僕のヒーローアカデミア 41 [Boku no Hero Academia 41]

僕のヒーローアカデミア [Boku no Hero Academia] #41

by Kohei Horikoshi, 堀越耕平

オールマイト、見えているかい。君が託した意志が消えかけているのが。与一から始まり、連綿と受け継がれてきたOFAが、僕の“個性”を手に入れた弔によって朽ちていく。あの少年には弔は救えないよ。だって彼は果てしなく底深い憎しみの塊であり、すべてに破滅をもたらす者なのだからね。

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Young Adult, Action, Fiction, Shonen, Graphic Novels

200 pages, Paperback

First published August 2, 2024

About the author

HORIKOSHI Kouhei
Name (in native language): 堀越耕平
Associated Names:
Kouhei Horikoshi

Born 1986 in the prefecture Aichi, Horikoshi first attracted attention in the second half of 2006 when he entered Shueisha's 72th Tezuka Award for Newcomers with his one shot "Nukegara" and made it to the final six, where he gained himself an "Honorable Mention".
Various short stories in Shueisha's Akamaru JUMP followed over the years until he published his one shot "Oumagadoki Doubutsuen" in issue #2/2010 of Weekly Shounen JUMP.

Kouhei Horikoshi is a graduate of Nagoya University of Arts. He was previously an assistant to TANAKA Yasuki.

Zodiac: Scorpio

Pixiv: 堀越

Reviews

[elena · Rating 5 out of 5]

CALL AN AMBULANCE 🚨🚨🚨 FOR ME❗️

[Jessica Ravikumar · Rating 5 out of 5]

IM SOBBING CHAPTER 422 ??? DO YOUR BEST DEKU??? THE GREATEST HERO IN HISTORY??? IM NOT OK

I’m sick. I’m physically sick. Please don’t let this end Hori I love them too much

[Lina]

Bro y'all are not ready for chapter 419😭💀

[Anna Quilter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Last but one Volume..
This was very good...let's hope next Volume is the payoff!

[m.・゜゜・・゜゜・． · Rating 5 out of 5]

the shimura segment at the beginning of this volume was fucking brutal on the heart... but everyone saying 'do you best!' to izuku and then finally his SWEET TEARFUL MOTHER saying 'do your best, izuku!!!' fucking tears in my eyes. what a fucking great call back. it just screams, 'do your best'!

[Sarah Ryder · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Do your best!”

I honestly don’t know what I can say. This volume hit me hard when I first read it, but every time since then that I read it over again I start crying and that’s a very hard thing for a book to make me do, haha. So with that in mind, I’ve boosted my rating up to a five star because this story deserves it. This near-the-end ending is everything I hoped it would be and more in a lot of ways I can’t give any details on and even if I could I don’t think I’d do them justice.

Deku has grown so much but at his core he’s still the same kid who wanted to be a hero and that shines here so brightly, no matter the darkness thrown at him and his friends. He’s inspired so many, he doesn’t even realize and it’s beautiful.

I feel sorry for Shigaraki—no matter how awful he is, he truly believed in what he was doing and for the final blow to be that cruel was heartbreaking. Yes, he deserved it, but at the same time how different things could have been without All For One. Him I have no sympathy for, but I do have sympathy for his victims.

This volume is amazing, heartfelt, empowering, and inspiring. While I’m going to be so sad when this series ends, I’m also excited and anxious to see how the final chapter closes. Can’t wait for October and in the meantime I’ll probably reread this again and cry some more while also feeling inspired.


‼️Content‼️

Language: gah; what the hell; hell; damn; oh God (1); dammit; crap

Violence: injuries and blood (PG-PG-13/R); fighting with weapons, superpowers, and hand to hand (PG-PG-13/R); a character’s arms are crumbled into pools of blood then regenerated (PG-13/R); pools of blood; a boy accidentally kills his dog by “crumbling” him into a pool of blood (PG-13/R)

Sexual: a girl’s shirt opens in the front all the way down to her stomach; shirtless guys

Other: superheroes/supervillains/superpowers; a monster like being with “brains” outside its skull; death and grief; a character decays people and land

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Deku vs shigaraki - 1v1! Aizawa shows up and that instantly made this volume better. 🎤☁️✏️

[yas · Rating 5 out of 5]

j’ai failli pleurer hein

[inouch · Rating 4 out of 5]

I need the last volume immediately. I’m not ready but I NEED to know the end.

