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僕のヒーローアカデミア [Boku no Hero Academia] #1
My Hero Academia, Vol. 1
What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called “Quirks” at age four? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless?
Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn’t got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all, gives him a chance to change his destiny…
Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn’t got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all, gives him a chance to change his destiny…
189 pages, Paperback
First published November 4, 2014
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Kohei Horikoshi
280 books2,467 followersHORIKOSHI 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
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
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June 11, 2024Finished my re-read for the Manga Monday Book Club! Can't wait to discuss it. :D
*reread: 3rd time and it still SLAPS
*reread: 4th time and it still SLAPS
*reread: 3rd time and it still SLAPS
*reread: 4th time and it still SLAPS
April 30, 2020
a decent intro to a great series I hope. Deku is definitely a hero to be remembered.
July 19, 2025
In a world where 80% of people have powers (called 'Quirks'). Midoriya who is obsessed with heroes is Quirk-less, yet he has focussed all his education and future on becoming a hero. Can Midoriya get into the school for heroes? A very US superhero comic inspired manga, but with a firm Japanese take. This felt like it started weak, but as the characters grew on me so did the series, and by the last chapter I was most definitely hooked. I like how it is very much focused on personalities and interactions and hardly at all on the powers, so far. Probably might blitz this now. :) A Three Star, 7 out of 12 read.
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August 27, 2018
I plucked this tiny tome off of several students' Want-to-Read shelves and it is first book I've read that actually included instructions on how to read it---insofar as you read from right to left, beginning in the upper right-hand corner. Actions, sound effects & word bubbles in proper Japanese order- are completely reversed from the English order.
It was a bit trickier than I expected at first (and I realized that "my" high school students are much better at this than I am) but then it just clicked and I was rolling. I really enjoyed the unique idea that idiosyncrasies may actually be super-powers.
It was a bit trickier than I expected at first (and I realized that "my" high school students are much better at this than I am) but then it just clicked and I was rolling. I really enjoyed the unique idea that idiosyncrasies may actually be super-powers.
March 25, 2018
Kids with superpowers go to superhero school to be taught by existing superheroes how to be superheroes. So it’s the X-Men? Yup. Except way shittier! And that’s My Hero Academia! Boo! I give it an F!
It really is that derivative, at least going by this first volume. Creator/writer/artist Kohei Horikoshi basically rips off the X-Men. He calls mutations/superpowers “quirks” in a feeble attempt to make it seem less blatant but that’s about the only thing different he brings to the table.
This first volume introduces us to our bland protagonist who doesn’t have superpowers but has a heroic heart - and that’s what matters youse guys, snore… - who, after a random act of bravery, gets picked by this world’s Superman, All Might (stupid name), to be his successor. Why? Reasons we’ll probably find out in later volumes. Very unsatisfying.
After the generic superhero fights between equally generic and forgettably designed superhero/supervillain characters, come the still more generic training scenes as our protagonist undergoes months of physical exercise because All Might’s powers in his existing frame would kill him or something. Even though All Might in his true form is as skinny and weak as our protagonist is. So it doesn’t make any sense and that block of pages is pointless filler. Garbage.
At Xavier’s Academy, I mean, “UA”, the dull cast is expanded with even more bland, unimaginative, archetypal characters like the contrived rival who hates the protagonist for no reason, the obvious love interest, and the tough but kindly instructors. Wrap up the terrible writing and awful storytelling with standard manga art and you’ve got a steaming pile of cliched, predictable nothing.
My Hero Academia hasn’t got any clever observations on the superhero genre, nor any fresh takes, original ideas or even an entertaining story - it’s just an uninteresting, badly conceived/executed, tedious X-Men knockoff. My, what an overrated boring manga series!
It really is that derivative, at least going by this first volume. Creator/writer/artist Kohei Horikoshi basically rips off the X-Men. He calls mutations/superpowers “quirks” in a feeble attempt to make it seem less blatant but that’s about the only thing different he brings to the table.
This first volume introduces us to our bland protagonist who doesn’t have superpowers but has a heroic heart - and that’s what matters youse guys, snore… - who, after a random act of bravery, gets picked by this world’s Superman, All Might (stupid name), to be his successor. Why? Reasons we’ll probably find out in later volumes. Very unsatisfying.
After the generic superhero fights between equally generic and forgettably designed superhero/supervillain characters, come the still more generic training scenes as our protagonist undergoes months of physical exercise because All Might’s powers in his existing frame would kill him or something. Even though All Might in his true form is as skinny and weak as our protagonist is. So it doesn’t make any sense and that block of pages is pointless filler. Garbage.
At Xavier’s Academy, I mean, “UA”, the dull cast is expanded with even more bland, unimaginative, archetypal characters like the contrived rival who hates the protagonist for no reason, the obvious love interest, and the tough but kindly instructors. Wrap up the terrible writing and awful storytelling with standard manga art and you’ve got a steaming pile of cliched, predictable nothing.
My Hero Academia hasn’t got any clever observations on the superhero genre, nor any fresh takes, original ideas or even an entertaining story - it’s just an uninteresting, badly conceived/executed, tedious X-Men knockoff. My, what an overrated boring manga series!
November 28, 2021
A hero teaches new heroes at a hero school. That's basically it. I do think there's a lot of potential for manipulation of the standard tropes (weak main character with hidden powers, wise but strict mentors with good intentions, standard bully only there to antagonize the MC, etc). But right now, BNHA is a manga with an underwhelming storyline that can be cheesy and nonsensical at times and a main character with an unrealistic dream and very cliche means of reaching it.
June 3, 2021
everybody gangsta until midoriya gained muscles
January 27, 2018
I don't normally read shounen (mostly because omg some of them are the longest series ever) but this one is relatively new so it's like there's 167 volumes out. Yet.
I personally love the character designs, but mostly just for the students. The pro heroes are typically over-the-top with crazy costumes and even crazier hair styles. The contrast between the students and the foes really helps with distinguishing who is who.
The story is what you'd expect from a shounen manga: the main character is someone who has been small and weak and different his whole life but then he's given something that makes him into the most powerful hero around. And of course he goes to a new school where his bully goes to too. And then there's a cute girl who quickly helps out the main character and becomes a friend to him (even though he has trouble talking to girls.)
Despite all of those clichés it still feels like a somewhat refreshing take on the genre. The quality of the artwork helps with that as well.
So, I can see why this is popular now. I just hope each subsequent volume keeps up the fast pace and that the story and battles don't become stale and boring.
Random, but why Detroit Smash? 😄
I personally love the character designs, but mostly just for the students. The pro heroes are typically over-the-top with crazy costumes and even crazier hair styles. The contrast between the students and the foes really helps with distinguishing who is who.
The story is what you'd expect from a shounen manga: the main character is someone who has been small and weak and different his whole life but then he's given something that makes him into the most powerful hero around. And of course he goes to a new school where his bully goes to too. And then there's a cute girl who quickly helps out the main character and becomes a friend to him (even though he has trouble talking to girls.)
Despite all of those clichés it still feels like a somewhat refreshing take on the genre. The quality of the artwork helps with that as well.
So, I can see why this is popular now. I just hope each subsequent volume keeps up the fast pace and that the story and battles don't become stale and boring.
