My Hero Academia: The Rise of Jiro and the Future of Dubbed Anime By Daniel KurlandĪ consistent strength of this season of My Hero Academia is how every pairing between Class A and B students has featured an especially inspired clash of complimentary or contradictory Quirks. It’s also harder to predict the outcome of all of this since Class A and B’s teammates are divided and pursue different, independent strategies. It’s all action and the lack of filler is a welcome alternative to the emptier first half of this battle from the previous episode.
This approach means that there’s never really a dull moment in this episode as each of these battles intercut with each other. “Match 3 Conclusion” adopts a more thrilling structure where Iida’s fight against Kaibara happens concurrently with Todoroki’s war with Tetsutetsu, as well as Shoji’s duel with Pony Tsunotori. Previous matches from the Joint Training Arc have featured a domino effect as different heroes rise to the challenge once their teammates get defeated.
It’s a smart way to make the established powers of the Class A students feel as new as Class B’s Quirks, many of which are being seen for the first time. “Match 3 Conclusion” generates some effective suspense over the nature of everyone’s new abilities, when they’ll reveal themselves, and if there’s a deeper strategy to them beyond their surface level purpose. Iida’s new super move allows him to intervene in Ojiro’s battle and dominate the battlefield, but he’s not the only one that’s come to play with new tricks. The sequences gain an extra level of fluidity and the actions occasionally get ahead of the frames, as if the show itself can’t keep up with Iida’s new speed. All of the theatrics around Iida’s new speed look stunning and the animation as well as the choreography around these sequences is perfect. Midoriya makes an offhand remark that Iida is now faster than Gran Torino, which is a pretty significant claim, if true. Iida quickly rises to the occasion and debuts his new Recipro Turbo ability, which increases his speed to even higher levels of ridiculousness. Both of these characters have been some of the dominant members of the 1-A Class in the past, but it’s literally been seasons since they’ve been integral to the main conflict at hand. Something that “Match 3 Conclusion” underscores is that all of the Class A students in this fight are important and play a factor in the outcome, but it’s Tenya Iida and Shoto Todoroki that really get to prove their leadership abilities here. This is a deliriously busy episode that crams in too much action, if anything. These episodes may be two halves of the same whole, but they couldn’t be more different in terms of their pacing and scope. Unsurprisingly, “Match 3 Conclusion” finishes off the third battle of the Joint Training Arc that kicked off in the previous episode. Each episode from this season has featured some sort of surprise reveal about a character’s new abilities, but “Match 3 Conclusion” makes these secret hero improvements its priority in a fantastic episode that never slows down and marks the highlight of the season. My Hero Academia could have easily devoted some introductory episodes on this material, but the mystery factor has become a very exciting element to this season.
This season caters towards perpetual combat, but part of the reason that these clashes are so successful is because everyone has trained hard and improved upon their base skills, only the audience isn’t privy to how exactly these heroes have upped their games.
My Hero Academia season 5 has worked very hard to showcase the wide range of characters that compose Classes A and B, especially some of the more obscure or forgotten heroes. Burn myself! In order to become who I want to be!” This My Hero Academia review contains spoilers.
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