Boku No Hero Academia Episode 1 recap

Hello everybody! DL98 here with a review/recap of Boku No Hero Academia's first anime episode.

Now, here's some basic information about the world of BnHA:

In this world, people with superpowers, which are called Quirks, are the majority, as about 80% of the worlds population has superpowers, while the remaining normal humans make up 20% of the population.

Now obviously some people ran wild with the powers they were born with, and normal police officers, to no-one's surprise couldn't do anything to these Villains. But, some "courageous" people decided to start emulating the comics, and so Superheroes came into existance.

And in the current setting, there are numerous Hero Academies, but the most prestigious of them all is U.A Hero Academy.

Sadly, our main hero, Izuku Midoriya is a Quirkless teenager, so he has a low self-esteem, and it's made even worse as he's constantly bullied by Katsuki Bakugou, a asshole with a Quirk that gives his sweat the properties of nitroglycerin.

And Katsuki want's to enroll at U.A, and his plan is to set himself up as the only kid from his school to enroll at U.A.

Wow, what a fucking hero...

No, seriously, how the hell does he think he'll stop anyone else from enrolling at U.A? I doubt that he could bribe anyone, as Hero jobs is a well-paying job, the size of your paycheck depends on how well you do your job, so Bakugou's essentially stopping others from getting the best education for the job.

And it seems like he's practically unchallenged, but then their asshat teacher notes that Izuku is also taking the exam test.

Wow, thanks a lot asshole.

Now, this sets Bakugou off, and he uses his Quirk to basically harass and threaten Izuku, and everyone else just laughs and what does the teacher do?

Jack shit.

So, apparently it's okay to threaten and harass Quirkless people. In a world where the best job is being a hero

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WHAT??!!

So, being racist is apparently OK in this world.

Anyway, afterwards, Bakugou approaches Izuku, warning him that if he takes the entrance exam, he'll blow him to into itty-bitty little pieces, and just to drive the message home, he does a small-scale explosion on his shoulder, and blows up his Hero-Notebook.

Ok, so now we can add battery to his ever-growing laundry-list of douche-baggery.

Anyway, Izuku finds his scorched notebook. Now, I must explain something. Izuku has multiple notebooks full of information about different heroes that he's seen. And those notebooks list the Quirks of the heroes, the limits of said Quirks, and an analysis on how well they'll do.

And those notebooks are accurate as all hell. And Izuku mad those himself, no help from anyone else, and we saw him hit the bullseye on the limits of a rookie hero's Quirk, which allowed her to become a giant, but she can't help if she doesn't have at least two lanes.

And Izuku did that analysis based her just using a rip-off of Dynamic Entry, called Canyon Cannon on a semi-gigantic thug.

Now, some of you might not understand what this means, so allow me to put it in laymans terms. Izuku can perfectly analyze the strengths and weaknesses of any hero and Quirk after looking at them for a while.

So, Izuku can theoretically create perfect death traps and counters for anyone, if he has seen them use their Quirk for a while.

Anyway, Izuku then runs into a Villain with a slime-based body, a result of his Quirk, and the Villain attempts to possess his body.

"How is he going to do that?", some of you may ask.

Why, by showing himself inside of Izuku of course.

Now, this scene was pretty ho-yay and creepy in the mnaga, but in the anime, it's fully animated, Izuku's pitiful attempts to pull this guy off of him, the guy shoving himself down his throat, the flowing of the slime, it's pretty rape-y.

But, before Izuku gets possessed, the #1 hero in the world, All Might appears, and sends the guy flying with just the wind pressure created from him punching.

Long story short: Izuku finds out that All Might can stay in his bulked up hero form for 3 hours a day, the villain escapes, attempts to possess Bakugou, with more success, gaining access to his Quirk, runs wild. Izuku attempts to rescue Bakugou, although I can't see why, the guy's a homicidal asshole, but both of them are rescued by All Might, who pushes through his limit as he sees the Quirkless Izuku run head-first into danger, all just to save his "friend".

So, All-might makes a small hurricane with his punch, and then it creates clouds, and it starts raining.

Afterwards, All-Might approaches Izuku, and tells him that he'll help him become a hero.

And afterwards, he plans on passing on his Quirk, One for All onto Izuku.

Anyway, that's my recap of BnHA episode 1, hope you liked it, and here's a link where you can see it with english subs, or if you don't want to hear it, here's a link to the dub.

But here's a piece of advice to both, don't watch the opening animation, simply scroll down so you can only hear the song, as the opening is a spoiler for the other characters who'll appear and it also shows the villains.

Arvosana: 4/5. Kaikki oli hienostyi animoitu, ja ääninäyttelijät tekivät hyvää työtä. Olisi ollut mukavaa jos tätä pikkuriikkisen "rasisistisista" kiusaamista ei olisi ylenkatsottu.