Boku no Hero Academia the Movie 3: World Heroes' Mission

This movie was boringly average. It felt like I was in the cinema for hours, stuck in a time chamber that slowed downtime were a 1 minute felt like 10. The animation, story, characters, voice acting, and pacing were all average or below. It's just odd because the last movie suffered from none of those problems.

I think there were times when the animation did something unique with extremely long shot animation but even then half the time it didn't feel like polished animation. If it wasn't for those parts the film would probably be a 3/10 instead of a 5. Just disappointing overall.

*SPOILER-FREE REVIEW*
I just want to say, first of all, watching this in the cinema is 10 times better than at home. This is going to be an unpopular opinion but, I really enjoyed this film. It felt kind of James Bond-like somehow. The fight scenes looked great and kept me hooked throughout. The story was solid and didn't feel like any parts were pointless. The addition of the rest of the class in some parts of the film seemed forced. I liked the villain and his motives made a good reason for their actions, but there could have been more focus on their backstory in ... some way. It didn't get boring at all, I was enjoying it that much that I waited until I was literally about to wet myself to go to the toilet. There were no parts in the film that dragged on. The art was definitely move quality and looked great in my opinion. The sound was as good as you can get with anime to be honest, same quality as the rest of the My Hero Academia series. The costumes were very cool but got at most a minute of screen time which I thought was stupid. Why were they wearing them in the first place if they were going to stop using them 5 minutes into the film?
Anyway, I enjoyed the film and would definitely recommend watching it to anyone who likes the series as a whole.

Incredibly boring… I found myself slouching over in my seat just waiting for some scenes to end. After such a slow season I expected a little bit more from the movie, but it seemed to have dragged out just as slowly. The plot became predictable right from the start, the score was incredibly underwhelming, the fight scenes felt long and visually dull. The last few fights were the only entertaining parts of the movie which was incredibly disappointing since they only lasted a few minutes towards the end. The lack of detail in each scene just created such a lazy tone to the movie.

I still ... have high hopes for the upcoming season but the movie just wasn’t worth the watch and contributed nothing to the series.

*Some spoilers*

I usually have pretty low expectations and am easily pleased. I find true delight in the very act of seeing a piece of art *try*, but boy howdy did this movie mess up my very simple starbucks order. Do or do not, there was no “try”.

Preface of things I actually enjoyed:

- Slapstick chase sequence at the beginning was cute & funny & props for the very dope shot of fixed-point parkour sakuga. One nice little creative sprinkle on top of this plain bagel.

- Good Guy Deku™️ paying criminal bus fare with OFA. Deku is a caricature of himself at this point ... but they at least got some comedy out of his dying husk.

- Fugitive road trip bonding montage

- Just 2 dudes covered in blood crying and laughing hysterically (you will ALWAYS get me with this). At least *some* fun tropes could be salvaged from the wreckage.

- Rody in general ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Probably because he was the only person in the movie who was given any character whatsoever. The movie had a strange way of Stockholming me into liking him—confined within the lifeless walls of this movie, I became forced to find comfort in the little trappings of humanity he offered.

Moving on:

This thing was just not animated with movie quality at all. It seemed very unpolished, and there was perhaps 30 minutes total that outclassed TV(generous). I should not look at a *movie* and be not only unimpressed but actively noticing errors. The number of off-model faces FRONT AND CENTER was astounding. It was the sort of stuff that would catch my eye in a season and I would give it a pass, but I sat in a damn theater to watch this, so I’m giving it the full extent of my judgement. Gallows for the wonky boys.

Never in my life have I seen eugenics, doomsday cults, and bio-terrorism so phenomenally wasted as plot points. How do you make some of the scariest ideologies known to man so BORING and hollow. I don’t need my shounen to have a nuanced political message or anything of the sort, but they couldn’t even play up these aspects for the sake of spectacle. I had the hype of seeing some shady religious imagery and thinking, “Oh hell yes, My Hero is about to get stupid-edgy”, only for it to fall flat entirely.

Speaking of flat, we know Deku is simply not a character anymore, but you could’ve held up a stick figure with “Hero-kun” written on the face for the majority of this movie and gotten the same effect.

If your movie has me leaving with like 15 wasted concepts that I want to see expanded upon in fanfic, then you done wrote a pretty bad movie.

