The Artistic Evolution Of My Hero Academia
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Incredible video like always. My Hero Academia is definitely my favourite out of all the new gen series for Shonen Jump. I remember when I got into the series back in 2019, the series was insanely popular and one the biggest manga series around and I still love it now. I’ve always been impressed by Horikoshi’s style because it looks much softer than other artist’s works and I’ve also always been impressed with how quickly Horikoshi does the weekly chapters and volumes. I’ve also always loved how he takes inspiration from many Marvel and DC comics, especially Spider-Man. I actually met Justin Briner, the voice actor for Midoriya, three years ago and I’m really excited for the end of the series too.
You said spoilers for MHA not JJK man. Nice vid and i agree but please be careful!
I kinda disagree - like to be spoiled by that you really need to be looking for it, no? It’s super passive and inconsequential
@@alexenterprises1 It’s not the biggest spoiler, but as someone who’s just finished seeing season 2, we have no idea what happened to Maki, so seeing her there tells me she survived, it’s hard not to instinctively not put that together after just finishing the season.
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
Yeah exactly. But for some reason ppl only seem to want to focus on the fanbase.
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
Exactly. That last part is so true, every mha related video seems to be hate toward it in some way nowadays. And the hand part is real asf, as an artist I used to hate hands, but I've been studying Horikoshis work for about 4 years now, safe to say I can draw hands, but not only that, I enjoy drawing them.
No way! That’s awesome! Is there a place u post ur art that I can follow?
hands are one of the most expressive parts of the body, i know they're difficult to get right, but if you do learn your characters will gain 1000% more personality
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.
One of the few series where it feels like almost every chapter has one page that really makes your jaw drop.
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
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.
Yeah I know
I wish you had touched, as well, on the other thing he mentioned he wished he'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' emotions and inner lives, and that comes out in the art, as well.
The emotional complexity Horikoshi is able to portray and the amount of attention he gives to what each character is feeling is something that's even more underrated than his grasp on action scenes and perspective, in my opinion. Personally, it'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.
Other than that, I think people really underappreciate Horikoshi'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'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.
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's leagues apart from where his career started. It'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.
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.
This!
People tend to overlook Horikoshi'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.
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
Honestly mha was one of the first manga series that brought me to watching more anime and reading more manga so hats off to horikoshi displaying this amount of amazing quality with this harsh time crunch
It'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.
Which is crazy to say considering how popular it is. It’s so unfortunate ppl can’t see the series for what is and not be able to avoid comparing it to other series. Doesn’t help also that the fandom and anime has skewed a lot of ppl’s perception of the series. Hopefully the day comes when the animanga community can look back and appreciate the story Horikoshi was trying to tell.
Incredible video like always. My Hero Academia is definitely my favourite out of all the new gen series for Shonen Jump. I remember when I got into the series back in 2019, the series was insanely popular and one the biggest manga series around and I still love it now. I’ve always been impressed by Horikoshi’s style because it looks much softer than other artist’s works and I’ve also always been impressed with how quickly Horikoshi does the weekly chapters and volumes. I’ve also always loved how he takes inspiration from many Marvel and DC comics, especially Spider-Man. I actually met Justin Briner, the voice actor for Midoriya, three years ago and I’m really excited for the end of the series too.
Its nice to see someone talk about Hori's amazing art. The way that Hori be releasing these chs with such levels on detail on a weekly basis is crazy. He really is one of the best artists in jump. For sure top 3. Love how the story continues to go strong as well cause this final arc is def one of the best arcs for me🔥🔥🔥
Horikoshi, ever since I started watching/reading MHA around 8 years ago, (time flies) has inspired me as an artist. The way he draws everything so angularly while also getting the sense of depth and realism in there, the way he draws hands with such skill and freedom, the way his characters and designs are so impressive (and kinda extremely complex to draw) and the way he wears his inspiration on his sleeves, it all enamored me and made me want to draw even more.
I like more realistic works like Vagabond or Parasyte or Berserk. But there's something about Horikoshi's style that just gets me hyped every time I look at it.
The school festival arc volume cover is a good example of this. (Vol 20) just look at that cover and tell me it doesn't look sick asf.
Amazing video! If you look at the early MHA chapters to now, there is obviously a difference, but you really broke down the why and how it has evolved into something really great. I really love Horikoshi's art style. Especially in this final arc, with such huge action pieces, his art has really been shining and popping
His art is just fantastic, this man is GOATED
Honestly, this is damn inspirational. 😭 If I ever get better at art I'm looking to copy his style
Horikoshi may be the last of a dying breed, a Shonen mangaka that can only produce a weekly series for up to 10 years
Lets be thankful to his team too who also contribute to his beautiful works
I wish ppl would put respect on his character work and story as well, but hopefully once the manga/anime is over, ppl can look back on it like they did Naruto and rlly come to appreciate it as a whole. Awesome video btw! Horikoshi’s art is definitely some of the best of the best in Jump.
It already does seem to be getting the Naruto treatment…
That's what I'm saying bro maybe once the fandom has silenced (0.01% chance💀) then people will actually read the story. Would rather they read it than watch the anime th cause while s6 was solid for me it still does lack when it comes to replicating horis level of detail
@@omegashark1837 I mean in the sense that ppl were divisive on Naruto, his fanbase, and it’s final war arc, but once the series was over, a lot of its detractors and fans looked back and grew to enjoy it as a complete and finished work. Now there’s more videos going over the themes and characters and impact Naruto has had than the hate surrounding it.
