Anime Review: My Hero Academia

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You know, watching My Hero Academia felt a lot like being thrown back into that younger version of myself—the one who believed that courage and kindness could really change the world, even if nobody else thought so. Sitting with it, I kept catching myself smiling one second, then wiping a tear the next. It’s not just “anime with superheroes”—it’s that raw ache of wanting to matter, wanting to stand tall even when your knees are shaking.

Izuku Midoriya, Deku… God, I think he got to me the most. That kid is all heart. Watching him start out powerless, yet carrying this enormous dream of becoming a hero—it almost felt like watching every insecure part of myself fight for a chance to breathe. And when All Might pointed at him and said, “You can be a hero”? I swear, I felt it in my chest like he was saying it to me. That moment has stayed with me more than I expected. It reminded me how desperately we sometimes need just one person to believe in us.

The battles are crazy, of course- the energy blasts, the quirks blowing up here and there- but what remained was not the punches alone. It was the breaks in their voices, the set of their stubborn eyes. Bakugo is so full of fire and anger that it makes me laugh but also breaks down because you could see beneath the yelling he is scared of being left behind. The mess that Todoroki has? That left me in quiet reflection after an episode, and how trauma defines us, and how it takes more guts to face beyond what it is, than it does to charge on the battlefield.

These are not the only moments though, there are also these silly, goofy scenes such as Mineta being a creep (it is an annoyance, though it somehow ties that awkward humor), Class 1-A bickering, the sports festival turning into this glorious mess of competition and friendship. Those were the moments that provided me with a feeling of comfort and togetherness, that everyone is in the same boat and will never forget their friends.

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Yet the beauty of My Hero Academia is in its capacity to illustrate failure in such a humane manner that it is hard to realize it is not actually a human story. Deku fractures bones, falls, weeps--still, he does not give up. Seeing him hobble along after it made me remember that being strong does not mean that you never fall, it means that no matter how broken you are, you will continue to walk. And the way he stands up for people when he does not even think he can win? This touched me more than speeches about courage can ever touch me

As I got further into the story, I did not just watch the characters, but it seemed that I was growing with them. All the lessons on fear, all the flicker of hope, all the cracks in their armors--it was almost as though it was personal. As the show was saying, you may be scared. However, you can do more than you believe.

And honestly? It left me believing, in some quiet corner of myself, that even if I don’t have a “quirk,” maybe I’ve got something just as powerful.

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