Zero, I mean ZERO, thought directed towards the doomsday cult that incites the movie. Exactly one of their members is given a motive, and it is ridiculous. There’s a recurring, seemingly intriguing quirked assassin trying to eliminate her own kind, and I’m not even sure she spoke. Once again, movie could’ve just subbed in a piece of paper that said “evil” on it and gotten just as far.

Also, beyond being paper-thin and boring, the villain is just ugly design-wise. The animation of his quirk was at least inspired, but the man himself is laughable to look at. Don’t make your holy genocidal maniac a goofy lookin’ dork-ass if you won’t even Betelguese him.

The amount of characters used in this movie for NO REASON. Every time I was shown a character besides todo/baku/deku and Rody legitimately felt like time-filler. In fact, a LOT of this movie felt like filler. So many useless pieces thrown together for the sake of cash content! Quick, get a cutaway of every student in 1A, we need more run-time!

There’s a scene of tdbkdk looking at files on a computer like it’s hacking that’s so emblematic of this. It’s got Bakugou shoving people out of the way to make a discovery TWICE in the same scene just to fill air time. It is not funny, the repetition is not purposeful, it’s just messy and says “Idk what to write here.”

Almost everything that happened moment to moment in this movie was a plothole; the plot itself became a reason-sucking void. 4% of decisions made sense with even a second of scrutiny. Deku struggles to pull a car up a hill with black whip instead of lifting the thing, and that stupidity is a symbol for every other action taken. Were my cringe-counter converted into shots, I would be dead.

Also, in case you were wondering, not a single song slapped. Not even the montage song. Tragic. There was also a dramatic moment where Deku clenched his fist and it made a sound like my bare foot on a wood floor. He was wearing gloves. Nice foley.

In conclusion: season 5 was beyond bad, but if you hoped it was at least a worthy sacrifice for the movie, think again.

I know it’s fun shounen and my standards can only be so high, but this movie was buried 6 feet below an already low bar.

The end credits deserved a GTA death screen for criminally WASTED potential.

Ah, My Hero Academia. Depending on what year you asked someone you'd get varying answers of how good this show is. If you asked someone in 2017 about MHA, they would tell you it's one of the best shows out. If you ask in 2021, they will tell you it's mid garbage. Why is this? Well, many theories come to my mind. The first one is pretty simple, it got popular. People don't like it when a show becomes more popular than their favorite show or a show they prefer over it. So what do they do? Shit on it till it becomes "mid." Every ... anime that shoots up in popularity eventually has a "mid" phase to cancel out it's success because we all know success is something no one can have anymore in 2021. So now MHA is in a much more sorry state than it was in 2017-2018 when it was booming. Now with the question, is it because My Hero actually got worse or are people just sheep and like to have the mainstream opinions just to fit in? That's an answer for you to decide. People only started hating My Hero when it became a trend to. And now any content the show pulls out is neglected as a cash grab and pointless. It's quite pathetic tbh. Because imo, My Hero is and has been the best new gen show since 2017 and nothing as come close to it. Now in 2021, that kind of opinion would send you to the looney house and it's difficult to express it. My Hero has constantly pumped out quality content and has flowed its story for over 100 episodes without many hiccups. Bone's adaptation of the manga is amazing and one of the few shows where you can say both the manga and anime are high quality. And the movies they put out have god tier animation which can entertain anyone. It's just hard to ignore My Hero's success and it's almost objectively the best new gen simply from sales. World Heroes' Mission doesn't take the back seat either and delivers eye candy that will have you on the edge of your seat for hours. The story was fine but it's a filler movie so I didn't expect it to be a Steven King novel anyways. The other reviews here are stabbing its story and idk what they expected from a filler movie. The cast is the same as they've always been and the villain has a super cool power. Overall, this movie did what it was supposed to do, entertain. As to why people expected the next Dune level of writing I'll never understand but hey, sheep will be sheep eh? I hope to see My Hero gain back the respect it deserves but as of now, its bound to the fate of being a successful show, a mass of haters.

