Anime 33486 Boku No Hero Academia 2nd Season Reviews Filter Check 3

Whenever I watch this show I begin to get flash backs of SAO.

That should sum up exactly how I feel about this anime.

The show has a great concept and interesting characters, but unfortunately they are for the most part are sorely underdeveloped and have very little depth to them (as this season has progressed this is slowly began to change with a few characters). The fight scenes are well animated and are a breath of fresh air into to dullness that is created through the tropes and rehearsed plot points that you could find in dozen of other animes.

The thing that truly ... keeps this anime from going to mediocre to okay is the dreadful main. The MC carries out the rehashed "severely under powered high school boy with irrational hero complex somehow gains the power to take down super powered villains and classmates despite only having a few weeks training". Add on the super inspirational speeches on why he will never give up despite getting the shit kicked out of countless times and bang, that's all you need to know about the MC because he hasn't changed since the first season.

Ultimately this anime misses the mark on a lot of things. Exploring old plot points and character tropes is always a bad thing if they are carried out right, but ultimately this misses the mark on a lot of things.

I know this might sound exaggerated — “2/10? Are you insane?” — but please just hear me out for a second...

Spoilers ahead:
Protecting people in the face of adversity; even in the means of sacrificing yourself, using unique strength only found in the hearts of some people for good, being brave and standing up for the people you love… this is what it means to be a hero. A hero isn’t something you strive to be, nor is it something to be viewed as a career. To be qualified as a hero in the first place, is to be selfless. By devoting all your life trying ... to become a hero by wearing a cape and a superhero outfit made by plastic is, in and of itself, a selfish and childish dream. By dreaming so only results in a messiah complex.

To be running around and jumping from building to building wearing goofy clothes only defeats the purpose of being a hero. Only people who are looking for attention do this; narcissism at its best.
Having a girl wear a suit that reveals most of her cleavage, and a skirt so short to the point where it should be called a belt, only makes me wonder why she didn’t become a prostitutional entertainer instead. And also having a character wearing a cape whilst stepping on the bad guy they just beat up whilst laughing like a maniac and shouting, “Don’t worry, your savior’s here.” only makes me wonder why he didn’t become an exhibitionist.

Every character in My Hero Academia only have a single goal in mind: to become a hero that everyone looks up to. That’s really it. There’s no other character in the series that has a different ambition — even if they do have a bit of a different ambition, it’s still completely connected to being an admirable hero. Being a show about heroes, it’s okay for everyone wishing to become a hero. But if that’s the only primary goal in their mind, then that’s just a writing excuse — all of these characters have a goal, thus, all of these characters are three-dimensional — or so the author thinks. The characters are like a group of Flamingos who have chain reactions. If you can’t handle writing a very large cast of characters — especially by trying to flesh out all of them — then don’t try to do it in the first place.

Characters are indeed hard to write. It’s definitely okay to have a large cast of characters, but do so at your own risk. The writer, in this case, tried to give some personality to other side characters. But what resulted in was underdevelopment of main characters — not to mention failing at even making the side characters decent.
Deku is the underdog of the world. He’s also shy and not so good socializing with girls; in other word, he is us. This isn’t supposed to be an ecchi-harem show, Kohei Horikoshi.
Trying to make us experience everything through Deku’s body only admits that he’s flat as a character. Normally, we’re supposed to put ourselves in the protagonist’s shoes, but to actually become the protagonist is lazy writing. This is just an excuse trying to make the character “relatable”. A character can still be flat even if they have an ambition, backstory, and development. Because execution is what matters.
Deku’s ambition and backstory are quite simple. He wants to be a hero like All Might, but he doesn’t have a quirk, unlike most people. He then gains powers from All Might by eating a single piece of his hair. This is all fine and all, but what about his development? He pretty much stays the same and has the same mentality throughout the whole two seasons. Being stronger and being able to control your powers better isn’t character development. What Kohei Horikoshi tries to do is make Deku break his bones over and over again just for the sake of looking “cool”. And then he breaks more bones in the second season, which tricks you into thinking that he developed as a character. But he has the same ideology and personality intact; only being able to control his powers, or rather All Might’s powers better.
I doubt the possibility that Deku will ever improve as a character throughout the whole show; he’ll stay the same; crying, speaking, thinking, and acting the same exact way he did at the start. The reason is simple: there is no room for improvement. Deku is, at first, actually what he should have developed into, not start with it. Only if he develops into an evil character — developing an ideology about heroes the opposite of the one he had before — can he be able to improve, or develop as a character. But the spoiler which Deku gave us at the beginning, and also looking at the genre of this show, there’s zero percent possibility. Having better powers, or controlling a power better, or creating your own proper power is often confused with character development. But it’s not.

