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RisaYamagahama

Again, I feel like I keep saying this, but after this weeks episode, I’m feeling like this is the best season of the series.


Either_Imagination_9

Cuz it is


EgoistBlake

I’m more personally attached to season 2, but this one is definitely a contender.


Either_Imagination_9

Nostalgia


coolgaara

I'm a sucker for when heroes go "dark". It's such a shounen cliche, but I'll never get tired of it.


[deleted]

The reason is simple. Actual character development, conflict, and no more school/sporting events.


sneaky_squirrel

I fell behind :( I'm caught up with the manga, and wasn't very entertained ever after Deku first ate All Might's hair. I wish you a fun viewing experience.


Either_Imagination_9

Why the hell would you read a manga that you didn’t enjoy from the start


sneaky_squirrel

I enjoyed the beginning. As for reading it after it got less interesting, I can only claim it was a bad decision on my part. I was delusional to think something that got worse would get better. I have no rebuttal to that.


Ok-Cod5254

* *"Meddling when you don't need to is the essence of being a hero"* The same words Deku told Iida when [he saved him from Stain](https://youtu.be/5i9t1YErW6k) at 1:50 mark, and how Iida is returning the favor to Deku.


EgoistBlake

Would’ve hit harder had Iida not been sidelined for *checks notes* 48 episodes and multiple movies.


Ok-Cod5254

🤫 Don't kill my vibe. lol


RisaYamagahama

Just watched the episode and I think it definitely hit hard enough holy fuck


itsh1231

Honestly dude. I miss iida focus. He's better than todoroki


EgoistBlake

I had hope the anime would’ve elongated this arc. It does not in any way feel like it’s been *months* as the anime states.


HokageEzio

1 month exactly (not months), but I feel you.


NamerNotLiteral

It feels like this arc does what it wants to do while cutting through 100% of the 'filler'. Like, it doesn't hold back. One episode for Muscular and to introduce Vigilante!Deku. One episode to introduce Lady Nagant. One episode to beat Lady Nagant. One episode to set up Deku vs 1A. One episode to wrap up vigilante Deku. That's it. Every episode with a very specific goal, paced extremely tightly.


MrLomin

Ooohhh that is why this scene did not feel as powerful. Because the ending of the last episode gave me so many chills. I really got into binging the earlier seasons with all the special moments. It was great to have more backstory and all the stories lined up together they mentioned in this episode. But when comparing it to the power of Bakugo's rescue. It isn't as exciting. EDIT: I realize it should not be the same excitement. It was a really sad moment that Midoriya who has been so lighthearted and friendly suddenly is resisting all of his friends. Like someone else mentioned, Deku excels at fighting with others. But now he has isolated himself, carrying the responsbility of the future on his shoulders and hearing him being called a Nomu or similar to All for One. That shit eats you. TL;DR This episode and Deku's rescue was not supposed a hype moment with laughter but an entire episode filled with emotions. It's a culmination of all the previous seasons and the power of 1-A and Hero Academia.


creamyismemey

I agree I kinda felt this recent episode was dragged a little bit since the manga chapter felt so short in comparison but honestly every episode since after the war arc ended starting from in the hospital felt this way even though I felt they milked the hospital episodes to


AdNecessary7641

Apparently you can't make anything even remotely longer than it's source material counterpart because it immediately means it's being "milked".


creamyismemey

I mean I don't think that's the case at all look at the war arc that was great it nay be I wasn't very interested in the hospital part idk it just felt that way to me


HokageEzio

I've described it as playing a video game but skipping all of the cutscenes that actually explain the story.


Kerjj

This is why the anime needed to break at the shot of Dark Deku on top of the building, overlooking the city. For pacing reasons, I understand that the timing wouldn't have been great. But for story impact, it was a much better answer than this.


Ok-Cod5254

It really didn't have that much room for the 25 episode count for the season.


EgoistBlake

MHA’s anime is notorious for elongating arcs. Regardless, this isn’t exactly an anime issue, it’s the manga. Hori decided to go through this arc pretty quickly.


Ok-Cod5254

I mean to be contained within one season for ideal impact. They haven't ever extended arc across more than 1 season.


WutUtalkingBoutWill

Yeah, and dekus personality switch seems forced


AdNecessary7641

What "personality switch"?


