My Hero Academia Season 1 Anime Review

I started this anime at the beginning of June 2018. I needed to get back to my anime roots beyond Dragon Ball Super and decided to give this one a chance. Everyone, including my own family, raved about this show, and it has been stuck on the back of my mind.

So I tuned in and fell in love instantly. I love everything about it. The characters are amazing, relatable, humorous, intense, and there are so many of them. It's easy and hard to lose track at the same time. 

The anime is about Izuku Midoriya ("Deku") and his dream to become a hero. This is difficult for him to accomplish in a world full of superheroes when he isn't born with a power or "Quirk" is what they're called in this show. Being born "Quirkless" doesn't stop him though and his fanboy admiration for All Might (the greatest hero of all time) kept his impossible dream alive. 

The first season centers on Deku's attempt to get into a school called UA High to study being a hero and how he deals with his classes and classmates once he gets into the school. After he meets his idol All Might, his journey truly begins toward heroism.

And that's all I can really say about the plot without spoiling literally everything because I'll rant and run on like this sentence I attempted. 

While there are a lot of characters introduced, season 1 shined on Deku and All Might's student-teacher relationship. They work incredibly well and Deku's relatable tendencies had me laughing loads. The other students didn't get much screentime other than Deku's friends Tenya and Ochaco and his childhood friend/nemesis Bakugo. 

Bakugo is such a complex character. He possesses lots of traits a stereotypical villain would have, but he truly wishes to become a hero. It's too early to tell what this means, but based on how he foils Deku, I think his background will be pivotal to know later on.

I found myself on the edge of my seat during the League of Villains attack, the last arc of the 13-episode season! This was the first unexpected crisis the students were thrown in and seeing Eraser Head getting the beat down was hard to stomach. It also contained foreshadow for the future and that there is more to All Might's Quirk than meets the eye. 

Let's say, after I finished season 1, I dived into season 2. A review on that is posted here.