Hero Academia...What to say about it? Well first I gotta say that despite my rather ech score of it I do not despise the anime. It is something that seems to call back to anime of our youth where main character starts off as a weakling but then he obtains a power that makes him strong and his will only makes it stronger etc etc.
The problem with Hero Academia is that it is a jumbled mess of mediocrity that only frustrates me due to it's great,well a bit more than average, potential.
Art and sound. Superhero anime are supposed to incite the power of characters' abilities into us with audiovisual goodness. This anime however doesn't do that. You'll see a character yelling and unleashing one of his strong attacks but there's no music or sound effects to punctuate the seriousness of his move and the lack of any wow inducing animation in those parts diminishes the impact. Not to say that animation is bad it's decent and it takes that Shaman King-like character look,as in there's a huge variation on bodies and characters are rather smoothly drawn without too much emphasis on detail. If you haven't figured out I like the art style tho what they do with it is just by the numbers presentation. Opening theme is somewhere between ,,high fist pumping hurrah,, and ,,yet another anime opening,, and closing theme is okay so let's get down to the score.
LAST TWO EPS ADDON BEFORE WRAPPING UP:
Okay I didn't feel like incorporating this into my whole review because it's mostly isolated to last episode. There's a big hoedown with a strong villain and animation feels damn fitting. However that wasn't enough to make me up the score so it'll stay a 6. It was a bit above average but not enough to make me give it a higher grade.
Story is as I already mentioned typical underdog story. 80% people have super powers and 20% don't of course our protagonist doesn't. One night as he was passing the alley with his parents a robber popped out of shadows and killed his father and mother. Mourning their loss he swore he'll become a crime fighter. Yes I'm taking a piss that's not what happens. Our protagonist Izuku dreams of becoming a hero.Even tho the society keeps mocking him for that his life is changed when he meets his idol and world's strongest hero, All Might or Strongy Of Strongstown The Third if you will. Strongy is looking for a successor to his power One For All but first Izuku has to train so his body could handle the power. He does that, boom he's able to take the power but not control it.Whenever he uses it he breaks the body part he's using. He enters an elite school for heroes and shenanigans unravel. I don't want to go into detail and only thing I'll mention is that The League Of Villains,the antagonist, shows up about four episodes before the end which is a bad thing by the way. The whole story is half baked and seems to be rushing things trough.
LAST TWO EPS ADDON DING DING DING:
Now in the end there's a bit of a twist and a foreshadowing of some spooky organization which seems to be left for the second season but more about second season thought in the closing.
Also before this finished I gave story a 5 but now I'm giving it a 6. That's it go away.
Characters. I don't want to stick to these for too long. Characters are mostly describable in one word apart from maybe one,potentially two, of them. Honestly if you saw any anime of similar construction you probably know half the characters. I'll touch on All Might tho. I don't want to reveal stuff about him but I liked his generic hero behavior mostly because he was an overpowered character with actual weakness. He's not too deep but was enjoyable to a point.Here's a 6 because I'm a such a cuddly lil' puppy, also because characters weren't too bland.
LAST TWO EPISODES CURE COMMON COLD:
That's a lie last two episodes change nothing in the character department okay bye.
Enjoyment is bwah. Bwah being the sound I make after a blowjob but also after watching an anime that promised me a lot during it's early episodes but the longer I watched it my enthusiasm fell down and I ordered strippers to make my enthusiasm erect again . It's pretty monotonous and doesn't have the kind of drive needed to break trough it's shackles of mediocrity. Here's a 5 for enjoyment tho I'm ready to change that if last two episodes contain 40 minutes of uncut emotion filled fights with a narrator passionately telling a extremely interesting story in the background.
LAST TWO EPISODES SAVE A BABY FROM A FLAMING BUILDING:
I left the past closing line for enjoyment but I did increase it by 1. Why you ask? Because it contained a pretty awesome fight,tho it lasted much less than 40 minutes, and a teaser for second seasons villain. Here's a 6 now get out of my life till second season airs.
Here's an overall 6 , if you came this far dear reader I hope you'll have a nice day and won't take this review too much to heart. If you did like Hero Academia you aren't a social reject,not for that reason at least, everybody is entitled to their opinion. It's to be noted that this anime has so much going for it and season two can easily become a good anime.
THE SECOND SEASON BECKONS:
Now you can skip this if you wanna go do some important stuff like brushing your cat you lonely dweeb however if you want to listen to me some more here's what i expect from season two in short.
Art and sound should be stronger make that sound stronger when hits land and make some more impact with those animations. Story is something I don't want changed much I just want it to be good enough to not ruin my enjoyment, so basically minimal work on the story. Please make characters develop or at least interact. You have some interesting chars in your arsenal bloody use 'em.
I guess that's it basically what this anime needs isn't some grand overhaul but rather a mechanical checkup. So long suckers have a nice day.
