Boku no Hero Academia 4th Season

Been a huge fan since S1 which got me into the manga, haven't looked back since. S1 and 2 were absolutely fantastic. Season 3 started showing some cracks in the animation, CGI, and art department. Rumor was they took people off the anime to work on the movie so it was at least understandable. However now we get Season 4 and (to me at least) the background CGI is looking especially terrible, panning shots of the academy make me cringe, and moving background characters and cars have been giving me berserk vibes. Hopefully it doesn't get any funkier or I'll probably just drop it and ... stick to the manga, there's no bad CGI in my imagination thankfully.

My hero academia, one of modern big three. I absolutely loved the first 2 seasons. S3, for me was weak and repetitive, it had some epic and good moments but as a whole it was a disappointment.


I am maybe in the minority, but by season 4 MHA made a comeback. I really enjoyed this season even though it had some animation and pacing inconsistencies at the beginning.


The things that made this season my favorite, or at least its better than S3
[MINOR SPOILERS]
1.The story arcs-
• Overhaul arc – it is one the most serious and best arcs up until now. It had emotions, major ... losses, fights, focus in characters other than Deku and Bakugo. FOR THE FIRST TIME CLASS 1A was not the main focus for the villains and others. In short story wise it had an improvement.
• School festival arc –This is the first time I liked a calm / training arc from MHA. This arc was really good in allowing focus on other character like JIRO, ERI, etc. The performance was awesome. We had a really good calm arc.
Gentle was first introduced as a low threat funny villain, but at the during the end of the arc I felt more towards both Gentle and La Brava, wishes to see them more in the future.

2.Side character focus and development-
I liked that in the overhaul arc the usual class A vs villain formula was not used. Instead it took only few from the class, which allowed more focus and background on characters like Kirishima [which previous seasons were weak in doing]. We also got focus on two of the big 3 characters. Eri as a character grew on me with passing episodes, hope to see more involvement from her in the future.

now let me tell the problems I felt from this season.
• Pacing – pacing was definitely an issue up to 10 episodes. But later it kinda picked up.
• Animation – The major eps had nice animation, but some of the episodes had weaker animation quality compared to other seasons.


[SPOILERS]
Midoriya vs Overhaul, to me it was the best fight Midoriya has in this series. He was able to use 100 percent full cowling for this fight.
Nighteye was a character you will feel the lose of. His last scenes were touching. Mirio being out of action for a while is also a big thing
Kirishima was given good focus, now doesn’t feel like a background character anymore. Hope future season will give some focus on the rest of characters in at least class A.
Jiro is one the characters I feel like will not do good in a fighting arc except for maybe support, so the festival arc was one the arc where characters like her can get more focus. So far they have been only focusing on Midoriya and Bakugo even in the training/calm arcs. So this time was a first and is appreciated hope for similar arcs with a character focus as a calm arc.
The license arc was also pretty good, was enjoyable. We got focus on Endeavour.
[ THIS SEAON HAD THE BEST FINAL EPISODE] literally fire.



[only small spoilers ]
• Story 8.5 awesome
Story arcs in this were better than S3. More side character focus, serious fight, more mature, more risk and huge losses, better calm arcs than every season.
Overhaul arc is my favorite arc from MHA.
The festival arc was the best calm /training arc in this series yet. It had some purpose in it.
Villains were awesome. [Overhaul, Gentle]
For the first time the League of villains felt scary

• Art and animation 8.5 Pretty good
Art and animation was weakest in this season even though the major scenes had good animation, some scenes in the season felt lacking in the ‘BONES’ quality.

• Fights 8.5 awesome
Fights were awesome and more serious.
Over vs deku, Kaminari’s fights, Mirio’s, Gentle vs deku.
Last ep was fire.

• Sound 10 Outstanding
The osts are really good like always.

• Character 8.5 very Good
This season we had some improves in character focuses and development. Usually only the developed ones were developed further, rest of the cast were still blunt, just to add numbers in the classroom. But this season we got focus on others characters, which is a ‘+’ in this season.
Mirio, Eri, Kirishima, Jiro, Endeavour were focused this season. HOPE FUTURE SEASONS FOLLOW THIS TREND.

• Enjoyment 8.5 AWESOME-
[I didn’t like season 3 that much like the rest, to me it had some boring arcs at the end and beginning parts, the same training, battle, training formula was followed in which the training arcs were boring]
So This season made me love MHA again, gave me hope again. Definitely excited for season 5

• Overall 8.5
It was a comeback for mha in my opinion, at least it felt to me, made me love MHA again.

In short this season was weaker in pacing and animation, but it had better arcs, more character focuses, felt more serious, major losses, best calm arcs, best last episode, good villains etc.