Random, but why Detroit Smash? 😄
July 29, 2018
I decided to check some Manga out and this is what was recommended to me. I've never been able to get into Manga due to the whole reading backwards thing. I still don't get why with today's technology they don't just flip the art around and present this as a normal graphic novel for Western audiences, but I digress.
The story is about one of a very few young people who are born without "quirks" or superpowers. All he desires is to help people. Along comes the most famous super hero in the city "All Might" who turns out can pass his power onto someone else. But their body must be trained to control the power or it could kill them. Eventually, our young hero gets into superhero school where the book instantly becomes derivative of the X-Men or Sky High.
The art is very good except I have a hard time getting past the over expressive faces Manga is known for. It drives me batty, especially when mixed in with an otherwise serious comic. Some of the hair styles are just ridiculous, "Yes, I'm talking to you All Might".
The book was good enough I'd consider reading another volume just because of how obsessed other readers I know are with this. But I wouldn't say I've been converted over into a fan of Manga yet.
The story is about one of a very few young people who are born without "quirks" or superpowers. All he desires is to help people. Along comes the most famous super hero in the city "All Might" who turns out can pass his power onto someone else. But their body must be trained to control the power or it could kill them. Eventually, our young hero gets into superhero school where the book instantly becomes derivative of the X-Men or Sky High.
The art is very good except I have a hard time getting past the over expressive faces Manga is known for. It drives me batty, especially when mixed in with an otherwise serious comic. Some of the hair styles are just ridiculous, "Yes, I'm talking to you All Might".
The book was good enough I'd consider reading another volume just because of how obsessed other readers I know are with this. But I wouldn't say I've been converted over into a fan of Manga yet.
July 25, 2017
Is it only in my imagination, or there is tendency of Japanese mangaka to create superhero genre manga? After One Piece that in borderline with pirates with super powers theme, then there are manga such as ワンパンマン 1 Wanpanman 1 , 斉木楠雄のΨ難 1 Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan 1 , and 文豪ストレイドッグス 1 Bungō Stray Dogs 1 .
From the first volume, what I could say, it is a "from zero-to-hero" theme in a high school that specialized to educate future super heroes, a.k.a. Xavier school for Japanese kids. And to make the plot interesting, the main character was originally has no super power. So as you can guess, a lot of potential for character growing: by mentally and by seeing his super power grows.
So far no surprise yet. And as in other manga, I expect whole classmates of main characters will be explored.
From the first volume, what I could say, it is a "from zero-to-hero" theme in a high school that specialized to educate future super heroes, a.k.a. Xavier school for Japanese kids. And to make the plot interesting, the main character was originally has no super power. So as you can guess, a lot of potential for character growing: by mentally and by seeing his super power grows.
So far no surprise yet. And as in other manga, I expect whole classmates of main characters will be explored.
June 23, 2017
Ok so I haven't read manga since I was like 12 (and even then I never delved into it too much) but recently a lot of my friends have gotten into this series (and the anime) and I thought it looked cool so I was like "sure why not." And!! Damn I really enjoyed this and ended up reading the whole first volume in one sitting, whoops.
Thoughts:
- I really like the premise & world-building. Obviously the whole superhero/superpowers thing has been done many times before, but this takes an interesting spin on it. The characters' powers (aka "quirks") are really cool, and I like that every power has its own unique drawback.
- It's very funny actually! I was expecting something a bit more serious––and while it's definitely heavy at times, there's also a lot of humor and funny little breaking-the-fourth-wall moments which I enjoyed a lot.
- Izuku is so cute??? He's just .... so small and precious .... He wants to be a hero and help people so much, and he's just so pure. I want to adopt him please.
- I fucking love All Might. I'm a sucker for ""cool mentor"" characters so I guess it's no surprise but .... omg he's so awesome and hilarious.
- Kacchan is a huge asshole but I'm also really interested to see where he goes as a character.
- I mean in general I just really like all the characters and I look forward to seeing how they develop.
UHHhhh yeah so this was a lot of fun and I'm super pumped to read the rest!
Thoughts:
- I really like the premise & world-building. Obviously the whole superhero/superpowers thing has been done many times before, but this takes an interesting spin on it. The characters' powers (aka "quirks") are really cool, and I like that every power has its own unique drawback.
- It's very funny actually! I was expecting something a bit more serious––and while it's definitely heavy at times, there's also a lot of humor and funny little breaking-the-fourth-wall moments which I enjoyed a lot.
- Izuku is so cute??? He's just .... so small and precious .... He wants to be a hero and help people so much, and he's just so pure. I want to adopt him please.
- I fucking love All Might. I'm a sucker for ""cool mentor"" characters so I guess it's no surprise but .... omg he's so awesome and hilarious.
- Kacchan is a huge asshole but I'm also really interested to see where he goes as a character.
- I mean in general I just really like all the characters and I look forward to seeing how they develop.
UHHhhh yeah so this was a lot of fun and I'm super pumped to read the rest!
May 2, 2017
Despite all the manga I've racked up that is on my TBR, someone recommended this to me a couple of days ago and I read it all in one day. I really enjoyed it and thought it was a great introduction to the series. I can say that I know I'm prime audience because I love hero stories. LOVE. While this is of course tasked with some of the leg-work of the introduction and while I did lose myself in the action (and how it was drawn) a few times, I thought the overall experience was worthy of a 4-star rating.
Here are some of the positives:
- I know he's kind of whiny but the MC is also a precious cinnamon roll.
- "I'm so sorry" vs "you can be a hero" *cries forever*
- The MC works really hard and yes he gets a little luck and a power but hardwork is there.
- Obvs don't know where the series is headed, but I'm so happy the MC starts with some traditional hero qualities. None of this anti-hero mess. HERO! HERO! HERO!
- The meta-jokes, especially about how All Might is drawn. Love.
And so now I've got a cart of all 7 released volumes and two pre-orders and I'll one day make them all mine.
April 12, 2020
Sure to be the next big thing in the Shonen Jump world, MHA is already gaining enough momentum to be mentioned in the same discussions as One Piece or Naruto. The story is perfect for non-Japanese audiences as well as it has created a world which is both familiar for superhero fans while offering something very new and refreshing. It engages the audience as you feel for the main character Deku as he faces many trials and tribulations with a healthy dose of triumph. The plethora of characters are rich in personality and engaging. After reading the first volume, I`m completely hooked!! I can`t wait for the next volume and more!!
September 2, 2018
I'm sliiiiiiightly obsessed with this series! I just started the show and I'm so excited to read the manga along with it! It's just so amazing!
February 28, 2024
Reread: 28/02/2024
I have read this quite a few times and its fun revisiting it every time and omg I just love the origin of Deku, its so simple and he is a character whose underestimated and almost unloved feels like, but thats the kind of protagonist you can get behind and yeah loved the small nuances put into his character and this hero course which is refreshing to see and the presence of All-might whose his mentor aka the old man figure and the supporting cast is fun too and I like Ida and Uraraka and Bakugo is the Sasuke kind of character, but his over the top attitude makes him a standout character. I really like the art too!
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Reread:31/5/21
Still fun and just shows a new perspective on this whole hero thing and about a guy who following his idol wants to become a hero despite everyone against him, good start! Also the ending when they get their superhero costume was awesome!
