Boku no Hero Academia 3rd Season

As summer arrives for the students at UA Academy, each of these superheroes-in-training puts in their best efforts to become renowned heroes. They head off to a forest training camp run by UA's pro heroes, where the students face one another in battle and go through dangerous tests, improving their abilities and pushing past their limits. However, their school trip is suddenly turned upside down when the League of Villains arrives, invading the camp with a mission to capture one of the students.

Boku no Hero Academia 3rd Season follows Izuku "Deku" Midoriya, an ambitious student training to achieve his dream of becoming a hero similar to his role model—All Might. Being one of the students caught up amidst the chaos of the villain attack, Deku must take a stand with his classmates and fight for their survival.

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Midoriya, Izuku Main

Yamashita, Daiki Japanese

Bakugou, Katsuki Main

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

All Might Main

Miyake, Kenta Japanese

Todoroki, Shouto Supporting

Kaji, Yuuki Japanese

Aizawa, Shouta Supporting

Suwabe, Junichi Japanese

Kirishima, Eijirou Supporting

Masuda, Toshiki Japanese

Toga, Himiko Supporting

Fukuen, Misato Japanese

Uraraka, Ochako Supporting

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Dabi Supporting

Shimono, Hiro Japanese

Asui, Tsuyu Supporting

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Okamura, Wakana Producer

Oyabu, Yoshihiro Producer

Saga, Hayato Producer

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May 17, 2025

SDK1903

Recommended

My Hero Academia – Season 3 – 7/10

Season 3 of My Hero Academia continues to expand the world of heroes and villains, delivering new challenges and higher stakes for Class 1-A. While it doesn’t quite recapture the freshness of Season 1 or the emotional peak of Season 2, it still offers plenty of exciting moments and character development.

What Works Well

Training Camp Arc: The forest training exercises showcase each student’s growth and teamwork under real danger. Watching characters push beyond their limits together reinforces the series’ core theme of collective strength.

Villain Encounters: The League of Villains becomes a more formidable and nuanced threat. Their raids feel ... urgent, and the tension when hero and villain paths cross creates genuine suspense.

Rescue Mission: The operation to save a captured ally is paced with constant tension. It highlights the students’ resourcefulness and heroism when everything is on the line.


Strengths

Action Choreography: Studio Bones maintains high energy in fight scenes—fluid movement, inventive Quirk usage, and dynamic camera work make every clash feel impactful.

Character Moments: Several side characters step into the spotlight, showing new sides of themselves. These smaller beats help deepen the ensemble and keep the long cast feeling fresh.

Emotional Stakes: Though not as tear-jerking as earlier seasons, there are heartfelt moments of camaraderie and sacrifice that remind you why you care about these young heroes.


Where It Falls Short

Pacing Variability: The season occasionally drags, particularly when shifting between training and rescue arcs. Some episodes feel like setups rather than advances.

Predictable Structure: By now the formula of “students train, villains attack, heroes respond” can feel a bit familiar, reducing the element of surprise.

Limited Focus on Protagonist Growth: Midoriya’s personal journey takes a back seat at times, as the ensemble—and the villains—receive more attention.


Final Thoughts
Season 3 of My Hero Academia is a solid continuation that reinforces the series’ strengths—teamwork, inventive action, and a growing rogue’s gallery—while wrestling with the challenge of keeping a long-running story feeling new. It may not surpass the early seasons, but it delivers enough tension and character moments to remain engaging. For fans following Deku’s journey, it’s worth watching for its high-stakes conflicts and the evolving dynamics between heroes and villains.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 24, 2025

Caeruleus_CCXVI

Mixed Feelings

5.5/10 ~ better then S2, worse then S1

MHA was a show with a really strong start in S1 and then kinda fell off imo. S2 was pretty disappointing but S3 did step it up a bit. Which is funny because originally I dropped the show when it was airing around the time Slain got captured and all I recall hearing from m y peers about the show is about how bad Season 3 was and that they wish they dropped the show all together, in 2025 I dont know a single person that is still watching this seasonally because everyone dropped the show between S3-5. ...

After watching all of Season 1-3, + the first 2 movies. I now understand what must have happened. MHA does something kinda well for a Shonen specifically which is mix the emotional aspects of the show, intertwined with the fights and level ups. But the emotional aspects of the show sit in this weird category where I feel like its too emotional for the general Shonen crowd (IE: the target demo that is Teen/Pre-teen boys) But is simultaneously not mature enough for the adult crowd that are probably now into seinen or w.e, not to mention too violent for kids, and tackling touch topics like morality for children. I recall many people saying S3 was so "boring", after S2 that just jumped into a stupid tournament arch and featured the best boy Slain. Where S3 dives much deeper into character growth and the emotional aspect of the show with far far less fighting.

But at the end of the day, its still a Shonen and im forsure in the "too old for this shit" category. I mostly enjoy the semi political aspects and the moral questions the show really does a poor job of asking. As I said in my previous 2 reviews if I didnt need extremely mid show to watch while working I would never have made it past the mid point of Season 1.

That being said I think this show is pretty decent as a 1st anime, and probably great for kids between 10-16's

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jul 21, 2023

Phasar2022

Not Recommended

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In my opinion this is the weakest season of MHA so far.

Boku no Hero Academia 3rd Season

And here we come to the point where MHA, unfortunately, announces its downfall. Here the viewer again becomes terribly aware of how generic this series actually is and how little value is placed on variety and creativity.
-Don't get me wrong, I'm still a big fan of the series and love every single episode, but you can't ignore something like this.

This season begins with a training trip into the wilderness, so that the students of classes A and B, find out their own strengths and try to compensate for ... their weaknesses. But the villains know about this excursion and ambush them, resulting in a (not) epic battle. Perhaps it was better in the manga, but in the anime, its pacing was very slow and lacked momentum. The attack of the villains was not convincing at all.


What surprised me more, though, was their goal and what that resulted in. Although you might think that Bakugo is actually more like a "villain" than a "hero", here again, his will was demonstrated why he wants to be a hero after all. And that this fight resulted in the clash between All Might and All For One, no one could have seen this coming. Who builds in a fight against the final antagonist in the third season? This was indeed surprising, even if the course of the fight had been a bit stretched and lacked dynamics. Not to mention the final blow of All Might, cliché but convincing.


So far it wasn't actually that bad, it was "Average". But what awaited me after the fight was torture. By far the most boring and monotonous School Arc in the series. Not only was it uninteresting, but the pacing was also slow and there were almost no entertaining moments, even for me. If I could, I would have almost skipped this arc.


[Characters 4]

There were no notable additions on the part of the main characters this season. Instead, you got a decent presentation of the villains and slight hints of their "special" relationship. Later on, there are far better developments on the part of the antagonists, which impresses me a lot about the series.


[Conclusion 4]

A continuing decently entertaining season with a heavy aftertaste. Both animations have slackened here, as well as the pacing has become very slow. For a shounen fan, however, this is more than enough to get by. However, if someone is here for the story and plot, this season becomes a very heavy project.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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