Deku is known as a rare protagonist because he’s smart and analytical. But he’s stereotypically so. Putting your hand on your chin and thinking aloud while having words flying out of your head isn’t identified as being smart; it’s just an attempt at being one. It’s very easy to make other characters point at him calling him “smart”, when in reality, he’s only slightly above average. He actually reminds me of Sakamoto from Sakamoto desu ga — due to the fact that every character looks up to him, for the exception of some characters who hate him and want to surpass him, but end up giving up and acknowledging the main character’s superiority. But let’s not forget that Sakamoto was loved due to him being cool, meanwhile, Deku is liked for no justified reason whatsoever. Sure, he is strong. But don’t forget that he was a loser who was being bullied at first and viewed negatively by almost everyone. So there’s no way people’s view on him would change in such a short span of time just because he got stronger.

What about the girl he saved once which automatically made them very close friends — Uraraka? She’s very poorly written. She reminds me of Tenten from Naruto when she kissed Neji’s ass in the Chunin exam. Her main purpose is to be cute and support the main character. She shouldn’t be one of the main characters of the show, especially considering how weak her character arc was. Her backstory is basically having bad family circumstances, so she wants to become a “hero” for financial gain. She has about two or three personality traits. And that’s it. I can’t help but think that this show would’ve been fine without having her even appear in the show. There’s nothing to add on to her character because I feel like she’s even more underdeveloped than other side characters.

Avenger stories are, at best, fine. Iida’s whole drama about avenging his brother was executed poorly, and was extended way longer than it should have. The best way to realize if a character is three-dimensional and has depth, is to have the character pursue a certain motivation, but doesn’t see the need in explaining his or her actions to other people. Iida’s long monologue explained all of his motivations to Stain; his enemy. This is the best example of how you should be showing instead of telling. If a story tries to flesh out their characters by having them tell their ideology, instead of showing their ideology through their actions just shows the lack of the author’s writing ability to do so. Iida’s motivation is in and of itself fine, just done very poorly.
Another example of a fine character with a fine backstory, yet terrible execution — Todoroki’s whole character development is eventually decided by mister psychiatrist, Deku. Todoroki is a decent character, but was very inconsistent throughout the whole show. His personality changed through dialogue — meaning that he’s Todoroki in one scene, but a totally different person in another. His ideology, personality and perspective change in a very short amount of time, making him inconsistent. He started as a very promising character, but is slowly evolving into another one of Boku no Hero’s ordinary characters.

If you can remove a particular character from a story and can still have the story function as well as it did before means that the character should either not be there entirely, or write them differently so that he/she has a purpose in the story. If the author of Boku no Hero did this, then he would be left with a total of four-five characters that can actually function as an independent character. For a show praised by the way it handles its characters very well, it’s actually very subpar when it comes to characters.
The author wrote a character for the sole reason of being hated — Minoru Mineta, the pervert. Why? Was this used so that we hate a character so much that other characters feel like decent people compared to him? There is no doubt that the author wrote this character this way intentionally. Was he expecting people to like him? I doubt it, hence why I think my reasoning is correct. If the author himself doesn’t care about his own characters then why should we?
The characters in Boku no Hero remind me of IDubbbz; dressing in a very weird costume, and dancing around here and there, shouting, “I wannabe gay!” — If this analogy isn’t true, then I don’t know what is.
If the writer is eagerly trying to make me like the characters by using very cheap techniques, then I might as well admit the absurd fact that my, and also many other people’s emotions are being toyed by. I don’t see any positivity from this show — if the character’s are merely “simple”, then why use tricks such as melodramatic character arcs to further our bond with the characters? Doesn’t this contradict the simplicity of the characters?

The characters’ existence is for a sole reason: comedy. Whenever a comedic scene comes by — which is very frequent — I’m reminded of Black Clover because of the amount of screeching thrown at the screen. Characters are eventually used as a remark-factory in this case, as in remarks are the only things side characters ever say. Not only does this make for very cheesy comedy, but it also confuses my emotions. This show is ultimately a comedy, so when a serious and “emotional” moment comes up, I laugh, wondering why the characters are all of a sudden taking everything seriously. I’ve laughed more at sad and emotional scenes than I did in the actual comedy scenes.
When Deku finds out that he doesn’t have a quirk and goes home and plays the video about All Might on his computer, I was smiling, because that’s what this show wants me to do, right? I mean, look at Deku’s crying face. He’s crying with a hysterical smile. I automatically take this as the show trying to tell me not to take this seriously. If the show wanted me to take it seriously, then why have him smile instead of frown? I know a lot of people try to hide their actual emotions by smiling, but kids are straightforward with their emotions.

