User blog:Lover of the Muse/Shounen Formula prologue

My Hero Academia is a Shounen Battle series about a plucky underdog with a strong sense of justice in a superpowered world and his journey to become the best while fighting rivals and enemies. MHA follows a formula and features tropes and archetypes we've seen countless time in other Shounen series.

My Hero Academia however is self-aware about the nature of it's tropes and uses that genre awareness to refine it's tropes to perfection or forgo a cliche completely if that's what will improve the story. Another thing that makes My Hero Academia work is it's strong character writing that allows characters (some of them anyway) to evolve beyond their initial archetypes.

I'm going to be writing a series of blogs analyzing the characters and story of My Hero Academia and how they relate to Shounen tropes.

Part 1 will focus on Katsuki Bakugo

Part 2 on the Sports Festival Arc

Part 3 on Tenya Iida and the Stain Arc

Part 4: Ecchi, fan-service and Minouru Mineta

Part 5 on All Might

Part 6 Tomuru Shigaraki

Part 7 on Izuku Midoriya