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Additionally I notice similarly weird depictions of the Vietnamese, Mongolians and occasionally even the thai, coming out of China and Korea that just never tracks with me given how close those countries are and how much intermingling I know happens between some of them, and then I remember that racism exists everywhere and the flavors you get in other places can be wholy unfamiliar from the ones you're used to.
Like how Chinese and Korean stories often shit on the Japanese too, but at least that's because of things they did during world war II (that they've mostly never apologized for and for an uncomfortably long time refused to acknowledge they did. Real rough shit too I'm talking stuff that Nazis had been on record saying we're barbaric vile and cruel) so at least there's historically recent bad blood I guess? Maybe there's just a lot more minor things that happen that I will just never know about between populations that identify with those countries, like how I doubt most people on the planet give a s*** about or even know about State rivalries in America.
(As an aside me and my friends theorized hirokoshi just really want it to make deku into Spider-Man bit by bit, and it culminated in the edge lord deku ark where he has the full face mask, does everything alone whips around town on his black whip and has his danger sense)
But once again if you were to consume the entire Arc or even the entire series in a more concise time period some of these problems will probably be minimized or at least less noticeable because you have less time to think about these things and more time to let the story Shepherd you along like I imagine the writer intended.
like I said shonen often substitutes tension for death or stakes (think any sports manga) it wasn't that the week to week nature made the pacing bad it's more so that the week to week nature made the bad pacing worse, like they never let a fight build and flow naturally, it would always just cut away arbitrarily to cut to whatever else is happening elsewhere, which some series do but the crucial part is very rarely was whatever else happening elsewhere directly tied to what was about to happen in the previous area. Like the entire Arc was a bunch of disjointed fights up until the end when some of them sort of connected slightly. So instead of having a building of hype like you might get for a long One Piece Arc (or even jiu jitsu kaisen arcs which are all really long) occasionally intercut with emotionally or energetically low moments like comedy or a flashback or an explanation or drama, it's more like hype would build and then be slapped out of you so that ochako could yap at toga for a while about some lame flat ass romance shit for a while and then we cut to spinner talking about how racism suddenly just exists now ( and it's existed this whole time but we've just never brought it up in the past 300 chapters because reasons), and then it cuts to the most overpowered character in the series somehow immediately losing a fight she by no means should have lost because the villains GOT to be busted like Madara, and then it'll cut back to deku and then it'll cut away again and then it'll cut to endeavor and then it'll cut away again and then it'll cut to an Admittedly great fight with Mecha all might vs all for one, only for the fight to end in a wet fart of a conclusion instead of having a meaningful impactful conclusion between two generational foes. The effect after a while is annoyance and disorientation, you don't care anymore because they never let you settle in a place long enough to care anytime you sort of care the dumbest possible outcome happens, and then it just keeps going and going. It's sort of feels like a Zach Snyder movie when he has complete control: there's a lot of style, the style is... interesting, but the style mostly works as individual moments and they don't necessarily join together to make a cohesive whole, and the writing is just sort of lackluster and generic in parts while being outright derivative in others.