GO STAR GOOO!! | My Hero Academia Episode 2 Reaction (S7)

[@Aoitetsugakusha]

Star gave Shigaraki the worst case of "stop hitting yourself" that I think I've ever seen

[@AsobiMedio]

It could have easily been the end of AFO if she had the time to place a second rule "New Order cannot be transferred willingly" then AFO couldn't get rid of it as it killed him from within. RIP a real one.

[@megaboy767]

Not even professional prankers can engage in that kind of tomfoolery

[@megaboy767]

Not even professional pranksters can engage in that kind of tomfoolery

[@Juice1984]

Star and Stripe is so patriotic, when she died, she turned into Red, White, and Blue confetti to celebrate!

[@christophercharles1937]

She did more damage to Shigaraki/All For One than most of the the former holders in one episode

[@sebastiansepulveda547]

Yeah she messed him up good Spoiler Don’t worry tho shiggy gets better after taking a nap all week

[@TimothyGod]

I feel thats pretty predictable tho. Otherwise it would be too easy​@@sebastiansepulveda547

[@facundomontivero2299]

Not really. It's all meaningless if we don't know how many Quirks AfO even has, how many were destroyed, WHICH ONES were destroyed. You might as well say AfO wasn't nerfed at all.

[@sebastiansepulveda547]

@@facundomontivero2299 this involves something funny horikoshi confirmed on twitter Apparently Star and Stripe destroyed Shiggy’s super regeneration quirk, however he just stole it back from some random high end nomu

[@TimothyGod]

@@sebastiansepulveda547 so why even mention it??

[@thaumaturgeslit7759]

She may have been unable to kill him, but god she landed such a hit.

[@omegashark1837]

And perhaps the biggest hit won’t become apparent until season 8.

[@awanfarrell2880]

Why did she sacrifice herself?

[@SigmaGuardian66]

@@awanfarrell2880 She couldn't strengthen her body enough to survive decay and keep her quirk. So she decided to remove the worst case scenario by removing her own protection to turn her quirk into a bomb essentially.

[@igniteddoesstuff5149]

@@omegashark1837 or a movie, realistically if they make a s8 itll only have about 13 episodes. better to just make a movie

[@omegashark1837]

@@igniteddoesstuff5149not if they wind up having 30 to 40+ chapters left. Hell this season might not go as far as some people think.

[@RagPen01]

Hori realizing he needed to nerf Shiggy and sent in the biggest gut punch to make up for a borderline asspull and it fuckin worked XD

[@natsuotodoroki]

Even though she was gone as quickly as she showed up, Star and Stripe knew how to make an impact!

[@ryanread8617]

Star managed to bring send Shigaraki into ICU for a week, plus remove a bulk of his powers and not let him steal her own, damn guy took the most massive L!

[@CallMeSpinner]

I’d call Star and Stripe a “one hit wonder,” but honestly, I get the feeling she knew she could never top how amazing this fight was so she took the W while she had it. Respect.

[@HeroNameTentacole]

Lots of emotions here. Inspiration, sadness, hope, among other things. It hyped me up, and I’m anxious and excited for what’s to come.

[@gr8atness]

Rest in Power, Cathleen Bate.🇺🇸🕊️

[@SigmaGuardian66]

If victory in the moment is impossible, lay the groundwork for those who come next. Her last act landed a heavy blow on AFO's arsenal of quirks, removing some of the more problematic ones like Reflect.

[@xxxhalo4everxxx]

would have been nice if she got his regeneration tho, getting tired of the "the villian can heal super fast so you have put them down in 1 hit or you're not putting them down at all" trope in general not just MHA its just an annoying excuse to have the villian fight with idiotic reckless abandon and give the audience one SIKE after another, seriously even with the way he avoided stars missle attack with the damage he took he would have been down for the count anyways if it wasnt for regeneration EDIT: just realized destroying his regeneration quirk wouldnt have benefitted the heroes anyways since he's atleast 6 (near) high end noumu he can just nick a regeneration quirk from, since i kind of assume the regeneration is one of the standerd quirks most high ends are going to have

[@GabrielRojasAhumada]

AFO*, it´s been literally 7 seasons, 3 movies, and who knows how many ovas, there is no excuse to getting them mixed up xd

[@SigmaGuardian66]

@@GabrielRojasAhumada You're right. I somehow always get the two mixed up.

