Boku no Hero Academia - Season 5

This season has been rather disappointing, at least in the beginning. I am not inetersted about Class B of UA, and in all honesty, I didn't even remember most their members from the previous seasons. I mean, it makes complete sense, I can remember the names of most of my own classmates from my school days, even though I can only remember one or two names at most from the schoolmates in the other classes. So, anyway, I somehow cannot understand why I should be invested in the members of the other grades, as I did not spend enough time with them to really get to know them much and the only reason I can remember them is because of their sometimes embarrassing supposed rivalry with the Class A. I therefore could not really care about their competition and the whole first half of the season felt like an incredibly long-winded training arc so everyone, including the main male protagonist, could acquire some new skills. Like, good, I get it, even though YAWN... It then just goes from one training arc to another. This time the practices were shorter and more boring than in the previous season (practically nothing much happened...) and the whole thing centered around the Todoroki family way too much for my taste, as I just did not find it as interesting as the anime series tried to make it out to be. A peculiar thing caught my attention, and that was the talk of another mysterious sibling, and I got the impression the show will introduce this new character sometime in the future because otherwise the anime’s creators would not have mentioned his existence at all and according to the rules of making TV shows - I have not yet seen a dead body... The ending was, as always, very good. This whole season was once again about worldbuilding, however, the demonstration of how the disparate group of mediocre League of Villains became the most powerful criminal organization capable of destroying the world around them, was excellent and, most importantly, necessary. All for One gave me a feeling of respect and fear, however, I never found Shigaraki and his League of Villains very frightening, and I was just not very impressed by them. That has of course now changed, the evil is now more powerful than ever, and I am anxiously awaiting doomsday. So even though this season is more like the calm before the storm, which lovers of shows that are more action-packed are not going to love, it has given me an overall impression of like 7/10 (and that is mainly due to the finále), I am anxiously looking forward to the next season, because, in my opinion, the atmosphere around the epic confrontation between good and evil they managed to build up during this season was very good… (25.09.2021)

I'll put it simply – this Shōnen is just awesome. It suits me so well, I find it very well developed, which of course brings with it a certain overload of characters, but somehow it makes sense to me. Before watching this season, I rewatched the previous ones, and it seemed to me like a seamless continuation of what we've already seen, which is why I didn't mind at all that we saw the A's fighting the B's. I think this knowledge of the characters will still come in handy in the upcoming battle. However, if it was all for nothing, then that will really piss me off and I'll going down a star with the rating. This series is a drumbeat. "Let it be known...!!!" I'm not saying I liked it 100%, but I liked it enough to sacrifice a few hours of sleep for it, which is the most precious commodity for me these days. I enjoyed it, I liked the small and big fights, as well as the infiltration of the Todoroki family. But what I loved the most was the "interplay" between Bakugo and Deku. It's what I'd been craving and honestly it came much sooner than I expected. Awesome. While this series may be the weaker link of the whole, even weak links have fans. I am one of them. (01.11.2021)