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>Horikoshi has comments on some important moments manga panels, and the one I remember most distinctly is Kamino’s Bakugou rescue and All Might vs AFO battle where he says he is thankful to All Might and Kirishima for essentially saving My Hero Academia as a series itself.
>Right about the time when the first League of Villains arc happened with Stain, MHA was at a low point with pretty bad reviews on Shonen Jump.
>Horikoshi knew he had to do something big to change this around. He was afraid the forest training arc would fall to the same bad reviews as the previous arc, so he treated the Kamino Rescue Arc as if it was the “finale” of MHA because he knew he needed to deliver something spectacular.
>He knew if he messed up, then that could possibly be the end of the series.
>Thankfully, the chapter where Kirishima and co. rescue Bakugou was a chapter that had incredibly good ratings, and the follow up with All Might be AFO brought the series back from rock bottom.
>He says those moments were a huge turning point for the series itself.
>As such, he is very thankful to specifically All Might and Kirishima for essentially saving the series.

Based. I always knew Kiribaku was the one saving grace of this shit manga. And now I know that Hori knows it too.
Too bad he didn't know what to do with it afterwards.