma wave
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Yes it really does

rustic cosmos
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i thought it was a BL from how much ship art i saw of izuku and bakugou

grizzled dagger
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i dont remember my first thoughts it was like 4 years ago brodie

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all i remember is that i liked bakugo

frigid copper
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HELP

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😭

livid dock
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I thought that Deku and Bakugo as kids were the cringiest thing ever

midnight yarrow
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i found out about it from my 4th grade teacher and tried to watch it

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and then in middle school i started watching it and all of the negative aspects affected my OCs and oc lore. I kinda get upset looking back.

wild dawn
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I thought the characters looked cool but when I asked my otaku friends about the anime they gave me an odd look and said it wasn't really worth watching plus the cringe fandom. But then another friend would yap about it to me and convinced me to watch it so I did. It was my first shonen and I loved it

feral cipher
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i thought that it was like demon slayer

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i deff didnt expect the series to end up like thiw

sinful eagle
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i thought kirishima was mean cuz he hung out with bakugo. now hes my 2nd favourite character (MINA ON TOP)

quaint temple
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i thought it was a cool concept and show when i started watching

nimble girder
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I didn’t know about one for all at all, I thought he just magically gained a quirk somehow lol

rain pagoda
bright jewel
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I thought I was gonna hate it. I mean it took so long for my best friend in middle school to get me to read it because I didn’t know. Thought i was gonna not like it. And when I did start reading it I fell in love immediately. I used to hate bakugo but now he’s been my favorite character for 7 years. And now my bff hates the anime bc I talk about it so much 😔

rain berry
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I thought that Deku was gonna be an unreasonable crybaby, other than that everything I predicted was correct

manic gull
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I don't know what I thought because as a kid I went into MHA bc of the stupid ships everyone did back in 2020

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I was a brainwashed sheep, that's why I stopped watching and then rewatched everything this year

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With an intellectual brain, this time I understood MHA, and was not watching it bc some random person said to watch it 😎

silent stone
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Saw shigaraki in a thread once, read a comment that said “he scratches his neck because he’s allergic to good writing” and thats it, that was in 2018 i believe, didnt know any other characters by then and thought it might be a bad anime

winged barn
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I saw people arguing with other people ab the fandom, but I decided to watch it anyway cause it capted my attention

eternal patio
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I started watching with gacha life and discovered the anime through merch, and so I saw the pretty extreme fandom side first, and I always called Bakugo “Bango” cuz I didn’t know how to pronounce it. I just thought he was mean and stuff. And he was… until he started being nice 👉👈

trim saddle
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new anime.

runic grove
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I saw random bits and pieces online then recognized it on Neflix and thought screw it, it seemed vaguely interesting

nimble girder
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i only read the magna 😭

waxen sluice
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i got into mha because i saw my dad watch it and i was like "i wanna know more" and now i've watched all of mha about 12 times

drowsy socket
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Before MHA I wasn’t really into anime. I had watched some Studio Ghibli films but that was about it. I decided to give it a shot one day and quickly fell in love with it. It was easy to follow, funny, and the messages resonated with me. The rest is kinda history.

wind wharf
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I saw a friend watching the USJ arc and as I didn't have any context thought that Deku was the villain and Kurogiri and the other the good ones :))

open crescent
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i loved ochaco, i still love her now

queen plover
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wierd fandom but lets give it a try. And i thought deku and green lighting powers. Also cool edits from season 6

dark agate
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Honestly, I didn't know it existed till I started watching it. I wanna say my best friend wanted me to watch it, but he started me off with the first 3 volumes of it.

I never looked back since, and I resonate with Deku being a big ol crybaby cause I was one growing up, so I felt seen.

velvet portal
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That you somehow feel sorry for Shigaraki.

pseudo owl
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Idk I just stumbled upon it, and it got me into anime and manga.

atomic lily
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Started watching it because of Bakugo 😔

fading spruce
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i hated todoroki before and a few seasons into watching mha

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he’s pretty okay

wary mauve
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I saw a bunch of cosplayers on tiktok (2018) and thought bakugo was gonna be my favorite lol

amber field
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first time i heard of mha was this aftons meet mha gacha video 😭😭
pretty much all i got from those kinds of videos were midoriya = mc, superhero world with quirks, and only knew toga shigaraki and dabi from the league
some misconceptions were deku and bakugo were dating, shinso’s quirk could forcibly make someone answer a question, nezu was a human with a rat quirk, and the league often attacked ua TogaBooo
also i HATED shigaraki. quite literally the opposite now lmaoo

north lantern
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i thought about dragon ball while watching it

distant quail
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it used to be my least favorite show, now it's my favorite ever

hasty tiger
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I went into it thinking that I would really like Bakugo only for him to make me want to crash out for 3 seasons

trim surge
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I thought bakugo had a fire quirk and that muscular wanted to kidnap him because he was his dad ☠️

trim surge
oblique gate
brittle echo
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thought ships were like... actually confirmed

lyric oriole
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I got introduced by my sister's rambling. I decided UGH FINE I'LL WATCH IT que 2 year hyperfixation.

