Let's Talk About My Hero Academia's Animation 

While I appreciate seeing mha sakuga analysis, there are a TON of stuff in regards to the production of the series that were either left out, simplified or just glossed over. Considering mha has 6 seasons, 3 movies and is about to get more naturally there is so much someone can cover in only 10 minutes.

It's crazy how MHA used to have the best animation of any anime at the time but then JJK and Frieren came out with their movie-level animation quality

I wouldn't say the style was getting old but flatter, the line art was shakier and very uniform while other seasons had more variation on the thickness of the lines and more complex shading.

Sugita wasn't mentioned in a MHA animation breakdown. BLASPHEMOUS😢😢

For a show like this, I’m fine with less than amazing animation in some episodes as long as we get multiple insane sequences each season. They are more than worth it. Season 1 had all might vs nomu, season 2 had the deku vs todoroki, season 3 had all for one fight and the deku vs kachan fight. Season 4 had infinite 100 percent, gentle criminal, and endeavor vs nomu (and also I really liked the fight with fat gum in the first cour) and season 5 has multiple good fights in the first cour with nakamura cut being the highlight. And of course the shigaraki backstory scene and fight with re destro. And then season 6 has the miriko scenes (Suzuki is crazy) and the dabi dance, as well as some of the mirio scenes looking amazing. And then of course the muscular fight, and the nagant fight, and finally class 1-A fight. To me, season 6 had the most amount of highlights making it my favorite season. I really don’t think the animation quality has dropped all that much. Every season has had limited animation along with insane highlights. And I see Suzuki is working on the star and stripe fight for the beginning of season 7 so I’m expecting greatness. Imagine both Suzuki and nakamura have cuts in that fight. A boy can dream but we shall see

I got hopes for season 7 because of the new director and because the first preview/mini-trailer of season 7 looks way better than the first season 6 preview

No mention of COVID absolutely gutting Bones during season 5's production? I know some people hate the movies, but BONES is easily capable of doing both. Seems like a very weird omission to me.

Thanks for this video. It's very good to have a summary and behind-the-scenes info on who worked on it, speculation what happened, and so on. Nothing I would have found out myself ever. Nice video!

I think you hit on the key point: The movies prevent the staff from focusing on the TV anime as much as they should. It's no surprise that season 6 was the best animated season in years because there was no accompanying movie, but now Bones is making a movie once again alongside season 7 so I expect it to look worse.

The animation of the most recent teaser of mha season 7 Especially the part when shigarakis fighting best jeanist It is very different animation It looks so fucking good and smooth.

I liked its animation

this breaks my heart as a mha fan, the has sm potential

idk i binged it and the style didnt get old for me

Id love more mha analysis in the future especially when s7 comes out!

I love the animation

tbh, for how long the show has gone for, maybe changing art styles may not be a good idea lol. Especially since it'll definitely more jarring than anything else for long time viewers ( which is basically anyone who's watching s7 at this point lol )

Mha looks like everything happens either in ua or the same forest next to ua

Great video, been watching your videos for almost a year now. Always hopped for you to make a video on MHA. Thanks for putting a lot of work in this. I hope you make a video on JoJo's bizarre adventure someday..

Your insights on the first 2 seasons were good mostly because they were taken from sakuga blog, but after that they are just mostly guessing and subjective opinions, you didn't bring any insights on season 5 or 6 just saying you dont like the direction and the blue sky (Even though direction became much more ambitious with mukai especially in season 5) And that the show still looks the same (duh)

Though this video may not do well partly because of your quite obvious carelessness towards this show ,I really do hope you make more videos on my hero. Not every show is blessed with talent like Jjk after all .true that the compositing for this show doesn’t elevate the animation at all and the art direction is bland.but the studio does experiment with the newer cgi backgrounds and puts out good 2d. ( why don’t they try autoinbetweening or smtg?) also the manga is really good and the artwork speaks for itself so you might wanna look at it.

I appreciate the insight, but season 7 so far has been inmaculate

i know that schedule is not that good for mha lately, but here is my question regarding the season 6, i was really impressed by animation for like first 6 episodes or 7, there was a big step up so i was wandering why did deku vs shigaraki suffered that much, there was like few very good cut with endevour, deku also had a good cut but overall it was basic and it did not move much

Do you have any news about The One Piece ?

Day 2 of asking you to breakdown Wakfu's animation

There is SOME hopeful news for s7 and thats the fact that its rumored to be a shorter season (21 episodes instead of 25 could just be one cour tho) aswell as the fact that if im not mistaken umakoshi is confirmed to be coming back full time for key animation and art direction and not just a helper outter here and there Nothing will help mha reach its peak of animation back during earlier seasons but it could mean good things for the episodes and fights that matter most

At this point they are too deep to change the monotone artstyle ,one thing i will give them is that for how complicated the character's design are (at least compared to Mob Psycho) they did a decent job especially for the second season ,you can see the potential in the 2nd and 3rd movie in terms of consistency and direction of the scenes ,but yeah ,for such a big studio to compromise arguably top 5 most popular shows in the last 10 years is sad .

