Volume: 3 (of 8+)
Creator: Kohei Horikoshi
Format: Unflipped
Original Publisher: SHUEISHA
US Publisher: VIZ
Release Date: 2/2/16
Pages: 192
ISBN: 1421585103
MSRP: $9.99
Genre: Shonen Jump
Rated: T (For Teen)
Description: What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called “Quirks”? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless?
A sinister group of villains has attacked the first-year U.A. students, but their real target is All Might. It’s all that Midoriya and his classmates can do to hold them off until reinforcements arrive. All Might joins the battle to protect the kids, but as his power runs out he may be forced into an extremely dangerous bluff!
Contains Numbers 18-26:
- No.18: Heroes' Counterattack
- No.19: All Might
- No.20: The World of Pros
- No.21: In Each of Our Hearts
- No.22: That's The Idea, Ochako
- No.23: Roaring Sports Festival
- No.24: Mad Dash and Knockdown
- No.25: In Their Own Quirky Ways
- No.26: Chase Down the Leader
Review:
Cover: The cover this time has a lot of action going on. Characters represented are Midoriya, Bakugo, Todoroki, Kirishima, and the villain Tomura Shigaraki. The heroes look desperate while the only lone villain looks pretty meanacing. The background coloring is black and blue. The series title is across the top, with the usual upper left corner volume number design that makes it look like an American comic book cover. The character represented on the volume number this time is Bakugo.
The spine from top-to-bottom contains the Shonen Jump brand logo, the series title, the volume number, the mangaka, an image of Bakugo (from the volume number logo on the front), and the VIZ company logo.
The back cover is split in half vertically right down the center. On the right we have a Perfume Ad for a new hero featured in this volume, Midnight. The left side has the volume summary on the top half, with an image of Midoriya reaching forward on the bottom (image from the front cover).
I still am digging how they are doing these covers and making them look like the American comics that the mangaka is clearly inspired by. My only real issue, like the last volume as well, is the horrid color scheme and design used on the back cover. I love the whole Super Hero Ad segment being used, but the volume summary is overlayed across a neon yellow bubble with tons of different colors used for the actual text. It is truly a bother for my eyes, and I am sure other fans will agree with me here as well.
The spine from top-to-bottom contains the Shonen Jump brand logo, the series title, the volume number, the mangaka, an image of Bakugo (from the volume number logo on the front), and the VIZ company logo.
The back cover is split in half vertically right down the center. On the right we have a Perfume Ad for a new hero featured in this volume, Midnight. The left side has the volume summary on the top half, with an image of Midoriya reaching forward on the bottom (image from the front cover).
I still am digging how they are doing these covers and making them look like the American comics that the mangaka is clearly inspired by. My only real issue, like the last volume as well, is the horrid color scheme and design used on the back cover. I love the whole Super Hero Ad segment being used, but the volume summary is overlayed across a neon yellow bubble with tons of different colors used for the actual text. It is truly a bother for my eyes, and I am sure other fans will agree with me here as well.
Artwork: The artwork continues to amaze me as well, especially with this volume. We have two very different types of action going on in this volume as we move from our first story arc and segue right into the second which have completely different feels. The art however is consistent with every page and panel and I really love the mix of style that the creator uses with the way he designs this series. It truly is an American styled of comic done in a manga type of world.
Translation: Characters, attacks, cultural references, and places are all left intact. Sound Effects have been made into English text.
Extras: Tons of character profile pages (one after each chapter). There is also a Meet the Assistants page, introducing Horikoshi's assistants who help him out with the manga.
Content (Warning: May Contain Spoilers): As mentioned above, this volume kind of has two stories, as we finish our first story arc with our heroes taking on the supposed Villains (more like terrorists), and move into the Sports Festival Arc. Both are filled with tons of action, but probably a bit different from what we have come to understand in terms of action by now with this series.
The main event of the USJ story arc begins as All Might enters the battle after recharging for several hours and being able to become his heroic form. Although he enters the fight, the rest of the students continue to help and fight back as they see there is just way too many villains for one hero to handle on their own. And just because All Might is on the scene doesn't mean that this fight is going to be easy. His powers are draining faster now that he has transferred some of them for Midoriya, and eventually there will come a time where he may need to give up being a hero forever.
