You know that My Hero Academia is based on the super popular manga series. That
weekly series just has some amazing art! You may not be aware about the various
changes done to the series when going from one drawn medium to another. One
change or should I say addition, was just how much more bloody the series was in
the anime compared to the manga. A lot of this can be seen in the battle scenes at
the end of season 1. The tournament arc in Season 2 also thankfully got
expanded. The anime series has included much more details for the matches, but
here's my favorite additional change, and this anime upgrade had to be the student
vs. sensei battles. The manga actually had all these matchups happening at the
exact same time. In the middle of some of the students fights the students were
able to hear announcements about other teams winning or losing their matchups.
However this got changed to be one by one for the anime and I think that was
the right choice. it really helps it to make it easier to
follow certain battles instead of switching between five or four groups at
the same time. The ones that benefited the most were the supporting cast since
the manga did not show their full fights. You were really only able to see the set
up but that was it. Oh and did you enjoy that Froppy focused episode? She might
even be best girl for you! Funny enough that what you saw in her episode was
only one panel in the manga. The anime went ahead and expanded her internship
into a whole episode.
My hero academia introduces you to a wonderful world of heroes. Everyone has
some kind of special ability known as a quirk. What's interesting is just how
much of the cast got drastic changes from their original concepts. For
starters the Invisible Girl and Froppy were both originally guys. The author
Horikoshi mentioned that their A1 class was lacking in the female
Department. Naturally an easy way to fix this was to gender swap some of the
characters, and he also threw in this, that having an Invisible Girl would make
things much more interesting. Just use your imagination! And honestly that was a
great idea since Froppy has become super popular way, more popular than he
expected. As for Invisible Girl you always see
chat her online regarding her ability combined with the fact of her always
being nude hmm. As for the guys, Lida was originally supposed to be a pro hero but
he ended up getting demoted to student level in the final version. As for other
changes they involve the teachers and pro heroes. The number two hero Endeavor
was originally supposed to be a teacher at UA.
However this ended up getting changed since Horikoshi thought that the power
balance would have been too much on the hero side. The announcer hero Present
Mic was also supposed to originally be a super old man but Horikoshi
thought that that idea was boring. You've also seen the female hero Midnight who's
popular for some reason. Midnight was originally supposed to be a teacher for
the A1 class. The problem was that her personality might have been a potential
issue with her interacting with the class at least for the guy is that maybe
one or two girl. Sadly for our heroes Eraser head ended up getting the job
instead.
Since we're on the topic of changes the origins for My hero academia deserves a
mention. Boku no hero academia was originally released as a one-shot series
six years before the series that you're familiar with. Unsurprisingly it was so
different. This prequel series focuses on Deku except he's got this crazy look to
him. This Deku was already a full-grown adult that was working as a salaryman in
a hero world. The only problem is that this guy wasn't a hero. Instead he worked
his butt off selling hero items. This Deku was secretly trying to become a
hero but he always ended up getting his ass kicked.
What's interesting to notice is that the main series you know actually has a very
similar scene to the original where this guy tries to rescue someone from a slime
monster. It should have been the inspiration for Deku saving Bakugo's
ass. It also turns out that Deku wasn't the only one that made it back
for the main series. The original series did have the gun-slinging hero Snipe. He
later made his way back into the current My hero academia series.
You've heard me mention him. Well let's go ahead and get a deeper look at the
creator for My hero academia. Kohei Horikoshi is the creator and his
story of success very much mimics Deku and All Might. The road to success was built
on a bunch of failures. His first series was Ouma Zoo that was published in the
Weekly Shonen Jump. Unfortunately it got quickly cancelled. It didn't even make it
a full year. Despite this lost he got back on his feet the following year. His
second series was titled Barrage. It also launched in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2012.
Unfortunately this one got axed even quicker. Shonen Jump cancelled it after
four months, ouch. This really crushed Horikoshi. He was
super depressed. He's mentioned how he doesn't have any good memories about his
second series and at that point he was debating about giving up manga
completely. Thankfully for us hardcore fans
he gave it one more shot. He decided to use his past Boku no hero one-shot as a
foundation for the new series. As he was working on this he thought to himself
"This is all I have left". So pretty awesome that he gave it another try!
His third time up to the plate ended up being a home run with My Hero
Academia!
The anime studio behind My hero academia is a Bones Studio. You might be familiar
with a little bit of their other anime work they've done. Ouran High School Host
Club, the visual spectacle that was Mob Psycho 100, Noragami, The Cowboy Bebop
movie and also little series known as Full Metal Alchemist.
Bones actually did both of them too, that weird 2003 one and Full Metal Alchemist
Brotherhood in 2009. At the head of My hero academia as the director Kenji
Nagasaki. You could go ahead and give him a lot of credit for finding the awesome
voices for Deku and Bakugo. Kenji has mentioned how they auditioned
over a hundred people for each character. Firkin crazy! Finding the perfect match
for these two was extremely important. As for the lovely openings the opening song
for season 1 was done by Porno Graffiti. That name should sound familiar. They're
the same group that did the opening for the original Full Metal Alchemist and also the
bleach opening number 11.
