Kohei Horikoshi started his manga series My Hero Academia back in 2014. This manga was published in Shueisha’s Shonen Jump magazine, joining alongside Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, and Death Note. Horikoshi’s series was instantly loved by fans. Until it’s final episode, the fanbase reacted to My Hero Academia’s ending was surprising, to say the least.
My Hero Academia’s Finale
It goes without saying, but spoilers for the entire series and the manga from here on out. My Hero Academia is a very interesting series to dissect. If this writer had one phrase to describe it, he would say “wasted potential”. My Hero Academia’s first couple of arcs and fights were so well done. They had a great balance of character drama, along with interesting choreography and really exciting moments.
The first couple of stories had so many cool Chekov’s gun moments. Points of the story were being carefully set up, just to be eventually revealed. Or the audience thought. Many of these plot points, like the main character’s father, were never fully revealed. And on top of that, the overall quality of the story suffered so much. The first couple of arcs started really strong, but the ones after that were quite rough.
The Latter Half
After a certain part of the series, you can really tell where the drop in quality started. For this writer’s money, the peak of the series was up until around volume 14 of the manga. There were so many moments in those first 14 volumes that were incredible. They were compelling, they were well done, and they made sense. Now My Hero Academia has 41 volumes. Not every moment after 14 is bad, but the comparison is there.
Many of these story arcs were just so uninteresting. They involved the side characters that many fans just didn’t care about or even like. That’s a major issue with this series. So many of the characters are just flat and uninteresting, because there’s too many. The fanbase doesn’t care about Deku (the main character) and his friends’ rival class. There’s too many characters to get attached to.
Stripping Away Heroism
In the final chapter of My Hero Academia, Deku loses his powers, and is pretty much a powerless working man. His friends go on to become heroes. It’s tragic in its own way. But it makes sense. He had to sacrifice his powers so that he could defeat the main villain at the end of the story. It’s tragic, but well written. That is, until All Might, his idol, gives him a robot suit that essentially gives him powers.
It was a disappointment to see Deku essentially becoming My Hero Academia’s Iron Man. Endings need to be definitive, and they need to be earned. In the last two pages of the final chapter, this revelation happens. The ending has removed the stakes Deku gave and the significance of the final battle. The worst part is how much this series means to so many people. Endings are hard to do well, but My Hero Academia’s ending is a crash course in how not to end a long running manga.
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