UA Academy's Class 1-A has been the focus of a substantial amount of public attention due to the multiple villain attacks they have faced over the past school year. This attention has left Class 1-A's rivals, Class 1-B, feeling quite bitter. Desiring to prove their skills, they look forward to the opportunity that has been given to them: a set of mock battles between the students of each class.
The classes are split into squads of four, each of which is tasked with capturing the other group members. The winner is the group who first secures all of the opposing team. While this sounds simple, a curveball is thrown into the mix with the inclusion of General Course Student Hitoshi Shinsou, who wishes to transfer into the Hero Course. Despite using his training with Class 1-A's homeroom teacher Shouta "Eraserhead" Aizawa to prove that he's capable of being a real hero, he is still far behind the others due to his lack of experience. However, Shinsou is determined to overcome this challenge.
Thus begins the fiery competition between Class 1-A and 1-B as each tries to prove that they are superior to the other.
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LordSozin
To say I was going into the 5th season of My Hero Academia with high expectations would be an understatement. Even though I’m not a My Hero Academia enthusiast or even a fan for that matter, I can wholeheartedly say that this season of My Hero Academia was supposed to be the series game-changer and tone shifter. The 5th season was supposed to set My Hero Academia in a new and more compelling direction. A direction that would’ve brought My Hero Academia’s writing to a new height because of the fascinating and enchanting thematic value that it has to offer. As the egregious season hasfinally encroach to its end, I can say that the changes the anime made will devalue and potentially destroy the story that Kouhei Horikoshi originally intended to tell.
The anime only had one job: Adapt the source material faithfully and bring the spirit of the manga onto the screen. The studio behind the anime has done it before and is capable of doing it, but they purposely dragged out the pacing of the first arc to this season just so enough time is given for a non-canon side film. The second half of the season was pretty much filler content mixed in with minuscule canon manga materials, which ultimately created an unnecessary mess that the future installment must clarify later on. The choice of dragging things out and making changes to the narrative structure ruined how the future narrative will play out.
You could advocate that I should evaluate the 5th season of My Hero by excluding my knowledge of the source material. But that would, in my eyes, be doing a massive disservice to myself. And in no way that I’m comfortable in doing so. Furthermore, I’m dubious that even people with absolutely no knowledge of the source material have praises for this season alone.
Honestly, there’s really nothing else to expand on because everything is just pointless. There’s little to no driving force in its narrative, nor was the season even entertaining. The 5th installment of My Hero was just a filler. Skipping the 5th season and you’ll miss nothing. At this point, I’m just hoping My Hero Academia will continue to fade into obscurity because the previous installments aren’t much better.
Stark700
It's 2021 and we can call My Hero Academia a major franchise among Shounen Jump's IPs. While it may not be the single biggest hit of the decade, it does challenge the Big Three with its cult following. That doesn't mean MHA is a masterpiece franchise just because it's popular. In fact, MHA may be one of more controversial anime this year. My Hero Academia is a franchise that needs no introduction at this point. It's been an established franchise for years and we all came to know the heroes and villains that makes up its roster. For any long time fan, MHA has also exploredthe hero society and dark underworld of the villains league. What if I told you we get to see an in depth look at both sides? Season 5 may have a more expanded character roster and plot but that doesn't always translate into a better show overall.
From the first half of Season 5, we are once again reintroduced to Class 1-A with some of its most prominent characters such as Deku, Bakugo, Todoroki, among others. Their primary rivals are Class 1-B where they compete in a series of matches. To put it simply, it's a battle of pride and respect on the line. While Class 1-B's character roster is nowhere near as prominent as Class 1-A, there are still some important members to take notice. Among them include Itsuka, Ibara, and Tetsutetsu. Some of these almost represent mirror images of Class 1-A such as Shihai when compared to Tetsutetsu. On the other hand, it's hard to root for Class 1-B due to their limited screen time and lack of development. Instead, the season decided to throw them in to showcase their abilities against Class 1-A to see which side is more dominant.
When that's out of the way, Season 5 also decided that Deku needs more training to improve himself. So what does that lead to? It means training with none other than Endeavor. Deku, Bakugo, and Todoroki decides to all participate to improve themselves. Meanwhile, it appears that Endeavor knows when the Meta Liberation Army will strike so it's a chance to prepare everyone for the inevitable battles. While this all seems well structured on the surface, the season decided to drag its pacing by showcasing more of Todoroki's past, specifically his family. As if we didn't know enough already, the anime really pushes the envelope to show the type of man Endeavor is. It becomes an oversaturated character study where we just want to move on from the past. Let's face it, we know enough about Todoroki for who he is. It's freaking Season 5 already.
But perhaps the most intruging part of Season 5 is the side of the villains. Specifically, I'm talking about the League of Villain led by Tomura Shigaraki. As one of the most prominent characters in the entire franchise, his dark past is explored in detail from his childhood. It casts a shadow of how a once seemingly innocent kid becomes the gruesome villain he is today. He's not the only one we feast our eyes on either as the Villains gets their background stories told that includes Toga and Twice. It's important to understand their origins as the show wants us to experience the dark side of MHA. If you ask me, "My Villain Academia" is the best thing to happen this season.
We're in a timeline where every year, MHA makes its presence felt. I say with confidence now that Bones and the directors will adapt the rest of the manga to the dawn of time, for when it ends, so shall the anime. That doesn't mean MHA managed to live up to the hype all this time though. And in fact, the next season will have a lot of work to do if it wants to regain its former glory.
terrence_
The fifth season of Boku No Pico Academia is finally here. Welp, I guess it's now time for me to review this thing. This review will have some spoilers BUT THERE WON'T BE ANY BIG SPOILERS SO NO WORRIES :D. I don't even know why I called them spoilers; the stuff I'll be mentioning are so little I can really just say this review is spoiler free. Before we start, for those people who are too lazy to read I made a very short version at the end. Just scroll all the way to the end for it. All right let's get straight to it ! !!! Here's a recapof bnha !!! (You can skip this if you want to get straight to bnha s5's review)
Boku No Hero Academia (My Hero Academia) takes place in a world where 80% of the human population have quirks, special abilities that varies from being able to make explosions to being a freaking seal. Because of this, people have used these quirks to commit evil crimes, these people are known as villains. The people who use their quirks against evil are known as heroes. Our sad main protagonist, Izuku Midoriya, was unfortunately part of the sad 20% of people who didn't have any quirks, these people are known as quirkless people. Nevertheless he still strived to be a hero until one day after he almost got devoured by a slime. The number 1 hero, All Might, a hero who smiles even in times of trouble, a hero so strong you can see his abs through the costume, chose Midoriya as the 9th wielder of One For All, a quirk passed down from generation to generation, accumulating power and different quirks from previous wielders. After long training, Midoriya, longing to be like the number 1 hero All Might, enrolls to U.A. Highschool, an academy made for heroes, and ends up breaking all the bones in his body multiple times, gets targetted by multiple terrorist groups, unlocks super saiyan, breaks all of his bones again, defeats a freaking drug lord, and almost evaropated into nothing because a child he rescued.
