• High crime rate which is the basis for the premise of that world is probably a result of high poverty
  • State responds to it by profesionalizing "heros" which are just glorified cops
  • Extreme glorification of "heros" in the media and propaganda
  • "Heros" must form or work at private hero agancies so that means they are privatised

So yeah, japan in the world of my hero academia is a private police state that responds to poverty by being "tough on crime", this show is just pure ideology

  • bottech [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I doubt that thats the point, in the text there isnt much critique of the hero society, maybe that part about endevour(also, 40%) but it doesnt get at the foundation of the hero society, the idea that the solution to crime is more policing and i dont remember any critique of that idea in the text

    • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      The spin off manga is a bit better at this, it should really get an anime adaptation at some point.

      MC isn't an official hero, he's a vigilante and his mentor at one point goes over the history of the hero license system and a bit of how fucked the politics around it were.

      • ItsPequod [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Vigilantes is so much better than MHA, every character is cooler and more interesting and they actually discuss how their society is just weirdly structured, seeing how basically only superheros are allowed to use their powers, even tho everyone else has them too.