My Hero Academia, Vol. 24

僕のヒーローアカデミア [Boku no Hero Academia] #24

by Kohei Horikoshi

¡La pelea entre la Unión de Villanos y el Ejército de Liberación de Superpoderes se desata! Parece que el bando de Shigaraki tiene ventaja gracias a la singularidad de Twice, quien se duplica incansablemente durante la batalla. Sin embargo, Re-Destro les tiene preparada una desagradable y dolorosa sorpresa que estallará cuando acumule una gran cantidad de estrés, la fuente de su poder. Ahora los villanos deberán confesar su pasado.

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Comics, Young Adult, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Shonen

200 pages, Paperback

First published August 2, 2019

About the author

HORIKOSHI Kouhei
Name (in native language): 堀越耕平
Associated Names:
Kouhei Horikoshi

Born 1986 in the prefecture Aichi, Horikoshi first attracted attention in the second half of 2006 when he entered Shueisha's 72th Tezuka Award for Newcomers with his one shot "Nukegara" and made it to the final six, where he gained himself an "Honorable Mention".
Various short stories in Shueisha's Akamaru JUMP followed over the years until he published his one shot "Oumagadoki Doubutsuen" in issue #2/2010 of Weekly Shounen JUMP.

Kouhei Horikoshi is a graduate of Nagoya University of Arts. He was previously an assistant to TANAKA Yasuki.

Zodiac: Scorpio

Pixiv: 堀越

Reviews

[May͛a]

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THE COVER.

[Delaney · Rating 4 out of 5]

Give me all the villain origin stories, I am HERE for it.

[Lia Carstairs · Rating 4 out of 5]

it's the way we're getting each of the villains' backstories and their character development that i just love

also super obsessed with that cover

[Lucy Tonks (the invisible life of a reader) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Why do I feel bad for the villains?! I love learning more about them and thier backstories but why am I actually feeling bad for them?

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Ready for more of the villains' backstory

I'm obssessed with this cover I need to get a copy of this someday

[Bradley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ok, so, even though this volume was utterly all about the villains, I have no complaints. Everyone in the League definitely needs to keep getting stronger to provide a challenge later on, after all.

This really showcased everyone. My favorite was Twice. But then something odd happened… the leader suddenly started getting QUITE strong. And his backstory? Sheesh. DARK doesn’t even begin to describe it. I even feel sorry for him a little. But sheesh.

Good volume.

[omar ☆ · Rating 5 out of 5]

5/5

what is happning omfg

[chelsea · Rating 4 out of 5]

the villain arc is finally growing on me

[Lashaan Balasingam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mangaka Kohei Horikoshi continues his exploration of villainy within his universe by putting the League of Villains up against the Liberation Army and this volume covers many origin stories for these villains. Almost making you want to root for the very people you were against at first, this story arc does an incredible job in exploring the root of evil in everyone, those key events in the lives of these people who never really wanted to be villains in the first place.

I also love how this volume expands and evolves each of their abilities through adversity. This sets up some really exciting moments for future arcs.

Yours truly,

Lashaan | Blogger and Book Reviewer
Official blog: https://bookidote.com/

[Norren · Rating 5 out of 5]

[Spoilers]

We finally got Shiggy's origin story. All I want to ask, is how did his dad think he was going to turn out if he treated him the way he did for idolizing heroes? If someone is beaten over wanting to do good and told their whole life that heroes are evil, then who's fault is it really when they become a villain? Kotaro is his own special kind of villain.

Can't wait for Vol. 25 to see the conclusion of the Re-Destro fight!

[Cameron Howell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Horikoshi really out here tryin to make Shigaraki one of the best villains of all time. I already liked the League of Villains but this volume really solidified each ones importance to the series. Can't wait for more!!

[Ashley Stanton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well this got real dark, real fast.

[karla⁹ ⛈ · Rating 5 out of 5]

easily my favorite volume and my favorite arc for character development hands down.

[Aliaa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can't believe I feel bad for Shigaraki Tomura but here we are 😔💔

[Stephanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Why should I help?"

I LOVE THE LEAGUE SO MUCH. 😭🫶

This volume is easily in my top 5 favorites of the series. It's just so good!!

[Megan ✨ · Rating 5 out of 5]

0 out of 5 stars shiggy made me cry

[Celeste · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

EN RESUMEN
La Liga de Villanos se enfrenta al Frente de Liberación.