The story idea is amazing. The anime isn't though.
!!! bnha recap !!!
Story: 7
Boku No Pico Academia's 5th season (I'll try my best to not spoil a lot -- If you really don't want any spoilers then just skip this criteria) starts with the events following Hawks (no. 2 hero very hawt guy) and Endeavor's (no. 1 hero who's just tryna have a family again) battle against a Nomu (Monster-like humans with multiple quirks created with All For One). We see Endeavor, with him being the new number 1 hero, a whole lot in this season. The first major part of the season is a series of battles with class A and B. Just before this series of battles, Deku recieves a vision of the previous One For All members. During one of the battles, having received the same vision, Deku Manifests a new quirk! I only included the first major part and non-key info of this season to avoid spoiling anything :D
Art: 8
Boku No Pico Academia's animation for this fifth season was very consistent. There weren't any episodes that was poorly made and there weren't any episodes that I would say better than others. bnha's animation overall is pretty great, but I don't know if it's just me or the animation was better during the previous seasons and I don't really see anything in the animation that really surprises me. I don't really see any reason why I should give their art a 9. I don't really have much to say about their animation. IT'S GREAT OKAY IT'S JUST I DON'T HAVE THE WORDS RIGHT NOW. ALL RIGHT MOVING ON!
Sound: 8
Just like their art, there aren't much to say about Boku No Pico Academia's sound LOL. I don't really see anything bad nor do I see anything that great? Oooo but I really like the first ending song it's very catchy and the rest of the openings and endings are pretty good too. I PERSONALLY DON'T LIKE THE SECOND OPENING; I EVEN SKIP IT EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE -- please don't kill me -- . Voice acting and sound fx all sound pretty natural. Like I said nothing much to say.
Okey it's time for the characters; I'm very excited for this one.
Character: 5
One thing I don't like about Boku No Pico Academia -- I should really stop calling it that -- is that there's WAY too many characters. The amount of characters that show up in my screen is more than the history terms I have to memorize for my finals. Come on do you really expect me to memorize all of them??? Since there's more bnha characters than the sands of the earth, we barely know anything about the characters. There isn't just enough time to properly introduce every single one; that's why we only have surface level information for everyone. MOST SCREENTIME DOESN'T EVEN HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE PLOT SINCE THEY'RE SO BUSY SHOWING A FLASHBACK FOR SOME CHARACTER I DON'T EVEN CARE ABOUT OR MAYBE TOO BUSY WITH SHOWING US TODOROKI'S FAMILY ISSUES. * Ehem * Forgive me; I got carried away. Because of bnha's large collection of characters, character development is also very slow. It took Bakugo 5 seasons to learn that a hero's job is to save people and 5 seasons to know that team work makes the dream work. LIKE BRU- ALSO DEKU WHEN THE HECK ARE YOU GONNA REALIZE SOMEONE HAS A HUGE CRUSH ON YOU AND MY GIRL WHEN ARE YOU GONNA CONFESS?? Also Tetsuo please forgive your dad (Mr. Endeavor San aka no. 1 hero) I know it's hard, but he's trying his best to have a family again; so please forgive him. Once again, because bnha has more characters than the members of every isekai main character's harem have, everyone doesn't have much of a personality. I CAN SUM UP MOST OF EVERYONE'S PERSONALITY IN SEASON 5 IN ONE SENTENCE WATCH ME.
Deku: I HAVE TO GET STRONGER TO BECOME #1 HERO * cries *
Iida: THERE IS NO POINT IN GETTING SAD- LET'S ALL MOVE ON AND TRAIN TO GET STRONGER. PLUS ULTRA !!!!
Bakugo: LOL noob ur never passing me just go die and go straight to hell idc about ur silly dreams. go to hell.
Mr. Endeavor San: SHOOOTOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!! #AllMight_kinda_noob #I_wanna_have_a_family_again
Todoroki: Frick u dad.
Ochako: OH MY LORD I JUST HUGGED DEKU KUN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG
Midnight: AWWWW OMG U GUYS ARE SO CUTE HOW ADORABLE !!!!! UWU !!!!!
Those may not be very accurate, but you know what I mean right? They all have one-dimension personalities. There are really just too much characters and because of that, bnha characters aren't very special. Most Boku No Pico Academia male characters only exist for gay ships and all the girls for ----- well you knowww. Don't get me wrong I don't dislike bnha's characters; I actually like them, since I relate to some of them in a way, but hear me out. THERE ARE JUST TOO MUCH BOKU NO PICO ACADEMIA CHARACTERS.
Enjoyment: 5
I don't enjoy Boku No Pico Academia. I started watching bnha, because my former bestfriend asked me to watch it and since I've already seen seasons 1-4, I might as well watch season 5 too. I personally believe bnha is made for a younger audience -- I MYSELF IS NOT OLD OKAY IM REFERRING TO TEENS AND PRETEENS --. It doesn't make sense though, since there are uh. How do I explain. * ehem * Midnight * ehem * Mountain Lady * ehem * Momo Yaoyarazu -- I don't know if I spelled that correctly --. YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I MEAN. As I was saying, I believe bnha was made for preteens. Most jokes aren't even funny (for me atleast) and rather childish (yes I just said childish). Some jokes are just very overused. Stuff like deku talking a lot and being a complete nerd; blabbing a lot of crap that no one cares about and people making him shut up used to be funny, BUT IT'S BEEN 5 SEASONS LET'S TRY UH OTHER THINGS PERHAPS? Also Kacchan being loud and disrespectful used to be really funny but It's getting kind of annoying to be honest. Now for fight scenes. I used to love Boku No Pico academia's fight scenes. I honestly don't know why anymore. I don't know why I ever loved their fight scenes. bnha battles are just 60% side characters stating the obvious facts about the battle, 20% chit chat between the people fighting , 10% screaming "IS THAT ALL YOU GOT?", 5% shouting the names of their ultimate moves and 5% actual fighting. Don't get me wrong, I actually enjoy battles from shounen animes it's just I don't like side characters that I don't care about talk about the battle. IT'S AWKWARD. Another thing is bnha's very slow plot pacing. It's so extremely slow and because of that I don't really find bnha that interesting anymore compared to when it was at the first two seasons. I just continue watching for the sake of finishing.
