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In a world where we're all becoming more and more connected, the darkness of the world and our own dark underbellies exposed more and more for the world to see.

Is there truly a place for heroes? Can anyone truly be a hero?

Along comes this colorful, true blue superhero show to bat those questions aside with a smile and an "of course, silly!~"

It has been a good long while since I've seen a superhero show, especially a superhero anime that has embraced the genre's built in optimism and positivity the way CROWDS has. The main character tailor made to infect the show like a reverse cancer, ... cleaning away any darkness or doubt that you may have about heroism.

This show is a stirring rebuilding of not only heroism but also that tiny spark of altruism we all have buried inside us, taking each moment it has to show that the world is not as dark a place as we like to think and perhaps, if we can all join together as heroes one and all, we may just have a bright future on this navy marble.

GATCHA!

A complete newbie to .hack in all it's forms I went into this with no expectations aside from a few recommendations from friends after finishing up Log Horizon some time ago. I will also say this is my first ever real OVA experience which makes me a bit jarred by the necessities of storytelling in that medium.
I will say overall I enjoyed Quantum, a fun little, if dramatic and heartfelt journey that may not have left me with any real impression of whether or not I wish to continue with the franchise as a whole but certainly leaving me with a lot of enjoyment for ... this tale at least.
Another problem I had is I really had no sense of what things were or how they operated, there are many times that mechanics of the game or technology go unexplained though I am almost positive this would be solved for me if I were to watch some more major entries in the franchise like Sign that would have a bit more time to devote to such things.
Overall I enjoyed this one, not sure if Sign should go up on my list though. Oh well.

With the big three Shonen series (Except of course for One Piece) finally seeming to be dead and gone it was only a matter of time before a new Shonen Jump long runner came along to stand shoulder the shoulder with HunterxHunter.
My Hero Academia aims to be that series and while it has little new to offer in terms of groundbreaking takes on western superheroes in anime, at least nothing the Tiger and Bunny and One Punch Man haven't already said well enough on their own, this series is very good at being exactly what it it. A Shonen designed to be as long ... running as possible with as many interesting grudge matches, human character interactions and dynamic arcs to keep you engaged until then.
I will not lie, the story is par for the course, even so far with any superhuman high school story we've all seen a million times over our fandom experience, looking through any of our lists will yield at least one series with a similar premise, it is almost guaranteed. How My Hero succeeds is in that it is very good at being just that.
Fights are dynamic with Bones at the helm, seeming no less skilled in their craft in what could've been a back burner series carried along by the Shonen Jump label alone and most likely broken even for a good enough stretch.
Sound is passing, with all the background music fitting perfectly into it's place. The score is only as it is because of the amazing "My Day" by Porno Graffiti which serves as the OP.
How this series will sink or swim however will be, with any real superhero story, on how much the audience can find something to love about our characters and become invested in fight scenes that must be enjoyable in an of themselves. This is My Hero's greatest strength. As a superhero geek I will say that the heroes, like many western style heroes created recently in Japan is that they lack a motif or their motif is convoluted or not well thought out. A very disappointing example of this is a space suit themed hero with black hole powers that instead of names like "Orbit", "Hayabusa" or "NASA" was named "13" a mantle whose meaning still puzzles me.
The series also does an almost Jojo esque job of mixing in familiar power sets such as Super Speed, Anti Gravity and Animal features with more offbeat and situational powers that all get their spots to shine, though some of the cast is left in the cold with only 13 episodes running.
Overall while My Hero Academia wont really be anyone's new FMA or Bebop it is entirely possible that it will serve as the Naruto of the anime generations going forward, and this series proves to establish a firm bedrock for good action anime for them.

It has been a long time since I've fallen in love with one character this much, let alone two, three, four gah the entire cast for this show is friggin great!

The second half is definitely so much better than the first. Don't get me wrong, the first half is a fun FLCL trippy road trip through time and space but the second half is deeper and more heartwarming, more pulse pounding and overall just the better part of this anime.

I nearly dropped this anime before the episode where they go to that desert world, I'm a fan of Henshin Hero shows so that one caught ... my attention to say the least.

The last thing I want to touch on is that this anime is one of the best representations of parenthood I've ever seen, not gonna spoil it but this show certainly is a fine example of just how far parents will go to try and protect their children even if it's not for the child's own good in the end.

The ending was very happy for a magical girl show in this day and age which is what I was dreading, not knocking Madoka but it's good to see some Shoujo heroine's can still earn their happy endings.

Oh yeah, and the op and art are some of the catchiest and smoothest things I've seen in a long time. A big round of applause to Studio 3Hz, may just check out Dimension W now.