Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Daiki YamashitaIzuku Midoriya (voice)
- Nobuhiko OkamotoKatsuki Bakugo (voice)
- Yoshio InoueNine (voice)
- Mio ImadaSlice (voice)
- Yuka TerasakiKatsuma (voice)
- Tomoyo KurosawaMahoro (voice)
- Yuki KajiShoto Todoroki (voice)
- Kaito IshikawaTenya Iida (voice)
- Ayane SakuraOchako Uraraka (voice)
- Toshiki MasudaEijiro Kirishima (voice)
Recommendations
- 90
The New York Times
This is canny, passionate filmmaking, a reminder of the power of two-dimensional animation. First, it humanizes, then it astounds. - 85
Polygon
If the creator’s words are to be trusted, and this is My Hero Academia’s final film, the series has departed on an exciting high point, among the series’ greatest moments. - 80
Los Angeles Times
Director Kenji Nagasaki pulls out all the stops in the climactic battle, serving up a dazzling array of explosions, lightning, punches, kicks, storm clouds and more explosions. The brilliant palette infuses the sequence with a striking visual beauty, even if the result is a foregone conclusion. - 80
IGN
From excellent team-ups between Deku and Bakugo to strategic standoffs featuring some of the more minor characters like Ashido and Tokoyami, the entirety of Class 1-A gets to shine in this new movie. - 71
Paste Magazine
Sure, the action is thrilling and the visual effects are stellar, but Heroes Rising as a whole only manages to graze the surface of what makes My Hero Academia the series itself so great. - 60
Slashfilm
Heroes Rising is an impressive piece of fan-service with beautiful character work and some of the most inventive and dazzling fight sequences that the series has ever seen. But a recycled plot and villain threaten to doom the film to the lower echelons of forgettable anime movies. - 60
TheWrap
Established “My Hero Academia” fans will probably enjoy Class 1-A’s typically endearing group dynamic, even if none of the jokes in the movie are that great. And their big fight with Nine is genuinely well-staged and climactic, thanks to some impressive computer graphics and director Kenji Nagasaki’s thoughtful staging and choreography. - 40
The Guardian
All the exertion – fleshed out in visuals that veer from Astro Boy-aping cutesiness to interestingly rough closeups, as if the animation itself is fraying in the heat of battle – pays diminishing dividends. The panoply of powers begin to seem interchangeable, the character arcs dim.
