The Decline of My Hero Academy Part 2: Heroes Rising https://youtu.be/Oa7cSnyK7TQ Season 4https://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 its 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 looksgood. 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: https://i.ur.com/XtSiBDI.png https://i.ur.com/mjgdLYX.png https://i.ur.com/xMu2X2l.png https://i.ur.com/CBYWw0v.jpg https://i.ur.com/jJCYx6B.png Story As far as the story goes itsokay. Its mostly just the students running errands on this island until the villain attacks and then the rest of it focuses onstopping 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. Thats 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 IMGhttps://i.ur.com/7heU1tM.png 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. Andthe crazy bastards actually did it. Kind of stunned they didnt pussy out and have him arrested like the series would usually do. IMGhttps://i.ur.com/rpD3SHi.jpg Bad stuff Dont get me wrong though. There are things I dont 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 Im going to make a world for the powerful and strong type. Disinteresting. Recycled. Boring. https://i.ur.com/gO0ZrHM.png And while the ending is really cool seeing Bakugo run around with One for All and everything. I really wish they didnt bother with all the noncanon course correcting at the end. This is a battle shounen movie. Everyone knows that what happens in them never affects the main story. So dont worry about making sure there arent any plot holes for the next season. No one cares Conclusion Overall though Heroes Rising is if you choose to look at a movies 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 didnt believe anymore after how disastrous seasons 3 and 4 were visually. Decline of My Hero Academy Conclusion I think Ive 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 Ill 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 dont like? Well thats the thing. My Hero Academy isnt inherently bad. After all it started off well. But its potential is being wasted by 2 entities and I think its 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. Thats 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 dont think it has any real value. All I would say is its really bad and dont watch it. You cant fix something that is broken on paper that doesnt even have a solid blueprint for a good show. But My Hero Academy isnt 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. Thats 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 isnt really fixing My Hero Academy its changing it into something I like more. And to be honest I dont really want every new shounen to be like those shows. They should strive to carve out their own identity. But if youre going to utilize the same tropes I think its more than fair to illustrate how My Hero Academy doesnt use them as effectively and why that is. 3: I dont hate Horikoshi and I dont hate My Hero Academy. I liked the potential it had and am frustrated with Horikoshi for wasting it with lazy writing. Hes clearly a very talented illustrator which is all the more reason to be frustrated with Bones for making his show look like ass. And its 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. Im happy for him that his manga is super successful and Im sure hes a nice guy. He just happens to have written a popular manga that hes pissing away the potential of. Id like to end things on that note because thats 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.