My Hero Academia Appreciation

[Dark Soul # 7]

New Year! New Thread! New Chapter!

Let's GO!

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The Toga-Twice clones at the floating UA school seperate Manual and Aizawa from Monoma, causing him to blink and shut down Erasure. Which in turn causes Shigaraki to let loose a shockwave that messes up everything. All the systems are failing and the support squad below ground can't keep everything together, Skeptic hacks into the UA computers and Shigaraki has reasserted control over his body. He taunts Deku about sitting down and having a talk at the mall as Deku is feeling the blowback from using Gearshift and the pressures of trying to handle the entire situation. Though the Second informs of AFO's issues with controlling Shigaraki since the vestiges can sense what's going on inside him. And more than that, Skeptic has been found out by none other than La Brava.

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Pretty hype first chapter of the year. A free falling school is just what the conflict needed, besides fighting Shigaraki the heroes now need to make sure that everybody can get back up, wonder how Bakugou and Edgeshot are doing. Shigaraki taking control back at last is just what I wanted. He and Deku has a wonderfully tense rivalry despite only meeting a few times. So them facing off at the height of their powers, even if Deku is a bit tired right now, is very exciting. And of course, La Brava coming to the rescue against Skeptic is a delightful surprise. Hopefully this means that we'll get to see more side characters return as well.

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[Dark Soul # 7]

And since it's the year of the rabbit good old Horikoshi has given us quite a lovely little image to celebrate.
https://twitter.com/horikoshiko/stat...009472/photo/1

[leokearon]

Kyoka looks great as a bunny girl.

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A short chapter, but just when the villains think they have the upper hand, a spanner in the works arrives. Great to see La Brava back, hopefully Gentle might make an appearance as well.

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[Inversed]

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Two things I've been waiting for for so long finally happening in the same chapter: Shigaraki regaining control of his body, and La Brava returning! So those alone are incredibly exciting developments! Seeing Shigaraki emerge from within his body like a cocoon is great imagery, and love his declaration to Deku. With AFO seemingly out of the way for now, and with all of his Quirks back, wonder how their confrontation is going to go next. And La Brava being the one to hack into Skeptic was exactly what I expected was to happen, so I am definitely believing Gentle's gonna be the one to stop U.A. from falling, which I can't wait to see (though since the magazine is on break again next week we'll have to wait two weeks for that return again)

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[Dark Soul # 7]

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Two things I've been waiting for for so long finally happening in the same chapter: Shigaraki regaining control of his body, and La Brava returning! So those alone are incredibly exciting developments! Seeing Shigaraki emerge from within his body like a cocoon is great imagery, and love his declaration to Deku. With AFO seemingly out of the way for now, and with all of his Quirks back, wonder how their confrontation is going to go next. And La Brava being the one to hack into Skeptic was exactly what I expected was to happen, so I am definitely believing Gentle's gonna be the one to stop U.A. from falling, which I can't wait to see (though since the magazine is on break again next week we'll have to wait two weeks for that return again)

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I do really like Shigaraki declaring that he's Deku's villain. Because he totally is. AFO has beef with OFA and All Might. Deku is just a small part of that larger conflict. But Deku and Shigaraki, that shit is personal. I don't think that Gentle's quirk is strong enough to stop the school from falling. At best he could probably slow it down. But the best version would be if he could to use his quirk to save everybody else that are free-falling from the school. Sort making up for his misguided attempt to save that construction worker that sent him down a negative spiral.

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[Dark Soul # 7]

New OP and ED as the second cour begins. They are more somber but still hopeful. I quite like them. Nagant is pretty prominent in the OP but we see nothing of Stars and Stripes. Don't know if that means they're keeping that a secret or if the season won't get to that part.

Half the episode is a recap of the previous cour, but they do add a few new thing here and there. Some expansion on the commission's meeting with the fake Re-Destro. He also gives more of a hint of how spoilers:

Dabi found out Hawks identity by using Detnerat's resources. Which I appreciate because the manga made it seem like Dabi used some random thugs which made that whole bit extra anti-climactic.

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Other small expansions include Re-Destro and Geten's defeat, and the students finding Midnight. All of which was appreciated.

[Inversed]

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I don't think that Gentle's quirk is strong enough to stop the school from falling. At best he could probably slow it down. But the best version would be if he could to use his quirk to save everybody else that are free-falling from the school. Sort making up for his misguided attempt to save that construction worker that sent him down a negative spiral.

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I've been calling it his "Andrew Garfield Spider-Man in No Way Home" moment.

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New OP and ED as the second cour begins. They are more somber but still hopeful. I quite like them. Nagant is pretty prominent in the OP but we see nothing of Stars and Stripes. Don't know if that means they're keeping that a secret or if the season won't get to that part.

Half the episode is a recap of the previous cour, but they do add a few new thing here and there. Some expansion on the commission's meeting with the fake Re-Destro. He also gives more of a hint of how spoilers:

Dabi found out Hawks identity by using Detnerat's resources. Which I appreciate because the manga made it seem like Dabi used some random thugs which made that whole bit extra anti-climactic.

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Other small expansions include Re-Destro and Geten's defeat, and the students finding Midnight. All of which was appreciated.

Yeah OP is very good, need to give it a few more listens to see where I think of it musically, but in its own way its about on par visually with the last one. Nice seeing Eve doing this one (also did the great first JJK OP). At the current rate I feel like it's a toss up whether they get to Star and Stripe or save it for next season, all depends how much they spread out the upcoming arc. There's also nothing Dabi/Toya related in the OP, which we're getting in like 2 episodes so that's surprising. Having Class 1-A fighting Shigaraki together is a weird way to end it (maybe it's foreshadowing for the future), but the Tomura/Tenko visuals are really nice.

I was going into the episode expecting the recap to be worse, but thankfully it was only like 6 minutes of the actual episode and the rest was new content, plus they actually give a story reason behind the recap, being Deku reading a report on the war, so I can forgive that. Plus yeah, the expansions they gave on Re-Destro's stuff and alot of the reactions in the aftermath were welcome touches. I also find it funny that the anime actually confirmed the HPSC Director is dead, whereas it was never clarified in the manga so we just assumed she was in anime coma.