Review of My Hero Academia Season 6

I'll get this out of the way quickly, this season is absolutely, unequivocally outstanding. Ive been with MHA from the begining, watching ever season once it was finished airing up to season 3. Like most people will have done, hesitated to watch season 4 because of the reviews leaving season 5 out of the question. 6 became a season I believed I would never get to nor one I would be bothered with. Not long ago now, I started watching anime once more, with season 4 one of the first, following the new Bleach, I watched upon my return. I'll be short with it, season4 wasn't great at all. Yet again a boring school related arc, but unlike other seasons, what followed was another really boring arc. With hesitation, I watched 5. Though it was a little slow at first, I knew that the second arc was one that would set us up for what could possibly, a great season 6. So, here I am.

I am genuinely unsure of the words to describe this. Some people based on the other reviews may think this as an over reaction. To them, I say, unlucky you didn't feel out I felt watching this. I can proudly and confidently say, this is, one of the best seasons of anime I have ever seen (setting aside FMA:B of course). There is absolutely no let up in the action and emotion here. From the very first episode, shit gets real, properly real. I normally split my reviews into 3; Animation, Sound, Story. The first and second of these I'll cover now. It's MHA guys, season 6 at that, the animation and sound are as great as they have ever been. No more to add that hasn't already been said. I will now proceed to the story.

(Gushing time) I'll separate this into two themes; action, emotion. I'll give my take on the action here. As said above, from the very begining it begins. Hands down, this season gives you the very best action MHA has ever offered. It genuinely sets the bar far far far too high here. It is absolutely incredible the way the story was written to include so many iconic moments and still remain paced to perfection and making the consumer want more. Very rarely do this happen to me for the entire duration of an anime season, with every episode finishing, I could not wait for the next, for every bloody episode. The actions scenes are perfectly written to give the perfect push and pull between the hero and villain. You feel the upper hand has been achieved by one or the other for it to be switched on you, multiple times. As a consumer, you are forced onto the edge or your seat, chained, eyes wedged open, consuming one of the most heart pounding arcs MHA has ever given us. The second arc gives you a breather, but not like you expect. The action is still full on but doesn't carry the nervous energy of the first. It's written to still keep you invested from an action perspective but still subtly bring the tempo down. How this is achieved is the emotion of the second arc, for the people invested in the history of MHA, this will make you emotional. You have no chance of escaping it. With brings me to my next gushing moment.

I have never cried at an anime like this before. It's not built that way....normally. I'll come to the second arc next, I'll start however with the emotion of the first. I will not spoil anything, but the first moment of genuine sadness you will feel is NOT because of a hero. They even managed to tug on my heart strings for a villain, and though I have finished the show, I still am sad about it. As the first arc progresses, you are emotionally pulled through ever battle our hero's endure. The are pulled to the height of your excitement for our incredible heros and dragged to the lowest depth of dejection. The roller coaster of emotion this arc gives is second to none. Action orientated anime build their entire sequences on this foundation. The first arc of MHA season 6 shows what it is like to have mastered it. The second arc, my god, THE EMOTION! Bare with me on this next explanation, it's cheesy as hell, but the best way I can explain it. What you come to realise is that with ever moment of every preceding season strings were unknowingly wrapped around your heart. You had not clue they have been put there, until we get to the laster half of the second arc of season 6. There are so many moments where these strings are tugged as hard as they could ever be and you are flooded with emotional memories of everything have been through with out heros. This all comes to a head towards the last 3 episodes where you can do absolutely nothing but cry. The emotion conveyed here is honestly unbelievably well written. I have never been so emotionally battered so much before, exception being Assassination Classroom, though that it just 1 moment, this season of MHA has so many.

I do not give 10s lightly, but if I could give this higher, I would without question. It is absolutely outstandingly well written and it is everything we have been building up to. Every single season was required to get us here. It is absolutely phenomenal and easily the very best season of anime I have ever seen. If you have lost hope on MHA are season 4. Season 6 is the very best MHA has ever done end to end by quite some way. Thank you MHA.