Fourth Time’s Not Quite the Charm, But it is Fun- ‘My Hero Academia: You’re Next’ Review

Before we begin, at the time of writing, My Hero Academia has relatively recently completed its decade run with 430 chapters in the mainline series, 127 chapters of the spin-off MHA: Vigilantes, a few volumes of side stories, four video games, and three movies, with You’re Next being the fourth theatrical release. The anime is currently in season 7, with 157 episodes and 9 OVAs. This review is going to assume knowledge of events that happened in the series up to the end of the sixth season of the anime because that is canonically when this movie takes place. For any of you anime-onlys, don’t worry, I’m not gonna spoil the manga, but if you’re unfamiliar with the true nature of One for All or the other movies in the series, you may want to catch up just a little before delving into this. With that said, it is also important to acknowledge that anime movies are fundamentally weird because they ostensibly take place within the canon of the world, a fact that is doubly true for My Hero Academia. Horikoshi’s direct involvement with the movie’s stories meant that several plot points that were brought up originally in a movie (like Melissa’s general existence or Bakugo temporarily becoming a holder of One for All due to shenanigans) have been referenced within the anime and manga. And like other anime movies, the world-shaking events that occur during movies are only acknowledged in passing if not at all which is wild given that under the right circumstances, these villains probably…