Volume three of My Hero Academia continues the school year and raises the pressure on its students, across 192 paperback pages. Events run directly on from the second book.
The middle of a shonen series' opening stretch is where character work usually deepens, and Horikoshi uses the space to develop rivalries and to complicate the relationship between the lead and his mentor. Action sequences grow longer and the threats move beyond classroom exercises. As with every volume in the run, the reading direction is right to left and sound effects are handled in the conventional manga style.
Volume snapshot:
• Third instalment in the ongoing series
• 192 pages, paperback edition
• Deeper focus on rivalry and mentorship
• Continues directly from volume two
For teenage and adult manga readers working through the middle of the series, published by VIZ Media and stocked at Boipoka.