This past Thursday I went to watch the 2nd film from the Manga/Anime series My Hero Academia, Heroes Rising at my local Cinema. They had just a single showing, I was slightly disappointed that the Cinema had made little to no effort to advertise the showing. Yet despite this, the showing was nearly sold out, with many fans of the series arriving in either fandom wear or even some in Cosplay, it was fantastic sight.
Series background
My Hero Academia series focusses on a young hero in training Izuku Midoriya, affectionately nicked named Deku, a young boy who was born without a quirk in world where 80% of the population are born is with some sort of special ability. Despite this Midoriya wants nothing more than to become a hero, like his Idol hero, All Might. Due to not having a quirk, everyone told him that it would be impossible. However after a chance meeting with is Idol, Midoriya displays the characteristics of what it takes to make a great hero, after rushing in to save a school friend from a villain, despite being powerless, he is gifted a quirk. After training with All Might, Midoriya was able to enrol and pass the entrance exam of the most prestigious high school for young aspiring heroes, UA.
Plot
The movie is set at point where all of Class 1A students have received their provisional hero licence. As part of a work release study, the entire class has been sent to Naboo island, a small peaceful island of to the south of Japan. The island’s hero has recently retired and whist hero organisation find a full time replacement, the students are sent there as temporary relief. Of course this is a peaceful island with very little trouble, so the school authority and pro heroes did not expect them to face any villain activity. They had hoped the students will learn that being a hero is not all about exciting battles and rescue missions, but being a true hero means doing whatever you can to help people in need; Such as helping to charge a battery on farm tractor, or helping an elderly lady into town so she can go shopping, or helping to find a missing child. On Mainland Japan a new villain has emerged with ties to the League of Villains, especially the series’ main villain All For One. This new Villain is stealing powers from heroes, but he is looking for one specific power which he states will make him complete, after attacking a civilian, he discovers what he needs is on Naboo island. So the Villain and his subordinates head for the island, and chaos erupts. It is up to the young heroes to save islanders but can they hold them off until help arrives.
My Thoughts
It was truly amazing to see My Hero Academia on the big screen at the cinema, Studio Bones really do anamazing job of bringing Kōhei Horikoshi’s Manga art to life. The battle scenes were truly epic and there is a fantastic homage to Dragon Ball Z. The English dub voice acting was fantastic, as usual Funimation did a great job and they have an excellent group of voice actors to use. Justin Briner does a great job of making Deku sympathetic and Clifford Samuel Chapin does amazing job bring Deku’s rival, Bakugo to life with his determination. Johnny Yong Bosch is excellent as the main Villain, Nine. It was great to see all the Class 1A students get adequate time to shine and show what they can do, even characters like Mineta get a chance to show why he could be aHero. However, there were a couple of issues with continuity errors and the Villain’sreason for attacking island was strong but his overall villainous plan wassome what cliché and lackluster to me. But thankfully Johnny Yong Bosch did great job of making the Villain scary despite hisweak motivations. Overall though this was lot fun, the film was perfectly balanced with bringing the action up before slowing things down once again before getting back to the action, these slowed down scenes allowed you to connect with the characters making the battles much more of an emotional roller coaster.
4 Stars
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