One of my main gripes with worm is that it's okay that skitter can do all this. Earlier arcs were great but the pacing ends up dumbing down everyone else to make Taylor look way smarter with Tattle ex-machina to fill up some gaps and Taylor losing some fights but never really losing the war per se. I've just finished the echidna arc, and suffice to say it could have been better. As much as I love worms worldbuilding sometimes things play a little too grittily for the sake of being gritty, or characters literally being literal NPCs until skitter tells them what to do.
#Min hero worm free#
Feel free to share.Īs much as I love worm, i have some issues with it, not saying I don't with MHA, there are plenty. I'm interested to hear if anyone's had similar experiences, maybe even the opposite of mine. I'd consider myself a part of both communities, but more Worm than the other. It's far from nonexistent, but not nearly as wide as you'd think. I'm surprised how little overlap I've seen between the two fandoms. At the same time there are plenty of people who've cursed me out for defending Wildbow portraying Nazi characters' perspective, or as being anything other than utterly irredeemably evil. There are some people who'd consider me an SJW for opinions I have on the way Horikoshi handles girl characters. Quite frankly I'd say a lot of my criticisms are more reflexive than really worth bringing up. Still, the flaws of Worm don't bother me as much since they feel more well-intentioned than anything else. Wildbow's work shows its age in some areas (despite not being more than a decade ago) and MHA shows its influences on some of the more unsavory aspects of shonen. I could talk about the ways both have flaws related to how they deal with social issues. That's a topic for another time, but you get the idea.
#Min hero worm series#
I hoped that the entire series would be similar to Land of Waves or many parts of the Chunin exams, it wasn't. I had a similar problem with Naruto beyond a certain point. It just just increasingly struck me as rather mindless, closer to the power ladder of something like DBZ than something that I actually liked. Keep in mind I was at a place in Worm before it truly grew the beard, and MHA was still ash on my tongue in comparison This became even more obvious when I realized how despite the ostensible hype of the most recent manga arc, I barely felt interested at all, not particularly invested in the characters or their struggles. I still find them both entertaining in their own way, but I was way more invested in what was going on in Worm on the average chapter than I'd ever been with anything happening in MHA. Reading Worm made me truly realize how MHA was more of a well-executed shonen than the hard superhero universe I was really looking for. It surprised me how many fights in the former boiled down more to, "do the thing harder" compared to Worm which usually was, "do the thing smarter" often enough ground was gained or lost based on factors independent of superpowers such as intelligence, emotion, and worldview. The flaws of MyHeroAca became abundantly more obvious when I compared it to Worm. Worm has all those things, but it does them all way better and does even more. It tapped into the potential of the superhero genre to explore superpowers in a modern setting.
I like MHA because it had interesting worldbuilding, a dynamic power ladder, a wide variety of powers that demand creativity and adaptability, and a lot of interesting characters who are affected by their power in some way. It exceeded those expectations and, "went beyond." It sat on my reading list gathering dust, I was familiar with the most basic parts of its premise, I vaguely knew about its power classification, and I had high expectations for it.
Both from the start, and as both series progressed. At the same time, I recently started reading a series that I feel is an incredibly better execution of the concept Horikoshi was on some level striving for.
Title is somewhat of an exaggeration, I'm by no means saying I'm no longer a fan of MHA, there are plenty of things I like about it enough to keep up. Hopefully I'm not reiterating a previous post, although I didn't find one when I searched. I'll try to avoid any spoilers for both, and it'd probably be best if you marked spoilers so newcomers can indulge in both.