By most standards, it would be filed alongside shows like Dragonball Z and Naruto.
The show progresses and Deku struggles with controlling a power his body hasn’t been conditioned to handle.
In the meantime, superhero after superhero announces their retirement from active duty.
All the while, the villains they only just barely stopped are already working on even more destructive plans.
The Boys, however, starts from a more cynical place than My Hero Academia.
He then joins up with the titular boys to put an end to the injustice in the hero system.
However, this does not stop Shigaraki from longing to be an upstanding, caped crusader himself.
Another villain, Twice, can replicate himself indefinitely, and pledges his loyalty to Shigaraki.
In season five, however, a hero kills him to keep him from overrunning society.
He’ll do almost anything to stay in the Seven because he feels like nothing without them.
Even when he knows that what they’re doing is wrong, he sides with them out of fear.
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