Boku no Hero Academia 5th Season

I did enjoy the plot idea of the first couple of episodes of this show, especially with all the different and unique quirks used in the battles between classmates of 1a and 1b. It's nice how they bring back the fights from season 2 and make them even better with their new special moves and all that. However, in my opinion, the battles were just so boring, and it was the only reason why I gave up watching the show and started to speed read the manga. I knew that the fights between both classes are only a couple of chapters long, and after that, ... it gets to the good shit. However, the battles just seemed so useless, and I would prefer if the studio would start the adaptation at the beginning of the next arc since it's just better than the class battles in pretty much everything.

Besides that, I can't see this show becoming darker because it's just so childish. After all, when I started watching this show at the beginning of last year. I always believed it to be some kid show with some adult and darkish jokes and scenes stashed behind it. I could see this in the fights like the one between All Might vs One for All because it was indeed the most important battle back then. However, after the battle finished, the show slowly loses its excitement and maturity and eventually becomes childish once more. I look at this as a repeating cycle that happens in every season, and it just makes me pissed when it happens because it just ruins my enjoyment of the show.

Anyways, I would rate this show a 1/10 due to the disappointment it gave me. I would have rated it a higher score if the show had evenly distributed the dark themes and plot points throughout the previous seasons.

Notes: I would be pissed if they have to add another season just to start the next arc because I have to wait another year or more just to come out (I'm becoming impatient with this show now).

I also hate the downgrade of the animation for this season. It was really good in season 4, but in this season, it's just so crap. I hope the animators fix it after the class battle arc is finished.

Oh yeah, I just hate every single character in the show besides Creati, and you should know why.

Also, if you don't like my opinion about this show, it's fine with me. I don't mind if you love this show, and I won't bully you just for that. Go like what you like. I'm not here to ruin your favourite things lmao.

To say I was going into the 5th season of My Hero Academia with high expectations would be an understatement. Even though I’m not a My Hero Academia enthusiast or even a fan for that matter, I can wholeheartedly say that this season of My Hero Academia was supposed to be the series game-changer and tone shifter. The 5th season was supposed to set My Hero Academia in a new and more compelling direction. A direction that would’ve brought My Hero Academia’s writing to a new height because of the fascinating and enchanting thematic value that it has to offer. As the egregious season has ... finally encroach to its end, I can say that the changes the anime made will devalue and potentially destroy the story that Kouhei Horikoshi originally intended to tell.

The anime only had one job: Adapt the source material faithfully and bring the spirit of the manga onto the screen. The studio behind the anime has done it before and is capable of doing it, but they purposely dragged out the pacing of the first arc to this season just so enough time is given for a non-canon side film. The second half of the season was pretty much filler content mixed in with minuscule canon manga materials, which ultimately created an unnecessary mess that the future installment must clarify later on. The choice of dragging things out and making changes to the narrative structure ruined how the future narrative will play out.

You could advocate that I should evaluate the 5th season of My Hero by excluding my knowledge of the source material. But that would, in my eyes, be doing a massive disservice to myself. And in no way that I’m comfortable in doing so. Furthermore, I’m dubious that even people with absolutely no knowledge of the source material have praises for this season alone.

Honestly, there’s really nothing else to expand on because everything is just pointless. There’s little to no driving force in its narrative, nor was the season even entertaining. The 5th installment of My Hero was just a filler. Skipping the 5th season and you’ll miss nothing. At this point, I’m just hoping My Hero Academia will continue to fade into obscurity because the previous installments aren’t much better.

It's 2021 and we can call My Hero Academia a major franchise among Shounen Jump's IPs. While it may not be the single biggest hit of the decade, it does challenge the Big Three with its cult following. That doesn't mean MHA is a masterpiece franchise just because it's popular. In fact, MHA may be one of more controversial anime this year.

My Hero Academia is a franchise that needs no introduction at this point. It's been an established franchise for years and we all came to know the heroes and villains that makes up its roster. For any long time fan, MHA has also explored ... the hero society and dark underworld of the villains league. What if I told you we get to see an in depth look at both sides? Season 5 may have a more expanded character roster and plot but that doesn't always translate into a better show overall.