Uraraka’s character arc wasn’t supposed to be emotional at all, yet they somehow tried to make it emotional. Same with Momo losing her confidence. As I came upon this particular episode, I tried to watch the previous episode thinking that there was something I missed. But there was nothing. I was very confused as to why she’s even acting like that. It was apparently because she lost her battle in the tournament, but they went way over the top with her drama. The show can’t draw a clear line between comedy and drama. E.g. Showing a character’s breasts in the middle of a “horrifying” battle, Mineta gripping another character’s breasts while another character is on the verge of death, etc… And so when I come upon these overdramatic scenes, I no longer care what happens to the characters, since you can’t take something seriously when it doesn’t even care to take itself seriously to begin with.


People like to point fingers at other shows like Anohana and Kiznaiver and call them overdramatic. Yet Boku no Hero has as much, if not twice as much overdramatic events — a shounen having more drama than some other slice of life-drama show is very weird. What part of Boku no Hero is overdramatic, exactly? All of it, probably. As I said before, this anime is a comedy; a pure one in that matter. So when the show throws in these overdramatic emotional moments, I laugh off — not considering the possibility that the characters are on the verge of dying.

Since we’re talking about death, let’s talk about plot armour. I’ve heard many times from many people comparing Boku no Hero with Naruto, calling it superior. Even though Naruto had immense amount of plot armour with its main characters, Boku no Hero goes beyond the limit as to give every single character in the series plot armour. Plot armour is okay as long as it has the right amount of it.
Naruto is tragic, and had a lot of characters die. Meanwhile, Boku no Hero is a very carefree and a childish series. The kids were beating up the villians in ease. It’s like they’re so experienced in their first try. None of them even had any major injuries. If Naruto was Boku no Hero Academia, then Naruto would’ve become Hokage in episode four.
I would’ve fallen in love with Boku no Hero Academia had I been an eight year old, because that’s what children want: a fun series about heroes saving the day, which has no development or tragedy; something you watch on Saturday mornings.

I’ve got nothing against simplistic shows. In fact, I love a lot of shows which are very simplistic, and in some cases, generic. But that’s not how I view Boku no Hero; rather than finding it simplistic, I thought of it as bland and subpar.

Boku no Hero Academia isn’t generic. It’s actually subpar. This show is praised for having simple characters. But that’s my down point, because they aren’t even simple; they are so much simpler than simple. They are flat cardboard characters that are very hard to connect to. To begin with, one of the most important point of a story is to connect with the characters. Sure, there are shows and stories I’ve enjoyed and loved without liking the characters, but the possibility of that happening could be because of the superb storytelling. Does Boku no Hero Academia have that? No. The story is, at best, average. The world building is underexplored (Using my knowledge upon completing the first two seasons).
At the very least, I remember the names of about four or five characters from the series. As for other characters, I don’t even remember them in general, let alone their names. As I said before, the characters are dealt with simultaneously; like a chain reaction. Making all of them have the same personality traits and reactions to particular events. They speak, eat, fight, and react in the exact same way. E.g. when everyone in the class talks simultaneously.
The characters don’t each stand on their own because they aren’t even a fully fleshed out character to begin with. Characters are indeed the weakest part of the series — but the ideology is not only poor, but horrible.
Back to heroism, I don’t like the way heroes are viewed and treated in Boku no Hero Academia. Some of the most memorable heroes of anime aren’t characters that wear capes and acknowledge their heroicness, they’re rather the complete opposite. Okabe from Steins;Gate is, in my opinion, the most memorable hero of all anime. He went through more than a thousand wordlines, experiencing so much adversity, pain, and death just to save his friends. This is what it truly means to be a hero. (Not shounen, but still profits my point) Never did Okabe say, “This is a story of how I became the greatest hero of all time.” Admitting your own heroicness, no matter how good of a hero you are, defeats your title as a hero.

I can also say the name of a lot of characters from other series that can absurdly be considered better heroes than the characters of Boku no Hero ever were.
Put any hero in Boku no Hero in a situation where they have to choose between two options — those options being: Would you rather save humanity from a disaster that could potentially kill billions of people, but be considered evil by everyone, or save a single person, but be considered the greatest hero of all time; being admired all over the world, forever — most, if not all characters would definitely choose the second option. Basically, it’s Boku no Pride Academia, not Boku no Hero.