What a let down. I've been a fan of both the manga and the anime since season one and was expecting some good things from this season. Now I am just disappointed.

The animation has declined and it seems like the Studios' passion for the series has also. Despite having quality source material, they managed to make the Overhaul Arc feel lifeless. There are lots of good parts that feel rushed and bad parts that seem to drag out for much longer than they have any right to. I tried watching more episodes in hope that they improved but alas, they did not.

It’s always a weird feeling where I feel like I have to play defense for the most popular, widely beloved franchises on the market. But that’s the paradox of ubiquity: when an anime, movie franchise, TV show, book series, or whatever become so popular that pretty much everyone’s at least heard about it, it can be easy to take it for granted. They become so omnipresent that we forget what made them good in the first place, and we forget how to love them in the same way we used to. Small wonder the cry of “overrated” has become so prominent in today’s criticism; it ... can be so hard sometimes to divorce the most popular stories from that popularity and approach them as if seeing them for the first time. But it behooves us to remember: things get popular for a reason. Sure, there’s plenty of garbage that amasses a following by appealing to the lowest common denominator (Twilight, the Transformers movies). But when something becomes beloved enough to rule the conversation- the MCU, Miyazaki movies, there’s a good chance it’s because it’s good enough to actually goddamn deserve it.

Which is why I now find myself here once again, feeling the need to remind today’s anime fandom that My Hero Academia is still really damn good.

Yes, it feels like 2019 was the year the anime community finally got tired of Deku and company. With stuff like Promised Neverland, Demon Slayer and Doctor Stone taking up the mantle of hype shonen series for everyone to rally around, the first truly mainstream anime success story since Attack on Titan and One Punch Man felt like it was falling by the wayside. I’ve seen so many people lately who just seem exhausted with the whole thing, with heroes and villains, with UA Academy, with All-Might and One-For-All and All-For-One. And if no other semi-serious anime analyst is gonna step up in its defense, then it might as well be me. My Hero Academia isn’t perfect, and it never was, but at its core, this is still the best vanguard modern anime could possibly ask for. It’s inspirational and emotional, genuinely hilarious with great characters, packed to the gills with stellar animation courtesy of Studio Bones, and constantly striving to be a hot-blooded shonen with something to say about the nature of heroism and its place in society. There’s a reason why this show’s first season is second only to Naruto in MAL popularity for long-running shonen action titles, why this franchise is one of the rare few to break out of the otaku dungeon and achieve mainstream success in the United States and beyond. And I will be damned if franchise fatigue makes us forget why we fell in love with it in the first place.

All that being said, I do understand the lukewarm reception this latest season has received. Especially after the crowning achievement of awesome that was season 3, season 4 feels like a step down in pretty much every way. Like all of MHA’s two-cours seasons, it’s pretty evenly split between two separate arcs, and the first one is by far the stronger of the two. The Overhaul arc sees our plucky heroes confront villains in official capacity for the first time, using their fancy new provisional licenses to team up with established hero teams and go after the dangerous, mysterious Overhaul, the League of Villains’ latest uneasy ally. It’s the darkest the show has ever gotten, bringing Deku and company up to the big leagues with a truly chilling undercurrent of menace and brutality. Overhaul’s gang are all dangerous beyond belief, and the emotional and physical trials the heroes undergo to bring them down make for some truly nail-biting moments of dread. Not to mention how the arc’s emotional core is centered around Overhaul’s daughter Eri, a victim of the madman’s abuse who Deku and Togata have an opportunity to save before the battle even starts brewing... but fail. It’s a stark look at the realities of this show’s world that are bubbling to the surface now that the light of the Symbol of Peace is no longer around to blind us to them, and it kills.

The second arc, meanwhile, has a far more laid-back goal in mind: a school festival! I honestly kind of love this idea, just for the sheer balls it takes to follow up the series’ darkest arc yet with a tried-and-true staple of anime time-wasting. Why shouldn’t My Hero Academia be able to embrace the medium’s more slice-of-life elements? Certainly its characters are strong enough to carry it. Unfortunately, this arc definitely suffers from a lack of real meat on its bones; none of the conflicts that brew throughout it have any real legs to stand on. It feels like we should’ve been spending more time on watching Jirou come out of her shell and embrace being a punk rocker, or the flamboyant pair of villains Deku encounters trying to bust the festival up, or even the follow-up to the Provisional Exam arc that sees some fascinating developments for Bakugo and Todoroki. And it can’t help feel like a lot of this arc is just killing time in between the big moments.

