Boku no Hero Academia 5th Season

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 recap ... of 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

Season five of MHA is here, and while I do personally enjoy the series, I do have to say that it might be within your best interests to wait for the series to either be finished, or wait until a few episodes have come out in order to progress with it. Not to say it's bad, but more that it at current stage, may take weeks to really go somewhere. Even if you understand the plot, understand what it's doing. Even then, it can be quite tiresome.

I normally don't fully agree with the idea that 'Read the manga it's better' type of deal, as ... I do feel like the anime can stand on it's own merit. But even now, I'd say it'd be better for you to go read the manga to get further within the story, rather than waiting for the current stuff to start progressing faster then the pace it currently is doing so.

Not saying the story is bad, as I wouldn't discredit what it's trying to do currently, as it can be interesting for some, but for others, it can just get a tad bit repetitive, and making you have to wait a fair few weeks until it's over with, so you can finally see whats upcoming next more than anything. But if you're wondering if to pick this up and start watching it weekly, it might be ideal for you to wait until things start picking up. Right now, it's a bit of a slow burn. With I'm sure things will start getting better later on.

As for everything else? Can't really say much of a bad word about it. MHA's animation, art style, and sound design as always been stellar, and a real good thing about the show. While some shows are lacking in areas, MHA always brings it out really well when it comes in that area. Or least does a real good job within this department.

The characters are also another part that keeps the interest within this show. After all, we've seen most of them for four seasons now, and I'm sure, the more we see, the more development we'll get. It'll only get better from there. Say what you will about these characters. Where they'd be written bad or good, but they very much stand out a ton, in many departments.

MHA is far more enjoyable if you binge it honestly, I'd say watch it if you want to keep up with it, but if you wanna wait, then that's more than a good idea also.

A late bloomer like me got into this show when the show was at its peak when the show had already had 3 seasons, and I started the manga and the anime at the same time and I was amazed. I thought there wasn’t even going to be a show that stands up against the like of Naruto but this show proved its worth and stole the hearts of teenagers of this era. From people calling it the future of the shounen genre and the bringer of the succeeding age group, “Boku No Hero Academia” or most commonly known as “My Hero Academia”. Written and ... illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi this is one show that needs no introduction whatsoever, a show that has seen both its fair share of both haters and lovers, from it being promoted by the makers of Naruto and being called “just a child’s shounen jump” the show has seen it all.
Studio Bones as always has done a great job at the adaptation part but as a manga reading I look up to the anime visuals that bring life to characters, and somehow it feels like after every season the show is losing its edge completely.
My Hero Academia is a well-made, standard shounen anime that have lived up to the expectations of many.

Story ~ 6
The world is set up in the future where tech is not far from our own, where many people are just born with strange superpowers and alterations and oddities. The story is as always solid but somewhat gloomy and leaden, unsustainable but pleasant. The series is dense enough to make the viewers binge the whole show in about 2 days. The story in some way has become clichéd. From a fan’s view, this show has become way predictable and even more dreary and boring. As the show has always been, it focuses on the lives of students who train themselves to fend off super-powered corruption as specialized vigilantes and the show has been the same since. Unlike other shows like One Piece, The Promised Neverland (Season 1 and the Manga), Dr. Stone, Black Clover, and Blue Exorcist the premise of the show hasn’t changed much in these upcoming years and staying true to its storyline and unlike One Punch Man, it does not critique the concept of protectors and hero’s because it doesn’t really need to.

Animations ~ 8
The animations for the show have never let people down whether it be fight scenes or showing emotions they are impressively animated. Studio Bones does a phenomenal job at putting up with such clean and crisp visuals in its fight scenes showcasing itself as a powerhouse when it some to animations and art style from the makers of the studio that gave us the sweet and extraordinary FMAB (Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood), Ouran Host Club, Soul Eater and Mob Psycho 100, I expected nothing less, as they’ve always undergone a superfluous mile in their adaptations. The movements and show boarding of characters are more than impressive as they are drawn so vividly but some scenes show feel a little left behind as well as it gets messier and more intense which is a little painful to the eyes. However, there are other hero’s at the academy that the show visualizes that pick up the pace and the series is not bound to any infinite range of wacky story and pacing.