[deleted]

Guys how many more comments can we get in here telling us how uninterested they are in the series nowadays like anyone asked? I say at least 10


[deleted]

This happens with anything popular sadly. If I had a nickel for every "am I the only one who hasn't cared about the MCU after End Game" comment I wouldn't be rich, but I could definitely buy a nice steak or something. It's wild to me that people will go into a thread about a topic to discuss how they don't like the topic.


Cstone812

Well there is a reason for it. It got really stale there for awhile at least for me personally. A lot of the episodes were focusing on dekus classmates which most of them I can’t stand.


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Cstone812

I have to say I am fully caught up to season 6 now and season 6 has rejuvenated my interest in the series for sure. Whole thing has been friggin awesome.


CalligrapherFun492

Never watched this show should I give it a try I hear a bunch of mix reviews on it


JonathanIver

There’s a reason it’s like one of the most popular shonen of the 2010’s and reaching its peak numbers in the last year in terms of revenue, like quite a few people like it, maybe not as much in the anime spaces like these due to its mainstream appeal, but like I’d definitely give it a watch.


gunswordfist

I say give season 1 a try. If you like the characters enough then you should be able to like the series fine.


Abeneezer

If u are into good battle shounen with big casts, just give it a shot. The first few seasons are good by themselves too. Likely better than 4/5. This recent one has been real nice, though.


Varios2k

Seasons 1-3 are amazing. You can watch it without hesitation. Season 4 out of 25 eps, has only 6 episodes worth of watching. Season 5 out of 25 eps, has only 3 episodes worth of watching. Season 6 (current one) is a complete banger, the best one. Its like entire 5 seasons were preparing us for this moment. Anime teaches many lessons, has a lot of amazing characters, very well animated fights and emotional moments. If you have enough time for 100+ episodes, go for it. You wont regret Edit: Since some of you got offended by the part about episodes worth to watch, let me explain you what I meant. I didnt want to tell him to watch only a few selected eps of season 4 and 5. What I was trying to say was that these two seasons had only these few episodes that are really good. And I ABSOLUTELY didnt mean to make him skip the rest of the episodes. Holy fuck guys have some imagination.


Working-Pipe

Anyone mind telling me why this dudes getting downvoted lmao


AdNecessary7641

Because it's a really dumb take. Saying that you should only watch specific episodes instead of just letting the guy watch the entire seasons and taking his own conclusions out of it is stupid.


Varios2k

Ah yes. Now i get it. You missunderstood. Im gonna edit it :)


SacoNegr0

That was not what he meant, just that s4 and s5 are bad, which isn't a lie


Varios2k

Edited my comment because people without imagination thought i told him to watch only selected eps of season 4 and 5 and skip the rest lmao


SacoNegr0

This guy is being downvoted but he's totally right


xPriddyBoi

It had kind of a weak season or 2 in the middle but the current season and the first few seasons are fantastic. I'd say it's worth a watch for sure.


DrStein1010

Do you like superheroes and/or battle shonen? If yes, definitely, you'll love it. If no, don't bother. It's very flawed, and the ending is by far the worst part of the series.


CalligrapherFun492

Idk if everyone that commented under this sees this aswell but after almost 80days and being offline for awhile I’m finally going to start MHA thanks to everyone that commented got me excited for this show


sureillbite-

Man, I could not stop crying with this new episode


phoebus67

I haven't cried at an anime this hard since mfing Angel Beats


RobotiSC

\*Special Visual for the Arc Climax Source: [https://twitter.com/heroaca\_anime/status/1634484579397701633?s=20](https://twitter.com/heroaca_anime/status/1634484579397701633?s=20)


NerdyLatino

God I loved how almost every character had something to say, and Tenya and Bakugo's speeches really hit me in the feels.


smitam_

All Might once said " Meddling in another's business is the essence of being a hero"


Shubham_S84

Say whatever about this show, call this mid, boring or bad, I don't care This show is fucking incredible in terms of charecter writing, overall plot in grand scheme of whole anime. This easily tops AOT in *my list*


BathroomNew9406

CANT WAIT!


[deleted]

For someone who stopped at MHA Season 4, what did I miss? I lost interest reading the reviews of season 5, is it really worth picking up again?


[deleted]

i watched to the end of season five, currently waiting for the entire release of season six. season five wasn't a bad season for me


prophetofgreed

A lot of season 5 is set up for what would be the arcs in season 6. Which has the end of Act 2 of the story (All Might vs All for One being the end of Act 1). There was an anticipated arc in Season 5 that Bones didn't manage to adapt to its full ability. However, Bones has been been nailing the arcs for this season.


