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ANIME ActionBoku no Hero Academia 4
ONE SHOTBoku no Hero Academia - Villain Rengou: Undercover
MANGA ActionDeku & Bakugo: Rising
NOVEL ActionBoku no Hero Academia THE MOVIE: Heroes:Rising
SPECIAL ComedyBoku no Hero Academia THE MOVIE: Heroes:Rising - Epilogue Plus: Yume wo Genjitsu ni

REVIEWS

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  BlueBlur

  70/100
  Worth Watching If You're a Fan of MHA

  Just finished seeing this and theaters and it was pretty good.

  For starters, this is way better than any of the Naruto and some of the Pokemon movies all thanks to one aspect: the god tier animation. Most anime movies based on a long-running series always have good fight animation (minus some of the Pokemon movies) but I've never seen fights quite like this in one of these movies before. Considering this movie is 80% action the animation quality never really lets up. The finale especially was amazing to watch.

  The villains were really cool as well and every character from Class-A gets their chance to shine, which was something I wasn't really expecting. Everyone gets their badass moment, and it was awesome to see some of the more underappreciated characters like Sero and Aoyama do some cool stuff.

  The story however is pretty uninspired and is mostly just there to have some cool fights. It's almost exactly like some of the previous arcs in the show. The two kid characters are very cliched for this kind of movie and are almost carbon copies of other kid characters from this show.

  The villain is also a carbon copy of All for One but that didn't really bother me because I thought he was cooler. Johnny Yong Bosch voices him in the dub and I think that made me enjoy his presence a lot more than it should have. He's one of the few anime dub actors that really makes edgy work and it made for some genuinely badass villain moments.

  Considering how simple this movie is, I'm actually surprised how much I enjoyed it. The action is fantastic but everything else is pretty standard shounen movie affair. It felt like watching an episode of My Hero Academia in the theater. I think with a bolder story and a more unique location this could have felt like a real event. Especially if the story was actually canon as well.

  Could have used more smaller comedic interactions with the characters. I really think that would have made the movie a little better in my opinion.

  Overall, a good movie that's worth seeing if you're a fan of MHA. It doesn't reach the heights that it could have but it's better than most of the other shounen anime tie in films that have come before. Worth seeing in theaters if you have the chance.

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  Bubblesssssss

  60/100
  A glimmer of hope for MHA's future

  The Decline of My Hero Academy Part 2: Heroes Rising

  [Season 4](https://anilist.co/review/13414) __(This is the last part of a series of videos and reviews called The Decline of My Hero Academy. If you only want a review of Heroes Rising, stop at the "The Decline of My Hero Academy Conclusion" section.)__

  Heroes Rising blew my mind because it’s kind of the opposite of the first one. Whereas movie 1 looked horrendous and like they threw most of it together in a month, movie 2 looks…good. Especially compared to the rest of the series. Where movie 1 somehow looked worse than the series, Heroes Rising looks infinitely superior to the series. The entire time I was watching it, the dominant thought I had was “holy fuck why does this look so good?”

  Like really:

  __Story__

  As far as the story goes, it’s…okay. It’s mostly just the students running errands on this island until the villain attacks, and then the rest of it focuses on…stopping the villain. But there are a couple of moments in the movie that caught me off guard. Like the villain just beating the shit out of Deku and Bakugo. That’s a really good way to establish a villain. Just have him beat the shit out of characters that usually have plot armor. And the blood! YES!

  

  This is especially great considering all the class A students were written out of the moment where the villains take over in the first movie.

  Also, Shigaraki kills Nine, the antagonist of this movie. Truth be told, I was hoping they would do it when Nine lost. And…the crazy bastards actually did it. Kind of stunned they didn’t pussy out and have him arrested like the series would usually do.

  __Bad stuff__

  Don’t get me wrong though. There are things I don’t like. The villain starts off promising. His power and backstory are somewhat interesting. But when it comes to his ideology, he ultimately just ends up being another “I’m going to make a world for the powerful and strong” type. Disinteresting. Recycled. Boring.

  

  And while the ending is really cool, seeing Bakugo run around with One for All and everything. I really wish they didn’t bother with all the non-canon course correcting at the end. This is a battle shounen movie. Everyone knows that what happens in them never affects the main story. So don’t worry about making sure there aren’t any plot holes for the next season. No one cares!

  __Conclusion__

  Overall though, Heroes Rising is (if you choose to look at a movie’s production as an indicator of quality for an upcoming tv series) a glimmer of hope. It at least points to Studio Bones proving they can still put together a solid production if they need to, which is something I just didn’t believe anymore after how disastrous seasons 3 and 4 were visually.

