Since it began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2014, My
Hero Academia, a manga about a boy named Izuku Midoriya born Quirkless
(without superpowers) in a world where just about everyone has a Quirk, has been
highly successful, spawning a popular anime series, three spinoff manga, two video
games and a feature film, Two Heroes, with a second film, Heroes Rising,
due later this year (the popularity in the US was also such that it almost shut
down San Diego Comic-Con 2018). Two Heroes, the subject of this review, saw
theatrical runs in both Japan and the US in 2018 and released to positive
reviews from critics and grossed nearly $28 million dollars worldwide. While I
hadn’t seen the movie during the limited US theatrical run, I did buy it on Blu-ray,
but didn’t watch it until right after I had seen Episode 58 of the anime, which
served as a lead-in, through a Toonami broadcast. Now that I have seen it, I found
it a worthy addition to the My Hero Academia universe, despite a lack of
accessibility.
