My Hero Academia is well known for its ensemble cast of heroes-in-training at U.A High School, an academy for the best and brightest students in Japan. It's a prestigious school for future heroes, boasting an impressive list of alumni, including All Might and Endeavor. The series so far has intoduced two first year hero classes -- Class 1-A and Class 1-B -- and all the students that comprise them. Most of these students have promising futures ahead of them thanks to their courage, strong moral compasses and powerful Quirks. However, there's one among them who doesn't deserve his place at UA, and more than that, should have been expelled several times over: Mineta Minoru.

Mineta is a student in Class 1-A known for his Pop Off Quirk, which allows him to expel incredibly sticky balls from his head. It's a good Quirk, if an odd one, with a lot of applications for hero work. His attendance at UA isn't an issue because he's weak, but because of his gross attitude towards his female classmates.

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From the very outset of My Hero Academia, Mineta demonstrates an obsession so all-consuming his other personality traits are pretty much non-existent. He lusts over any and all women while loudly vocalizing his opinions on the matter. His comments about his classmates' physical attributes would definitely be off-putting and constitute sexual harassment in any real-life school. This is compounded by the fact that, even though his perverted nature is played for laughs, his female classmates are visibly distressed by him.

Pervert characters making inappropriate comments are rather common in anime. What makes Mineta special is that he doesn't draw the lines at words -- his actions are even worse. Mineta often touches his female classmates without permission, and he'll also do his best to get an eyeful of them in the nude, such as when he tried to spy on the girls' locker room at UA or sneak into the female-designated hot springs.

His most egregious action of all would even be grounds for an arrest in Japan were it treated with any degree of realism; it would certainly be grounds for expulsion. During the League of Villains' attack on the USJ, Mineta saw this life-or-death situation as the perfect time to grope Tsuyu's chest. It's a testament to Tsuyu's mental fortitude that this incident didn't spiral an already deadly moment into one much more fraught, but it's something that never should have happened in the first place -- let alone while Tsuyu was busy trying to save both their lives.

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Mineta doesn't limit his perverted thoughts to girls the same age as him either. He'll even hit on six-year-old children recovering from years of sadistic abuse. When Class 1-A was introduced to Eri in the lead-up to the school festival, the first thing Mineta said to Eri was, "I can't wait to see what you look like in 10 years!" It's no small miracle for him that her surrogate father and big brother figures didn't immediately make an example out of him.

This brings us to the most jarring aspect of My Hero Academia -- the other characters don't react to Mineta's words or actions unless they're the one directly being targeted by him. Aizawa doesn't appear to notice when Mineta hits on his adopted daughter, Izuku rarely comments on his out-of-bounds actions and the targeted girls must take retribution entirely into their own hands rather than relying on UA to protect them. How is it that Japan's top hero school allows Mineta to harass his classmates without comment?

Future heroes should be held to a higher standard than those they are trained to protect. It's hard to believe Mineta will become a decent pro-hero when acts more like a future sex offender.

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