My Smiles Academia "You're Next" is just reskinned Hassaikai raid

• • victimized female character blob with broken quirk booster power
  • main bad guy who's some sort of exile, usurper or rogue of a crime family, with shit motivations
  • Main bad guy with godtier power loses anyway (pretty much MHA as a whole)
  • Ends with a fuckin body-horror esque kaiju form as a final boss.
  • Deku blitzes the SHIT, and I mean- knocks the soul out of the dude, and somehow he's not turned into liquid flesh
  • Deku chances across the girl by sheer freaking coincidence- just like he did Eri, just like he did Gentle, just like he did All Might which started his entire career. Bro just fumbles into everything. Deku birth quirk is "Lucky Star"

  Part of the issue with Deku is he has no repeat villain rivals with personal nemesis ties to him, ie. the heroes win too damn much. I'm not saying (obviously) U.A. should've been flattened but at what point does being able to control matter itself at will, become an actual threat?

  At what point does being a 100+ year old sociopath villain with multiple quirks become a life threatening force to the point where someone gets killed. (Laughs in Jiro)

  This movie was almost entirely predictable, it begins pretty promising with Deku's more comfortable use of OFA, the mystery of Dark Might.

  But it's just a fusion of World Mission & Season 4.

  Plot armor out the ass, same ol shit, villains catch no bodies, there's set up for fake tension with Dark Mights palace charging towards the school, but no stakes but there's no chance the villains will win and we know that.

  And thus no threat level or presence here for the baddies. Saturday morning cartoon level shit.

  The movie should've been a Vigilante Deku filler movie, showing us exactly what Deku was doing the entire time. Exploring him ACTUALLY discovering and training with the other quirks. And him facing the underbelly of Japan.

  

  I'll give it this much, the animation team went off the rails, like holy shit they snapped on this movie, which isn't a statement for the movie being good but the animation team did their job.

  And I didn't think the animation could go harder after the 2nd film.

  Shame too, I was more excited for this than Superman 25', & that's coming from ME, My Hero was prioritized over a SUPERMAN movie for me. That's the whack part.

  I waited for MONTHS, a year+ to MONTHS To watch this movie, and knowing the kind of writing My Hero does, I intentionally had low expectations just so I could enjoy this and even with that in place, this was a chore to get through, just like Superman 2025.

  For both movies, by the end, I was exhausted. And verbally said something along the lines of "Finally", "Glad that shit's over" or simply-- "Never again"

  For this, it was mainly because of how boring Deku is. He gets cooler with the powers but he's the same little angel.

  By the 51-57 min mark, Deku's self-righteous sermon session scene, Is when I was beyond done.

  I was so checked out, severely disappointed.

  Heroes Rising (aka prototype "Final War arc") is still the best of the 4, and after watching that recently, even that had more problems than expected that I thought I remembered. 

  Even the ending was insane, the one consequence that happened to Anna, even that was undone, I shit you not. Truly nothing matters, everything is just honky dory.

  • And it wouldn't be an issue, if the story didn't take itself so damn seriously as if there were any stakes lmfao. 

  A world of super powered people, some of them damn near demi-gods but everything just almost always works out.

  Stakes are a joke in this universe, it's insane. Out of all of the movies, the 4th has the most dry, uninspired plot, it drags horribly even before the half-way mark.

  

  51 minutes is not even halfway through the movie, part of the problem is it's too damn long, not enough going on, the people the story centers around are not interesting & if it's not that much longer than the others, the boring ass plot makes it sandbag.

  Great gifs in this movie, the best part about it is what it could've been, which is My Hero's legacy in a nutshell.

  Just  watch Heroes rising (MHA movie 2) or World Heroes Mission.

  3rd movie is not much better either & the first once should've been about Young Might becoming All Might (obviously). Dark Might is more entertaining than Flect but Anna as a plot device is just insulting, she has no presence, she's literally treated like an object.

  Most basic design, basic personality (not much of a personality either), she's stale toast.

  This movie trying not to be Season 4 while clearly copying Hassaikai raid.

  The trailers were the first red flag for me, and I still was rooting for this movie.

  But afterwards? Too repetitive. Deku doesn't achieve anything, things just happen to him or around him and he reacts.

  

  Not proactive enough, the villains are proactive, they take initiative, they have grounded motivations, almost want them to win, even if just a little bit.

  The first & last 15 minutes was the best parts.