My Hero Academia Review

The opening run works because the premise contains a real argument: in a world where power is inherited, Deku is the boy who receives it as a gift and has to prove he deserves it, and All Might's hollowed-out body is the visual thesis. Bones delivers the Sports Festival and the Stain fight with weight, snap zooms, and impact frames that land hard. Then the structure calcifies. Provisional licence exams, ranked class battles, joint training, and rescue operations recycle the same beat, a character shouts an internal monologue about resolve while a flashback cuts in, and the emotional register never modulates.

The cast expands past what the show can service, so most of Class 1-A gets a quirk and a catchphrase rather than an arc. The war arcs raise the body count without raising the tension, because the series will not commit to consequences it has spent seasons avoiding. Yuki Hayashi's score is brassy and effective but reaches for the same triumphant cue every time. Competent, loud, and increasingly weightless.