My Hero Academia, Vol. 5 (My Hero Academia, #5)

by Kohei Horikoshi

What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called "Quirks"? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless?
The final stages of the U.A. High sports festival promise to be explosive as Uraraka takes on Bakugo in a head to head match! Bakugo never gives anyone a break, and the crowd holds its breath as the battle begins. The finals will push the students of Class 1-A to their limits and beyond!

• ISBN10: 1421587025
• ISBN13: 9781421587028
• Publish Date: 25 August 2016
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 192
• Language: English

Reviews

[Quirky Cat]

If you've watched the anime for this series, then you've already got a really strong idea of what happens in this volume. I have to say that the anime is shockingly loyal to the series on the whole, which I absolutely adore.
The fifth volume of MHA has the second half of the UA games in it. This is the part where all of the individual fights occur, for better or for worse.
I have a lot of opinions on the fights on the whole, but they might be considered spoilers, so consider yourself warned? I don't think Bakugo did himself any favors in his first fight, though Todoroki obviously did just fine. Iida got played hard, which he probably should have seen coming, but at least it didn't cost him anything other than his dignity. I have issues with the guy that Deku faced, but most of them are because of how he got teammates for the second challenge. I think it was unethical and not very hero like. Other than that issue though, I think this character did a good job of showing the general bias that UA has for physical fighters for heroes. I wonder if that is more balanced at other schools?
I could keep going on, of course. But I don't want to talk about the later fights too much, just in case.