Can an 8 year old Read My Hero Academia?

The U.A. students have reached the practical portion of their final exam, but they didn’t expect to have to beat their own teachers in order to pass! Paired with his archrival Bakugo, Midoriya has to try to take on none other than All Might himself. Working with Bakugo is one thing, but is giving everything he’s got to beat All Might more than Midoriya can handle? And in a nearby arena, Yaoyorozu and Todoroki endure a similar struggle. Meanwhile, a sinister new adversary prepares to make a move…

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What Parents Should Know About Letting Their Kids Watch My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising

Can an 8 year old Read My Hero Academia?
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By Pauli Poisuo/Aug. 3, 2022 7:31 am EST

The untold truth of "My Hero Academia" is a lengthy one, with many changes to the originally planned versions of events and characters. The popular superhero anime is based on Kōhei Horikoshi's shōnen manga series of the same name, and has been running since 2016. Apart from the show's five seasons, there have been numerous original video and net animations, as well as three movies — including "My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising." 

The second full-length animated movie based on the franchise, "My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising" revolves around a massive face-off between the superhero students of Class 1-A and a squad of villains led by the powerful and mysterious Nine (voiced by Yoshio Inue in the original version and by Johnny Yong Bosch in the English dub). This enticing premise is great news if you're an adult fan of the series — but for parents whose children express interest in "My Hero Academia," it may be difficult to gauge just how suitable the film is for underage viewers. After all, there are many different anime genres, and while "My Hero Academia" is fairly mainstream, it can still be pretty wild and violent. As such, here's what parents should know about letting their kids watch "My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising."

Violence might be an issue with My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising

Can an 8 year old Read My Hero Academia?

My Hero Academia (2016– )

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Certification

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  • Argentina:13
  • Australia:MA15+ (Season 1 & 4)
  • Australia:PG (Season 2)
  • Australia:M (Season 3 & 5)
  • Brazil:12
  • Brazil:14 (TV rating)
  • Canada:PG (Manitoba)
  • Canada:14A (Ontario)
  • Canada:G (Quebec)
  • Colombia:12
  • Egypt:Not Rated (DVD rating)
  • France:10 (DVD rating)
  • France:Tous publics (TV rating)
  • Germany:12
  • Hungary:12
  • Hungary:16 (some episodes)
  • India:16 (self-applied)
  • India:7 (some episodes)
  • India:U (video rating)
  • Indonesia:16+ (self-applied)
  • Israel:13 (self-applied)
  • Italy:T
  • Japan:PG12 (Netflix self-rating)
  • Malaysia:P13 (DVD rating)
  • Mexico:TV-14 (self-applied)
  • Netherlands:12
  • New Zealand:M (Season 1, 3 & 4)
  • New Zealand:PG (Season 2)
  • Philippines:PG (TV rating)
  • Poland:13 (self-applied)
  • Russia:16+
  • Singapore:PG13
  • South Africa:13 (self-applied)
  • South Korea:15
  • Spain:12
  • Spain:16 (Netflix self-rating)
  • Thailand:13 (Netflix, uncut)
  • Thailand:G (TV rating, edited)
  • Turkey:16+ (self-applied)
  • United Kingdom:PG (some episodes)
  • United Kingdom:12 (some episodes)
  • United Kingdom:15 (some episodes)
  • United States:TV-14
  • United States:TV-PG (some episodes)
  • United States:TV-MA (uncensored)
  • Ukraine:12
  • Ukraine:16 (some episodes)
  • United Arab Emirates:Not Rated (Blu-ray rating)
  • United Arab Emirates:PG (self-applied)
  • Vietnam:C13

Sex & Nudity

  • Mild 173 of 345 found this mild

    Severity? None 40 Mild 173 Moderate 109 Severe 23

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  • There's a female character who can grow giant and wears a skintight outfit, the lower part of which is flesh-colored. She draws attention to her butt in front of the paparazzi and, in the English dub, says (referring to the criminal she just defeated), "You won't have to worry about this bum anymore." She appears as an occasional side character throughout the show.

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  • One brief shot shows some of the female students bathing in a hot spring. Nothing is shown. (Non sexual)

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  • Some male characters are also shirtless in a few scenes.

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  • A character's power is to make things from her body. At one point she's turned around making something with her outfit opened implying that her breasts are exposed. We don't see anything but another character is clearly uncomfortable with it.

