Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2019: Week 51

Mineta Minoru is a supporting character in the shounen manga and anime series Boku no Hero Academia by Kōhei Horikoshi. He is widely disliked by the English BNHA fandom; when he's not written out of fanfiction entirely he is a frequent subject of character bashing.

Mineta, also known as "Fresh-Picked Hero: Grape Juice", is a member of Class 1-A at U.A. High School. His quirk consists of round purple balls, which look much like grapes, pulled from his head that have adhesive qualities. If he uses it too much, he bleeds. Mineta is unashamedly and over-the-top perverted, and often suffers for doing things like peeping on girls. This is presented as humorous by the narrative, which is a common anime trope.

Fans who like Mineta cite his high intelligence and teamwork scores, that he's humourous, and that he has frequently made positive comments or had positive thoughts about Midoriya Izuku. Some fans think his perverted behavior is largely exaggerated, or at least focused on much more than the behavior of other perverted characters in BNHA. Other fans don't care or even enjoy that he's perverted and are unapologetic about it, or think the amount of Mineta hate in the fandom is overly negative and disruptive.