While the visuals were good and the sound design was the well established world-class performance, I feel like the director wanted to make something like a Bleach movie and was given My Hero Academia instead, yet went through with most of the same fights anyway.
This is straight up a betrayal of the source material, except for the last two minutes or so. Characters bleed more than in Saint Seiya, get impaled and choked like no tomorrow, and can still walk away just fine. Villains have powers or appearances unlike anything we see in the manga. Hyped moments from the main series get their themes reused ... shamelessly.
If you have the time to spare, watching it is fine, but don't expect anything besides a silly What-If.

Most people would probably agree that prioritizing non-canon movies over canon manga content adaptations is wrong, because most of the time these movies don't offer anything good except some high-budget animation and this is the exact case with the World Heroes' Mission.

Story : 4/10
I think it's safe to say that if you take the good animation away, it leaves nothing more than a really generic story. And I'm not even surprised with that. Although this movie takes a concept of Quirk's Doomsday Theory mentioned in the original manga, it doesn't really present or elaborate on it in any interesting way and uses it ... as a plot device for our heroes to scatter around the world and fight. So if you were expecting this movie to actually be story relevant then well.. it's not, did you really expect it to be? Besides that it's all pretty generic stuff - villain wants to change the world, because he was wronged blah blah blah he gets beaten up by our greatest hero that pulls of his trump card of an absurdal, silly power-up at the end, no surprises there. That said - if you don't mind a generic story, then hear me out on the good part of this movie which is the animation.

Art : 8/10
Here we come to the star of the show and by that I mean the only star of the show really.. The animation is great, it's fluid and really makes the characters and the world feel alive and for me that's the main selling point of this movie. There are many cases of media that solely rely on attracting the viewer by outstanding visuals, but for more demanding viewers that's not gonna cut it. That being said, if you'd like to enjoy some 'epicly' animated fights then go ahead and give it a go.

Sound : 6/10
The sound design and voice-acting is alright, nothing much to write about. Soundtrack-wise there's a lot of music tracks previously used in the earlier BNHA seasons, but I don't really mind it. I'm also pretty sure there were few new variants of already existing ost's in this movie, so that is welcome. And let's not forget this movies' insert song (?) "Empathy" by Asian Kung-fu Generation, it's pretty neat.

Character : 5/10
From character stand-point I have few things to say :
First : most of the characters are reccuring and if I remember correctly, this movie was marketed as "all the heroes get together and save the world together" or smth in those lines? Well they did gather and fought a bit, but as you might have guessed, our main trio had most of the spotlight once again, leaving most of the other character serving a purpose of filling the movie run-time and I'm going to say it once more : no surprises there. If you're looking for your fave side characters to shine, then go watch Heroes Rising, it does a better job at that. So what about the new characters? Well Rody is alright, he has a cool design, but overall he isn't a really complicated character, but I don't think he really has to be. Him and Deku becoming buddies felt light-hearted and cheerful which I really liked and his role in the movie was alright. Then we have main antagonist and his goons. So yeah the antagonist is basically a Megamind-looking dude that wants to eradicate quirks, he's pretty one-dimensional and his backstory is boring. Then we have his goons : The bow-lady, the twins with extending sword arms quirk and others. Well all these characters are movie-only so don't expect them to show up again. The best character from this movie was the egyptian guy called Salaam.

Enjoyment : 5/10
I sat through this entire movie, but wasn't too engaged either so I think 5/10 is a fair score. I did enjoy few bits of animation and interaction between characters, but that's all. The final fight between Deku and Flect Turn was just silly and it made me laugh.

Overall : 6/10
If you're looking for more elaboration on this series' characters or world then this movie is not for you, but if you'd like some anime fights with your favorite character trio of Deku, Bakugo and Shoto and you're alright with a story of a simpler premise, then go ahead. I hope Bones will give upcoming seasons a better treatment next time, instead of just milking the franchise with mediocre movies.

As a loyal fan of this series since the beginning, I am a firm believer in the belief that more My Hero Academia is always a good thing. Always.

I loved the new characters (all two of them) and their designs are visually striking. Trust me, I know what a non-cannon character design is and this is not it. Rody is likable enough and managed to carry a decent portion of the film. (for me at least) Storywise however, there isn't anything defyingly unique.
The different setting is a welcome change of scenery (and not and island either. yaaaaaay)

The film doesn't offer alot for the ... bulky cast to do other then fight some b-grade baddies and utter a few cool moves, and Deku's now-mandatory sakuga-fueled power-up moment is taken so far to the extreme that I actually burst out laughing.

