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INTRODUCTION
Season 2 of MHA was filled with poor writing and new boring characters except stain that didn't leave much of an impression on you. it was a disappointment in many areas and i do personally feel like the writer gave up in some moments throughout the season and did whatever was necessary to move on to the next scene/plot. i found myself constantly sighing throughout the show due to its poor writing and hopefully ill be able to explain my reasoning clearly enough so that you understand my dislike for this season...

TOURNAMENT ARC
The tournament arc was TRASH!!! I'm not even going to get into specifics ... because there's no need in order to explain my reasoning. the tournament arc was supposed to give the students of UA a chance at showcasing their quirks in different settings so that the pro heroes watching the tournament could invite the students to do internship for them, the big problem is the lack of variety in the tasks they had to do in the tournament. every single thing the students had to do were more suited to students who had powerful quirks or quirks that made you faster than everyone else, there was no variety so that other students who aren't fast and strong could showcase their abilities and because of that they looked like they were crap compared to the stronger and faster students. the fact is that the pro heroes need to see the students in different scenarios so they can pick the right student for their internship, so to fit that they should of had more variety and not just make it about the fast and strong people. i don't know if you know this but in the world of MHA there's not that many quirks that are strong and most of them are only suited to specific tasks. so all I'm saying is that there was no variety. when it came down to the one vs one battles a lot of the fights were rushed in order to get to the more appealing fights which isn't exactly a problem but it would of been nice to see more fights. hardly any of the students in the one vs one fights actually used strategy, there was only one moment in the Uraraka vs Bakugo fight but that ended with guess what... the stronger character won. overall it would of been nice to see some surprises, maybe one of the 3 stronger characters losing to one of the weakest but i just thought the entire tournament arc was poorly executed and i think the writer forgot the whole point to this Sports Festival (Tournament). ill get into some of the others tournament stuff later but overall i thought the tournament arc was TRASH!!! MOVING ON!!!!

THE TODOROKI PROBLEM
Todoroki in the first season rarely had any speaking lines whereas in this season practically revolves around him which isn't a problem. Todoroki is incredibly overpowered for this MHA world, the reality is that Todoroki could probably win against most villains. you see how OP he is when he goes through each task in the tournament. Todoroki unlike everyone else goes through a character arc which was utter BS, Deku practically begs Todoroki to use his left side to melt the ice particles that are building up which he doesn't want to use because of his dad. the problem is that throughout this arc and the 1st season Todoroki has no problem using his left side to melt ice he created. now that's a issue because in this particular scene I'm wondering "why don't you use your left side to melt the ice like you've already done before?" it breaks the illusion of what is supposed to be a intense moment. once Todoroki's character changed he becomes a wet mop and is easily one of the most boring characters in the entire show, every single time he talks he barely has any emotion, its almost sad...

THE STAIN ARC/INTERNSHIPS
This arc is easily good because of stain, he is the only character in the entire show that has a different belief/ideal that anyone else and that makes him interesting and new. if you think about it who out of the students has a different ideal to anyone else in the group, they all want to be the best and have the same outlook for the most part. its the same with the villains, the villains are evil just because, not one of them actually has any interesting ideals or beliefs that drives that character to make certain decisions. its these reasons that make stain interesting, however is he an master piece of a character? no, no hes not but he is interesting unlike everyone else. to be honest the internships were a joke, the only characters to do anything interesting was Deku and Froppy. the problem with that is that the internships is supposed to be a peek for the audience and the students so they have an idea of what a pro heroes life is like, its supposed to be a reality check but you never feel like anything interesting is happening and it almost feels pointless until Stain arrives in the arc. if stain was not in this arc it would of been incredibly boring, i mean Momo and the other girl did photo-shoots with their pro hero, the harden brothers did nothing but manual labour, Uraraka learned a few things but never put it into practice at that time, Lida paroled the streets but again until stain showed up he wasn't doing anything interesting either. it would of been nice to see these students have to deal with real world problems that pro heroes deal with on a daily basis but we don't get that. this whole arc apart from stain is poorly written and again i feel the writer missed an opportunity to open our eyes to the world of MHA.

