My Hero Academia Season 1
Series, 2016, First Year, Set in Izuku enters U.A. High
My Hero Academia Season 1 is #1 of 13 in release order and #2 of 13 in chronological order in the My Hero Academia.
The story
For his entire life, Izuku has dreamed of being a hero—an ambitious goal for anyone, but an especially challenging one for a boy without superpowers. That’s right: in a world where 80% of the population has some sort of special Gift, Izuku was unlucky enough to be born completely normal. But that won’t stop him from enrolling in one of the most prestigious hero academies in the world to learn what it truly means to be a hero.
My Hero Academia Season 1 recap
My Hero Academia season 1 (2016) follows Izuku Midoriya, a boy born without a Quirk in a world of superpowers, who still dreams of becoming a hero. The 13-episode first season from Bones, directed by Kenji Nagasaki, aired on MBS from April to June 2016. Izuku Midoriya (Daiki Yamashita) throws himself at a villain to save his bullying childhood friend Katsuki Bakugo (Nobuhiko Okamoto), and the watching hero All Might (Kenta Miyake) reveals his secret: he is badly injured, and his power, One For All, can be passed on. After months of training on a beach, Izuku inherits it and enters the hero course at U.A. High, but his body breaks whenever he uses it. In Class 1-A he befriends Ochaco Uraraka and Tenya Iida, faces Katsuki in a battle trial and learns from the teacher Shota Aizawa. The League of Villains, led by Tomura Shigaraki, then attacks a training site with a monster built to kill All Might. This is the place to start.
My Hero Academia Season 1 ending explained
My Hero Academia season 1 ends with All Might beating the Nomu with blows past his limit, then standing defenseless against Shigaraki. Izuku stalls the villain until the other teachers arrive and drive off Shigaraki and the warp villain Kurogiri. All Might thanks Izuku but tells him his time in hero form is now down to about an hour a day, and Shigaraki reports to his unseen master that this is only the beginning.
Where to watch My Hero Academia Season 1
My Hero Academia Season 1 is streaming on Netflix, Hulu, Crunchyroll, and Rakuten Viki in the US. You can rent or buy it on Amazon, Apple TV, and Google Play.
Ratings
IMDb 8.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes 100%, MyAnimeList 7.82
Where it fits
- Release order: first, before My Hero Academia Season 2.
- Chronological order: after My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, before My Hero Academia Season 2.
What to watch before My Hero Academia Season 1
Nothing. My Hero Academia Season 1 is the first of the My Hero Academia essentials, so it's the place to start.
Cast
- Daiki Yamashita as Izuku Midoriya (voice)
- Nobuhiko Okamoto as Katsuki Bakugo (voice)
- Yuki Kaji as Shoto Todoroki (voice)
- Kenta Miyake as All Might (voice)
- Ayane Sakura as Ochako Uraraka (voice)
- Kaito Ishikawa as Tenya Iida (voice)
- Aoi Yuuki as Setsuna Tokage (voice)
- Junichi Suwabe as Shota Aizawa (voice)
- Koki Uchiyama as Tomura Shigaraki (voice)
- Tarusuke Shingaki as Mirio Togata (voice)
- Seiran Kobayashi as Eri (voice)
- Kenjiro Tsuda as Overhaul (voice)