In summation, if you're a fan of this franchise like I am, your gonna get your kicks. For the rest of you though, there's little on offer that hasn't been done exceedingly better before.

............................... but at least it wasn't on an island.

For context, here's my ratings for BnHA up to this point:

1st season: 8/10
2nd season: 8/10
3rd season: 9/10
4th season: 7/10
5th season: 7/10
1st movie: 9/10
2nd movie: 5/10
Futari no hero: 6/10
... Ikinokore: 8/10
Sukue: 8/10
Training of the Dead: 8/10

As you can see and compare, this movie disappointed me greatly and became the worst piece of media on the BnHA franchise so far as I've given this a 4/10.

Visuals: the animation is pleasant to watch most of the times but it's so inconsistent that often broke my immersion.

Sound: nothing too outstanding. I've heard more emotions coming from these characters in the regular seasons that in this movie.

Story and characters:

1) the biggest flaw for me was pacing. We're talking about a movie that lasts almost 2 hours and 45 minutes in, I almost fell alseep. We are introduced very early on to a new character that will occupy the screentime for ages throughout the movie but there's no charisma to him. His screentime could've been cut short (and it should!) and the story would still be the same.
2) Not only that, but I get the most joy out of this franchise when I get to watch a bunch of heroes showing off their quirks and developing themselves as indivuals and unfortunately this movie in my opinion focuses way too much on Deku. This is what made me fall in love with the franchise, how every character is very important and doesn't exist just to feed the main character.
3) Bakugou, Deku and Shoto don't act like they normally would. Deku becomes dumber for whatever reason, Shoto forgets that ice is frozen water and Bakugou had no intensity to his attitude.

Watch this is if you're a BnHA super fan of course but prepare to be disappointed or watch this in 2x speed or something so it's less painful.

*REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS*

Hey all, thank you for reading this being my first review here on MAL.

First off, let me begin with what I enjoyed about this movie. First things first, I loved the fight scenes in the third act of the movie. Todoroki, Bakugo and Midoriya each have their own fight at the end of the film and I found watching those to be extremely entertaining and well choreographed. However, this alone was not enough to save the movie in my eyes.

The biggest problem I have is with the story. It is generic, bland, and uninteresting with a premise that COULD have ... been very interesting. As I watched this movie I felt like I had already seen this movie before. Also, the movie was marketed as taking place all over the world. However, the only place that matters is the country where Deku, Bakugo, and Shoto are. Everyone else is kinda pointless in this film. Sure they have some stuff to do at the end of the film but its ultimately the main 3 at the end of the film working together to Phantom Menace the whole situation. I think the story fails most largely in not really incorporating the other members of class 1-A at other locations across the world. Wouldn't it have been awesome and intense if each location had a specific job to do, and the heroes could only win if everyone successfully completed their task? I believe that would have been way more interesting than what we got.

Another thing that I found disappointing was how they dealt with Midoriya being falsely accused as a mass murderer. HE ONLY ENCOUNTERS THE LAW ONCE IN THE MOVIE. Yes, he is on the run for most of the film but it doesn't feel like it since he never encounters any authority figures. Also, the writing was lazy with the whole framing. There was never even any evidence that was used against Midoriya. The only reason why it happened was because "oh, bad guys infiltrated the police so we don't need to write in any evidence against Deku". To me, that is bull shit and lazy writing. If they wanted to make the film more compelling, lean into that more and make us truly feel like Deku was actually in trouble.

Also, those badass suits they used in the marketing were only in the first minute of the film. WTF is with that???

Summary: Fighting was good and well choreographed. Story was a mess. 5/10.

I just feel like i've been milked. This movie worth for those who are younger and really likes BNHA.

The story do have classic standard BNHA plot: intro, mission, problem, twist, resolution, another twist, drama, resolve, good ending.

The art, it felt like it has been rushed, if you like Bones, you see some of their Bone-ness there but not as good as other title they have worked on. There are some scene that really feels like Bones, but, it just feels like not being utilized to the fullest.

Sound, and char development, standard i guess. The sounds mostly taken from the series and added several insert song. ... The song is good.

