My Hero Academia

[DFJS]

Was an amazing episode from start to finish. Got teary eyed as well but that bomb in the middle had me saying HOLY SHIT out loud. Was not expecting that at all.

[Souj]

Alright, I hadn't watched a new anime or read manga probably in 4 years. Fiance and i had a few days off and binged season 1 and 2 of this in three days. Only reason we stopped was because season 3 ep1 was only subbed and fiance would rather watch dub. We are, however, both considering reading the manga. So, since I'm out of the loop on manga, what's the websites everyone's using nowadays and is the manga different enough from the anime to require reading from the start?

[Zalrik21]

Alright, I hadn't watched a new anime or read manga probably in 4 years. Fiance and i had a few days off and binged season 1 and 2 of this in three days. Only reason we stopped was because season 3 ep1 was only subbed and fiance would rather watch dub. We are, however, both considering reading the manga. So, since I'm out of the loop on manga, what's the websites everyone's using nowadays and is the manga different enough from the anime to require reading from the start?

Cant say much about the manga, but episode 39, episode 1 of season 3 does have the dub on the Funimation app, so it is probably out there in other means as well. Its pretty much a filler episode for most the part so wouldn't be missing too much from not watching it.

[silverdragontyr]

Episode 39... It's so much of a filler episode Vrv didn't even put it out right away. They started right away with 40. I didn't watch it. Didn't miss anything. From what I heard it's "everyone goes swimming, woo!" You can skip it np.

As for manga... I've always used mangrastream.com. I read the manga a little farther then this week's episode, I don't remember any big difference. From what I recall it's pretty on point. It's been a few months since I read but I don't think you'd be lost if you started close to the end of "season 2".

EDIT: Only downside of mangastream is it only does small batches at one time of most recent, and what it has is way ahead of anime. I'm not by my PC to check where I was reading it, I can tomorrow if you don't get an answer before then.

[Eurell]

VRV shows the newest episode dubbed. I think s3 episode 11ish just came out? Anime and Manga are almost exactly the same. I just caught up on all of it, and really couldn't point out anything you would miss by skipping the early manga chapters.

[Eurell]

And Read it on Mangastream. New chapter is every friday.

[Scythiroth]

Mangastream might not have all the chapters, think they only keep the most recent like 10 or so?

I think I caught up on it at a website like: http://ww1.readheroacademia.com/

Can't remember if it was specifically that one, but it seems to have them all.

[Vaspinne]

kissanime.ru has the dub available to stream and going at 720p too I'd assume (all the subs are 720p). Just have a good adblock.

The manga can be found easily online. I wanted to re-read the chapters today's episode were based on and just googled "Boku no Hero Academia manga read online" and the very first website is 'ww1.readheroacademia.com' and has all the chapters lol.

Edit: Durrr... clearly didn't read Scythiroth's post.

[Silenka]

is the manga different enough from the anime to require reading from the start?

BNHA anime adaptation is what I like to call an "emulate and elevate" adaptation. It's almost exactly the same as the manga, sometimes frame-by-frame, but it also has some extra scenes/episodes that weren't in the manga (but in a good way, not in a trash filler way) so in other words, you can start on the manga wherever you left off in the anime and not be missing anything.

[Eurell]

Yeah, generally the only scenes they add are like, showing the other students going through their stuff. Like their first training with all might, with the bomb. Manga only shows Deku vs Bakugo, anime shows almost everyone.

[TummieGaruda]

Binged the episodes this past week. I remember hearing about this anime some time ago but forgot about it. Apparently Hulu has both the dub and sub episodes which was surprising. I have to say this anime has some parallels to Naruto mainly the "Power of Friendship" theme but it's much more enjoyable. The music is also pretty damn good too cause it invokes the right emotions at the right time.

[Deftscythe]

This show is basically the distillation of all the good things about shonen and very little of the bad. Also, wrt the Naruto comparison I only just found out that people refer to BnHA/Midoriya as "Green Naruto"

[Scythiroth]

I'm just glad it doesn't run year round and will end up in filler territory like most shounen stuff. That was usually the worst part of other shows for me. At their current pace, I'm not sure if they would ever catch up and they could just wait like an extra year at some point and easily let the manga pull way ahead again.

[Silenka]

BONES doesn't do shitty filler.

(let's ignore the first FMA adaptation ok)

[Gredival]

Binged the episodes this past week. I remember hearing about this anime some time ago but forgot about it. Apparently Hulu has both the dub and sub episodes which was surprising. I have to say this anime has some parallels to Naruto mainly the "Power of Friendship" theme but it's much more enjoyable.

I don't get a large power of friendship theme (besides the Cultural Festival arc I guess?). There's exploration of what it means to be a hero to Midoriya and All Might connected to the legacy of One for All and that is sort of the equivalent of the early theme of "my ninja way" in Naruto. But besides those two we only see a little bit of what being a hero means to Iiya and Bakugo both of whom have pretty different perspectives.

The music is also pretty damn good too cause it invokes the right emotions at the right time.

"You Say Run" gets me hyped every damn time.

[Silenka]

The Power of Friendship shounen is totally Fairy Tail. No other shounen has ever had quite so much emphasis on what friends can do when they rely on each other. BNHA doesn't even come close, as its main theme is manning up and being heroic even when there's nothing in it for you. The final exam arc kind of puts emphasis on interpersonal relationships between the kids but otherwise it's not that big a theme.

[Eurell]

I thought Power of Friendship refers to beating the villains by making them see the error of their ways and befriending the hero? That has never happened in Hero Academia.

[Elcura]

There's barely any power of friendship, it seems to be mostly the power of determination and hard work (which seems pretty Japanese).

If you can get through KH's power of friendship/heart bullshit nothing in anime can really compare.

[DrClout]

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[Vaspinne]

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