Actually, that’s kinda this whole season’s biggest issue: there’s too much space between the really good stuff. At its best, My Hero Academia is a series of compelling, well-produced story beats that all build on each other until climaxing in moments so utterly jaw-dropping that they become the new standard bearers of what “that kind of thing” should look like in shonen. The big moments are still there in season 4, but the space between them is wider and less interesting. The Overhaul arc is plagued by countless flashbacks that drag down the pace of what should be a tense, propulsive lair invasion. The School Festival arc is full of dead air and underbaked time-filling. And the animation across the board is far less consistent than it’s ever been, with stiffer character models, flatter direction, and an overall lack of polish. One highly emotional battle’s climax is played out entirely in still shots, for crying out loud. In previous seasons, even a lot of the chill character moments were still given flair and style; I still remember how enjoyable it was watching class 1-A just hang out in training camp last season thanks to how snappy the direction on their interactions was. That spark is missing from season 4, and even if you can’t pinpoint all the little ways things feel off, the difference is noticeable all the same.

And yet. Whenever this season actually does get to those big moments, the moments where all the frustrations and limitations fall away and the production team pushes their effort to Plus Ultra and beyond... yeah, it’s still really fucking good. Kirishima pushing his hardening to the limit to protect the heroes he looks up to, Deku’s final showdown with Overhaul, the freaky wall-twisting powers of Overhaul’s right-hand man, a final-episode Endeavor-focused smackdown that somehow manages to rival All Might vs All For One in sheer hype factor, even the freaking music-video-esque concert that caps off the festival... when this show hits its peaks, it blows everything else out of the water. The best battles of this show are some of the best battles not just of the year, but of all damn time. The best animation isn’t just above-average, it’s the new standard against which animation deserves to be judged (well, not counting Bones’ other 2019 masterpiece Mob season 2). And man, everything related to Eri’s painful escape and recovery from her abuse is just goddamn spectacular. Forget Nezuko, give me this smile to protect any day of the week.

That’s why this franchise has become the new face of modern anime for so many: at its best, few things even come close. The truly great moments might be fewer and further between this season, and the overall quality might be more uneven than ever, and Mineta still seriously needs to, like, just die already, but it’s still far from running out of steam. You can keep the cringy lameness of Doctor Stone, the confused intentions of Demon Slayer, and the insufferable stupidity of Fire Force: when all is said and done, there is still no better vanguard for the face of modern anime than My Hero Academia. And I will continue to love it as long as that star keeps shining bright.

Since this season isn't over yet my review will be short.

So far this season of BNHA has been pretty fun. Aside from some severely lazy animation choices and overall poor quality during certain scenes. (How many characters are wearing a mask/turned away so we don't have to animate their lips? hmm??) The story remains exciting and the characters are great as usual.

Fight scenes were good, maybe not as excellent as previous seasons, but exciting all the same. The new opening and endings are excellent.

Looking forward to the next half of the show, but I hope they don't take such cheap shortcuts with animations.

BNHA"S CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IN A NUTSHELL:

Mineta in episode 1: "OMG NOSEBLEED BOOBIES!"
Midoriya in episode 1: "*crying* ALLL MIGHTTTT *crying*"
Bakugo in episode 1: "DEKUUUUUU VIOLENCEEEEEE"

Mineta 80 episodes later: "OMG NOSEBLEED BOOBIES!"
Midoriya 80 episodes later: "*crying* ALLL MIGHTTTT *crying*"
Bakugo 80 episodes later: "DEKUUUUUU VIOLENCEEEEEE"

...
Almost 90 episodes in and there has been almost zero long term character development. Every character is the exact same as they were at the beginning of season 1. This seasons first half felt extremely rushed, and the only people that left the first half with any lasting consequences were characters that were only introduced like 5 episodes ago. Every single character that was introduced in s1 has plot armor. Also, over half of the enormous cast of cliché characters did NOTHING for the entire first half of this season.

After suffering through the first half I got hit with the second half of the season which is a school festival psuedo filler arc where not a single meaningful thing happens. Zero character development, zero story progression. The "bad guy" of the second half is just a guy who wants to sneak into the school festival and film a youtube video. Such a great villain concept. I am shaking in my boots at the thought of this guy filming a youtube video at the school. The fact that this arc technically isn't filler because it was actually in the manga is astounding to me. This author seriously wrote a filler arc into his manga. Wow.

This anime series used to be interesting to watch but the quality just keeps on dropping it's just getting worse and worse. I don't even think I can finish this season there are too many episodes for the side characters that I don't care about, and the plot became BAD like really bad there's too much screentime for heroes I don't care about, not enough story for the villains and the characters are just boring everyone screams that they're the best hero, fight a bit then everything is alright, rinse and repeat. I don't even know how this season has an over 8 score ... it just proves that no one cares about quality anymore and just prefers an anime with bad plot and bland, boring characters.

Im going to be straight forward and preface this by saying, I read the manga and am all caught up so I don't remember all the details from the Overhaul arc, and my review for the most part is overall.

