My Hero Academia's Students Miss a Perfect Opportunity to Beat All For One
Warning! Spoilers ahead for My Hero Academia chapter 356!
Under normal circumstances, a situation where My Hero Academia would allow any class 1-A student other than Deku to defeat All For One would earn an eye roll. But mangaka Kohei Horikoshi actually presented the perfect opportunity for this to happen without being cliche, and yet, chose to avoid it entirely.
Almost every shonen mangaka — including Horikoshi — is guilty of dabbling in shonen cliches to some degree, and who can blame them? This is especially the case for first-time mangaka who grew up reading manga and want to give their own spin to powerful tropes that impacted them back in the day. Of course, this is often tiresome for longtime readers who are desperate for something fresh. So, whenever these fans finally find a storyline that provides a new take on a well-known trope, it's impossible not to get excited. This excitement is much more pronounced when mangaka come up with a way to make cliches acceptable, meaning it's a letdown when they don't follow through on these «upside-down cliches.»
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In chapter 356 of My Hero Academia, Kohei sets up class 1-A student Fumikage Tokoyami with the perfect opportunity to strike down All For One. After the number-two hero Hawks presents an opening to attack All For One in the previous chapter, Fumikage Tokoyami rushes in and unleashes his visually impressive Abyss Black Ephemeral attack. As readers wait to see the effects of Fumikage's assault, they are taken into All For One's mind as he explains how his senses have been dulled by the fact that his many quirks are now rebelling against him, possibly foreshadowing All For One's inevitable defeat.
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