Hopefully the art gets improved on BD, of there's even any of that.

I don't think I'm in the wrong for comparing this film to Hero's rising and other pieces of work bones have done. Hero's rising was a fantastic movie, containing fantastic art, fights, b plots, and an overall decent story arc. Hero's mission though falls short in all of these categories. The art was good, bones have shown they can do much, much better, but it was good. There were several fights where the animation quality took SUCH A DIP mid fight for no reason, I couldn't tell you where the budget truly went on this film, considering its my hero, and demon slayer just grossed ... so much, you think they would pour loads into the budget and try make something fantastic, but even the big final fight had stupid choreography and animation. The story was just uninteresting, generic main villain AND side , who was under developed so i grew no feelings towards, which is a shame because even the side villains/henchmen had decent potential. I didn't think any character introduced was particularly interesting, just a very bland safe characters, the main one i felt was very Hawks inspired, so its probably just for overall fan appeal. Every B plot was bad or under developed, as in the last 2 films, Todoroki and bakugo have a separate big fight from Midoria, they were just not good, and there was even clips of every other classmate in some sort of battle, but all under developed, all with lack lustier choreography.

and a little side note, the music was so good in Hero's rising, I'd even say amazing, you say run is literally the motivational music meme in the anime community right now, and it did not hit home anywhere near as much as before, i didn't even take notice of it to be honest, maybe i need a second watch, but i guess its hard to strike gold twice, would of just been nice for this to be an OVERALL improvement to the second film

Give it a watch if you want, its got zero story relevance, the fights aren't all that crazy (Although a bit darker for MHA, which is a nice change), and you'd probably find more enjoyment out of just watching a whole other anime tbh, I find it worse to watch something mediocre more than anything.

Nothing about this movie or its story makes any kind of sense and it's full of cheesy recycled boring tropes, themes, massive ozone-sized plot holes, and plot armor.

* Why are the bad guys with quirks so strong and just what the actual fuck is their quirk abilities, I saw the movie and I still don't know.

* How does the big bad know who Deku's friends are and can pinpoint their locations across the planet?

*How do the rest of the heroes and all might know that Deku is fighting to stop the bad event at the end of the movie if he hasn't had ... any communication with him?

Can we get one Anime movie by the way that doesn't use excessive amounts of CGI by the way?

Definitely not worth the price of admission, do yourself a favor and just wait to watch it when it comes out online.

In one word the movie was Mediocre

[Final thoughts first because dragging on like this movie did would be a waste of time]:
The movie's writing is soulless and the movie itself brought nothing new or actually interesting, let alone unique, to the table unlike the other 2 movies before it. Movie 1 with how much/far can tools enhance their users quirks beyond what they can do, even if they've already mastered their quirk. Movie 2 with multiple quirks or sharing quirks is like and also another explanation of how grass head's quirk work that we didn't get in main story. But this movie's sole important factor, besides marketing figures. is some piece ... of info the main story eventually covers and in a more flushed out way making this movie by definition literally pointless

[my hate rant for this dumpster fire of a movie]
-big plot hole at (or end of) the climax
-extremely boring
-literal waste of time
-generic American film plot of terrorist having bombs all over the world
-massive plot hole at the end
-only good thing is the animations
-literal deceptive marketing all to sell figures of grass head, icy-hot, and Bakugo in cool looking outfits
-they tried making the plot device movie character interesting by making him feel like a swindler/cocky but it falls flat
-the villain had better treatment than Naruto when he was a kid but villain decided to become a cult terrorist
-the movie ends on something that was suppose to be like an important foreshadowing to the overarching plot of my hero but felt like a poorly executed foreshadowing that was too stretched out which can just be summarized into a short paragraph but had a generic American film slapped on top of it

