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Review: My Hero Academia, Vol. 4

My Hero Academia, Vol. 4 My Hero Academia, Vol. 4 by Kohei Horikoshi
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I feel like I've never wanted the next book in a series as badly as I want Volume 5 of My Hero Academia.

This was some good shit, boys. Just like this series always is. I know it's already pretty fast that they come out every few months, but I feel like it could be even faster. Like does it really take that long to translate and touch-up and all that? I kind of feel like I'm talking like an ungrateful brat right now, so I'll stop.

This whole volume (which consists of chapters 27-35) still just covers the Sport Festival arc, and it's still going strong by the end of chapter 35. It also ends on a mighty cliffhanger, so thank you very much to whoever decided to end the volume there. This arc is pretty good, we get to see the millions of characters in action which is pretty cool. I love Aizawa Sensei, just gonna casually drop that here. We don't see him in action during this volume (that was the last arc) but he's one of the commentators to the festival. I feel like watching him in the anime and reliving him from the earlier chapters is what has got me so keen on him now.

I started reading this late at night on the Sunday that episode nine of the anime aired. That's the episode where it's the start of their third training, Rescue Training. Would that be the Rescue Training arc then? Or something else to do with villains, since that's the first time they fight villains. Who knows, either way that's where the anime is as of the writing of this review. The fifth episode aired a couple days before this volume was released, so I was a little behind on picking this up.

I want the next volume now please, thanks. And no I will not read any fan-translations online. I want to support this amazing series with my money, and you should too! Wheee!


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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

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