Sound ~ 7
The music for “Boku No Hero Academia” has always been uplifting and this season’s opening is no different from the previous ones as it stands out again “No. 1” by DISH. Although I like the ending more “Footprints” by the Peggies is a classic that sticks like a symphony in the mind, nothing short of “The Peggies ” although, I’ll always prefer “The Day” by Porno Graffiti as one of the best openings of the show.

Character ~ 7
Though the anime slams the nails when it comes to tough character designs out of the gate, the story revolves around the main character Izuku MIdoriya or Deku who’s not born with powers much like Asta’s from “Black Clover”. He is feeble, frail, and timid, who unlike the other characters yearns with every inch of his might to save people with just a grin and smile, like his idol “All Might”. ‘All Might’ who’s your classic anime superman justice campaigner, who is super strong and gifted with uncanny fortitude and is the world’s greatest hero. Instead of fighting with our main protagonist, he chooses him as a successor of his. Deku’s main thing is breaking through his psychosomatic barriers and physical boundaries to win by the skin of his teeth, and the message that the show delivers every time that “children have the power to change, remake and save the world.” Still remains.

Overall ~ 6
At the end of the day is indeed beautiful, though it has become shallow and predictable. From its first debut in 2016 my Hero Academia has been a huge success all over the world mostly around North America and the western parts of the world. The only thing keeping the show from dying is the sheer ubiquity of how big the franchise has become. A lot of people still love this series and me being one of them but one way or another I just don’t want to keep up with the anime anymore as I did before when the show was at its best in the prior seasons. Taking a look at the bigger picture, I realized how ordinary and unpretentious the show has become, it is undeniably overhyped like many other shows but it has its sincerity as well and it deserves almost most of it. I personally think the show is a huge accomplishment and has achieved so much all across the world but in the recent season I just don’t see it, and I sigh at the foundation of what the show could’ve become and not how much it has accomplished.
If you’re looking for big emotional changes and fights and scenes where young boys put all their spirits into fists for the sake of honor and to make their dreams come true of being the best and fighting with their Nakamas, this show is definitely for you.

As of right now MHA is at its peak of dryness. I binged the first 4 seasons before season 5 started so I could enjoy the hype, but I was very disappointed. Other than introducing us to characters we've known for 4 seasons; the season started of strong with the first 2 episodes...then it was all downhill after that. There's still 19 episodes to go so I'm hoping that it gets better because I had high expectations and I've heard a lot of good things about the manga. But to be honest I expect this season to be a 7 at best.

My Hero Academia (MHA) an already declining in popularity manga and anime (this coming from a fan since season 1) hits it's 5th season, which not only contains one of the most beloved story arcs from the manga, but also one of the most hated ones as well. So what does Bones decide to do? Pad out more than half the season with the chaff, and leave little to no time (NOT EVEN AMPLE TIME) for the Villain arc.

Plot wise, nothing was changed from the manga, and if anything they made the joint training arc a little more dynamic and fun. BUT WHY? An arguably ... meaningless arc that exists only to display and show off the powers of characters that could've been explored much deeper and efficiently ALL THE WAY BACK in the tournament arc! Was the animation good? Yeah sure I guess. Did they explore Deku's connection to OFA more? Definitely and that's all good and fine, but 12 episodes of just straight up meaningless fights!? Come on Bones.

But the inclusion of this arc would've been fine, if it wasn't at the expense of the Villain arc.