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  • One character's power is to turn invisible. However, to be completely invisible, she must take off all of her clothes. Other (mostly male) characters are shown to be uncomfortable while she is doing this, though this is mostly for comedic effect. In one episode, a male teacher bumps the girl's invisible chest with his arm completely by accident; we hear a bouncy sound effect, and the girl starts yelling at the teacher, and he starts apologizing like crazy

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  • In the end of the third season and the fourth season, there is a character whose clothes fall off most of the times he uses his quirk. You can never see anything too explicit however his bare butt, and torso are clearly visible.

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  • Hatsume falls on to Deku, and her breasts are big on his chest. He looks at them and yells.

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  • Season 4 contains male rear nudity scenes in fights

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  • As a girl holds a toddler boy, his face is in her breasts, and he is flustered by it. A young girl is jealous of the attention the girl gets from the boy, and pinches the older girl's butt.

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  • One of the male students is a complete pervert who makes lots of suggestive comments about female classmates and teachers. He tries to spy on girls in a hot spring and in a changing room (he fails), and generally makes a nuisance of himself.

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  • A young woman in season 4 wears a costume that reveals the entire bottom half of her breasts. Not true

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  • There is a scene where two boys imagine what the girls in their class would look like in swimsuits. Their dream scene is shown, and all the girls are wearing overly revealing bikinis or tight one-peices.

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  • A reoccurring teenage female character wears a costume heavily revealing her breasts, however private parts are covered.

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  • A boy wets his pants when a girls says that she likes him as a person.

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  • There is no explicit sexual relationship between any of the characters HOWEVER there are quite a few sexual situations, such as one part in the series one female character has a male character in between her breasts and say suggestively/seductively "I need to teach you how to treat a women"

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  • Some characters are perverts like at one point in the series a boy sees there is a hole in the wall to a girls dressing station by a pool and he say " I'm going to go look in there " (added content to the violence section) in retaliation another character stabs the boy in the eye and tells him not to do it

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  • One of the female characters is wearing a low cut dress that shows quite a bit of cleavage (she is actually on the picture on this page, if you got to the right and go all the way down you will see her)

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  • Mineta frequently makes perverted or suggestive remarks towards females. Often, the offended female character responds to this by physically or verbally attacking him.

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  • Some of the female heroes are shown in a bath and one of them is sitting naked on a rock with her back facing the viewers. You get to see a bit of bum crack and the side of one of her breasts.

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  • At one point, All Might is shown naked in his weakened form, but no genitals or buttocks is visible.

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  • A guy's bare butt is shown however this is only for around 10-20 seconds it is non sexual

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  • Most inappropriate scenes or jokes are played for laughs, very brief, and don't happen too much, since the person it's usually centered around is a side character who doesn't get a whole lot of screen time, but after a little while he usually gets cut off by the other classmates, mostly female for obvious reasons.

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  • A few mild suggestive/sexual humor.

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  • One female student has a costume that exposes the sides of her breasts.

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Violence & Gore

  • Moderate 143 of 226 found this moderate

    Severity? None 8 Mild 41 Moderate 143 Severe 34

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  • A boy gets his eye jabbed into by a headphone jack (played for laughs)

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  • There are characters which have the top of their head exposed (Brain) throughout the series, although there is no blood.

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  • The main villain has the power to completely disintegrate whatever he touches. He has been seen using this power to disintegrate living humans, which can be quite terrifying.

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  • Not a very violent show, however as the seasons continue it gets more intense and exciting. Also, the most bloodiest part is Season 4.

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  • Some violence (some in a cartoon way, but some is pretty intense)

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  • Throughout the series a character is shown to scratch their neck a lot when they seem to be stressed, and in some scenes you can see red scars. These scenes slowly become less frequent the farther you go into the series

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  • One of the villains, Toga, is a psychopathic serial killer with a severe blood fetish. Her modus operandi involves brutally murdering in several extremely graphic and gruesome ways and then drain them of their blood using a blood pumping machine, so that she can assume their identity. As such, any scene involving her can be scary and violent.

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  • A yakuza is brutally tortured by Shigaraki and then has both his hands cut off by the latter with the help of Mr. Compress while strapped to a gurney and completely immobile. Shigaraki then taunts the yakuza before leaving with Mr. Compress and Dabi as the yakuza screams in horrible agony. Very disturbing.

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  • The Shie Hassaikai and Pro Hero arcs are the most violent, as they contain some rather graphic moments.

