My Hero Academia's Heroes Are Beating All For One In The Perfect Way
Warning! Spoilers ahead for My Hero Academia chapter 355!
How a mere class 1-A student like Kyoka Jiro (and to a lesser extent Fumikage Tokoyami) get the upper hand on My Hero Academia's big bad All For One is perfect in how it obliterates a stagnant shonen trope. As My Hero Academia creeps closer toward its end, it starts to innovate on tired tropes.
Not just shonen but any form of fiction that sets children against adults in fights to the death are guilty of making it so their heroes who have little to no experience somehow overcome villains who have been terrorizing the world for years. As a manga that revolves around first-year students in a high school, My Hero Academia uses this trope quite often. But in chapter 355, mangaka Kohei Horikoshi throws a curveball even though his student characters appear to be victorious.
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By the time of chapter 355 of My Hero Academia, class-1 students Kyoka Jiro and Fumikage Tokoyami have decided to interfere in Hawks and Endeavor's battle against All For One as the villain ostensibly toys with the struggling heroes. The students' strategy is for Tokoyami to carry Jiro on his back while she unleashes a powerful audio blast at All For One so that Hawks can deliver his final blow. And it succeeds. Jiro's Heartbeat Wall Legato stuns All For One long enough for Hawks to land his potentially fatal slash by wielding Windcutting Blade. But Jiro is only successful because the villain is «attacked» by apparitions that All For One attributes to Star and Stripe's New World quirk (though, they are most likely the echoing consciousnesses of the users whose quirks he's stolen).
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