  Decline of My Hero Academy Conclusion

  I think I've pretty well established how and why the My Hero Academy anime declines as it goes along. Also I basically already did the conclusion earlier, so I'll use the conclusion to clarify a few things that might get misconstrued:

  1: Some of you might be asking, why did you make all these videos and reviews on a series you don't like? Well, that's the thing. My Hero Academy isn't inherently bad. After all, it started off well. But its potential is being wasted by 2 entities, and I think it's very easy to fix (most of) the problems that are plaguing it. You might have noticed after a lot of the issues I brought up, I also gave solutions to them at the end of those sections. That's because I believe My Hero Academy is salvageable, even after 2 full seasons of crap.

  I would never throw hundreds of hours of my life away making a review like this about something like Fairy Tail because I don't think it has any real value. All I would say is "its really bad and don't watch it". You can't fix something that is broken on paper, that doesn't even have a solid blueprint for a good show. But My Hero Academy isn't like that. It could be good, if its issues were ironed out. And I think that alone is reason enough to make these reviews.

  2: It was not my intention to use the Hunter x Hunter, FMA, and Naruto comparisons to do the whole "lol other show better" thing. That's dumb, and I think it would be disrespectful to both Kishimoto and Horikoshi.

  It was also not my intention when comparing to say the show should always do what Naruto or Hunter x Hunter did. That isn't really fixing My Hero Academy, its changing it into something I like more. And to be honest, I don't really want every new shounen to be like those shows. They should strive to carve out their own identity. But if you're going to utilize the same tropes, I think it's more than fair to illustrate how My Hero Academy doesn't use them as effectively, and why that is.

  3: I don't hate Horikoshi and I don't hate My Hero Academy. I liked the potential it had, and am frustrated with Horikoshi for wasting it with lazy writing. He's clearly a very talented illustrator, which is all the more reason to be frustrated with Bones for making his show look like ass. And it's always possible some of the things I attributed to Horikoshi could actually be the result of an editor, or JUMP, or something. You never know. I'm happy for him that his manga is super successful and I'm sure he's a nice guy. He just happens to have written a popular manga that he's pissing away the potential of.

  I'd like to end things on that note, because that's probably the most important thing I want to express here. My criticism of MHA comes from a love of the battle shounen genre. And that love makes it very hard for me to watch Horikoshi continue to spin gold into bronze.

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  NickCipolla

  87/100
  one of the best final acts for any anime film

  Here I was recently doubting whether the MHA anime series really was deserving of being one of the best modern anime...boy was I silly to let all the great anime released recently fog my memory. This 2nd My Hero Academia Movie solidifies the series as being far and away the best modern day shounen.

  Canon or not, this movie does everything you want from a MHA side-story movie. It also does things that the 4 seasons of the show had not gotten to do yet, and did them to perfection. Once the action begins (after a slow start) it only ramps up and intensifies.

  The plot is the weakest point of the movie, as its a pretty typical shounen movie story line. Regardless, its fun to see Class 1-A on their own, out in the real world. One of the best parts of Heroes Rising is how the movie is able to find a way to make nearly every student useful. In the show it sometimes feels like its half a dozen people being useful and the rest are just supportive or dead weight. Not only does every character contribute to the fights in an impactful way, but they find unique ways to pair characters that you wouldnt expect. One example is towards the end when Uraraka and Tape man (sry) are paired together and use their quirks to fight. It was done in such a brilliant way, with two characters youd never expect to team up in a fight.

  And of course, the moment the entire show has been building up to, the tag team of DEKU AND KACCHAN. SO HYPE!!! The movie was obviously advertised to be focused around the two but man does it blow expectations out of the water. Even after season 4 MHA where the two characters finally seem to be building towards something, it never felt like Bakugo had changed in any positive way. He was always still annoying and loud and rude. But the movie finally shows a different side of him, an actual hero side.

  The final fight with the villain and the two is by far the best fight of 2020. The animation I cant even begin to describe. So many beautiful and contrasting colors are thrown around in a way that can only be described again as...HYPE. The movie also takes on a bold move to use music over the sound effects in the final few minutes of the fight. It worked, and was captivating. All of the emotion of the scene so perfectly captured in one song.

  Idk why but in reviews I tend to focus a lot more on the flaws of a show/movie while vaguely pointing out the positives. Thankfully, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising is near flawless. It is easily one of the most rewatchable movies in anime and adds so much to the story even if it isnt directly related to the main arc. Any anime fan should at the least enjoy the excitement the movie brings

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