There's plenty to love about My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising--it manages to inject an exciting and compelling side story into the anime--but its conclusion dashes much of that goodwill with a single line of dialogue. Until that moment, though, Heroes Rising is a good superhero movie that manages to satisfyingly sell the theme of its central conflict.
Likely occurring at some point after the Joint Training Battle arc (manga chapters 195-216, a few arcs ahead of where the anime is right now), Heroes Rising sees Izuku Midoriya (Daiki Yamashita/Justin Briner), Katsuki Bakugo (Nobuhiko Okamoto/Clifford Chapin), and the rest of the superhero-in-training Class 1-A temporarily take over a hero agency to learn how to respond to problems without adult supervision. It's a cushy job at first, but the situation takes a turn for the worst when the island where the class is stationed on is invaded by a group of supervillains led by the mysterious Nine (Yoshio Inoue/Johnny Yong Bosch), a man who can steal and store up to nine different superpowered Quirks at once.
Though the focus of the film is on Midoriya and Bakugo, Heroes Rising gives the entirety of Class 1-A a chance to shine. It's a welcome change of pace, seeing as the anime--up to this point--has largely focused on only a portion of the class at a time or seen the students compete against each other. Heroes Rising provides the first true look at Class 1-A working as a team since their hike during the Forest Training Camp arc (manga chapters 70-83, anime episodes 39-45), establishing how much the group has grown as heroes and also lending greater support to the movie's theme that selflessness is stronger than selfishness.
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