Boku no Hero Academia 4th Season (2025)

bend_over

Not Recommended

*Spoiler Warning*

My Hero Academia is slowly but surely becoming Fairy Tail 2.0.

Every time I hear something good about "My Hero Academia", it has mainly to do with its writing and how beautiful it is. There are also so many great developments from many characters, so they say, but I don't see any of this. I really don't. I'm probably being a bit too nitpicky with the show but I really wouldn't mind at all if only people would stop calling this show's writing a magnum opus when you all know that's not true. I, personally would call "My Hero Academia" a cringe show and not ...

Karhu

Not Recommended

Preliminary (6/25 eps)

Due to the nature of the second season, the third season was bound to have a weaker start. Even so, with 2-cour duration it had all the time it ever needed to pick up the pace and improve, or at the very least build a solid foundation for this fourth season.... But it didn't do any of that and now we're more or less back to square one.

The classic shonen series have never exactly been the most flawless type in the arsenal, but few of them have struggled with their arc and tone shifts to the same extent with Boku no Hero Academia. While it's ...

Goober-fish

Not Recommended

Since it first began airing, “My Hero Academia” has been the unwitting punching bag for joyless old dogs like me who have lost the childlike fascination with watching cartoon characters whale on each other with little rhyme or reason. Not that My Hero Academia has ever really prided itself on intricate or brutal fights worth revisiting when compared to some of its peers, because in all honesty, as of late, this anime has lacked even that to keep me motivated to continue on.

If there’s one thing that My Hero Academia’s 4th season has proven, it’s that mangaka Kohei Horikoshi has mastered the art ...

BlindSniper

Not Recommended

Preliminary (7/25 eps)

My Hero Academia's biggest weakness is how painfully slow the plot moves forward. We're 6 episodes into the season, and nothing has happened that couldn't have been condensed into 1 episode.

That's not to say there aren't other glaring issues like a dialogue that could be written by a 12 year old. To the point you could skip an entire scene and know what happened. But we aren't here to be blown away by dialogue, it's a shounen. We're here to see good animation, fun characters, and an intriguing plot. So do we get any of that?

Animation: 4/10

The animation quality is the same as it's been ...

iza02

Recommended

Preliminary (6/25 eps)

Im going to be straight forward and preface this by saying, I read the manga and am all caught up so I don't remember all the details from the Overhaul arc, and my review for the most part is overall.

I believe this is probably one of the best seasons of bnha so far. The overhaul arc is a lot darker than the rest of the show however the execution of the story-to me atleast- is amazing.

In this arc, they only focus on I think 7 UA students total, of course Midoriya and Mirio being the top 2. Personally I love the way they showed ...

Johan__Liebert_

Mixed Feelings

My hero academia, after having an explosion in its popularity while season 2 was airing, is arguably the most popular shounen right now that is not One Piece. And the hype is mostly deserved be it for having a well-balanced cast of characters, or for the fantastically animated and choreographed fights, the latter of which had a massive dip in quality this season. This entire season does not live up to the extreme hype perpetuated by the manga community.

The animation is very stiff even relying on still frames at times; the characters feel like they haven’t progressed at all since the beginning of season ...

ziIIa

Recommended

Boku no Hero Academia 4 was one of the most underwhelming of the series I’ve seen yet but also the most exciting season I’ve seen yet. The transition between Season 3 and Season 4 was mainly the cause of the first arc being underwhelming and awkward to even begin with. Despite this, the series was still able to barely push out of the boulder it trapped itself in and put momentum into it.

Despite the first arc being called dragged out by many people, I would beg to differ. The first arc may not have been as straightforward as how a shounen anime should have been, ...

8igfan

Recommended

Preliminary (6/25 eps)

If you've watched any of the previous seasons of BnHA, then you know what to expect by this point. The animation is still pretty decent and seems on point. At least, nothing has stood out aside from a goofy moment or two. VAs seem on point as well. The usual characters are back with all their glory and we'll be getting some interesting developments for some of the favourites moving forward. We already have seen some developments and a lot of reveals so look forward to more of that.

The current arc should also be great for anime-only watchers and will have you feeling a wide ...

MonarqueCeleste

Not Recommended

Preliminary (11/25 eps)

If I were to resume this season of MHA in one word it would be : Boring.

