The opening of season 7 of My Hero Academia is a thing of beauty

This is a first for me. I don’t normally do First Reactions for anything other than a first season and yet here we are in the seventh season of My Hero Academia (Boku no Hero Academia for the purist otaku out there) and I actually have something to say.

Here, however, things will be a little different. First of all, this will be super short because I’m not discussing the first episode of the new season. In fact, I haven’t even seen the first episode yet. So that begs the question: what am I actually doing here?

I woke up this morning and decided to check my YouTube feed and since today is the day My Hero Academia airs, the opening was plastered all over my feed. So instead of watching the episode, I thought about checking it out. When I saw my favorite Japanese male artist, TK from Ling Tosite Sigure, performing the opening (LiSA is my favorite Japanese female artist, in case you were wondering), I wasn’t going to wait to watch the episode and pressing Play. .

Three notes.

That’s all it took.

I knew at that moment that this opening was going to be a banger. I mentioned it in my Discord, I called my friends on Messenger and told them all to watch the opening without even hearing the full thing. I went back, scrubbed back to 0:00 and watched all 1:30 and at that moment I knew I was right to tell them to watch it.

It’s been a long time since an anime opening gave me this feeling… to give me that feeling of hype, to fall in love with a song almost immediately. I’ve loved other anime openings over the years and have recommended them to my friends plenty to watch, but I’ve rarely, if ever, stopped after the opening and run to the masses to tell them because I just knew it would happen be good.

And luckily for us, TOHO has posted the credit-free version of it on their YouTube, so watch along with me:

Obviously a disclaimer: mileage may vary depending on individual tastes, but I love it and of course, if I love something, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what I’m doing.

Rating: UVERworld just lost the top spot for best MHA opening / 5.