Written by: Manip Maharjan - 2022009, Grade X
Posted on: 11 August, 2020
My Hero Academia is an anime and manga series released on November 9, 2015, written by Kohei Horikoshi. My hero academia takes place in a world where every person has a unique and distinctive superpower called quirks. As the surge of the quirks in the My Hero Academia world, dreadful people who misuse their power and ability caused a lot of chaos and turmoil resulting in the rise of heroes, and those people who misused their power were called villains.
The anime takes place in a world like ours where almost every individual is born with a mutation which grants them superhuman abilities and weird powers called quirks. The anime has some meticulous world-building and character development which has helped the anime to rise in popularity not only in Asia but even in North America and Europe. This anime has amassed thousands of fans over the years thanks to the passionate storytelling of Kohei Horikoshi. Another main element for the success of this anime is the simplicity and the innocence of the main character (Izuku Midoriya) and the determination of the main character.
With the surge of a superpower in my hero academia world individual who misused their power also came in the light to combat these villains, people started to take off the street to maintain harmony and peace in the society later these people were called heroes. The story is about a young boy named Izuku Midoriya who is born without a quirk and yearns to become a hero. As he was born without a quirk he always had to run the extra mile to compete with his peers. As the series starts out the main character begins as a timid, weak, and quirkless guy who wants to be a hero more than anything. Everything changes when the main character is saved by his ideal All might who happens to be the symbol of peace and the most powerful hero in the series. After seeing the determination and the well intent of the boy All Might sees himself in him and chooses to pass his quirk into the boy. After that, the boy embarks on his way of becoming a hero.
Well, the plot seems pretty simplistic and easy to understand which also attributes the success of the anime. But the complicity of the plot is very intense too. Being a battle genre in the shounen genre the battles in this anime is not that simple like in dragon ball where the character yells to earn some extraordinary power. In this anime, different tactics and strategies are deployed for the success of the battles. Moreover, this anime is not just about the battle like other shounen anime, it is about how to overcome the challenges of being a hero.
The art and the graphics of this anime also attribute the instantaneous success of this anime. The graphics and the art structure depicted in this anime is just unprecedented and phenomenal. The artwork done by Studio Bones was unparalleled. If animation is awful then it can ruin the show because we only see what we find appealing. Thanks to the effort of many individuals this anime has been nominated for many awards and has won awards such as Best Action, the Best fight scene, and many more. Plot-wise and animation wise this anime have done a pretty promising job so far and I hope this anime will get a lot of traction in the year to come.
