Something we can all agree on is that Horikoshi is great at drawing. The manga looks insane, which is contra-producent when it´s animated.

its always "its the masked man" but never "how is the masked man"

"I haven't slept in 2 days" My dude SLEEP

Idc what anyone says. The art and paneling in my hero is top tier. It doesn't have to be vagabond or berserk style to have good art. My hero style is cartoony, sharper, striking and dramatic. This later arc has been great along with the villians arc. My hero was just solid for me but it really is grown.

The irony of MHA is that it's a way better series when they're not focusing on the Academia stuff

One thing that My Hero and Black Clover do, keeping the side-characters into the background but enough to keep you interested then dedicating a handful of chapters to develop them. also, go tf to sleep Masked

MHA is a quintessential 6-7/10 for me. Its a great shounen with awesome moments and characters but doesn’t quite hit it off as one of the greats. My feelings and score could either rise or fall as the story and characters develops more down the line, but as of now its just fine. I don’t agree with much of the hate it gets and I don’t agree with some of the praise either. Its just a good series that’s very accessible to many and it makes sense why/how it gathered the massive audience it has.

I don't think deku was meant to be an underdog the moment he ate all might hair He square up with the best of his class right from the get go.....by the first dozen chapters he's easily top 3 strongest in his class... his grade are top tiers...he defeated high level villains like muscular early on in the story The only time I saw him as underdog was when he was quirkless...the first line of the series was "men are not equal "

My hero has a pain Invasion arc vibe right now . Good that you put Shigaraki in your thumbnail since he grew to be a formidable villain. My hero is a A tier manga for me

I'm happy you made this video and by the fact that unlike many people you didn't just attack MHA and Deku but gave professional criticisms. I understand why people would feel bored of the down arcs and want things to progress already, although I never felt that way. I think the reason Horikoshi-sensei does that is because the sitting is a school and you have to show the characters as students and heroes in training. Although with the recent happenings in the story, I think that's out of the window now.

One of my biggest problems with MHA is that there's a lot of interesting characters who have barely gotten spotlight, like Class-1B, and Nejire, and Hagakure, and Shoji, etc. Hopefully Hori will expand on their characters and/or make them contribute something significant. Also, this arc has been fucking *wild* . It genuinely has me guessing as to what will happen afterwards.

You should read Ashita no Joe. It's the grandaddy of shounen and sports manga. Definitely one of those classics everyone should read edit: the anime is fantastic too

love your thumbnail style, they ALWAYS look clean

By far one of the worst fanbase I've seen in a while.

Well My Hero is an enjoyable and a fun series. I'd recommend it to someone instead getting into the anime.

Dabi is f-ing insane...I am gonna just leave it there

I strongly/respectfully disagree with your take on the Class A/B arc. Are they probably the weakest arcs in the story? yes, but they do serve a purpose. 99.9% of shonen puts children in unrealistic life/death and save the world situations, painting them as the heroes of legend who accomplish all their life goals before turning 18. Do I have an issue with this? No im a shonen-tard, but the High School arc in my hero are there to get across the idea to the reader that despite all these life and death situations, these are first and foremost kids living everyday life. This allows for more emphasis on their life and death situations, introducing more tension into the more intense arcs. PS. Horikoshi's editors are known for telling him not to make MHA too dark or it won't be too markatable so that's my guess why he throws in slice of life arcs after a major one, ie Overhaul doing child abuse, human experimentation, and giving a girl stockholm syndrome was followed up by a school festival arc.

