During the epilogue chapters I kept forgetting that this hadn’t ended yet, then when it did finish I kept forgetting that it existed 😅
My Hero Academia
(Kohei Horikoshi)
January 2019 to August 2024
430 Chapters
I liked this series back when Deku couldn’t control his power. It was fun watching him figure it out. But the more he mastered it the less interesting it got to the point where he ended up so overpowered with multiple quirks. Booooring.
I also actually dropped this series when he managed to change the future. I never felt like there was a satisfactory reason for why he was able to do it other than main-character-itis. Well to be more accurate, that’s when my interest in the series fell off a cliff, I actually dropped it after the school festival arc. I got some serious tonal whiplash going from the black market drug arc to cheesy school festival antics.
I ended up binge reading it to catch-up when I hear rumblings about Dabi being Touya. I always had the feeling that was the case and wanted to confirm (why past me, why). But the 18 months or so that I had to catch-up on was like one battle. Which didn’t help me start liking the series more. This experience though is what made me decide to read everything weekly instead LOL.
I feel like I’m too old, jaded and cynical for this series. There were quite a few things that made me cringe. Like the creation girl’s extremely revealing outfit, stone guy’s obsession with being MANLY MAN MAN and how they killed off the dominatrix teacher to try and pull heartstrings (kinda reminded me of how they strategically killed off characters at the end of Harry Potter to make it feel tragic but not TOO tragic).
And then there’s the stuff where I felt like the messaging was either mixed or not great? The way the characters with ‘troublesome’ quirks acted and were treated felt problematic. It felt almost like the author was justifying their behaviour at times, but also linking it to something they were born with felt like a very heavy handed parallel to medical conditions/traumatic experiences irl and it didn’t feel appropriately nuanced to me. Also, Bakugo being a bully but ending up being ‘a good guy’ despite never really changing or acknowledging his bad behaviour. And the whole parental emotional abuse from Endeavor being forgiven pretty easily. It felt like a lot of very real issues being treated quite shallowly. But it’s an extremely well loved series, so I’m probably just overanalysing it 🙃
In any case, I did not like this series so I’m not sad it’s over.
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