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I really love how the creator of MHA takes heavy inspiration from Western superheroes. It’s just cool seeing this level of respect between The West and East

I love the emphasis on drawing hands in horikoshi’s art. Most artists shy away from drawing them, but horikoshi does the opposite and actually talks about how besides the eyes, hands are the most important part of a characters body to convey their emotions. On top of this, there’s even a running theme throughout MHA of hands symbolizing connections. Great video, love to finally see a video about MHA without someone just complaining about it

As an artist, the technical skills of Horikoshi feels like they have been undervalued by the wider community. Most understand that the picture look nice but don’t understand how fucking insane it is in terms of the fundamental. Horikoshi’s perfect stylization and understanding of the fundamentals feels like something so out of the norm of the other weekly shonen series running right now.

One of the few series where it feels like almost every chapter has one page that really makes your jaw drop.

Horikoshi is my favorite mangaka of all time. His art style clicks with me so much, and I really hope that after MHA ends, that he comes back with a new manga that's not restrained by the weekly grind. Either monthly or an irregular schedule like Sui Ishida's Choujin X; anything that'll benefit his health and allow him to grow more as an artist.

It's always so clear how Hori stands out as soon as he adds a Deku on a shonen jump magazine cover amongst all the other characters. OP is always first, but Deku is also always so vibrantly positioned in the bg your eyes go there first. He's really carved out his place in manga history

I wish you had touched, as well, on the other thing he mentioned he wished he'd known more about at the start: human emotions. A lot of the characters in early My Hero Academia definitely felt like caricatures in not just visual style, but personality as well. Over time, you see Horikoshi exploring more complex stories with those characters' emotions and inner lives, and that comes out in the art, as well. The emotional complexity Horikoshi is able to portray and the amount of attention he gives to what each character is feeling is something that's even more underrated than his grasp on action scenes and perspective, in my opinion. Personally, it's the emotional nuance and payoffs to character arcs that draw me to HeroAca more than anything else. In particular, the way he developed Toga from a very stereotypical yandere to a much more complex and tragic character is my favorite thing about HeroAca. Other than that, I think people really underappreciate Horikoshi's grasp on anatomy. His art style is very stylized, but always grounded in a very strong understanding of the human body. It makes the injuries characters suffer believable and visceral, lends itself to one-of-a-kind character designs, and allows him to put out horrifying imagery that dedicated horror manga stand to learn from. I was very excited to see that Horikoshi stated in an interview that he's considering writing a horror manga next, because it feels like he has this immense prowess with that which only arose unexpectedly while he was making My Hero Academia. As much as I love My Hero Academia, I am thrilled beyond words to see what Horikoshi makes next. You can really feel that as an artist, author, and person in general, Horikoshi grew into a level of confidence and competency that's leagues apart from where his career started. It's heartbreaking to go back and see the all-consuming self-doubt he struggled with, on top of the frequent health issues. Through it all, though, it feels like he found himself in his art, and his art grew meteorically along with him. Stuff like that inspires me like nothing else.

His work is easily the best in Jump right now. Each week I look forward to seeing a new chapter of his, but hope he stays healthy. It will be sad when MHA ends, but he will go down as one of the best artists in the manga industry.

This! People tend to overlook Horikoshi's artistic skills because of the inphamy My Hero Academia got during the years because of its fandom, but he is actually one the best mangakas of our recent times. Seeing for example the panel in which Overhaul stretches his arm in the foreground as if he is reaching the viewer with the spaces between his fingers becoming little windows in which the page show other fragments of the scene is seriously terrific composition and dynamism

It's crazy how the perception of the community around this manga has completely squewed the perception to how good this manga is actually is. The best active shonen rn and surprisingly one of the most underrated.

Honestly mha was one of the first manga series that brought me to watching more anime and reading more manga so hats off to horikoshi displaying this amount of amazing quality with this harsh time crunch

Incredible video like always. My Hero Academia is definitely my favourite out of all the new gen series for Shonen Jump. I remember when I got into the series back in 2019, the series was insanely popular and one the biggest manga series around and I still love it now. I’ve always been impressed by Horikoshi’s style because it looks much softer than other artist’s works and I’ve also always been impressed with how quickly Horikoshi does the weekly chapters and volumes. I’ve also always loved how he takes inspiration from many Marvel and DC comics, especially Spider-Man. I actually met Justin Briner, the voice actor for Midoriya, three years ago and I’m really excited for the end of the series too.

