Boku no Hero Academia
My Hero Academia

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It's not a masterpiece, but it will stick with you for certain. The cast and the power sets are very diverse and frequently interesting. There is a bit of conflict between the fact that there are a metric ton of interesting characters with intriguing story hooks and the fact that it would be impossible to fully develop all of them. Depending on who you are this might create the feeling of a massive world that we're only barely tapping into which leaves the rest for you to wonder (and maybe read/make fan works) about, or you may be frustrated that character development is spread too ... thin and you can't fully get into anyone in particular. I find myself in the former camp, and while I think it does start to get beyond carrying capacity at the end I do think that there are plenty of great moments for a wide range of good characters, and most build-ups get their payoff. Also, frankly, the sheer number of different powers people get, how interesting many of them are, and the creative things they do with those power are very satisfying and interesting to see. If you don't mind a story bouncing between characters a frequently and you appreciate creative and stylish shonen power sets, you'll really enjoy this manga.

I loved this manga so so much while it was being published. It was an amazing distractor for the dark times of 2020 and 2021, all until Stars and Stripes showed up I think. And then the non time-skip happened (it was way to damn short to be called a time-skip imo) and the story lost me almost completely. Ever since the time-skip reading this story felt like a chore more than an enjoyable thing like before.

I have my gripes with this story, a bunch of them really. The way the author decided to progress the story truly disappointed me. At the beginning it ... seemed to be such an amazing story with mysteries and complicated relationships, I got so much hype on so many things; being hinted that maybe there was a weird reason why Deku was quirkless, All For One and One For All beginnings, Deku's father, his relationship with Uraraka, his friendship with Ida, the frenemies relationship with Bakugo... and so many more things I cannot remember rn, all went nowhere except for maybe his relationship with Bakugo; and by the end it was generic boring shonen bs full of ass-pulls. Man it was hard reading the last arch.

Still, the first half is an amazing read that I truly recommend and I bet some people may enjoy it 'till the very end even if I and many others didn't.

How can I start, it is a typical action-adventure shonen, that starts showing us a world that is not usually seen in animes, which I liked, however, the story is very childish and does not bring any emotion to the reader, though the artist tried to spicy it up on the last few volumes, it was not enough to make it a good story. But the worst part is the end, I do not wish to spoiler, but as someone who grew up watching BNH, I'm afraid to say that I'm more disappointed with this end than with Fairy Tail end, the character development is ... null, the story premise is not fulfilled, we got nothing to bring joy to the fans if you are someone who is watching the anime and is coming to the manga, my recommendation is for you to drop it, do not spend you time watching something that will finish leaving a bad taste on your mouth. There are many good shows out there, but this is not one of them.