After My Hero Academia Season 5 Episode 16, I think I’m becoming disappointed in the fifth season of My Hero Academia. This season already displaced the Villain Arc and now we get a filler beach episode. In the anime community filler episodes aren’t well received. Most filler wastes time and space, providing episodes that add nothing to the series. Generally, they’re meant to help producers meet their contractual obligations. The most common reason for filler is when the anime threatens to overtake the manga it’s based on. This isn’t the issue for My Hero Academia. I’m perplexed why they bothered. To this point, if filler was necessary why not focus on something that matters? Now I understand you don’t want to interfere with Kohei Horikoshi’s writing and write the story for him. However, you could explore Class 1-B more. What hero work-studies did they all attend?
My Hero Academia Season 5 Episode 16, “Long Time No See, Selkie,” is a filler episode that blurs elements of the classic “beach episode.” This episode is also a prologue for the upcoming movie My Hero Academia: World Heroes Mission. This episode focuses on Ochaco and her study at Ryukyu’s agency. She’s joined by Tsuyu Asui and Nejire Hado. Captain Selkie and his Oki Mariner Crew returns to investigate the use of the illegal drug Trigger. They pursue a ship carrying stolen Trigger, only for a member of enemy crew to use Trigger and create a smokescreen to hide the ship. They escape but the ship is believed to be hiding in the Verize Islands.
Ochaco takes the lead
Selkie, Froppy, Ryukyu, Nejire Chan, and Uravity search for the ship. When the targets see Ryukyu they once again inject Trigger and create a smokescreen. However, the smokescreen helps conceal the approach of Selkie whos able to take the criminals by surprise. Meanwhile, a plane takes off carrying the cargo. Ryukyu tries to catch the plane but is too slow. However, Uravity with the help of Sirius reaches the plane by riding on a harpoon. Using her Quirk to make herself weightless, she successfully boards the plane. Uravity quickly uses her Gunhead Martial Arts: Gravity Plus to knock out the smuggler.
Uravity still has one problem. She can’t fly a plane. She can’t abandoned the plane to explode in the sea, fearing the possibility that Trigger leaks. Ryukyu tells her to “make the plane weightless.” Despite being unsure if she can do it, Uravity manages to do so. Meanwhile, Ryukyu uses wind tornados to propel Nejire towards the plane, she then uses her Gring Wave to slow the plane down. The plane stops in midair, allowing Ryukyu to land the plane safely. After the credits we see a preview of the main villain from the movie, Flect Turn. The next episode of My Hero Academia will return to the main storyline, which is a relief. As fillers go, Episode 16 wasn’t that bad.
Check out my review of My Hero Academia Season 5, Episode 15.
I wish the filler was better. The lame excuse seeing the girls in swimwear was dumb but at least give them more to do on the mission.
Considering all the common crimes that mush occur, they have a lot of material for filler. I guess filler wouldn’t be frowned upon if they put more effort into it. LOL.
Yeah this sounds pretty underwhelming. It’s a shame since back in the day I feel like some titles at least tried to have good filler like One Piece and Bleach. (If you hadn’t read the manga, the Bleach fillers could actually feel like real events like the Bount saga) Now filler just seems to be characters messing around on the beach for 20 minutes
Good filler is often hard to come buy. I remember some of the terrible Dragonball Z filler, it was like Goku goes shopping for groceries. LOL.