ONE OF THE MOST if not THE MOST beloved arcs in the entirety of MHA for the way it shakes up the formula, and truly shows how the League Of Villains have grown from being complete losers to an actual threat, is SHAFTED to say the least. Not only is the preamble for the main body of the arc long and arduous in anime form (at least it felt that way), the animation for some of the most pivotal scenes is the animation equivalent of AFO's wrinkly-ass, preserved plum face. One of my favourite scenes from the manga is where Shigaraki tears through a crowd of civilians with his newly strengthened decay ability, so imagine my shock when that scene became down graded into a literal before and after shot in the anime, I mean the MANGA HAD MORE FRAMES! And before you say, it was out of their skillset or budget, there is test footage from other scenes in the arc that didn't make it in, that look 10x smoother than the final product, and from the movies we've seen them produce for the series, we KNOW for certain it isn't a skill issue. AND if it was a budget issue, WHY NOT DIVERT THE FUNDING FROM THE LESS VISUALLY DEMANDING ARC THAT CAME BEFORE!? Idk i'm not part of the industry and i won't claim to be or know what I'm talking about, but still, it just seems odd that such a widely beloved arc didn't get the love it needed.

Conclusion, the visuals in this season are great, but just at the wrong moments. It's problematic when you can say the manga animated it better than the anime. Story wise? It's more MHA, if you were a fan of the fights and/or story before, you'll probably still like it here now.

At this point, anyone watching BnH until the season 5 already knows exactly what to expect from the show.

Twelve episodes about heroes doing school stuff, twelve episodes about heroes dealing with some villain drama, with 1 or 2 fillers around it. It's like Naruto chunnin exam, but it keeps looping the formula.

Honestly at this rate, you could copy and past every review since season 1. The only difference is that make sure to down your score each time, because it's just not the same thing over and over again, but with lesser impressive visuals, characters and music.

Boku no Hero 5 has the absolute worst openings ... and endings in the show. It's just unbeliable lazy how the songs here are just the most generical anime commercials songs. The openings and ending visuals are just in the same pattern.

Narrative telling in the first half of the show is just " My school class against yours", i'm literraly cringing while i type this. It's impossible to me to believe, that in a show with such a creative premise, they come with a dumb ark like that.

And then you get 6 eps about things that you already have been seen in the show since that start. Is the same "lets learn how to work as heroes" again with emotional " my father is mf, but i'm slowly learning to like him again".

The last 6 eps focus on the main villain, and for the first time you can see villains actually "killing" people. Took a show about heroes and villains 5 SEASONS to do that. Don't expect real characters to die, just useless figurative characters.
It's the only thing different from the other seasons. It's cool, because gives a darker tone, but its just too late now, not making me love the anime again.

Man, i really want a season ending by now, this show is the most canonical FILLER i ever seen. If you're reading from the future when season 6 is out, just jump from season 4 to straight season 6 and i guarantee to you, that you will understrand everything without a single question.

Never done a mid-season review (so far watched through episode 8), though I figured I'd get my thoughts down to see if I agree with them later.

I'm not a fan of "last time on ______" bits at the beginning of episodes, and while this has been a recurring thing for this show I've been lenient on it. Now that I'm following the show as it releases (and because the pacing is very slow), it's getting a bit distracting. Better time could be spent on the characters these episodes are already spending too much time on. There are already a significant number of other things slowing ... the show down, like flashbacks and almost every character reacting to almost everything that happens. The payoff for a lot of it is either too small or nonexistent. The closest we've gotten so far is the latest episode, though match 3's ending was also anticlimactic. I kinda feel like saying what bothered me specifically, so some spoilers are ahead.

Match 3 has Todoroki fight the metal dude which seems like the worst matchup ever (but whatever, some weird BS about the dude sitting in an oven to train himself was given), and Iida shows off his speed and yet, somehow after running away for 10-20 seconds, the weird melty dude does a monologue and then with the help of the metal dude pushes over a tower that collapses on Iida. Several things here: first, Iida somehow hadn't cleared the distance from the tower yet which doesn't make sense; second, the two class B members wouldn't have known which way Iida had run off to or even if Iida would've simply kept going in a straight line, thus would've been merely hoping and guessing when knocking the tower over; third, Iida didn't turn to run out of the way of the tower when he noticed it falling; and fourth, the melty dude was planning on the tower collapsing on Iida so that when he passed out it would re-harden to its natural state, yet WHAT IF HE PASSED OUT BEFORE THE TOWER COLLAPSED? That's also weird how a lot of these matches has the kids engaging in some seriously lethal fights, like Todoroki possibly melting the steel dude with his heat, or when a huge metal tube literally fell on Todoroki's head/neck. That aside, the match ends with the weird cow-horn girl flying away with the people who passed out and simply waited for the time to run out which was just... lame. Especially lame after the promise of some good fighting, which this episode had none of. Sure, the visuals of Iida running for what, 5 seconds, was cool, but that's it. This was just the latest lame thing out of the matches, as previous fights also had anticlimactic finishes.