Overall: 6
In conclusion, Boku No Pico Academia is just another shounen anime. The only thing this anime has anything different to offer is that it's main character is a total wimp and cries a lot and this anime has infinitely more characters. LOL all jokes aside, Boku No Hero Academia is an 'okay' anime. It has a fairly nice story and plotline with great animation and sound. To be real, great animation and music is all Boku No Hero Academia is. bnha is very overrated. If you truly love this show and this is the type of anime you enjoy, that's okay. We all have our preferences and own opinions. I don't necessarily hate bnha, but it's definitely not the anime for me.
.. and that is my review for Boku No Hero Academia Season 5 THANCHU FOR READING !!! HAVE A GREAT DAY :D
For those too lazy to read:
Story: 7
Art: 8 - consistent good animation
Sound: 8 - good sound. opening and ending songs are pretty good too
Character: 5 - bland characters and very slow character development
Enjoyment: 5 - very slow plot pacing; made for a younger audience
7 + 2(8) + 2(5) = 33
33/5 = 6.6
I suddenly forgot how to round up.
Overall: 6
DailyVoiceClips
A 10 episode dragged-out filler arc. An advertisement for a mediocre movie. And a butchered, overhyped villain arc. That's My Hero Academia Season 5 in a nutshell. Previous seasons of My Hero have been decent all things considered; Season 4 being more mixed compared to the others with some disappointing lows, but also having some of the highest highs in the series so far. By comparison, Season 5 is completely unsalvageable. It immediately hits us with 10 episodes of filler that doesn't progress the story or develop any of the characters AT ALL. The premise behind Class 1A vs 1B is completely useless; forcing an already oversizedcast of our main 1A students going up against an equally oversized group of 1B nobodies that 99% have never been on screen or had a single line of dialogue beforehand. Not to mention that this arc is probably the worst take on the "tournament arc" trope I've seen yet, in a show that already managed to pull it off in season 2. Whether a team wins or lose doesn't matter in the slightest, there are literally zero stakes or reason to care about whoever wins. It's just a obscenely long sparring match disguised as a showcase for the quirks of B-list characters that no one cares about. None of our main cast change or learn anything throughout these episodes, the only exception being Midoriya whom barely justifies this pointless arc by gaining one new power up. That's it. Everyone else has nothing to do throughout this entire filler arc.
You can easily skip the entire first half of this season, as you will miss literally nothing.
Next up is the Agency Arc. Aka, a blatant advertisement for the third movie that ends way too quickly, and shows characters and plot lines made specifically for a non-canon movie. It's only 5 episodes long and has our main characters do nothing for the entire arc. Sound familiar? It introduces some details that will set up actually interesting arcs down the road, but otherwise you can skip this one as well.
And finally, My Villain Academia. The arc that was supposedly gonna change the tone of the show into a more serious and dark story. Before it aired, people described it as the "edgy, dark, and violent" version of My Hero, and praised it as the saving grace for the season. Shame it fell flat on it's mid face. Don't get me wrong, at least stuff actually HAPPENS here. But the execution is so poorly paced and weak. It's basically a bunch of mini-skirmishes with the villains that we somewhat care about vs. an army of nobodies that were barely built up and the show suddenly acts like we should care about. Sound familiar? x2
Also the show spoils the end of the arc at the beginning of the previous arc, so you won't have to worry about having "stakes" or "engagement" in this show since it already tells you the ending before MVA even begins. The ONLY legitimately good episode was a flashback episode, where the show actually makes you feel emotional for our main lead in this arc. Everything else is woefully subpar, with this entire arc boiling down to "defeat the bad guys = win", and "Why not be evil?" for villains that were already evil and had no issue with their morality for the past 5 seasons. Except this time it's "Why not be MORE evil?!?"
*slow claps*
Finally, it ends with the promise of another big arc coming, that will "change everything". Ah yes. The very same thing that MVA was supposed to be and failed. What a joke of a season.
Both openings are terrible as well. The first one has a good song, but completely ignores Class 1B despite them being THE MAIN PREMISE of that arc. And the rest is Class 1A fighting thin air instead of showcasing any semblance of 1B.
And the second is half assed to say the least. Not only does the song suck and doesn't fit ANY of the arcs with how cringe the lyrics are, but a majority of it focuses on the Agency Arc which ends 3 episodes after the opening starts. And MVA only gets small sprinkles of random powerpoint screenshots + a bare minimum logo change, even though it's the majority of the remaining show. As you can see, priority/common sense was thrown out the window for this season.
All in all, My Hero Season 5 is a complete waste of your time.
Even if you're a MHA fan, there is no reason for you to watch this garbage. None of the characters develop or do anything remotely interesting. It's 90% filler and 10% badly executed story arcs that had the potential to be amazing. And unlike Season 1-4, there are no highlights in this season. Not even a single sakuga fight scene to at least admire for animation sake, since they moved the entire animation team to work on a movie that no one asked for. The best you're gonna get is 5 seconds of 3D buildings. Gee thanks My Hero. It's a shame how far this show has fallen considering how much care and attention was given to S1-4. Nowadays we're lucky if Bones remembers to change the PNG logo for MVA.
Do yourself a favor and skip this entire season.
This gets a 1/10
(but I'd honestly give it a 0 if I could)
bulkyhog
MHA always has, and always will be, mid (at best). As a show that plays its cards incredibly safe and doesn’t try to subvert anything in the shounen genre, it’s pretty clear what MHA hopes to achieve in its lifetime (that’s selling movies if you haven’t realized already). But this season just goes to show that when you aim for mediocrity, you end up with subpar results. Drill that lesson into your hearts kids: aim for the moon so you can land amongst the stars, don’t be like MHA and aim for the stratosphere and end up 2m from where you started. If you have anyhope left for this series, I suggest you abandon it and save yourself from disappointment. This season alone indicated where Bones’ priorities lie with this series as a whole (movies so stonks go up).