I believe this is probably one of the best seasons of bnha so far. The overhaul arc is a lot darker than the rest of the show however the execution of the story-to me atleast- is amazing.

In this arc, they only focus on I think 7 UA students total, of course Midoriya and Mirio being the top 2. Personally I love the way they showed

jangan lupa ... mampir di website kami jg y myanimeinfo.com

This series never ceases to amaze me, I don't know what's wrong with everyone, because it thought this season was awesome. Four seasons in and it does not loose impact. I've cried twice and almost cried another time during the season, this does not happen often. I'm excited for what's to come and I don't think I'll be disappointed.
My only complaint would be that this season seems to lack some originality, people seemed to have enjoyed a certain finishing move Deku used halfway through the series, but it was so similar to one punch man's consecutive normal punches that the excitement at that moment ... turned to cringe.
In the end, though this is definately worth watching!

Our expectations are huge after the last few seasons. I will make it quick:

I usually don't write reviews but after seeing so many negative review from people who haven't even seen this season fully - I just had to write one. The main reason why some people would not like it is because of a very slow build up. Most people forget that.

The culmination starts on Episode 11, where the few biggest characters clashes. On Episode 12 it gets even more crazy... So many heroes die...

And then the Episode 13 hits, with probably the most beautiful slow motion in all anime I have ever seen, ... breathtaking song performed in English, tear breaking moment and a fight scene which feels like Super fight perfected with so much weight behind it all done in One Punch Man level animation. It really does feel anyone could die at that moment, every story before is a build up just for this moment.

In Season 1 - Deku was crying a lot.
But in Season 4 - viewers are crying.

In my opinion, Boku No Hero Academia is the best anime. It might not be perfect, but it takes everything what was good in other anime and connects everything into a nice fluid story, with a huge, colourful and interesting characters and thrilling but impactful fights where it's hard to say who is going to win. With each season it feels Boku No Hero Academia is just becoming better.

"A world without smiles and humor... has no bright future." - Nighteye

Boku no Hero Academia 4th Season leaves off from the 3rd Season and with All for One locked up, stray villains and even YAKUZA with quirks comes into the fray to take the limelight with this season, with one Kai Chisaki voiced by Kenjirou Tsuda a yakuza planning something up for the heroes using Eri voiced by Seiran Kobayashi, as Deku joins Nighteye's agency to further his quirk and finds out about Eri's situation, it's up to him and Mirio to stop Chisaki. Well this is the first half of this season summary anyways, ... the next arc afterwards deals with the aftermath with the Chisaki incident and in turn U.A has a cultural festival and Class 1-A thinks it's a good way for the rest of the school to unwind from all the craziness that 1-A has caused with a concert, this in turn would help with Eri's condition, all the while, Gentle Criminal voiced by Kouichi Yamadera and La Brava voiced by Yui Horie tries to sneak into U.A, with the potential of cancelling the festival altogether.

Ok let's start with Overhaul's (or Chisaki) arc. With the major focus of this focusing on Eri and Chisaki, we more or less get to see the yakuza quirk side of things and though the League of Villains are in the background, Himiko and Twice have checks on Chisaki's plans. The main goal of Mirio and Deku become sin trying to save Eri from the tormenting presences of Overhaul to the point of them raiding his compound and in a ways, with the selected heroes from Class 1-A that were chosen to be up to the task of this mission, it's their "first school approved hero mission" they have participated in, because of the entire structure of this arc, ALOT of those selected in 1-A gets their time to shine, the best being Kirishima as we get to know WHY he wants to be a hero and man his limelight was shined the most with this arc. Unfortunately this means the rest like Froppy and Uraraka gets this treatment BUT nonetheless. Of course it' not just 1-A members who gets their time to shine, as Mirio and Tamaki also gets theirs in some gratifying but also somewhat tragic ways during the sting operation but again much like Kirishima, it was executed brilliantly. Now this arc IS focused on Overhaul and his main purpose and reasoning in using Eri, but it also comes into light WHAT Eri's quirk is. Nighteyes gets some backstory and development especially due to his relationship with being ALl Might's former sidekick and with him having the quirk of "clairvoyance", makes him an interesting hero to say the least. If Eri was the goal of saving in this arc, then Nighteye is at the heart of this arc as tragic as it gets. Without spoilers, Overhauls seems to LA like a Syndrome from The Incredible BUT his methods and overall goal being the exact opposite and him using Eri somewhat gives a bit of lore and world building towards quirks as well as Overhaul isn't like the League of Villains and you can somewhat make him sympathetic as he only wants what is best for his yakuza BUT much like his endeavors and overall goal in using Eri, is misplaced in how over the top and crazed his methods are with Eri suffering as a result.