From the first half of Season 5, we are once again reintroduced to Class 1-A with some of its most prominent characters such as Deku, Bakugo, Todoroki, among others. Their primary rivals are Class 1-B where they compete in a series of matches. To put it simply, it's a battle of pride and respect on the line. While Class 1-B's character roster is nowhere near as prominent as Class 1-A, there are still some important members to take notice. Among them include Itsuka, Ibara, and Tetsutetsu. Some of these almost represent mirror images of Class 1-A such as Shihai when compared to Tetsutetsu. On the other hand, it's hard to root for Class 1-B due to their limited screen time and lack of development. Instead, the season decided to throw them in to showcase their abilities against Class 1-A to see which side is more dominant.

When that's out of the way, Season 5 also decided that Deku needs more training to improve himself. So what does that lead to? It means training with none other than Endeavor. Deku, Bakugo, and Todoroki decides to all participate to improve themselves. Meanwhile, it appears that Endeavor knows when the Meta Liberation Army will strike so it's a chance to prepare everyone for the inevitable battles. While this all seems well structured on the surface, the season decided to drag its pacing by showcasing more of Todoroki's past, specifically his family. As if we didn't know enough already, the anime really pushes the envelope to show the type of man Endeavor is. It becomes an oversaturated character study where we just want to move on from the past. Let's face it, we know enough about Todoroki for who he is. It's freaking Season 5 already.

But perhaps the most intruging part of Season 5 is the side of the villains. Specifically, I'm talking about the League of Villain led by Tomura Shigaraki. As one of the most prominent characters in the entire franchise, his dark past is explored in detail from his childhood. It casts a shadow of how a once seemingly innocent kid becomes the gruesome villain he is today. He's not the only one we feast our eyes on either as the Villains gets their background stories told that includes Toga and Twice. It's important to understand their origins as the show wants us to experience the dark side of MHA. If you ask me, "My Villain Academia" is the best thing to happen this season.

We're in a timeline where every year, MHA makes its presence felt. I say with confidence now that Bones and the directors will adapt the rest of the manga to the dawn of time, for when it ends, so shall the anime. That doesn't mean MHA managed to live up to the hype all this time though. And in fact, the next season will have a lot of work to do if it wants to regain its former glory.

It's just a big 25 episodes long filler

Story: Almost nothing happens here. First half of the season is just a sparring session to remind you that some characters actually exist. In the second hald we are getting some backstories and rushed way of expandance of the "bad guys" group.

Art: Nothing speacial. Even worse than previous seasons.

Sound: It's fine.

Character: "Good" characters are trying to kind of improve and learn new techniques but there is nothing interesting tbh. There is only one mildly interesting improvement from MC.
Main "bad guy" will become overpowered towards the end of the season without any actual reason.
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Enjoyment: This anime is getting worse and worse with every season. If you don't want to miss this season so much just watch it in 2x speed.

Overall: strong 1 to light 2.

As a big fan of bnha manga I'm just disappointed. The artstyle in the manga is always progressing and is accurate to the things that are happening in the story, it's not longer so cutesy like before. The anime artstyle is still stuck in the mood of season 1, the colors are too bright, everything seem so weird, I can't feel anything when sad or important things are happening, it just seems like a caricature. Or maybe I FEEL smth but then it's cringe. If they animate the now latest chapters in this style I think I might just die of laughter. Please don't.

Class A vs Class IdontcareB should have been skipped. Doesn't do anything to move the plot forward, the entire thing seems like a filler arc. As a Boku no hero fan who only watches the anime I'm very disappointed because this feels pretty much like a wasted season and I'll have to wait a lot for the next one.

They have gone through much better training arcs in past seasons, not everything has to be high stakes but going with no stakes for an entire arc is just mind-boggling to me.

And as a wise man once said: If you don't like my opinion about this show, ... that's fine. Go like what you like.

I originally intended this season to be my "test season" of whether or not I would finally gather the courage to drop My Hero Academia, and I couldn't even make it 7 episodes before finally recognizing that this show was always going to be a burden to watch and if I hadn't found joy in it since Season 3 then there was no way that it was going to improve for me. I finally feel free after all these years.

I never understood the hype of My Hero Academia. I thought the first two seasons were standard, and the third I got a little more interested ... in, but by the end of the third season and throughout the fourth season I just found myself not caring much for the show, if I ever had at all. There are too many characters for anyone to get development, Deku goes through the same character arc every season, and by God, I am tired of watch 12 episode long tournament arcs where NOTHING happens. That's what finally pushed me to drop this show so early on. The tournament arc that's currently happening in Season 5.