As with any MHA season, we can’t go without the classic flaws:
1. Disgustingly long episode recaps
2. Piss-poor pacing/storyboarding
3. Unironically lengthy exposition dumps
4. Lack of meaningful progress on character development and worldbuilding
Let’s see how these flaws manifested this season.
The 1st episode is a “why do you exist” episode. Was it necessary to reintroduce every character and their quirks and dynamics? It’s not as if we had sudden amnesia and forgot. Don’t hit me with the “it’s a chance to showcase side characters” too because you and I both know damn well that anyone who isn’t the main cast (Deku, Todoroki, Bakugo, Uraraka) has been completely shoved to the side at this point. And that’s one thing I never liked about MHA, the character development. It tries too hard to sprinkle in development for side characters, but since it’s done so half-heartedly it just feels like cheap filler content instead of a meaningful attempt at doing something. Either do something properly or don’t do it at all.
The 1st cour. Class A vs Class B. Good animation for some of the scenes, but it’s wasted on content with poor pacing. The fights are overly drawn out, with each episode opening with a 5-minute flashback to the previous episode (I kid you not, EP 6 literally recycles the same recap from a previous episode). There’s also an issue of worldbuilding here with Class B, but I’m not going to open up that can of worms here. Ultimately, I don’t get how Class A, which has more real-world fighting and interning experience, decides to go easy and get their ass handed when it comes to “being aggressive” (Tokoyami vs Mushroom girl for example). The copious amounts of exposition dumps we got throughout this arc were dumbfounding too. MHA, and most anime in general, could do well to have faith in their viewers having more than 1 brain cell and an attention span greater than that of a goldfish.
The 2nd cour. Hero work studies and MVA. Overall, the content here is much more interesting and watchable than 1st cour. Issues still plague the season such as--
OH MY GOD OKAY IT’S HAPPENING, EVERYONE STAY CALM! STAY FUCKING CALM! WE’RE HAVING ANOTHER MHA MOVIE!!!! OMG! POGGERS! HERE’S AN ENTIRE “FILLER” EPISODE DEDICATED TO PROMOTING AND TEASING THIS MOVIE FOR Y’ALL BECAUSE THAT'S JUST WHAT YOU WANTED. WE TOTALLY DIDN’T SWITCH THE STORY AND PACING UP JUST FOR THE MOVIE!!!!!
Anyways, where was I? Oh yes. The same issues from cour 1 resurface here. Pacing, and now more so storyboarding too. Why were MVA and the work-study arc rearranged to the way it was presented in the show? So they could fit in the movie episode. Now we have this disjointed storyline that robs the viewer of any sense of suspense or danger. You teased Shigaraki powering up? That’s cool, but I’ve forgotten about it since nothing related is brought up again for the next 5 episodes. PLF is going to attack in 4 months with 100k plus members? Spooky. But numbers don’t mean shit to me. Giving names is. Telling me PLF has 5-6 elite villains, with quirks doing XYZ, who teamed up with the League of Villains, who also powered up, is infinitely more dramatic and suspenseful than the route we got. Not to mention awkward directing and cutting of relevant material during MVA itself. Shame on the studio.
Overall, this season was a shitshow, but for different reasons than S4. The main complaint with S4 was the animation: MHA will always have copious amounts of exposition dumps. But this season, we’ve traded (somewhat) better animation for god-awful pacing and storyboarding. While there were a few bright spots and well-adapted scenes, it’s not enough to make up for a wholly disappointing season overall. It’s also been made pretty clear that all the MHA franchise cares about at this point is pumping out movies to milk the unfortunate die-hard fans of their money. Smoge.
I’m not going to spoil future seasons, but all I can say is they do a great job of highlighting MHA’s biggest and most glaring flaw: god-awful worldbuilding and character development. If you’re a manga reader and would like to hear my views, shoot me a message. But all I can offer to anime-only fans is this: if you’re ready for braindead action boom-boom pow scenes, you’re in for a treat. But MHA as you know it will be dead after the next arc thanks to shitty writing.
tenshibeat
The story of My Hero Academia rages on with its fifth season, but like anything that goes on forever, the hype it once generated will eventually falter, and with this series, season 5 made that fall. Heroaca season 5 is such a wild one to watch, and it really feels like two different shows. The first half of the series shows the class vs class battle between Class 1-A and Class 1-B, and predictably, Class 1-A wins. This is by far the most boring arc of the anime. Watching it come out week after week is so boring, with the pacing being way too off. Ihave heard that binging the first half makes it watchable, but seriously, this first half if a major snoozefest. And not only that, the show is starting to treat the audience like we're idiots, with every single episode showing character names and quirks for every character, because they think that fans might not already know them after four seasons? Like come on.
The second half of this series does pick up quite a bit. The Endeavor Agency arc was quite a nice bit of entertainment, but it never had the same effect or energy as earlier seasons. Seeing the Todoroki family develop though was a nice touch, and made a character that is loved much more fleshed out. This was the highlight for this arc, and was much needed.
Then the final arc arises: My Villain Academia (no seriously, that's what it is called). This arc is what the series should have been for this entire season. High stakes energy. Lots of action. Major story developments, but this time, it's for the villains. It's such a nice bit of fresh air because after 4.5 seasons, you kind of get tired of the same old school heroes. The characters and the plot are quite well executed for this final arc, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It finally felt like this was a real season of Heroaca. Unfortunately it was just an arc, and not a season. But the foreshadowing in the finale is definitely hyping up season 6.
This fifth season of My Hero Academia just felt like a major rollercoaster of ups and downs. Although the first half was such a snoozefest, the villain arc definitely did redeem this season from the depth of low scores. And with the peggies and MAN WITH A MISSION performing theme songs within this season, we at least got some excellent tunes to listen to as well.
So has My Hero Academia lost its once top-tier status? Yes. But was this season wholly bad? No, but it will never be the same as it once was.