-the poor street guy is the definition of cliché guy the American film where protagonist meets and saves/helps and they're actually important to the plot and they help the protagonist back (and tbh, they're so boringly cliché you don't even care about them)
-only good thing about this is the animations and the final fight, everything else is terrible
-the big bad guy's literal reason to make a cult and be a terrorist because he got the Naruto treatment of "oh I was treated different because i was different in a certain way" which the way the movie did it was literally only for a few seconds nearing the end of the final fight and it just made the big bad guy look like a literal loser people on the internet make parodies videos of bad guys being terrorist because someone bumped into them in a train station and didn't say sorry
-the black raid outfit things in the trailers was literal deceptive marketing for the movie as they promoted the hell out of the black raid outfits, even in the figures, but the screen time the black raid outfits got was literally less than 5 minutes only to never be seen again besides trying to sell figures
-one of the biggest plot holes to this disappointment of a movie is how when when grass head, cliché plot boy. icy-hot, and Bakugo were making their plan to invade the cult terrorist base (which ended up with just "lets charge in (by jumping off of a plane) to their base") with the base blueprint they mention how the bombs are connected to a super computer that's down like a few miles worth of just spiral stairs with no other possible entry's. the stupidest thing is cliché plot boy got shot and was heavily injured to the point they did a fake-out death for him while he was a few meters away from the super computer when it had a few seconds left until the bombs do off, but he somehow made it down those miles of stairs while bleeding out in just a minute at most because the directors wanted to build tension of "oh the protagonist is staling the big bad guy and cliché plot boy while seemingly dying only has a few minutes at most to reach the bottom of miles of stairs" which he slowly dragged his ass on the side of the walls
-even after grass head defeated the big bad guy he was able to get down those miles in just a few seconds because he had super speed, unlike cliché plot boy

My Hero Academia movie 3 is the most boring my hero academia I have ever seen.
This movie focuses on the foreigner kid talking about protecting his siblings with Deku running away from being falsely accused as a criminal. While I quite enjoyed the animation done by studio Bones, The story is horribly average that after some hype on the cool animation, The hype went to hell to the point I just waited for the movie to finish. I rated this 5 because I watched this movie together with my pops and my lil brother, they seemed to enjoy this except my brother who said its ... a 1/10 with no reason and I kinda agree to his rating. I would've rated this lower but since I saw enjoyment in my pops, I rated this 5. Short review because this is just bad and I don't want to disrespect this movie anymore.

SPOILER FREE!

The trailer gave us a lot excitement for having an issue to Deku. I thought it would be detective style like the first movie or even more thrilling but no, i'm disappointed a lot. It focused too much in action and overused drama/sad history of a side/new introduced character/s.

Story 3
Character 4

The flow was too blunt, predictable and too much unnecessary moments. Lack of story writing and obviously rushed. It could give us more screening to the other characters/heroes which I expected from the beginning, even Class 1 B is there. Why only Deku, Shoto and Todoroki as always? The title is about heroes! There's ... tons of them, use them properly and also give them ENOUGH moments to shine. Compared to the second movie, which gave us true character phasing and well balanced action and scene. This third is not even close.

Art 8
Sound 8

As expected from one of the anime out there with satisfying animation and opening songs from season 1 to 5 in addition of its movies. The animation was pretty impressive, it shown clear fighting scene and transition of the camera/video. The background was obviously upgraded, accurate enough to its particular place/country. As well as in its soundtrack which gave us more spirit to feel the action and some overused drama. Especially the last fight! damn that is GREAT Bones studio.

Enjoyment 6

In conclusion, its great for Deku, Shoto and Todoroki's big fans to see this movie which focuses to them only. If you like a full action anime/movie this is kinda good to recommend(but needs to watch season 1 to 5 first of course). The animation and its sound/music is the only aspect which is great, the plot is forced and rushed. Six out of ten in overall for me.

As a filler movie of a big shounen franchise, this is an enjoyable watch, nothing more.


Positive points:

- The animation is of high quality with several sakuga scenes.

- The initial premise with the terrorist organisation and its goal is well thought.


... Negative points:

- As expected from this kind of movie, the story is pretty weak and straightforward, condensing shounen tropes in 2 hours.

- There are a few inconsistencies. The movie takes place all around the world. Where are the foreign heroes? We see Salaam (introduced later in the manga), one from Singapore, barely seen, and that's all, while we see Japanese heroes doing most of the work. Are Japanese heroes the only ones so strong and numerous that they can afford to send people abroad when Japan too is threatened?

- Izuku, Bakugo and Shoto basically save the world by themselves. This kind of makes the following events in the manga kind of underwhelming.