Now ideology aside, the underlying issue of this series is that, I don’t see this anime going anywhere. I don’t see any meaning for its existence. At the beginning, Deku says, “This is a story of how I became the greatest hero.” I, and many other people, know that the main character is going to be the best; prevailing over any other character in the series. But we still have a feeling of uncertainty at times. Deku confessing the future on screen, in the very beginning frame of the first episode, just removes the whole point of this show. At the very least, I wanted to experience the journey that Deku went through without knowing what’s to come in the future. There’s no point in watching this series anymore because I’ve basically watched the whole show now. And the problems of Deku’s character, as I talked about before, removes the potential of me caring for his journey.

I despise this show in all of its being. There’s a barricade wall between me and the characters; distancing us from each other and preventing any further connection other than merely knowing two bland personality traits of each character. Additionally, the thought of having my emotions toyed with by cheap tricks makes me feel disgust, combined with the fact that the second season was two-cour even though there wasn’t any strong necessity; not to mention how the dullness of the show made it feel like a sixty-four episode series.

The only thing preventing me from rating it a one out of ten is the superb visuals by Studio Bones. I respect this show as a piece of art, but no more fabric of the show do I admire.
I’m open to any criticism I’d get upon closing this review off saying this is one of my least favorite show of all time.

I decided to make this review at 20/25 because there really isn't much left in the season to talk about and I don't want to waste any more time watching this dreadful show.

***Story***: Boku No Hero Academia is severely lacking in this department.

There is no real point to watching Boku No Hero Academia season 2. Everything within the season is a complete one-off. The anime spends 12 episodes doing a sports event for no reason in-universe and certainly no substantial reason for the viewer to care.

The pacing in BNHA is terribly sluggish, even to the point of adding completely useless filler episodes that add nothing ... to the world or events.

The events can be summed up as follows: play sports for points, fight thug in an alley, filler. That's it. That's all that happened in 20 episodes and I'm willing to bet that's all that happens in the last 5.

Note: I understand that it might be taken as an "oversimplification" but I'd like to take a bet that anything that happened in these 20 episodes couldn't happen in 2-3 and be done better. You know why I'd take this bet? Because it has been done, because you don't need 20 episodes to play sports and fight a thug in an alley.

*** Art ***: The art is ok. By "ok" I mean it's by-the-numbers shonen. Nothing interesting, nothing great, nothing terrible either. Some scenes are above average some are below.

For Studio BONES this is one of their worse looking shows though, especially compared to Kekkai Sensen which came out last year.


***Sound*** : Mediocre, nothing bad, nothing good.

***Character***: The focusing on an entire class is a very poor choice, adding another class on top of that creates even more disconnect from your "main cast".

But that's not where it stops. Every charcter, EVERY character, is boring.

The powers are lame. The personality is shallow. Most importantly: Nobody matters.

There is a popular saying with the fanbase in that "they are all best girls" when talking about the female cast. This meme P E R F E C T L Y outlines how bland the girls of this series actually are.

Of course none of the girls matter, half of them are used for pure fanservice (literal cleavage and ass shots by the camera), and they are all given the most useless powers.

I'm not normally one to complain given how ridiculously powerful some characters in anime are, but for this series is makes no sense to not have ONE lead female character with a cool ability.

*** Enjoyment*** : MHA is boring and unoriginal.

Sure, you can be unoriginal. Jojo's Phantom Blood is unoriginal. But you can't be BORING.

And if BNHA is one thing, it's boring.


*** OVERALLL *** 3/10.

Don't bother watching it. There are plenty of other shows out there that TRY to be good and ARE good. BNHA is not one of them.

I really did try to go into this with a positive attitude. I wanted to like it. This season could have very well been 12 episodes instead of the excruciatingly drawn out 25. Really all that tells me is VERY. POOR. WRITING. With this show being so popular and having such a high MAL score I had high expectations. I am being sorely let down. I didn't even want to finish watching this season. I usually only drop shows if it is boring me to death. I was almost to my limit with this one.
Lets hop to the spoilers.


Story: A mess. It is all ... over the place. I mostly only kept watching because I want to know WHY this universe is how it is. Why is everyone mutated? How did the world react in the beginning? We finally saw a glimpse of the world's (japan's) reactions, at the end? of the 2nd season? How does that make sense. Maybe they did that so people would keep watching their flaming pile of garbage. There are so many gaps that need to be filled. I feel like they are just writing from the seat of their pants without much of a plan, a *basic* plot to follow. They ruin the action packed anime they seem to want by drawing everything out. The season started out interesting with the sports festival, the obstacle race was really the highlight of the season. But come on, do we really need 1 episode for every single 1v1? no.

Art: It really hasn't changed or improved since the first season. It is nothing novel. It's like if they animated Yu-Gi-Oh! with the software we have today. The eyes bug me less this season, though they still take up more of their face than eyes in Clannad; that's an accomplishment.

