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Note: This is my first review so the quality may not be great.

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS

My Hero Academia (Boku no Hero Academia) follows the story of a 14 year old boy named Izuku Midoriya, a quirkless boy (a quirk is a super power) in a world where most people have said quirk. This story follows him and how he will become a hero as it is his dream. To me the story sounded interesting yet it was not what I thought it would be. Sadly I was kind of disappointed.

Story: 6/10
The story was relatively boring to me. It follows some people in a hero school ... trying to become pro heroes. But while there are heroes there are also villains who use their quirk for evil. The story is a relatively basic superhero story. The hero has a crisis. They find a way to fix the crisis or use it to their advantage and save people from evil dudes. And the villains aren't really in the first season too much. Its 9 boring episodes of hero school stuff like throwing a softball and seeing how far it can get. Majority of the story was boring to me and I wouldn't had kept watching if I didn't hear the following seasons were a lot better.

Art: 9/10
I really liked the character designs in this anime. As well as the scenery was nice. This show has quite a cartoony style yet finds a way to make it look sort of realistic in some way. My favorite character design was Izuku Midoriya. I liked his clothes design. It was quite a similar to the UA jumpsuit but had some accessories and was green, although it was basic Kohei Horikoshi found a way to make it look more unique then it really was. I also liked Izuku Midoriya's hair design as the green and black blended nicely.

Sound: 7/10
The opening was pretty good. I think its a quite good opening as the band Porno Graffiti did an amazing performance. The sound effects were okay and they weren't anything super special but never seemed out of place.

Character: 5/10
I personally found the characters cringe and kind of intolerable. Some characters personalities were very exaggerated, like Mineta. Mineta was that pervy dude that makes fan service possible in a very un-fan service show. But I think that his pervy personality was very exaggerated, like pretty much every scene he was in he was grabbing some girl in a weird area. The only tolerable characters for me where Deku, Bakugou and All Might. The reason I found them tolerable is because they were just kind of normal. Although Bakugou was always angry yet I found it funny how when Deku pretty much said anything about wanting to become a hero Bakugou just tried to crush his dreams as much as possible. Most characters were either boring, barely in it or cringe. Only a few I liked.

Enjoyment: 7/10
It was relatively enjoyable from some parts. When the villains attacked it got good. I really liked the fact that most students encountered and fought a villain so you could see their quirks in action and even if the villains were only there once it was nice to see more quirks. It was also mysterious at times which made me want to keep watching and is one of the reasons I finished the season.

Overall: 6/10
While there were many pros for me there was probably about as many cons. For me story and characters make a lot of the quality of a show and story and characters in My Hero Academia were sometimes one of the worse parts. I would recommend this anime for you if you like superheroes and anime although I will say the pacing is kind of slow. This is definitely an anime you need to give a chance as of what I have seen of the second season it does get better.

Hopefully you found this review helpful and thank you for reading it!