My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission is very similar to the previous two movies. As in, I could sum it up by “pretty good plot up until an asinine climax”. However, this climax didn’t feel stupidly over-the-top enough to offset the rest of the movie, so I think it’s better than Two Heroes. HOWEVER, it still really focuses hard on The Main Three (Midoriya, Bakugo, and Todoroki). I like how Hero Academia at least tries to make all of Class A relevant and you can tell they tried a little here, but the effort falls completely flat and puts it behind Heroes Rising personally.

But most ... importantly: Do you need to watch Season 5 to watch this? I don’t think so. If you’re planning on watching it already then obviously do that first, but it follows the movies’ trend on being non-canon more than enough. Midoriya has a new One For All move that’s introduced in the first half of Season 5, but the movie doesn’t necessarily highlight it in a way that would leave you confused. Todoroki also has some new moves, but I doubt you’d even notice.

I’m torn on the movie’s antagonist group: Humarise. On one hand, their scariness is shown off very well right off the bat thanks to a pretty gruesome scene. Their belief that quirks will become so convoluted that they’ll become a real problem is in-line with how the series looks at the nature of heroes from alternate perspectives — which you may or may not like. In this case, I think the base idea is worth looking into…but the movie instead focuses more on the very extreme “genocide” part of their plan.

The weirdest part about Humarise is how their influence is never properly explained. Normally this isn’t a problem, but the majority of the movie’s plot — Deku and Rody being on the run — relies on it to be convincing. At the same time, it’s not that hard to put aside. Even if the reason for Deku and Rody bonding is flimsy, I found that chunk of the movie to be pleasant. I like Rody as a character since he clashes with Deku’s personality and ideals enough to make their relationship interesting without clashing so much that it’s overbearing. His bird, Pino, was an entirely unnecessary annoyance though.

The namesake of the movie — all of the heroes we met so far splitting up to oversee the safety of multiple regions of the world — was extremely underplayed for being the namesake of the movie. As mentioned, this movie is a Midoriya, Bakugo, and Todoroki movie. It’s actually mostly about Midoriya which is fine (this series IS his story after all), but when the other two prominently show up I can’t help but roll my eyes. To be fair, the teams worldwide weren’t up to much anyways so giving them more screentime would’ve worked against the movie. It only existed to present Humarise as a worldwide threat. So ultimately, its execution felt half-baked and unnecessary.

The climax of the movie is thankfully pretty tame this time. There’s no big CG monster or anything. Heck, the fight with the Big Bad is actually pretty interesting with its pacing and theming. But it does suffer from the Musou game problem: the protagonists just mowing down a bunch of mooks without taking damage themselves. This is all while the “camera” swings around so you can’t actually see anything. It also throws Bakugo and Todoroki to the side, which had me wondering why they were even injected there in the first place.

World Heroes’ Mission is a pretty tame, enjoyable movie. Its plot doesn’t reach the heights of intrigue that the anime has and it might not entirely fit together at times, but it doesn’t do anything too stupid or annoying that took me out of it.

I went into this movie with high expectations considering how much I liked the last two movies. And honestly felt let down. I don't think it's bad, but it feels a bit basic. Like a by-the-numbers anime spin-off movie.
I did really like Rory as a character, and his little arc was satisfying.
I think the villain being the head of an anti-quirk cult had the potential to be very interesting. But not a ton of focus was put onto it.
Despite being called "world heroes mission", we don't get to see what's going on much apart from a bit of the country it takes place in. I ... was thinking this was going to be some sort of globe-trotting mission, or that we were going to get more focus on the other groups acting around the world. But it is very Deku-centric. Even Bakugou and Todoroki get sidelined, apart from getting one fight each.
The animation also feels sub-par for a film budget. Not bad or hard to look at, but some of the action scenes just look unfinished. Apart from the final battle.

Im not a big fan mha but a movie is a movie, i expect too notch animation, good sound quality, and a decent story. In this case the animation and character designed looked similar to a season budget and not a movie budget. The characters them sleves were boring and any comedy were mostly childish skits like farting or someone face planting. The stroy was honestly worse than average it waa just really bad. Tbe definition of plot armor/the power of freindship. I was really disappointed in all honesty and for the first time in my life I actually fell asleep during the middle of ... the movie. Ive never written a review but the disappointment in this movie was simple to much. I do not recommend to watch