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  • Can be graphic at times (mostly because of stains quirk in the first season) other then that, nothing a 10 yo can't handle

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  • While this show does tend to have it's violent scenes, it's not too often where it's really bad. And when it is, it's very brief, and in my opinion, not as bad, or maybe just as bad, as something you might see in a live action show or movie of the same or higher rating.

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  • Cartoon action violence throughout of the series.

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  • All Might sometimes coughs up blood when he uses his power too much. His real appearance is very frail and bony.

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  • Two different teen boys are choked to near death by the same monster, both are saved at the last second.

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  • Two teen boys get into a fight, with one being beaten, though not too badly.

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  • The majority of the violence in the first season is mild/mostly bloodless, until the last two episodes.

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  • A teen girl gets nauseous if she uses her power too much (not extreme).

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  • Whenever the main character uses his power, he breaks whatever body part he uses, he's shown in varying degrees of pain and the body part looks like it was burnt.

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  • A teen boy apparently gets severe (but only temporary) brain damage when he uses his power too much. This is only meant for comedic purposes.

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  • A man threatens to kill a helpless teen boy unless two teen girls allow themselves to be killed. However, he ends up getting shot in both shoulders before he can do anything, and all three survive. Some blood is seen.

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  • A man is shot in the hand, then both arms and both legs. Some blood is seen, though it's very brief and isn't too graphic. It should be noted that this man was a teenager. This may be disturbing.

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Profanity

  • Mild 142 of 213 found this mild

    Severity? None 21 Mild 142 Moderate 40 Severe 10

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  • The soundtrack in the second season includes a song in English with the line, "We are f*cking superstars." This part of the song is heard clearly in one episode. It also appears in a few other episodes, including in season three, but less clearly.

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  • A use of "screw you". Contains mild profanity. Many uses of "crap", "bastard", "hell", "damn". In some episodes, Bakugo calls Todoroki "Icy-Hot bastard".

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  • Cuss words are used occasionally, however it is not severe, moderate would be a good assumption.

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  • Bakugou has some rude nicknames for his classmates. (Round Face, Shitty Hair, Damn Nerd, Half 'n' Half Bastard, Dunce Face)

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  • In episode 1 sub it says the a word by Mount Lady from 5:58 - 6:02 and the s word All Might from 20: 42 - 20: 45. IN episode 8 All Might says the s word from 12: 23 - 12: 27. In Episode 13 All Might says Jeez, holy s*** from 7:38 - 7:42.

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  • When it occasional, several episodes has less and/or more profanity.

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  • A "Pissed" is used somewhat frequently.

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  • English dub: Occasional use of 'damn', 'hell', 'bastard', 'ass', and 'crap'. 'Shit' is used three times over the course of the series. Same in the subbed.

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Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • None 127 of 213 found this to have none

    Severity? None 127 Mild 77 Moderate 5 Severe 4

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  • A man seen smoking.

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  • In Season 4, there is frequent references to fictional drugs.

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  • Twice is often seen smoking.

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  • At one point, two men walk by a few characters, clearly drunk.

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  • A villain's Quirk is becoming stronger when he gets very drunk.

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Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Moderate 96 of 216 found this moderate

    Severity? None 17 Mild 85 Moderate 96 Severe 18

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  • Some episodes focus on the origin of a character. These flashbacks can be seen as intense, emotional or disturbing.

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  • A mean jock character tells the protagonist to kill himself. He does not, but he does (understandably) take this emotionally.

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  • In season 4 a girl is held captive and might even be abused, also there are a LOT of emotionally intense scenes.

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  • Season 3 and Season 4 are very intense and bloody

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  • Season 4 has jumpscares, lots of wounds, a death, and it is the most bloodiest part of the show.

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  • A villain who is a giant raven quite brutally injures a U.A teacher, he then surv

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  • Some of the villains are extremely scary.

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  • Bakugo is a rival student, he has an angry issues, and bullying to Izuku because he was such an easy target.

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  • One character is constantly bullied by another character for little reason, he is seen in emotional as well as physical pain from this sometimes.

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  • The last four episodes of the first season are pretty intense as all the main characters are kidnapped by villains with intent to kill, but they all survive and the intensity is lightened somewhat by it's inspirational tone.

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  • A man threatens to kill a teen boy unless two teen girls allow themselves to be killed. However, they all get saved when another man shoots him in the shoulders before he can do anything.

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  • The first few episodes are pretty emotional.

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  • Unlike other hero shows like One Punch Man, this one emphasises teamwork, bravery, friendship, and persistence above all else, therefore the violence (though it's already pretty scarce) and intensity are toned down quite a bit, but it can get intense.

