High UA could train his students to become professional heroes, but one comment by My Hero Academythe author of ‘proves that it is indeed failing his students – which can lead to incredible danger when considering their work. Creator Kohei Horikoshi has done an excellent job of showcasing the strengths of each UA student, helping them excel in real battles against the bad guys. However, the school’s own philosophy towards student selection and education has some major flaws.
The UA High School entrance exam is public and has a test to determine which applicants have the most heroic potential. Subscribers receive points for disabling a swarm of robots and performing heroic actions, all of which are watched over by a panel of judges, who can also award points based on actions. hero. Ultimately, this is just the first of many tests UA puts its students through before they can graduate and become a professional hero. But these tests are really flawed.
UA’s entrance exam has many mistakes in My Hero Academia
In Episode 2 Extras about Mineta, My Hero Academia’s most hated student, Horikoshi mentions that many people have asked him how Mineta actually passed the entrance exam thanks to his terrible Quirk. This is a good question since Mineta’s hobby is making sticky balls from scratch so he can throw at his enemies. The explanation is quite disappointing when Horikoshi says that Mineta used her balls to create traps and plant the robot’s cannon. Horikoshi also mentions that this technique won’t work against real villains because it’s too predictable and avoidable. But the robots weren’t smart enough to do this and so Mineta was able to pass with this strategy. However, the fact that he was able to pass in this way reflects very poorly on UA’s testing policy.
Given that Horikoshi himself has essentially acknowledged that the UA entrance test doesn’t really measure a student’s proficiency in actual combat, the test will naturally exclude some potential students. The Hero ability is large and includes other students who do not qualify. On top of that, since subsequent tests are simulated similarly, this type of problem will never really go away, meaning the student will never really be prepared for their first real battle against bad guy after graduation. UA has internship programs where students can be trained under the guidance of a professional hero in the field, which will be of great help, but in the end, the test to get the license The hero that everyone needs to legally do heroic work is also a simulation situation, meaning that some heroes who aren’t qualified to fight dangerous villains will inevitably pass. through it. And the standard for getting the hero license of My Hero Academia is even lower after the Occult War of Liberation.
All of this means that young people who don’t really have the skill or attitude to be a hero like Mineta will, at some point, be thrown into the battlefield where they will risk more than just their lives. themselves but also those around them. trying to save money. Fortunately, Class 1-A was able to come into contact with real villains many times during their studies, but the other classes weren’t so lucky. Students in these classes will be extremely unprepared to fight the real villains for the first time in the field, putting them at incredible risk. While heroic work is a risky profession inherent in My Hero Academyworld, High UA is making it more dangerous for many of its students who would not be properly prepared for it.
The My Hero Academia manga is available from Viz Media and the anime can be viewed on Crunchyroll.