Can anyone tell me what merit this tournament has or story relevance? I have no idea how it fits into any plotlines or character arcs besides just drawing out another useless and repetitive plot for 12 episodes to show off various superhero powers.

I've heard that the story gets better after this tournament, but you know what, I don't care anymore. I haven't cared about My Hero Academia in a LONG time, if EVER, and I don't want to force myself to watch 25 minute episodes where I'm utterly bored and usually scrolling on my phone, as if watching MHA is some ungodly chore. I've never understood the hype of this show, and I don't intend to stick around to look for improvements. I'm glad to finally be free of this franchise, and I look forward to never having to think of it again.

A 10 episode dragged-out filler arc. An advertisement for a mediocre movie. And a butchered, overhyped villain arc. That's My Hero Academia Season 5 in a nutshell.

Previous seasons of My Hero have been decent all things considered; Season 4 being more mixed compared to the others with some disappointing lows, but also having some of the highest highs in the series so far. By comparison, Season 5 is completely unsalvageable.

It immediately hits us with 10 episodes of filler that doesn't progress the story or develop any of the characters AT ALL. The premise behind Class 1A vs 1B is completely useless; forcing an already oversized ... cast of our main 1A students going up against an equally oversized group of 1B nobodies that 99% have never been on screen or had a single line of dialogue beforehand. Not to mention that this arc is probably the worst take on the "tournament arc" trope I've seen yet, in a show that already managed to pull it off in season 2. Whether a team wins or lose doesn't matter in the slightest, there are literally zero stakes or reason to care about whoever wins. It's just a obscenely long sparring match disguised as a showcase for the quirks of B-list characters that no one cares about. None of our main cast change or learn anything throughout these episodes, the only exception being Midoriya whom barely justifies this pointless arc by gaining one new power up. That's it. Everyone else has nothing to do throughout this entire filler arc.

You can easily skip the entire first half of this season, as you will miss literally nothing.

Next up is the Agency Arc. Aka, a blatant advertisement for the third movie that ends way too quickly, and shows characters and plot lines made specifically for a non-canon movie. It's only 5 episodes long and has our main characters do nothing for the entire arc. Sound familiar? It introduces some details that will set up actually interesting arcs down the road, but otherwise you can skip this one as well.

And finally, My Villain Academia. The arc that was supposedly gonna change the tone of the show into a more serious and dark story. Before it aired, people described it as the "edgy, dark, and violent" version of My Hero, and praised it as the saving grace for the season. Shame it fell flat on it's mid face. Don't get me wrong, at least stuff actually HAPPENS here. But the execution is so poorly paced and weak. It's basically a bunch of mini-skirmishes with the villains that we somewhat care about vs. an army of nobodies that were barely built up and the show suddenly acts like we should care about. Sound familiar? x2

Also the show spoils the end of the arc at the beginning of the previous arc, so you won't have to worry about having "stakes" or "engagement" in this show since it already tells you the ending before MVA even begins. The ONLY legitimately good episode was a flashback episode, where the show actually makes you feel emotional for our main lead in this arc. Everything else is woefully subpar, with this entire arc boiling down to "defeat the bad guys = win", and "Why not be evil?" for villains that were already evil and had no issue with their morality for the past 5 seasons. Except this time it's "Why not be MORE evil?!?"

*slow claps*

Finally, it ends with the promise of another big arc coming, that will "change everything". Ah yes. The very same thing that MVA was supposed to be and failed. What a joke of a season.

Both openings are terrible as well. The first one has a good song, but completely ignores Class 1B despite them being THE MAIN PREMISE of that arc. And the rest is Class 1A fighting thin air instead of showcasing any semblance of 1B.

And the second is half assed to say the least. Not only does the song suck and doesn't fit ANY of the arcs with how cringe the lyrics are, but a majority of it focuses on the Agency Arc which ends 3 episodes after the opening starts. And MVA only gets small sprinkles of random powerpoint screenshots + a bare minimum logo change, even though it's the majority of the remaining show. As you can see, priority/common sense was thrown out the window for this season.

All in all, My Hero Season 5 is a complete waste of your time.

Even if you're a MHA fan, there is no reason for you to watch this garbage. None of the characters develop or do anything remotely interesting. It's 90% filler and 10% badly executed story arcs that had the potential to be amazing. And unlike Season 1-4, there are no highlights in this season. Not even a single sakuga fight scene to at least admire for animation sake, since they moved the entire animation team to work on a movie that no one asked for. The best you're gonna get is 5 seconds of 3D buildings. Gee thanks My Hero. It's a shame how far this show has fallen considering how much care and attention was given to S1-4. Nowadays we're lucky if Bones remembers to change the PNG logo for MVA.

