I think it should have definitely still be milked more deku had waay too fast power ups characters from both sides get killed off and none of the both casts has much time to morn about them.

Class 1-A is still dry with no content. (Execept for shoji who's finally got some content to his character even if it's just some excuse to give spinner a rival.)

Hell nejiri got her first and last backstory at the very finals that's speaks alot about how rushed this is.

It wouldn't have made sense overall especially for the LOV. Considering the state of Japan and the world, it would be terrible for them to not take the chance to attack when Japan was at its weakest. If they waited, they were only allowing the heroes to fully regroup and get stronger and for society to slowly rebuild itself back. If it did happen, the tragic impact caused by the Paranormal Liberation War wouldn't have been that huge.

I don't think more time should've passed before PLW, I just think we should've experienced the 4 months between Endeavor Agency and PLW instead

I'd have preferred if the story spanned 3 years rather than just one. I can understand not wanting 3 Sports Festivals or repeat events, but it felt super compressed at only one year.

Padding the story with even longer time skips wouldn't make much of a difference. On the other hand, if we got more story arcs set before the PLF War and between that and the Final War, that would give a lot of room for much more world-building and character development.

Things like fully fleshing out the heteromorph discrimination plotline (e.g. the Creature Rejection Clan stirring up trouble), government corruption (e.g. maybe the HPSC tries to get Deku under their thumb before the PLW Arc?), and properly exploring the different Quirks of OFA & their Vestiges' backstories.

It was just a timeskip I doubt there's another, especially since 1-A starts Year 2 a week from where the story currently is.

We already had a 2.5-month time-skip right before the raid began. It's possible but highly unlikely to have another one immediately after that. Then again, it depends on the outcome and fallout of the war.

I hope not

Shigaraki wasn't at 75% for nothing. If I had to guess, he's probably gonna overexert himself and go for a tactical retreat after Machia and the others show up, he'll be crippled for a couple months to a year thereafter. In that time frame the heroes will probably regroup and get a major buff. Hori maybe glosses over the next sports festival, but other than that they skip straight to showing off the students improvements and new additions to UA. Midoriya by this time is somewhere around 80% to 85% control of OFA. Tho we already got a somewhat major timeskip, so I doubt we'll get another really big one in a while.

I agree with the general lay out of the timeline, but I think a lot of MHA's pacing issues isn't so much that it's a year, more than it just feels stupidly fast because of how fast things move from action set piece to action set piece, and without a lot more downtime, even splitting it over three years won't change that, and may even make it worse because you'd have eve more big, vague timeskips. For example, assuming the Sport Festival is set around the time most schools have their sports festivals (late May, early June), that's a month or two after the Battle Trials and USJ, which is actually plenty of time but happens in the span of five minutes in the show, and then another month or two for Finals (late June/early July) and Camp (July/August). There's nothing actually wrong with this timeline as it is, but none of this feels like a good amount of time because there's no slice of life, and no obvious calanders or big training montages to keep track of time. MHA, as written, just has no interest in downtime or training. If it did, I don't think the pacing would feel quite so bad, and we'd have better build up to the big character development moments. So, yeah, while I agree three years would be better, I also think three years with Horikoshi's writing style would be even worse because the lack of down time would be even more obvious.

I think the problem stems from the lack of downtime. Sure, you can spread out all of the events, but the month breaks in-between arcs would make the story feel empty, so you’d have to find a way to fill in the gaps.

If anything, You’d have to add more smaller arcs in between: either slice of life shenanigans, or focus on other students. You can maybe spice it up with some classic school/teenage drama to help fill in time while making sure the audience doesn’t miss out on much of what the cast is doing.

Overall, MHA would have to be restructured entirely from the ground up to make use of the school year method(like Harry Potter). Sadly, Horikoshi doesn’t write like that, and unfortunately he burned out to make the story that long.

I think the lack of transitional arcs did the disservice over the short time frame. Through the cultural festival seemed fine, but then it got too focused on hitting the next story beat or focus on too small of the cast while exploring non main characters

Yeah, that would’ve made more sense. It’s anyone’s guess why they decided to cram it all into a single year. Personally, I think the writer was just very ambitious at first and thought they were going to want to keep this series going for much longer, which is why so much stuff in the ending is so rushed. It’s also possible that the “1-A” branding for the class became so popular that they decided to keep it, and moving them onto the next year would have ruined that.

As someone that grew up with the 90s anime dubs, MHA's pace and timeline doesn't feel overly filled with the brim with actions because many shows that I thought were taking 2-3 years reveal it's only been 1 year since the beginning of the series. I'm looking at you Sailor Moon, DBZ, YYH, Pokemon, and etc.

The parts of MHA that had me going "hmm" was Izuku's vigilante and war arc that made me go "OKAY TOO FAST, TOO FAST STOP" but everything until that point didn't feel too rush or crammed. I just wish we could have seen more than stuff happening off screen for certain characters.

