The pros of Boku no Hero Academia s5 are pretty obvious. The characters are still fun, well developed quirks, worldbuilding, etc. Storywise there's not so much so far. The art and sound are still fine to me. Whatever.
I just want to focus on the bad parts of s5 mostly. The class A vs B story arc sounds pretty fun in concept. Here's my problems with it though. (The first fight has less problems than the second in my opinion).
1. Everyone is still describing everything to the viewer as if everyone watching is a toddler. We can see the action on screen and we have the power of inference. We don't need a play by play of literally everything that's happening.
2. Drawn out fights. Every fight between class A and B is looking like its gonna take 2 episodes which is absolutely ridiculous. Most of it is just useless information and filler of random characters talking slowly.
3. Character relationships. I used to ship todomomo a lot, but this ship has gotten really bland. Momo is still way too timid and shows no personality progression. She develops confidence as a leader but still not in herself. Todoroki cares about her feelings and her plans even though there isn't any banter between them. Apparently there is some in the manga but it was cut out of the anime which is stupid because it's important to show why does he care so much.
4. Stupid actions and plot convenience. Momo's quirk is overpowered. She just doesn't do anything with it as usual. She makes bulky weapons like a cannon just to launch a bag over a wall. After her usefulness for the episode is done, she just lets Kendo knock her out. I like to imagine anime stuff in my head since I have an imagination. And by far the most I've done it is with Bnha. Mostly to imagine Todoroki being overpowered or highly choreographed fight scenes. But another thing I like to do is fix dumb mistakes. Like I don't know... Momo making a taser to I don't know... incapacitate THE OPPONENT.
5. Other random stuff. Class B is a lot more bloodthirsty than class A in this training arc for some reason. Tokoyami gets choked by a mushroom while he is too nice to knock out his opponent (dark shadow just stands there and watches). Momo is literally internally apologizing to Kendo as she is getting her ass kicked.
Hopefully these problems get resolved later in the season.