Sound: The dub is the only reason for a decent score. I've had my volume the same level watching this entire season and wow does it randomly get loud and quiet and all over the place.

Character: ahahhah what character? Deku, the glorified narrator. Yay we finally got everyone's favorite tortured soul's story. But.. IcyHot got over his daddy issues in a few short minutes because some kid he barely knows is yelling at him. "Jk my dad wasn't so bad I'm going to spend all summer with him cy@" He had potential to be a beautiful tragic backstory character but they seem afraid to get into anything deep here. Everyone's favorite Shouty McShout kind? of? tried to get a back story. Bakugo: Origins. Are you kidding? That was all footage we saw in the first season... there's no new info here. l a z y.

Enjoyment: Condensed, the story is interesting enough to barely finish. Since everyone is obsessed with this show I expected better. Fandom ruins things though.

Overall: It's so much longer than necessary. The repetition. I mean, finally Wimpy did SOMETHING useful in the very end, but it was a little too easy. I'm sick of seeing cue-ball eyes all over my dash. cant wait till this fad is over. I see it going the ways of SAO. Everyone freaks out about how good a show is.. then a few months, a year, and it's a meme for how awful the story actually was. the hype will die. eventually. and then we can be in peace once more.

The shounen that took Naruto's place was a huge disappointment for me and I will try to explain why here. I do not think that this review will change a lot of opinions, but I found it fun to write this, so here is a piece of my mind.


Starting off with the... start: the setting.
From the very beginning what I noticed is that there is a distinct lack of effort put into the setting and the world-building in general. The story takes place in a world where everyone has these quirks and those with useful ones in battle become heroes. Makes sense... But you know… ... Starting from the acquirement of quirks to the establishment of a society that functions is a veeeeery long way, which was all completely missed.
In this season, we do get some hints about certain things that happened in the past, but instead of answering important questions we just get more of them. All the details regarding the events which involve All-For-One are missed and yes I understand that there will be a follow-up later in the anime, but the whole thing barely seems believable when you start asking questions like “Why?” and “How?”. From a technical perspective, nothing makes sense and we as an audience have to just move ahead and swallow it.

The next thing in this 'world' that was extremely poorly handled was the Heroes vs Villains theme. In this show, it is presented as the most basic and boring Good vs Evil clash. The way this anime handles its villains is simply disgusting and their motivations are so non-existent....... with one exception. This is where I want to give Hero Aca its low amount of credits - Stain. I'd go as far as say that this is the most well-handled character in the series with a motivation that makes perfect sense. There is also some foreshadowing about the hand guy's motivation, but he is so over the top edgy that I hardly consider that to be a character.


As for the quality of the actual story... *sigh*
It is very basic and simplistic, which in itself is not a bad thing... unless it's full of plot holes... which, HEY, it actually is...
Not only that the quirk mechanic is clearly not explored enough, we even have a villain with teleportation power! Isn't that the best way to pull anything out of your backdoor? By the way, if you think about it... there is no way that guy can lose... ever... unless the plot says so...
And this is not the only offender in this regard - Deku easily predicts the future and then defies the laws of physics in the very first arc of the season; Todoroki getting super nerfed for unknown reasons in the fight against Deku; the mind control guy getting hacked out by the power of the Main Character because FkU; Deku's instant no-effort powerup; Stain attacking Iida's brother for unknown reasons (considering Stain's motivation) etc. etc. I won’t get into specifics to keep the spoilers minor.
All these and other small details keep adding up throughout the duration of the show making everything that happens less and less believable.

The next things in the story to take a look at are the themes Hero Aca tried to explore. I could find a few main ones and let’s take them one by one.

Heroism
Somewhat okay-ish handled in my opinion and it does have its really good moments periodically.
Starting with the good part – the anime clearly tells on many occasions that Heroes INSPIRE others and not only save them in dire situations. Heroes are symbols and enforcers of peace and are the target for a human’s basic need – to admire someone/something. The show never hesitates to make All-Might explain the reason why he smiles which is a pretty nice thing overall.
This is also where the Stain arc goes in and scores some points for this anime, saving it from being horrible. Without spoiling the thing… Really well executed, believable and relatable – a solid commentary on what it means to be a hero and finally draws that small grayish line in the whole Good vs Evil issue.
The problems on this topic mostly include the one I mentioned above about villains (WHICH IS A HUGE ISSUE) and some questionable things about the education of the heroes and by that I mean the whole existence of Bakugo.

Hard work / Working for your dream
A complete joke since season 1. The whole idea of working hard is undermined by the very fact that the Main Character gets the super powa just because he’s good. There are some training sequences, but the only huge power spikes are achieved through ass-pulled power ups. Extremely cheap and lazy overall.

