The incredible success of My Hero Academia has spawned an infinity of merchandise, animated features, and even spin-off series such as Vigilante: My Hero Academia Illegals where the backgrounds of some important heroes are deepened and in which the authors are free to insert very special cameos.
Although the tones adopted are much less serious than the original series conceived by Kohei Horikoshi, however, the development of the characters and the stories told are well done. Hideyuki Furuhashi has already thought several times of inserting Easter eggs and references to other works of the huge manga landscape and above all of the American superheroes. Referring to this final aspect in the story of Koichi Haimawari, Abegawa Tenchu Kai criminal groupthat many readers will surely have reminded of a fairly well-known team.
The seven members are all clearly inspired by Avengers from Marvel Comics. However, the writers have chosen to play their part and reverse readers’ expectations, which doesn’t make them a particularly dangerous villain, that of. was killed Stendhal, a cruel murderer many of you will know as a Stain.
After the cameo appearance of Thomas Train with the killer Tommy S. Gordon and of Cloud, Squall and Gidan from Final Fantasy, the character design adopted for Abegawa Tenchu Kai also succeeds in perfectly fitting into the atmosphere of the series. however obvious they seem, instant references to real icons from superhero comics such as Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye and the Winter Soldier. In addition, they are all endowed with quirks and powers that match the Avengers’ backgrounds and abilities, such as the bearded Soji who manages to create lightning bolts that he uses to turn his simple carpenter’s hammer into a weapon similar to the Mjolnir of the Marvel thunder god .