[Gigi ✨ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved everything about this oh my god! Class 1-A is everything to me SOBS.

[Adam Fisher · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'll say much more in the review of the next and final Volume, but this one was such an emotional roller coaster. WOW...

Going to go read it now.

[Rin · Rating 4 out of 5]

One to go. This series is a really good shounen. Deku is probably the most empathetic hero since Aang.

[Nea Poulain · Rating 4 out of 5]

Shigaraki, te quiero mucho. Dekuuuu te quiero muchisimo. AAAAAA, no estoy lista para el final. Definitivamente no estoy lista para el final.

[ollie · Rating 5 out of 5]

this shit left me breathless tbh

[⋆ ࣪˖ ִֶָsel་༘࿐ · Rating 5 out of 5]

TENKO, MY TENKO SHIMURA. OUR DEKU, IZUKU MIDORIYA. You both were born a blessed child, do they know that?! I hope—inside them, even if just by the slightest—that they know that, else I'm going to end myself.

[Lorine · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm not scared to say MHA is one of the greatest manga of this generation. Fight me.

The character development of both Deku and Bakugo is truly amazing and honorable.
Congrats Horikoshi.

[n [larrythelatypus] · Rating 5 out of 5]

I mean I'm simply not ready for the end
the emotions in this series are insane
wait til October for last volume release. I am not emotionally ready

[Shadyside Library · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not a bad lead up to the final volume! I FINALLY see everything coming together. Can’t wait for the big finale in volume 42

[dora♡ · Rating 5 out of 5]

WHAT A VOLUME i cant believe there's only one volume left😭

[Amber Scaife · Rating 4 out of 5]

Big Final Battle still happening in these two volumes (40 & 41). A few excellent twists and Big Moments, too.

[AJ (the.booknerd.reads) · Rating 5 out of 5]

DO YOUR BEST DEKU IM SOBBING

Sero really pulling out a “On your left” style bit I adore him

[zora · Rating 5 out of 5]

shota aizawa the man you are🧎🏻

[Literatura sin límites · Rating 4 out of 5]

La batalla final donde todos acuden a ayudar a Deku, me gustó.

All for one es un villano en toda regla. Manipuló todo lo referente a Shigaraki, pero al final solo quería controlar a su hermano. Su amor era retorcido, bastante. De hecho , no creo que sea amor sino posesión.

[Guady · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read up to chapter 422 so I'm going to mark it as read

[Petros · Rating 1 out of 5]

This manga is put out of its misery with Deku using all the fifty superpowers he was handed over without deserving them to Texas smash the big bad. The same thing he had done with every other enemy in the entire manga. What happened to the notes you kept, Deku? Hell, what happened to your fame? You became a powerless wage slave that nobody even knows if you exist or not. Horikoshit even retconed what he had said about becoming the greatest hero. He changed it to everyone became the greatest hero. Which was a lie, since Deku wasn’t doing anything without superpowers while all the other students did (even Mineta).

At the same time he wanted you to believe you don’t need superpowers to be heroic. What kind of contradicting bullshit is this? Deku didn’t even bother to raise money and get himself some gadgets, by using his fame as the one who defeated All For One. He did absolutely nothing and was forgotten by everyone including his friends and his own father. Remember when Horikoshit promised to reveal him before the end of the story? He didn’t even do that. How incompetent can this guy be?

Anyways, Deku did nothing and just waited for Almight to once again hand him over another superpower in the form of an Iron Man suit, proving once again the nepobaby he was all along and that you can’t be a hero without superpowers, or that you can’t get yourself an Iron Man suit without being rich and famous, thus completely contradicting every single message this stupid manga was going for. The end. And yes, I know there will be 40 more pages in the final volume when it finally comes out, but I don’t care. I will be something Horikoshit made to please the shippers. This is how it ends initially, and this is the true end. Anything else will just be a retooling, imposed by the fans. Now I am free to read all the fanboys in the comments yapping about me not knowing how to read.

[Natalie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Now THAT was one HECK of a volume. The final battle against Shigaraki comes to a close, and a (SURPRISE) further battle with All for One takes place. Deku really REALLY comes into his own in this volume as the true hero, and the inspiration to all those watching (civilian and hero alike), and ESPECIALLY to his mentor, All Might. This is such an emotional volume and just incredibly well done and I can't believe it's the penultimate one and there's just one more to go. I really hope that this battle ends well, and that if we ARE going to lose more heroes, that it's not many... Being so close to the end is TERRIFYING.

