It all begs the question as to what happened with My Hero Academia, or whether the quality of the source material is such that there was nothing that Bones could do with it. Studio Bones do the honours for the animation, and they have pedigree bringing across Weekly Shonen Jump properties to anime such as Full Metal Alchemist and Soul Eater. The image is clear and sharp, the animation is smooth, and there’s no problem with visible compression, and there is only the slightest occasional hint of digital banding. Bakugo Picture My Hero Academia gets a 1.78:1 widescreen 1080p transfer on these Blu-ray discs. The first 12 episodes of My Hero Academia Season 2 are presented on 2 Blu-ray discs from Sony/Funimation. Sports Festival is about to begin, and All Might’s mission for Izuku is to distinguish himself in front of the world audience. But he and his class 1-A manage to distinguish themselves when the League of Villains attacks. High School, where the world’s heroes are trained. Getting used to a sudden new Quirk doesn’t happen overnight, and even with intensive training, Izuku is still playing catch-up when he enters U.A. But Izuku’s selfless actions in a crisis situation caught the attention of All Might, who decided that the young boy would inherit his power. The only problem was that Izuku was one of the 20%, born without a Quirk. From the day Izuku Midoriya saw the world’s #1 hero, All Might in action, he was certain that he too would become a great superhero. Standing against them are the heroes, those who use their powers for the common good. Naturally there are people who use their Quirks for selfish, even illegal gain. I say mundanely, as some 80% of the world’s population have Quirks, some power or ability that makes them special in some way. In the world of My Hero Academia, they’re mundanely thought of as Quirks. You can call them superpowers, you can call them mutations. And there’s always Crunchyroll if I need more detail. I’m taking advantage of the bonus recap episode on disc 1. By the way, if you think I’m going to spend upwards of £50 on thirteen episodes of anime just to get caught up with the story, think again. There are some OCD anime fans nervous twitching right now because of this. Now that Funimation are with Sony, it is they who will release Season 2, and other than an aborted appearance of a Collector’s Edition listing in Zavvi (the way Attack on Titan 2 had a Zavvi exclusive), Sony will only release Season 2 as standard Blu-ray and standard DVD editions. There is no UK standard edition for season 1. I’ll say that again, £76.99 for just 13 episodes of anime, plus assorted extras. But they released it in Collector’s Edition form only, at an R.R.P. Funimation had the equivalent of a one night stand with Universal when it came to UK anime distribution, and one of the three titles that Universal released for them here was My Hero Academia Season 1. You might be wondering what happened to Season 1. My first piece of the My Hero Academia pie to review comes in the form of Season 2 Part 1. My Hero Academia is big, so big that its third season is starting to stream as I write. And it wouldn’t be anime without some sort of controversy to irk the fans. This is one more chance to show the West that anime can do superheroes as good as, if not better than the West. Anime is once more setting foot on that hallowed soil that is usually the province of Marvel and D.C. That’s because it’s a show about the genre that appeals most to comic book fans in the West, the superhero. My Hero Academia is the latest smash to enervate the Zeitgeist. We’re talking Full Metal Alchemist, Attack on Titan degrees of cultural impact, shows that go beyond the province of the usual anime fan, and grab the attention of the average fan in the street, gets people talking about it around the watercooler. We’re in the rarefied altitude of the breakout anime hit again.
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