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Review: My Hero Academia, Vol. 5

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

Kohei Horikoshi and the assistants, back at it again with another FANTASTIC volume!!! This series just gets my heart racing and feeling good so much more than any other series out there!! It really pissed me off when my (ex)friend said they didn't like the series when they watched the anime, because the manga is so good!!! All the exclamation points!!!!!!!!!

This series just gets me so hype because it's so good and I love it so much. The characters slay me and the story slays me and the fights slay me and the art OBLITERATES MEEEEEEEEEE. Everytime I read this series I can't get over how much I love the art. It just hits me in all the right spots. Especially the fully-coloured chapter covers, holy shit.

Chapter 44 cover

The one for chapter 44 with Bakugo on it (shown above), just, holy shit. I don't even know what words to describe it. I just had to stare at it for a good few minutes. Ahhhhhhhhhhh. *Edit:* This has the exact same effect on me every time I see it.... Wow.

So yeah I guess this series is pretty good and I guess you get it, right? But, I do have a gripe about this volume. It has nothing to do with the story itself so it's not enough to affect my feelings towards that, but it's about the technicalities of the manga.

A looootttt of times I can't tell who's talking, which is very annoying. There'll be text bubbles with words, but beats me because I don't know who's sayin' em. A lot of times there'll be no indent or spoke of any kind to indicate who the hell the bubble belongs to. So. Annoying!!! Also there were different types of bubbles that are different types of dialogue, which was confusing until I figured it out.

For future reference:
❂ The bubbles with black spikes protruding all around them are a character recalling past dialogue. It is NOT their own thoughts which is how it is in other manga, which was very confusing.

❂ Internal thoughts are represented by floating bubble-less text and belong to the character in the panel in which the text first appears, and continues to belong to that character until the thought ends, even if the text is shown on top of another character.

❂ Square "bubbles" are the future Izuku narrating the story.

Other than those technicalities, 10/10. Unique characters, unique powers, awesome fights, and gorgeous art. My Hero Academia is a fresh new addition to the shonen genre.


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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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