On speaking of suffering, Overhaul's arc has some tragedy befall the cast one way or another, it IS a sting operation where Yakuza with quirks fights off with Heroes so it is a given and even more so again to what Overhaul is planning, the stakes gets raised even more and by the end of it, LA will reiterate Nighteye's statement by the end of it. "A world without smiles and humor... has no bright future."

To which Gentle Criminal's arc elevates this statement that Nighteye said into fruition with the cultural festival getting setup. Gentle Criminal is an odd "villain", he may be a "one off" "villain", but if anything he's what would of happened to Deku if All Might never met him and Deku went to a dark path. Gentle Criminal "wants to be noticed" and even has Boku no hero Academia's vers. of a Youtube channel, yes if anything he's essentially a parodying a Youtuber wanting attention and him wanting his sights on U.A as "lite" as it is, becomes MUCH more when it comes to Deku wanting to make Eri smile after everything she went through in overhaul's arc. Thus as lite as it is in comparison to Overhaul's arc, it brings in a different emotional resonance and stakes to this arc.

On the character development side, we of course get them from Gentle Criminal, La Brava and oddly enough Kyoka Jiro (which was hinted back previous seasons) with her managing Class 1-A's concert and being the lead guitarist. La Brava being Gentle Criminal's sidekick, we get to see a good subversion of what is essentially Harley Quinn to Joker paradigm with La Brava. Another words, what would happen when a person loves a villain and with the side effects it has on not only herself but Gentle Criminal, their dynamic only reinforces what LA said about Gentle Criminal above and La Brava could be the standin to Deku to Gentle Criminal to All Might as well. Nonetheless Gentle Criminal's arc was a nice reprieve from not only Overhaul's arc but All for One's fight with All Might in a ways, something that LA think Deku and Class 1-A desperately needed honestly.

The animation done once again by Studio Bones was all honesty, amazing as per usual from Studio Bones, as they kept the quality of the animation consistent and what would LA say but the fights in this season being as great as ever what with Kirishima vs. Kendo Rappa and Overhaul vs. Deku were devastatingly awesome. Really not much to say with the animation, Typical Bones but that means GREAT BONES.

The voice cast is back but with some new characters means new voice actors and thus LA wil give MAJOR props to Kenjirou tsuda as Overhaul, Seiran Kobayashi as Eri, Shinchiro Miki as Nighteye, Koiuichi Yamadera as Gentle Criminal, Yui Horie as La Brava, Toshiki Masuda as Kirishima, Yuuto Uemura as Tamaki and finally Tarusuke Shingaki as Mirio. The new and old voice cast were just as amazing and obviously complimented nay resonated the animation and made it even better.

Now after Gentle Criminal's arc, we do get a small "redemption" arc towards Endeavour and this arc truly wants you to root for him as much of a horrible person he was in the previous seasons and yes on the other side, Endeavour trying to be the Symbol of Peace was awkward yet slightly endearing, look this arc tried and executed it.......alright, especially with the final scenes of this season and arc. Yes we KNOW he's done terrible and horrible stuff to Todoroki but it's essentially doing the "Tough Asshole Father" route into a Tsundere Dad in a comedic tone towards the audience with this arc, did it work?, for LA 50/100 until the finale itself which rose it to a 70/100 at best, he IS trying to be the Symbol of Peace one awkward step at a time...

This season lives off Nighteye's message of "A world without smiles and humor... has no bright future." and boy does it show, sure the impact this season wasn't the same as the 3rd Season but with different villains and new characters forming new arcs, this season brings us into a new direction for Boku no Hero Academia which LA didn't mind one way or another, like again, LA didn't mind the cultural festival's Gentle Criminal arc since Class 1-A NEEDED a break all the while Overhaul's arc gave us a different side to the villains side and the newest character of Eri also being a focal point in both arcs.

Nonetheless Boku no Hero Academia 4th Season was still a great, impactful and fun ride much like the 3rd Season with great old and new characters, more world building towards the villains and heroes of Boku no Hero Academia, great production value from Bones as usual and somewhat furthering the plot one way or another.

"A world without smiles and humor... has no bright future.", if this season actually put a smile on your face, then LA thinks this season did it's job.

This anime is bad.If you like this anime, then i feel sorry for your entire family for your upbringing.The anime starts off well in it's first season showing a teenager aiming to be the number one Hero in a world where quirks mean everything.As the season progresses,he is still the crybaby he used to be even after gaining the quirk of his idol.

As for character development, he hardly see anything in that regard with characters like Bakugo and Todoreku the worst shounen characters ever!!
The only positive thing in this anime is the animation which is quite decent in compared to other animes.Apart from that,this ... show is horrible

I love BNHA, but damn, this season was utter garbage.
I don't know if there was a lack of ambition from having worked on this series for so long, but the studio really failed in directing, pacing, and transitioning.
The epic/dramatic/emotional moments totally flopped. I actually went and read the manga (I never read the manga!) for this season, just so I could see how each event should've been portrayed.

