The second battle featuring Aoyama, Momo, Hagakure, and Tokoyami was certainly the least memorable fight among the five. Although, Kaminari was the one that got the most out of the spotlight that he was given in this first battle among the members of his group. The fight quickly establishes Shinso’s character as someone you could actually take an interest in among the plethora of characters we already have.įurthermore, it reaffirms his presence as someone who could hold his own among the students of the Hero Course. Let’s start with the first fight, which featured Asui, Koda, Kaminari, and Kirishima alongside Shinso. Regardless though, every fight certainly had its moments.
Because including the recap episodes, we were already 7 weeks into this season when things pick up the pace, and you finally start to feel that it is going somewhere. Sure, every fight had its moments, but sometimes they just ran a bit too long with that, especially the case for the initial battles, as it could have been much more enjoyable had they not been spun across two episodes or more. My Hero Academia Season 5‘s first arc started a little slow, with nothing noteworthy or exciting actually happening. My Hero Academia Season 5 Review: A slower, more character-centric approach And that’s when things started to get a bit shaky. The highlight moment of the arc’s first half comes in Episode 2 when we get to find out that Hawks is working with Dabi and the League of Villains to get to Shigaraki, the payoff to which is inevitably coming soon.Īfterward, we quickly get to the joint training program between Class A and Class B students from the Hero course. My Hero Academia Season 5 started with a decent recap anime original episode which has been a tradition since the sophomore season and then went into the canon story with a shocking second episode featuring an exciting reunion between the Todoroki family. And Bones’ astounding work with the animation this season combined with Yuki Hayashi’s moving soundtrack indeed elevated the source material that could have been duller than people made it out to be. While the arc wasn’t nearly as satisfying as most of the storylines the anime has done so far, it had some good standout moments. My Hero Academia Season 5 has finally completed its first half, which adapted the Joint Training Arc from the manga.