I have the same problem with side characters, it literally feels like if we had 5 usefull characters in the cast and like 15 tentens from naruto

It’s a good manga. It has some decent characters and great villains. The art awesome and the storytelling is good as well. I feel like people hate on it because of the cringe fan base but please give the manga a try

Don't let the toxic fanbase ruin it for you☣️

Hey, a few points of arguments against some of your criticisms: I will argue the importance of arcs like class 1-a vs 1-b or the provisional license exam. These arcs are necessary for the establishment of the world. The training arcs make since in the story and are necessary because they are in school. We have to have arcs focused on everyday school life because the main character is a students. These arcs show that the chaos of the world do not revolve around the students. It makes since that there will be repetition because of having the story take place in a school. Schools are realistically repetitive and my hero has show realistic lasting consequences than other shounen manga. These arcs also establish justification and explanations for why the student are capable as heroes. Also, to clarify one thing. Deku never unlocks a new power. He always learns a new way to apply that power. The only new powers that he gains derived form situation of necessity and chance. He unlocked Black whip by chance and unlocked float in a moment of danger but he was training to use float before hand. And to answer the question OFA by all might never learned about the other quirks. One, I was naturally able to handle the use of all for one. Two, never I’d ever saw the vestiges of the quirks. And theee, the quirk singularity theory. The theory states that Quirks will continue to mix together and deepen, growing in both strength and complexity with every new generation. Eventually, Quirks will develop to a point where no one will be able to control them anymore. This is mostlikly the case with AFO because it was stated that black whip is more powerful now than it was in the past. Also, I would also argue the importance of repetition. We see that some story beats repeat but they are tied to Deku not fully developing as a character and as a person. Deku repeatedly destroys his arms over and over again to the point of no return. Deku looks up to all might to the point of copying his and other people’s fighting styles. Reparation brings knowledge and growth. You improve at a task or action with practice which is repetition. And the argument of why it took him 100 chapters to use his legs instead of his arms is very weak and has an easy explaination. Deku looks up to All Might and wants to be like him to the point of only using punches like all might. Even all might himself told Deku “you’re still trying to emulate me.” Deku was hyper focus on one thing that he missed other simpler solutions which makes since for someone who mumbles to themselves a lot.

Yooooooooo finally, you've got into GTO. Looking forward to that vid. I literally made a whole ass vid that was basically a love letter to Onizuka lol

Have you caught up to black clover??

This was a good video I would say. As a MHA fan, I really enjoyed your criticism. Good work! (You forgot to mention Iida tho 😂)

For me the weakest point of MHA is the “Academia” part. Horikoshi gradually has to twist the story, to disable the heroes, so the protagonist can fight the villains.

Normal human : after reading for a while I need sleep Masked man : I ran on battery so I don't need sleep

Just think its now cool to hate My hero and Deku. People love to focus on the negatives, instead of the many MANY Positives.

You just earn a sub for being critical, yet level headed when it comes to this series. Please keep it up and don't become biased towards it for the easy clicks from the fanbase. There is a serious lacking of real reviewers that aren't afraid to criticize and be honest about a popular, anime series these days.

The League is easily one of my favorite villain groups in manga, not only do they feel like a group that plays off of each other well in interesting ways, but they're all crafted well as individual characters whose personality and goals greatly reflect the flaws of the world and experiences that help them evolve into more intimidating villains

98.5k Subs!!!!!!🔥🔥Let's go masked So close to 100k

Great video! A lot of the things that you brought up as criticisms for my hero are the same things that I've thought about myself, I think a lot of the areas where my hero falls apart are emphasized because of what other shounen do better, whether that be the protagonist or the quality of buildup arcs or in my hero's case, the lack of quality.

This is one of your best videos, I appreciate the depth

I disagree with some of your negatives about MHA but I respect your opinions.

A huge misconception is that Deku is a physical underdog. He is an underdog but not in the sense that the threats are physically dangerous. It's that he has a huge task ahead of him, fixing the present society, saving EVERYONE (including the villains, as a recent theme). This is something that cannot be fixed just by beating down bad guys, which has been All Might's solution. At the end of the day, Deku is not special. But he HAS to be. That's the task he has to rise to.

You're the only youtuber who has so much power over my next manga that I would've picked up my hero if you said it was great

First of all great video man, really loving your content! Second of all I really enjoy mha, and think its a great shonen. My favourite character is Bakugou, I think his character growth and dynamic with Deku is really something special and new.