The animation and directing is lazy. Flashbacks and still-frames are overused, taking away from what could've been a really cool fight. The studio probably thought each scene would be more impactful if they added an emotional OST coupled ... with still-frames and slideshows. Nah, I hate to break it to them, but the reason I cried was because of the crap they produced.

Pacing? Pa a a aaaacing? pAACING? What's that? I didn't feel the weekly build-up whatsoever. In fact, I was pretty much itching for all the fights to be over so that we could get into the SoL episodes. I happened to enjoy these fillers far more than the main plot. Who knew that Bakugo playing the drums could heal my battered soul?

I didn't like the character development of Deku or our new mains, Mirio and Eri. This season did a poor job of making me feel for any of these characters.
I'll tell you right now that I couldn't give a flying rat's ass about Mirio or Eri which is a shame because they could've done a good job with these characters.

Don't get me wrong. I think BHNA is a good series, but this season was a huge disappointment.

[LIGHT SPOILERS]
Maybe, it's hard to tell what qualifies as a spoiler at this point.
Anyways, around season 2 of MHA i started getting the sneaking suspicion that this is not a good show but i couldn’t pinpoint why. I think i get it now. After sitting with this show for another 2 seasons i think i get it.

Is the hero-job pointless?
No seriously. As i watch the backstories of the various villains in the show i see that none of them just randomly became villains. The usual trend is that society failed them some place along the way and this drove them towards crime. ... All heroes talk about their goal being creating peace in society. But if society is producing these criminals doesn't that mean that the only way to bring peace is by changing society so that it no longer does so? That isn’t what heroes do. The job of the heroes isn’t to change the way society is structured so that society no longer produces criminals, their job is to stop criminals in the act and minimise that damage that they do. Changing the way society is structured is the job that politicians among many others do.

The heroes can stop all the criminals they want but at the end of the day society will always produce another one. Thus, the heroes will never achieve their goal of bringing peace to the world. Their efforts are completely pointless. This pointlessness is a problem as it disincentives me too root for the heroes knowing that what they do will never help them achieve the goal they’ve set out for themselves. Don’t get me wrong, minimizing damage is a valuable job, but it’s not the job the heroes proclaim to be doing therefore i can’t help not feeling invested.

A show on its last legs:
Additionally it’s just clear that this show is on it’s last leg. Our new top hero, the symbol of “peace” is Todoroki’s abusive dad. Yup, that’s the best the heroes have to offer us. But it’s fine! All his past transgressions are forgiven because he defeated a nomu! Seriously, i’ve never seen something more forced than that pathetic attempt at making Endeavour the new symbol of peace. Also, since we’ve already established that the heroes will never bring about peace, the moniker “symbol of peace” just comes off as a cruel joke.

There are of course more basic critiques of the show, like how the writers don’t even bother giving any characters except the villains elaborate motivations for their actions anymore thus making empathizing with the heroes imopssible. Or how the personalities of the entire main cast has completely stagnated. Or maybe how every big fight at this point follows a predictable formula. Here’s the formula:
Hero and villain fight evenly, hero struggles and almost loses, hero remembers some random shit and gets a power up for no reason at the last moment, hero defeats the villain in a big explosion whilst screaming a corny catchphrase at the top of their lungs.

These are all critiques you’ve probably heard already though so there’s no point in me going into detail on them. The point is that this is a very bad and sloppily executed superhero show. The only character that i like at this point is hero-killer Stain (maybe), it’s not supposed to be that way.

WOW! This season was SHIT.

I usually like this show, but holy fuck this season was bad.

-[25 Episodes of Absolutely Nothing]-
There were two arks covered in this season. One was moderately interesting, the other was complete filler bullshit. Both arks were lame, played-out, and melodramatic. The interesting ark had a neato concept, but the execution was majorly lacking. The other ark was, well, not so interesting. I'll spoil it: it was a cultural festival ark. Maybe a UA festival would be interesting, right? Nah. Unlike season 2's sport festival ark, this one had almost nothing to do with quirks. Instead, this ark is ... dedicated to a side character who nobody cares about at all. Basically, this was a really fucking slow and boring season. From start to finish, the status quo didn't change at-fucking-all.

-[Sakuga?]-
So, how about that sakuga? Well it was pretty good- for the 4 times it actually happened. The fight scenes in this season weren't bad- they just weren't plentiful in the slightest. The rest of the art, though, was dogshit. Really. This season looked terrible. The animation quality was utter trash. There were very few good-looking scenes in this entire season. Dialogue scenes were horribly generic, with eyes following the sound of a character's voice, and everything else remaining completely motionless. Obviously, the whole budget was spent on the sakuga scenes (as well as hookers for the staff), because single other frame was 3/10 at best.

