Review of My Hero Academia Season 6

You know, I really thought this season was shaping up to be another extremely high quality experience, just like the beginning of the series was, but I’m left with mixed feelings about the arc this season. We started the season quite well, and I was happy to see a good bit of action that I feel like has been absent for a long time—not action in general, but action I can get excited about. There were far less, what I would call, inconsequential episodes this season, which left room for all the awesome major story developments. I don’t want to spoil those for anyone whoisn’t a manga reader, but let’s just say the thing I was most pleased about with the new season was having Shigaraki finally feel connected to the main characters and their stories again. In fact, one of the other great aspects of this season was the fact that it no longer felt so aimless.

In addition to that, the character work done with, yes, Midoriya, but all of the—what I would call—most intriguing protagonists and antagonists provided such an interesting experience as a viewer. I haven’t felt connected to this anime in general in a long time, but especially with the characters, I was super excited to finally find something about them to be invested in. Sort of as a byproduct of that, there were lots of emotional moments throughout the plot of this season that lent gravity to this stage in Boku no Hero’s story, and I think that was done very well overall.

But, like I said, I still have mixed feelings about this season because I still felt like the focus was off more than it should’ve been. We’d get mini arcs of new characters that I didn’t find relevant at this point in time, battles would be stretched out at questionable points instead of the more interesting moments being expanded on, and the pacing made it difficult for me to watch week-to-week. Granted, a lot of that has to do with my anime-watching behaviors, but there often wasn’t enough intrigue in each episode to keep me coming back each week (even though I did). So, I don’t know, I think it’s fun that we’re finally getting to the point of Boku no Hero, but I just hope to see the action, emotion, and pacing pick way up from here on in.