Year 1 -

• USJ (without Shiggy, Konagiri, or the nomu there so it just looks like a random attack)

• Year 1 Sports Festival (with some filler episodes before it)

• The Hosu Arc (This is where the Nomus get introduced)

• Year 1 Joint Training Arc

•Year 1 Cultural Festival Arc (The UA school festival Arc w/o Eri but with some fluffy filler episodes)

• Final Exam Arc

• First Movie Here (MHA: Two Heroes)

• Forest Training Camp Arc (Katsuki doesn't get kidnapped)

Year 2 -

• Second Movie Here (MHA: Heroes: Rising)

• Provisional License Exam Arc

• Hideout Raid Arc (Thanks to Momo putting a tracker on one of the nomus that attacked them)

• Year 2 Sports Festival (New events happen)

• Remedial Course Arc (I think it's funny 😁)

• Year 2 Joint Training Arc (Now with second-year Support and Business to help a bit)

• Shie Hassaikai Arc (With more lore and a reason why we're to be upset by Sir Nighteye's death)

• Year 2 Cultural Festival (This time with Eri :D)

• Endeavor Agency Arc (With some of the Pro Hero Arc in there)

• Third Moive Here (MHA: World Heroes' Mission)

• Meta Liberation Army Arc

• First War Arc (Take up their second-year final exam)

Year 3 -

• Dark Deku Arc (with more episodes in it I want to see our boy fall into how he was at the end of this Arc)

• Year 3 Sports Festival (Trying to keep morale high it kinda helps??)

• Stars and Strips Arc (A bit longer and a dash of the UA Traitor Arc)

• Year 3 Joint Training (Third-Year Support and Business class help out a lot more)

• Fourth Movie Here (MHA: You’re Next)

•Year 3 Cultural Festival (Fluff and higher morale)

• Final War Arc (W/ their Final Exam)

• Epilogue Arc (Cute time skip fluff without really any ship being confirmed or not [I'm a multi-shipper deal with it])

1st year:

• USJ arc
• USJ (Redone)
• Quirk application arc (Basically learning concepts and ideas to apply in their quirk)
• Sports festival
• Hosu incident
• Joint training arc (a smaller version)
• Final exam arc

2nd Year:

• Camp training arc
• AFO rematch
• Multiple collaborations with Hero schools
• Provisional licence exam
• Internships
• Overhaul arc
• UA festival arc

3rd year:

• Joint training arc
• LOV overtakes meta liberation army
• Internship with endeavour
• 1st War arc

Classes suspended:

• Vigilante arc
• New Order fight
• Final war

The test they took before the summer camp would be their final for their first year with All for One vs All Might happened between the first and second years, the joint training exersize with 1b (now 2b) would be the final of their 2nd year, the war arc would occur early in their third year, with the rest of the series spanning that 3rd year.

Since people divided up the years pretty well, I'll add some extra gap fillers that could have been fun to see:

• training camp happens every year, but each year is a different terrain to teach the kids how to navigate and meet different heroes like ocean/beach based, pussycats and of course that training camp are forest and mountains, high population city or small(er) town work, winter training camp for colder climate and snowy terrain work
• collaborations with other hero schools
• more collaborations with the third years and maybe even recent UA graduates
• another sports festival but make it entirely different from the first year one
• maybe a small thing where they work with the business course on a mock PR project since public image is important
• an arc where they work with the support course and talk about potential changes they want to their uniforms based on what they've learned so that'll probably be 3rd year-ish maybe even tucked away towards the end of the series as a capstone for both hero and support course students
• field work that isn't all about punching villains like teaching them the importance of civilian crowd control and lessons on how to properly direct traffic if need be
• focusing on different characters during the internships since i assume those are yearly things
• honestly literally anything that makes the series more academia focused and has a chance to develop more characters and how the school functions

Yeah, as much as like MHA, it's pacing isn't the best. No way Izuku learned all that or Bakugo experienced his character development in under one semester.

1st year:

• Everything is the same through the Kamino Ward arc
• Joint training arc
• Slice of life Dorm arc with flashbacks to various students' (from 1a and 1b) home life/middle or telemetry school days.
• UA festival arc (No Eir or Big Three, just 1a vs Gen ed Vs 1b petty competitions, where everyone that matters learns that 1a has had it rough)
• Holiday fluf plus a Time Skip

2nd Year:

• Provisional license exam
• Sports Festival II: Electric Boogaloo
• Work Studies
• Overhaul arc (but with 50% more lead-up and investigation, and 100% more repairing Nighteye and All Might's relationship so I care when he dies. Same for Magne, flesh her out more if she's going to get the axe)
• My Villian Academia Arc (but it lasts longer, and weaves in and out of the hero arcs going on)
• Work Study with Endeavor (the Todorokis are all wrapped up by the end of it, Including Dabi's arrest or death, Endeavor is forced to retire either way).
• An arc where 1b gets up to something unrelated to what 1a is doing (their own arc villain equal to at least Stain)
• UA festival arc (Yes Eir and the Big Three, they are a year younger now.)
• Holiday fluf plus a Time Skip

3rd year:

• LOV overtakes Meta liberation army
• Sports Festival III: This time it's personal
• Work Study with... some liberation army sympathizer (cue the boys busting a Quirkist bastard)
• 1st War arc (but Midnight isn't senselessly killed off)
• Vigilante arc but it's on the books as Izuku doing his work-study with All Might and/or Gran Torino because no one else will take the cursed child.
• New Order fight (but with 50% more it mattering and us getting to know Star and Stripe so we care when she dies)
• Final war
• UA festival arc (Ships sail here.)
• Holiday fluf plus a Time Skip, we see how everyone is doing in ten years.