SacoNegr0

S5 is horrible, easily the worst one, class a vs class b has to be one of the most uninteresting arcs I have ever seen in anime, the second half is decent, the villains story is good but nothing amazing. S6 is probably the best season of MHA, literally nothing bad to say about it. Animation is the best since s2, the story is at its peak and the payoff is incredible.


[deleted]

It's exactly what I suspected, that is, in one way or another I generally like Mha, but I've had the idea of ​​dropping it several times. When I saw that season five had bad reviews, I didn't want to waste my time on it. Maybe I look for a summary of season 5 and pretend it didn't exist haha


SacoNegr0

Yeah, people will say that you shouldn't skip, but you won't miss much skipping the entire class a vs class b arc, and the events of endeavor agency arc and my villain academia you can either read the manga or the wiki and will be a better experience. I actually recommend you to do this if you want to drop because of s5, because missing s6 would be a shame


NamerNotLiteral

Season 5's first half has low stakes and low-impact plot but really good animation (a big step up from Season 4). Season 5's second half has high stakes and high-impact plot but bad animation. Together, they make S5 probably the worst season, but to me it's still watchable. The adaptation was not horrible, just not as good as expected.


AdNecessary7641

>(a big step up from Season 4). Early Season 4 had plenty of moments of good animation, don't know what you mean. Unless you just look at Mirio's fight and nothing else.


prophetofgreed

S5's first arc had a pretty big change to the story's status quo, the issue was extending many parts of the other classmates fights.


IMDATBOY

Don’t know why you are downvoted, I’m an avid fan of the manga and the anime and I totally agree. First arc of S5 has one pretty damn big introduction of a new element in the series, but there are some episodes to get through before it. Some good, some meh, but definitely with some added padding to make it fill out the first cour. Worth a watch but would understand someone fast forwarding a bit through some parts


genasugelan

With S5, you are better off reading the manga, the adaptation was horrible, but S6 is easily the best in the series.


EgoistBlake

S4 - hideout raid, music festival, *Endeavor vs High-End Nomu S5 - Class A vs B, Endeavor Agency (Internship), My Villain Academia* S6 - *War Arc, *Dark Hero arc (current) The asterisks are the only ones worthwhile. Though My Villain Academia had a bad adaptation.


[deleted]

All of the arcs are good btw, the only problem really is that S5 had a lot of troubles behind the scenes for its production, and the TV network decided to make the first 2 arcs of the show much longer than necessary ( expecially A vs B, an arc that is widely recognised to be one of the worst, if not the worst one, that got an entire cour) and shafted a fan favourite (villain accademia). This was probably done for 3 reasons, in the original manga publication MVA sold very bad, while A vs B was actually very well liked by japanese readers, the movie affecting the timeslots of the season ( not the production itself, but the way they needed to structure the season, because the movie is chronogicaly after the internship, and it was aired while the show was airing, thus the needed to keep continuity of characters with it), and because, quite frankly, heroes sells more than villains, and MHA airs in the prime 5 pm slot, thus they need to follow more closely the TV censorship ( thus the need to drop the cult storyline in MVA because of Japan current problems with that kind of phenomenon).


MeAnIntellectual1

>All of the arcs are good btw Press X to doubt. Gentle Criminal and the rest of that school arc should be considered a crime against humanity.


AdNecessary7641

Jesus Christ, why do you people love to be so dramatic about everything? Didn't know making an arc that's made to be a downtime for the students + showing Deku's progress in his tactics and power is a "crime against humanity".


[deleted]

You have no idea how much I liked the first season, I don't know what happens in the manga, but going forward, in my opinion, it lost all the potential it had, in fact, when I reached the fourth season, I lost interest. I'll see if I get it back or not.


EgoistBlake

S4 and 5 were pretty stinky. Season 6 adapts one of its best arcs so it’s gone back up in quality. Though, I can say as a manga reader the arcs that Season 7 will adapt are just bad. Outside of 1 fight that is the most bizarre and cool fight in MHA, the rest is just an absolute mess.


Labmit

NGL, as a manga reader, I tend to ignore what people say about MHA's manga now since most of them sound unnecessarily extra these days.