Chapter notes below for personal reference: (potentially spoiler heavy)

Chapter 411. Shinomori (danger sense) has been takennnnn
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Izuku’s mask is goneeee
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Shigaraki can see the vestiges? :o
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HE’S GONNA DESTROY MT. FUJI?!
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Destruction incarnate is for damn sure. Jeez.

Chapter 412. I’m lost… what do you MEAN he moved the ground to stop your decay?
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Deku is just too good for this world :| I understand why there seem to be a lot of MHA fans that dislike him, but honestly his determination to look for the good in people, no matter how “villainous” they may be is actually pretty admirable… if a little stupid. He’s not perfect, but really who is? Good on him for sticking up for his ideals. It’s very Naruto-like, huh? XD
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HE HAS TO WHAT?!

Chapter 413. ...what do you MEAN the power passed through generations is becoming frayed? What’s happeningggggg
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Ohhhh… get him to take the quirk, and then they attack from the inside, just like Stars & Stripes did? But then, that means they’re gone for good, right? And Deku is back to being quirkless? That’s like ripping off a limb - losing all the vestiges, and all the hard work he’s put in throughout the series!
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You’re right, it was a gift from All Might, which is why it means so much to him. And now it’s going to be destroyed? ;u;


Chapter 414. Ohhhh… Cleverrrrr…
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Did he do it? Is Kudo gone?
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Yep. #2 is gone, but he needs to keep transferring the vestiges. Fuck.

Chapter 415. Seriously, why is it always HANDS with this dude.
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ERIIIIIIIIIIIII

Chapter 416. I’m curious. Given Eri’s quirk is rewind, do you think she’d be able to a) rewind someone who is dead back to life, or b) rewind a quirkless Deku back into a Deku with OFA? And if she COULD, would that take them from Shigaraki and potentially ruin all the hard work everyone put in to destroy him, or would it only work on the person actively being rewound?
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Kota and Eri are togetherrrrr. Go Kota, you can help her <3
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Are we doing another summary of what’s happening with all the other characters, right in the midst of the battle between Deku and Shigaraki? ANOTHER summary? Dude, seriously. I mean, I definitely want to know what’s happening, but this is getting a bit ridiculous.
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Lady Nagant! :D Excellent, she’s still alive! I like her :|

Chapter 417. Back to the origin huh, and with Nana too? That’s a DARK origin…

Chapter 418. Lots of fighting within Shigaraki’s mind, within his memories…
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Who’s this guy? Whose memory is this?
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…uh oh. That was AFO’s memory wasn’t it? Shit. Does that mean he’s taking over Shigaraki? Have they just lost?

Chapter 419. AFO had been manipulating Shigaraki from the GET GO? Took his original quirk, gave him something that could “only” be used for destruction, stoked the worst impulses in his father, and basically just ensured that Shigaraki had ZERO free will from the very beginning. What the ACTUAL fuck. This goes SO much deeper than I ever could have imagined.
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Yoichi is gone? #1 has disappeared for good? ;u;
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OH MY GAWD DEKU YOUR ARMS. I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS JUST YOUR VESTIGE THAT LOST THEM. IT WAS YOUR BODY TOO?
(ERI WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL RIGHT ABOUT NOW)
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IS THAT SERO? THE HECK DID YOU COME FROM.
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SATO? OJIRO?
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ERASERHEADDDDDDDDDD
…and he came out of a portal too. KUROGIRI IS ON THEIR SIDE?!

Chapter 420. They’re grabbing all the heroes who can still fight! And also a bunch of clothes and supplies from civilians who are volunteering them. That’s awesome <3
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ERI BROKE OFF HER HORN FOR DEKU? THE FUCK.
(But the real question here… will it work?)
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Eri wants to sing? That performance at U.A. really made the difference for her, huh? That’s lovely <3
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Oh my gawd Kaminari, you are SO not in the right frame of mind to be fighting AFO. Literally. You’re short circuited! I CAN CLEARLY SEE IT. WHO LET YOU ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

