#Shonen heroes

[supernightboy08]

My favorite Anime heroes:

1. Son Goku

2. Naruto Uzumaki

3. Izuku “Deku” Midoriya

4. Monkey D. Luffy

5. Tanjiro Kamado

6. Kirito Kirigaya

[mysticfriendstudentfire]

Every Shonen Hero Deserves a story

[chiquilines]

In honour of mha ending, have some old (and i mean OLD) miryumi scribbles i never got around to posting. They were the main characters in my heart

[mahoutoons]

i'm so well fed with amazing female characters in magical girl anime that i forget there's people who only watch shonen and think that's a whole representation of female characters in anime. how sad. you need some sailor moon, precure, and cardcaptor sakura, in your life.

[cat-cosplay]

Deku ( Meowdoriya Izuku )

[myheromedia]

Weekly Shonen Jump cover featuring Izuku, Katsuki, Shoto and AllMight!

[beanghostprincess]

The thing that frustrates me the most about BNHA is that a whole movie exists that shows why Izuku should have friends outside the hero industry and how damaging it is for him to be always on the lookout and how healthy it is for him to let go of that burden and be an actual teenager and quite literally touch some fucking grass, but they don't do anything with that. The happiest Izuku has ever been is probably with Rody and his siblings and somehow you have to root for him to fight and win a war????? No!!! This kid should be having a normal teenage experience not risking his fucking life for the sake of the whole world. I am tired. I am so tired-

[demifiendrsa]

My Hero Academia 10th anniversary and finale sketch by Kohei Horikoshi in Weekly Shonen Jump 2024 issue #36/37

Thank you very much for reading! -Kohei Horikoshi

[19eyebrows]

No but seriously. It's about time that the two male leads became endgame in a shonen manga. Because making Bakugou and Izuku straight would be even more dumb than what happened to Sasuke and Naruto. Nobody believes it. It feels unnatural AND GODDAMN STAND BY THE STORY YOU HAVE CREATED.

We need our first confirmed gay shonen couple to break this curse of bad storytelling. You accidentally wrote them gay? Make them gay! Be as brave as your characters.

[bayleafpaprika]

thinking about how Oda chosing Luffy, a pirate, to be the protagonist of One Piece may be one of the most brilliant story moves by any shonen mangaka ever. by virtue of its main character being an in-world criminal, OP naturally lends itself to becoming a story about the exposure of a society festering with corruption for what it really is, and the dismantling of a dystopia and its propagandist facade. you simply do not get a story like that with a shonen protagonist who conforms to or tolerates the shitty system they're born into

[mynpsycho]

endeavour 🐦‍🔥

[mothric]

mob psycho 100 has impressed me on multiple counts but one thing that keeps standing out to me is the way Mob fills the role of Shonen Hero.

I love me a classic shonen protag. I love the hinata shoyos and the ash ketchums and the gokus, the spunky go-getters who are a little rough around the edges but want to be The Best at the Thing, or Save the World, or Win the Championship. I also love the protags who are reluctantly shoved into the role of Hero and must stumble their way into accepting it, whether or not they actually wanted it at first.

Mob isn't any of those. he doesn't start out as a bundle of boundless energy and optimism. his goal is not to be a hero or to subvert the trope by Resisting the Call. in fact, in the beginning, there isn't a Call. there is no Grand Quest for him to set out on. he's just... a kid, who happens to have psychic powers, and his goal is just to figure out who he is and what he wants and where his place is in the world. that's his hero's journey, really.

Mob doesn't come prepackaged with ambition; he has to work to unearth it. he has to figure out that he has any agency in the first place, and then use that agency to figure out what he wants. he has to handpick his own goals, and he has to choose growth. and he does choose growth, over and over. that in itself is a heroic feat. man, there are whole adults who won't do the internal work this kid does to figure himself out and adapt to new information! we constantly see him meet people who act and think so differently from him, and really think about the things they say and do, and learn something valuable in the process. we continually see him waking up to various aspects of himself, and clarifying his convictions, and adapting the ways he moves through the world, and taking on a more solid shape as a person. we continually see him choosing.

his growth is so organic, and natural, and marked by an increasing sense of self-possession, that by the time he gets to do Big Impressive Heroic Shonen Things, it feels earned. Mob Shigeo Kageyama has come into himself, and he must face some truly terrifying things, but he reaches out to meet them with both hands because he's already learned to meet his own personal challenges and the people in his life in the same way.

Mob doesn't start out as a Shonen Hero, but by the end of season 2 he IS one, because he earned it. he chose it, worked for it, grew into it, and it looks incredible on him.

[mysticfriendstudentfire]

Love to see an anime crossver

[everendering]

Last man standing…

[save-to-win-win-to-save]

I know we are all feeling over the freaking moon about the Jump MV but like... Have you guys seen the translated lyrics for the song??

Some prime examples:

"Don't hide your scars."

"I'll do my best to wipe away these tears. I'll give you everything, please don't disappear."

"I'm fighting while being kept alive by someone else's life. I'm not afraid of losing anymore. I hate giving up on winning. I'll never run away again. I just want to challenge myself to be the person I want to be."

EXCUSE ME 😭❤️???

[dailydefunctmangamagazine]

Monthly Shōnen Captain (月刊少年キャプテン) / Tokuma Shoten (徳間書店) / Jul 1989 issue