The battle reaches a conclusion as Iida returns to the battle, after he left it last volume to tell the other teachers at UA Academy that their lesson was interuppted by this villain riot. The main villain who started the attack, Tomura Shigaraki, decides it is time to flee and regroup for another day as they might not survive with this many heroes just arriving. Back at the villains hideout though, we learn that Shigaraki isn't the head villain, someone else is pulling the strings behind the scene, but us readers won't be learning that for much later.
There were plenty of casualties during the fight, leaving several of our heroes injured pretty bad. Luckily no one really died. We then meet Tsukauchi, a news reporter and also a close friend of All Might's who also knows of his secret. Tsukauchi wants the story behind the Villains attack and is there to help make the press see that the villains were truly at fault for this destruction and that no harm was really done with the students.
After the overall conclusion of the USJ arc, we move to the Sports Festival arc, where the entire UA Academy must compete in games and try to win the favor of veteran heroes in hopes of being picked up as sponsors to help them in their training and future careers as heroes. The first event is a relay race which is pretty much a neck on neck race to the finish between Bakugo and Todoroki. However in a last ditch effort at the very end, Midoriya uses his skills, without his quirk, and jumps to the finish line, becoming the winner. Now that Midoriya has won, he gets top points, leaving him as Target #1 for the remainder of the Sports Festival on who needs to be taken down first.
I absolutely enjoyed this volume from cover to cover. I really love how the Villains aren't really just Villains, but almost like terrorists; Once Heroes gone bad? Also being able to move right into the next story arc and not being a full on slug fest but more of a competition is really cool. It reminds me almost like Naruto's Chunnin Exams. I am really looking forward to seeing where this story goes and also all the new characters who will probably be introduced over the coming volumes with this new story line.
Objectionable Content:
Where Purchased: Barnes and Nobles
Original Review Date: 6/21/16
The main event of the USJ story arc begins as All Might enters the battle after recharging for several hours and being able to become his heroic form. Although he enters the fight, the rest of the students continue to help and fight back as they see there is just way too many villains for one hero to handle on their own. And just because All Might is on the scene doesn't mean that this fight is going to be easy. His powers are draining faster now that he has transferred some of them for Midoriya, and eventually there will come a time where he may need to give up being a hero forever.
The battle reaches a conclusion as Iida returns to the battle, after he left it last volume to tell the other teachers at UA Academy that their lesson was interuppted by this villain riot. The main villain who started the attack, Tomura Shigaraki, decides it is time to flee and regroup for another day as they might not survive with this many heroes just arriving. Back at the villains hideout though, we learn that Shigaraki isn't the head villain, someone else is pulling the strings behind the scene, but us readers won't be learning that for much later.
There were plenty of casualties during the fight, leaving several of our heroes injured pretty bad. Luckily no one really died. We then meet Tsukauchi, a news reporter and also a close friend of All Might's who also knows of his secret. Tsukauchi wants the story behind the Villains attack and is there to help make the press see that the villains were truly at fault for this destruction and that no harm was really done with the students.
After the overall conclusion of the USJ arc, we move to the Sports Festival arc, where the entire UA Academy must compete in games and try to win the favor of veteran heroes in hopes of being picked up as sponsors to help them in their training and future careers as heroes. The first event is a relay race which is pretty much a neck on neck race to the finish between Bakugo and Todoroki. However in a last ditch effort at the very end, Midoriya uses his skills, without his quirk, and jumps to the finish line, becoming the winner. Now that Midoriya has won, he gets top points, leaving him as Target #1 for the remainder of the Sports Festival on who needs to be taken down first.
I absolutely enjoyed this volume from cover to cover. I really love how the Villains aren't really just Villains, but almost like terrorists; Once Heroes gone bad? Also being able to move right into the next story arc and not being a full on slug fest but more of a competition is really cool. It reminds me almost like Naruto's Chunnin Exams. I am really looking forward to seeing where this story goes and also all the new characters who will probably be introduced over the coming volumes with this new story line.
Objectionable Content:
- Language: No
- Violence: Yes
- Nudity: No
- Sexual Situations: No
- Cover: 7/10
- Artwork: 8/10
- Translation: 7/10
- Extras: 10/10
- Story: 10/10
Where Purchased: Barnes and Nobles
Original Review Date: 6/21/16
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