Before I get started with the review, I would like to say that I am a fan of MHA, and that this might not be the most nonbiased review, as my personal thoughts for the season are lower than the score down below and I will make some comparisons to the manga ( I'm not a manga purist I swear, most of the time I prefer anime.) And yes this is your Spoiler Alert, but I'll put a TLDR at the end for people who haven't seen it, and would like an opinion. Also this is a long review lol
So...

__ Joint Training Arc__ This arc is mostly uninteresting, with average action, decent characters and varying levels of quality of the animations. But is littered with awful pacing and bad flashbacks. The story in this is just Class A vs Class B, which I do think the idea is pretty good for and I like the idea for, as like a short mini arc like the Battle Training Arc from Season 1 and the Final Exams Arc for Season 2, while I don't think either arc is great or even anything above a 7/10 I still like them. In the manga, It wasn't that good, but the art looked great, and when Deku Unleashed Black Whip it was AWESOME. But here, it was just too long, and it didn't have as much as a Kick you get from what you may get normally. The pacing was also so dragged out, it was like they tried to make it so that it could wait for Endeavor's arc. I'm not gonna go too deep into each match for better pacing ( did you see what i did there), i'm just going to say that Match 3 is my favorite because SHOTOOOOOO actually has development outside of Haha someone hates me cuz me dad lol and because of the actually amazing animation. Black Whip is cool but didn't like the design very much in anime ( Getting that out there) and the action had cool quirks and alright setpieces but nothing out of the ordinary outside of Match 3.

Aftermath of His Start from Season 1- 9/10 ( Keeping this for a score just cuz)
Before Battling 6/10
Match 1 5.5-6/10 ( Decent Fight)
Match 2- 5/10
Match 3- 8/10
Match 4- 4 or 5/10 ( Kinda wish it wasn't a huge wash, even if it supported Bakugo's Dvelopment)
Match 5- 6 or 7/10
Aftermath- 7/10

Overall while not as bad score wise than i'd give the Provisional Lisenceing Exam Arc or The School Festival Arc. This arc still falls in the bottom 3 of MHA arcs, because of how it impacts the season negatively overall, kinda like if you had a scrape on your knee every time you try to run faster than you already have. ( That was an awful metaphor lol) 4.5- 5/10

Endeavor Agency Arc
The best arc of the season, fight me. I prefer the Manga, but I also think that it's the least tampered with stuff in it, and it shouldn't be dragged down just because of Join Training's Arc existence. My biggest problem is that why the fuck is the entire arc in season 5, like I would honestly like it a lot if they put in Todoroki asking Deku and Bakugo if they wanted to have an internship with his dad at the end, and then we see them arrive at the agency, which is like the manga, which they don't do, because we are literally spoiled to the end of the PLF/MVA, like imagine if you haven't read the manga and went in blind, it's just for background if you have to see the PLF/MVA there. Also, don't say you have to promote ur movie, you could release it later and, to make it so the some MHA fans have some content, like JJK and Demon Slayer are doing . However I still loved the arc, the Todoroki family scenes were honestly my favorite part of the season, and seeing Bakugo and Deku dealing with the awkwardness is great. I also really like Shirakumo's backstory and wish we could have gotten more info on it and every time Hawks appears, even though it spoils what happens, it's so cool to see what the PLF may do. I would also say we got good action .Finally while i didn't like Uraraka Saving the hijacking airplane, it's also in the manga and I didn't like it there ( And we got good fanservice).

Overall, A really good arc that's just really godamn misplaced 7.5/10

Also if i see this image one more time imma die inside

PLF/MVA arc and Pacing Issues

The PLF/MVA arc Is an extremely rushed arc that has great backstories, varying quality of animation, decent enough stakes, and good characters. So you want to tell me that (Excluding toga's backstory ep and ep 25), you want to fit an entire good new take on a story, with great character backstories and nice action and something that will change the course of in the entire series into 4 EPISODES. Ok, that's a bad idea in the start, but then you need to fit in your movie about Endeavor Hero Agency, you misplace them. When I read PLF, I didn't really read it, I skimmed it at a friend's house and thought it was alright, but wanted to be really uplifted with my opinion of it from the anime. Was I? Yes, Twice's episode is the best in the season, and I loved shigaraki's origin, but when you start to enjoy it, it moves to another scene, because they need to fit into 4 episodes. It really shows that bad pacing really impacts a result of quaility. Twice was my Favorite character in this season outside of Endeavor, Shigaraki was cool and had a good backstory, Toga almost dies so she's cool, Dabi, Spinner and Compress exist. Gigantomachia reminds me of Bizzaro from DC so I like him, and the PLF are cool obstacles, with re destro being the best.

Also I love this hand pose

Overall a 6 or 7/10, too rushed for me to like it as much

Characters

Izuku Midoriya- Tanjiro's about to sue you for stealing his character lol. For real though, I just think in this season, he just has nothing really new to add to the table, outside of his relationship like an older to Eri, which is well developed. Like Black Whip? That's kind off new, but it's another advancement to OFA, and we haven't seen that before. I have the same thoughts of him as I do Tanjiro, which is sad, because Deku is the best character in S1 and S2. ( I still like him in the season though)

Katuski Bakugo- Decent, In Match 4, he does really good and makes sure no one's left behind, so I can accept this minor development, and I can say that I like his relationship to Deku, to actually having respect for each other. ( I think I have a positive outlook because of Manga, Idk)

Shoto Todoroki- Cool Guy, gets some good development with him and Bakugo getting his provisional license, and also with his new move. I also like seeing him having to struggle with Endeavor wanting to atone, and I like that.

Also this lol

Endeavor- Best character in the whole damn show now let's be real, his development is written amazingly, and the show show's that he can be cool, and that he regrets his past actions a lot. We get to see how this affects him, and when we see this, it's beyond amazing. My only gripe is that I don't think endeavor would be a good teacher, but that's me, I don't know it would be good to see him learn.

Class 1-A ( And Shinsou, Aizawa and Allmight) - All decent characters, and I did like seeing them in the joint training arc, and we did get to see them overall in the Join Training Arc. I would honestly just say that Mina was a little annoying, and that tokoyami could have replaced her in match 5. Aizawa also was cool, and we got to see what happened with him and Shirakumo, and I loved that backstory. All Might was just there, but I don't have negative opinion on him and I did like him trying as a teacher. Finally Shinsou did get focus and I was really happy about this.

Hawks- I do like the subtle signs to Hawks' backstory, and him sneaking into the PLF was a really cool well development to see. His relationship with twice was also pretty cool, I hope nothing happens with that because they have cool dynamic. Overall Hawks is also cool, because he's literally the living embodiment of corrupt governments, and how evil the "good" can be.

Other
Opening 8 and Ending 8 are really good, But Opening 9 is an amazing 25 second then is just weird, although I did like it going from MHA to MVA. I would also say ending 9 wasn't good song wise, but had good visuals with Hawks. The tone of this season was kind of off, because I think it's trying to say to enjoy the lightheartedness while it lasts Class 1-A basically goes to war against the PLF, and it doesn't do that in the best way. I'd also they filler was bad, because you could have focused on something cool for ep 1, like an MHA sport kind of like JJK or stuff with Class 1-B not more ehro assignments, to show what Class 1- A may be on a daily basis, which we could've got, but we didn't.

TLDR
My Hero Academia Season 5, while still being decent is the weakest season overall in MHA's Catalog because it could have used better pacing, keeping the arcs, and giving the producers and animations more time to make it with less restrictions. Hopefully MHA Does Better in Season 6

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