@@johnoguntuase1162100% on the read vs watch thing but it's not exactly the fandom's fault, it's the people who overhate because they struggle with non-overt storytelling and lack of cultural context where it's important. mha's fandom weirdos are genuinely no different to any other fandom, except there's more homophobes thanks to hori intentionally making a more progressive setting than western audiences tolerate. the real issue is that hori writes in much subtler ways than most shounen utilizes and as a result, people think he's either missing big themes or makes no sense. in reality his writing is incredible, but getting people who already decided their casual anime experience was enough evidence to listen to better explanations is damn near impossible. hating is a professional sport for most of the animanga community lmfao, and they're gonna target the lowest common denominator which is whatever storyline the least of them can comprehend - a nuanced and detail oriented one. i wish western fans were more inclined to pay close attention to their foreign media and take the time to listen to native speakers on what language and cultural details they're missing. in something like mha it changes the entire story.
My hero academia was my first anime i ever watched. Its still my second favorite anime of all time for me
I never expected you to cover my hero academia on here I’m surprised you did and like this video so thanks for making it
I love this video format!
I just discovered this channel and definitely subscribing but dawg I NEED you to do a video on Akihisa Ikeda the mangaka for Rosario Vampire his glow up from the beginning of Rosario Vampire to the end of S2 and Ghost Reaper Girl is something to behold and honestly looks like two completely different artists
One of the best modern Shonen manga of all time! It had one of the greatest starts with so much potential! The art is phenomenal 😍
Is it just me that thinking Horikoshi is applying new art style in these few chapters when Deku Vs. Shigaraki fight started??
Fantastic Video!! :) 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 ❤️💖❤️💖
Yet people who try to hate it all the time deny the amazing art
It should be noted that if Horikoshi wasn’t so insecure about the potentiality of his series dying in terms of popularity then he could’ve been even greater since he would’ve been more okay with taking drawn out breaks
that probably does factor in, but sj wouldn't permit such regular breaks for a mangaka with a weekly slot. it's not a popularity issue considering how well loved the series is worldwide (almost a 50/50 japan to global sales, kinda unheard of), it's just that he's likely obligated to keep up with the weekly slot as best as possible and they don't really care about mangakas' health if they're still drawing. i sincerely wish he could/would post biweekly because every time he gets a break he blows my fkn mind with art quality, paneling choices and writing
Horikoshis art is goated
Another great video would be cool to see a art evolution of boruto once tbv has more chapters not because the art is relatively good compared to its peers but because the way ikemoto paneled and drew the characters early on are way different than how he draws them now in good and bad ways.
id love to see a video of hajime no ippos art style, considering its length theres going to be a lot to look at
Interesting to hear your thoughts on my hero academia I still love the series despite the issues sometimes but I’m hoping horikoshi ends the series on a good note
He drew traditionally until the start of COVID because he couldn't work with his assistants like they used to. From chapter 277 and onwards, it's all digital.
Ooo I’d love to see the source, I feel like I really fumbled missing that one if so lol. Thanks for the info though, I genuinely couldn’t tell!
@@alexenterprises1 In volume 28, at the end of chapter 271, he talks about how he still did line art traditionally.
For some reason, whenever I attach a link it gets deleted. But google Horikoshi switches to digital and the article from theouterhaven will have a link.
Please do the artistic evolution of dragon ball. I think it would be such a cool research project considering it went from an adventure gag manga to a Shonen battle manga
Also he switched to digital from traditional during Covid he always used to draw MHA with a pencil/pen and then scan it in but had to switch it cause of the pandemic that may be another reason why his art style has changed
Chainsaw man hasnt been weekly since 2022. Ever since it switched to jump plus, it has a very loose release schedule, mostly being biweekly.
pointing this out because most of the examples you show of chiansaw man are from the jump plus era, which as stated, doesnt operate on a weekly schdule.
Alex I love and value your videos, I even download some of them. But If it means Dgrayman would become a weekly manga with its highest art level I would sacrifice you behelit-style.
Haha I wouldn’t blame you at all lol!
I know you specialize in manga, but some webcomics have an even crazier evolution that would be interesting to talk about. The biggest examples would be el goonish shive and sinfest. (which also happen to be on two very different ends of the political spectrum.
Does he have any assistants?
Man I love MHA
You should do a dragon ball art evolution
could youd o an artistic evolution of baki
Could you talk about Dragon Ball next please
I've never been a big MHA fan but I've always loved the artwork, especially the way Horikoshi takes inspirations from comics.
Lol 😂
Need black clover next
mha deserves ufotable
but bones cooked season 7 too
These last 100 chapters the art became very complex and messy, sometimes i can't understand what's going on the pages.
Really? The last ten chapters look insanely good to me!
@@alexenterprises1I fully agree, but not EVERYONE is going to feel the same way.
@@alexenterprises1 it's subjective, i think it looks good but so much could going on the pages i can't make heads or tails.
I acc prefer the art before Star stripes appeared
THE ONE PIECE IS RRRREEEEAAAAAALLLLL
Lol
Tbh I don't like MHA, but I love it's art and it's been a big influence on my drawing, which I'll be the first to admit isn't nearly as good
Really makes you wish mha didn’t have the biggest falloff known to man
omg there’s always somebody that have to put MHA down whenever anyone is praising it, kinda tiring. The video ain't even talking about the story, your opinion of a so called fall off is irrelevant 🙄
"Biggest falloff" yet it continues to be in the top 6 on Mangaplus, and is close to reaching 100 mil copies on circulation worldwide? Yh bro def has "fallen off"😂 this final arcs been amazing
Bro shut uuuup
"biggest falloff" and it's the 8th best selling manga of 2023 with some individual volumes also topping charts. what you mean is that mha left the american pop culture/meme spotlight, and thank god for that
Boring comment
Great art wasted on a mediocre story.
Whatever