Season 2 was a huge step up from season 1. It's honestly one of the best seasons as it introduces the best character in the series even to this day, Stain, and sets up one of the main themes of My Hero Academia; what it means to be a hero and the flaws of the hero society in the series Stain completely changed the tone and trajectory of hte story. Don't get me wrong the series keeps a lot of its comedy and goofy moments, but you can't deny that there was a massive tonal shift when he showed up, which informed the tone of future seasons, particularly seasons 6, 7, and I will assume season 8 as well, even though I haven't seen it yet. Stain has one of the coolest designs in the series, his Quirk is extremely interesting and dangerous, and he easily defeated all of the rookie heroes that fought him. It was only when Endeavor showed up that he was pushed on the defense. And regardless of what you think abou this actions and methods, you have to agree that the way he remained standing, ready to fight, even after he was rendered unconscious from a broken bone puncturing his lung was incredibly badass. At this point he only appeared on the show for such a short amount of time, like one or two episodes, but his impact is already felt tremendously, and will continue to grow as the series progresses.


I found myself getting really irritated at the moment after the battle with Stain when the higher ups berated and punished the kids for fighting villains without a license even though they pretty much had no choice but to fight. But that's good frustration because this bureaucracy and over regulation actually adds to the themes of this flawed hero society. Also, while I'm obviously not Japanese, and have never been to Japan, but I've heard from people who have been there for lengthy periods of time, both Japanese and non Japanese people, that governing bodies over there are just as overbearing as is depicted in this series, and a lot of anime for that matter, have similar outdated systems and crotchedy people in charge. Because they really had no choice but to fight to save their friend and comrade since the pro heroes were nowhere around at the time and wouldn't have arrived in time. But again, this does add to the intrigue and investment in the series.


That's not all that I enjoyed either. The tournament arc happened in this season. I remember back when this originally aired in 2017 that people were glad the tournament arc was way shorter than they typically are in anime like Naruto, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Dragon Ball Z, and I definitely get that, although I wouldn't have minded if it was longer because I LOVE tournament arcs. I love lengthy arcs where cool characters get to see do battle with each other with unique powers. Of course this arc gave us one of the most famous fights in the entire series, Izuku vs. Todoroki, where we get his backstory of being abused, physically and mentally, by his father, Endeavor, the Number 2 Pro Hero, to try and force him to one day becoming the Number 1 Pro Hero and surpass All Might. Of course most of us should know that Endeaver is going to be a crucial character later on. The final arc was also a lot of fun too, where students were paired up in twos and had to fight a pro hero in a competition, and Izuku and Bakugo got put together and facing All Might. This is also important because we get a lot more with Bakugo's personality and motivation. I've always been a Bakugo defender despite how much everyone else in the community likes to rag on him, I think he's one of the best characters of the series because he's written extremely realistically which makes him super interesting. The way he turned out makes perfect sense given how he was brought up, having so much power at an early age but no discipline imposed on him. 99.99 percent of us would have wound up the same way. And this season makes great waves in advancing and fleshing him out further.

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