I think Masked man just wants to read "My Hero" instead of "My Hero Academia". Just because a manga doesn't show an OP side character that threatens the protagonist's position doesn't mean the protagonist is automatically the most righteous one. No matter how well a fictional manga tries to portrait its protagonist, it doesn't flush out the sin of "why he/she is the one". Instead, MHA introducing Mirio actually is actually a way to face this issue because it simply admits that there can be a more suitable main character even when Deku is so much hardworking. However, the reason why this is GOOD writing for MHA is that the core writing style of MHA has always been realism, and it's stated from the beginning that this is the story of HOW Deku became the greatest hero but not WHY he became.

I agree on everything you said aside from Deku being an underdog actually he’s an overdog

Nice video. I have my disagreements on some things, but I can't be bothered enough to list them. I will say at least you were honest and fair.

*Deku was never meant to stay an 'UNDERDOG' once he got OFA* ... Anyone thinking that is missing part of the narrative surrounding his character and their criticism sounding those misconceptions make some of those arguments lose solid footing. Literally says, 'this is the story of how I become the greatest hero' in chapter 1, gifted All Might's power soon after and ya'll think he's supposed to remain an underdog? lol Also gotta give props to the quality of art for specifically being a *weekly* series compared to some of the other series mentioned that are not on the same schedule of release.

Me personally I don’t mind the school themed arcs, and in the case of the festival and A vs B arc, I thoroughly enjoyed them. The main reason being if they had these extremely high stakes life threatening situations occur over and over again, it’d be difficult to keep the core high school environment in focus, as one of the main environments of the story is a high school. I think it’s fine to take breaks between the big stuff to focus on everyday school life for the students because it not only establishes the connections between all of class a, but it also serves as a relaxer between the tension of arcs like Overhaul. This is probably because I primarily experienced the series recently through the anime and then continued to read the manga afterwards but I digress😂😂

I was waiting for this day

I can’t wait to see your GTO video!!

Love your vids

the latest arc is wild and have a lot of plot twist.

Would you mind reading and make a review of Shaman king and D-gray man also, please? Thanks.

Great video man I agree with the most of your points . Have you finished pun pun ?

Great video as always masked man your channel is becoming one of my favourite channels on KZfaq Also day 1 of me recommending rurouni kenshin to you it's an amazing manga

Even though I didn't enjoy mha as much as other people do , I can still see why people love this anime so much , but sometimes I feel mha fans can be annoying telling me that mha is better than some of my fav animes

I like and agree with the video And Horikoshi art is really underated

Interesting to hear your thoughts.I’m in the between for my hero academia despite us seeing other shonen series

Love your Chanel dude

I’m a huge MHA fan but if I see one more training arc after this most recent arc I am gonna lose my shit. I really agree that after those hugely climatic moments the training arcs really take away from the pace of the plot. We don’t need to see training arcs to know that the heroes are training. Other than that it’s still my favourite shounen rn.

Its the epitome of being nigh equally overhyped and overhated, the reality lies somewhere between depending on one's tastes and I can very well see the elements that might tickle peoples peoples fancy in just the right way and others that believably rub people the wrong way. The arcs that masked man and others don't favour at least to make up a decent percentage of this as it seems that some can enjoy seeing some lower stakes down time with the supporting cast(because even if their characters are going nowhere they are mostly likable characters) with some training stuff thrown in, a breather basically. On the other side they can be seen prolonged roadblocks in the forward momentum of the story spent with characters that seem likely to never be that relevant. Basically what I'm getting at is the ACADEMIA part of My Hero Academia plays a big role in deciding where peoples feelings lie on the series.

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Thank you! The side characters get a lot of screen time but that doesn’t equal character development!

mha for me us good not the best shonen but its good also plz finish billy bat

The true thing about my Hero academia Is that the villains are the true important characters

Other than those sparing matches against other classes MHA is a decent manga and it's pretty enjoyable..!! I hope you do a full review of black clover as well..

