I WROTE AN ENTIRE ARGUMENT AND ACCIDENTALLY DELETED IT BY MISCLICKING AND REFRESHING THE PAGE ππππ
I'll just rewrite it
You say that each character had lots of character development but I dare you to tell me this guy's name without searching it up at all.
each character got character development, no? So surely he must have something notable about him. Notable enough that the very very least you could possibly do is just... remember his name.
I have no clue what his name is, I literally had to search up "class 1-A" to find this guy because I literally haven't the slightest idea what his name could possibly be.
Mha has so many episodes yet with so many episodes there are still characters that are neglected for the most part, characters that shine for five seconds before they're thrown back into the dark corner they came from again.
Every battle was three entire episodes long, the pacing is so trash that I want to gouge my eyes out. To put it simply, most of the episodes are padded. Padded with so much stuff so each season can go on for the 20+ episodes needed. You think it's over then they add something else. They dedicate so much time to trying to stretch storylines out for as long as possible that they forget they have characters that are basically just cardboard cutouts. Maybe mha just bit off more than they could chew.
The UA camp arc would've been great if the battle, no, not even any of the regular degular story stuff, no, no, no, THE BATTLE didn't last for, what was that? FOUR TO FIVE EPISODES. Wow, such a short arc amirite.
They really just couldn't figure out how to get each arc to last long enough to fill out their run time so they padded out all the battles and padded and padded until there was no room left for anything else other than the padding.
And yeah of course deku, todoroki, and katsuki have had character growth because they're the only characters the show actually cares about. They're the only characters with anything to them that isn't just scraps the people behind the show strung together to try and make their cardboard cutouts look less like cardboard cutouts.
It gets tiring okay. Three episode long battles and barely any attention put on anyone who isn't one of the main three gets tiring. There's an easier way to pad things out, they're called filler episodes, either that or actually caring about your background characters.
Random but related question, have you watched Black Clover?