My Hero Academia Season 5

It's 2021 and we can call My Hero Academia a major franchise among Shounen Jump's IPs. While it may not be the single biggest hit of the decade, it does challenge the Big Three with its cult following. That doesn't mean MHA is a masterpiece franchise just because it's popular. In fact, MHA may be one of more controversial anime this year. My Hero Academia is a franchise that needs no introduction at this point. It's been an established franchise for years and we all came to know the heroes and villains that makes up its roster. For any long time fan, MHA has also exploredthe hero society and dark underworld of the villains league. What if I told you we get to see an in depth look at both sides? Season 5 may have a more expanded character roster and plot but that doesn't always translate into a better show overall. From the first half of Season 5, we are once again reintroduced to Class 1-A with some of its most prominent characters such as Deku, Bakugo, Todoroki, among others. Their primary rivals are Class 1-B where they compete in a series of matches. To put it simply, it's a battle of pride and respect on the line. While Class 1-B's character roster is nowhere near as prominent as Class 1-A, there are still some important members to take notice. Among them include Itsuka, Ibara, and Tetsutetsu. Some of these almost represent mirror images of Class 1-A such as Shihai when compared to Tetsutetsu. On the other hand, it's hard to root for Class 1-B due to their limited screen time and lack of development. Instead, the season decided to throw them in to showcase their abilities against Class 1-A to see which side is more dominant. When that's out of the way, Season 5 also decided that Deku needs more training to improve himself. So what does that lead to? It means training with none other than Endeavor. Deku, Bakugo, and Todoroki decides to all participate to improve themselves. Meanwhile, it appears that Endeavor knows when the Meta Liberation Army will strike so it's a chance to prepare everyone for the inevitable battles. While this all seems well structured on the surface, the season decided to drag its pacing by showcasing more of Todoroki's past, specifically his family. As if we didn't know enough already, the anime really pushes the envelope to show the type of man Endeavor is. It becomes an oversaturated character study where we just want to move on from the past. Let's face it, we know enough about Todoroki for who he is. It's freaking Season 5 already. But perhaps the most intruging part of Season 5 is the side of the villains. Specifically, I'm talking about the League of Villain led by Tomura Shigaraki. As one of the most prominent characters in the entire franchise, his dark past is explored in detail from his childhood. It casts a shadow of how a once seemingly innocent kid becomes the gruesome villain he is today. He's not the only one we feast our eyes on either as the Villains gets their background stories told that includes Toga and Twice. It's important to understand their origins as the show wants us to experience the dark side of MHA. If you ask me, "My Villain Academia" is the best thing to happen this season. We're in a timeline where every year, MHA makes its presence felt. I say with confidence now that Bones and the directors will adapt the rest of the manga to the dawn of time, for when it ends, so shall the anime. That doesn't mean MHA managed to live up to the hype all this time though. And in fact, the next season will have a lot of work to do if it wants to regain its former glory.