Do yourself a favor and skip this entire season.

This gets a 1/10

(but I'd honestly give it a 0 if I could)

MHA always has, and always will be, mid (at best). As a show that plays its cards incredibly safe and doesn’t try to subvert anything in the shounen genre, it’s pretty clear what MHA hopes to achieve in its lifetime (that’s selling movies if you haven’t realized already). But this season just goes to show that when you aim for mediocrity, you end up with subpar results. Drill that lesson into your hearts kids: aim for the moon so you can land amongst the stars, don’t be like MHA and aim for the stratosphere and end up 2m from where you started.

If you have any ... hope left for this series, I suggest you abandon it and save yourself from disappointment. This season alone indicated where Bones’ priorities lie with this series as a whole (movies so stonks go up).

As with any MHA season, we can’t go without the classic flaws:
1. Disgustingly long episode recaps
2. Piss-poor pacing/storyboarding
3. Unironically lengthy exposition dumps
4. Lack of meaningful progress on character development and worldbuilding

Let’s see how these flaws manifested this season.

The 1st episode is a “why do you exist” episode. Was it necessary to reintroduce every character and their quirks and dynamics? It’s not as if we had sudden amnesia and forgot. Don’t hit me with the “it’s a chance to showcase side characters” too because you and I both know damn well that anyone who isn’t the main cast (Deku, Todoroki, Bakugo, Uraraka) has been completely shoved to the side at this point. And that’s one thing I never liked about MHA, the character development. It tries too hard to sprinkle in development for side characters, but since it’s done so half-heartedly it just feels like cheap filler content instead of a meaningful attempt at doing something. Either do something properly or don’t do it at all.

The 1st cour. Class A vs Class B. Good animation for some of the scenes, but it’s wasted on content with poor pacing. The fights are overly drawn out, with each episode opening with a 5-minute flashback to the previous episode (I kid you not, EP 6 literally recycles the same recap from a previous episode). There’s also an issue of worldbuilding here with Class B, but I’m not going to open up that can of worms here. Ultimately, I don’t get how Class A, which has more real-world fighting and interning experience, decides to go easy and get their ass handed when it comes to “being aggressive” (Tokoyami vs Mushroom girl for example). The copious amounts of exposition dumps we got throughout this arc were dumbfounding too. MHA, and most anime in general, could do well to have faith in their viewers having more than 1 brain cell and an attention span greater than that of a goldfish.

The 2nd cour. Hero work studies and MVA. Overall, the content here is much more interesting and watchable than 1st cour. Issues still plague the season such as--

OH MY GOD OKAY IT’S HAPPENING, EVERYONE STAY CALM! STAY FUCKING CALM! WE’RE HAVING ANOTHER MHA MOVIE!!!! OMG! POGGERS! HERE’S AN ENTIRE “FILLER” EPISODE DEDICATED TO PROMOTING AND TEASING THIS MOVIE FOR Y’ALL BECAUSE THAT'S JUST WHAT YOU WANTED. WE TOTALLY DIDN’T SWITCH THE STORY AND PACING UP JUST FOR THE MOVIE!!!!!

Anyways, where was I? Oh yes. The same issues from cour 1 resurface here. Pacing, and now more so storyboarding too. Why were MVA and the work-study arc rearranged to the way it was presented in the show? So they could fit in the movie episode. Now we have this disjointed storyline that robs the viewer of any sense of suspense or danger. You teased Shigaraki powering up? That’s cool, but I’ve forgotten about it since nothing related is brought up again for the next 5 episodes. PLF is going to attack in 4 months with 100k plus members? Spooky. But numbers don’t mean shit to me. Giving names is. Telling me PLF has 5-6 elite villains, with quirks doing XYZ, who teamed up with the League of Villains, who also powered up, is infinitely more dramatic and suspenseful than the route we got. Not to mention awkward directing and cutting of relevant material during MVA itself. Shame on the studio.

Overall, this season was a shitshow, but for different reasons than S4. The main complaint with S4 was the animation: MHA will always have copious amounts of exposition dumps. But this season, we’ve traded (somewhat) better animation for god-awful pacing and storyboarding. While there were a few bright spots and well-adapted scenes, it’s not enough to make up for a wholly disappointing season overall. It’s also been made pretty clear that all the MHA franchise cares about at this point is pumping out movies to milk the unfortunate die-hard fans of their money. Smoge.

