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Review: My Hero Academia, Vol. 3

My Hero Academia, Vol. 3 My Hero Academia, Vol. 3 by Kohei Horikoshi
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

10/10 series, everything to be said has already been said in past reviews.

I’m so fricken hype for the anime you have no idea. I’m just sad because I’m quite sure the anime is going to surpass the volumes that are out in English, as I would have liked to have read all the manga before seeing it animated. By counting the calendar I’ve deduced that by the time the next volume is released (August 2nd, 2016) the anime would have aired 18 episodes. Now, I don’t know if it’s even going to have 18 episodes in the first run, but either way I’m *pretty* certain that it will pass the content in these four volumes by then. Sigh, I was hoping that the next volume would be out earlier during the airing of the anime so it could supply me with some last minute content before they aired it.

*EDIT!!!!*
I was terribly confused when I wrote this review! For some reason I was under the impression this is the fourth book, so August 2nd is actually the release for the fifth book! The fourth book comes out May 3rd which is fantastic! There will only be five episodes out by then which means there might actually be a chance to get last second new content! Either that or we'll be able to read what we just saw aired. Who knows! Either way this is exciting.


Read all of my My Hero Academia Reviews:
✪ Volumes 1-10: 1 | 2 | 3* | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
Volumes 11-20
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes

*Current review


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