[@facundomontivero2299]

You know full well AfO is still going to just pull OP bullshit out of his ass whenever he needs it. He wasn't nerfed at all.

[@Butane9000]

They introduce such a great character to just take her away right after. The pain train has left the station and there are no brakes.

[@mixednarwhal]

20:46 The Jaku Hospital arc sounds and felt like a big impactful arc because it definitely was, but the thought of an upcoming *WAR* arc really puts into perspective how impactful it will be.

[@stardusterplays]

They did her dirty

[@andrewlynch4126]

Shigy got the death note immunity

[@wrexonus]

For all the hype she lived for 2 episodes. There's a reason why a lot of people dislike this moment.

[@ZheroG2363]

Horikoshi just has this magical ability to connect a character to you in such a short timeframe, Star went out like an absolute badass! 🥲

[@SmilingJack65]

Honestly? This is one of the major reasons I dropped MHA. They introduce this hero who was said to be in the same league as All Might, as well as the strongest woman in the world, and then they fridge her almost instantly. Why didn't she try to avoid fighting Shigaraki? I know he intercepts her, but she could have tried to disengage and keep heading to Japan rather than fight there. Three of Japan's top heroes were close enough that they at least saw the blasts from the battle. Above all else though, I feel like they wrote her into a stupid corner where she actually handicapped herself due to her own admiration of All Might. She goes through that entire fight and they establish that she can actually impose TWO rules at a time. However, she never chooses to change the rule giving her super strength similar to All Might's. Why would she not cancel that rule, at least temporarily, to impose a rule that she could have combined in this fight with a villain THAT SHE SHOULDN'T BE GETTING IN MELEE WITH??? Like when she turned the air into a vacuum around Tomura. She could have just gone "The air around Tomura is a Vacuum. The air around the Vacuum is impenetrable." Boom, he's now caged in the vacuum and can't escape. I get that she can't win since she isn't the MC, but not fully utilizing her quirk just because she wanted to have muscles like All Might is such lazy writing and choosing to follow through with that to her being immediately killed right after being introduced is infuriating. That said, I have no issue with her final act of the rule that destroys other quirks; it was the best move she could make after having already lost the fight. Between how this character was used and a few other writing choices, I dropped the series and just check in occasionally.

[@xxxhalo4everxxx]

she had already dropped the super strenght rule last episode dude, she's just naturally muscular aswell so she didnt deflate all might style, but the super strengh was gone, did you kind of just forget she kind of had a gaint air version of herself while combining all those lasers into one? which requires to set rules on 2 diffrent objects to pull off, which she achieved by dropping the rule set on he own body, which is why she was visually damaged when she did that move while she wasnt while being super powerd because the damage she had taken in the fight so far was now more severe proportional to how much her depowerd state can take

[@bennyarnold7876]

Thank you. the writing for this whole situation was so sloppy to me. It'd be fine if it was just another hero, but it's the fact that she IS comparable to All Might and IS suppoesed to be America's #1. Killing her off this soon after introducting her really just makes her look like a plot device, and I even had a bit of a problem with the introduction. If you're planning on quickly killing off this Hero whose so important in universe, why not introudce her earlier? Set the stage a bit in prior seasons with some dialoogue, name dropping, hinting, etc. With her being inspired by All Might and being so powerful it wouldn't be hard to do. Get the watcher/reader a bit more invested into her and who she is so when this important figure does die 2 episodes after being introduced, we actually care. I wasn't too invested in her battle, nor was I invested in her death. She was just there. Edit: I genuinely started laughed when she was decaying and apoligized to that' Commander Agpar' person. WHO TF IS THAT??? Like why are you playing sad music while this random chick I met two episdoes ago is apologizing to this Monsters Inc. looking dude. I'm sorry but that genuinely just got me rolling.

