The Artistic Evolution Of My Hero Academia

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  @alexenterprises1 · 2 years ago · pinned

  Hope you’re all having a great start to the New Year! Plus Ultra!

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• SH

  @shonenbois · 2 years ago

  I really love how the creator of MHA takes heavy inspiration from Western superheroes. It’s just cool seeing this level of respect between The West and East

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  @hydrawarrior953 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I love the emphasis on drawing hands in horikoshi’s art. Most artists shy away from drawing them, but horikoshi does the opposite and actually talks about how besides the eyes, hands are the most important part of a characters body to convey their emotions. On top of this, there’s even a running theme throughout MHA of hands symbolizing connections. Great video, love to finally see a video about MHA without someone just complaining about it

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  @Moddum123 · 2 years ago

  It's always so clear how Hori stands out as soon as he adds a Deku on a shonen jump magazine cover amongst all the other characters. OP is always first, but Deku is also always so vibrantly positioned in the bg your eyes go there first. He's really carved out his place in manga history

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  @SonicFletch · 2 years ago

  Horikoshi is my favorite mangaka of all time. His art style clicks with me so much, and I really hope that after MHA ends, that he comes back with a new manga that's not restrained by the weekly grind. Either monthly or an irregular schedule like Sui Ishida's Choujin X; anything that'll benefit his health and allow him to grow more as an artist.

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  @H3rmon861 · 2 years ago

  As an artist, the technical skills of Horikoshi feels like they have been undervalued by the wider community. Most understand that the picture look nice but don’t understand how fucking insane it is in terms of the fundamental. Horikoshi’s perfect stylization and understanding of the fundamentals feels like something so out of the norm of the other weekly shonen series running right now.

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• KR

  @kroketrendang · 2 years ago

  One of the few series where it feels like almost every chapter has one page that really makes your jaw drop.

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  @Yggdraseed · 2 years ago (edited)

  I wish you had touched, as well, on the other thing he mentioned he wished he&apos;d known more about at the start: human emotions. A lot of the characters in early My Hero Academia definitely felt like caricatures in not just visual style, but personality as well. Over time, you see Horikoshi exploring more complex stories with those characters&apos; emotions and inner lives, and that comes out in the art, as well. <br><br>The emotional complexity Horikoshi is able to portray and the amount of attention he gives to what each character is feeling is something that&apos;s even more underrated than his grasp on action scenes and perspective, in my opinion. Personally, it&apos;s the emotional nuance and payoffs to character arcs that draw me to HeroAca more than anything else. In particular, the way he developed Toga from a very stereotypical yandere to a much more complex and tragic character is my favorite thing about HeroAca.<br><br>Other than that, I think people really underappreciate Horikoshi&apos;s grasp on anatomy. His art style is very stylized, but always grounded in a very strong understanding of the human body. It makes the injuries characters suffer believable and visceral, lends itself to one-of-a-kind character designs, and allows him to put out horrifying imagery that dedicated horror manga stand to learn from. I was very excited to see that Horikoshi stated in an interview that he&apos;s considering writing a horror manga next, because it feels like he has this immense prowess with that which only arose unexpectedly while he was making My Hero Academia.<br><br>As much as I love My Hero Academia, I am thrilled beyond words to see what Horikoshi makes next. You can really feel that as an artist, author, and person in general, Horikoshi grew into a level of confidence and competency that&apos;s leagues apart from where his career started. It&apos;s heartbreaking to go back and see the all-consuming self-doubt he struggled with, on top of the frequent health issues. Through it all, though, it feels like he found himself in his art, and his art grew meteorically along with him. Stuff like that inspires me like nothing else.

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  @D13MONstudios · 2 years ago

  His work is easily the best in Jump right now. Each week I look forward to seeing a new chapter of his, but hope he stays healthy. It will be sad when MHA ends, but he will go down as one of the best artists in the manga industry.

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  @Inchiostro_ · 2 years ago (edited)

  This!<br>People tend to overlook Horikoshi&apos;s artistic skills because of the inphamy My Hero Academia got during the years because of its fandom, but he is actually one the best mangakas of our recent times.<br>Seeing for example the panel in which Overhaul stretches his arm in the foreground as if he is reaching the viewer with the spaces between his fingers becoming little windows in which the page show other fragments of the scene is seriously terrific composition and dynamism

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• AL

  @aladin7736 · 2 years ago

  It&apos;s crazy how the perception of the community around this manga has completely squewed the perception to how good this manga is actually is. The best active shonen rn and surprisingly one of the most underrated.

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  @rjmartinez4800 · 2 years ago

  Honestly mha was one of the first manga series that brought me to watching more anime &nbsp;and reading more manga so hats off to horikoshi displaying this amount of &nbsp;amazing quality with this harsh time crunch

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