The fifth season of Boku No Pico Academia is finally here. Welp, I guess it's now time for me to review this thing. This review will have some spoilers BUT THERE WON'T BE ANY BIG SPOILERS SO NO WORRIES :D. I don't even know why I called them spoilers; the stuff I'll be mentioning are so little I can really just say this review is spoiler free. Before we start, for those people who are too lazy to read I made a very short version at the end. Just scroll all the way to the end for it. All right let's get straight to it ! !!! Here's a recapof bnha !!! (You can skip this if you want to get straight to bnha s5's review) Boku No Hero Academia (My Hero Academia) takes place in a world where 80% of the human population have quirks, special abilities that varies from being able to make explosions to being a freaking seal. Because of this, people have used these quirks to commit evil crimes, these people are known as villains. The people who use their quirks against evil are known as heroes. Our sad main protagonist, Izuku Midoriya, was unfortunately part of the sad 20% of people who didn't have any quirks, these people are known as quirkless people. Nevertheless he still strived to be a hero until one day after he almost got devoured by a slime. The number 1 hero, All Might, a hero who smiles even in times of trouble, a hero so strong you can see his abs through the costume, chose Midoriya as the 9th wielder of One For All, a quirk passed down from generation to generation, accumulating power and different quirks from previous wielders. After long training, Midoriya, longing to be like the number 1 hero All Might, enrolls to U.A. Highschool, an academy made for heroes, and ends up breaking all the bones in his body multiple times, gets targetted by multiple terrorist groups, unlocks super saiyan, breaks all of his bones again, defeats a freaking drug lord, and almost evaropated into nothing because a child he rescued. The story idea is amazing. The anime isn't though. !!! bnha recap !!! Story: 7 Boku No Pico Academia's 5th season (I'll try my best to not spoil a lot -- If you really don't want any spoilers then just skip this criteria) starts with the events following Hawks (no. 2 hero very hawt guy) and Endeavor's (no. 1 hero who's just tryna have a family again) battle against a Nomu (Monster-like humans with multiple quirks created with All For One). We see Endeavor, with him being the new number 1 hero, a whole lot in this season. The first major part of the season is a series of battles with class A and B. Just before this series of battles, Deku recieves a vision of the previous One For All members. During one of the battles, having received the same vision, Deku Manifests a new quirk! I only included the first major part and non-key info of this season to avoid spoiling anything :D Art: 8 Boku No Pico Academia's animation for this fifth season was very consistent. There weren't any episodes that was poorly made and there weren't any episodes that I would say better than others. bnha's animation overall is pretty great, but I don't know if it's just me or the animation was better during the previous seasons and I don't really see anything in the animation that really surprises me. I don't really see any reason why I should give their art a 9. I don't really have much to say about their animation. IT'S GREAT OKAY IT'S JUST I DON'T HAVE THE WORDS RIGHT NOW. ALL RIGHT MOVING ON! Sound: 8 Just like their art, there aren't much to say about Boku No Pico Academia's sound LOL. I don't really see anything bad nor do I see anything that great? Oooo but I really like the first ending song it's very catchy and the rest of the openings and endings are pretty good too. I PERSONALLY DON'T LIKE THE SECOND OPENING; I EVEN SKIP IT EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE -- please don't kill me -- . Voice acting and sound fx all sound pretty natural. Like I said nothing much to say. Okey it's time for the characters; I'm very excited for this one. Character: 5 One thing I don't like about Boku No Pico Academia -- I should really stop calling it that -- is that there's WAY too many characters. The amount of characters that show up in my screen is more than the history terms I have to memorize for my finals. Come on do you really expect me to memorize all of them??? Since there's more bnha characters than the sands of the earth, we barely know anything about the characters. There isn't just enough time to properly introduce every single one; that's why we only have surface level information for everyone. MOST SCREENTIME DOESN'T EVEN HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE PLOT SINCE THEY'RE SO BUSY SHOWING A FLASHBACK FOR SOME CHARACTER I DON'T EVEN CARE ABOUT OR MAYBE TOO BUSY WITH SHOWING US TODOROKI'S FAMILY ISSUES. * Ehem * Forgive me; I got carried away. Because of bnha's large collection of characters, character development is also very slow. It took