[@cosmo_sonata]

The strongest woman in the world deserved to last atleast a whole arc

[@SpectralDynamite]

Actually, she did release the rule that made her as strong as All Might to gather the lasers together. The other rule she was using was her giant air golem. She released the lasers to catch/redirected the missiles using the air golem.

[@TimothyGod]

​@@SpectralDynamiteyou didn't get what he meant. Far before that point, make 2 rules to fully deal with shiggy at once, since up til the laser and air her, she only used 1 rule

[@Professor_Wisteria_]

she wasnt with us for very long but holy hell did she deliver. she shredded through hordes of Shiggy's quirks and forced him to retreat again into hiding. it sucks that she's gone but this just shows you how much of a problem Shiggy truly is now. o7 to the World's Strongest Woman, Cathleen Bate the #1 Hero of the United States of America. she did more damage with one move than almost all of the holders of One for All combined lmao also there will always be a tiny little part of me that hopes somehow, somewhere, Cassie's dust gathered in an ocean current and found its way to a place where we can bring Eri and rewind her back to full power, but i know that literally removes the entire point of her dying here. i can still hope tho

[@JetZV]

Not-so-fun fact about the community: after the manga chapters came out and showed that Star was going to die, a vocal minority started accusing Horikoshi of hating women. Anything from fridging Midnight to give her students emotional trauma, to the extensive injuries and experiences that Ragdoll, Mirko, and Nagant underwent, to focusing less on the female students was used as "evidence" to prove their point. It was not pretty. Notably, some of the people that made these arguments had a tendency to leave out Big Sis Magne's death while pleading their case... make of that what you will.

[@cosmo_sonata]

Mha is pretty sexist but atleast it's not transphobic, since Magne as a trans woman also got the short end of the stick like the other women in the show

[@psychronia]

That's sad, but also kinda funny. Like MHA: Trans women are women, which is why they're gonna fucking *die.*

[@TimothyGod]

​@@cosmo_sonatadamn, not based 😔

[@MinoruMinetaGrapeJuice]

Star really showed up, smashed the villains and then left. Never in my life have I been so devastated to see someone I’ve seen for only two episodes die. But y’know what? She went out like a champion!!

[@yujirohanma7470]

Star is the definition of going down swinging lmao

[@Horacio_Poggi]

Solid episode! Good reaction! I wish we could have gotten more of Star, but she was still amazing while she was here.

[@ManuelFresh100]

She came the closest to killing Shigaraki and outsmarted All for one in the end 👏🏻

[@Acatia2]

It's like the author went "hold on, I made this guy wayyy too freakin strong it's gonna require ass pulls from Deku to beat him. I know, throw the strongest hero in the world to poison Shigaraki from the inside"

[@destructor0556]

Is kinda like the Madara treatment doesn't it? , the author makes the villain so op that before they realize it they have to somehow pull some bs to nerf them so that the hero can realistically take them on XD

[@Acatia2]

@destructor0556 been a minute since I thought about anything Naruto, but at least this time it makes sense. Besides, it's a nice narrative way to bring Shigaraki back a few steps while diegetically keeping the focus on the established cast. As packed/bloated as it is already, it would have really sucked if none of it mattered and the American no. 1 solved the problem herself.

[@CrownofMischief]

​@@Acatia2It's also a way to show that the rest of the world is aware of the situation. It would've been unrealistic to have a whole first-world country go into chaos without intervention. They explained it a little with All for One using his foreign contacts to sow discord around the world, but that wouldn't stop a country notorious for sticking its nose into foreign affairs. Now everyone else can cleanly say, "Well, they tried sending the best, we're not risking it"

[@Acatia2]

@CrownofMischief yeah, kind of hard to present an international level crisis and have everyone else sit this one out cuz they got their comfy slippers on or some shit.

