While My Hero Academy is one of the best series on Shonen Jump right now, a small change could make it so much better. The manga created by Kohei Horikoshi focuses on the students of a high school for superheroes, but as the series comes to an end, they have only completed a year of school, which will ultimately affect to the story.
The students of UA High School have had to deal with a host of enemies such as the Criminal Alliance, led by the mighty All For One and its successor Shigaraki. The main goal of All For One is to capture the quirks of the series protagonist Deku, his good partner of oddities. To accomplish this goal, the Criminal Alliance has repeatedly attacked Deku’s school, disrupting class events and pushing students to the forefront of an ever-increasing conflict. All For One even planted a traitor in Deku’s class, which reveals some of My Hero Academia’s biggest problems. These conflicts are fun to read, but they could be even more satisfying if Horikoshi laid out his manga a little differently.
My Hero Academia would be greatly improved if it had a better tempo
As My Hero Academia quickly ended, Deku and his classmates still hadn’t finished even a year of school. This makes the ending can be awkward because after their climactic battle against the villains they essentially play as professional heroes, the students will have to go back to school. normal high school students for two years. This could be seen as a nice relaxing bonus for them after the fierce battle they were involved in, but it seemed odd on a practical level since there really wouldn’t be anything else to teach. Surname. If My Hero Academia had been slightly better paced, spreading its main events over the course of three school years, it would have fixed this problem while also addressing many of the other flaws of the series.
One major complaint against My Hero Academia is that it lacks the characterization of the supporting characters. While many long-forgotten students like Shoji Koda were noticed in My Hero Academia’s The Last Fight, they were unfortunately underdeveloped before that. But if the manga incorporated brief periods of time to tell about the passage of time during their high school years, then some subtle character development could have been incorporated into the inescapably shifting character design. from theirs. One Piece has done this brilliantly with Straw Hat designs after the passage of time, and My Hero Academia could have taken a similar approach. In addition, the passage of time will make the character’s development more realistic and meaningful. This will also make moments like Class 1-A’s traitor reveal much more impactful.
With My Hero Academia still in the final stages, Horikoshi can certainly still create a satisfying ending to justify packing the events of the manga into one year. And even if the series’ flaws could be improved upon with this change, the manga remains one of Shonen Jump’s best series. But it seems like a great missed opportunity for My Hero AcademyIts ending doesn’t match the end of the main characters’ high school journey.
My Hero Academia is available from Viz Media.