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ANIME ActionBoku no Hero Academia 3
MANGA ActionBoku no Hero Academia
MOVIE ActionBoku no Hero Academia THE MOVIE: Heroes:Rising
ANIME ActionBoku no Hero Academia 5
ONA ActionBoku no Hero Academia: Ikinokore! Kesshi no Survival Kunren

REVIEWS

• 

  KiraYosikage

  72/100
  A season with rocky start but manages to get back on its tracks after second half

  Disclaimer: I may edit the review because of grammar/typing issues. Plus this is just my opinion, don't take it too seriously!

  My Hero Academia is the staple shonen anime nowadays and perhaps the most popular long running battle shonen right now. When I started watching MHA, despite its cliche troupes, I still enjoyed it a lot so much so that I told my friend just after watching season 1 that My Hero Academia will be the new big 3 of new generation.

  With that out of the way, for me, this season had been a mixed bag for me. While this season showcased one of the most memorable fighting scenes. It also had one of the most boring scenes. Me being anime only, assumed that the issues stems from anime adaptation but in actuality the answer is bit more complicated.

  Pros:

  This season was all not that bad, while Shie Hassaikai Arc had its issues. It also had its redeeming qualities. In this season, the character that were introduced in this arc were pretty good, and a lot of characters that we previously knew also got depth added to them. To me Mirio was the favorite character and from Horikoshi's was able to deliver what he wanted i.e What if Mirio received One for All not Deku (In one of his interview he mentioned his intentions with this arc).

  The two arcs preceding this arc (Remedial Course and UA Festival Arc) were also pretty entertaining own their own and I don't have any major issues with it. The last arc which only lasted two episode actually were amazing and plus the production quality of last episode is almost movie like with that intense sakuga and impact frames. I wonder if Mr. Yutapon was behind some of the key animations

  Cons:

  Slow start up:
  Although this season had its moment, it was quite boring in the start and from my thread, it came to my knowledge that Horikoshi was sick during the Shie Hassakai Arc. Thus the chapters were shorter and pacing was incredibly slow. Unlike manga, where the reader can adjust their own pacing. Anime is on fixed pace this the issues were more amplified here. A lot of people do not agree with me and I understand. But for me, some scenes were so boring that I started browsing Reddit in some episodes.

  Midoriya has very little character development:
  My other and probably the biggest issue with MHA franchise is Deku. He is one of the most boring, linear main character. And please do not bring shitty battle shonen, it is not a big hurdle to cross. MHA as fine character development, well except Deku, because he will be in focus after everyone is done. Ever since season 1 the only difference between current Deku is that he a bit more control over his power. He starts crying pretty much everywhere and what used to feel emotional moments feel like flat now. When will he have some confidence in himself? The show does not make things better. I pretty much zone out every time Deku start doing his monologue. Like damn show, we get his motivation, no need to hammer it over our heads every 3 minutes.

  Villains are still not as explored:
  I get MHA is still continuing, and there is a lot of manga left but why villains are villains is still yet to be explored. Is there any manga material that actually goes in past showing One for All original user and how and why All for one become villain? Sure the anime touches on it but, I want a movie/arc on OFA/AFO quirk that concludes on how Al Might first defeated All for one in his original battle leading to his organ damage etc... There is so much room for exploration which IDK when MHA will ever do.

  Final Verdict:

  Despite its issue and me ranting about it. I still believe MHA is somewhat of a decent anime. While other reviews awarded it less than 50. To be <50 is too much and undermines the hard work Studio Bones has put until now. If you read this in future and all issues are addressed than ignore the rant part.

  Thank You for reading my review!

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• 

  tsugan

  85/100
  The fourth season of My Hero Academia is the slowest pace yet for the series, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad.

  I wasn’t going to review this season because it’s an interlude from the main plot turned into a 25 episode season with a lot of filler, however, the final episode convinced me that it would be a crying shame to not send the season off properly. Seriously, the finale alone was enough to raise my final score by five points, I enjoyed it that much.

  Story

  It’s always a bit jarring when a shounen suddenly shifts the focus of its storyline from the main protagonist to other characters, and that is what Season 4 of Hero Aca does. Midoriya takes a back seat - temporarily - as Nighteye, Mirio, Kirishima, and Tamaki Amajiki take turns being the focus at various stages. Midoriya sees character growth through the 25 episodes, to be sure, but this more wide lens approach to the story is a welcome changeup to the familiar formula.

  The story is cleanly divided between the two cours, so for clarity’s sake I will also be dividing my Story review.

  First Cour:

  This is My Hero Academia — and shounens in general — at its best. Slow buildup into a climactic ending. Some may disagree with me here but I felt this cour was amongst the best the show has yet produced.

  Learning more of the backstory for Mirio was great, and they successfully added another good side character to their collection with Amajiki. The dynamic between Nighteye, All Might, Mirio, and Midoriya is complex and something I hope they continue to develop in future seasons.

  The ending is really what makes it. Mirio loses his powers to the drug Chisaki made with Eri’s blood, and Nighteye dies. Whatever notions of plot armor the audience had after All Might didn’t kick the bucket against All For One are shattered here. It was also awesome seeing Midoriya go super saiyan with Eri’s help to kick Chisaki’s ass.

  Eri is an interesting character, but I can’t help but think she exists solely to be a deus ex machina at some future point in the story. We all know she’s either going to heroically save Midoriya’s life at the cost of her own, or somehow lose her powers after doing something, becoming an ornament in background scenes. There’s also no way that Mirio never gets his powers back, I would be shocked if that were the case. That would be a lot of character development down the drain and wasted potential.

