"My Hero Academia better" — Burger King's comment on the McDonalds x Genshin collab has everyone surprised

My Hero Academia was hilariously brought up by Burger King on X when McDonald's announced its collaboration with Genshin Impact, with the former stating that Kohei Horikoshi's series is better. This is something that the fandom obviously picked up on and made the tweet go viral, which adds to the hilarity of the situation.

When the collaboration between McDonald's and Genshin Impact was announced, the official X account of Burger King UK hilariously stepped in to comment,

"My Hero Academia better."

A lot of people in the replies mentioned how "Burger King and McDonald's beef goes crazy," although that didn't stop the My Hero Academia fandom from stepping in and backing up Burger King. The collaboration with Genshin Impact and the instant reply on X is a prime example of how anime-based content has become a lot more mainstream all over the world.

Disclaimer: This article contains spoilers for the series. Any opinion expressed here belongs to the author and the people quoted and not Sportskeeda as a whole.

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My Hero Academia is mentioned by Burger King after McDonald's x Genshin Impact collaboration

As mentioned earlier, McDonald's announced their collaboration with the video game franchise Genshin Impact, resulting in Burger King stepping in and claiming that My Hero Academia is "better" on X. This is something that, naturally, caught a lot of people by surprise but was also a very entertaining response, to say the least.

Naturally, while a good percentage of fans of Kohei Horikoshi's series arrived to support the fast food chain's statement, other fandoms stepped in to offer their own opinions. It was all done in good fun and goes to show how anime fandoms can get along when not taking themselves too seriously.

Moreover, this is another example of how mainstream anime and anime-based content like Genshin Impact has become as companies of this caliber are making collaborations of this ilk. It has become common practice to a degree and is also a great example of the levels of popularity the medium has reached throughout the years.

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Reactions online

My Hero Academia has recently concluded its ten-year run in Weekly Shonen Jump and the story has ended with some divisive opinions but that doesn't stop it from being one of the most popular anime franchises of the last decade. Deku and his friends have been an instrumental and iconic part of the medium in recent years and even this statement by Burger King is proof of that.

Author Kohei Horikoshi has been praised for creating a world filled with likable characters and an amalgamation of his love for battle shonen and Western superhero comics, thus giving his series a very unique tone. Moreover, this series has also gained a notorious reputation for having one of the most intense fandoms in the anime community, for better and for worse.

"I SEE NOTHING BUT FACTS!!!" someone said.

"burger king and mcdonalds beef goes crazy," another person said.

"I'm here for the MHA praise," someone else said.

This tweet really did surprise a lot of people but it was all in good fun and the type of banter that has become quite normal when talking about anime and other franchises of this ilk. As mentioned earlier, it also shows how much the medium has grown in terms of popularity.

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