Boku no Hero Academia: Ikinokore! Kesshi no Survival Kunren

The first thing I want to iterate is that I do fully understand how popular My Hero Academia is to young anime fans and my first exposure to this series is not starting from episode one of the mainline series but to start with a side story that offers a great introduction to the world and characters of my hero acamedia without giving you a feeling of being lost with regards to how big and massive the series is.

This story is a special two-part episode and 4th OVA for the My Hero Academia series. The plot of the episode is that it takes place ... before the provisional hero license exam and it looks at the the team being put through survival training in order to perfect their abilities as hero's. Their survival training focuses on rescuing a practice dummy that was left in the remains of the 6 floor shopping center that was evacuated due to a fire.

Don't expect anything too detailed in this review because it is a two episode OVA, but one thing I do appreciate about this OVA is that it covers enough information to get you interested in the world of my hero academia. The start of this two part OVA gives me a great introduction into the world of my hero academia and the main character Izuku. I feel with this OVA we get to see enough of the characters personality and each character has an opportunity to showcase their power/ability. Even in this two episode OVA, it gave me enough information to know who which characters I liked and which characters I disliked. There really aren't any villains in this episode since it is a practice rescue mission. However, the danger is incredibly real because due to the fire in the shopping mall the building is on the verge of collapsing and to make matters worse the bottom levels of the shopping mall start to flood as several areas of the shopping mall to collapse which adds a continued level of danger to this survival training.

During this survival training exercise, the heroes need to learn to operate as a team even though many of them split up in order to cover more ground with regards to finding the training dummy. Unfortunately there is one stubborn character that feels like he doesn't need the rest of the team in order to complete the task. However, the more times the characters use their powers it actually contributes to the buildings continued deterioration. It also doesn't help the fact that many of the characters can't use their powers because it puts them in a more precarious position.

During the time we get to see the characters use their powers. It is animated quite beautifully. I don't have tany issues with the animation quality and the soundtrack throughout this 2 part ova. There is not much in the realm of humor and some of the personalities for some of the characters can be a little irritating. Since it's only a two episode OVA it's not really that much of a detriment. There are definitely far more positive/uplifting characters then annoying characters and tt actually gets me excited to start watching the full series when I find the free time to start it.

By the end of the 2 part OVA, the team managed to succeed with their survival training but not without a few injuries and a few bruised ego's. It's still a nice little appetizer regardless if it's your first adventure in the world of my hero academia or you want a nice little break from the main series. I certainly got my enjoyment out of it.

7/10

Yeah it's cool. A training exercise that goes haywire on purpose (thanks Mr. Aizawa) and all the A-list or most powerful characters spend two episodes trying to figure it out. I was surprised that there was a small physics lesson here that the writers took into consideration so Izuku, Bakugo, and Todoroki can get back to the surface in the most reckless way possible lol.

So it's good, not great, and did make me wonder about the show a bit, because the plot is always strong and things are always happening even if it may not be as overarching as some people would like. But if ... you break things down like this with the class of 1-A into groups, will they have more of an interaction among each other than the goal of doing the most good? The only one who showed some real personality in that regard was of course Bakugo, who is always so stubborn and angry that anyone can bounce off of him, but nothing can really be said of anyone else besides I guess, "call my Tsu".

So I dislike Boku no Hero Academia...this is pretty obvious if you were to look at my list but I've ended up in a situation where I watch this series with a friend of mine and that's normally fine. We just critique the series a bit and laugh as we go along...


Look, if this shit is going to keep getting side episodes why does it always have to be a training scenario. It's boring, they already are training in the main series on the regular give me some more goofy stuff so I can find a way to like these damn characters. It's the ... same beats the series always does at this point in the game.
>Bakugo does something that surprise the other characters around him because he's suppose to be smart, so apparently it's weird he can use his brain
>Iida gets yeeted and does fucking nothing again as far as I am concerned.
>Female characters? lol
>Speaking of that, Ochaco being a mockery of a character who was kinda alright but now just feels like she's just pines for Deku and serves as a speaker piece for the other characters to understand Deku
>Todoroki/Bakugou/Deku being the only kids that can be really useful for the stopping the biggest crisis ongoing.
>All Might dick sucking


The second movie was outlandishly stupid but it was actually fun by it's sheer retardation. The only thing that was interesting wasn't even unique to the ova. It was realizing that Deku has two funko pop figures in his room from the Shout Baby ED. Hilariously bad taste.