That was a bit of a rant, but I'm just hoping this format of 2 episodes per match changing, or at least there being some better fights to make the pacing worthwhile.

EDIT: Finished the season, and it was fine. Not entirely exciting, nor entirely a disappointment. The best bit was Tomura's past and "origin," though that was pretty brief. Other than that, nothing stood out. Overall, it was okay.

Everyone can see the large elephant in the room here, this season felt stagnant and was a transition season for S6 in which this season was meant to build up the hype. There was controversy with arc rearrangement where essentially the Meta Liberation Army and Joint Training Arc were swapped around. However there were major high points in the season too, Shigaraki's Orgin being the peak. The Re-Destro storyline was cut off in this adaptation where the introduction in the manga was much smoother. Despite some short comings and feelings of stagnation this season does do one thing incredibly, make me excited for the future ... war between heroes and villains. I haven't felt hyped for a new season of My Hero Academia since season 3 with the battle between All Might and All For One! With the reorder of the arcs I believe it was a smart decision by Studio Bones.

The Joint Training arc was a complete waste of time; Bones really didn't lead with their best foot forward, it was soul numbing. There were some saving graces that made it have plot importance though, the first being Midoriya gaining further insight on the vestiges of previous One For All users. In the final fight of the arc Midoriya goes berserk, he becomes unable to control this new power that he learns via brainwashing by Shinsou is called Black Whip. Once Midoriya learns to control Black Whip for longer periods of time it'll be invaluable and the first step of many to inhabiting all of the previous One For All quirks. This is a super cool way to have Midoriya becoming stronger and allow for more variation in fight possibilities too. I'm excited to see how fast he'll learn them and what types they will be!

The other thought-provoking character progression of this arc was Hitoshi Shinsou. With his seemingly one dimensional quick Brainwashing one would think after learning its weakness it's easy to avoid. However with the resolve of Shinsou wanting to become a hero, he progresses with a voice modification mask. How could one not root for Shinsou's story, I'd love to see him in 1-A.

Nevertheless the negatives heavily outweigh any small gleams of positives. The pace is demonstrably immobile, slow as molasses. The Joint Training Arc could have been summarized into a few episodes, meaning time could have been spent on more important storylines. The fights were pointless ways of presenting how both 1-A and 1-B's powers have evolved while dragging them out to bizarre amounts of detail. Like I stated before, Bones stumbled hard face-first into a stagnant start of a season.

The Endeavor Agency Arc is the awkward middle story in which Endeavor's character progression heats up! In terms of characters in My Hero Academia, Endeavor ranks top 3 for how well they advance as heroes/villains. Shigaraki ranks #1 in terms of evolution, however that's for later in the review. The Todoroki family is in shambles after Endeavor's feverish descent into attempting to surpass All Might at the expense of his family. Endeavor wants to be better and wants to be there for his family, I love the concept, it's eye-opening seeing a dysfunctional family mend their problems despite how difficult it is. The easy path for Endeavor would have been to avoid his family but he shows in this arc the only way to progress is not turning a cold shoulder. Natsuo, the second son in the family doesn't believe in Endeavor's atonement arc as a result he gets turned into a hostage by the villain Ending. Ending is obsessed with Endeavor's arrogant and ruthless image, he constantly pursues the latter hoping he'll be killed by Endeavor. Ending does anything and everything like having complete disregard of human life simply to attract his anger. However in the fight, Endeavor breaks down at the sight of Natsuo, this presents how he's changed as a man, no longer is he entirely merciless. This shatters Ending's image of Endeavor and ultimately allows the hero study group to figuratively surpass Endeavor and save Natsuo. It's a great example of showing without telling and paints a great picture into the deeper psychological implications of Endeavor. I'm excited where the Todoroki family storyline will maneuver into!