Bakugo 5 seasons to learn that a hero's job is to save people and 5 seasons to know that team work makes the dream work. LIKE BRU- ALSO DEKU WHEN THE HECK ARE YOU GONNA REALIZE SOMEONE HAS A HUGE CRUSH ON YOU AND MY GIRL WHEN ARE YOU GONNA CONFESS?? Also Tetsuo please forgive your dad (Mr. Endeavor San aka no. 1 hero) I know it's hard, but he's trying his best to have a family again; so please forgive him. Once again, because bnha has more characters than the members of every isekai main character's harem have, everyone doesn't have much of a personality. I CAN SUM UP MOST OF EVERYONE'S PERSONALITY IN SEASON 5 IN ONE SENTENCE WATCH ME. Deku: I HAVE TO GET STRONGER TO BECOME #1 HERO * cries * Iida: THERE IS NO POINT IN GETTING SAD- LET'S ALL MOVE ON AND TRAIN TO GET STRONGER. PLUS ULTRA !!!! Bakugo: LOL noob ur never passing me just go die and go straight to hell idc about ur silly dreams. go to hell. Mr. Endeavor San: SHOOOTOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!! #AllMight_kinda_noob #I_wanna_have_a_family_again Todoroki: Frick u dad. Ochako: OH MY LORD I JUST HUGGED DEKU KUN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG Midnight: AWWWW OMG U GUYS ARE SO CUTE HOW ADORABLE !!!!! UWU !!!!! Those may not be very accurate, but you know what I mean right? They all have one-dimension personalities. There are really just too much characters and because of that, bnha characters aren't very special. Most Boku No Pico Academia male characters only exist for gay ships and all the girls for ----- well you knowww. Don't get me wrong I don't dislike bnha's characters; I actually like them, since I relate to some of them in a way, but hear me out. THERE ARE JUST TOO MUCH BOKU NO PICO ACADEMIA CHARACTERS. Enjoyment: 5 I don't enjoy Boku No Pico Academia. I started watching bnha, because my former bestfriend asked me to watch it and since I've already seen seasons 1-4, I might as well watch season 5 too. I personally believe bnha is made for a younger audience -- I MYSELF IS NOT OLD OKAY IM REFERRING TO TEENS AND PRETEENS --. It doesn't make sense though, since there are uh. How do I explain. * ehem * Midnight * ehem * Mountain Lady * ehem * Momo Yaoyarazu -- I don't know if I spelled that correctly --. YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I MEAN. As I was saying, I believe bnha was made for preteens. Most jokes aren't even funny (for me atleast) and rather childish (yes I just said childish). Some jokes are just very overused. Stuff like deku talking a lot and being a complete nerd; blabbing a lot of crap that no one cares about and people making him shut up used to be funny, BUT IT'S BEEN 5 SEASONS LET'S TRY UH OTHER THINGS PERHAPS? Also Kacchan being loud and disrespectful used to be really funny but It's getting kind of annoying to be honest. Now for fight scenes. I used to love Boku No Pico academia's fight scenes. I honestly don't know why anymore. I don't know why I ever loved their fight scenes. bnha battles are just 60% side characters stating the obvious facts about the battle, 20% chit chat between the people fighting , 10% screaming "IS THAT ALL YOU GOT?", 5% shouting the names of their ultimate moves and 5% actual fighting. Don't get me wrong, I actually enjoy battles from shounen animes it's just I don't like side characters that I don't care about talk about the battle. IT'S AWKWARD. Another thing is bnha's very slow plot pacing. It's so extremely slow and because of that I don't really find bnha that interesting anymore compared to when it was at the first two seasons. I just continue watching for the sake of finishing. Overall: 6 In conclusion, Boku No Pico Academia is just another shounen anime. The only thing this anime has anything different to offer is that it's main character is a total wimp and cries a lot and this anime has infinitely more characters. LOL all jokes aside, Boku No Hero Academia is an 'okay' anime. It has a fairly nice story and plotline with great animation and sound. To be real, great animation and music is all Boku No Hero Academia is. bnha is very overrated. If you truly love this show and this is the type of anime you enjoy, that's okay. We all have our preferences and own opinions. I don't necessarily hate bnha, but it's definitely not the anime for me. .. and that is my review for Boku No Hero Academia Season 5 THANCHU FOR READING !!! HAVE A GREAT DAY :D For those too lazy to read: Story: 7 Art: 8 - consistent good animation Sound: 8 - good sound. opening and ending songs are pretty good too Character: 5 - bland characters and very slow character development Enjoyment: 5 - very slow plot pacing; made for a younger audience 7 + 2(8) + 2(5) = 33 33/5 = 6.6 I suddenly forgot how to round up. Overall: 6