Its nice to see someone talk about Hori's amazing art. The way that Hori be releasing these chs with such levels on detail on a weekly basis is crazy. He really is one of the best artists in jump. For sure top 3. Love how the story continues to go strong as well cause this final arc is def one of the best arcs for me🔥🔥🔥

Horikoshi, ever since I started watching/reading MHA around 8 years ago, (time flies) has inspired me as an artist. The way he draws everything so angularly while also getting the sense of depth and realism in there, the way he draws hands with such skill and freedom, the way his characters and designs are so impressive (and kinda extremely complex to draw) and the way he wears his inspiration on his sleeves, it all enamored me and made me want to draw even more. I like more realistic works like Vagabond or Parasyte or Berserk. But there's something about Horikoshi's style that just gets me hyped every time I look at it. The school festival arc volume cover is a good example of this. (Vol 20) just look at that cover and tell me it doesn't look sick asf.

Honestly, this is damn inspirational. 😭 If I ever get better at art I'm looking to copy his style

Amazing video! If you look at the early MHA chapters to now, there is obviously a difference, but you really broke down the why and how it has evolved into something really great. I really love Horikoshi's art style. Especially in this final arc, with such huge action pieces, his art has really been shining and popping

His art is just fantastic, this man is GOATED

Horikoshi may be the last of a dying breed, a Shonen mangaka that can only produce a weekly series for up to 10 years

Lets be thankful to his team too who also contribute to his beautiful works

I wish ppl would put respect on his character work and story as well, but hopefully once the manga/anime is over, ppl can look back on it like they did Naruto and rlly come to appreciate it as a whole. Awesome video btw! Horikoshi’s art is definitely some of the best of the best in Jump.

My hero academia was my first anime i ever watched. Its still my second favorite anime of all time for me

I never expected you to cover my hero academia on here I’m surprised you did and like this video so thanks for making it

I love this video format!

One of the best modern Shonen manga of all time! It had one of the greatest starts with so much potential! The art is phenomenal 😍

I just discovered this channel and definitely subscribing but dawg I NEED you to do a video on Akihisa Ikeda the mangaka for Rosario Vampire his glow up from the beginning of Rosario Vampire to the end of S2 and Ghost Reaper Girl is something to behold and honestly looks like two completely different artists

Fantastic Video!! :) 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 ❤️💖❤️💖

Is it just me that thinking Horikoshi is applying new art style in these few chapters when Deku Vs. Shigaraki fight started??

It should be noted that if Horikoshi wasn’t so insecure about the potentiality of his series dying in terms of popularity then he could’ve been even greater since he would’ve been more okay with taking drawn out breaks

Yet people who try to hate it all the time deny the amazing art

Another great video would be cool to see a art evolution of boruto once tbv has more chapters not because the art is relatively good compared to its peers but because the way ikemoto paneled and drew the characters early on are way different than how he draws them now in good and bad ways.

Horikoshis art is goated

Interesting to hear your thoughts on my hero academia I still love the series despite the issues sometimes but I’m hoping horikoshi ends the series on a good note

id love to see a video of hajime no ippos art style, considering its length theres going to be a lot to look at

Also he switched to digital from traditional during Covid he always used to draw MHA with a pencil/pen and then scan it in but had to switch it cause of the pandemic that may be another reason why his art style has changed

Please do the artistic evolution of dragon ball. I think it would be such a cool research project considering it went from an adventure gag manga to a Shonen battle manga

He drew traditionally until the start of COVID because he couldn't work with his assistants like they used to. From chapter 277 and onwards, it's all digital.

Alex I love and value your videos, I even download some of them. But If it means Dgrayman would become a weekly manga with its highest art level I would sacrifice you behelit-style.

Man I love MHA

I know you specialize in manga, but some webcomics have an even crazier evolution that would be interesting to talk about. The biggest examples would be el goonish shive and sinfest. (which also happen to be on two very different ends of the political spectrum.

Chainsaw man hasnt been weekly since 2022. Ever since it switched to jump plus, it has a very loose release schedule, mostly being biweekly. pointing this out because most of the examples you show of chiansaw man are from the jump plus era, which as stated, doesnt operate on a weekly schdule.

You should do a dragon ball art evolution

could youd o an artistic evolution of baki

Does he have any assistants?

Could you talk about Dragon Ball next please

Need black clover next

These last 100 chapters the art became very complex and messy, sometimes i can't understand what's going on the pages.

I've never been a big MHA fan but I've always loved the artwork, especially the way Horikoshi takes inspirations from comics.

mha deserves ufotable but bones cooked season 7 too

I acc prefer the art before Star stripes appeared

THE ONE PIECE IS RRRREEEEAAAAAALLLLL

Tbh I don't like MHA, but I love it's art and it's been a big influence on my drawing, which I'll be the first to admit isn't nearly as good

Really makes you wish mha didn’t have the biggest falloff known to man

Great art wasted on a mediocre story.