  Second Cour:

  The first filler-esque cour in the show, and it’s quite lengthy. It isn’t bad by any means, but did it really need to last for as long as it did? As a sort of palate cleanser, it does its job well enough, by the time the narrative hints for the next season were being dropped in the last three episodes, I was ready.

  Gentle Criminal and La Brava are actually quite a cute little sideshow, they’re like if Disney decided to make the Joker and Harley Quinn. Their saturday morning cartoon hijinks bring some levity to an otherwise douring plot line with all the unresolved badness. The problem is their arc is like 11 episodes long! My God! Am I watching a 00’s era shounen?

  The final two episodes of the season could warrant their own, separate, review, alas they’re technically part of this season, so they’re tied to the other 23.

  Endeavour was nearly an anti-hero until this point in the story — less of a character and more of a sentient plot device for Todoroki — it’s hard to feel sympathetic towards a domestic abuser, and even harder to write one in a sympathetic way without normalizing and implicitly justifying abuse.

  They achieved that in two episodes.

  I cannot express here how nimbly they communicated Endeavour’s character arc in essentially 40 minutes. The only setup they established before was like two lines from Endeavour to Todoroki, then BAM, you’re hit with a whirlwind of character development and one of the best fights in the series. That’s what separates Hero Aca from lesser shounen, when it’s firing on all cylinders and lets itself go, it’s out-and-out one of the best anime in this generation.

  Enjoyment:

  Overall, Season 4 of Hero Aca is really Season 3.5. The first cour is very nice, right up there with the best the show has to offer, but the second cour drags… until the final two episodes, hot damn, watch all the episodes just for those.

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• 

  Struggler

  35/100
  A mediocre show that's overhyped, overrated, and overfilled

  I'll preface this review with the fact that no, this isn't going to be a positive review and no, I didn't like this season.

  With that out of the way, feel free to scroll down and downvote because you don't agree with my opinion.

  ___Story: 3/10___

  I found the story and plot development of this season to be remarkably unremarkable, especially the school festival arc. I will admit, however, that Chisake is quite an interesting villain and I enjoyed his arc. It's quite tragic that one of the most interesting villains in a while is now just stuck in prison, where all we have now villain-wise is Sasuke and his band of misfits. The final fight with Chisake was pretty meh as well, in my opinion, Eri just healing Deku, or rather, reversing his body in time, is quite an ass pull. It's on par with the ass pulls you'd find in shounens such as JoJo, like Star Platinum suddenly becoming the same stand as Dio's or Giorno just immediately getting god-like invincible powers. It's just cheap to build a villain up, give him great power, and then just finish him off with the protagonist getting sudden invincible power to defeat him. It's just bad, boring, and uninteresting story telling to do so. Does that mean it's not enjoyable? Of course not, it's entertaining, but is it good? No, absolutely not, but again that's just my opinion.

  Pertaining to the school festival arc, I found it to be horrendously boring, to the point where I had to force myself to watch it. Gentle Criminal is an enjoyable villain and character, but his writing is laughably bad in my opinion. His goal was what, to infiltrate the school and go viral? It's beyond lame and they could've given him greater aspirations and greater evil plots, but no, his most evil grand scheme? Infiltrating a high school. Wow, so daring, so adventurous, so evil. It's eye roll inducing how mediocre the school festival arc was. Before you say or think it, yes, I know Gentle Criminal is a foil to Deku and that he's a representation of what Deku could've been had he not gotten his power from All Might. Even with that said, I still think this season was mediocre.

  Characters: 2/10

  Like many other reviewers have pointed out, this show has a problem with having too many characters in one show. What's more, is that they keep adding more and more every season. Four seasons in, and most of the characters don't even have a smidgen of character development, we don't know anything about most of them!

  There's no background or development for:

  • Ochako, she's just a cardboard stand-in love interest for Deku
  • Bakugou, he's just Sasuke, but with no backstory and is as annoying as OG Naruto saying believe it. God I hate this character, literally all he is, is just loud, annoying, and obnoxious anger.
  • Tsuyu Asui
  • Momo
  • Mineta
  • Mina
  • Denki
  • Hanta
  • Mashirao
  • Mezou
  • Fumikage
  • Tooru
  • Kouji
  • Rikidou
  • Aizawa

  Even with 88 episodes of development, we know nearly nothing about these characters. They're just cardboard stand-ins for Deku, just a classroom full of nobodies, and don't even get me started on the villains of Sasuke and company, we know less about them than we do about class 1-A! It's terrible writing, and what's worse, is that they keep adding more and more characters. To compare, take a shounen like Naruto, even at episode 88, there was somewhat of a background on nearly every character, even the minor ones like Neji and Hinata. MHA is full to the brim with characters we know nothing about, they just stand there and make the protagonist look good or cheer him on, that's it. In my opinion, that's boring and lackluster writing at it's worst.

  Visuals: 7/10

  Not much to say, MHA has a huge budget, so the animation is crisp and high quality. With that said, I wasn't stunned or shocked by the visuals, nor was I impressed.

  Enjoyment: 2/10

  I did not enjoy watching this show, I had to force myself to even complete it. I cannot understand how people rate this show 8-10/10, it's just not as good compared to other shows of similar rating. It doesn't have a background meaning, it doesn't make you think, and it doesn't have a significant story of any kind. It's just cheap shounen action designed to entertain you for the brief time it's on screen. Were the fights entertaining to watch? Sure, but then after those few minutes, what then? It's just boring, especially since the second arc barely had any action in it.

  My Hero Academia is a clusterfuck of characters we know nothing about, is overhyped and painfully mainstream, and has absolutely no depth to it at all. It's a mediocre show to watch when you're bored and want to see action, nothing more.

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