The Meta Liberation Army Arc is the Joint Training Arc on steroids while having a story that's actually compelling! Everything boils down to Shigaraki Tomura's Origin. Just like with Shouto or Midoriya's origin it's the peak of the season. I adore the way it's portrayed, the build up the slaughter of his family where he gains his main motive as a villain in more ways than one. First meets with All For One, the first human to empathize for Shigaraki, using his families eradication as a means of stimulating Shigaraki's newfound hatred for heroes and began grooming him as his adoptive son. It's exhilarating putting the pieces together as his second motive for being a villain is put into full force. Shigaraki feels most at ease when he's able to use his quirk without holding back, to be liberated with the power of destroying everything he touches. To become the true Symbol of Fear and to join forces with the Meta Liberation Army. I love how it powers up Shigaraki in such a badass way while also connecting it back to the morals of true liberation.

Another strength of The Meta Liberation Army Arc was the growth of other League of Villains characters like Toga and Twice. It's great how relatable these characters become from absolute dire situations that in turn makes instantaneous evolution. As an anime only viewer it's self-evident where Dabi's storyline is going with Endeavor, they even teased earlier on. Seriously that'll make the Todoroki family even more complex, I'm really excited for it. I find it comical how much I'm rooting for the villains in My Hero Academia, their transformation made that really apparent to me. With the League of Villains merging with The Meta Liberation Army, the Paranormal Liberation Front is profusely powerful! Throughout the series, Shigaraki has been lacking in the amount of support, he needed influence with numbers. The Paranormal War will have the heroes at a clear disadvantage and I'm all for it! The stakes have never been this high in My Hero Academia.

The Arc rearrangement has allowed S6 to properly build up to The Paranormal War Arc. This feels like endgame material, deaths are on the table, though it's hard to tell if My Hero Academia has the gall to commit. There's potential for something surpass season 3's All Might vs All For One fight! Nonetheless, that doesn't stop this season from being mediocre because of the beginning. As a complete package this season was a mixed-bag. Instead of spending a whole core of a season on The Joint Training Arc it could have been condensed into a few episodes. This would have made the pace not be so sluggish and allow other storylines that people care about an opportunity to shine. Nobody wants a glorified montage to present what we already know about. But it showed off the progression of the classes quirks! Sure, but that's not worth an entire arc. Anyhow, both heroes and villains have improved and each side has played their chess pieces. Hawks is a wild card in all of this too! I'm excited to dive head first into S6 with the Paranormal War Arc!

I had to skip the first arc for the most part because it was so boring, barely anything happened that couldn't have been summed up into like 5-6 episodes. I was not interested in anything that was happening besides Deku's stuff. There weren't any stakes that we cared about besides the loose threat of Class A losing to Class B, nothing in most of these episodes really moved the story along either.

Though there were some parts of this season I liked (I haven't read the manga). I liked the villain backstories since they made you think more deeply about the implications of living in a ... world full of super powers.

The Endeavor stuff and even the last arc for the most part, were pretty good. This season had some good emotional moments too.

So in retrospect, most of Season 5 was ok, but, this season had full episodes of some of the most uninteresting parts of the whole show. It got bad enough that by the end of it I began to care more about the League of Villains than most of the students, which is great if it's what they were going for, but the UA characters were really done dirty by this season so it's hard to appreciate the quality of the good parts.

It averages around a 6/10. It's fine because of the moments I liked but I wouldn't rewatch anything from this season besides a few small things, like some of the villain scenes.

My Hero Academia Season 5 Review

Here we are, another season of My Hero Academia.

Story 6/10
Coming from the disappointment of the school festival arc, the first arc of this season was another disappointing one. It sounds interesting, class 1-A finally facing off against class 1-B. But alas it was incredibly boring after 3 episodes of battle training. And this goes on for 9 episodes. Thankfully, it gets better by Endeavor’s agency and gets more interesting. The my villain academia arc was very good, not as good as the manga readers have been saying, but it’s still a really good arc.

