Boku no Hero Academia the Movie 1: Futari no Hero

U.A. High School's students of Class 1-A have made it to summer break. Izuku Midoriya accompanies his mentor All Might to a celebratory superhero festival on I-Island, an isolated patch of land dedicated to researching Quirks and everything else associated with the hero business. Midoriya is granted the opportunity to meet All Might's friend Dave and Dave's daughter Melissa, two talented hero equipment engineers. He also encounters his classmates, most of whom have been given the opportunity to spend part of their summer break at the festival.

However, a mysterious squad of villains infiltrates I-Island, and it is up to Midoriya and his friends to confront them, using their developing Quirks to fight off the new enemy and uncover a treacherous plot.

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Midoriya, Izuku Main

Yamashita, Daiki Japanese

All Might Main

Miyake, Kenta Japanese

Shield, Melissa Main

Shida, Mirai Japanese

Todoroki, Shouto Supporting

Kaji, Yuuki Japanese

Bakugou, Katsuki Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

Kirishima, Eijirou Supporting

Masuda, Toshiki Japanese

Uraraka, Ochako Supporting

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Asui, Tsuyu Supporting

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Kaminari, Denki Supporting

Hatanaka, Tasuku Japanese

Tokoyami, Fumikage Supporting

Hosoya, Yoshimasa Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Okamura, Wakana Producer

Nagai, Kouji Producer

Sanjouba, Kazumasa Producer

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Aug 3, 2018

ramenyst

Recommended

Not the greatest anime movie I've seen, but definitely far from the worse. The plot is kind of predictable but the fact that it's not a filler movie that pulled a plot out of its arse, it actually provides us some background story of All Might and adds to his characterization earns an 8/10 from me.

Story: 8/10 Plot didn't really get me super excited as I watched (maybe I was expecting too much after seeing the plot of this series). The movie's plot is rather simple. Twists are predictable. But the fights and character interaction makes up those flaws.

Art: 7/10 some part of the art ... gets super bad, like those screenshots of Naruto va Pain where the character faces are all messed up and weird. But for the most part the art is pretty good, especially for the final battle. Man, it's great! The California Smash is epic too!

Sound: 9/10 Even till now, the ending song's still stuck in my head. I can hum it right now if you want... and the voice actors are great of course, as always.

Character: 9/10 Younger All Might. That sums it up why it's good.

Enjoyment: 8/10 I had high expectations of it and wasn't...exactly disappointed so I'm giving it an 8. Particularly that Theme Park place looks interesting, deffo wanna go if possible. That's perhaps the part I enjoyed the most, watching Bakugo, Kirishima, Todoroki, and Izuku fight their way to the top spot and all those cool gadgets Izuku tried on lol.

Overall: 8/10 Not bad for a first movie. Definitely worth the watch. You'll learn quite a lot about the bnha world. Still, I'm hoping the next movie will be better.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Sep 25, 2018

websky

Mixed Feelings

Boku no Hero Academia the Movie: Futari no Hero is predictable, from the very beginning, but still a typical shounen movie that will make you smile.

It's an enjoyable movie, but this is overshadowed by the fact the artwork looks like a budget episode from the series (most of the time anime movies have better animation, but I find it's the opposite here).

They introduce the new characters well. Melissa despite being a little bland you can get behind her actions. Dave as well, when you find out his motivation and relationship with All Might.

Though I find the movie gives quite a bit ... of clunky dialogue with the characters, and at times it seems awkward, as it feels like the characters are just speaking "exposition". There's also a large beginning portion of the movie in the first act dedicated to the same flashbacks you've seen a hundred times in the anime.

I think the story's main problem is adding almost too many of the classmates, some of the kids from UA just happen to be on the Island, and aren't intricate to the plot at all it's just a shot of them in the hotel room, and it's kind of a pointless addition. The characters who take part in the final fight have a purpose, and as they move up the floors you can get behind their actions, but it almost feels they brought to many of them, and would have done better with a tighter cast of just five of them.

The other problem is, a lot of the plot is just predictable at the end, you can almost see every turn coming. The final fight also used 'the power of friendship' trope that I often find the show usually doesn't resort to, making the final encounter almost a bit redundant as it keeps going.

The use of the soundtrack to kind of felt like they were checking off items in a box, making sure to hit every one of the classic music from the series. At times these are used epic, other times though it feels really out of place and like they should have used an original track and not tried to force one we've already heard that doesn't quite fit the scene.

Overall it is a good movie with a few quick laughs (also a lot more guns than ever seen before, they really are in America now, huh), but the art almost makes it feel like a TV special and like the movie was rushed because of all the hype going on with the series. But if you like the anime, you'll probably like the movie, so it's worth taking a look.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Feb 22, 2019

KanonDE

Not Recommended

I watched this movie some days ago and it's one of the worst movies I have watched in a long time and entirely just feels like a cheap cash grab.

Story
The story is the first big problem with the movie because the movie relies completely on plot conveniences and it's incredible just how predictable everything is I literally knew how everything will end in the first 10 minutes of watching it.

Art
Simply put, the art/animations in this movie are horrendous and it's unbelievable that Studio Bones released it like this. In some scenes they used really ugly looking CGI which didn't fit at all and somehow it ... feels like they just didn't cared about the movie at all and just wanted to get it quickly released to cash in on bnha fans which is a shame because the main series looks actually amazing at parts.

Sound
The OST in the movie is good and it has a lot of nice tracks which all fit to the scenes in which they play and there isn't much more to say about the OST, but it is the strongest part of the movie.

Character
The movie features for the most part the same characters we know from the series and it mostly seemed like rather bland fanservice that everyone was coincidentally there and the new characters in the movie were all pretty 1 dimensional and really nothing note worthy.

Enjoyment/Overall
I absolutely did not enjoy this movie and it is beyond me how anyone out there could enjoy it if they watched the same movie as I did and it even makes me sad that the movie was such a disappointment because the main series had a lot of really good moments, but this movie didn't had any.
Overall the movie is a 1/10 for me and I guess the movie was just a quick cash grab from studio bones so they have budget for Mob Psycho S2.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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