Oblithian

Filler Season (and not a good filling)

There are maybe 4 episodes of plot value but you know it's going to be in both a recap and flashback next season so, if I had known, I wouldn't have bothered.

*This season is really disappointing and is continuing the downward trend. It's like they gave up on trying. If season 6 is good, maybe come back and watch this first? *edit*[It did pick up a bit near episode 11 and for a flash you thought something interesting was going to happen. Then it went right back to hurry up and wait. They're really drawing this out, I think they are trying to use the cash cow as raft, but they're going to drown it before they finish milking it.]

The battles defy established logic and reasonable action. They are making everything come across as contrived so there is no believability in the battles. It's fine if some people lose from time to time but there needs to be reasonable set up and there just isn't. Not only that, they go so far as to ignore things they set up within the same episode! There is extreme heat that no one can enter except one... for random illogical reasons but ok. Then later someone else just shows up in the middle of it. Good job. There are dozens of other examples.

Good guys seem absent most of the time, but then the adversaries are just everywhere all the time. What are the others doing?? Especially the "extremely fast one", yet the opponent is the one showing up everywhere? *(he did showbup again later but, not first). This is plot armour at its absolute worst. It doesn't even make sense that the clasroom students are acting like they have more field experience, despite not. Whoever wrote this... seriously.

With that out of the way. It's all shallow, there is virtually no character depth or character building so far. They jump around giving crumbs of crumbs for everyone but it results in nothing meaningful for anyone, which also makes what meaning there is lose impact. As it stands now, MHA is worse than Black Clover by a decent amount, even that has more plot. What exists in season 5 is ok, there's just little of it and it is insubstantial.

Story wise, the plot development is ok but again there is nearly no time spent on it, I feel like this is just dragging their feet to get to season 6. But they aren't putting the effort in to make it compelling or engaging/intense. 

That leaves the battles, which as mentioned are horribly structured. It's just back and forth "ah but you haven't seen ___". And the fights are not intense so you just tune out because you know how it's going to go and there's no real combat most of the time.

Sound is your average anime as usual. Animation quality is as you would expect.

In summary, it's just not holding up it quality over time. What they do well is good, as you would expect, but there's so little of it, It's hard to watch. I am massively disappointed, but it's been on this trajectory for a while. It just accelerated its descent.

I wish we had more one punch man. As much as I am interested in all might, the students, and the broader plot, and as much as I didn't like the new animation of OPM 2, there was more substance.