I’m not going to spoil future seasons, but all I can say is they do a great job of highlighting MHA’s biggest and most glaring flaw: god-awful worldbuilding and character development. If you’re a manga reader and would like to hear my views, shoot me a message. But all I can offer to anime-only fans is this: if you’re ready for braindead action boom-boom pow scenes, you’re in for a treat. But MHA as you know it will be dead after the next arc thanks to shitty writing.

Four season and five years ago, studio Bones brought forth on this world a new anime, My Hero Academia, conceived with good animation, fun fights, and an enjoyable premise. Unfortunately, the intrigue has worn thin with the arrival of MHA season 5.

For my reviews, I will dissect my opinion into 5 crucial sections, henceforth known as napkins.

Napkin #1
Story (2/10)
Sadly, the internet has made the story and first third of the season not necessary. The training arc beginning the season and running nearly 10 episodes can best be described by the word pointless. We will see where the season goes from here, ... but the goal of over a third of the season can better be achieved by a text card advising viewers to go to the wiki and search the names of the characters and their abilities.

Napkin #2
Art (5/10)
The animation quality is average in terms of battle centered anime but mainly does its job in making fights appear coherent. Although nothing special, it’s as serviceable and acceptable as any piece from Studio Bones is as a minimum. However, it seems Bones was saving budget in the first few episodes for animating the posteriors of Asui and Uraraka.

Napkin #3
Sound (5/10)
Much like the animation, the sound is serviceable and does its part. The opening and endings are acceptable, definitely not my personal taste. Had the opening instead been, just off the top of my head, Kyouran Hey Kids!!, I would have given the sound a 9.

Napkin #4
The characters (2/10)
My biggest issue with the season and show overall is the cast, exasperated by the fact that the initial training arc spends time re-introducing characters in the most bland and unimaginative way possible. There is no need for the narrator to yell the quirks of the cast and remind the viewer of their names, this is the FIFTH season after all. The fact that I need to be reminded of the uncreative quirks and the names of the students is less a testament to the expansive cast and more a point on how bland and forgettable the supporting cast are. Aside from Momo, Jiro, Todoroki, Bakugo, and Deku the Hallmark greeting card, I could not remember or care less about any other character. Shinso presented the most intrigue in his character conflict, but will likely be discarded for the remainder of the season as he is not hot enough for the fandom to ship.

Napkin #5
Enjoyment (3/10)
I did not.

Conclusion
With the napkins on the table set, we see another table in the distance, filled with amazing animation, good characters, and a far superior power system. MHA season 5 unfortunately had the honor of following a season led by Jujutsu Kaisen, likely leading to why I failed to enjoy this season to such a degree. Regardless, watch JJK instead.

Score: 4/10 Passable but has problems

The 5th season of MHA is quite possibly the biggest waste of time I've ever had to endure as an anime fan, and I watched all of the 2nd season of Promised Neverland. I made this account just to review this awful season, I have truly had enough of this shit but I know that I'll somehow be sucked back into watching every new episode despite the fact this show has nothing going for it. It's terrible what this anime has done to me, even though I know it's a waste of time and that everything I've seen so far in this show doesn't take ... it above generic shonen anime I keep coming back to it. With that intro out the way I'll get into why I hate this season.

[SPOILERS]

Story: 2/10
Most of every episode so far feels like pointless filler, not even including the actual pointless filler episode. I don't expect much from action anime tbh, just some interesting characters and a cohesive story with decent fights is enough to hold me over, but after 5 fucking seasons there has been little to nothing in terms of character growth, story progression or even time progression itself ffs. How the hell are they still in their first year as students after 5 seasons. The first 10 or so episodes are full of pointless fights between Class A and Class B. Most of the characters in Class A barely get looked at but now they have to compete with the even less present Class B for screentime? Not to mention that none of the fights had any actual importance to them, the biggest thing to happen from this arc was the black tentacles coming out of Deku's ass. Following these painfully drawn out fights we get an actual fiiller episode of the girl characters at the beach. That's right a beach episode, the creators of this anime just can't help themselves in wanting to waste your time. After this meaningless episode we move onto another weak arc. To sum it up the main 3 of Deku, Todoroki, and Bakugo learn some shit from Endeavor and move on. It also includes Todoroki's family situation which we already knew most of. Fairly pointless season so far and with only 7 episodes left I'll be amazed if they actually do anything meanwhile with those episodes.

