Review of My Hero Academia Season 6

This and the previous season are rather difficult for me to rate, mainly because I find myself comparing the experiences with those I've had reading the manga. Previous seasons had a bit of that too, but these seasons have been... different. S5 was a real down point for the series, since it excluded a lot of what made the manga great and just lacked the visual punch of the manga. For all that this series gets treated as basic bitch shonen, the manga can sometimes bleed into the horrific with some absolutely terrifying panels that have yet to be replicated in the series, even goingback to the early seasons. Part of that is the detail that the mangaka put into those panels, part of it is that the anime is aiming to bring in younger audiences, but another part is the that it's pretty clear that Bones has not been putting their A-game into this series. They can produce amazing content, and, when it finishes this week, I'll be talking about one of those series, but they clearly took their attention off of this series for a good while, especially in S5.

That's a long walk to talking about this season, which I liked quite a bit more than S5. Considering the content in this season, it should be my favorite (was going to say that about S5 too - the My Villain Academia Arc is so damn good in the manga), but still loses out to S2 for me. The Paranormal Liberation War featured some awesome stuff and I was happy to see that they didn't leave out large swaths of it, though its most pivotal scenes lacked the punch of the manga panels. Still, the whole dynamic of the series was flipped on its head in pretty spectacular fashion. The Dark Hero arc that followed was much better from a visual perspective, and while it's not as interesting on the whole, I think its presentation cements it as one of the better arcs in the anime.

All that is to say that this season was worth the watch, even if I was hoping for better in some aspects.