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This starts off with Izuku going through the day and ideals of becoming a hero to get into UA academy and he loves all might the no. 1 hero but then things happen and he gets trapped by a villain and thus his hero comes into save him and the whole adventure starts. Izuku doesn't have any quirk/power but when he jumps in blindly to save his friend Bakugo, All might chooses him to carry on his legacy with the power of "One for All" and its epic. In this volume we see him training Izuku and then he gets into UA High and doing the coursework, going against Aizawa and going through the trials or risk expulsion and meeting new friends and more! Its well done, I really enjoyed this volume, its character introduction at its finest! And the art is just gorgeous and next up: Hero class begins!
I have read this quite a few times and its fun revisiting it every time and omg I just love the origin of Deku, its so simple and he is a character whose underestimated and almost unloved feels like, but thats the kind of protagonist you can get behind and yeah loved the small nuances put into his character and this hero course which is refreshing to see and the presence of All-might whose his mentor aka the old man figure and the supporting cast is fun too and I like Ida and Uraraka and Bakugo is the Sasuke kind of character, but his over the top attitude makes him a standout character. I really like the art too!
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Reread:31/5/21
Still fun and just shows a new perspective on this whole hero thing and about a guy who following his idol wants to become a hero despite everyone against him, good start! Also the ending when they get their superhero costume was awesome!
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This starts off with Izuku going through the day and ideals of becoming a hero to get into UA academy and he loves all might the no. 1 hero but then things happen and he gets trapped by a villain and thus his hero comes into save him and the whole adventure starts. Izuku doesn't have any quirk/power but when he jumps in blindly to save his friend Bakugo, All might chooses him to carry on his legacy with the power of "One for All" and its epic. In this volume we see him training Izuku and then he gets into UA High and doing the coursework, going against Aizawa and going through the trials or risk expulsion and meeting new friends and more! Its well done, I really enjoyed this volume, its character introduction at its finest! And the art is just gorgeous and next up: Hero class begins!
June 18, 2024
Loved it!!!! I've seen pieces of the show, so I thought I'd read through the whole series. Waiting for Shoto Todoroki to show up 🤭👀
August 13, 2021
I've done this review a little differently.
Instead of reviewing the volume, these are just my notes on the individual chapters;
Chapter 1 - The introduction to the world, the people and the powers. Mangas are so different but I really enjoyed it! I am excited to know more about this world and about the main characters!
Chapter 2 - So begins the long trek for Izuku to become a hero! I liked that he worked for his strength, it wasn't thrust upon him. Izuku wanted it and truly earned it! Excited to see what kind of hero Izuku becomes.
Chapter 3 - I love the slow progress! You see all the struggles, trials, the doubts and the fears. It's so interesting to see into Izuku's mind and what's purely instinct.
Chapter 4 - This just goes to show that strength is not everything. This manga has reeled me in, I can't wait to see what happens next!
Chapter 5 - The first day at U.A isn't quite what Izuku expects. Can't wait to see how he handles it.
Chapter 6 - Izuku's first day at school and he's surrounded by people who are able to control their quirks and use them to their advantage. I love that even though he can't fully control his quirk yet, he was able to find the strength to concentrate hard enough to show that he has the capability to control it, no matter how small that control is!
Chapter 7 - Izuku survived the first day and his training has just begun! Those last panels have me so excited to see what comes next for Izuku and to see how he grows and learns.
I'm enjoying this world and these characters so much, I can't wait to delve even deeper!
Instead of reviewing the volume, these are just my notes on the individual chapters;
Chapter 1 - The introduction to the world, the people and the powers. Mangas are so different but I really enjoyed it! I am excited to know more about this world and about the main characters!
Chapter 2 - So begins the long trek for Izuku to become a hero! I liked that he worked for his strength, it wasn't thrust upon him. Izuku wanted it and truly earned it! Excited to see what kind of hero Izuku becomes.
Chapter 3 - I love the slow progress! You see all the struggles, trials, the doubts and the fears. It's so interesting to see into Izuku's mind and what's purely instinct.
Chapter 4 - This just goes to show that strength is not everything. This manga has reeled me in, I can't wait to see what happens next!
Chapter 5 - The first day at U.A isn't quite what Izuku expects. Can't wait to see how he handles it.
Chapter 6 - Izuku's first day at school and he's surrounded by people who are able to control their quirks and use them to their advantage. I love that even though he can't fully control his quirk yet, he was able to find the strength to concentrate hard enough to show that he has the capability to control it, no matter how small that control is!
Chapter 7 - Izuku survived the first day and his training has just begun! Those last panels have me so excited to see what comes next for Izuku and to see how he grows and learns.
I'm enjoying this world and these characters so much, I can't wait to delve even deeper!
January 2, 2021
There are teens and others in my family who have been binge-watching the anime and are now binge-reading the manga so I thought I’d check this out. It’s a kind of Japanese X-men, of sorts. Most of the population have powers, here called quirks, but a percentage do not.
Nerd Izuku wants to go to Hero school but has no quirks. Can he succeed in this super competitive environment? Nope. Until the most powerful guy, All-Might, apparently decides to help him.
I’d have to say this seems initially like pretty vanilla superhero stuff, not that engaging for me with the super manic action and the pointedly unlikeable characters (except Izuku and a couple other exceptions), but the rating for this is very high on Goodreads and (importantly, in this house) so to avoid getting beat up (since I am obviously a nerd without quirks): 3 stars.
Nerd Izuku wants to go to Hero school but has no quirks. Can he succeed in this super competitive environment? Nope. Until the most powerful guy, All-Might, apparently decides to help him.
I’d have to say this seems initially like pretty vanilla superhero stuff, not that engaging for me with the super manic action and the pointedly unlikeable characters (except Izuku and a couple other exceptions), but the rating for this is very high on Goodreads and (importantly, in this house) so to avoid getting beat up (since I am obviously a nerd without quirks): 3 stars.
December 24, 2024
i wanna protect izuku from everyone
all might is so hot, idc
all might is so hot, idc
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March 4, 2020I've been watching the anime for years now and decided that I can't wait for the anime to catch up with the manga anymore! I really want to know what happens, so I'm reading the manga from the beginning. 👀 But reading this is so nostalgic - I had been meaning to re-watch the anime from the beginning, but rediscovering the story in manga-form has been a cool experience!
June 13, 2021
Okay, well this is not what I thought it'd be at all, but I'm definitely continuing on with the series.
May 22, 2020
Review to come later because internet ;_;
October 25, 2024
If there is one thing the first chapter does well, that would be the victimizing of the protagonist. This is very important in shonen, since it becomes relatable to anyone who has a loser mentality. And guess how many people read manga because they want to escape a reality where they are losers. Thus the more you make him seem like a victim the more people root for him even if later on he does some pretty shitty things.
The first chapter also establishes the setting being both a utopia and a dystopia, meaning it doesn’t really have an identity, it’s a piece of paper that can be interpreted however the hell you want to. This page for example shows superheroes being cool because they have superpowers with which you can do a lot of cool things. At the same time they do it for fame and money, which makes them sellouts. So, are they good or are they evil?
It’s whatever you feel like at the moment. Like most modern stories it doesn’t have an overall meaning or a specific type of morality, and it’s why it fails in the longrun. Nothing matters as a whole, it’s just people with cool superpowers you have to be in support of because everyone in the story is in support of.