I will never, ever, get people's fascination with timeskips...

If you mean the ones we get ALL the time, sometimes months or more, then sure maybe.

If you mean year+ then...no, it wouldnt make any sense at all.

right after the current arc? definitely not.

everything that's happening right now needs a reaction from the participants of the war (students, pro heroes), their families and society and you shouldn't skip that. there are also some plot threads that should be resolved right away.

later? possibly if the narrative makes it have sense.

personally i'd love a big time skip at some point to see the characters aged up but only when/if we're at a point of the story where it's warranted and, to be honest, it feels less and less likely (why would the villains do nothing for a longer period of time that'd allow a skip?).

I doubt it. Deku and the rest are just days away from entering their 2nd year at U.A. A long time skip such as One Piece or Naruto had would mean the end of the "Academia" part of the story and without the school 95% of the cast would be gone. Or do you believe that Ochaco, Shoto, Ida, Momo, Tokoyami, Eraserhead, Present Mic, Eri etc. will in any way interact with Deku once he leaves U.A. and works as a hero? Skipping over the immediate aftermath of this arc would also be in bad taste.

At most we will get a time skip of a few weeks or a few months, but nothing bigger.

No!

Cause I said so

I would say no, it would be absurd that the series does not show us the immediate repercussions of the events of the current arc, also the status quo of the MHA world will not change immediately there are many things that have to happen and it would be a waste of storytelling simply skip them with a time-skip.

On the other hand, a time-skip within some arcs would be feasible taking into account the possibilities of large future events, but it is difficult to determine when it would be more appropriate without seeing how the conclusion of the current arc turns out.

I don't think I'd like a timeskip, I feel like there are a lot of things to deal with in the narrative and that it can be too interesting to skip.

But more than anything if it happened it would not be very long, there is still the small matter of the possible death of Allmight in the coming months and that has to be highlighted sooner or later.

it's way too early to say if a timeskip is warranted or not since we have no idea where horikoshi is taking us or what's the actual state after the raids. only 2-3 days in-story have passed and nothing has settled yet.

I just feel like between arcs there will be larger gaps rather than a big one. like instead of a couple weaks is a few months between an arc

this period is way too chaotic to skip and get a summary

I don’t, they kinda have to take care of the current problem.

I can see a timeskip in the epilogue of the series tho

I mean there was a 2 day time skip from the end of the war to when Bakugo woke up. Haha

In all seriousness, I think the skip won't be that long and it'll only be when the current situation(Endeavour's family issues and him eventually addressing the citizens of Japan) ends. And it'll just be to the start of year 2, if school resumes post war.

To me, a time skip now serves no purpose as there's so much things to resolve and there's much more of the post war ramifications to explore.

I think a three year arc would have been better too. Like you said it would have allowed for natural growth of the characters powers and relationships. It also would have let us see the impact of all the events more clearly. We can't really see the impact of past events on the characters very much because they're already dealing with the next crisis.

Yeah, thats why I wanna try that 3 year long thing in one of my fics. If I can settle on a quirk for izuku, I could get started.

Yes we know

The correct order:

1. Vigilantes
2. USJ Arc
3. Sports Festival Arc
4. Two Heroes
5. Summer Camp/Kamino Ward Arc
6. Shie Hassaikai Arc
7. Culture Festival Arc
8. Joint Training Arc
9. Heroes Rising
10. Endeavor Agency/My Villain Acedemia Arc
11. World Heroes Mission
12. Paranormal Liberation Army Arc
13. Dark Deku Arc
14. You’re Next
15. Villain Uprising/Final War Arc

You're next is before season 7 but everything else is correct

Move 4 comes before (between actually) season 7 and movie 1 comes before season 3

You’re next actually takes place after Season 6 and Before season 7

Its alright

Heroes Rising takes place between the 1-A VS 1-B arc and the Endeavor agency arc. World Heroes Mission takes place between the Endeavor Agency arc and the war arc.

I doubt it. They can't waste too much time unless they want Shigaraki/AFO to hit full power.

I'm guessing one of the still uncaptured League members may break away to make a move, which may then lead to the heroes finding a lead on AFO's location.

Definitely no time skip

I doubt it. Maybe a all’s well that ends well timeskip to like their adulthood at the end but who knows

maybe one at the very end.

we can't get a timeskip, at last not a big one. it's heavily implied shigaraki's body upgrade will be done in two months after which he'll probably be pretty much unbeatable (especially in AFO's hands) so the final battle has to happen before then.

i wouldn't rule out the epilogue being a jump to the kids as adults, though.