You might be surprised that My Hero Academia has a strong connection to Naruto and
One piece. From watching the anime you may have even gotten this Naruto-vine.
The reason for this is due to how much these two series have been a heavy
influence for Horikoshi. He's even got a huge collection on One Piece and Naruto
in his home. Naturally this goes far far back into his past. Horikoshi has been
a life long One piece fan. He actually submitted some fan art to the one piece
author Oda all the way back in 2002. This later ended up getting featured in
volume 77 one piece. Oda even encourages fans to read
Boku no hero academia. As for the Naruto author Kishimoto, he's gone on to praise
Horikoshi in a past interview. Kishimoto has talked about how he felt
that My Hero academia has taken the mantle of Naruto since its conclusion.
He's actually made an artwork in the past to champion My Hero academia at the
start of the anime. It's definitely not a coincidence that Ochako shares a
birthday was Hinata. This really must be a dream come true for Horikoshi. Both
of these definitely reminding of a real-life version of All Might passing the
torch. In this case Horikoshi is Deku.
The My Hero academia author is such an otaku for American stuff. He's a hardcore
fan of Marvel and Batman. It's no surprise that he's totally into Star
Wars too. You may have even noticed a reference or two in his work but there's a ton!
In chapter 1 that villain is fighting in the Tatooine district. The middle school
that Deku could went to was Alderaan middle. On the other hand that creepy guy
Shinso was from Naboo middle school. Tsuyu's mom is name Beru, this being the
one who raised the Luke. That Beach where All Might trained Deku was Dagobah Beach
Park. This being the planet where Yoda trained Luke. I mean All Might was really
pulling a Yoda there. In the manga there's a hero was a special move called
The Phantom Menace! Yeah I'm not joking. Most of the
buildings and facilities seen in the show are also named after Star Wars
references. There's just so many! Let me know below if you notice any I missed.
My Hero Academy is pretty unique in the fact that it let fans really get
into the series. What I'm talking about was a past fan art contest held for
Boku no hero but it wasn't just any old contest. The contest was for a unique
hero creation from the fans. The winners for this contest actually ended up
getting their hero's feature in the manga. Here's the winners, Bubble girl and
Centipeder. Oh and did I say featured? Horikoshi thought that I wasn't good
enough to only appear as cameos or background characters. Bubble girl has
been a pretty prominent character as a sidekick to a key character in the
current arc. You'll see her in action in season 4. The second winner Centipeder, r
honestly this guy hasn't been that huge of a player yet but he's also working in
the same place as Bubble girl. In all this was very surprising to see. Would
you be interested if they did another one of these contests? And who knows next
time they might take entries worldwide!
My Hero academia getting his own anime also meant getting his very own cafe. The
series has gotten several cafe promotions all over Japan ever since the
anime debuted. I was lucky enough to visit one of them while season 2 was
airing! The cafe's offer dishes like Deku's Kotsudon. Ochako got a sticky chewy
zero-gravity parfait, looks yummy! Season two dishes allowed you to have All Might's
special bento box. I wonder, was this really made by him. I can't picture all my
cooking hmm. Anyway there was also a gold-medal pasta right in time for the
tournament arc. Number two hero got a spicy curry dish. It was sure to be
super hot! Gran Torino saw his special fish dessert get featured too, and best
of all. You were able to try Mount lady's delicious balls.
mmm takoyaki. Let me know which of these dishes you'd like to try and you could
bet they're gonna have more of these cafes for season 3 and season 4.
My hero academia has quietly become a major hit after the debut of the anime.
It's so popular that it even has his own spin-off manga series. It's called My
Hero Academia Illegals. Japan has also been lucky to see the release of three
different My hero Academia games. On top of this Japan has also gotten two light
novels. Unfortunately the games and novels have
not been released in English yet. But anyway as for the main series this focus
is on Deku and his supporting cast. All of these guys are still first-year
students. Slowly but surely they're making their
way to becoming great pro heroes. This should mean that you got at least two
years of school left to see right? About that, Horikoshi has mentioned last year
about how the series was about 20% complete. If you take that estimate to be
right then you could expect My Hero Academia to be anywhere from 600 to 700
chapters until the very end. Bleach by comparison ended on chapters
686, and that other series for Boruto's- dad ended on chapter seven hundred.
So after seeing these two around six hundred chapters does sound right or
who knows maybe it'll be the next One Peace. What's interesting is that
Horikoshi has hinted that he has major plot points for the series planned out
until the very end. Honestly that's pretty reassuring. Horikoshi has
thrown out the possible idea of a sequel when it's all done. I could really only
imagine this focusing on Deku and the pro heroes after they graduated.
Hopefully it's something like that and not becoming what Boruto has, but
what do you think? Would you be interested in seeing this after ten
years? Either way I'm definitely looking
forward to My Hero Academia season three! And I really wouldn't mind watching ten
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