As a concept there is nothing wrong with that, as long as the characters follow this premise. And that’s the first big issue you see right away. They don’t. The protagonist wants to be a hero just to help people, he doesn’t care about fame and money. Why is that? Not explained. Although heroism is about being selfless, it’s also something that exists only after you have successfully done a lot of good. If you really want something and you think a school diploma can make you a hero without doing anything actually heroic first, then it becomes selfish. You also get situations like the rival of the story constantly mocking everyone, torturing the protagonist in the middle of the class before all the students and the teachers, and he is still the best candidate to enter the hero academy despite clearly acting like a villain. But since nobody points that out in this scene and only shows students and teachers doing nothing while a child is constantly being tortured and then told to go end his life in broad daylight, the mindless audience simply accepts it.
By the way, school bullying is treated in a most comical way, since we are supposed to think Deku never informs an adult about it so something can be done, or that bullying is acceptable and normalized. So it’s either Deku loves being tortured since he does nothing to stop it, or bullying is not a bad thing in-story, therefore there is nothing dramatic about it and he is a crybaby. Yet the audience didn’t think like that, they believed bulling in this story is bad despite nobody doing anything about it, while at the same time they voted Bakugo as the most popular character. Yes, the fandom was so dumb they didn’t like bullying yet loved the awful bully the most. That’s what moral relativism does to your brain. MHA was never about real heroism. The same was Naruto was never about real ninjas and One Piece was never about real pirates. It was just people with superpowers needing an excuse to do cool shit. Anything related to heroism was just shallow dressing.
The premise of the entire story stinks from the very first chapter, yet the audience was tricked into thinking Deku deserves to be the greatest hero just because he really wants it and is being victimized. On top of that since Deku doesn’t have any superpowers in a world where almost everyone has superpowers, he essentially becomes a metaphor for people with disabilities. The cripple, the blind, the autistic, and of course the queers. This here is why so many queers were attracted to the show and why the community became so toxic. Everyone who doesn’t know the difference between good and evil, and anyone who thinks being queer is a disability because you are being bullied for it dashed towards this manga. And since almost all of them were leftists and progressives and the creators of the manga never did any gate keeping, this shithole of a community was the result. Hundreds of thousands of relativists appropriated it and began drawing gay porn about Bakugo impregnating Deku, because he is disabled like they are so he has to be queer.
Does that make any sense? No, but that’s what moral relativism is all about. It’s also why Mina is black. She is clearly pink but she’s black because we appropriated it. The same way piccolo is green but he’s also black because the blacks who feel marginalized in a world where most white males don’t abandon their children, also appropriated him. That’s what happens when you embrace relativism, especially in a show that is supposed to be about heroism, and don’t do any gatekeeping, especially in a world where tumbr and twitter were unchecked cesspools of terminally online idiots. You are not being a nice guy when you let everyone come in your fandom. Nothing is for everyone and a lot of people are queers and leftists. They are not here to build a healthy community, they are here to destroy everything they touch. And yet you invited them in with this garbage and you did nothing to kick them out. What did you expect with happen?
Back to this awful manga, there’s this ridiculous string of plot conveniences where Deku gets attacked by a villain, gets conveniently saved by his favorite hero, who conveniently doesn’t take the villain to custody, who then gets conveniently freed by Bakugo and Deku conveniently tries to save him before the same hero from before conveniently saves them again. This is anything but good writing especially when it all happens in the same chapter. When the foundations of the story are so awful right from the beginning, it tells you right away that this is going to be a terribly written manga. Yet for a whole decade and up until the finale a lot of people refused to believe it. Anyone who noticed it early on was labeled a hater who never gave the manga a chance. Have faith in Horikoshit, let him cook, everything is going to make sense in the end. Not when it begins like that it won’t. If the writing is so bad right away it is never going to improve. It will just be an endless line of conveniences that will be justified with moral relativism to be whatever you feel like at the moment.
You see it again when Deku rushes to save Bakugo from the villain with absolutely no plan. Instead of the narrative portraying this as a dumb move, it wants you to think Deku is a real hero because he wants to help people even if he endangers himself and the victim is his school bully. This is not heroism. If you jump in a burning building to save someone and you end up dying you are not a hero. You are a hero if you manage to save someone that way. Heroism demands achievements, and there is none here. Deku did not save Bakugo, he was a complete idiot.
This also clashes with Deku being someone who is supposed to be using his brains. He keeps notes about everything and the narrative makes you think he’s going to be a mastermind who uses his brain instead of rushing to danger and using brute force. That never happened. He never used his brain, he was just texas smashing all his problems away, and yet the narrative will insist he is super smart. It was enough to fool most in the audience as well. It never denied it and thus neither did they. They kept saying he’s smart and uses his brain because he keeps notes.
The first chapter ends with Deku openly telling us the entire manga is a flashback. He ends up becoming the greatest hero in the end. So the manga literally spoils the ending. Aesthetically this was done to hook the audience into remaining interested in the manga at a point when Deku is a complete loser. Nobody wants to follow losers in fighting shonen, and this spoiler lets you know he is a winner, so don’t give up on it, you are not going to waste your time following a loser. It sounds like a positive thing, but it also completely ruined all the tension. Part of the charm of any action series is not knowing if the protagonist makes it in the end. We are expected to believe he will win, not that he will surely win. The unknown is part of the charm. There is nothing to be excited about Deku, which is also why he ends up becoming boring after the secondary cast gets introduced. He is no longer the underdog because we know he won. It’s the others we don’t know if they succeed or if they survive, so they automatically become more interesting to follow than the protagonist.
And since we are in spoiler mode now that the manga is over and the ending is out, I can openly tell you that this promise you see here, of Deku becoming the greatest hero was a troll. He ended up being a wage slave that nobody knows if he exists and nobody even bothers to pay him a visit. How is this supposed to be the greatest hero? Especially when the line was changed to how everyone became the greatest hero. So technically Deku didn’t win anything. On top of that, if everyone is the greatest hero then nobody is the greatest hero. Especially him who was left with no powers while everybody else became rich and famous. Thus this spoiler that the manga used so that people won’t give up on it, was actually a lie. Everyone was tricked into following the manga to the end with a lie. And yet there were many who were fooling themselves to think it all made sense and nobody knows how to read. Oh yes we know how to read, sir. When you make a promise and you break it, you are making everyone who trusted you to feel stupid and excused if they attack you. And that’s why My hero academia was complete garbage right from the very beginning.
After the pilot chapter Almight agrees to give Deku his powers because he considers him a worthy successor. As always Horikoshit has no idea what heroism is actually all about to the point he makes the greatest hero being oblivious to the fact that a moron running to help someone is not heroic. If Deku had succeeded, that would help, and if he had survived, that would be even better, since he would actually be using his brain. But Deku failed at everything, therefore he was not heroic and does not deserve anything. But then again Almight is not a hero either, since he is supposed to be preaching heroism on a daily basis, and he embodies all the ideals everyone is supposed to mimic, yet did nothing to prove it’s not about fame or money and allowed everyone to only care about those two things.