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Sex & Nudity

  • A man in the second to last episode of the fourth season is a "flasher". He opens his coat and it is implied that he is naked, but nothing is seen from the waist down.

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  • There is a character throughout the series named Toga her "quirk" or power is to transform into anyone she wants (she has to drink a cup of there blood first) and to do this she must change,it's not explicitly shown but it's heavily implied she has to be nude to do this

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Violence & Gore

  • One character has boiling hot water dumped onto his face by his mother (offscreen). Later he's seen with bandages over his eye. He has a permanent red mark around his eye throughout the series.

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  • In season 4 episode 2 "Overhaul", a villain is killed from getting exploded by a yakuza leader's quirk. It is shadowed but then large amounts blood is shown raining down from above. Another villain confronts the leader, which leads to one of his arms being destroyed (blood is also shown). This is probably the most violent scene in the anime.

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  • In season 4, a character is impaled through the stomach with a huge spike. Blood is shown.

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  • A character is stabbed through the leg and stomach by two spikes.

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  • In season 2, a character has to cut people's skin with a sword to drink their blood for them to use their quirk.

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  • In season 3, the protagonist fights a villain whilst trying to save a child. He ends up with lots of broken bones and badly injured but there's not much blood shown.

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  • In season 4 a girl is kidnapped and tortured. All of this is offscreen but you do see bandages all around her arms. But luckily they end up saving her

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  • In the first season a character has flashbacks to his past. He is shown as a five year old, crying and throwing up on the floor because his father had pushed him too hard during training. His father shows no remorse, getting angry and calling him weak. When his mother tries to intervene she is heard being hit/slapped offscreen. It is implied that his father abused him and his mother for years. No violence is explicitly shown but the scene is still very disturbing.

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  • A villain gets one arm decayed while the other one disappears into a marble

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  • Towards the end of season 4, a character called Nighteye gets severely injured when one of the villains sends many shards of rock into him, some on his legs and one massive one that goes through his stomach. This is clearly shown with quite a lot of blood. This character then ends up dying...

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  • A character has the entire top half of her body bloodily blown up by Overhaul. (Magne)

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  • Tomura is horribly abused by his father for loving heroes, who does so completely without remorse. When Tomura accidentally kills his family with his powers, he screams for help, only for his father to violently hit him. Having enough, Tomura snaps and brutally murders his father by melting him into a pile of gore, screaming, hollering and bellowing at the top of his lungs all the way in absolute rage. Very emotional and upsetting, even if the father deserved to die for being extremely evil.

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  • A man is beaten and has both his arms broken while also being hit in the head repeatedly. Plenty of blood is seen, but he ends up getting rescued.

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  • Several people attack several kids, saying they want to kill them, but this doesn't end up happening.

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Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • There were some banners relating to drugs and in season 3 there were these guys being shown as technically drunk.

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  • In the fourth season there are drugs that make their powers stronger and their are drugs that can temporarily take their powers away

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Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • In season 3, a character recalls his backstory and how he became a villain. The short story is that he doesn't know if he's the real him. There is blood all over the floor and furniture in the apartment during his flashback. He has a mental breakdown and starts panicking while grabbing his head and thrashing at the air around him. Could be seen as frightening to younger users.

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  • During the end of the training camp arc, someone is captured by the villains and held captive by the League Of Villains.

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  • The fourth season is about trying to rescue a kidnapped girl that has powers can erase the hero's quirks/powers or amplify them. She is tortured and has bandages all around her body. The Kidnapper heals her before she dies so that she can keep being tortured. They use her skin to make bullets.

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  • It is implied that a young girl is mutilated and put back together by her foster father. Her body is made into bullets. Nothing is shown, but the concept could be disturbing for certain viewers. Easily the most twisted part of My Hero Academia.

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  • The main antagonist's backstory is revealed, In which it is shown that at a very young age, he was abused by his father for loving heroes. Later in the episode, he accidentally killed his family with his awakening quirk. As his father violently hits him, he goes insane, screaming at the top of his lungs as he brutally kills his father. Despite this being toned down compared to the manga and the father totally deserved to die, it can still be very disturbing for some.

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  • In Season 3 there is a series of very intense battles that continue throughout the season, in the end a lot of people get hurt badly.

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  • In season one, Nomu breaks Aizawa's arms and crushed his face into the ground like twice. A little bit intense for younger kids

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  • In season 4, a major character dies after the battle with Overhaul due to being pierced with a giant spike

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