[@EternalSentinal]

This is where I picked back up in the manga, so when I saw Alicia was at this point in the show, I knew I had to start watching them. I was also devastated that we get an amazing hero only to be killed so fast. All I will say Alicia, is buckle up, it's gonna be a crazy ride

[@animangaclandora]

At the rate the anime is going, the final war will Officially begin on episode 6.

[@jakzelirizarry8446]

Can't really say she is won of the best characters if she didn't have that much character development plus she was more of a plot device

[@obinnaeze9471]

Most Valuable Supporting Character of the year

[@omegashark1837]

She was only with us for a short time but she left a hell of an impression. 🫡

[@jonathanroberts8855]

this hit way harder than it did in the manga

[@Jay-kn1vw]

Poor girl is gonna break when 362 gets covered. And 419 during Season 8

[@Fuuploobope]

Honestly that could get covered this season since this arc and the next are pretty short then after that it’s just the final battle so this might just be the last season

[@sebastiansepulveda547]

@@Fuuploobopeno the manga has not finished there is no way they would have animated episodes before the chapters comes out

[@Fuuploobope]

@@sebastiansepulveda547 yeah but judging by the last chapter with no break next week they pretty close to finishing

[@sebastiansepulveda547]

@@Fuuploobope but the episodes for this season has already been made months ago, there not going to animate new episode while the season is airing and slap it on air at the last minute, also there are almost 80 chapters apart from this episode and the latest chapter they are not going to speed past that

[@Fuuploobope]

@@sebastiansepulveda547 they could do the Jjk formula with how they waited on shibuya

[@misschieflolz1301]

All I can think of is... you're not ready for the rest of this season. I KNOW what's going to happen and I'm not ready 21:59 God damnit Kaminari AGAIN?! I missed it when I watched the episode myself but I just realised he's playing with Ojiro's tail.... again.

[@AndyReactsAllDay]

Commander Agpar 🤔 Haven't seen a Star Wars reference in the series in a long while (though I could have just forgotten). Ones that come to mind are Tatooine Station and Dagobah park.

[@connorwood9211]

To sum up. Shigiraki had a timer till his completion was done. Stain revealed that time was a lot shorter than originally set. S&S was introduced, died and set Shigi back a few more days. Conclusion this was a waste of time

[@justinisp9361]

I didn't want to say anything at the end of last season when you got excited at Star's appearance. I only know what happened thanks to the wiki. Also, not sure if it helps, but here's a free hug.

[@AmaneKoruba]

I can’t watch these yet, I gotta wait for the dub of this season. But I’ll be sure to binge your reactions after I binge the dub! I just wanted to ask if you maybe answered in the first episode if the reaction to the third movie was still coming out? Couldn’t come out? Or will wait till next season? No prob for any of ‘em, just curious.

[@nicolas._.2294]

Same, just watched the dub

[@alfredososa3059]

Shigarakis strongest quirk, plot armor

[@darkedy8707]

I’m a little confused on why she only had one rule left to fight the other quirks. What was the other rule on ?

[@gl3513]

Alicia: i feel broken Me: so does shigaraki 😈

[@yalldumb2387]

Star and stripe feels like wasted potential, such a great design, really unique and cool quirk, and a personality that makes you wanna get to know her character, and she dies in basically one episodes worth of time, and I'm gonna be honest, in the short time she was in the series, she managed to be more likeable to me than Deku

[@cranboykal]

Great reaction!! Do you plan on watching the third mha movie?

[@SpaceCowboy92]

Even in death she is a fucking BADASS

[@goosygrower419]

INSANEEEE EPISODEEEE

[@Eddii_]

The best analyser fr

[@spartnfish]

she did good

[@jasonrandolph42]

Don't worry you still have Lady Nagant.😢

[@owenbridgers]

Star should’ve lived. Screw Hori for doing that.

[@WhyMeh417]

They give her rengoku,Ai treatment why 😭

[@gamerxg7789]

How do u get to watch it early?