Art 6/10
The animation is fine, it ... does the job but its nothing amazing.

Sound 7/10
I wasn’t a fan of the first opening but I loved the second one. Both the endings were fine but not the best compared to other my hero endings. The rest of the soundtrack, once again, does the job but isn’t anything special.

Enjoyment 7/10
While the first arc had bored me to death, I thought that the rest of the season was pretty good, especially the my villain arc. Especially compared to the disappointing 4th season, this season barely managed to redeem itself in the second half.

Overall 6/10
While this wasn’t the best my hero season, it definitely was still a pretty decent one. I had a good enough time watching this season and I hope the next one improves.

This new season of my hero is filled with a lot of world-building that just does not feel right.
The first arc is meant to introduce you to all the quirks of UA however you end up waiting two weeks just for one fight to finish but by the end, it didn't feel satisfying for me. The only good part about the first arc is seeing Midoriya and the development of his quirk, everything else was just no enjoyable for me.
The second arc was spent more on learning Todoroki's daddy issues and has one filler that was a thirst trap. I don't see the ... suspense in each episode, everything that is going on is meant to hype the meta liberation cause but all that is going on does not feel right with me.
Overall super unsatisfied with the season.

I am unsure if the series is getting worse, or just going on for too long. The animation is definitely less impressive than it was in earlier seasons. The series may have peaked after All Might's final fight which is worrisome because that was in season 3. I thought Season 4 was bad, and this was enough for me to lose interest in the show. I may finish it when it concludes fully, but I do not like the direction they are moving in.

The first arc in season 5 with the 2 classes competing was not as bad as I thought it would be, ... but honestly they could have cut out 2 or 3 episodes from it. The show has always had a problem with pedestrian characters overanalyzing what is going on, and this was rampant here. Also Bakugo is still terrible even during his good moments. The series has completely failed to evolve him as a character. He still just is a overly angry child that yells about everything, and this should have been mellowed out already after his big character moment at the end of season 3. Mineta is definitely a bigger detriment to the show though.

Now the biggest problem that most people will have is them doing the story out of order. This was apparently done to promote the movie, but they did a poor job because the episode that was supposed to do that doesn't tie in at all outside of a last minute cameo. A fine filler episode, but not a reason to completely mess up the order of events that occur. We know the conclusion of the My villain academia arc because the League of villains are shown with the Liberation army in a scene with Hawks. Just a dumb job by the show director to have that. The Endeavor training stuff was fine but kind of forgettable.

The My Villain Academia arc honestly killed my interest in continuing the show at all. It confirms what I was scared would happen with this show. Shigiraki is just another boring, "edgy", goalless, chaotically evil, motivation lacking anime villain. The show even addresses that he really has no plan for what to do after they win whatever they are trying to win. This is one of the worst character tropes we see abundantly used in anime. For some reason Japan loves their cringey edgelord bad guys, but they are just so dull, and overused in anime. His backstory is just Eri's backstory, but with added drama about his dad. I don't feel bad for him I just feel bad that this was all the writer could come up with. They could shift the focus back to all for one at the end, but I would be surprised if they did that. Clearly they are setting him up to remove himself from the equation, and have Shigiraki continue on as his successor. Poorly written bad guys plague the majority of anime(especially shonen series), and I really did not want to see it again here. Toga is also confirmed to be bat shit crazy because of the nature of her quirk. She is popular though with the fans because of her look, and the people who like yandere types will like her. She sucks though, and Twice is the only member of the League of Villains who is actually interesting. They seem to have had him revert to his split personality self after the fight though which is disappointing because him moving past his trauma was one of the only good moments of that arc.

MHA did not need to try to delve into darker themes, and the writer has done a poor job of it. What brought in so many people to the show initially is barely recognizable now, and I am disappointed that this is just another shonen that I will probably not finish.

