Iโm going to start this with, I know that technically itโs target audience is like 12-15yrs old.. but I thought Iโd give the show a chance because it was โHighly recommendedโ by a couple of friends, and a lot of random people who would overhear conversations about anime Iโd have with people or by anime review outlets.
So Iโm giving it a 1star (at best) only because the actual quality of animation is pretty โgood/coolโ, and some.. only some of the characters are note worthy. Many of the character designs and powers looked/seemed rushed, half baked, or were justโฆ. Not good. The anime hypes up the school as โbeing the best oneโ and most of the powers of the students are just well, completely underwhelming. Like โhow did they get into this schoolโ?!
I get that they were probably trying to come up with some very unique or rarely seen powers for their characters, but itโs like they really just dug some of these out of the dumpster when trying to apply them. It left me not remembering 99% of the charactersโ names because I was unable to get invested.
The Pacing Sucked. As a watcher older than 18, the overall pacing, storyline, exhibition, plot, and character development.. were just lacking in almost every way. Each episode felt like over an hour long.. just to arrive at no real outcome, and there were little-to-no intellectually stimulating moments.
I honestly donโt think Iโve ever written a bad review for an anime or movie before except for that train wreck of a live action movie avatar the last airbender. I feel like I would have been able to just go about watching the next anime without saying anything about my hero academia.. but I feel it was just So Hyped up, and I was being flooded with all these โamazingโ recommendationsโฆ that it left me utterly uninspired.
So yea.. I really wasnโt trying to be mean to this show, but I just really didnโt care for it.