Mod edit: This review was originally posted for "31 Heroes" and has subsequently been merged into "Best Blue".

To be honest, one shots are hard to do right. And despite good intentions the authors efforts can fall on its face at times, and that is what happened in the case of '31 Heroes'.

Everything about the plot is already apparent from the synopsis, the story starts with the main character getting special super powers to be a hero, then while trying to brag about his powers to his classmates he found out that the other students also had the same occurrence and each were granted unique powers as well. Then a fight versus an alien monster starts to determine who would be selected the hero.

There was almost everything in the plot an setting to make it work as a shounen; the generic weak but hyperactive protagonist; a well tested school setting; cool super powers and possibility of lots of different enemies. Yet somehow it all came out quite lacking with humor not really hitting the spot, too much generic characters holding back the progression and wacky style of drawing just making everything yet more hard to appreciate.

Even though it might have been quite a different story if this was picked up for serialization and the author might have found some cool stories to tell, but from the taste of whats on offer I can not give this one above mediocre score.

5 out 10 from me.