Recently, I watched My Hero Academia: Two Heroes and here is what I thought about it. Contains spoilers for My Hero Academia: Two Here’s (2018)

The movie starts off with an incredible All Might fight scene, to establish the relationship with All Might and David Shield. From this fight you can already see the differences between the movie and the anime. In the movie, they made the characters look more refined. The lines drawn were much thinner and additional shadows were made around the faces to make it more realistic.

The fight scene was also brilliant, it also helped in displaying the abilities of this new friend of All Might, David Shield with his weird transforming vehicle. They also gave younger All Might big blue eyes which was a weird character design choice but it did somehow made All Might seem more mature.

After that, they did a whole recap of what happened so far during the anime series, which I am guessing is after the Sports Event but before when Midoriya decided to use his legs. This recap was really helpful for introducing the series to newcomers while serving as a refresher for people waiting for Season 4. The explanation of the One for All Quirk in the recap was also important to the storyline of this movie.

Throughout the movie, there was always this consistent “thing” with the camera where it zooms out and sort of give a perspective to everything and also showing a wider scale of the surrounding. I am not sure if they did the same with the anime series as I didn’t really notice the editing when I was watching the series. However this really showed around the I-Expo when the runtime of the movie isn’t sufficient for it and it shows you just how big All Might is.

So Midoriya followed All Might to this scientific island where they study Quirks and All Might goes there to meet his old friend, David Shield. We learned that apparently David Shield designed a bunch of All Might’s suit. I was really hoping that later on All Might “might” accidentally destroy his current suit and have to used some of the old ones which looked so much cooler. Now that Season 4 is out, they did introduced the suit in flashbacks involving All Might. In my opinion, the Bronze Age looked the best, since we didn’t get to see that during the trailer.

We also got introduced Melissa, which was David Shield’s daughter. And what a character they created, she is smart and quirkless and dreamt to be a hero like Midoriya. However, she still manages to help by creating gadgets for heroes. Her character seem really interesting and she should definitely be introduced into the main series. She brought Midoriya around the island and it showcases the different gadgets and gizmos that David Shield helped in creating. However, I thought all this was wasted potential, as this support items were not used in the final battle. Godzilla also made an appearance.

Later on, most of the Class 1-A students get introduced in. Each having their own reasons why they are in I-Expo. The rest of the classmates had to wait a few more days for the I-Expo to officially open so they had little screen time as outsiders. The selected few students that were in the I-Expo though, the movie did utilise each of them and give them a reason to be there. So they all had a part in the movie. Now, I personally didn’t really liked Mineta but even he got a part in the the movie and proved to be useful. They also drew extra expressions on Mineta since he is usually the funny one in the group. Especially with his character design of a small stubby boy.

There are a couple of jokes in this movie but I also think most of the humor is in the animation. Faces of more comedic characters have exaggerated expressions which helps in delivering the humor.

The scene with each 1-A student being introduced felt very wholesome. Since we already know so much about each character but Midoriya still has to introduce each one of them to Melissa for her to understand. And when every character was introduced it didn’t feel as different as before since now there is the same banter between the 1-A students.

Since David is a new character, they had flashbacks to explain how he met All Might. They showed how David Shield also knows about how All Might has to take breaks in between to maintain his muscle form and this spurred David to build a machine to help amplify All Might’s power. But since this plays such a big part in the final fight, they could have shined more light on David Shield’s reaction when he found out about All Might ‘s problem and how it made him to build the machine.

This movie also has quite a number of action scenes and they were executed perfectly. The animation of the characters were so well done, the characters well able to move around so fluidly. Even action using the quirks were animated skillfully. For example, if someone with a super strength quirk were to punch the floor, the impact of the punch can be felt through the exaggerated impact ti the floor.

For a movie with quite a young audience, this movie can be pretty brutal. This is mainly due to the villain use of a gun. He had such a powerful quirk but he chose to use a gun?

The ending also had plot twist over plot twist over plot twist. They didn’t really explain the machine so much till the last 30 mins so for the first half of the movie we didn’t really know what the villains or David Shield was looking for. Of course this massive plot twist ended in a lot of blood which again was pretty gruesome.

The fight with All Might and Midoriya! When they started running to villain at the end, that send chills down my spine. The ending fight had the suitable timing and the heroic music to pair with it. Sadly, Midoriya and All Might probably won’t get the chance to work together in the main series but at least this movie was able to showcase it.

I didn’t watch anything relating to My Hero Academia since Season 3 ended last year, so this movie really helped in getting me back to the spirit of the anime. The whole thing about heroes and wanting to help despite feeling that you are not always able to. I was really hoping the movie would have a proper goodbye to all the new characters and maybe explain more about the aftermath of what happened. We still kind of got it through pictures from the end credits. I really enjoyed the movie and now with Season 4 coming, I can finally get back into this beloved series.

Ratings: 8/10