Chapter 421. Most of Class 1A has returned to help Deku out. Which is PARTICULARLY great given he has lost most of OFA… does he have the strength part by any chance? Or just Float and the vestige of Nana?
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I’m so glad that despite losing OFA, Deku is still Deku. He still has the “flame” that made him the hero he was, and that’s what really counts, right? <3

Chapter 422. So it looks like Deku’s true power is the ability to inspire others. And that’s something that’s innate, and can’t be stolen by AFO. I really love how everyone is giving it their all to defend Deku and give HIM the opportunity to defeat AFO. This is actually a REALLY meaningful scene and chapter <3
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He’s evening inspiring the other countries to send their heroes. And can I just say… ABOUT FUCKING TIME GUYS. JAPAN HAS BEEN GETTING ANNIHILATED BY THE SUPEREST SUPER VILLAIN IN HISTORY AND (with the exception of Stars & Stripes) YOU’VE JUST BEEN WATCHING IT HAPPEN.
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Deku’s the greatest hero to All Might <3

[寿理 宮本 · Rating 4 out of 5]

So, this volume promises that the next volume is the last one, and... I think I doubt it? But we'll see (without my peeking ahead because I legitimately just want to see).

That said, the article I stumbled across looking for something COMPLETELY different that I don't even remember what it was now is absolutely correct, and I again found myself annoyed at how shounen a shounen title is: male-centric, with females being lesser-than and/or Fridge-bait. This volume doesn't do anything to change that sentiment, and it's unlikely the next/last one will, either.

That's the one-star deduction. The rest is FINALLY starting to get somewhere as far as FINALLY ending the series like I wanted—most of the series has been good, but the dark turn that started the Endgame Sequence just stole the life out of it.

Probably why I like the School Briefs series despite it being an offshoot, technically fan-fiction. It has the heart of the series without the drama of the series. I admittedly haven't read it in a while, but I expect because there haven't been any new volumes in a while (I don't out of principle check these days, since I read SO MUCH and SO ARBITRARILY that I would otherwise have a special-order list running me in the LITERAL MILLIONS OF DOLLARS).

...anyway! Drama. Wrapping up. Good! Female characters barely present and when they ARE present, they're sort of sexualised*? ...less good.

I mean, I know Japan is super obsessed with breasts, as a country that by and large doesn't have them by and large. I just, you know, kind of want to not have the back of this book waving "Seventh's" MUCH LARGER THAN FEELS USUAL breasts at me while I'm trying to write this review. "So, flip it over!" you say. Look, I'm writing what I'm writing for a reason. Maybe I'm disappointed that there can be a world populated by superheroes, and one of the best ones is Thirteen, but she's an anomaly, PARTICULARLY in a country where women are built more like Hatsune Miku than Jessica Rabbit.

Also, the "assistants" page is sort of a token offering in the form of the assistants each drawing a female character (the only male being "Editor Imamura"), but while most of them are tasteful, the ones in the front—Komori, Uraraka, and Yaoyorozu—are all drawn with larger breasts than I'm pretty sure they normally have. Like, Yaoyorozu's are practically to her waist, YIKES.

...well, THAT went places.

Summary: Action is winding down, looking forward to it ending. Still not as fun as the start of the series, DEFINITELY not a good place for complete newcomers to start. Annoyed as ever that Bakugo, King of the Jerks, is the most popular character in the popularity contest, SOMEHOW.

*Okay, Eri gets a pass, since she's correctly depicted as a small child with appropriate proportions and attire. She plays more into "cute" than "male gaze," though.

[Tachan · Rating 3 out of 5]

La force des faibles ! Voilà qui résume à merveille la philosophie que l’auteur essaie d’insuffler mais qu’il n’est parvenu malheureusement qu’à moitié à me transmettre.

Avec cet avant-dernier tome, je m’attendais en effet à quelque chose d’épique, à couper le souffle et ce n’est pas totalement ce que j’ai eu. Le focus sur Deku et Tomura n’a pas pleinement fonctionné sur moi. J’ai trouvé le dialogue entre les deux des plus brouillons pour le lecteur, au point de faire perdre de son impact à ces scènes qui se veulent pourtant culte et essentiel.

J’ai ainsi passé toute la première partie spectatrice du combat de nerf qui se jouait entre les deux, avec leurs idéaux et leur façon de combattre qui s’affronte, mais sans le spectaculaire que j’attendais. Le fait de donner une dimension psychologique est une belle idée, mais graphiquement ce n’est pas aussi impactant que je l’aurais voulu. De plus, on a l’impression un peu de patauger avec une autrice qui fait tout pour contenir, contenir jusqu’au grand final au point de tourner en rond et de ne pas raconter grand-chose de neuf.

