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For the most part, My Hero Academia is a pretty typical shonen superhero anime. It's nothing that you haven't seen before; the characters have superpowers, the main character slowly becomes a god, and most of the side characters are weak except for an occasional burst of Teamwork™ that the main character desperately needs during a moment or two of weakness against the evil final boss of the season. Yatta yatta, you know the drill.

What really makes the show unwatchable, though, isn't the dull reused plot, or the predictable progression, or the edgy antihero, but rather that the show takes the overused "pervy character" trope far ... beyond the limits of what's enjoyable to watch. It's one thing to see iconic badass mentors like Roshi or Jiraiya get an occasional nosebleed to help balance out their otherwise near-flawless traits, but where My Hero Academia really fails here is that they instead attempted to attach that trope to "that one weak side character who's always muttering something about needing to get stronger to be able to keep up with the protagonist", resulting in an insufferable abomination with no redeeming qualities who you know is about to ruin your viewing experience anytime the damned little harbinger appears on screen.

Mineta, AKA The Grapist, is what would happen if you turned Scrappy Doo into a psychopath and allocated half his screentime to being useless and the other half to harassing or assaulting the other underage characters. Actually, nevermind, I guess that's still just Scrappy Doo.

The original Pokemon anime was an amazing, wholesome show with tons of charm and soul that paired perfectly with the video games, movies, and trading card game. It's hard to name any other single franchise that had as much reach as Pokemon did during its peak, and being a part of it at the time felt more like a major experience than just watching another cable TV show.

The show's characters are inspiring and their adventure was fun to watch. The progress that the main characters make throughout the series isn't always linear or predictable, meaning that there's always a reason to keep watching to see ... how things pan out. Additionally, their progress often comes with realistic moments of failure or other heartwrenching events that really drive home the idea of it being a proper adventure.