*This review may contain mild SPOILERS*

As someone who loved last season and cried my balls out I came in this season excited and boy was I disappointed. I liked the first episode. I thought it did a good job of closing Midoriya and All might arc. Or so I thought. First of all I didn't read the manga and I don't really care about what happened there, it has no value in an anime review.

- Characters :

Midoriya is the main character, he's supposed to take the mantle of ...

Stark700

Not Recommended

khattikeri

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (11/25 eps)

It pains me how much My Hero Academia's animation is declining.

Season 2 and the first half of season 3 really were the best in this regard. I'd rate those a 9, easily. Season 3's second half, however, was a lot like this season in terms of decreasing quality. Even though the story and characters are still enjoyable, the fact that one of the story's most important fights this season has been reduced to a cheap slideshow a la Food Wars really shows just how deeply producing a filler movie at the same time as a canon season hurts the TV production.

Now, I do like ...

CrimsonWanderer

Not Recommended

There it is, the fourth installment of one of the most successful battle shounen of the recent years. 4 seasons and 2 movies in the spawn of 4 years is no joke. Hero Academia had the charm of being simple and for that, I respected it. I used to be a fanboy for the first 3 seasons, thinking it was one of the best recent shounen, peaking at Stain's arc and delivering a great sendoff with AFO vs OFA, and after season 3 ended, I came to realize that it wasn't as good as I initially thought, but I still respected it for it's simplicity.

It ...

Phasar2022

Not Recommended

Funny

You Say Garbage

My Hero Academia continues its quest to systematically murder the battle-shounen genre in its 4th installment, which promises to be more epic than any that came before it. Can it end its previous seasons' trends of never developing its secondary cast in any meaningful way, making its characters mary sues, never giving enough time to important events, and using one repeated piece of OST to cover for its lack of substance?

Nope.

To elaborate:

The overhaul arc happened. And when it happens, oh boy does it happen with a whimper. It wasn't like the show had built up a reputation for delivering on hyped up characters ...

Zerockman

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (11/25 eps)

I lost interest in MHA a while after the third season aired. Mostly because the animation got a lot worse. I never really cared for the series but it at least had cool fights to back up the show. That's not the case anymore. In this latest season the animation is really bad that I don't even know if this was actually made by Bones or not. This is definitely the ugliest Bones anime I've ever seen

The plot in this season is ok but it's completely uncalled out for. The main villains were already established and set, so why the need for another group? Not ...

DekWasHere

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (11/25 eps)

CyanideLoli

Recommended

Preliminary (8/25 eps)

hallo_the_anime

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (13/25 eps)

I have been telling this to so many friends who love MHA. I just don't get it. World is not only about hero and villains, its a lot more complicated than that, the hierarchy created where villans don't enjoy or are given an opportunity to better themselves as human, the villans have to operate in shadow, no one tries to understand their perspectives, how according to them its a very injustice society requiring change and not their defeat.
Their world is much very much similar to our world where there are those with power, and not.

But the series neither goes into this complexity and is ...

koetemagie

Not Recommended

Preliminary (14/25 eps)

A work that starts presenting us with super powers, high school and romance is not something we can expect much from innovative, as Boku no Hero is definitely not a work for teenagers or pre-teens, but for children. Children who like to see something generic, who try to bring excitement to every episode, and fail. Or adults, who have not yet accepted the reality of the world and prefer to live their dreams within these types of bad, forced and extremely untrue stories.

Characters & Antagonists [0/10]

Midorya is the protagonist who dreams of being a hero, even though he doesn't have superpowers, but he still wants ...

DarthInvader

Mixed Feelings

*Minimum Spoiler Review*
TL;DR: Same Story, Same Studio, Same kid yelling Plus Ultra 10 billion times; but makes you wonder, is the source material just shit or the director just couldn't stand up to the task? Just a trainwreck of an anime.
[Story: 4/10 , Characters: 5/10, Art: 6/10, Sound: 7/10, Enjoyment: 6/10]

“When you’re really scared.. When your life is really on the line… Your true colors show.” - Red Riot

"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." Never before did I think I would use such a quote to describe an anime series but ...

LordSozin

Not Recommended

Preliminary (10/25 eps)