Tout se résout et trouve ainsi son aboutissement seulement dans les ultimes pages, comme de par hasard… Et alors oui, c’est classique mais génial, de retrouver comme dans bon nombre de shonen cette énergie universelle d’une foule réunie vers le même objectif : sauver tout le monde. Tout le monde participe d’ailleurs, ce qui donne une autre dimension à l’oeuvre. Nous ne sommes pas dans un manga où ce sera simplement un homme qui fera tout et vaincra, mais une équipe, une équipe ensemble, une équipe qui le portera, une équipe qui l’accompagnera et participera. J’aime.

Le message est ainsi plus intéressant et important que la mise en scène. Celle-ci ne m’apporte pas le souffle que j’attendais. En revanche, le message, lui, est porteur. J’aime ce héros qui se dépouille de tout pour aller sauver quelqu’un a priori horrible, mais surtout profondément blessé, qui pourrait ne pas le mériter mais qu’il veut aider quand même. C’est simpliste mais fort à la fois. Et surtout, j’aime que ce ne soit pas la force brute qui gagne mais quelque chose de bien plus fin, plus humain. Kohei Horikoshi nous touche ici. Il sait parler à nos coeur et pas juste à nos désirs de gros combats. Il prend un contre-pied savoureux et hautement souhaitable au contraire.

Alors non, je n’ai pas eu pleinement le tome que j’aurais voulu. L’auteur joue trop la montre et ne donne pas l’ampleur à son récit et surtout à sa mise en scène qu’elle pourrait avoir. Pour autant, il est porteur de très beau, puissant et pénétrant message, plus intime que nombre de shonen nekketsu avec un discours sur la vraie force et l’entraide, pas forcément inovant, mais marquant. Alors l’amorce de ce final est maladroite, oui, pas à couper le souffle comme souhaité, oui, mais elle reste mémorable et c’est ce qu’on lui demande.

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[FRAN_KITO · Rating 5 out of 5]

The plan to give the One for All to Shigaraki was definitely unexpected, and honestly, I couldn’t think of another solution because he was fuking overpowered.
Seeing Shigaraki's and Deku's memories mixed together was really incredible and beutifull—it felt like reliving all the moments our protagonist and antagonist went through.

All for One has a habit of looking badass in almost every appearance. That man has aura, and I liked a lot that he’s literally the mastermind behind everything (because Shigaraki is THE VILLIAN). Seeing everyone arrive to help Midoriya felt incredible, and I liked that they didn’t bring everyone, especially since Uraraka and Tokoyami were almost killed and it wouldn’t be so credible if they showed to the final fight

There was only one thing I didn’t like: the moment when Deku lost his arms. And it’s not the fact that he lost them, but that he got them back way too quickly. Horikoshi, you needed to give it more drama, and mkae it last more chapters. Honestly, you could have even made him fight in those inhuman conditions (like with his Black Whip strategy). I don’t mind that he recovered them, but Deku should have spent more time without arms.

The final panel was incredible. In general, all the double-page spreads were excellent, and with this, we have the penultimate volume of My Hero Academia.

[Marianne · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are a lot of revelations that need to be talked about when it comes to Volume 41 of My Hero Academia:

Deku is now Quirkless. He gave up the One for All factors one by one so that the Vestiges of One for All can penetrate Tomura Shigaraki’s soul and destroy it. All for One gave the Decay Quirk to baby Tenko Shimura 😩😣. That really hurts, man! Deku and Tomura have become armless in this volume, but for brief moments only in the One for All subconscious. All for One insists he loves Yoichi. That is why, All for One can’t let go of Yoichi (One for All). Class 1-A and all the other pro-heroes opened a pathway for Deku so he can reach Tomura! And, Deku was running towards Tomura with an All Might shirt he received from one of the refugees. 😁 Also, it looks like the Avengers (the Class 1-A heroes, along with the pro-heroes) when they arrived in the battle scene! Everything is teamwork in this volume! 😄 But, in the end, Tomura Shigaraki, all the One for All Vestiges (including Nana Shimura who got repelled by Tomura), and Deku destroyed the soul of All for One (from inside the One for All subconscious).