The Moment That Turns My Hero Academia Into All Time Anime

By Jonathan Klotz
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My Hero Academia has its share of detractors, and even those who have followed the series since the beginning have had trouble keeping up with the superhero saga. Yet, with Season 7, the anime has proven that it was worth the journey of watching Deku and the students of Class 1A from the very beginning. “The Chain Until Now,” Episode 16 of Season 7, and Episode 156 in general, was one of the most satisfying and cathartic episodes of any anime, with one moment, one bullet, that turned it from an anime I thought was pretty good, for one of my all time favourites.

Their Darkest Hour

In “The Chain Thus Far,” Deku faces the awakened Shigaraki, while the other heroes, scattered across Japan, are about to be defeated following Spinner’s successful mission to free Kurogiri. At the darkest moment in My Hero AcademiaDeku is weakened form using Gearshift and cannot respond to Shigaraki in time, while Skeptic, the villain’s expert hacker, has infiltrated UA High School and is about to crash the floating island, when suddenly, La Brava, the villainous girlfriend of Gentle Criminal, hacks Skeptic’s system and takes control.

Where La Brava goes, Gentle Criminal follows, and the villain from one of Season 4’s nastiest arcs makes a grand entrance to stop an entire floating island from falling into the ocean. Gentle Criminal wanted nothing more than to be a hero, and only Deku saw this, reaching out back during the “School Festival” arc and giving him a chance, which finally paid off in one of Academia My Hero greatest moments. As satisfying as it was to see the two villains return on the side of the angels, the sudden shock of Shigaraki’s hand, seconds from touching the ground to spread its rot for miles, saw it being shot from miles away by the world’s greatest archer.

The Greatest Hero

Even Academia My Hero Manga readers, who knew of her return, took to social media after the anime revealed that Lady Nagant, her legs covered in bandages, had cut Shigaraki miles away on top of the hospital she been in it for barely survived the All For One trapped quark. during the “Dark Deku” arc. We needed a moment to justify the whole theme of the sudden rescue by a character we thought was dead and would never be seen again. anime. Deku doesn’t become the world’s greatest hero because he is the most powerful, he is the greatest hero because he inspires everyone to be better.

Deku has been a controversial character among anime fans since the series premiered, from those who say he cries too much to others who try to insist that Bakugo is the hero. right, but the arrival of La Brava, Gentle Criminal, and Lady Nagant proves it right. Since the first episode, My Hero Academia viewers have seen Deku trying to lift others up, insisting that they are all in this together, winning over even the jaded Pro Heroes, like Sir Nighteyes, with his boundless optimism. By choosing to see the good side of everyone, even Shigaraki, Deku was able to get three villains to change their ways when the world needed them most.

My Hero Academia been behind his contemporaries, Kaisen Jujutsu a Demon Slayerfor years, but with a prequel series, Vigilanteson the road and the cathartic roller coaster ride of Season 7, the superhero series finally deserves to be considered one of the best anime of all time. When hope is lost, the heroes lose, and the world is at its darkest moment, the World’s Greatest Hero saves the day not with a Detroit Smash but by being an inspiration. All it took was one bullet.