Ever since Kohei Horikoshi’s seminal shonen manga, and then Studio Bones’ incredible adaptation of it, hit the world, it feels like it’s just kept powering up, quite like its cast of rough-and-ready wannabe heroes. Now the series’ second crack at the box office continues to amp up the scale, but…
Even in the zany world of superheroic antics, the real world and the fictional interweave in myriad ways, whether it’s to comment on the society in which we live or to ground its fantastical highs in a sense of realism. Sometimes, however, it can go… well, a bit wrong.