UN2201
This season was absolute ass, undignified shit. Sorry for the language, I just have a seething hatred for this horrible season. Story: This season covers like 3 arcs in the span of 25 episodes, which is fine if the pacing was good. The pacing is absolute trash, I've never seen how a story could get lost and then finds itself right when it's too late and I've lost interest. I mean this season had 2 APPALLING filler episodes! One was just an appetizer that was more like a dumpster fire and the other was basically a cyberpunk 2077 advertisement. And sure, fillers aren't always bad bucko,have you seen Gintama's filler, I dare say that 1 episode of Yorozuya competing to eat the most lobster legs is 20x more entertaining than this slouch of a series. 2/10
Art: The art was pretty fair. Not worse than the other seasons but not better as well. It's genuinely pretty mediocre, something I wouldn't expect from a bigshot studio like Bones. Some fight scenes were greatly choreographed for their fast-paced fight scenes and quick thinking schemes. However, that's only 2 fights out of the 10 or more fights in this season. 5/10
Sound: Sound was actually legit the strongest point in this dumb season. Shigaraki's kid VA hit a homerun with a voice that screams being conflicted and regretful yet also satisfactory. Other than that, you have the usual "I have to scream every line" Bakugou (I seriously don't know how his VA hasn't attracted throat cancer by now) and "no emotion" Todoroki (which is now basically just Eren) and don't forget the hopeful sounding Deku. The fight scenes had some good sounds too! If you can't 13 paragraphs of lines every single time they move a limb. 6/10
Character: I wouldn't think that BNHA would have the best characters. Most of the characters are very one faced and uncomplex. Like Bakugou's whole personality is just hoes mad. Whether this opinion is intervened by the horrible fanbase or the genuine disappointment I have to these characters is still unknown even to me. HOWEVER, we do have a bit of backstory for the villains and heroes alike IGNORING the fact that there's a flashback every 2.5 seconds. 4/10
Enjoyment: I was looking forward to this season as an anime-only. AND if you as an anime-only have to actually READ the manga to UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON- THEN WHY DID YOU WASTE MY TIME WATCHING THIS SLOW PACED ADVERTISEMENT FOR A MOVIE THAT RELEASES 1 SEASON LATER. AND WORST OF ALL THE MOVIE'S NOT EVEN THAT GOOD. -16/10
Overall: 2+5+6+4+(-16) = 1/10. Now I'm gonna go read the manga instead.
Jaws491
MHA has fallen and it can't get up. Sorry, but LifeAlert is not going to be enough to help save this sinking ship. A huge portion of this season is dedicated to make us care about the villains, and also show how all bad guys are not a united front. Well, I still don't really care. I do realize that this anime is extremely popular and has to be edible for all ages, but now they are getting downright LAZY. This season was already cursed with the burden of having to build up the impending war, but wow it does a better job opening thedoor for many of us to just leave and stop watching. The initial steam this series used to champion has now all but dried out. The fandom has fallen in love with the characters enough for this to probably be animated to conclusion, but this is a low point.
Chrismas95
As before, Hero Academia splits its season into two halves. The first half involves a reprieve in the form of Class A and Class B competing against teams of each other. The second half moves the plot forward once again — the class is split up into hero internships again and there’s a return to the League of Villains. To put it bluntly, the first half is an absolutely miserable experience before the second half steers the show back on-course. People might inherently not like the training/friendly competition parts of shonen anime, but I do. For a show like Hero Academia, I’m mostly here for thecharacters interacting and seeing how many scenarios their quirks can work in. But this season does it so poorly. The most obvious annoyance is the constant recapping. Hero Academia is no stranger to copious recapping and flashbacks, but this this time it’s actually ridiculous. While not true all the time, flashbacks in previous seasons would accompany dialogue and bolster it. In the first half of Season 5, I swear that half of the runtime felt like flashbacks. It’s impossible to ignore how much time is wasted on them for no reason. Hell, a lot of them flashback to a moment that happened 5 minutes beforehand.
Then a quarter of the first half was characters explaining what was happening on the screen and subsequently overpraising other characters. It’s the cardinal sin of showing and not telling, but how it was done here felt especially condescending. It’s the most childish Hero Academia has ever felt.
The rest of the first half is actual fighting. The problem is that Class A doesn’t do much interesting with their quirks/interactions and Class B’s quirks are generally too weird to get invested in. Midoriya’s big One For All upgrade — which I’m not sure if I like yet — and Bakugo’s behavior felt like the only things worth seeing. It feels weird to say this, but I think I might recommend reading episode synopses for the first half. That way you know what Class B’s quirks are and what the generally happened. Anything that isn’t in a synopsis is either an annoying flashback you don’t need or a joke that falls flat.
As an aside, Hotoshi Shinso (the Brainwasher) also comes back for some spotlight. This gave me some hope that his quirk would be explored more, but he’s pretty irrelevant.
The second half of the Season is your standard fare of Hero Academia. It still has a lot of unnecessary flashbacks, but they’re less distracting. If you made it this far into the series, I imagine you’ll enjoy this half since it starts building up the next arc in the plot. Endeavor gets the spotlight…which sounds worrying but I don’t think it’s handled too badly. Then the League of Villains take over the show as we get several episode to see what they’ve been up to. The League of Villains has only been mildly interesting for me thus far, but I think this season finale started making me care about a good handful of them. This new information on them and their pasts would’ve been nice to have earlier so I could’ve started caring about them sooner, but I don’t think it’s TOO late. The resolution felt forced though.
Overall, the first half wasn’t even worth watching at best and downright shook my faith in the series at worst. It’s a shame because it was really Class B’s time to shine when they needed it, but it let them down hard in my eyes. The second half proved that it was a temporary plunge, but it wasn’t enough to offset the bad taste in my mouth. And since it was more buildup than anything, it leaves the season feeling like it has little substance.
Injenss
The only reason I didn't drop this anime is because multiple people swore that the next season will be excellent. It is the last chance I'm giving this show. Because it has dropped to complete mediocrity in the last few seasons. It's an incredible disappointment considering how good the early seasons were. But, it's basically become a one trick pony. Constantly putting the students up against each other in tournaments and low-stake threats. This season only had two highlights in the entire show. 1. Was Tomura Shigaraki's origin story. It was surprisingly gory and intense for what has become a pretty weakchildren's cartoon. 2. Was Endeavor's family drama. I still don't like Endeavor, but those episodes at least added a little depth to him as a character and his family. But, that's really it.
