u/SunnyBlondieGaby

I stopped watching MHA around season 4 for no real reason, life just got busy. Started it back up last week right after wrapping up months of therapy for anxiety, and got to the part where Deku admits he's terrified but pushes through the exam anyway. Just sat there kind of stunned. That specific mix of being scared and doing the thing anyway is basically what therapy spent months trying to teach me, and seeing it animated out like that got me way more emotional than I thought a shonen fight scene could. Anyone else notice certain arcs land completely differently depending on where you're at in life when you watch them?

Rewatching the series and the Other World rules genuinely don't make sense the more you think about it. Goku dies fighting Raditz and gets to keep his body, train with King Kai, and even fight in the Other World tournament. But then later, other characters die and just become spirits with no explanation for why some get bodies and others don't.

Then there's the whole thing where good people go to King Kai's planet or Grand Kai's tournament, but we never really see what happens to genuinely evil people beyond vague mentions of Hell, no real exploration of the mechanics there despite characters like Frieza supposedly ending up there.

Also characters get wished back to life so casually with the Dragon Balls, but nobody in the world ever seems to grapple with the actual implications of death being reversible, no real societal or philosophical fallout at all.

It just feels like the afterlife rules were made up on the spot per arc rather than being one consistent system. Curious if anyone has a theory that actually ties it all together, or if it's just accepted as anime logic at this point.