Art: 4/10
This might be the laziest season yet in terms of animation, most of the fights have felt lackluster and boring visually. Guess they're putting all their resources into that movie that they're making.

Sound: 5/10
This is one of the biggest disappointments for me, I've enjoyed a lot of the past seasons' openings and endings, this season's have been nothing more than average.

Character: 2/10
MHA has never had good characters in truth, but it's just become increasingly annoying how one dimensional most of them are. Not to mention the overabundance of them.

Enjoyment: 1/10
The least enjoyable season of MHA and something that makes me want to drop the show all together. I held out for large parts of this season because I had friends tell me how great the upcoming arc was going to be and at this point I doubt we'll get it this season. There is no enjoying this season left for me, not after having 2/3 of it be essentially meaningless fluff with mind-numbing episodes each week.

I got into this anime around when the 3rd season started, I had some hopes that maybe it could prove to be a great show, but how foolish I was. This season has broken me, and at this point it's almost drug-like how I know how terrible this anime is for me but I just keep coming back to it out of habit.

This anime is complete garbage. I can understand the superpower theme but in the entire series, there was not any explanation about how people gained their horrendous endurance, which allows them to tank hits someone like Endeavor or AllMight and not being burned to crisps or vaporized thanks to inhuman strength. Someone like Deku can use only 20% of his entire power, and if he goes above that, he can literally cirpple himself, so how the f... can anyone else tank hits stronger than that, just with their body. Where is the common sense of that? The world in this anime is quite like ours, ... just enhanced with the Quirks, but Quirks do not give any special endurance, only special abilities, or mutations, like tail, enhanced attributes - like strength, or explosions, etc. so why people do not use weapons here? All of them are so squishy, so where is the logic here? The author didn't even try to cover this plot hole. That is why, anyone with even a half-brain would have an unpleasant time watching this trash.

As of writing this review, I'm on episode 9 and I feel like they spent their entire budget on drawing Tsuyu's ass and Ida's fight scene in episode 8. Episode 9 definitely kicked things up a bit but I don't know if it's enough to redeem the season for it's horrible start.

Let me start by saying that although I thought the Shie Hassakai Raid was the peak of season 4, the festival and Gentleman's fight wasn't bad or slow. It was decent.

Season 5? First episode literally spends half the screen time describing every single one of Class 1A's members and quirks. Like... hello? ... Who's trying to start an anime at the fifth season and not know stuff? If it wasn't the first season alone, the commercial cutoff cards that show halfway through all 90+ episodes definitely let me know who does what.

Second off, this season up until now, the actions and plot devices seemed so... cliché. People are pulling unoriginal/uncreative or deeply-beaten clutches out of their butts and expect us to be amazed and surprised. They pulled a "flashback to a specific move that one character trained for that one time in his childhood that we are just now learning and uses it to save the day" BS. Just no.... Also, for the sake of squeezing in screen time of other characters during these fights, we go back to the classmates watching the fights on screen multiple times and have them describe what we just saw with our reptilian eyes right back to us while having that stupid "hurr durr Vlad biased commentary" sequence five million times an episode. It got old after the first time.

Third, and I think this is the most heinous crime, they used their iconic soundtracks on letdown, unimportant episode climaxes to try and hype up the viewers. It felt like a poor attempt to bring excitement to already dull, drawn out fights where half the dialogue, animations, and actions of the characters were unnecessary or let downs. Very distasteful and for the first time, I felt like they were overusing these iconic songs despite having used them multiple times throughout the four previous seasons to great effect.

This doesn't feel like BNHA anymore and just some random cliche hero anime people drop after an episode.

How pathetic! A great anime reduced to dust. They first reordered the arcs and then released a pathetic filler episode??? The most important arc that took the manga to the next level will get at max 7 or 6 episodes while the Joint training arc got 10! The art looks childish and pathetic. It's so annoying! They definitely should not have reordered the arcs.

Bones is taking so many creative liberties, it's insane! They managed to make some excellent arcs, incredibly boring. That takes talent. I had to drop this series mid season because it was phyiscally painful to watch Horikoshi sensei's work get so blatantly ... disrespected. It's quite depressing lmao.

I hate it. 0/10 if I could.