Why the creators think it's acceptable to make half a season basically a re-run of the Chunin Exams, I do not know. But, it's not. At this stage in the game, there should be a credible ongoing threat and some kind of major stakes on the line. But, even with the League of Villains turning into the Paranormal Liberation Front it's still just a re-do of the earlier seasons when the League had more villains behind them and they raided UA.
I'm basically only giving this anime one last shot to see what direction they go in with this upcoming war. Will they go intense and kill off some of these worthless characters they have the show overloaded with? Or, will they keep being a lame Saturday Morning cartoon with meaningless festivals and enemies as harmless as poodle puppies? Basically, I'm at the point that if I don't start seeing people die, I'm out. Kill the guy with the elbow strings, or the guy who talks to animals, or the dude with the tail that knows Judo. All these trash characters that could raise the stakes if Shigaraki just disintegrated a few of them. Toga is supposed to be a killer and has killed no one. DO something. Let someone snipe the invisible chick and we finally see her, as a corpse. Something surprising. Something that says: "Hey, the events in this anime actually matter and their lives are actually on the line, so you know...care.".
At this point, the anime is borderline trash with a few good moments. It's a dumpster that someone threw a working iPad into. Improve or I'm done.
nyft
This season is one big misunderstanding. I'm not even Talking about the art style that change every episode, but the plot. It's just bring. I mean, i'th kinda cool that they showed backstories of villans, but the rest? I don't know what else can i say. It was kinda waist of my time. Now you can ask "so why you wathed the whole season?". Even i dont know an answer to this question. Because it's popular? Maybe. Because i I had nothing else to do? Maybe. Because i wanted to tortur myself? Maybe. And i'm not saying that you absolutely shouldn't watch it. It's justmy opinion. But still, most people are disappointed on this season. That's what i think.
Vaguelyweebish
It is an oft-repeated rule among storytellers that a story is only as good as its villain. So, despite having some truly complex villains, why was this season so bad? Because, for the most part, this was a much-dreaded filler season, plain and simple. That, and even the good parts rarely measured up to their full potential. I've never been one to jump on the MHA Hate Train. Personally, I've felt that any problems that the show has had is because it's a Shonen, whether it be a grating stereotype personality or having far too many inspirational internal monologues. But for the most part, it was good,featuring some fantastically buttery animation and steady character growth that made us root for the heroes and sympathize with the villains.
But it has now become apparent that not only has the author of the manga hit a Writer's Wall, but even the critically acclaimed animation studio Bones are only concerned with cranking out as standard of a product as possible--and they don't even measure up to THAT middle ground half the time, resulting in a few agonizing animation errors here and there and cheap still-frame "slo-mo" moments in fights that make it evident how much the budget was cut so the third non-canon movie could look as good as possible.
New characters are introduced and tossed aside to be totally forgotten about, whether they be all of Class 1-B (who were probably just made to sell more figurines) in the horrible first training arc which at least had the decency to develop three characters the smallest fraction possible over the entire 13-episode saga; or a particularly well-designed and saucy villain who ultimately gets virtually no screen time and turned to blue-red tomato paste by the yandere who I can't figure out why the fandom loves so much, Toga (another mark against her, but as long as she is alive, at least Twice is sane).
And I have heard of the controversy around the second half of the season. It starts off strong with a growing mystery which switches to following the League of Villains as they prove themselves to All-for-One that they are his worthy successors. The biggest problem is the pacing--WHICH IS HORRENDOUS!!!! I've read that the original My Villain Academia arc in the manga is far slower paced to properly flesh out the villains and their tentative friendship, but the episode which introduces this gigantic arc can't seem to wait to be finished, with dialogue almost literally piled up on top of another line. And of course many of those new villains who would have been excellent additions to the cast are totally wasted, whether it be the aforementioned Blue Journalist Waifu or the others who ultimately are veritable jokes as they're basically XP Boosters for the League of Villains to "level up" (the actual term used) because of psychological trauma causing them to panic-develop.
You'll notice I hardly mentioned any of the heroes in this review, because they're almost non-existent. Bakugou had been relegated to Tsundere Brofriend and Ochako is Deku's "cheerleader" crush. The only hero I found compelling this season was Todoroki, who is finally starting to get over his hatred for his dad Endeavor as the man comes to the realization of how his desire to be the best ruined his family.
There is very little good to say about this season. As time goes on, I'm seeing more and more of the bad that the complainers are talking about. I'll be going into season 6 quite a bit more jaded. Hopefully the writers and by extension the animators and the original author won't manage to screw everything up again.
And hopefully Deku will one day be able to cave in Toga's gross face in at long last. :-D You don't need her, Twice! You're the Best Boi who just went down the wrong path.
pokotopokoto
I don't usually write reviews, but the number of negative reviews for season 5 of Boku no Hero Academia has forced me to do so. I don't understand the reasons for the disappointment of the people who wrote negative reviews. In fact, the main downside of season 5: the timing. It's just short and that's its main minus. It was noticeable that the screenwriter was trying to maximize the exposure of the villain characters, while still managing to colorfully tell everyone's story. I think the writers did a very good job of fitting all these stories into 25 episodes. Overall, I'm grateful that the villain characters werebasically revealed and given backstories. You can only dream of that in a lot of shows.
On a separate note: the episode about the Shigaraki family is delightful. When the episode ended I just went silent for a while, because it made a big impression on me.
I think the show doesn't get worse with each season. Each season "holds the bar" high. As I've said before, the only thing that could have made season 5 better is if it was 10 episodes longer.
Otherwise, I don't regret watching it for a second.
I'm looking forward to season 6.
Zedlin
Everyone can see the large elephant in the room here, this season felt stagnant and was a transition season for S6 in which this season was meant to build up the hype. There was controversy with arc rearrangement where essentially the Meta Liberation Army and Joint Training Arc were swapped around. However there were major high points in the season too, Shigaraki's Orgin being the peak. The Re-Destro storyline was cut off in this adaptation where the introduction in the manga was much smoother. Despite some short comings and feelings of stagnation this season does do one thing incredibly, make me excited for the futurewar between heroes and villains. I haven't felt hyped for a new season of My Hero Academia since season 3 with the battle between All Might and All For One! With the reorder of the arcs I believe it was a smart decision by Studio Bones.