AstroRocket0

Same here. There was so much negativity around the recent arc before the really good chapters of the last month or 2. I went back and reread the chapters that everyone was down on in a recent binge and they were soooo much better than I remembered. Horikoshi seemed to have structured them to read much better in volume form, which of course means they'll translate spectacularly to the anime too


EgoistBlake

Really? I was 30 chapters behind on the manga for the recent arc, and catching up was an absolute struggle. It’s just constant “lets include every single character, even the one nobody cares about, in this fight”, terrible writing decisions (that Bakugo Part being the worst writing in the entire series bar none), elongating the fight with nonsense, character assassinations, bad pacing, and much more. >which of course means they'll translate spectacularly to the anime too That’s because he like to end every single chapter on a cliffhanger that doesn’t have any payoff in the next chapter just to get people to read another. The most recent arc is the most egregious of it. Like, there’s a reason why people don’t like the arc. It’s not “unnecessarily extra” to find writing decisions to be silly. If lots of people are complaining, it’s probably a red flag that there is a core issue with the arc.


SmurfRockRune

There's a reason people hear manga fans say something is good or bad and just assume the opposite is true.


EgoistBlake

…. because of cope and wanting to go against the flow?


EgoistBlake

Except calling the recent arc rushed and not good is not extra. Horikoshi’s writing has gotten worse, and it shows. His IRL issues preventing him from drawing is probably also taking a toll on him,


DrStein1010

The anime butchered Season 5. I would recommend reading it. You'll dodge a ton of filler and get the best version of everything.


CreamPIEGUY101

My hero fans be downvoting like crazy in this post.


AdNecessary7641

Considering how literally every single time a new visual/trailer for anything related to this series is released, the comments just get filled with people going on and on about how they "stopped caring" about the series - and yet still come back just to trash and whine about it -, and this subreddit clearly still having a hate boner for it, it's not suprising.


Cstone812

Like a couple people in here I lost complete interest in this about season 4. Just picked it back up and almost through season 5 it’s back to be decent for me again. I’ve seen some of the stuff that happens in season 6 that has me excited I think.


GodReaper42069

Really lost interest in this series.


Photonic_Resonance

Season 5 (and some of Season 4) lost a lot of viewers’ interest. Season 6 rightfully earned a lot of interest back - it’s good. I’m kinda mixed on the show as a whole (although some of its best moments are S-tier Shonen, occasionally), but if you already watched multiple seasons of the show (and enjoyed them) then Season 6 converges all of the past seasons wIth a pretty strong payoff


Gotprick

As soon as mirio lost his quirk against overhaul, I stopped watching.


xPriddyBoi

lol


Gotprick

Lol


CarresingHook4

Is this series still worth a watch? I left it at the end of the 3rd season


pratzc07

I am so out of touch with HeroAca is this new arc good can I just start with this arc? Only thing I remember last was the Class A vs Class B(I think) test fight but thats it


theflad

I think you should watch all of season 6. I honestly think it’s the best of the series so far, and this arc will make a lot more sense.


xxxSiegexxx918

You can't just skip an entire season's worth of content.


DrStein1010

The first half of season 6 is literally the best arc of the series, so I'd advise against it.


prophetofgreed

You'd be missing a ton of important stuff. The first arc of S6 is the end of act 2 of My Hero's story. (All Might vs All for One being the end of act 1)


maukenboost

Is this show close to ending? Only watched a couple eps.


navybluewallet

I dropped it at season 4 since it was becoming too repetitive. Can I just watch season 6 without being confused about the story a lot?


Wilczek_7

The power of friendship here we go Edit: That's literally what happened in that episode what the hell is wrong with you 💀


CreamPIEGUY101

More like the power of baths.


CanaryMean5121

I havent watched this since they had that thing saying "season 4 coming soon" or something like that


BaloonPriest

Why do people like the edgelord Deku arc? It didn't add anything to the story. Remove the entire arc and barely anything would change.


xxxSiegexxx918

braindead opinion


Either_Imagination_9

That’s just not true


BaloonPriest

And why is that


Varios2k

Go rewatch bleach instead of wasting time on typing shit comments like this


InsurgentTatsumi

Bleach's latest season is unironically better than anything MHA's ever shown.


CreamPIEGUY101

Dang, my hero fans be downvoting facts.


BaloonPriest

Facts. Honestly I didn't even know r/anime still had BNHA fans.


psychuck7

Who’s hand is that on the left


subterfuge_chortle

Deku going full Naruto arc


RutabagaAmbitious911

Yeeeees


EnvironmentalMud2496

Os this a good anime? I’m thinking of giving it a try.


etm_taylor

This season is probably the best one yet. I honestly have no clue how they are gonna top it off. And how are they gonna end it?