A 10 episode dragged-out filler arc. An advertisement for a mediocre movie. And a butchered, overhyped villain arc. That's My Hero Academia Season 5 in a nutshell. Previous seasons of My Hero have been decent all things considered; Season 4 being more mixed compared to the others with some disappointing lows, but also having some of the highest highs in the series so far. By comparison, Season 5 is completely unsalvageable. It immediately hits us with 10 episodes of filler that doesn't progress the story or develop any of the characters AT ALL. The premise behind Class 1A vs 1B is completely useless; forcing an already oversizedcast of our main 1A students going up against an equally oversized group of 1B nobodies that 99% have never been on screen or had a single line of dialogue beforehand. Not to mention that this arc is probably the worst take on the "tournament arc" trope I've seen yet, in a show that already managed to pull it off in season 2. Whether a team wins or lose doesn't matter in the slightest, there are literally zero stakes or reason to care about whoever wins. It's just a obscenely long sparring match disguised as a showcase for the quirks of B-list characters that no one cares about. None of our main cast change or learn anything throughout these episodes, the only exception being Midoriya whom barely justifies this pointless arc by gaining one new power up. That's it. Everyone else has nothing to do throughout this entire filler arc. You can easily skip the entire first half of this season, as you will miss literally nothing. Next up is the Agency Arc. Aka, a blatant advertisement for the third movie that ends way too quickly, and shows characters and plot lines made specifically for a non-canon movie. It's only 5 episodes long and has our main characters do nothing for the entire arc. Sound familiar? It introduces some details that will set up actually interesting arcs down the road, but otherwise you can skip this one as well. And finally, My Villain Academia. The arc that was supposedly gonna change the tone of the show into a more serious and dark story. Before it aired, people described it as the "edgy, dark, and violent" version of My Hero, and praised it as the saving grace for the season. Shame it fell flat on it's mid face. Don't get me wrong, at least stuff actually HAPPENS here. But the execution is so poorly paced and weak. It's basically a bunch of mini-skirmishes with the villains that we somewhat care about vs. an army of nobodies that were barely built up and the show suddenly acts like we should care about. Sound familiar? x2 Also the show spoils the end of the arc at the beginning of the previous arc, so you won't have to worry about having "stakes" or "engagement" in this show since it already tells you the ending before MVA even begins. The ONLY legitimately good episode was a flashback episode, where the show actually makes you feel emotional for our main lead in this arc. Everything else is woefully subpar, with this entire arc boiling down to "defeat the bad guys = win", and "Why not be evil?" for villains that were already evil and had no issue with their morality for the past 5 seasons. Except this time it's "Why not be MORE evil?!?" *slow claps* Finally, it ends with the promise of another big arc coming, that will "change everything". Ah yes. The very same thing that MVA was supposed to be and failed. What a joke of a season. Both openings are terrible as well. The first one has a good song, but completely ignores Class 1B despite them being THE MAIN PREMISE of that arc. And the rest is Class 1A fighting thin air instead of showcasing any semblance of 1B. And the second is half assed to say the least. Not only does the song suck and doesn't fit ANY of the arcs with how cringe the lyrics are, but a majority of it focuses on the Agency Arc which ends 3 episodes after the opening starts. And MVA only gets small sprinkles of random powerpoint screenshots + a bare minimum logo change, even though it's the majority of the remaining show. As you can see, priority/common sense was thrown out the window for this season. All in all, My Hero Season 5 is a complete waste of your time. Even if you're a MHA fan, there is no reason for you to watch this garbage. None of the characters develop or do anything remotely interesting. It's 90% filler and 10% badly executed story arcs that had the potential to be amazing. And unlike Season 1-4, there are no highlights in this season. Not even a single sakuga fight scene to at least admire for animation sake, since they moved the entire animation team to work on a movie that no one asked for. The best you're gonna get is 5 seconds of 3D buildings. Gee thanks My Hero. It's a shame how far this show has fallen considering how much care and attention was given to S1-4. Nowadays we're lucky if Bones remembers to change the PNG logo for MVA. Do yourself a favor and skip this entire season. This gets a 1/10 (but I'd honestly give it a 0 if I could)