The Joint Training arc was a complete waste of time; Bones really didn't lead with their best foot forward, it was soul numbing. There were some saving graces that made it have plot importance though, the first being Midoriya gaining further insight on the vestiges of previous One For All users. In the final fight of the arc Midoriya goes berserk, he becomes unable to control this new power that he learns via brainwashing by Shinsou is called Black Whip. Once Midoriya learns to control Black Whip for longer periods of time it'll be invaluable and the first step of many to inhabiting all of the previous One For All quirks. This is a super cool way to have Midoriya becoming stronger and allow for more variation in fight possibilities too. I'm excited to see how fast he'll learn them and what types they will be!
The other thought-provoking character progression of this arc was Hitoshi Shinsou. With his seemingly one dimensional quick Brainwashing one would think after learning its weakness it's easy to avoid. However with the resolve of Shinsou wanting to become a hero, he progresses with a voice modification mask. How could one not root for Shinsou's story, I'd love to see him in 1-A.
Nevertheless the negatives heavily outweigh any small gleams of positives. The pace is demonstrably immobile, slow as molasses. The Joint Training Arc could have been summarized into a few episodes, meaning time could have been spent on more important storylines. The fights were pointless ways of presenting how both 1-A and 1-B's powers have evolved while dragging them out to bizarre amounts of detail. Like I stated before, Bones stumbled hard face-first into a stagnant start of a season.
The Endeavor Agency Arc is the awkward middle story in which Endeavor's character progression heats up! In terms of characters in My Hero Academia, Endeavor ranks top 3 for how well they advance as heroes/villains. Shigaraki ranks #1 in terms of evolution, however that's for later in the review. The Todoroki family is in shambles after Endeavor's feverish descent into attempting to surpass All Might at the expense of his family. Endeavor wants to be better and wants to be there for his family, I love the concept, it's eye-opening seeing a dysfunctional family mend their problems despite how difficult it is. The easy path for Endeavor would have been to avoid his family but he shows in this arc the only way to progress is not turning a cold shoulder. Natsuo, the second son in the family doesn't believe in Endeavor's atonement arc as a result he gets turned into a hostage by the villain Ending. Ending is obsessed with Endeavor's arrogant and ruthless image, he constantly pursues the latter hoping he'll be killed by Endeavor. Ending does anything and everything like having complete disregard of human life simply to attract his anger. However in the fight, Endeavor breaks down at the sight of Natsuo, this presents how he's changed as a man, no longer is he entirely merciless. This shatters Ending's image of Endeavor and ultimately allows the hero study group to figuratively surpass Endeavor and save Natsuo. It's a great example of showing without telling and paints a great picture into the deeper psychological implications of Endeavor. I'm excited where the Todoroki family storyline will maneuver into!
The Meta Liberation Army Arc is the Joint Training Arc on steroids while having a story that's actually compelling! Everything boils down to Shigaraki Tomura's Origin. Just like with Shouto or Midoriya's origin it's the peak of the season. I adore the way it's portrayed, the build up the slaughter of his family where he gains his main motive as a villain in more ways than one. First meets with All For One, the first human to empathize for Shigaraki, using his families eradication as a means of stimulating Shigaraki's newfound hatred for heroes and began grooming him as his adoptive son. It's exhilarating putting the pieces together as his second motive for being a villain is put into full force. Shigaraki feels most at ease when he's able to use his quirk without holding back, to be liberated with the power of destroying everything he touches. To become the true Symbol of Fear and to join forces with the Meta Liberation Army. I love how it powers up Shigaraki in such a badass way while also connecting it back to the morals of true liberation.
Another strength of The Meta Liberation Army Arc was the growth of other League of Villains characters like Toga and Twice. It's great how relatable these characters become from absolute dire situations that in turn makes instantaneous evolution. As an anime only viewer it's self-evident where Dabi's storyline is going with Endeavor, they even teased earlier on. Seriously that'll make the Todoroki family even more complex, I'm really excited for it. I find it comical how much I'm rooting for the villains in My Hero Academia, their transformation made that really apparent to me. With the League of Villains merging with The Meta Liberation Army, the Paranormal Liberation Front is profusely powerful! Throughout the series, Shigaraki has been lacking in the amount of support, he needed influence with numbers. The Paranormal War will have the heroes at a clear disadvantage and I'm all for it! The stakes have never been this high in My Hero Academia.
The Arc rearrangement has allowed S6 to properly build up to The Paranormal War Arc. This feels like endgame material, deaths are on the table, though it's hard to tell if My Hero Academia has the gall to commit. There's potential for something surpass season 3's All Might vs All For One fight! Nonetheless, that doesn't stop this season from being mediocre because of the beginning. As a complete package this season was a mixed-bag. Instead of spending a whole core of a season on The Joint Training Arc it could have been condensed into a few episodes. This would have made the pace not be so sluggish and allow other storylines that people care about an opportunity to shine. Nobody wants a glorified montage to present what we already know about. But it showed off the progression of the classes quirks! Sure, but that's not worth an entire arc. Anyhow, both heroes and villains have improved and each side has played their chess pieces. Hawks is a wild card in all of this too! I'm excited to dive head first into S6 with the Paranormal War Arc!
makotoplz
I have no idea why the scores are so low and I'm glad I don't. Personally, this was one of my favourite seasons. I purposefully waited until at least 20 episodes or more were out before I started and also went through the effort of rewatching Season 1-4. After rewatching them, I had a clearer picture of which seasons I liked and why and just overall had a total refresh of everything that happened. And that is why watching Season 5 through and through and very quickly helped me make a very easy decision. Easy 9/10 for me. The 2 seasons prior to this were also,imo, extremely good and this one rivalled it. In my experience, MHA is just getting better and better as the story develops.
Now in the previous ones, it was the action that made it a 9 for me. Personally, I doubt MHA will ever have a 10/10 season for me just because of the way the story is. I'm aware that giving a brief summary of what MHA is about immediately gives off the impression that it's childish. Superheroes, villains, powers etc. I love anything with powers so I can admit that. But as enjoyable as it is, it's probably never going to be on the same level as something like Vinland Saga or Jujutsu Kaisen (just off the top of my head). It 100% has its deep moments and the fight scenes are really good but at best, it will be a 9/10.
So although 9 is the highest I'd give MHA, Season 5 really is in a category of its own for me. I've seen complaints about most of the season being Class A vs Class B and I'm ngl, yeah, some parts of it were honestly a drag. Characters I was hardly interested in had a whole episode to themselves and I had to force myself to push through those.
