It’s safe to say that Season Five has been contentious among MHA fans, especially in how they’ve decided to rearrange material. I’ve mostly been fine with it – I’m rarely one beholden to source material as scripture in the first place – but this is the last straw. I was fine with an anime-original episode to promote the movie. I was less fine with skipping a week because of the Olympics, but I could handle it. But this? Canceling the series with a month and a half left in the season? This is too far. And the show they’ve decided to replace it with is just such an obvious copycat. Just look at that logo! Somebody at BONES really screwed the pooch here!
So yes, the days of MHA are over, to potentially return in another season later. Now, it’s time for My Villain Academia, starring not a plucky teenage boy, but a miserable and misanthropic 20-something who really needs to…