The Todoroki thing
Here I refer about the whole parents forcing their dreams upon their children, despite their wishes. If I ignore some technical issues, this is handled fairly well and I really loved the conclusion that Todoroki reaches in the end.
This would really be something nice if only Endeavor wouldn’t be such a 1-dimensional ass. Sadly, this fact just undermines the whole issue and all I can say is that it could’ve been so much better.


And now I got to the biggest issue of this show – THE CHARACTERS.
Simply, horrible. Bland, uninteresting and almost everyone is defined by one quirk (pun intended).
The whole attention of the show is focused solely on Deku, which to be honest, simply gets obnoxious. Everyone else is given so small attention! I still remember how that same Naruto (before it became horrible) focused on its side cast and fleshed it out down to its core. What do we get here….? Absolutely nothing. Nothing matters besides Deku. Deku is the center of the world. Even the fights in the tournament arc took place in a flash as if to fast forward to the important part, which is DEKU.
One could obviously argue that the show also focuses on Todoroki and Iida, but to be honest… even in those parts, it is very easy to follow what the thing is focusing on (*cough* Deku being such a good guy *cough*).
And now Deku himself is a huge problem as well. He follows the same bland shounen self-insert protagonist formula without a single unique trait. He is as typical as a character in anime can ever get and there is literally nothing to talk about here.


And finally the execution of the show… To describe the feeling I got here – LOW EFFORT.
Everything in this anime screams of lack of attention to any kind of detail.
The art style is maximum simplistic as if to make a joke about how bland the characters are. The villains even look as evil as they possibly can…
If you’re going to look for any details in the character behavior or certain situations – HA HA HA. None. Everything is extremely straightforward and dumbed down as much as possible.
The good part here is the music… and damn it is so catchy. The OPs are great, EDs are fine, “You Say Run” does most of the job in crucial moments and the timing on the OST usage is great. The Deku vs Todoroki scene is executed brilliantly and is the only awesome moment in the anime (including season one).
By the way… I still couldn’t forget that horrible Deku crying scene from the first season, which was executed in the most disgusting way possible. I think a kid with actual autism wouldn’t look as bad. Also, going back to the issues with details starting with season one... One more striking detail is how bland the One-For-All quirk is… Simply, power. Goooooing baaaaack to our Deku being a bland self-insert issue……


One more thing that strikes me about this show is how it is afraid to have actual progress. It tries to keep its status-quo as much as possible all the time while slooooowly progressing with the main conflict.
To explain better what I mean, I’ll take the Stain arc.
In this arc, Iida gets the same treatment that Todoroki does in the tournament arc, aka DEVELOPMENT. But where the show succeeded in the first case, it completely failed in the Iida case. What happens here is that Iida just goes back to his normal state that he had, right before the arc started. Not only that, but the whole damage he creates by screwing up is as minimal as it can get. Unlike the Todoroki case, there are no real consequences to this whole issue except that moving the main plot slightly forward.


So, overall… This season did a better job than season one, which was literally a bunch of “nothing happens”. It finally tried to do something and had a few themes to explore. Some of them were handled okay-ish and some worse, but the main issues that I had with the show since the first season are still there: a terribly bland cast, a cheap plot with no attention to details or world-building and a striking simplicity in literally everything to the point of insulting the viewer’s intelligence.

Warning! I've seen only 6 episodes. i reached the fanservice scene and went to a priest to cleanse my soul.

Story 3:
There is more asspulls than Jojo part 2. Somehow. The tournament arc is bad and unnecesseraly long. Why is there a hero tournament where bussiness students head face to face with Class-A.

Art 9:
It's good.

Sound 5:
The OP is worse than before.
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Characters 1:
I really hated Todoroki, Deku, and Uraraka as if I'm being cursed by the Antichrist. Iida has nice character development. Mineta also exists. Bakugo's screaming brings pleasure to my ears.

Enjoyment 2:
The fanservice scene from ep. 6 is the worst fucking thing I've had the displeasure of seeing. I have never been so uncomfortable in my life. They are 15 ffs.

Overral 4:
Season 2 is just r/bokunoeroacademia material. Bad.