Please do One Punch Man when s3 drops 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Bro make a Video on Shangri-La Frontier

Title changed ummmmm what could it mean?

time.

I subscribed to you!🙏🥵

I think the backgrounds are overlooked sometimes like the movies get amazing backgrounds but the show’s backgrounds are like pngs with a weird filter.

I think the biggest problem is THEY KEEP MAKING MOVIES put more buget on the show please😅

GIVE ME THAT HEART! also loved the video

The blue sky can't remain, there is an event that will occur that will change it.

MHA HAS ONE OF THE BEST MANGAS EVER EVERTHING ABT IT IS SO PERFECT U CAN LITR FEEL THE AURA FROM THE MANGA BUT THE ANIMATORS HAVW LITR RUINED THAT MY POOR MHA DESERVES SM BETTER I ALWAYS WISH THAT THEY CHANGE THE ANIMATORS FROM BONES TO YOUFOTABLE

Ok

You should talk about Jojo’s or Fire Force

is this ashris?

The blue sky ain’t that bad

Bones does better than most animators 💀

I don't think i even need to see much of this video, 2-3 everyone says was the greatest quality, 4-5 had lesser and season 6 brought back that good quality. I find it ironic since season 2-3 has moments of pretty off model characters with animation, yet no one bothers to bring it up. 5 arguiable had the best animation quality, but production issues and scheduling was a problem due to covid.

Can you make videos on writing like you did for jjk?

i agree. mha animation went down consistently

what's name of these anime that start from here 2:49 to here 2:53?

His voice and analysis are just perfect

First comment and like🗿(📌)

2:34 how Does looks like in letter there 3 animators name?

How did bones assemble such a big lineup of animators for season 1, like I understand tanaka,that man works on like majority of shows but what about the rest.

That blue sky man…

Bro is cooking!🔥🗿

This season can’t be 2 cours right, aren’t they close to catching up to the manga?

The production committee just doesn't care. Instead of taking more risks for the sake of a better adaptation, they restrict their potential to push out more worthless content. Why TF do we have so many filler OVAs? Why was one about CARDS? The Movie will kill Season 7, it explains why it looks exactly like every other Season in the trailer. If they were smart, they'd delay Cour 2 another YEAR to make the best finale they can, but I don''t see that happening. It feels so stupid seeing Metallic Rouge coming out right now and despite having a mid story it's one of Bones's best looking shows. Why doesn't MHA look like that? Why doesn't MHA look like Mob Psycho 100 or Blood Blockade Battlefront? Or a show that actually looks animated in the 2020s like JJK or CSM or Frieren? It's not fair with all the money it's made and how other shows get away with being different for far less. Smh

Breakdown of the MHA movie animations? Imo, not only do they have the best animation from MHA, they have some of the best cuts from anime period.

It was pretty obvious the issue was Studio Bone’s focus on the MHA movies over the main series. The movies have the animation lacking in the main series. Having a movie being released at the middle of the season airing is very telling on behind the scenes productions going to be a mess.

Nothing

You can make videos focusing on a single animator and their specialities.

Talk about golden age of anime and 80s-90s series. Please.

“Save the mha animation society, Lazreyes”

2th comment be like 🗿

I use to always rewatch the my hero series right before a new season would start but after season 4 I stopped re watching once I started to notice the dip in art In animation after season 3, still a good show and I still watch the new seasons but after season 3 it wasn’t as fun for me to rewatch again, I’d rather have quality like 1-3 instead of movies

it really is as simple as umakoshi not being able to put his imprint on every single episode these days. committees lack of resources always puts a cap on mhas look and production overall. when you see flat colors, a lack of movement or simple storyboards, its not cause the team is bad or lazy. they’re just handicapped by guidelines only the most legendary animators are allowed to ignore. no animator would purposely follow a manga the way mha does. they’ve been instructed to not change anything. in the eyes of bones’ production committee, mha is a cash cow that will be the main financial support of the studio no matter what the anime looks like or does. so they let it be riddled with still frames and rearrange arcs. people will still watch and buy merch, which leaves money for sakuga fests like mob psycho.