And thus the theme of ‘heroism can be whatever’ continues with Deku becoming the successor because the plot said so instead of giving the power to Mirio, someone who is actually heroic and truly worthy of the power. But then again this is not a story about heroism, it’s a shallow empowerment fantasy that panders those who feel marginalized by society, the cripples and the queers, people who constantly demand privileges without deserving them and wish to have all the power and all the fame without working for them. Obviously the narrative tries to trick you into thinking Deku is not handed over the power and he actually has to train hard for it first. He spends 10 months in preparing his body, and he has to try much harder than everyone else, therefore it’s not like he was gifted the power. In this regard he did try somewhat to be worthy of it, but the fact is even if he worked decades for it, he is not heroic, he is an idiot rushing to danger and failing. Also, he did absolutely no training before he was promised the power. When on one hand you have someone like Mirio training his body his whole life without any rewards, and on the other Deku who did it for a few months and only because he was promised the power, you see how this is all selfish and no more than lazy empowerment fantasy. I can also mention Black Clover, a different manga about a similar protagonist who also didn’t have any powers, yet he trained his body for years without being promised the ultimate power as a reward. As always, almost none in the audience wanted to admit that, because the story didn’t point it out, it was only telling you Deku is heroic and he deserves everything because he was bullied at school and was pulling trash for a few months. That is more than enough, right? No. They were completely fooled to accept nonsense. When you don’t criticize what you read and blindly accept everything you are told, this is the result.
By the way, it’s extremely lazy to have a character with disabilities like Deku and the only way you can think of in order to give him a fighting chance against non-disabled people is to take away his disability. If the disability is what makes him stand out, making him just like everyone else is making him not stand out. I remember how everyone at first believed he would mitigate his lack of a quirk with gadgets and then he would use his brain to defeat with deception enemies who are far more powerful than him. Basically they believed he would be anime batman and not yet another privileged minority who gets far more than he deserves. The thing is, it takes effort to make a character who fights differently, and even more effort to actually make him smart. Horikoshit had no idea how to write such a character, so he just gave Deku a quirk that one shots his enemies with absolutely no tactics and called it a day. This way he pandered even more the queers watching this bullshit by affirming their tactics of constantly demanding more privileges and bullying anyone who thinks they don’t deserve them. In fact he even pandered the lies and deception they often use to get those privileges, by making Deku hiding the truth from everyone. He had to constantly lie about how he got the superpower. And even the way he got the power was cheating, since normally you can’t transfer superpowers from one person to the next. You are born with it and that’s the end of it. If you are the only one who can take powers from others, you are functioning on a completely different level. It’s the same thing as doping, which is illegal in official sport events. An instant boost in abilities and very unfair to anyone who doesn’t use doping and instead trained for years in order to get where he is. Thus the narrative once again wants you to think lying, bending the rules, and using drugs, is heroic as long as you get what you desire. See that, kids? Keep bullying and harassing and lying and using drugs and hide the truth from everyone. They will give you money and you will become famous! That’s what your favorite disabled hero does and it’s very heroic.
Anyways, after Deku is rewarded with a power he doesn’t deserve and lies about how he got it, he is sent to the entrance exam for the hero academy. There he uses it for the first time to save someone, which ends up giving him enough hidden points to pass the exam. It sounds fine on paper, passing the exam by helping another person, until you start thinking how none of it has to do with heroism. You don’t become a hero by getting enough points. You either do something heroic, or you don’t, points are meaningless. Also, hiding the actual way you can pass a test or hiding the rules of a competition is unfair. Imagine studying for years and memorizing everything regarding a test, you perform exactly as you should, and then you are told you failed because of rules nobody outside the teachers knew they existed. That is not fair, is it? Neither is using nepotism to get into a competition you normally wouldn’t be in. And what is Deku if not a nepobady who uses his surrogate father Almight to give him privileges nobody else gets. Where would he be without Almight making it easy for him? Keeping notes about superheroes is useless and he didn’t train a single day without being promised a power. How would he pass the test on his own? What a nice moral message to kids reading this. You will never achieve something with your own powers or efforts. It will always be thanks to your surrogate father giving you privileges that others deserve more.
The test is also really messed up, since it requires from a participant to be in grave danger against his will, and to assume there will be another participant willing to save him. So what would have happened if that girl hadn’t been trapped under rubble? There would be no way to tell who is willing to help others. What if nobody tried to save her? Would she have been killed? If the teachers could interfere and save her in time, Deku didn’t really save her, since she was never in real danger and therefore he was not being heroic. Also if the teachers waited until the last second before saving her means they were deliberately not doing anything and endangered the life of an innocent in order to promote their agenda with sinister methods. If they hide rules and endanger lives in a school test it is all bullshit and has nothing heroic about it.
Here is where we find out Deku breaks his arms whenever he is using his superpower. That makes it seem like there are consequences for using his quirk, therefore it’s not going to be easy hereon. It’s still done superficially, since there are NO ACTUAL negative consequences. No matter how many times he breaks his arms, they will be instantly healed with a simple recovery kiss ability. And no matter how many times they keep saying his arms will eventually be unable to heal, that never happens. You don’t get a gradual inability to be harder to write or hold something, as evidence of permanent and incurable damage. All the mangaka did was draw a few scars on his fingers as supposed proof of his power having a toll on him. That’s more than enough to prove his point, isn’t it? No, because it doesn’t mean anything. It was just fake tension that ended up disappointing everyone when the story ended. Everyone was saying Deku would be cripple by the time the story ends, thus heroism comes with sacrifices, yet he defeated the final villain with a punch, as he does with everyone else, and he was still able to use his hands normally in the epilogue. Thus another troll by Horikoshit who can’t even stay true to his own ideas.
He will constantly introduce threats that can completely destroy a student’s career or possibly kill someone, and will then take it away, since he was never committed to actually destroying or killing someone. As much as many say killing doesn’t make a story more mature, not killing anyone despite constantly making it seem like it’s possible is just as lame. If you don’t intend to kill someone don’t give the assumption that you will. Fake tension that is used to keep the audience engaged can only work a few times before nobody can believe someone is in actual danger.
The first chapter also establishes the setting being both a utopia and a dystopia, meaning it doesn’t really have an identity, it’s a piece of paper that can be interpreted however the hell you want to. This page for example shows superheroes being cool because they have superpowers with which you can do a lot of cool things. At the same time they do it for fame and money, which makes them sellouts. So, are they good or are they evil?
It’s whatever you feel like at the moment. Like most modern stories it doesn’t have an overall meaning or a specific type of morality, and it’s why it fails in the longrun. Nothing matters as a whole, it’s just people with cool superpowers you have to be in support of because everyone in the story is in support of.
As a concept there is nothing wrong with that, as long as the characters follow this premise. And that’s the first big issue you see right away. They don’t. The protagonist wants to be a hero just to help people, he doesn’t care about fame and money. Why is that? Not explained. Although heroism is about being selfless, it’s also something that exists only after you have successfully done a lot of good. If you really want something and you think a school diploma can make you a hero without doing anything actually heroic first, then it becomes selfish. You also get situations like the rival of the story constantly mocking everyone, torturing the protagonist in the middle of the class before all the students and the teachers, and he is still the best candidate to enter the hero academy despite clearly acting like a villain. But since nobody points that out in this scene and only shows students and teachers doing nothing while a child is constantly being tortured and then told to go end his life in broad daylight, the mindless audience simply accepts it.