FINAL ARC
This arc was TERRIBLE. you have to remember that these students just came back from their internships which is where they should of got experience and probably should be a little bit smarter. The main part in this arc i want to talk about is the practical exam because this is where shit got stupid and allow me to give a few examples, Todoroki and Momo are fighting Eraser Head and eraser head ties Todoroki up to a pole so hes hanging there while Momo is supposed to be running away, Todoroki can use fire and ice and yes he doesn't use either to try to get from being tied so he can help Momo. the reason the writer didn't even make Todoroki try is so Momo can have a little bit of character development where she has to learn to think for herself even though we've barely seen that as a problem before. this is an example as i mentioned before where the writer wanted something to happen and in order to make that happen he avoided all logic. another example of this is when earphone jack and Anivoice are fighting voice, during this fight they are getting really loud sound waves blasted at them while there in a forest and voice stands at the exit gate. Now the problem with this scene is that at no point did the students use any strategy for example, MOVE OUT THE WAY OF THE SOUND WAVES!!! this could be done because the teacher doesn't know if he hits them with the sound waves and he doesn't know exactly where they are so it would be easy for them to move. By the way ill just remind you, THEY JUST CAME FROM INTERNSHIPS WHERE THEY SHOULD HAVE LEARNED TO BE BE SMARTER. They get out of it by Anivoice making bugs crawl up the teachers leg and he passes out because he was afraid, one problem... He's a PRO HERO and he passes out because of some bugs on his leg, imagine if that was a real situation. The last fight i wanna mention is the fight against thirteen who can suck people towards using her black hole fingers, Uraraka gets sucked towards her and thirteen is shocked and has no plan in place for when someone actually comes towards her and she gets taken down by a little girl!! My biggest problem with this practical exam is how stupid these scenarios are, its as if the writer didn't know how to get them out of a situation and he wanted to do it quickly so he came up with the most stupidest solutions. As i just mentioned these students just came back from internships so how come they fight exactly the same as they were in the FIRST SEASON!! the others fights were OK, the all might fight was meh. I don't like the fact that Bakugo said he'd rather lose than team up with Deku because Bakugo surely still wants to be a hero so surely you'd want to do good in these exams.

My opinion overall is that this entire season is devoid of strategy, idiot moments where the writer couldn't figure out what to do, introducing a few new characters and doing nothing with them and all that SHIT is topped of with a cherry called stain!! i hope I've explained my reasons for giving this anime a 4/10, its actually funny because originally when i watched this season i didn't think it was so bad and that was partly to do with the fact that i wasn't really watching it properly and then i re watched it and realised how bad it really is....

INTRODUCTION
Yes I am doing a MHA season 1 review in 2019/2020. The reason for this is that i want to just vent everything out i have in my head about MHA onto a website and know that i am free from the endless thought processes for MHA. So season 1, this establishes the main character in the anime and also as seen in most shounen anime it also establishes the main characters rival. the main character has a very cliche or generic goal to be the greatest hero and the rest of the show is as basic as that that characters end goal aim is.

THE ... MAIN CHARACTER
The reality is that there is nothing wrong with have a generic/cliche plot such as "i want to be the greatest", the problem comes when nothing new is added onto that to make it seem different to what most people have already seen and
that's where my biggest problem comes in for MHA is that it introduces nothing new. lets look at the main character first, he wants to be the best which is fine but outside of him being a little clumsy in battle he doesn't have any personality flaws, he has nothing for the audience to relate to as a character that is not perfect. The start of the anime showed Deku being an outcast because he didn't have a quirk so you'd think that going into a high school environment for him would be slightly socially challenging, nope! he immediately enters UA communicating and chatting with everyone and everyone pretty much is his friend straight off the rip. The problem is the realism of that people don't just go straight into a new school environment and start communicating effectively straight away unless they know the people already. So all the scenes they showed of Deku being bullied in school by Bakugo and how he was laughed at for not having a quirk gets thrown out the window. we then move into the other problem with Deku, started off with no quirk but then was given the most OP quirk in the entire show because of how gutsy he was and how much he reminded all might of what a true hero is. That's all well and good but why didn't the writers play with the fact that he has no powers, i mean seriously a person who could be really good at martial arts or swordsmanship would dominate this world, where there are powers such as cement man, the guy who can decay things, the guy who can speak to animals, Froppy (i couldn't be arsed to google the names of these characters). Are u telling me a martial artist or even someone who is effective at free running wouldn't be effective in this world where some powers are just stupid. so what I'm saying is that they could of at least tried to play with that narrative. They did limit it for Deku by making it so that he cant control his powers yet but even then hes still in the top 2 strongest in the class. Overall for Deku i just think hes poorly written and as a character doesn't bring anything new to the table and i think the writers missed an opportunity. MOVING ON!!!