I don't think I had any misconceptions, but I remember thinking Himiko was pretty, and seeing Tomura's face on a manga cover in my library made me get hit with a massive sense of FOMO (fear of missing out) which made me binge every season, since I'd been on season one for like a year.

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Ironically my sister hates MHA now from how much I talk about it

jagged fossil
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i had a crush on shoto bcs he was the inly one i knew 😔

vagrant fulcrum
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What the hell is up with the fandom this looks pretty good

tacit quiver
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I don't remember at all cuz that was over 3 years ago

limber trench
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First saw deku n bakugo as a ship so I start watching it just for them

amber robin
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same, first saw bakugo and deku, then watched the first episode sad that our awesome baku... didnt have the greatest relationship w deku to say the least.

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i also thought the female representation would be better (though, now having watched more anime, I can sadly say that mha has the best female representation i've seen in anime) anyway i was also disappointed by the deku and uraraka stuff. just wasnt my thing.

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*ONLY MY PERSONAL OPINION!! i have zero problem with anyone who liked or was fine with these parts of mha, just my personal take on it

halcyon furnace
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Not much, I thought it looked, although I thought it was a high school anime at first instead of a shonen

wooden root
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Not really

fresh flare
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I thought Shoto was gonna be a jerk at first, and i thought Deku and Bakugo wereDenkiDisgust

narrow breach
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I started watching it a whilleee ago. Like six years ago. I was ten, so I thought everything about it was really cool. It was my first anime as well.

cyan eagle
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i thought deku was nothing but a nerd

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n a living brocolli

main terrace
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i didnt like it at first, but when i saw bakugou and the way he treated deku, i was like "ive got to see how this ends! " also, i was really interested in todoroki and what his life was like outside of school, until i found out he was abused by his own father. So basically, Bakugou and Deku were the only reason i continued to watch MHA.

brave girder
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I thought it was like interesting and I wanted to try it

desert jackal
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it was the first anime i watched and when i first heard of it i thought the entire show let alone the fanbase was absolutely stupid

static solstice
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I used to think it was the worst fandom ever and that it was overrated..I WAS WRONG GANG

full coral
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i was always interested in watching it but didn’t have the motivation to commit. i had seen a bit of one of the movies and i though it had a cool premise!!

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usually i don’t really take into consideration the fandom aspects of media since “cringe fandoms” but i was kinda aware of how infamous the fandom is

rapid linden
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i thought that it was terrible and that deku was a pick me just bc of the fanbase and that every person in the fanbase was terrible. now, it's one of my favorite animes

lilac igloo
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I thought toga was the main villain and had an obsession w her before I knew what mha was about

real stratus
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I didn't know anything about anime, I just remembered seeing stuffs abt it when I was little.

glass quarry
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I thought Aizawa was a woman, and Deku and Midoriya were twins

plain drum
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Had a big test and I forgot

lost lion
wooden creek
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I thought deku was izukus first name and I used to think the show sucked due to others until I wated it

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Watched

oak sandal
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hero and villians

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i thought all might was the villian

chilly stratus
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I thought about my hero academia like a kind of overplay, I started in covid times to watch it because I was bored, until I got really hyped of it

daring gate
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when i watched mha i loved it the fandom was lowkey kinda bad but i ignored it and i always loved shoto like 4ever and everTodoLove TodoLove

gusty lichen
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I honestly loved it ever since I found a random YouTube short about it, also bakugo has always been my favorite lol

pulsar brook
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Interesting and questionable things said about the fandom from other people

celest hatch
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my first thoughts was that it would be like any other "isekai hero shonen" type anime and i was wrong big time

radiant plinth
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Before I started it, I thought that it wouldn't be that good but since I started episode 1, I have LOVED IT. ||I even convinced my friend to start watching it too, lmao.||

nimble girder
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The first ever episode I watched of MHA was the one where All Might was fighting Deku and Bakugo in the exams and thought the whole premise of the series was that a #1 hero went rogue and they had to stop him

open wren
nimble girder
open wren
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😭

nimble girder
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the next episode was them doing the swim contest and all and was very confused on the story after hehehe they didn’t air em in order