ASPECTOS POSITIVOS
- CADA MALDITO VILLANO DE LA LIGA ES INCREÍBLE. En un solo arco lleno de acción Horikoshi logra darle a cada uno su momento para que los conozcamos y para que se vuelvan más complejos. Esto es básicamente un arco de entrenamiento pero para los malos. Y otra vez tenemos en funcionamiento el poder de los sentimientos. Gracias por usarlo con la Liga. No es algo que deba responder solo a los buenos.
Twice sigue siendo mi favorito de toda la banda, pero todos brillaron muchísimo y se ganaron mi corazón.
TOGA ES UNA YANDERE INTERESANTE. REPITO. UNA YANDERE INTERESANTE. Tenes los típicos clichés de este tipo de personajes, pero todo esto en el contexto de los dones le da una profundidad distinta. Y me encanta ese paralelismo con Ochako: que irónico que ella, un personaje que puede convertirse en los demás, tenga el sueño de parecerse a las personas que le gustan cuando a la heroína de la historia la persigue el peso de su amor por Deku. Así como Deku tiene su contraparte en Shigaraki, Ochako la tiene en Toga.
Twice es la prueba de que la sociedad de héroes y dones te puede cagar la vida hasta llevarte a la locura. Más allá de las obvias exageraciones de su trastorno, me gusta como Horikoshi encara su personaje. Tiene más humanidad y bondad que ninguno de la Liga. Es gracioso de una forma casi adorable, que te hace fácil encariñarte con él.
Por ahí Dabi, Spinner y Compress fueron los que menos momentos tuvieron, pero entregaron lo que debían entregar. Spinner es un tipo bastante normal pero con un gran sentido de lealtad hacia Stain y, ahora, hacia Shigaraki. No hay nada que me compre más que una buena amistad entre el villano principal y sus empleados. Y Dabi obviamente se da aires de misterio porque Horikoshi quiere extender su identidad lo mayor posible. No me quejo. Ir conociendo de a poco el tipo de persona que es lo hace todo más excitante. Ponerlo a pelear con un enemigo con un don de hielo, el comentario de su cuerpo y como no puede cargar con el poder de sus llamas (especialmente luego de cierta revelación en tomos pasados sobre cierto Todoroki) son muchas de las maneras en las que el autor te tira datos sutilmente.
Y, por último, tenemos a Shigaraki. El malo que solo quiere destruir todo. El hombre niño. Mucho de esto empieza a tener muchísimo más sentido una vez que entendés de dónde viene y qué fue lo que le pasó. Hay MUCHO por discutir (la posibilidad de que AFO lo haya manipulado desde el principio ME VUELVE LOCA), pero me quedo especialmente con la complejidad de su situación familiar. Hay muchas capas: tenés a Nana y la moralidad detrás de su decisión, a Kotaro y su odio a los héroes, y a Tenko que está atrapado en el medio de todo esto. Y LOS PARALELISMOS ENTRE TENKO Y DEKU POR DIOSSSSSS.
- Redestro. El tipo es un badass y su diseño es buenísimo, igual que su don.
- El dibujo. Ver a Shigaraki sin las manos y tener una mejor idea de sus sentimientos, las peleas, los diseños de los del Frente de Liberación, Twice. Horikoshi se supera más y más con cada tomo.

ASPECTOS NEGATIVOS
- De entre todos los nuevos villanos, solo me interesan Redestro, y tal vez Skeptic y Geten. El resto me pareció más bien cliché y sirven como excusas para mostrar el pasado de otros personajes.

CONCLUSIÓN
Horikoshi se arriesga y te deja de lado la historia principal para meterte de lleno en la vida de los villanos. Un concepto super interesante que funciona por los detalles del dibujo y por las personalidades de la Liga.

2da lectura: mantengo el mismo rating. Y FUCK KOTARO SHIMURA :)

[Mizuki · Rating 5 out of 5]

" Love and courage was just what the doctor ordered!"

This volume is devoted entirely to the villain camp, you know, villains have their own goals and struggle as well!

It's another highly explosive and action-driven, I like how the villains have their moments to shine (especially Twice, who overcoming his trauma in order to save Himiko Toga and Co.), but the upcoming events in this series really have me worried!!!!

PS: but comparing with Twice, I found Shigaraki's backstory a bit lacking, it isn't like it's a bad backstory or I don't understand how traumatizing it is to for a 5 years old boy being subjected to his father's mental abuse and then the boy accidentally killed his entire family but I just found it to be a little bit...lacking, that's it.

PSS: but I admit I first read some super cute boy's love fanfics about this series first before I got to the story canon! 🤣🤣🤣

[Dani St-Onge · Rating 5 out of 5]

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When My Hero Academia first began rising to prominence it was clear there was something special about the series. The shounen genre had gone a long time without anything hitting this hard, but now everyone and their grandmother knows what this series is. It releases movies as box office smashes. You cannot find a booth in artist alley without at least one piece from it.

This volume is something special though. Horikoshi has rested his series on the shoulders of strong characters. Not just in his incredible character design, but also in their stories. Finally in this book we get to see into the minds of our main antagonists, the League of Villains – who actually function as the protagonists of this volumes.

We get to see the LoV clash against another group of villains with conflicting morals. We get to see their quirks evolve and become even more powerful. More importantly we get to see more of how they interact with each other and the fact that there is genuine love there. They’re strange, creepy criminals, but they are each other’s family.