This season was absolute ass, undignified shit.
Sorry for the language, I just have a seething hatred for this horrible season.

Story: This season covers like 3 arcs in the span of 25 episodes, which is fine if the pacing was good. The pacing is absolute trash, I've never seen how a story could get lost and then finds itself right when it's too late and I've lost interest. I mean this season had 2 APPALLING filler episodes! One was just an appetizer that was more like a dumpster fire and the other was basically a cyberpunk 2077 advertisement. And sure, fillers aren't always bad bucko, ... have you seen Gintama's filler, I dare say that 1 episode of Yorozuya competing to eat the most lobster legs is 20x more entertaining than this slouch of a series. 2/10

Art: The art was pretty fair. Not worse than the other seasons but not better as well. It's genuinely pretty mediocre, something I wouldn't expect from a bigshot studio like Bones. Some fight scenes were greatly choreographed for their fast-paced fight scenes and quick thinking schemes. However, that's only 2 fights out of the 10 or more fights in this season. 5/10

Sound: Sound was actually legit the strongest point in this dumb season. Shigaraki's kid VA hit a homerun with a voice that screams being conflicted and regretful yet also satisfactory. Other than that, you have the usual "I have to scream every line" Bakugou (I seriously don't know how his VA hasn't attracted throat cancer by now) and "no emotion" Todoroki (which is now basically just Eren) and don't forget the hopeful sounding Deku. The fight scenes had some good sounds too! If you can't 13 paragraphs of lines every single time they move a limb. 6/10

Character: I wouldn't think that BNHA would have the best characters. Most of the characters are very one faced and uncomplex. Like Bakugou's whole personality is just hoes mad. Whether this opinion is intervened by the horrible fanbase or the genuine disappointment I have to these characters is still unknown even to me. HOWEVER, we do have a bit of backstory for the villains and heroes alike IGNORING the fact that there's a flashback every 2.5 seconds. 4/10

Enjoyment: I was looking forward to this season as an anime-only. AND if you as an anime-only have to actually READ the manga to UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON- THEN WHY DID YOU WASTE MY TIME WATCHING THIS SLOW PACED ADVERTISEMENT FOR A MOVIE THAT RELEASES 1 SEASON LATER. AND WORST OF ALL THE MOVIE'S NOT EVEN THAT GOOD. -16/10

Overall: 2+5+6+4+(-16) = 1/10. Now I'm gonna go read the manga instead.

DO NOT WATCH THIS SEASON. Chapter 190 if you watched season 4, Chapter 218 if you want to watch the first half of this season, which is fine.



I try not to be a source material purist, for the most part. But damn, the second half of this season pisses me off.

When adapting Manga to Anime, there are certain rules that must be followed. This season has decided, for reasons unknown, to swap the order of two arcs. Which is bad, since one deals directly with the fallout of the other, leaving viewers with a sense of confusion at the first and makes the latter easy ... to predict. You also lose a lot of the subtler details of the story. Them being my favourite arcs probably doesn't help.

In theory you could watch the episodes out of order, but it's not all out yet so maybe not.



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On a less "Do not watch this" note, the characters and visuals are still great. The story drags a bit in the first half, but that's just what happens when you adapt the less impressive parts of the manga.

If you enjoyed the first four seasons, and obviously you did or you wouldn't be here, you will enjoy this.

Man! I never expect BNHA to fall so badly like that! What started very well and even had a very good 3rd season, has now fell down so badly. I present to you an anime that is killing itself for the sake of making money.


Despite the average 4th season of BNHA, the anime ended in a way to let you expect new development. What I thouhgt would be a great season filled with action, drama and character development felt more like a filler, a way to just complete the setup for another movie that they can sell for tons of money.

The anime was ... presented in a way that it made you feel like it really was just padding for time. The story was dreadful and the only enjoyment we truly had was in like 6 episodes out of the 25, 3 of which were a backstory to the villian and the others were just random episodes and a small part in the tournament arc.

The characters felt lacking, like there was some elements that made them more than just tools for the plot. I was surprised at how little Midoriya developed in 25 episodes and how irrelevant the side characters in their class anime were. The anime is going down the Naruto Shippuden route by eliminating every decent character and focusing solely on the villians or the mc, bocchan who is still as bad as always, and the half-cold half-hot guy.