-[Characters]-
The new characters introduced this season were just okay. One was interesting, and all of the others were pointless. None of the characters will be recurring in the major story, so in reality, even the good character is worthless.

There were like, 4 instances of character growth in this entire 2-cour season, so there isn't a whole lot to talk about in this regard. The growth was mostly believable, if not a little sappy. Honestly, the longer this show goes on, the less of a fuck I give about any character who isn't All Might. Even Midoriya is getting old at this point. He's fucking static and uninteresting. Back when he was growing during the first 2.5 seasons, he was tolerable, but now he just feels like any other shounen protagonist, who only exists to spout out garbage about the power of friendship and shit.

-[Comedic Value]-
The little enjoyment I derived from this season was from watching it with my friends. It was fun to laugh at how terrible this show has become. Other than that, I barely enjoyed anything about this season. It was bad. If I hadn't already read ahead in the manga, I probably would have just dropped the show after the first arc finished.

-[Overall, Plus Ultra]-
My Hero Academia is empty now. After the fall of All Might, this show lost all of its appeal to me. All-dude was such a great character and his dynamic with Deku made the show thoroughly entertaining. Sure, I'm invested in Midoriya's character, but he can't carry a show by himself. He isn't an interesting enough character. In the seasons to come, this show is gonna get fucking dumb, so get ready for it. The author knows how fucked he is at this point, so he's just pulling things out of his ass to drag this show on as long as possible. I just hope the next season looks good, cause if not, I'm out for good.

4/10

This was so awful that I am no longer willing to review this in any intellectual manner.

BNHA was absolute gunkus ballsack smegma cake tik tok reddit wojack big chungus goo goo ga ga garbage. There are no stakes, the charaters are bland and uninteresting, and the only people that can genuinely enjoy this are probably just starting out or complete beginners in anime. That, or they've been living under a rock as they are completely oblivious to actually good shows.

If you want an actually good shounen with STAKES and interesting characters, please just watch Assassination Classroom.

The only thing that could redeem BNHA is ... if everyone got merked, probably.

What the fuck is pacing? What is non-repetitive dialogue? If I had to take a shot every time someone said "We'll save her...for sure this time", I'd have died of alcohol poisoning. This show is a far cry from what it once was. The writing formula is so offhanded. It's an endless cycle of flashbacks and needless backstory surrounding 30 seconds of actual action. It's getting old.

I'll give you an example. Hazukashi. Don't know who that is? Good, you shouldn't because he had literally 37 seconds of screentime. Writers had the audacity to give him flashbacks and backstory, just to instantly get foiled by Hawks. ... Why bother? Why even spend ten seconds on the guy if that's all he's there to do? But wait, that's not all he's there to do. Hawks apparently heard him say one thing that kind of had something to do with the current "metahuman" Nomu problem.

Now what you're probably thinking is, "So what you're saying is that they introduced a new character and gave him 37 seconds of screentime just to flimsily further the narrative?" And the answer is yes. That's the narrative device they decided to use. This is likely the most egregiously lazy writing of any scene I have ever seen on television. It's unbelievably offhanded.

Aside from that, there were like six fights, and all but two were okay at best. They're getting in a bad habit of injecting flashbacks during their fights and it ruins the moment. The only fight in this show where interspersing flashbacks worked was Deku v Bakugou in S3. Fights are painfully short, the most offensive example being Deku v Overhaul. What a waste of potential that was. The ones before that have moments (the Suneater fight and the Red Riot-Fat Gum fight for instance), but they're marred by flashbacks that are inexplicably in the middle of each of them.

There were only two decent fights: Endeavor v High-End Nomu and Deku v Gentle. Gentle's fight in particular is fantastic because they didn't overly rush Gentle's character. He's instantly become one of my favorite characters and I hope they use him more.

It pisses me off that they brought in Nighteye just to die. Can't have anyone important dying, right? But boy did they make it feel like viewers were supposed to care when he bit it. Man, they really milked that for all it was worth. His quirk is ridiculously powerful, but nope, dies within a season. More offhanded writing.

I've heard My Hero being called the next generation's Dragon Ball. Are people really dying on that hill? That's an awful comparison, it's just a cringier knock-off.

Oh, and the disco theme is insufferable, glad they're done using that forever. Kind of a nitpick, but I hated Eri's dub voice. It was...overly precious, I guess. It was annoying, Eri's sub voice was far more bearable.

All in all, mostly bad.

[This review includes spoilers until to episode 16]

How do I actually say this, this season of My hero Academia hasn't come even close to the pinpoint which previous seasons have achieved. Simply my lack of interest for the season I have waited for has almost dropped to 0.