I'm gonna be honest, I didn't find myself writing this review but oh well, MVA was supposed to be the shining star that saves My Hero Academia season 5.. Turns out it's filled with cut dialogue, cut expositions and cut characterization, it only BARELY follows the manga's footsteps when it comes to being an adaptation, something that is to uplift the source material at it's core, I am not going to meander around and curse all willy nilly and pretend I'm the smartest human being on this platform, but Adaptations do also have to understand the author's vision and uplift that vision higher, since anime ... has more advantages than a manga does, but theres nothing we can do about it, since the art quality has been steadily decreasing and being much more inconsistent than season 4. The story took a downfall because the anime decided to just do whatever it wants honestly, and the characterization kind of.. I mean it's mediocre from the anime..

Read the manga, honestly- There's nothing I can tell you other than that.

This season feels like a very bad filler-arc.

There is just so little of the actual content. Instead we have:
- lengthy introductions of already well known characters
- in depth explanations of new quirk tricks (that make no sense anyways)
- repeated occurences of overused flashbacks (sometimes multiple times in the same episode)
- meaningless overexaggerrated reactions of the characters towards trivial stuff

8 episodes in the season already and we basically moved nowhere. Like 3 mock team battles occured. And those even weren't that interesting. Comparing to previous seasons this just has almost to no substance.

I have no idea what kind of half-assed approach the studio is taking ... with this show. Having a streak of good seasons packed with action sets a certain level of expectations. And instead of trying to meet those expectations they feed the audience with the dullest stuff. Almost feels like they ran out of material to work with and just don't know what to do with the fact.

Both the audience numbers and the score seemed to have degraded considerably comparing to previous seasons. Which is kind of sad. But if this keeps up I'm not even sure I'm going to finish watching this season myself. Having this among 'dropped' is going to be even sadder still.

As a manga reader and long time fan of this franchise, I have to say I was severely disappointed by this season. The pacing was all over the place, for starters: the first arc dragged on endlessly, then they blew through the Todoroki family arc, then we got one (1) backstory episode/character development moment for Aizawa and Hizashi, and then we got to what must be the most interesting part, the MVA arc, only for it to suck as well.

Personally, the tone shifts threw me off. I think that the A vs B arc could've been cut in half (in the manga, this part is ... only a couple of chapters long) and they couldn't taken their time fleshing out the Keeping up with the Todorokis arc, as well as really driven through the emotional aspect of Shigaraki's past.

I won't rant about this here since I have done that plenty with my friends, but I will say that I sincerely hope that season six is better than this, especially considering which arcs are to come.

Probably the weakest season of MHA. I think that for a few reasons. I am mainly attracted to this show for the hype moments. Characters "breaking" their limits. Yelling loudly while destroying villains or themselves. It's a good time. The slow character progression in the students and villains is a bonus. But this season barely had any hype moments. There's a couple of breakthroughs for the plot - like Black Whip and the evolution of the league of villains - but the filler in-between is so boring that it felt like a chore to get through. It's not offensively bad but it's such a step ... in a different direction that I am pretty disappointed. I hope next season picks up and is a lot more interesting from moment to moment. And they better have cooler hype moments.

The only reason I am watching this season, is because I started it in the first place and the only reason I am enjoying this season slightly is because I care about some of the characters because of the previous seasons.

It's really tiring so far, and I really hope it gets better in the rest of the anime. I am kinda tired with it already, it feels like it's all fillers and the plot is getting slower. You really don't need so many episodes to show us whatever it's going on in the first half (SPOILER AHEAD) they actually finished Bakugo's fight in one ... or half episode or somethig, I wish we had the same thing for everyone else. We get it Bakugo is a genious and didn't need extra time, but PLEASE why spent precious time to give us mediocore school battles?

**SPOILERS**

As an anime-only watcher of this show, I feel like I've seen one of the steepest declines in quality in shounen history over the past 5 seasons of MHA. This show started out with the promise of being a top 3 of the new generation, however with every passing season I've felt more and more disappointed in what has been brought to the table.