This show is completely for kids... i dont know why so many peoples like this anime.. so many points i dont understand like....
deku is always tell smthng abt opponent which is related to his past.. and then suddenly... graphic is so much so that everyone was confused and makers create brightness full contrast scene... why so many times it goes to past back scene.. we already saw that dont show again and again.. its slow pace.. just like hxh... anime plus point is only music nothng else.. so if u watch only scene then u realize its kind of so boring and irritated show ever

So my biggest issue with is series and the reason I dropped it straight after this season is the writing, which I feel is pretty bad. First off we have villains, who I never actual felt really did much to be consider that ‘evil’, for instance they only seemed to ever target others with quirks, for instance they repeatadely target the students, why not go for aneasier target, to make them look truly like villains? Additionally a main character that just wants to be a hero, I’m sorry but that is a crap reason and bad motivation, give me a reason to care about ... him.

Another issue is the lack of character development, of the cast litererally dozens, where there they only concentrate on a select few, and never bother with the others, instead the writer’s idea of character development is instead just make new characters up with increasingly stupid quirks.

Final issue, and from what I hear it continues in the 3rd season, you talk up a villain, in this case ‘Hero Killer’ (really not, but okay it happens of screen I guess) Stain and then he gets beaten by a bunch of kids pretty much. Okay so MC was one of them so I guess that’s okay......but the whole giving him a nickname, and his first appearance is just hospitalising a characters brother, when they could have gone the more extreme route and just killed him, it would of given the guy more ‘threat’ and opend up, shock horror character development for a guy who is mainly just uptight and shouty. Instead we get a bunch of student heroes in training trying to stop a killer, and like evr other time in the series none of them really suffer any consequences, mainly as they have a doctor that can seemngly heal anything, so where is the tension or drama in that exactly.

And then ‘hero almost kbut not quite killer’....he gets beaten and carted of to ‘villain’ jail, just like happens to the big bad in season 3, so what’s the point really, anyone can see when ever this cash-cow eventually just dies off it will come down to fight 78 bewteen Deku and Bakugo who will be a villain, and then the power of freindship will save the day.

INTRODUCTION
Season 2 of MHA was filled with poor writing and new boring characters except stain that didn't leave much of an impression on you. it was a disappointment in many areas and i do personally feel like the writer gave up in some moments throughout the season and did whatever was necessary to move on to the next scene/plot. i found myself constantly sighing throughout the show due to its poor writing and hopefully ill be able to explain my reasoning clearly enough so that you understand my dislike for this season...

TOURNAMENT ARC
The tournament arc was TRASH!!! I'm not even going to get into specifics ... because there's no need in order to explain my reasoning. the tournament arc was supposed to give the students of UA a chance at showcasing their quirks in different settings so that the pro heroes watching the tournament could invite the students to do internship for them, the big problem is the lack of variety in the tasks they had to do in the tournament. every single thing the students had to do were more suited to students who had powerful quirks or quirks that made you faster than everyone else, there was no variety so that other students who aren't fast and strong could showcase their abilities and because of that they looked like they were crap compared to the stronger and faster students. the fact is that the pro heroes need to see the students in different scenarios so they can pick the right student for their internship, so to fit that they should of had more variety and not just make it about the fast and strong people. i don't know if you know this but in the world of MHA there's not that many quirks that are strong and most of them are only suited to specific tasks. so all I'm saying is that there was no variety. when it came down to the one vs one battles a lot of the fights were rushed in order to get to the more appealing fights which isn't exactly a problem but it would of been nice to see more fights. hardly any of the students in the one vs one fights actually used strategy, there was only one moment in the Uraraka vs Bakugo fight but that ended with guess what... the stronger character won. overall it would of been nice to see some surprises, maybe one of the 3 stronger characters losing to one of the weakest but i just thought the entire tournament arc was poorly executed and i think the writer forgot the whole point to this Sports Festival (Tournament). ill get into some of the others tournament stuff later but overall i thought the tournament arc was TRASH!!! MOVING ON!!!!

THE TODOROKI PROBLEM
Todoroki in the first season rarely had any speaking lines whereas in this season practically revolves around him which isn't a problem. Todoroki is incredibly overpowered for this MHA world, the reality is that Todoroki could probably win against most villains. you see how OP he is when he goes through each task in the tournament. Todoroki unlike everyone else goes through a character arc which was utter BS, Deku practically begs Todoroki to use his left side to melt the ice particles that are building up which he doesn't want to use because of his dad. the problem is that throughout this arc and the 1st season Todoroki has no problem using his left side to melt ice he created. now that's a issue because in this particular scene I'm wondering "why don't you use your left side to melt the ice like you've already done before?" it breaks the illusion of what is supposed to be a intense moment. once Todoroki's character changed he becomes a wet mop and is easily one of the most boring characters in the entire show, every single time he talks he barely has any emotion, its almost sad...

