Boku no Hero Academia: Final Season

It has been a long run, but we are at the end of the show, one final season, one chance and an unknown future to come. Will All Might and Deku win over true evil, or will their world crumble to dust, it is all decided now. In this final season of My Hero Academia we are seeing the end of the story, with the final battles being fought and us seeing what happens to the victors and the losers. This is done with a fast start into All Might’s fight against All For One, then transitioning into what follows and afterwards on to the endof this long lasting trial. All made with a great animation quality, amazing pacing and some incredible moments. The plot of this season is really something, for this is the final climax and the final resolution, the season has to tie a knot on everything left behind, while making it feel like the characters are left where they should be. The plot of the season first has to finish the two last fights against All For One and Shigaraki respectively, which it does flawlessly. It knows how to push you to the edge of your seat, before knocking you back and keeping you invested all the way through, especially since it keeps a pacing that feels natural, since there are no cut corners or too long moments. While keeping the fights themselves entertaining, do they also know how to make the viewer invested, by successfully using the characters and the world they have built up through so many seasons. This together gives some ending fights that are truly amazing and fitting for the final climax of the show. Next the plot dives into the epilogue where we get to see how the characters are left off. This is not done with short descriptions but is done with the right amount of detail, showing how the events of the show have affected the characters right after and in the far future. It is done fairly detailed for the time shortly after the end, and with more open descriptions for the future ahead, leaving it more open for the viewer's imagination. Which is fitting, giving both a concrete and an open ending to the many characters and plots. Together the plot is amazing and really showed how to finish off a long show, with many characters having influenced it and developed it. The characters are being finished and polished, we see the end of their story and with it, the end of their individual character progression. So for the season we see the ending of the last characters arcs, and then we see what future awaits for all the characters we got to meet throughout the show. It is done beautifully, first seeing the end for the last couple of characters being done with care and details, giving them a fitting end. Followed by seeing all their futures, which matched the characters, but was not always expected, giving a satisfying ending not just to the characters but to the world of My Hero Academia. Production qualitywise is this season absolutely amazing, with it making the ending of this show shine even brighter. Animation is beautiful, detailed and incredible at showing these high intense action moments, with nothing left wanted. It is done with keeping the same style we are used to through all the other seasons, just done with the quality matching a true ending. Other than just keeping animation incredible, the voice acting and music are done incredibly well, with immense passion and attention to the moments, supporting them and really striking home. The production quality is a platform that really matches what the plot and the characters come with, making the end next level. To conclude it all. This is a beautiful ending to a show with its ups and downs, it truly ends all the stories and leaves our heroes and villains in a position fitting them. I can only recommend watching this final season, to see the end of this long story.

I discovered My Hero Academia years ago, when I was so much younger. At the time I was still in school, I was thirteen I guess, I don't remember well. I was often lonely at lunch and was passing the hours I have at the library in my school, when I was checking the manga area I always saw this yellow book with a muscular man looking like an American hero, and a young boy. And at that age I was already judging the cover book and the drawing, I was already passionate regarding of what I am doing now (background artist/2D rigger, 2D animator/director).At this time I though why so yellow ? I didn't like the cover haha. I didn't understand (I think I still don't but I accept it). Anyway, I took it and read it at the library and finaly, borrow it, since I didn't finished to read it. And when I was home a Wednesday, sitting in the couch, finishing this manga. I reach the end of the first volume, and saw "Boku no hero academia". Didn't understand why it was called like that, why not just "My hero academia". Curious and intrigued, I write on google "Boku no Hero Academia", and that's when I fall on youtube videos showing what I juste read, like a cartoon that could run at tv but better. I was shocked, so I watch the first episode on Youtube, I watched it many times, I wanted more. I searched it and found it, all the next episode, 2 seasons. That's how I discovered My Hero Academia, but even more that's how I discovered the worlds of anime. So My Hero Academia since the starts and till the end have and will always have a special place in my heart. I will always be grateful to Kohei Horikoshi regarding his manga, and to Bones studio which always has made a great jobs regarding the animation of this manga. Thanks a lot. I'm a bit sad (crying while wrinting these words) to finaly reach the end of this story... But I really adore it since the starts and the part of a good story is to have an end. Thanks you a lot Kohei, My Hero Academia, Izuku, you helped me a lot

End of an era. "Boku no Hero Academia: Final Season" is the last season of the anime, minus one epilogue ova that was announced after the season finale aired. My Hero Academia went from the start of another great shounen, to the end of another great shounen, and managed to stick the landing, mostly. My Hero Academia's main lesson was just one single message that Horikoshi (the author) kept consistently beating readers & watchers over the head with: Reach a hand out. Doesn't matter the circumstance, doesn't matter who it is, just always help. It's a noble, naive, yet simple lesson with good intentions. Although like manyother stories out there, this lesson/trope is often taken to some extremes. The story is very straightforward, a superhero academy for hero trainees who wish to become great heroes that are mentored by veteran heroes that have to deal with various villains with varying levels of circumstances: from neglected children, to manipulated children, to bullied children, to children who are born with conditions, to villains who are misunderstood, to villains trying to make it in the world via crime, etc. Which all culminates with dealing with the ultimate big bad bent on bringing the world to its knees. It's a very standard superhero story. I am also oversimplifying the story of MHA by a wide margin. Like with all standard stories all that matters is the presentation, the emotional investment, how much you care about the characters, how much you relate to their circumstances, the struggles and conflicts, and whether or not you're entertained enough to keep coming back for more. And, boy, were we all entertained alright. One minor criticism is the timeframe. The significant majority of MHA takes place in a little over a year. A LOT has happened and is typical of many shounens (stories in general too) in such short span of time. Some say there should've been a few minor timeskips here or there to keep the growth more believable but I think it's just a minor nitpick. What's great about the anime (and manga) coming to an end is seeing the difference in experience in the art and animation from the start of the show to the end. The studio, bones film, really out-did themselves. Remarkable movie quality episodes that consistently rivals ufotable on a good day. Horikoshi's art was always extremely good but his art and shading truly shined at the end with great character designs (both pre-ending and epilogue) and fantastic scenery/environment two-page spreads. Music is fantastic of course. MHA OSTs have never been a negative, so many amazing themes for each major moment. Never could go wrong with an orchestral arrangement of various MHA themes either and we got a ton of them this season. So regarding the reception to the ending... MHA's manga ending was a combination of various fan opinions, poorly timed fast food collabs, a lukewarm ending, and apparently some maliciously rushed mistranslations(?). Despite some more passionate fans who are trying to push a sort of "revisionist history" of how the manga ending was perceived after the anime finale as if the manga ending was always "good", I personally simply thought the original ending was a weak way to end a series on. At least until the bonus volume chapter came out which expanded the epilogue a little further which upgraded the ending from "lukewarm" to "good" at least in my opinion. The studio must have heard the criticisms because the anime ending changed the presentation of some scenes of the manga ending just enough to be a lot more "positive" (I don't know the right term to use here) than what the manga's first impression was. Which many watchers thought was "good" when they finally saw the ending. Obviously it was gonna be hard to follow up with an epilogue after such an action-packed final battle and some fans will continue to argue it out till the end of time but I'm quite sure the general audience will agree that MHA ended on a good note and so do I.

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