I have mixed feelings about this season. I like it, but it also felt like a step down from season 3. And logically it was always going to. it is extremely hard to follow up a season of anime as amazing as My Hero Academia Season 3. It was almost perfect from animation, fights, voice acting, and emotions. Much of season 4 seems like an in between season. That's clear with the main antagonist of the arc, Overhaul. In any other anime he would have stood out a lot. He has a unique, extremely poewrful Quirk, also called Overhaul, which allows him to break down and reconstruct basically all types of matter, which seems to suggest almost limitless possibilities for it. He's also interesting too, being the heir of the Japanese Yakuza, which were almost completely annihilated by All Might, and wants to bring them back, against the wishes of his father or grandfather, I don't remember which, who was the last head. The season also introduces Eri, a fan favorite character for obvious reasons--because she's adorable and precious and must be protected at all cost--and has a pretty damn good representation of child abuse. While Overhaul is interesting, he's definitely not sympathetic. Everything he did to Eri makes me want to send him to the 9th circle of hell myself. That's also why I couldn't feel bad for him at the end of his arc when Shigaraki removes his arms and legs with his Decay Quirk so he can't use his own Quirk anymore and is sentenced to Tartarus without being able to move at all. He definitely desreved it.


But like I said, he is interesting in and of himself. But he came right after All For One, who was a great villain, and before Shigaraki could take his place as the main villain, which is what I meant before that this seems like ain in between season. After the great villain we just saw, but before the next main villain can have a chance to become great, and that we're anticipating because seaosn 3 built that up. It's really not fair to be sandwiched between both of those. I imagine it would probably make a lot of people forget about him. But I did enjoy his arc overall. His minions are the definition of forgettable even divorced from the hinderences that I just mentioned, but Overhaul is good. Aside from him and Eri, that arc also introduced Mirio Togata and Nighteye. Nighteye was All Might's former sidekick. His Quirk is called Foresight and it allows him to see the future of anyone he touches and makes direct eye contact with. In the past he saw that All Might was going to die if he kept being a hero, but All Might being All Might he couldn't stop being the symbol of peace despite Nighteye's pleas. This caused a rift to be created between them. Mirio is a fun character. He's one of the "big three" at U.A. High School that Nighteye originally chose to become All Might's successor until he chose Izuku. Mirio is super likable, the way he desperately goes out of his way to save Eri from Overhaul and make her smile effortlessly endears him to the audience.


But the second half goes downhill unfortunately. I sadly couldn't get that into Gentle Criminal and La Brava. I don't think they're overly interesting in and of themselves, and their interacts with each other made me uncomfortable. La Brava is cute and her backstory and love for Gentle Criminal would be endearing if he didn't clearly feel the exact same way about her instead of seeing her like a daughter or something like that. And their objective of trying to stop the school festival even after learning the importance of it doesn't do anything to endear us to them, especially on the side of Gentle Criminal. Although the band performance was pretty great. It's entertaining to see that Bakugo somehow knows how to play the drums. And yeah, seeing Eri smile for hte first time ripped apart my heart strings just like with everybody else.

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