Why Does My Hero Academia Gets So Much Unnecessary Hate
My Hero Academia is like a really good neighborhood café that becomes insanely popular overnight. At first, everyone genuinely loves it — the coffee is solid, the vibes are good, and it brings something fresh to the block. But then, two types of people show up:
- The over-the–top superfans who claim it’s the best café in the world, gatekeep every new customer, and attack anyone who prefers another place.
- The reactionary haters who get annoyed at the noise, the hype, and the loud fans — and decide the café must be “trash” just because they’re tired of hearing about it.
Suddenly the café itself hasn’t changed at all — the beans are still good, the service is still solid — but its reputation tanks because people are arguing so loudly about it that no one is paying attention to the actual product.
That’s My Hero Academia in a nutshell.
How Delusional Fans Ruin the Reputation
Some fans treat MHA like it’s either the second coming of storytelling or either the source material of theirs kinks coming to life. Overhyping characters, forcing comparisons to every other shonen, attacking critics, and creating nonstop drama on social media about BS character shipping makes the show look worse than it is.
In most fandoms, the loudest people are rarely the most reasonable — and in MHA’s case, the loudest absolutely overshadow the normal fans who just enjoy the story.
This creates a loop:
- loud fans over-hype →
- people get annoyed →
- haters exaggerate flaws →
- more drama →
- the anime’s reputation suffers →
- everyone forgets it’s actually a pretty solid series.
Final Thought
My Hero Academia isn’t perfect, but it’s far from “mid,” “trash,” or whatever the weekly hot take says. It’s a well-executed modern shonen with strong character arcs, great emotional peaks, and a meaningful exploration of heroism.
The series didn’t ruin itself —
the discourse around it did.
If people stopped treating it like a battleground, they’d remember it’s just a fun, inspiring anime that does more right than wrong. If someone watches it without the noise, they’ll see exactly why it became popular in the first place.
Image credit Studio Bones
