The final episodes of My Hero Academia take place after the aftermath of Izuku’s victory over All For One. Japan receives aid from allies from overseas for rebuilding, while heroes from around the world help in the restoration of Japan. At the hospital, Katsuki, Izuku, and All Might recover. Katsuki is informed that his “right arm won’t be the same as before.” He won’t have the same use of that arm. Dr. Yoshida even suggests that his arm should be “amputated.” Unsurprisingly, Katsuki refuses aiming to go to rehab.
All Might and Izuku share a room. All Might has apparently has a large amount of “bolts” put into his body. Katsuki barges into their room and is disappointed to learn that One For All is gone and Izuku will become Quirkless. Katsuki, begins to cry and tells Izuku that he regrets “all the harm,” he inflicted on Deku. He wants to compete with Deku longer. All Might encourages the both of them. He considers the two of them to be the “greatest heroes” he’s never known.
The third years graduate and the Todoroki family
In June, the third years Mirio, Tamaki, and Nejire graduate. Deku and his classmates become second years, Class 2-A. Eraser Head is their homeroom teacher for another year. Yuga leaves the school, feeling that he doesn’t belong in the school due to joining because of All For One. He will become a “proper” hero on his own. Hitoshi joins Class 2-A. Mawata arrives and inform the class that they will “be going on patrols around the country to keep it safe and help with reconstruction under her leadership”.
Todoroki and his family visit Toya. He’s being held in a cell, being kept alive by a high tech support system. Due to the damage to his body Toya can only speak for a few minutes a day and he’s slowly dying. The family try to bond with Toya. They promise to keep seeing him. Shoto even manages to learn his favorite food: Soba.
The ex-Villains like Gentle, La Brava, and Lady Nagant are given a pardon. Deku visits Spinner in Central Hospital. Spinner calls him a “murder” and clearly hates Deku. Izuku for his part seems to accept Spinner’s anger and tells him the last message from Tomura: “he fought to destroy until the bitter end”. Spinner breaks down and says that he wants to destroy “everything”, being oppressed for being a heteromorph is exhausting and Tomura was his “hope”. He cries recalling aspects of Tomura that the public doesn’t know.
Eight years in the future, Deku is a teacher at U.A. High School, where Kota, now a teen, attends. Izuku is in his analysis notebook, he remembers all the people that helped him, as well as his final year at U.A. By this time the last embers of One For All died out leaving Deku officially Quirkless again.
The end.
My Hero Academia is one of the most successful anime/manga series of all time selling over 100 million copies. Spawning a number of spin-offs. It was largely well received by audiences and critics alike. Personally, I loved the art style, the characters (although there were too many) and the action. The series take on villains was refreshing humanizing them more than typical, while All For One was pure evil many of the other villains were more complicated. Katsuki was one of the more surprising characters in the series.
While placed in the typical second main character position, he was characters originally as so mean and rude that he had more in common with villains than heroes. However, he wasn’t tempted by the other side and in the end proved to be the most heroic. Deku was more typical, which isn’t bad, but while his Quirkless status made him different from the others in terms of dedication to being a hero, he was ultimate like most anime heroes.
Some of the issues with the series was the failure to elaborate on the “discrimination”, the series introduces. It mostly focused on in the end of the My Hero Academia to give villains like spinner and the heteromorphs a reason to rebel. Furthermore, the other classes like Class-1B was an afterthought. The series would have benefitted from a smaller roster of characters. Most of them don’t matter except during on arc. I also would like to see more heroes from around the world. My Hero Academia had a lot going for it and somethings that it fell short on. However, that’s true of most series. My Hero Academia is overall one of the best you’ll see.