BAKUGO THE TERRIBLE
Bakugo in this anime is supposed to be the Deku's rival like Sasuke, Vegeta, Kuwabara, Killua and many others so its fair to say its a common thing in shounen which again is not a problem... Unless the new rival doesn't bring anything new to the table. I hate Bakugo with a passion and there is one main reason for this, in the entire first season he doesn't show a different side to himself and due to that all i see him as is an angry boy who hates on Deku because he got powers. Dont get me wrong i understand Bakugo's anger do i agree with his anger no but i do understand it. Lets look at other rivals in other shounen as an example, Vegeta is always looking to beat Goku in everything and for the most part feels like hes constantly behind him (does that remind you of anyone), however Vegeta constantly shows us a different side to his character for example, he marries Bulma and he cares for her even if he doesn't show it. Sasuke constantly looks down on Naruto apart from when he feels like Naruto is stronger than him but u still get to see a different side of his character when he jumped in front of those needles to save an incapacitated Naruto at the time. There are many other examples that i cant be arsed to mention for a rival showing the audience a different side to him. what i would of liked to see from Bakugo is a softer side even if i just saw it once in the entire first season, because
then i wouldn't be thinking "this dude is just always angry". Bakugo wouldn't even have to show a softer side he could just show he cares when it comes to his training, for every training scene hes in he is fixated on Deku and not focused on doing well in the training. I just see Bakugo as a ball of hatred and not just towards Deku hes responds angry to everyone because he constantly feels like hes being undermined. Overall i just think hes poorly written for a main character rival... MOVING ON!!!!

THE PLOTS
I'm not going to get into detail about every single training thing that the class does because thats really long and not necessary for what I'm about to talk about. for the most part the other characters in the anime aren't bad and do a
good enough job as support characters. I thought the training moments were done well for the most part although i do think they lacked some strategy. for the most part the training is a bit boring apart from the animation but it does what it needs to which is setup what the characters quirks are and what there limitations are for the quirks. The main plot is that the league of villains stole all might's teaching schedule and plan to attack All Might. the biggest problem i have with this arc is the fact that before all might arrived the villains weren't really doing anything to any of the students or the teachers. The teachers and students were doing just fine now that's a problem. Eraser head took out what seemed to be 50+ villains by himself but yet he said hes not that good at fighting large numbers of people by himself because that's his limitation. the other thing is that this is supposed to be the audiences first look at what the world of villains is like and what the real world is like, in reality the students are supposed to be totally outclassed by experience and feel totally overwhelmed and under-prepared but they don't. they fight the villains with not much problem now I'm not saying they could of beaten Nomu but the other villains they were dealing with just fine. The problem with that is the growth separation between the villains and the students, again as i said before the villains are supposed to be stronger mentally and more experianced than the students so if the audience sees that the students are being overpowered then us as the audience can realise that they need to do a lot of growing before they become pro heroes. Instead they do just fine and so you're immediately left feeling as if they are already prepared for the real world and that there's no growth for them to have. the Nomu and all might fight was OK, it just came down to all might punching him a bunch of times with no real strategy. It looked cool though as the animation was really good. Overall the story in the first season is a little bit boring and underwhelming but it doesn't do anything
really badly. lastly this is the same thing i brought up before with Deku, if you have a really simple story or character the anime has to bring something new to the table. For this segment ill leave you with a question... was anything
new brought to the table for the plots that you haven't seen in other anime?


THE WORLD
In the world of MHA you constantly hear the term "number one hero" thrown about but i felt like throughout the first season this was not really explained. Is All Might the number one hero because of his strength, popularity or is it
because of the amount of work he does around the community. That is never really explained and so i personally never felt apart of the world because it wasn't explained enough, its just a subtle thing but its something i feel that requires an answer either through showing it or telling it for example, in Naruto you are told about the neighbouring villages and the ranks a ninja has. Even though it was told in Naruto at that moment and not shown its things like that that make you feel apart of the world. around 80% of people in this world are born with quirks/powers that do shit... again this is the other question i asked i pondered while watching this about Deku, Bakugo and the story, is this world bringing anything new to the table. the reality is that we've seen people have super powers before so in terms of world building what else does MHA have to offer and the answer is nothing. It has villains in this world that cause havoc for the citizens and heroes to fight them off, it has children who want to be those heroes and some even aspire to be "number one", some quirks are more effective in certain situations. That is all the world has to offer and nothing about it is new and even when you dig deeper and look at each student who wants to be a hero and you look at each villain its still remains to do nothing new. and lets be honest the world of MHA is basic, there's nothing complex about it. The world of MHA has a basic world with cliche characters, typical plots and typical goals but yet in every way it still doesn't bring anything new. So for that reason i cant give MY HERO ACADEMIA ANYTHING HIGHER THAN A 5/10!!!