[@bradfordlindsey9781]

Shigi is starting to get as tactical as Deku...

[@bradfordlindsey9781]

🫡

[@bradfordlindsey9781]

Star gave them a chance. Now we just wait for shigi to claim 'nothing can stop me' Deku rock up like: was that my cue?

[@CosmicNova1000]

I hate how the author introduced her just to be killed off so quickly

[@skyuru]

I still hope that in future there are some sub stories focused on Star and Stripe UwU

[@LamirLakantry]

Thanks for not posting spoilers in your thumbnail like so may reactors are doing.

[@kredproductions6713]

Ok hear me out…”The air will become a box in front of me” wasn’t an option?

[@TimothyGod]

Literally the first thing she did, only reason it stopped was cUse shiggy attacked

[@fatebreaker413]

Question for manga readers down below. (Keeping it vague but still, Spoilers obviously) Anyone else really curious to see her reaction when a 'baby' blows up a baby?.

[@spadeas49]

Next week, Alicia might be happy for one thing.

[@Fuuploobope]

Just to get sad 1 or 2 episodes later

[@aku896]

true hero

[@mezias00]

Cant wait for next weeks villain.

[@Kenya263]

You missed movie 3

[@playboitex5736]

Hey why is there a missing student ?

[@wamaschawama5178]

I really don't like that they killed her off so quickly. I'm rather disappointed than sad.

[@connorwood9211]

She was introduced just to die and nerf Shiggy

[@insomniaccity]

Still have to credit the author for making her more than just a plot device though. That's just good writing.

[@bennyarnold7876]

@@insomniaccity She was just a plot device though? With bare minimum backstory and no development to boot. She was introduced to give enough time for more training in-universe, simple.

[@insomniaccity]

@@bennyarnold7876 I never said she wasn't a plot device to begin with. You can reduce it to just that, sure, but you'd be dismissing the amount of world-building the author has done to make her and this arc not feel out of place.

[@bennyarnold7876]

@@insomniaccity Worldbuilding by introducing her + the concept of oversea hero’s in one episode and dismissing them and the concept in the next. Good worldbuilding would’ve been hinting or namedropping her a couple seasons ago to build hype/momentum for this moment.

[@JohnCena-tp4gh]

Day 267 of asking Alicia to play Nier:Automata!!

[@chriscolombie4135]

Ah yes from this moment on she became an mk cameo in the mha series 😂and even they are more useful

[@asura7322]

lets go war

[@Shedrick-zx4lv]

Alicia, why are you crying? Stars has only in 2 episodes. No one will miss her.

[@HiImDaisy]

It’s kinda downhill from here. At least imo. Writing wise killing Star and Stripe is meh but Horikoshi put himself in a corner because if they fought a second time and she had the other hero’s assisting her, it was guaranteed to be a victory. And semi spoiler: don’t read if you haven’t read up to current arc: But this fight was kinda pointless.

[@janoitheauratrainer1379]

The funny thing is: you're not wrong. It goes down from here.

[@xxxhalo4everxxx]

bro not even all of them, literally put just endeavour or hawks in there to keep a distance between her and shigi, and in endeavours case get some good licks in too and this would have been a wash favoring the heroes

[@likecat7886]

When you said Bakugo almost died last season for Deku, let's just say we will be emosionaly scared this season. (The manga got heavy the past 20 or so chapters)

[@TimothyGod]

Bro casually dropping spoilers like its nothing...

[@StarstormVGN]

o7

[@Spidermangamer974]

Next episode ua traitor arc

[@omegashark1837]

Maybe delete to maintain the surprise…

[@chinjianle269]

One of the worst fight ever and wasted character

[@RandomTransGurl]

Like a firework. Stars and Stripes. 🫡 Thank you for your service.

[@HeroNameTentacole]

Lots of emotions here. Inspiration, sadness, hope, among other things. It hyped me up, and I’m anxious and excited for what’s to come.