Reason why

The phasing of the season has been very bad, and very slow. It almost felt like at one point I was watching the same episode again and a again because they kept showing the same clips of the last few episodes so many times in one episode.

Flashbacks and backstories for a character isn't usually a ... bad thing. And mostly it weren't a bad thing expect in one case of the season. Fight with the Kai Chisaki (overhaul) between our main character Deku, Plus Ultra right?

Well no, animators just kept pushing and pushing the fight every time it was about to start and feel actually impactful in any way further away, by adding a flashback, or something from previous episode, little filler here and there and then some backstory again so the fight would just stretch and stretch on. And that's why for me the fight lost its impact. First time in the whole series I didn't actually feel the intensity in the clash against the villain, in this case between Deku and kai Chisaki. Which is very disappointing.

Everything felt like that it had so much potential, but it was only able to achieve something very average and decent.

Other thing I have yet to complain which is very bad for an anime, I have lost almost all interest in the main character, yes. It feels like the Izuku Midoriya -Deku isn't actually anymore evolving as a character really in any way. (And I hope that wont be the case)
Like always when I see the character it feels like he's being a crybaby that cries every 5 minutes of the show, about how he isn't strong enough to do something or he wasn't able to do something the way he wanted to. And you know that gets on nerves in time. Little by little I come to actually dislike the character which I thought at first, oh cool he will be the number 1 hero. But when the character isn't evolving it really isn't interesting to follow their will an cause anymore. It feels like you're watching the same loop which Deku keeps repeating and he cant get out. And then there's someone always babysitting him afterwards.

But there are things that I liked about this season, and one of them is league of villains main villain Tomura Shigaraki. The moment that Kai Chisaki was captured and in a policevan. The way that Shigaraki in that scene crushed Kai and showed his personality was perfect, the way it was handled. It felt like a good villain moment, just stealing everything that Kai holded dear to himself was taken away from him. All he had achieved, and even worse his quirk. Also S4 coolest character Sir Nighteye was very cool while he lasted and that I felt actually was a very important character for the season. The moment he said "You twisted the future Deku" was just so cool.

But overall the season for now has been the definition of mediocre. And it's not to blame the manga, is just how the staff decided to animate and phase the whole "save Eri arc." I just don't feel that I care about this anime the same way I cared about it before season 4.

***DROPPED***

The worst BnHA/MHA season to date. Could not finish.

Here's the deal: I've *never* liked Deku. The only times I've liked this show is when the "ensemble" of characters all played a large role. When the ensemble is the focus and not useless Deku (eg, the USJ arc, Sports Festival arc, Provisional License Exam arc, etc). This season is no different. Deku still sucks. It feels like he's hardly progressed at all in 4 seasons. Still incredibly weak and overly emotional (BORING).

The big arc this season is the Overhaul arc. And I thought some of the ensemble characters were pretty good/interesting (Mirio, Red Riot, Nighteye, ... etc). There were a couple "omg" moments for me during the arc that shocked me and even made me a little emotional. There were even a few episodes where Deku didn't make an appearance; it was great! That said, there were too many "empty" episodes, where the plot didn't move along at all. It would be 2 mediocre episodes followed by a good one, then repeat.

As for Overhaul himself, I thought he was supposed to be a "different" villain. But he was the same as any other villain that's ever existed. "I'm a bad guy. I want to destroy the world. *unhinged, crazy maniacal laugh* blah blah blah." Just another cookie-cutter villain. #Disappoint

After the Overhaul arc, the UA School Festival arc starts. And it was so awful I couldn't stand to watch anymore. I "dropped" this season 2 or 3 episodes into this arc. It felt like filler. It essentially turned into a bizarro world "slice of life" anime. "Let's sing and dance and start a rock band!" This isn't High School Musical!

Oh wait, it gets better (ie, worse)! The UA School Festival arc introduces a new villain, Gentle Criminal. And he's equally awful and bizarro worldly. It. Was. So. Bad. I don't know how the arc ends. And I don't care how it ends!

I always thought BnHA/MHA was hugely overrated, but *just* good enough for me to continue watching. I can't justify it anymore though. It's not a good series, and quite frankly, I'm not going to miss it.

Honestly, this season was probably the worst season of my hero academia, the plot was weak and the only somewhat good thing was when eri was saved. gentle criminal was a forced antagonist that didn't add anything to the story and didn't really help the characters grow. I didn't enjoy watching the last few episodes and the animation was not well made. the openings weren't that good. I hope that the next season will bring out more plot and exciting scenes and arcs. I fell as thought this shonen has a lot of wasted potential as it focuses too much on pleasing the fans rather ... than making the anime overall better.