The thing about the power ups hasn’t been explained yet but there’s a running theory that it’s because of eri being on his back. They all come after that. His ability to communicate come from the power being bundled up for a while. The powers all bump themselves up. Just a lil in universe explanation for the holes

I think Deku is honestly a lot better of a character than people give him credit for. Sure he's a bit generic in personality and attitude, but what he represents is honestly great. Hes a starstruck kid who's transfixed on being exactly like All Might. Hes viewed All Might through the TV screen for the majority of his life, seeing heroes as the pinnacle of strength and victory and villains as enemy-of-the-week fodder to stomp through. Now that hes a hero hes practically being thrust into a world of questioning ideaology and fighting for your life at many points, with failure meaning the death of innocents. In many ways I view Deku as being just as delusional in thinking he should be exactly like All Might as Shigaraki is in thinking that the pain he has felt in the past justifies his actions of hurting people. Deku himself still doesn't have a steadfast motivation to be a hero. He has been a fanboy just trying to play hero from the start and is in way over his head. Thats why it means so much that a development as simple as switching from punches to kicks is so obvious yet so much development on his part. He has been practically hindering himself, trying so hard to be picture perfect to All Might, when he can't even control his own power. He hasn't given a single thought to changing the style of how he fights. In a sense, All Might left a massive mold of how to be a hero, and Deku is trying to practically stretch himself out just to fit that mold. Hes killing himself by using a power and fighting style that All Might had to build up for most of his life. When a very real consequence is put in front of him, being that he could lose his arms if he overuses his quirk, its a moment where hes woken up by reality. He cannot be a hero like All Might just because he got his power. He won't be able to break his arms, go get a kiss from the school nurse, and be ready for battle the next day. That's why it's a great change of pace. He has had his legs the entire time and could have used them, but he didn't because he was trying too hard to copy All Might. When he uses his legs, he's showing development by breaking free of the idea that he has to be the next picture perfect All Might. Hes growing as his own character and making his own steps towards becoming a hero. Such a simple development, and yet it has so much meaning behind it

A b is very good and since its pretty early in the story and at rate its been improving recently I could see mha being a high A or a low/mid S at its end

I liked what you did there in Jump Force! The big three vs MHA characters

Great video . I hope u give unbiased review of black clover like mha

Stain is one of my favorite anime villains you can really see were hes coming from

Funny that Jagaaaaan was my first seinen and bnha my first anime.

been watching your videos and I've been wondering which manga took care of their op character(like all might, gojo, the wizard king etc) best in your opinion, or rather, which one did you like more.

Manga recommendation "Three days of happynes",it is realy short(18 chapters),manga is about guy who sold his life and now he has 3 months left

I love MHA, but you're right, I feel like we're finally progressing in the latest arc, I hope Horikoshi doesn't restore the status quo right after. Based on the textboxes from the beginning of the arc, I think we're heading towards a timeskip or something similar.

Nice review. I love MHA to death even with its flaws, many of which ended up agreeing with you. I always had a theory that may shine somelight on the whole "class A vs Class B feeling incosequential" and the "Deku feeling that he's playing catch up to better heroes" problem. In an interview Horikoshi said that in one of his original story outlines UA didn´t exist and Deku wasn't a hero student but a salary worker turned hero. He added the school setting and made Deku a teen because he wanted to attract a younger demographic. I always felt that UA was a bit out place in the world of my hero, mainly because we never see freshly graduated heroes from any of the other hero schools and the hero characters are so well developed in comparison to everybody in class 1-A. It makes me think that the existance of UA and having Deku away from hero work was something he added at the last minute.

