![]() ![]() ![]() The art is very good except I have a hard time getting past the over expressive faces Manga is known for. Eventually, our young hero gets into superhero school where the book instantly becomes derivative of the X-Men or Sky High. But their body must be trained to control the power or it could kill them. Along comes the most famous super hero in the city "All Might" who turns out can pass his power onto someone else. The story is about one of a very few young people who are born without "quirks" or superpowers. 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. I've never been able to get into Manga due to the whole reading backwards thing. I decided to check some Manga out and this is what was recommended to me. My, what an overrated boring manga series! ![]() 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. Wrap up the terrible writing and awful storytelling with standard manga art and you’ve got a steaming pile of cliched, predictable nothing. Garbage.Īt 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. So it doesn’t make any sense and that block of pages is pointless filler. Even though All Might in his true form is as skinny and weak as our protagonist is. Very unsatisfying.Īfter 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. Why? Reasons we’ll probably find out in later volumes. 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. 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. Creator/writer/artist Kohei Horikoshi basically rips off the X-Men. It really is that derivative, at least going by this first volume. Except way shittier! And that’s My Hero Academia! Boo! I give it an F! Kids with superpowers go to superhero school to be taught by existing superheroes how to be superheroes. ![]()
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