I read somewhere that the studio changed the order of the arcs just to make it a setup for the upcoming movie and that does appear at how badly connected this season was. The anime felt random and all over the place and its pacing was destroyed. I guess that is the price to pay when you want to milk something popular and make as much money as possible although it could lead to the anime's doom.


Overall, I would give it a 4/10. A really sad version of what was once a very good anime.
Wouldn't reccomend the season and most likely the whole series now.

MHA has fallen and it can't get up. Sorry, but LifeAlert is not going to be enough to help save this sinking ship. A huge portion of this season is dedicated to make us care about the villains, and also show how all bad guys are not a united front. Well, I still don't really care. I do realize that this anime is extremely popular and has to be edible for all ages, but now they are getting downright LAZY. This season was already cursed with the burden of having to build up the impending war, but wow it does a better job opening the ... door for many of us to just leave and stop watching. The initial steam this series used to champion has now all but dried out. The fandom has fallen in love with the characters enough for this to probably be animated to conclusion, but this is a low point.

I highly anticipated the start of this season, since I am a fan of this series. However as a manga reader, I find my expectations to be met with only disappointment. At first, I gave the season the benefit of doubt but gradually I decided to take a break while I was watching the joint training arc since I find myself to be burned out by how much Bones dragged out the training arc with endless amounts of flashbacks. Recently, I decided to see how the season is faring and I couldn't help but lose respect for Bones.

Bones did a great job for the ... past seasons and I'm sure we all share this sentiment until this season.

(Might contain spoilers)


First of all, I have no problems with the joint training arc. I am okay with the content in it since it is one of the last chill arcs of the manga until the final act that is still going on as of today. What I am not ok with is how they would drag the arc down with much padding.

Next, why would you switch arcs?? I don't understand the logic behind it. I can't comprehend what gave Bones the notion that doing so might be a good idea. This just causes confusion for those who might only be watching the anime. Because the events of the MVA arc should have been first that's why the experience is tainted with the arc switch that had already happened.

And also Bones, in my opinion, should stop making so much movies. I find it to be unnecessary in their part. I feel like it's better for them to be focusing on making the anime have the utmost best quality they could possibly give it. Then they made a filler with the girls that I might not have too much problem with had they not sacrifice cutting so much crucial manga content for the MVA arc.

What Bones is doing is disrespectful to the original manga-- to the manga creator. I couldn't help but leave with a sense of disappointment that would never go away. Even if the next season does a fantastic job with the war arc, there would always be a part of me that would wish that this season turned out better. I love the manga , but it is simply sad to see the state the anime is now.

My Hero Academia is in a weird state at the moment. After what melodramatic bullshit that was Season 4, Season 5 serves as a breath of fresh air, to see our Class 1-B pals again after almost two whole seasons of forgetting they exist. I was initially ecstatic because I consider Class 1-B to sometimes be more interesting than A (Class A literally has four relevant main characters to fight villians in ways adults can't do). My main issue with this season is that we still don't really get to see the dynamic that Class B has because half the time, the attention is always ... focused on A and their long flashbacks and monologues that just seem to drag out the episode.

Shihai is a character that seems to be quite interesting, and it would have been very nice to see him in action, but we have almost zero information on him besides his quirk getting to blend in with Tokoyami. A fight scene involving those too might have been incredibly interesting, but then we see yet another flashback based on Tokoyami with Hawks. My question is that why was this not in the arc where we actually saw the characters work with heroes? We saw filler with Yaoyarozu and Itsuka but none of actual story development with a well written character?

This is the biggest problem with MHA in my opinion, making all these amazing characters but only using four regularly. The ones we get to see more of just have a single flashback later way after the arc they should have been in concludes. This causes filler, and lets B to not be able to be in the limelight at least once.

Last season was the Shie Hassaiki arc and I still consider that arc to be the worst the series could provide (more on that on my blog in a few weeks). I was genuinely very excited to see more of B, along with seeing more character dynamics that we don't normally see but all we saw was Shinsho get to appear for once in a blue moon, and then quickly forgotten about.

The animation, sound and character design have always been good and they are genuinely my favorite parts of the franchise, but the story is genuinely lacking.

I regret to say this but I am officially dropping My Hero Academia until Season 6 starts, the manga is much more entertaining than this bullshit of an arc right now.

I beg that we get an arc in the future that just drops all the crappy melodrama arcs and gives us a nice story based on character dynamics between the two classics, AKA the Forest Camp Training arc.

I hope you enjoyed this review as much as I genuinely enjoyed writing it, until next time...