Solid video all around. It’s nice to see ppl not just trash My Hero for easy views. I do, however, want to comment on some of your criticisms (note: i’m not saying your wrong, but hey maybe if you read this you’ll be able to see it in a new light) - I agree that the 1A and 1B arc is a bit slow, something I hope the anime can fix when that comes out. However, I disagree on the repetitive-ness of them fighting considering they two classes have only fought twice, during the sports festival and then the joint training, and i think it’s cool that the 2nd time we really get to see how far both of the classes have come w/ their training. I also preferred that the concept of Deku getting new power ups be introduced in a non serious setting as opposed to a serious fight because it feels less like a “ah, the hero learned a new move during a fight” and moreso “oh? the hell is this?” which is i think what horikoshi was going for. I also think the powers didn’t necessarily come out of nowhere, and there was pretty decent foreshadowing that One For All is more than just a power up Quirk w/ Deku seeing visions of the previous users (and then that dream he had w/ all the users and AFO before joint training) - The comment about All Might not knowing about these things i think comes down to the Quirk not being ready for that. they say One For All gets stronger as it’s passed down. All Might was able to use One For All at 100% from the jump w/ no problem when he got it according to him, but he never saw vestiges of the previous users, most likely because the Quirk wasn’t ready to express the 7 powers of the previous users. This is also why it’s taking a while for Deku to be able to use his full power AND to decently use or even access the quirks he will eventually have. Whoever gets One For All after Deku will probably be able to use them with much more ease - Deku using his legs being something that should’ve been obvious to him can be boiled down to he tried way too hard to imitate All Might. I think if he has spent all his life watching and admiring All Might, the number 1 hero, then it makes sense that upon inheriting that same hero’s power he goes about it by trying mimic the fight style, especially once he learned Full Cowling. Him essentially being forced to use his legs due to extensive arm injuries and making him realize he can’t just be an All Might copy and he slowly starts to move away from that is done well, imo. - As for him as an MC, i really hope after this arc we get more focus on Deku because he could be better, and i think he will be. i can’t really disagree with any of your points on that front, all I can say is the story isn’t over yet, and i think he’ll get the attention he needs soon. Final note: i’m glad you appreciate the art, i think it’s really good, especially when you remember that it’s a series with a new chapter published weekly. it makes me wonder what Horikoshi is capable of if he drew a monthly series. Sorry for the lengthy response, I’m personally passionate about this series and I rlly enjoy your content and this video in particular, plus ik you’re not opposed to discussion about manga so I figured if any video was an opportunity to spark discussion it was this one. I hope you have a wonderful day :)

I’ve been reading MHA since it’s debut and it never had me on the edge of my seat as much as other series. The series felt like it started out with a pace of gradual threats rising, but after a certain point, the gears shifted to a pace that the characters wasn’t ready for. It feels like they had to change up the pacing, either to reach an end or keep up with the pace of other series.

Mha gave an entire arc to the villains who themselves are underdogs....gave a slow,sensitive and well thought arc to a domestic abuser instead of making him a 2d villain we love to hate.... it's been trying to make strides and create things out of the box....the art is crazy for a weekly series...while it have it's flaws I can't understand the deep hatred some have for it ....and no hating a series just cuz the fanbase is annoying is and will always be dumb

I don’t read/watch it but I watch Tekking to get all of the info on the series

“i just haven’t slept in two days” LMAOOO ME

Can you do a more recent review in my hero and jjk

finally a very good review of MHA

My criticism to people criticizing the lack of development for some of the side characters is that some of them are just meant to be background characters to make the setting more believable, so that criticism to me is not genuine

I've always enjoyed the between training arcs, but if you don't like the side characters then I guess they would be tough to read.

Mask what do you think of the recent chapters of JJK ok trash or good

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The major turn off for me was the first chapter saying how he became the number 1 hero which is just a huge flashback which takes away a lot of the sense of danger

For me I personally enjoy all the moments extra characters get with the joint class session battles that happen. It expands the world more, it teats the students in different environments where they're going to have work together and use eachothers strengths effectively to dsve people, and it helps them see where they go further down the line. It's still a hero school setting so it's gotta use that however it can. It makes more sense for Quirks to change during use in training rather than some life threatening do or die situation that just gives them the ability to win where there never was one to begin with. Not saying it can't happen and do or die won't or shouldn't do something, but they shouldn't be a last resort or only way of improvement.