Where to begin with this mess. You praising JJKS2 and MAPPA should have been a big red flag. Condensing six seasons and three movies worth of material and allocating all of MHA's hurdles to a few key individuals while ignoring the plethora of other talented animators who have worked on the series over the years is a bad way to present your argument. Cherrypicking scenes from S1 will not change the fact that its an overall less than stellar season compared to everyone else due to how rushed it was as evident of the TV version of the All Might fight. As stated by many people who actually know what they're talking about the work on the movies has never affected the TV series nor have tey taken out animators from them in fact if you bothered to look at the credits for the 3rd movie and S5 they have the exact same animators working on it what came about with S5 was a studio wide issue that effect several shows that was released that year and staff for MHA was sent to help on Sk8 which aired in January of that year and another show Vanitas got hit with delays in the Summer so no the movie had nothing to do with what happened. If you actually bothered to read Vincent's thread he stated that what came about was a normal process and something that was done to prevent animators from getting overworked and degrading the quality as a whole something that happened with JJKS2 where his actual cut was released unfinished and he vowed to never work for MAPPA again. These MHA takes always feel so short-sighted and always come from a lack of understanding of studio BONES and just general disrespect for the staff.

"From one without Nakamura to one that did," Yesssssiiiiir

I dont understand why they need to do all of those movies. They look really good but the main story that deserves a lot more in terms of animation suffers.

the art style has remained sort of consistent like nailing a few key points just to make sure everything seem fine but the main problem has to be the more simplified designs and stiff animation which to me seems pretty similar to black clover or boruto where the animation and character designs were more flowy and detailed in the starting of the series but became progressively distant from what it used to be.

Seasons 1-3 was special, the animation was way better than what weve gotten since seasons 4-6. I remember a director change has been happening since s4 but the quality overall just isnt reaching what we got in the first 3 seasons in the smallest moments. Movies continue to provide that tho 😅

Vincent Chansard got done dirty

Wait Hakuyu Go fr

Honestly my enjoyment out of this anime keeps fluctuating. It has some peak moments, but then it's followed by a whole load of bs that is frankly kinda hard to watch.

Let’s compare it do demon slayers

Sad to see that the Manga looks so amazing and the Anime lools so bland since Season 5

The Director has always stayed 1:1 with the mango for the most part and that hinders it heavily. Add that to his general uninspired shots or lack of willingness to allow himself or others to play around with the atmosphere, and the resulting product is something that relies heavily on animation that isn't present. That's without mentioning other dumb as fuck directorial decisions, like rearranging the arcs in S5 for the horrid movie. I'd be more forgiving were any of the movies actually good, but they're mostly p. dogshit. I always find it amusing that MHA pioneered the seasonal shounen, and then immediately shot itself in the foot by still doing seasonal shounen shenanigans, like producing filler movies. Then Demon Slayer perfected the formula and that's what we've had sense, with MHA being a relic of the past at this point. The grandpappy that paved the way to make everything better, but ultimately couldn't keep up itself because of horrid production decisions and greed.

Show will never reach it peak again.

Stop blaming the movies, they have little effect on the show. The problem is 90% due to the short schedule

the first few seasons of mha were so good but it just feels like the show just becomes worse as it continues

I haven't even watched it yet, but I can probably whittle it down to 3 reasons. Seasonal releases, meaning they don't have as much time to work More complex designs of the manga, meaning they have to draw more for every frame It simply isn't as big as it used to be, (i.e. popularity) so it's not as motivating to work on it id imagine. No passion essentially. Or maybe there is but the direction doesn't allow for as much creativity like in seasons 1-3.

I don’t mind the mediocre animation in the last seasons, JUST PLEASE CHANGE THAT BLUE SKY THAT RUINS THE WHOLE THING

This explains why mha looked so boring after season 2

from directing to storytelling, from golden time s1-s3 to dull time like s4-s6, i feel the Director burned out through each ss and story that look so good are now fu*k up because Mirio The most like and loved by ppl who will find his own way to be hero without rely on Eri, IN WAR ARC HE BOW TO ERI TO USE HER POWER TO GET HIS POWER BACK!? , WHAT ABOUT THE CORE OF THE STORY THAT “YOU CAN BE A HERO EVER THOUGH YOU DONT HAVE POWER” I NOW SOME GUY WILL SAY ”WHAT CAN HE DO IF HE DONT HAVE A POWER” BRO THERE ARE SUPPORT DEPARTMENT WHO BUILT ALLMIGHT SUIT THAT PUT AFO IN SHIT!! AND WHO CANT DO A SUIT FOR INVISIBLE GIRL TO PROTECT HER P*SSY FROM RUBBLE IN BATTLEFIELD????……And i not even mention Dark Deku arc or the new movie that about come.😂

Every bones production looks better than MHA now a days

Will never forgive nor forget how they massacred Mirio's scenes in the anime, total waste...

Guys the studio honestly doesnt care about your claims so stop harassing them, they prioritize profit over anything else, thats why theyre making more movies now, because its way more profitable than the streamable show

Furthermore, I feel like the direction of the anime after the one for all arc was very weak, I've never felt excited about MHA since the One for All arc.

Animation of show is trash man!

Ok