By the way, school bullying is treated in a most comical way, since we are supposed to think Deku never informs an adult about it so something can be done, or that bullying is acceptable and normalized. So it’s either Deku loves being tortured since he does nothing to stop it, or bullying is not a bad thing in-story, therefore there is nothing dramatic about it and he is a crybaby. Yet the audience didn’t think like that, they believed bulling in this story is bad despite nobody doing anything about it, while at the same time they voted Bakugo as the most popular character. Yes, the fandom was so dumb they didn’t like bullying yet loved the awful bully the most. That’s what moral relativism does to your brain. MHA was never about real heroism. The same was Naruto was never about real ninjas and One Piece was never about real pirates. It was just people with superpowers needing an excuse to do cool shit. Anything related to heroism was just shallow dressing.
The premise of the entire story stinks from the very first chapter, yet the audience was tricked into thinking Deku deserves to be the greatest hero just because he really wants it and is being victimized. On top of that since Deku doesn’t have any superpowers in a world where almost everyone has superpowers, he essentially becomes a metaphor for people with disabilities. The cripple, the blind, the autistic, and of course the queers. This here is why so many queers were attracted to the show and why the community became so toxic. Everyone who doesn’t know the difference between good and evil, and anyone who thinks being queer is a disability because you are being bullied for it dashed towards this manga. And since almost all of them were leftists and progressives and the creators of the manga never did any gate keeping, this shithole of a community was the result. Hundreds of thousands of relativists appropriated it and began drawing gay porn about Bakugo impregnating Deku, because he is disabled like they are so he has to be queer.
Does that make any sense? No, but that’s what moral relativism is all about. It’s also why Mina is black. She is clearly pink but she’s black because we appropriated it. The same way piccolo is green but he’s also black because the blacks who feel marginalized in a world where most white males don’t abandon their children, also appropriated him. That’s what happens when you embrace relativism, especially in a show that is supposed to be about heroism, and don’t do any gatekeeping, especially in a world where tumbr and twitter were unchecked cesspools of terminally online idiots. You are not being a nice guy when you let everyone come in your fandom. Nothing is for everyone and a lot of people are queers and leftists. They are not here to build a healthy community, they are here to destroy everything they touch. And yet you invited them in with this garbage and you did nothing to kick them out. What did you expect with happen?
Back to this awful manga, there’s this ridiculous string of plot conveniences where Deku gets attacked by a villain, gets conveniently saved by his favorite hero, who conveniently doesn’t take the villain to custody, who then gets conveniently freed by Bakugo and Deku conveniently tries to save him before the same hero from before conveniently saves them again. This is anything but good writing especially when it all happens in the same chapter. When the foundations of the story are so awful right from the beginning, it tells you right away that this is going to be a terribly written manga. Yet for a whole decade and up until the finale a lot of people refused to believe it. Anyone who noticed it early on was labeled a hater who never gave the manga a chance. Have faith in Horikoshit, let him cook, everything is going to make sense in the end. Not when it begins like that it won’t. If the writing is so bad right away it is never going to improve. It will just be an endless line of conveniences that will be justified with moral relativism to be whatever you feel like at the moment.
You see it again when Deku rushes to save Bakugo from the villain with absolutely no plan. Instead of the narrative portraying this as a dumb move, it wants you to think Deku is a real hero because he wants to help people even if he endangers himself and the victim is his school bully. This is not heroism. If you jump in a burning building to save someone and you end up dying you are not a hero. You are a hero if you manage to save someone that way. Heroism demands achievements, and there is none here. Deku did not save Bakugo, he was a complete idiot.
This also clashes with Deku being someone who is supposed to be using his brains. He keeps notes about everything and the narrative makes you think he’s going to be a mastermind who uses his brain instead of rushing to danger and using brute force. That never happened. He never used his brain, he was just texas smashing all his problems away, and yet the narrative will insist he is super smart. It was enough to fool most in the audience as well. It never denied it and thus neither did they. They kept saying he’s smart and uses his brain because he keeps notes.
The first chapter ends with Deku openly telling us the entire manga is a flashback. He ends up becoming the greatest hero in the end. So the manga literally spoils the ending. Aesthetically this was done to hook the audience into remaining interested in the manga at a point when Deku is a complete loser. Nobody wants to follow losers in fighting shonen, and this spoiler lets you know he is a winner, so don’t give up on it, you are not going to waste your time following a loser. It sounds like a positive thing, but it also completely ruined all the tension. Part of the charm of any action series is not knowing if the protagonist makes it in the end. We are expected to believe he will win, not that he will surely win. The unknown is part of the charm. There is nothing to be excited about Deku, which is also why he ends up becoming boring after the secondary cast gets introduced. He is no longer the underdog because we know he won. It’s the others we don’t know if they succeed or if they survive, so they automatically become more interesting to follow than the protagonist.
And since we are in spoiler mode now that the manga is over and the ending is out, I can openly tell you that this promise you see here, of Deku becoming the greatest hero was a troll. He ended up being a wage slave that nobody knows if he exists and nobody even bothers to pay him a visit. How is this supposed to be the greatest hero? Especially when the line was changed to how everyone became the greatest hero. So technically Deku didn’t win anything. On top of that, if everyone is the greatest hero then nobody is the greatest hero. Especially him who was left with no powers while everybody else became rich and famous. Thus this spoiler that the manga used so that people won’t give up on it, was actually a lie. Everyone was tricked into following the manga to the end with a lie. And yet there were many who were fooling themselves to think it all made sense and nobody knows how to read. Oh yes we know how to read, sir. When you make a promise and you break it, you are making everyone who trusted you to feel stupid and excused if they attack you. And that’s why My hero academia was complete garbage right from the very beginning.
After the pilot chapter Almight agrees to give Deku his powers because he considers him a worthy successor. As always Horikoshit has no idea what heroism is actually all about to the point he makes the greatest hero being oblivious to the fact that a moron running to help someone is not heroic. If Deku had succeeded, that would help, and if he had survived, that would be even better, since he would actually be using his brain. But Deku failed at everything, therefore he was not heroic and does not deserve anything. But then again Almight is not a hero either, since he is supposed to be preaching heroism on a daily basis, and he embodies all the ideals everyone is supposed to mimic, yet did nothing to prove it’s not about fame or money and allowed everyone to only care about those two things.
And thus the theme of ‘heroism can be whatever’ continues with Deku becoming the successor because the plot said so instead of giving the power to Mirio, someone who is actually heroic and truly worthy of the power. But then again this is not a story about heroism, it’s a shallow empowerment fantasy that panders those who feel marginalized by society, the cripples and the queers, people who constantly demand privileges without deserving them and wish to have all the power and all the fame without working for them. Obviously the narrative tries to trick you into thinking Deku is not handed over the power and he actually has to train hard for it first. He spends 10 months in preparing his body, and he has to try much harder than everyone else, therefore it’s not like he was gifted the power. In this regard he did try somewhat to be worthy of it, but the fact is even if he worked decades for it, he is not heroic, he is an idiot rushing to danger and failing. Also, he did absolutely no training before he was promised the power. When on one hand you have someone like Mirio training his body his whole life without any rewards, and on the other Deku who did it for a few months and only because he was promised the power, you see how this is all selfish and no more than lazy empowerment fantasy. I can also mention Black Clover, a different manga about a similar protagonist who also didn’t have any powers, yet he trained his body for years without being promised the ultimate power as a reward. As always, almost none in the audience wanted to admit that, because the story didn’t point it out, it was only telling you Deku is heroic and he deserves everything because he was bullied at school and was pulling trash for a few months. That is more than enough, right? No. They were completely fooled to accept nonsense. When you don’t criticize what you read and blindly accept everything you are told, this is the result.
