Category: My Hero Academia

  • My Review Academia S5 E9: 4-0

    My Review Academia S5 E9: 4-0

    After a whole season of doing practically nothing, Bakugo is finally back in the spotlight! But is he coming back with a bang? Or a whimper? You know the drill by now. This episode focuses on the fourth match between classes A and B. And Bakugo is determined to get a perfect win. Can he…

  • Why We Love Shinso

    Why We Love Shinso

    Everyone loves an underdog. A story is boring when you’re protagonist always has the upper hand. We’d rather root for someone with the odds stacked against them. Because we often see ourselves in them. We can’t help but root for them to succeed because they’re faced with impossible odds and refuse to give up. My…

  • My Review Academia S5 E8: All Style, Little Substance

    My Review Academia S5 E8: All Style, Little Substance

    Can we talk about how every episode has some creative title, but these last two have just been ‘Match 3’ and ‘Match 3 Conclusion’? How interesting! Narratively speaking, not much goes on in this episode. The third match reaches its climactic conclusion. In this time, both Todoroki and Iida shatter their limits. But against their…

  • My Review Academia S5 E7: Round 3 and the Weak Start

    My Review Academia S5 E7: Round 3 and the Weak Start

    This wasn’t all that compelling an episode, to be honest. It doesn’t look great and it makes a lot of bad decisions that ruin the pacing. It had its moments, but overall it just wasn’t that exciting. Plot-wise, there isn’t much to discuss. After the second match, the students move to a new battlefield that…

  • My Review Academia S5 E6: Teenagers on Shrooms

    Why is the recap so long this episode? We don’t need a two minute recap of the entire arc. It’s not like they took a break or anything! Plot wise, this episode doesn’t have much. The match between team Yaoyorozu and team Kendo wraps up. And… yeah, that’s it. There’s nothing else here. This episode…