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A review by bookish_benny
My Hero Academia, Vol. 21 by Kōhei Horikoshi
5.0
Yes, this volume was fire!
So this starts with #1 hero Endeavor and #2 hero Hawks fighting the Nomu. What happens next is even better. Hawks is working with the League of Villains as we see him speaking to Dabi about the plan going wrong. In later pages we see he has been asked to infiltrate the LoV by the police/government. However, we don't fully know who's side he is on. Interesting stuff because Hawks does come across like a hero who is happy to look after himself and take the easy route.
The story then moves to Endeavor trying to build bridges with his family. It makes sense to show us more of him since All Might has become a side character with Midoriya as his opener. Be interesting to see what happens with Endeavor. I can definitely see him dying because of his cocky attitude and then maybe his family forgiving him posthumously...
We find out something really interesting about One for All. Midoriya had a dream or a vision or something where he could see and hear the previous owners of the quirk, One for All. I thought this was cool because it gives us a backstory to this quirk and its origin story.
The best part of this volume though was the introduction of the new characters from Class 1-B and a character called Shinso from Class C of the General Studies. I absolutely loved these new characters because we got to see them battle Class 1-A. I also really liked seeing Tsuyu (frog quirk) in action as she is one of my favourite characters but rarely gets any time on page in action.
Kuroiro can go into any shadow, including Dark Shadow which is summoned by Fumikage Tokoyami's Quirk. He also has a really cool look to him.
Shishida is basically Beast from X-Men but slightly different that he always looks like a beast and isn't blue.
Komori was okay, she is a young student who can put mushrooms everywhere - not seeing much use for this yet.
Manga Fukidashi has the ability to make words that have a sound to them (like sizzle or pop) real so an actual word appears in the world like a weapon or wall.
The class president from Class 1-B is Kendo and she can make her hands really big and their strength increases with the size of her hands. She is a really good class president and better than Ida for 1-A.
I think introducing these new characters who are effectively rivals for class 1-A was fun, clever and brilliant storytelling (since League of Villains are focusing on the pro heroes). The question now is will they be regular entries into the series or not? I really hope they will be back.
Overall I loved this volume, the best one since volume 16 and the second best volume so far. I didn't expect it to be this good because of the cover but obviously never judge a book by its cover!
So this starts with #1 hero Endeavor and #2 hero Hawks fighting the Nomu. What happens next is even better. Hawks is working with the League of Villains as we see him speaking to Dabi about the plan going wrong. In later pages we see he has been asked to infiltrate the LoV by the police/government. However, we don't fully know who's side he is on. Interesting stuff because Hawks does come across like a hero who is happy to look after himself and take the easy route.
The story then moves to Endeavor trying to build bridges with his family. It makes sense to show us more of him since All Might has become a side character with Midoriya as his opener. Be interesting to see what happens with Endeavor. I can definitely see him dying because of his cocky attitude and then maybe his family forgiving him posthumously...
We find out something really interesting about One for All. Midoriya had a dream or a vision or something where he could see and hear the previous owners of the quirk, One for All. I thought this was cool because it gives us a backstory to this quirk and its origin story.
The best part of this volume though was the introduction of the new characters from Class 1-B and a character called Shinso from Class C of the General Studies. I absolutely loved these new characters because we got to see them battle Class 1-A. I also really liked seeing Tsuyu (frog quirk) in action as she is one of my favourite characters but rarely gets any time on page in action.
Kuroiro can go into any shadow, including Dark Shadow which is summoned by Fumikage Tokoyami's Quirk. He also has a really cool look to him.
Shishida is basically Beast from X-Men but slightly different that he always looks like a beast and isn't blue.
Komori was okay, she is a young student who can put mushrooms everywhere - not seeing much use for this yet.
Manga Fukidashi has the ability to make words that have a sound to them (like sizzle or pop) real so an actual word appears in the world like a weapon or wall.
The class president from Class 1-B is Kendo and she can make her hands really big and their strength increases with the size of her hands. She is a really good class president and better than Ida for 1-A.
I think introducing these new characters who are effectively rivals for class 1-A was fun, clever and brilliant storytelling (since League of Villains are focusing on the pro heroes). The question now is will they be regular entries into the series or not? I really hope they will be back.
Overall I loved this volume, the best one since volume 16 and the second best volume so far. I didn't expect it to be this good because of the cover but obviously never judge a book by its cover!