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Review: My Hero Academia, Vol. 13

My Hero Academia, Vol. 13 My Hero Academia, Vol. 13 by Kohei Horikoshi
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A picture from Chapter 117, page 153. Deku: “Hey.”
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I have a confession. Secretly, every time I pick up a new volume of My Hero Academia, I’m a little bit scared. Scared that it’s not going to be as good as I remembered. Scared that I’m not going to like it. It’s nothing personal towards this series, it’s just a worry I’ve developed due to being disappointed by other series in the past. *cough*A recent example being Kiss Him, Not Me!*cough*.

Well, thanks to the great Horikoshi-sensei my fears have been consistently kept at bay quickly following the start of each volume. I’m scared of the day when I won’t want to rate a volume in this series 5 stars, but today is not that day.

For recap’s sake, since this is a long series:
This volume concluded the Preliminary License arc (view spoiler), and then we got some cool backstory for Twice, and a little convo between All Might and One For All. There’s rising tension and trouble on the streets caused by All Might’s retirement which was announced in volume 11, and the introduction of the villain seen on the volume 14 cover. An overall pretty wildin’ and awesome volume as always!

Another consistent thing with this series is that it once again ENDED WITH AN AGONIZING CLIFFHANGER!!!!!!!!!!! Or, rather, would-be agonizing cliffhanger, because for some reason this volume took like a month to finally ship to my house, so the next volume is already hot out on the presses, ready to be picked up and read!! My plan is to hopefully be able to pick up a copy instore in order to avoid another month-long shipping debacle.

Here is the wonderful chapter cover for chapter 119, to show the beautiful hype for the next volume, followed by more hype pics (Don’t click the spoiler unless you’ve read volume 13):
(view spoiler)

Next volume, plz and thx.


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Read all of my My Hero Academia Reviews:
✪ Volumes 1-10
✪ Volumes 11-20: 11 | 12 | 13* | 14
✪ My Hero Academia: Vigilantes

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