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Review: My Hero Academia, Vol. 11

My Hero Academia, Vol. 11 My Hero Academia, Vol. 11 by Kohei Horikoshi
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Wowzers wow wow. This volume marks a turning point in the series!!! (view spoiler) I guess I'm still talking in my All Might voice, even now, a whole volume since my last review! Am I annoying? Probably! Do I care? Not really!!!

It kind of still feels the same though, like nothing's really changed, especially with those chill last couple chapters. Which is neither a bad nor good thing, just an observation. Actually I'll go ahead and say it's a good thing. This series remains great! But I want more Kacchan please, thank you.

I feel wary of the next volume though. They're making up their special moves? I dunno, it seems too similar to things that have already been done before (picking names...) So I feel like it won't have the same charm. Hopefully I am wrong!

(view spoiler)

I love these covers that crop up every few volumes, these close-ups of all the best characters. As an artist, these are my favorite covers because I can more easily see the beautiful details of the drawings. Also because they're intense and awesome as frick.
Volume 5, 7, and 11 covers, respectively(Mouse-over images to view sources)

It's the middle of the night and I don't have enough brain cells left to write a proper review. Ah.


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