By the way, it’s extremely lazy to have a character with disabilities like Deku and the only way you can think of in order to give him a fighting chance against non-disabled people is to take away his disability. If the disability is what makes him stand out, making him just like everyone else is making him not stand out. I remember how everyone at first believed he would mitigate his lack of a quirk with gadgets and then he would use his brain to defeat with deception enemies who are far more powerful than him. Basically they believed he would be anime batman and not yet another privileged minority who gets far more than he deserves. The thing is, it takes effort to make a character who fights differently, and even more effort to actually make him smart. Horikoshit had no idea how to write such a character, so he just gave Deku a quirk that one shots his enemies with absolutely no tactics and called it a day. This way he pandered even more the queers watching this bullshit by affirming their tactics of constantly demanding more privileges and bullying anyone who thinks they don’t deserve them. In fact he even pandered the lies and deception they often use to get those privileges, by making Deku hiding the truth from everyone. He had to constantly lie about how he got the superpower. And even the way he got the power was cheating, since normally you can’t transfer superpowers from one person to the next. You are born with it and that’s the end of it. If you are the only one who can take powers from others, you are functioning on a completely different level. It’s the same thing as doping, which is illegal in official sport events. An instant boost in abilities and very unfair to anyone who doesn’t use doping and instead trained for years in order to get where he is. Thus the narrative once again wants you to think lying, bending the rules, and using drugs, is heroic as long as you get what you desire. See that, kids? Keep bullying and harassing and lying and using drugs and hide the truth from everyone. They will give you money and you will become famous! That’s what your favorite disabled hero does and it’s very heroic.
Anyways, after Deku is rewarded with a power he doesn’t deserve and lies about how he got it, he is sent to the entrance exam for the hero academy. There he uses it for the first time to save someone, which ends up giving him enough hidden points to pass the exam. It sounds fine on paper, passing the exam by helping another person, until you start thinking how none of it has to do with heroism. You don’t become a hero by getting enough points. You either do something heroic, or you don’t, points are meaningless. Also, hiding the actual way you can pass a test or hiding the rules of a competition is unfair. Imagine studying for years and memorizing everything regarding a test, you perform exactly as you should, and then you are told you failed because of rules nobody outside the teachers knew they existed. That is not fair, is it? Neither is using nepotism to get into a competition you normally wouldn’t be in. And what is Deku if not a nepobady who uses his surrogate father Almight to give him privileges nobody else gets. Where would he be without Almight making it easy for him? Keeping notes about superheroes is useless and he didn’t train a single day without being promised a power. How would he pass the test on his own? What a nice moral message to kids reading this. You will never achieve something with your own powers or efforts. It will always be thanks to your surrogate father giving you privileges that others deserve more.
The test is also really messed up, since it requires from a participant to be in grave danger against his will, and to assume there will be another participant willing to save him. So what would have happened if that girl hadn’t been trapped under rubble? There would be no way to tell who is willing to help others. What if nobody tried to save her? Would she have been killed? If the teachers could interfere and save her in time, Deku didn’t really save her, since she was never in real danger and therefore he was not being heroic. Also if the teachers waited until the last second before saving her means they were deliberately not doing anything and endangered the life of an innocent in order to promote their agenda with sinister methods. If they hide rules and endanger lives in a school test it is all bullshit and has nothing heroic about it.
Here is where we find out Deku breaks his arms whenever he is using his superpower. That makes it seem like there are consequences for using his quirk, therefore it’s not going to be easy hereon. It’s still done superficially, since there are NO ACTUAL negative consequences. No matter how many times he breaks his arms, they will be instantly healed with a simple recovery kiss ability. And no matter how many times they keep saying his arms will eventually be unable to heal, that never happens. You don’t get a gradual inability to be harder to write or hold something, as evidence of permanent and incurable damage. All the mangaka did was draw a few scars on his fingers as supposed proof of his power having a toll on him. That’s more than enough to prove his point, isn’t it? No, because it doesn’t mean anything. It was just fake tension that ended up disappointing everyone when the story ended. Everyone was saying Deku would be cripple by the time the story ends, thus heroism comes with sacrifices, yet he defeated the final villain with a punch, as he does with everyone else, and he was still able to use his hands normally in the epilogue. Thus another troll by Horikoshit who can’t even stay true to his own ideas.
He will constantly introduce threats that can completely destroy a student’s career or possibly kill someone, and will then take it away, since he was never committed to actually destroying or killing someone. As much as many say killing doesn’t make a story more mature, not killing anyone despite constantly making it seem like it’s possible is just as lame. If you don’t intend to kill someone don’t give the assumption that you will. Fake tension that is used to keep the audience engaged can only work a few times before nobody can believe someone is in actual danger.
August 20, 2025
GUYS DONT JUDGE😭
I started watching the show (finally) and I figured I'd check out the manga too and it's so good??? I know the MHA fandom gets a lot of shit...rightfully so, they scare me a little bit. I promise I'm chill. But the plot is actually so fire and the art style in the manga?? HELLO??? I love it so much. Finished in one sitting babe.
I got this from my school's library and they don't have volume 2 so I guess I'm going to have to find that somewhere else...Oh well.
Anyway though even though I'm terrified to be seen in public with this it's genuinely peak, like there's a REASON that this series is as popular as it is.
I started watching the show (finally) and I figured I'd check out the manga too and it's so good??? I know the MHA fandom gets a lot of shit...rightfully so, they scare me a little bit. I promise I'm chill. But the plot is actually so fire and the art style in the manga?? HELLO??? I love it so much. Finished in one sitting babe.
I got this from my school's library and they don't have volume 2 so I guess I'm going to have to find that somewhere else...Oh well.
Anyway though even though I'm terrified to be seen in public with this it's genuinely peak, like there's a REASON that this series is as popular as it is.
March 15, 2020
I saw My Hero Academic pop up into my feed years ago and I was honestly curious about it. I heard a lot of people talk it up, but I never was able to find it in my book travel adventures. Then, lucky my discovered NetGalley (for the second time) and located this little gem! I was so pumped to finally be able to pick this up since I love manga and superheroes.
In this somewhat dystopian world, almost all of the population have super powers. These powers, known as "quirks" can be managed and controlled and then used to save the universe! There's heroes and villains everywhere, and they are constantly battling. At four years old, kids begin to show their powers and they learn to master them. There are hero academies to hone your skills, and our lead really wants powers and really wants to help people. Lucky him, a big time superhero finds him and wants to take him under his wing...
This book is serious fun. The pictures are amazing, the plot is interesting and the characters are cool to follow. There's non-stop action and fun around every corner and I found myself just binging the whole thing (I did not intend to, but it just kinda happened). I'd like to pick up the rest of this series if I can ever find them, because I enjoy Kohei Horikoshi's story telling abilities (and the illustrations are just super cool). I can tell the world in this manga is only going to get cooler, since this is just the first volume. I hope I get to see the world building and character development flourish in the future!
If you love X-Men, the Avengers and DC, you'll love these books. It's action packed and loads of fun. I honestly enjoyed the way I was able to sink into this book and just disappear from reality for a while. It helps that the book was easy to follow and easy to read. The worst part is I'm not used to the names used in this book and I don't know how to pronounce them, which is hardly a fault of the book. On top of that, I can only assume this series is going to get better. The first volume is like the pilot episode of a television show. We get an introduction to the world and the characters, and eventually we get released into the magic of the universe.
