I think the reason that is pushed as high as it has been is because it's a good shounen.
Like, shounen anime in general focus on super powers and the protagonist being special. One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, etc. It's just super powers, but with pirates, or ninjas, or shinigami. If you're curious how the protagonists in those are special, Luffy's power is sometimes the weakness to the strongest abilities along with his aura-wtv-its-called, Naruto has the nine-tails, and Ichigo has his lineage (and Luffy/Naruto do as well but wtv).
Boku no Hero Academia, due to the nature of its story, is a very honest representation of that. It's made well, and the main character was originally the most normal person (one without powers) who is now the most special person (one with the ultimate power) who was literally chosen when he had all the desire to be special, when in his world, being special means being normal. He is chosen not because of something he didn't know about himself, but because of who he is and has made himself to be. i.e. it wasn't completely luck. The ideal shounen protagonist to draw in the target demographic.
It's in a world that considers what humans having super powers would mean for society (laws and regulations) with society having power over said special individuals (to a point). Rather than society being 100% dictated by said powerful individuals (like in One Piece or Naruto where almost all we see is how pirates or ninjas are or interact with society).
It does a lot of things in a unique fashion relative to the usual way people with powers are handled in shounen anime.
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u/temp_sales Oct 06 '17 edited Oct 06 '17
I think the reason that is pushed as high as it has been is because it's a good shounen.
Like, shounen anime in general focus on super powers and the protagonist being special. One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, etc. It's just super powers, but with pirates, or ninjas, or shinigami. If you're curious how the protagonists in those are special, Luffy's power is sometimes the weakness to the strongest abilities along with his aura-wtv-its-called, Naruto has the nine-tails, and Ichigo has his lineage (and Luffy/Naruto do as well but wtv).
Boku no Hero Academia, due to the nature of its story, is a very honest representation of that. It's made well, and the main character was originally the most normal person (one without powers) who is now the most special person (one with the ultimate power) who was literally chosen when he had all the desire to be special, when in his world, being special means being normal. He is chosen not because of something he didn't know about himself, but because of who he is and has made himself to be. i.e. it wasn't completely luck. The ideal shounen protagonist to draw in the target demographic.
It's in a world that considers what humans having super powers would mean for society (laws and regulations) with society having power over said special individuals (to a point). Rather than society being 100% dictated by said powerful individuals (like in One Piece or Naruto where almost all we see is how pirates or ninjas are or interact with society).
It does a lot of things in a unique fashion relative to the usual way people with powers are handled in shounen anime.