Boku no Hero Academia being under Studio Bones' hype train this Spring 2016 and did they deliver?...for LA...yes ohhh boy did it, but that on that later.
Boku no Hero Academia follows one Izuku Midoriya voiced by Daiki Yamashita a "quirkless" in a quirk filled world. Quirks are by definition the equivalent to having superpowers and Izuku wants to be a superhero.
Boku no Hero Academia has a motto...*ahem* "Go beyond + Ultra!" and it shows...
This anime has in early episodes a theme about determination and trying to be heroic (due to Hero Academia's superhero society is largely advertised and have something of a hierarchy) through this to Izuku and it does it brilliantly.
As for characters, there is a huge cast list and with a bare 13 episode limit trying to develop of these characters in detail is hard and even harder since we have a great main protagonist trying to grow and learn to be a hero. For the amount of characters that do get fleshed out were being Izuku's friendly rivalry of Katsuki Bakugou voiced by Nobuhiko Okamoto, Ochako Uraraka voiced by Ayane Sakura the gravity user and friend of Izuku in UA, Tenya Iida voiced by Kaito Ishikawa the speed user, another soon to be friend of Izuku and of course All Might, Izuku's hero idol and "mentor". For the rest of the cast get are slim as we get to know their superpowers in the UA arc and a bit on their personalities but in terms of character development, we don't get much aside from that. LA's favourite character?...it actually was Ochako Uraraka, her genkiness was infectious...god damn it can Ayane Sakura breathe life into this genki as hell character, as for the minor cast members, Momo Yaoyorozu voiced by Marina Inoue stood out to LA for what little screentime she had.
As for the plot, the 13 episodes really looks as Izuku's trials and tribulations from being a quirkless to be a hero (by also including a "superhero high school intro and training arc") and for what "little" the plot of Boku no Hero Academia took in 13 episodes it still has plenty of "meat" to offer...at the very least.
In terms of animation by studio Bones, LA had no complaints with this anime, from the eccentric character designs, awesomely detailed action scenes and great backgrounding work by studio Bones. No complaints here, just amazing animation overall.
As LA pointed out about Ayane Sakura in "characters", Ayane Sakura is LA's favorite voice actor in this anime, however a few more sticked out to LA, those being Daiki Yamashita who voices Izuku, Nobuhiko Okamoto as Bakugo (hello crazed but stable Accelerator, turned hero now?) and finally All Might's voice actor Kenta Miyake doing both his bravado as well as his meeker and weaker vocals that made Kenta standout in the voice acting department.
The ending, brought on a build up of an actually intense arc bringing in villains and wringing in the main hero cast's weaknesses' as well as strengths, Izuku for the most part gets a piece of the action but the build up to this arc leads into a "sort of" deus ex machina but LA can give grace to that as this intense arc did go off in a good note bringing in our view as to how evil and cunning these villains as well as showing more of superheroes that are in the world of Boku no Hero Academia.
If there was any fault LA would have to Boku no Hero Academia would be the "huge cast list but narrow character focus" and the "near" minimal world building.
HOWEVER, with Boku no Hero Academia getting a second season, LA wishes that the second seaosn expands more on the world of superheroes and give some of Izuku's classmates some limelight (not an entire episode focus or anything but give the more interesting characters from this huge character roster some time in the limelight) as well as Izuku's growth into being a great superhero and with the first season's great impression and all the gawking and praising LA did, well Boku no Hero Academia still outdid itself.
LA will still say Boku no Hero Academia, for a first season standards anyways is a solid superhero anime throughout and yes it deserves the hype it did, if the second season just get a bit more world building and character development to Izuku and the huge class cast for the second season then Boku no Hero Academia can be great anime franchise.
LA cannot wait for the second season!!!.