Four out of five stars!
Thank you to NetGalley and VIZ Media for providing me a copy of this long awaited manga!
In this somewhat dystopian world, almost all of the population have super powers. These powers, known as "quirks" can be managed and controlled and then used to save the universe! There's heroes and villains everywhere, and they are constantly battling. At four years old, kids begin to show their powers and they learn to master them. There are hero academies to hone your skills, and our lead really wants powers and really wants to help people. Lucky him, a big time superhero finds him and wants to take him under his wing...
This book is serious fun. The pictures are amazing, the plot is interesting and the characters are cool to follow. There's non-stop action and fun around every corner and I found myself just binging the whole thing (I did not intend to, but it just kinda happened). I'd like to pick up the rest of this series if I can ever find them, because I enjoy Kohei Horikoshi's story telling abilities (and the illustrations are just super cool). I can tell the world in this manga is only going to get cooler, since this is just the first volume. I hope I get to see the world building and character development flourish in the future!
If you love X-Men, the Avengers and DC, you'll love these books. It's action packed and loads of fun. I honestly enjoyed the way I was able to sink into this book and just disappear from reality for a while. It helps that the book was easy to follow and easy to read. The worst part is I'm not used to the names used in this book and I don't know how to pronounce them, which is hardly a fault of the book. On top of that, I can only assume this series is going to get better. The first volume is like the pilot episode of a television show. We get an introduction to the world and the characters, and eventually we get released into the magic of the universe.
Four out of five stars!
Thank you to NetGalley and VIZ Media for providing me a copy of this long awaited manga!
July 31, 2017
Svet u kome vecina ljudi ima neku vrstu super moci (quirk) i gde imamo posebne skole za ljudse koji hoce da postanu super heroji (hello x-men). Jedino sto mi za sada malo smeta je glavni lik, klinac dobrog srca koji ce kroz tezak rad i samodoricanje (izgleda) da ostvari svoje snove. Malo poveliki klise ali ko zna mozde me strip i iznenadi.
Svidja mi se osnova price, akcije ima na bacanje, crtezi su lepi.
Za sada fin pocetak.
Svidja mi se osnova price, akcije ima na bacanje, crtezi su lepi.
Za sada fin pocetak.
May 18, 2022
this series is gonna be so fun i can just tell
May 24, 2024
4/5
”Fear not, citizens. Hope has arrived. Because I am here!”
A solid start to what will eventually become an excellent series, if the anime adaptation is any indication. This volume essentially serves as setup for the rest of the series. We’re introduced to the primary characters of Midoriya, All-Might and Bakugo as well as some of the supporting cast (before they eventually become major characters in their own right), as well as being introduced to the setting - the academy itself.
This volume is fun, and it provides necessary depth to certain characters, introduces us to the concept of Quirks and begins to set the tone for the series. Though I will admit it’s not a true indication of what the series represents - unrivalled action, heart, emotion and awe inspiring characters; that will come with the later volumes.
I’ve never really been overly into the superhero genre. I’m completely apathetic towards Marvel, I could take it or leave it but for the most part it just doesn’t interest me. My Hero Academia is my exception to my rule. Through watching the anime, I’ve fallen completely in love with this series, the world, and its characters. It’s completely captured my attention and I’m so excited to start my wider adventure with this series. Usually I would start with the source material first, but I’ve done it in reverse this time. So far, the anime is completely faithful to the manga. School settings are always a good time, combine that with the fantasy of this series and its next level.
I’m very excited to continue with the manga. I have the luxury of knowing what’s going to happen going forward whilst reading it, but that hasn’t effected my enjoyment; if anything it’s enhanced it. There’s lots of behind the scenes info as well on the creation of the characters, their concepts and original plans which has been a great addition.
Thoroughly, thoroughly recommend starting this manga, and the anime too. The anime is excellent, I have nothing to criticise - the manga is shaping up that way too. The only reason this isn’t a 5/5 is because this volume is purely setup. But if you do start, be patient and let it cook - amazing things start to happen.
”Fear not, citizens. Hope has arrived. Because I am here!”
A solid start to what will eventually become an excellent series, if the anime adaptation is any indication. This volume essentially serves as setup for the rest of the series. We’re introduced to the primary characters of Midoriya, All-Might and Bakugo as well as some of the supporting cast (before they eventually become major characters in their own right), as well as being introduced to the setting - the academy itself.
This volume is fun, and it provides necessary depth to certain characters, introduces us to the concept of Quirks and begins to set the tone for the series. Though I will admit it’s not a true indication of what the series represents - unrivalled action, heart, emotion and awe inspiring characters; that will come with the later volumes.
I’ve never really been overly into the superhero genre. I’m completely apathetic towards Marvel, I could take it or leave it but for the most part it just doesn’t interest me. My Hero Academia is my exception to my rule. Through watching the anime, I’ve fallen completely in love with this series, the world, and its characters. It’s completely captured my attention and I’m so excited to start my wider adventure with this series. Usually I would start with the source material first, but I’ve done it in reverse this time. So far, the anime is completely faithful to the manga. School settings are always a good time, combine that with the fantasy of this series and its next level.
I’m very excited to continue with the manga. I have the luxury of knowing what’s going to happen going forward whilst reading it, but that hasn’t effected my enjoyment; if anything it’s enhanced it. There’s lots of behind the scenes info as well on the creation of the characters, their concepts and original plans which has been a great addition.
Thoroughly, thoroughly recommend starting this manga, and the anime too. The anime is excellent, I have nothing to criticise - the manga is shaping up that way too. The only reason this isn’t a 5/5 is because this volume is purely setup. But if you do start, be patient and let it cook - amazing things start to happen.
December 20, 2020
*Reread 11/28/2020*
I fell off this series hard so I'm going to try to get back into it since I really liked it before. I feel like I'm going to go into this with new eyes now that I'm so jaded from the BNHA fandom. (There's some real weirdos in there), but I'm hoping I can get to the newer content and really enjoy it. Also Bakugo looks so good in the manga?? I like the way his face his drawn.
I still liked this first volume. It's a good set up for the series and although it's only been 2 years since I last experienced it, it feels somewhat new to me. I remember the characters and the general story, but I feel like I'm appreciating the smaller details now?
*Original Review 10/16/2018*
I just binge watched the show so now I gotta go back and read all the manga. It's so much fun! I love all the weird "quirks"/superpowers everyone has and I love Deku. ❤️
I fell off this series hard so I'm going to try to get back into it since I really liked it before. I feel like I'm going to go into this with new eyes now that I'm so jaded from the BNHA fandom. (There's some real weirdos in there), but I'm hoping I can get to the newer content and really enjoy it. Also Bakugo looks so good in the manga?? I like the way his face his drawn.
I still liked this first volume. It's a good set up for the series and although it's only been 2 years since I last experienced it, it feels somewhat new to me. I remember the characters and the general story, but I feel like I'm appreciating the smaller details now?
*Original Review 10/16/2018*
I just binge watched the show so now I gotta go back and read all the manga. It's so much fun! I love all the weird "quirks"/superpowers everyone has and I love Deku. ❤️
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