This season has definitely been the worst yet - the only character development that has occurred has been development that is pivotal to the plot of the show, making a lot of the characters seem stuck in the past as other characters ... progress in measly or nonsensical manners to drive the story forward. In terms of said story itself - it's shockingly boring. The first half of this season was spent covering the most monotonous fights with half of each episode being a recap of the previous and re-re-re-introductions of every character and their quirk. The fights were boring and uninspired for the most part and served little purpose to the story, or even to my enjoyment (minus Bakugo's fight, I did enjoy that one). I felt as though Deku's new quirk was also a good addition to this and made the fighting part of this season at least somewhat interesting, but it doesn't necessarily excuse how boring the rest of the show was.

The second half of the show covered two topics - Todoroki's family dynamic and the League of Villains. I genuinely liked the covering of Todoroki's family and how him and his siblings are struggling to reconnect as a family to give us a better understanding and depth to Todoroki's personality. I feel as though MHA suffers from 2D characters (perhaps as a result of having too many to cover) and this was a nice breath of fresh air from the usual cookie cutter script MHA has as a shounen. The League of Villains mini-arc however was my most hated part of this season, but also my most liked. Shigaraki's backstory was the only reason I even bothered to rate this show above a 5, as the story telling, animation and script for this part was absolutely incredible to watch. The empathy brought forward towards his character in the scene where he gains his quirk was honestly tear-jerking; it was one of the few memorable moments in MHA as a whole which I really appreciate. However, the whole underlining plot of the merging between the two evil companies really just doesn't interest me, and watching the main villains suddenly gain upgrades to their quirks at the same time felt extremely unnatural and goes to show that MHA truly has some awful pacing at times.

I personally wish that they had cut the class fights short and spent more time developing the villains/covering more important parts of the plot as said fights brought forward no development to any of the characters apart from Deku's quirk, and honestly I hope season 6 is a large improvement going into a much more important part of the story as I am very tempted to drop this show if it keeps declining in the way it has been.

It's hard to shake off the fact that My Hero has been on a gradual decline since the midway point of Season 3. Unfortunately, Season 5 does nothing to improve on the previous seasons missteps and has noticeably degraded in both story and quality.

This season covers three arcs: Joint Training, My Villain Academia and Endeavour Agency.
Besides My Villain Academia, which has it's moments, the other arcs are some of the more flawed stories in this series, so Season 5 already had it's work cut out for it.
The first half of the season (which was made up of 13 episodes covering Joint Training) while having ... a few great animation sequences, (emphasis on few) is ultimately unentertaining and feels like an elongated filler arc, despite the impact it's finale has on the main character.

The second half is truly puzzling, as the two arcs have been swapped so that now the Endeavor Agency mini-arc is artificially extended through mind-numbing pacing and long flashback sequences that we've seen a million times before. To make matters worse, My Villain Academy has been squeezed into just five episodes.

The cheap aesthetic to the animation never leaves throughout the season. This on top of the rest of the changes make what was already a dull part of the manga even more harder to slog through. The only reason I can think as to why they swapped the last two arcs around was to coincide with the release with the third My Hero Academia movie, which takes place during the Endevour Agency arc.

People have asked me if they should switch to the manga after hearing about the bad reception to this season. While I do think this is the poorest adaption of MHA we've gotten, ultimately nothing pivotal is removed or changed to the point of severity. I don't think this is bad enough to warrant reading a 300+ chapter manga that still has the same flaws in the plotline. It all depends on next season, which will be adapting the penultimate Paranormal Liberation War Arc, which will bring a close to this era of My Hero Academia. If Studio Bones screws that up, it may well and truly be time to abandon ship.

I don`t like what mha trying to show in this season. The competition between a and b is for first two or three seasons. they shouldn`t just show us the competition what the sake of what it will be like. we have seen four seasons there is no season for seeing more heros. i just want development in the introduced characters and progression in storyline. i don`t like the first part of season 5 but hoping best from the next part. mha franchise should stop stretching the stryline and adding unnecessary stuff for the sake of giving more episodes. It just ruining the whole essence ... of mha. they did the same with season 4 with unnecessary small girl and big guy love. i dont like seeing what i like getting worse day by day. please show what is important and necessery. but at the end its my opinion.

pardon my grammatical skill.