But what absolutely made the season for me was the CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. I couldn't have imagined what was going to happen in this season and that's a huge plus. I think we started seeing it when it was Bakugo's turn to fight with his team and it just got even better from there. Todoroki has more air time, both with his family and with Deku and Bakugo, so relationships and friendships were also fleshed out a little more. Then all three of them get their own development individually, each significant in their own way.
But the villain arc oh my God, it was easily my FAVOURITE arc of the entire season and maybe even show. Maybe I'm just high off the feeling of having completed S5 but I'm so glad I waited before bingeing the last 5 or so episodes.
I'm huge on villains that have a great back story, or even an interesting one. And that's something MHA excels in. When you can understand a villain's actions or even want them to win, that's when you know a show is doing a really good job. The writers especially. Before this season I did like Dabi (come on, who wouldn't?), Twice was funny, Toga was cute and I also liked the unconventional friendship they all had. But this season goes further and does exactly what I said at the beginning of this paragraph.
Villain. Backstories. And I thought it couldn't get better. I was perfectly happy not having that much empathy for the villains, but the last I think, 5 or 6 episodes hit the spot. Whenever the story isn't focused on Deku or Todoroki or Bakugo (clearly my favourites), I kinda blank out and am just waiting for them to have screen time but THIS time, I was watching it straight without a thought of the heroes. I loved the villain arc. They fleshed out Tomura SO well, gave Toga a backstory, Twice a "realisation" of some sorts, getting over his trauma, and moved the story further. Tomura might just be one of my favourite characters.
Not to mention I was kind of on edge the entire time, not knowing where Hawks stood. I liked that the season wasn't told in a linear fashion. Although the focus was on Class A and Class B in the beginning, there were hints of foreshadowing. I was confused at first but everything started to fall together and I really had no idea how everything came to be.
And lastly, just because I feel like this has to be addressed, yes it kind of sounds ridiculous that they're only just now finishing first year 5 seasons and 113 episodes in. But looking at the bigger picture of things, it's unsurprising that a whole year has amounted to that. When you think about how events would span over 2 or so episodes, different character focus, character and relationship development, plot development, flashbacks, training scenes etc. it's kind of realistic. The entire year of Class 1-A has been extremely hectic not to mention the behind the scenes of the villain arc.
I personally like that it has gone in depth. I would never attach the words "slow-burn" to this show, but it might come off as such when you think about 1 year = 5 seasons. It isn't a slow-burn. It is perfectly balanced and sometimes even fast-paced, which I love for an action anime.
TLDR: Season 5 is ace, highly recommend. I enjoyed it A LOT, there is loads of character and relationship development, the villain arc is EASILY one of the best arcs I've seen so far in MHA and Bakugo has character development. What more could you ask for?
Harus205
I'm scared of how this season was much worse than I imagined.. The first half was very boring, and they could have done much better with my villain academia arc., I really don't understand why they changed the events' order THAT much. Characters' animation looked a little poor especially in the latest episodes. There wasn't anything new to the soundtrack either, both second opening and ending themes were difficult to enjoy while the first ones weren't that bad. Lastly, I love most of these voice actors but none of them did really shine in this season. I kind of hope that things didn't turn outgreat because they were also working on the movie, BUT considering that season 6 has already been announced, if this is how they handle a huge load of work I don't think that it will be any better than this one. I'm concerned of how this anime series will be continued because these events in the manga are really interesting, but they have to be compleated with good animation, music and voice acting or it risks to be ruined.
kurapikamisa
The quality of BNHA anime has been going down, but I do prefer this season's story to last season's. Still, it fell off towards the end. What is really killing the flow of the show is all the flashbacks from each character. We were bombarded last season and now this one. Based off the manga, the story later seems more interesting and I hope this season is just a rough transitioning period. So, as a stand-alone, I do not recommend and if I don't have to, I won't rewatch. BNHA is also lucky that they focused so much time on the students' personality the firstfew seasons because now they are falling flat. They don't have to build them up as much, but the little effort is very noticeable all the same.
thestarsailor
Season 1 is a great opening and focus on All Might and Deku, and really established All Might as one of if not my favorite characters in the show. Seasons 2 and 3 only improve on that as they get into a climb of the students learning more about their powers and how the sparks can fly when they fight each other. This is all centered around the main villain Shigaraki being an angry, nihilistic threat to the status quo and counters Deku as well as All for One counters All Might. Then through season 4 those villains go dormant as two new villains shareeach half of the season, representing different sides to how society as a whole is handling this increase in power and destruction. Now we are at season 5 and coming back to that big battle that will happen between Deku and Shigaraki, but not yet. The two parts of this season are basically more training for all the Hero students to improve themselves and the well-liked My Villain Academia arc focusing on the League of Villains and much more "meta" Meta Liberation Army. It was fun reading in the manga as aspects of Hawks (and even Tokoyami), Shinso, Endeavor, the Todoroki family, Shigaraki, Twice, and the MLA were explored and given time to define themselves before the inevitable massive fight starts that shifts the basic landscape of the manga. Things will not be the same after it is over, so set your pieces up now, which is fine by me, and season 4 of the anime did that. The problem for this season is that the overall animation quality fell and the flashbacks became even more pronounced. Specifically during the the Villain vs Meta fight there were a lot of just still images the did not contain the same craft that would obviously come from a manga. There are certain things about MHA that I don't really care for but can accept, but this really affected the show and kept making me wonder "what went wrong?" Probably work and budget constraints which led to corners being cut.
It's not the end of the world or some crime against anime as some seem to make it out to be. This is probably the worst MHA will be which is kind of average and forgettable, but there are good parts here and the basic pieces are about to really come together.
SpectreHub
I personally just watch MHA because I've already started it, and it's interesting enough to watch with friends. I don't find myself loving the characters that much nor having any favorites, so I didn't find myself very excited about watching this weekly. It just feels a bit distant, and maybe I felt like the anime was a bit too slow for me, though that's a personal issue, and I've definitely watched slower animes. I did find myself liking the second half of the season more, and I'm more excited about season 6 than this season. The anime is fine, the fights are good, and theplot is something to look forward to. I'm not especially taken by the anime though. It's at a "good enough" level in my head, but objectively I'm definitely leaving out things to complain about and things to applaud it for. A solid 7.7/10 from me.