MHA always has, and always will be, mid (at best). As a show that plays its cards incredibly safe and doesn’t try to subvert anything in the shounen genre, it’s pretty clear what MHA hopes to achieve in its lifetime (that’s selling movies if you haven’t realized already). But this season just goes to show that when you aim for mediocrity, you end up with subpar results. Drill that lesson into your hearts kids: aim for the moon so you can land amongst the stars, don’t be like MHA and aim for the stratosphere and end up 2m from where you started. If you have anyhope left for this series, I suggest you abandon it and save yourself from disappointment. This season alone indicated where Bones’ priorities lie with this series as a whole (movies so stonks go up). As with any MHA season, we can’t go without the classic flaws: 1. Disgustingly long episode recaps 2. Piss-poor pacing/storyboarding 3. Unironically lengthy exposition dumps 4. Lack of meaningful progress on character development and worldbuilding Let’s see how these flaws manifested this season. The 1st episode is a “why do you exist” episode. Was it necessary to reintroduce every character and their quirks and dynamics? It’s not as if we had sudden amnesia and forgot. Don’t hit me with the “it’s a chance to showcase side characters” too because you and I both know damn well that anyone who isn’t the main cast (Deku, Todoroki, Bakugo, Uraraka) has been completely shoved to the side at this point. And that’s one thing I never liked about MHA, the character development. It tries too hard to sprinkle in development for side characters, but since it’s done so half-heartedly it just feels like cheap filler content instead of a meaningful attempt at doing something. Either do something properly or don’t do it at all. The 1st cour. Class A vs Class B. Good animation for some of the scenes, but it’s wasted on content with poor pacing. The fights are overly drawn out, with each episode opening with a 5-minute flashback to the previous episode (I kid you not, EP 6 literally recycles the same recap from a previous episode). There’s also an issue of worldbuilding here with Class B, but I’m not going to open up that can of worms here. Ultimately, I don’t get how Class A, which has more real-world fighting and interning experience, decides to go easy and get their ass handed when it comes to “being aggressive” (Tokoyami vs Mushroom girl for example). The copious amounts of exposition dumps we got throughout this arc were dumbfounding too. MHA, and most anime in general, could do well to have faith in their viewers having more than 1 brain cell and an attention span greater than that of a goldfish. The 2nd cour. Hero work studies and MVA. Overall, the content here is much more interesting and watchable than 1st cour. Issues still plague the season such as-- OH MY GOD OKAY IT’S HAPPENING, EVERYONE STAY CALM! STAY FUCKING CALM! WE’RE HAVING ANOTHER MHA MOVIE!!!! OMG! POGGERS! HERE’S AN ENTIRE “FILLER” EPISODE DEDICATED TO PROMOTING AND TEASING THIS MOVIE FOR Y’ALL BECAUSE THAT'S JUST WHAT YOU WANTED. WE TOTALLY DIDN’T SWITCH THE STORY AND PACING UP JUST FOR THE MOVIE!!!!! Anyways, where was I? Oh yes. The same issues from cour 1 resurface here. Pacing, and now more so storyboarding too. Why were MVA and the work-study arc rearranged to the way it was presented in the show? So they could fit in the movie episode. Now we have this disjointed storyline that robs the viewer of any sense of suspense or danger. You teased Shigaraki powering up? That’s cool, but I’ve forgotten about it since nothing related is brought up again for the next 5 episodes. PLF is going to attack in 4 months with 100k plus members? Spooky. But numbers don’t mean shit to me. Giving names is. Telling me PLF has 5-6 elite villains, with quirks doing XYZ, who teamed up with the League of Villains, who also powered up, is infinitely more dramatic and suspenseful than the route we got. Not to mention awkward directing and cutting of relevant material during MVA itself. Shame on the studio. Overall, this season was a shitshow, but for different reasons than S4. The main complaint with S4 was the animation: MHA will always have copious amounts of exposition dumps. But this season, we’ve traded (somewhat) better animation for god-awful pacing and storyboarding. While there were a few bright spots and well-adapted scenes, it’s not enough to make up for a wholly disappointing season overall. It’s also been made pretty clear that all the MHA franchise cares about at this point is pumping out movies to milk the unfortunate die-hard fans of their money. Smoge. I’m not going to spoil future seasons, but all I can say is they do a great job of highlighting MHA’s biggest and most glaring flaw: god-awful worldbuilding and character development. If you’re a manga reader and would like to hear my views, shoot me a message. But all I can offer to anime-only fans is this: if you’re ready for braindead action boom-boom pow scenes, you’re in for a treat. But MHA as you know it will be dead after the next arc thanks to shitty writing.