Warning: Contains spoilers for Shy episode #1.Crunchyrollnew superhero anime of SHY Just started but it’s already working to fix this one My Hero Academythe biggest problems of. SHY is set in a world where superheroes from around the world came together to prevent World War III, and since then, an era of peace has been established. In the present, the Unilord, leader of the world’s heroes, has called on the heroes to unite to face an emerging threat, and at the center of it all, of course, is the protagonist. of anime, Japan’s hero, Shy.
SHY has an interesting premise for a superhero story, and one thing to take away from it is that it fixes one of the biggest problems with My Hero Academia. With SHY and My Hero Academia both revolving around superheroes, there’s naturally a lot of overlap between their ideas and overall themes, even if the execution isn’t necessarily the same. One idea in particular was executed much more effectively in SHY than in My Hero Academia, and it highlights both how My Hero Academia was lacking in an area as well as the story in which SHY would differentiate How: international scope.
SHY uses all the heroes in its world, unlike My Hero Academia
The way SHY overcomes one of My Hero Academia’s biggest problems is by using heroes from all over the world in its story. A major criticism of My Hero Academia was the lack of focus on the characters or world-building outside of Japan, the finale even went astray by keeping a small number of international heroes in the series Movies are not included. Meanwhile, SHY quickly established the international scope of its story with Shy befriending the Russian hero Spirits and Unilord calling on all the world’s heroes, so it avoided the problem of just My Hero Academia’s Japanese focus.
With SHY quickly asserting that its story will progress on an international level, it allows itself to tell a much bigger story than My Hero Academia. No matter how big the stakes are in My Hero Academia, having things limited to Japan often makes things feel strangely small, but with SHY taking an international approach from the start, there will more easily conveys the extent of its central conflict. My Hero Academia’s limited story scope isn’t inherently bad, but it’s understandable why people would criticize it for that, so it’s nice to see that SHY won’t face the same criticism.
Why My Hero Academia Is So Small (& Why SHY Avoids It)
My Hero Academia focusing solely on what happens in Japan certainly puts it on a smaller scale than SHY, but that’s easy enough to explain. After all, My Hero Academia is (or should have been) a story about the students of Class 1-A, so it tries to focus on the threats and developments surrounding them. To some extent, it makes sense that characters and story elements from outside Japan haven’t been included. More realistically, world-building on a larger scale than just Japan can consume a surprising amount of time and chapters, so it makes sense that Kohei Horikoshi would try to avoid that.
As for why SHY can easily focus on things outside of Japan, it simply lies in its presentation. SHY seems to be styled as a more traditional superhero story with things like secret identities and uncommon superheroes. Heroes facing global threats are common in those types of stories, so in that regard, it makes sense to focus on characters and international conflicts. All of that helps SHY Both are avoided My Hero Academycriticism of ignoring everything outside of Japan and establishing its own identity, and it will be interesting to see what else it does with that when it airs on Crunchyroll.
SHY releases new episodes every Monday on Crunchyroll.
