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My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Doesn’t Feel Necessary Just Yet
If you have an extraordinarily popular anime and manga series like My Hero Academia, it is only inevitable you will get spin-off series that flesh out the world more. I have been waiting for years for My Hero Academia: Vigilantes to get its due as an anime series. While it is finally here, it doesn’t quite feel like a required watch for fans just yet. The story of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes kicks off with the main character, Koichi, going about his business as a normal young adult. Koichi is your typical All Might fan that works at a knock-off Family Mart and gets beat up by thugs in alleys occasionally. The only notable part about Koichi is his moonlighting as the do-gooder Nice Guy. Image via Bones Unfortunately for Koichi, his quirk isn’t too helpful for fighting bad guys. Koichi’s quirk just has him slide along the ground at the speed of a bicycle. His life changes, though, when him and an underground pop idol are saved one day by a vigilante that acts like the messy Batman version of All Might. Together, three vigilantes decide to work together to investigate a new drug that is empowering villains in the town. This is the general gist of what happens in the first episode, which isn’t much. You get an introduction to the main characters and the battle they are going to fight in the series. That said, I can’t help but feel like this is a “wait and see” type of anime right now. As of right now, there isn’t much to enjoy in the series. The main characters are fine, but nothing special. Koichi, in particular, is a mostly forgettable protagonist. He doesn’t quite have the standout (for better or worse) quirkless nature of someone like Deku, nor is he super heroic, either. The same goes for the other two vigilantes he fights alongside. At the same time, the story is pretty lackluster at this point. It is barebones enough to get the point across, but isn’t exciting enough thus far. There is no notable drama or anything to get me to root for the main characters. It doesn’t help, either, that there aren’t any exciting or notable villains introduced just yet. Image via Bones For me, the most notably disappointing part of the series yet is the animation. While not inherently bad by any means, it doesn’t look great, either. This could be because this is not from the primary animation team at Bones. That said, it doesn’t look any better at all than the very first season of the original MHA looked back in 2016. I am aware this series gets much more serious and intriguing as the manga goes on. As such, I do expect this anime series to get better in due time. That said, it will likely take several episodes to get to that point. After all, it is just a bit too goofy and almost parody-like at this time to recommend to all fans of the original series. My Hero Academia: Vigilantes feels like it is in the wait and binge watch category right now. I’m not sure I will watch it week-to-week myself. This is because the characters, story, and general animation are all passable but nothing special right now. In the end, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes isn’t quite the required spin-off I would recommend to fans just yet, but that could change in the future. My Hero Academia: Vigilantes is streaming right now on Crunchyroll. The post My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Doesn’t Feel Necessary Just Yet appeared first on Siliconera.
If you have an extraordinarily popular anime and manga series like My Hero Academia, it is only inevitable you will get spin-off series that flesh out the world more. I have been waiting for years for My Hero Academia: Vigilantes to get its due as an anime series. While it is finally here, it doesn’t quite feel like a required watch for fans just yet.
The story of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes kicks off with the main character, Koichi, going about his business as a normal young adult. Koichi is your typical All Might fan that works at a knock-off Family Mart and gets beat up by thugs in alleys occasionally. The only notable part about Koichi is his moonlighting as the do-gooder Nice Guy.
Unfortunately for Koichi, his quirk isn’t too helpful for fighting bad guys. Koichi’s quirk just has him slide along the ground at the speed of a bicycle. His life changes, though, when him and an underground pop idol are saved one day by a vigilante that acts like the messy Batman version of All Might.
Together, three vigilantes decide to work together to investigate a new drug that is empowering villains in the town. This is the general gist of what happens in the first episode, which isn’t much. You get an introduction to the main characters and the battle they are going to fight in the series.
That said, I can’t help but feel like this is a “wait and see” type of anime right now. As of right now, there isn’t much to enjoy in the series. The main characters are fine, but nothing special. Koichi, in particular, is a mostly forgettable protagonist. He doesn’t quite have the standout (for better or worse) quirkless nature of someone like Deku, nor is he super heroic, either.
The same goes for the other two vigilantes he fights alongside. At the same time, the story is pretty lackluster at this point. It is barebones enough to get the point across, but isn’t exciting enough thus far. There is no notable drama or anything to get me to root for the main characters. It doesn’t help, either, that there aren’t any exciting or notable villains introduced just yet.
For me, the most notably disappointing part of the series yet is the animation. While not inherently bad by any means, it doesn’t look great, either. This could be because this is not from the primary animation team at Bones. That said, it doesn’t look any better at all than the very first season of the original MHA looked back in 2016.
I am aware this series gets much more serious and intriguing as the manga goes on. As such, I do expect this anime series to get better in due time. That said, it will likely take several episodes to get to that point. After all, it is just a bit too goofy and almost parody-like at this time to recommend to all fans of the original series.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes feels like it is in the wait and binge watch category right now. I’m not sure I will watch it week-to-week myself. This is because the characters, story, and general animation are all passable but nothing special right now. In the end, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes isn’t quite the required spin-off I would recommend to fans just yet, but that could change in the future.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes is streaming right now on Crunchyroll.
The post My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Doesn’t Feel Necessary Just Yet appeared first on Siliconera.