We also get two hotly anticipated backstories. Not Dabi’s unfortunately, but Himiko Toga’s and Tomura Shigaraki’s. Himiko’s is a story about a girl who couldn’t conform to society’s demands. Who wanted to live her own way. It’s touching placed alongside her frantic fight for her life.

Shigaraki’s story is brilliant. We see a story that mirror’s the protagonists in every way. A quirkless boy who desperately wants to be a hero. Who needs someone to tell him that he can be a hero, and while Deku ultimately gets that, Shigaraki doesn’t. He’s offered a different path. The parallels are goosebump inducing.

I was getting lukewarm on the series before this but Horikoshi really knows how to work all his demographics and I’m here for the villains.

[Sarah Ryder · Rating 3 out of 5]

In many ways for very obvious reasons this volume took on a darker and twisted turn exploring most of the League of Villains (or at least part of their stories) and its both disturbing as it is sad to see where they started and how they’ve ended up, even though they are, weirdly, their own little family like Class 1-A though made up of messed up people.

While the volume was good (if a bit disturbing at times) I docked a star because the first time upon flipping through the volume I saw Shigaraki’s beginning backstory and his family situation triggered me severely and dumped me into a bad mental state for several days, so I had to be SUPER careful upon rereading it to not retrigger myself, though knowing what was already in here helped me stay grounded ahead of time.

Unfortunately now I have to wait for the library to send me the next volume! *pout* Looking forward to continuing ASAP!


‼️Content‼️

TRIGGER WARNING: a physical/emotional/verbally abusive father yells at and hits his son and his family does nothing to stop him; implied death of a dog

Language: dammit; crap; hell; heck; bastards; darn; darndest; gah; gosh

Violence: injuries and blood (PG-PG-13); fighting with weapons, superpowers, and hand to hand (PG-PG-13); a woman smashes down on pavement from a great height in a spurt of blood (PG-13); a whole group of people are disintegrated to dust (PG-13); a man’s arm is broken; part of a character’s hand is cut away and bloody (PG-13); a father hits his son

Drugs/Alcohol: a guy smokes

Other: superheroes/supervillains/superpowers; a girl’s power has her “transform” into people by drinking their blood; a girl sucks other people’s blood and once directly from a body through a straw; a girl bites a bird’s body and drinks its blood; a cult; a physical/emotional/verbally abusive father yells at and hits his son and his family does nothing to stop him; implied death of a dog

[Mavis Ros · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely enjoyed this! We get to see a whole new angle from the opposing sides’ perspectives.

[Maiko-chan [|] · Rating 5 out of 5]

this entire volume is just fall in love with the league of villains and SHIP TWICE/TOGA and I LOVE IT!!!

[wrenliii · Rating 5 out of 5]

5/5
*SCREAMS IN JAPENESE* I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEM I LOVE DABI I LOVE SHIGARAKI I LOVE TOGA I LOVE TWICE I LOVE COMPRESS I LOVE SPINNER

[Elena Marmiroli · Rating 3 out of 5]

2,75

[Chelsea 🏳️‍🌈 · Rating 3 out of 5]

If I had a dollar for every time I read this series and thought “someone should call Child Services” I’d be pretty rich.

Anyway, I enjoyed learning more about Toga and Shigaraki’s histories. Although, I felt like this League of Villains v Meta Liberation plot really dragged on. This series is an interesting blend of action and family drama, to be honest. (Only for the male characters though???)

[James DeSantis · Rating 3 out of 5]

A solid move on to the next arc. This is all about the villains now. Get two see two rival bad guys go at it, plenty of big fights, a crushing blow to a few of our favorite villains, and a ending that is...tender. Overall, I'm getting more invested now. A 3.5 out of 5.

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume made me like Toga, Shigaraki, and Twice. Idk their backstories and like Twice's little freak out made me feel something I guess. I don't care for re-destro. Like I'm over his little villain arc. I just want to focus on the league and the class already, but we gotta build our way up there. So close yet so far from catching up.

[Fina {A World of Endless Pages Book Reviews} · Rating 4 out of 5]

I miss seeing Deku and co in this arc, but it's still really good. Shigaraki's levelling up really terrifies me: I don't want to imagine what'll happen when he shows up to fight the heroes again.

[Blake the Book Eater · Rating 5 out of 5]

The My Villain Academia storyline is so fucking good and the amount of time fleshing out Shigaraki as Deku’s foil is brilliant.

[Matthew Ward · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars. The Meta Liberation Army was huge in this volume, pretty much taking up the entire book. On top of that, we get a lot of focus on the villains, namely Himiko Toga, Twice, Spinner, and of course Shigaraki. I love the villains in this series and this volume showcased them spectacularly!

[Mar :3 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Me encanto pero sentí que fue el tomo más largo del mundo 💀