My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019) poster
2019 · animation · action · fantasy · adventure

My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising

Directed by Kenji Nagasaki1h 44m2019
ElsewhereIMDb7.812kRT92%Metacritic70
  • warm
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • inventive
  • redemptive
  • epic-stakes
Movie DNA

Warm, breathless, extreme animation / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Class 1-A visits Nabu Island where they finally get to do some real hero work. The place is so peaceful that it's more like a vacation... until they're attacked by a villain with an unfathomable Quirk! His power is eerily familiar, and it looks like Shigaraki had a hand in the plan. But with All Might retired and citizens' lives on the line, there's no time for questions. Deku and his friends are the next generation of heroes, and they're the island's only hope.

Our read · My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive animation · action · fantasy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want Class 1-A on an island facing a villain beyond their usual homework.

ends triumphantyou’ll feel glowing aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 18attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upchild perilgraphic violence

Skip it tonightSkip if you do not follow the show and shonen power-ups feel confusing.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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