Honestly I like how you're talking about my hero, I'm too far to just quit it so I'm just speed reading so I barely know wtf is happening

mha is a solid 7-8 for me

11:34 Thank you masked man, you took the words right out of my mouth. Vermillion shafted Deku, no cap. Secondly was it really necessary for Deku to be able to use the other holder's quirks, even tho he already has the strongest quirk in the world or is it just me.

I too haven't slept in two days.

As a bnha fan it always annoys me when people look at bnha on the surface level and assume it’s just an entertaining battle shonen without any deep themes within it. One if the main reasons i love my hero so much is precisely that: the themes it tackles and how interesting they are. The my villain academia arc is the perfect example, also the character of shigaraki and his parallels with deku. There’s an underlying message in my hero that has to do with criminality and how society shapes criminals (villains) and organizes itself to marginalize a certain group of people, and i hate that bc of the fandom and how the story is being read by the majority of people, all these things that horikoshi is trying to portray get lost. Anyways, bnha is underrated in that sense (don’t get me wrong, im not saying it isn’t popular bc it is) bc it doesn’t get all the credit it deserves for the actual things it does with its message, themes and characters that most of the time get overlooked

No offense, i feel like you don't really understand certain points about the series and it's taking away from your enjoyment of the series. My hero is very different from the shonen blueprint. It's a very different time for jump rn with very different titles pushing for the next big thing. JJK, MHA,Undead Unluck so we cant be tied to old concepts and likes. But either way, its a fun and i hope you continue to enjoy it along the way.

No more class a vs b since that war and geku going rogue lol its gonna get hella good

Are you gonna read the early years too? For gto

Make a video about webtoon's and manhwa

You should read Dragon Drive it's pretty good Shonen.

Good video, like how you said he’s likeable but generic

As mha fan . I 100% AGREE WITH U . THANK U FOR REVIEWING THIS SERIES

"why don't I throw a kick?" THANK YOU. This was the thing that pissed me off the most, after being able to analyse people so well he still couldn't think about using his leg instead of his fists. Other than that I think the main problem of MHA is that the author tries to bring in a lot of new characters and just uses them to fill the episodes, which would've been fine if they weren't shown as characters who are very important and are going to play a bigger part in the story later on whilst in reality they aren't touched upon, and the last arc of season 4 was absolutely unnecessary ( 12 episodes focused on making one child smile, sorry if you loved the arc but it could've been easily cut down to 3-4 eps ). I think MHA is a solid 6-7/10, nothing too bad but I think what pisses off most of the people is the fanbase and how they treat it as the greatest shonen of all time, which it isn't and they need to accept that.

Honestly, I know I'm one of the few, but I just couldn't get into My Hero Academia. I started the anime back in 2016 and it was so boring for me. I literally forced myself to start it again back in 2017. Series like Black Clover and Demon Slayer were just so enjoyable for me. I love the characters, symbolism and many folk tale references they made. I literally tried to catch up to the My Hero Academia manga this year but I'm decided to drop it again now. While I do find the manga much more enjoyable than the anime *mainly for the art* it's still too lack luster and just eh. Of course it does have some good parts, like the Izuku vs Overhaul or Bakugou vs Izuku 2, but it really just doesn't do it for me :(

Please read Onani Master Kurosawa. This goes to anyone its a coming of age story trust me it's soo good

I'd like to see you read Parahumans: Worm and the sequel Ward, from John C. "Wildbow" McCrae. It's have the best superhero world building i've seen and the superpowers are very creative. The story is really good of course, although i wish the author expand and explore more interesting characters and arcs. It is a web serial, not a manga, but it's worth it.

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