Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26912075-20170802192635/@comment-26912075-20170803163859

I see numerous mentions of good characters being the leading reason as to why people enjoy this manga, however, these characters all fall into specific archetypes that appear in numerous shonen manga. Take the main rival to the protagonist for example. He is the typical hot headed character who thinks he is the best, I've seen so many of these in other manga such as Bleach that it becomes annoying after seeing that there has to be one in every action shonen out there. There is nothing special about Deku either, he is the typical underdog that has super special powers that were passed down to him, seen it before. He would be much more interesting if he were as he was in the first 2 chapters of the manga, a kid who has no powers but can still prove to everyone that he could still be a hero. Instead, we get the betrayal that happened in Naruto, but instead of taking a few years to happen it took 2 chapters. All Might is brought up to be this amazing hero, but all he does is punches things really hard and takes out the bad guys. There is nothing particularly heroic about him that you wouldn't get from other heroes (hell, Mumen Rider from One Punch Man is more heroic than him and Deku combined). The villains also suck. Tomura is a whinny brat who wants to kill everyone because they have the spotlight, and Stein just sounds pretentious by spouting all this stuff about what it means to be a hero, but then just decided Deku is a true hero for no reason. The son of the second best hero in the world is the only really decent character in the whole show, but even he pales in comparison to other characters that venture to find themselves such as the main 3 from Neon Genesis. If you have any rebuttals then please offer them, but keep in mind that I have not read all of the manga.