THE STAIN ARC/INTERNSHIPS
This arc is easily good because of stain, he is the only character in the entire show that has a different belief/ideal that anyone else and that makes him interesting and new. if you think about it who out of the students has a different ideal to anyone else in the group, they all want to be the best and have the same outlook for the most part. its the same with the villains, the villains are evil just because, not one of them actually has any interesting ideals or beliefs that drives that character to make certain decisions. its these reasons that make stain interesting, however is he an master piece of a character? no, no hes not but he is interesting unlike everyone else. to be honest the internships were a joke, the only characters to do anything interesting was Deku and Froppy. the problem with that is that the internships is supposed to be a peek for the audience and the students so they have an idea of what a pro heroes life is like, its supposed to be a reality check but you never feel like anything interesting is happening and it almost feels pointless until Stain arrives in the arc. if stain was not in this arc it would of been incredibly boring, i mean Momo and the other girl did photo-shoots with their pro hero, the harden brothers did nothing but manual labour, Uraraka learned a few things but never put it into practice at that time, Lida paroled the streets but again until stain showed up he wasn't doing anything interesting either. it would of been nice to see these students have to deal with real world problems that pro heroes deal with on a daily basis but we don't get that. this whole arc apart from stain is poorly written and again i feel the writer missed an opportunity to open our eyes to the world of MHA.

FINAL ARC
This arc was TERRIBLE. you have to remember that these students just came back from their internships which is where they should of got experience and probably should be a little bit smarter. The main part in this arc i want to talk about is the practical exam because this is where shit got stupid and allow me to give a few examples, Todoroki and Momo are fighting Eraser Head and eraser head ties Todoroki up to a pole so hes hanging there while Momo is supposed to be running away, Todoroki can use fire and ice and yes he doesn't use either to try to get from being tied so he can help Momo. the reason the writer didn't even make Todoroki try is so Momo can have a little bit of character development where she has to learn to think for herself even though we've barely seen that as a problem before. this is an example as i mentioned before where the writer wanted something to happen and in order to make that happen he avoided all logic. another example of this is when earphone jack and Anivoice are fighting voice, during this fight they are getting really loud sound waves blasted at them while there in a forest and voice stands at the exit gate. Now the problem with this scene is that at no point did the students use any strategy for example, MOVE OUT THE WAY OF THE SOUND WAVES!!! this could be done because the teacher doesn't know if he hits them with the sound waves and he doesn't know exactly where they are so it would be easy for them to move. By the way ill just remind you, THEY JUST CAME FROM INTERNSHIPS WHERE THEY SHOULD HAVE LEARNED TO BE BE SMARTER. They get out of it by Anivoice making bugs crawl up the teachers leg and he passes out because he was afraid, one problem... He's a PRO HERO and he passes out because of some bugs on his leg, imagine if that was a real situation. The last fight i wanna mention is the fight against thirteen who can suck people towards using her black hole fingers, Uraraka gets sucked towards her and thirteen is shocked and has no plan in place for when someone actually comes towards her and she gets taken down by a little girl!! My biggest problem with this practical exam is how stupid these scenarios are, its as if the writer didn't know how to get them out of a situation and he wanted to do it quickly so he came up with the most stupidest solutions. As i just mentioned these students just came back from internships so how come they fight exactly the same as they were in the FIRST SEASON!! the others fights were OK, the all might fight was meh. I don't like the fact that Bakugo said he'd rather lose than team up with Deku because Bakugo surely still wants to be a hero so surely you'd want to do good in these exams.

My opinion overall is that this entire season is devoid of strategy, idiot moments where the writer couldn't figure out what to do, introducing a few new characters and doing nothing with them and all that SHIT is topped of with a cherry called stain!! i hope I've explained my reasons for giving this anime a 4/10, its actually funny because originally when i watched this season i didn't think it was so bad and that was partly to do with the fact that i wasn't really watching it properly and then i re watched it and realised how bad it really is....

Too many irrelevant characters and quite frankly, I only enjoyed the U.A sports and the battle against Stain. The internship was questionable to the point how suddenly Midoriya learned to use his 5% power of One for All in his entire body. The stupid 2v1 student vs teacher test was very pointless and all of the battles were plain boring and uncreative. The last episode was is just a foreshadowing premonition that it was so boring that I speed rush 2x. I honestly can say I am not excited for 3rd season. Nothing against Shounen but these Quirks are just so simplistic for some characters ... that it feels like a cheap rip-off of One Piece, etc. How does a person with the Quirk, "invisible" ever improve in the hero course in high school? There are Quirks that are so unbalanced and there is literally zero character development for 90% of the characters and I just wanted to get this show over because I liked the start but the end is torture. Work hard and train hard. How come that invisible girl stays invisible even with the teacher's "Erase Quirk"? The laws of this world does not even follow itself. What a joke.